The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 7, 1904, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, -MAY -7, 1904. ; ‘Admiral Hosoya’s Report Relates How the Immense Force Disembarked. TOKIO, May 6.—The report of Ad-|{ ya, received to-day, gives| t of Japanese | g Peninsula, sup- ! of the landing Division, with torpedo- Hongkong Maru and the | iy arrived at the advance | wtung Peninsula at ' Discoy a num- we boms | r a short time and then Captain | aflors, th aded sailors plunged breasi-deep for 1 the beach advancing, ange of hil planted diately Oshima and t the e them, 2gai, d to distrs hey dis 1 shelled orts, on s to faeili- is assisting in the work.” The report of Admiral Kataka, com- mander of the third squadron, gives | additional detazils of the landing. The admiral reports that his squadron con- voyed the first batch of the second army to the Liaotung base and adds that the Kara Maru grounded near the base at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. She was assisted by the protected cruiser Akitsushima, was tloated, and reached her destination safely at 5 o'clock the same evening. Beyond the announcement that a cértain force of the Japanese army ef- fected a landing at an unnamed place | on the Liaotung Peninsula yesterday and the report of Admiral Hosoya, the Government absolutely refuses to dis- the nature of their operations or plans. General Fukushima of the cus its General Staff made the announcement of this movement to the foreign cor- respondents here. He said: ‘On the 5th of May some strength of the “ipanese army began to land on the Liaotung Peninsula.” Where and in what force?” asked the correspondents. General Fukushima smiled in answer, but said nothing. “From the east, west, north south?” asked the correspondents. “Out of the skies from heaven, answered the general, and the interview ended. or ¢ troops, < g ere Our division | ORISR K e SON OF COLONEL GRIFFITH | MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS Mother Believes Child Has Been Abducied and F sts Aid of Los Angeles Police. May 6.—The Police been asked find th, the 14-year-old son of flith J. Griffith, who recentiy of assault with a deadly to v con- | ding an | his case. The mother in th i his she obtatned a divorce from | 1 Mrs. Griffith this Police Department | seared from her was unable | -ding his where- | feared he had| g with A the nything reg aid she very much sur to hear that his £, and asked the police means in their power to sed e ee—————— MASKED MEN SLAUGHTER A LARG BAND OF SHEEP Rifes and Knives Are Used by the| Perpetrators of a Daring Crime in | Lake County. Or. URAS, May 6.—Ancther whole- | ughter of sheep has taken place | ke County, Oregon, and 2300 shee the property of S. Chandler, haie n vut to death by a half doz- en masked mer Rifles and knives were used by the perpetrators of the ge. The killing was the outcome the mg-existing quarrel between | and cattle men. The slaugh- | vlace at Benjamin Lake, at| what is known as “the arrests have been made. outr of the ter the .desert N edge YALUABL ARE Stadio of George W. Fiske, Pioneer Photographer of the Yosemite, Is | Burned to the Ground. | EMITE, May 6.—At noon to-day | e and photographic studio | Fiske, the pioneer pho- | of the Yosemite, was burned | und. The negatives that| guarded for thirty years and | all the famous photographs | semite have been taken were | The loss will be very heayy | to both Fiske and the State. ———— Strike at Fremont Is Settled. JACKSON, May 6.—The strike at the | _Fremont Consolidated mine has been -settled. The union men have accepted the terms offered by Superintendent | . Goodall, and 21l qf them will be taken | back on the same terms as to hours| and wages as prevailed before the strike. Arthur Stone, foreman of the Bunker | Hill mine at Amador City, was killed | yesterday by being struck by a timber | that fell down the outaies o el TR Prospector is B CHINESE CAMP, May 6.—Alfred | 2ockweill, an old prospector, who re- sided across the Tuolumpe River from the village of Jacksonville, four miles | * from here, was cremated in his cabin | to-day. How the fire originated will | - always remain a mystery. Rockwell | lived alvne and was known to be de- | pendent on his neighbors for support. | He was a native of Engiand, aged | abput 75 years. He had resided in this county for thirty years, ADVERTISENENTS. - GET SPRING - HABIT HOOD’S - Sarsaparilla Get it To-day +. WHITE PASS MAIL STAGE MEETS WITH DISASTER Horses Are Drowned at Yukon Cross- ing and Driver and Passengers Barely Escape With Lives. VANCOUV ., B. C., May 6.