The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 13, 1904, Page 1

Forecast made cisco for thirty midnight, May 13 San Francisco winds, with fog. A G. TEE WEATKER. Cloudy ¥Friday; brisk westerly at San Fran- hours ending and vicinity— MCcADIE, District Forecaster. .2 Exposition. | Tivor—a Bunaway @irL» 4 XCV—NO. 165. 'SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FORTUNE I\ JEWELS S STOLEN Woman Loses Valise! on an Aflantic | Ener. | Twenty Thousand Dollars’ Worth of Gems Dis- ! appear on Voyage. ! Police of Paris Are Informed of Theft | on Arrival of the Steamer and | Search for Culprit, 1 et | Mrs. Grey, an Amer- ourg from New On obtaining on her ar- a valise con- 3 The he thief. 12.—The North Kron Prinz d hence on May 8 uth and Bremen, 1 Mond Is. wife of Hawalian —— FIRES SHOTS AT MINISTER Rev. J. B. Cranfill and Rer. 8. A. Haydon Have Fight on Texas Pacific Train ALLAS —There was & sens T s a2y to-day oh E €z X Pacific Rail- roa exarkana, between b s J n A. Haydon, ) f « fired two £hots 1r s y while Prohibition t of the —————— Y OF KILLIN AMERICANS IN MINE TELLS STOR OF NAO/| General Wade Notifies War Depart- Disaster to Officers of ith Infantry. —The War from Gen- nding the United e Philippines, the t of the ambush- of Company F, ry, in Mindanao, | ment of the Seventes sance to lo- d been sending trying to hment of Com- Infantry, consist- isted men, was Lake Ligua- on Sth instant. Harry A. Woodruff, tenant Joseph H. Hall and | ed men e killed and men wounded Wood has ordered troops Proc and recover bodies and rms of our killed and to punish the H offenders. No further details have been received.” —_————— ARREST GUY ANDREWS ON INSANITY CHARGE Son of Nebraska University Chancellor Is Victim of Dipsomania in Serious Form. LINCOLN, Neb., May 12.—Guy E. v we, son of E. Benjamin An-| chancellor of the University of ka, was brought back to Lin- to-day in the custody of the ff on allegations of insanity. )¢ Andrews has developed a | mania for petty theft, caused by al- | coholism, it is claimed, but it was not | until he had forged his father's checks | that the latter was compelled to place his son under restraint. The young .man has been committed to a private asylum and will be treated for dipso- mania. S N Appreciates Service, LONDON, May 12.—King Edward, “in & letter to Lady Stanley intimating that he will send a representative to | the funeral of her husband, alludes gracefully to the great services ren- dered by Sir Henry through his explo- Tation & South Africa. | | ! HITT MAY BE CHOICE OF ILLINOIS PARTY FOR UVICE PRESIDENT Wl s s (32 é 0 o o £ 4 | water was being constructed so that | i e i B RO TaE ships could lie at the piers and load TINGUISHED SENATOR, WHO WERE I and unload regardless of weather. | D VENTION. | | Docks for foreign vessels, steam and $ =24 £ " +- | sailing, extended between the piers and . 5 | along the shore for two miles. There Fairbanks’ Name Taken From Commits ;. g, 75, o docks, one in- - g |and the other designed to aecomodate tee Prior to the Organizing. £h atioat ~anti T o1 ot e SPRINGFIELD, 1il, May 12,—All|chairman ot this convention whose | 1902, and it was estimated that the cost has been chdosen by the nomina indications to-day pointed to a big breast would not swell with pride | of completing the works would be near- | committee of the National Ci\'icl fight over the seating of contested would be less than human.” % Iy $20,000,000, but this does not in any | Federation to succeed the late Senator | delegates in 1he temporacy sviganise- At this juncture the Speaker was in- | way represent the total cost of the Marcus A. Hanna as president of the terrupted by Secretary ‘Hay, who pre- | |sian E RUSSIANS - MAKE RU OF DALMY, Muscovites Pearful of Advance of the Japanese, Improvements in the Sea- port Destroyed Dy Explosives. — | Troops of the Batfling Empires As- semble Cautiously Before a De- cisive Fngagement. ST. PETERSBURG, May 13.