The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 28, 1904, Page 1

midnight, June 323: morning and at soutbwest winds, brisk westerly. District San Francisco and vicinity— Cloudy Tuesday, with fog in the A. G. MCADIE, Forecast made at San Fran- cisco for thirty bhours ending night; light changing to | Forecaster. i THE VOLUME XCVI—NO. 28. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JUNE 28 1904. RESIGNS POSITION AT FAIR | 1 | - — x e — : Secretary Willis of Cali- fornia Committee Steps Out. [ P S The Cal e 27.—Troubles which the California official family | f the exposi- n known to n building, the resignation of 7 of the commit- when Governor sever his connec- | ttee | 1 lis, son of the secretary, | ttached to the commit- | F also resigned. The withdraw from g. The only statement | d make was this: and want to give u e worked as long as the State any good. ks posted up and all ed to the present time, | will have a clear anted to resign for a ut of courtesy to the s been my friend for I waited until he to N York with a visit to relatives te California and ss, which »| 1! 1t to say that 1 h all and have a one. My only I have been over- s said nothing about 1at have been goss 1d that for more f ght they have not spoker taken their meals at the same ti the upper part of the State by ich is r ed for the exclusi of the official family. 't grow out of a ques- , as sometimes ward, ught ugh Mrs stand the st Willis in ong. uld not to Wiggins and Willis, it is a d there has been little cordia between them. Willis has been dissat with affairs in general Governor Pardee is said to have urged Willis to recomsider, and met with a firm refusal. The resigngtion goes into effect on J 11. The place is worth $200 a month and expenses and lasts till January next. Governor Pardee is silent as to Secretary Willis successor e T L e NAVIGATOR ARRESTED ON A CHARGE OF FRAUD AIR Sheriff Takes Into Custody Aeronaut Entered for the World's Fair Races. ST. LOUIS, June 27.—E. J. Pen- nington of Mount Vernon, Ill., who is contestant for the prize in the air- ghip contest to be held at the fair, v arrested at the Southern Hotel day by detectives on a telegram from the Sheriff at Pittsburg stating | that Penningtor wanted on a war- rant charging conspiracy and fraud. Pennington denies that he has had any trouble in Pittsburg and claims to be at a loss to understand the arrest. According to newspaper clippings | found in Pennington’s pockets he claims to have taken the former Prince of Wales, now the King of England, in his balloon for a trip above London. | —_——— CALIFORNIA EDUCATOR TAKES POSITION IN EAST| Dr. Starbuck of Stanford University Is Elected Member of Faculty of | Indiana College. RICHMOND, Ind., June 27.—Dr. BEdwin Starbuck of the Leland Stan- ford University has been elected to the faculty of Earlham College. GRATIFYING FIGURES OF THE CENSIS Heavy Increase in the Native-Born | Population. —_— Percentage of Illiteracy mi the United States || Is Lessening. 1 Pacific Coast Holds Honor of Having the Highest Proportion of Married Women, Special Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, June 27.—Notably in- | teresting and significant are some of the figures presented in an abstract of the tenth census, just published by the Department of Commerce. | Few realize that the native born population in ten years rose 22 per cent and the foreign born less than 12 per | cent. It is apparent “hard times’ e the chief cause of the comparative | decrease of the foreign born population. | As a matter of fact the actual num- ber of English, Irish, German and French residents of the United States | decreased in these ten years, while | Poles, Hungarians, Russians and Ital- ians increased by a large percentage. | Not entirely disconnected with the decline in immigration is the pleasing demonstration by figures that illiteracy | in the United States is decreasing. | Even with the increase in populalion" of more than 20 per cent from 1890 to | 1900, the number of illiterates fell ndarly | 150,000 in the decade. Yet, even in 1900, | there were 6,180,000 persons 10 years old or more in the United States unable to read or write. 