The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 5, 1904, Page 1

B R midnight, April F VOLUME XCV MORMON FEAR FAITH Y PASSING AppealMoYoung Men at Utah Conference. ——— Tendency to Drilt Away From the Doctrine Causes Alarm. Latter Day Sfaints in Salt Iake City Discover the Results of the Smoot Case Controversy. — Special Diepatch to The Cal EALT LAKE dent appea Utah, April g Morm: 4.—An ar- keep king away , with it s there sentiles, ha younger eader- rs be- short Lake “stake” or The president Lake Stake the y-eight | years has Cannon, brother of the non, the “Morn man of great s ing old, and was of sy ounger element. His two o Charles W. Pen- | rose and Joseph E. Taylos e even ccordingly the ng the last two Lake “stake arts and placed a compara- the head of each of the new kes This afternoon presidents w cal and profess and to urge ai val. The greatest speech of Richard W. Brigham Young, a or of voluntee during the American Judge of Supreme Court of the Philippines ler m! y rule. He has not been garded hitherto as a pecia. m churchman ¥ declared his adherence to the principles of Mor. monism, he could understand the reason for some of the opposition, but had no sympathy with the attempts to of upon 7 to the church £ people to remain terest was in the foung, grandson each Ves war said t religious constitution. Sm speaking man, the youngest of the urged all of the mewer gen- 1 the footsteps of to break away to follow in and not MANY BRITISH KILLED BY THE OKPOTO TRIBE English Expedition in Nigeria Suf- fers Serious Reverse at the Hands of Natives. LONDON, April 4.—Meager details i here of heavy fighting in West Africa) and of stained by the punitive ex- against the Okpoto tribe, nber cut up a British patrol, killing two British officers and forty or fifty native troops. In the re- cent fighting the Okpotos fought their way inte the midst of the British square and killed or wounded many of the British. ———— Fare to Dawson Increased. VANCOUVER, B. C., April 4.—On Wednesday ger fare from Vancouver, Victoria and Puget Sound points to Dawson will be Nigeria & reverse s pedition s who in Dece advanced from $15 to $17, according to an announcement made by the White Pass and Yukon route. It is stated that it costs more to run stages now that the snow is melting from the trails. —_———— Lake Superior Mining Man Dies. CALUMET, Mich., April 4.—Cap- tain W. H. Mills, one of the best known mining men in the Lake Su- perior region, died to-day of cancer of the Stomach, aged 56 years. He was jdentified with iron and copper min- ing industries here and in Arizona. PR S — Democrats Elect Helena Mayor. HELENA, Mont., April 4.—At the city election to-day the Democrats elected D."D. Purcell Mayor and B. B. Grogan Police Magistrate and one Al- derman. The Reoublicans elected D. .B. Kirdendall City Treasurer and seven Aldermen. The fight was made on the Mayoralty on purely local is- sues. ———— Hurricane Strikes Montevideo. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, April 4,— A hurricane has caused considerable damage to property here. Several wvessels were driven ashore in the har- bor TEE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Fran- cisco for thirty hours ending €San Frauncisco and vicinity— Fair Tuesday; light ncrth wind, changing to westerly. District Forecaster. ipon a reorgan- | ) reactionary in | | these new to speak | Point grad- | next the through passen- | 5: G. McADIE, { SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FOEMAN OF HILL | | | IS ROCKEFELLER STANDARD | IN THE { OF A RAILROAD. OIL MAGNATE AND THE MAN BIG FIGHT WHICH HAS BEGUN IN THE COURTS FOR CONTROL HE 1§ SECRETLY SUPPORTING ' Oil Magnate Behind the Harriman : Interests in the Rail- road Battle. Special Dispatch to The Call. ST. PAUL, Minn., April 4.—John D. Rockefell wants the Northern Pa- cific Rallroad. He is the real power back of the suit filed in St. Paul Sat- urday by the Harriman interests. The suit is not a friendly one. It is a fight to a finish between Rockefeller and Hill. Rockefeller, who owns the Union Pacific, has tried to capture control of the Northern Pacific for many years. Thro he h h his' numerous strong agents carried on a bitter fight to this and two years ago very accomplished his purpose. Hill has | waged a fierce battle to hold the mas- ter hand in Northern Pacific matters. And now Rockefeller is playing his trump card, which if successful will | be the means of turning the road over | to him. It is in the form of an appeal |to the United States court by the | Harriman crowd, who are Rockefel- { ler's agents. This appeal, which was filed in St. Paul this morning, asks the court to compel the merger to return Northern | Pacific stock to the holders who ex- changed their shares for Northern Se- curities stock. Harriman objects to the pro rata distribution of mérger shares as proposed by Hill, who wants SOVEREIGN OF BRITAIN | PRAISES UNITED STATES | King Edward the Guest at Copen- hagen Cordially Receives the American Minister. COPENHAGEN, April 4.