The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 17, 1904, Page 4

4 NCISCO CALL. DN DAY FEBRUARY - 17, 1904 RIVAL - ARMIES FACE TO FACE ON YALU e | . | France 0 Send Troops to the Far Fast. e s | Russia Awaiting, Excuse to Pass Dardanelles. Timet | mship | Com- | ber of i of the t has the h lies East A admits ps may obtain utral port to Holland compl t of b ndent { it is | Russia | Although e that as Engla the present world are ac- any’'s policy in | ithout hitting \ Bulow is ed by his | a is made would now and 1t ime s th shed fact that d he regrett he h » to Constanti THROAT Blanche Partington. | N HER By learn that :1t, ‘the charming | her local debut | was a violinist She sings rprise to roundly Possibly most Mrs. Henschel in | Blauvelt—a Mrs. voice be it said. quisite accuracy unerring taste, jetail. Like Mrs. | Blauvelt's is a | art. Nothing | and one's on one'’s ongs there—while one Yet this accomplished Amer- who comes to us with the adula- ent Garden bouquets is one of the most thor- ming singers we have had interested in songs or lovely young 4 miss hearing her, and more concerts for opport The velt wvoice is delightful. nfortable plenty of it, to and its volume in the upper uliarly full and its quality »ut fine and pure. The 1 out noticeably, but discreetly seldom used, it tters 1 But the whole vocal re- is used in a facileand musician- Iy manner that constantly delights. Blauve trill was ‘ probably not made—it is a liquid and ke wonder, almost absolute in its evenness. But there is the same flue te precision in her scalem r arpeggi, at every need of The singer’'s enun- her phrasin dmirably clear and intelligent. There night a tendency sing trespass. f some indif- r English group, programme was a It is not ver, why the last 1o underst easy 1 Rendegger art” and the Ily unneces: ‘Wings” of eby shouid n chosen. Surely with MacDowell, Oscar Weil, Foote, Chadw right at home, the singer need 1 have gone so far to f; her best Possibly the singer the “Fruhlingslied’ at in of Mendelssohn, sung with enchanting et The pretty “Will Nieman ingen” of Hildach also found her in responsive mood. One re- Covent Garden oce poco fa,” with delightful technical adequacy i no littie dramatic ac- cent. The *ly heard “Les Vepres Siciliennes” of Verdi gave us the Blauvel nd several other sorts | of satisfaction, and the “Comin’ Thro’ encore that evidenced it the charm. The singer was ughout in friendly and ap- shion by a fair audience. orrow evening's programme is and the third and turday afternoor M'h presa all ) Danza t ebe ist Gruen mm im Traum" *“Pourquol “Les Filles de Cadiz’ Delibes “Roses After Rain Twas April” Sons @) “They Say” .... “Valse Romeo et J — e GENLRAL SO RER LA TRz SR — COMMANDERS OF JAPANES MILITARY FORC! IN KOREA, AND MAP OF LIAOTUNG PENINSULA, MANCHURIA, WHERE JAPANESE TROOPS ARE LANDING. ‘ ‘) ¥ g SINKING OF THE BOYARIN HEAVY LOSS TO RUSSIA One Hundred and Ninety-Seven Officers and Men Perish on Cruiser Blown Up at Port Arthur. —. ST. PE SBU Feb. 16.—The re- | Port Arthur, says the German cruiser port that the Russian cruiser Boyarin | Hansa, which had been sent to remove was blown up last Saturday at Port| Gé€rman subjects from Port Arthur and Arthur and that all of her officers an;lJ crew, 197 in number, were t, is con- firmed from a private source The Boyarin ‘was 348 feet long, of| 41 feet beam and 16 feet draught. She was of 3200 tons displacement and her| trial speed was 25 knots. Her arma- ment consisted of six 4.7-inch guns, eight 1.8-inch guns, two 1.4-inch guns and three machine guns. She als fitted with six torpedo tubes. Boyarin took part in the engagement of February 9 at Port Arthur. Information has been obtained at the Foreign Office that Secretary Hay's proposition to limit the area of war operations is considered ‘‘practicable” and that a response will soon be forth- coming. Viceroy Alexieff is being con- sulted and the authoritfes are doubtless awaiting an indication as to how the proposition will be received by Japan. The sympathetic reception given By the powers to Ha note and the rep- resentations the powers have made here have undoubtedly had a good effect upon official opinion and the Russian Government shows a more friendly spirit toward the direct representations made by the United States. The American Government is now pressing for an answer to the request that United States army officers be al- lowed to accompany the Russian field operations, but it js explained that Viceroy ‘Alexieff, to whom the request was referred, has not yet replied. WAR MARS CABNIVAL WEEK. Carnival