—A special frcm Dawson to the Province says Owing to a sudden rise in the Hun- ton River seven horses connected with the White Pass mail stage were drowned at Yukon crossing and Driver Burwash and four passengers barely escaped with their lives. The river be- ame jammed with ice below the cross- ing in the canyon and rose twenty feet in a few hours, flooding the low ground around the road house. The people in the road house awoke at daybreak with water running into their bunks. great effort all in the road house were saved by a canoe. The Yukon and other streams are now impassable and the entire meil service is demoralized. No more mails will get through until the Yukon opens. | The river is higher that when the ice broke last year, but still the ice re- mains solid here, although the river is | open for a long distance fifty miles be- low Dawson. —_————— YOUNG GIRL TO MARRY BROTHER OF STEPMOTHER Mother of Child Is Dead and Her Father Has Not Been Heard From in Three Years. SPOKANE, Wash., May 6.—Pretty little 16-year-old Viola Fenn is about to become the bride of James H. Barkley, 40 years old, and a brother of the girl's stepmother, who to-day secured guardianship papers over the child. When the application for guardianship was presented the Judge granted the petition after a few per- functory questions, the girl nodding her head when asked if she was will- ing her stepmother should be her | guardian. Then the marriage license was procured, the guardian giving written consent The child’s mother is dead and her father has not been heard from in three vears. Viola is undersized for her age. Her pros- pective husband looks his forty years. He declines to be interviewed. ————— FAMILY IS POISONED BY EATING CASTOR BEANS Physicians Who Are Attending the Sufferers Express Hope That Most of Them Will Recover. BAKERSFIELD, May 6.—W. S. Mor- ton, one of the best known oil ope- rators in the Kern River fields, his wife and sister-in-law, Mrs. Iver, and Iline | Chase, a ten-year-old girl, are in a very dangerous condition at the Grand Ho- tel as the result of eating castor beans. Yesterday afternoon while they were at the ofl fieids the child found some beans, tasted them and declared they were good. The others tried them, liked their taste and ate about a dozen each. Before they reached home they were seized with severe pains in the stomach and vomiting. Physicians worked on them all night and all day to-day, so that to-night they are some- what improved and hopes are expressed that most of them at least will recover. i — O a— | MATILDA SHAW FILES SUIT AGAINST JOHN W. STORER Asks for $11.000 Damages, Alleging ‘That Defendant Failed to Keep Promise to Marry Her. RENO, May 6.—Matilda Shaw to- day filed a suit asking for damages in the sum of $11,000 from John W. Storer for breach of promise. The plaintiff until a few months ago made her home at San Francisco and is quite well known there. Storer is one of the proprietors of the Palace, the largest gambling house in Nevada. The plaintiff alleges that Storer prom- ised to marry her and has since re- fused to do so. She had been living in Tonopah of late, but came here to- day to commence the suit. —_———————— Wed in the Aryan Temple. By | ! | 00PS DASH THROUGH WATER AND TAK E POSSESSION OF THE PENINSULA HILL 3; Russia’s Tremendous New Loan Ex-|Garrison at the Imperiled Town plained by One of the High Authori- ties of Czar's Goyvernment. ‘ PARIS, May 6.—An authoritative statement was given to the Associated Press from the highest Government source concerning the details and cir- cumstances of the new Russian loan, as follows: “The situation has been much changed since your interview with M. Mieczislas de Routkowsky, the Russian financial agent in London, April 23, | The conditions to-day on which the | loan is based are as follows: “The cost of the war for the first ! five months up to June 1, including | $22,600,000 for railroad equipment, is $125,000,000. After June 1 the monthly cost of the war will be $3,500,000 for the navy and $15,000,000 for the army at the front, making the total war ex- penses about $245,000,000 for the year closing January 1 next. The first part of the war was more expensive than the latter, owing to the cost of mobil- ization eand the general expenses in- cident to setting the machinery of war in motion.” “Against this extraordinary expense we may have certain economics, name- ly $30,000,000 on the ordinary budget; $27,500,000 on the extraordinary budget and $9,500,000 on previous budgets, making the total economies $67,000,000. ““When the war began the Russian Government had between $150,000,000 and $200,000,000 to its