The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 11, 1904, Page 1

mifdnigkt, July 11: wind. Tocal Poreoast made at San Praa- cisco_for thirty hours eading San Prancisco and vicinity— Fair Monday; fresh mnorthwest 6. ¥. WILLSON, _—* THEE WEATHEER. Forecaster. | —pe THE CALL e e TEZ TEEATERS. :;anh—-“m Honorable Joha “Nortn.” Grand—""Mr. York.” Central—"Along the Mohawk.” Fischer's—“A Lucky Stone.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Tivoli—“Robin Mood.” Barnes of New > \ 4 SULTAN F TURKEY e sk s American Minister. Brings Abdul to | Terms. i Compels a Prompt Settle- ment of the School Question. [ THi TH Warning That Fleet Would Appear, Attorney General Moody Calls UpoujDisast.er Said in Otioman Waters Has Desired Effect. 10.— 10.—A dispatch from says that American has handed a note g that unless a prompt ool question was tages fleet would The Sultan to comply VIENNA. Ju wate Vizie “aPPRANO der eges n the Sultan schools and « le ed by American teacher equa s ven to foreign teach- perr n for American pro- on even terms the direct ac- Minister to the period experienced a| made has when an attack was “onsul Magéisen, lay afterm ght smug- nition into the fired upon by ed. One of the for many years The Moslems at tians with hav- en, and before wag thrown into Shops everywhere | Christizns fled .to} Chri o 1w ¥, July ter 10.—The latest Leishman t show s possi- demand t that edu- conducted by | given equal | foreign institutions. | on of sending an American | rkish waters has not been | If the President feels step should be resorted to, | I the Porte to ds of the Unit- done TE ADMIRAL IO SPANISH sent Cervera With Engrossed Mes- | ze Expressinz Gratitude for His | atment of Captured Sailors. | 2 July 10.—As a rat of gratitude regarding | ¥ : t Santiago and his care an sailors, Admiral nted here with an bearing the signa- r of eminent Ameri- letters from the subscrib- a volume. The presen- Mr. Bird of Vien- of his fellow-Americans. l, in returning thanks festation of American d that his conduct to- enant Hobson and the r the sinking of | been inspired by | had repeatedly re- American admir- but, notwith- the plan to was carried out. —_————— NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH IN CLOUDBURST Aged Woman Blown Into Stream Floats Half a Mile Before She Is Saved. OMA, July ~Biown off her »d thrown into a stream caused sudden cloudburst, Mrs. Jane del, who resides three miles south Prescott, floated nearly half a mile fore she managed to escape the nd she is none the worse be- f her experience. Wazddel is over 60 years old. | 4 sinstorm caused her to go 1o look after her poultry. While to save her chickens she was feet and thrown into She climbed aboard a n of fence. After reach- e of safety Mrs. Waddel k 10 her home unassisted. water carried away fences, | Fe acreage of crops hundreds of chickens TAC HOSPITAL PATIENT ENDS HIS LIFE BY HANGING [ Younz Man Is Allowed Temporary Leave and Immediately Kills Himself. REDDING, July 10.—George Nel- son young man of Weed, Siskivou County, w entered a private hospital this cf on July 7 fer medical ment, asked the matron to be ex- his evening, went to the wood- and hanged himself with a line. He was dead when 4 a few minutes later, his neck having been broken. He had become despondent over his condition. Utah Republicans to Meet. EALT LAKE. July 10.—The State convention of the Republican party to nominate candidates for all State of- 1‘,:5 will be held in this city August Iy ch | written on {dam this_afternoon. | whistled, but the sound of the warn- JUAL ROLE OF FEDERAL ATTORNEY Appears as Counsel for an Alleged Defends Corporation Being| Sued Under the Sher- | man Law, ! | | 1 Childers of New Mexico for an Explanation. Epecial Dis, CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, July 10.—The case of William B. Childers, Unitdd States District Attorney for New Mexico, who was appointed by Cleveland and re- tained in office by McKinley and Roosevelt. and who has been charged with acting as attorney for the Colo- | rado Fuel and Iron Company, which was sued in New Mexico for violating | the Sherman anti-trust law, has at- tracted much attention in the Depart- | ment of Justice. | Childers, whose sworn duty it is to prosecute violators of the Sherman anti-trust law, not only failed to per- form his duty, it is alleged, but actually went into ecourt and boldly appeared .s champion of the trust and as counsel for the defendant in a suit brought to punish violations of the law Among Childers’ political backers are ‘ers of the Colorado Fuel and mpany, including Paul Morton, its president: the Rockefeller influence; | the Atchison, Topeka and Raiiroad and other powerful Childers’ most ardent sup- | tch to The Call financiers. porters are the officers of the Colorado Fuel and Iron ( In April last the Independent Coal Company of Gallup, N. M., began a damage suit against the Colorado Fuel mpany. !