The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 11, 1904, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 11, 1904. JAPANESE FORCE HOLD General Sakharoff Ad- mits the Loss of Kaichou. s e Describes the Fighting Preceding Town'’s Capture. T( 16.—General Kuroki rej on Wednesday, July 6, a de X « troops drove off ) s and occupied Kangchang 2y retiring north- war he d no ¢ > had asual- north ussians were o the pas: occupation 1at the Rus- 150 killed or aroff adds that Yinkow road. nained during right bank of r, the enemy occu- the left bank g themselves thereon. BATTERY OPENS FiIRE. ¥'s the bridge patrols, ntakhe vil- fusillade oc- hment of the which ob- red. Our f July 8 the g of four di- could be made Kaichou, extending n, July 9, sive detachment. in the two“and a toward the avy pressure, ) our position 1 Yolintas, three nlunsa Pass. tion under the af e with in- nd in per- the the ng along fell back rrying c with the reports an five miles Japanese dragoons eleven Sakharoff savs. advance. but - NEARING NEWCHWANG. hing. Japancse I M Arrived at Cavy ¥ ady Have he state- Sakha- ed to be the ble the Japan- close touch with the off's ambuscade of a h of Siuyen n force is far- hat was gen- e of Tokio dispatches ad- »ss of the torpedo boats Admiral Skrydloff to to prove that « cealing losses, to do so. . iing for Neutral Vessels. THWAN ANG, July 8. — Incoming Japanese tor- ers are sweeping the in order that the 1ips may be carried h manner. The improved and, if it con- land operations will be eight on in a mor weathems hg ADVERTISEMENTS. (in (ifractive Woman NEEDS A CLEAR COMPLEXION. G- We Especially Recommend Cavses THE BLOOD TO CIRCULATE MAKES THE SKIN HEALTHY. o SOUD BY ALL DRUGISTS. | retained | upon | toward Sia- | - | Arthur Viadivostok | DEFEAT A RUSSIAN ING FENSHUI PASS German Kaiser Sends Anti-Christia}l Riots in Strange Message a Province of to Finland. China. American Consul Is Appealed To for Assistance. A SR I LONDON, July 11.—The Chefu cor- respondent of the Standard, in a dis- patch dated July 9, says: “The American Consul General, John Fowler, received news last night that anti-Christian riots have broken out at Chaoynen, about sixty-five miles south of Tengchoufu and eighty-five miles Congratulates Regi- ment Going to the Front. I T ST. PETERSBURG, July 10.—A sen~| sation has been caused by the publi- cation in the Russky Invalid, the army | organ, of a telegram from Emperor | William to the colonel of the Wyborg (Finland) regiment, of which the Em- peror is honorary colonel in chief. The Emperor congratulates the regi- ment on the prompect of meeting the | West of Chefu. Immediate assistance | Japanese and adds that he is proul | Was askéd for. | his regiment will have the honor of | ' The Taotai dispatched troops and clegraphed the authorities at Hwang- en and Tengchoufu also to send as- ance, if required. Foreigners are not believed to be in danger. The cause of the riots is not known. BATTLE fighting for its Emperor, the fatherland {and the fame of the Russian army. In | conciuding the Emperor says: | My sincere wishes accompany the | regiment. God bless its standards.” : | This.telegram was published only this | | morning, but by evening its contents {bad become widely known and formed the general topic of conversation. A considerable section of the public even | deduced from the message that Ger- | many intends before long to abandon | her position as a mere onlooker with regard 1o events in the Far East. In the diplomatic circles, while the|the stubborn stance wlegrsml ha‘s ‘L;nuscd;g;n;h‘surpnsekfimi | s1ans, General Oku ccmment, it is immediately assoclated |, . S it # with fhe 'approaching’ commercial | SAping (Kaichou) last Fridgy, dfwirg treaty negotiations in Berlin. It seems the Russians northward in the to be generally understood that Russia |tion of Ha . TS THR L. 3 DAYS. | General Oku’s Official Report of the \ Capture of Kaichou. TOKIO, July 10.—After three days’ severe fighting, characterized by T of eng. the | | desperate attacks of the Japanese and | Went to school to Morford. the Rus- | €i8ht years his senior. army occupied | Years he was a protege of Morford. ified the hill situated in a | ford then devoted- himself TREACHERY CHARGED 10 1L FRIEND Lawsuit in a Washington | Court Involves Prominent Persons, and Causes a! Great Political Sensation R GRAVE DISCLOSURE MADE BY PLAINTIFF Nominee for Supreme Bench | Aceused. by Former Asso- ciate of Scheming to Get His Wife and Property —e Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA. July 10.