The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 15, 1904, Page 21

i FORTY-EIGHT PAGES—SAN FRANCISCO, SU DAY, MAY 15, 1904_PAGES 21 TO RUMORS OF BATTLE AND RUSSIAN DEFEAT SHANHATKWAN, May 14 (9:30 p. m.).—A report of a severé engagement in the hills around Hsiuyen last Thursday has been received here. It lacks verification, but according to it the Ru ied, and the Japanese occupied the town of Hsiuyen. The Japanese loss is not given. It is impossible to obtain confirmation here of the reported fighting, but a battle there is not unlikely, Hsiuyen is situated in the midst of rugged hills, where a small force could resist the ememy with telling effect before being compelled ultimately to retreat. corps I this place is in the path of theadvance of the ians lost 1500 men in killed st Japanese Army Corps. Haicheng is the apparent objective of this LONDON, May 14.—A telegram from Paris says a rumor is current there that Port Arthur has fallen and that 10,000 men were killed during the engagement. Nothing confirmatory in obtainable in Londog. The rumor is probably false. Neither St. Petersburg nor Tokio has had any intimation of the beginning of an attack on Port Arthur. — FRUIT DISPLAY OF CALIFORNIA | IS THE GEM OF THE EXPOSITION NIA HORTICULTURAL DISPLAY ‘A E OF 'WALNUT SHELLS, AND IS BUT ON T THE ST. LOUIS NE O\ ershadows All Other Industrial Exhibits and the Cam-| paign Is Already Bearing Results. the io their best, cnowledge ority that m in horti- class by her- by any she to tempt of the'lady is built of culture and this n 1 rise the 2 gentle slope s high Golden r exhib- gro orthwest out facades, the simply on tables lings about them, the gorgeous show made by California attracts the eye from most any part of the interior of the building. Ceming up through this great pralrie of apples to the stands and pyramids of luscious fruits that risein their rich profusica in ‘the California space is like bursting from the wilder- glow of the promised need read the name vellow oranges on the facade to know that State’s exhibit. She stands divinely by herself. t one side of California is Louis- queen State of the South. With all her warmth and all her fertility he cannot vie with this younger claimant for the world’s homage. CALIFORNIA'S FINE SHOW. Almost every county, from northern to southern border, has contributed and all the material is used to ad- gage. The immense walnut ele- phant sent by Los Angeles and the model of the State Capitol done in al- inonds, one of the contributions of Sacramento, are attractive and novel features. At another side of California is Kansas. One of the prettiest things exhibited by her is a tall jar of queen s high. | the | BY PAUL EDWARDS. tolives. A Californian secing these asked in surprise of the custodian: Do you grow these in ; 528 " was the reply. “We only put them there to dress up the display.” They were probably grown in Call- fornia. Noticing some processed lemons. the an asked if they were raised ansas yes—in hothous was the There was only one jar of themy Green olives and green fruits on the branch form an attractive feature of California’s display. The foliage shows brightly through the gblished jars and { makes a pleasing sight { “Go and see that wonderful fruit | show made by Califor ' is becom- ing a common plece ‘of advice. ‘i DISPLAY BEARS RESULTS. ! The first fruit has been plucked | from California’s tree | As ‘a result of her exhibit here two [or St. Louis’ wealthiest business men, |a banker and a merchant, are now on | their way to the Golden State in the of enterprise. | interest of a syndicate formed for the | purpose of developing land for settlers. | This syndicate wants tracts of the land |on which grows the fruit and other | products shown here, especially tokay {grapes. It intends buying a small piece first—small for a syndicate—and experimenting with this. The agents are instructed The confident Californians say there will be no doubt of the result of the experiment. Judge Wills and Dr. Green of the Sacramento Development Association achieved this first important resuit. They were introduced to a member