The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 16, 1904, Page 1

THEE WEATHER. Porgcast made at San Pran- efspé’ for thirty hours ending adianight, March 16: San Francisco and viclaity— Fair Wednesday; light westerly THE R s heum—Vaudeville. Matinee GARRISON ORDERED TO HOLD PORT ARTHUR AT ALL HAZARDS; ARE LECTED Henry Ranch to Be Coast’s Camp | Ground. * FARS FOR_ s (Chicagoan's Plan to Solve the Labor | Problem. | > re; has con- wages in An agricul- en or ized nd acres of land ne has been segured and to put 6000 Chicago N s ir families on five- er to own his According to the pro-| me five acres and a | h possibly a pig, will support and certainly g-limbed FIVE-ACRE - | . b i it s w""" ;! ,?11‘4 Aifirzg;a‘,x P My " il \Caa ¢ i h Ry " KUROPATKIN WILL COMMAND AN ARMY OF HALF-MILLION MEN “® e e . 11 S LANDING OF THE BATTALION OF RUSSIAN MARI ARTILLERY AT PORT ARTHUR. k Arrival of Russian Generalissimo Will Mar a New Era.in Far East War. R i Special Dispatch to The Call. | ‘ : | NEWCHWANG, March 15.—General Kuropatkin has telegraphed to Command- | er Stoessel at Port Arthur. telling him he must hold Port Arthur at all hazards with | his present force and advising him of the stupendous arrangements he (Kuropatkin) 3 is making to overcome the enemy. Kuropatkin, like Admiral Marakoff, is a man of action and the Russians are putting great faith in him and say his coming will mark | a new era in the war: that he will promptly assume the offensive and will sweep the enemy out of Korea. The commander in chief advises Stoessel that he is forming a first line of 300,000 men to bear the brunt of of the fichting, while a second line of 200,000 men will protect the communications and prevent the Chinese from assisting the Japanese. : ; PORT ARTHUR. March 15.—All is quiet in the Port Arthur district, and no news has been received here from the scene of the land operations, where the move- ments of the opposing forees are evidently confined to reconnoissances. Vice Admiral Marakoff to-day visited the torpedo-boat destroyers which participated in the fight with the Japanese on March 10 and warmly thanked the officers and crew for their splendid behavior. The admiral distributed decorations. i 4 Special Cablegram to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing ooking to pe aving Ca he action of is the subject J. H Henry ranch is located in 2 is Obispo County and embraces es. It is mot directly on the of hills interven be rez g. but for tice. The land is well wa- varied in character, offering nd for m Iy maneuvers. djacent to large tract ¥ the Governme Woolen Mills at Napa. NAPA, March 15.—Artfcles of incor- | por of the California Woolen ! Mills were filed in the County Clerk's effice to-day. The purpose of the in- sorperation is to manufacture and sell pa. The capital stock is! Of this $20,000 has been | sctually subscribed. The directors are | Fred Carter, J. D. Ladley, Blanche Lad- wy, Elizabeth Ladley and Marriette fennings, all of Napa. members or an and an on is made 1 of the investment if, arming, they fer the d excitement If 10,000 union in Mississippi,” “men now forced fo be idle can ge work The competition for jobs will easy provi ifter tur- said | fleet during Thursday's attack. is | be r ced and the law of supply and demand will force wages up. The fact that thousands of idle men ean be found in Chicago at any time proved by the newspapers almost every day. It does not make any dif- | ference how many men strike—there | are eénough men idle, but will- ing rk., who are prepared to take ancies, even if some risk is in- OF CAF Philanthropist Makes Them Gift of £1.500.000 for Ercction of Mag- nificent Building. NEW YORK, March 15.—The offer of Andrew Carnegie to provide funds for a union engineering building as a for the American Society of cal Engineers, the American titute of Mining Engineers, the ican Institute of Elec al . En- ind the Engineers’ Club of fork has been accepted, Car- negie to-day placing at the disposal of those organizations the sum of $1,500,000 for that purpose. The re- cipients have provided a site on West Thirty-ninth and West Fortieth streets, between Fifth and Sixth ave- nues, upon which to erect a building, home | probably twelve stories in height. The work of building will commence about July 1. The national societies will have their headquarters in the building, and several kindred organizations have made requisition for accommo- | dations therein. It will contain four or five auditoriums of different sizes, suitably equipped for scientific meet- ings, lectures and demnwnuons, and sooms for the societies’ libraries, | present Ru: CHE March ssian sources eport the capture on 3 of eighteen Japanese spies, dressed as Chinese laborers, in the village of Wanglin, n beli ve these men were landed from the The being removed to Mukden, under the Viceroy’s order. The Norwegian steamships Sirstad, Brand and Argo, detained at Port Ar- thur since the opening of hostilities, left yesterday under a guarantee not to