The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 18, 1904, Page 1

Clondy Thursiay; east winds. cisco for thirty hours ending at midnight Pebfuary 18, 1904: San Prancisco and vicinity— light north- VOLUME XC To-! 4 Columbia—'‘Macbeth.” Fischer's—"“Roly-Poly.” Grand—“Whoop-Dee-Doo.” Mat- inee To-Day. Lyric Hall—Blauvelt -Vaudeville. Concert. Matinee -Day. Tivoll—“Wh J Comes Marching Homer . SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND JAPANESE TROOPS WILL AT FEMPT TO ISOLATE PORT ARTHUR AND TAKE RUSSIAN STRONGHOLD BOLD PLOT | E THIEVES MISCARRIES SLEATS Secure Half Million in Jewels From | a Train. Loss Is ?oo.n——Dlscovered‘y and Police Pursue the Criminals. Trunk Containing the Plunder Is Re- covered, but Men Who Planned the Robbery Get Away. W. H Thorntor amond salesman, repre- Meyer well & narrow nk load of at $500,- Iveston he i reason to be- trailing him ed opera- trunk in i had The thieves making came near quite clever- y trunk to Harris- e two cities, with the nce put off e claimed s hurriedly eves failed LY OFF DISEASES CARRY CITIZENS OF CHICAGO Physicians of the Windy City Pneumonia, In- Bronchitis Busy Comba fluenza The i by tr fact t gO'S s e s week BOSTON POLICE ARREST ATLBEGED CHECK FORGER James M. Webb, Who Is Said to Be Wanted Here and in Other Cities, is Taken in Charge. BOSTOX, Mass., Feb. —The po- lce inspectors here e er ar- rest James M. Webb, charged with 1 cks and uttering them. T Webb is wanted in San Fran- c Joseph, Mo. Leavenworth, polis and other places sing worthless checks on men and proprietors of private hools. Webb's plan of operation to pass the worthless checks on e ‘schools as advance payments daughter he was about to place the institution, receiving change for tk fference between the face value d the tuition fees ——— Brick Company BOSTON, Fe 17.—~Alonzo E. Locke was appointed receiver of the New England Brick Company to-day on a tion of the Old Colony Trust Com- ny, which holds a first mortgage on he concern for $850,000. The company, which controls the brick manufacturing Is Involved. ,jusiness of New Engiland, is alleged to have defaylted the February inter- est on this m gage. The company | has $1,798,800 preferred and $1,087,500 ! common stock. | 0 B S A Mother and Children Are Burned. | the checks | Are Kept | I + | ble for Alexieff Is Allége& to Have Shot Officer Responsi- Defeat. > Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, Feb. 17.—The St. Peters-| burg correspondent of the Express telegraphs t | | Port Arthur o Russia 9. After Viceroy re him the the attack by Alexi summoned Japanese et rs whose of the examining them as to Alexieff was convinced t among them was most culpably gu It is declared Alexieff | a revolver and shot the young officer dead before his comrades. The | lieutenant had taken a party of officers | e on a torpedo boat, whereas he Rus: wa the main cause their conduct drew d have been on guard outside lhe% harbor. | ST. PETERSBURG, ‘Feb. 17.—A dis- | patch has been received from Major | General Pflug, chief of staff to Viceroy Alexieff, saying that Yuan Shi Kai, commander in chief the Chinese army and navy, has ordered 2500 men to Tsichou to maintain order. Continuing he says everything is| quiet at Newchwang and the informa- tion that the Japanese are forming bands of chunchus (bandits) to attack | the railroad is confirmed. Quiet prevails on the Yalu. Russian | scouts did not find the enemy within a distance of forty-three miles from the river. STORM BUFFETS WARSHIPS. A Government communication pub- | lished in the Official Messenger warns the public that it must wait patiently for news of Russian victories and says | it is useless to waste men in securing | an over-hasty revenge. Viceroy Alexieff has cnmmunicated{ shou of |to the Czar the report that Captain | | Reitzenstein, | the Russian cruiser division, dealing |their services and once more I thank who is in command of says that a small Japangse coaster o was approached, but the violent 11 made it to the crew nd that there le impe capture fore the coaster was not nk. Heavy weather, he says, prevented him following the coaster, and the cruiser squadron made for Chestakoff, fleel before the tempest to gain the Korean coast. Owing to the storm, the squadron was able to accomplish only five knots per hour. Heavy seas were shipped and the cruisers and guns were coated. with ice, there being nine de- grees of frost. Two violent gales were encountered within three days. CZAR'S FAREWELL TO TROOPS. In the courtyard of the Winter Pal- ace the Czar to-day reviewed the Third battalion of the First Siberian Rifles, which is proceding to the Far East. The review took place in the presence of