of the syndicate among the many other men of weatlh and enterprise they are making a business of meeting here and he gald: “You are the very men we want to see; we want to get posted on California land.” The Sacramento representatives showed him Califor- nia’s fruits, vegetables and cereals and the tokay grape exhibit and the story of the profits derived from that grape impressed him the most. - So the first experiment made by the syndicate will be with tokay grapes and some day the rich city of St. Louis will have brought directly to it in a manner that will leave no doubt in any mind the whole wonderful story of the tokay in California. A SYNDICATE PROJECT. ‘The scheme of this syndicate is some- thing akin to that of building and loan associations. In the latter you acquire a house, in the former a farm. The syn- | dicate issues five-year bonds calling for to secure 640 acres. | | five, ten or twenty acres or more, and | { when th mature the owner gets his [1and. already cultivated and producing | | crops. The buyer of the bonds does not live on. the land until he acquires it, | | but the syndicate plants it and kecps}' | up the improvements. The representatives sent on will go! far north as.Chico, and will also ke a look at San Joaquin. It is likely | they will secure land near Florin, in | Sacramento County. | The California building will not be | | opened to-morrow, as that happens to | be Sunday and the fair does not do} business on that day, but from the 16th | on there will be open house at the pret- | | ty little mission structure. It has been decided that Sentember 9 shall be Cali- fornia day. Many Native Sons and the | main body of California visitors will be here then. It is hoped that Governor { Pardee and other State officials will be on hand for the event. i CALIFORNIA ART. | The art exhibit: in . the California | building will be attractive to visitors. { Two of the oddest creations in the lot |of pictures are “The Close of Day” and “Winter in California,” by Piaz- | zoni of San Francisco. They are of that | class of work that keeps the ordinary | observer in a quandary as to whether ‘il is proper to say “daubs” or go into | raptures. Both are immenge canvases. In one a towering precipice in deepest black, the Yosemite Falls, is surmount- jed by a rift of daylight. It looks as if the black had been put on with a tar pot. In the other a dum sky hangs over a dun land, and no tree nor ani- mal breaks the dreary vista of plain and rain. They are such works as make a critic who rejects tremble lest one who comes after may declare a Gray's elegy in oil has been reviled. There are some beautiful flower paintings by Longpre and a reproduc- tion of California gems by Walter. Following is the list: L. P. Latimer, San Francisco, “Old Time ‘Trail”; H. W. Seawell, San Francisco, “Lonely Fireside”; Laura | Prather, San Francisco, portraits of General Shafter and Mrs. Henry East Miiler; Marion Holden Pope, San Francisco, “Latine Sails” and “St. Giorgio, Venice”; J. Ben I. Francisco, Los Angeles, “San Jacinto Mountain,” “Sunset at Matilija” and “Selitatre”; Granville Redmand, “California Live Oak’; Benjamin C. Brown, “On Edge of the Canyon Colorado” and “La- guna, a California Beach”; Leonard Lester, Pasadena, “Snow Clad Hills”; John W. Nicholl, Pasadena, marine view; R. Le Barre Goodwin, Los An- Continued on Page 24, Column 4. | Recent Discoveries Expected to Revo- \appuinted by the Secretary of Agricul- | ists and experts: RADIONS MARVELS INCREASE Chemist Declares'lt‘ ~Will Be a Food . Preservative, | Al it Perilous Substances Not to Be Used ip Cans and Bottles. i ¥ lutionize the Character of Col- | oring Materials, — 1 Special Dispatch to The Call, NEW YORK, May 14.