credit in the'Bank of Russia and with foreign bankers. According to the monetary law of 1897, which made gold the standard for Rus- sia, there was a stock of gold amount- ing to $475,000,000 and a note issue of $350,000,000. “Therefore Russia could still have placed in circulation” $200,000,- 000 to 3$250,000,000 in notes without im- pairing in the slightest the gold law of 1597. However, by so doing the mone- tary situation after the war might have been less satisfactory than at present. “Accordingly for the purpose of pro- tecting the internal monetary situa- tion, the Russian Government has lént a favorable ear to the proposals made by French bankers and has opened negatlations at St. Petersburg with Joseph Hoettinger of the house of Hoettinger & Co., and with M. Noetz- lin, one of the directors of the Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas. They have made twp visits to St. Petersburg and are leaving there to-morrow for Paris. : FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 1S TO PROSECUTE HAYS State Cases Against Former Cashier of Defunct Bank Are Dismissed in the Superior Court. RIVERSIDE, May 6.—The State cases against former Cashier H. T. Hays of the Orange Growers’ National Bank, who is now held on charges of embez- zlement, were dismissed in the Supe- rior Court here this morning on condi- tion that new warrants be issued and | placed in the hands of the District At-! torney for immediate service in the event of Hays' acquittal by the United States court. This action was taken for the purpose of giving the Government cases against Hays precedence, as they are consid- ered to be much stronger than the State cases. The Government cases | charge embezzlement of public funds and falsification of the records of a national bank. Hays was immediately rearrested by Deputy United States Marshal P. M. Coburn and taken to Los Angeles for arraignment in the Federal court. He subsequently se- cured his release on bail pending trial. —_—————————— BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION | 1S TO BE INCORPORATED | | Will Establish a Public Aquarium and | “Museum at San Diego and Carry on Important Surveys. SAN DIEGO, May 6.—As a result of the conference at Miramar last evening regarding the relationship of the San Diego Biological Association and the State University it was decided to in- corporate the association at once, and that it shall be affiliated with the uni- versity for the first three years and shall then become a part of it. The association has funds for the first three years’ operations, and work will begin here on May 16 on a biolog- jcal and hydrographic survey of the| waters of the Pacific Ocean adjacent to this coast. A public aquarium and museum will be established. —_————————— GOVERNOR ADDRESSES MEETI AT SAN DIEGO Discusses the Colorado River Problem and Its Relation to Irrigation and the Imperial Colony. SAN DIEGO, May 6.—There was a mass-meeting at the Isis Theater this evening for the purpose of discussing the Colorado River problem in its re- Jation to irrigation and particularly to the Imperial colony. Governor Pardee was present and was warmly received. The Governor’'s address was very brief. He declared that the success or defeat of irrigation means the life or death of San Diega County. William E. Smythe, the principal speaker of the evening, took the ground that the Government should take over the Imperial system and operate it in connection with other irrigation work.along the Colorado. MANY RIOTERS ARE ARRESTED IN WARSAW POSEN, Prussia, May 6.—Warsaw newspapers say that 200 persons were arrested and one student killed in the streets on My 3, the anniversary of the promulgaiton of the Polish con- stitution. - Chief of Police Likhaeheff has been dikmissed for ircompetency because of the disturbeaces. Polish secret or- | ganizations have recently been show- ing great activity. 2L s T ELVAS LU TIBETANS ATTACK THE BRITISH MISSIO! LONDON, May 6.—The Mail’s Simla correspondent says that 800 Tibetans, coming from the direction of Shigatze, attacked the British mission, at Gyangtse at dawn on April 5. The Tibetans were repulsed with Heavy losses and fled. The British loss was two Sepoys wounded. STEAMSHIP KURFURST 18 A TOTAL WRECK LISBON, May 6.—The German mail steamship Kurfurst, which went SAN DIEGO, May 6.—There was a ashore four miles northward of Sa- wedding in the Aryan Temple at the | gres, in the extreme southwestern part Point Loma homestead this evening, the contracting parties being - Mrs. Grace Bohn (nee Green) and J. ¥. Knoche, formerly of Kansas City. Both have long beep students in the Theosophical community. Mrs. Bohn’s first husband securéd a divorce from her about a year ago after a sensd- tional “~ht in the Chicago courts. —————— San Franciscan Drowns Himself. SEATTLE, May 6.