the Czarina, the Dowager Empress, Grand Duke Michael, War Minister Ku- ropatkin, General Sakharoff, chief of staff, and a number of court officials. After the inspection, the rendering of the national anthem by the band and cheers from the spectators, the Czar made a speech to the departing soldiers, ! In which he said: ““My brothers, I am happy to see you all before you leave, and I wish you a good journey. I am firmly convinced that you all will uphold the honof of your ancient regiment and readily risk your lives for your dear fatherland, “Remember, your foe is brave, c‘on- fident and crafty. From my heart I wish you success over your opponents. I bless you, my brothers, and with you the Famous Siberian regiment. May Seraphim pray for you and accompany you in all your ways. “I thank the officers for volunteering NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—Mrs. Jacob | with the destruetion of the Japanese | you all, by brothers, with all my heart. Antonoasi and five children were | burned to death in a fire that destroyed their home near Croton. The husband, | two boarders and the oldest son, aged | 13, escaped. The expiosion of an oil lamp caused the fire. merchant steamer Nakamura Maru ofl.“ the north—estern coast of Japan and the capture of forty-one of her crew. The captain, who also is acting com- modore of the Vladivostok squadron, l God bless you.” The battalion, accompanied by its baggage wagons, then marched past, the Czar calling out to the men as they went by: “Good by, my brothers.” RUSSIA’S FAMOUS VICEROY OF THE FAR EAST, WHOSE RULE TOKIO, Feb. 18.---It is the belief of the Navy Department that the Russian second-class cruiser Boyarin was torpedoed and sunk by the destroyer Heya- tory in the torpedo attack on Port Arthur last Sunday morning. Lieutenant Commander Tokenouchi did not know the name of the vessel struck by a torpedo discharged by the Heyatory, but the Navy Department has since learned from other sources that it was the Boyarin. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, dated February 16, stated that the Boyarin was blown up with a which it accidentally struck in the harbor at Port Arthur. not a man escaped death. loss of 197 officers and men on February 13 by a mine Of the entire crew, ¥ IS AS ABSOLUTE — AS THAT OF THE | CZAR HIMSELF, AND SCENE ON THE RAILWAY WHICH IS THE SINGLE LINE OF COMMUNICA- | TION OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY IN MANCHURIA. )apan Is Landing a Quarter of 2 Million | TIENTSIN, Feb. 17.—It is learned on what is considered officlal authority that a large number of Japanese trans- ports, on which 100,000 troaps have been embarked, have left their base for Dalny or some point in that neighbor- hood. The intention is to isolate Port Arthur by a simultaneous movement in force from both sides of the peninsula, which will cut off the fortress from all of its communications. The troops are expected to arrive on Thursday. | LONDON, Feb. 18.—Dispatches pub- | lished in the London newspapers this | morning continue to give alleged de- scriptions of the embarking of Japan- ese troops. Instead of this embarka- tion occurring secretly from Wina, as was the case during the Chino-Japan- | ese war, the transports, according ‘to the dispatches published in the Daily { Telegraph and the Daily. Mail, are openly embarking troops from Naga- saki, Moji, Kobe and elsewhere. SCRUBBY CAVALRY PONIES. A cablegram to the Daily Telegraph from Nagasaki says troops are clearing every night from those ports for Korea and ten large steamships were em- barking troops at Nagasaki last Mon- day. All arms of the service were rep- resented, but the cavalry horses were . S Special Dispatch to The Call such sorry and scrubby ponies that they hardly seemed worth transporting. The embarkations are all remarkably well managed. Numerous shallow sa- mans (little harbor boats), as well as ordinary boats suitable for being rowed, are towed in shallow water or through a heavy surf and taken on the transports. In conclusion, this corres- pondent says the harbor of Nagasaki has been mined. Cabling from Shanghal under date of February 17 a correspondent of the Daily Mail declares that a combined movement of a largeJapanese fleet and a large landing force from Nagasaki is now proceeding. The reports that the Japanese have captured the East Asiatic Company's steamship Manchuria, as well as the Siberian Railway’s steamship, are con- firmed. GREAT ARMY AT WUSAN. PORT ARTHUR, Feb. 17.—The re- port that the Japanese have concen- trated about 60,000 troops at Wusan, on the east coast of Korea, with the ob- ject of entering Manchuria, are con- firmed. BERLIN, Feb. 17.