The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 16, 1904, Page 1

Partly cloudy. west wind. Forecast made at San Fran- San Francisco and vicinity— with occasional light showers Saturday; fresh G. X WILLSON, Local Forecaster. —_— TEE WEATHER. THE Central—"In the Hands of the ” Enemy.’ Chutes—Vaudeville. Columbia — “Mam’selle Napo- leon.” VOLUME XCV—NO. 138. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. AUSSIANS SURPAISE AND DEFEAT JAPANESE ARMY LANDED WEST OF THE YALU: THREE-HOUR BOMBARDMENT OF PORT ARTHUR BY THE SHIPS OF TOGD' FLEET LONDON, April 16.---The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Standard sends a rumor to the effect that Vice Ad- miral Togo’s fleet covered a Japanese landing of troops to the westward of the Yalu River. : : Russian troops, which were lying concealed, suddenly attacked them, driving them back to the ships with in men and guns. landed the S heavy losses ENDS LIFE AT CLOSE A\l | OF FIGHT THE TURRET! ~ BLOWN FROY MOODY BILL - GIVES RISE 0 DEBATE Officers of Hanford Master of Ocean Tug Secretary of Navy in Have Duel With Threals 0 Shoot Prevent Warship Missouri Makes|Opposition Develops and| Immediate Capture of Culprit. S Armed Citizens Gather and a Vigorous Chase Is Made in the Country A round Hanford. cers and commn fused and he dropped prostrate mar which the officer them; but after v they closed | he had shot SHOOTING When the in the leg, t broken. The off beer with sel agh OF FUGIK armed volver, for which He had last ecided he was Fahey, one of t pes from Folsom As soon as the ( a ahey feet inches, and f that heights The also correspond with 1 man; he has the left side of the head, exactly has the dark brown hair, but curly; there are scars on the back of his hand, where warts might have been, as the description of Fahey says he had warts on one ha This man was about 30 years old and would weigh | about 165 pounds, while Fahey is said $o weigh but 145; but he might have fncreased in weight. He has a gcar from & gunshot wound on the left Beg just below the knee. also Tells of Naval Disaster. —_—— a Desperate Dash for the Shore. Small Craft Nearly Run Down by Big Fighting Vessel While Flames Imperiled Her Escape. ACOLA, Fla., an ocean April 15.—The tug gives the best yet of the explosion in 1 turret of the battleship which occurred Tuesday, kill- men. The tug was 100 the Missouri when n occurred, and the master hing the firing when he wo ds distant from explc saw ot through the top “or two or three minutes n there was a thud, , wh ker and by flames, which turret and leaped air. Just before the fla s h® saw a t up through the the starboard side er of the Missouri. when she € d and started toward st at I speed, signaling the tug w ¥ p went at full speed ne les toward the to the Texas, ne or two other vessels, h were following close. was aln run down by latter continued at the smoke pouring to within 100 yards battleship was The tug was and Captain on the bridge, to his men ere playing on the before the ship r e tugboat men saw Cap- turn from his work of ting the fighting of the fire and serve the sh He immediately e orders d the big ship came to to the beach that the he tugboat and other ships was ashore. of the thirty-two bodies The es could t structio though sk Tk The were shipped to their respective homes | to-night. Twelve went out to-day at noon and the train carrying the bodies was decorated from end to end in mourning. —_——— SCHWAB WILL INVEST MONEY AT TONOPAH Steel Magnate Has Organized a Syn- dicate and Will Spend Millions. PITTSBURG, April 15.—Charles M. Schwab, Joseph E. Schwab, Dr. M. House, Pittsburg, have gone to Tono- pah, Nev., to inspect wining claims with a view to investing millions of lars in development. Among those interested with Mr. Schwab are C. Hall, president; W. E. rey, Richard R. Brown and various ials of the United States Steel Cor- po ion, They have incorporated the following mining ‘companies: Bob Tail, Golden Anchor, Denver Group, Tonopah Extension and Red Rock. A noted mining engineer is accompany- ing the party. Schwab’s syndicate has invested $1,000,000 in the Tonopah 1 and expects to put considerable more money into the enterprise. —_——— Train Reaches Snow-Bound City. LEWISTOWN, Mont., April 15— The first freight train into Lewistown in four months arrived here to-day. Never, perhaps, in the history of rail- roading has a city been shut in so long. A passenger train got through two weeks ago, but the snowplofs could not get freight trains through ihe drift at the time. Cc the tug started his | - Favor of Advisory | Board. | Measure May Not Pass This Session. Proponents Argue That Chief of the Service Should Have Expert ‘ Military Advice. WASHINGTON, April 15.—Secretary Moody's recommendation that Congress make the General Board of the Navy a & statutory body to render him military advice has caused considerable stir in naval circles. Obinions differ as to what Congress will do with the bill. It is considered doubtful that it will be passed at this session. The atti- tude of Senatcr Hale is much specu- iated upon. He | that he was opposed to the creation of a general staff. P Secretary Moody's suggestion has found favor with most or the bureau chiefs in the Navy Department. Hith- erto the officers have been looked upon as opposed to the creation of a gen- | eral staff because they feared it would interfere with the administration of their bureaus. Rear Admiral Rae, chief of the Bu- reau of Steam Engineering, said to’The Call correspondent: ‘““The bill recom- mended by the Secretary seems to pos- s no objectionable points and widely supplements the present organ- | ization without changing it. He is | given a course of deliberate military | advice which he should have.” Rear Admiral Manney, chief of the Bureau of Equipment, said: *“The Sec- retary should have a boara of military advisers. Such a board is much supe- rior to advice from one man, because it can give entire attention to mili- tary questions and thoroughly consider them before rendering an opinion.” Admiral Dewey and Rear Admiral | Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Naviga- tion, will soon give the House Naval Committee their views on the subject. —_——— BRYAN WILL CONTEST | PETITION . FOR REMOVAL “ Nebraskan Wants to Continue as Executor of the Bennett Will. NEW HAVEN, April 15.