—An attempt to send a response to a pri- vate telegram from Port Arthur re- celved yesterday, May 12, failed, the postoffice officials refusing to accept it. Viceroy Alexieff has telegraphed to the Emperor announcing that the Rus- sians have blown up the docks and | | piers at Port Dalny, Liaotung Penin- | sula, presumably to render more dif- ficult a Japan landing at that point. Later telegrams received indicate that the whole of Port Dalny has been destroyed by the Ru: . Port Dalny, on Talienwan Bay, on | the east coast of the Iiaotung Penin- | sula, was intended by Russia to be the | chief comm I emporium of its east- | ern dominion An ediet providing for | its construction was issued by the Rus- v July 30, 1899, and Port | | Dalny, fully equipped with all modern | improvements, doc railroad facilities, merce in Decem Talienwan Ba one of the finest | deep-water harbors on the Pacific. It | {is free from ice in winter time and | ships drawing thirty feet of water | can enter at low tide without difficulty and without the aid of pilots can sail | or steam alongside the immense docks and viers, where, their-cargoes can be lcaded into raitroad cdrs and run di- | rect for 6000 ‘miled into the City of St. | Petersburg. Five large piers had been | constructed, each supplied with nu- | merous railroad tracks and immense | warehouses and elevators, gas, electric !lights and water and a large break- warehouses and | opened to com- | 1901. Wi | Over $6,000,000 had been expended on the harbor svstem before the end of erection of this great commercial port, tion of the Republican State Conven- | gsented him with a handsome silk badge | which;with Port Arthur, distant about tion. The pl of the anti-Yates-|of oftice | twenty miles, was leased by the Chi- Lowden forces were carefully guarded.| “I would rather have that,” he re- | nese Government to Russia in 1898. | Appearances seem to show that Yates | marked, “than the yellow jacket of a| Nearly 25,000 men were employed 14 Lowden would be able to control | Chinese mandarin.” (Laughter and |daily on the work of constructing the | t P | cheers.) ‘,{:orln land m\:;n. ‘T?(- rulallpupumion: ation. | o = S ar i ad been estimated at about 60,000, convention reassembled to- | FROTECTION DEFENDED. | mostly Chinese, Japanese, Koreans and night the credentials com-| Then Mr. Cannon, resuming his formal | Ryssians. abittes Nt tadly 4D retoEs) , Speech, defended the policy of protec- | Further progress of the Japanese in’ or ot im yarned until to-morrow, | on- _His Teference’ to the late Presi- | Southern Manchuria is reported fn. the | When commiitee on sesotutions [HSHE :\1(-Kml'-y in this connectlon was | following dispatch given out last night: | met the resolutions adopted by the |l0udly cheered. The currency system | “The position of the division which | sl glde acs e ¢ 1 perfected by the party he declared to | is following the direct road to Haicheng | Fairbanks for Vice President were | ¢ Detter than any save that of France. | has not been disclosed, and caution is | re subsequently with- presented, but ¥ y ted that Congress- drawn, it belng The internal commerce of the United States, he said, was worth more than “‘all the commerce of all the nations of | also apparent in the operations on the | peninsula of Liaotung, where 20,000 | Japanese are seeking to render them- | man ept the nomina 5 tion ed to him. This was |2/l the world. | selves secure in the western section of | el 2dow insirmctions for |, The policy of the Republican party, | the peninsula, and in the vicinity of | Hitt by convention. he said, was to uphold this system as | and below Pitzewo, before inaugurflt.i The committee on credentials spent | #82inst the systems of all other na- }mg the operations which have been | the whole afterncon in hearing the |tions. -The ' Speaker's peroration in- | planned county contest cases, deciding w.o‘(‘luded a recital of the deeds of the} Nothing has been given out regarding | cases in favor of its own members. | E7¢at Republicans of Illinois. The |the raid of Cossacks at Anju. There | The Lowden-Yates combination, aft Speaker coupled the names of Oglesby | | on and Palmer and the great war Gov- ernor, Yates, which were received with deafening cheers. When the report of the caucuses haa been submitted the convention took a recess until 5 p. m. A sensation was created by the dis- covery that a large number of tickets unseating the Dineen members from the Fourth District and the Hamlin member in the Twenty-first District, | had the committee by a vote of 16 to 8 | all questions, and the Yates and | Lowden delegates seated by the State | Committee were given seats in the convention. For a time the opposi- is no such general in the Far East as Mandaritoff, of whose force the raid- | ing Cossacks were sald to form a part. | Vice Admiral Chouknin, it is an- nounced, has been appointed to com- | manad the Black Sea fleet. | LIAOYANG, May 12—The train which left Port Arthur at the time of | the resumption of communication ar- | was called to | committeemen being named. | National tion made a fight, but it finally recog- nized the inevitable and the various contests were decided by viva voce | vote. DELEGATES AT LARGE. The committee to pelect delegates at large to the national convention se- lected Senators Cullom