The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 21, 1904, Page 4

RUSSIAN WARSHIPS ELUDE JAPANESE FLEETS AND REAGCH SAFE HAVEN THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JU 1904. ADVERTISEMENTS. WOULD WEAR GEMS IN JAIL Big Steve Stevens, the Smug- gler, Is Serving His Term | Surrounded by Luxuries| MONEY SPENT LAVISHILY Prisoner Dresses in Style and His Cell Is Decorated With Choicest Flowers| it Special Diepatch to The Call SEATTLE, Wash, June 20—Big, ve Stevens, who was recently con- cted of smuggling 000 worth « pium into the United States from ritish Columbia, is living like a prince the g County Jail He h $500 on deposit with th iler for messenger hire and delicacies sent him from the most expensive res- taurant He dresses like a dandy and is much hagrined that he cannot wear all his jewels. His cell is decorated with ost expensive flowers cut every morn- Friends of the prisoner say he has $100,000 in cash on deposit in a Seattle ISTER MANY YEARS Pair Are Separated in Youth and Are United When Both Pass Four Score Mark. WALLA WALLA, Wash., June 20.— After sixty-eight years’ separation, Jason Lucas of Deer Lodge, Mont. walked In to-n t and greeted sister, Mrs. J. A lhg)un i When they par 18 and she was he is a white- bearded, gray-haired man of 88, and she is a sllver- e Y of 92 The family separated in Massachusetts in 1835, Jason moving to Wisconsin and correspondence soc asing —— DESPERATE MEN BREAK OUT OF JAIL AND HIDE Burglar, Horsethief and Bank Breaker Escape From a Prison in Washington. h., June 20.—A break unty Jail occurred at "clock this men who ne a bank- urglar OFFICERS SEEK SITE FOR MANEUVER GROUND Army Officers of the Department of California Are Pleased With Location at Gilroy. SAN JOSE, Ju ad, Major 20.—Colonel Colonel Patton of the Department S. A., and Southern Gi- s city have uitable for Il are - r returned to San Salazar Goes to Jail. JOSE, June 20.—Frank Sala- who yesterday shot James Rios in the leg during a row was to-day harged with assault to murder. The complaint was sworn to by Mrs. Luisa the mother of the injured man. arraigned before Justice SAN zar, “ allace and in default of $5000 bail was ' sent to the County Jail. tion was fixe His examina- for next Friday. TO COMPROMISE JUDGMENT.—Harry W. Knoll, as administrator, petitioned the Superior Court’ yesterday for leave to compromise at $6000 & judgment of the Moses G. jainst the estate of Jerome B. Cox for $8364 judgment in question comstitutes the en tire estate of Cobb. | | Skrydloff Reports the | Success of His f Venture. Cruisers Lase No Men| and Sustain No Damage. o st ' RSBURG, June 20.—Under | Vice Admiral Skrydloff Themcruiser division has reached Alad without losing any men o1 vinin, Sus any damage.’ The Viadivostok squadron return- to port yesterday. The Ad ralty has received a long report from Admiral Bezobrazofl. It does not n a bombardment of the Japan- ese coast. In view of Vice Admiral Skrydloff aving stafed that the Japanese trans port Sado was sunk, the Admiralty is | awaiting an explanation of the Tokio telegrams saving the Sado was being towed to port The milit critics are disc the resnits of the raid by the Viadi stok squadron. They say Vladivostok has »ved more valuable as a naval arbor and better as a strategical po- sition than Port Arthur. 10, June 20.—The Russlan Viadi- ok squadron did not come into the ¢ Korea to-day. The suspicion e there was based on the flashing of searchlights seen off Iki 1sland last night. The Japanese made careful disposition of their warships to intercept the enemy, but when day broke there was no sign of them in the strait. The weather is clear, and it is be- lieved that the Russian vessels again ung to the north. s reported to-day that Vice Ad- Kamimura was engaging the ok squadron Oshima, but ing here from Mo, that firing has the northwest. detained at Moji. Shimonos mships WOULD ACCEPT \ILDI ATION. ang lnu~r\u\\ by a Famous Japanese Statesman. &7 . June 20.