The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 3, 1904, Page 21

THE WEATHER. Torecast made at San Pran- cigco’ for thirty hours ending mifnight, January 3: S84 Francisco and vicinity— Falr Sunday; light north wind, A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. AR WA F THE TEBATERS. Alcazar—“Blue Jeans.” Matines . To-Day. California—"Happy Mooligan. Central—“The Dairy Farm.” Matines To-Day. Pischer's—*I. O. U.” Matines " To-Day. Grand—The Mead Waiters.” Matinee To-Day. Matince FIVE CE JIPI, REALING THE HOPELESSNESS OF NEGOTINTIONS PREPWAES T0 STh IKE: DIPLOMATS I PEKING SAY WAR WILL BE PROGLAIMED WITHIN A FEW -DAYS TOKIO, Japan, Jan. 3.--War with Russia is regarded here as unavoidable and the press is urging the imme- diate opening of hostilities. instructions. and supplies. Ali of the banks are withholding funds and it is believed this is the result of official The Government has completed and perfected arrangements for the transportation of froops PEKING, Jan. 3.—Information in the possession of the best informed diplomats in Peking con- vinces them that war s inevitable, possibly within a few days. - 1 4 4 \LARM THE | ATTEND | METTLERS — DRAG HUNT Pites ProminMers Are Badly Hurt at ygula. San_ Nia;teo. | e Braves Swear Ven- Horses Fall Over Pences| While Attempting High Jumping, Ll to The Call. - ening N SAN MATEO, Jan. 2.—Two serlous accidents occurred during the hunt of the San Mateo drag hounds thig after- noon eby John Lawson and C. Raoul-Duval were both carried from the field in a state of unconsciousness. The accidents.were caused - by the| g of their mounts in both cases| while attempting high jumps. The| fences to-day were from four to five| feet in height. The paddock fences at | the Crossways farm were utilized for| r of two has given ranchers n to Li jumps among others, and it ‘'was at the | first of these that Duval's mishap oc- | curred. The horse struck the fence wih| hie e feet and fell, throwing the| avily to the ground several feet tunrned and bleeding. R. M. To- for the ved to the ounts was here to-day He d over the A war 4 arrived of tro 1 says d man, who was conve bhouse and at comfortably. | Lawson's hurt was more serious, he | being 2 man of powerful frame and | strength. He had made about| jumps when, In vaulting over | f his | st it in a manner similar to other animal. Lawson shot over| animal’s head, but had po sooner| s c the ground ‘than he made a quiék move to rise as though uninjured. | As he did so the struggling horse| truck him on the head with a hoof d he fell back unconscious and | eding profusely from the wound. He was taken to the clubhouse and! ed for. It was stated this evening at he had regained consciousness and no serious results were feared, though it is mnot belleved he will be able to play polo to-morrow or for| some time. The hunt was otherwise full of ex- citement—a helter-skelter chase of ten miles, in a circuito ourse about Bur- | lingame, beginning at the residence of | ¥. J. Carolan and finishing at D. O. ills’ fence line at the county road. hose who rode were Francis J. Caro- lan, master of the hounds; Miss Celia | Tobin, Mrs. Walter Martin, R. M, To- | | bin, C. Raoul-Duval, Cyril Tobin, John | | Lawson and Maurice Raoul-Duval. The excellent horsemanship of Mis: Tobin won universal praise. Her splen- | did mount never faltered once at the high jumps and she s among the first at the finish. The only others reached the finish were Carolan | Maurice Raoul-Du , together Huntsman Jerry Keating and the two whips. ———————— SENTENCE OF LYNCH COMMUTED AS REWARD Slayer of Colonel Prowse in Salt Lake City Will Not Go to Gallows on Friday. SALT LAKE, Jan. —The - State | | Board of Pardons to-day commuted to | | life imprisonment the sentence of death ! imposed on James Lynch for the muy- der of Colonel Godfrey Prowse in a | raid on a Salt Lake gambling-house. | During the recent prison outbreak here i | Lynch was instrumental in saving the | lives of two of the prison guards, and t of the paddock living , had g ex nce. He was| of Indians | He was un- his _adobe witn finally EEKS BATTLE. had retired from | took his wife nst —— NOTIFICATION OF DIVORCE I'HE LATEST PARISIAN FAD =ful Litigants Send Out graved Cards, Which Bring Felicitous Responses. m to T 1 1504, En- New | for his bravery on that occasion his life | | was given him. Lynch was to have| | been executed next Friday. g less than a gi- | —————— | A Iriend of mine | “IROPICAL ULCER” N | ihe Dptie-snpravey | LONGER A MYSTERY il D— has the honor | Massachusc divorce was vor December 12, Mme. Louise D—." tations were sent im- Physician Announces Discovery of Cause of the Malady | Common in Tropics. | | BOSTON, Dec. 2.—Dr. J. H. Wright, | director of the pathological laboratory | ‘s P i e | of the Massachusetts General Hos- | A lopuldluv:n Increases. pital in this city, has anounced the | Jar —The census tak- | giscovery that tropical ulcer,” a pe- | 1e field by the business | culiar skin affection common to lrop-i ed their labors. The | ical countries, is caused by micro-or- ka is 11,217, show- | ganisms of the protozoan classifica- 890 over the Federal | tion. This conclusion is the same as The result is very | that recently reached by Dr. Frank business men of this | Burr Mallory of Harvard University | able information was | with reference to scarlet fever, and it ' ine s to the nux of new 1901, 1902 and 1903 is thought that the discoveties of these | physicians will prompt research in a of ‘school children. | practically new field. i i | officials XL B EGLES FIGHT WITH | 1 FIRMER Desperafifiitle ata Trap in Men- docino. ——— Talons of a Wounded Birdf Tear Man’s Flesh in the Combat. — | UKIAH, Jan. 2.