The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 22, 1904, Page 1

‘orecast msde cisco for thirty San Francisco { Cloudy. erly winds. TEE WIATEES, midnight, April 23: unsettied weather Fri- @ay, with showers; brisk south- A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. at San Fran- hours ending and vicinity— gnnn—vmnmo. Tivoll—“The Beggar Student.” 14 FRIDAY. APRIL 22 191 COURAGE OF WOMAN SAVES LIFE Injured Doctor Tries Amputation of His Leg. —_———— Plucky Companion in Vehi- cle Completes Surgical Operation. il ol Medical Man Returning From Death- bed of a Patient Meets With a Severe Accident. o RUSSIA WILL SEND SQUADRON OF CRUISERS ~ TO PREY UPON THE COMMERCE OF JAPAN PRICE FIVE CENT S S, Specisi Dispaich 16 The Ca KLAMATH TALLS, Ay 21.—Re- ning from the of R. W | Marple, whe had died from injuries | eived Lo G | Mre. Lydia Lennox | as unying him to town 1) IER His leg was caugh ‘ | e 4 almost entirely twisted |1 1 Realizing that he 11 . Dr. Matson, as he | | 2 ed away with il « pocketknife tempt to am- | ate the red member [ = | Meanwh . Lennox ran to a oo ek LoNOH i ; Sagtance. . Jb- G I g with R. A. Em- L4 | : S0 Do e Wintarts Atoasirth ey B eft him with the limb but half ;' The suffering man ! wo to complete the work | Y hesitated. Mrs. Lennox quick- took the knife, cut through the re- g tendons and then bound the h her silk muffier. By this e Dr. Matson was unconscious, but e plucky woman helped to carry him he Emmett house, where he'ig now 5 = p ritica ondition, but may . | road is an unfrequented one ¥ g = > 4 e or 1t prompt ac ,y.j JAPANESE TROOPS PITCHING CAMP AFTER LANDING FROM TRANSPORTS ON THE WESTERN COAST OF KOREA. a\armn i o . 1= % =Y [ RECEIVER JAMES SMITH \\ ‘ { 7 K I | TR PO CACIRNE 'Ll) ]\ JUL . PORT ARTHUR CHANNEL EFFECTUALLY BLOCKED. ; Y e TR R | | " “"‘"‘" % 1"“";"':" Inspec- | LONDON, April 22.—The Tokio correspondent of the Daily Jelegraph says that Pert | A T i N tion of the Union Iron Works - > ¢ 4 3 3 ,.,.,_‘m.:‘ PO Arthur wndoubtedly is effectually blocked, and that events are culminating around . the doomed ‘ ; EW YORK, April 21.—Former foriress. / 1 - g o | A correspondent of the Times. cabling from Netwchwoang, savs that a messenger has ar- (1 ] | noon on ss cor Fived there from the Yalu River zoith the information that the Russians are flceing north | i l | N it bttt Ol b across 'the river in overcrowded boats, and are losing hundreds by drowming. i « suby ry concerns of The corréspondent of the Standard at Ticntsin savs that Japanese troops are embark- | | » © the ion Iron Wo ay . . k| E 2 4 2 4 . 5 : 2 . ¥ — et mperbade vy Sllver Questlon IS | ing from Korea and possibly are being reinforced by the fories on the Yalu River, from which Detea.ts Blll Befiause P of latter plant and con- ‘ | the Russians have practically withdrazon. : | otoprty SR, N et bt s 0 M t‘ {1 PARIS, April 22.—The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Petit Parisien says lie has Bell IS Its work there for some time, for the nce Ore 0 || learned that General Kuropatkin: has ordercd the advance of the Russian forces which are. | / e sl A g e igeibod et || massed in Northeastern Korea, and that a brigade of infantry, with 5000 Cossacks, is within' - | cific' Coast. prope of the shipt Lhe Fore. | a hundred versts of the banks of the Tumen River. | u OI.. i . | —e— YRS RN £ o ized o S P S WILL SEND WARSHIPS ; I f | . z "ALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, | of= . > 4 2 o i m g e e | TO ATTEND LAUNCHING | _\ R ; el 3 e | : wasnieron, s oo o .| SUXElEQrY Ships to Be Armed With Rapid-Fire. Guns| ..., ..coc siowes sanros.| Navy Department Promises 1o Make | Gry civil bill ‘now in conference is the | . . ; WASHINGTON, April 21.—The quarrel | Bt 2 Orsieer Colitercia, M | twe-Sne, Seonie pasanduent’ which-re-| and Dispatched in Quest of Merchantmen. D it Tl orable Affair. ”:’*m‘ ;fl] ml[!n‘ss, in 1:; uu;&:; hu}xrfi‘, | Livernash and Bell of California, which . Sy the whole silver question. Should i p + N AS N ). r . ~Ir ‘ - " o T ON, April 21—In re-| jecome a law it would again commit|® ST. PETERSBURG, April 2L—The | perience great: difficulty in debarking junderstand the surprisitig ' blunder bega".he“‘y i L ket ([,‘mn” e F et d M. Squier, | ipe Govermment to the purchase of sil- | Admiralty, it is announced, intends to | if their landing is resisted. caused by the mistake. of the Russian | S0Meéwhat —astonishing manifestation S b mebhenitien. OT thi toa s e YEp Sition, At out twe ships purchased from Ger- | A Drominent naval attache who is|torpedo-boat destroyers in taking the [on the.floox of. the House to-day, and the ‘( rulser Californis "“ e T~ This 2mendment was put into ‘het ;. which formerly were in the familiar with the coast says a battal- | Japanese tcrpedo-boats for a Russian | had the effect - of defeating, at the Mink 28o-iny comimishicate n”‘:\‘?