The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 27, 1904, Page 1

. VOLUME XCV— NO. SAN FR;’\N'CISCO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FOUR JAPANESE TRANSPORTS CARRYING FOUR THOUSAND MEN REPORTED SUNK UFt KOREAN GOAGT BY GRUISERS OF THE RUSSIAN VLADIVOSTOK SQUADRON PARIS, April 27.---The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Matin says: “I learn from a high source that the Vladivostok squadron yesterday sank off the Korean coast four Japanese transports, which were conveying four thousand men.” — CANNON’S BOOM FOR VICE PRESIDENCY IS ASSUMING SERIO Speaker of the House Does Not Want the Nomination. Republican Leaders Determined to Force It Upon Him. Special Dispatch CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, » - WASHINGTON, D. C., April 26— Speaker Cannor oom for.Vice Pres- oportions e Democrats are going o carry the States of Iili- York and Indiana. Tt will t or the Democrats to win ¥y these States, and the Car for n benefit native State X iana m, and he He saker or mothi will Effort res he wants and that he for the Vice he him are n leaders, who Hanna's nited States rospect ¥ not rum and Rooseve as any man cou ration in 1900, an Ce ny at he believes that if he t tampede would a¢ chairman ers give e oth WILL NAME STATE TICKET. Indiana Republican Convention Opens in Indianapolis INDIANAP( s —The dele- gates to the Reput ate Conven- ’ tion met tc ¥ in Tomlins Hall in what is s to } been the largest and m L nvention ever held by the pa 1 the State. After electing Pres electors, national delegates a ates the conven- tion adjourned me at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning, wk a platform will be adopted and a State ticket nom- inated When the Republican State Conven- tion was called to order tb afternoon the committee mously adopted was called upon of the opening ad- The report w Senator Fa the conclus at jon dress of Representative Watson. Sen- ator Fairbanks said in part “We enter the campaign with well defined issues which have been tried in the furnace of experie ‘Our candidate is known everywhere, trusted everywhere, loved e here; for he is every inch a Republican, every inch an American. His life has been dedicated to the public rvice. He has served in many capacities and always with individual allegiance and with complete succ He is the exponent of all that is sound Republicanism; he | stands faithfully by the traditional pol- jcies of the party. We know what he will do to-morrow because of what he did yesterday and to-day.” enator Beveridge, the permanent cha! an, told in brief of the work ac- complished by the Republican admin- istration and said that the last eight years would be known in history as “the beginning of the American era.” The convention selected by acclama- tion for Presidential electors at large George A. Cunningham and Joseph Oliver; for delegates at large to the natignal convention, Senators Fair- banks and Beveridge, Governor Dur- bin and State Chairman Goodrich. e Rhode Island for Roosevelt. PROVIDENCE, R. I, April 26.— The Republican State convention to- day elected the following as delegates at large to the national convention: Charles Alexander of Barrington, H. Martin Bréown of Providence, Frank Oontinued on Page 3, Column 6. nd 1 | sces_theyhetl of party closing is nghting mad” | US PROPORTIONS | I Spe Dispatch to The Call. SAN BERNARDINO, April 26.—The long anticipated strike of the Santa Fe machinists began here this after- noon, when 125 machinists, specialists and apprentices laid down their tools and left the shops. The formal cause of the walkout was the discharge of Machinist C. W. Smith, and treasurer of the International Asso- ciation of Machinists, Santa Fe dis- trict No. 41, and who at the present time is the highest official in the Ma- chinists’ Union upon the Santa Fe sys- | tem. Smith was discharged at 10 o'clock secretary this morning. Later a grievance com- | mittee was sent to Division Master Me- chanic Todd, asking that he reinstate | Smith. do, and the strike terminated the issue. Under cover of darkness last night sixty-one men ing put to work in the machine shops. The local men made no demonstration at being obliged to work beside non- unionists and all went smoothly until Smith was given his time. When the walkout came this afternoon twenty of the sixty-onme imported men went out- in sympathy with the strikers. This Todd said he could not | were brought into the | tocal yards ahi W1 o'clock this. mors- | nerve-shattered excitement