The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 27, 1903, Page 21

midnight, December THE WEATHEER. Forecast made at San Fran- San Francisco and vicinity— Tair Sunday, becoming clondy et night; light northeast winds. A. G. MoADIE, District Forecaster. a7: | VOLUM! XCY- AY, DECEMBER 27, 1903.—PAGES 21 TO 32 PRICE FIVE CENTS. M &R'\ES L LAN \ KOREA AmericanBluejacketsi Are Ordered to Chemulpo. | will Prom Seoul to Protect United States Legation. Washington Bringing Pressure o Bear | for the Opening of Ports to | World's Trade. —Rear Ad- 7 in command | Vicksburg to- r Chemulpo, Ko- en ordered at the American local riots at red Ameri- can life and property, a patch | | | | | half dozen men, been in-| of marines | der of the Vicks- Min er Allen at ation is in danger | m T go overland to the | t t the Minister continued. Far® East has State De- to ob- om China trade ad- C Min rean Gov- becom , should Russia treaty United Stat entirely out ge in Korea which way 2 Therefore is bringing pres- nese and Ko- speedy rati- and upon th in e K between p the tide +he St the Japan to Send Large Militar; Force With Russia’s Acquiescence. Dec. 26.—It was learned in 1 jve quarters to-day that yout to send a large mili- e to Korea to restore and order at the disturbed por of this force is immi- It probably will consist of a di- 15,000 men Jap has been sured that Rus- not consider the sending of troops to Korea as an unfriendly act us beill. It is expected that rture of the troops v ar rumors, which, however, it is pointed out in the authoritative quar- id be un‘uxn‘wd in view of a will t exchanges of com- 9 Russia and Japan rmer fully recognized the need resence of a strong military authority in Korea, and conceded that the best position to | troops to the disturbed | nding of troops, nevertheless, »d as having an important | negotiations, as | cuous evidence | of para-| cise orea. | e same quar- | for thi (. e cause of the recent at the Japanese arsenals ch, it is erted, been erroneou: scribed to prep- gainst Russia. been received here »r Lamsdorff has received Japan's reply, and y of its terms, he is said sed surprise at the re- s belligerent attitude. is added, is regarded as clear- .z the amicable spirit in negotiations are proceeding. it kit g AFTER MORE SHIPS. czotiating With Chile for a Battle- ship and a Cruiser. LONDON, Dec. 26.—Japan is nego- the purchase of two Chilean . the armored cruiser Esmer- | yother, probably the battle- , Prat, which are for sale. s a guestion of price. Ne- s with other South American ts for the purchase of war-* re in progress. shi, the Japanese Minis- to Great Britain, said to a repre- of the Associated Press to- relative to these negotiations: “We want more ships. Of course, tion were ock ¥ JAPAN ter entative | dent Loree of the LOREE TO BE PRESIDENT OF ROCK ISLAND - e o ILROAD MAN WHO HAS | “ 2 ROCK ISL- | PRESIDENCY. | Present Head of Balti- | more and Ohio Ac- | cepts New Post. NEW YORK, Dec. president 26.—L. F. Loree, the Baltimore and Ohio | Railroad on ' January 1 become president of the Rock Island Compan succeeding William B. Leeds. Loree was chos executive head of the Rock mpany, which contrels the tock Tsland and Pacific Rail- at a recent meeting of the , when Mr. Leeds tendered his igration. The latter will continue a member of the Rock Island's ex- ecutive committee. It is known that oree was ed the presidency of the Rock Island Company some months | ago, but it was then denied that he | would leave ihe Baltimore and - Ohio road. BALTIMORE, of will o Md., Dec. .—Presi- Baltimore and Ohio | Railroad admitted when seen to-day that he had been chosen for the pr dency of the Rock Island Raflroad and | hat he has accepted and would ent: upon his duties at once. It is unc stood that Vice President Murray will succeed President Loree as the official head of the Baltimore and Ohio system. 3 this is only a precautionary measure, and it may be a lot of expense for nothing. I have no indication of the nature of the Russian reply. Person- ally, I scarcely expect it will be deliv- ered for some little time.” Asked anent the dispatch from Ber- lin of December 24 sayving the Brit- ish Government reported to the Czar that Great Britain “deemed Japan's demands just and earnestly expected that Russm would grant them,” Baron while he was not aware of se action taken by Great Brit- St. Petersburg, said: Government ain at “The British aware that Japan will be obliged to is well sia modifies the en in her last go to war unless Ru position she has note.” At the Foreign Office here nothing is yet known of the probable nature of the Russian reply. DECREE EXCLUDES HEBREWS, Viceroy Alexieff Orders Them Barred From Port Arthur. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 26.—The official organ of Admiral Alexieff, the \o\flufll publishes to-day an official decree v the admi: excluding all Jews from Port Arthur. e Squadron Will Sail for Cavite, HONOLULU, Dec. 26.