“H ,‘T; sundry civil bill' on authority of rhef:"::: Rl tometiics with % ion with rapid-fire and machine guns | flotilla, w;zhlch resulted in the loss of | hands of Livernash, withno other pur- € - o3 4 1€ | Sel > it Fi d, trans-. » § 1 Jid 5 the | the Strashni. X ; v Navy Department and made known | CChate Commitice on it s 3 PO e g Biite d keep off an army corps, as. the pose than to apite Bell, a bit of legisla: the elaborate plans Sah Francisco and the Native Sons of .the Golden West have made and asked that the depart- ment send as many ships of war to the bay to take part in the demonstra- tion of April as may be possible. The Senator received assurances that 211 would be done that can be done in that way. Just how many ships will be sent could not be stated — PREMIER LAURIER DEFEATS OPPOSITION'S AMENDMENT .Government Party Votes Down Plan to Go Into Committee on Grand Trunk Contract. OTTAWA, April 21.—7The House of Commons divided to-day on the amendment of the leader of the oppo- | sition to the motion of Sir Wilfrid | laurier, the Premier, to go into com- | mittee on the proposed modification | of the Grand Trunk Pacific contract. | The amendment was lost, 61 for to 116 agzinst, 2 majority of §5 for the Government. [ ———— LOSS BY TORONTO FIRE APPROXIMATES $13,000,000 o A Experts Estimate That Conflagration Will Cost Insurance Companies $8,885,000. TORONTO, Ontario, April 21.—The joss by the fire of Tuesday night is growing. The total as estimated by insurance experts is now said to reach @t least $13,000,000. The losses of the insyrance companies approximate $8,885,000. - — when it goes back to the House to- morrow cor Saturday that body must | 80 on record Representative Hemenway, chairman of the appropriations committee, will move to amend the amendment by pro- viding for the recoinage of standard silver dollars now stored in the vaults of the treasury. The question will therefore call for an alignment of the silver and anti-silver forces. The amendment Heménway will propose is a paragraph in the Hill currency bill which has been favorably reported in | the House, but which will not ‘be taken | up this session. In discussing The silver amendment o-day, Mr. Hill said: “I think it is a remarkable piece of legislation that in the closing hours of Congress and without a word cf de> bate an amendment of two lines should be attaclied to the sundry civil bill opening unlimited purchase of silver for unlimited: subsidiary coinage | | against the written advice of the Secre- | tary of the Treasury. On the ques- | tion of sound money two Presidential elections have been fought and won by the Republican party and for the Republican party to embarrass the elec- tion of a Republican House of Repre- | sentatives by action of this kind is to me amazing. “The United States, with $58,000,000 in silver in hand, a mass of metal that would fill five hundred cars and which it costs $100,000 to recount, now deliber- ately proposes to forever store this enormous mass and to add to the amount. Every dollar so purchased is, in effect, equivalent to the coinage of full legal tender in our own currency.” with rapid-fire guns and send them to | the Pacific to prey upon Japanesé com- merce. The Admiralty believes that by this means it can prevent the resump- tion of. operations by the Japanese commercial fleet and strike a hard blow against Japan's hope of main- taining her resources for the prosecu- tion of the war. It is authoritatively stated that Rus- sia has been offered, through a well known New York firm, two 7000-ton and two 6000-ton crulsers belonging to a South American country, but de- clined the offer. s In order to harmonize the army and ravy operations, Vice Admiral Skryd- loff will stop at Liaoyang on his way to Port Arthur, to confer with General Kuropatkin. The admiral and the gen- eral are warm personal frieqds and both are completely independent of the '\-lcemy. In spite of the bad relations between Skrydloff and Alexieff, pres- vent the viceroy’s immediate