—Suit brought at North Yakima by the former hus- band of Mrs. Rudkin forms the basis of a political sensation involving Frank P. Rudkin, Republican candidate for the Supreme bench in this State. Judge O. S. Morford and Rudkin were boyhood friends in Ohio. Rudkin who is Morford came to Yakima and estab- direc- |1ished a law practice which was sub- The Russians had | Séquently transferred to Rudkin. Mor- is prepared to make considerable tariff |s fo 1 to large concessions in exchange for the benev- | cle uth of Kaiping. Their | farming interests. Rudkin lived in | olent neutrality of Germany during the | consisted of more than 30,000 | Morford's house by the latter’s urgent men. General Oku does not give any details, war, as well as for the assistance Ger- many is rendering in keeping the eae- | mies of the Russian Government in|but shows the difficulties of the strug- under police surveillance. | 8le. it has been repeatedly af-| The operations began last Wednes- day by the Japapese dr | irmed that Russia desires to raise | ing 1600 Rus | money in Berlin. | sians from the heights south of Kai- | —_—— pin: stitut the first line of de- TWO CAMPS SURPRISED. | fense. The Jap. cupied the posi- | v tion and the Russians retreated north- | Russian Infantry Twice Catches the | ward E ; Brown Soldiers Napping. | On the same day the right wing of ! et a ke e ot * | the Japar army southeast of Kai- LIEUTENANT GENERAL KEL- | ;ing’gefeated a small force of Russians LER'S HEADQUARTERS, IN THE | anq the left wing occupied the heights { MOUNTAT WEST OF HOIYAN, |ty the southeast. July 8, | recent Hoi and via Liaoyang, July sance in force beyond van was carried out with swiftnes 10. — The| On Thursday the entire | army forced its way cl ‘”\"‘T("Il“ihi the stubb Japanese ser to Kaiping, rn resistance of recor decision. The Russians tw the Russian infantry, cavalry and ar- caught the Japanese napping and |tillery located in the The Russians held many strong posi- once the troops go tions in the mountain ps | spite their desperate resistance they{ Count Keller personally accompanied | were forced to abandon them one by K the force to Ho and from there|one. During the night | sent Colonel Garnetsi with three com- | \wecre largely = reinforced: by troops panies to the right, toward Tcha-|prought from the north by train, in knmenza, and Colonel Letchitsky, w two preparation for a big battle on Frid battalions, in the direction L e The Japanese began the .last da oreren '« column arrived at|AEhtng at daylight witn an artillery Celonel Garnetsi's column arvived at|fire from guns piaced on the heights B T £5 s ' | previously captured from the Rus July 4. A Japanese picket waes sur-|DreviQUsly cal trom R destroyed after fighting |4 Y ¢ .. % : 3 ~ A4 A S At 8 o'clock in the moruing they 1€ .l\d!'-,,,),(‘l:‘» ‘n.llluz a Russian | 5.0 ¢ 0 Ruyssians from their posi- iy . _ |tions and forced them into their last \\‘:;q “"‘f" ,Van:‘l"”““,‘:’ S e: | line of defenses around the town. The i o il e < (Bl Tt o e jans evidently saw that the town doomed, as General OKu reports of the hill at the point of the bayonel. | ¢ many troops were withdrawn dur- The few who escaped carried the new i e - as the result of which on the next day | 78 the morning. . the Japanese brought up two regi- The Russians finally took position on ments and Russian retreat the tops of high precipices and again o AN T “lm. | offered a stubborn resistance. At about flar experience. He caught the Jap-| 100N they were forced to again with- e et 3 ook n the | draw, the Japanese occupying the last morning and carried it with the bay-|line of defenses. 'The Japanese pur- onet, after a terrible slaughter and |Sued the enemy, despite a severe ar without firing a shot The on the high hills to the north. re- Russians lost heavily on th Lt I N eernnaa. the | Positions and silenced these hatteries. sfactory, as it oy eloped sme| In the afternoon the Japanese occu- R 2 ochiaen i pied the town without further resist- marched | 2nce . f Phess iinele| While the particulars ue the fighting it is evident that the, a /ing the wounded back over | are not known, Count Keller is| Russians made to Liaoyang. | The los > saged have not been reported. FOR AN INVASION OF INDIA. S DEAD. Chinese Use Big Figures in Telling of Port Arthur Losses. CHEFU, July 10.