The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 17, 1904, Page 1

| TEE WEATHEE. Forecast made at San Francis- ‘ co for thirty hours, ending mid- | night, March 17, 1904: San Francisco and vicinity— | Cloudy Thursday, probably showers, fresh southerly winds. A. G. McADIE, | istrict Forecaster ) N Day. Tivoli—“The Gypsy Baron.” L ’-“*w'“'g"" VOLUME XCV 1SCO, THURSDAY, MARCH 17 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MAIN ARMY OF RUSSIANS CROSSES THE YALU RIVER AND FORTIFIES WIDE AREA IN NORTHWESTERN KOREA v~ CRUISER RURIRS ~ POW. ERFUL Il "ARSHIPS OF THE PHANTOM I I,APII "OSTOK SQU. 4DRO\ OF WHOSE WHEREABOUTS THE ]APAI\,FSF NAVAL COTHI4\DFRS ARE STILL UNCERTAIN. | — \G TTORNEY a (lara Sherif ySterions Y LYNCHERS AT oA ARE KNOWY e L if Prosecuting Attorney, Learns Story of | the Murder, | e Cail. o d Ao N ) (2 16.—The | March e lynching ha itnesses as vthing. About P ssing~an er are more or less im- , pris rime. Most of them i 5 s ng ed around Mojave, many of ¢ er ilroad shops. There are E them except Cowan charged o M E th having had anything to do with Ferr - 1 sho San Jos Atiorney Laird is in doubt o P all the members of the mob t o nly the leaders should be prose- e a oot cuted e matter will probably be | ot S % submitted to the Grand Jury In the Se meantime no further arrests have Te been made, the principal offenders be- | Sher » | ing in custody. For good reasons the | t f the ssing District Attorney does not desire to di- ogniz . s vuige the names of witnesses. b According to the statements of the | witnesses Cummings was shot at the jail door by Cowan, who fired two | shots. One of the witnesses said last | night that ths prisoner, although bad- | v wounded, closed with him and in the scuffie they fell, with the witness top. Cowan then came up with his , and, pointing it at the negro, or sred him to quit his struggling, say- EAGLE'S WING | pointed, Vice Admiral Marakoff having SEOUL, western March Korea, probably before t taken up from Wij erectec 1 to oppose the gsieng a 'r' ery road wrl pass i (e way long line of earth from 40,000 tc ove 80,000 men. :, lande arr briga part of a secor The mobiliz strength ion of the lat- s 1 completed and the troops ly for an unkr desti- mobilization of a third | The spondent squadron going northeast p { has been given fleet pmba‘m will start in Ju .mu 20 . ape of Good Hope. BURG, March 16.—Offi- cial orde ere published- to-day re- lieving - V Admiral Stark from the mand of the Port Arthur division of the navy, ostensibly on account of ill-health. No successor will be ap- etermined to serve as squadron com- mander, as well as commander in chief of the entire Russian naval forces in the Far East The talk of poisoned swords having Special Dispatch to The Call 12 he end of March. Japanese advance. Rus being intrenched. Japanese must follow in works. by a Russian. warship which was ruising fifteen miles outside of Alex- | andria. CONSIDERS KOREA A BELLIGERENT SEOUL, March 16.—The Korean su- perintendent of trade at Kyongheung, ! on the 'Tumen River, has received a | note from the general in command at Viad ok,'saying that, since Korea lias joined Japan, Russia considers Ko- re 2 belligerent and will act ac- ngly. Two thousand Korean troops now at Seoul will be sent to the north next week. The Japanese have ascertained defi- nitely that a strong force of Russian field artillery is on the north bank of the Yalu River, and that earthworks have been thrown up. Advices from Chonju, a town northwest of Anju, say that the people are in a-State of panie. owing to the treatment of women and the seizing of grain by the Russians. The Emperor intends to leave his town palace and return to Kyunbok, his palace in the outskirts of the city. It was here that the Queen was assas- sinated in 1895 and from here that the 'Decisive Battle Will Be Fought on the Fron- tier Before the End of March. --The decisive land battle of the war will be fought in North- a’s main army has crossed the Yalu It is occupying an area having nd extending southward to the Pakchon River. their advance hments hxc T‘ccn threwn up at short intervals, and- the The strength of the Russians For a distance of fifty miles along the “Peking through “the wild northern Japanese must fight their I [ully one-third of this mumber are Cossack horsemen. | | | i and a forty-mile base Fortifications ‘are being is- variously ~estimated rat ! a_ proper .warning...undertake to.em- | ploy the United States y and navy | in expeditions into the interior of a which is the scene of war. If the missionaries remain they must take their chance: Commander Mason of the Cincinnati hotified the Navy Department to-day | that "he had taken the twe hree | American refugees té Chefu, China. s o - BRITISH GUSBOAT “TO BE WITHDRAWN FROM NEWCHWANG | LONDON, March 16.