return to | the Russian capital. All information in possession of the general staff indicates that the Japan- ese are preparing to make a landing near Takushan. The lights of Japan- ese ships have been observed there for several nights and it is believed that the debarkation of troops has been de- layed only by the bad weather, which has prevented the assembling of the junks and other small craft, on which the troops must be carried across the stretch of shallow water which ex- tends several miles from the shore. It is believed that the Japanese will ex- sure is being brought to bear to pre-| warships would then have.to lie too far out to effectively protect a landing. —_— GIVES tl\)GO THE CREDIT. Alexieff’s Report. Makes Plain the Cause of Battleship Disaster. ST. PETERSBURSG, April 22.—All tion of the battleship Petropaviovsk and the damage to the battleship Po- bieda at Port Arthur is-dissipated by the report submitted by telegraph to the Emperor yesterday. In it Viceroy Alexieff stated- in a way that leaves the matter no longer an open. question tnat mines were responsible for the disaster. The admission .of the pres- ence of Japanese ships off Port Arthur on the night preceding the going out of the Russian ships, which were watched by Admiral Makaroff, tends to. estab- lish Vice Admiral Togo'sy claims that his ships laid the mines on ‘which the Russian battleships struck. The viceroy's report was sent only after the thorough investigation order- ed by the Em r had been made. Tt was publigh this. morning through the war commission. It explicitly states that “under the starboard side of the Petropavlovsk there was an ex- plosion,” and specifically states that a mine exploded under the Pobieda. That the Russian ships did not strike their miines’is shown by the fafl- ure of the viceroy to mention anything of the kind and by the positive state- ment of the Port Admiralty that Ad- miral M: was familiar with the location of the torpedoes. defending the port. ‘The Russian ofictals also, f81l to doubt as to the' cause of the destruc-’ k- ADMIRALTY CHANGES. Bezobrazoft Will Serve Under Skryd- loff at Port Arthur. ¥ PARIS, April 22.—The Echo.de Paris this mornirg publishes the following dispatch from its St. Petersburg cor- respondent: ' . “Vice Admiral . Skrydloff- will not leave for the Far East before Wednes- day next, remaining here to-attend the Council of Admirals, summoned by High Admiral Alexis, which will be under the presidency of the Emperor. “I am informed by an admiral that Vice Admiral Chouknin Wwill probably be appointed to th® command of the Baitic fleet; that Rear Admiral Rojest- vensky will Skrydloff in command of the Blick Sea fleet, and that Vice Admiral Bezo- brazoff will go to Port Arthur, where he will assume command under Vice Admiral Skrydlofr.” —_— Yinkow Under Martial Law. NEWCHWANG, April. 21.—Viceroy Alexieff has issued an-important order declaring the Yinkow railroad station | and the native village adjeining it to be within the region under martial law. This i‘l»n terminus of the Peking- Shanhaikwan railroad and telegraph system. The order also establishes a censorship over all télegrams, 'the | scrutiny of passengers and the inspec- tion of their bagsage. effect to-morrow. . —_——, It. will go into succeed . Vice Admiral’ tion of great’imiportance to California. Bell is the author of a bill to throw open to settlement under the homestead law a tract of land covering 63,000 acres in Mendocino,County, which fourteen years ago was cut out of the Round Valley Indian Reservation. The bill -provides ‘for ‘securing to the settlers row occupying the land their prior rights and was acceptable to them, as also to the Indians. .- In'fact, there 'was no objection to the bill'on part of any one interested. The Committee on public lands had report- ed it unanimously and Speaker Can- .non yesterday, after carefully examin- ing it, agreed to recognize Bell to-day for ‘the purpose of asking unanimous consent -te - take it up out of order, which is the only way by which ft could be reached this session. The programme was carried out to- | day and Bell arose in his place and] asked for unanimous consent of the House for immediate consideration. To hig surprise, Livernash sprang to his feet.and objected—the solitary voice in the House against the ‘bill. This left Bell- no recourse but to take his seat and allow his opportunity to pass. Had the bill been allowed to.come to a vote it certainly would have passed the House and with-almost equal certainty would have got through the Senate this. seszion. The act of Livernash is the subject of some very harsh criticism by many ‘who know that it was not provoked by any legitimate objection to the bill, but solely to work petty vengeance upon its author. 