—Charles Read, a prominent ranchman of Redwood Val- ley ds under a doctor’s care as the re- sult of a single-handed fight with two large bald eagles. For some time Read had been miss- ing sheep and lambs from his pasture, and copecluding a stealthy coyote was making inroads on his flock, he set a number of traps, baiting with mutton. Yesterday he discovered a large bald eagle in one of them. The eagle ap- peared to have worn itself out by its | struggles and was lying down. Read released the spring, but no| sooner had he done 5o than the eagie attacked him. Its mate, which had been watching near by, soon joined in | the fight. With their heavy wings they beat Read to the ground, all the e tearing his flesh and clothing h their talons and beaks. Read was so taken by surprise by the attack that it was several minutes before he thought to reach for his pistol, which had fallen from his pocket as he was thrown to the ground. While protecting his face with his arm he managed to get the barrel of the pistol against one bird and fired. The other was frightened away by the report. The wounded ‘eagle set its talons in | the man’s right thigh and held on | with a death grip. When he recov- | ered from his exhaustion Read found himself unable to remove the bird, as the muscles of the eagle’s claws had grown rigid. He dragged himself to his cabin and was brought to this city, where the talons were cut out. The dead eagle measured nine feet from tip to tip. — e PECULATING ARMY | OFFICERS PL‘)’ISHEDE haren and McLane Are Court-Martialed for Serious Of- fenses and Are Convicted. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—First Lieu- tenant George B. Scharen, Thirtieth Vv, was tried at Manila by court- charged with ‘embezzlement | t $1500 of post exchange bills | and also with neglect of duty. The | court found him not guilty of the! charge of embezzlement, but gufity of | neglect of duty. He was sentenced | to be reduced twenty-five files in rank | and to be reprimanded. Brigadier General Randgll, commanding the De- partment of 'Luzon, disapproved the ! finding: | The President has approved (he pro- | ceedings, findings and sentence of the | court-martial in the case of Second Lieutenant Paul B. McLane, Thir-| teenth Cavalry. Lieutenant McLane | was tr at Manila on the charge ol']‘ embezzling about $700 of subsistence | funds while serving as a commissary | He was convicted and sen./ tenced to be dismissed and to be im- prisoned for a period of one- year. | That portion of the sentence providing | for imprisonment probably will be exe- | cuted at Bilabid prison, Manila, | —_——— BRASKA AND IOwWA HAVE ZERO WEATHER Mercury Is Still Falling and the Cold Spell Is Accompanied by Heavy Wind. OMAHA, Jan. 3.—Zero weather has prevailed for nearly twenty-four hours throughout Nebraska and Western | Jowa, with the mercury stin falling. For to-night much lower temperature is predicted. The wave has been ac. companied by a stiff north wind, mak- ing outdoor life extremely uncomfort- able. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 2.—One of the worst blizzards experienced in years raged to-day throughout the greater portion of Ohio. —_————— ‘William Hopeful of Peace. BERLIN, Jan. 2.—Emperor Wil liam told Admiral von Hollmann at an audience Thursday, according to a re- port accepted on the boerse to-day, that he was ¢onfident peace would not be broken in the Far East, 1 A" 2 e ffif"f.’lfl/fi. PORTLAND, Or., Jan. 2—That war between Russia and Japan is regarded as inevitable by the big marine insur- ance companies is shown by the fact that they have advanced rates on ves- sels bound to the Orient. According to the quatation received yesterday by marine underwriters the London market gives on the Toyo Kisen Kaisha 21 per cent. The German underwriters flatly refuse to write any- thing at all on vesgels bound to the Far ST. PETERSBUR! Jai' It ap- pears to be-true that Russia has de cided not to aceept Japan's pr > proposals, but the Fofeign Office to- day informed the press that Foreign Minister Lamsdorff and Japanese Mia- ister Kurino were still conferring with the view of arriving at an amic- able settiement. Unofiicially the sit- uation is regarded as being most se- rious. An imperial decree just i Viceroy Alexieff a spec sisting of the blue cross of on a white ground, with a black cagle in the center. The Viceroy also is ac- corded a salute of twelve guns. The press is officially informed that there is absolut no truth in the re- port from Berlin that the Czar yester- day received a dispatch from Viceroy Alexieff and called his Ministers to a midnight conference, which was .