The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 4, 1904, Page 1

TEE _WEATEER. Forecast msde st San Fran- cisco for thirty hours ending midnight, April 4: San Francisco and vicinity— Pair; warmer Monday; light porthwest wind. G. X. WILLSON, Local Forecaster. Steinway Hall—“Hamlet. Tivoli—“Mr. Pickwick.” SAN COUNTE TLAWS S CARRIED | CAPTORS FROM FIRE ~ OF WOMEN Lady Minto Narrowly Wives of Mormons Escapes Death Are Stolen by in Ottawa. Ban_(gts. Governor-General and His|Posses Chase Desperadoes and Prisoners Are Daughters Flee in Night Robes. Rescued. Portion of Ridesu Hall, the Official | Residence in Ontario, Destroyed by the Flames, Bars of Silver Worth Thousands of Dollars Foundgin a Cavern in the Mexican Mountains. e IR —_— OTTAWA. Ont., April 3.—The new Sipacial Dispatch to The Cail ‘:u;g of Rshoan Makl, the il reea | FL PASO, Texas, April 3. — Pros- e T T e | DECtors returning here from the Sierra ¥y fire to-day. Grea Madres of Mexico bring the story of her raid by the bandit Juan Colo- rado and his company of cut-throats outla wn upon the Mormon vi Feliy which upies a ed by ¥ d several three re the wives of a prom- olony ntains hours and a The t two to their Sierras. tack five upon the women, but ts escaped in the night ng the n behind in a cave ch ip a5 a dwelling been used as un- cavern re- which These thousand andoned pur- ering the inued the ns it related, is of great ex- aid of the outlaw band ise was occasioned hy Juan Colorado, Mormon villa, thrown into PREPARES state orted to have been killed Rurales. A his cap- afforded s almost overtake it GRAND JURY MILWAUKEE INDICTS SUPERVISORS Investigation Shows That Officials Were Involved in County Hos- 0 Al pital Scandal 'I MILWAUK April 3.—The indict- ments returned by the Grand Jury at ———— - ts fir session are directed BT. ¥ v Atte ! Supervisor Herr re E H I H of ‘Super- . f S vis Supervisor; - S A . J Louis R. Comg s tractor; J the United St Kreuter of Chicago; on f Supervisor; - Joseph Supervisor, and - ¥ stimony upon which the indict- Harrima s¢ [ were brought related to alleged tion of the acts in_congect th work on ha ¥ unty H The original es- ot 2 a he he of the building was Pacif : anc I hile the actual cost was $175,- ern sh . Shoul buildmg etill incomplete Harriman & K yre money will have to be ex- of his Nortk ¥ K 1 | pended ntrol t H —e—————— H n- GENERAL RODRIGUEZ . - Northers BOARDS GERMAN SHIP o E. 1.y 1s Rumored That Officer Has De- £ & " serted the Cause of the Morales. e e g Ly CAPE HAYTIEN, April 3.—A dis- - North-| patch received here from Monte Y oA | Cristi, Sasto Domingo, reports that ieneral Rodriguez, being without am- Mormon | CRITICS DRIVES NEARDEATH Postmaster General's - Friends Fear the End Nears, |Harsh Comment Endangers the Life of Cabinet Oificial. Permanent Retirement From Public Work Certain in Possible Event i i of His Recovery. | st SE T Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, April 3.—Postmaster General Henry C. Payne is desperately ill at the Arlington Hotel and his close | friends say it is exceedingly doubtful | if he will recover. They ascribe hi= present critical condition to the per- sonal attacks made on him in Congress during the past three weeks in connec- tion with the postoffice scandals. The Postmaster General's health has | n badly undermined by the long and | ng postal investigations, and he as in no shape to withstand the at- tacks occasioned by the publication of | [ be t the Bristow report. Newspaper criti- cism of his official conduct had caused him more gr less worry, but it was as nothing compared with the effect of | the assaults made upon him on the| floor of the House. lepresentative Burleson of Texas called him a criminal and Representa- tive Clayton of Georgia twice referred /to him as a “distinguished imbecile.” These and other personal epithets ap- | plied to the Postmaster General occa- sioned him great d s of mind. | Advices from the k room to-day | indicated that the Postinaster General is in a critical condition. His doctors | have abandoned the idea, for the time | being, of getting him South. | Few people here expect that General ! Payne -will ever resume his work in| | the Postoflice Department. Even should | | he recover his health, which is regard- led as exceedingly doubtful, it is not | thought that he will care to go back | to the department. It is well known that he is heartily sick of the whole business . and would have resigned | months ago if conditions would have permitted it | ikie RERAAPS S TS SR NATIONALISTS SPEAK AGAINST A TREATY; Ohio Organization Scores Proposed | Arbitration Arrangement Between America and Britain. CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 3.—The | Irish Nationalists of this city have | adopted strong resolutions protesting | against an arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britain. | The views of George Washington rel- | atiy the danger of alliances with foreign powers is cited and the opin- | ion is expressed that such a treaty | between, the United States‘and Great | Britain would be an undesirable con- | dition to the others of the European | powers and would tend to disrupt and destroy the friendly relations that now | exist between the United States and those countries, A copy of the protest will be sent | to Senators Foraker and Dick. | PR CHARGES FALSE, SATS CLEVELAND S Former President Makes| | Sharp Reply to the Al- | legation of Tom Watson [ " | RICHMOND, Va., April 3.