—In the | course of King Edward’s reception of | the diplomats to-day he was especially | cordial and:friendly in his attitude | toward United States Minister Swen- son. The King expressed the warm- | est admiration for President Roosevelt | and said he was glad the President’s influence had been thrown in the di- rection of the cultivation of friendly | relations between Great Britain and | the United States, and he added he be- lieved such relations worked toward | peace and prosperous intercourse be- tween the nations of the world. e ——— | VIGILANT WATCHDOG { PREVENTS JAIL BREAK Sheriff Is Awakened by Canine's Barks and Finds Two Prisoners Escaping. BELLEVILLE, 11, April 4.—Spot, | the watchdog at the St. Clair County jail, and the alertness of Sherifft G. W. Thompson prevented a jail delivery here early this morning. Thompson was awakened by the loud barking of the dog. Hurrying into the jail he surprised two of the women prisoners busily engaged in making a hole through the jail wall They had tunneled through the wall and were getting ready to rémove the last tier of bricks - - PO nearly | | to distribute’ Great Northern and Northern Pacific shares without re- spect to, whether the holders originally held one or the other. Notices of ac- | tion have been served upon the direc- tors and officers of the securities com- pany and others. | The story behind the action gives an | Interesting peep into the inner circles | of high finance, In which Hill and ‘Rork({e]]er have played a game of | diplomacy where the great wealth and }mp.un_\' of one was pitted against the | shrewdness and courage of the other. | At the time the Northern Securities |{Company was put into operation | Rockefeller ‘(through his agents, the Harrimans) owned about 35 per cent of Northern Pacific preferred stock and about 20 per cent of Northern Pacific common stock. This was turn- ed into the company, the preferred stock being converted into gold bonds and the common stock being ex- changed for preferred. Then Rocke- feller was given his entire holdings in | common stock, which amounted to 35 per cent, an absalute control of the Northern Pacific if he could have kept the same, but according to the mer- ger agreement this stock was turned into the pool in exchange for Northern Securities stock. pr-—-——-—— - % SMALL 'CHILD IS STUNG TO DEATH BY BEES Baby's Playful Antics With a Tree Swarm ““as a Fatal Irding. -+BALT LAKE, Utah, April 4. — Ray- mond Metcalf, a 2-year-old boy, was stung to death yesterday by bees. The child was playing in am orchard near the home of his father, Frank Metcalf, at Arcadia, Oregon. He came upon a swarm of bees that were migrating and had attached themselves to a limb of one of the trees. The child inno- cently patted the swarm with his hand. | Immediately the insects flew on him, stinging face and hands and even penetrating his clothing. The child was in frightful agony and lived only a short time. His father was formerly superintendent of the Utah State School for Deaf and Dumb and Blind at Ogden. —_——— RHEUMATISM ATTACKS PRESIDENT OF PERU Executive Is Ordered by Physicians to Go to Mineral Springs for His Health., LIMA, Peru, April 4.—Drs. Larre and Curletti have pronounced Presi- dent Candiamo to be seriously af- fected with acute rheumatism of the stomach and it will be necessary for him to go to Arequipa for two months to take the mineral waters there. Vice President Serapio Calderon has been summoned to take charge of the ad- ministration during the President’s absence, BROWY ME ADVANCE 10 YALU RIVER Russians Are Driven From the Soil of Korea. —_— Mikado's Forces Noew in - Complete Gontrol of the Hermit Kingdom, Renewed Bombardment of Port Arthur by Admiral Togo's Japanese Fleet Is heported, Special Cable to The Call and New York Her- ald. Copyrizht, 1004, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. CHIEF OF POLICE WILL BE OUSTED Resignation of the Head of the Los Angeles Department Is Demanded. Special Dispatch to The Call. HE metropolis of Southern California has a sensation in store and the enforced resignation of Chief of Police Elton will be the cause The Board of Police Commissioners, Snyder, has decided that the administration of the Chief is not condu- cive to the welfare of the community. of it. mitted to-day. acting with Mayor The resignation is to be sub- -+ - = LOS ANGELES, April 4—Chief of Police Charles Elton will tender his resignation to-morrow to the Board of Police Commissioners. It will be ac- cepted, and unless the present pro- gramme is ¢hanged former Sheriff W. A. Hammel will be elected to succedd him. The alternative given Elton is that he will be