The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 20, 1904, Page 1

Columbia—“Mrs. Deering’s Di- | _ wvorce.” | Lyric Hall—Burton Holmes. FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JANU AN ARY 20, 1904 ARCHDURES | LOVE WANES | [N A DAY Nephewfifmncis.l&; seph Discards His | Sweetheart, | Asks for Poor Girl's Hand! and Then Renounces In- tention to Marry. s —e Emperor's Refusal to Sanction Engage- ment Causes the Titled Suitor to Abandon His Wooin PAUGHTER OF WARWICK WEDS. Lady Marjorie Greville Bes of Viscount Helmst ymies Bride am The ce the presence sons. The 500 to 600 note reading er happ fre EDWARD R e - Washington Post to Be A WALLA WALLA, Wash. News was communicated to W Commercial Club to-day f Washington that the abandonme; Fort a Walla had been de deci by the Secretary of War s0« Boise barracks were su enlarged to accommod r al headquarters and fou troops of cavalry. The news is r ceived with chagrin here, as the ci had enlisted the assistance of-the er tire Was gton and Oregon delega- tions for the post's retention. Fort la Walia was established about i — Valiejo to-Have an Election. VALLEJO, Jan. 19.—Trustees Kelly d Cooper will retire from the Board | s, President Petrie and Tinelli from the Board of and Trustees Diamond and from the Board of Library Trustees in March. The coming elec- Director tior GERMANS COVET BAY OF SAMANA Planningrme Seizure 0f 2 Dominican Harbor Berlin Bnymg Up (laims ta Be Used as Pretext for Action. R American Naval Offcer Doas Duty as Manager During Bat:le Beiween Repubhc Rival Armies. , Jan. 19.—San De- from a trustworthy reached here are to any is quietly buy- 1 Belgian claims with. the inten- zing Samana Bay to enforce yment! These claims -date th of the American com- 1d aggrezate $3.000,000. RTA PLATA. San Domingo, Jan of Puerta Plata forces the fighting the ked « ed by the contending forces. Mora se firing, al- General Jiminez's forces when ough the streets and con- in all directions. ernment forces followed in pursuit of the rebels, but advanced in | good and lly drove General Deschar Vice President under.| the W administration and pow support minez, to the fort. An .\S n fo composed of eight with the stars and stripes, went e firing line and demanded a sus- n of hostilities. The commander United States warship then land- ce of 100 men and arranged for the surrender of the fort. The Ameri- rmed the Jiminez forces and turned over the fort to General ommand of ‘lhe Govern- ans disa f foreign warships pre- r, and the American actically managed the ns between Puerta Plata and the latter place being the quarters favor the Morales gov- amps on January 15 re- rom General Jiminez in latter stated that he realized vas hopeless, but that he must e effort f the Morales force: vesterday with the cit men He left to-night with 700 meq to attack ‘Santiago de los Caballeros. is battle will be the most importangt of The r capital, iinez revolutior trenched i rebels, will ate res nce LS DAL IR SLIP AND FALL ON FLOOR. I'wo Congressmen Meet With Mishaps in Lobby of the House. WASHINGTON, Jan 19. — There a “pure food” catastrophe in the members’ lobby of the House to-day. presentative Ma of Jilinois, who | 1 chavge of the Hepburn pure food t « » Hous -day qa h numerous m- d es of pure and adulterated concoc- yns, bottled and canned, which he r d on his desk as ocular evi- ence to members for the necessity for | on. In bringing | samples into the House he i a bottle of olive oil on the floor of the lobby. Immediate- ral Bingham of Pennsylvania, father of the House,” corridor and slipped on the re the oil had spread over % Iroppe arble the and he fell heavily. The general helped to his committee-room, e it was found he was not injured. the meantime Chairman Cooper of Insular Committee endeavored to navigate the oiled marble with a like result. Cooper was rescued from his that time officers of the House off the dangerous spot until the s wiped up. ——————— Sleeps in Snow and Dies, CHICO, Jan. 19.