The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 9, 1904, Page 5

THE. SAN FR ANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1904. COUNSELORS OF THE GZAR PREPARE OFFIGIAL STATEMENT OF THE - SERIOUSNESS OF SITUATION IS REALIZED Soldiery on the Move in Streets of St. Pe- tersburg. —_— Manifesto of Emperor May Not Be Issued Immediately. res- ause no- IOPE OF PEACE ENDS he = SCOW s obably < Lotte £ 1 s bank shares - & RUSSIAN SHIPS CAPTURED. Berlin Reports That Japanese Have Paken Three Vessels. BEF Feb. 8.—The <onservative P ge Zeitung affirms upon that three Russian ed by the Japa- f the Asso- confirma- captu dent official S JAPANESE LEAVE PORT Are Uneasy and Are Leaving. in Manchuria Many Chinese PORT ARTHUR, Feb. 8.—In response T uctions f the Japanese Gov- ernment many ese sailed from for Nagasaki to-day. The Chinese | excited, and preparing to leave Court Enjoins Scalpers. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8.—Judge Parlange, in the Federal Court to-da ssued an injunction against the ticket alpers to prevent their cutting rates rdner Defeats Two Men. CHICAGO, Feb. §.—George Gardner of Lowell, Mass., to-night fought Fred Cooley and J Driscoll, both of Chi cago, and gained the decision over them both. Each bout was of six rounds. ARTHUR | - i ADVANCE OF THE RUSSIAN CAVALRY N TERRITORY BEGINS! Japanese Squadron Is Reported to Be in Wait for Vessels‘ INTO KOREA — of the Enemy Expected Off the Coast Near Weihaiwei. e Feb. Russian cavalry r Korea. The te ing has been ex- entrated at ussian troops The Japanese - HOUSE DRAWS PURSE SIRINGY Refuses to Inerease the Ap- propriation for Purchase of Building Site in Los Angeles piigeen patch U, HOTEL BARTON Feb. 8.- kins to-day introduced a t introduced in the House last week Is granting the right to the Land Company of California water from the Colorado River The amount re- nator Pe similar to by Dan Imperial take on purposes ed at 10,000 feet refused to concur he House n the Senate amendment to the appro- nal ap- 000 a ppropriated for a Federal build- to-day riations bill making an add’ propriation of $19,600 to the $17 1t Los Angeles. Representa- Lachlan made a plea on the n behalf of the new appropria- | ing the attention of the House | fact that the Secretary of the v had especially recommended | that with the rapid advance in | real estate values in Los Angeles Con- | uld probably have to pay a larger sum for a site in the near if the purchase was not made rman of moved a non-concur- y on the ground that the tion did not properly belong | e pending bill 4. within the prov- | f his committee, but rather with | mmittee on public bhildings and | cha | Mr Hemenway, | grounds. The matter will be heard | | again before the joint conference com- | mittee Senator Anken) of Washington, | who has been absent for some weeks, confined to his home at Walla Walla | by sickness, appeared cn the floor to- | day. Hon reported | Washingt day to join the commis- | sion to examine weights and coins of | mints, of which commission he is by ! recent appointment of the President a member. With Director of Mint Rob- erts he will leave for Philadelvhia to- | morrow. Voorheis is at the New Wil- | | lard. E Voorheis in | | ————— Fatal Wreck in Nicaragua. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Feb. 8.—A passenger train on the ChinandigaVieja | 2aflroad was derailed February 2 | while passing over a high bridge and | wrecked. More than twenty first-class passengers were killed and many in- | Jured. H —————————— TENERIFFE — Arrived Feb Stmr Rameses. {rom San Francisco via Vaiparaiso and Montevideo, etc., for Hamburg. 8.—An ad-) BALKAY between Russia and Japan was dis- cussed with tolerable calmness in the morning papers here to-day, the onus relations the very day the | was to reach Tokio. idomisti still sees a “dim ray a peaceable settlement,” and last word has not yet been The Novoe Vremya repeats its charges that Japan's desire was to bring about war, no matter what was the tenor of the Ru and adds that even Japa ary manner of turing has no « inism in R but of keener patriot- . e REBELS £l Five of the Sultan’s Sol- di and Four Revolution- ists Are Killed in Combat MONASTIR, Feb. 8.—A skirmish is repor irkish d to have taken place between revolutionists Terin distri troops and the Komitag' t, in which five Turks revolutionists | were killed. Boris Serafoff, the revolutionary leader, is expected in the field soon with a strong Macedonian escort. SALONICA, European Turkey, Feb. | §.