week, usually the gayest of the year in Russia, opened yesterday, but under the shadow of war the mer- ry-making was only a ghost of that of former years. In St. Petersburg all of the festivities, including balls, public and private functions and fashionable | weddings, planned months in advance, have been abandoned. Business, how- ever, is as usial suspended and thou- sands of little Finnish sleighs, with tinkling bells, which for this one week are allowed to compete with the regular drosky drivers, whisk people through the snow-covered streets at cut prices, although their occupants evidently are not possessed - by the - true carnival spirit. The rush of crowds to buy extra edftions of the newspapers, the intense activity at the War and Marine Min- istries and the .crowds about the ad- miralty, anxiously inquiring regarding the fate of relatives, are grim remind- ers of where the thoughts of the peo- ple are. Instead of the customary fes- tivities the theaters gave double per- formances for the benefit of the Red Cross, and last night the artists’ ball, one of the biggest events of the social season, which it was intended to aban- don, was held in a hall decorated to represent the feast day of Benares. The artists were attired in the garb of Hindoos, with the object of swelling the Red Cross Society’s funds. ISSUE OF CREDIT NOTES. An issue of 50,000,000 roubles credit notes, secured by gold, was made on February 13. The comparatively small influx of circulating credit notes into the treasuries and the Imperial Bank | and the increased withdrawals for the Far East are assigned as the reasons for this operation. The total of the credit notes in circulation on February 14 was 680,000,000 roubles. Admiral Wirenius has been instructed to hold the Russian squadron, consist- ing of the battleship Oslabya, the cruis- ers Aurora and Dmitri Donskol and a number of torpedo-boat destroyers at Jibutih, French Somaliland, until fur- ther orders. A semi-official telegram, dated from which had on board also a number of Russian wom nd children, was fired upon by Japan warships. The tele- gram _reiterates the statement that three Japariese torpedo-boats have been sunk in a night attack on Port Arthur. BORRISOF, Russia, Feb. 16.—The de- parture of General Rennekampff for the front to-day was the occasion of a great demonstration of patriotism. He was carried to the railroad station on the shoulders of his fellow members of the Officers’ Club. WILL CARE FOR THE WOUNDED. KIEFF, Russia, Feb. 16.—Five sur- geons and fifty female and thirty male nurses here have volunteered for ser- vice in the Far East. PARIS, Feb. 16.—A dispatch to the Figaro from St. Petersburg to-day says: “It has been decided to hold the Rus- sian squadron from the Mediterranean, now in the Red Sea and bound for the Far East, at Jibutil, French Somali- land, until further orders. Admiral Rojdostwenski, chief of the marine staff, is going to assume the naval command at Port Arthur. The stop- ping of the Russian squadron at Jibutil may lead to international complica- tions, Jibutil being a neutral French port. It is understood that France is not likely to ask the squadron to leave.” ATTACK ON GERMAN SHIP. PORT ARTHUR, Mgnday, Feb, 15.— The firing on the German cruiser Han- sa by Japanese warships occurred while she was proceeding to Port_ Ar- thur to take away the German resi- dents and not when the latter were on board of her. The Hansa was not damaged. On her arrival at Port Ar- thur she took on board a number of wives of Russian sailors and left the port without, further incident. The work of repairing the damaged Russian battleships _is progressing rap- idly. The Chinese workmen were panic-stricken by the bombardment, but they are now working well, regard- less of the approach of the Chinese New Year, Investigation shows that the city and fortress were not damaged in the slightest by“the Japanese attack. The people naturally are anxious and busi- ness is at k- complete. standstill, but the utmost tranquillity prevalls. After the religious services on Sun- day there was a military review before the Viceroy., Admiral Alexieff, who de- nounced the action of the Japanese in attacking before declaring war as bar- barous, and expressed confidence that the Russian soldiers would fully avenge themselves. Reports from ‘the interior indicate that the Cossacks are mobilizing with great enthusiasm. In the Amur dis- trict they are riding in squads from village to village, waving Russian flags and demanding an early chance to meet the enemy. AL e Russians Lose Cargo of Wagons. