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B —— TEE WEATEEE. Forecast made at San Pran- > cisco for thirty hours emding | midnight, Juze 13: Sax Prancisco azd vicinity— Tair Monday; cocler in the aft- ernoon; light =zortherly wind, changing to brisk westerly. G. . WILLSON, Local Porecaster. | PRICE FIVE ( RITES OF . LQPTOR | Letter Comes From Haunt of Moor Bandits. Kidnaped American Gives Interesting Account of His Experiences. ————— SENATOR CULLOM MAY . ENTER CABINET AND BE SUCCEEDED BY YATES BY OLD Rumaor o Combat Stirs Russian Capital. | Reported Siking of | | | | i | Six Great War- ships. TwodapaneseBattalions Am- bushed and Annihilated Near Haicheng. U A ST. PETERSBURG, June 12. Rumors the effect » has taken place off P which two Russian and four Jap- No confirmation of the rumor can be tleships were sunk. obtained. { HAICHENG, Manchuria, Sat- | lurday, June 11.—A flanking | movement of the Japanese around | :flze RussianJe:c ;.'mm Feflgwan»g-‘; ! cherig on June g tvas repuised with a loss of two entire battalions. | A large Japanese force moved out in the morning along the | Fengwangcheng and Haicheng road. The Russians had a force strongly posted in a ravine thirty miles scutheast Haicheng. { The Japanese were preceded by two bhattalions, who walked into| | the Rassian ambuscade. They received a murderous ~ =1 oI FrTOR I METHLTS o PROTO Tre COLLISION St Lawrence River Disaster Costs Five Lives. sde red it of Washington Gossip Gives Metcalf Royal Chance for a Portjolio. i i { i l | Special Dispatch to The Call. END TO NOTABLE LIFE OF A PIONEER REVERED COLOSSAL MERGER OF 1 ALL MINES ' Two and One-Hall Billions to Be Is Capital. Cherished Plans Are Nearing Fruition. CALIFORNIANS Single Company Soon to Cenmtrel the Entire Mineral Output of This Country. ctal Dis; NEW YORK, June be made soon man who i pendous transac Men who have some work now goirg vledge of the hergnce of the pian = on | +which tke big o g Tests merged w have a par ca | 1$2.500,000.000. It is expected absoluteiy the United States, e the Calumet and of Michigan. Within the last ten days Rockefeller bas taken up personally the task which had been left to his brother, William have been conspicuo the mineral , 0il Company. t Standard Oil millionaires have been ac- quiring the mines of America through i their banking jaterests. { L IN THE WEST. In Colgrade, David H. Moffat and Dennis Sullivan, of the First National Bank of Denver, have paid out many millions n the last six years for pro- NOTABLE PIONEER WOMAN WHO | DIED YESTERDAY AT" HER | ! HOME IN POMONA. | dueing mines and they control 70 per Wit keent of the producisg gold. silver and lead mises of the middle Rocky Moun- tain district. In California, a Wes mine-own- ing combination, controiled by Hagg and affiliated interests, has been reac for some time to er into an agree- ment with Rockefeller for a gemeral | combination of mining properties. | Senator Clar. of the ~ Special Dispatch to The Call. | Verde copper es of Arizona | with large Poldings in many of J POMONA, June 12.—Mrs. Eliza Wick- | Amalgamated Copper Company’s mines ware, wife of George Wickware, a pio- | in Montana, has been working with neer of San Francisco, died at her home | Rogers for several vears. Mrs. Wickware Dies | at Her Home in Pomona. rifle and artillery fire at close| yoxrppar, June 12—The Rehelicu | in this city last night after many weeks | _F- A. Heinze. who has given t range and were destroyed, only and Ontario Navigation Company’s|of iliness. She had been failing S| Seaniipd OFf sad Smalptiscied : : = “ | steamship Canada, bound from Quebee | IcOre than a year and her death was Der interest Montana 8o much trou- one or two escaping. . mem . s not unexpected. Her husband, daugh- | Dle. has been in the city for several o Montreal, came into collision With| (., ;4 crandchiidren were with her| Weeks He is negotiating direct with r of b Rockefeller for the turning o interest in Montana to the new bine. the Dominion Coal Company's enl!ier, Cape Breton six miles below Sorel early | years. The body will be taken to San to-day. Twenty minutes later the|Prapcieco om Tuesday for .burial in Canada went to the bottom. At the ! Gypress Lawn Cemetery. The deceased | KEARNS SELLS HIS MINES. time of the collision there were I | . ves two daughters, Mrs. O. F. Gifia | boar “anada pe | | Senator Keazns of Utah has only re- ?\-ee'?é"?isf"m,-“wl?.i 2 Five | of Pomona and Mrs. E. C. Dake of San | cently sold to Reckefeller his valuabie ALFRED THIBEAULT, the agent of | i?;f“m“"n;gn"m‘wd'." In Los| o ,:0;0 -:;mhins considerably more o, DN ot Mitres Thibeautt, agea | Mrs. Wickware and her husband were | In Idaho the Sandard Oil Company 5 5 i 3 residen:s of San Francisco for half a! has had eontroi of the producing mines The main Japanese force, which | was greatly superior to the Rus- sian force, tried to outflank the | Russians, who drew off without | losing a man. The Japanese.