—Chinese junkmen | who arrived here to-day from Port tbat on Tuesday, July Chinese carriers brought into the town more than 800 Russian dead, two of whom" were high officers. They state t a part of the Japanese force ad- :-Zam-.x r:-. within six ?unls of the be- P_':"t“'?dgx"('"q‘t - of war between Rus- | seised town, taking another eastern i‘;_’es-“jm”"r"I';:‘m:‘;ae'&“s’f‘g;‘;i‘gumflé | S columns in length. A dispatch frorm Chefu dated July Briefly summed up, General Kuropat- | stated that in the fi’hhm,z which oc. | Kin divides such a war into two cam- curred on July 4 for the possession of | PA1&Ns, one ending with the capture of obn. it the ibills- porthwest™ of , Popt| ficrat aud the othier, after two orithres : years' administration of the country, Arthur the Russians lost, according to | 3¢ s . £ th the capture of K . Kanda- Chinese, 100 fnew KilEl and 8, “mien| LoD tie Chvtute of Rashomis Eante | d har and Kabul. After that, says Gen- | wounded. Fifty Chinese carriers were| ora] Kuropatkin, the British would sent out to bring in the Russian dead | find themselves without native support and wounded. : in India proper. R s TR The plan deals minutely with the HOBSON'S CHOICE OF WORDS methods Russia ought to adopt to se- | SURPRISES COLORED ORATOR |cure the co-operation of the Persians | i | and Afghans by an elaborate system Booker T. Washington Says He Did of agents and sheikhs. It estimates that Not Use Language Attributed to | o0¢ Turkestan army corps and: one Him by Merrimac Hero. Transcaspian corps would be required in the initial stage of the campaign, BOSTON, July 10.—Booker T. Wash-,| ington while here to-day expressed sur- “which I would prefer to begin in No- prise because he had been quoted by vember, as the weather is healthjer for the men and a:l XR“usslan ports lure frozen. A casus bel can any time Captain Richmond P. Hobson at the| ).n required be found SRrOURIL S SOl National Democratic. Convention as | jision between Russian and Afghan having suggested in a_recent address| outposts.” before the National Educational Asso- ciation in St. Louis that white and col- ored persons should attend the same schools and churches in the South. Washington said that Captain Hob- son must have made a mistake in read- ing his speech or had been misin- ‘ formed, as he had never made any such | suggestion, and that the subject was ! not touched upon in the address men- tioned. Plan Which General Kuropatkin Is Said to Have Drawn Up. LONDON, July 1L—The Daily Ex- press prints to-day what it claims is General Kuropatkin's signed plan for the invasion of British India, which, it is stated, was filed in the Russian War Office as the official method of say 5, i £ R CHINESE AID JAPANESE. Signal Russian Movements From the Mountains Near Haicheng. SYAOLINDZI (on the railroad fif- teen and one-half miles northwest of Haicheng), July 10.—The roads are n bad condition. Soldiers are biv- ouacking on the roadside. The Cos- sacks, as usual, are turning their hands o everything, and, with long lines of 1 ropes tied to their saddles, are helping !herl transport wagons through the mud. ¢ A field telegraph links the advance with the base. Groups of operdtors are at the stations, busily at work for- warding messages both ways. The country is green and. beautiful after the rains. The Vinlataisk Mountains remind one of the Crimea. The or- chards and post stations are well kept. The soldiers are seemingly comfort- @able and there is little sickness. The Chinese are reported to be very annoying. They are signaling the Russian movemnts from the mountain tops. Scouts are continually after them, but they are hard to catch. el Scheme for Coaling Baltic Fleect. ST. PETERSBURG, July 10.—While ‘the Baltic fleet, on its way to the Far East, is not likely to be able to get coal at French ports, it is understood that the contractors will send out coal from these ports to meet the fleet beyond territorial waters. » —_————— PLANNING FOR CAMPAIGN IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY Parties Set the Date for Their Con- ventions and Apportion the Delegates. SAN JOSE, July 10.