The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 6, 1904, Page 21

Foreeast nfidc cipoo for thirty Clonay Sunday, | = midnight, Maxch 6: San Frafcico and vieinity— possibly show- frest southerly winds. A. G. McADIE, District Porecaster. 4 at San Fran- hours ending qo— - To-Day. Grax: B To-Day. flcl\lfl:i: — “The Old Chutes—Vaudeville. Fischer's—" Ncly-Pcly.” Matinee mun—vVaudeville. Tivoli—“The Gypsy Baron.” Matinee SAN FR/ 'TCISCO, SUNDAY, ARCH [ , 1904 GES 21 /TO 3 RUSSIAN TROOPS RETIRE, TO THE YALU: FORTY SQUADRONS MAY MEET IN SEA BATTLE WEIHAIWEIL March 5.—Ten thousand troops, the advance guard of the Japanese army marching through western Korea, have reached the vicinity of Pingyang, where they wil await the arrival of the main force. Within a week all will have come up. Russian raiding bands and outposts have failen back and apparently will make no stand until the Japanese army nears Wiju, which has been heavily fortified. A steamship arriving from Chemulpo reports that a Japanese “flying squadron” has been sent northward from Sasebo to attempt to inter- cept the Russian Viadivostok squadron, which has again left the Siberian harbor and is menacing the western coast of Japan. MERCHANT SHOT DOW IN OFFICE Josephflgenbach. Fatally Injured by Thugs. Unknown Men Enter His Store and Assail Him at His Desk. k of Coin Is Not Molested and De- tectives Find Unused Cartridges on the Floor. e of busi- “ompany, was shot condi- Hos- book- rgency I his = Al and his € f r and the . Butt- after thugs, robbers left a bag of ith tv approximately placed fright- eft the old the outer was_at of- work, e, burst caught the ind fled precipitate- man 1o his fate. 1o his first statement he did t rs, but later he told >. heard a scuffle, a old man with a stranger. i this glass the It would easily be person to rush into the oor, fire a shot througi this glass partition and enter the inner office The whole general interior of however. 's plainly visible th street, as the front fis with telescoping iron doors ht is kept burning. At the the shooting the street was h passers-by, yet nofe wit- brief, but fatal struggle. One of the first to arrive on the was Sergeant Green of the uthern Police Station, who was re- porting on for duty. He heard the shot fired and immediately sprang from the car and rushed to the sceme. His story is as follows “At about 10:10 I was on a Fourth- street car near the corner of Shipley, when I heard what I took to be a pis- tol shot. I immediately left the car to Investigate. I was at first told that there was nothing wrong—that a fuse had blown out in the power-house, but a moment later I heard Brune | calling for help. " entered the Pa- DROPS DEAD | AT CORFIN 0P SISTRR Womar's Life in | San Diego. B (] tne Presence of <Mourners, el Relative of a Deceased Girl the | ? Victim of Heart Disease While | Sorrowing in a Room. S Special Dispatch to The Cail. 1 SAN DIEGO, March 5.—Grief over | the demise of her younger sister | caused death to come this evening in a tragic way to Mrs. ilugenia -Gra- | dilla, wife of Joseph Gradilla of Six- | teenth street, near D, in this city. Dolores Duarte, a young and beau- | tiful girl, died suddenly last evening at | her home. Mrs. Gradilla and other relatives went to the residence to-day | to care for the dead and comfort the | living. | While seated beside the dead body | and the presence of the other | mourners Mrs. Gradilla was suddenly stricken with heart dl e. Death was instantaneous. She was 41 years of age and leaves six children and a husband. | Dolores was the favorite sister of Mrs. Gradilla and grief is considered to have been the cause of the second death. in % = - + cific Packing Company's establish- | ment and found Buttgenbach lying | downward on the floor of his of- ceding from a wound in the The glass door of the room shattered to atoms, there was a | hole through the front parti- | 1d other evidences of a strug- | | The police, upon their arrival, locked all the doors and made a thor- ough search of the building to see if | one was hiding there, but the| search was futile. The weapon with which the deed committed could not be found, but five 38-caliber bul- re found on the floor, the per- | tor of the deed evidently fearing be captured with a revolver con- ing one exploded cartridge in his The empty shell, how- s not discovered. the bookk per, after a rig- mination the police, sed. In discussing the trag- Call reporter he said: h was sitting at the desk in the office writing I was in the n of the place. A was turned enter, nor did I till cld man Buttgenbach cried y're holding me up!” d around and saw the old man strug- the floor with a man, The latu ng_something that I could not und d; but T think he s cursing the old man or he would be of the office, and telling him to shut up immediately ran o 1 h the rear door ade for the ad- | 3 grocery store to summon