to-night. * + POPULAR ILL STATESMAN, WHO MAY BECOME MR, ROOSE: VELT'S RUNNING-MATE, ' § : + GHTS OFF BIG FORCE OF POLICE OAKLAND, April 26—A revolver battie fought in the dark between a crazy negro ex-soldier on one side and a dozen members of the Oakland po- lice force on the other had the lower portion of Oakland in a state of | The trouble began at about 10 o'clock, These men state that they came from ; Philadelphia, where it was represented | to them that they were to work at a | | new plant owned by the Baldwin Loco- motive Works in Southern California. They had been at Catalina awaiting orders for a week past. | The machinists claim that the strike | has been forced upon them. Division | Master Mechanic Todd states that he | discharged Smith because he did not attend to his work, but spent his time | among the men discussing labor ques- tions. When the strike will end and i under what conditions it might be set- tled cannot be learned at this early stage of proceedings. Those who are of the opinion that the Santa Fe is being backed in the present issue by other roads and who believe that there can be no doubt that the strike has been forced upon the men as a test against the union ships do not hesitate to predict that the struggle will be a long one. ——————————— No Action on Eight-Hour Bill. ‘WASHINGTON, April 26.—The Sen- ate Committee on Education and La- bor, by a vote of 4 to 3, to-day decided to postpone action on the eight-hour bill until next December, . | house, when the negro, who Is known as Smith, began to disturb the occupants of the little lodging-house on Third street, near Broadway, in which he lived. The negro had two relics of his army days in the shape of two large navy revoivers, and he started to shoot ap the house in most approved frontier style. Policeman Jack Sherry and Special Policcman Ford heard the shots and started to arrest the man. As they dashed up the steps that lead to the Ford holding a policeman’s night lamp and Sherry with his re- volver ready for action, they were greeted with a bullet from one of the negro’s revolvers, which went wide of its mark. Sherry replied with two shots, and the negro fired three more shots at the officers, all without effect. The officers retreated in good order, and assistance was called for. Police Captains Wilson and Petersen, De- tectives Holland and Quigley, Ser- geants Clark and Lynch and half a dozen patrolmen armed with sawed-off shotgiins and Winchester rifles sur. rounded the house. Even the appear- ance of this small army failed to frighten the negro, who held his ground and whenever a man appeared in front of the house he fired through window or door. A The battle raged intermittently for two hours, and the residents of the lower purt of Broadway have heard al- most as much shooting to-night as has occurred in the skirmishes along v ,,H th ullets. I}b CONTINUOUS FIGHTING ON YALU RIVER Japanes@fificeed in Entering Man- churia. Cross Stream in the Face of Heavy Firing of Rus- siani Outposts. R | Advance Guard Entrenches Its Position and Reinforcements Are Hur- ried to Its Support. —_— Special Cable to The Call and New: York Her. ald. Copyright. 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. + _ SEOUL, Appil. 28.—OQh..April 22 there. was a tollision between:scouts on the Yalu River, both parties retir- ing after a small brush. There were no casualties on the Japanese side. Russians withdrew, carrying a num- ber of dead and wounded. LIAOYANG, April 27.—On April 23 the Russians observed that the Japan- | ese were making preparations to cross the Yalu River. On the night of April 25 two steamships and two tor- | pedo-boats were noticed at the mouth of the river. They approached the shore at daylight and the Japanese | commenced to build a pontoon bridge on the left tributary. A second pon- toon was being prepared ten miles up stream. At 3 o'clock the same after- | noon the Japanese occupied the island of Samolinde, to which they carried pontoon boats, etc. The night passed quietly, the tor- pedo-boats maintaining a careful watch in case the troops ashore should be attacked and examining the mouth of the river by means of | searchlights. E RUSSIANS OPEN FIRE. At 3:40 o’clock the next morning the Japanese crossed the river near the vil- lage of Tehangdjou, where the Russian outposts commenced firing upon them. | The Russian advance guards had been | furnighed with a small gun, and they succeeded in destroying the pontoon | constructed near Wiju. The wrecked pontoon was carried away by the cur- | rent and further Japanese bridging operations ceased, but the Japanese continued to cross by another pontoon south of Wiju. A Japanese column with a battery of artillery approached Turenchen at mid- day, but the Russian skirmishers met them with sharp firing, evidently giv- ing them trouble, as they retired with the battery, which made no attempt to answer the Russian fire. DETAILS ARE WITHHELD. ST. PETERSBURG. April 26.