call at any port within' three days. men are | The captains were forced to sign a sworn declaration not to reveal the an situation. YINKOW | probably realizing that the Cesarevitch | | | effective. and the Retvizan are disabled beyond further service at sea, have taken the forward guns from these vesseis and mounted them at Pigeon Bay. During last Thursday's bombard- ment Japanese shells very nearly reached the fleet, many falling into the basin. Only two fell into the new town. The Retvizan was not much further damaged. The Pallada is still in dock. Refugees who left Port Arthur on Sunday report that little damage wase done by Thursday’s bombardment. Out of more than 200 shells fired, only two struck the town, one entering the house of a prominent lawyer, killing him and two women. EXPLOSION IN BATTERY. Three shells struck the Retvizan, then in the innér basin, and one slight- ly damaged another vessel. One burst on the Gold Hill battery with a tre- i mendous noise, raising a column of black smoke and probably exploding the magazine and disabling some guns; but the Gold Hill battery is still effec- tive. All of the other.shells were in- Besides three civilians killed, the casualties included a few soldiers. Life at Port Arthur continues as usual. The shops are open and the people are getting used to the shelling. I hear that the shell which killed the clyillans and the oné which caused the ar West Port Arthur. They | March 15.—The Russians, | Company. damage to the Gold Hill battery were of Russian make and were captured by the Japanese on the transport Man- | churia. Russian inscriptions were vis- | ible on the fragments. | The bombardment of Sunday did no damage whatever. The Russians did| not reply. | ‘There are few Russian soldiers be- tween Newchwang and Port Arthur. | All women of ill-repute have been ‘bxmished from Port Arthur, owing to | imperative orders from St. Petersburg. Only seven foreign women are now left in Newchwang. The British Consul | beliéves the Japanese will certainly at- Jtack Newchwang. LARGE STAFF OF NURSES. A message from Newchwang says a | staff officer of the Russian Red Cross | !at Port Arthur has arrived at New- | chwang en route to Tientsin to pur- | chase supplies. He states that a large | staff of nurses have arrived at Port | | Arthur. The wounded are progressing | favorably. There is no sickness among | the troops. Many junks and launches Ieucceed in running the blockade with provisions. \ | LONDON, March 16.—The Daily Express correspondent at Berlin gives | an alleged intimation from the Rus- | | sian Embassador there that Vice Ad- miral Makaroff has mined all the coast of the peninsula at Port Arthur, the | | area of the mines extending three miles | seaward. | A correspondent of the Daily Tele- graph- at Yinkow says the Japanese again attacked Port Arthur on March 12, as a challenge "to Vice Admiral Makaroff to come out and fight. Dur- ing the heavy hombardmept, the cor- respondent says, the Javanese were in a position of saféty from the fortress. The Russian casualties amounted to 300 killed or wounded. [The corvespond- ent adds that this is authentic. g L Mikado’s Nephew Homeward Bound. VANCOUVER, B. C. March 15.— Prince Nashimoto, a cousin of the Mi- kado, has engaged passage on the Em- press of India, which sails for Yoko- ’ | in an infantry regiment hama next Monday. He is traveling across Canada. He has been in Eng- | Jand and is accompanied by nineteen Japanese army officers, who are going home to fight. The Prince is a colonel JAPAN RECALL 5 CORRESPONDENTS | FROM THE FRONT | SEOUL, March 15.—The Japanese au- thorities have ordered the newspaper correspondents at Pingyang and Anju to return. They also refuse to hbnorwl the plrmits formerly given for corre- | spondents to accompany troops to the | front and are holding them at Seoul. This action is regarded as significant. | The effect of the Japanese-Korean protocol has been already felt. It was learned to-day that sweeping changes will be made in the Korean adminis- | tration. Corrupt officials will be cash- iered, cruel punishments will be abol- ished and the postal system will be extended. A Japanese officer is about | to be appointed adviser to the War | Office, and prefects who have kept the | money intended for the peasants in| payment for grain bought for the Jap- anese will be prosecuted. Great preparations are being made} for the reception of Marquis Ito. Sl o | ‘War Coutributions From Hawaii. HONOLULU, March 15.