The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 25, 1904, Page 1

THE WEATHEE. Fcrecest ‘made at San Fran- | cisco for tairty bours ending at | midnight May 25, 1904: | San Francisco and vieinity— | Cloudy Wednesday; fresh south- west winds, with fog. A. G. MCcADIE, District Forecaster. To-Da; LD R e TSR i TEE TEEATERS. | el | Alcazar—“A Possible Case.” | California—"When We Were Twenty-One.” | Cemtral—“A Great Temptation.” Chutes—Vaudeville. Columbia—“Bean Brummel.” Graad—“Fedor=.” Orrhenn—Vaudeville. Matinee Tivoli—“A Runaway Girl.” SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1904. CHINESE REPORT DESTRUCTION OF JAPANESE BATTLESHIP: RUSSIANS ANNIHILATE FIVE BATTALIONS OF MIKADO'S MEN LIAOYANG, May 24.--Chinese arriving here report the destruction of another Japanese battleship off Port Arthur. A report from Newchwang says that on May 18 five battalions of Japanese troops reconnoitered to the south as far as Kinchou and ran into Major General Fock’s artillery, which was strongly posted on the heights in a narrow section of the Liaotung Peninsula, and that the Japanese were anni- hilated. Both of these reports are unconfirmed. IEARSTNEN (P 7LL SEEK STATE AND NATIONAL | AID TO RECLAIM FLOODED LOSE OHION DELEGATION 0T WATER Outnumbered Two SUPPLY FOR to One by the Con- | servatives, | Jom R Mciears o Heavy Flow From Guard” Will Control the | an Arfesian Well State Convention. Near BOiSG. —_— + Re 1 om his own | on the commit- | the same was | p the State| j S ——————————————{ .| | expected to — RUPFW S & w‘”’r"é'fikls IENNINGS STATE SENATOR Roe T T DEve MRS, TEVIS S VERY ILL [\ Her Father IS Sum- moned From ST Denver. | W2 TMOMAS. | Parker Favored in Tennessee. X Tenn., May 24.—The | % Stat onventi will | Special Dispateb to The Call. ninste & gandi-] urer, Secre- | BOISE, Idaho, May 24.—A well flow- Railroad | in8 hot water has been struck on the at large to |farm of John Bowers, a short distance n and two elec. | northwest of this city. The hot water : wowed | was struck at a depth of only 300 feet. rker, will | It i& flowing at the rate of fifty gallons convention delega- | @ minute from a four-inch bore. ; certain to| BOWers announces his intention of o driving another well without delay, as © New Yorker. | result of the strike of hot water in the first. Favor Parker. | 'f‘hn possibilities of the use of the 24.— | water are many and varied. The well fon will | is so close to the city that it will be select del- | possible to pipe the water into the city. convention. | It believed the hot water can be suc- cessfully used for irrigation for early gardening. Bowers claiming the growth of vegetables under the'warm water is almost phenomenal. He . proposes to drive his second well close to his house and says he 'will arrange to heat the lling with it. n F MONTANA IS SWE BY SEVERE STORM dw Smow and Rain Fall in Many Places and Temperature Is Un- usually Low. Mont May 24.—Reports State to-night | Insures Against Issue Being Born of of consider His Marriage and Is Now Father AGED MARQUIS WINNER IN A PECULIAR GAMBLE seve many _ pl of a Boy. - £ anging to rain | Spe to The Call and New York Her- n tk ght the tem- ght, 1904, by the New York ¥ 1. lishing Company. weeks past S no ved ’(hrr LONDON, May 24.—A very curious s | T ity i T s urance has come to light in s et ; et g s with. the late Marquis of ——— was taken out in 1890 MURDER IS SEQUEL | ag issue being born to the Mar- T0 DRUNKEN QUARREL | quis, who at that time was in his sev- entieth year and was living apart from Montana Cattleman Is Killed by Com- | his_wife. The Marchioness, however, nion as Result of Dispute died. g 25 . The quis married again in - his About Money. Mon May cattleman, is ‘d . | eighty year and had a son, who is —Emile | now. a few weeks old.and the young- d here est member of the peerage. Conse- nons is in jail as the | quently, by the payment of a single on quarrel at Chester | Premium of £131 bs the insurer has re- Louener was shot | ceived £2500. by Simmons and FRS Tt i died almost | Italian Croiser at Honolulu. It is saic en had been on| HONOLULU, M 24.