The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 15, 1904, Page 1

TEE WEATHEE. Forecast made st San Pran- ; cisco for thirty bours ending midnight, Jupe 15: San Prancisco and vicizity— Palr Wednesday, with fox in morning; lighkt south winds, changing to fresh westerly. A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JU E 15, 1904. To-Day. o VLADIVOSTOK SQUADRON IN BATTLE OFF JAPAN; KUROK| ATTACKS KUROPATKIN AND IS REPULSED TOKIO, June i5, 10:30 a. m.-==The Dladivostok squadron is reported in the Korean Straits. Firing has been heard on Tsunoshima, a small island lying off the southwest of Honshiu Island. It is possible that an engagement is progressing. -+ \NOCENT . VANINANE 7 [\ PRINON Serving & Life Sen- tence for Crime of Another. JAPANESE 2 TROOPS RESTING BEFORE PITCHING CAMP AFTER [e INFESSION IS TRUE £ n R ST. PETERSBURG, ] began at noon around the Rus Thomas onley. wardens ght expressed was rep lled and we retained our position. The A WEARY DAY'S MARCH IN SOUTHERN MANCHURIA. Nicholas has received the following telegram from Lieutenant General Baron Stakelberg, bearing to-day’s date: “A battle our and a half miles south of the station of Vafangow, the enemy making repeated attempts to dislodge our left flank. The attack occupying the left flank of our position, sustained severe losses. Its commander, Colonel Khavastounoff, and ral Gernross was wounded, a shrapnel bullet shattering the right side of his lower jaw, but he remained |STREET CAR ~ HELD UP BY WO THUGS ‘One Is Caught After Rapid Pursuit Near Scene. | | Officer Wren Makes Use of { the Same Car to Fol- low the Robbers. At the City Prison a Pocketful of t | Cartridges and the Stolen Money | Are Found on the Prisoner. i e Two bold thugs boarded an Eddy | | street car crossing Laguna street ye: | | terday evening and relieved the com- | | ductor of $22 30 at the point of a pis- tol. . | As soon as the highwaymen leaped | | from the car the conductor blew ! | whistle, attracting the attenti | | Patroiman T. F. Wren. The poli | | ordered the motorman to rush his car | |in the direction the crooks had taken | | Without attempting to turn his troliey, l | the motorman, J. Keyes, reversed his ‘ lever and the car sped back to Buchan, | | | an street, . Peering through the saw two men standing on th of Buchanan and Eddy streets. With stop he window Wren out waiting for the car to | pluckily sprang off and rushed boldly upto them. They fled and Wren commanded them to halt, but they only sped the taking each The officer followed caught up with faster, separating, { | side of the street. the taller and soon him. The highwayman drew a revolver that flashed in the arc light. But the brave policeman leveled his own pistol at the fellow. At the sight of it the thug's bravade died out instantly. “Drop that!" commanded Wren, and the crook obeved. CHILDREN SAVE CROOK. Holding his prisoner with one hand, -+ walls at strang er of fiction. the the during summer Cole’s of of the ea LIAOYANG, June 14—Japanese ar-| tillery to-day opened fire upon Vafan-| gow (a station on the raliway sixty miles above Kinchou). Detalis are awaited. | LONDON, June 14.—The Central -e station in Min- | = = N to be taken into | ™S has received a dispatch from its of a2 brake- | Lipoyang correspondent, under to-day’s | , | aflte, saying that he firing between the Russian and Japanese vanguards commenced &t 1:40 o'clock this after- | noon. The fighting extended along the | entire front, assuming the dimensions | of a general engagement. The corre-| spondent says no details are available. | ST. PETERSBURG, 15.—The | General Staff remained in session unm} almost 2 o’clock this morning to trans- | late and give out Lieutenant General Baron Stakelberg’s message announc- ing the fight at Vafangow. This un- usua late hour indicates that the authorities attach considerable impor- | tance to the dispatch. It is believed here that the Vafangow affair mav prove to have been quite a fight. The fact that the Rus- sians held their position in the face ntence hang- MURPHY LOSES HIS REASON. an s W4 rphy, alias grown old within the nar- Deer Lodge. he attempted planted a and J e sentence, Murp rrespondent an empty . broke into a violen e g2 of heavy losses supports this theory, S 2 best be. | and it is believed that it may prove t to scare |10 have been a severe check to the| had no | Jabanese northern advance. t but later | The movement of 3000 Japanese north led him. of Xuandiansian only adds to the — e-—— Second Blaze in Oroville. blindness of the situation in the north- |eastern field of opinions. It is