—A San Fran- cisco machinist named T. Lathouse committed suicide by jumping “from | the steamer Rainier on her up trip from San Francisco. ; . of Portugal, is a total wreck. passengers and crew are sdfe, ‘Waldeck-Rousseau May Recover. PARIS, May 6.—The condition of M. Waldeck-Rousseau is reassuring. He sleeps much and has,no pain. ¥ —— e Late Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVED. : Schr 1da Schnaur, uoua.ns“a'-'}/-' Frova e Wk Prussia, Jensen, 7 days from e Narts - Moal & : ours m'm nta Monica, Olsen 67 h | Grays Harbor. ~ The purpose of their visit is to ne- ia MEXICAN KILLS DEPUFY SHERIFE Springs Upon Vietim and Without Word of-Warning Stabs Him in the Heart Special Dispatch to The Call. POMONA,} May 6.—Frederick H. Pristol, /deputy sheriff in the beet sugar town of Chino in Pomona Val- ley, - was stabbed to death late last night by a Mexican. Bristol had been threatened with assassination by a band of lawless Mexicans who live in the foothills south of Chino. The Mex- icans visited the town last night and when Bristol attempted to quell a row | among them one of the party, Fran- cisco Ortez, secreted himself near the Southern Pacific station, where he awaited Bristol's advance. Without warning Oztez sprang upon Bristol and stabbed him in the left temple and through the heart. The whole town was roused by the ringing of fire bells and a pesse of men and horses took after the fugi- tive murderer through the foothills in- to Riverside County. Had the murder- er been ca before dawn, when ali Chino was ‘with anger and ex- citement, he have. been lynched The rope was on hand and dozens of men were ready for the work. Ortez was not captured until noon to-day and by that time Sheriff Ralphs had arrived. He succeeded in dissuading cner. Ortez was taken to San Barnar- dino under strong guard. MRS. SANGER PASSES AWAY AT PASADENA / et LOS ANGELES, May 6.—Mary Catherine Sanger, mother of . Mrs. George M. Pullman of Chicago, now occupying a mansion on Grand ave- nue, Pasadena, died this morning of heart disease. Mrs. Pullman and her mother came from Chicago early last winter and Mrs. Sanger was then sick. Mrs. Sanger was aged 86 and a native of Pennsylvania. The remains will be taken to Chicago. e S Aged Special Officer Dies. OAKLAND, May 6.—John H. Ba- ker, for nearly twenty years a special officer in this city, died at his home, 1375 Eleventh street, this evening. Death was due to dropsy and heart failure. Baker's father at one time owned what is known as Bakers Beach in San Francisco, but lost it through litigation. The special of- ficer came with his father to the coast in the early ’'50's and was 61 years of age. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Eliz- abeth Baker, and four sons, John H., George, Adam and David Baker, and three daughters, Katherine and Emma Baker and Mrs. H. Remsen. PR 45 ‘Death of a Theatrical Mnm'g\er. LOS ANGELES, May 6.—Jacob E. ‘Waldeck, manager of the Casino The- Orpheum, died to-night, aged 44 yeqrs. A week ago Waldeck broke down mentally under the strain of business troubles and wandered away. He was found Sunday night in a lone- ly canyon, nearly dead from hunger and exposure. Waldeck was in the he came here. He leaves a wife and three children. ATEIRENES Another Ploncer Passes Away. SAN JOSE, May 6.—Joseph Mortier, a ploneer of Californta and for the past 'twenty years a resident of Mountain View, died last evening in this city. He was a nattve of Franee and 65 years of age. Deceased came to Cali- fornia in the early 50s and for a num- was the inventor of the Mortier ladder, which was greatly used some years ago) A scn and daughter survive him, e Reyv. Samuel Gerhart Dead. LANCASTER; Pa., May 6.—Rev. Samuel Vogel Gerhart, D. D, LL. D, president of the Theological Seminary .