-—The railroad company has been ordered to place its entire rolling at the disposal of the military worities and establish a coal depot every station. A similar measure tmanimous!y placed on Japan for | GAGE TURKS in | i i1 i1 | { s e GENERAL VIEW OF NAGASAKI, ONE OF THE A STRATEGIC POINT IN THE EVENT OF JAP. CITIES AND OF AN INVASION BY THE RU “p MOST IMPORTANT SSIANS. H N ENGLISH NEWSPAPER DECLARES POSSIBILITY OF ANOTHER WAR |Statement Is Published That United States and Great | Britain Later May Insist on a Man- churian Adjustment. Bl e A LONDON, Feb. 8—The St James| Foreign Office here, nor had the For- Gazette a s on diplomatic author-| €ign Office late to-night received news | ity that, assuming Russia defeats ©f the embarkation of Japanese troop 5 A o1 Finally neither at the British office nor Japan, she will be confronted with a |, ,n0 oiner diplomatic quarter is any | demand for the acknowledgment of | pope ‘entertained that mediation could Chinese sovereignty in Manchuria from Great Britain and the United States that she must either grant it or and fight both countries. An understand- ing, the paper adds, has been reached | | in onse between the United | Stat, 3reat Britain i Akers-Dougl re- m in the House of plying to @ Commons to-day in behalf of the Gov- nment, informed the Liberal leader, | Sir Henry Campbell-Eannerman, that | his Majesty's Government had been | officially informed of the rupture of diplomatic relaticns between Russia | and Japan, but it had no further in- | formation regarding the details than | | appeared in the newspapers. Akers-Douglas added that the ques- | tion of belligerency law had been fuily considered, but he dsciined to an | swer 2 number of technical questions ' be arranged. TATE DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON, Feb. $—State partment officials deny that any ag ment has been made to the Bffect that the United States and Great Britain after Russia has crushed Japan will in- sist that Manchuria remain part of China. Ever since the Turko-Russian War it has been customary for the great neutral powers to hold some sort of conference at the conclu war to assure the vanquished nation nc DENIAL. De- in ! JAPANESE CUT GABLE TO KEEP ACTION SECRET e Fifteen Thousand Cossacks in Vicinity of the Yalu. Rt LS PARIS, Feb. 8.—The French Foreign Office was advised this afternoon that the Japane t the cable con- necting Japan a of this action > pre- vent news of s of the Japanese reaching the Russians, which was possible, no matter how closely atches sent might be. censored the ¢ Follow betwee regarded here as signifi- of the Japanese to cant of the purpose begin hc It i that among the troops sent by Russia to the vicinity of the Yalu River are 15,000 Cossacks, whose province it is to destroy the communi- { cations of any Japanese army landing on of the | the struggle against undue exactions and punishments. This was naturally the eourse in the Turk War. and attention {s called to the fact that although Japan was the vie- tor in her last war with China the neu- tral powers, especially Russia and Engiand, brought pressure to bear upon Japan to prevent her from press STRENGTH OF ARMY OF THE MIKADO | The army of the Mikado, inciuding the reserves and the recruits who are available in a season of Military authorities conflict, such as the present one, is something over 600,000 men. | of other nations who have witnessed the operations of the Japanese forces in their maneuvers at camps of instruction testify | to the high quality of the personnel and discipline. Following are the figures: | Men. | i Peace Strength. .. oo ioi. o isiiobins s snn, adsansivessaess 5 RS A Tt 275,045 Reserves .......... Gdnah e dis s A U O o o R YRV T T A g ciees.. 204,109 fEeraite ..l ... RIS ORI SASGIRE s eV SR R R S F TR, I S Vo v i s i SORSAT ] Grand Sotel. ... o2oin S L ek s s d e e s TSRO LT Wi el ..... 640,701 heralded the outbrgak of the Turkish- Greek war. TO DISMISS Al REFUSES CHARG! CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo., Feb. 8.— | In the District Court to-day Judge Lewis overruled the motion of ex- Congréssman John M. Glover of Mis- souri for dismissal of the charges of assault with intent to murder Ser- geants Dittlemore and Smith of the Colorado National Guard. Glover conducted his own case, hav- | ing declined the proffers of assistance from fellow-members of the bar of Teller County. His argument was an arraignment of Governor Peabody and the militia for their connecticn with the strike of miners in this district. Judge Lewi passing upon the mo- tion to dismiss, held that it was hot within the province of the court to judge the right or propriety of the Governor to order out the troovs in consequence of the strike and declare martial law, AINST