The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1904, Page 1

!—1}%’7 } Aidnight, Japvary o Cleoudy, urday; probably THE WEATHER. Forecast meade at Saa Fran. | cisco for tairty hmul endiag San Praacisco ..Ild vicinity— unsettled weatler Sa ( brisk northwest winds. ! A. G. McADIE, | District Forecaster. | light rain; JAPAN WILL CONTINUE NE DI ! ( kR HAYNA f/) TARDINENS - SN S Friends of President || Await Conven- | tion Call. Jelay in Making It Is Un-) precedented in Annals Party Opening of Campaign for Delegates Awzits Pleasure of National C»amm;me Chairman. The Cal 3 STREET, N 8.—President a i with growing f Senator Hanna rman and sec- can National Com- | for the na- growing usly expressed to 2ig: It is now, himself a candi- | that he Roosevelt e failure of Chair- etary Heath to et 2 r the convention is very | Twenty-seven days have se Republi National t in the Arlington Hotel | ¥ decided to' have the d t on J 1 in DELAY IS UNPRECEDENTED. issued the ourns, because oes forth no steps can ng of State and conventions for The reason national committee and the call must manner of choosing delegates i representation. T en in advance of the f 1l might be se 2 in accord th tk spirit of the call; theref se might be T erations . 4' q~l"a(e< in nce of tic f the call, s to ponder over the all and still they are THE COMMITTEE. 1 controls the na- When he arrived in he discovered that Mec- eight votes of The national com- d day deciding con- when it got through uestion about McKin- CONTROLS s friends are compelled r Hanna's fallure to se of the machinery gainst him. Meantime made on the Presi- e line in the hope of sentiment against Jan. 8—The In- e has been flooded s of the Cincinnati condemning in the ration of declaring nation at the national es of papers contain- | booming Hanna for the en mafled. The pa- e e sent to almost every State in idition to these papers ea 00 ietters containing small ¥ t to show that (the na is for Hanna for vy bhave been mailed.| publicans of the city and zzled and have taken steps ce the m r. Officers in the post- | nof know where the | hiets came from. —d— an-Chinese Railway. N, Jan.. 8.—Consul nton, China, tment that a | olies for high- e American y at Szinzm. No one was in- | | company auditor drove down s ot Alcazar—“A Lady of Quality.” California—“Happy Rooligan.” Central—“Monte Cristo.” Fischer's—"IL 0. U.” Grand—"The Head Waiters.” Orphenm—Vaudeville. The Chutes—Vaudeville. Tivoli Opera-House—“Ixion.” Columbia—"“The Girl With the Green Eyes.” THEATERS. All Theaters. '-.TIATIONS WITH RUSSIA ESPITE PRACTICAL REJECTION OF HER DEMANDS P ‘ ONDON, Jan. 9—Japan has practically decided to continue negotiations with Russia, despite the fact that Russia’s reply to the Japanese demands is en- According to advices from Tokio the Government does not desire to issue an ultimatum or break off negonatlons until every effort to obtain concessions from Russia shall have been exhausted; but the belief in the Japfinese capital as well as throughout Europe is that this policy will Her answer to Japan is' proof of this. In resuming negotiations Japan is insuring to Russia more weeks of de- ' lay, and during the interim Russia will be enabled to complete her war' preparations, which areas yet not as far advanced as those of the island empire. culiar phase of the situation is that the diplomatic corps in St. Petersburg, eveil including the French Embassador, is unable to obtain from the Russian Foreign Office the slightest: inkling &f Russia’s intentions. tirely unsatisfactory. only delay the crisis. 1 .;. — Russia will not retreat. A pe- a— . — ] - o - SEE N h | Former Fiscal | Agent of Senator Clark a Suicide. —_—— | Specia] Dispatch to The Call. | JEROME, Ariz., Jan. 8.