The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 13, 1904, Page 1

light showers; THEE WEATEER. Forecast made at San Fran- cisco for thirty hours enfiing midnight, April 13: San FPrancisco and vicinity— Cloudy Wednesday; continued oool; fresh southerly winds. A G. MCADIE, District Forecaster. probably i | | <+ To-Day. Orpheum—Vaudeville. Tivoli—"The Beggar Studemt.” SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. NAVAL BATTLE BEING FOUGHT OFF PORT ARTHUR; RUSSIAN AND JAPANESE FLEETS IN SEA COMBAT CHEFU, April 13.—A correspondent of the Associated Press at Tengchow, forty miles northwest of here, telegraphs as follows: Sounds of very heavy firing were heard at half-past 6 o’'clock this (Wednesday) morning. The firing evidently was being done between here and Port Arthur. Itis believed at Teng= chow that the long-expected sea fight among the Miaotao Islands has taken place. yesterday going west, and there is no doubt the remainder of the Japanese fleet was in the vicinity of Port Arthur. Arthur yesterday. The Japanese battle-ship Asahi, flying an admiral’s flag, was seen off Chefu The Russian fleet was aiso seen outside Port . 0N VENGE OF WAR IN ENEIUELA the Signal for Revolution. HARRIMAN FIND \lD RCASEER s L Causes Stir in St. Paul, | | 3 LANSDOWNE EGOTIATES | | | | | | { | tente With - Russia. Castro Accuses His Minister Takes a Hand in Railroad King Edward Plans Settle- to the United States af Conspiracy. —_— Suit as an Opponent of Plaintiffs. ment of All Quarrels Be- {ween the Nations. Charges That “El Mocho” Has Been Goverament Objects fo Proposed Inter- | Hopes to Repeat Success He Ackieved Plotting an Attack Upon the Caracas Government Epecial Dispateh to The Cal REAU, HOTEL BARTON ™ TON, April 12.—Behind the . ecall from Washington of Gen " (El Moch there is P th American intrigue o ¢ the Minister's pay . him return to Caracas : of 1t ation n Washir he it of cor- der ent Castre er The general v regarded as enemy by Presi- a other revolution ne) w Venezuela and Cc h taken Pres flicially though seven was un certain red that ed to to He de had been ¢ that it w of friend the of was assuran stro's interna- which berty iendship sed in wi I rey standard you f dis- he up to present not been an ally of the Consequently the you have time C ment, being its employe, and on < analysis you prove that you were lying wait for a moment tc hurl yourself against the restoration end its chief. As you say that the war in prepar is secret to ivalent to saying that in secret of the conspiracy and know conspirators, and, believing the propitious for obtaining advan- and realizing your dreams. you »served shence with the Gov- which you were serving.” The Minister's recall closely followed e —————— Old Friend of Lincoln Dies. ARYSVILLE, Ohio, April 12.— Albert Beecher of Cincinnati suddenly to-day of heart visiting his niece. Beech- close friend and confidential Abraham Lincoln and was from 1ilinois to the Nation- Conventior at nominated Linco £60, It he who in 1861 as- d in obtaining for Ulysses 8. Grant commission as captain in the Tili- nois volunteer ser: —————— Revepue Measure Denounced. MANILA, April 12.—Thousands of men emnloyed in cigar factories and in brewing establishments here united in a demonstration to-day against the proposed measures to secure internal revenue. Governor Wright was pres- ent and a protest against the proposed system of taxation was handed hig. this are or not you is vou oc- asion se while a delegate wi vention in the Northern Securi- ties Company Settlement. ST. PAUL, April 12—A great battie by corporation names are familiar United States United States Judges and Thayer legal throughout the is being waged in the District Court: before Sanborn, Hook the action being based on Vandeventer, a motion presented to the court by E. ', Harfiman @t 91 for ‘leave to file an intervening petition for the purpose of thowing why the Northern Securities Company's officials should not carry out a plan of distribution of the assets of the recently declared illegal North- | Securities Company in a manner ged to be inimical to the interests of Harriman and Pierce. The attorneys representing the plain- tiffs are W. D. Guthrie, R. S. Lovett, general counsel of the Southern Pacific Railroad; Judge J. M. Baldwin of Omaha and Maxwell Evarts of Ohio. The defendants are represented by Elihu Root, former Secretary of War; John G. Johnson of Philadelphia; Francis Lynde Stetson, counsel for J. P. Morgan & Co.; George Young, Frank B. Kellogg and C. A. Severance; also C. W. Bunn, general counsel for the Northern Pacificc and M. D. Grover, general counsel for the Great Northern. Besides this array of talent the United States Government was repre- sented by District Attorney C. C Houpt the intervention under the direction of United States Attorney General Knox. SURPRISE FOR HARRIMAN. This intervention was something of surprise to the petitioners, who were Evarts had a not aware of it until after opened the case for the plaintiffs, when Judge Sanborn asked him if he was aware that the United Sgates Govern- | ment objected to the intervening peti- tion. The court then directed Houpt to read the objection of Knox, which