—In. the House of Commons this afternoon Earl Percy, Under Secretary ‘fcr Foreign Affal confirmed-the statement that the Brit- ish station gunboat Espiegle would-be withdrawn from Newchwang immedi- ately after the river is opened, as the vessel would be in considerable danger | An the event of hostilities, while her preésemce there would afford no effec- tive protection for either .ife or prop- | Rty et The Secretary went on to say that the United States and British Consuls had requestedythat the women and children leave Qewchwang, and doubt- less they would give sinilar advice to | pressed, VALUABLE DOCUMENTS ARE TAREY Orlgmal Draits of Laws of Salem Disappear. SALEM, Or., March 18.—The dai ery was made to-day that all the orig- nal drafts of the city ordinanc¢es enact- prior to 1893 have disappeared. Th. y criminal code, the gambliing ordi- and the water, gas, powen and railway franchiscs are among the lost documents and nothing but copies en- tered in the record bdok are now avail- able. | A grave question is raised as to | the ‘authority of the city government to ! control ‘and regulate affairs of the city under existing conditions. Gambling, " which® was recently sup- is expected to begin openiy unless the State authorities interfere The discovery of the loss of the papers created a great.sensation. e MRS. MURPHY IS NOT DAUGHTER OF A BARON Chicago Court Gives Decision in a Suit Contesting Inheritance Tax. CHICAGO, March 15.—The petition | of Mrs. Annfe Murphy to be declared | the lawful daughter of the late Baron von Glahn was denied to-day by Judge Carter. Mrs. Murphy was con- tending for a reduction of the inheri- S0P FARLEY 13 IS CHOICE Pope Selects New - York Prelate for Cardinal. | EEEEt be )2 ARCH The Call ROME, March 15.—The Pope to- day sig d his i of creating nother Cardinal a immedi- ely. He as ed Archbishop Farley of New York, who is a great favo of his Ho While much pressure has been brought to bear, espe of late in faver of Ardh- bishop Ir: . the Pope made the se- lection of Archbishop Farley person- ally. HEARST FORCES SUFFER DEFEAT BOSTON, Ma March 16.—Hearst men got but cold comfort at the meet- ing of the Democratic State Comm tee held in Boston to-day. At the first test vote they were d-cm\'ei) de- feated by the Olney boomers and only Y | by the most adroit political engineer- | Ing did they avert a direct contest on ing ehing a : ! the main issues. Stop your fighting, you nigger, or :':f‘i‘:r,: "{"1.‘ }:,L:};a,:;i”,f:'?,;":!;“;uEmr‘“mr fled to the Russian legation in | all American citizens and British sub- | tance tax, she having been bequn!bed‘} The vote came when John O'Gara Il blow your head off.” 2 “\“PI" & ;;;nr‘ -al Zilins 1896. His present residence is situated'| jects if circumstances rerndered it ad- | $10,000 by the Baron's estate. The | | of Spencer, the veteran leader of the From what can be learned from the Staff to Viceroy Alexicff, in a | B the midst of the foreign legations, so | visable, His Majesty’s Government had | case hinged on the question whether | Hearst forces from the western part of the witness District Griivg: ek that pvecs fline” had that his removal to Kyunbok doubtless | already addressed representations to |church records in Brooklyn, N. ¥., had | of the State, moved that the State con- will he more satisfactory anese Government. aird is of the opinion that | been found in the form of disc-shaped to the Jap- | the belligerents, requesting them 10 | been altered to show a marriage had | vention be compesed of one @ NOT ALLERING he was a corpse when the mob lied oil d feathers which on the remains when they' were | th the ¢ THE DEATH OF TWO MEN | tries believe be compelied America on a American recognition of P ma. The Brazil and | it of a revo- republic President | e and recognize paving the way Miners in Shasta County Set Off Their Blasts as Usaal, but Do Not Ascend. REDDING, March 16.—E. M. Twist, years old, and A. Nelson were in- stantly killed this afternoon by a blast in the Gladstone mine, near the town | of French Guich, in this county. The | rules of the Gladstone mine provide ted that President Zelaya | that each miner of the day shift shall agua has forwarded a check | light his blast just before going to the 90,000 to President Marroquin | Surface at 5:30 o'clock. The blasts are that country in | @ll then exploded before the night South American watch goes on at 7 o'clock. For some ia to assist coalition. nce was first discussed last|reason Twist and Nelson, who. were when it was urged that South | working alone in a crosscut, failed to American republics should belong to | leave the mine at 5:30 o'clock, although the United States while Peru was con- sidering the advisability of app to President Roosevelt to esusblixh a protectorate in Peru. }hey had prepared their blasts and lighted the fuse. Twist's parents live at Santa Cruz, and Nelson leaves a widow and several children in Sweden. | caused 2 stampede. Russians were expected to pa in or- der that the explosions resulting from the impact of the horses’ hoofs might LONDON, March 17.