4 MANY ILLITERATE WHITES. ] While the negroes in the South are| largely responsible for this huge total, | | there are still 3,200,000 whites in the il- literate class. Of foreign born illiter- ates New York State has 258,000, or al- most 20 per cent of the total in the| country. But the Empire State has in| addition 47,000 natives who cannot read or write. In view of the immense| throng of immigrants that settle in New York State, it is one of the sur- prising facts that the percentage of increase of native born in ten years slightly exceeded the percentage of in- crease of foreign born. The showing is contrary to that of nearly every other populous Eastern State. What might be called family statis- tics present some novel phases. An ex- hibit pleasing to the social reformer is a demonstration that the average num- ber of persons to a dwelling is falling. T in 1900 it was 5.3 persons, while | in 1890 it was 5.5. | NEW YORK HOMES CRO\\’DED.; New York State has the unpleasant | but natural pre-eminence of having | more persons to a dwelling (seven) than any other State in the Union. This, of course, is due to the tenement houses of the metropolis. Not so agreeable as a national show- ing is the fact that the number of fam- ilies owning their houses is decreasing. It is worthy of note that the percent- age of homes d rises generally | with increase of the farming popu- | 1 and falls with the growing ponderance of the industrial cla The family in the Uni 1900 the percentage of married among all persons 15 years or over was 55.5; of single, 36; of widowed, almost 8 per cent, and of divorced, four-tenths of 1 per cent: COAST WOMEN MARRY. Judging from the figures, the Pa- cific Coast States are the best for mar- riageable women, 60 per cent being wives, against 59 per cent in the Cen- tral West and 54 per cent in the East. Contrariwise, the Pacific Coast shows the smallest percentage of married men—45 per cent, against a general average of 55 per cent in the East and Middle West. The mortality statistics shdw that the increase in pneumonia deaths from 1890 to 19°0 was 5 per cent; of heart | disease, 12 per cent; of kidney disease, 44 per cent; of apoplexy, 17 per cent; of cancer, 12 per cent. On the other hand, the figures show a decrease in deaths from consuniption of nearly 55 per cent, ———— THOUSANDS MEET DEATH EACH FOURTH OF JULY Astounding Figures Are Submitted by a Philadelphia Health Officer. PHILADELPHIA, June 27.—Dr.| Benjamif Lee, secretary of the Board of Health, has sent to the authorities of every tpwn in the State statistics intended as a warning against the use of the toy pistol. It is asserted that on the last Fourth of July there were sacrificed “on the altar of a lawless and spu- rious patriotism” a greater number of victims than have been slain in any of the battles in the Far East or than were drowned or burned in the Slocum tragedy in the harbor of New York. / The total number of casualties in the United States on July 4, 1903, was 4349, ‘ A PRICE FIVE CENTS. KUROPATKIN'S HUGE ARMY = CONFRONTS OKU AND KUROKI +- FOR THE DECISIVE B ATTLE | | | o RUSSIAN ENGINEERS AND SAPPERS AT WORK ON THE LAND DEFENSES OF PORT ARTHUR. | i Forces Soon to Meet in Deadly J'truggle Total Three Hundred Thousand Men. GENERAL KUROKI'S HEADQUARTERS, IN THE FIELD, June 27.—The Jap- anese have advanced for two days, and a battle is expected near Maotien Pass, where the Russians are entrenched. A Russian outpost of 300 retreated before the Japanese and several Russians were captured. The Japanese army is in splendid condition. LONDON, June 28.—It is the belief here, based upon private advices from St. Petershurg and Berlin, that the Russian Vladivostok squadron has started on another raid. Tt is said Skrydloff’s warships disappeared several days ago, and will soon be heard from off the Japanese eoast or in the vicinity of Port Arthur. CHEFU, June 28 (3 p. m.).—Chinese who left Port Arthur on June 24 say that only four hattleships, five cruisers and the torpedo-boats left the harbor on June 23. Of these three returned badly damaged, but none sank. The several large ships pre- viously damaged carried no guns. On June 24 the Japanese main army was within fourteen miles of Port Arthur. Their ST. PETERSBURG, June 27.