‘ | and Iron Company, charging that cor- | poration, in connection with the Atchi- son, Topeka and Santa Fe Rallway, with conspiring to suppress competi- tion and violating the Sherman anti- trust law. United States District At- torpey Childers appeared as accredited counsel for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. Plaintiff’s coun8l immedi- | ately notified Attorney General Knox and requested Childers’ immediate dis- | miss: from office. Attorney General sal Knox postponed action and the Inde- | ndent Company’s counsel filed fresh rges with Attorney General Moody, ng a copy of Childers’ pleadings, stationery of ‘the Depart- ment of Justice, | Attorney General Moody has de-| manded a fdll explanation, but Childers has not yet replied. —_— e TONG WAR AVERT! BY PROMPTNESS OF POLICE inch | —_— | Gambling Affair in Portland’s China- | town Almost Ends in High- binder Outbreal. PORTLAND, Ore., July 10.—Prompt action by the police prevented a tong war in Chinatown at an early hour this morning. Cursing, muttering Chi- nese, armed with revolvers and knives, were hustled back to their dens with difficulty. Over Bow Wo's store, at the corner of Second and Oak streets, a number of convivial spirits were enjoying a | Celestial game. They created so much | noise that a complaint was sent to a nearby police station and soon officers appeared demanding silence. The sportive heathen inferred that Bow Wo, of a different tong, had made the complaint. Epithets in Chinese and mongrel English were hurled from the windows. Then the Japa- nese women guests, alarmed, departed and their hosts followed, to return | with arms. | The streets swarmed with Celestials in a few moments and the police were compelled to shut up all the stores to restore quiet and order. —_————— KILLED BY A TRAIN IN PRESENCE OF FAMILY | Noise of Rushing Waters Drowns | Sound of Warning Whistle Until | It Is Too Late. MEDFORD, Or., July 10.—The rush of water pouring over a dam in the Rogue River drowned the warning whistle of a Southern Pacific freight train this afternoon and Will Betts was struck by the engine and fatally injured, while his wife and child looked on. Betts, who was formerly employed on the Gold Ray dam, was walking with his family on the track near this The engineer ing never reached Betts’ ears. He re- ceived a terrible injury to his right side and died on the way to Grants Pass. An inquest will be held. | —_——————— REACHES POLT WITH MURDERER IN IRONS Quarrel Between Sailors on the Peru- vian Schooner Corona Ends <y in Tragedy. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash.,, July 10.—The Peruvian schooner Corona arrived here this morning, seventy- two days from San Buenaventura, with one man in irons in her lazaretto and one missing. On June 2 a quar- rel arose between two of the hands. The officers apparently quelled the dis- turbarnce, but two hours later it was renewed and before it was stopped a sailor named Simons had been stabbed to death by a man named Bufino. The prisoner was brought ashore here this afternoon and lodged in jail 4 | crashed SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY SEVENTEEN ARE KILLED [N WRECK BXcarsionists Death in New Passenger Train Crashes Into a Special on the Brie Road. i to Have B-en Due to Haste of Tower Opera.or in Lower- ing Signal NEW YORK, July 10.