The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 19, 1904, Page 1

winds. THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Pran- cisco for thirty hours ending midnight, March 19: San Prancisco and viciuity— Cloudy Saturday; fresh westerly A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. g — T | I Pischer's— The Rounders.” 1-——&—-—- % \OLI"TF XCV—NO. 110 SOLDIERS SLAUGHTER | SAVAGEN Yaqui Band Repulsed Great Gushers Belch Water Rising inLake, by the Federal Many Killed and Wounded Whole Section Is Ablaze Hundreds Patrol Truckee! and the Remainder Captured. Indians Plan Surprise on Mexicans, but the Whites Have Only Few Injured, ana :lr»rclh of rees under Cap- VON BULOW REMAINS FIRM fhnnf-f'l]nr _‘Ifllllmilh His Position in Regard to Re- peal of Anti-Jesuit Law o BERLIN, March 18. — In 1 house of the Prussian I te Chaneelior von Bulow replied to criticiems of those objecting to the peal of the anti-Jesuit law and to the charges that his action in the matter - E in order to obtai the up- the Center party « ellor low warmily repudiated the as- hat his policy had been in- ed by the Center party. He be- he had plenty of supporters, but if he stood alome, he would not himself to be turned away from urse which he considered correct. The past subject votes of the Reichstag on this better reflected the opinfon of the German people than the present at- titude of the ational Liberals. Theré was no question of dependence upon the ter party, he said, but why not be accommodating to their Cathoiic fel- | Jow ritizens when it was possible to do | Jow so without injury to the interests of | the state or Protestant church? He had r intention of exceeding that limit, he of the anti-Jesuit law has | ¢ discussed question ever | since it was voted in the Bundesrath, | March 8. Doubts apparently prevailed | in the Bundesrath itself as to whether | that body was competent to act, since | the delegates of four States refrained from voting. | —_——— { Madame Humbert Is Silent. ! PARIS, March 18.—Madame The- | resa Humbert has notified the Parlia- mentary investigating committee, ap- pointed to inquire into the allegations | made by her against persons occupy- | ing high positions, that she preferred 1o maintain silence. Thus terminates the expectancy over her vague threats to expose many high officials. | years, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MARCH FIRE RAGES | BATNON OIL FIELDS Streams of Flame Skywar(_l. and Loss Will Be Tremendous. Practically No Effort Is Being Made by People to Subdue the Burzing Wells HOUSTON. roke out in Tex the Batson oil fie Hughes the stora ed, they ginating Honeymoon 1. The combined output was 80,000 barrels daily. A heavy has fallen’ during the day and s 527 4f steam to mingle with the bladk velume of smoke. Prac- tically no effort has been made to com- bat the flames, they being beyond the human agency. A heavy has settled over the coun- s to the west from the KAISER LANDS AT GIBRALTAR Accompanied by Governor White Germaii Emperor ays Visit to Famous Fort William on board and under convoy of the armored cruis- er Prinz Freiderich K ved here to-day. All on‘board are well. The British squadron stationed here saluted the Ger: n ship and General Sir George Stewart White, the Governor of Gibraltar, boarded the Koenig Albert and welcomed the Emperor. Later Em- peror William landed and lunched with Sir George W The ersed by the Emperor were lined with and bluejackets. He was ac- corded a most hearty reception This afternoon the Empergr, accom- panied by the Governor, visited the Mocrish castle and the galleries in the rocks. He expressed great satisfaction with all arrangements that had been made for his reception and commented on the seamanlike appearance of the bluejackets and the fine physique of the troops. While the Koenig Albert was pass- ing Sagres to-day Emperor William e. streets tra troops sent the following message by wire- less telegraph to King Carlos of Portu- gal: “Passing Cape St. Vincent, 1 send your Majesty” my respectful compli- ments.” ——— SAYS GERMANY PAYS TOO MUCH FOR ARMOR PLATE/ Herr Hue in Reichstag Compares | Prices Paid by His Country and the United States. BERLIN, March 18.