The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 30, 1904, Page 1

VOLUME XCV—NO. 182. i — H THE THEEATERS. Alcazar—Toll Gate Inn.” Mati- rvperippti Chutes—Vandeville. CO'I:IILMA -~ “The Little Minis- !l;nhlr"—-“fl. 5.7 Matinee To- ay. Grand—“Gismonda.” Matinee. Tivoli—“The Toy Maker.” Mati- ee To-Day. - SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MAY 30, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. AUSSIA (5 NEGOTIATING WITH CHINA 70 YIELD MANGHURIA LONDON, May 20.—The Tientsin correspondent of the Express says that Paul Lesser, the Russian Minister, informed Prince Ching that Russia would finally evacuate Newchwang provided China granted a concession for a rail- way from Kalgan across Chinese Mongolia to Kiakhta, eighty miles from Lake Baikal, or that Russia would evacuate Manchuria outright if China would lease the Ili territory to Russia. Ili—or, as it is more commonly called, Kooldja—is a district of Chinese Turkestan, forming a part of Sungari. Russia claimed it as a province from 1870 to 1831 and still retains a portion of the territory. The district contains 23,000 square miles. ; s ; + KUROPATKIN IS HURRYING SOUTHWARD WITH AN ARMY TO RELIEDE PORT ARTHUR | Japanese Placed BIG TRIST OF COPPER (ONPANIES Form Gigantic Merger. One Management to Control Two-Thirds of United States Output. Conferences Are Being Held Daily in Boston to Harmonize Con- flicting Interests. —_—— patch to The Call May —Negotiations are here, with Thomas W. Law- i other copper magnates as the iiaries, for a gigantic combina- of th iing copper properties of as a greater amalgamated a, s to include all of the Amal- ted Copper properties, the United r Company, all of the leading T properties, including the Utah q ated, the Bingham and the d States Mining; the Green Con- ed, the Shannar, the United) the Old Dominion and the 8, Dodge & Co. properties of Ari- with other big scattered mines in a, Washington and F h C combined capital of all the com- under negotiation is more than and the copper output an- is more than 400,000,000 pounds of a round total of 700,000,000 annually. = on the project are being nd hard work is being done to harmonize conflicting ily’' reports being made to the headquarters of the -Amalgamated clique. »s not include the Calu- met and He mpanies, but fmcludes | all the other principal lake properties. An alliance between the Amalga-| mated, Senator Clark and the Phelps, Dodge & Co. interests in Arizona is al- ready practically assured. A $16,000,000 , buy out Heinze, 000, 090 comy he lake proper and a third com of $40,000,000 will take the Southw ) interests. The Amal- ted will then increase its capital | 0,000,000 to take over the subsidi- ary companies. —— | DYNAMITE USED WHEN | | TRIBUTE IS DENIED “Blackmalilers Wreck Houses of Italian | - Merchants and Families Have Narrow Escape. NEW YORK, May 29.—Having re- fused to pay $500 demanded by a band ° ®f blackmailing bandits, two prosper- | ous Italian business men, Antony Bar- | tollotto and Andrew de Fiore, with | members of their families narrowly | escaped death to-day. The house in| which they lived, as well as that in which was located their store, was de- | molished by dynamite. Although a - bomb of the most improved pattern wes used, it is believed by the police that a premature explosion saved the lives of those threatened. Four other fully loade@ but unexploded bombs | were found in the street near by. —_——— ENGLISH VESSEL GOES ASHORE AT PORT ROYAL Steamship Roselll Founders and Al | Efforts to Float Her Are Futile. KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 29.—The British steamer Roselll, having on board forty-five laborers from the United Fruit Company’'s plantation, | went ashore off Port Royal last night while on her way to Boeas del Toro, Costa Rica, and up to the present time all efforts to float her have proved futile. The vessel lies in an exposed position. —_—————— RICARTE, THE REBEL LEADER, IS BANISHED Filipino Insurrectionist Is Captured by Constabulary and Sentenced to a Term at Guam. MANILA, May 28.—Ricarte, the for- Amalgamated Will | have conquered, adding that otherwise | undertake the responsibility at the ex- | that Port Arthur will soon be captured in a Critical Position. Russian Naval Guns Lost at Kinchou. —— . Special Dispatch to The Call | S8T. PETERSBURG, May 29.