—An in- erview with Baron Suyerpatzu, pub- ed in Paris and suggesting that Japan is willing to accept the media tion of a power equally well disposec t 1 and Japan. regarded tentative utterance, attracts much | attention, coming from Marquis Ito. It erally interpreted aning that Japan is shrinking before prospect of a long, exhansting war. overnment officials do not show the slightest disposition, however, to relax their positi the Sentiment being that, having been forced into the war and driven to make heavy sacrifices, to stop just now, when Russia is pre- pared to accomplish something, is quite | impossible. i | AT PORT ARTHUR. | NEW FORTS War Writer Believes the Stronghold Cannot Be Taken. INDIANAFOLIS, Ind., June 20.—The Indianapolis News to-day received a special cable from Hector Fuller, its special staffl war correspondent at Chefu, giving the following account of his release from Port Arthur and the situation inside the besieged fortre: “After spending five days in a Rus sian prison, I was released and put on board a Chinese junk and sent to this\| pl The stories of starvation in Port | Arthur spread by the Japanese are un. true, as stores and supplies are stantly arriving at the besieged city from Chinese ports. The Japanese | blockade is ineffective. ! "“The garrison cons s of between VLADIVOSTOK SQUADRON, AFTER ITS DARING RAID, _RETURNS WITHOUT MISHAP TO THE SIBERIAN PORT 4 i e 2 | | | | i | | | | { i | | z ¥ & 50,000 and 60,000 troo and the health jactual work of reducing Port Arthur of both soldicrs and civilians is good. | will be confided to another Japanese The damaged battleships have all been | army under command of General Nogi, repaired and the harbor entrance clear- | ed of obstructions. DInmense mnew forts have heen constructed, and, in my opinion, the place is in no immedi- ate danger of falling into the hands of the Japanese. “The Japunese attack by land made | on the 6th inst. was easily repulsed.” Fuller was rowed across to Port Ar- thur from the Mjeotao Islands by two ) Chinese in an open boat, and was, on landing, on June seized, blindfolded | and thrown into a prison inside the | fortress. | ——.—— | TIONS FOR WARSHIPS. Hitch in the Dickering/ Between Rus- sia and Argentine. ST. PETERSBURG, June 20.—Nego- | tiations for the purchase by Russia | of six Argentine cruisers had almost reached a successful conclusion when | Argentina raised the question as to what flag they would be transferred to, | she being unwilling to sell direct to a belligerent The medium through which negotiations were conducted sug- | gested that they be transferred to | Venezuela or Costa Rica or Bulgaria, | which would turn them over to Rus- sia, but Presi Roca rejected the | proposal, in that -a bona fide | power should be the purchaser. Then | Purkey negotiated through the Argen- | tine Legation at Paris. The result of | the negotiations is not known. | | Ly JAPAN'S WAR PROGRAMME. l“nurlh Army \\III Land for the \l(‘g(-‘ of Port Arthur. | WASHINGTON, June 20.—An ex- slanation of the Japanese campaign on he Liaotung Peninsula, especially with reference to Port Arthur, is contained in an advice that has reached this city from a source believed to be abso- lutely reliable. The Japanese tactics, | which have so puzzled the Russians, | are intended to isolate Port Arthur, but do not contemplate an attack on the place by General Oku’s army. The | pi t ] FIRST CLEARANCE SAL 20YEARS day’'s Clearance Sale prove conclusively that 'bnlhug hon t! is mnchm We were results of our first day' ADVERTISEMENTS. ¢ furnishers who know our bargains to be real. fl.mmflfimfl.ml $30.00 tersawed golden oak, 27 top, mirror-like hand pol ish, with drawer and bottom shelf $6.00 Parlor Table Made of quartered “THE CREDIT HOUSE” LIBRARY TABLE—Of quar- by 46 inch $17.85 damasks. A hi(h grade parlor set lh(h chairs from broken sets as $3.25 Low Pedestal 24 inches high, mahogany finish and hand polished; cut to $1.90 and that in all nt nnr roducflvnl ou in furnishing your home. Come and see for yourself. s Rty | .00 3-PIECE PARLOR SET—Made of veneered mnho'iny, and hand carved; covered with beautiful silk $1.50 Golden Oak Bedroom Rocker —S8trongly made and well finished. . \ 233-235-237 POST ST. “The Biggest Furniture House on the Pacific Coast.” t in many broken hand polished for. *$36.00 low as