The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 26, 1904, Page 1

R - » Forecast mede cisco for thirty s midaight, April 26: | 1 ' Clondy northwest. A. G. NO. 148 ALMOST UNANIMOUSLY THE OPERATORS THE WEATHER. San Francisco and vicinity— unsettled weather Tues- | @ay. with rhowers; fresh south- | west winds, changing to brisk District Forecaster. — | et San Fran- hours exding : McADIE, APR 2 6 1904 Central—‘ The Chutes—Vaudeville. Cclumbia—*“Running for Office.” Fischer’s—'‘Chow-Chow."” Grand—“Piddle-Dee-Dee.” Majestic—"The Cri=is.” Orpheum—Vandeville. s avenn e S TR 2 TEE TEEATERS. California—*“A Girl From Dixie.” Still Alarm.” O i SAN FR NCISCO, TUESDAY, APRIL 2 1904. IN CITY DOTE TO REJECT THE COMPANY'S TERMS By an overwhelming vote the car operators on the system of the United Railroads voted yesterday that the final terms offered them by the company were not acceptable. This does not necessarily mean that a strike is imminent, according to W. D. Mahon, international president of the union. After the result had been announced he said that the matters in dispute would be resubmitted to the company in the hope that a more favorable ruling could be obtained from the United Railroads. In case all further overtures for industrial peace are rejected, he says, the employes of the United Railroads will quit in a body. When General Manager Chapman heard the result of the vote he declared that the United Railroads would always be glad to go into conference with the accredited representatives of its employes, though the terms offered them were unalterable. RUSSIA'S VLADIVOSTOK SQUADRON FAIR HEIRS EADY F SETTLEMENT Senator’s Daughters. Compromise With Nelsons. ‘ Mrs. Vanderbilt Arranges With Her Sister for a Division. Mrs. Oelrichs Will Take the Lick House and Bella Vista Hotel as Part of Her Share of William the way has tribution of the James G Mre. Van elrichs, will the next t earlier. Mrs. several days her husband lady yester- | | soon start By that of the wife whose es- an asset, will have . down and then the final £ operty of the Senator the surviving the estate woul@ have been made for the untimely death owed by es Fair, which was f NELSON'S COMPROMISE. elsons, kir es Fair, tending r husband within Nelsons have died afte quietly d been d become public until et s also authoritatively proposed contest heir of Charles Fair d. Anticipating the | tacles, Mrs. Van- | Oelrichs, before the York two weeks ago, themselves for a di- r Fair estate. DIVIDE THE ESTATE. Under this agreement Mrs. Oelrichs | will take t Lick House property, the b N Hotel site and certain | et r properties in this city. Mrs. | hS Il take as her principal | fafher's estate the five- e office \building 0 Mont- y street, the old Fair residence | rty at 1120 Pine street, the flats | « Jones and Pine streets | maller pertie¢ throughout the The sisters agreed that it would be advisa to divide the larger | outside lands, including the big ranch | {nights Landing, but will try to of them as a whole to the high- bidder Deeds transferring these properties r mentioned have already pared and will be filed in this as the decree of distribu- ate of Mrs. Caroline Fair d ma soon the iss It is the intention of Mrs. Oelrichs roceed as fast as possible with the tion of the Fairmont Hotel. ntends to invest a consider- | 1 of the money she will re- | C € from her father's estate in im- I the properties which she In fact, it was stated yes- | of her most intimate | acquainted with{ Mrs. Oelrichs has | in the future of San Francisco and has been deeply Im-l pressed with the idea that her money cannot ‘be better invested elsewhere. ———— Well Known Railroad Man Dies. CHICAGO, April 25.—John K. Cow- en, former president of the Baltimore and Ohjo Railroad, died to-night at the residence of his sister, Mrs. A. H. Seeley, in this city. Cowen had been 4l for four months with heart trouble, provements ir terday ends her cat one whe well that confidence purposes | and she and her husband had talked of be winners, and Thorndike had won oo LAY | considerable money on them. He RST'S N wouid then gamble his money off. MEA ARyt e three survivors of the crew of the Moni- j seventeen years. While Goodrich was a teacher at the California Military in Thorndike in the last few months, e INSANITY THE ALLEGED CAUSE OF THE EXTRAGRDINARY CRIME OF SOCIETY MAN IN SAN JOSE 7 | | | 1 1 | | | | SAN JOSE, Apri sanity, as the result of gambling, what led Albert P. Thorndike to rob the Del Monte Social Club and resulted | | in his killing at the hands of the police. | Considerable testimony was introduced at the inquest showing that his mind was diseased, and that a great change had come over him during the last months. The Coroner’s jury ren the following verdict: —Temporary in- is | j ' 7=mj(fi'iffi/)fifo 4 e | | || SAN JOSE SOCIETY BANDIT AND THE POLICEMAN WHO KILLED HIM. and said Thorndike had told him that “Albert P. Thorndike came to his|pe suffered greatly with his head and death from a gunshot wound inflicted | spine. Thorndike also told witness