—Gen- eral Kuropatkin is moving southward with an army to attack General Oku | from the rear on Liaotung Peninsula. | One section of the Russian force will diverge toward Fengwangcheng to hold back General Kuroki. The ad- vance guard of Kuropatkin's army is believed to have reached a point only | thirty-seven miles from Kinchou. Its| sudden appearance will place Oku's | victorious army in a critical position. | —A Chinese who ar- rived from Dalny tc ay, having left there on Saturday, says that a Japan- | ese scouting pe seen by villag- ers in the vicinity of Dalny and that a battle took place on Friday at Ying- chongtse, a point on the railroad about | ten miles nort Chinese from Russians had tw at Nanshan and al from the Port Arthur west of Dalny say that ity-six naval gu » that manv guns fleet had beed ny placed in the land batteries: DALNY Dalny IS EVACUATED. y evacuat- has been practical ording to the s ind Russian fefugees 2 here to-day by junk. All valuabl ammunition and most of the troops have been taken to ort Arthur. The only civilians remaining are the elec- trical engineers in charge of the mines laid in the harbor a those set to de- stroy docks and piers. One large Russian warship, probably the armored cruiser Bayan, and three torpedo boats reached Talienwan Bay on Tuesday last, the 24th inst, from Port Arthur, and it was doubtless this vessel which attacked the Japanese left wing during the battle at Kinchou on the 26th inst. The junks just arrived here on their down d fourteen Japanese | miles outside of Dalny the Bayan probably will be cap- | tured | The United States gunboat Frolic now here will go to Newchwang in case that town is evacuated by the Russians. HAS ORDERS TO FIGHT. LONDON, May The Times corre- spendent at Weihaiwei rns from a fugitive Russian that General Stoessel's orders are to dispute every dnch of the country between Kinchou and Port Ar- thur, because it is believed that the| main advance on Mukden can be de- layed until Port Arthur falls. Every day is important to Kuropatkin. Stoessel, on receiving these orders, hur- riedly prepared a succession of posi- tions. A Japanese refugee from Port Arthur is now at Chefu chartering steamships to convoy supplies to Port Arthur when it falls. The Standard’'s Chefu correspondent says that a Russian gunboat, believed to be the Bobr, which was in action at Talienwan on Thursday, has arrived from Port Arthur. She was chased by the Japanese, but was abie to take some refugees from Dalny. She was not followed into the port on account of the mines. CHINA MUST TAKE A HAND. The Standard’s Tientsin correspond- ent telegraphs that Uchida, the Japan- ese Minister at Peking, has demanded an immediate reply to the inquiry pre- viously sent to the Wai Wu Pu as to whether China is prepared to hold and | administer the territory the Japanese | Japan must &ppeal to other powers to pense of China. The Telegraph has a dispatch from Shanghai saying that it is reported there that Minister Uchida has notified the Chinese Government at Peking and has asked whether China is ready to resume possession of the district, or if Japan shall hold it. OKU ISSUES PROCLAMATION. TOKIO, May 28.—General Oku, com- manding the Japanese army now in- vesting Port Arthur, has issued a proclamation to the people- of the Liaotung Peninsula, setting- forth that Japan was forced to appeal to arms on account of the unlawful aggressions of Russia in China and Korea. The proclamation declares that the Japan- ese army is fighting for the cause of Jjustice and pledges protection to per- sons and property afd non-interference with orderly citizens. It promises ample remuneration for all houses and food supplies requisi- tioned and warns the people to refrain from assisting the Russians, under penalty of severe punishment. BALTIC SHIPS TO SAIL. PARIS, May 30.—The Echo de Paris’ St. Petersburg correspondent learns that the Baltic fleet wil leave in two detachments. The first, consisting of four battleships, is due to start on June 24. | sey | coal tr < RAILROAD IERS AND BOATS BURN Fire Causes Havoc| fo Jersey City Shipping. Vain Efforts Are Made to Check the Ravgging Flames. Blaze Starts on a Barge and Sweeps Freight Laden Docks of Delaware and Lackawanna [line. NEW YORK, May 30.