The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 25, 1904, Page 1

Forecast made cisco for thirty Saz Prancisco midnight, Marck 25: | Cioudy, umnsettled weather Fri- day probably showers; RETI T et San Pran- bhours ending and vicinity— | fresh TOKIO CLAIMS Calif of e-mm__'—-—no King I Grand ouwn-lanu—'lny of Orpheum—Vaudeville. Tivoli—"Mr. Pickwick.” Sweden.” of Detec- o + S\\ FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, MARCH 25 1904. FIVE CENTS PRICE P PORT ARTHUR HARBOR IS BLOCKED; ADMIRAL TOGO SENDS DETAILS OF THE ATTACK TEMPEST SWEENS 0V " CHICAGD Three Persons Perish Ruining Prairie Fire and Some Are Missmg. Scores of People Suif Injuries in Nearby Towns. er Falling Timbers of a Store Cause One Death Are Over- and Houses ences were blown down were burt in The number Harbor rh 4 ding PASSENGER TRAIN RUNS INTO PLOW IN THE SNOW Passenger. Engineer, Brakeman and Porter Are Hurt in Montana Disaster. FALLING OF OFF THE IN PROFITS BANK OF ENGLAND Dividend of 1! Per Cent. Which Has Just Been Declared. Is the Lowest in Seven Years. —The Bank of dend of 4% per This was rs that the been below 10 per cent The governor of the bank r the six months end- Te § rest” on and that that date was Naval Force for the Dominion. OUVER. B. C.. March 24.—A ce is provided for in the Do- appropriations this year. A of 2000 men will be raised at first, the nucleus of which is already to be found in the men empioyved on the cruisers in the Canadian fisheries protection service. One eruiser will be secured for the Atlantic and an- other for the Pacific Coast dividend the NEBRASK! TOWNS MAY BE DOONED 2\ R i Races Toward Homes. ‘Frightened Residents Run to Cyclone Cellars for Safety. Wind That Has Spread the Destroying Blaze (auses 2 Big Drop in the Temperature, Many per- e cellars. ched to the ch damage and barns A blaze es 7 de s in temperature. CRIME PRETS O HIS MIND Self-Confessed Bigamist Sur- renders Himself to the Sheriff of Marin County Epecia! Dispa SAN RAFAEL, March 24.—After five years of mental anguish due to having committed crime, James McKay sur- hirself the police here: McEay informed Sheriff W. P. Taylor h to The Call rendered to that he wi be sent to Lincoln, ., F plead gui to a < ff Ta com- and com- but ut for his Kay’s story is to the effect that married about six years ago He lived with his wife time and after | ng up his residence in Kansas There he became acquainted wther woman, al- separated from his the second wife soon after the wedding ceremony and *alifornia. The crime he com- Zast so preyed upon his concluded to surrender ng from latest advices, PREPARING TO OPERATE NEW STEAMSHIP LINE Harriman System Is Soliciting Busi- ness at Points Beyond Missouri for China Via Portland. PORTLAND, Or., March 24—The ican headquarters of the China A C rate its steamships in connection with those of the Portiand, and Asiatic Com- pany of the Harriman system, will be shed in Portland next month. Manager J. V. C. Comfort of hina Commercial Company has re- ed orders to that effect and will here an the return trip of the rip Lothian. Following the of the roads operating steamship t of Puget Sound, which is to business in the East when the is over with local carge ship- the Harriman system has sent to their Eastern offices beyond > Missouri and to the Union Pacific d Oregon Short Line soliciting busi- and informing them that this city shortiy have a ten-day schedule a fleet of eight carriers. —_————————— ITALIAN GUNS ROAR WELCOME TO WILLIAM nts, ith German Emperor Is Saluted by Vie- tor’s Mediterranena Fleet at Napl NAPLES, March 24 —Emperor Wil- liam arrived here t North German Lioyd steamship Koenig | Albert, escorted by the German cruiser Prinz Friederich Karl, and was saluted by the whole Italian Mediterranean fleet. The members of the German col- ony here met the Emperor at Capri. The first message received by Empe- ror William was a telegram from King Victor Emmanuel, bidding him wel- jcome and signing himself “your affec- tionate friend and loyal ailly.” ! An immense crowd of people wit- nessed the Emperor's arrival and cheered while the cannon boomed. The ladies - of Naples sent many beautiful floral decorations to the imperiai yacht | Hohenzollern, which the Emperor | boarded soon after his arrival here. rom fresh | rcial Company, which is to ope- | day on board the | — — l CHINESE BRIGANDS ATTACKING COSSACKS ON THE MANCHURIAN FRONTIER. Dispatch From Japan's Naval : Chief Indicate That Russia’s Five Battleships Are Again in Service. LONDON, March 25.