he by parties unknown.” believed he was growing daft. No motive could be found that would Mrs. G. M. Bruce, mother-in-law of Thorndike, testified she believed he was of unsound mind. She had noticed a great change in him since the middle of March. He had been very jovial, cause Thorndike to commit the crime of robbery. He had acted strangely for some time, and his friends all de- clared ‘he was insane. but lately had been morose. He had Mrs. Thorndike is prostrated and 1s | invested some of his wife's money in under the care of a physician. It is|the printing business, and regretted it. said that Bruce Thorndike, the 8-year- | Thorndike had told her that he be- old son of the deceased, two weeks ago dreamed that his father had turned robber and had been killed. The boy told his mother of his prophetic dream, lieved there was a hoodoo on the Bruce | money and was sorry he had used any of it. J. Davis, one of the men held up in the clubroom, told his story of the rob- bery. Policeman Frank Langford, who was in at the capture of Thorndike, testified that he had fired five shots at the man while he was under the porch of C. W. Quilty’'s house. It developed that Thorndike was 29 vears of age and a native of Califor- nia. He was a son of the late Dr. Thorndike of Stockton and reared in that city, where his mother still lives. The case was given to the jury, which was composed as follows: G. C. Far- ley, George McCarthy, G. C. Russell, J. A. Provines, Frank Bohar, A. C. Banta, W. G. Mayer, Thomas Bethell, J. T. Halford and James Smith. They rendered a verdict as stated above. the matter, little believing that the dream would come true. Great interest is taken in the as was attested by the crowd present at the inquest to-day, The body is at an undertaking par- Jor. It will be shipped to the mother, at Stockton, to-morrow morning for in- terment there, Attorney A. H. Jarman testified he had known Thorndike for years. The last three months the deceased had had a perfect inania for gambling. Jarman said Thorndike had a friend who followed the races in Oakland, and from him he had received tips on horses. These tips always proved to case, HEADQUARTERS CLOSED NEW YORK, April 25.—Seeing no hope for his Presidential boom so far as the State of New York is concerned, ‘William R. Hearst has closed his head- quarters in the Hoffman House. His campaign managers and clerical force have moved out and have been sent to States where Hearst believes he has a chance to get delegates. Three large rooms on the first floor of the hotel had been rented. From these headquarters literature was sent to all points east of Chicago. They were actually Hearst's Eastern head- quarters. Since the State convention adopted the unit rule and instructed delegates for Judge Parker, Hearst has decided that to continue head- quarters in. New York would be a waste of money. He has little expec- tation of gétting any more delégates in any of the Eastern States. Jarman declared he believed Thorndike to be crazy, and that his condition for the last two weeks had shown it. toid of Thorndike rouble in the A. C. Eaton Printinig Company. So bad had his mania for gambling become that his partner could stand him no longer. Jarman said that on Thursday Thorn- dike had been in his office and had given him his papers showing his in- terest in the firm. Thorndike had broken down and cried and said he knew he was crazy. A. C. Eaton testi- fied Thorndike had not attended to his business since January 1. A great change had come over his partner, and he believed him insane. Captain W. W. Goodrich, one of the tor in her fight with the Merrimae, testified he had known Thorndike for Academy in Oakland in 1886-87, Thorn- dike, who was a pupil there, fell over | There are several Hearst Clubs still | a precipice forty-three feet, striking on his head and back. in existence in the city of New York and throughout the State and it is un- derstood that these will now be g]. lowed to go out of existence quietly, Goodrich had noticed a big change —_— OPINION APPEARS DECISIVE |Dast Majority Say! That They Are Wronged. Ballot Test Gives a Chance for Ex- pression. — = With a negative vote that is almost beyond the necessity of mention, the | men who are running the street cars on the United Railroads of San Fran- cisco determined yesterday that the terms offered them by the company were unacceptable. The result of the gecret bailot was 2031 against accept- ance and 141 in favor. The result was easily forecasted in the afternoon from the remarks of the voters as they filed into Hne. Still, even the most hopeful of the radicals did not look for such an overwhelming rthajor- ity in favor of a rejeection of the offers of their employers. This vote does not necessarily mean that & strike of the street car employes is inevitable. International President Mahon said, after the result had been announced, that he and other repre- sentatives of the union would go into conference with the officers of the United Railroads and try to - obtain some concession on