—The Italian a spree for several days. The quar-|cruiser Liguria. Prince ' Lulgi 'com= rel is said to have been caused by |manding, arrived here to-day from money differences. |San Francisco. River Convention App MEMBERS OF THE RIVER IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA WHO ARE WORKING TO RECLAIM FLOODED LANDS OF GREAT VALUE TO THE STATE. omts Commattee to Conduct Campaign for Legislation at Sacramento and W ashington. The ways and means of obtaining funds for the great work of shackling the floods in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys furnished the main topic of discussion at the closing ses- sion yesterday morning of the newly organized River Improvement and Drainage Association of California. The Maple room at the Palice was again filled with substantial represen- tatives of all the districts affected by the freshets. They listened with evi- dent interest to an able address by Ed- ward F. Adams on the economic as- pects of the problem, and to a speech Ly United States Senator George C. Perkins, who pledged himself to work for a national appropriation. After, electing its committees and completing its permanent organization, the associ- ation then adjourned to meet again at the call of President Rufus P. Jennings. The general committee of the organi- zation, consisting of twenty-five mem- bers, chosen by the representatives of the different sections, was announced as follows: North_of Sacramento—Colonel E. A. Forbes, .ea.!. Boggs, M. L. Tarke, Charles Wesley Reed. Sacramento City—R. T. Devlin, General W. T. Sheehan, South of Sacramento—P. J. Van Loben Sels, John W, Ferris, Peter Cook. ‘Mokelumne River district—F. H, Harvey, A. C. Johnson. San Joaquin River—J. R. Sargent, W. Frank Pierce, E. W. 8. Woods. Stockton—George Tatterson, Samuel Frank- enheimer. Old river—H. F. Pierce, Middle river—O. Y. Woodward. Upper San Joaquin—D, 8. Fish, A. G. Park. San Francisco and vicinity—BEdwarg F. Adams, Rufus ‘P. Jennings, E. A. Walcott, Andrea Sbarboro, Professor A. G. McAdle, After this announcement a recess was taken, during which the general committee met and selected the seven members to committee. These were later reported to the convention as follows: Rutus P. Jennings (chairman), M. J, Boges, P. J. Van Loben Sels, John W. Ferrls, E. W. 8. Woods, Samuel Frankenheimer, George Tat- The functions of this executive com- adopted on Monday evening, will in- clude the selection of three of the en- gineers for the work proposed. It will also prepare plans for the campaign to be made for State legislation and ulti- mately for national aid. vor to rouse public sentiment through- out the State in favor of such legisla- | tive action at Sacramento as will war- | rant the California Senators and resentatives in Congress in asking eral mlumgc“e tromJthe Federal Gov- | | Chairman Jennings promised that the committee would lose no time in getting down to its work. PERKINS FOR NATIONAL AID. Senator Perkins was received with applause when the chairman had in- duced him to put aside for once h well-known Senatorial modesty come forward to the platform. He made a rattling speech, which was fre- quently interrupted by hands and cries of “Good! “We're glad to get you on record, Sen- The Senator said among other It will endea- clapping of In years gome by we took the wealth from our’ mines and paid the It was California and the of our ecountry. | and, ty me to-day that 1d respond Jjust and right In the work of taking wealth from our mines much of the debris was sent down to the streams. I believe that when the matter is properly presented to Congress you will find that the members will join with you in dolng whatever they can to maintain the in- tegxity of the national waterways and national highways of our rivers. We should get our rivers clear that they may be navigated in competition with the railroad lines. There Is nothing like a little healthy competition to stimulate progress. Politiclans—not that I belong to that fac- ulty—promise a great deal when they are be- all jolnt. holders, _Every State and little city has its little and enter- ‘hey ;lnl ald. Our Gov- rs. We tell them in the Fast that we dwell together in peace and harmony: that we fre all working together for California and friends, for her interests. I am sure, volee the sentiments of your 1 in | Congress when I say to you us what L DENVER, May 24—A cablegram from London announcing the serious iliness there of Mrs. Cornelia Baxter Tevis, widow of Hugh Tevis, the mil- lionaire society and club man of San Francisco, who died in Japan while on his honeymoon, has been received in this city. Mrs. Tevis’ father started for FEngland to-day to be at his daughter’'s bedside. Mrs. Tevis is suffering from typhold fever. WEDS A DIPLOMAT IN PRESENCE OF NOTABLES Sister of B: s Speck Von Stern- burg Becomes Wife of French Naval Officer. WASHINGTON, May 24.