—Lieu- tenant General Sakharoff’s dispatch re- | ceived to-night confirms the belief that the great decisive battle of. the cam- paign bétween General Kuropatkin's main army and the armies of Generals Kuroki and Oku is imminent. The three armies aggregate 300,000 men, and their outposts are to-day.in touch all along the line. The Japanese evidently tried to draw Kuropatkin as far south as possible, holding out as an incentive a check to the advance of Oku's main army. Meantime Oku swung sharply to the eastward to join Kuroki toward Cha- pan Pass, Kuroki at the same time moving a strong force by the right flank toward Haicheng. The main Japanése advance contin- ues along the main Fengwangcheng- Liaoyang road, avoiding the Maotien Pass by a detour to the northward. The advance in all points is being attended by skirmishing. Nothing is known here of the exact point at which Kuropatkin's main force is concentrated, though it is believed that a large part of the Liaoyang force has been moved fo a point between Kinchou and Tatchekiao. According to a press dispatch from Tatchekiao to-day a large force has pushed southward from Tatchekiao against Oku. While Kuropatkin is thus extending himself the Japanese, with great mobility, seem to be trying to concentrate for the purpose of striking the Russians in flank and rear. NAVAL LOSS A SEVERE BLOW. Viceroy Alexieff’s message to-night, with a brief dispatch from Rear Ad- miral Withoeft, naval commander at Port Arthur, throws little additional light on the sea fight off Port Arthur. | The Admiralty and the Emperor are awaiting further details with the same eagerness as the general public. The latter to-day for the first time re- ceived information through the me- diums of foreign telegrams that a fight has occurred. . The loss of three vessels of the Port Arthur fleet is admitted to be a severe blow, especially if not purchased by i couts were nearer. | greater loss to the Japanese than re- ported by Vice Admiral Togo. The meagerness of the report is my!- tifying the authorities, who continue to | believe there has been a later fight, which has not been reported. In the absence of further information | the Admiralty is not disposed to criti- cize, although it is admitted to have been unfortunate for the squadron at such a critical time that its command- er should be an officer like Withoeft. who, though personally a brave sailor, never before blew his flag over a squadron. It is pointed out that he could not have been forced to get out of Port Arthur, as the situation there is not yet by any means desperate. If he fought his way back through the investing fleet it was because one of his patched-up ships had broken down or for some other urgent reason. If he arrived at the outer harbor at night he probably did not want to go into the inner roadstead, because the narrow- ness of the channel made night naviga- tion dengerous. or, possibly, because one of his ships stranded at the en- trance of the channel. Nothing else could account for his remaining in the outer roadstead, where he would be ex- posed to the attack of the Japanese torpedo-boats at night. SKRYDLOFF MAY BE RAIDING. There is a. belief that the Vladivo- stok squadron put to sea on Saturday and is likely to be next heard of in the Korean Straits. The Associated Press has received a curious dispatch from a Russian correspondent at Vliad- ivostok, who took pains to say that Vice Admiral Skrydloff's squadron probably would be unable to go out again for weeks, as the ships had to go into drydock for the purpose of thoroughly overhauling their boilers and cleaning their hulls, preparatory to putting to sea to meet the Baltic squadron. - The .dispatch added that some of the torpedo-boats had been battered by storm during the last ex- pedition to the Japanese coast. In con- clusion, .the correspondent savs that nothing has been heard of Vice Ad- miral Kamimura's squadron.: The statement that Prince Jaime of Bourbon was an eve witness to the killing of Russian wounded at Vafan- gow attracts considerable attention in official circles, as the character of such testimony cannot be ignored. Officlal action, however, is likely to be de- ferred until the reports of the Rus- sian commanders have been received. ‘War Office officials are disposed to re- gard the acts as the work of individual frenzied soldiers and they cannot be- lieve that it is the intention of the Japanese commanders to countenance a programme of ‘‘no quarter,” AR A FEUDS IN RUSSIAN ARMY. Jealousies of Officers Are Aiding the i Japanese Cause. TIENTSIN, June 27.