—Seventeen per- Meet | | J | f { 1 | | | | { sons were killed and about fifty injured | in a collision which vale, N. J., just occurred at Mid- before noon to-day. | when a regular passenger train on the | Greenwood - Lake branch of the Erie Railroad ran ‘into an excursion train! that had been stopped to take walter. | All the dead and injured lived in Hobo- | ken, Jersey City and New York. The | dead: HENRY OTTERSTEDT, Hoboken. WILLIAM WEIDEMEYER JR., Ho- boken. WILLIAM , New York. MRS. A A LEMKOHL, New York. WILLIAM LANE, Hoboken, HENRY BECKER, Hoboken WILLIAM ROHFING, Hoboken. WILLIAM WINDERKNECHT, Ho- boken. GEORGE SCHEER, Hoboken. HENRY KOCH, Hoboken. ISIDORE MAD iR, Hoboken. FRANK HOLNWEDTELL (child), Hoboken GEORGE McDERMOTT, Hoboken, WILLIAM WISTOW, West Hoboken. E. K. K Jersey City. AGNES LEMKOHL (child), New York BOY. name supposed to be Batterson. OPERATOR BLAMED. The aceident is believed to have re- sulted fromm a tower operator having lowered his signal too soon. “The train which was run into was a special car- rying most of the Plattdeutscher Asso- ciation vof Hoboken on their annual outing. 1t consisted of twelve cars and two engines. The first engine had taken water and the train had moved up and stopped with the second engine beside the tank, when the regular train drew near. The flagman of the specia) signaled the engineer of the on- coming train; but, owing to a curve in| his flag was not seen until | the road, too late. It is claimed that the engineer of the regular train had slowed dbwn to about ten miles an hour before he into the special, but his en- ne tore through the rear car and drove the forward end of that car into the car ahead. The killed and in- jured were 1n these two cars. The wreckage did not catch fire, and | | the work of taking out the dead and maimed was accomplished quickly. The passengers from the uninjured coaches ran back and joined in the and the residents of Midvale, of whom had heard the crash, sted them. BODIES RECOVERED. The seventeen dead were soon laid beside the track and the injured car- ried to the nearby houses. While physicians were being sent for, women of Midvale brought bandages and other articles that could be used in caring for the injured. An engine and cars were sent from Little Falls to the scene of the wreck and as rapidly as possible the most seriously hurt were prepared for transportation by train to Little Falls and thence to Jersey City or Hoboken. All those hurt were eventually taken either to their homes or to hospitals. ——r— HORSETHIEVES MAKE SUCCESSFUL ESCAPE Prisoners Believed to Be the Notorious Bidwell Brothers Break Out of Nevada Jail. RENO, Nev., July 10.—Ed Arm- strong and H. T. Thomas made a suc- cessful escape from the White Pine County Jail at Ely last night. A posse, consisting of two Indian trailers and a dozen deputy sheriffs, is now scouring the hills of Eastern Nevada searching for the fugitives, who are known to be mounted and are thought to be armed. The men were charged with high- way robbery and are also believed to be horsethieves. This is their secona attempt. The first time they over- powered a deputy sheriff and were gagging him when he got hold of a revolver and compelled them to sur- render. They are the men who were suspected of being the Bidwell brothers, the noted California bandits, and there are those who believe the suspicion 1s well founded. ————— POLICEMEN CANNOT CHEW TOOTHPICKS WHILE ON DUTY Sight of After-Dinner Luxuries in Officers’ Mouths Jar< Washington Chief’s Sense of Propriety. WASHINGTON, July 10.—In de- creeing that Washington poliocmen must give up the use of toothpicks while on duty., Major Sylvester, Chief of the Capitol police force, has established a new record in rules gov- erning men. The frequent observa- tion of the use of toothpicks by.po- licemen on duty has grated on Major Sylvester's sense of propriety to no little extent. Rains Flood Liaoyang's Streets. LIAOYANG, July 10. — Nothwith- standing the proximity of the Japanese the Chinese inhabitants are calm and are following their usual occupations. The heavy rains of the last ten days floodéd the streets and squares, and the roads are like swamps. Traffic is greatly impeded | | JULY 11, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. RUSSIANS ADMIT LOSS OF # THOUSAND MEN KILLED IN RECENT ENGAGEMENT - WITH THE BESIEGERS OF PORT AR { July 8 and it was reported that more were to come in. THUR —— CHEFU, July 11.—A Euvropean who left Port Arthur at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon reports that the Japanese made a i torpedo attack on Sunday morning, attempting to penctrate into the harbor. They were repulsed.without lossto either side. The ’ European further reports that on July 7 severe fighting ocenrred around Port Arthur. The Ru ! back on all sides, but admitted a loss of more than 1000 killed. Seven hundred wounded are said to have arrived at Port Arthur on | ans claimed tohavedriventhg Japanese SENATORS ¥ AN A0 ACCIDENT Bailey and Tillman Barely Escape Deth Special Dispatch t6 The Call. ST. LOUIS, July 10.