GLOVER | | regarding instructions relative to'coai- | ing, repairs, etc., sent to the authorities at British ports without due notice of such questions. OPINIONS IN LONDON. The British Foreign Office does not regard the Japanese note presented February 5 to the Russian Foreign Of- fice by M. Kurino as establishing a | state of war, though it holds it would | justify a hostile act without any fur- | ther natification on the part of Japan, which the Foreign Office here also un- derstands will not be given. The course taken by the United States embassy at St. Petersburg in undertaking to look after the interests of Japanese | subjects in Russia was adooted be- cause the British Government regarded itself as being too intimately concermed in the dispute to accept such a re- spousibility. No such arrangement as suggested by the St. James Gazette (that a de- mand will be made that Russia must either grant Chinese sovereignty in Manchuria or fight Great Britain and the United States) is known of by the l ing her advantage beyond reasonabl limits. Incidentally it was also pointed out that the two nations named prof- ited themselves by the acquisition of | most important strategical points which had been the cbject of Japan's operations. Therefore it is sa%d to be within the probabilities that some sort of a con- ference will follow a Russo-Japanese war. The United States has always held aloof from combinations in Such cases, but as in the case of negotia- tions which termipated the Boxer troubles, the policy has been to work on parallel lines when such a cause is for the common good. — e Fifty Workmen Lose Their Lives. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 8.—Fifty workmen were Kkilled to-day by the caving in of an embankment on the Warsaw-Vienna Railroad. Besides the men Kkilled, many were frightfully burned. —————— - —— GIBRALTAR—Arrived ‘i‘Stmr(‘nnwpic from Boston, for Genoa, ¥iples and Alex. andria. ¥4 Russian | | i I I 1 i | vogue along the coast or trying to strike the Port Arthur raiiroad. The French mil- rts consider this a good tac- move, for the reason that heve only a small caval insufficient to cope with that of tical Japanese force, the Ru: LR DA e PEOPLE ARE ENJOYING UNUSUAL PROSPERITY | Reports of Savings Banks of City Show Enormous Gains in Depos- its and in Assets. f San Francisco The savings banks assets since September 23 cording to at the gen- precedent- the Bank Commissioners, eral public is enjoying an w ed era of prosperity. The report of the financizl condition of the nine city sav- ings banks based on the returns of | . $1060: banks money and bas 248 47; ¢ Capital nd and_prot s, $154, total Custom-House Notes. Armstrong has of in- stoms Collector Stratton to 1t Secretary sury Department the steamship companies to request adopt the system of labeling passen- baggage alphabetically now in in the East. This will avoid the confusion and delay that now nec- essarily exist. The Collector has been authorized to pay $100 each’to John J. Callaghan and Policemen A. O. Juel and E. C. Gould for informing on Willlam Gavan and John Kirk, whom they ight on April 9 of last year while smuggiing 230 tins of opium. ——————————— Police Capture Burgiar. A. C. Baker was arrested last night by Patrolmen Hanley and Baxter and registered on the detinue book. When searched at the City Prison a bunch of skeleton kevs and a jimmy were found in his possession. Baker attempted to enter a barber shop on Ellis streef near Leavenworth, but was unable te manipulate the lock. He then entered the basesnent of the premises at 405 Leavenworth Street, used c~ a carpen- ter shop by J. A. Basko, and attempted to open a tool chest with the jimmy. He was unsuccessful and left without securing any plunder. The officers found him loitering in the neighbor- hood and %ook him into custody. The jimmy fits the marks on the tool chest perfectly and the police believe they have a strong case against Baker. He is a middie-aged man and supposed to be an ex-convict. —_—————— . When a man feels that 10 cents a week is all he ought to pay for his re- iigion he is throwing away his money gers’ . | for what he will get. NE nd Japan, the cutting | the | n deposits and | * | Colo; - EGOTIATIONS fDECLARAflON . OF MINISTER ~ FROM JAPAN i meten Text of the Statement That Was Presented by Kurino. P SRS Complaint Over Russia’s Occupation of Man- churia. —— ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 8.