help. | ve the alarm and in a minute there was a big crowd around the place. When I got back 1 found Buttgenbach lying face downward on the floor and bleeding from a wound in the head. He was unconscious and could not talk. The glass in the window of the office was ken and there was a bullet hole in the ndow of the place. The old man's | s lying a few feet away from where he d there was a bullet hole near the top the table, directly in front of the old lay about $70 in gold and silver, and I | understand why the thugs did not take | , if they were bent on robbing the place. | safe contained several hundred dollars | open at the time, £0 the men could | have looted that also. Buttgenbach | in the habit of taking home a large amount of money With him every night, but did not have any of it in his pockets at the time he was shot. | Henry Heide, a clerk in the adjoining | grocery store, ran out in the street as s00n as he heard the shot and was just | in time to see the forms of two men | disappearing around the corner of Fol- som street. They were too far away for Heide to see them plainly :=d therefore he can give no description of the pair. “I heard Brune yelling for aid,” said Heide, “and I ran out into Fourth street. I saw two men running up the | street as fast as they couid. They dis- | appeared around th:c corner before I | had a chance t6 get a good look at them. I heard the shot plainly and | also heard the sound of breaking glass. H SON’S STATEMENT. Albert Buttgenbach, son of the wounded man, readily responded to a 'request for a statement of his expe- | our establishment. j volver to my lips. KNOX STOPS PAYMENT OF THE NONEY Tragic Close of aHitch in Completion of Panama Canal Proceedings, FLLLL ‘Grief Causes Sad Incident|Attorney General Learns| That Title to Property Is Clouded. e Certain Suits Pending in France Must Be Seitled Before Government Completes 1 egotiations. S L T atch to The Call. WASHINGTON, March a hitch in the completion of the Pan- ama canal neg ations. - Just as the United States Government was about to pay over $10,000,000 to J. P. Morgan & Co., as the fiscal agents of the re- public of Panama on Thursday, Attor- ney General Knox halted the proceed- ings by saying the final deal with the Spccial Di 5.—There is { Panama Canal Company would not be with Willlam Nelson Grom- well, its counsel. Before this can be done Cromwell “must take a trip to Paris to obtain more authority and | complete certain_legal technicalities which the law officers and this Gov- ernment have suddenly found to be necessary. Cromwell has been given until March 25 to perfect the transac- tion. This new situation, developing as it did, just as Panama was about to be paid its $10,000,000 and as this Govern- ment had announced its readiness to pay $40,000,000 to the French company, has caused great surprise and disap- pointment to the United States offi- cials. Cromwell, as the legal represen- tative of the company, has repeatedly told the members of the Cabinet while the treaty was perding that he had the necessary authority and would be ready to turn over proper title to the property as scon as the treaty ratifi- cations were exchanged. This Govern- ment took Cromwell at his word and made preparations to pay the canal company and the new republic. Cromwell, who has been in this city this week in conference with the Gov- ernment officials, denied to-night that there was any serious drawback in completing the canal transactions. While no one would say to-night just exactly what the hitch was, it was un- derstood that certain suits against the new Panama Canal Company have not yvet been cleared up to the satisfaction of this Government and the title can- not vet be given. * + riences during the hold-up. He was held in detinue at the Southern station during the night after his incarcera- tion by the detectives working on the case. “My father was engaged in making up the cash shortly after 10 o'clcek,” he said, “and I had started to leave As I reached the door one man with a black mask over e | his face shoved the muzzie of a re- I turned and ran, crying as I went, ‘Here’s a hold-up!’ 1 ran around the counter and plunged into the partition separating the sa- loon. The last I remember was that Brune was by my side and that my father was advancing on the man with the mask.” ““How many men were at the door?” asked. Only one, as far as I know,” he answered, “and the only description I can give of him is that he wore a black mask over his face. “When I recovered my senses in the saloon I ran back to the shop and found my father lying on the floor with Brune bending over him. I can- not tell why I am being held in cus- tody, as there was nothing ‘but love between my father and myself.” The police are net inclined to he- lieve that the son had any complicity he jin the robbery, but are holding him largely for precautionary measures. In his excited condition he told vary- ing tales to Detectives Bunner and Freel and they thought it would be safer to hold him in custody for the night. » ———— Romero Officially Appointed. MEXICO CITY, Mex., March 5.