The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 17, 1904, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1904. JAPANESE MAY CUT OFF THE PATRIOT TREES 70 TAKE LIFE OF BOBRIKOFF Governor General of Fin- land Mortally Wounded by Senator’s Son. ! Assassin Commits .\‘uicidei Immediately After At- | tack on Official. RS S SBURG, June 16.—Gener- | vérnor General of Fin- | lur W and mortally wounded & »ck this morning at the en-| to the Finnish Senate at Hel- The sa; 1, 2 man named a son of Sepator Schau- 1d a lawyer by profession, im- £ suicide. Bobri- tomach and neck. Petersburg in The attack is as- | triotism. Schau- | lieved to be a member of | as the Finnish Patriotic URG, June 16.—A ori- | rom Helsingf says | fi was taken to a| koff, seneral who was f Fin- elf very unpop- e measures against | land and the stern: he followed out the wards the Finns. own here concern- nd the shooting, ain no doubt that >n_to the policy f Finland. The ation of the Diet, | as one of the most f Finnish national | not been convoked | roused much feeling. was at first opposed | of the Diet but re- r General decided to the Diet should be | ng statement has been | iew of the attempt on the life 1 Bobrikoff the de- | Emperor will probably | e onvecation of the Diet eople of Finland well sovernor General shall be com- | suffer ir me rikoff tead of benefit by | ; administra- unpopular with that i he population which op- fosed the policy of Russification. He | . ally hauhgty and austere | firmly, but jus better sition has ard General Bob- 1 administration, understanding and ige that the Governor a meeting of the Diet. | scember an attempt was | the life of the Chief of :gsfors and therefore ond act of violence | ths.” | was a umiversity grad- member of the Nationalist dis six mor S, June 16.—The fate | nor General Bobrikoff. | governor of Finland, who | rday, was predicted for | n a week ago by his Bobrik, general man- the Pacific Liquid Air and Oxy- any, of this city. In an ad- delivered before the University Club of Ldb Angeles last week. Bob- k stated that he would not be sur- prised to hear of the assassination of his uncle at any time and that such o ve him Bobri id to-day “General Bob- koff was a tyrant. He ruled the Finne with an iron hand. His will was ab- & ost matters, for the general | g not interfere in the ae ministration.” o BANDITS AIDING RUSSIANS. Three Hundred Chunchus in Force Defeated by Japanese. TOKIO, June 16, 7:30 p. m.—A de- tachment of the army under General Kuroki captured the town of Siuyen on 8 v, after routing and defeating a force of 300 Russians and 300 mounted Chinese bandits. The ene- ired toward the Tao River, ing behind them three dead and wounded men belonging to the eenthe East Siberian Regiment. The total of their losses is not known. The Japanese sustained no casualties. This fis the first actual report of Chinesd bandits fighting with Russian troops, and it may mean that the Rus- siane have enlisted large numbers of these irregulars. ' et China Makes No Protest. ST. PETERSBURG, June 16.—Chi- na has not made a protest against the erection of a wireless telegraph pole on the property of the Russian Con- #ul at Chefu. The position taken by Russia is as heretofore outlined. Rus- #ia has decided not to adhere to the Danish-Netherlands arbitration treaty until after the war ends. | during the first day’s fighting had a | sion of furious attacks by two divisions | tery | tween Tafanchou and Linchou, on the STUBBORN FIGHTING PRE(;EDES MAGNIFICENT . THE DEFEAT OF STAKELBERG Terrific Onslaughts by Warriors Are Repe General Nozu's Brown atedly Repulsed by the Russians. ST PETERSBURG, June 16 (6:38 p. m.).—Special dispatches dated June ¥ from Vafangow say the Japanese battery of six-inch guns. These re- po: unite in saying that the Russidns several times repulsed the enemy, speak especially of the fine work of the Russian artillery and report that the Japanese losses, which include quite a number of prisoners captured, were much heavier than those of the | Russians. - They estimmate that the ene- | my's battery fired 2500 rounds in the first day’s fighting. A semi-official dispatch from Muk- den, dated June 16, says the engage- ment at Vafangow on June 14 and 15 was undertaken.with the object of drawing off a portion of thé Japanese forces from Port Arthur, and resulted in improving the Russian position. The Japanese losses were very heavy. Another correspondent, describing the fighting, writes: “The date, June 14, will forever be memorable