—In scath- | ing terms former President Grover | Cleveland denies the charges made by | Tom E. Watson to the effect that he invited Fred Douglass, a negro, to a re- | ception and signed a bill providing for { anese a FRANCISCO. MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1904 PRICE FIVE CENTS. JAPANESE ARE WITHIN FORTY MILES OF YALU; RUSSIA BUYS SIX NEW CRUISERS IN EUROPE | Arsran INEARN TRY” | PROTFCTINVG- [ THE LINE OF COMITUHICA. | | | | i | 2 3 : -+ VICEROY OF INDIA, LEADER OF BRITISH EXPEDITION IN TIBET AND A SCENE IN THE MANCHURIAN WAR DISTRICT. | for Togo's Next Onslaught. PORT ARTHUR. April 3.—Prepara- | tions have been made to give the Jap- warm_reception in case they attemp# to bl the harbor Vice Admiral Tcgo was right in sur- mising that Vice Admiral respongible for the change in Russian naval tactics and the inspiration of again K | Russian seamen. ST. PETERSBURG, April 3.—A cor- respondent at Port Arthur telegraphed to-day as follows: “The Chinese prophesying new at- tempts to block the channel are at the present moment awed. All is quiet in port, and the- situation is unchanged throughcut the peninsula “Deposits of coal similar to that of Cardiff, Wales, have been found in the vicinity of Port Arthur., The discovery the necessity of obtaining an ample supply of fuel for the fleet. “Indignation prevalls here over the publication by the daily press of Hong- kong of untrue reports concerning Rus- sia and of victories by the Japanese, which excite the Chinese against Rus- sia. “During the -inspection made by Viceroy Alexieff, he visited the battery on Electric Cliff and presented to the commander an old bronze cross sent by a Moscow woman, who Tequested that it be erected on the most danger- ous part of the fortress.” ‘ NEWCHWANG, April 3. — Viceroy Alexieff passed through Talachao to- day. He is . reported to be returning from his visit to Port Arthur. VLADIVOSTOK, *Anril 3.—The com- Makaroff is | mandant has published an order In the mi sls while Governor of New | York. His letter is in reply to one ffom | Russian, Chinese and Korean languages | William E. Abernathy of Chase City. | to the effect that he will sink any ves- v It bears date of Princeton, March | sel attempting to enter the port at and reads as follows: night. “Will E. Abernathy, Esq.: Dear Sir— My attention has been several times called to the statements of Tom E. Watson to the effect that Fred Douglass was invited to my wedding reception and further that while Governor I sign- ed a bill providing for mixed schools. 1 have already written two or three letters denying these allegations and Ao not propose to spend any more time denying statements so absurd and | emnanating from so impossible o | source. 1 “Kach and every one of Mr. Watson’s charges (if they can be so called) as | they have been presented to me is false, are about as far from truth as | can be, and they were made, I | have no doubt, without the least rea- son to believe them to be true and cer- inly in a spirit of which even Mr. Watson ought to be ashamed. “Yours very truly, ! P Sl AMERICAN CONSUL OBTAINS RELEASE OF BRITISH CRAFT NEWCHWANG, April 3—The press boat Fawan, placed under arrest yester- day, was released to-day by order of General Kuropatkin’ The Fawan was detained because she had passed be- tween the lines, having come indirectly from Chemulpo. She was released on condition that she leave port.. Her re- lease was hrought about wholly by United States Consul H. B, Miller, who has the confidence of the Russian au-! thorities. The release of the Fawan immedi- ately, before the case was forced upon the cognizance of the British Consul, contributes to the amelioration of a el for th abandoned the town and - 1 on the German _steamer wher . g the p for St. The This news slon confirmed by the Dominican Consul These papers we . urday aft T J rumored that Generals Rodri- Ot - 1 Navarro, having abandoned sentative t Morales, are trying to start present gessior nt in favor of former Pres- Selnial Shint 8 W tio Vasquez. until May He the —_————— court of his intent sent EXPLOSION IN BANK We were als formed KILLS THREE PEOPLE vene involves a method to be followed | Defective Heating Plant Is Cause of n distributing the stock of the Nor a Disaster That Has Fatal thern Pacific d Great Northern he Results. by ye Northern Securities Compa v and means a further delay, perhap: MARSHALLTOWN, Ia% April 3.