and Hopkins, Speaker Cannon and Governor Yates. There were contests in several of the district cauncuses before the convention order separate sets of In calling the Second district caucus to order a prominent Louden adherent, T. N. Jamieson, Naval Officer of the port of | Chicago, who as a political leader was given a sensational defeat at the Chi- cago primaries, said: “We who are about to die salute you.” The Twelfth and Twenty-second dis- tricts indorsed Congressman Hitt of lllinois for Vice President. Several other districts indorsed Senator Fair- banks of Indiana. Governor Yates was the first of the prominent figures to arrive at the State convention. He was given a royal ova- tion by his friends. Then came Attor- ney General Hamlin, whose followers attempted .to outdo the demonstration of the Yates men. When Senators Cui- lom and Hopkins and Speaker Cannon came in arm in arm the convention arose with one accord and shouted un- til tired. CANNON AS CHAIRMAN. State Chairman Rowe presented as temporary chairman of the convention Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker of the House of Representatives. With a unanimious shout of aye the convention approved the nomination. Chairman Cannon spoke briefly. “It goes without saying,” ' he re- marked, “that the man selected as of admission to the convention hall had been forged. It is charged that this was done by the Hamlin men. TALUBR L CLEVELAND DISSENTS. Does Not Agree With Fditor Who Urges Him for Standard-Bearer. STOCKTON, May 12.—A. C. Oullahan, editor of Buzz, a monthly publication of this city, published in a recent num- ber a strong article on “Cl ' Eligibility,” e the former President again be made the Democratic standard-bearer. Oulla- han sent a letter and the editorial to Cleveland, and to his surprise promptly received a revly, together with a pho- tograph of the former President. The letter is as follow PRINCETO) J.. May 5, 1904 —Mr. A. C. Ouliahan, 9 East Channel Street, Stock- ton. Cal.—My Dear Sir: I have received your recert letter, accompanied by the extract from your paper dealing with the question of my eligibility as a possible candidate for the Presi. dency. You know, I suppose, that it is im- possible for me to ‘agree with your opinions on that subject. as expressed in the article re- ferred to, but 1 caanot refrain from saying to you that I am exceedingly gratified by the per- sonal friendllness and esteem of which your article is evidence. It would certainly be great affectation on my part if I were not willing to confess that such expressions as these on the part of my countrymen afford complete com. pensation for much that is printed of quite a different character in these days of free and lberal discussion. The ph which you request will be forwarded in one or two days. Yours very truly, GROVER CLEVELAND, —_——— Miles for President. TOPEKA, Kans, May 12.—David Overmeier, one of the -delegates at large from XKansas to the National Democratic convention, announced to- R e Continued on Page 2, Column 4. ' In which it was urged that | rived here to-day. A passenger said: “Life at Port Arthur goes on quietly, and there are plenty of provisions there. “On the day that communication was cut off erowds of people listennd to a band concert on the houlevard. The last attack of the fireshins was a wonderful sight. The fireships and zor- pedo-boats moved swiftly. The long streaks of light from the searchlights lit up the sea, and the vivid red Aasnes of the guns of the batteries and those | far out at sea cut the darkness every second, as though a juggler were play- ing with fire. The crews of the fire- ships took to the boats, the search- lights were turned on them and the guns sent them to the bottom.” The first distribution was made to- day of crosses of the Order of St. George to the men of the Eleventh and Twelfth regiments for bravery dis- played at the battle of Kiulien- cheng. The following order of the day was read to the scldiers: “The commander of the Manchurian army sends these decorations for dis- ! tribution to the men who showed great bravery at the battle. Every one who , receives the cross of St. George must wear it with honor and try to be worthy of this reward of the Em- peror. “Wear it, and if, with God’'s grace, you return to your family, tell your children and in old age your grand- ! childreu how you fought on the keights of Kiu Lien Cheng—one against six.” LONDON, May 13.