in our annals. A succes- f the enemy and batteries of six-inch guns were repelled by our troops, who nowhere yielded an inch of ground, despite heavy losses. The Fourth Bat- lost many gunners, but did not r. Gur guns were served superb- ly, paralyzing the attack of the Jap- anese infantry and causing their bat- teries to recoil. The soldiers of the Si berian Rifie regiments behaved mag- nificently. All the tropps are full of enthusiasm.” REPORT OF KUROPATKIN. Emperor Nicholas has received the following dispatch, dated June 15, from General Kuropatkin: “An_engagement occurred on June 14 at Wafangtien (north of Port Ar- thur) with a Japanese force numbe! ing at least two divisions. Our losses in killed include Colonel Khoastonnow, commanding the First Regiment of stern Siberian Rifles, and Second Lieutenant Dragoslaff Nadochinsky, adjutant of the regiment. The wound- ed include Major General Goingross, who_remained on the field, and Cap- tain Krintsky of the general staff. “Twenty officers, whose names are at present unknown, were killed or wounded, besides 311 soldiers, of which the First Regiment of Siberian Rifles lost twelve officers and 200 men and the First Brigade of Artillery six officers and fifty men. “The following night was quiet until 2 o'clock in the morning, when a fusii- lade began on our right flank along the line of our outposts. The firing soon slackened. At 5:30 o’clock .in the morn- ing the Japanese artillery opened on our left flank. Shortly before this our cavairy discovered on our right flank the presence, southward of Tafanchou, of a considerable force of the enemy. The Japanese infantry opened fire on our cavalry, oceupying the heights be- edge of a wood. CANNONADE BECOMES HEAVIER. Toward 6:30 o’clack the enémy, con- sisting of a regiment of infantry, with artillery, attacked from these woods. At the same time the cannonade on our left flank became heavier. ““At 6:30 o'clock General Baron Stak- elberg passed with part of his force tc the attack, turning the right flank of the enemy toward Wafangtien and Hunchou, and directing the other part of his force against the enemy’s front. Toward 10 o’clock in the morning the enemy sent a brigade of infantry, cav- alry and a battery of artillery against our right flank, and having repulsed our detachments of cavalry preceeded through Hunchou, turning the right fiank of our position. “General Stakelberg at 10:30 o'clock in the evening advanced his reserves to check this movement. “According to information received, the enemy during the morning of June 15 brought up considerable reinforce- ments, and as the main Japanese force consists of upward of three divisions—" The dispatch broke off at this point. FIGHTING IS DESPERATE. The losses on the Russian side, more than 300 on Tuesday, show that the fighting has been of a desperate char- acter, and General Kuropatkin's re- port this morning proves that both armies are determined to force mat- ters to a decisive issue. Kuropatkin's dispatch, given out this morning, brought the report up to 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, but stopped-at the most eritical point of the battle, when Stakelberg was meet- ing an attempt to turn his right wing by a similar move around Nozu's left flank. Stakelberg's reserves had al- ready been brought up and the Jap- anese had Been heavily reinforced. General Goingross, who was wound- ed, commands the First Siberian Di- vision of four regiments and a ma- chine gun battalion. General Samson- off commands the Usuri mounted bri- gade. The operations leading up to the battle of Vafangow date back to June 11, when two Japanese divisione, one commanded by General Nozu, ad- vanced from tihte Pulantien-Pitzewo line, probably prompted by the intel- ligence that the Russians were receiv- ing reinforcements. A sharp skirmish took place the night of June 12 at the village of Oudadien, five miles west of the railroad and seven miles south of Wafangtien, and another skirmish occurred on the heights near Chas. Keillus & Co. B x ¢t 5.1 v 8 High-Grade Clothiers No Branch Stores. No Agents. OUR SUMMER CREATIONS HAVE JUSTLY EARNED THE SEAL OF APPROVAL FROM SMART DRESSERS. WE ARE NEARLY SOLD UP OF FANCY SUITINGS. STILL STRONG IN SERGES. - 13Z- Kearny Street. Thurlow Block 1 the village of Lidiatum, ten miles east of Oudiaden. The Japanese were re- pulsed, but the Russian advance posts retired. JAPANESE BEGIN ATTACK. On June 13 two Japanese divisions were five miles north of the scene of the skirmish, their