The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 29, 1904, Page 1

Torecast midnight, January Fair Priday, cloundin ‘winds. 3 THE WEATEER. made at San Fran- cisco for thirty hours ending San Francisco and vicinity— with increasing fresh A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. 29: northeast [ | | XCV- moon.” THEE THEATERS. Alcazar—"The Masqueraders.” California—*The Eternal City.” Central—"Quo Vadis.” Chutes—Vaudeville. Columbia—*“A Chinese Money- Fischer's— The Beauty Shop.” Grand—“David Harum.” Orphenm—Vaudeville. Tivoli—“When Johnny Comes + FIVE CENTS. ORONER AND POLICE TLL CLAS Conflict of Jurisdic- tion May Arise | To-Day. Relations Exist . Leland Is Firm. | Exra;wam: Develops Some Odd Witnesses and | Q1Y dill and D Contradiction IBORN WITNESS, to her house 1t something o had applied r insuranc She told her that an insurance fe ar ren able to identify the | that the police night of the mur- | ooked like the one y he rented the Soeder, at 2 at the body took Blai 'be in the fold- rom them some | thought con- | out at she e policies. that time Soeder | man with bim in the xamination she nd-| » had seen Soeder wear | », the day that | . Neiblas said der pasted on names of himself thereon was fas- the 1 door with and Blaise written Continued on Page 3, Column 1. | The & recov d on January 16 o Tt T i Dele, in Congress Is Accused. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Charges | have been filled at the Inte De- | partment against B. S. McGuire, the in the House from Oklahoma, that in violation of the law he h been prosecuting claims in behalf of Indians and accepting fees therefor while ing 2s a Dele- gate in Congress. The charges have been referred to the Department of Justice. | . War Minister Linares to Fight Duel. N 71‘HIBETAXSG | ATHER 70 ATTACK " British Expedition Is Threatened by Natlve§. | British Inc Jan. 28. Cc inghusband, commandi t ibet, T re om e Le- five great o delivered an to return to | I that there if he did not | nfantry iched the > coming | ted that an camp and more It sto. is ex vde on the British >n the Thibetans are | reinforced. | the British are| of | north of Linga be more diffi higher than the Khyber telegraph is keep- Al itary 1 the s done i akers e of / g column under command of Colonel Macdonald is ready to push ard at any moment should neces- | —— MAN DIES IN ALASKA BLIZZARD arise. [ SEATTLE | Companion Makes Heroic Effort to Prevent Death and Nearly Loses His Own Life. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. attle was frozen in an blizzard near Barclay Point on January 10. His companion, H. I. Fro- | 1 d both hands frozen, and after | zol h E 5" death ma ed to struggle to n two miles distant, where he yund by three prospectors three hours later Stevens’ death Frozold had at- | tempte to carry whose legs ga « but the man was crrazed with coid 2 austion and | kicked v zold t down and forced Stevens | d of him until he dropped. MADRID, Jan. 28.—As an ouicome of a heated altercation in the Chamber of Deputies to-day concerning the ap- pointment of Mgr. Nozalda to the Archbishopric of Valencia, Minister of War Linares and Deputy Sorinao are | to fight a duel. They have appointed seconds, Llrmrive o ZrEEROR WILLIAI AND KING v ZENIIarX: . — RISE MARES CONFESSION - $187,000 Stolen From Bank. g B ND, Ohio, Jan —~George ing of his method of using the bank's | | | money, of which he is said to have lost 3D, IT IS IN THE EVE I OF RUSSO-JAPANE PISE AT PASSENGER RATES 10 THE FAIR Cost of Tickets From Pacific Coast to St. Louis. LOUIS, Jan. 28.—The final | of the Transcontinental Pas- | ng Association was held m-mghti 1d the following rates from the Pa- > Coast were formulated: | | er From Pacific Coast points to St. s and return, $ 50; from Pacific s to Chicago and return, 0; from Pacific Coast points to Chicago and return by way of St $70. Loui T at these rates shall be sold three days in each month with a ten day limit going and ninety day limit returning. with stop-over privileges at points of transit. The tion will convene in Chi- cago at a special meting, the date of which has not been set, to ratify these kets rates and take final action regarding tickets, regulations and prospective | measur s NSIERTE S22 S found Dead After a Quarrel NAPA, Jan. 28.—James Hoy of Napa was found dead on the county road near the depot at Yountville about .10 o'clock Wednesday evening. Hoy had been drinking heavily for the last few days and Wednesday night had a quar- rel at a saloon, from which place he was thrown into the street. Whether he died from injuries received in the scuffle or from alcoholism is not 'yet known. | tinues, but it refuses in uncompromis-, Czar Mobilizing] Army on the | Border. ’\ LONDON, Jan. 20.