dismissed unless he resigns, and it is practically certain that he clared vacant. This will be the culmination of a long will quit rather than have his office de- | and bitter campaign, in which politics entered largely, but there have been other considerations. For weeks gam- bling has been run almost wide open here, and .this, with the antagonism en- gendered several months ago by the manner in which he dealt with the so- cial evil, arrayed a powerful faction of !lhe so-called purity element against Elton, and his enemies have left noth- | ing undone which would tend to dis- credit his administration. At a conference to-night, at which Mayor Snyder was present, it was de- cided’that Eltan must go, and his res- ignation will be the resuit. + . + LONDON, April 5.—The Daily Mail corresnondent at Chefu, cabling under date of April 4, says there was another bom- bardment of Port Arthur on April 3, but that there were no authentic details of the engage- ment available. = SHANGHAT, April 4.—Japanese scouts entered Wiju, Korea, at 11 o’clock this morning. The Russians apparently retreated beyond the Yalu River. LONDON, April 5.—The Daily Tele- graph in an editorial this morning says: “The most significant military news since the opening of the war has ar- rived. Pushing northward in the last few days with extreme rapidity and driving the Cossack squadrons before them, the Japanese have seized Wiju and Yongampho, at the mouth of the Yalu. “The main masses @f their ll.’r;ny 3 préssing up toward th _xfi e, there is no longer doubt that when a few more days have elapsed the Japa- nese will be in a position to make at any moment the most decisive moves of the whole struggle. They will be able to force the passage of the fron- tier river when they please and invade Manchuria. s “Then, and not until then, the real grapple of the ferces will begin in grim earnest, and people who are sighing for big war news may hear within the next two or three weeks of events big enough to satisfy the most avid appe- tite for sensation. “Japan, by the movement now re- ported, has compassed one of the most remarkable achievements in modern pelitical history. She has practically swept Russia clean out of the whole of Korea without anything that couid be called a blow. From the northern frontier, by the wide estuary of the Yalu to the straits, looking across to the island empire itself, 600 miles away, the Hermit Kingdom lIs in her hands from end to end.. Never has Nemesis marched more swiftly on the retreating track of fatal diplomacy. Within eight weeks from the opening of the war Russia has lost—and, in our conviction, irretrievably lost—the very object for which she made war.” According to the Mail's Kobe (Japan) correspondent, who telegraphs under date of April 4, a Pingyang dispatch has been received there confirming the report from Shanghal that Japanese scouts entered Wiju, Korea, on Monday morning and that the Russians ap- parently retreated —beyond the Yalu River, but no further news of any kind is at hand throwing light on either land or sea operations. Everything, how- ever, is regarded as pointing to the im- minence of important developments. The Mail's Seoul correspondent, tele- graphing on Monday, asserts that the landing of Japanese troops at Chenam- pho has now ceased, but that the port is guarded by a large fleet and the Japanese base has moved north from Pingyang, where only a few troops now remain. ARTILLERY MOVES SLOWLY_BECAUSE OF BAD ROADS CHEFU, April 5, 10 a. m.—The Nip- pon Yusen Kalsha has resumed its service between Korea and Northern China with foreign steamships. The first steamship has arrived from Chemulpo and from the passengers it was learned that the last contingent of Japan's first army landed in Korea on March 80. The army consists of 50,000 men, including coolie carriers. Japan has made Anju a frontal base 3~ and has bridged the Chengcheng and | board held that SHACKLES FOR A FA PRISONER Mrs. Watson Goes {0 Oregon Carefully Carded. Special Dispatch to The Call CHICAGO, April 4.—Strange circum- stances attended the removal from Chi- cago to-night of Mrs. Emma L. Wat- son, a remarkable woman under in- dictment in Oregon for alleged frauds in Government lands. Two revolvers and a light pair of shackles formed a part of the equipment of Deputy Mar- ‘shal Middleton, who had Mrs. Watson in custody, as the result of informa- tion received by secret service officials that powerful friends of the woman were plotting to attempt her rescue en route to Portland, Or. Mrs. Watson was chic in appearance, from an ex- pensively trimmed hat to the toes of her patent leather boots. A thick pur- ple veil concealed her features. She wore a tailor-made gown of rich blue material. Four diamond rings and nu- merous single gems gave an added ap- pearance of wealth to the fair prisoner. “I will