—Seven freight and coal piers of the Delaware, Lack- awanna and Western Ralilroad in Jer- City were destroyed to-day by a fire that started on the barge 'Allen C. Churchill, which lay alongside Pier No. , on which a lot of barrels of oil were stored. The lose is estimated at $1,000,- 000. The flames spread rapidly. Piep . 12 was 800 feet long and was soon ablaze its entire length, and the fire- men who were trying to fight the fire from the shore were able to accomplish but little. The flames swept across to Pier No. 11 and beyond, being finally ch d at Pier No. 5, which is a new tle, steel framed and iron clad. Here the firemen and fireboats made a desperate stand and stayed the ad- vance of the fire until the burning piers crumbled and fell into the water. Although there was little wind, sparks fell all along the water front for near- ly a mile, endangering the Lackawan- na station and even the Hamburg- American and Bremen Line piers, where the firemen were kept busy playing streams of water upon build- ings and over ships at their docks. A number of canal boats and several tugs were burned, the loss of small boats being variously estimated at from thirty to 200. The number of freight cars is not known, but the loss on this class of rolling stock will be heavy. The Lackawanna road moved its passenger coaches out to the Mead- ows and one train of freight cars was moved out and saved. Plers 11 and 12 were full of general merchandies; Piers 7, 8, 9 and 10 were used for coal and Pier No. 6 was a n-loading pier. No person was se- »usly injured. Vice President Lewls of the Lack- awanna bplaced the total loss by the fire at $5,000,000, based on the original cost of the piers burned, on the freight stored upon them, and, to some extent, on the resultant business loss. This estimate also includes the burning of the canal boats and barges. The Lack- awanna Company carries its own in- surance, e TRIES A STEVE BRODIE FEAT AND MAY DIE Jumps From a High Bridge and Is Severely . Injured. DUBUQUE, May 29.—Charles Zu- ber, aged 19 years, in a feat of daring jumped from the highest point on Eagle Point bridge, connecting Iowa and Wisconsin, into the Mississippi ver to-day, and is hovering between e and death. In addition to the bruises he sus- tained about the face and body, he is suffering from .concussion of the brain and the attending physician en- tertains slight hopes for his recovery. Young Zuber had read of the feats of Steve Brodie and was ambitious to win fame as a high diver. He selected the highest point from which to make the leap and his body shot into the water with a great splash. —_————— BRITISH ROUT TIBETANS JAFTER STUBBORN FIGHT Younghusband’s Force Defeats Na- tives, Who Had Isolated the Gyangtse Camp. LONDON, May 20.—The Daily Mail's correspondent at Chumbi, India, says the British expedition on May 26, after a fight of eleven hours, expelled the Tibetans from the village of Palla, close to the British camp at Gyangtse. A British lleutenant and three natives were killed and three officers and nine men were wounded, The Tibetans suffered heavily and thirty-seven of them were taken prison- Towa Lad CLEVELAND OUTSPOKEN FOR PARKER i Head Party's bine to Stifle Hearst Movement, New Yorker Will Be Choice of Democracy. e | Special Dispatch Yo The Cail PHILADELPHIA, Mayg9.—In an ifi- | terview given to a North American re- | perter to-day, Grover Cleveland said: | "I bave believed for some time, and I | believe now, that Judge Parker 'will be the nominee of the National Demd- | eratic Convention for the Presidential office. This expression of my opinion is not new. 1 do not mean to yield my | original judgment, which wag that Mr. Olney ,or, Jud Grays, ht have R o v 2 y DAY proved the strongést dandidate. | cumstances and the state of publie sen- | sentiment were such, however, that | months ago it became apparent that | Judge Parker was the man upon whom | the conservative element of the party |could and should concentrate. Nei- | ther circumstances nor the state of | public sentiment has changed and | Judge Parker remains now, as he has | been for some months, the logical can- didate of his party. “Some months ago conservative leaders of the Democracy began to ex- 'ru-rience alarm over the strength that | Hearst was seemingly developing. I | tcok no stock in the Hearst candidacy | myself, but realizing the necessity for | checking a movement which might | grow formidable, 1 occupied ground in | commonwith a number of olhers‘|and gave out a statement favoring Judge | Parker’ for the nomination. I pretend | to no right in the direction of party af- fairs, nor even the right to advise the party upon men or measures, but in order to stifle the Hearst movement I gave up thought of either Olney or Gray, and I knew Parker to be a first- | class, honest, safe and manly man. He is very able—fit in every way to | lead the new Democracy.” | — MURPHY ST AKES ALL. Will Risk Leadership of Tammany to Defeat Parker. ATLANTIC CITY, May 29.