left wing resting on the village of Vafangow and their right on the valley of the Tassa, which flows parallel with the railroad, falling into the sea tén miles south of Pitzewo. After a day's rest the enemy ad- vanced fifteen miles on June 14 and attacked the Russian position, four miles south of Vafangow. The Rus- sians had the better of the first day's fight, annihilating a Japanese cavalry squadron and taking some prisoners, although at nightfall both armies re- tained their positions. Yesterday's battle was over a rough country, where artillery was very ef- fective. The Russian lines extended between the villages of Lanchou, near the railroad, and Fafangopen. The Japanese were between Tafanchou and Hunchou. Stakelberg’s reserves were held at Sisan, a short distance from Vafangow station, The Japanese re- serves were south of Tafanchou. General Nozu's artillery began the day by shelling the Russian right, while his sharpshooters were busy with the other wing, Stakelberg was not cer- tain whenfe the main attack would be délivered and sent out cav- alry to the heights of Lanchou to re- connoiter. Having ascertained that the enemy was not moving in that quarter he attacked the Japanese center and left, in order to drive the enemy against the railroad. The Japanese countered by moving up reserves in an effort to turn the Russian right. A half-hour later Stakelberg ordered his reserves to move from Sisan to repel the Japanese flanking tactics, in the meanwhile continuing his attack on the enemy’s left and center. This was the situation when Kuropatkin's report was received. SRS R RUSSIAN FORCES DIVIDED. Second Division of General Kurokl’s Army Delivers Rear Attack. NEWCHWANG, June 16.—Firing has been heard distinctly in the direc- tioh of Kaichou sipce 10 o'clock last night. Two batteries of artillery rush- ed through town at midnight. The second division of General Kuroki's army was reported to be marching to- ward Kaichou yesterday afternoon for the purpose of attacking the enemy in the rear. It is positively known that the Rus- sian forces in the vicinity of Kaichou are divided. Half are at Kaichou and the remainder at about twenty miles east of there. The entire force num- bers 35,000 men, including 600 Cos- sacks. There are rumors here of fighting at Port Arthur, with the Japanese al- most in the city. —e SMALL MANY KIRMISHES. CHEFU, June 16.—Eight junks ar- rived here to-day from Port Arthur, all of them loaded with Chinese. They left that town yesterday. Up to that time conditions were unchanged. Small skirmishes are reported con- tinually ashore and the Japanese ships throw a few shells daily into the city, around which the Russians have just completed an immense trench. “N0 CREDIT, THE ORDER I\ ALASKA Commercial Concerns Make Sensational e Special Dispatch to The Call. SEATTLE, Wash., June 16.—A Daw- son special says: ¢ “The Northern Commercial and the North American - Transportation and Trading companies to-@ay announced that they will quit the eredit business in the Klondike a month hence. This is the most sweeping financial change ‘| of policy in the Klondike ever known. “The entire camp will have to buy goods for cash or do without. -Seventy per cent of the miners in the camp have been carried heretofore by the big companies eight months of the year. The new policy will force producers to keep money enough here to buy sup- plies for all winter, and may seriously dffect thousands of laymen whose only capital i8 muscle, with no means of paying for grub till the clean-up. “Another steamer left for Tanana yesterday with 100 passengers and 200 tons of cargo. She was loaded to the guards. There is no end to the move- ment to that camp. At the present time $500,000 in Tanana dust is en route to Seattle, part by way of Dawson and part by St. Michael.” —————— Awards Contracts for Supplies. The Supervisors’ Electricity Com- mittee yesterday awarded contracts for supplies comprising some 2800 articles for the Department of Elec- tricty to the lowest bidder in each case. F CHARGES MADE BY JAPANESE Infantry Assaults Upon the| Russian Left Flank Are Teérrifie. . —_———— Brown Men Capture the Posi- tions Just as Dark: ness Falls. LIAOYANG, June 16.