—It is not| likely that the comtributions from lhe‘ Japanese residents in Hawail will reach as large an amount as was expected. | Up to date the amount received has been $8365, from about 1300 contribu- tors, making an average of about $4 40 from each. This average is not likely | to be maintained, as subsequent con- tributions will come almost exclusively from laborers. As there are 60,000 to be heard from, and they may average $2 each, the total Hawaiian fund may not exceed $125.000. s VR ‘War News Continued on Page 4. | | lost. | Kirin's Governor Probably Murdered. [ARD BLOW 10 BALFOUR I COMNO Irish Leaders De- ARSI feat the British Woman Helplessand, ~ Ministry. Dead LONDON, four” in the House of Commons by the com- Liberal and Nationalist reverse was due to the prohibi te. n . ry for Ireland, of Bppoial it et e ic in the jumior LOS ANGELES. March 1 In some Nationalist schools. roo g-house where she defeated by a ma- annot be f Mrs. Sadie Haywood does mot re- is being held a prisoner by a husba ot con- esign on this » has sepnt four years in an insa not to fact that he and who has wr to her that pmises to leave um mother en intimating alic regoing defeat his wife unle: her paramour and return to live with £ 25. him. The woman disappeared last ernment to { Thursday, but it was not until to-day Jouse with it on a question that it became known that she was |Of purely administrative policy in its in danger. Where she.is the police | Irish department is generally admitted have been unable to -discover, al- |to greatly weaken its already waning though a dozen or more officers are ige with the country, although it searching the room g-houses and re- sorts of the city for her to-night. mediate dissolvement will ensue She had separated from her hus-| . oo Fonl IR AP - band, A. A. Haywood. a cement con-i oo 0 o ooon Sianlier of Bhe tractor, and was living with Andy | 3 \ . 3 Pete 2 laborer. Her mother, Mrs, | 0Dpositian, “The artillery in the Gov W. I Gallop, knew of the relations. | ernment arsenals would not make them surrender office.” Premier Balfour regards it is one iples of his party to The husband had caused her trouble before, but she did net consider him | dangerous. Thursday she left her| rooms to visit her mother and from | that time all trace of her has been To-day her mother received two anonymous letters, one t‘rnm .H:l)'WOOd mains in doubt. The blow adm Y and the other from his wife. The| . . to-day makes the Premier's task first. letter states that Mrs. Haywood | . 1oiging his party together doubly is concealed in a place where no per- | difficult and many supporters of the son can find her and her captor pro-| government frankly said to-night that poses to keen her until she promises| .y gayored an early @issolution of to leave Por»rsgy\, .The writer inti- | Parliament ratper than again undergo mates that he will kill her unless she | ¢ "y omiatio experienced to-day: makes this promise and says ‘I(“ls a “Those terrible Irish,” as they matter of life or death with her. | B s el e e In the other letter Mrs. Haywood | {rnionicts were entirel 4 byt fsie e g e Jieps | for Balfour’s defeat. ound an ocked in a room in a ce | Lt ey she does not know where. She says | STRATEGY WINS. persons are trying to make her re-| On the question of Catholic educa- nounce Peterson. She says she may |tion Monday night the Nationalists not be able to write again because she | had voted with the Unionist Govern- does not know what those who have | ment, but even while doing so they her 4 prisoner will do with her. | were planning the downfall of the The police are making every eflor(lCOnser\'azlves. This afternoon the to find the woman. They advance the | mine so ingeniously laid was set off theory that worry and jealousy have with a success that thrilled the coun- brought on a recurrence of Hay-|try. The strategy with which the wood’s insanity and that he will kill | whole coup was planned and th his wife. Neither of the letters gives | scenes that marked its culmination the slightest clew of the whereabouts |recalled the times when Gladstone and of the woman and Haywood has not | Parnell waged a titanic struggle in the been seen by his associates for nearly | same arena. a week. | When the House of Commons met TS e R P jat 2 o'clock this afternoon the me- | tropolis was steeped ih its usual mur- | ky tranquillity. Scattered throughout | the clubs, hotels and restaurants the { Unionist commoners languidly dis- who is believed to have been murdered, | cussed the war news and everything was buried to-day with great pomp in |except politi_s. All thought that the the presence of the Russian represen- | Irish members would take up the tatives. | whole of the Parliamentary afternoon the essential princ hold on to the reins of the ment, far the present at an What he may do after Easter st ¥ responsibl; MUKDEN, Manchuria, March 15.— The native Governor of Kirin, who was a fervent adherent of the Russians and R e Turkey's New Cruiser Sails. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., March 15— | The formal transfer of the cruiser Med- | jida to the Turkish Government was made to-day when the Turkish flag was raised on the warship. She sailed for the Dardanelles to-night by way of St. Thomas. with a verbese discussion of a ques- tion of but little interest except to the gpeakers themselves. In this society of the luncheon hour hordes of news- boys suddenly appeared yelling “The Government defeated.” The early papers only gave the fig- Continued on Page 3, Column &, .