—Beset on every hand by dangers which threaten seriously his prestige with a crew he does not trust, and with the roar of the breakers which threaten to dis- | rupt his organization and end his ca- {reer as ‘leader of Tammany Hall growing louder day by day, Charles F. Murphy is determined to stake all upon a last stand for Mayor McClel- lan as his candidate for the Presiden- tial nomination. Murphy spent considerable time to- day with Charles V. Fornes, president of the board of aldermen, who would in the event of Mayor McClellan's nomination become Mayor of New York. That he succeeded in obtaining sufficient pledges from Fornes to go ahead with his plans is evident. Meanwhile the secret of Murphy’s hurried trip to New York Friday has | become known. From unquestioned | sources comes a report that one of the representatives of a great corporation upon which Murphy has been relying for suppert sent word w him on ‘Wednesday that, in his opinion, the time had arrived for Murphy to cease his war upon Parker’s cgpdidacy, and that unless the opposition of Tammany was checked Murphy “might lose the leadership.” Murphy lost no time in going to New York. where he pleaded in vain for a free hand, pointing out that the nomination of Parker meant the disruption of Tammany and the end of his own career. Convinced that his former ally was not to be moved, he returned here and made public part of a. letter charging August Belmont with using the lobby of a railroad company in the South to force several States to instruct the delegates to the National Convention for Parker. \ Murphy caused the following state- ment of his attitude to be given out | to-night by one of his trusted lieuten- ants: “Tammany, being bound by the unit rule, will vote for Judge Parker in St. Louis, but not until after it has warned the convention that its delegates are acting against their own judgment and that Judge Parker, being the can- didate of the Republican Says Jurist Should Conservatives Must Com-; Former President Is Confident the Cir- | FRIENDS OF OXNARD PROMISE A LIDELY CAMPAIGN IN THE FIGHT FOR SENATORSHIP oo + / | | | 1 1 | ] MAY SEND CAVALRY T0 MOROCCH Washington Plans for Capture of Bandits. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. ‘WASHINGTON, May 29.—High ad- ministration officials are considering the question of sending a force of cav- alry across the Atlantic to co-operate with the Moorish Sultan's troops in hunting down the bandits who kid- naped Perdicaris, an American sub- ject, and his British stepson, Varley. It is said that this course will be taken should France decline to exer- cise the pressure which Secretary Hay believes she should and if the nego- tiations for the release of the captives fail. The Washington officials are con- vinced that it would be useless and foolish to try to capture the bandits with anything but mounted troops fa- miliar with mounain conditions, and if an American force is sent to Morocco to attempt to rescue Perdicaris and his stepson and to punish the brigands it will be a detachment of cavalry. Should American interest in Tangier be imperiled in any way as a result of complications growing out of the cap- ture of Perdicaris, it may become nec- essary to land marines from the Amer- jcan man of war now on the way thither. This contingency, however, has not been seriously considered by the administration, as there has been no evidence that such a step will be necessary. e Boiler-Makers Beaten at Night, SAN BERNARDINO, May 29.—The strike situation is growing less mo- notonous in this city. Following an counties of | unsuccessful attempt of the strikers +f - L i 1 TRADE FAST Bard’s Name Will IN&RE:AS]NG Goto the Leg- | istature. \Year's Exports Will Break Previous Records. Special Dispatch to The Cuall. HI Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, May 29.