—In the Reich- | | stag to-day Herr Hue (Socialist) reit- | erated an assertion which has been | much discussed in the press for several namely, that Germany pays the | Krupp Company too high for. armor | plate, compared with what the United | States pays. Herr Beumer, for the Ad- | miralty, replied that the German pric 1 REAR | ibbean squadron, TAHOE DAM MA} VELD Y TIME and a Disaster Is Feared. S River Ready to Give Warning. ST I People Shudd-r at Thought of a Break | Which Would Mean a Loss of Millions, - h to The Cail. , March 18.—From Tahoe e banks of the Truckee to-night with men that may come an- nal being strained to re- water ten feet in depth of 136 square »dy of an area i covering will m miles of the ductive land in well as in perty be de- rnia, as Nevada, n and ruin. will be a e vears si was built littie work has been done on it since that time, and for years it has been k wn that in the in the . The r first there would Lake This line fol. f a rise »ws the river town. The grades and the tracks washed away, and would be almost impossibie to have the road repaired in time summer traffic. In addition there are thousands of cords of wood in the river bed between here and Tahoe. This vould be swept away. Truckee, with factories and lumber mills, er most. The loss to that town ca estimated at this time. , with its one milllon dollar paper plant, 1ld suffer next. Located as it is be- tween tw steep mountains and right on the bed of the river, it would be wiped out of existence. Verdi, the naxt gy setunomgatitai s o great Reno proper, though on the ks of the river, is so high above the am that it thought but little H the damage would be t irreparable. suffer to some extent, damage would result e district, ever, in the Ime o idents would hav y their belongings to places of ety. Reno residents can be warned | hours before the flood reaches h could reac that place the ample time to TEXAS COURT BREARS PRIVATE TRUST AGREEMENT Orders Receiver ol Sugar Refinery to Operate Plant to Produce the Greatest Revenue. N, March 18.—Through a ng of the Texas State Court a com- petitor to the sugar trust has been established in this State. For many vears the large sugar refinery at Sugar- land, one of the largest in the South, has b operated in connection with the trust in that the owners Tn.con- eration of a large subsidy agreed to refine only the sugar grown upon their plantation. When the refinery went into the hands of the recefvers this pri- vate agreement was discovered, and as under the Texas law agreemen's with trusts are not tolerated this was declared abrogated and the receiver in- structed to operafe the refinery to pro- duce the greatest revenue. The result of the action of the court 5 that through negotiations with Cuban planters arrangements have a ready been made for the immediate importation of 17,000,000 pounds of raw | sugar and 1,000,000 pounds additional are expected to follow in due time. As | there is a paper factory in connection . with the mill, which produces & good quality of all grades of paper, it is said that the influence of this factory will also be feit by the paper trust. ——————— DMIRAL COGHLAN SOON TO BE RELIEVED Commander of Caribbean Fleet Will Go to Pensacola to Join in Target Practice, WASHINGTON, March 18.—Rear Ad- miral Coghlan, commanding the Car- shortly will be re- £ of the big Lake | creasing every that the mea- | way millions of dol- | e the dam | Tahoe | from its source to this | would be destroyed | it | to handle the ! Wadsworth would | but by the time | ton in Tavor of the German plates, vary, according to-the size and quality , lieved from service on the isthmus of of the plates, but, he added, the prices | Panama by Rear Admiral Sigsbee, of the plates for the new b(tuelhlpe commanding the South Atlantic squad- are considerably lower than the Amer- | ron. Admiral Sigsbee left Pensacola ican. | yesterday for Colon on his flagship, the Herr Beumer further explained that | Newark, accompanied by the cruisers the plates are differently made. The Detroit and Montgomery. American plates are more complicated.| The Olympia, which is Admiral it is more difficult to make joinings and ’ Coghlan's flagship, will soon start for they require much more costly work. | Pensacola, where she will join the ves- The American plates average 22 per sels of the North Atlantié fleet in tar- cent thicker than the Krupp plates, | get practice. It is probable that Rear which, upon the basis of the American | Admiral Coghlan will be succeeded in price, makes a difference of $103 75 per | command of the Caribbean squadron by Rear Admiral Theodore F. Jewell. 