The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 14, 1904, Page 1

midnight, July 14t ‘winds. TEE WEATEER. Forecast meade =t. San Fran- cisoo for thirty hours San Francisco and vicinity— Fair Thureday; brisk westerly A. G. MoADIE, District Porecaster. ending o North.” To-Day. Central—“Along the Mohawk.” Columbia—*“Cousin Kate.” Fischer's—“A Lucky Stone.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Matinee Tivoli—“Robin Hood.” Honorable John — SAN FRA ISCO, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS JAPANESE DEFEATED IN A BATTLE NEAR KAICHOU LONDON, July 14.-~The Vinkow correspondent of the Daily Chronicle asserts that a battle occurred north of Kaichou on July 12, when the Japanese were repulsed with great loss. PAUL KRUGER, EX-PR ESIDENT OF TRANSVAAL, DIES " I 8~ | Zci2 - HEDREDS PERISH 1 1 FLOOD —— Town Near Manila Destroyed by 2 ° Cloudburst. MANTLA the b 3.—A cloudburst over flood wh | del Monte lives were | lost | The low-lying distriots were inun- dated. The homes of Americans and | foreigners are isolated through the streets Transportation | is cerried on in| for twenty-seven | This is with | fallen otaling 171-6 inches ecedented. Communication places is interrupted. 1age to property is estimated DENVER LAD COMMITS SUICIDE AT ST. LOUIL Son of a Prominent Coloradan Swal- | lows Prussic Acid During a { July 13.—John W. Par- | rs old, the spn‘of Mr. and | A. Parker of Denver, commitied suicide to-day by | prussic acid. Young Parker ng the fair and the per- | sons with whom he had been living said that he had appeared melancholy | for about a week, but could assign no cause for his dejection Charles A. Parker is traffic manager taking had been visit pany and for two years was commis- | sioner of _the Colorado Raflway | Bureau. He was at one time traffic manager for the Missouri Pacific Rails way in St. Louis ——- Railroad Officials in Boise, BOISE, Idaho, July 13.—Julius Kruttschnitt, general transportation director of the entire Harriman sys- i tem: J. C. Stubbs, trafic manager of | Japanese did not’ display their cus- says the Short Line; E. Buckingham, gen- eral superintendent of the Short Line, end J. F. Dunn, superintendent of mo- tive power, were in Boise an hour to- e | | | 2 | | | | | ] + —gr— — JAPAN ARGING UP NANSHAN HILL DU ATTLE WHICH " R N THE CAPTURE OF KINCHOU E CONTROL OF THE ENINSULA. | IS . Ve Great Conflict Is Now in Progress Near General Kuropatkin's Main Base. CHEFU, July 14 (8 a. m. ).—Private advices just received from Newchwang indicate that the long-expected battle between Kaichou and Tatchekiao is now in progress. TOKIO, July 14 (12 m.). — Two warships and four to- pedo-boats belonging to the Russian Vladivostok squadron were seen off the island of Hokkaido on Wednesday morning. LONDON, July 13.—A dispatch to a news agency from St. Petersburg says that the officers of the Baltic fleet have been or- dered to join their vessels to-day. LONDON, July 14.—There is published this morning a rumor that Port Arthur has fallen, but it is discredited and lacks confirmation of any sort. CHEFU, July 13.—A dispatch received here from Newchwang for Lioyd's says: “Japanese scouts were seen this morning at Blackswood Pond, six miles place and Tatchekiao. Shipping and trade are progressing as usual.” TATCHEKIAO, July 13.—The Japan- ese attacked Tatchekiao on Sunday, but the attack was not seriously pressed, the Japanese retiring event- ually toward Kaichou. A Russian correspondent in the field, describing the fighting which preceded the capture of Kiaochou says that the tomary prudence. They advanced in open formation, with cries of “Banzal,” meeting the hail of artillery and rifle fire from Major General Kondravitch's day. They left at 10:30 p. m. for the | men and being literally mowed down. return trip, but will inspect the Twin | The dead and wounded were eo thick _— Falls irrigation preject on thelr that the Red Cross and coolie burial ‘War News Continued on Page 2, - | Continued on Page 5, Column 1, . | parties worked the whole night. | During the fight, the correspondent | says. the Russians took prisoner.a Jap- | anese arrayed in Chinese dress, who |was on a hill on the Russian flank | heliographing all the Russlan move- | south of here. General Oku, with 50,000 ments. of the Colorado Fiel and Iron Com- | Men. is advancing rapidly between this | It is the belief of the correspondent | that the Japanese are doing thefr best to conceal their main objective, with- | drawing, advancing and shifting po- | sitions in the most puzzling fashion, | until it is impossible to tell where they | will strike a blow. e e Oyama Arrives at Dalny. LONDON, July 14.—The Tokio cor- respondent of the Daily Chronicle that Field Marshal Marquis IOyama commander in chief of the Japanese forces in the fleld), accom- panied by his chief of staff, Lieuten- ant General Kodama, arrived at Dal- ny July 13. —— FNPLOYELS ~|LATE HEAD OF THE BOER 1D N0y 10 CONFER Tinois State Board| - Arranges Plan ; for Peace, 'May Terminate the Contest ~ Between the Packers and Their Men. Initial Step Toward a Settlement of ' Differences Is Taken at ‘ 1 { Chicago. | PR 1 CHICAGO, July 13.