—The Repub- lican County Convention has been called for September 17. It will be composed of 159 delegates, which have been apportioned by the County Central Committee. The Democratic convention, which will be composed of 287 delegates, has been called for Au- gust 20. These conventions will each,nomi- nate one Senator, three Assemblymen, two Superior Judges and three Super- visors. ———— The crookedest railway in the world is one from Boswell to Priedens, Pa., the air line distance being five miles. The roud doubles itself four times, and at one point, after making a loop of about five miles, the road comes back to within 300 feet of itself on a grade fifty feet lower. | tillery fire from the kusswan batteries | | The | banese artillery finally occupled new | determined stand. | s and the number of men en- | In his report of the engagement, " invitation. ses, but de- | reported Morford at first prospered, but several years ago found himself in financial straits. He straightened out matters by’ keeping three farms valued at $60,000 subject to a mortgage of twenty-six thousand.. Morford then went to Dawson to make another for- tune and again prospered. The story runs that he sent thous- ands of dollars to ‘Rudkin for the use of Morford's family, and to pay off mortgages which were soon satisfied; Several years ago Rudkin visited Mor- ford in Dawson, borrowing money with which to make the campaign which resulted in his election as Superior Judge. Previous to this Morford had made ‘three visits home. About this time Mrs. Morford *wrote him she could no longer live with him, and re- narrow defiles. ' questing that he return home and di- vide the property. He came out and is to have again sought Rud- 's advice. It is alleged that Rud- advised him to transfer his farms the Russians ;‘n Mrs. Morford, besides paying her vey thousand dollars cash, and allow- ing her to secure a divorce on ground of abandonment. The contract drawn by Rudkin in- volving transfers of property was signed by Morford in December, 1901, and three weeks later Mrs. Morford the | sued for divorce on a complaint signed 1+ by Rudkin's brother as attorney. | Mrs. | Rudkin. | Bell struck from the complaint allega- As Superior Judge Rudkin heard the un- contested suit and signed the decree, Morford returned to.Dawson, and was bewildered a year and a half later to Jpear that Rudkin had magried Mrs, ‘Morford. Stories of allegéd fondness between the pair previous to her di- vorce then reached his ears. Morford returned and counseled with Judge Reavis, former Chief Justice of Wash- ington. Following this he brought suit to annul the contract of property set- tlement, alleging a conspiracy between Morford and Rudkin. The suit was tried by Judge Rell, to whom Mor- ford's attorneys objected because of al- leged bias and strong friendship for They were overruled. Judge tions of undue intimacy between Rud- kin and Mrs. Morford, also holding that Morford w. not entitled to the prop- erty. Morford has now appealed to the Supreme Court. seeking a new trial. NEGRO EXPIRES AT ROPE'S END White Residents of a Missi sippi Town Avenge an Attack Upon a Woman HOUSTON, Miss,, July 10.—“We, the jury, find that the deceased, Jesse Tucker, came to his death by hanging at the hands of unknown parties,’” was the verdict of the Coroner’s jury this morning, delivered while standing on the overhead bridge of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, under which hung, at the end of an inch grass rope, the body of Jesse Tucker. Last night, while a number of resi- dents of the city were attending a cir- cus, the negro entered the bedroom of Mrs. J. E. Johnston, where she was asleep with her children, turned out the light, went to the bedside and caught Mrs. Johnson by the throat with one hand and told her if she screamed he would blow out her braing. Mrs. Johnston reached after her pistol and told the negro that she would kill him. She succeeded in frightening the negro, who turned and made his escape through a window. Mrs. Johnston’s outcries brought as- sistance and a party went to the near- est house, in which lived Jesse Tucker, and found him hiding between two mattresses. The crowd then dispersed and some time before daybreak the ne- gro was carried to the bridge by un- known persons and hanged. ————— ESCAPES FROM OFFICERS " AS HE ENTERS PRISON Young Man Accused of Theft Breaks From Deputy Sheriff and Dodges Into Crowd. SAN JOSE, July 10.