is as follows “I respectfully submit to the court that notice had been served upon me that Edward H. Harriman, Winslow S. Pierce and the Oregon Short Line Rail- road Company will apply to the Judges of this court for leave to intervene in| this case and to proceed and to be heard in respect of the final decree of this court, entered on April §, 1903, as affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States, and for such other or further or different orders or relief as to the court may deem fit. “The United States neither admits nor denies the alleghtions of the peti- | tion, but objects to the proposed inter- | cording to its terms. | that vention. The case was heard by this court on bill, answer and testimony, and a final decree was entered enjoin- ing the defendants as therein recited. Upon appeal by the defendants to the Supreme Court of the United States the decree of this court was affirmed in every particular, the effect of which to end and close the case. The United States stands on. the decree as affirmed and submits that the court concerned to see that it is faith- observed by the defendants ac- P. C. KNOX, “Attorney General.” CONTENTION OF COUNSEL. Evarts, in his statement, contended the Securities Company, in.its final distribution of the assets, intend- ed to take a course which would con- tinue the common control of the North- ern Pacific and Great Northern rail- ways to the detriment of the plaintift was and the rontinued violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Root contended that there was no warrant in the general rules of prac- tice, in the decrees of the courts or in the statutes for this intervention. He said the decree of this court was lim- ited to the simple command “Thou shalt not,” and nothing was expected but absolute obedience. The arguments of both Evarts and to J Continued on Page 5, Column 4. lawyers whose | who presented an objection to | in Arranging Colonial Treaty With France, | | | | Epecial Dispatch to The Cail | LONDON, April 12—With the sanc- tion and the support of King Edward, Lord Lansdowne has begun tions that contemplate an understand- |ing with Russia covering the great | political and territorial questions that | divide the British and Russian empires. | | The proposed agreément, according to}| its promoters in both | | the views of :vnunlrie!. would be as satisfactory as | ed and would open the way for prac- tical plans for limiting the militagy and naval burdens of Europe. Downing street has long desired an Anglo-Russian understand- ing. Lord Salisbury recognized the re- lations of Great Britain and Russia | contained elements of war and wanted [to work out an agreement, but the | statesmen of St. Petersburg did not seem to encourage the idea. They ap- peared to think that Great Britain was moved by of weakness and danger, and announced Russian pre- tensions that Lord Salisbury would not entertain. ALLIANCE WITH JAPAN. At the outset the British For: | fice, to strengthen Great Britain's posi- tion, concluded a war alliance with Japan; but Russia continued obdurate. Then Lansdowne declared—aiming the statement, as everybody knew, at Rus- sia—that Great Britain would resist by force of arms any nation that should seek a foothold on the Persian Guif. This also failed to influence Russia and the British Foreign Secretary, fol- lowing the lead and personal work of the King, proceeded to seek an Anglo- French rapprochement and still closer relations with Italy. The King and the Foreign Secretary together succeeded | in effecting a strong sentimental bond | between Britain, France and Italy, fortified bv a series of arbitration treaties and crowned by an arrange- ment for adjusting Anglo-French dis- putes throughout the world. Moreover, the King worked assidu- ously to win the good will of Germany and Austro-Hungary, thus bringing the triple alliance bodily over to the side of the vast body of political and moral force Great Britain had been organiz- ing for the purpose of increasing her influence with Russia in the cause of universal peace. RUSSIA MUST MAKE TERMS. King Edward and Lord Lansdowne feel that their work is almost ac- complished and that there is no chance that Russia can appeal successfully to any great nation to help her in evad- ing arrangements which circumscribe her ambitions. Hence the King and the Foreign Secretary believe that the time is ripe for a renewal of the at- tempt to conclude an Anglo-Russian entente that will allay the irritation between the two nations and arrest the tendencies that seem to be hurrying them to a catastrophe. Lord Lansdowne's methods in this { matter bring to mind his proposal with regard to the fiscal question, when he recommended Great Britain to provide herself with a revolver to compel other nations to reciprocate tariff favors. Apparently he thinks now that he has a diplomatic revolver that he can level at the head of Russia to induce a rea- sonable frame of mind on the part of that country. —_————————— Death of Explorer Heath. KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 12.