The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 7, 1904, Page 21

B, e TEE WEATEER. Forecast made at San Fraa- § eisco for thirty bhours endiay | midnignt, Pebruary 7: | Sam Prancisco sxd vicinity— Skowers Sunday; brisk south- west winds. A.G.McADIE, District Forecaster. | - 3 - XCV—NO. 69. FORTY-EIGHT PAGES—SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1904—PAGES 21 TO 34 PRICE FIVE CENTS. RUSSIA AND JAPAN SEVER DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS to depart in a few days. but no communication was received, except one announcing that trooops had been dispatched to Seoul. 0KI0, Feb. 7.---It is clear that diplomatic relations between Japan and Russia have been broken. His preparations for departure are now progressing. The Russian Legation expected its Government to break silence to-day, The populace is not aware of the diplomatic ref Baron de Rosen, the Russian Minister, is expected k | proceedings, and, although it is generally known that the country is on the eve of war, the people await the clash with the same calmness that marked their demeanor in the preliminary stages of the controversy. DOMINICAN | REBELS 70 | BE CURBED Three Warships Or-| dered to Samio || Domingo. | United States Will Restoreli Order in the Turbu- li lent Republic. |l tate Department Receives Numerous of THREE WARSHIPS ARE SENT. L s dispatch Rear s S == o LA = "‘;’V —— AN_EWCAPHENT OE FUE )}/ L . rve \fi- r——— 2 it — S ACTRES LOSES HER LAWSTIT ViCtdria, Decision Is Against Mrs. Ed- ' 1a Hopper. (British Columbia Justice Sustains the Will of Dunsmuir, Claim Made by a Stepdaughter of the | Millionaire Not Recognized in I a Celebrated Case. VICTORIA, B. C., Feb. 6.—The de- | cision in the action brought by Edna | Wallace Hopper against James Duns- | muir to have set aside the will of the | late Alexander Dunsmutr and also to set aside a deed by the terms of which Josephine Dunsmuir, in con- | sideration of an annual payment of | $25,000, relinquished for herself and her heirs all claim to Dunsmuir's es- tate, was this morning announced against the plaintiff and the inter- | venor, the mother of the defendant | and testator. Justice Drake, who rendered the decision, held that the plaintift had no right, either legal or equitable, to at- | tack the will, the tables of consan- | guinity not recognizing a stepdaugh- | ter. | The ground of the action was undue influence, both as regards the will and | the deed. The matter of the will is | disposed of in the judgment by the | citation that the tables of consan- guinity do not recognize a stepdaugh- ter. In regard to the deed, the judg- | ment holds that, admitting for the sake of argument, it was obtained | by undue influence, it was then a void- | able transaction and good unt | afirmed. Mrs. Josephine Dun: | | did not disafirm it during her ! | time and the plaintiff cannot do so RUSSIAN MILITARY SCENE AND INCIDENT OF THE ST. PETERSBURG GOVERNMENT'S PREPARATIONS FOR WAR IN THE FAR EAST. l * | now. The judgment complains of the pre- | posterous time, forty-two days, which The San Isidro plantation is owned by ! the Bertram brothers of New York. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 6. Aispatch one rines to guard the “Wise is not instructed re- killing of Machinist John ing the receipt of full rephed for to-day by how her latest word is received. As each communication has passed betwken the capitals of the contesting powers the situation has become more tense, until it is now feared diplomacy is making its last exchange and that the questions at issue may go to the | arbitration of sterner methods. Russia to-night is keenly awake to the possibilities of the situation and is eagerly awaiting the first intimation which may give a clew h ufmulstacwry.‘means official, intelligent Russia _r’}p:::d:;i‘;:: {on the banks of_thc Neva, and, to d the situation to its | a lesser extent, in the larger cities. | Beyond the confines of these cen- | ters of population the calm current | of monotonous life of the vast empire has flowed on until now undisturbed. The multitude in the interior which in the end must he Dominican Min- ed of the firm ashington Gov- g his Government in official circles, POWERS LOSING PATIENCE. tis a t the long-pending s reaching a cri- d immediate atten- Government ce with affairs vernments have he hope that Wash- | n >E HAYTIEN, Haytl, Feb. 6— ns of war ded for General the Dominican revolutionary der, were seized at Puerta Plata, on north coast of the republic of Sanm} Domingo, yesterday, after having been janded there by the steamship Newl York, from New York January 30. The scene of the Russo-Japanese | negotiations has shifted and now | Russia waits for Japan to show | war on a large scale, have not yet | speculating upon the horrors that would characterize such a winter campaign and wondering if the story of the sufferings at Shipka Pass is