—The Japanese advance against General Stakelberg’s position began early on the morning of June 13, the enemy moving up from Pulantien to Vafandien, where at mid- day they came into contact with the Russlan advance. Firing commenced on the enemy’s front, which extended eight miles, stretching frem the moun- tains south of Vafangow to the valley of the Tasa. 5 The Russians soon discovered that the enemy -had great though not over- whelming strength, The Japanese forces comprised two divisions of in- fantry, field and mountain artillery and twelve squadrons of cavalry. They pressed the attack steadily without gaining ground and ceased firing at § o'clock. There was a lull until 7 o’clock, when the Russians commenced to retire northward. The firing recommenced and the Russians withdrew without se- rious interference, the rear guard sleeping at Vafandien. The night passed quietly. On the morning of June 14 the Japan- ese began to attack in three columns, the right creeping up the valley of the Tasa, the middle following the clearer line of the railwaw and the left con- verging toward Vafangow. In view of the superiority of the Japanese the Russfans withdrew and took up a fresh position four miles south of Vafangow. At 2 o'clock p. m. the Japanese ar- tillery opened heavy fire on the Rus- sian center and left flank. The Japanese attacked' in magnificent style. The in- fantry assaults on the Russian left flank were repeated and terrific, but the Japanese did not succeed in getting a footing. Darkness fell when the last attempt was made and the Russians withdrew. ST AL L P KILL ENGINEER AND ROB TRAIN Bandits Hold Up the North Coast Limited in Montana and Wreck Express Car BUTTE, Monf., June 16.—At 10:45 p. m. the North Coast Limited, the fin- est train on the Northern Pacific, east- bound, was held up one mile east of Bear Mouth, the scene of last year’s holdup of the same train, when En- gineer O'Neill was killed. Three ex- plosions of dynamite on the express car completely demolished the car as far ns\repnrta are now obtainable. The engineer was killed in the fight with the robbers. The rear brakeman was sent back to Bear Mouth conveying word of the hold-up. A speclal has been sent out from Missoula and will reach Bear Mouth in ~ about twenty minutes. The North Coast Limited is still there. Wardens McGlue and Con- ley of the penitentiary sent a man and their best bloodhounds on a light en- gine and boxcar to the scene. The plunder of the robbers at this hour is believed to be large. The bandits, two in number, have escaped into the large timber of the mountains. e ——— WEIGHTS ON CARLOADS ARE TO BE INCREASED Transcontinental Bureau Takes Steps to Anticipate Possibility of a Con- gestion of Freight This Year. The local representatives of the various overland routes yesterday re- ceived notice from R. H. Countiss, agent of the Transeontinental Freight Bureau, announcing an' increase in the minimum carload weights of east- bound commodities of from 6000 to 10,000 pounds, or an average of about 38 1-3 per cent. The increase will go into effeét’July 1 and will affect fifty odd commodities, the more important of which in California are pickled cherries; dried, smoked or salted fish; nuts and copper matte. The Increase in ‘weights of carload Jots is a move in the direction of meeting the great de- mand for-cars at this particular time of the year and to avold a car famine. The original proposition was to raise the weights on dried fruit and canned goods, but the .unanimous protest made by the shippers of those com- modities prompted ‘the bureau to re- scind the order and raise the weight on nearly every ¢ther commodity in the eastbound tariff. By this increase the railroad companies effect a saving of one-third of their cars to meet the rush during the busy season FIRE 18 RAGING ON THE STEAMSHIP OMIO rts to Control the Flames Meet ‘With Little Success. SEATTLE, June 16.—Fire broke out on the steamship Ohio at an early this morning and is still raging. +_H—M——_—+ RUSSIAN SHIPS SINK TWO JAPANESE TRANSPORTS Continued From Page 1, Columns 3, 4 and 5. ward. The naval force here is investigating the enemy’s Four Japanese merchantmen, the Ugo Maru, the Nugo Maru and two others, were fired upon yesterday by the Russlans, but escaped unharmed. position and movements. KOBE, Japan, June 16.—Dispatches state that a three-fu Tsushima on Tuesday Moji. vessels were e Lo el Russian cruiser appeared off ight and engeged the forts of Yesterday morning cannonading was heard to the northwest, the volume of sound indicating that several d. The cannonading ceased at 1 p. m. All ships sailing from Moji southward have been stopped. The Government steamship Fuyo Maru nar- rowly escaped capture, but managed to make the port of Katsumoto, on the islapd of Iki, under full steam. ¥ NO BOMBARDMENT OF HAKATA., NAGASAKI, June 16.