The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 6, 1904, Page 1

A — THE WEATHER. Toresast mede at San Fran- r thirty hours eading midnight, Pebruary 6: | San Fraacisco and vicinity— 3 ; colder Saturday; light t morning; light A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. f— + Celumbia—"“A meen.” Grand—“Lost SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1904. } THE THEA Califeraia—*“The Biern: Cextral— ‘Bast Lynne.” Clhutes—Vandeville. Fischer's—“The Beauty Shop.” Orphenm—Vrudeville. Tivoli—“When Johnny Comes Marching Home.” Matizees at Day. All Theaters To- Chinese Honmey- | River.” RUSSIA PREPARES TO INVADE KOREA; ARTILLERY GUARDING THE BRIDGES PORT ARTHUR, Feb. y infantry, artillery and boats. anticipation of an advance toward low the free p by 5.---All the railroad bridges are guarded, and bridges over the Sungari River are defended A military post has been established on the highway from Liangyang to Antung, in Korea. SURVEYING AN Proposed Course of New Road From Salt Lake, | Follow the Valley of the Feather River in California. **G; Is the Con- the Western Company. ot W e e R — 22 P, S A CUBA SHOWS HER LACK OF RATITUDE New Tariff Disas- trous to This Cglg@. HAV decree creasing t as promu will take effect to-morr The new rates are le to European importers . The latter hoped that a duties serican. foum rate Sileed ey Congress, woyld have been placed on goods like linens which they could hope to substitute to some extent with cotton. The Ameri- cans also hoped for a more radicg in- crease in the duties on cottons, which would have enabled goods from the United States to compete, with the ad- vantage of reciprocity, against British and Eu ean cottons. The President’s decree fixes the increase on linens, silks woolens at 15 per cent and that on cotton at 20 per cent. Under President Palma’s debree the maximum increases of 30 per cent are placed on all the main food imports from the United States, among these being poultry, game, hams, fresh meats ail kinds, butter, cheese, eggs, all grains, flour, vegetables and fruits. sagmires has not been en- ging ins and nce running 1d Palisade Rail-| 2 he Southern Pacific River at Jacobs- range at New BATTERY IN BATTLESHIP IOWA 1S BADLY DAMAGED escend into the| » L hass (o the norl | Both Guns in the Starboard Forward the S e i Turret Blow Off Their Muzzles ses to Beckwith |- While Being Tested. . stant. Thence the | WASHINGTON, Feb. §.—Captain Feather River in| Train, president of the board of inspec- tion and survey, telegraphed to-day to about &N)t the Navy Department from Fort Mon- A ntry mensely rich in|roe that while the board of inspection f 4 was testing the battery. on the battle- ntains quartz | ship Iowa both guns in the starboard has never been | forward eight-inch turret blew off their ving to the im-| muzzles. No damage was done except to the| to the guns and one whaleboat. | ZXmmediately on receipt of the tele ! gram Secretary Moody sent a dispatch 1 be g the ore ——— Upileptic ¥it. | calling for full details and ordering,the Mr. Williams | Icwa to proceed at once to New York | member of Parlia- | for examination and repairs. rmingham), for- | ¥ 1o the War | Immigration Station for This City. v| WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—The House to-day passed the bill providing for fhe erection of an immigration station at _ ' the port of San Francisce. removed to is serious. ent increase, which is the maxi- | which the United States cannot manu- | facture in competition with Europe. but | 'Russian Fleet to | Assemble at | Chemulpo. J Special Dlln’l_li!o The Call. TOKIO, Friday, Feb. 5. — (Copyrighted by the New York World)—It is reported that M. Pavloff, | Russian Minister to Ko- |rea, has threatened that @ Russian fleet will as- ‘semble at Chemulpo. The | Russian fleet at Uladi- |vostok is again prepar: ling to sail. The ice is | partially melted. It is es- timated that the strength | | of the Russians opposite | Wiju is 7000 men. In of: | ficial and well-informed | E financial circles the situa- ition is now regarded as | hopeless. | CHEFU, .Friday, Feb. | 5.—Throughoutthe cruise of the Russian fleet two days ago the ships were cleared for action and _ithe gunners stayed at | of Russian soldiers- mentioned - in [ | | | I | 1 | | L3 + | | | | | | | CeNERAL. K URCPATKIN . | | | v % 3 SCENES IN WAR DISTRICT, | AND PORTRAIT OF RUS- SIA’S. WAR MINISTER. e et their posts all the time in expectation of fighting. JAPANESE WOMEN IN KOREA ARE WARNED TO FLEE TO SAFE HAVEN | Special Cable to The Call and New - York Herald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. SEOUL, Feb. 5.—The smail party a dispatch last Friday as having en- tered Korea near - Samsoo passed Chasung on Wednesday about 100 miles farther west on the Yalu River. Russia evidently is renewing her- exarhination of the Korean side of Yalu. - The Japanese Minister in Korea has modified this morning’s order to Jap- anese residents at Souching. He says the men may remain for the present, but the women and: children must leave immediately. All Japan- “Japan. ese residents in Wiju are ordered to leave as quickly as possible. ) ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 5,—“The ! Viadivostok Fleet Is Preparing | bSiaih o i - o+ Japs are fleeing panic-stricken,” cables | the Vladivostok correspondent of the Novoe Vremya, “and Japanese store- keepers are sacrificing all their pos- sessions in their haste to escape to Cases of oranges are selling for 5 cents and furniture is being