—In the presence of Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Roosevelt, Sécretary af State and Mrs. Hay, the entire diplomatic cerps, the admiral of the navy and Mrs. Dewey and a few naval officers, who were present as the official representatives of the American navy, Miss Ivy Lang- | ham, the s’ster of the Baroness Speck von. Sternburg, wife of the German Embassador, was married to-day to Lieutenant Commander the Vicomte de Faramond, the naval attache of the French embassy. The ceremony oc- curred in St. Matthew's Roman Calh-} olic_ Church. de Faramond and his afternoon for New sail to-morrow for - PRSP 5 R RELATIVES OF SULFA SENT INTO EXILE — - overy of Correspondence Between Kemal Pasha anld a Princess Leads to Banishment, CONSTANTINOPLE, May 24 -*Ke- mal Pasha, the Sultan’s son-in-law, and other high officials have been arrested and sent into exile in consequence of the discovery of a secret correspond- ence between Kemal Pasha and Prin- cess Khadidje, daughter of the impris- Dis — HONDREDS LANDS \RE SLAIN [\ SORTIES Desperate Fighting Around Port Arthur. — it Russians Successfully Re- sist Stubbarn Attacks by the Besiegers. Decisive Battle of the War Will Soon Be Fcught in the Vicinity of Liaoyang. Special Cable to The Call ald. Copyright ub and New York Her- the. New York NEWCHWAN via Tientsin, May 24.—The Japanese land operations di- rected against Port Arthur are meet- ing with little success. Generals Stoes- sel and Fock continue to make well directed and desperate sorties against | the advance of the Japaneese, wheo are fighting with a stubborn det nation almeost unknown in histery. Several hundred have been killed dur- ing the last few days. Japanese reinforcements are arriv- ing daily at Pitzewo and Polandien. A Russian tory »-boat flotilla is cruising off Port Arthur. It is the in- tention of the Japanese to reduce the Russian fortress at all costs before un- dertaking a general advance on Liao- yang, where the Russian army is con- centrated. The west wall of Liaoyang has been pulled down and the material utilized in constructing covered trenches and fortifications extending from the | mountains on the Fengwangcheng road to the Liao River. Thousands of Chinese anchors have been conveyed to Liaoyang, to be used in anchoring pontoon bridges. Probably the great- est battle of the war will be fought lin the vicinity of Liaoy where General Kuropatkin is determined to check the Japanese advance The morale of the Russian troops is said to be generally improving since the enemy retired toward Fengwang- cheng. The Chunchus are getting bolder and have attacked Russian scouting | parties, who repulsed the brigands | with considerable Newchwang remains quiet. More Russian _troops have entered Russo-Chinese Bank has business. Several steamships are loading at the port. The Russians declare that is expected here, as it i tion to withdraw before the Japar advance. The residents, however. fear trouble during the interregnum. Dur- ing the contemplated Russian evacua- tion of May 8 the Chunchus imme- | diately advanced and attempted to commit robberies in the outskirts of the city. About fifty shots were ex- | changed within hearing distance of the foreign settlement. The native fought the Chunchus, killing three of them. The<brigands were under’'an impres- | sion that the Russians had evacuated the place during the night. This strengthens the belief that further at- | tacks will be made, should the port be | unprotected. | According to Japanese representa- | tives, 5000 Japanese troops are forty | miles southeast of Tashichao, occupy- |ing the walled city of Tangchi. No | trains are running from Tashichao to the south. | | CHOLERA | One Hundred Deaths a Day in the | Army of Kuroki. PARIS, May 24.—The correspond- ent of the Temps at St. Petersburg telegraphs that cholera is causing the loss of a hundred Japanese troops daily near Fengwangcheng. LIAOYANG, Monday, May 23.— Troops continue pouring into Liao- yang. Dysentery in a mild form has | broken out south of Liaoyang. General Kuropatkin to-day in- spected seven new city gates, which will enable the garrison to more easily concentrate and meet - 1 attack on any side. Natives have brought in ndws from Fengwangcheng that cholera, in a par- ticularly virulent fo. m, has broken out among the Japanese troops. In some cases death has occurred within three | hours. AWFUL RAVAGES. L IR Russians Destroy Korean Town. ! MUKDEN, May 24.—The Russians on May 16 made a sudden attack upon the town of Anju, Korea, from the village of Haitchien and captured | the town, destroying it. The Japanm- oned ex-Sultan, Murad. Kemal Pasha | ese garrison set fire to the houses and 1s & son of the late Osman Ghazi Pasha, | stores and retired in perfect order. a general in the Turkish army and aid de ‘camp to the Sultan. il 1 ‘War News Continued on Page 8.