—T he Daily Telegraph publishes a dispatch from its Tokio correspond- ent under yesterday's date, which says: “On the night of March 22 Sixteen battie-ships escorted seven merc the Japanese fleet renewed the attempt to bottle up Port Arthur. antmen to the mouth of the harbor and under cover of the bombardment the steamers ran in and were sunk in desired positions. Three thousand Japanese offi- cers and bluejackets volunteered for this duty. An official report is expected this evening.” TOGO’S OFFICIAL RE—I;OR'T OF BOMBARDMENT TOKIO, March 24.—Vice Admiral Togo's report of the fitth attack on Port Arthur, which was made on March 22, reached Tokio to-night and is as follows: “The combined fleet acted according to the plan arranged. - Two fotillas of destroyers were e Port Arthur, as instructed, from the night of the 21st to the morning of the 22d. during this time our destroyers were under fire of the enemy, they sustained no damage. fleet arrived off Port Arthur at 8 o'clock on the morning of the 22d. Although The main I dispatched a part of the fleet in the direction of Pigeon Bay and ordered the battle-ships Fuji and Yashima to make an indirect bombardment against the inner side of the port. During the bombardment the enemy’s ships grad- ually came out of the harbor and at the time when the indirect bombardment stopped, which was | about 2 o'clock, the number of Russian ships was five battle-ships, four cruisers and several destroy- €ers. We believe the enemy was trying by making a movement of their fleet to draw us, nearer to the forts. The enemy’s ships shelled us indirectly and many of their shots fell near the battle-ship Fuji, but our ships sustained no damage. At about 3 o'clock our vessels withdrew off the port.” The Tokio dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph, reporting that the Japanese had succeed- ed in closing the entrance to the harbor at Port Arthur, evidently was sent before the foregoing re- port from Admiral Togo was received. Inasmuch as the admiral makes no mention of having block- | LONDON, March 25 —The Daily Tele- graph’s circumstantial rgport from its | Tokio correspondent that the Japanese succeeded in bottling up Port Arthur on the night of March 22 is .not con- | firmed from any other quarter. The special dispatches to the other morning | { papers anneunce no new developments in the situation, but throw a few side- | lights on the operations. : The Standard’'s Tientsin correspond- | ent says that Viceroy Alexieff renewed | his demand for the withdrawal of all | Chinese officials and soldiers from Man-, | churia, on the ground that otherwise it | would be impossible to conduct the war | properly. | The Daily Mail's correspondents give | from Japanese sources some details of {tpe condition of Port Arthur, which were gathered during a recent visit of !a Chinese junk there. It is asserted i that a boom had been placed across the entrance to the roadstead, which was alive with mines, so defective and so carelessly laid as to equally endan- | ger both Russian and Japanese vessels. | I'rhe damaged Russian warships, these | reports say, were repaired with such | haste that it is dangerous for them to leave their anchorage. Eight battie- ships and cruisers and ten torpedo-boat destroyers are now uninjured and often leave the harbor, but never go far from | aded the channel, the London journal's report must be takenwithextreme reserve. The statement that sixteen battle-ships escorted the merchantmen which were sunkiat the harbor entrance is absurd, but the correspondent probably meant sixteen warships of all kinds. ALEXIEFF RENEWS DEMAND UPON CHINA cating the Russians, seemed to lead | them to imagine that Japan would sac- rifice anything rather than fight. The entire correspondence, according to the | the forts. Japanese naval officers praise | representative of the Times, shows that the quality of the Russian torpedo-boat destroyers, which, they confess, have done excellent work: but they declare that the Russian shells are badly fused and fail to explode, except when they strike direct upon armor, and that their charges of guncotton are insufficient to cause serious damages. The Daily Mail’s Shanhaikwan .cor- respcndent says that the Japanese are secretly engaging Chinese to act as ir- regular corps. . The correspondent of the Times at Shanghai sayg that United States Con- sul Davidson will start for his post at Antung next week, and that he has ar- ranged with the Japanese naval au- thorities to assist his vessel to reach its destination. The Tokic correspondent of the Times, commenting upon the white book re- cently issued, says that the signal con- cession in Japan’s last note during the negotiations with Russia, offering to recognize Manchuria as outside of Ja- pan’s political sphere, instead of pla- i l ! Russia was inventing frivolous pretexts | for delay, and that the Government in St. Petersburg subordinated itsalf to Viceroy .Alexieff throughout the nego- tiations. Russia Buys Wireless Telegraph. BERLIN, March 24.