The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 12, 1904, Page 1

THEE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Fran- cisco for thirty hours eading at midnight Muy 13, 1004: i San Prancisco and vicinity— winds, changing to brisk wost- A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. Pair Thursday; erly, with fog. Ol IIME XCA NO. 164. lgkt south 1) - / X | Exposition. — Alcazar—“The Two Schools.” Grand—‘‘Cleopatra.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Matinee To-Day. Mechanics’ Pavilion—Industrial Vg ) Tivoli—“A Runaway Girl.” * 3 SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY 4 1904. PRICE FIV lir- CENTS. MIKADO'S FORCES EXPECT TO OCCUPY NEWCHWANG ON FRIDAY SHANGHAI, May 11.---It is reported from Peking [that the Japanese on Monday occupied-Kaiping, sixteen miles below Tashichao, and WITHDRAWS AMERICANS ACTION FOR HER SHARE Mrs. Charles Fair’s Lieutenants Wood-;\ Mother Settles With Heirs. Amount Paid Is Kept SecretéAmbush Catches Fifteen Menj ‘ as the Figures Are Private. ¥rs “arrh: and Mrs. Vanderbilt Preferred {0 Keep the Case From ming to Another Trial. ———— BT ¥ YORK, May 11.—By co act ain: action 1ah Neis er of Mrs. Ch s L. s dis here to-da the e S t. A final judg- : n favor of the de- 1 es L. ile ac- nt issued after the judg- entered the attorneys d her family made lement satisfactory en effected. They by interested the sum would not be made was begun in February, August, 1902, be- and her family and Mrs. Vanderbilt, sis- Fair, relative to the estates of Mr. and NELSON'S SHARE. tiement Mrs and members of her h re plaintiffs with her in ms, vary- estate valued it was main sons that he died be- s whom he had willed she survive ged that th pa not learn unt r died first nd Mrs. Vanderbilt n this city and ancis Much of this tes- WITN ESSES ARFE Two French ARRESTED. witnesses, Lucien Mas [ Morranne, testified in this . ey saw the accident and vas instantly killed, nt the attorneys for moved to by the conflict- ence in the case, f the litigation and #lson is ad- red to be re- of further fighting were r the willingness of ch a sett] ye say in t ersonal part in arranging the details t bilt ¥ . N had been 4 faction presumed that everything ne properly and to the sat- of every one concerned.” 1 et < At WEALTHY WOMAN CCTSE] OF THIEVING Though Prominent in Society the Cul- prit Is Bound Over to Court. May 11.—Mrs. Laura Eb- Lerts 3 Vincennes avenue, well known in social circles, heiress to the Bradley estate and a member of one of Chicago’s weaithy families, was ar- | raigned before Justice Caverly to-day on 2 cha of ro nother woman in @ State-street department store. Frjends declare her trouble is due ab- solutely to affliction akin to klepto- Waiving exar: -tion, she was the Criminal Court in bonds of brother, W. Miner, a | estate man, signed her was released Ebberts has been long suspected v private detectives who watch and ard patrons of downtown stores and been under surveilance on numer- agions. Once before she was ar- but because of the prominence of her family connections she was al- joved to go through the Police Court under an assumed name. and upon a - plea of guilty of theft she was fined $5 2nd costs. Mrs. Ebberts is said to have made a confession. | | | | { { | | | | { MOT DO BY MOROS SR N ruif and Hall Killed in Battle, - SRR RS in Fatal Trap Near Simpatem. that they expected to occupy Newchwang on Friday. 'RUSSIANS AT PORT ARTHUR RECEIVE A SUPPLY OF WAR i'rwo Union Labor Suspects Acquitted | | aside the settlement made | Nelson | hip from | | ment, | | chnical allegation of fraud in mplaint s extremely distaste- | to Mrs. Oelrichs and Mre. Vander- Neither of them had taken any the San Francisco settlement and | IN CHICAGO | i stock was further The litigation is practically suspended owing to the transfer of the canal to United States and the liquidation | | Dominick, of Charges of Insurrection in Provines of Luzon. B8 MANILA, May 41.