The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 9, 1904, Page 1

A G. NO. 100. TOKIO REPORTS SINKING TEE WEATHER. Foreoast made at Ban Fran. cisco for thirty hours ending mianight, March : San Francisco and vieinity— Cloudy, unsettled weather Wed- zesday; brisk westerly winds., | | { | District Forecaster. 4 McADIE, et A 1 7 rEn rEmArEms. Alcazar— At lll ‘White ®orse hvfl.‘ » 11' Chief Justice.” O-lhll—-““ Van Winkle.” Columbia—*The Bilver Slipper.” Chutes—Vaudeville. ~ _ FPischer's—" The Rounders.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Matines To-Day. Tivoli—“The Gypsy Baren.” SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS OF RUSSIAN SQUADRON Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. TOKIO, March 8.--1t is reported that the Japanese fleet engaged the Russian Vladivostok squad- ron in the Sea of Japan yesterday. The result of the engagement is not announced, but it is be= Izeved the Russzan ships, four in number, were destroyed or captured. WITNESSES TELL SENATORS - OF THE MORMON DOCTRINE HERD DIES IN EFFO] AT RESCUE! — Son of Mllhonau'e Drowned inthe |, Willamette, | Bpectal Di h to The Call PORTLAND, Or., March 8.—Sumner | Bmith, s of W. K wh escuing drowning ngers by the shout There’s a young girl nd I shouted athlete, and leaped ¢ of Oza Brown fallen over- swim th, who was a he rushed to| board to the -known rail 12-year-old £ who had slipped upon the upper deck and fallen under the rail into the | Willamette River Smith swam to where the young | gir as struggling, and with one arm her head above water .unm»‘ with the other. The deck hands | hurriedly lowered 2 bo Rowing to within a few feet of lhfl\ two, they saw Smith ddenly sink, | having been seized with a cramp or | su under by a strong eddy. The girl drawn into the boat, but | S The | | a famous | brother of | Jn\l—xll H Smith. \‘Pll known in Pa- cific Coast athletics as the Multnomah Club’'s crack fullback, baseball pitcher and boxer. NS CRASHE Jon of the A, ostle‘ Speaks oprts ! AT BRIDGE PolySantys - | el T Disastrous Accident Occurs Near Butte City. Persons on the Structure| Scramble to Escape Im- | pending Peril. ‘ Amazing Stories| of Plurality of Wives. SHINGTON, March 8.—The e Committee on Privileges and in the investigation ons to-day Screaming Women and Frightened | Men Rush From the. Scene of Danger for Their Lives. | COLUSA, March 8.—The Sacramento | Transportation Company’s steamer Do- | ver ran into the drawbridge. at Butte City to-day about noon and the center | pier and the draw were knocked over | and now lie a ruined mass of wood and iron at the bottom of the river. The | | damage to the bridge will amount to $10,000 or more. The steamer Dover and the barge Illinois were moored at the landing | | taking on freight when Mr. Staten en- | | | gaged the captain to pull off a lot of | drift that had accumulated around the | | center pier. The boat was tied above | | the bridge by a long cable. In this |»| way the steamer and barge were let down near the bridge. A line was | | made fast to the drift and the boat started forward, expecting to pull the drift loose. Everything was progressing nicely when suddenly the cable parted and before the steamer and barge could be got under control they smashed broadside into the bridge, causing the same to topple over. A portion of the draw hit the steamer and caused her to | dip and she took a quantity of water, but after going down stream several hundred yards the boats were secured to the shore and the pumps set to work | | ana soon had her pumped out. | PROMINENT MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF THE MORMONS, WHO ARE IN ATTENDANCE AT THE INVESTIGATION TO ESTABLISH SENATOR SMOOT'S RIGHT TO SENATE SEAT. ~| At the time of the accident there were perhaps twenty-five or thirty women and men standing on the draw | |and when the boat hit and the big | | structure commenced to tremble, then BEING HELD “TRUGGLES - WITH THE BURGLAR | WOII]&I] Makes Brave| Fight but Loses Jewelry. T S PR Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, March 8.—A fashion- able apartment house opposite Capitol Park was the scene at noon to-day of an exciting conflict between a plucky | woman and a burglar. Mrs. R. E. Cranston, whose husband is a well knnwn mining expert, had left | | the apartments, locking the doors after | her. ‘When she returned she found one of the doors open. As she was about to enter, the burglar, who had secured entrance by means of a skeleton key, | brushed past her with his pockets full of her jewelry and other valuables. Mrs. Cranston seized him about the Continued on Page 2, Column 1, —+ | began at first to topple over, there was of the protests against Senator - §; a wild scramble to get off. Many suc- of Ttah hrought out variety of tes. | C2°1° In BeLtIng off at elther end; oth- % Yy of tes-| . o geeing retreat impossible in that | timony, of which the most sensational direction, jumped to the barge below. was that given by Francis M. Lyman, C Three Chinamen jumped or fell