| of the Reformed Church of the United States, died to-dav, aged 87 years. e itmnd s sy Well-Known Attorney Dies.’ gotiate the issue of treasury bonds, running five years, at 5 per cent. These are going to be offered to customers of the big French financial houses at near par. By so doing the Russian Government reserves the right after five years to make use of its internal credit to convert or consolidate these five-year bonds into a funded debt bearing a lower rate of interest. The amount likely to be taken up at once in Paris will be $100,000,000 and the is- sue can g0 up to $160,000,000. Already the contrdgting houses are sure to place the full amount they underwrite among their customers. Therefore no public issuance is to be made and the | public subscription at a fixed day will | be dispensed with, the issue being sold | by bankets privately.” The foregoing differs from other re- ports concerning the amount of the loan, but owing to the authoritative source it ‘can be accepted as final. It is understood that the terms will be signed - before MM. Hoettinger and Noetzlin depart from St. Petersburg to- morrow or thereafter. The signing by the French bamnks will take place next week, the issuance of the loan follow- ing immediately. e L % WILL AID IN PERFECTING WORK OF THE MOVEMENT Eight Vice Presidents Are Named by Chairman Fleming of the El Camino Real Organization. LOS ANGELES, May 6.—The execu- tive committee of the El Camino Real organization, perfected at the recent Santa Barbara convention, held its first meeting to-day and appointed a committee to perfect the work of local organization throughout the various counties of the -State. Chairman Fleming aidse appointed eight vice pres- idents, who will assist in forwarding the work of the organization. They are ‘Walter H. Bacon, Joseph R. Knowland, Mrs. Caroline M. Severance, David Starr Jordan, Bishop Joseph Johnson, President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Mrs. John F. Swift and Right Rev. Arch- bishop George Montgomery. A com- | mittee on legislation was also named. —_—— SHOOTS HIMSELF ON A CROWDED STREET Traveling Salesman of Cleveland Ends His Life in the Presence of Passengers. ST. LOUIS, May 6.—In the presence of a score of men and women, Paul CAR the pursuers from lynching their pris- | fourteen ater and formerly treasurer of the | gone out to assist in raising the anchor wholesale mercantile business in San | of onsumption and had been a great Francisco until fifteen years ago, when | Moore, a traveling salesman of Cleve- land, Ohio, to-day shot and killed him- gelf in a street car at the intersection of two of the busiest thoroughfares in the city. He was despondent. —_———————— CONNECTICUT FOR PARKER. Democratic Convention One of the Stormiest Known in State. HARTFORD, Conn.,, May 6.—In one of the stormiest gatherings the party ever held in Connecticut the Demo- cratic State Convention to-day chose delegates to the St. Louis convention and instructed them to vote as a unit for Alton B. Parker of New York as the Presidential nom- inee. A climax came at the end of two hours of angry debate between Hearst and Parker delegates in which there escaped by a hair's breadth being a personal encounter in full view of the convention between former Governor Thomas M. Waller of New London and Dr. J. J. Brothers of New Haven. The queStion being ated was the substi- tution of the minority report of the committee on resolutions for the ma- jority report. The former report fa- vored an unpledged delegation, the lat- ter a pledge for Parker and the unit rule. Personalities were bandied back and forth, the attack on Governor Wal- ler accompanying charges that he had deserted the party in 1896. Much of the actual debate between the chief participants in the incident was un- heard in the uproar, but their actions could be seen. They were forced al- most into personal combat by the del- egates crowding round. The incident was quickly smoothed over. The mi- nority report was refused substitution, 266 to 186, showing that the Hearst del- egates were outnumbered. For first delegate at large Homer S. Cummins defeated Alexander S. Troop by a vote of 331 to 127. . Bryan F. Mahan was chosen as the other delegate at large by acclamation. The convention then adjourned. —_——————————— Boy Is Accidentally Drowned. STOCKTON, May 6.—Willie Tumelty, son of D. Tumelty and a brother of City Surveyor Tumelty, was drowned in the San Joaquin River at Tretheway Land- ing, five miles below this city, this afternoon by the capsizing of a boat in which he and his brother Hugh had of a pile driver. —_———————— Former San Franciscan Kills Himself, AUBURN, May 6.