—Lieutenant Win- field Harper and thirty-nine men of Company F, Seventeenth United States Infantry, were caught on May $ in an ambush by several hundred Moros. Two | American officers and fifteen men were killed and five men were wounded. The ambush occurred at Simpatem, on the | east shore of Lake Liguasan, island of | indanao. he officers killed in the ambush were First Lieutenant Harry A. Woodruft and Second Li nant Joseph H. Hall, both of the Seventeenth Infantry. Lieutenant Woodruff was born in In- diana and entered the service from the State of New York. Lieutenant Hall was born in Ala- bama, and was promoted to his lieu- tenancy from the ranks. The trials of Dr. Dominador Gomez and Buenaventura Kalbaza have re- sulted in their acquittal. Dominador Gomez, ex-president of the Union, was arrested in September last upon the charges of rebellion and insur- rection for inciting ladrone leaders in the province of Luzon to take up arms against the authority of the United States. Buenaventura Kalbaza, the Nationalist party, was arrested at the same time as Gomez and held to answer on similar charges of rebellion | and insurrection against the authority | of the United States. ———e—— BRING DEEDS FOR CANAL FROM FRENCH GOVERN] ENT Assistant Attorncys Sail From Cher- bourg With Valuable Documents in Their Possession. May 11.—W. A. Day and s W. Russell, assistants to the General who came here from on to assist in the transfer canal prope sailed to-day from Cherbourg on the North German Livod iship Kaiser Wilhelm der the Panama canal and all the papers connected with the transfer. The Government has made M. Phillippe Bunau - Varilla, first Min- ister of Panama to the United States, an officer of the Legion of Honor. President Loubet acted in this request of Foreign Min- it understood T 1 of the winding up of = Panama transfer and of M. Bu- nau-Varilla's services in that connec- tion. The suit of the Republic of Colom- bia against the Panama Canal Com- pany in connection with shares of adjourned to-day. the of the canal com V. ——————— H Conspiracy Evidence. WASHINGTON, May 11.—In the case of James N. Tyner and Harrison J. Barrett, charged with conspiracy in connection with their duties as law of- ficers of the Postoflice Department, the testimony to-day was of a similar character to that heretofore presented, tending to show Barreit's connection with the leniency alleged to have been shown in certain bond investment com- panies by the department. —_———— Burial of President Candamo. LIMA, Peru, May 11.—The trans- port Constitution arrived at Callao to- night and will on Thursday land the body of President ({Candamo, which will be taken to the Church of St. where it will lie in state until Saturday, when it will be re- moved to the Cathedral for burial. No new Cabinet has yet been formed. —_———— Will Build New Fortifications. HALIFAX, N. 8., May 11.—Captain T. E. Nash of the Royal Engineers, an officer of the Imperial Government, is in Ottawa, assisting the Canadian De- partment of Militia and Defense to prepare plans for new fortifications in this country. Some of these works of defense will be erected along the American border. —_———— Railroad Bridges Are Blown Up. MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, May 11.— It is reported thalt members of the White party have blown up two rail- road bridges, which were poorly guarded, a short distance from this city. a former Spanish officer and | Union Obrero, oth- | erwise known as the Democratic Labor | | president of Tanimura, Ph.B. | Kuropatkin has Emperor that a train loaded with war | material at Port Arthur. Tokio MATERIAL FROM LIAOYAN G 4 EMPEROR NICHOLAS HOLDING “HIS MARS OF ALL THE TROOPS IN THE MILITARY DISTRICT AT ST. PETERS- BURG, WHICH INCLUDES EVERY REGIMENT OF-IMPERIAL GUARD. oo WNUAL REVIEW ON THE CHAMPS DE — ‘Train Bearing' Ammunition Escapes Notice of the Japanese. ST. PETERSBURG, May 11.—General telegraphed to . the from Liaoyang has arrived The text of General Kuropatkin’s dispatch follows: ® “Reconnoissances between Salitszai- | pudza and Fengwangcheng failed to discover Japanese troops. “A Japanese column of considerable strength advanced from Fengwang- cheng May 8, in the direction of Hai- cheng. “Pulencheng station is occupied by our frontier guards, and the damage to the railway by the Japanese as far as Sanchilipu has been repaired. the work was carried out under the supervision | Spiridonoft Battalion, took with a train full of ammunition which had arrived at Liaoyang after the land- ing of the Japanese at Pitzewo, Every preparation was made to blow up the train in case of necessity, in order to prevent its falling into the hands of the Japanese. All of Lieutenant Colonel of the Fourth Railway This gallant officer under- to get through to Port Arthur “The task was carried out, and the self-sacrifice of the men of the Fourth Rallroad Battalion was crowned with important success. “Shortly after 4 o'clock in the after- noon the train arrived at Jinshau sta- tion (40 miles from Port Arthur), where it was handed over to General Jokoff, who immediately dispatched it under proper protection to Port Arthur. Lieu- tenant Colonel Spiridonoff returned on a locomotive. “After landing at Pitzewo the Japan- ese began marching toward Kinchau. On the night of May 10 their forward guard, consisting of about two r ments of infantry, passed the night on the heights above Sanchilipu (on the railroad, about sixty miles from Port Arthur). egi- “About thirty Japanese vessels are lying north of Cape Terminal on the east coast of the Liaotung Peninsula below Pitzewo. g A PSR e 2 JAPAN'S NEW EXPLOSIVE. Commissioner ' Talks About Powerful War Chemical. VANCOUVER, B. C, May 11.