—Russia has purchased the Telefunken system of wireless telegraphy for use in connec- | tion with the transportation of troops across Lake Baikal. The apparatus already has been shipped. T T Kronstadt Will Soon Be Ice-Free. KRONSTADT, March 24.—A chan- nel is being cut through the ice so as to enable steamship communication with the shore. SULDIERN - RULE TWO COUNTIES — e Militia of Colorado Guard Against a Riot. ‘Strikers and Their Families Are Deported by the Troops. . Companies in Disturbed Districts Are Increased and State’s Entire Force Is Under Arms. R ORI TRINIDAD, Colo.,, March 24.—Mar- tial jJaw is In full force throughout Las Animas County. Detachments of | the militia were senmt to day. Charles Bent was a badly beaten by two Italians, who were | later arrested by the troops and brought to jail. Bent was Deputy Sheriff at Segundo prior to martial law. The following notice was issued by the local Miners’ Uni to the members of the United Mine Workers of America to-day: “The aration of martial law in this cou y by Major Hill of the Colo- rado al Guard makes it obliga- tory upon all law-abiding citizens to re- spect and obey the military authority in every particular. I therefore call | upon all the members of our union to see that no violatjons of this law are permitted within our ranks. DENYVER, March 24 —Military .law is in operation to-day in two Colo- rado counties—San Miguel and Las | Animas. are to the effect that present conditions | are peaceful. At Telluride, San Miguel County, press censorship is exercised and no news is sent out except such as is approved by the military authorities. No press censorship has yet been es- | tablished at Tri other towns in the coal fields. - A special train bearing troops left | Denver for Telluride this afternoon. | The entire force of 300 men will be un- der command of Adjutant General | Sherman M. Bell Governor Peabody said to-day that | he declared San Miguel County in a state of insurrection and rebellion be- | cause of the representations made to him by public officials and citizens of | towns, who declared that a body of | men were arming outside the county | to join with men within the count for the purpose of destroying prop- | erty and inflicting personal injuries on persons in Telluride. The messa to Governer Peabody is signed Mayor R. N. Rogers, several of the Aldermen, the City Attorney, a Deputy Sheriff, the County Attorney, two of the militia officers living in that vi- cinity and by many other citizens. | STRIKERS ARE DEPORTED. A dispatch received e sent Captain Bulkley W contained the news that twenty F' nders left that | place to-day. It is inferred from this fact that the deportation by the military. | President Charles ‘Western Federation at Ouray, where he is conferring the Telluride exiles. It is the plan of | the federation to send back to Telluride { now and then a few of the exiles and H. Moyer of of Miners is now | ascertain whether they will be allowed | to return to their homes under martial | law. If the men are driven out again they will abide their time yntil martial | 1aw is lifted. Then they will return un- | ger the protection of the injunction is- | sued by Judge Theron Stevens. | It was reported to-day that the West- | ern Federation of Miners had made a second appeal to President Roosevelt to send Federal troops to Colorado. The union men take the ground that Gov- ernor Peabody only put martial law in force in Telluride to prevent the in- | junction against the citizenry from be- coming operative. It is further stated that the Governor has prevented the deported men from enjoying their full rights as loval American citizens, and the call on the President for aid con- tends that Governor Peabody is vio- lating the provisions of the Federal constitution. Two previous requests for Federal troops have been made. one from the Govermor and one from the miners, and both were refused. ORDERS TO CAVALRY. | All companies of the National Guard that have not already been ordered out are under orders to be prepared to take the field at short notice. As yet only Troop A of Telluride is on duty at that | place, but it is unofficially announced | thdt the Meeker troop has been ordered | | to proceed to Telluride and that several ' | companies of infantry will also be sent | there. |~ Governor Peabody to-day issued or- ders to Adjatant General Bell to send 300 more soldiers to Telluride. | “The miners may return if they be- | have themselves,” said the Govermor. —_————————— Wreckage of the Lamorna Found. VICTORIA. B. C., March 24.