—The Daily News states that Vice Admiral Kamimura addressed the men who were going to bottle up Port Arthur as follows: “My Dear Children: I am sending you to the most terrible spot in the fight. You are victims promised to the enemy’s guns. Had I sons I should CIDIC FEDERATION : MAKES JUDGE GRAY HANNA'S SUCCESSOR | { PSSR ¢ | PROMINENT EASTERN JURIST, WHO HAS BEEN SELECTED AS THE SUC- OR OF THE LATE TOR HANNA IN THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE NATIONAL CIVIC FEDERATION. _— | Nominating Committee Names the Emi- nent Jurist for Honors. PHILADELPHIA, May 12.—It has been learned that Judge George Gray federation. 5 At the recent meeting of the federa- tion the matter of filling the vacancy | caused by Senator Hanna's death was delegated to a nominating committee composed of Bishop Potter and Presi- dent John Mitchell of the United Mine ‘Workers. The election of Judge Gray is to be ferred until after the National | Demoeratic Convention in St. Louis for fear it tion is aiding in making a possible Presidential candidate conspicuous or | important. WILMINGTON, Del, May 12.— | Judge Gray when informed to-night that he had been agreed upon for the National Civic Federation chairman- iship, to succeed the ‘late Senator Hanna, said that he had not. heard of | { his selection | the matter. and declined to discuss s FIND A BODY N & CHIVNEY Corpse of Missing Child Was Within a Few Feet of Her Parents’ Dwelling S LERE Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, May 12.—Cramped into a chimney in a building adjoining the one in which was her home, the body of Josephine McCahill was found to- night. Opinion is divided as to the cause of the child’s death. Was it murder or accident is a question which remains for the police to answer. Of the thousands who have taken a deep interest in the fate of the child, who disappeared from her home ten days ago, a great majority believe that a crime has been committed. The feel- ing against.the Chinaman who has been under suspicion was so intense to-night that Captain Herlihy provided a strong guard to see that no harm befell him. All of the time that the police of this and adjoining cities, assisted by hundreds of private and thousands of amateur detectives have been search- ing for Josie McCahill, and while her mother and her brother and sisters have been grieving over her disap- pearance, only a thin brick wall di- vided her from the home which her loss desolated. Just at_the moment that her muti- lated body was drawn from its strange hiding place a mass-meeting was gath- ering in Terrace Hall. Great crowds had already assembled and it was ap- parent that an overflow meeting would have to be held, when word was re- celved that the child’s body had been found. e T O T e A IV be proud to send them with you. You go to show the 'world the courage ot the Samural in the land of the rising sun.” : The Shanghai correspondent of the Standard reports that a Cossack pris- oner who was taken at Anju says the Russians have organized a complete coast guard system from Kiung Suns, in Northeastern Korea, through Pos- siet Bay to Vladivostok. PR ‘War News Continued on Page-3. DISPUTE GROWS MORE BITTER | Trouble Between Peru and Brazil May Mean a War, | | keep the whole ranger force | | State might seem that the federa- | CARNIVAL OF CRIVE IN TEXAS 'Wholesale Murder Is Done in Four Counties. —_— Thirty Lives Are Taken by Settlers Engaged in Feuds. Prominent and Wealthy Men Said to Be Implicated in Numerous Mysterious Tragedies. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. AUSTIN, Texas, May 12.—Captain W. J. McDonald, the commander of a | company of Texas Rangers, arrived | here to-day from a section of East | Texas, where he has been for the past | five months running down murderers. |In that time he and flve members of {his company arrested fifteen men | charged with murder. They are all in jall and under indictment for the crimes. < Captain McDonald reported to Gov- ernor Lanaham to-day that there is ‘lenough work in the four counties where he and his men have been to of the busy for several months. He states that he never saw such a disre- gard for human life as exists among the people of Trinity, Walker, Madison and Leon counties. Men are shot down from ambush upon the slightest provo- cation and the local peace officers have | been powerless to put a stop to the |‘carnival of crime which has disgraced that section for many years. In his investigations in Trinity Coun- | ty, Captain McDonald says he learned | that more than thirty murders had | been committed in that county during the last few years, very few of which Pecame publicly known. Men of prom- inence and wealth are involved in these crimes. They seem to be good citizens in every respect except that they seem | to care nothing for shedding human | blood. Captain McDonald says that his life | has been threatened frequently and that a short time after he arrived there | he was fired upon at close range by an { ex-convict in Polk County. He returned | the fire, wounding the man, and effect- | ed his capture. —_———————— FLAMES ARE SWEEPING PORTLAND'S RIVER FRONT | Fire Breaks Out in Mill of Day Lumber Company and Spreads to Adjoining Property. PORTLAND, Ore, May 13, 1 a. m.