un- | questionable that the Cossacks have been worrying the Japanese north of Fengwangcheng and the movement | | may be merely an eflort to clear lhe,‘ | scon destr with its contents. | country. At the ::me time it holds The fire = i to a large grain ware- | the possibility of a demonstration house adjoining, which was also against Mukden, ome of the many burnmed, together with 1200 sacks of | roads leading directly east from Muk- den toward the region to which the Japanese are advancing. The con- i sensus of opinion, however, is that the grain. The loss on the flouring mill is estimated at $20,000. covered by 310,000 insursnce. |them from their position. JAPANESE ARTILLERY Danguards Clash and Fighting Soon Ex- tends Along the Entire Line. advance is more in the nature of a demonstration than a preliminary to an actual attack. A special dispatch from Liaoyang, dated June 14, says: “Yesterday. (Monday), at the battle of Vafangow, Japanese troops number- ing 20,000 tried to press our flank, but were discovered. We changed our po- sition, flanking the Japanese, and open- ed a heavy fire. The result is un- known.” The same correspondent in a later dispatch says: “To-day (Tuesday) the battle con- tinues. The Japanese have opened a heavy fire on our center. “On the night of June 12, southwest of Vafandien, the Cossacks eame into I i | | 1 1 I | i | | | | | contact with the Japanese and drove | We lost two men. The Japanese losses were fifteen men and twenty horses.” The date of the first dispatch does not agree with the press digpatch from Liaoyang or with General on Sta- kelberg’s message to the Emperor, both of which indicate that the battle took place yesterday (Tuesday). It -is thought improbable that there have been two actions. TS < 2N NS RESERVES CALLED TO COLORS. Two Hundred Thousand More Men for Kuropatkin's Army. ST. PETERSBURG, June 14.—The calling out of the army reserves n the Kasan, Kieff and Moscow military districts was announced to-day. This step is for the purpose of filling up the skeleton reserve corps and tb re- place the regular troops already gone or going to the front. shows the dispatch of four Volga corpe, which was predicted in these dispatches a2 month ago. The latter would give General Kuropatkin 200,- 000 more men. It also fore- | | | | { | recently Explosion of Mine BEGINS THE BATTLE Kills Twenty Japanese. Famous Inventor Is Among the vVictims. Special Dispatch to The Call. TOKIO, June 14.—Deep regret is felt here over a sad accident that occured last night to the torpedo laying ship Taihoku Maru, when Lieutenant Com- mander Oda and nineteen men were killed and seventeen wounded by a mine explosion. Commander Oda was the inventor of the Japanese mine, and, by his great activity and skill through- out the operations before Port Arthur, had added largely to his reputation. The Taihoku Maru, at the time of the accident, was engaged in laying me- chanical mines close to Port Arthur, under a hez 'y fire from the Russian forts and torpedo-boats. The damage to the ship was not great. Reports from St. Petersburg to tae | effect that the Vladivostock squadron encountered a Japanese squadron nm;m Arthur have not been-verified here and the whole story is believed te bhave originated in the fertile imagination of a Russian press agent. o S L SR Russia Adopts American Army Tent. ST. PETERSBURG, June 14.—The War Office has accepted recommen- dations made by Lieutenant Botkin embodying the use of the United States army model tents. These are convertible into ponchos for the pro- tection of the troops during the rainy season. \ bt ks Supplies for Port Arthur Seized. CHEFU, June 14.—A fleet of junks jaden with flour and rice for Port Ar- thur was seized off this port to-day by the Japanese. AR g ‘War News Continued on age 2. i | the Guilf of Pechili on Monday night | reports having seen the searchlights of | a large fleet and the flashes from war- !shlps‘ guns twenty-eight miles south- | wesg of Port Arthur. This observation was made, the captain says, between 10:30 o’clock on Monday night and 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning. He was unable to discern the lights of any op- posing vessels. Chinese cruisers and land forces are watching closely to prevent the expor- tation of contraband goods for either of the belligerents. Complaints have been made that the Japanese are drawing a supply of fresh provisions from here. | A Russian merchant, who was at | Kinchou at the time of the re- cent battle there and who accom- panied the Russian army on its retreat to Port Arthur, has arrived here on a junk. He says that the Rus- | sians had no permanent fortifications | at Kinchou, but simply trenches. The | country around had been mined, forc- ing the Japanese to take to the water. ‘When they did so the Russian gunboat Bobr was taken to the head of Talien- “wan Bay, whence she threw shells across the narrow neck of land, kill- ing hundreds of Japanese. The Rus- sians likewise suffered more from the fire of the Japanese ships than from the artiliery and infantry fire. A, STOESSEL'S MEN UNDAUNTED. Garrison of Port Arthur Is in Excel- lent Spirits. LIAOYANG, June 14.