—A Mexican la- er, who was employed by the Butte ity Railroad, was frozen to death night near Stirling City. The Mexican and another laborer had been at Stirling City during the day and in the evening started to the graders’ camp somewhat intoxicated. Twelve inches of'snow was on the ground. In the last | The Mexican lay down to sleep and ¥ commanders of | d States and British warships | troops promptly re- | f the Jiminez revolution, |’ came along | spot | His feet went out from under | tion will be to fill these vacancies and | When a searching party reached the also for the offices of Mayor, City At- |scene early this morning he was dead. City Treasurer, City Auditor | B gt syt g Clerk. i —_——— Four Killed by a Cave-In. BUTTE, Mont., Jan. 19.—By-a cave | of earth in the East Gray Rock mine, | one of the Amalgamated properties, | to-night four men were killed and two | injured. The dead: Qle Oleson, two unknown men. kams Horse Kills a Child. VENTURA, Jan. 18.—Francisca Si- montrehi, the youngest daughter of J. Simontrehi, died this afternoon after | several hours of intense suffering. The little girl was kicked by a vicious horse and thrown ten feet against a the child’s skull PETER OF SERUDIA WEARIES OF THE DUTIES OF KINGSHIP | | 1 ‘ State Will Support Him, CINCINNATI, Jan. 13.—Senator For- aker, when asked here to-day about 3 | George B. Cox’s announcement of his Powers to Name B e B o s | | l|)hir) to the Chicago convention, said: . H “Yes, I read about that in the n New Ruler in || SRR ok ot et o 1 f | beyond saying that nobedy will ques- Belgrade- 8 tion Mr. Cox’s right to become a can- | didate for that or any other homor he " | | may desire at the hands of the Re- VIENNA, Jan. 19.—King Peter of | | | publicans of Ohio. He has been an Servia, acording to a report from Cet- | | lefficient worker in the cause of Re- | tinje, Montenegro, published by thel | publicanism and nobody will question Neue Wiener Journal, is prepared to | | his privilege to seek any reccgnition he voluntarily renounce the throne and| | 1 B Sl IR DRIRY 1 v tes ' 1 T T | i “Do you think he wiill have any op- | allow the powers to nominate his sue- | | position?” | cessor. The Prince of Mentenegro is | | ‘I do not know as to that. If th | said to have received a mandate from | 4 | should be a contest over the nc na- Russia to clear up the precarious sit- | | | |tion of the candidate for the Presi- | uation in Servia. 8 { | dency, thut, of cpurse, would have King Peter's successor, it is added, | | much to do with the seiection of the | will be permitted to ascend the throne | | { | delegates. In any event, it is for the | only®on condition that he agree to { | | state cnn\nnlinn- to determine any punish the leaders of the conspirdey | | | auestion that' may arise.” which resulted in the assassination of | | W || you be one of the delegates at King Alexander and Queen Draga, re- | | | [rarge?” | moving all those who were Hirectly or | & P - = |k do-mpet-demew. That will be for wr»?;}r;tll;;lt;;::;x‘l"fi] :;‘!::":E;es;:_ '{h | 0 | the ‘convention to determine. We must Neue Wiener Journal is not confirmed, | | MONTENEGRIN RULER WHO MAY BE ASKED BY THEGREAT Pow- | | *11 &bide by ite decicion. 1 the oo but all reports indicate that affairs in® | ERS TO NAME THE:SLCCUBESSOR OF KING PETER OF SERVIA. | (RURESES O TR0 SO0, o owid, of Servia are steadily growing worse and | | AND THE-MEMBERS.OF HIS FAMILY. ! fr,.ur,,’ be very glad to gop provided that they are causing the greatest anx- | & £ .;. ! the sentiment of the Republicans of iety in Russia‘and Austria. The Ser- | Ohio is in faver, as I think it is, of vian conspirators are said to be openly threatening to take revenge on Europe by joining in the expected Macedon- ian outbreak in the spring. The in- ternal condition of Servia is alarming. Outside the towns life and property | are insecure. The roads are infested with brigands. —_——————— MERCHANTS OF SUISUN PLAN BIG TMPROVEMENTS Board of Trade Elects Officers and Members Display Interest in Work for the City. SUISUN, Jan. 19.—At the annual | meeting of the Suisun Board of Trade last night the following officers uor‘- elected for the ensuing year: Dinkelspiel. president; J. Lpnalmn vice president; L. W. Taylor, secretary; A. Hilborn, treasurer; W. L. Griffiths J. T. Cooper and Lewis Pierce, direc: 18 Crmcally Illin renewed interest was manifested in| public improvements which the hoard has in contemplation. PROFESSOR STODDARDS LIFE EBBS Famous Cahtorman | | | | t { :ptdal Dispatch td The Cail. | i | { i % “"‘:“fi these S| CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Jan. ‘19.