2 | whelming | with reference to Presidential BAY STATE INSTRUCTS FOR_ OLNEY Massachusetts Dem- ocrats Adopt Unit Rule. Hearst Boomers Are Snow- ed Under by a Majority of Three to One. Gonvention Beld at Boston Overwhelm- ingly Rejects a Resolution In- dorsing the Editor. BOSTON, April vote 21.—By an over- the Massachusetts Democratic Convention in Tremont Temple instructed four delegates at large and twenty delegates from the various Congressional districts of the | State to support Richard Olney of this city for the Presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention | next July. Four delegates at large pledged to | the support of Olney were elected, and the Hearst supporters were defeated by a vote of abcut 600 to 200. A rese- lution indorsing Hearst was voted down by a large majority. The foliowing were elected delegates at large: William A. Gaston, Mayor Patrick A. Collins, Wiliam L. Doug- lass and Congressman John R. Thayer. George Fred Williams, leader of the faction of the Massachusetts Democ- racy supporting Hearst's candidacy, made a vigoreus protest against the adoption of the unit rule, but the con- vention, by a vote vt nearly 3 to 1, refused to strike from the platform the clause calling for umanimous action nomi- nees, and after adopting the resolu- tions presented by the majority of its committee voted, on motion of Mayor { Josiah Quincy, that the unit rule gov- ern not only the support of Olnéy but also all matters pertaining to the con- | vention. The platform adopted consisted of a | single plank, an indorsement of Olney, and instructs the delegates to vote as a unit for him. UPROAR IN CONVENTION. The proceedings of the convention were marked at ‘‘mes by scenes of the greatest turbulence. When the committee on ballots re- tired the chairman of the commiftee on resolutions presented the majority report of committee. These reso- lutions favored the candidacy of Olney for President and instructed the entire State delegation for him. It was during the reading of these resolutions that the convention reach- ed the climax of its turbulence. The first mention of the name of Olney evoked prolonged applause, but when the motion for adoption of the unit rule. was made there was an uproar. Shouts of “No, no” from the Hearst delegates rang through the hall and cries of “It's an outrage” could be distinguished in the general noise and confusion. ‘When this demonstration had sub- sided, the minority report was read, indorsing Hearst as the Democratic nominee. THREATE! TO “BOLT.” The reading of this report was the signal for another uproar. The ques- tion then came up on the substitution of the minority report of the com- mittee for the majority report. A heated debate fSllowed, Delegate Cun- ningham of Somerville declaring that if the Hearst delegates were not given a “fair show” they would form a new party. » A vote on a substitution resulted in an overwhelming victory for the Olney forces, the motion to substitute being lost. At this point the committee on bal- lots reported the result of the voting for the delegates at large. After adjournment George Fred Wil- lHams issued a statement in which he said that the action of the convention in adopting the unit rule was a rank absurdity from beginning to end and that the district delegates would pay no attemtion to to-day’s rule. “If they were imstructed.” he said, “by their own conventions, they will act accordingly. If they are unin- structed they will vote according to their own will and the national con- vention will not for a moment give consideration to to-day’s convention.” s DETAILS OF THE PROCEEDINGS. How the Olneyites Triumphed Over- whelmingly on Each Ballot. BOSTON, April 21.—Permanent or- ganization of the Democratic State Convention was effected to-day by the election of John J. Flaherty of Glouces- S by the name of the respective factions, Olney and Hearst. The former bore these mames: Wil- liam A. Gaston, Patrick A. Collins, Boston: Willlam L. Douglas, Brockton, and John R. Thayer, Woreces- ter. Thee Harst ballots had the following - Continued on Page ', Columm 3, .4‘ i 5 % .