—Right at the threshold of the County Jail a horsethief broke away from Dep- uty - Sheriff Stewart about 7 o'clock yesterday evening and made his es- cape. A short time before a young man drove a horse and buggy into the livery stable of G. W. Laverty on North Market street and offered to sell the horse for $75. He said he did not want to sell the buggy. Laverty su: pected that the rig was stolen and he Wwent to the County Jail to report. S.. H. Stripe, who 1li on Center road, came in about this time and re- ported the loss of his horse and bugsy. Deputy Sheriff Stewart went over and arrested the man. As Stewart got his prisoner in front of the jail the fellow broke and ran. There was a crowd on the street and the officer did not dare u;-hoot. The thief is about 22 years £ ’ For many | HIGHER RANK FOR TWO BRITISH NAVAL VETERANS Admiral Sir John Arbuthnot Fisher, With Splendid Record of Fifty Years® Service, Will Succeed Vice Admiral Lord + ! { | { | i Walter Talbot Kerr, Who Is to Become Admiral of Fleet — Admiral Sir John Arbuthnot Fisher is to succeed Vice Admiral Lord Wal- .ter Talbot Kerr as First Naval Lord of | the Admiralty in-October next. Vice | Admiral Kerr is 65 years of age and has been in the navy-a little more than fiftty years, and will be promoted to admiral of the fleet at a yearly salary of $10,000. Admiral Fisher joined the navy at the age of 13 and is just 63 vears old. He has a brilliant record, having served with great distinction in the Crimean war of 1854; China war, 1859-60, and Egyptian war in 1882. 3 His salary as First Naval Lord, to- gether with his half pay as an admi- ral, amounts to nearly $11,000. The new vacht, named the Enchan- tress, buiit for the admiralty by Har- land & Wolff, Belfast, appears to be a worse failure than the Vietoria and Albert. She is of 3190 tons dispiace- {ment and was calculated to have a speed of 18 knots, but she only reached 16 knots. What is still worse is the alleged fact that the vessel rolls heav- ily, and on a recent trip seas invaded the staterooms, epoiling much valuabie furniture. The yacht has been return- | ed-to-the builders for alterations. The surveying veesels .in the Bri navy are doing a vast amount of w | valuable to mercantile and military { fleets. - The work extends all over the world, from the home coasts to the dis- tant regions of the Far East, from British Columbia to the shores of West | Africa. During 1903 four vessels were | employed in the home work and seven | abroad. The operations were | pered by bad weather, still, no | than 627 miles of coast line were ch jed and an area of 20,467 square miles | was sounded. No less than 344 rocks {and shoals were reported as dangerous | {to navigation. Of these 40 were re- | | ported by surveying vessels, 21 by | | sh | other navy ships: 245 were notifled by ! colonial and foreign governments, 13| were unfortunately discovered by striking and 12 were reported by other vessels. The yearly expenses of the | Hydrographic Department and Coast | | Survey offices is about $310,000, a sum | | that i’ not extravagant considering | the vast amount of work done that is | ]uf incalculable berefit to all maritime | nations. | LAUNCH OF A BRITISH CRUISER. ! The Duke of Edinburgh, an armored | cruiser of 13,500 tons, 23,500 horse-power | and a calculated speed of 221-3 knots, | {11, 1903. The ship is the 238th vessel | built at Pembroke. Five armored | cruisers of this type are under con- | struction, two at dockyards and the others by contract. Their main bat- teries consist of six 9.2-inch and ten 7.5- inch guns, which is considered by some 1 naval experts as more effective than the armament of the United States ar- mored cruisers Tennessee and Washing- | ton of 14,500 tons, carrying four 10-inch and sixteen 6-inch guns, In the Ttalian navy the battleship Regina FElena was launched at Spezia June 19. The battleships Vittoria Em- manuel and Roma are to be launched in August and November, and a third, named Napoli, will be ready for lJaunch- ing in February next. These ships are of the same type, size. dimensions and speed, namely 4355 feet length. 12425 tons displacement, 20,000 horse-power and 22 knots calculated speed. According to a French export's es- timate, the French battleships of the Patrie class, of 14,865 tons, require 1.18 horse-power per ton displacement for a speed of 18 knots, against 1 horse- power for the British London class. of 15,000, for a like speed. In the German Braunschwelg class, of 13,200 tons. the horse-power is 1.21 per ton displace- ment. For armored. cruisers of 22 to 23% knots the proportions - are: 2.15 horse-power per ton of the British Drake class of 14,100 tons. The French Renan type, of 13,200 tons, requires 2.8 horse-power for 23.5 knots speed. He also contends that French 12-knot crujsers require 21 horse-power against 1.67 in the British navv. These differences are due to the superior lines of British ships. In the American navy the battleshins Maine and Missouri attain a speed of 18 knots with 1.26 horse-power per ton, and in the Georgia class, of 15,000 tons, a speed of 19 knots is cal- culated with a