—Copper airtight compartments from a British ship’s lifeboats, found among wreckage Reports from both districts | to-day from | | Telluride, which had been censored by | of strikers | and their families has been resumed | the ! with | DISGRACED - CASHIER 1S - ARRAIGNED — . Hays Enters a Plea - 0f Not Guilty to s Thet. Prisoner Is Sent Back to Jail, Being Unable to Give Bonds. Experts Whe Are Working on Books { of Bank Will Not Bs Able to Report for Another Week. — e——— RIVERSIDE, March -H. T. Hays of the charges aga mation alleges the n sums: Fiv usand dollars ber 10, 1902 n October 9, 1902 $50¢ tions guage on are pra on a arrested this afternoon by United Marshal H. Z. Osborne of Los Ang The specific charge is the embezzlement of $5000 from the Ora Growers’ National Bank on August 4, 1993. This will have the effect of tak- g the case into the Federal court Receiver J, W, Wilson, in charge of { the affairs of the defunct Orange Grow- ' National Bank. gave out the fol- ing statement this morning: “It will be impossible to gain any ex- act knowledge of the affairs of the Orange Growers’ National Bank until every detail of its business has been gone into. We are at work on the books now, and 1l be at least a week or ten days before we are finished. My re- port will be made to the Comptroller of the Currency at Washington, and I am not allowed to make anything pub- lic as to my findings. All statements so far published have been without basis of authoritat information, and are merely rumor. — ————— 10 ESTABLISH : WATER RIGHTS by | :Pmcwdinzs Involving the | Flow of Kern River Are |~ Commeneced at Bakersfield | BAKERSFIELD, March 24—An im- portant suit was filed in the Superior Court of this county to-day, wherein Miller & Lux, the Kern County Land Company and all the canal companies in the business of diverting water from Kern River make application for a permanent injunction against the Kern River Company, which is engaged in irstalling an extensive power plant for the purpose of furnishing Los Angeles and other cities in‘Southern California with electrical power. A number of | other appropriators of water from the | North Fork of Kern River are made defendants in the suit and the com- plaint asks to have their respective rights established. Meantime a tem- porary restraining order is requested until it shall be determined whether or not a permanent injunction shall be issued to restrain the Kern River Com- pany and other appropriators from damming the river and otherwise ob- structing and diverting the flow of the water. —_————————— COLOMBIA'S COMPLAINT A SUBJECT OF ATTACK | French Public Minister Speaks in the Case Against Panama Canal Company. PARIS, March 24—The case of the ! republic of Colombia against the Pan- ama Canal Company was resumed to- day. The Public Minister, correspond- ing in French’ procedure to am attor- mey general, submitted an opinion set- ting forth the complete non-receivabil- ity of Colombia’s complaint. both as against the company and the liquida- tors ¢f the old company. The court adjourned until April 1, when it is prob- abie that a decision will be rendered. —_——————— STREET CARS COLLIDE AND A WOMAN IS HURT Accident on a Line in Los Angeles | May Cause Wisconsin Resident’s Death. LOS ANGELES, March 24.—Two | cars on the Los Angeles Pacific Rail- | way crashed together in a head on | callision to-day at the junction of the The ice in the Neva | on the west coast, furnish further proof | Hollywood and Colegrove lines and as is expected to go out within a fort- | of the wreck of the Lamorna. A life- | a result Mrs. Maria A. Smith of Port- night. ‘War News Continued on Page 4. buoy and a tub were picked up by Ia- dians. on Barkley Sound. Both arye marked “Lamorna.” age, Wis., was probably fatally in- |jured and a number of other passem= igers were more or less bruised.