—Rear Ad- miral Evans has received a cablegram from Secretary of the Navy Moody | telling him to use his own discretion in the matter of remaining a few days longer at Honolulu, as requested by Governor Carter and the Merchants’ Association. Admiral Evans announced to-day that, in view of the situation in the Orient, he would not assume the responsibility of remaining at Hono- lulu merely for pleasure, and!that the Asiatic squadron would sail for Ca- vite next Tuesday, the date originally designated. R AN, H Peace Talk in St. Petersburg. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 26.—Dip- lomatic circles here express greater | miral De | net tonnage CLYDE LINE STEAMM Newly Bu1lt Kiowa Sunk hy Another Vessel. Captain and Crew Rescued | With Difficulty in a Heavy Sea. e Collision of the Craft Occurs in Boston Harbor During a Blinding | Snowstorm, | I T BOSTON, Dec. 2.—In a blinding storm which swent Boston harbor this afternoon the new Clyde line steamship Kiowa, inward bound from Jackson- ville, Fla.,, and Charleston, S. C., was rammed and sunk by the steamship Admiral Dewey of the United Fruit Company, outward bound for Port An- tonio, Jamaica, and Port Limon, Costa Rica. Captain Chichester and the entire crew of the Kiowa, numbering thirty were rescued by a tug. The Ad- vey sustained practically no damage, and after lying to for the pur- pose of rendering possible assistance she proceeded on her voyage. With several passengers and a big men, zeneral freight cargo the Admiral Dewey sailed from ‘this city shortly after 12 o'clock, Owing to the driving snowstorm the Dewey was making her way out at slow speed.. A few miles beyond Boston Jight the Kiowa ap- peared through the clouds of mist and ow, directly ahead. Before the course could be shifted the stearaships collid- ed. The Admiral Dewey struck the Kiowa a powerful blow ;on the side just abaft the main rigging, the sharp prow of the fruitér cutting i for a considerable distance, The damaged craft immediately com- menced to fill. The city of Boston's tug Cormorant, which was ypassing, ran alongside the Kiowa and took off her captain and crew. /Fhis was-a difficult task owing to the heavy sca, and.in at- tempting to jump from their own vessel to the tug some of the Kiowa’s men | fell into the water. They were rescued by the Cormorant’s men a’nd all hands were brought to this city.} The Kiowa sank shortly ‘after the ac- cident. She had a big cargzo of lumber, cotton, naval stores, iron and general merchandise. 2 The Kiowa was the latest addition to the Clyde line, having been built at Philadelphia early in the nresent year. She was a steel, two-miisted, three- decked vessel, 300 feet long, 22 feet hold, 2254 tons andl gross ton- nage 2949, i Up to 7 o'clock to-night two other wrecks had been reported, while sev- eral vessels were in distre¢s during the day. A dredger sank within six miles of the wharves of Boston, resulting in the Toss of three men, and the barge John W. 'Mackay went down off Watch Hill, R. 1., every one on board being saved. —_————————— BOXING INSTRUCTOR THRASHES RUFFI/ Three San Francisco Hoodlums Insult the Wrong Man in Salt Lake City. SALT LAKE, Utah, Dec. 26.—Three roughs from the San Francisco Bar- bary Coast celebrated Christmas here by hurling snow, dirt and rocks at per- sons returning from the theater. Pro- fessor E. Robinson, a local instructor in physical culture and boxing, whose wife had been hit by a snowball, asked the men to desist. They heaped abuse upon him in reply. The professor es- corted his wife to a safe distance, re- turned and waded into the trio of trouble-make; In eighteen seconds he had put two of the roughs out and the third was lying on his back. When arrested the men .gave the names of George Perrine, Joe Bam- lock and Harry Davis. They were re- Jeased on plea of Proéfessor Robinson, who said they had been ‘punished enough. —————————— REWARD OFFERED FOR CAPTURE OF WRECKERS Efforts Will Be Made to Trap Mis- creants Who Are Plotting Against Panhandle Railroad. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 26.—Gen- eral Superintendent Ralph Peters of confidence than ever in an ultimate peaceful arrangement between Russia and Japan. —_— Russian Settlers Invade Manchuria. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—Accord- ing to 2 report received at the State Department from United States Com- mercial Agert Greener at Vladivos- tok, Siberia, under date of July 25, 1903, Russian settlements have made their appearance at nearly all the larger railroad stations in Manchu- ria. Besides railroad offices and houses for employes, there are many private buildings.” One impediment to the expansion of these settlements is that no regular sales of land have Continued on r-;e__z:. Oouunnil. the Panhandle Railroad Company has offered a reward of $1000 for the arrest and conviction of persons who have attempted to wreck trains and the bridge at Eilis Station, on the Muskingum River. Several attempts have been made to cause a wreck by stretching a wire cable across the track, so anchored that it will pull down the bridge. The purpose is not understood by the railroad officials. ———— e —. Governor May lssue Passports. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—The President has delegated to the Gov- ernor of Hawaii authority to issue passports. This is the only case of a Governor being given such authority and the action is taken to meet the exigencies in that quarter. GOES DOWN port filGH WIND THE CAUSE OF WRECK Extinguishes a Signal Light and Trains Collide. Seventeen Perish on the Pere Marquette Road in Michigan, R o Both Tocomotives and the Foremost Coaches Are Demolished by the Terrific Impact. St £ GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 26.— Seventecn persens a-: dead and thirty- one injured, several of them fatally, as the result of a collision early this even- ing of two passenger trains on the Pere Marquette Railroad half a mile west of East Paris and six miles east of this city. The collision, which was head-on, was caused, according to a statement issued by the officials of the road at the general offices in Detroit, by the high wind blowing out the red signal lamp at McCords, where the westbound train, No. 5, should have Stopped and received orders to pass the ecastbound train at Fox. The officials deny the report that a misunderstanding of orders on the part ble for the collision. According to the statement the officlals the trains were originally to have met and pass- ed at Oakdale Park, but to help the eagtbound train the dispatcher issued new orders, fixing Fox as the meeting place. The eastbound train received this order, and the westbound should have received it at McCords. Instead, of ‘the train rushed by .this station, and the operator-there; affer rerorting this fact found, on going out to tha plat- form, that his red light, which had been burning two minutcs before, had high wind that was blowing: PARTIAL (LIST OF VICTIMS. An incomplete list of the dead fol- lows: CHARLES A. STODD. ARD engineer, Detroit. WILLIAM HELMRICH, man, Grand Rapids. CHARLES A DEVINE, ids. WILLIAM SMITH, farmer, near Sar- anac, Mich. ALLEN H. Mich. PETER W. WIER! ids. ED BURNS, fireman. EIGHT UNIDENTIFIED MEN. TWO UNIDENTIFIED WOMEN. The severely injurec. are: West, skull frac‘red, Palmer, injured about hecd and breast; Lester A. Williams, left arm torn off, injured about head and body; Rev. James Humphrey, cut about head; Mrs. ¢ . R internally injured; .Mrs. H. R. Strester, cut about head; Mrs. J. A. Gray. injured about head and hip; Mrs. H. O'Brien, injured about head; Migs Gale Sprague, injured about head; John Post, nose broken; Gerritt Mott- man, injured internally. All of the in- jured live in Michiga~. MEET WITH AWFUL CRASH. The trains met with a terrific crash, the baggage and smoking cars behind each locomotive being reduced to kindling wood. The engines were com- pletely wrecked, the boiler of the one which had pulled the eastbound train being torn completely from the running gear and standing perpendicularly in a ditch at the side of the track. Engineer Frank Waterman, who sur- vived the catastrophe, says he and E. B. Moon, the fireman, were caught be- fore they had time to save themselves. He says he did not see the eastbound train until the crash came. With few exceptions no persons occupying cars other than the baggage and smoking cars were seriously injured. Within two minutes the uninjured male passengers and those of the train crew who had not been hurt had begun the work of rescue. Traveling Agent Frank Hewitt of the Pere Marquetts, who was on the train bound for De- troit, and who escaped with slight in- juries, ran to the nearest telegraph of- fice and telegraphed for a wrecking train and surgeons. Guided by groans and tries frcem the wrecked cars, the rescuers, by the light of lanterns, delved into the wreckage, and, with fence timbers for levers, pried out the sufferers. SURGEONS REACH SCENE. A special train bearing surgeons and officials was made up here immediately after the news was received and ar- baggage- Grand Rap- WELLS, Big Rapids, NGO, Grand Rap- Charles nay die; George rived’ at the wreck T:15 o'clock. Those of the injured who had been ex- tricated were immediately taken into the train and given emergency surgi- cal aid and the officials joined in the rescue work. When all the injured had been taken out of the wreck the hos- pital train was rushed back to Grand Rapids. Here ambulances were in waiting to carry them to the hospitals, where all arrangements had been made for their reception. The uninjured pas- sengers also were brought back here. “Three persons were killed right in front of my eyes,” said Miss Eva Streeter to-night, as she sat at the bed- of one of the engineers was responsi- [ heen extinguished, presumably by the | MEXICO GIDES UP ST. LOUIS BOODLER | s - D MISSOURI BOODLER. 