—Issa L1LB. of Tokio, Japan, Trade Commissioner to Canada, arrived on the Empress of Japan and glves details of the new explosive used by Japan, referred to in an Assoclated Press dispatch from St. Petersburg. He says it was invented by a Japanese chemist and is apparently a develop- ment of lydite, the basis being picric acid. He declares it explodes under water, may be used in all weapons and is not subject to injury from damp- ness: “Much of Japan’'s success in the engagements both on land and sea,” said Tanimura in an interview here to- day, “is due to the superior qualities of the new explosive which i{s now be- ing used and which, combined with the excellent marksmanship and discipline of the Japanese troops, has resulted in victory on nearly every occasion. Since the hostilities commenced we have been manufacturing and using this new explosive exclusively. It was invented by Profesor Shimose, chief ch‘iml!t of the Imperial Government Urfiversity at Tokio, just a few months before the war commenced. The dis- covery has been kept very secret. After exhaustive tests, showing that this new explosive, which is known as Shimoses powder, was equally adaptable for rifles, artillery or heavy guns, as well as torpedoes and all kinds of submarine contact mines its manufacture was commenced in large quantities and has been going on night and day ever since.” R SRS DANGERS AT NEWCHWANG. English Have Adopted No Measures for Safety of Subjects. LONDON, May 11. — Earl Percy, Under Foreign Secretary, replying to a question In the House of Commons to-day, said the British Consul at New- chwang had not asked for a gunboat for the protection of British interests in view of the possibility of an attack by brigands. Newchwang being in the theater of war, hi® Majesty's Govern- ment some time ago took the only step possible in requesting the belligerents to safeguard - the interests of British subjects. . The Russian Government promised that all precautions would be taken. Sheuld the Russians retire from Newchwang he (the secretary) did not suppose there would be any protection for British life or property against brigandage until the entry of the Jap- anese into the town. ———— ‘War News Continued on Page 2. . T———————-l- Japanese Infantry to March on Saimadza. ST. PETERSBURG, May 11.—General Sakarohoff sent a dispatch to the gen- eral staff to-day communicating a re- port of Lieutenant General Zassulitch, dated May 10,.as follows: “Troops which appeared to be a di- vision of the Japanese guard have been advancing for the last two days from Fengwangcheng westerly in the direc- tion of Haicheng. “It Is reported that a Japanese force consisting of about a division, of in- fantry intended to march on Saimadza with forty guns and fifteen hundred cavalry. “From reports received from the river | Dazaw it may be concluded that the Japanese army is concentrated in three groups, the two southern. groups be- ‘Ing on the lower section of the river Tayang at Hondouhanya, on the left bank of the river at Dayan and at Donamyo in the same locality, and the northern group opposite Habalina on the road from Fengwangcheng to Sali- daza, fourteen to sixteen miles from Fengwangcheng. “It is difficult to obtain informetion from the local Chinese. In one case we discovered. that the Chinese had warned the Japanese troops of an am- buscade which had been arranged by Cossacks.” A Sl R L, COSSACKS ARE REPULSED. Make Attack on Anju, but Are Driven Off by Garrison. TOKIO, May 11, 7 p. m.—Details of an attack by Russian Cossacks at An- Ju, Korea, yesterday morning were re- ceived here to-day. The Russian cavalry - numbered 200 men, and their attack was ' spirited. The Japanese garrison resisted stoutly and succeeded in driving off the enemy. Later Japanese reinforcements arrived from Pingyang. Indications point to the presence of a Russian force at Yongbyong, be- tween Anju and Unsan, but it prob- ably is small. 