—The Daily Tele- graph’s Sebastopol correspondent says it semi-officially announced that Russia has abandoned the idea of send- ing her Baltic squadron to the Far East by way of Bering Straits as im- practicable. A Port Arthur dispatch says that Admiral Wittsooft has been appointed chief of Viceroy Alexieff's naval staff and has gone to Mukden. YINKOW, March 17.—It is authentic- ally reported that for a week past thers has been only a small and changeable garrison at Haichen, but a large force is maintained at the fortified and strat- egical town of Ashan Shan. where the Japanese concluded their advance in the war between China and Japan. TS R Stopped by a Russian Warship. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, March 16.— The British steamship Elswick Tower, from Barry, March 1, which arrived to-dav. renorts having been stopped CONVEYS A WARNING TO MISSIONARIES WASHINGTON, March States Minister Allen cabled from Seoul, under to-day’s date, that the Cincinnati arrived yesterday at Che- mulpo with twenty-three Americans from Chinnampo. The Minister an- nounced that the missionaries in the neighborhood of Pingyang had refused nd their women and children aboard the Cincinnati, where they could be taken to a place of safety. He also reported that the Marquis Ito was expected to arrive at Seoul to- morrow. Thz Marquis brings an auto- graph letter from the Japanese Em- peror to the King of Korea, and it is believed here that he will be an ad- viser to the King, and in that capac- ity will shape Korea's relations with the powers. The State Department has made it clear to the missionary representatives of this country;that in the case of actual war like this it cannot. after i 16.—United | | take the necessary steps ‘to safeguard SULTAN MUST KEEP PROMISE HE MADE TO THE POWERS| PARIS, March 17.—The Vienna cor- respondent of the Petit Parisien says that Count Goluchowski, th Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has authorized the publication of the following declaration, which he made officially to the French, British and Italian Embassadors: “The Austro-Russian entente on the subject of Macedonia is firmer than ever. A perfect understanding exists on the subject of the modus vivendi in Macedonia and of Turkey's application of the reforms proposed by the two pcwers and accepted by the Sultan. Russia and Austria are determined to use all their influence and even to re- sort to extreme measures to obtain the fulfillment of the Sultan’s promises. The rumors that Austria is mobilizing troops are wholly unfounded.” e ey ‘War News Continved on Page 5. been solemnized between Baron von validity of a later marriage contracted n Chicago by the Baron. —————— BADLY INJURED BY AN EXPLOSION OF SANTA CRUZ, March 16.—Al Pryor, | a well-known contractor of this place, was badly injured last night by an ex- plosion of powder, which tore off one| of his hands and lacerated his arm. His escape from death was miraculous. The accident occurred about five miles from Boulder Creek. Pryor went out after supper to set off a blast. The! fuse at first failed to work, and Pryor with a stick of dynamite in his hand approached the hole. He was in the act of brushing the dirt away when the | explosion ocgurred. —_——————— Chaplain Hale Prays for Pcace. WASHINGTON, invocation at the beginning of to-day's session in the Senate, Chapl: "1 Hale prayed “that there may be peace among the nations and that this na- tion may show the way.” DYNAMITE | March 16.—In his | each gro was struck by the second [torpedocs, six inches in diameter, | = at large from town, ecity and was struggling blindly when | which the Japanese intended to use in | comy & T = L the jutezeats of British subjects. Glahn and the mother of Mrs. Mur- | ward and one delegate gdditional to ed the witness referred to and | bestrewing. the road over which the | STATE DEPARTMENT phy. . The court’s decision upholds the | every fifteen Democratic votes cast for Governor at the last State election. This would make a total of 1700 dele- gates. The Hearst men wanted a large convention and a late date. ©O’Gara’s motion was voted down— 37 to 14. The basis of representation adopted was one delegate from each | city, town and ward and one for every { 200 votes or fraction thereof cast for Colonel Gaston last November. This makes a total of 1016. The date of the convention was set for April 21. The Hearst men wanted it at least two weeks. later. . The State will send four delegates at large and as many alter- | nates to St Louls and two delegates tand two alternates fram each Con- ! gressional district. - It can be pesitive- | Iy announced that all the delegates to St. Louis will be instructed to vote for | Richard Olney for President and that the unit rule will be adopted and en- forced. Nearly evety Democrat of promi- nence in the State is now supporting Olnéy and it is not believed that Hearst's new Boston paper, which is due April 5, will appear in seasom to turn the tide.