—The censors' committee did not give out to- night the dispatches received to-day re- garding the movements of the Japanese across the Yalu River. It was inti- mated that information had been re- ceived tiwat the Japanese had crossed the river, but they were accompanied by a statement that the success of the enemy should not be regarded as an important victory, the Russians having no intention of vigorously contesting the passage, their plan being 'to annoy the enemy as much as possible: It is evident from the dispatches re- ceived here that, in order to render a crossing feasible, the Japanese made a feint on Tatungkau, while the troops actually crossed some miles up - the river at Tchangdjou. Two companies were first thrown into Manchuria and unquestionably entrenched, and imme- diately under the cover of their guns reinforcements crossed. | It is regarded as probable that when these troops are in sufficient’' numbers they will march along the Manchuria | bank of the Yalu in the direction of | Antung, near which lies the road on which the advance can continue to Fengwangchang, where the first deter- mined stand of the Russians will be i made. No report has reached here, of- Continued on Page 2, Column 5. e R R B TP T S o T S0 Yalu River. At midnight the negro ‘was still holding the fort. Every few moments he shoots through the side of the house, which is now riddled with | | OF Coriams o 'REVEALS RELATIONSHIP CHURCH AND STATE I DEPOSED MORMON APOSTLE WHO TESTIFIED AT THE REED SMOOT INVESTIGATION. AMITE [§ FOUND 1T L Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, April 26.—The “Holy Jumpers” narrowly missed a jump to-night that was not on the programme at the unique “‘Gospel Mis- sion,” 739 Kohler street. Somebody placed seven sticks of dynamite under the pulpit of the church, with the evi- dent intention to blow up church and “Jumpers’” at the same time. The plan was defeated by Policeman Roy Allen, who secured the explosive and took it to the station. | The attempt is a culmination of a drawn-out feud between religious fan- atics and residents of Kohler street, who have long sought a way to put a stop to the orgies that have disturbed the neighborhood. That the scheme was frustrated was due to information received by the police. A woman telephoned that the church was to' bg blown up at night, as she knew that dynamite had been placed under the building. She re- fused to give her mame, but Officer Allen went under the pulpit. The sticks were capped and fused ready to be fired. « Efforts of the police to trace the au- thor of the attempted outrage have proved futile. t streeters have been’ furious-in their denunciations of these religious contor- tionists and acrobats, they declare their abhorrence of dynaml‘u tactics, and there is no Teason to belleve any of them : crime. Some of the Kohler street peo- ple do not hesitate to. express the be- lief that members of the Jumping sect % ) | [ Although the Kohler | can be connected with the | Former Apostle Testi- fies in Reed Smoot Investigation. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, April 26. — Moses Thatcher of Utah, before the Smoot in- vestigation committee to-day, contin- ued to clinch the relationship between the Mormon church and political af- fairs in Utah. He wént into details of his differences with high officials of the Mormon church because they in- sisted unon controlling matters of state and politics. on a charge of apostasy. the document was handed to him by Lorenzo Snow and Brigham Young he was dropped from office. To show how serious his offense of objecting to the union of church and state was regarded by the Mormons, he said he was denied the privilege of entering the temple, a right given to all good Mormons. Had he remained in fellowship with the apostles he would have become head of the church. He would have been elected to the United States Sen- ate if it had not been for the interfer- ence of the church. He had always held that, whatever his church obli- gations, he should be true to his coun- try, and for this he had been punished by the