—A dispatch to the Standard from Tokio says that, accord- ing to information from an authentic source, lapge bodies of Russian troops are being moved to the Korean frontier from Fengnangcheng and other points in the interior of Manchuria. A dis- patch to the Daily Mail from Seoul re- ports the arrival of 1000 Russian troops at Antung yesterday. A dispatch from Nagasaki to the| Dalily telegraph affirms that the Kore- an Government has bluntly refused the renewed demands of Italy fer a gold mining concession in Korea. The Peking correspondent of the| Times cables that Tseng Chi, Tartar general of Mukden, has telegraphed the Foreign Board at Peking that the Rus- jans have-demanded that-he supply | 500 carts for immediate military ‘ser- vice. The board replied that, owing to China's decision of neutrality, Tseng Chi must decline to supply the carts| in question. The Daily Graphic claims tb be able to affirm that Russia’s draft of her re- ply has not yet been officially present- | ed to Japan, but that it has been com- | municated to Kurino, the Japanesa | Minister in St. Petersburg, who has transmitted the contents to Tokio, | whence it+ will be conveyed to the friendly powers. The Russian reply | is courteous, the Daily Graphic con- ing terms to permit the reinsertion in | the draft of the treaty of the two words | guaranteeing the integrity and inde- pendence of China, upon which Japan insisted in her last note. | The ~lause proposed by Japan was| that Russia and Japan should mutu- | ally agree to respect the “integrity and | independence of China and Korea.” | Russia has now twice stricken out the words “China and,” and it is under- stood that this will close the negotia- tions. It is probable, the D:ily Graphic goes on, that when this note has been pre- sented Japan will notify Baron de Ro- sen, the Russian Minister at Tokio, that she has no alfernative but to take up arms in defense of her interests and that -Kurino will be instructed 'to de-- Continued on Page 2, Column 4, RUSSIA MOVES TROOPS TO FRONTIER OF KOREA Y[[(ITl BEFORE SUBMITTING FINAL ANSWER TO JAPA I CHIEF PORT - FIRE SWEPT 'Two Million Dollars Loss in City of Progreso. Entire Square of Business Heuses and Offices Loses in Speculation Destroyed. Municipal Palace and ‘Railroad Build- ings Included in the List of Burned Structures. CITY OF MEXICO, Jan. 28.—Fire at, rogreso, the chief port of Yucatan, on Tuesday night, destroyed an ent business houses and publ including the market. Th 100,000, railway office consumed. The public buiid- ings were not insured and the loss on teen thousand bales most beautiful plaza in Pr The origin of the fire is un- known and the flames had gained much headway before the department reached the bldze | The square which was consumed con- sisted for the most par buildings occupied The market house building, which supplied the only m of obtaining good supplies, was oyed. In the same biock w t large two-story building which ed as the general offices of the | Consolidated Railway of Yucatan and ¥ also the Municipal Palace, a two-story stone building. These buildings were burned The loss is divided as follows: Loss f Municipal Palace and contents, $450.- | 000; market-house and content 900 lidated Railway of Yucatan, | building and contents, $300,000; loss on | other bu property, which was oc- | cupied by hardware, clothing, 1 uses, $1,000,000. It y he ss is about half cov rostly held by Eu- | is said that th ered by insura ropean companie i O — BOOKMAKER IS ROBBED BY DISHONEST CLERKS | | 3 | More Th; a Quarter of a Million Dol- s Is Taken in Five Months. Jan NEW YORK seen closed s After having a number of pool rooms here controlled by a book who credited with having | maker | | A the' defaulting cashier of the | won nearly $1,000,000 on the race tracks Produce Exchange Bank, which closed | last season, have reopened. When the | its doors January made a confession | places were closed was said to e to-night to the County Prosecutor, tell- | due to the raise in price by the te raph company for racing results, according to the Herald, the true g e | $187,000. Rode said that he was alone | Son was that the propriétor discov- Bepeansia 1S BT A rig e I }”; his soeculations a\na! that his use of | ered a conspiracy among his emplo: SHOU “CUPY COPEN e bank's money began about ix ereby e tha 25 nad b SHOULD ™ OCCUPY COPENHAGEN i‘_.'_ = 'l‘p" i ”‘;[‘ about three | Pald out in five months. A new staff o years ago. He s rat about of men now run the rooms. vears ago, when the loss had reached | “'1¢"j¢ understood all wagers made in . | 3 i e £ only ,000, an auditing committee was | each room were honestly recorded on appointed to go over the bank’s books. | each sheet by the conspirators, but on P \ A\ T\ | Rose had hoped that his shortage|one sheet would be recorded wagers | would be discovered then, but at rha‘:’;“‘_“"""‘,""‘ 'I‘rlll': . It ;h}' “["“'”‘ ot : ol s or so of investigation | the race showed the fraudulent wagers ] end of ’\.!\‘(‘ek‘ T -_n « m\.?‘-» :' 4 | to be successful the sheet on which the committee reported everything sat-| (pey were recorded was turned inte isfactory with the bank's affairs. 