—Senator Tillman of North Carolina and Senator Bailey of Texas had a narrow escape from death at Jefférson avenue and Chest- nut street this afternoon. An automo- bile in which they were riding collided with a Jefférson-avenue car. The auto- mobile was wrecked and the occupants were unceremoniously spilled .out on the avenue. Tillman sustained a sprained aukle and Bailey was bruised about the body. Neither was serfously hurt and a few minutes after the acci- dent they boarded a car. for the Jeffer- son Hotel. The Senators had been at the World's Fair grounds, and after luncheon were returning to the city in an automoblle. The automobile was sailing down tne smooth pavVed street when, it collided with a car on a cross street. The au- tomobile was demolished and its Sena- torial occupants and the chauffeur were violently hurled to the pavement. Bailey picked himself up apparently unhurt, but Tillman limped as he walked away. ' Neither Tillman nor Bailey would be taken to the city hospital, but boarded a Pine street car and went direct-to thefr hotel. ————— MYSTERY OF THE DEAD CLFARED BY LIGHTNING Bolt Strikes Hearsc, Woman Investi- gates and Finds the Body of Missing Husband. UTE, JTowa, July 10.—A bolt of lightning which struck the hearse in which the body. of Fidesta M. Haskins was belng borne to the cemetery here was the means of clearing up a mystery. 5 Fifteen years ago Haskins, a promi- nent merchant of Clinton, Towa, went to Cedar Rapids to visit relatives, say- ing he would return in two weeks. He did not return. Years went by and finally “his wife gave him up for lost. She read that lightning had struck a ‘hearse and investigation revcaled that the body was that of her husband. Ute is only twenty miles from .Clin- ton, and yet for fifteen years the hus- band had lived here, —_———— GENERAL TORAL IS DEAD. Spaniard Who Commanded at Santiago Dies it Asylum for Insane. MADRID, July 10.—General Toral, who commanded the Spanish garrison at Santiago when that place surren- dered to the United States forces, died to-day at an_asylum for the insane near here. The general became in- sane brooding over his capitulation. FEVER GERY SURRENDERS Texas Forever Free of the Yellow P Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, July 10.—Bécause of the unusual success attending the re- cent efforts to prevent the annual out- break of vyellow fever in Texas and| Mexico, Dr. Walter Wyman, surgeon general of the marine hospital service, confidently hopes the disease will be forever stamped out of North America. Since the dangerous outbreak last year along the border between Texas and Mexico systematic work of a pre- ventfve sort has been going on. and up to to-day not a single case of yellow fever can be found in the regions where it was rife last August. Dr. Wyman sajd to-day that he was receiving. the best sort of co-operation from the au- thorlties in Texas and Mexico, and was gratified by the outlook. “We're not making any unqualified claims yet,”” Dr. Wyman said. “The worst season for yellow fever is August and September, but if there was to be a dangerous epidemic it would very likely begin to show itself by this time.” The principal work of the health au- thorities consists in destroying the dis- ease-carryifig. mosquito. Dr. Wyman said it was first rather hard to awaken people to the vital importance of the work, but of late public sentiment has been aroused to the desired pofat. The Governor of Texas issued a proclama- tion on the subject, and in Mexico the Government authorities are carefully co-operating with the work being done on this side of the border. WILL SEEK KNOWLEDGE OF WAR IN FOREIGN LANDS Commander of Troops of Panama to Spend Year in Europe Studying Military Systems. KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 10.