— |an effort to secure through Congress- | ;. coseor Charles Wyrren Stoddard, | man Metcalf an appropriation by Con- e i | gress for the improvement of Suisun | Professor of English literature in Slough so that navigation by that_wa- | Washington Catholic University, is| terway will be greatly facilitated. A | critically iil.in Cambridge Hospital | | here and is expected to live but a few | Professor Stoddard has heen ! jiving here for some weeks, at Pres-| cott Hall, translating Indian stories | | for a new book. Professor Stoddard was formerly a | local company owns a freight steamer, which plies befween here and San | Francisco and nearly all the freight shipped to and from Suisun is trans- | ported by _their steamer. In some places at low tide the water is not of | sufficient depth to float the boat, which | resident and writer of California and | causes serious inconvenience to traffic. | has written a number of books on | With the expenditure of about $20,000 | California subjects. Among his works the slough can be dredged so as to be | are “South Sea Idyls,” “The Lepers of navigable at all times, which will be | Molokal,” “A Summer Cruise in | of great benefit to the business inter- | Southern Seas,” “In the Footprnts of ests of Suisun and a large surrounding | the Padres,” a book about Southern | | territory. | Califognia, and several volumes of | —_——— | poems and travel. TURKISH TROOPS DEFEAT | e | A BAND OF INSURGENTS | SOUTHERN WAREHOUSE DESTROYED BY FIRE Engagement Takes Place Twenty-Four { Miles From Monastir and Seven- teen Rebels Are Kilied- SALONICA, Macedonia, Jan. 19.—An | insurgent band has been defeated by | Turkish troops near Perlepe, twenty- | warehouse owned by J. S. Schirm at four miles from Monastir. Seventeen |the foot of Turner street was destroyed insurgents and five Turks were killed. by fire to-night, causing a loss of near- | TR v U 2 1y $30,000. The building contained Stockmen to Visit San Jose. nearly 7000 barels of cement, more SAN JOSE, Jan. 19.—About 150 |than 1000 barrels of. lime, a large stockmen, who have been in attend- | quantity of fire clay and other ma- ance at the national livestock conven- | terial, which was ruined by water. A tion at Portland, Or.. will visit. San |large portion of the contents of the Jose to-morrow and remain until | building was the property of George Wednesday afternoon. They come in | McNear of 123 California street, San response to an invitation from Charles | Francisco. The cause of the fire is W. Coe and Fred M. Stern of this|not known. The stock was only par- city, who were delegates to the con- | tially insured. vention. A special train will leave - San Francisco at 9 a. m. to-morrow, San Joaguin at the Exposition. STOCKTON, Jan. 19.—The San Joa- Alto. They will réach San Jose short- | quin County commissioners to the St. Iy after 1 p. m. A committee of citi- | Louis Exposition met this morning and zens and the Chamber‘of Commerce |adopted the estimates on the cost of ; will meet them at the depot and es- installation and running expenses made | cort them to the hotels Vendome and | up by Director ‘Brown. The entire | St. James, where lunch will be en-|cost for the seven months, including joyed. At 3 p. m. they W'll be taken | shipping home the exhibif; will amount for a trolley ride to Alum Rock Park. |'to about $15,000. President Filcher of Thursday morning the visitors will be the State commission télephoned ' to the taken for a drive about the city and |local commissio .| Thirty Thousand Dollars the Loss in i a Blaze at Night in the City of Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 19.—The large making a stop of two hours at Palo turn to San Francisco. | returned to-day LOMBIA'S WAR FEVER N ABATING Sick Soldiers Crowd Camp Hospitals on Frontier. Special Cablegram to The Call and New York Heraid. Copyright, 194, hy the New York Herald Publishing r‘ompnn) PANAMA, Jan. 1 .