—While in a| condition of despondency, said to have| been caused by his disappointment at! not having been advanced in position by his employer, W. Hi Allen, for many vears the fiscal agent of Senator W. A. Clark, owner of the United Verde ine, committed suicide in a sensa- tional manner this morning. It appears that Allen had resigned his | position’with the company recently be- cause lary had not been increased. He complained of the lack of appregia- | tion on the part of ‘his employers and became despondent., Allen knew that his successor, accompanied by J. €. McDonald, vice president of the com- pany, the auditor of the company and | Charles Clark, son of Senator Clark, were due here last evening. | Allen executed deeds.to all his property to his wife and then, ac- companied by T. E. Campbell, his son- | in-law, and Dr. Wood, the physiclan of | the (‘!»pnr-r company, went to his ranch, four mileg from ‘town, where ' he ' re- mained during the night. i This morning T. E. Campbell and the | to the ranch. Just as they approached Allen stood on the porch’ while the visitors | hitched their. team. As they started for the house . Allen, without even| '’ speaking, drew a revolver, threw back his bgad and sent.a bullet through: his brain. He dropped dead before the eves of the astonished visitors . D LIFE, | two countries, each desirous of av ondmg hosmlmes. hes SCENES AT CHEMULPO, THE KOREAN PORT WHERE “ARSH!PB OF THE POWERS ARE CONGREGATED ‘ AND WHENCE MARINES HAVE PROCEEDED TO SEO'.L THE EMPIRE'S CAPITAL, TO GUARD THE ’ LEGATIONS, IN VIEW OF A POSSIBLE RIOTOUS OUTBREAK. L | s SRS 'Embassadors to St. Petersburg Fall to Fathom Rus- sian Government’s Far Eastern Policy. . Special Cablegram to The Call and New York Rg'l;lld Copyright,” 1004, by the New York Herald Publishing Co. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. sona'grata.” The Russian Foreign Office says he has done everything in his power to insure peace. I asked him to-day whether he stiil believed peace possible. With readiness he replied that he did. Japan, in spite of all statements to the contrary, did not desire a war 'and he was satisfied Russia was against*war. The: whole of tfie-pr.'csent-.nego't‘iatiops, when summed up. merely amounted to the fact that Japan wished a definition of ifs interests. When asked whether the Japanese Government could restrain the war patty ‘he ‘eplied: “Easily, if only the definition desired could be obtamed 4 M. Kurino readily admittel the danger of large opposmg military and naval fornemathere 1 near together; nevertheless he considered ‘that somie arrangeme _t ought to be possible between 8.——']:]18’7_]21};3!165& MiAnvis_terz here, M. Kurino, is essentially “'per- I left the Minister with an mlpressmn that he, ke -many of his dlplomatlc colleagues; js certainly convinced that, if the worst conie, ‘the. _powe will-ifitérvene to_prevent.the awful blood- shied that wotild bé sure to oceur in.case of war, hctween'such well equipped rlvals to-day. A'dip- ey . L (hnunued oh l‘-ne 2. Columns | SThA\ MAY CRAS UPON ROCKS Puget Sound Vessel Disabled in Furi- ous Storm. AR et PORT TOWNSEND, Wash,, Jan. 8.— A repoft has just reached here that the passenger steamer ‘Clallam, operating daily between sound ports and British Columbia, had broken down In the straits off Trial Island and when sight- ed had drifted to the vicinity of Dis- covery Islandl A severe southwest storm prevails and unless assistance soon reaches the disabled craft she is in imminent danger of stranding on the rocky shore of that island. The tug Richard Holyoke left here to search for her this evening, and other tugs will be dispatched as fast as they can be signaled. Discovery Island is exposed to the| fyll sweep of a southwest storm. When last reported the vessel was making poor headway with a makeshift sail. The Clallam had about forty passen- gers aboard when she left this port. | There is no record of their names here. She is a new vessel. She was built at Tacofna last year and placed in com- mission July 3. She is 167 feet long, 32 feet beam and 17 feet depth of hold. She cost $100,000. z ———— Warships Put in at Acapulco. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—The Navy Department has been informed of the arrival of the torpedo-boat destroyers Paul Jones and Preble undes convey of the gunboat Bennington at Aca- pulco. on their way to Panama. 1 | | war began, SAYS WO - RETIRED 10 THE REAR ' General WllSOIl sVer- sion of San Juan |Sensational Testimony Be- | fore Senate Investizating Committee. Officer Alleges That the President | Asked Him Not to Tell Others of | the Incident Special Dispatch to The Ca ET, —Ene- d oppo- . 1406 G N. W., WASHINGTON, Ja mies of the administration a | | nents of General Leonard Wood's con- general are of | irmation to be major making much to-night of General James Wilsen's te fore. the committee, made a serap been publ gued with gr 1ess agai General Wood's promotion and sai very officer in the army resented i mitte Wilson went on to tell the co | of an interview he had with Presider | Roosevelt at home in Oyster Bay after he had been elected Vice Pres- ident, but before he became Presid “He began,” sald General Wi acgording, to the printed copy of the testimony. “in . rath extravagant terms of praise of General Wood, whereupen I said to ¥ : ‘Governor Roosevelt, 1 think you are perhaps mistaken abowt that. If I am correct- Iy informed, General Wood never was under fire in his until the Spanish either in the Geronimo | campaign or at any other time. In : the Spanish war he was never in but | one battle and that at Las Quasimas, where, but for his rescue and support by colored troops, he would have been badly handled “‘Oh, vyes,’ Mr. Roosevelt, ‘he was at San Juan,' to which I replied: 1 beg your pardon; he was not. You know that he was in the rear looking ffir ammunition.’ “Yes,” said Roosevelt, ‘but do not tell anybo “Now, why he did not want me to tell anybody I do not know. I did not pursue the subject any further, and that is the last word that has eve passed between us with referenee to General Wood."” The extent of rther fight to conducted against the confirm General Wood depends, it was by Democratic ders to-day, e upon the attitude of Senmator Hanna. {1t Hanna will make the Wood personal matter and a finish, Senators Gorman mack will stand by him to the end. LETTE! T A STORY OF ALLEGED KIDNAPING | Purports to Have Been Written by Two Girls Who Are Being Taken Into Indian Territory. CHANUTE, Kans., Jan. $.—Two girls, Irene Stacey and Rena Douglas of Fond du Lac, Wis., have been kid- naped by three men, who have taken them to the Indian Territory, accord- ing to a letter found near the railroad track near Chanute to-day. The let- ter, which is well written, evidently had been thrown from a southbound Santa Fe passenger train. It reads as follows: FOND DU LAC, Wis., Dec. 28.—To Whoever Finds This: We, Irene Sticey and Rema Douglas, have been kidnaved by three men we have never seen before. They say they are going to taks us to the Indian Territory. We are on the train, and if we appeal to any one they tell them we are crazy and that they are taking Will you please notify the have the men locked ud and . Stacey or R. N. Douglas at REN. write to W Fond dw Lac? FOND DU LAC, Wi There are no residents in by the name of W. M. Stacey or R. N. Douglas. The girls named in the dispatch from Chanute, Kans., were never heard of here. PR SR AW FEARLESS CHILD KILLS A BIG MOUNTAIN LION Fourteen-Year-Old Girl Shoots at a Ferocions Beast and Breaks Its Back. ND POINT, Idaho, Jan. 8.—Tes- sie Edwards, a girl of 14 years and of small stature for her-age, killed a mountain lion in the Cabinet Gorge country yesterday. It measured elev- en feet. The child was hunting rabbits with 5 her father, from whom she had sep- | arated. While walking along a path the lion confronted her and she shot, wounding it. The lion made for her, but the girl pluckily stood her ground and shot again, this time the ball Qgaking the lion’s back. The Reast died almost at the girl's feet,