—The Admiralty here has received confirmation of the reports that Japanese landing opera- tions on a vast scale are taking place .~ Men in Korea and on the Coast of Manchuria. | (LEVELAND ADDRESSES HIS PARTY Urees Rank and File of the Democracy to Unite. ;Believes There Is Chance of Winning Presiden- tial Election. —_— =Says Obsolete Issues No Longer Chal- | Cleveland urges his | sociates” lenging Popular Interest Should . Be Manfully Abandoned. —_— PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 17.—In an article written for this week’'s Satur- day Evening Post, former Président “rank and file as- of the Democratic party to unite and take advantage of the op- portunities of next November. “I am one of those,” he writes, “who believes that there is an opportunity for Democratic success in the coming Presidential election. “Though attachment to the party in which I am enlisted and an intense desire for its ascendency make such a belief exceedingly welcome, they cer- tainly do not create it. It is built up |on an unshaken and abiding trust in | the patriotism and intelligence of my fellow countrymen.” Mr. Cleveland’'s paper opens with a reiteration of the declaration that he made three years ago, that “our fight- ing forces will respond listlessly and falteringly if summoned to a third de- feat in a strange cause, but if they hear the rallying cry of true Dem- ocracy they will gather for battle with old-time Democratic enthusiasm and courage.” FAITH IN ASSOCIAT Referring to his faith in his Demo- cratic associates, he continues: “This trust will not permit me to overlook the meaning of the daily in- creasing unrest among our people growing out of the startling and flip- pant abandonment by the party ir national power of our maXxims, its disregard of our na moral restraint, the inconsiderate ten- dency to set de national good faith its willingness to break away from safe and accustomed moorings and its contemptuous neglect of our national mission. Surely these conditions, to- gether with the broken pledges and forgotten promises of reforms that vex the sight on every side, not only abtindantly explain the popular dis- trust and fear prevailing everywhere in the land, but suggest that in such stress of political weather, those of our fellow citizens who thoughtfully and constantly love our free institu- on both of Korea’s northern coasts, |tions will not be unmindful of such and it is assured by the German au- thorities that Japan will be ready by early spring for a forward land move- ment supported by properly equiped bases. Possibly 250,000 men (according to the estimates made at the German Admiralty) will be in the field before collision takes place with the Russians in force. Expert naval opinion in Berlin justi- fies the Japanese in landing before the Russian fleet is destroyed, as to wait \ | a | ocracy’s opportunity. until that is accomplished might mean | a delay in the land operations for months and the consequent strengthen- | ing of Russia’s forces. The expectation expressed by a tech- nical newspaper which reviews the sit- uation is that Japan probably in the beginning will have considerable land successes through hard fighting. What may occur after the early period of the land operations no technical person ventures to predict in_writing, though it is doubted if the Siberian Raillway will be at all adequate to reinforce and supply the Russian army. THREE DIVISIONS EMBARK. PARIS, Feb. 17.—An official dis- patch received here to-day from Tokio announced that one of the most im- Continued on Page 4, Column 3. safety and quiet as may be offered them by a patriotic and conservative Democracy.” DEMOCRACY’S OPPORTUNITY. Mr. Cleveland thinks these condi- tions justify the assertion of Dem- He says: “It should be remembered, however, that opportunity may be only distantly related to actual accomplishment and that it does not of itself unaided and alone warrant the expectation of reaching successful results. ““This is no time for cunning finesse, nor for the use of words that conceal intentions or carry a doubtful mean- ing. . g’The Democratic party has a mes- sage to send to its followers and to the masses of the American people. Let | that message be expressed in language easily understood, unconfused by the | vision and untouched by the taint of jugglery. Obsolete issues and ques- tions no longer challenging popular interest should be manfully aban- doned.” URGES TARIFF REFORM. Mr. Cleveland urges tariff reforms, pleads for reduced expenditure of pub- lic money and charges the opposition with having made promises and broken them. He arraigns the administration’s Philippine policy, and refers to the Continued on Page 2, Column ¥, 4