—Bnhnp Junguito from Cartagena and Barranquilla. bringing the strongest | peace tidings yet received from Co- lombia, The Bishop believes emphatically that | | there will be no war. . He declares that | many ‘of the soldiers who went to the Jront along, the Panama border have returned in ili=heaith. - The soldiers from the interiar, he says. cannot stand the heat and the conditions in the Co- lombjan camps. There are no facili- ties, he says,for ‘getting supplies and | there is great siffering among the sol- | diers. The hospitals are crowded, and discontent. was expressed everywhere. The troops, are not axxious to start on the hard land journey to the isthmus and sentimént along the coast favors an abandonment of the disastrous cam- paign, rather than risk serious troubles. The people in the cities are anxious tosbe rid of the burden imposed on them in paying the army and all offi- cials on a gold basis, as they have re- ceived no gold from Bogota, and the drain is greater than they are willing to stand. *The Government junta has letters from Bocas del Toro and other points showing (hat there has been nio further advance by the Colombian army. General Huertas, commander in chief of the army of Panama. has sent 100 soldiers to San Juan. He thought it | possible that the Colombians might at- tempt to make an advance on that point. e . Fire Drives Out Hotel &uests. - CHICAGO, Jan. 20.—A panic was caused among 300 guests of the Pal- ‘ace Hotel in North Clark street early this morning by a small fire. Men ‘and women ran from the building in scant attire, but no one was hurt. Loss trivial. ———— McLaurin and Money Re-elected. ‘ors mers to-day that San McLaurin and Money were elected to- Tim Harrington, | fence. The hoof of the animal broke | county, leaving at 2:30 on their re-|Joaquin Ommtx‘we wouldbe "fls day by the xmhtm to succeed " feet. themselves . |1 am an out-and-out, FORAKER'S DEFIANCE T0 HANNA ‘Willing to 6o to Con- ~ Vention as Ohio | | Delega,te {Wants the Honor Oaly on . Condition That Roose- velt Be Indorsed, Pegards the President as Logical Can- didate and Believes the Buckeye | the nomination of President Roosevelt unqualified sup- { porter of Roosevelt. I believe in the man: T believe in hit administration: I I helieve he will be the strongest candi- | datt who can be named, and I believe {he will pe triumphantly elected. and I believe there should be no haiting or | hegitation about suvporting him. If with this understanding as to my po- sition, the Republicans of Ohio uld desire me to represent them I will, of course, he glad to do =0.” o S e LOUISIANA PRIMARIES. Yoters Favor Blanchard for Governor and Foster for Semator. l NEW ORL S, Jan. 19 eral primary nominate cratic State ticket to be voted for in April was held in Louisiana to-day. It was the first test ever made in ‘the State of the primary method of direct nomination. There were two candi- dates for Governor and the indica- tions to-night point to the nomination of former Senator N. C. Blanchard over General Leon Jastremski, Consul to Péru under Cleveland. In the primary to-day Senator M. G. Foster agd former Senator B. F. Jones were candidates for the nom- ination for United States Senator for | the term beginning in 1908. Senator Foster carried New Orleans b | heavy majority and his nomination is indicated. It is conceded that the of- ficers nominated te-day will be elected in April. | —— BALLOTING FOR SENATOR. A gen- a Demo- to { | | | | | | | | Smith and Rayner Lead in the Mary- land Legislature. ANNAPOLIS, Md., Jan. 19.—Ballot- ing for a United States Senator to succeed Senator McComas began in the Legislature to-day, the Senate and the Senate was: John W. Smith, §; Isador Rayner, 4; Bernard Carter, & | Elihu E. Jackson, 2; Josiah Miles, 1 Edward Warfield, 1 (all Democrats), and Louis E. McComas (R.), 8. In the House of Delegates the vote was: Smith, 23; Rayneg, 21;- Carter, 4; Jackson, 3; Miles, 3; Warfield, 1; James H. Henderson, 2 (all Demo- ‘cnu). and Louis E, McComas (R.), 300 There not being a majority for any candidate there was no election. voting will be resumed to-morrow. —_——— I KOREA DEFIES. Rl,‘sfilk Empire’'s Affairs. SEOUL, Jan. 19.—Russia complains that Korean soldiers are trouble. Korea answers that Russia Tnust nét interfere. The tension in | House voting separately. The vote in | The AMERICATS COUP STIRS (TARS IRE. Russmn Diplomatist Makes Reckless Assertion. Says Ports of Manchuria i Will Remain Closed De- spite Treaty. Indieations That St Petersburg Is Disposed to Yield to the Japan- ese Government. LONDON, Jan. 20.