—The President has appointed Cayetano Ro- mero, a brother of the late Mexican Minister ‘at Washington, to be Consui General at San Francisco. | | | on Dummy Ships. Japanese Ruse Alarms Port Arthur. Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1904, by | the New York Herald Publishing Company. A CHEFU, March 5.—On Wed nesday at midnight the forts at Port Arthur sighted approaching fol- lowed by firing. The forts imme- diately retaliated, and after an hour found that the lights were the entrance many lights, merely lamps attached -to the masts of lumber rafts. From Ja- panese sources it is reported that the rafts were dispatched from Laontashan lighthouse with the idea of making the forts waste their ammunition. The firing was from two passing torpedo-f)oats, which towed the raits, to attract the attention of the enemy. PARIS, March 6.—In a dis- I patch from St. Petersburg the correspondent of the Echo de Paris says that according to a member of the general stafi not more than 50,000 Japanese have been landed in Korea. The Ja- panese transports are in bad cou- dition and they cannot accommo- date more than 800 men each. The last disembarkation took place at Port Lazareff. The Ja- panese are fortifying Pingyang. ¥ . HARBOR OF FUSAN, ON 7 WHERE ONE W THE SOUTHE. OF THE JAPANE FOR THE ADVANCE THROUGH THE H ASTERN COAST OF KOREA, E ARMY DISEMBARKED 11T KINGDOM. ST., PETERSBURG, March 5.—Although almost four weeks have elapsed since the Japanese first attacked Port Arthur, here the war is considered hardly be- gun. Heavy land fighting, upon which the fate of the campaign depends, - is- net- expected - before the end ‘of April. By that time Russia will have in the field, ex- clusive of the large army of men required to guard the railroads, four army corps, each with a cav- alry division and an artillery bri- gade. All that has occurred so far or is going to occur before these forces -are in the field is considered, according to the Rus- sian view; to be nothing more than the prologue to the real drama. The crippling of the Port Ar- thur fleet was unfortunate, in that it gave the enemy command of the sea at the very outset. It is, i however, of relatively small im- portance from the standpoint- of { the main strategy .of the war whether Port Arthur stands or falls. But so long as. Port, Ar- thur holds out and the fleet is harbored there it will constitute Decisive Blow Before the FZnud j of A p;/Z/. g I | | | | | | | I'a potential menace which will re- | I sltrict and hamper ]:}pan‘s opera- | | tions, and the Russians are de-| termined to defend Port Arthur | | as heroically as they did Sebasto- 3pol. No.large garrisons will be! ;rflained there; 10,000 men are| as' good as 100,000 for defense, while the more men the more motths to be fed. There are enough provisions there now to i last eight months. In addition, there will be a division of Cos- sacks with mountain batteries on the peninsula to oppose landings | and harrass the enemy if they | succeed in investing the city. Viceroy Alexieff retains his headquarters at Mukden, through which 3000 or 4000 soldiers are | passing ddily to the positinnsl which the main armies will oc-| cupy. The Russians believe that | for military purposes there is only | one road over which the ]apanesei can come from Korea. All the' troops landed at Chemulpo, .\Iok-; pho and Chenampo must use the | | “Peking read.” Consequcntl_vf | the landings at Plaksin Bay and| thie other places on the east coast | I | | R SRS T LSS Determaned “to Fight. May FForce Ac- tion by Neu- trals. Lo Special Dispatch to The Call WASHINGTON, March 3— According to a diplomat at the Russian embassy, the most im- portant phase of the Far Eastern question is still the attitude of China. To Russians the presence of the Chinese army under Gen- eral Ma and General Yuvan Shi Kai, now massed near the Man- churian border, consisting of the flower of the Chinese forces, is a constant menace. The Chinese at all times are in a position to turn the Russian flank and threaten its rear. Should the desire of China to re-establish itself in Manchuria become predominant to the point of helping Japan to expel Russia from Manchuria, there is only one action possible under the Hay note—a union of neutral powers to’ compel the neutrality of China. Such a necessity might threaten the integrity of the empire. It is not believed at the Rus- sian embassy that Japan has taken any steps to secure the as- sistance of China in the war. At the State Department this point is emphasized. Japan is believed to sincerely wish the preservation of the Chinese empire in prefer- Continued on Page 23, Column 4. Continued on Page 22, Columa &,