—Arbitration of | | the grievances which precipitated the | general strike in the meat packing | houses in various parts of the country appears to-night to be in sight, and a | conference between _employers and | strikers will be held to-njorrow morn- g - " " | The initial step toward a settlement | of the controversy by mediation was | | taken late this evening by the State | Board of Arbitration. When the mem- bers of the board reached Chicago they | at once went into conference with Michael J. Donnelly, the leader of the strike, and listened to the story of his | side of the trouble. The members of | the board then interviewed the repre- sentatives of the packers and their | side of the controversy was heard. As | a result of these.two conferences, Don- nelly sent a communication to the | packers in which it was stated that the unions were willing to accept a set- | tlement through a board of arbitration. | No reply is expected from the employ- ers before to-morrow, but it is confi- dently expected that their reply will be conciliatory, because they offered to ar- bitrate the matter in dispute before the strike was called. Donnelly declared to-night that the offer of arbitration from’ the packers had not reached him before the strike was called and that if the packers will again make the same proposition it | would be accepted by the unions. | PLANTS ARE NOT CLOSED. To-day bore out predictions of the packing house proprietors that the big | strike would not cause a stoppage of operations. In the great abattoirs things moved slowly, indeed, but | they moved. { In all the packing houses some ani- mals were being slaughtered. Every | department was said to be doing some- thing, and was expected to increase the activity to-morrow. Loading and shipping were in progress, though heavily curtailed, as was the buying of cattle. Hundreds of workmen were hired and put at work in the places which had been vacated by thousands. On the other hand, the strike spread | somewhat by the action of the team- sters, in considerable numbers, but os- tensibly acting as individuals, who re- fused to handle product touched by newly hired non-union workers. This refusal was usually based on the time- honored plea that a different course, contracts notwithstanding, would put the teamster in peril of his life. Extensive installments of sleeping cots and cooking apparatus for strike- breakers at the various packing houses were apparently the main irritant cause for action by the teamsters, although there were a number of sporadic mob outbreaks on a small scale. | ARMOUR VISITS THE YARDS. The packing house inspectors did not appear to share the alleged fear of mobs. J. Ogden Armour went alone for a tour of the stock yards. He was rec- ognized all along the way by strikers, but met with no demonstration. One “of the most interesting state- ments made to-day regarding the strike situation came from Miss Mary E. McDowell, of the University of Chi- cago settlement, near the stock yards. She said that the greatest difficulty the union workmen had to expect was that presented by the “‘casual worker,” who, she said, was at the beck and call of the plant superintendents. There are about 5000 of this class of laborers around the yards looking for work, and the regular workmen are in constant fear they will be supplanted. Many of these workers are now, it is said, being o engaged to take places of the atrikers. Miss McDowell remarked: “I do not expect serious trouble un- _—_— REPUBLIC PASSES AWAY IN HIS HAUEN IN SWITZERLAND THE LATE PAUL KRUGER, EX-PRESIDENT OF TRANSVAAL. Close of Patriot’s Remarkable Career Marks the End of an Epoch in South African History. LONDON, July 14.—Ex-President Kruger of the Transvaal Republic died at 3 o’clock this morning at Clarens, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The death of Paul Kruger,/last Presi- dent of the late Transvaal Republic, following within a comparatively short time that of his great political antag- onist, Cecil Rhodes, accentuates the closing of one important epoch of South African history and the opening of an- other under very differefit auspices and conditions. Old things and the old men have passed away and a new regime, handled and directed by new men, has been instituted. But however the future of his coun- try and his people may compare with times past, “Oom Paul” Kruger will go down in Bo#r tale and tradition as a brave man, a noble patriot and an able statesman. The disastrous end of the long struggle that he organized and maintained against overwheiming odds to defend and secure the freedom of his people can detract nothing from the merit of the great Boer leader, the sincerity of his purposes, or the righteousness of his cause as he saw it. A STRIKING CAREER. in the service of his country covered a period of sixty odd years, during which time he fllled most acceptably every office in the gift of his fellow- countrymen. From 1837 down to No- vember, 1900, when he left his own country for a refuge in Europe, he was in continuous service as soldier, diplo- mat and statesman, and well earned the respect of his foes as well as the love of his own people. Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, as he was christened, was born at Vaalbank Farm, in the Colesburg dis- trict, Cape Colony (since 1306 under British rule), October 10, 1825. He wag the third child of Caspar Jan Hen- dick Kruger and Elisa Steyn, his wife. His ancestors weresnot from Holland, as has often been stated, but from Germany. The founder of the African branch of the family married a French- woman and was obliged to flee from his country on account of his reli- gion. When he was yet a boy of 10 the “great trek” of 1885 was made and he marched at his father’s side over “His career of actlvity and usefulness | into. Natal and later back over the A — | Free State by the British Drakensberg Mountains to the Orangs Free State. He was called to public office at a very early age, having been made magistrate, under the title of fleld cornet, when he was only 17 years old. Even before this he had distinguished himself for bravery and skill in fights with the Kaffirs, Zulus, Basutos and other tribes. As a young man of 22 he went inte his first fight with the British and was at his father’s side when the latter fired the first shot at the battle of Boomplatz (1847). FOUNDS THE TRANSVAAL. On the annexation of the Orange in 1839, Kruger, with a number of his coun- trymen, ‘trekked” again, crossed the Vaal River, and with others, who had gone direct from Natal, laid the foun- dation of the Transvaal, or South Afri- can republic. Known as a brave soldier and a cool, clear-headed man, he made rapid ad- vancement in the official positions of the primitive republic and in 1853 was Continued on Page 8, Column &