tell' my story in Oregon, nct in Chicago,” she said. “These secret service officers may have told too much already for their own good.” Secret service officials were plainly in dread that Mrs. Waton would prove their claim that she is the “most slip- pery suspect ever caught.” —_———————— MAY REORGANIZE THE SHIPBUILDING COMPANY Receiver James Smith Makes An- nouncement on "Application to Court for Instructions. TRENTON, N. J, April 4—A plan for the reorganization of the United States Shipbuilding Company is to be made public next Monday by the re- ceiver, former Senator James Smith, when he will file a report in th€ United States court here. This was announced in court to-day when the application of the receiver for instructions as to how to act under an amended bill of the Mercantile Trust Company of New York was laid over untll Monday be- cause of the absence of Judge Andrew Kirkpatrick, who is familiar with all phases of the case. —_———————— BOSTON ELECTION BOARD JARS THE HFARST MEN In Nomination Papers Fraud Is Al- leged and Officials Will Not Allow Substitution. BOSTON, April 4—The Hearst boom in Boston received a body blow to-day when the eléction board threw out the nomination papers for delegates to the State Convention in eight wards as be- ing improperly signed. When the pa- pers were filed some fifty of the al- jeged signers promptly withdrew, as- serting that their names had been forged. The Hearst leaders hastened to substitute others, but the election | these are not the Pakcheng rivers and is ready to ad- signers of the original papers as re- vance by three roads to the Yalu |Quired by law. River. It will possibly be a month, how- ever, before a big battle will be fought, as the artillery moves slowly on ac- count of the poor horses and the bad management of the horses. Other- wise the organization of the Japanese forces is almost perfect. An immense quantity of supplies is going forward by coolie carriers. It was also learned from the pas- sengers that work has been resumed at the American mines at Unsan —— ‘War News Continucd on Page 3, ———————————— GERMAN ' MINISTER KILLS HIMSELF BY HANGING Clergyman Reaches Into Barrel for Vegetables and Goes Mad on Grasp- ing Body of Dead Rat. OSHKOSH, Wis., April 4—Rev. Carl E. Hintrager, of the German Methodist church, committed suicide by hanging himself while temporarily crazed by the shock received when he dipped into a barrel, supposed to contain only vegetables, and grasped the body of a dead rat LONG SERIES OF MURDERS AT ALMIRA Mysterious Slayer Claims Another Victim, SPOKANE, “Apri*4~~Wrapped in a sheet and buried only a foot below the earth’s surface, the body of E. E. Eng- lish was found about twenty miles from Almira, Wash., to-day, and an- other mysterious crime has been devel- oped which seems strangely connected with a serles of killings which have aroused that town in the last three years. No motive for the murder cf English is apparent. By a remarkable coincidence the finding of the body came upon the anniversary of the shooting of Charles Thennis near Al- mira one year ago. For the alleged killing Cyrus Victor has been convicted of murder and now awaits the action of the Supreme Court. It was to the brother of Cyrus Victor that E. E. English sold his ranch in 1901 and then mysteriously disappeared. English had never been heard from, and Frank Victor, who bought the ranch, said that when he last saw Eng- lish the latter was still upon the ranch. The body was found near some springs frequented by stockmen near the Vie- tor ranch. When English sold his ranch to Frank Victor, the consideration was $1000, Prosecuting Attorney Dye mak- ing out the sale papers. It was then reported that English intended return- ing to his old home in England. Sheriff Inkster says English was last seen alive upon his ranch. The Sheriff says he talked to a man who had offered English $2000 for his ranch, but was refused. This was a year before the sale was made to Frank Victor and before land had risen in value in that section. In December, 1902, Judge Lewis and his aged wife, who lived on a farm a few miles from Almira, were brutally beaten to death in their home. This crime was not discovered for several days. The motive presumably was rob- bery, as the house was thoroughly ran- sacked, vet when the oflicers reached the secne the small hoard of the aged couple was found untouched. Charles Thennis was shot to ‘death in his saloon at Govan, a short dis- tance from Almira, in April last. No motive for the crime was ever discov- ered, although there was talk that Thennis had expressed his opinions too freely about the murder of Judge Lewls, saying he could find the mur- derers. For this crime Cyrus Victor was convicted on circumstantial evi- dence. Last fall Mrs. Northrup was shot and killed in the same locality by James “Sanford. He was adjudged insane by to an asylum. ——— e Negroes Listen to Arguments. WASHINGTON, April 4.