the disputed points. @' dselared i was nuythe intetition of The union te force a strike and that every effort would be made by himself and the local representatives of the organization to obtain a pcaceable settlement of the existing difficulties. When asked if the operators of cars were still unsatisfied on April 30, the date when the annual agreement with the company is ended, what the end of the trouble would be, he said: “They will quit work, I suppose.” General Manager Chapman, who is the aceredited spokesman of the United | Railroads, listened calmly when the re¢- sult of’the vote of the union was an- nounced to him. When asked whether or not any further negotiations would be entertained from reprcsentatives of the union he said: “We have taken the public into our confidence in many printed state- ments and generally it knows what our position is on this last trouble. 1 am not in a position to discuss the future action of the company, but as | I have always said, we are willing to entertain in all situations suggestions from our employes and their accred- ited representatives.” MEN GUARD BALLOT. In the morning hours a number of benches sufficiently protected the bal- lot box from interference. Two men sat constantly before the cylinder in which the ballots were deposited and carefully serutinized the credentials of the men who offered their votes. Be- fore them they had lists of the various | operators on the different car lines of the city and the election clerks inva- riably checked these off. Some came to vote who had not paid their April dues and their ballots were promptly rejected. Eath man put his ballot in | the box with his own hanas. When he had voted his union card of the cur- rent month was stamped “Voted,” and this precluded any chance of two votes | for one member. & Generally speaking, there was no rush of the voters. In the early after- noon many of the men found it con- venient to visit headquarters and de- posit their ballots. CROWDING AVOIDED. ‘When it became apparent that crowd- ing was threatened, a rope as stretched from the swinging doors of the hall to the stage, and along this the voters filed singly until they reached the booths. Ten of these had been erected for the occasion, differing in no way from the usual provisions of the Australian ballot system. Most of the men appeared in uniform, and before 7 o'clock it became apparent that a particularly heavy vote had been polled. At that hour, according to the talliers, more than 2100 out of 2350 employes had’ cast their ballots. During the night most of the voters came in citizens’ clothes. Almost with- out exception they were intelligent looking men who dressed well and would be presentable in any walk of life. GO T"RTH BRAVELY. No. soldier ever went into battle in better spirit than these street car men went to the polls. They were entirely willing to abide the issue, whatever it might be, and give a laugh in the face of defeat or victory. As far.as could be judged publicly no effort was made /by any of the officers of the union to influence the result. International President Mahon spent most of the afternoon and even- i 2! R 1 B SO s it Continued on Page 2, Column 5, . 1 — ATTACKS AN IMPORTANT JAPANESE ARMY BASE ON KOREAN COA ST vetreating Russians in Ned or wounded, but dicrs were passes north of the Yalu. Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. by the New York Herald Publishing Company. SEOUL, April 18, via Shanghai. April 23.—A\ minc laid by the the mountain pass south of Wiju exploded while Japanese infantry was marching over it. Copyright, 1904, Many Japancse sol- details are unobtainable. The sec- ond Japanese army corps. which landed at Shusan, consists of three i divisions, which are proceeding immediatcly to Wiju. ! are acilvely engaged in constructing fortifications in the mountain The Russians ~ L TOKIO, April 25.—The cruisers Ros- | siay and Gromoboi of the Viadivostok | squadron participated in an attack or | Gensan to-day. They were accompa- | nied by a third cruiser, not yet identi- fied, and by two torpedo-boats. Later they entered the harbor, ordered the crew of the Japanese merchantman Goyo Maru ashore and then sank her. A detachment of marines was landed, but was recalled, and the warships steamed outside of the harbor. The Japanese and many Koreans fled when the Russians approached. Late tele- grams say that the Russian squadron | remains off the harbor of Gensan. Tt is believed in Tokio that this Rus- gian naval movement was made in the hope of intercepting some unprotected | Japanese troopships. It is not believed | | that the squadron will remain at Gen- | san long. Gensan is about 250 miles southwest | of Viadivostok. Gensan is an important Japanese | bage on the northeastern coast of Ko- {#ea. Tt was ‘here that the Japanese /landed a large army, which is proceed- ing westward to operate with the main | force, which advanced through West- | ern Korea. As transports bearing | troops and supplies are constantly pl. ;lng between Japanese ports and Gen- | san the sudden activity of the Vladi- | vostok squadron fs likely to cause the | | Tokio war board much concern. Un- | ;douhtedly it will result in the hurrying | of a fleet of warshins northward to | drive the Russians back to their strong- | hold. SEOUL, April 25, 8 p. m.