ome-fourth their however, were picked up by the ambu- lance train. In the Thirty-third, | Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth regi- | ments, one officer and 120 were killed and nineteen | and 606 soldiers wounded. Ninety- six of these soldiers remained on the battlefield. irst Artillery | Brigade lost ten and 103 sol- diers Killed; the Ninth Brigade of Ar- which will be landed on the peninsula (and, indeed, may even now be landed) at a point south of General Oku’s po- sition and considerably nearer:Port | Arthur, On the first of June mno twenty-six transports had ered at one of the Japanese ports to | embark this army, and it is probable | that the vessels attacked by the Vladi- vostok squadron were of this number. - MORE DETAIL less than | been gath- | OF LOS Kuropatkin Confirms Reports of the Telissu Slaughter. | ST. PETERSBURG, June 20.—Gen- | eral Kuropatkin has telegraphed to the Emperor, under date of June 18, as follows { eneral Stakelberg reports that the enemy has not advanced beyond Va- | {angow. It is reported that three | bbdies of troops are extending their | front between Vafangow and Tschon-| jon. After two days of fighting and two tiring night marches by difficult; mountainous roads t troops have been able to rest. Their morale is ex- cellent. It has not yet beer/ possible to procure precise details of our losses. Accurate numbers are procurable in only the following regiments “First divisioh, East Siberian Rifles, fifteen officers killed and forty-nine | wounded, twelve of whom remained on the battlefield: 386 soldiers killed and | 992 wounded, the battlefield, 586 of whom remained on | whom, but of some and Tobolsk Regiment one tillery one officer diers killed; the officer and three officer and forty twenty-five sol- soldiers killed, one men wounded and three missing; the Marschansk Regi- ment six officers and 131 men wounded, | eleven men killed and eight missing.” = | —_— | KY REPORTS FIGHTING. | ZELIN Port Arth Garrison Drives Japanese From Two Positions. ST. PETERSBURG, June 20.—Lieu- tenant General Zelinsky, chief of staff to Viceroy Alexieff, has sent the fol- lowing telegram to the Minister of | ar, under date of June 19: | ‘According to inmformation received | from Port Arthur, on June 14 three | Japanese battalions pushed forward across the vobindar muule..., toward Lounnatan. Two detachments of Captain Loubinsky's rifles and a company of frontier guards stopped their advance, J “The enemy's torpedo boats bom- | barded the semaphore station, but they retired precipitately on the approach of the cruiser Novik and our torpedo boats, which ¢bened fire upon them. “On June 13 our rifles drove the Jap- anese from two positions east of the Siayobindar . mountains. Lieutenant Bitzeiff and a rifleman were killed and Lieutenant Znobinsky and four rifle- men were wounded. Lieutenant Znob- insky has since died.” o s PRIZE COURT ASSEMBLES. ‘Will Determine the Fate of the British Collier Alanton. i VLADIVOSTOK, June 20.—It is be- lieved that the Japanese transports sunk in the Straits of Korea by the Russian warships were conveying a portion of the fourth army. There was no alternative except to torpedo the Hatashi and Idzumi, as their crews refused to surrender. The British collier captured by the Russians has been brought to this port. She has on board 6500 tons of anthra- cite coal. A prize court has assem- bled to try her. BELFAST, Ireland, June 20.—The owners of the British steamship Alan- ton, captured by the Russians and taken to Vladivostok, say the vessel left Muraron, Japan, June 13, with coal for Singapore. They consider her cap- ture wholly unjustifiable and will lodge a claim for damages. The crew con- sists of thirty British subjects. i 2 2 PHONES ON BATTLEFIELD. J-plncse Adopt a Novel Method of Communication. \ ST. PETERSBURG, June 20.