to be repeated. The Rus- sians are confident, however, that if the worst comes their hardy sol- diery can stand the severe cold better than can their adversaries. A dispatch received here from Vladivostok says the Japanese commercial agent there, acting un- der orders from Tokio, has issued a circular informing the Japanese residents of the country that those who wish to do so can proceed to Japan on board the British steam- ship Afridi, which has arrived there. do the fighting, if there is to bé] Northern Manchuria. They are awakened to the impending dan- ger. It will be only when the Emperor shall issue his manifesto and his call to arms that they will be aroused. The Emperor, in the event of war, may go to Moscow to submit his cause and fate to the Almighty at the altar of the Troitsko Mon- astery, as his fathers have done in the past before drawing the sword ; but, whether he does or not, his manifesto will be read in all the churches of the empire and posted everywhere, arousing the patriotism of his subjects. In the hotels and restaurants of St. Petersburg the situation is be- ing discussed to-night with great seriousness. The weather is bit- terly cold and street fires are burn- ing und the people are asking if it is possible for hostilities to begin at a season when the thermometer registers 40 degrees below zero in i R A WASHINGTON BELIEVES OUTBREAK IN ORIENT IS QUESTION OF HOURS WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.— Washington awaits news of hos- tilities in the Far East and it is confidently expected by many, es- pecially the diplomats, that a clash at arms will precede declarations of war and it would not surprise them if the war broke out within twenty-four hours. Japan’s rest- lessness, which has been such a serious factor throughout the ne- gotiations, became apparent to- day when Takahira, the Japanese Minister, called upon Acting Sec- retary Loomis at the State De- partmegt. He said to Loomis, as well as to others during the day, that he had received over night dispatches most warlike in tone and declared that he would not be in the least surprised to hear that Kurino, the Japanese Minister in St. Petersburg, had been recalled. This Government had hoped and had reasons to believe from what it had learned of the tenor of the Russian reply that the ne- gotiations would be prolonged and peace remain unbroken, for the ilhe case occupied in the trial and the | large amount of irrelevant testimony. 'Diplomacy Is Making Its Last Exchange and the Quarrel of the i s b S Nations Will Go to the Arbitrament of Sterner Methods. perts and says they are never impartial and always try to impose their views upon the court. “Expert” testimony, he asserts, is of little value. The judgment concludes that the facts alone show that Alexander Duns- muir was of sound and disposing mind when he executed his will; that he hal patches the State Department has |for a long time previously expressed | his intention of making his will in favor received from Minister Griscom |of nis brother James Dunsmauir, and did in Tokio appear to preclude this, |so make it. The Judge agrees with > d . | Chancellor Sprague that facts sworn to for both say the Japanese Govern-| ;.o ¢ greater weight than scientific ment and people consider that|opinion. When he findsfacts which prove 3 s fo2 | business capacity, shrewdness and a Russia has acted in bad faith by | successful management of a large busi- delaying the transmission of the | ness concern without delusions, he is it 1 3 _ { of opinion that such a person is capa- note, and, it is alleged, taking ad [ ble of making & wilL vantage. of - this delay to move| —_———— troops to positions advantageouslmlo-\'s FOR WYOMING for the inanguration of hostilities. | IRIGATION FROJECT Takahira corroborated the state- | Government Will Construct Reservoir ment made by Baron Hayashi, the | and Canal in the Valley of Japanese Minister in London, that | o, cnrvaToN, Feb. 6—The Sec- Japan would be satisfied with ! retary of the Interior has approved the nothing less than a treaty or pro- | setting aside of $2,250,000 of the tocol covering the influence of : reclamation fund for the irrigation both tri in' M s | project on the north side of the Sho- countrics in Manchuria and | gnone River, in the Big Horn Basin of Korea. Takahira told Loomis that | Wyoming, provided that satisfactory the Japansc had taken great um—‘.;:,‘:;:; to land and water can be se- brage at the fact that the Russian| This project provides for the con- < { struction of a dam and storage reser- reply % s foxjmulatcfi .firSt by b { voir in Shoshone River and a canal council of Cabinet Ministers and | heading in the canyon above Cody. It will provide water for approximately 90,000 acres on the north side of the river in Big Horn County. present at least. But the state- ments of Takahira and the dis- Continued on Page 24, Column 3.