—A cbrrespond- ent has seen a translation of a private letter from an officer hign in command under General Kuropatkin to a brother officer, giving a gloomy view of the situation for Russia and making dis- | closures. The writer said: “It is a shame to see officers con- stantly quarreling, divided into cliques |and fighting for their own interests, until Japan, the common enemy, is forgotten. Every one, from the Vice- roy and Kuropatkin to insignificant subalterns, is quarreling and unwilling | to obey orders. Until the whole systen? { Is changed we cannot hope for victory.” g CRUISER BADLY DAMAGED. LONDON, June 28.—The Standard’s | Chefu correspondent says that a | steamship just arrived from Moji re- | ports that she saw the Japanese trans- | port Sado, which the Russian squad- ron in its recent raid torpedoed and which drifted away from sight during a squall, being towed to port. The vessel was beached and a cruiser sent to assist her also grounded. Two transports were then sent out to help the vessel, but one collided with the cruiser, damaging her seri- ously. The namg of the cruiser was unknown to the officers of the steam- ship. S DA ‘War News Continued on Page 2. . | Julia Rogers, a comely young marrie BRANDS HI WIFE WITH 0T ThO Jealous Hushand In-| flicts Fiendish | Torture. Sears on the Woman’s Arm | the Name of His Sup- | posed Rival, Victim Is Suspended by the Heels Dur-| ing Operation, Which Lasts Several Eours, | | | Special Dispateh to The Call HOUSTON, 2 Tex., June 27.—Mr: woman, appeared before Justice of the | Peace Matthews to-day with a face| that bore evidence of intense physical | suffering. To the magistrate she ex- hibited proof of inhuman cruelties | heaped upon her last night by her hus- | band, Monroe Rogers. The story she | told would have done ample justice to | the torture chambers of the dark | ages. The jealousy of her husband, which, she claims, was without foun- | dation,’ is responsible. With eyes streaming with tears, Mrs. | Rogers exhibited her arms, ‘upon which were frightful burns, arranged | so as to distinctly form the letters of | a man's name, and he the one who the jealous husband’ believed had in- vaded his home. With his wife gagged, | bound and hung up by the feet, the jealous husband took his time at heat- ing irons and branding the flesh of the | helpless woman. After completing his | flendish work he left her in her sus- pended position, but removed the gags that she might cry for help. Tn places the burns reached to the | bone and nothing but death will erask | the name of the imagined rival. ! TORTURED FOR HOURS. | Two weeks ago Rogers left home on | | 2 business trip to Sour Lake. His wife | went to live with her sister during his absence. Yesterday@Rogers returned, went for his wife and escorted her| home. There was no warning of the atrocity he was about to perpetrate. He procured a quantity of rope, en- tered his wife’s room last night, and, overpowering her, tied her hands and feet and then gagged her. Removing her clothing, he suspended her by the feet with a rope looped through the transom of a door. He then lighted a lamp and secured an old file twelve inches long. He held the file over the oil blaze until it was red hot and be- gan burning the fiery letters. Smoke and the fumes of burning flesh filled the house. He started on the bare shoulder and wrote down the arm to the wrist. FREQUENTLY HEATS FILE. The letters were not small, being two to three inches in size, and the name with thirteen letters was spelled out in full. Between each letter he would stop and reheat the instrument. Nearly half the night was consumed in the torture. The suffering woman could do no more than to utter smothered cries and writhe with pain. The work of branding completed, the husband jerked the gags from her mouth and left the house. Her | cries were sufficient to bring assistance | and sher was liberated and physicians | summoned. For hours she was frenzied | with nervous excitement and suffering, | but opiates and lotions brought partial | relief. She proclaims her innocence | of any wrongdoing. Officers to-night effected the arrest of Rogers and he is now In jail. ————— WOMAN DECEIVES PRIEST AND IS EXCOMMUNICATED Conceals the Fact That Her Husband Was Divorced Man and Is Pun- ished by Cardinal Gibbons. WASHINGTON, June 27.