into president of the twelve apostles of the | the river, where they were seen scream- Mormon church and the man chosen ing and were thought to have been lost, to be the successor of President Smith. but later turned up all right. The His admissions were similar to those | Steamer was in charge of Captain Gon- previously made by Mr. Smith per- zales. The Butte City bridge seems to | taining to the ahursh RS e ol be an ill fated structure. When the first bridge was completed about ten | 1s more free of speech than the presi- | voars ago It had only been accepted dent of the church and his testimony, by the county a few days when it gave | though not materially differing, way and wags a total loss. That no one caused several of the apostles present | wag drowned or otherwise injured in {to shake their heads at the witness | for the purpose of compelling more the accident to-day is a miracle. | discretion in answering questions. Mr, ——— GRIDLEY RESIDENTS HEAR | Lyman is angularly built, his face is overed with a growth of bushy red THE ROAR OF A CYCLONE whiskers and his speech is blunt. Four witnesses were on the stand to-day. They were Mrs. Kennedy, her mother, GRIDLEY, March 8.—A cyclone passed over the country near the Man- zanita Schoolhouse, east of this place, this morning. Its roar could be heard Mrs. Matthews; Charles Merrill, the son of Apostle Merrill, and Mr Ly- at this place. The storm was high in | man. the air,consequently no damage was 1 Senator Overman asked Charles F.| 90 Merrill, son of Apostle Merrill and a polygamist, for a description of the | marriage ceremony in 1888, and the witness declared that he could not remember how it was performed. ex- | cept that he went to the temple in Lo- | gan and it was performed there. In response to a question by Senator Du- bois Mr. Merrill said there was no marriage certificate issued, no record or any documents of any kind, so far as he knew. He said there was no 'mullr no prayers and no questions | that he could remember. ““There was nothing but the mar- riage ceremony,” he said with empha- sis. . % Continued on Page 2, Column 3. —— e Jail Breaker Recaptured. GRIDLEY, March 8.—Shelton, the alleged horsethief, who escaped from the Gridley jail Wednesday by sawing his way through the ceiling and kick- ing a hole in the roof of the building, was captured in Marysville last night and was brought here for examination to-day. It is said that Shelton took refuge on a ranch near this place after getting away and that on Sunday he left, fearing the descent of officers. He made his way across the country and was observed near Honcut, wading deep sloughs, in an evident effort to avoid following traveled roads. There are 'several counts against the prisoner. ' ’S’[E AMER !JflPflN’J‘ \) TRflTEGY ENTRAPS - THE DLADIDOSTOK CRUISERS e L B I | ‘ : | | ‘ . | | | | | | ‘ . | | | ‘ ‘ | | | | | | | | | | . | . eyl HirosvAI IT0. . | + — — — COMMANDERS OF THE JAPANESE WARSHIPS WHICH HAVE BEEN VICTORIOUS IN ENCOUNTERS WITH THE RUSSIANS, AND ISLAND STATESMAN WHO HAS BEEN SENT UPON A DIPLOMATIC MISSION TO i THE KOREAN CAPITAL. ! B + Czar’s Warships Are Lured From JSiberian Stronghold and Hemmed In by Two “Flying Squadrons.’ Special Dispatch to The Call. SHANGHATI, March 8. —Japanese strategy has doomed the Russian Viadivostok fleet. While a strong Japanese naval division, commanded by Rear Admiral Uriy, is lying in wait off Viadivo- stok for the four Russian cruisers, a “flying squadron” has been dispatched northward to give them battle or drive them into the hands of Uriu. The Russian ships are believed to be in the neighbor- hood of Possiet Bay, where they have been covering the fanding of Russian trdops sent south- ward from Vladivostok. As they have been away from. their home port more than a week, they must be running short of fuel, and there is no harbor at which they can replenish their supply, ex- cept that of Vladivostok.' To regain Vladivostok they must fight their way through Admiral Uriu's squadron before their fuel supply is exhausted. In the meantime the “flying squadron” from the south'is closing in uporw them, and they will soon be between two fires. When the war hegan the Vladivostok squadron was believed to be icebound in the harbor, and the Japanese were astonished when, early in February, the’ Russian ships were reported to be cruis- ing in Japanese waters, where they took several prizes, sank a Japanese merchantman and threat- ened the bombardment of cities on the coast. - Admiral Uriu's division was hurried northward to in- tercept the Russian ships, if possible. The latter, however, were warned in time and retired to Vladivostok. Uriu, making sure that they were again safe in the harbor, retired to the south after making a ‘brief demonstration in_the roadstead, without firing a shot. On February 26 Admiral Togo's fleet bombarded Port Arthur. Togo had then twenty- three warships, whereas before his fleet consisted of but sixteen, two of which were reliably re- Continued on Page 4, Columns 3, 4 and 5.