—The latest | reports from Gensan state that the | Viadivostok squadron has disappeared. The steamship Goyo Maru, which was | |sunk in the harbor at Gensan this morning by the Russian Vladivostok ' squadron, was an old coasting vessel of 516 tons and was owned in Chemulpo | by a Korean company, which chartered | | her to the Japanese. The Japanes: | community at Gensan numbers 2500°| and owns much’prnp(‘rly there. The Japanese garrison refrained from | firing on the enemy during the sinking | of the steamship because it did not de- sire to draw a retaliatory bombard- ment. s | LONDON, April 25.—The Japanese legation to-day gave out the following dispatch received to-day from Tokio: “The Japanese Consul at Gensan, Korea, reports 1 der to-day's date | | that two Russian torpedo-boatss en- | | tered that port and sank a small Jap- | anese steamer, the Goyo Maru. Her gross tonnage was 600 and she was built in 1884. The Russians immediate- | |1y teft.” | This dispatch is taken at the lega- tion here to mean that the Viadivostok fleet is active. | i FLOATING CONTACT MINES. Peril in the Path of Vessels Traversing ‘Waters of Orient. TOKIO, April 25.—Japanese com- panies which operate steamships to the Yellow Sea and the Gulf of Pe- chili are canceling their engagements to call at points beyond Chemulpo, Korea, because of the mechanical contact mines which are known to be adrift on the high seas. These mines drifted away from Port Arthur and Port Dalny and constitute a se- rious menace to navigation. The Jap- anese cruiser Adsuma discovered one such mine floating forty miles from the Shantung promontory and ex- ploded it with a shot. It is known that many mines have been detached from their moorings by storms and currents and several have been dis- covered and destroyed, but it is feared that many are still floating about at sea and the currents are carrying them to the southward. KEven naviga- tion during daylight is dangerous, be- cause some of these mines’float slight- 1y below the surface of the water. Various expedients, most of which are impracticable, have been suggest- ed for freeing the sea of these men- aces. They include, among other things, a proposal that neutral war- ships search for these mines outside the zone of operations and destroy them. s St e el ENDS TALK OF PEACE. Russin Will Reject Any Attempt by the Powers to Mediate. ST. PETERSBURG, April 25.—The Associated Press is enabled to an- nounce -authoritatively that the talk! - War News Continued on Page 4, !in the county records ‘regarded as absolutely assured. | roadstead. of mediation in the Russo-Japanese war was founded upon the personal desires of King Edward and King | Christian of Denmark to avoid further bloodshed and end the conflict, but that the steps initiated have utterly failed. The Emperor, with the full con- currence of the Imperial family and | his advisers, has firmly decided not only to reject all proposals looking to intervention, but to prosecute the war with all the resources of the em- pire until victory crowns the Russian arms, and then, when the time comes for peace, to make. terms directly with the enemy. The interference of outside powers will not he tolerated. | There is to be no repetition of the Berlin congress. Furthermore, the Associated Press is authorized to state that Russia will in no wise consider herself bound by the propositions made to Japan prior to the war. The hostilities have wiped out the engagements Russia offered to make with Japan regarding Korea and Manchuria, Russia will consider { herself' free to impose such terms as she desires. f SR PR, S PORT ARTHUR'S DEFENSES. Russian Stronghold Now Regarded as Absolutely Impregnable. PORT ARTHUR, Sunday, April 24. All weak points on both the land and sea sides here have heen so strength- ened in the last two months that the mpregnability of Port Arthur is now The garrison has been considerably | strengthened and the forts are pro- vided with all necessities for more than a year. Complete confidence pre- vails with the troops, sailors and in- habitants in the ability .of the Rus- sians to defeat any Japanese attack. Remarkable indifference to the pos- | sibility of attack is shown by the peo- ple. In fact, by day there is little to indicate that the town is in a state of siege. The band plays on the boule- vard, on which parades are held, finely dressed people stroll about and groups | of children play. Restaurants and shops are well patronized all day long. | At night, however, the city is in pro- found darkness, which is emphasized by the searchlights flashing across the The entrafice of the har- bor, although studded with nine Jap- anese wrecks, remains perfectly free. The foundering of the Petropavlovsk is regarded as a tragic mischance, without influence on the course of the campaign, or preventing the Russian fleet from still achieving brilliant re- | sults. At each successive bombardment, which experience shows recurs ap- proximately fortnightly, the Japanese fire becomes less vigorous. Their ships remain out of range of the batteries and evidently they do not intend to be drawn into a battle. The- Chicago Daily News dispatch boat, flying the British flag, which was boarded and detained by Russian offi- cers off Port Arthur on Friday last, has been liberated on the condition that she will not again approach these coasts. S g Japan Mobilizing Third Army. BERLIN, April 26.