«uu\ sitting early this morning. WAR PARTY IN ASCENDENCY LONDON, Jan. The' Japanese Minister, Baron Hayashi, when shown the dispatch from St. Peiersburg . an- nouncing that it appeared to.be true | that Russia had decided not to accept | Japan's precise proposals, said he had not officially heard anything further about the negotiations, but he ailed to gee how the Japanese demands could be modified. A dispatch to the Pall Mall Gazstte from /S that, according to the highest official information, the Russian reply to Japan has not been | drafted. It is added that the Czar and Foreign Minister Lamsdorff de- clared yesterday that so far nothing had occurred necessitating any . out- break of war and that Russia would not declare war on Japan as things now stood. No word has yet been received here tending to show when the Russian re- ply to Japan may be expected. For- eign Secretary Lansdowne has . in- formed Baron Havashi, the Japanese Minister, that he fears that the party in Russia is in the ascendency and that he has faint hoves of Japan receiving a favorable reply. ‘Baron Hayashi says he has received no news of the intended dispatch of a Japanese squadron to Masampho. The last news he heard was that a Russian cruiser was there. The Minister pointed out that the dispatch of a squadron to Masampho would not nec- essarily be a warlike action, though it could scarcely help being regarded in the line of other precautions which war | | 11 | ol | %1 | | i RUSSIAN MILITARY SCE) i | AND EMPEROR NICHOLAS' | FOREIGN MINISTER. l i vers here shs | the general feeling of alarm current | in Great Britain. The Spectator 3 rar draws ever nearer and adds: ! If we are dragged into this war, as | may be, the country will not be | divided in sympathy, dislike of Russia | es of ‘tbeing as strong among the mas: | our population as it was in 18 | The paper surmises that Russia may | | keep her ships in her ‘harbors, as she | did during the Crimean war, thereby | forcing land actions or @ dangerous | tempt by Japan to seize Port Arthur | | and Vladivostok. The Saturday Review | somewhat similar tone, saving that the lkelithood of Chinese interyvention | | menaces the- commerc: interests of | | all Kurope and the United States. ! Infermation has been received in a | London diplomatic guarter unfriendly to Russia that Bezobragoff. who was | | recently raised by the Czar to a Secre- | | taryship of State, is the power behind | | the scenes of the Russo-Jananese ne- | | gotiations. Bezobragoff. according to ]thls source of information, who is now the prime favorite of the Czar and the | leader of the war.party, is president 1 of the Yalu River Timber Company. lis largely interested in commercial enterprises in Korea and is the bosom friend of Viceroy Alexieff. Though the news is evidently partial it re- ceives some credit and adds to the | alarmist feeling. ;TIPS MAY YET AVERT A CLASH. Peace Plan Said to Have Been Formu- lated at St. Petersburg. AR PARIS, Jan. 2.—The St. Peters- burg correspondent of the Paris edi- tion of the New York Herald says that as a result of a consultation between the Emperor and his officials a plan has been worked out which may yet adopts a | * WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—It is learned from an official source that Japan, in her last note to the Russian Government, an- | nounced that the minimum proposition which “she could accept from Russia were rights in Korea equal to those claimed by Rus- sia in Manchuria. In return, it is said, Japan agreed to recog- ' nize the supremacy of Russia in Manchuria. To this proposition the Russian Government will not give its appreval, feeling that Japan should content herself with modifica- tions in the form.of concessions in Korea for her commerce. The Russian Government has nfvt'nhan"h-ned hope of a diplomatic settlement of the question, in view of the powerful pressure which Great Britain and France are bringing to bear upon Japan to con- sent to a continuance of the negotiations, but it emphatically stated that Russia will never admit the parallel between her posi- tion in Manchuria and that of Japan in Korea. Count Cassini, the Russian Embassador, believes the Far Eastern situation “gloomy, but not without hope of salvation.” At the Japanese legation to-night it was intimated that if the Russian reply did not give definite assurance that, in general, the concessions asked for by Japan in Korea would be granted, the Tokio Government will be impelled to abandon diplomacy for force. The Japanese Minister does not believe that, after the manner in which he claims his people have acted throughout the negotiations, they will forfeit any sympathy which they have in this country by striking first. R e \ is — | that war is near, as Japan, before the gpening of hostilities, will certainly esire to have in the Far East the | two warships she purchased at Genoa | from the Argentine Republic. The crews of these vessels have arrived at Genoa. Japanese Admiral Matsa, who dis- cussed the possibility of the two ships going through the straits of Gibraltar instead of the Suez canal, in order to avoid a possible attack from Russian naval forces, says he believes the two Chilean warships Libertad and Con- stitucion, reported to have been sold Continued On Page 22, Column & avert war. The pilan, the correspond- ent says, contemplates a guarantee by Raussia of the integrity of China, with the understanding that her protecto- rate over Manchuria be recognized, and in return Japan will be allowed to fulfill her wishes with respect to Korea. —_—— JAPAN MAY DELAY THE BLOW. Desires to Have Recently Purchased ‘Warships Reach Home Waters. ROME, Jan. 2.—Notwithstanding thg pessimistic news from the Far East, “official circles do not believe