—Henry T. Oxnard’s announcement that his name will be presented to the next Legisla- ture for the United States Senatorship has not come as a surprise. It was| not needed to inform the public of| Oxnard's aspirations. In fact, in var-} 2 e jous counties in this section of the| CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, State his campaign had been launched | WASHINGTON, May 29.—If the last months ago and workers in his interest | two months of .the fiscal year 1904 have been sounding prospective candi- | keep up the pace set by the first ten dates of the Legislature. This work| months, all records for exports of man- has been guardedly done, however, | ufactures from the United States to and the Oxnard workers have been foréign countries will be broken. careful not to take any action which| - The export figures for the first ten would in any manner compromise their months of the fiscal year 1904, as pre- candidate or make it impossible for|sented by the Bureau of Commerce him to withdraw if so desired. What | and Labor, exceed those of any year encouragement these workers have re- in the history of the nation. The man- ceived canmot now be stated, but {t|ufactured exports in the full fiscal | has been sufficient to precipitate the|year 1300 totaled $433,351,756. Should announcement which Mr. Oxnard made | the present excess of 1904 over 1900 yesterday. From now on there will be continue during the remaining two no doubt as to his position, and he will | months of the year, it would bring the make an open fight throughout South- | grand total of the exports of the man- ern California, in which he has enlist- | ufacturers up to $450,000,000. 3 ed the services of some of the most The total value of manufacturers’ astute politicians in this section. SEparts WHoRed 1 ten monthe suding When asked for a further expression ;;ghq;;gr“g tns, P oo g upon the subject, Mr. Oxnard said that n.c';“ e 11\900 e same D! his official announcement incorporated | Imports of manufacturers’ raw ma- all that he had to say at present. He |, .;; 4i50 made a very satisfactory added that he believes the people| (O © 0 WL S () being in the know his views upon the great ques- |, .. onihg ending with April, 1904, tions which are now before the publlfl:2‘.,.‘,,‘3,221 against $215,641.687 in the and which have to do with such offices | ;o "Tn Vs ¢ Jast year. as that to which he aspires. His an-| nouncement carries with it the state- + ment that he will use all hononble] ty is expected to do the same. In Los means to secure the support of a ma- | Angeles County both sides will en- jority in the Legislature, but the work | deavor to secure the declaration of the in that direction will be done more by convention, but it is probable that no his friends than by any active can- | instructions will be issued here. vas made by himself. San Bernardino County is now be- Despite his seeming reluctance to en- | ing canvassed by agents of both as- ter an open fight for the office whlch' pirants to the Sepatorship, but with he has held, the name of Senator Bard | what result is not known. At present will also be presented to the Legisla- | it appears that Southern California as ture. There will be a spirited contest|a whole will not present a solid front ‘The battleship Orel has been re-|ers, " New York State, is not the choice of |to induce the merchants to stop sell- mer Filipino leader, has been captured by constabulary and sent to Guam in exile. He was of an uprising at Vigan in last. floated. The dynamos, the only part Continued on Page 2, Column 5, Palla is a walled stronghold, fro: 'hrl:‘!.a aom'rlbet:.nl started building WOl a view to outflanking the British positior the Democrats of the State and will| ing goods to strike breakers, two be a weak man in the great Demo- | boiler-makers from the stockade were crat strongholds below Harlem Riv- a{l upon and beaten by fifteen men ery X mo rning shortly after midnight. over the matter In Ventura County, the home of Bard. where Oxnard has his most important California Interests. Riverside County has declared une- | quivocally for ‘Bard and Orange Coun- with reference to the Senatorship, and the choice may therefore depend upon the action of legislators chosen from districts in the central and northern portions of the State.