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 16.— The Stoughton Wagon Company, which recently shipped 500 army wagons in several lots to Russian ports on the Pacific, has been notified from St. Petersburg that the last shipment fell into the hands of Japanese. The dispatch does not state the size of the shipment. Stefed W TR Russian Consulate Burned. SHANGHALI, Feb. 16.—The Russian Consulate here was destroyed by fire on Sunday night. The cause has not yet ascertained. The Russian gunboat Manjur, which was trapped by the Japanese warships at the mouth of the Yangtse River, is now n egger .Gounod | the headquarters of the Viceroy at being dismantled, Russia’s Port Arthui" Fleet. Sails To- ward Korea. Continued ¥From Page 1, Column 7. with difficulty by United States Consul Miller, together with three women refugees, whom the civil administrator had assured Miller would be protected. POWERS MAY HAVE TO ACI. The administration admits the grav ity of the situation, but declares that | Viceroy Alexieff alone can remedy it. It is believed here, however, that the maintenance of order at this treaty port and the prevention of these vio- lations of international rights can be insured only by an instant international plan, supported by an armed force. Mines have been constructed and pre- parations made for depositing them at the mouth of the river here, where the forts have been occupied by a field battery of artillery and guns from the Russian gunboat Sivotch. ——— MILLETT CAUGHT AFTER LONG SEARCH Man Who Robbed Telephone Com- pany in Columbus, Ohio, in 1902, . Confesses Guilt. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16.—Since Au- gust, 1902, at the request of the police department of Columbus, Ohio, peace officers all over the country have been looking for D. J. Millett and Katie Alexander, both of whom are wanted on felony charges of embezzlement. Millett was captured in a cheap ledging-house on East Fifth street to- night by Sheriff White and admitted that he was the man wanted and stated that the woman, whose downfall he had caused and who fled from .Columbus with him was in San Francisco. Later a telegram was received here by the Sheriff stating that Katie Alexander had been arrested there. For more than eighteen months this couple had been wandering from city to city subsisting upon what they had stolen. Both were employed in Colum- bus by the Citizens' Telephone Com- pany, Millett as assistant cashier and the Alexander woman as an operator in_the cashier’s office. In August, 1902, they suddenly disap- peared. and the information of the of- ficers here is that he stole $2000, while the woman took $7300 of the cash be- longing to the company. All efforts on the part of the Ohio officers to find them failed, and the American Bonding and Trust Company of Baltimore of- fered a reward of $300 for the capture of the man. It' was through the efforts of the Chief of Police at San Jose that the captures were made. That official learned .that the couple had been in that city and that they had separated there, the man coming south and the Alexander woman going to San Fran- cisco. Some message passed between them which was intercepted and which gave the officers a clew as to their whereabouts. Millett arrived here two days ago and has been spending most of his time in his room. He confessed his guilt to- night when arrested, and expressed the hope tHat the woman would also be ar- rested and gave the officers her San Francisco address. Later the news of her arrest was received here. Millett is willing to return to Ohio without a requisition. —_————— Insolvent Saloon Man. James K. P. Lewis, a saloon keeper at Sawyer's Bar, Siskiyou County, filled a petifion in insolvency yester- « in the United States District Court. He owes $1340 and has $853 assets, e D. J. [ the month. <+ UNITED STATES MARINES TO SAIL ON THE BUFORD — War.Department Orders Transport in San Francisco Harbor to Be Prepared for Immediate Service. ey Special Dispateh to The Call CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, | of the seas obtained bf Japan nullifies WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—The War |10 a great extent Russian interests in Department has instructed Major De- | the i 3 vol, quartermaster of the transport service at San Francisco, to arrange to receive on board the transport Bu- ford 600 marines, with accompanying officers, twenty-two in number. For what objective point they are intended has not been given out here. At any rate they will be landed at San Fran- cisco by the time the Buford