1‘ WHO FLED TO MEXICO, BUT | WILL BE BROUGHT BACK. | > | Charles I(ratz to ‘Come Back for Trial. CITY OF MEXICO, Dec. 26.—Presi- dent Diaz, acting ubon the reguest of the American Embassador and upon case, has conceded to the United States authorities the extradition of Charles Kratz, a former member of the St. Louis City Council, wanted in that city on a charge of boodling in connection with the street car franck legisla- tion. i GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.,, Dec. 26.— The hearing of William F. McKnight and ex-Senator George E. Nichols on the charge of subornation of perjury at the first trial of ex-City Attorney Sals- bury for bribery 1in connection with the water deal, began to-day. Their ex- amination promises to be the most vig- orously fought of the entire list of water scandal cases. Arthur Stowe, one of the special of- ficers sworn to watch Witness Garman during the itrial of Salsbury, testified that he saw many notes -delivered to Garman. On one occasion, when he was concealed in-a bathroom. off Garman’s room, he saw Leonard, who is charged with having aided in the alieged brib- ery, hand Garman an envelope. He saw Garman open the envelope and look at the money it contained. —_— eee———— Conservative Is Elected. TORONTO, Ontario, Dec. 26.—Dun- lop (Conservative) was elected a member of Parliament in North Ren- frew to-day by more than 800 major- ity. At the last election Munroe (Lib- eral) won by 485. «This leayes the Ross Government with a majority of three. The present standing of the House is: Liberals 50, Conservatives 47. 2 % side of her mother in the hosptal. “A man, a woman and a little boy were sitting in front ¢f my mother and she was just one seat ahead of me. We were going hcme to Grand Lodge. All that 1 remember was that there was a crash and when I opened my eyes | the car was all wrecked and the bodies of those three could not be found. They were under the wreckage. I do not know their names.” L. A. Williams of Lansing was taken out of the wreck, his left arm torn from its socket so that the surgeons had to separate it from his body with a penknife. HEROIC COLORED PORTERS. Willlam T. Merrigold,” a traveling man fcr the Norman-Barth Company | of Chicago, was a passenger on the train en route to Detroit, and described the wreck as follows: “] was sittjng in the smoker when | They were with us and worked like the trains met. I was thrown into the aisle, but miraculously escaped injury. Right at my ride were several men bleeding from wounds, and with the assistance of two other men I pulled two of them out. “I never saw such brave fellows as those colored men in the sleeping car. tigers in their efforts to rescue the injured. One of them rescued a woman who had been thrown under a seat and against the hot steam pipes. She was in such a position that she would have been shockingly scorched by escaping steam frem the pipes, tut the brave fellow entered the car and, guided by her calls for help, found her and brought her out in safety’ hearing the evidence submitted in the [\ - when captured and LL 0N L HORSE 0 PLAINS Ranchmen Gather in Utah for Annual Stugher Special Dispatch to KANAB, Utah, Dec. and cowbc have been coming all day from every portion of Southwestern Utah and the neighbering territory in Arizona and Nevada to attend the great annual huxt of wild horses which is to oceur to-morrow. About 150 men are here now and fifiy more are ex- pected tb arrive by to-morrow morning. ‘While the number of wild equines is less than ever before in nearly a half century, still there is the same keen interest in the exciting spert and, more than ever before, the ranchmen feel the need of exterminating the bands of free hor: that roam this part of the country. The animals exhaust the range thet is required for cattle and also attract to their wild and unpro- ductive bands the horses wanted for ranch purposes and which hdave been turned loose to graze on the range. Prepasgtions for the hunt are com- plete, obert Moran, a prominent ranchman of Southwestern Jtah, is to “boss” the day, assisted by a half dozen expert cowboys as sub-captains. The men will start before daybreak and scout among the hills until a band of wijld horses is enccuntered. The hunters will be armed with rifles. If possible the horses will be driven into some “blind” canyon, where the work of slaughter will be made easy. Not all the animals are killed, as there are always some that are of con- siderable value. The herds of small, wild ponies :that originally galloped over the ranges were recruited from many emigrant trains in the old pio- neer days and some of the animals that thus changed servitude for the liberty of the hills were of fine breed. The result was the production of a large number of high grade horses that, “broke,” are of more than ordinary value. These are segregated, when possible, frém the or- dinary “scrub’ snimals that are ruth- lessly slaughtered. After the day's hunt the men will return to a camp previously prepared and in the evening they will celebrate the event with a great bartecue. The horges not killed will be divided among the hunters by the drawing of lots or the shaking of dice. ——————————— SMITH MAKES DENIAL OF COMPROMISE RUMOR The Call. 26.