horse-power of 1.27 per ton. The California class of armored cruisers, of 13,680 tons, will require 1.68 horse-power per ton for a speed of 22 knots. CONTEST IN SHIPBUILDING. There is to all appearances a_race between the shipyard at Newport News and the Cramps for the completion of the armored cruisers West Vlrg!nla.! Maryland and Colorado. Newport | News is building the two first named and the Cramps the Colorado. The contracts for these ships were signed in January, 1901; the price to be paid being $3,775,000 for the Maryland, $3,885,000 for the West Virginia and $3,780,000 for the Colorado, and they were to be delivered in January, 1904. | The higher cost of the West Virginia | was due to the fact that she, like the California and Nebraska, was in- tended to be wood-sheathed and cop- pered, which plan, however, was aban: doned after the contracts had been signed, and the Navy Department has mot yet, so far as known, been able to | trouble whatever. ! the phenomenal | | | | | | | \ | i ! | [ — s TWO BRITISH NAVAL OFFICERS WHO ARE TO BE ELEVATED IN | RANK NEXT OCTOBER. | <+ — .l come to an agreement with the con- tractors on the reduced price to be paid for the three armored cruisers and three battleships on which wood- sheathing was discarded. This change in specifications has been the cause of some delay, but the more serious and costly departure from the contract was the elimination of torpedo tubes and ubsequent decision to reinstall these mportant adjuncts to the efficiency of Jattieships and cruisers. The cost of making this late change is estimated at $2,500,000, which will be borne by the Government, and the delay to which the builders have been subjacted will further involve the Navy Depart. ment in controversy with tion. The responsibility fof this waste of money, time and litigation is direct- | 1y due to the chiefs of bureaus, Crown- inshield, Melville O’'Neil, Bradford and Bowles, at whose recommendation Secretary Long was induced to depart from the original plans of the former | chief constructor, Philip Hichborn, | whose judgment insthese matters has | proved to be better than that collec- tively of all the other bureau chiefs. | THE COLORADO’S TRIAL TRIP. The Colorado and West Virginia are was launched June 14 at the Pembroke | the two ships nearest completion. the | | dockyard. Her keel was laid February | colorado standing on June 1 at $4.9 per | cent and the West Virginia at 85.49. The Colorado’s keel was laid Aprib 25, 1901, | and the launch took place April 25, | 1903. The first unofficial builders’ trial came off July 2, at which she is said to have averaged 22.10 knots in two runs over the measured mile course. The trial was solely for the purpose of try- ing the machinery and was satisfac-| the Niclausse boilers giving no It is somewhat pre- mature, however, to claim for the Colorado, as the report states, that “she is without a péer in the American or any other navy.” The ship was fly- ing light at a draught three to four feet less than when loaded to her final trial displacement, at which an average tory, speed of 22 knots must be maintained | during four hours. The Colorado and, West Virginia class are of 13,680 tons| displacement, and are 1680 tons larger than the armored cruisers of the Cressy | class and 320 tons smaller than the/ Drake type in the British navy. ships of the Cressy class designed for| 21 knots speed have been completed, | and all of them exceeded the contract| speed by one-half to two-thirds of a| knot. Four of the Drake class designed for 23 knots gave even better resuits, and as high as 24 knots sea speed dur- ing a continuous run of over twenty- four hours is claimed for the Drake. The steam trials in all'other navies are more exacting than in the TUnited States navy, not less than eight hours being required in the British navy. It is therefore unsafe to predict that a vessel running light over a measured mile course in less than three minutes will do better, or even as well, with 1500 tons additional weight and maintain the former speed for four hours. The lines of the hull are all that can be de- sired, but it is a noticeable fact that speeds attained by earlier vessels in our navy in excess of contract have been materially reduced since the premium system giving $25,000 for each additional one-quarter knot has been discontinued. The West Virginia's keel was laid September 16, 1901, and the ship was launched April 18, 1903, thus beating the Colorado by mnearly five months. The Maryland was begun