—Ivon D. Heath. who gained note years ago through his explorations of South and Central America, died to-day at his home at Kansas City, Kans.. aged 67 years. He was a brother of Dr. Edwin R. Heath, also a well-known traveler landa explorer. earnestly a sense n Of- -~ WITH CAR Recall of ¢Hernaxndez The Attorney General Britain Seeks an En- | negotia- the Anglo-French treaty just conclud- | 8 I | | | POPES LIFE THREATENED IV LETTERS Pius X Is Made Ill Strain of Worry. PREPERP S SA Special Dispatch to The Call. by { ROME, April 12.—The Pope spent a bad night, and was so much agitated to-day that Dr. Lappcni, who had to be called to the Vatican, prescribed a soothing lotion. The Pope's illness i thought to be due to his long ceremony in St. Peter’s, where he had to fast un- til after 1 p. 1a. when he was celebrat- ing mass. : Some of the prelates of Vatican circles, however, say Pius X has been much affected of late by reported an- archistic plots against his life. As he allows no one to open his private cor- respondence, he has read within a few weeks several anonymous threatening his life. The reported plot of South American anarchists a few | days ago increased his anxiety, | though he tried to make little of | case and laughed about it with | prelates. g | Yesterday's congregation im | Peter’s noticed the Pontiff’s extrs | dinary paleness and his haggard | pearance, and many were the co | ments made about his health, In view of the rumored plots the Italian G- }ernmenl took extraordinary precau- | tions to protect the Rope's person;, and | swarms of detectives in civilian clothes |or in priestly garb were. stationed throughout the church during yester- day’s ceremony. . On the plaza, where thousands were clamoring for admission, the police ar- rested several persons thought to 7‘.- anarchists, who were too insistent /in their demands for admission. When the Pope was informed of the arrests, after returning to his apartments, he broke down. and it was then that the re- action set in after the strain’ of the last few days of anarc 5 —_—————— PRESIDENT AND DAUGHTER CARICATURED IN A FARCE Berlin Police Interfere and Prevent Introduction of Name of Ameri- can Executive. BERLIN, April 12.—Stage represen- tations of President Roosevelt and Miss Alice Roosevelt were introduced to a Berlin audience last night in a roaring farce entitled “A Mad Year” at the Metropole Theater. The Presi- dent was reproduced in a rough rider costume. Miss Alice, with a decided American twang, excited much amuse- ment, but the police interfered and prevented the use of the name Roose- velt. The maragement therefore sub- stituted the names of Mr. and Miss Washington. ———— INDIANS FIND WHEAT 3 IN THE CAPTURED FISH Discovery 1s Thought to Furnish Con- firmation of Reported Loss of s the Lamorna. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash.. April 12.—A somewhat unusual verification of the fear that the British ship La- morna was dashed to pieces on western rocky shores of Vancouver Island during the fierce gales of March ig presented in the fact that all the fish caught by the neighboring In- dians for food are found upon being opened to contain wheat. As the ves- sel was laden with that commodity and is supposed to have met her fate in the 1 most confident are losing hope. s letters | { v % DIVER HELD AT BOTION BY SUCTION Vain Efforts to Res- -~ cue Man From Reservoir. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, April 12.—All devices | known to engineers and submarine ex- perts the | { twenty-gne hours of submersion Hoar’s | have been employed to rescue Willlam J. Hoar, a diver who is pinned fast at the mouth of a four-foot sluice beneath seventy feet of water at le reservoir at Boonton, but after Jast signal on the life line was given | ‘and answered. Since shortly after noon to-day no sign has come from the man, and John Myers, another diver, who was one of Hoar’'s best friends, said when he emerged exhausted from depth at about 11 ¢'clock this morning that he did not believe there was more than a spark of life left in the prisoner then. Hoar may possibly be alive, but too weak to make signals. On this bare chance air pumps are working unceas- ingly and early to-morrow a fresh band of divers and gear will go from this city. The engineers will use some desperate means to shut off the cur- rent of water which is rushing through the four-foot pipe, which has the diver’s foot caught in the suction at its mouth. So powerful is this suction that a four- horse team hauling on a rope tied around the diver’s body was unable to stir him this morning: —_————— FOR REMOVAL OF EXECUTOR BRYAN ASKS Mrs. Bennett Alleges That Nebraskan Is Dissipating Estate’s Funds in Litigation. NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 12.— Counsel for Mrs. Grace Imogene Ben- nett appeared before Probate Judge Cleaveland to-day with a petition that | W. J. Bryan be removed as executor of the estate of the late Philo S. Ben- nett, the chief allegation being that he was dissipating the funds of the estate in his legal actions in attempting to cause the probating of the “sealed let- ter” as a parb of the will. The “sealed letter” gives Bryan $50,000. The court will set a date for a hearing. —_———————— VESSEL RUNS AGROUND AND THREE ARE LOST Tug Frank Canfield Is Sunk and Cap- | tain, Engineer and Helper | Are Drowned. MANISTEE, Mich., April 12.