—Ranchmen Brother of Mrs. Charles L. Fair Says He Has no Intention of Ef- fecting Settlement. BOULDER, Colo.,, Dec. 26.—Wil- liam B. Smith of Newark, N. J., broth- er of the late Mrs. Charles L. Fair, has just arrived in this city to visit his brother, Charles J. Smith. - When asked if it were true that he came here for the purpose of considering with his brother any proposition to compromise by accepting $125,000 each in settlement of their claim to the Fair estate he answered in the negative, ‘and said that he had come merely to visit his brother for a few days. 2 BULLDIN 10 BE 0 FEET HIGH Sky-Scraper of Forty- Five Stories for New York. Frick-Coler Syndicate Is Ready to Carry Out Its Plans. —_—— Structure Will Be Hurried fo Com- pletion Bzfore the End of the Coming Year. Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, Dec soon beslet for the Broadway of the tallest building on earth. VYith five stories below the street level, forty stories high from the entrance to the top floor and surmount- ed by a sixty-foot tower, the gigantic new building, which will be known as “ontracts will erection on lower the Broadway-Cortland, will have a total height of 615 feet, making it more than twice as high as the Flatiron building and almost as tall again as the Park Row building, which at pres- ent holds the record. Plans for construction were started almost a year ago, when a syndicate was formed with Henry C. Frick, the Pittsburg steel magnate, and Bird S. Coler of this city as the prime movers. The building is estimated to cost, when ready for occupancy, $4.500,000, while the site will cost $5,000,000. The plats upon which the Broadway- Cortland wiil be built are now occu- pied by low, old fashioned brick and wood structures, erected years ago. As the new structure is to be completed early in November, 1904, the work of razing these buildings preparatory to excavating will be begun soon after New Year’s day. Every modern device, appliance and method of construction known will be exemplified in the tallest skyscraper and its erection will mark several strik- ing departures in building. The building will rest on bedrock eighty feet below the surface. WILL ATTACK SAN DOMINGO Army Under the Insurgent Flag Is Moving Upon the C(: tal of Dominican Republie e WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—United States Minister Powell reports to the State Department under yesterday's date from San Domingo confirming the cabled anouncement that the town of Macoris has pronounced in favor of Jiminez, and adding that troops from that place under the insurgent flag are marching on the city of San Domingo. A great many arrests are being made at the capital, but otherwise everything is quiet. CAPE HAYTIEN, Dec. 26.—Gover- nor Morales, acting President of San- to Domingo, is returning te San Do- mingo, where he will seek reinforce- ments and attack Prerto Plata. Of- ficers of General Moriles’ army have stopped a train and captured a quan- tity of munitions of war intended for General Jiminez. The situation in Santo Domingo is grave and the Con- suls have called for warships. NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—The Clyde linc steamer New York arrived to-day from San Domingo, having been subjected to considerable delay in loading and dis- charging cargo at ports of the revolu- tion-swept island. Cabin passengers on board said that the whole country was in a turmoil of riot, anarchy and, revolution within rev- olution. Commuwhication between ports, théy said, was suspended and all tele- graph' wires were down. At Puerto Plata, the home of Morales, the resi- dents were his ardent supporters, it was reported, until he went to San Do- mingo City, when a strong Jiminez party developed. It was said that Mo~ rales would send war vessels to bom- bard the town to put down the revolt. —_————— WILL FIGHT A DUEL OVER DREYFUS CA 4 Army Officers Engage in Quarrel and Agree to Settle Their Differences ‘With Swords. PARIS, Dec. 26.—Following a vio- lent aitercation over the Dreyfus case a duel with swords will be fought lo-morrow between Captain Levy of the Fifth Regiment of Engineers and Henry de Molroy, an anti-Semite leader. M. de Molroy’s seconds include the Baron de Grand Clos. . Captain Levy's seconds are Captain Mesnier, attached to the Ministry of War, and Comandante Meyer of the Twenty- second Regiment of Artiliery.