— A fire which broke out about midnight |and is still burning destroyed the mill of the Day Lumber Company. From there it spread to the Ira F. Powers & Co. mill, which is now burning. Other mills located near by are in danger o | destruction. The mills are located on ithe river front at the southern end | of the city. | #1:20 a. m.—The fire spread to the | Multnomah Trunk and Box factory and Jones’ lumber mill, both of which will be totally destroyed. The loss will exceed $250,000. RS |saNTa Mo s BY FIRE | - Score of Cottages Are Burned to the Ground and Arcadia Hotel Nar- rowly Escapes Destruction. SANTA MONICA, May 12.—A puff of Which Will Be Prolonged | —_— | ignited gasoline and a stiff shore gale WASHINGTON, May 12.—Instead of | Made & clean sweep this afterncon of tending tc ward an amicable settlsment | Pearly a score of cottages. The loss by arbitration of the dispute between "lgsregnles S55,000. = The explosion occurred at 2:45 o'clock Brazil and Peru over the sovereignty ; in a cottage on Sunset beach, near the of the Acre territory, the question is Arcadia Hotel. The wind was blowing growing more bitter and is likely to result in a prolonged war. Peru now doubts the exvressed intention of Bra- zil in the Acre territory and bitterly resents the Brazilian demand that Peruvian troops within the disputed zone immediately vacate. The nearest Peru has come to a compliance is to suggest that the territory be neu- tralized. ator Calderon, the Peruvian Minister, says, in part: “Brazil's attitude is un- Jjustifiable, also in its pretension that Peru, previous to the initiation of negotiations, should evacuate disputed zone. That would mean the voluntary abandonment in favor of Brazil of the land, the occupancy of which has been admitted as legitimate by his Excellency Magalheer, a prede- cessor of Baron de Rio Branca (Bra- zil's Minister for Foreign Relations) Yurua River. “The conciliatory policy of Peruvian Government with regard to the dispute may be easily ascertained by its two recent proposals to Brazil's Foreign Office, which were, tunately, rejected by the latter. One was the determining of points and pro- visional possession in the disputed river, and the other unconditional ar- bitration. In view of the rejection of the proposals just mentioned, it has finally submitted plans of neutralizing the disputed zone, pending an standing or award of an arbitration tribunal that should decide upon its ultimate destiny, and it is hoped that this conciliatory effdrt on the part of Peru shall meet with the approval of the Government at Rio de Janeirs.™ A statement issued to-day by Sen- | the | with regard to the headwaters of the' the | unfor- | under- | strong from the west when the blaze | started and an hour and a half later | everything had been burned off smooth | back to the steep bluff. To the south the fire ran the distance of a block, and to the north it burned up to within ! six doors of the Areadia Hotel. —_———— | SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS CLOSE THEIR CONVENTION SANTA BARBARA, May 12.—The | last day’s session of the convention of | the city and county school superin- | tendents was devoted almost exclu- | sively to routine work. Papers that had been prepared and read by prom- | inent- superintendents related to or- | ganization of union high school dis- | tricts and favored the passage of laws to put this section of the educational system on a more popular and general basis. The superintendents concluded their | labors to-night and adjourned, the meeting having been ecalled rather than extend sessions until to-morrow, !as was planned yesterday. " —_—————— FACULTY REINSTATED AND STUDENTS PLEASED TACOMA, May 12—The trustees of ‘Whitworth College yesterday re-elected | President Gault and reinstated two | other members of the faculty, who were { deposed two weeks ago. At that time ! the trustees took exception to the fact | that students of this strict Presbys terian school had been permitted to dange in private homes and even dance | the Virginia reel at college. The stu- dents’ announced that they would de- part in a body if President Gault left the college. To-day's -eeting has har~ monized everythiar