October 29, 1901, and launched September 12, 1903. The Colorado and West Virginia will prob- ably be completed and turned over to the navy within five months, -and if there had been no delays caused by the Navy Department the ships would un- doubtedly have been completed within the contract time of three years. —_——— Of the 4000 white settlers scattered among the total population of 200,000 in German Southwest Africa, not much more than 2000 are at present German and these are very largely composed of the military and official element. | SALVATIONISTS the con- ! tractors on claims for extra compensa- | Six | MINER MEETS TRAGIC DEATH Inspector Looks Out of Skip and His Body Is Caught and Shoekingly Mangled |[FALLS DOWN SHAFT | Remains Picked Up Piece | by Piece at Bottom 2000 Feet From the Surface —_— | MOKELUMNE HILL, July 10.—John | Souden, a shift inspector at the Gwin mine, yesterday afternoon fell from the skip to the bottom of the shaft, a dis- | tance of 2000 feet, and was killed. His | body was mangled beyond recogmition. | Souden and a fellow inspector. Chris Curovich, were going up the skip in- | specting the shaft, a daily custom. pre- paratory to lowering the 3 o'clock shift of miners. Within fifty feet of the top Curovich, who was examining his side of the shaft, heard his partner give a warning signal, “Look out.” Turning around, he saw Souden’'s body being drawn between the skip and the wall plate. The body was crushed throuzh a space of six inches and fell below be- fore a signal could be given to stob. The supposition is that Souden, seeing something was wrong, thrust his head out to examine more closely and | his head was caught between the wail | and the skip. The miners below knew nothing of the accident until they heard | the body plunge into the sump. Sev- 'eral hours passed before the head and all the members were recovered. Souden was 37 years old and leaves a widow and child. He had been work- ing for the company eight years and was a trusted and highly respected em- ploye. A TONOPAH MINER KILLED. Man Loses His Balance and Falls Threc Hundred Feet. RENO, Nev. July 10.—Suspended in a shaft 300 feet from the bottom of the Little Tonopah mine at Tonopah to-day Ernest L. Clausen fell from a bucket into the midst of five exploding blasts and met instant death. His body was frightfully mangled as a result of the fall. Clausen was working with Rogers Dougherty. The two had just set off a round of blasts and were be- ing hauled to the surface to await the explosion. The cable became caught 300 feet from the bottom and Clausen got on the edge to straighten it, when he lost his footing and fell. R — CONGRESS SHOWS ARMY’'S STRENGTH General Booth in Message to American Members Tells of the Value of Re- cent International Gathering. LONDON, July 10.—General Booth sends through the Associated Press the following message to the Salvationists in America in regard to the value of the international congress just closed here: The international congress of the Salvation army furnishes remarkable evidence of the concrete form and powerful force. which this movement is calculated to exercise in promot- ing the true brotherhood of man and to deal a heavy blow to the walls of racial and color prejudice without injuring the true spirit of nationalism. The vision of French and Ger- man_Salvation soldiers, of African and of Spaniards, of Japanese and Finlanders, of Britons and Boers. of converted Hindoos. Buddhists and Mohammedans marching side by side through the streets of London at the beat of the once-despised army drum, playing and singing the songs, all following the ono leader, could not fail to exercise powerful in fluence in the making of peace and interna tional concord. The American contingent has. I am happy to say, largely contributed to the success of the congress and has testified to the power of our plan and principles. —_——————— DEATH OF MAYOR JONES EXPECTED AT ANY MOMENT Family of Executive of Toledo Awaits Summons to His Bedside. TOLEDO, Ohio, July 11.—It is an- nounced at 2:10 o'clock this morning that the death of Mayor 8. M. Jones may be expected at any moment. Hope | has been abandoned, and the entire family is in readiness for a summons to the deathbed. | A wise girl is known by the company she doesn’t keep. | ADVERTISEMENTS. . Epilepsy Can be cured. To those afflicted this conveys a wonderful message. Though quite common, it is only a short time since it was considered incurable. 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