—A large number of negroes were present in the United States Supreme Court to listen to the arguments in the case affecting the constitutionality of the Virginia election law, which was designed to exclude negroes from voting. Wise occupied the greater part of the day and was followed by Willilam A. An- derson, Attorney General of the State of Virginia. 3 f —_——— New Honors for Cowherd. WASHINGTON, April 4.—Chair- man Griggs of the Democratic Con- gressional Committee has ordéred a meeting of the committee for Thurs- day night to discuss plans for the coming campaign. Griggs will resign the chairmanship, which probably will go to Cowherd of Missourl. a jury, but has never been committed | NURDERER STRUGGLES N A CABI Man in Female At- tire Takes ,Life of Rancher. ——— Fierce Battle With Myste- rious Intruder Intent on Robbery. | Attack at Night in Remote Portion of Mendocino County Startles the Authorities. UKIAH, April 4—Frank Drake, & rancher, was murdered at Hollow Tree last Friday night by an unknown per- son. Drake and an Italian named Pen- tarrti, who occupied the same cabin, were preparifig for bed when the door was forced open and a man wearing a woman’s clothes and a heavy black mask stepped inside, shutting the door behind him. : The intruder covered Pentarrti and commanded him to throw up his han@s. He then fired a shot over Drake’s head because Drake, who was sitting at a table, did not comply immediately. Drake grabbed the stranger and a struggle ensued, during which Pen- tarrti escaped and gave an alarm. Drake was found outside the cabin. He was baly wounded, but was con- scious. He had been shot three times in the abdomen and once in the thigh. He did not recognize his assailant. He died about an hour later. The object of the attack probably was robbery, as it was known that Drake had several hundred dollars which he carried on his person. Drake stated befere he died that the murderer took $265. ——— BOY'S COMRADES HANG HIM TO LIMB OF TREE Youth Sentenced to Death by Young Incorrigibles Is Cut Down in Nick of Time. HOUSTON, Texas, April 4 — A tragedy of a pecullar nature was al- most enacted on the big strawberry plantation south of this city to-day. Walter Pierce, aged 14, was accused by his companions of having stolen a basket of luncheon. The other berry- pickers organized a mock court, gave Pierce a trial, found him guilty and fixed his punishment at death. The sentence was that he should be im- mediately hanged. A rope was procured and the boy was overpowered and strung up to a tree. His cries early in the proceedings at- tracted attention and men arrived In time to cut him down, alive but un- conscious. John Gilmore and two others who were leaders in the attempted execution are under arrest. There is much in- dignation over the affair and all of the participants are to be vigorously prose- cuted, —————— ROOSEVELT LLADS ON INSTRUCTED DELEGATES Carefully Prepared Estimates Show That President ¥as Large Majority. NEW YORK, April 5.—The World this morning prints the following sum- mary of delegates so far chosen for the Republican National Convention at Chicago: Instructed for Roosevelt—Alaska 6, Alabama 8, Arizona 2, Delaware 6, Florida 10, Georgia 10, Illinois 6, Indi~ ana 8, Kansas 18, Louisiana 2, Minne- sota 18, issippi 20, Missouri 16, Ne- braska 6, New Mexico 6, New York 2, Ohio 4, Pennsylvania 16, South Caro- na 14, Texas 8, Virginia 24, Wisconsin 2—total 212. Uninstructed—Alabama 4, Georgia §, Indiana 6, Indian Territory 6, New York 6, Ohio 12, Minnesota 2, Missouri 2, Pennsylvania 12, West Virginia 12, Tennessee 2, Texas 4—total 76. —_—————————— STOCK SUFFERING IN EASTERN WASHINGTON L Rigorous Winter Finds Many Unpre- pared and There Is a Great Shortage of Hay. TACOMA, Avril 4—Herolc efforts to save stock are being made by Eastern Washington stock raisers. The un- usually long winter caught many of them unprepared, and a number of herds are suffering from lack-of food. Hay is short and two and a half feet of snow remains on the ground in ! many parts. Okanogan County es- pecially is suffering from shortage of hay and what little can be had is di- vided up among the stockmen. —_—————— President Hears Mechanies’ Plaint. WASHINGTON, April 4—M. A, Bewen and E. C. Ford, representatives of the mechanics employed at the Washington navy yard, were given a hearing to-day by President Roosevelt on the subject of wages of navy yard employes. Their purpose was to enlist his influence to secure the passage of a bill pending in Congress providing that mechanics employed in the gun factory be given wages equally as good as those paid skilled artisans employed in other branches of the Government service. The President promised teo give the matter consideration S - i