—The tug Frank Canfield, owned by the Can- field line, ‘ran aground at the outer bar at Point Sable and sank last night. Captain Henry Smith, Engineer Charles Kopfer and Helper William Justmann were lost. Charles Smith immediate locality, even theJand Gus Szuszitsky, mate and fireman, were saved by the use of the liferaft. A« 2Z LOZeBZon— PROMINENT OFFICE RUSSIAN L Firing of Bi Guns Is Con- tinuous. CHEFU, April 13.—The captdin of the steamship Lockshan, which arrived to-day from Newchwang, reports that he heard heavy firing between 5 and 7 c’clock this (Wednesday) morning in the direction of Port Arthur. The firing was continuouk, but no ships were vis- ible. From the direction of the sound he judged that there was fighting at the entrance to Port Arthur. The Lock- shan was. the last foreign merchant vessel to leave Newchwang, sailing at the same time as the British gunboat Espiegle, at 1 o'clock yesterday after- noon. Port Arthur is about sixty-five miles to the north from Tengchow. The Mia- otao islands are on a line between the two points and about twenty-five miles north of Tengchow. * Digpatcheés received from the Far East during the past five days have re- rorted both the Japanese fleet and the Russian Port Arthur fleet to be cruis- ing at sea in the vicinity of Port Ar- thur. Six Japanese warships were re- ported off Weihaiwei on April 9 and on the 10th inst. Japanese warships were seen on the horizon from Port Arthur. On April 10 the Russian warships at Port Arthur were reported to be pa- trolling actively and on the 1ith inst. eight Russian warships were reported to have been seen ten miles outside of Port Arthur. po XLy SR (R STRONG FORCE AT ANTUNG. Twenty Thousand Russians to Op- pose Advance of Japanese. SBEOUL, Korea, April 12.—Japanese advices from Northern Korea state that the Russians have strongly for- tified Chiutienchang, a walled town on the Manchurian side of the Yalu River, about ten miles north of An- tung. It is estimated that there are 20,000 Russians of all arms at Antung ready to oppose the Japanese cross- ing. Webb Hay, an American traveler, has returned here from a journey to Anju, thence to the American mines at Unsen and thence northeto the Yalu River. War News Continued on Page 3. g | HARP NOTE ~ FROM PORTE 10 POWERS Sultan Puts Limit Upon Balkan Reforms. ~—— | Special Cable to The Call and New York Her ald.” Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. | b v | CONSTANTINOPLE, April 12.—The gendarmerie detailed for the Macedo- nian reforms has entered upon a new phasz. At last one side of the gontro- | versy has taken a firm stand, apd this side is not that of the powers, more or | less united, but the Sublime Porte. It | will be remembered that at the begin- | g a demand was made for 260 com- | missioned and non-commissioned for- | eign officers to serve in the Macedonian | police, more or less under Hilma Pasha. | The Sultan acceded in principle to this | demand—unwisely, as many of his ad- | visers think—but curtailed the number of foreign officers considerably. The | Porte announced that Hilma Pasha could find employment for five officers, one from each of the interested pow- ers. : The Embassadors again returned to the charge. In a conciliatory spirit they demanded, not 260, but sixty for- eign officers, and, not to be outdone in the matter of concessions, the Sultan agreed to employ twenty-five. In ac- cepting this compromise’ the Embas- sadors, in a note which they sent in on March 30, stated that the twenty-five officers would proceed to Macedonia, #nd when it became apparent that more were required they would again approach his Imperial Majesty on the subject. This attitude on the part of Em- bassadors elicited from the palace the most prompt and spirited note that has come through the Sublime Porte in many a long day. It stated with quite Western frankness and without any Oriental verbiage whatsoever that the number of twenty-five represents the limit of endurance in the matter of the enrollment of foreign officers to serve a country of whose languages and customs and topography the offi- cers in question can but be and are absolutely ignorant. As a result, there is much rushing around and number- less strange rumors in circulation to explain the new and decidedly stiffer attitude of the Porte. 1 do not reproduce them, because I think the explanation is not far to seek. Macedonia is pacified. but it is not yet in an ideal state—far from it. There are at large a few bands of Bul- garian committeemen and a few Al- banians and about half the usual quota of local bandits. To-day the city is full of rumors. At one club you hear that the officers will leave for Salonica on the next steam- ship and in another that they will not leave at all. The Levantine tailors are rushing about with new uniforms which no one else has seen. ———— Parker Wins in New Jersey. CAMDEN, N. J., April 12.—Demo- cratic primaries were held to-night in the Third Congressional District to elect delegates to the State convention. Eighty delegates chosen are for Pare ker, fifty for Hearst.