—The two of- ficers who escaped from Port Arthur and arrived here on June 11, after crawling through the Japanese lines for four days, brought important dis- patches from Lieutenant General Stoessel to Viceroy Alexieff. The gen- eral reports that the troops cempos- WARSHIPS IN ACTION IN THE GULF OF PECHILI Passing Steamship Sees Flash of Fleet’s Guns Off Port Arthur. CHEFU, June 15, noon.—The captain ) ing the garrison of Port Arthur are of a steamship which passed through | in excellent spirits and says the bands | play regularly in the park and that |%™ {Re policeman aimed his revolver at | the fleeting figure of the other. He 'determined to make an attempt to wing the runaway. Just as his finger touched the trigger the sound of chil- dren’s laughter in the direction In which the fellow ran came to the of- ficer. He lowered his weapon and the | man escaped. At the City Prison the prisener gave the name of Gurt D. Burrell. When searched $22 830, the sum taken from | the conductor, was found on his per- | He had a pocket full of car- Port Arthur has not the appearance | tridges and two knives. of a besieged fortress. | The prisoner’s tale sounds “Sshy™ _— | to the police, who believe him to be MAY ABANDON WEIHATWEL an ex-convict and habitual crook. He - [ | says he has been in the city only thres British to Surrender Lease if Port | days. “Burrell” furnished an Incom- Arthur Is Captured. | plete descriptien of his partner, but LONDON, June 14—It a | refused to reveal anything that would i 2 PPEATS | [ .4 to hig capture. He maintains the from a question and answer in the| customary silence and bravado of oid House ‘of Commons to-day that the | offenders. fall of Port Arthur would mark the place where the holdup ocourred end of British tenancy of Weihalwei, |is & well-lighted and popular district. on the Shantu promontory. Earl | making the deed remarkable for its Percy, the Under Foreign Secretary, | boldness. The affair occurred with be- informed the House that under the | wildering swiftness. Anglo-Chinese convention of 1898 MASKED MEN APPEAR. Great Britain's lease of this Chiness| mu, car was speeding along smoothly port was valid only so long as Port! .y +wo masked men boarded it. Arthur remained in the possesison of | «Give me all the money you hawve, < R | you ,» and stop the car”™ +————1——+1mt.¢ in Conductor Campbell's ear. WINE WER! He obeyed the order with alacrity re- g Bt 520 A 1nrd|ng’ the money. But the motorman FATIONAL. . AR | @ucked below the seats and the car T continued its way until Wren boarded dhke. Higd to- Ouginino Dilly to h“'?lt-nd made his plucky capture. mote a Higher Standard for | The only passenger on the car at the American Product. time was J. A. Christy, a grocer. He BUFFALO, N. Y., June 14—As a re- | was not molested, but was so badly sult of action taken at the meeting of | frightened that he could tell little of the American Wine Growers' Associa- | U - tion here to-day it is probable that the | o After Wren left the car it continued wine growers of the country will come | °% its way to Ffllmurev street, the con- together in a national organization. ductor still blowing his whistle. Spe- Perry T. Morgan, president of the|Cial Officer Harvey and Policeman California Viticultural Club, spoke in| Thompson boarded it and went back favor of a national organization to pro- Llo the scene of the holdup, but arrived mote a higher standard for the Amer-. | t00 late to render any assistance. icn product and to educate the m| The meager description of the thug to its use. | still at large will be of little assistance After some discussion the president | to the police. of the American Wiie Growers' Asso-| “He is of medium height and wears clation was authorized to confer and|a brown mustache.” said the prisoner. co-operate with three representatives| “That is all that 1 will say of him.” from the California Viticultural Club; The police are confident that they to agree on a working plan for action | can shake the fellow’s reticence sad iet'mlemummhopnmmm-.