| {closing in, found the ravine | SCOTT IN CHICAGO. when the end came. Her age was 5 co ian Poiitician Heralds Ar- ublican Committeemen. J coming of Committee- when Sena- Virginia ar- © | West Vir Annex to - ! work vacant, save for their own dead. |12 azd 15 = ¥ < E z clty | - I meet at 3 z 4 B | “JOHN BRUNEL of Sorel. thirty vears the Wickwares made their = western border passed inte the control kW on at the | Standard’s correspondent at St.| The collision occurred just as dawn 'E:‘:céio"”xfi‘“fi"m‘:, zl;‘or the National City Bank some years e b - Coliseum 0| Pegersburg says he hears that a | FRpDresking The, Cone Breion oY | the fist American women to live in the | “There are at the present time few was getting under way when the Can- | ada, making for Sorel at fuli speed, came into view. It appears that the | ., and Chairman ing aut the deal Rockefelier h“‘r-es- e is expected to arrive fre was the first marriage from the Metho- be abie Yo he secure »oked upon as Skrydloff states that on June 7 he Senator will be % morning. ! went within thirty miles of Port | Cape Breton had ot got headway |dist Church in the thea wild, roiliczing | States Government a T laces. v < cket: re 7 it h to answer her rudder, and that | Seaport community on the bay. { to give a public report on the ac 2 u: e}e?(.edlh:;: - = u,. .?s,- p:ifii”e:aa:); Arthur with the Viadivostok fleet :::“iwen-:d across the path of m‘u‘;‘z‘“t‘” wrriters and hfil.hhmtco':x::l :’::\;; of the properties to be co t for th rt i i boat, her bow striking the ound Mrs. Wickware “llec- - . sty u::r;.m‘xr'ge;n:;: and then ran into a fog. He found Mci_nmj;gt o ward of the p.unfem | tions & mine of information. Her mem- Senaxn; Kezmsl sy b h;s zo doudt V that by January S ~ 1! on the starboard side, and tearing fts | ory of the early customs in Scn Fran- | way half through. Then ‘the Cape | cisco has been written upon by scores Breton swung clear and the two steam. Of people. and her acquaintance with ships came alongside each other. most of the famous anc women in The shock of the collision aroused | the city when it was a gambiing. goid- crazed town—fifty years ago—have been several Japanese torpedo-boats {and two battleships, which at- tacked him fiercely and did some be in a vosition to make the final move in his long-cherished pla P —— AUTOMOBILE AND TRAIN ~ IN A FATAL COLLISION ngraved acd bear pictures ident McKinley and the m many parts of the coun- the convention. Clarke’s DEMOCRATIC SITUATION. - S - - x“ p - d““,i.‘”;:,s:fl: { damage. The Russians returned :'zgo;xu begcarx,l‘st.: settle m cu the | the basis of several novels. z Uninstructed Delegates Will Control gation an e Cape Breton did not appear to be seri- ; The Wi Batess wee. made e e Rl i B oF | the fire, but as none of the ships ill come with the Nevada - the St. Louis Convention. b . ously damaged, the passengers were | largely in the rise of real estate values CRESCAMOY- . Soie - B8 | appeared the Russians returned to | purriedly trapsferred «to this steam- | in the sand lots at the upper end of cident and Two Others PO P ISCUS! > ¢ States and Territories kb QUINTANA AND ALCORTA Viadiv | ship. In the excitement some of the | Market street. in San Francisco. at| Are Injured. wox ’\”"t',‘n,‘\.' FRENCH ventions and elected dele T HEAD OF GOVERNMENT | divostok. | passengers jumped overboard and were | what is now the site of the City Hall.| NEW YORK, June 12.—Rounding & T SN Democratic national gath % 3 R | A e A | picked up by boats from the C:nnh, Several years ago Mr. tndPlrs. Wick- | eyrve at Van Cortlandt Park after- . ~ . . " July b e WARSHIPS ESCAPE TOGO. |and Cape Breton. Twenty minutes ware came to reside in Pomona. but in on the Yonkers division Pontiffl Favors Nunico’s Susgestion | Lcuis on July 6 Return: Selected by People of Argentine Re- | later, when the Cs went down | = e & has kept Mr. ;:o&:\"::nr;—x - Xaghere Svane Actiof by Church Be De- while 307 delegates have blic to Conduct Their Arthur Vessels Said to Have alongside the Cape Breton, all the pas- | Wickware away from here most of the 3 . . who wcould be found were|time. Their home on Holt avenue, in crashed into an automobile road layed pects Fall of Combes. Affairs. R hed Viadi | sengers : OS AYRES, June 12.—Man-| g1 PETERSBURG, ‘r“*'l, | transferred. | this slace, is one of the most costly in ' owned by George Noakes, a restau- - » June 12.—Re- | “rpineanit and his two sons occupied ! this part of the State and is filled with ) rant keeper. Frank B. Read. a paper |lief is felt at the removel of dissen-| ; “stateroom near where the Cape|art coliections of rare worth. The stat- {sion in military cireles. It is under- | Breton's bow entered the Canada, and ! uary there cost a fortune and the col- stood that the sole responsibility de- | it is supposed that they were killed in | jection of porcelains is one of the meost | volves upon General Kuropatkin and | their berths. | notable in California. . Peru, June 12.