—E. P. Gates, son of Justin P. Gates of San Francisco, shat himself this evening at Applegate. The young man was in the last stages May Withst for M Continued From Page 1, Column 6. kin had his way before the war, it is said he would have abandoned Port Arthur, withdrawn farther to the north and waited until his army had become overwhelming in its strength, when he would have moved forward, but this was made impossible as a consequence of the injuries sustained by the Port Arthur fleet and the im- possibility of the departure of the fleet from Vladivostok with a superior Jap- anese force outside that port. There- fore the commander in chief is waiting at Laioyang until the enemy’s plan shall have developed sufficiently to show just what line it is proposed to follow. Caution forbade an attempt in force to prevent General Kuroki’s passage of the Yalu, as the trvops landed at Pitzewo might have been diverted to take the Russians on the flank or in the rear. Now that the uncertainty is partly dispelled General Kuropatkin, from the inner lines, is free to act. That he purposes to move energetically is shown by the fact that he has sent re- inforcements to Fengwangcheng. The indications are that he intends immediately to assume the aggressive and to strike General Kuroki's army | before the latter can be reinforced through Korea. Should the Japanese landed at Pitzewo begin a northward movement enough Russian troops, it is said, are in the vicinity of Newchwang to hold the Japanese in check until conclusions have been tried with Kuro- ki. It is not anticipated, however, that the Japanese will march northward, but it is believed they will devete their | energies to effect the fall of Port Ar- thur. The receipt of news at any time of a decisive battle near Fengwang- cheng will not come as a surprise here, and already rumors are circulating in | the city which, however, lack verifica- tion and are believed to be untrue, that a battle has been fought, that the Jap- anese have been defeated with heavy loss and that General Kuropatkin was wounded. Another rumor is in circu- lation that Port Arthur has been cap- tured, but this also is scouted in re- sponsible quarters. AR ZASSULITCH MUST SUFFER. Russian General to Be Isolated for His Disobedience. PARIS, May 7.—A St. Petersburg correspondent of the Echo de Paris sends the following under date of May 6: “The general staff believes that the Japanese landed at Pitzewo a number not less than 40,000, and says that the bulk of General Kuroki's army was this Fengwangcheng. The army was ad- vancing in three columns, the third column following the coast, probably in order to communicate with the troops landed' at Pitzewo. All the reserves. provisions and ammunition were land- ed on Elliott Island. “A‘staff officer said that Lieutenant General Zassalitch would be kept in the background during the remainder of the war, and it is believed that Gen- eral Kuropatkin will personally direct operations. “I am positively able to deny the statement that Port Arthur is bottled up. The passage is still free. “The telegraph office has received in- structions not to accept messages for Port Arthur. “Vice Admiral Skrydloff and Vice Ad- miral Bezobrazoff have been ordered to | proceed to Mukden, whence they will probably go to Vladivostok.” The correspondent repeats the report that the Japanese have occupied Port Adams, and says they are advancing on Port Arthur, the garrison of which is expected to maKe a sortie. R g it JAPANESE TO ADVANCE. Oku Will Send Three Divisions Against Russian Main Force. ST. PETERSBURG, May 6.—It is un- derstood that General Oku is landing three divisions on the Yalu for the pur- pose of advancing against the Russian main force. A military writer in No- voe Vremya says: “Possession of the Yalu is a great advantage, enabling the Japanese freely to land troops and provisions and to bring ships to carry away the wounded.” He thinks Japan will hurry up and complete all those operations which they consider necessary to success be- fore the rainy season sets in, Up to date no actual returns have been made losses. The battleship Oren has been floated and has gone to Cronstadt. Prince Vessillshikoff, director of the Red Cross, telegraphs from Harbin that the commander of the Manchurian morning about nine miles from | ot | and a Siege onths. army begs for the immediate installa- tion of an extra hospital with 2000 beds. Here an office has been opened to give all information with reference to the dead, wounded and sick. Pl R PRAISE JAPANESE STRATEGY. British Applaud the Achievements of the Little Brown Men. LONDON, May 7.