19, 1904. PRICF FIVE CENTS. JAPANESE PREPARING TO ASSAULT THE FORCES WEST OF PORT ARTHUR are carrying their supplies. | horses are poor.” = “Country Black as It Is Painted,” Says Loomis. | Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON. \I:n‘ h 18.—" Qanm* Domingo is just as black as it is painted,” | the verdict of Assistant Secretary | Loomis of-the State Department, who | returned to Washington on the United States ship Mayflower with Admiral Dewey to-day. While the Carib- bean Sea during last month Loomis visited many of the principal ports of | Santo Domingo, where the rn\‘nlulion} | is now raging. The Mayflower did not | go up to Santo Domingo City on ac- count of fighting there. Loomis will make a report to the | \‘Prqupnl about conditions in Santo \I'nmlnxo and he has some idea of ac- | tion which will tend to restore order in the black republic. He found affairs throughout the re- public in a state of most deplorable uncertainty on account of the revolu- | tion. The natural wealth of vegeta- tion on the island made chaos and dis- regard of law and order the more de- plorable. Loomis found W. F. Powell, United States Minister to Santo Do- mingo, apparently respected and rec- ognized by Morales’ Government, but it seems he was extremely tired of the great amount of work devolving upon him as a result of the revolution. He told Loomis that the house in which he formerly lived has been made a target for artillery fire until there are now. no less than a dozen | shells in its walls. Loomis was disinclined to say much about his visit, except that reports of disorder were not exaggerated. While this Government will do what it can toward bringing order out of revolution in Santo Domingo, it is not likely any radical action will be taken at this time. —_——e—————— DEATH BY STRANGLING FOR THIRTEEN MURDERERS Accomplices to Killing of Korean Queen Meet Death in Prison—High- waymen “!milarly Treated. SEOUL, March 18.—0On Wednesday, March 16, thirteen accomplices to the murder of the Queen in 1895 were ex- ecuted by strangling in the city pris- |is in on. Twenty-two highwaymen were similarly executed at the same time. —_—— Lively Session of the Deputies. PARIS, March 18.—The Chamber of Deputies to-day, after a boisterous session, unanimously adopted a prop- osition of the minority fixing a regu- lar day each week for hearing inter- pellations. This-was considered to be further evidence of the gradual weak- ening of the ministerial majority. The decision insures the hearing of the e R R - { T. PETERSBURG, March 18.—Viceroy Alexieff to-day cabled to the Czar from Mukden as follows: discovered the presence of the enemy’s infantry on the banks of the Cheng-Cheng River, about three miles from Anju. The enemy opened fire and killed one of our horses. “General Mishtchento reports that Pingyang is occupied by Japanese infantry with'some guns, and that Korean carts “Our patrols The enemy’s cavalry is not visible in large bodies, and only isolated horsemen are seen. Their = -+ | | | | | | | | ' | | | | ) | TZNERABLE ZOINZT 708 A7 ! SIAN MANCH : Jm.lxun" Y THE U ] | | 1 | ! | | | } i | | | | L T Cals SRS LIRRTE — RAILROAD BUILDINGS AT VLADIVOSTOK D WEAK POINT ON THE MANCHURIAN ROAD. ’ Slxteen Transports Guarded by Two Big Warships and Torpedo-Boat Destroyers Are at Kao Shan and Busy Taking on Troops. TOKIO, March 18.—The first as-|been followed by the that the Japanese Government has re- | come to disec ! leased the compan sault in force on the Russian line west of Port Arthur has practically | begun. The British fishing boat Seamew, arriving at Weihaiwei from Shaleithien Island, reports that six- teen transports are at Kaoshan, in the Miao group of islands, on which troops were embarking yesterday. Two warships of big build and several torpedo-boat destroyers were south- east of Kaoshan. It has been known for some time that the army was somewhere on the Maio Islands in force, but as Admiral Togo stopped all transportation between the | northerly group and this point no in- formation three weeks. The Seamew passed within four miles of the westerly end ot Kaoshan Istand and says there were several hundred small boats engaged in con- veying soldiers to