—To the many | marvels attributed to radium a new | field of usefulness was added yester- day, when the’ claim was made that radio-active water will shortly super- sede harmful chemicals as a food pre- servative. | Before the United States special com- | mittee of experts, sitting at the Hotel | ‘Wolcott to wdetermine standards for foad, appeared Dr. H., Liebler, an an-| alytic chemist, who asserted that most | forms of preservativés now in use will, { within a few years, bé abandoned. | “In place of deleterious substances being mixed with food products,” said Dr. Liebler, “cans and bottles will -be used which have been washed with = water imipregnated with radio-activity. | Recent discoveries have been made, which will revolutionize the present | | methods of preserving fruits and other | varieties of food. | “Coloring matters that are injurious | will give place to others which do not! interfere with digestion. A substance | for coloring has been found, which| s0 acts as a preservative when in the light but loses its powers in the dark. | This quality is an advantage for the | reason that when food passes into the | | stomach there is no interference with digestion as in the cas preservatives now in use.” The hearings will be continued be-| | fore the committee on Monday, Tuesday ! and Wednesday. The committee was ture under a special act of Congress, and is composed of the following chem- Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief chemist, United States Depart- ment of Agriculture; Dr. H. A. Weber, professor of chemistry, Ohio State Uni- versity; Dr. E. H. Julius, director of the Connecticut Experiment Station; Dr. W. Frear, chemist of the Agricul- tural College of Pennsylvania, and Dr. M. A. Scoville, director of the Kentucky Experiment Station. FAIR NEIRESS I\ 4 ROMANCE Attachment Formed at a Baseball Park Ends in Betrothal of Miss Lefler =3 NEW YORK, May 14—Starting on a baseball diamond two years ago, the second chapter of a romance was madz known to-day by Abram Nelson .of Newmarket, who announced the en- gagement of 'his niece, Miss Mabel Lef- ler, one of the Fair heirs, to George| Whitney, of this city. Miss Lefler was a favorite niece of Mrs. Charles L. Fair, who has sup- ported her since she was six years of age. Under the terms of settlement made between the Fairs and Nelsons, Miss Lefler will recelve $200,000. ‘Young Whitney is a well known ama- teur baseball pitcher. He is employed | by a local machine shop as draftsman, LA e Austrians Want Big Navy. VIENNA, May 14.—It is noted that among the demands of the Austro- Hungarian naval and military author- ities in the next budget will be $8,500,000 for the construction of n fleet of tornedo-boats, $2,500,000 for submarine boats and $12,500,000 for new field guns. ——— 4 ’ United States Squadron Sails. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, May 14,— The United States squadron sailed to- day for the Canary Islands, the Brooklyn and Castine for Teneriffe and the Atlanta and Marietta for Las Palmas. v with many | neighborhood of Mukden. GENERAL KUROPATKIN HAS FEARS HIS RETREAT MAY BE CUT OF F il s i - i | | | i | | |} | | | | (RS ot e = e % BRSPS - - i JAPANESE WOMEN AT NAG AGED IN THE ARDU WORK OF COALING A WARSHIP. THE WOMEN ARE | S0 WELL SKILLED IN THE THAT THEY CAN STOW ONE THOUSAND TONS ON BOARD IN LESS THAN J FIVE HOURS . G o ommander of Czar’s Forcss Hurries Northward to Avoi d Conilict With th= Pursuing Japan.sse Soldiery. ST. PETERSBURG, May 14.—Trust- worthy advices from the front last night stggest that General Kuropat- kin will decline to stake the fate of his main army on a determined en- gagement at Liaoyang. He has made dispositions and collected supplies for such an engagement, but the troops of the Mikado are assembling in such numbers as to lead. the Russian gen- eral to doubt the feasibility of success- ful resistance. TOKIO, May 14.—It is reported. that General Kuropatkin has begun to re- move his impedimenta from Liaoyang, fearing his retreat may be cut off. Gen- cral Kuroki's advance guard is in the It is doubt- ful whether Kuropatkin will attempt to hold Mukden. It is believed he in- tends to retire to Harbin and even far- ther, if pyrsued. The Russian general is .credited with a purpose of avoiding fighting until spring. Kuroki hopes, if Kuropatkin should attempt -a general retirement, to cap- ture a large proportion of the supplies and stores- accumulated at Liaoyang. Port Arthur may not be stormed at once. Attempts will undoubtedly be made to lure Genperal Stoessel out of his fortifications. It is reported that 5000 Cossacks now |in the northeast of Korea expect to keep the peninsula in a state of tur- moil that will hinder Japan's policy of civil assimilation. < BERLIN, May 14.