— General Huertas, commander-in-chief of thé troops of the Republic of Pan- ama, with his staff, arrived here to- day on the steamer La Plata. General Huertas is going to Europe to study the military systems of Great Britain and Germany and will remain abroad for twelve months. The Panama Gov: + 10 SCIENCE. ernment voted $50,000 for the pur- pose. S 0 4 AT PORT ARTHUR BUS ILY ES OF CITY TO RESIST AD DEF! 2SO g 2 1S GRADUALLY CLOSING IN AS RE: E AGED IN STRENGTHENING THE E_OF JAPANESE ARMY, WHICH LT OF DAILY FIGHTING. | Russian Cruiser Askold. LONDON, July 11. — Special dis- patches to the Daily Telegraph and the | Daily Mail from Tokio assert that the | Japanese captured eight guns during | the fighting around Port Arthur on July. 4 and that they reconnoitered from | a war balloon. TOKIO, July 10.—On Friday night, July 8, during a storm, a flotilla of tor- pedo-boats of Admiral Togo’s fleet ap- proached Port Arthur. On the following | merning one of the torpedo-boats found | and attacked the Russian cruiser Askold, but- the result of the attack Is| unknown. The Askold fired upon the torpeda-boat, two petty officers being severely wounded. CHEFU, July 10.—A fair wind brought | a fleet of junks from Port Arthur to- day, carrying both Chinese and Euro-| peans. Reports which they bring of | conditions at Port Arthur are contra- | dictory, but they all say that a Japa- nese division from the northward is in- trenching seven miles from the marine camp, while another division from the eastward as fighting continuously, and ! with the aid of the fleet is endeavoring to gain a position commanding the town and the naval basin. A Russian says that the Japanese oc- | cupied the summit of Takushan Moun- tain, which is about three. miies from Port Arthur, on the night of July 6 with a mounted battery of artillery. On July 7 the Russian cruiser Novik and four gunhoats went out under pro- tection of the guns on Golden Hill and shelled a Japanese battery, which was surrounded an captured finally by; Russian infantr¥. HEAVY FIGHTING EASTWARD. | The fighting to the eastward of Port | Arthur has been very heavy since July 4. The Japanese ships along the shore are shelling the Russian positions on the hills from daylight until dark, while the artillery is just as busy from the hills, The smoke from the artillery on | the hills around Port Arthur is seen al- most continuously. Dead and wounded are being brought in at all hours, and many private houses have been turned into_hospitals. Only skirmishes have occurred to the northward. The main Japanese force is ten miles away, but Japanese scouts have been seen in the vicinity of the marine camp, which commands the principal pass through the hills directly back of Port Arthur. | three-funnel On the nights of July 2, Japanese fleet bombarded from the south of the town. The forts were not damaged. No further night at- tacks have been made since July 4. A Chinese mechanic from the Port Arthur drydocks says that two large ships have been missing from the Russian fleet since the fight oft Port Arthur on June 23. The bat- tieship Sevastopol is still undergoing repairs and four torpedo-boat destroy- ers are in the drydock. The Russians, on the other hand, say that their fleet is intact and as a mat- ter of fact the Japanese have been the heavier losers in the recent engage- ments off Port Arthur. The*Russiaus assert that the Japanese have lost no less than ten torpedo-boats in their at- tempts to reach the Russian guardship, which was protected by the stone-laden ships sunk by the Japanese in their ef- fort to block the entrance to Port Ar- thur. The guardship anchored behind the wrecked vessels. An entrance was opened around the foot of Golden Hiil, but the remainder of the channel was , closed with booms, making it impossi- ble for torpedoes to pass. Seven hundred Russians and 100 Chi- nese mechanics are still at work in the dockyards at Port Arthur. Some of the torpedo attacks by the Japanese have been almost fanatical. Frequently they have made attacks where success was impossible, and when the torpedo-boats have been sunk the Japanese have refused assigtance. either committing suicide or fighting off their rescuers. et SRR AWAIT BALTIC SQUADRON. SUEZ, July 10.—The Russian velun- teer fleet steamship Smolensk. wh passed through the Bosphorus, from Sebastopol, on July 8, haw sailed south- ward” from here. The véssel took two Red Sea pilots, one for herseif and the other for the volunteer fleet steamship St. Petersburg, which passed the Bos- phorus on July 5, coal laden, and which was reported at Port Sald on Satur- day. It is rumored here that the trans- ports intend awaiting the arrival of the Russian Baltic squadron in the Red Sea. PREASS. STLF ‘War News Continued on Page 3.