the transports. The point of destination of this army division is in all probability west of Port Arthur. English army officers here say if an invasion were intended east of Port Arthur these soldiers would have been landed on some one of the Ellott Islands, where there 1s known to be a considerable force of Japanese. The departure of this di- viston now indicates an attack not later than Tuesday, which in all probabiijty can be-carried out successfully, as the jce has moved rapidly from the gulf of Lioatung in the last ten days, Boats | are coming in regularly now from Lan- chichang laden with lumber and they say the gulf is free of ice. The report by the seamen has excited great inter- est and it is mow confidently believed tkat the first real operation of the war is now under way. STEAMER AMERICA MARU RELEASED BY TOKIO GOVERNMENT The return from the East of William mmmmhml,Am general agent of the Toyo tions. ] » Kisen Kaisha Steamship Company, has has come from them in | announcement 's steamship Ame: ica Maru from its auxiliary cruiser ser- vice and the vessel is now being refit- ted in Nagasaki for passenger and freight traffic on the Pacific route. She | meet is expected to return to San Francisco | { early next month on the run scheduled | for the Hongkong Maru before she was | | BATTLESHIP MIKASA appropriated by the Mikado. This ex- | plains the mysterious mission of C. | Lacy Goodrich to the Orient. ese | Iy | ately after Agent Avery's return here Tmmedi- Thursday afternoon he started Good- rich off for Seattle to catch the next steamer for the Orient and accompa- nied the purser up the road as far as Sacramento to give him instructions regarding his trip. After Avery's re- turn to the Palace Hotel yesterday it was learned that Goodrich is to accom- | pany the America Maru back to this port. The America Maru was taken over by the Japanese Government early in February, just after she had entered the Japanese waters on one of her reg- ular trips, and was immediately over- hauled for service as a dispatch boat. In the event of the Japanese Govern- ment refusing to relinquish the three other vessels of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha Company, the latter, as already an- nounced, is prepared to secure new steamships on the Atlantic Coast. KOREAN EMPEROR GRANTS AUDIENCE TO MARQUIS ITO SEOUL, March 18.—Marquis Ito had a formal audience with the Emperor this afternoon in the council hall. The ceremonies were conducted in the pres- ence of the court. The Emperor was in his most affable mood. Tsutsuki, secretary of the Japanese Privy Council, who accompanied Mar» quis Ito to Korea, says that the visit of the Marquis was made purely in behalf of the Japanese Emperor to ex- press sympathy with Korea in the pres- ent troublous times, and, contrary to | i | I8 Ittical object Marquis Ito had not the political or war although his visit may which may develop later. Tsutsuki admitted that Japan expeet- ed a prolenged war, but Japan had to Russian aggression. and it was better to do so now than later. Marquis Ito will have several audi- ences with the Emperor. situations consequences IS REPORTED TO BE SERIOUSLY DAMAGED PORT ARTHUR, March 18.—Accord- ing to information received from Rus- sians at Shanghal. during the fighting 4t Port Arthur on February 10 ard February 11 the battleship Mikasa was struck by ten projectiles and serious- ly damaged. Two leane'e battie- ships and two cruisers have been dock- | ed for repairs at Nagasaki and Sase- bo, and 2000 wounded men are said to be in the Japanese hospitals. All the Russian sick and wounded at Port Arthur are making good prog- ress toward recovery. CONFIRMS REPORT THAT JAPANESE ARE . BUILDING RAILROAD BERLIN, March 18. —The corre- spondent of the Lokal Anzeiger at Seoul, Korea, in a dispatch dated March 17, confirms the previous ports that about 5000 Japanese en- gineers are engaged in building the field railroad from Seoul northward, and says the railroad from Fusan to Seoul will not be completed before Oc- tober. The correspondent aiso confirms the reports that the Russian Horse artil- lery has withdrawn to the north bank of the Yalu, and says part of the cav- alry has also been withdrawn. leaving only a weak post at Syon-Chyon, south of Wiju. re- P S the general impression, it had no po- ‘War_ News Continued on Page 3,