—According to the Frankfurter Zeltung, the ordinary ser- vice of the volunteer Black Sea fleet has been completely surpassed and the ships are now taking onm large quanti- ties of coal at Odessa and Nicolaieff. A telegram from Hamburg anpounces that the steamer Kaliser Friedrich I, which was refused by the North Ger- man Lloyd, got up steam yesterda and left for Russia. ; Rugsian horse dealers are visiting the horse fairs all around Berlin and mak- ing large purchases for military pur-| poses. According to a telegram to the Loecal | Anzeiger the railway between Kinchow and Polandien, together with the bridges, has been destroyed for more than three miles, TOKIO, May 14.—It is reported from Sasebo that early in May Ad-| | miral Kamimura attacked Vladivos- tok. Two terpedo-boats issued from | the harbor, but retired before the| Japanese quick-firing guns. The tor- pedo-boats -had come out under cover of the fog. When the fog cleared away the fleet bombarded the forts, which replied without effect. It is re- ported that the Russian fleet is still | in Vladivostok harbor. — JAPANESE DAMAGE. | — | eneral Karevitch Reports Operations by Detachments Near Polandien. | ST. PETERSBURG, May 14—The| general staff has received a dispatch dated May 13 from Major General Karevitch, as follows: “A Japanese detachment of about| 1000° infantry and two squadrons of cavalry advanced May 12 toward Po- landien, where it did slight damage to the railway line. A train from Dal- ny, bearing families of employes, was | obliged to return there. The Japanese withdrew in the evening. The Wafan- dlan station was closed about mid- pight May 12. During the night of May 13 Polandien was illuminated by the search lights of the Japanese ships in Adams Bay. On May 13 detach- ments of Japanese troops were ob- served in the neighborhood of Polan-,| dien, about seven and one-half miles east of. Siuyen. “Chinese bands - are aggressive on the main road between Fengwang- cheng and Saimaitsi. A strong band of Chinese brigands has been sighted near the station at Yantai™ Major General Pflug, telegraphing under date of May 13, says: “The Japanese - have evacuated Kwantien- ' sien and a column of the enemy about a'division strong is marching on Siun. According to information there, com- siderable forces of the enemy are north of Takushan. The Koreans are destroying the telegraph lines between Kengtschen and Sentchin. According to information from the frontier guards and missionaries at Topatesatse, twen- ty-five miles southwest of Huptchentzi, a Chinese rising against Russians and Christians is being prepared.” In an official dispatch from Mukden under date of May 14, Major Geperal Pflug reports that exhaustive inquir- fes regarding the allegation that the Japanese fired on a Red Cross train bound from Port Arthur May 6 proved that the Red Cross flag was flylng on | the train as it left Tainju and that not | a shot was fired from the train, which was carrying only Russians, who were ill. The Japanese, the general says, opened spontaneousely and only ceased when the train was beyond range. sl War News Continued on Page 22. - . Gold Shipment Over Ten Millions. NEW YORK, May 14.—An engage- ment of $2,500,000 of gold at the as- say office for shipment to Paris on Tuesday's steamer was announced te= day, but the name of the shipper was withheld. This brings the total thus far announced for Tuesday up to $10,« 500,000, of which $3,500,000 is by shippers whose names are refused. In- cluding this total of $10,500,000 for next Tuesday. the aggregate amount of gold shipped to Europe from this port since April 7 is in excess of $30,- 000,000. ———————————— Idle Miners Go to Europe. NORWAY, Mich., May 14.—The Lo- retto mine shut down to-day. throw- ing about 200 men out of employment. Other mines are closing and miners are leaving for Europe on account of general depression on the range. .