—The British press is loud In its expressions of admiration | for the brilllant Japanese strategy in | dealing in rapid succession three great | blows—the battle of the Yalu, the seal- | ing of Port Arthur and the landing at | Pitzewo—and the development of the | opening moves is awaited with the | greatest interest. It is beileved to be | not unlikely that the primary object | will be an asault on Port Arthur and | an endeavor to capture the Russian }fleel there. This idea is favored by | Henry Spencer Wilkinson in the Post, | a journal generally well informed on Japanese affairs. Other journals be- lieve that the Japanese have been contented to place a small force as a mask at Port Arthur and will send | their main forces from Pitzewo to co- i operate with General Kuroki's army, |tp which case, if the Russlan asser- | tion that large reinforcements have been sent to Fengwangcheng is true, i a great land battle is imminent there | or at Liaoyang. It is believed that it | is Japan's second army that landed at ! Pitzéwo and the destination of the third army is still to be revealed. No further news has reached London | beyond. belated dispatches from cor- | respondents with the Japanese army | on the Yalu detgiling events preceding the recent battle. The Chronicle’s Tokio correspondent asserts that simuitaneousiy with the | attack on Port Arthur the Japanese { laid cables between one of the islands and the mainland as a protection to their landing place. The Telegraph's correspondent at Tokio says the nine sunken fire ships at Port Arthur were laden with a mass of stone and cement. The correspondent of the Standard at Tientsin cables that Viceroy Alexieff has called on the Tartar General and all of the officials at Fengtien to quit that place immediately. RSN T COMRADES THE VICTIMS. | Russians Mistake Their Own Men for | Enemies and Fire. WASHINGTON, May 6.—The Jap- anese legation has received the fol- lowing cablegram from Tokio, under | date of to-day: | “General Kuroki, commandant of the First Army Corps, reports that on May 3 our mounted scouts, after a severe hand-to-hand fight, drove back the Russians toward Fenghuangcheng. Chinese say that on May 1 about 2000 | infantry, posted on a hill east of Feng- huangcheng, fired upon 300 comrades | retreating from the Yalu, mistaking | them for the enemy. They wounded | 100 and killed seventy. The rest of the body fled in disorder, abandoning commissary carts. “A Russian officer captured there states that the only bodies which re- treated in order on May. 1 were five or six infantry battalions and two artil- lery companies. Two hundred more Russians killed and wounded were found on the fleld and others are be- ing discovered.” i JAPAN'S NOTES MARKETED. Financiers Make a Deal for a Million | _ Pounds Sterling. NEW YORK, May 6.—Kuhn, Loeb & Co. announce that the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and the Paris Bank, Limited, of Lon- don have purchased from the Japan- ese Government 1,000,000 pounds ster- ling seven-year 6 per cent treasury notes,, redeemable after three years at the option of the Government and se- cured by an exclusive first lien on the customs. Kuhn, Leeb & Co. have agreed to join and a simultaneously public issue will shortly be made In London and New York. It is under- stood from outside sources that Kuhn, Loeb & Co. take half of the notes and will form a syndicate which will pur- chase them. vttt MINISTERS ADVISES CHINA. | | Representatives of Powers Urge the Observance of Strict Neutrality. PEKING, May 6.—The Ministers of the powers, according to good author- ity, without exception, are seeking to make the Chinese Government observe strict neutrality. —_———— BOSTON, May T7.—Fire this morning de- stroyed the wharf property of the Central ‘Wharf Corporation, causing a loss of $100,000. sufferer. He and his family came to Auburn about two years ago for Gates’ health. The funeral will be held in San Francisco. [ EOC O — 2 Stockton Gains in Population. STOCKTON, May 6.—The city enu- merators appointed to take the school census have reported that within the past year Stockton has gained 570 in population, it has built seventy-six new residences, fifteen new business build- Her ! ber of years resided at Livérmore. He | ings and one high school, the value of the new structures being $608,000. S B B A A S S B e the United States in the drydock cases at San Francisco and othér blaces, is dead, age® 42 years. He has prac- ticed law in Portland, Ore., and had been an attorney in the Department of Justice. = ; DRSS Y I University Professor Dies. PHILADELPHIA, May 6.—A cable from Paris to-day announces the | death of Professor Max Sommerville WASHINGTON, May. 6.—George [of the University of Pennsylvania, Hines Gorman, a speclal attorney for | aged 75 years, from heart disease. ADVERTISEMENTS. MateRiALS :—One quart pea beans, half cupful ml.n-gsq 5 ore. spoonful salt, half pound salt pork, quarter teaspoonful dry mustard. | Lea & Sauce THE ORICINAL Perrins’ WORCESTERSHIRE Seasoning :—Baked beans are equally good hot o, cold, but how- ever served they need the piquancy and zest quickly imparted by pouring over them a few spoonfuls of Lea @ Perrins’ Sauces JOHN DUNCAN'S SONS, Agents, NEW YORK.