—Probate | Judge Cleaveland announced to-day | that his decision on the application for the removal of William J. Bryan as executor of the will of Philo S. Ben- nett will be rendered to-morrow. A demurrer to the amended complaint for Mr. Bryan's removal was filed by counsel for Bryan to-day. In the de- inurrer it is asserted that the applica- tion of the widow, Mrs. Bennett, does not specify any acts of neglect on the part of Bryan to perform his duties as executor and that no reasons are given for granting the relief asked for. NEW YORK BANKERS BUY B. AND O. BONDS | Part of Ten Million Purchase Will | Be Used to Pay Off Second Mortgages. NEW YORK, April 15.—Speyer & Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. have pur- chased ten million of Baltimore and Ohio two-year 4% per cent notes. Of this amount $2,500,000 will be used to pay off the second mortgage 4 per cent bonds of the Staten Island Rapid Transit Company due July 1 and the balance will be applied to new equip- ment and various improvements. - CRarH e Requisition for a Negro. TOPEKA, April 15. — Governor Bailey to-day issued .a requisition on the California Governor for Joe God- ley, a negro accused of the murder of Policeman Hinkle on Christmas eve, in 1892. Another negro, a brother of Godley, was lynched at the time for the murder of which Joe Godlev is now accused. I has not denied reports | it | . When 12,000 men had been v+ e THIERIAL 71, — 5 Ysa - Naval Guns Hurl Projectile at the Fortifications. S| i promontory, firing 185 projectiles. fire. on them. until 1 o'clock in the afternoon. e ST. PETERSBURG, April 15.—A telegram from Admiral Alexi- | eff at Port Arthur to the Emperor says that from 9:15 o'clock this | morning until midday the Japanese fleet, in two divisions, bom- | barded the fortresses and the town alternately from the Liaoshan the battleship Pobieda, replied from the anchorage with a plunging The batteries also participated. The losses on land were seven | Chinese killed and five soldiers and three Chinese wounded. The Russian warships sustained no damage and there was no loss of life LONDON, April 16.—The Times this morning prints a dispatch from its correspondent at sea off the coast of Korea. The dispatch is dated yesterday and in it the correspondent says he believes the entrance to Port Arthur is now sealed u. PORT ARTHUR, April 15.—~A bombardment by the Japanese commenced at 6 o'clock this morning and continued at intervals The Russian squadron, including It was without result. ST. PETERSBURG, April 16.—That Vice Admiral Togo has not given up hope of further damaging the Russian ships, now that there is little possibil- ity of their again going to sea, is shown by his bombardment of Port Arthur yesterday. Unquestionably Togo is aware of the effect of his previous bombardment, and the fact that he has repeated it indicates to the officers here that he believes there is a good chance of a projectile hitting a target. In or- der to drop a shell into the harbor or city a high angle fire is necessary. This is the reason the Japanese squadron took up a position at Liaoshen. Other bombardments were from the same point, which at the time did not seem to be within the range of the Russian batteries. It is not known whether the new guns which have been installed at Port -Arthur command. this point, but it ig certain that Togo's ships escaped without material damage. The aban- donment of Vice Admiral Makaroff's policy of taking the fleet to the outer roads to return the Japanese fire is shown in the report of Viceroy Alexieff that his ships fired over the hills. Information which has slowly reach- «d St. Petersburg has modified the opinion at first prevailing concerning the original cause of the destruction of the Petropavlovsk. There is grad- ually developing a disposition to ad- mit the possibility that, arter all, Jap- | anese torpedo-boats may have dropped | mines at the entrance to Port Arthur | harbor. Grand Duke Viadimir, after giving the details of a telegram-from Grand Duke Boris relating to the escape of | Grand Duke Cyril, said yesterday: ““Here we all believe that the catas- trophe to the Petropaviovsk was caus- ed by a Japanese submarine vessel. It must have been a submarine that dis- charged a torpedo, which, striking the battleship near the engine-room. caus- ed an explosion of the botlers. We knew | that the Japanese had two submarine vessels, but we could not imagine that | they would be mad enough to send such little boats so far from the fleet, or that they would even risk them at| the entrance of Port Arthur harbor. The submarine which effected the de- struction of the battleship must cer- tainly have sunk.” Asked whether any,other theory was possible, the Grand Duke ;eplled + “The _Continued on Page 2, Column 5. — vate | private houses are situated. | escaped | great excitement, tumbling over each ! VIEWS OF THE IMPERIAL PALACE IN SEOUL, WHICH HAS BEEN DE- STROYED BY FIRE. ] i | 3 FireRazesKo- rean Ruler’s Palace. | A S D Special Dispatch to The Call. SEOUL, April 15.