—The Tokio cor- respondent of the Tageblatt announces the mobilization of a third Japanese army. He says it is, now disclosed that a reserve brigade corresponding to each division of the army has been mobilized therewith and consequent- ly each army embraces nearly 100,- 000 men Instead of being of the strength previously assumed. e B R Will Accept Russian View. PARIS, April 26.—The St. Peters- burg correspondent of the Journal says jit is now certain that the pow- ers will acquiesce in the Russian note declaring that the use of wireless telegraphy by private persons con- stitutes espionage. The United States alone, the correspondent says, is ex- pected to make certain reservations. it Cannot Accept Code NEW YORK, April 25.—The cen- tral cable office of the Western Union Telegraph Company is advised by the Shanghai Railway agent at Tientsin that telegrams to Newchwang are not accepted in code. All telegrams are subject to delay and censorship when in plain language. HONGARIA CITIES HELD BY RIOTERS Troops Called Out to Suppress [n- cendiarism. | Premier M;y.};rgaaim Mar- tial Law Throughout Entire Kingdom. | Death List at Blosd Is Increased to Thirty-One by Demise of Bight of the Wounded. VIENNA, April 25.—The Hungarian sitvation is regarded as alarming. The Socialists threaten to proclaim a gen- | eral strike, and in such an event, it is sald in political cireles, Count Tisza, thas | Hungarian Premier, will put the whole }kingdnm under martial law. | Following the tragie evemt at the | town of Elesd. near Grosswardein, yes- fterday. in which a Socialist killed the | commander of the gendarmerie, fol. lowed by the killing of twenty-three | rioters and the wounding of forty by | the gendarmes, a general strike has broken out at Grosswardein. To-day | the shops, cafes and restaurants there and even the schools were closed and the business life of the town was en- tirely suspended. Five thousand teamsters at Buda- pest, 16,000 workmen at Debrecsein, the chief town of the Haiduck district, and a large number at Szegedin, the capi- tal of the county of Czongrad, are now on strike. Trouble is feared in other towns. Eight of the persons wounded in the disorders at Elesd yesterday have died. | Rioting, plundering and incendiarism were begun in some of the neighboring viliages to-night, but the military was called out and speedily suppressed the disturbances. | BUDAPEST, April 25. — The strike committee has issued a proclamation to the strikers on the State railroads, instructing them to resume work im- mediately, and so avert further and more stringent action by the Govern- ment against them. | The Diet was closed to-day by royal | decree. The sudden end of the session is attributed to a desire to avoid dis- cussions of the railroad strike and rioting. ———— —— CHILD IS IN JAIL FOR IMPERILING A TRAIN Marin County Youngster Accused of Attempting to Cause a North Shore Wreck. SAN RAFAEL, April 25.—As a result of being caught in the act of placing obstructions on the track of the North Shore Railroad Manuel Morris, a thir- teen-year-old boy of this city, is in jail charged with attempting to wreck a passenger train on or about Saturday, April 23, Several similar attempts have been made in the city limits of San Rafael and detectives have been on the qul vive for some time to apprehend the culprit. To little Miss Newman, how- ever, is due the credit of catching Man- uel Morris. Last Saturday evening, ac- cording to the little girl’s story, young Morris placed a large stone between the “third” rail and the guard of the North Shore track, at the cormer of Second and C streets. She told him to take it out. He refused and threatened to whip her if she told any one. She told her father, H. C. Newman, and he reported to the authorities. Manuel Morris is a brother of Maggie Morris and Antone Morris, who were arrested about a year ago for alleged complicity in committing arson twelve times in San Rafael. —_——————— ‘BOUND BY AN OATH NEVER TO BE DIVORCED Cleveland Man and Fiancee Appear Before Justice and Record Their Pledge. CLEVELAND, April 25.—Charles R.. Hoda, well-to-do civil engineer, with Miss Julia Korton, requested Jus- tice Ginley to-day to draft a promise, to which they would swear, that after marriage they would never seek di- vorce. Justice Ginley complied with the request and the marriage cere- mony was performed immediately. The promise and oath were recorded -