is ready to sail, which will before the end of Authorities here positive- ly decline to state whether the marines are intended for the Orient, the Philippines, or Panama. The orders are imperative, however, and the Bu- ford is to sail as soon as the marines can be put aboard. The transport Buford, which has been in San Francisco harbor for the past year or more, was recently com- pletely overhauled and put intp sea- going condition. She is now ready to go to Portland to load lumber and may sail for that port at any moment. Major Devol says that the lumber is intended for Manila, but whether the marines would board the transport at Portland or the Buford would come back to San Francisco to receive them | he was unable to say. The Buford's capacity will be taxed to the utmost, both in the cabins and the hold. The transport Dix, which is loading 5500 tons of oats at Portland, prob- ably will be back here before long, ag she is to be fitted up to receive 230 mules, which have already been pur- chased and will be received here ready for shipment on Saturday. e g ke CHINESE COMMANDER WILL DEFEND BORDER AGAINST - INVADERS TIENTSIN, Feb. 16.—Yuan Shih Kali, commander in chief of the Chinese im- perial army and navy, has officially in- formed the French general, who is dean of the European commandants, that he purposes moving on February 18 the imperial troops now at Paotingfu to Kinchou, near the head of the Liaotung Gulf, to guard the frontier. Fighting, Yuon Shih Kai added, would not be al- lowed in China proper, and defeated belligerents crossing the frontier would be disarmed. It is believed that the Peking troops also are moving overland toward the border. AT IR RUSSIAN SOLDIERS ° THREATEN UNITED © STATES GUNBOAT YINGKOW, Feb. 15.—Threatening demonstrations have been made against the British gunboat Espiegle and the United States gunboat Helena by Rus- slan soldiers, whose assaults upon and depredations against other foreigners continue. The civil administrator is making every effort to arrest the of- fenders, and has assured Captains Bar- ton and Sawyer and Consul Miller that full reparation will be made. P The Eleventh Siberian Regiment pa- raded at Newchwang to-day in full strength. . The Russian authorities deny the re- port of the loss of Russian vessels near ‘Weihaiwei. It is said here that Japan will wait indefinitely to land troops in Manchu- ria, as she considers that the control Explosion in Battery. TIENTSIN, Feb. 16.—It is reported here that a big explosion has occurred in the Golden Hill battery at Port A thur. No details are given. Ail the forts there use black powder. - 7R The local officials of the Postal Tel- egraph-Cable Company are advised that the cable between Hongkong and Foochow has been repaired, restoring normal communication between Hong- kong, Shanghai and Japan. The Jap- anese Government adv that all tel- egrams to and from Nagasaki or in transit through Nagasakl are subject to military censorship since the 1ith inst. —_—————— Charges Snow With Conversion. In an answer and cross-complaint filed yesterday by the Realty Invest- ment Company to the suit brought against it by H. W. Snow for money for services alleged by Snow to have been rendered the concern by him, a general denial of Snow's charges is made. In the cross-complaint Snow is charged with converting to his own use $1142 advanced him by the company. —_——— Meets Stranger and Is Robbed. Pete Dupont, a recent arrival in town, met a stranger in the street last night and together they sought the flowing bowl early and often. Shortly after midnight they went to the Park lodging-house, 624 Kearny street, and in the hallway the stranger hit Du- pont on the jaw, knocked him down, robbed him of $270 and fled. Dupont can give no description of the robber. —————— Russian Passports. A journalist, Prince Metchersky, sent by the Czar to investigate certain agrarian troubles, has demonstrated the absurdity of the passport regula- tions of Russia. Prince Metchersky crossed to Rou- mania and purposely obtained one of the permits of the sort required for taking livestock over the border. He then went to a Russian frontiet post and presented the document to the official- in charge as his warrant to pass. Like many others in similar positions, the man could read no Rou- manian and little Russign, but he was duly impressed by th& big, official- looking ‘paper, with ‘its coat of arms and seal, and he readily stuck the Russian vise on it At the end of his investigations Prince Metchersky returned to Mos- cow. When. the opportunity came he presented the document to the Gov- ernor. “My passport,” said he. “I entered Russia and traveled there five months on the authority of the doc- ument, which describes me for pur- poses of identification in terms which I think.you will admit are neither flattering nor true.” . The Governor took the document and saw to his amazement that Prince Metchersky figured there as a “black sow, full grown, with one ear partly torn away.”"