7 Rose declared that he lived within his salary of $125 a month, and has not got a cent of the me lost to the L bank by his = speculatic When the | shortage had reached $20,000, Rose said, | he knew that he would have to replace that sum, and seeing no other ) dolg than by speculating, he con- nued to risk large sums until the mount reached $187,000. His mental state had been miserable ever since his speculation began, he said, and often he had been tempted to commit suicide, but did not do so because of his wife and family. All of the entire sum of $187,000, Rose { declares, was lost with grain specula- | tion in Chicago. His willingness for a | speedy trial and imprisonment, he said, was to relieve his mind of the worry that he had undergone. He desired to | be sentenced and serve his term and ‘nflnrw\arll » begin life anew. | FOR FLAMES Loss in Turin Univer- ~sity Fire Is Ol ROME, Jan. —_—————————— LZWARTS TRIBESMEN 28.—An official report | VONDE has been made on the losses resulting CAUSING GREAT ANXIETY from the fire in the University Library | — {In Turin, on January 26, according to | General Insurrection Breaks Out Among Them and German South- wes Africa May Be Devastated. , Jan. A published in German So just received here by mail which about 3700 manuscripts, includ- ing almost all those of Oriental origin, | were destroyed. The number of vol- umes lost has not been established. The fire lasted twenty-four hours, and it seems certain that 2000 volumes of Greek, Latin and other works were con- sumed, as well as the precious Venetian ollection of books from the library of Cardinal Della Rovere. Among the codices saved announces the Kara tribesmen in the hills, a gen- eral insurrection has broken out among the Vondelzwarts tribesmen. Fifteen is an an- | Berry, for which Great Britain once | ., Jan. 28.—Norman offered almost any sum of money, now | Odell, a 19-yea 1d youth whose home appears to have been destroyed, as was | is in New York Cit an ancient ,French translation of | appeared on January 12 from the ranch “Dante.” Of this “Dante” there exists | home of A. R. Blackmer at Buckeve. ancther cooy in France. | forty miles west of Phoenix. His dis- The Duke of Genoa, brother of Queen | appearance was only to-day reported | Margherita, has visited the university, | to the Sheriff, who has sent a deputy in company with the Minister of Publi itn investigate. It was reported by a Instruction, and promised an especial | neighbor, who had missed him in the appropriation for its future funds. It |vicinity. When inquiry was made of has been decided to call to Turin Signor | Blackmer he said he supposed that Marre, a restorer of ancient books at | Odell went somewhere else to find a the Vatican, in whose apartment start- | better place to work. His belongings, ed the fire which partly destroyed the | however, are still at the home of Vatican library recently. Blackmer, who is a reputable farmer. newspaper | uthwest Africa, | that in consequence of the gathering ,\fi white men have entrenched themselves | mysteriously dis- | offi e of the syndicate. the wagers | the central it th P Thus the the result fraudulent be 1 honest sheet was turned in dishonest employes stood no chance of and almost day they | were able to take thousands of dollars from theirgemployer. In other the results of races were held back | operators until wagers on the winner could be recorded. UL B s SRS S SECRETARY SHAW ISSUE! CIRCULAR TO TRAVELERS Enumerates the Articles Residents of the United States May Bring Into the Country Free of Duty. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Secretary Shaw has issued a circular to passen- gers arriving in the United States from foreign countries regarding examina- tion of baggage, passengers’ tions, exemptions from duty o which will be sent to each passenger race showed to k loss, every cases as' far as possible before embarking on outgoing steamer: As to exemptions | from duty the Secretary, following a | recent decision of the Court of Ap- s for the Second Circuit Court, | in effect that each returning pas- senger, a resident of the United | States, may bring into the country free of duty articles purchased abroad ex- cept eigars and cigarettes in excess of { fifty of the former and 300 of the lat- ter, for himself or any other person up | to the amount of $100, provided they are not intended for tdntlond ki ¥ t "at Luederitzbucht, the most important cient codex of the fourth century con- | point in the colony. There is danger | P e e ey taining the gospels, as well as many | that the entire southern section will be | LONDON ART CIF others of late date. A classic medieval | devastated. ARE GREATLY EXCITED book of the greatest value, called ! R e A —_— | “Heurs de Turin,” by the Duke de * Disappears in Arizona. | piscoyer That Recently Purchased Statuette of Nelson Is Work of a Young Sculvtor Student. LONDON, Jan. 2S.—Excitement has been caused in art circles at the d covery that a silver statuette of Nel- son, supposed to have been presented to George I1I and which was purchased recently for $3000 by subscription, the King and the Prinee of Wales subserib- ing, for presentation to the Royal United Service Institution, is in reality the work of a young sculptor student, Richard Carbe, and was executed two years ago. Carbe is blameless for thi* foisting of his work on the publie.