lit- erally given away. They are ‘practi- cally ruining themselves in their hurry to get away before the outbreak of war.” RAILROAD ACROSS THE ICE. A semi-official dispatch received here from Irkutsk says: “Telegraphie orders have been received here to for- | ward immediately to Baikal a consign- ment of rails sufficient to lay thirty miles of track, with all necessary ma- terial for the construction work. This order must be executed befcre the ar- rival of Prince Khilkoff, Russian Min- ister of Railroad Communication, who is expécted on February 1o. Lake Baikal is frozen ovér from January to the first part of May. The proposal has been made to move passengers across the lake by means of a tempo- rary railroad on ice. LONDON, Feb. 6—The dispatches this morning from all points are more pessimistic. The Tientsin corre- spondent of the Standard reports that the railway authorities are still bring- ing all _the rolling stock inside the great wall owing to the uncertainty of Russian movements, and the Rus- sians have prohibited the Japanese Wflfl;;ed on Page 3, Column 1. lin the United States | broglio are now SN NZ2 Shipyard Trust Set- tlement Costs Him ' $12,_000i)00. NEW YOR Feb. —All interests ipbuildir taking a bre: im- hing spell. Complete for ipeace is not yet positively assured. The foreclosing of the New Yor curity and Trust Company’s mortgage for $10,000,000 and the Mercant Trust Company’s mortgage for $1 000,000 will wipe off the slate tw great incumbrances on the properties. In this connection Wall street began to figure to-day what Schwab loses by the reorganization plan, as compared with the original Sheldon reorganiza- tion plan of last May. Figuring his 9,000,000 shares of preferred stock at 75 gives $6,750,000 and his common 6,000,000 at 25 yields $1,500,000, mak- ing a total of $8.250,000. hem plant, which under the new pl he turns over to the reorganizers, rep- resents a purchase price of $7,246,000, on which there is accumulated interest on his investment of $500,000 for twelve months and_surplus earnings estimated at $1,500,000. ‘These figures | aggregate $9,246,000. Deducting from | this $8,250,000 leaves a shrinkage of his values of $996,000. Bethlehem is rated to-day as worth $10,000,000, with accumulated profits | of $4,000,000. To-day Schwab’s hold- ings may be set down at $8,250,000, | or $11,750,000 less than the Sheldon- | Pam-Schwab plan contemplated. | —_———— SAVAGE HEREROS MURDER TWO GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES sent to the new plan \ Authorities at Windhoek. Gmn-n! Southwest Africa, Cable News of | Additional Atrocities to Berlin. | BERLIN, Feb. 5.—Telegraphic com- | munication with Windhoek, German | Southwest Africa, has been restored. | The authorities there cable that the | Hereros murdered Assistant Director | Hopener of the Celonial Bureau and Herr Watermeyer, an agricultural ex- | pert. No information regarding the fate of Herr Muellendorff, the Cologne | Gazette's correspondent, and Dr. Ber- | ger, the forestry expert, has been ob- | tained by the authorities. Both (of | these men are reported to have been murdered | upon the launch o The railway is almost entirely at the disposal of the commissariat, in order to al- assage of troops later, when their movement is urgent. DOMINICAN {EBELS FIRE 0N LAUNCH Kill Engifieer of an American Naval Vessel, st it Cruiser Yankee IS Ordered t0 Avenge the Insult to the Flag. Marines Will Be Ianded to Profect Foreigners in the Cap:tal of the Republic. 550 Special Dispat SAN DOMINGO, gents Feb. 1 this- mornfng @ell fired Yahkee, killing J. gineer. Che bul above th e. United States Minister Powell has di- the captain of the Yankee to take drastic meas John death ) ston's funera Th e, in th ing. detachment by a marines jackets and officers from t headed by hip's band. all, 100 o the cortege. Min 4 can Consul and sul, "and nearly all the di and consular ent to the 1 Government af troops to act as gs over the Govern- various consu- . The coffin was of flowers, one y the German 2 prov sent a detachme an escort. The f ment buildings and lates were at half- covered with wreat nsulate, on bel n. while others we can legation, the A ete. The thronged procession ¥ many expres ston’s death. Great surprise is expressed by foreigners here, especially by the the Americans, that the commander of the Yankee has not yet demanded satis- faction for this inexcusable act and for the firing upon the American flag by the insufgents. There was heavy firing all da around the city. A German stea from Europe was obliged to leave port with her cargo on board bec the crews of the lighters refused to work, op account of being e to the insurgents firing from across the river, All the houses outside the city walls have been pillaged. The insurgents are desperate and are destroying foreign property wherever they find it. Powell has received urgent appeals to pr foreign property against this pillaging, and :(\e Columbia will land marines to do so. AV TOLCAND 1S IN ERPTION AMSTERDAM, Feb. 5—Advices re- ceived here say that an- entire town in the east end of Java, Dutch East)In- dies, is reported to have Heen engulfed by a voleanic eruption of lava and that hundreds of ns were killed. The Colonial Office later received a dispatch from the Governer the Duteh East Indies reporting the erup- tion of the valcano of Mérapi. in the sland of Java, and saying twelve per- sons were burned to h and that twenty were severely injured. The cruption was accompanied by showers of redhot coals B —— i a