—Jose Pardo |that no serious attempt will be made | Bonneterre, the purser, was P g — en elected President of the re- | to relieve Port Arthur. after the collision making his way to | KILLS DAUGHTER'S CHILD | It is reported that the Vladivostok | his quarters on the lower deck. with TO HIDE HER DISGRACE e ————— : k: HAY, & — isqundron now‘ tvns‘isctl—! :{ three cruis- | the Intention Iof seving his ct‘h:f,r‘:‘:" Prelate to Dine With Secretary of War | vessels. { kane, a cord still tightly bound about the heavy touring car demolished. ‘ { ts meck, a littie dead baby was picked | g e S Brunel was a second-class passenger and no one saw him after the collision. % s 2 e | Tweive trains are arriving dafly at il i Upon His Return to Wash e e ~ ek 2 o cked ; 3 fogton: ! —— | Janette Harris, an aged woman, grand- | GIRLS CIGARETTE “FIENDS” BALTIMORE. June 12.—Cardinal | 5 BABY GRANDCHILD OF ROCKEFELLER DIES GUNBOATS NOT DESTROYED. after spending the day at the S Again Invades the Home | of Cardinal Gibbons, re-|Both the Giliak and the Bobr Are of Mr. and Mrs. Harold ngent will be abie to ituation. the delegates elected, h Hearst has 101 actually ted to Judge Pz tana has been elected Presi- th manufacturer of this city, was killed. The ten-year-old daughter of Noakes had her left foot cut off by the train. and John Spencer, the negro chauf- feur, was probably fatally injured. Mr. and Mr=. Noakes and their six- year-old son escaped with a few b rmeds of persons on the goif links, which parallel the tracks. saw dent of ! Figuero: Argentine republic and corta has been chosen the uninstructed r Gorman will contr: ielegate entions prac- nstructed their repre- iow the wishes of the | Satolil residence sugse Iy but a few days of age. While the | t ill eome in | turned to New York to-night. On June | Still in the Czar's Service. F. McC j days of a delegation | 17 Cardinal Satojli will go to Wash-! TIENTSIN, June 13.—The Russian CHICAGO, June 12.—Editha, the g.[‘om:omm at the pou:e okn :‘:| COLUMBUS, A,-h:,, YJur.;‘ 1:_}11::; Superintenden he SENOR MAURA'S ASSAILANT IS GIVEN LONG SENTENCE | i2- | ington University. He will dine with |jured at Port Arthur on February 9| Edith Rockefeller McCormick, | Secretary of War Taft next Saturday | and which has ever since been under- , grandchild of John D. Rockefeller, night and expects to call upon Presi- | going repairs,-has left the drydock and ! yesterday at the family summer home | morning. bearing the child in her arms. | conpec { ffty-four members and its instrue- | ington to visit the rector of the Wash- | battleship Cesarevitch, which was in- Hearst's friend ity in the comvent have to fight State ¢ month-old child of Harold F. and | story of family disgrace and her ownis“'“" . and | crime. School principal, all of the teachers died | The woman arrived here Saturday | In that institution—in fact, everybody ted with that place of learning m a big but they w rman John P. Hopkins and Mayor Harrison, | @ent Roosevelt om the following day The had bee: BecuRng suspicion , except the - | R = H ¥. | is now ready for sea. Outside the har- | in Glencoe. child n Il for | Her ul actions aroused - i H ils—are horrified at the SR A S | i B o Pl el | bor of Port Arthur the sea is reported | months. | and she was watched for a time. Late! a&wv‘ery m":f many !llr!s in the Parker Leads in Mississippi. ' Boy Fails to His Death. ito be thickly covered with Russian| This is the second child the Harold | in the day she eluded vigilance, and school are cigarette “fiends.” JACKSO! Miss., June — The SALT LAKE, June 12.—John Rees, | and Japanese mines. McCormick family has lost, “Jack” | nothing was thought of the matter un- The accidental dropping of a box . Sta . repos t ussian gun- Democratic State Convention to name | fifteen years old. was killed to-day by | bof?.'cmfl".n‘fl‘m‘:?f hl:ve been de- delegates to th> national convention | falling six stories down an elevator | stroyed is untrue. at St. Louis will meet here on Wed- | shaft of the McCormick building. Rees s A i nesday. The indications are that!was employed as elevator boy. War News Continued on Page 2. Rockefeller McCormick having died a | til she came to the police station after cigarett one of the girl pupiis number of years ago of scarlet fever. | killing the child. She said she killed :‘na a :\n:u:’eynl investigation started It was in memory of that older child | the baby to shield its mother. The!a scandal and now it has been discov- that the McCormick Institute for m-lgu; is 19 years old and lives n].red that cigarette smoking by the puise to_attack Semor Maura in order to avenge the proletariahs who were the victims of governments. fectious Diseases was founded. irls has become a