— mportant nature, in closing up the explosion in the Citizens’ Natioftal airs of the b « ank bullding at Albia to-day resulted Judge Baldwin refuses any three pe being killed and sev- than to in a|eral injure he dead 1t the object of the in- R. RAMSEY tervenors is to insure a return of the EDWARD DOUGHERTY. shares of the Northern Pacific delivered RICHARD GRIMF 10 the urities company and to pre- The explosion is supposed to have vent a ratable distributicn of the Great | been in the heating plant. Beside the North bank building a clothing store and two “The action,” said an attorney prom- | groceries were destroved by fire. inently conmected with the Securities R R N ST ympany to-night means that the | KILLS HIMSELF WHEN Harriman inte: are at last openly P aar i : attempting to block s dissolution of T P W the Securities company and to force | Catavaipras 3 their method upon President Hill * BAKERSFINLD, ApH 3Rt 5. It is undoubtedly the beginning of a ¢harp fight, which has every prospect of mixing affairs in an exceedingly un- fortunate way. The petition will filed to-morrow morning in the Circuit ourt and Judge Sanborn will un- doubtedly hasten proceedings, since it s the request and desire of all the va- ried interests. It is probable that the petition will be returnable within ten tays.” | Pierce, an employe of the Kern County Land Company, committed suicide in | this city at noon to-day. He had asked | a woman acquaintance to take a walk with him and when she refused he | whipped out a pistol and fired a bullet | through his brain without warning. | H2 was a single man about 35 years of age and leaves a brother. E. L. Pierce, at Signal, Arizona, and a sister, Mrs. William Hernie, in S8an Francisco. ROVER CLEVELAND.” g — i Will Remove Beet Sugar Plant. BINGHAMTON, N. Y. April 3.— The work of dismantling the Bing- hamton beet sugar factory, which is to be removed.to Blackfoot, Idaho, will be begun within a few days. The change is made because it has been difficult to persuade the farmers here to raise enough beets to success- | tully operate the plant. new situation which has arisen in'the past two days through the arrest and detention for some hours of a British conductor of the Chinese railway at a station on the west side of ‘the river, outside of the port limits. This incident, together with the detention of - the Fawan, has prolonged the stay of the British gunboat Espiegle, which is in- terpreted by some as a British recon- sideration of Russian jurisdiction over Newchwang as provided in the declara- tion of martial law. R | ‘gotiate @ Remark- able Treaty. et e Special Cable to The Call and New York Her ald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company SANTIAGO DE CHILE, April 3.—It ! now transpires that during the recent visit of Baron Fujishima, the eminent | Japanese statist, to South American capitals a ‘‘commercial compact” of | great political significance was ar- ranged between the governments of Tokio -and Chile, the exact letter of which yet remains a secret of the ad- | ministration here. Gradually, however, it has-leaked out that in'future inter- Lnational questions wherefSouth Ame: can interests are concerfied Japan may be expected to support Chile's claim in return for which pledge the San- | tiago Government will undertake to in- | duce the republic of Ecuador, instead of selling the Gallapagos arc] elago | to Germany or the United StWtes, to transfer the islands to Japan for use as |'a naval station, commanding ‘the Pa- cific entrance to the bay -of Panama and- the interoceanic canal. The Chileans regard the reported deal | as a great diplomatic, victory over the Washington Government, which would never perniit a formal transfer of the sovereignty of the ‘Gallapagos by Ecua- dor to Chile, thoygh the latter for a number of years has held an option on them under, mortgage to secure pay- ment for arms and ammunition sold by this republic ta: Ecuador by the late President Montt" For diplomatic rea- sons—to_ force .they Americans to show their hand—Chile uppn several occa- sions ‘encouraged Ecuagdor to offer the archipelago t6. Germany, when the United States' in ‘each case promptly raised an objection. It is not expected that _in the present instance, however, the Washington administration will in- terfere. CORRESPONDENT SEES THE FIRST TSITSIHR, Manchuria, Wednesday, March 23.— Your correspondent met here the first batch of Japanese prison- ers taken during the war, who are en route to Chita, where they will.be de- i tained. The vrisoners include a major of the:Japanese general staff, his wife and a maid and seven soldiers, who were captured’ in Korea by Cossacks. They were heavily guarded and ap- peared to be greatly depressed and sad at the prospect of long imprisonment. The major apparently was ignorant of foreign languages, but his wife spoke Russiah, claiming that she had learned it in school in Toklio, This statement, together with information given the correspondent, indicated that the pris- oners had been attached to the Japan- ese Secret Service, though the® woman denied that her husband had sketched the scene of prospective operations. § | to the exercise of a dominating voice, | is an extremely timely one, in view n(. Sell Warships to the Czar. | —_— | Special Cable ‘to The Call and New York I Herald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publshing |- -8T. PETERSBURG, April'$ On | | what ought to be considered reliable | information, it is stated here that | four -ships of the cruiser type built for. the Turkish Government by Ger France have been purchased by Rus- |sia at tHe price ‘of 40,000,000 rubles ($20,000,000), the terms being that all be delivered here within a shor |'period.’ It is asserted’ that Zinovieff, Embassador at Constantinople, made |'all arrangements concerning the first | four. This further signifies an intentional mark of the good will of Germany toward Russia. As soon as the Neva is clear of i the battleships. Souvaroff and Slava, in course of construction.at the Bal- ce the transport Kamchatka, at the new Admiralty yards, will be sent to Kron- stadt for .completion. The cruisers Zhemchug and Izumrud and the bat- tleships Sissoi ' Voliky and .fmperator Alexander 11 .are already there and are being prepared for commission. These ships will form 'part of -the fleet which is destined to reinforce Vice Admiral Makaroff's fleet next summer. An American house is going to sup- ply tinned provisions to the value of 1,125,000 rubles. Baron von Rosen reached here yes- terday. A special dispatch from Mukden is to the effect that Japanese have ar- rived there from Blagovestchensk and state that they were well treated. They léft several ill behind them. A correspondent at Yinkow says the opinion ‘prevails there that the Jap- anese will.not bofabard that place be- cause 99 per cent of the population is made up of Chinese, who are not at war with Japan, and because a shell from the Japanese ships would be sure to strike the residence of the United ‘States Consul, who is safe- guarding Japanese interests. -.The - same correspondent humor- ously describes the speculation among the British there as to whether the victorious Japanese, after defeating the sian army, will stop in China or go on to Irkutsk. b Fr by SR Russian Soldiers Superstitious. / PARIS, April 3.—A St. Petershurg correspondent of the Petit Parisien says that the Russian soldiers, who are naturally superstitious. have been deeply influenced by a widespread re- port that the Japanese possess mag- nétic stores capable of rendering their adversaries powerless. Officer: are endeavoring to restore confidence among the men, who ‘are convinced that they are fighting against sor- cerers. . | many and also two cruisers built by | tic . works; the battleships Borodino and - Orel, at the Franco-Russian works, and the cruisers Meleg and | correspondents | Rus- | ‘Port Arthur Prepares|Japan and Chile Ne-|Germany and France|Brown Army Is Near Russian Base on the Frontier, | | l e | | TOKIO, April 3.—The advance guard of the Japanese army in Northwestern Korea occupied the town of Sengcheng day afternoon without opposi- ngcheng is on the Peking road, eighteen west of Chongjun and about forty miles south of Wiju. I When the Japanese drove the Rus- ns out of Chongju last Mcnday the Russians withdrew in two columns, one going over the Koaksan road and the other over.the Peking fead.. The Jap- anese advance frem Chongju was made rapidly, It was expected that the Russians would resist advance, but they failed to do so, and now it is not probable that there will be any further opposition south of the Yalu River. Chongiju, because of its superior nat- {ural surroundings, the strongest place between Pingyang and Wiju. Be- | sides these natural advantages, 'there | is an old Korean fort there, which, had |'it been defended with spirit, would | have been hard to take. The Japanese | are gratified at the comparative ease | with which they drove the Russians | from this fort Russian patrols are reported to be | in the country east of the Peking road. but it is not probable tnat there is | any considerable force of Russians in | that section. The patrols are withdraw ing gradually to the northward, tow the Yalu It .is reported | tion miles is the Yalu is well broken up and in the fu- that the ice on | ture the river must he crossed either | in.junks or over pontoon bridges. LOOK UPON WAR U WITH MONGOLIANS : AS A CERTAINTY |" 8T. PETERSBURG, April 4—The | Russky Vidomosti's ecorrespondent at the front says that Russians liying in | Manchuria descredit the Peking Gov- | ernment’s ;observance of the declara- tion of neatrality. Every Siberian set- | tler and ev Russian soldier believes | there will bé war with China. The set- | tiers, who are bitter against the Chi- nese as well as the Japanese, say things must soon be settled once for all, else a few years hence new trou- | bles will arise. Regarding the declaration of martial law at Newchwang an official of the | Foréign Office is thus quoted by the | Novosti: “There is no question of Russia's right to declare Newchwang in a state of siege. This is purely an internal Russian -affair. We need no approval of our action in this matter, nor will we notice any protest if made, which is highly improbabile. Manchuria was declared to be the possible scene of war, and wherever our troops are we ! have the right to act as we think best. We have a garrison at Newchwang. and consequently can mx.e any steps there we think necessary.” War News Continued on Page 8,