—The following is the text of M. Kurino's statement of February 5 to the For- eign Office here “The independence and territorial in- tegrity of the Korean empire being re garded by the Japanese Governm as absolutely essential to their own country’s security and repose, th: cannot view with indifference any ac tion tending to render the yosition of Korea insecure. The Russian ernment has by means of inadmis: | amendment successively rejecte Japan's proposals respecting Kor | adoption of which the Japane: ernment regarded as indispensable to | assuring _the independence and terr | torfal integrity of the Korean empire | and to safeguarding Japan's prepon- | | | Gov 1 dering interests in the peninsula. RU A IN MANCHURIA. | “This attitude on the part of Russ | coupled with their successive re | { to enter into an agreement with | spect to’'China’s territorial integrity | Manchuria, which is seriously by Russia’s continued occupation of | that province, notwithstanding h | treaty engagements with China her repeated assurances to the powers having interests . | region, has rendered it the Japanese Ge men and other sa necessary f rnment to seriot | consider what m elf-defense they are called upon to ke in the | presence of the delay on the part of t Russian Government in connection with the pending negotiations which has remained largely unexplained, 1 | of their naval and military activity | which it di t to reconcile with an entirely pacific aim. “In the pending negotlations the Jap- anese .Government has exercised a de- sures of gree of forbearance which It believ affords absolute § of its loyal | desire to remove from the relations between Japan and Russia every cause { for future misunderstandings, but fin ing in its efforts no prospect of s curing from the Russian Government any adhesion either to Japan's moder ate and unselfish propesals er to any propdsals likely to establish a and lasting policy in the Far the Japanese Government now no other alternative tham to ter- nate the present futile negotiations. adopting that course the Japanese reserved to itself the right to take such independent actic it may deem best consolidate and defend Japan's menaced position, as well as to protect her hts and legitimate interests. DIPLOMACY AT AN END. “The Japanese Government, having exhausted in vain y means of con- atlon, with the view of removing rom the relations of the two coun- s ev e for future complica- tion, and findings that its just repre- sentations and moderate and unselfish proposals, made in the Interest of pe In Government as to manent peace in the Far East, were not receiving from the Russian Gov- ernment the consideration which is their due, have resolved to sever its diplomatic relations with the | Government, which for the reas named has ceased to possess value. At the Japanese legation here this was regarded as tantamount to a dec- laration of war, it is believed that no other announcement will be made to the world. and FIGHTING EXPECTED SOON. Austrian Naval Officer Says Russian and Japanese Troops Have Sailed. BERLIN, Feb. 8.—A dispatch to the gne Gazette from Vienna says Ad- miral Baron von Spaun, commander in chief of the Austrian navy, has received a dispatch from the commander of the | Austrian legation guard at Peking to | the effect that Japan has embarked her regiments of guards and two army divisions on forty steamers. The dis- patch added that a Russian cruiser di- vision had sailed from Port Arthur and that fighting was expected hourly The German Government is prepared to issue a proclamation of severe neu- trality should hostilities hegin. The popular German feeling is divided be- tween a certain admiration for the lit- tle people of Japan and the necessari greater community of interests, in in- ternatinal, political and trade, with Russia. Germany’s neutral atti- tude is a complex of vague territorial hopes in China, long-standing intoler- { ance of Japan's ambitio: dislikes of | Russia and a desire to separate Russia | from France by winning Russia’s good r\\fll, The Russian embassy in a statement given to thé National Zeitung says war probably cannot be averted and that mediation by other powers is wholly out of the question. it BRSPS Chinese Substitutes Sentenced. Sentences were | yesterday by United States District Judge de Haven as follows: Wong Din, con- victed of conspiracy in the case of Ma Foo, six months’ imprisonment in the San Francisco County Jail; Choy Gut, for allowing himself to be used as a substitute in the Gamble- Dasha-Burnett-Dempsey case, three months in the County Jail. Four other Chinese laborers indicted with Choy Gut for the same offense with- drew their pless of not guilty and pleaded guilty. They were ordered @ appear this morning for sentence. ————— It may be but a small matter even if a man doesn’t know his own mind.