—The report that the port of Hakata, about sixty miles to the north of Nagasaki, has been Bombarded by the Russians is denied. Yesterday Russian warships appeared at the island at Iki yesterday, from Shimonoseki her. zobrazoff. . The damage to of Okino, one of the Liukiu group, south of Japan, where there is a plentiful nugply of water. three merchant steams The Japanese trai They fired upon ips, but the latter escaped. port Ugo, homeward bound, arrived ter having been fired upon by the Russians. . She was not damaged. The captain of the transport Hino, which has arrived at Moji, reports that he saw the transport Hitachi, Cap- tain Campbell, being attacked by a Russian warship with four funnels. The Russian was on the starboard side of the Japanese fransport, which changed her course and steered for the enemy, with the Intention of ramming The Russian vessel, port’s bows and attacked her on the port side. SQUADRON REPORTED AGAIN IN PORT. ST. PETERSBURG, June 16.—The Viadivostok m- ron has returned to ‘Viadivostok. Vice Admiral Skrydloff did not accompany, tok squadron, which however, crossed the trans- It is reported that the Viadivos- ‘_",“ to sea under Vice Admiral Be- the Russian p‘ro(ectad cruiser Boga- tyr of the Viadivostok squadron is severe and will re- quire several months to repair, RETREATING RUSSIANS BARON STAKELBERG'S BRIGADE IS IN A CRITICAL POSITION Enemy Is Attempting to Get Between It and the Main Army Under Command of General Kuropatkin. Continued From Page 1, Columns 1 and 2. Russian commander may be unable to extricate himself, and that if he should be cut off from General Kuropatkin’'s main army the fate of the de- tachment would be sealed. AR ADDING CRIMINAL CHARGES | IN ‘'DIUNCAN DIVORCE SUIT Wife Secures Warrants for Arrest of Relatives and Others for Forcible Entry and Detainer. The criminal proceedings incidental to the divorce suit instituted by Mrs. Ada R. Duncan against her husband, Benjamin B. Duncan, are becoming more and more involved. Her hus- band drew $3400 on deposit in the San Francisco Savings Union last Fri- day, after Judge Seawell had issued a restraining order. Duncan disap- peared and a warrant was issued for his arrest on the charge of felony em- bezzlement. Then Wilham C. Duncan, brother of Benjamin, was accused of ejecting his sister-in-law from her flat last Friday night and he was arrested on a war- rant charging him aith battery. The case is ‘pending in Police Judge Fritz's court. Yesterday Mrs. Duncan secured war- rants from Judge Fritz for the arrest of William C. Duncan and his wife, Eva W. Duncan, on a charge of forcible entry to her flat on June 10 and against Fred E. Wallace and “John Doe” for forcible detainer. ————— A married man can live on less than a bachelor—if his wife takes in wash- ing. — LONG VACATION AWAITS MANY MINT EMPLOYES | Extra Civil Service Colners Are to Be Laid Off at End of This Month. Uneasy lies the head that wears out gray matter working in the United States branch Mint. This is the lam- entation of about fifty civil service people who have been helping the Secretary of the Treasury knock into shape golden double-eagles and Fili- pino silver pesos for a portion of the last year. . The eagles and the pesos are all in shape and the last of this month will see about twenty adjusters, four- teen melters and sixteen coiners dis- missed from Government employ. The cutting, rolling and annealing rooms have closed, and to-morrow all the departments will stop work. About fifteen of the extra force will be retained, and every place in the big stone building where an in- tefrogation point can stick is vocal with the query, “Who?” The anxious ones are parting the lucky fifteen from the luckless fifty and wondering whether their civil service certificates are not blanks after all. Those bits of paper will surely be blanks if the holders fail to get employment with- in a year, for in such case new exami- nations are in order. So the branch Mint employes’ question is hanging in the air. JAPAN PLANS AN OUTBREAK OF SIBERIANS A Sl Inciting Political Prisoners Into Rising Against the Czar. Russian Refugees in Paris Are Aiding the Mikado's Agents. Special Dispa to The Call. PARIS, June 16.—I was informed te- day by a personage in very close touch with the best sources of Russian news that the next move which Japan was expected to make would be relative to Siberia. Here in Paris Russian refugees are numerous. 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