—The general staff believes it probable that Generals Kuroki and Oku are medi- tating a combined attack on General Kuropatkin before he is further rein- forced. In order to do this they must PLANS CLEANTP | ing _privile | Two riva WHO WAR 2 OF A MILLION Portland Syndicate Schemes to Make Huge Profits Dur- ing Lewis and Clark Fair S s Special The Call PORTLAND, Ore., June Five thousand rooms under one manage- ment for rent during the Lewis and Clark Fair, an average profit of $190 | on each room and a total cleanup of | nearly $1,000,000. This is the magnifi- cent stake being striven for by a new corporation in the Lewis building. The object is virtually to control the room- in rooming houses and private residences during the fair. For four weeks the company has had forty solicitors securing ironclad con- tracts with owne and lessees of pri- Dispatch to vate houses and rooming houses. These contracts secure to the company the absolute control of the rooms specified | in the contract from the opening to| the ciosing day of the fair. * % & oz act before the' rainy season, which is imminent. There .is an unconfirmed rumop in St. Petersburg to-night that a Wattle ! at Halcheng is actually proceeding and that there have been heavy losses on both sides. It has develoned that the Japanese at Vafangow had an accurate topo- graphical map of the whcle battlefield and that their batteries wewe connected by telephone. TOKIO, June 20. Japanese in- fantry and cavalry patrol, which was sent out from Takushan on June 18, reports having encountered a force of Russians at Chipanhing, thirty-six miles -weet of Siuyen, and at other points, and the fighting of a series of skirmishes. The Russians had fifty men killed and three men and many guns captured. The Japanese sus- tained six casualties. LIGHT SKIRMISHES. ONLY ST. PETERSBURG, June 20.—A dis- patch from Lieutenant General Stoes- &el, commander of the Russian mili- | tary forces at Port Arthur, dated June | 17, just received here, reports that no serious fighting has occurred around Port Arthur. Only a few skirmishes have taken place, the siege operations not yet having begun. lana | cured a bucket and filled it with water TRAIN KILLS NKNOWN MAN | Renmil of a Stranger Are Picked Up on the Railroad Track in a Fresno Town SR SICK HEADACHE ‘ Positl these QUEER STORY | T Litle Pills A SRALE | They also relieve Distress from Dyspepsla, o " Indigestion and Too Hearty Fating. A per- Y N p y Eating. In ll)l!l!\.‘l])l( nl'l n Gives Rise it remedy for Disainess, Nausea, Drh{‘; to 1 heo That the Vie- ness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue tim Was R()l)l)('ll and Slain TRAMP Pain in the Side, TORPID LIVER. They | Regulate the Bowels. Purely Vegetable. Ilnall Pili. Small Dose, __Small Price. Special Di: , June 20.—The remains 0{ § b an unknown man were found along the | UV DV VTV VDD DT DD Southern Pacific Railroad l:‘a‘cl; t:i::‘ visir DR. JORDAN’S aazar § morning and were picked up bit by bi e market pasxet 50| ¢ MUSEUM OF IIITOIYO thoroughly disfigured are the remains | mr* 1 MAZXET OT. bet. 5470, 5.7 Cal, he Lasgest Anatmucal Museum i World Weaknesses o amy « a that no trace is left whereby he can | be identified save a light brown cap, a leather watch fob and a pair of buck- | skin gloves. Last mzh[ as the midnight freight passed through Selma a fire broke out in a Jruit car at the end of the train. The car was backed up to the tank, urcoupled and the fire put out. As the train pulled out a tramp pass- ing the livery stable of G. R. Sweeney stopped and told a strange story. Ac- cording ‘to his story he and another man, who is thought to be the one| killed, were beating their way. He noticed the fire in the car and ran ahead on the top of the train and re- ported to the engineer. The man se- JORDAN—D'SEASES OF IEI' Conwultation free and strictly private Treatment personaily or by lester. A Poninvee Cuurs 15 & ndertaken. Write for Book. PEILGNOPTDY of MARRIAGE. MAILED FREE. (A vaiuable book 051 Market St 3. F. Prompt Symptom of. Cause removed. D Py HAY FEVER - wo RSTHMA *<: P. HAROLD »;vu. Buffalo, | | OCEAN ‘!BAV]I and started back along the top of the| - - train to put the fire out. He said as | he rushed along in the dark he ran| into a man and knocked him down, causing him to roll off the car. With the remark, “I wonder what happened to him,” he strolled down the street. He has not been seen since. 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