—Fire broke out last night at the back ¢: the imperial pri- apartments ip the palace com- the where se"erali The im- perial family, headed by the Emperor, Yi-Hyeung, fled great haste “and | with some difficulty to m‘:‘; | pcund, near vexil, in American legation. The flames spread rapidly and in a short time were beyond control. For- | tunately for the city, the wind, though brisk, blew from the northeast and the flames were carried inisde the palace grounds. This saved the British lega- tion and the English church and or- phanage. In a short time the various buildings in the compound were destroyed. The | rooms of European construction, in which the Emperor usually held audi- ences, shared the same fate. Unfor- tunately, Korean etiquette kept the gates locked and the fire brigades were not admitted. A magnificent spectacle was present- ed when Central Hall, the large na- tive structure built at a cost of 500,000 yen ($250,000), caight fire. The flames threatened the foreign palace and were kept in check only by the British lega- tion guard, whieh effected an entrance through the outer wall and saved the customs buildings and probably pre- vented the loss of the American lega- tion. Japanese, French and Italian sol- diers forced an entrance into the com- pound and tore down burning houses and sheds, thus preventing a spread of the fire. A half hour after the fire broke out the roof of Audience Hall fell in with | a’ great crash. The roof of another large building fell in at about the same time and prevented the flames being carried by the wind to the newly erect- ed electric building, where a large quantity of oil was stored. Crowds of Korean soldiers ran about within the ccmpound, in a state of other in their hurry, but doing nothing | practical. It is believed that the destruction of the palace was the work of the rebel- lious element. LONDON, April 16.—Reports from Seoul say that all the imperial archives, treasures and jewels were destroyed. According to' the Daily Chronicle's Seoul correspondent the fire may have been incendiary, although it is said to have been due to the upsetting of a brazier-by a servant. The fact that the palace. buildings oo < WEST GAIZZ— ~ i o Series of En- counters on the Yalu. LONDON, April 16.—The Times core respondent at sea off the coast of Ko~ rea, under yesterday's date, gives the following story of recent skirmishes on the Yalu River: “On April 3 a Japanese cruiser sent to reconnoitér the mouth of the Yalu found the enemy holding both banks of the river. Reconnoitering by steam launch was abandoned, and last Sun- day Lieutenant Kyaguchi, with five | men disgulsed as Korean fishermen in a native junk, surprised a Russian pest at a village on the left bank. The Rus- ians retired without resistance. ‘A quarter of an hour later two squadrons of Japanese cavalry from Chongju ar- rived and destroyed the Russian post. “Lieutenant Kyvaguchi then deter- mined to reconnoiter the left bank of the river near Antung, and met in mid- stream a junk engaged in ‘a similar re- connaissance for the Russians. The junk drew off and stranded on a small bank. One of the Russians was killed and the rest took to the water. The Japanese continued to fire, when the Russians threw away their rifles and were obliged to wade neck deep in or- der to reach the mainland. “Meantime a second Russian junk with seventeen men landed on the sand bank and tried to rescue the stranded boat, but they were forced to abandon the effort, and with difficulty escaped: “The Japanese are still busy at Che- nampho landing a quantity of bridging material and other necessaries for a determined advance through the diffi- cult country. - JAPAN RELAXE SECRECY. Correspondents Permitted te Proceed to Pingyang. CHENAMPHO, Korea, April 14 (via Seoul, April 5).—The first con* tingent of press correspondents who are to accompany the Japanese army are awaiting here the arrival of a steamship with their personal effects. ‘When these arrive the correspondents will proceed to Pingyang. The weather is vet cold and it is raining. The roads are in bad condi* tion and there is much ice to the northward. The Koreans here are pursuing quietly their usual vocations, The Japanese officers are providing for the correspondents with unusual hospitality. . A LT Lost Craft’s Identity in Doubt. ST. PETERSBURG, April 15.—An official correction was issued to-night, according to which it was the torpedo- boat destroyer Strashni and not the Bestrachni, which became separated from the rest of the fleet in the early morning of Wednesday last and was sunk by the Japanese torpedo-boak destroyers, but later unofficial dis- patches received here from Port Are thur repeated that it was the Bestrach~ ni and not the Strashni. S SRS Denies Sale of Deutschiand. HAMBURG, April 15.—The Boers- enhalle denies the rumors of the sale or negotiations for the sale of the Hamburg-American line steamship Deutschland to the Russian Govern- ment. » S e R RAEAT e 3T were rigorously watched accounted for their entire destruction, for the soldiers prevented the entrance of the Japanese fire brigade, which was early on the spot. While the Japanese were parley- ing with the Korean guards the fire began to spread in the direction of the legations. At this juncture British and French marines effected an entrance by the back gates, butnwllnhlq to save anything. Press o