—New York Commercial. —_———— The “housesmiths” are those iron workers who put together the steel skeleton frames which are used in the construction of all large buildings. RIVER Sixty Thousand Japanese on Frontier. Bar Russian Ad- vance Into Korea. _— LONDON, Feb. 17.—According to spe- cial dispatches published here this morning from Tokio, the Russian squadron has returned to Vladivostok. The Tokio correspondent of the Naiiy Mail says in a dispatch that two Rus- sian warships appeared off Okl Island, in the Southern part of the Japan Sea, on Sunday The correspondent at Chemulpo of the Dailv press makes the astonish- ing statement that Japan has already | Janded 120,000 troops in Korea, 60,000 of | which are extended along the fighting front south of the Yalu River. The London press attaches the great- est significance to the departure of Viceroy Alexieff from Port Arthur, and comments upon the sudden throwing of Russian troops into Newchwang as in- dicating Russian apprehensions that Port Arthur is in danger and that the Japanese attack may not, after all, be made where it is expected, on the Yalu. All reports tend to confirm the impres- sion that Russia has little or nothing to expect from sea operations. SUPPLY OF TORPEDOES LOST. According to a dispatch to the Paris edition of the New York Herald, 400 torpedoes, being two-thirds of Russia's entire available supply of these arti- cles, were destroyed on board the Rus- sian cruiser Variag. The Tokio correspondent of the Daily Chronicle cable« that it is said officially that several thousand Russian troops have reached Antung and that it is ru- morea that 20,000 Russians have arrived at Pingyang, on the Tatong River, in Central Korea. The Chronicle, how- ever, regards this rumor as improb- able, unless the invasion of Korea pre- ceded the outbreak of hostilities. The Seoul correspondent of the Daily Mail, in the course of a descrip- tive narrative of the Chemulpo battle, that before the fight the captain he Russian cruiser Variag had a conference with the British, French and Italian captains aboard the Brit- . in which he asked for the protection of a foreign war- ship on leaving the harber. The r quest was refused. The British launch delivered protest Japanese admiral immediately the ags tion. AMERICANS HOLD ALOOF. The Americans from attending the or partaking in the demonstratio though some of the Russian wounded were received on beoard the United States gunboat Vicksburg. to the before While the Variag was being sunk her captain, fearing the Japanese would reach the vessel before she set- tled down, requested the captain of the Talbot to fire at I waterline. This request also was refused. It is said Great Britain is about to appoint Consuls at Mukden and An- tung. In a dispatch, dated Port Arthur, Februa: 3, a correspondent of the Times gives a description of ven tussian warships, which, he says, are lving disabled there. They include the battleships Sevastopol and Petro- polavsk, which have not been named in previous reports of the action. The correspondent that altogether eleven Russian ships were put out of action at Port Arthur. Continuing, he declares that the Japanese were driven from the neighborhood of Kinchow, near Newchwang, after a skirmish, in which 150 Japanese were taken prisoners and 170 Russians killed. In an editorial article the Times re- marks that, as this correspondent does not mention the injuries sustain- ed by the battleships, and as the Kin- chow story has not been reported from any other source, it would be well to accept his report with some reserve. —_———————— Errors Cause Case’s Dismissal. RIVERSIDE, Feb. 16.—The case of the People against Kimbell, the Su- pervisor of this county, who was charged by the Grand Jury with mis- conduct in office and recommended for dismissal, was thrown out of court this morning by Judge Bledsoe, who sustained the demurrer of the defense to insufficiency of the indic ment. This is the fourth of the Rive erside alleged boodle cases to be brought into court and dismissed on account of errors in the prosecution. ADVERTISEMENTS. OPERATIONS A FAD. 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