—By order of Cardinal Gibbons, who is one of the most bitter denouncers of divorce in the Catholic church, Roberta A. Dab- | bin of this city, who was recently mar- ried to George W. Fleckenschildt by Rev. William Carroll of St. Patrick’s | Church, has been excommunicated for having deceived a priest in regard to a former marriagé of Fleckenschildt. Insofar as the Catholic church is con- cerned the marriage is null. The order is the result of an in- vestigation which has been made by Cardinal Gibbons of the charge that Father Carroll was bribed by a sum of | | money to perform the marriage cere- mony. Father Carroll says he returned the wedding fee” of $5 after discovering that Fleckenschildt had been divorced. ———e i FACTORY HAND WILL MAKE NOVEL JOURNEY Hauling a Cultivator in Which Sits His Wife and Child, He Starts for Exposition. MOLINE, Ill, June 27.—Hauling a { cultivator, in which sat his wife and child, William Hoyt, an employe of the factory of Deere & Co., to-day started for the St. Louis Exposition grounds. It is his intention to traverse the 300 miles in thirty days and make a tri- umphant entry into the company’s ex- hibit. / A AWAITING THE WORD OF MILES GENERAL A MILES WHO IS K PROHIBITION | LEADE NG. ¥ —_— General Is Coy and Prohi- bition Leaders Are in Quandary. Epecial Dispatch to The Call INDIANAPOLIS, June 27.—The Pro- hibition leaders who are gathering for the national convention are still “up in the air” on the Presidential prob- lem. It is General Miles who is keep- ing them there. National Committee- man Metcalf said to-day that when a party of ten Prohibitionists, of which he was one, called upon General Miles, the gengral was evasive and wished the convention postponed until after the Democratic convention. This, it is said, ha® been his policy since that time. Metcalf asserted that, in his opiniun, . the New England States would demand a man who would make a positive statement of his' position, and unless General Miles made one they would vote against him. National Chairman Stewart said to-day: “General Miles is a very able man. He has been a consistent friend of the anti-liquor movement and in a broad sense a prohibitionist, but even those who are pressing forward his name for the nomination by our party this year do not say hew he stands on the meth- ods of the Prohibition party.” Alonzo F. Wilson of Chicago, Charles D. Jones of Pennsylvania and John G. Woolley, the candidate for President four years ago, are prominent in the management of the Miles boom. Wil- son has shipped to Indianapolis a lot of Miles lithographs and a barrel or two of Miles campaign buttons. Samuel P nes of Georgia, general- known Sam” Jones, the evan- James A. Tate of Tennessee, Carroll of Texas and Felix ly gelist; George W as j A fcWhirter of Indianapolis are prominently mentioned for the second place on the ticket. —_———— HIGH ALTITUDE CAU S DEATH OF AN ASSAYER Mining Man Dies as Result of Sudden Change From Low Elevation to Mountain Top. LT LAKE, 27.—Sudden change from a lo ion to an altitude of 10,000 feet is given as the cause of the death of Jackson Taylor at the mining camp of day. Taylor came to Utah about a week ago from his home at New- burgh, N. Y. He graduated this year from the Columbia School of Mines in New York and was employed as assayer at a mine in Alta. Alta is about twenty miles distant from Salt Lake and is on the summit of the ‘Wasatch Mountains, more than a mile higher than Salt Lake. The remains were brought to Salt Alta yester- Lake by team to-day and will be shipped to Jackson's home In New- burgh. —_—————————— FORTUNE IS AWAITING CONTROL OF YOUNG GIRL Miss Emery of Salt Lake, Aged Eighteen Years, Will Receive $2,000,000 Legacy Friday. SALT LAKE, June 27.—Miss Louise Grace Emery of Salt Lake will come into possession of an inheritance val- ued at nearly $2,000,000 next Friday. Miss Emery is a daughter of the late A. B. Emery, whose widow, Mrs. 1 san B. Emery Holmes, acted as guardian of the es Part of the invested capital is represented in two magnificent apartment Lake. The rest bonds and local and mining stocks. an income of about $150,000 last year. has Miss Emery was 18 years old on May 1 and has just completed her school course. —_——————— Unveils Bronze of Stevenson. EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 27.— Lord Rosebery unveiled bas relief portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson in St. Giles Cathedral to-day. The bronze tablet is the work of the American sculptor, St. Gaudens, the funds for which were subscribed in America and Great Britain.