—The Port Arthur correspondent of the Daily Mail cables that he had an interview with Admiral Alexieff, the Russian Viceroy in the Far East, who spoke hopefully of the possibility of arranging a modus vi- vendi with Japan. The Viceroy then referred correspondent to his dip- lomatic agent, Planchon, who empha- the impossibility of Russia's evac- of Manchuria, and said » given six months ago chwang and Manchu . provided Chinese would ag: ) simple ter : but, owing to the in- rigues of Japanese Minister with the Wai 1 Pu (Chinese Foreign Board) these T counter- manded.”™ ¢ P! deelared t wchéen at the action Unitell States in making a com- reial treaty with China without Rus- under the existing cir- was unfriendly and undip- Russia, he d, would not open Mukden ahd Antung under the presenit regime nor allow Consuls there If Japan wanted Korea, Russia would { not interfere, provided other powers al- and he added: did not ask Japan's consent Manchuria: neither wa It Japan to seek Russia's sia's consent cumstane lomatic owed it, | “Ruw to oceupy necessary permission to establish a protectorate in Korea.” Planchon conciuded by saying that the United States and other nations vere more interested in the sjtuation than was Russia. The correspondent adds that n of the United States Go had quite upset Viceroy Alexiefl's calculations. The German newspapers this morning appear to be paving the way to explain the Russian retreat in the negotiations with Japan, an r all the capitals of Europe opinion now inclines to a peace- ful issue i the Far Eastern situation. In a dispatch from Tokio the corre- spondent there the Daily Mail ports that a lengthy conference of the Japanese Cabinet was held on Tuesday, and says the Emperor is receiving the of Ministers of Finance and Marine and the naval chiefs. The Anrvn\pnnd‘ nt says he has learned that Kurine, Japa- Minister Petersburg, has sent a confidential report, in which he says that at a secret meeting recent of the Russian Grand Dukes and t Ministers War Minister Kuropatkin and some of his colleagues deciared in favor of peace. According to the Tokio correspondent of the Standard the Privy Co 1 will convened to-day to discuss portant measures bearing upon the uation The Port Arthur correspondent of th Daily Mail declares in a dispatch that in St eleven Russian battalions of infantry togther with cavalry and artillery, hav been dispatched to the Yalu River. He mentioned also an unconfirmed report that Japan has landed troops in South- ern Korea. \ UL SIS GERMAN AID OF RUSSIA. Intimate Relations Betwcen the Two Governments Are Revealed. BERLIN, Jan. 19.—The apprehefsion that there might be war between Jasan and Russia, which prevailed at the Fo | eign Office two or three days last week, has been replaced by temperate confi- dencd that Russia will be able to sat- fy Japan. The intimate relations between Ger- many and Russia were brought out in | the Reichstag to-day during a discus- | sion over the privi-ges given to Rus- sian secrét agents on this side of the | frontier. The Socialists gave notice | some time ago that at the reopening of | Parliament they would question the | Government om the subject. Herr | Ernst Haase was put forward by the | party to-day to make the attack. He | asserted that Russia mcintained a chief | of spies in Berlin, named Tardik, who ! received 39000 yearly and enjoyed the title of his Excellency. Herr Haase Warns Against lmeflm in the ., mentioned by name Tardik’s prin- )cipa] assistant, whose relations with Hhe German Government were such as causing | to permit them, Herr Haase affirmed, to use the German police agencies and | other imstruments of the Government Seoul is increasing, and the mative | 45 though they were Russian students prees, whieh is probably inspired, ll'or other residents, oceasionally getting more bitter against ‘foreigners than lat the postal officials and opening mail formerly. The Emperor's trusted ad- | gddressed to Russians. The Deputy ac- visers have a daily council. . The Rus- | cysed the spies of using the methods of sian nml English legations have in- | pousebreakers, seemingly without ex- cfeased their guards by sixteen. | citing police vigilance, and said they The Japanese are buying and stor- | g,rged the power of attorney to receive ing much rice in Northern Korea. The | the mail of a Socialist member of the Korean general, Yihak Kyum. whose | pichstag suspected of being in corre- sympathies ar: rro-Russian, nanmdel a veiled threat against foreigners. Continued on Page 2, Columa 1.