1t is evident that these Russian cav- alrymen were sent south for the pur- pose of harassing the Japanese flanks and lines of communication. The Japanese report of the fighting at Anju does not give any losses. SEOUL, Korea, May 11.—The sudden attack on the Japanese garrison at Anju by 200 Russians confirms pre- vious reports of the presence of Rus- sian scouting parties behind the Japan- ese lines. The small Japanese garrison at Anju indicates that the blow was not ex- pected. TOKIO, May 12, 11 a. m.—Later de- tafls of the Russian attack on Anju last Tuesday state that the fighting lasted all day. Japanese reinforcements arrived. from Pingyang at 1 o’clock in the afternoon. The Russians retired Wednesday morning at the approach of further Japanese reinforcements from Kosen. The Japanese are pur- suing the Russians in the direction of Kaichonsg. The Japanese casualties ' at Anju were fpur killed and six woundetl. The Russian casualties were above fifty. A Russian prisoner said that the Cossack raiders num| 500. o, HILLS MEN DOMIVATE - CONVENTION Mead Named to Lead | | Republicans of | - Washington. Intrepid Magnate. Dictates| Policy and His Word | ' Is Law. {Governor McBride Overwhelmingly Defeated on Measure fo Estab- | lish Railroad Commission. Special Dispatch to The Clll.. TACOMA, Wash., May 11.—Albert E. Mead of Whatcom was nominated for Governor to-day by . the Republican State Convention. The contest was a ‘bitter one and resulted in a complete | victory for the Hill forces. A feature of the convention was the | repudiation of Governor McBride and | his platform plank favoring the crea- tion by the next Legislature of a rail- | road commission. The railroad forces dominated by the Hill interests were in complete control, and late this after- | noon, after a three hours’ fight, they | defeated McBride's railroad comm(s-i sion plank by a vote of 406 out of 660 | delegates. i The platform instructs the delegation to ‘the national conveation to support Roosevelt. It indorses the administra- | tions of McKinley and Roosevelt. fa-| vors protective tariff and indorses the | administration’s Panama policy and | national irrigation prdjects. The plat- | form contains this plank on currency: “Our monetary system is now on| such a stable basis that men look back | in wonder and amazement when they | recall the wild vagaries and the still | wilder Democratic theories of 1896." | By yesterday’'s decision to renom- inate the present Congressmen the pol- | iticlans were eliminated from the State | convention. A fierce Senatorial con- | test is now in progress between Sena- | tor Foster of Tacoma and S. H. Piles | of Seattle. Piles’ supporters last night | | considered a proposition to combine | with Governor McBride. To prevent this and to insure the nomination of| the slate made up this morning, the| railroad leaders last night sent to Se- | attle hurriedly for John D. Farrell, as- | sistant to President Hill of the Great | Northern and his personal representa- | tive in this State. Farrell forced the nomination of Mead for Governor and completed the slate, -which went | through with a rush late this afternoon. The convention adjourned after com- pleting the following ticket: | For Congress—Will E. Humphrey of | King; Wesley L. Jones of Yakima and | Francis W. Cushman of Pierce. | Governor—Albert E. Mead of What com. Lieutenant Coon of Jefferson. Secretary of State—Samuel H. Nich- ols of Snohomish. | State Treasurer—George G. Mills of | Kitsap. < Attorney General—John D. Atkinson of Chelan. Land Commissioner—E. W. Ross of | Cowlitz. Superintendent of Public Instrue- tion—R. B. Bryan of Chehalis. Justices of the Supreme Court— Marka Fullerton of Whitman and Frank H. Rudkin of Yakima. A ity CONNECTICUT FOR ROOSEVELT WITH UNIT RULE ORDER NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 11.—The administration of President Roosevelt was indorsed at the Republican con- vention to-day and it recommended the fourteen delegates to the National Convention to vote as a unit for his nomination. Charles F. Brooker of Ansonia and John L. Robinson of Hartford were elected delegates at large to the National convention. s Maryland Names Delegates. BALTIMORE, Md., May 11.—The Maryland State Republican Conven- ftion met to-day. United States Sen- ator McComas, who was chairman, de- livered a lengthy speech in which he strongly praised the administration of President Roosevelt and severely ar- | raigned the Democrats. The follow- ing delegates at large to the Chicago National Convention were elected: United States Senator McComas, Gen- eral Felix Angus, William H. Jackson and Stevenson A. Williams. poaan D i Tllinois Names Cannon. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 11.—The Republican State Central Committee to-day voted to seat in the temporary organization of to-morrow’s State con- vention the_ Yates delegations from Cumberla: and John-o% counties. The committee formally Mlecided to name Congressman Cannon for tem- porary chairman. Governor—Charles M. ! ——————— Colonel Bristol Dies. NEW YORK, May 11.—Colonel B. B. Bristol, U. 8. A, retired, is dead at his home here. He was born in De- troit, Mich., in 1838, entered the army under General Lewis Cass and after the Civil War served ia several In- dian campaigns. 1 e 1 FOURTEEN HURT 1§ A COLLINIO] Electric Car Crashes Into a Santa Fe Train. Passengers Have Miracu- lous Escape From Death Near Los Angeles. Impact of Swift Running Motor De- rails Two Coaches but No One Is Killed. LOS ANGEL May 11.—A train on the Pacific Electri¢ Railroad, bound from Lcs Angeles to Whittfer, crashed into a Santa Fe passenger train from San Diego at Los Nietos crossing, ten miles from this city, shortly after 6 o'clock this evening. Fourteen persons were injured, four on the Santa Fe train and ten on the electric car. The names of the injured follow. Passengers on the Santa Fe train: W. E. PLUMMER, Los Angeles, in- jured internally, usly. G. E. LIV Los Angeles, head cut, not V. L. C. SCHALK, Los Angeles, head cut, not seriously. J. 8. FADDEN, Los Angeles, not ser- ious. Passengers on the electric ecar: MRS. A. L. JORDAN, Whittier, in- ternal injuries, serious. MRS. JOHN WOOD, East Whittier, internal injuries, ous. JOHN MARTIN, Whittier, head cut, not serious. W. H. HODGIX, Whittier, head badly cut. MRS. JAMES OATS, Whittier, head dnd face cut. JOHN PITZER, Whittier, scalp wound. ED RAYNOR, Whittier, head and face cut. MRS. GEORGE WEINSHANK, Whittier, cut by glass. MRS. J. J. BEEBE, Whittier, serious. MRS. F. B. FARQUHAR, Whittier, not serious. The Santa Fe train was late and was Tunning at a high speed. The elec- tric train approached the crossing, which is at right angles to the Santa Fe tracks, at full speed, probably thir- ty miles an hour. When within a reasonable distance the motorman, as he declares, applied the air brake, but it refused to work. Nothing then could stop the train and it dashed against the side of the Santa Fe smoker. The impact broke the Santa Fe train in two, crushed in the side of the smoker and tore away the platform of the day coach. The smoker and the day coach were derafled. The motorman stuck to his post and was uninjufed. It is not thought any of the injured will die, though several are very seriously hurt. —_——— e —— YOUNG BOXER MEETS DEATH IN PRIZE RING not Johnnie Bryant Dies From Effects of Blows Given by Negro Opponent. FRESNO, May 12.—In a ten-round preliminary before the Central Cal- ifornia Athletic Club here last night, Johnnie Bryant was pounded into in- sensibjlity by Walter Robinson, a ne- gro of this city, and received injuries from which he died at the County Hospital at 1 o'clock this (Thursday) morning. The fight ended in the ninth round. Bryant was practically out the whole of that round. He was floored six times. His seconds had thrown the sponge into the ring when the blow on the jaw that rendered Bryant uncon- scious was struck. Robinson has been arrested. Bryant's home is in Los Angeles. For several months he has been con- nected with prize fight camps here and in Bakersfleld. The main event of the evening was called off. BEAR ATTACKS AND INJURES HIS PURSUERS Two Men Attempt to Capture an Es- caped Animal and Both Have Narrow Escape. TACOMA, Wash., May 11.—Arthur Dye of Olympia was almost killed this afternoon by a black bear, heretofere a captive at Tumwater Park. Several béars escaped last night. Dye and Night Watchman Nichols sought to recapture them. One turned viciously, pouncing upon Dye and chewing his leg. also injuring his back and thigh. Nichols was badly hurt while rescuing Dyé. The bear was driven off and later was shot. . —_———————— Clement Polk Passes Away. PETALUMA, May 11.—W. Clement Polk, a well-known traveling salesman of San Franecisco, died here to-day after a lingering illness. The deceased was the son of Mrs. Josephine and the late C. E. Polk, for years Assessor of Peta- juma. Polk was a native of Petaluma, aged 25 years. The funeral will take place Thursday. ]