Mormons. He was glad to say that he had been depoused as an apostle because he had been a good American citizen. ! Thatcher’s testimony made a deep impression, because it was given with evident candor and fairness. o —— put the dynamite there themselves to create’ a ‘wrong impression and enlist public sympathy. The Rey. Rachiel Kelley and his wife, who are conducting nightly meetings at the place, and who reside in the rear of the building, were absent at the time of the discovery. Kelley said that he was not one bit surprised, as all kinds of threats had been made and the mem- bers of the band had been subjected to repeated insults.. “Less than a week ago,” said Kelley, “a young man. who formerly roomed upstairs said he was going to blow up this place.” RS 3 | Thatcher, in describing the political | Sound money. manifesto issued on October 6, 1896, | 1896,” relative to permission to run for office, | Plause, to which he did not assent, said that he | nent; in 1900 in support of Bryan; was summoned before the high counsel | greenbacker, sound money man, free ‘When he ob- | jected to the manifesto it was adopted |and an anti-Bryanite. as a “rule.” Within two hours after | Bryan in 1900. Is he for Bryan now?” | | DENOUNCE COCKRAN 0N HIS RECORD Dalzell Makes Bitter Attack on New Yorker. Pennsylvanian’s Stinging Criticism Rouses Anger of Minority. Tammany Orator Replies Eloquently and Demands Investigation by a Committee. . —_— WASHINGTON, April 26.—The heavy- weights had another bout in the House to-day, with Dalzell ana Cockran as the combatants. ' The speeches were a renewal of last Saturday’s debate, but were more personal in character. Dal- zell had Cockran on the rack for nearly two hours, during which time he had dealt largely with that gentleman’s po- litical history. Cockran, thoroughly in- dignant at times, denounced the accu- sation of Dalzell. The climax came when he offered a resolution providing for the appoint- ment of a committee of five to investi- gate the charge which had been made against him by Dalzell. He and other Democrats, including Williams, the mi- nority leader, demanded Iimmediate considgration, but the Speaker declined to pass on a point of order against the resolution until he had examined prece- dents. Dalzell provoked loud Republican ap- plause when he said that while he was an intense partisan, his “brethren on the other side will aamit that gen- erally at least, I am a gentleman.” Dalzell explained his remark of last Saturday by saying that he had been “informed that it was profitable to Mr. Cockran to support McKinley when he did.” He vehemently declared that he was so informed. “I say now,” he ex- claimed, “that I was justified in mak- ing that charge, because it is the cur- rent belief to this day that the gen- tleman received money for political work.” REVIEWS COCKRAN'S RECORD. He read from a number of documents to show that Cockran started as a greenbacker and in 1896 stood with the McKinley side because he was for “For sound money in he said, amid Republican ap- “traveling all over the conti- silver man. He has been a Bryanite He was for Looking Cockran in the face Dalzell sald: “Mr. Cockran has been a Tam- manyite and as such has been a mem- ber of Congress; He has been an anti- Tapmanyite and as such ceased to be a member of Congress. The gentleman from New York is a Tammanyite now, and now again is a member of Com- gress.” The Republicans were roused to a high pitch of enthusiasm and approval when Dalzell softly inquired: “Would not that make one suspicious that it was more than a matter of conscience with a gentleman having such a career?” DALZELL'S DENUNCIATION. Dalzell closed amid wild Republican applause witih a most bitter denuncia- tion of Cockran. He referred to shat gentleman’s speech before the Demo- | cratic convention which sent him to Congress, in which Cockran said: “We | have reached & point where the coun- try is regarded as an international hoodlum.” Facing the Democratic side and look- ing directly at Cockran, Dalzell de- clared that that utterance was of as much interest to them as it was to himself. “If there be any hoodlums among us,” he said, speaking with ve- hemence, “they are not the product of American soll, American institutions or American civilization. They are to be found rather among those adven- turers who, having left their own coun- try for their country’s good, find in the field ¢f American politics a pro- lific source of notoriety and pelf—men e o e s s e Continued on Page 3, Column 1, {