The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 15, 1904, Page 1

VOLUME XCVI—NO. 45. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CALL'S ST. PETERSBURG CORRESPONDENT SAYS REPORT OF JAPANESE DISASTER AT PORT ARTHUR IS NOT TRUE RICH NAY IAS TASTE OF PE | | —_— i | { Banker Found Bare-! foted and Ragged | in Mexico, || _— Natives Refuse to Believe/ | Omaha Capitalist’s Tale || Wealth. es Baggage in Accident in the| Wilds and Wanders About in Tramp’s Garb. of Epectal Dispatch to The Call | July 14.—From Vera Crusz| came the story of a thrilling ad- | uis F. Wettling, a banker Nebr.,, who was lost in a jungle while on a pleasure | rough the country, and, he can sign his check for thou- had to live among strangers pen- tramp's attire until g with friends enabled dentified at a Mexican bank. al- to be sus- pected by bankers and by the Ameri- can Consul of being an impostor. He was without funds for a fortnight. | | | en Lincoln friends met him on the | ‘Cruz, baretooted, mm-' ments out at the knees and tanned like a negro, they | e him the same man | treets of Ver of the Farmers’ and Mer- 1 Bank i 4 is now on his way, home. > Ross, another im- iness man, went to e timber lands. They | e in a canoe through forests. The canoe cap- their provisions and g into the water. The two men d with their lives and ed from the jungle ' hours with only what 1 ould pick up in the woods f € jves 100 miles from ng Lin bu en enough food in a enable them to make CE = i o PN NEW YORK WILL HAVE MANY MORE THEATERS Five New Places of Amusement Are @ Be Completed for the Fall Season Work is near- | theaters in ened in the fall sea- | be ready for | ember 1 and all 1. The new ein’s Drury d, on Thirty the Liberty, owned by | on the ORK, July 14.- d nd street, New Amster- W Fields Theater, sometimes referred to as the National, owned by Oscar Hammerstein and leased to Ha itchell & Fields, | situated on the south side of West For- | ty-second street, near Eighth avenue; | the Colonial, at Sixty-sixth street and | Broadway, owned by Meyer R. Bim- | berg, and the Yorkville, at Bighty- | sixth street and Lexington avenue, | y Meyer R. Bimberg. mately the builders will have ,000 on new places of before all these are open. CAUSES MUCH OOMMENT | pE— Mpystery in the Departure of D. Percy Morgan and His Children From Home. RYE, N. Y., July 14.—Mystery sur-| rounds the departure of D. Percy| Morgan, clubman and whip, from his home on Boston Post road at Harrison- on-the-Sound on Sunday, May 29, when he left there for New York with his three youngest children, telling his egervants that he was going to take the little ones for an outing. He has not returned since then. Members of the Morgan household to-day declared that they could not| talk about Mr. Morgan's trip, but said they knew where Mr. Morgan was u:d] that Mrs. Morgars) heard from her chil- dren every week. —— EMPEROR OF CHINA REPORTED VERY ILL Ruler of the Celestial Kingdom Is Saild to Be Suffering From Dysentery. LONDON, July 15.—The Shanghai sorrespondent of the Morning Post, in » dispatch dated July 14, says the Thinese Emperor is reported to be se- sously ill with dysentery, RY 1stomed to see behind the | | at the State | | drew on his bank | | T HE CALL’S St. Petersburg correspondent, whose sources of information are of the highest, asserts that the report that 30,000 Japanese were killed by mines during an attack upon Port Arthur is utterly without foundation, and that official St. Petersburg || knows now that the report was circulated by the Japanese themselves, with the hope of enticing Kuropatkin to advance upon his supposedly crippled foe. On the contrary, the St. Petersburg bureau of the Associated Press reaffirms the report, and as- serts that confirmatory telegrams have been received from private sources in the Far East. In view of these conflicting state- ments, it is to be noted that some days have now elapsed since the reported disaster without official confirmation from Port Arthur; also that the Japanese, far from being demoralized, have occupied Yinkow without encountering opposition. . i e ) i Ry ES GGRIEVED. SIE SEEK 10 EXD LIFE Pretty Niece of Min- ister Conger Has Close -Call. —_— Specal Dispatch to The Call DENVER, July 14— Mabel Stanley, a beautiful young stranger, who appeared at the Denver County Hospital suffering from a large dose of laudanum, Wednesday afternoon, is the niece of United States Minister Conger in China. Abandoned by her husband and suffering great pain from an injury she received at the nata- torium last Friday, Mrs. Stanley de- cided to end her life. She swallowed a quantity of laudanum. Regretting j her act she boarded the first car for | the hospital. The doctors soon brought her out of danger. She will have to remain in the hospital for many weeks to submit to an operation on account of internal injuries ghe sustained last week. Mrs. Stanley is 26 years of age, blue- eyed and remarkably beautiful. She has been in Denver several months, | having come here from her home in Waco. Texas, where her mother re- sides. Before her departure she had a disagreement with her husband, who, she says, treated her with very little consideration. Being high spirited she left him. The wife has been consider- ing the advisability of suing for di- vorce. After her arrival in Denver she found herself without funds. Pride prevented her sending to her relatives for assistance. Her distinguished uncle, with whom she is an especial favorite, would have extended help to her for the asking, but the young woman would not apply to bim. He frequently. had advised her to come to him in the event of misfortune. She has a sister in Denver, but she would not go to her for help.. The sister notified their mother of Mrs. Stanley’s condition by telegraph andereceived an answer that the mother would take the first train 4or Deaver. GAMBLERS ARE AFTER INFORMER Pl S (Chinese Lottery Men . Put a Price on His Head, . Special Dis to The Call, | FRESNO, July 14.—J. K. Turner, a newspaper reporter of this city, is keeping a sharp lookout for highbind- ers, as they have threatened to kill him. Some time ago Chief of Police Morgan offered a reward of $10 for having lottery tickets in their possess- fon. Turner donned a disguise and went the rounds of Chinatown, buying | tickets from the principal merchants. He returned the next day and arrested them. |- A price has now been set on Turner's head and the police in Chinatown say that the highbinders are determined to earn it Turner has applied to the Mayor of | the city for a special bodyguard. —_——— PART OF BUILDING FALLS AND THREE ARE HURT Stone Coping Drops to Sidewalk From Eleventh Story of New York Times Office. NEW YORK, July 14.—Part of the upper story of the old Times bullding on Park Row, where repairs and addi- tions Are being made, fell to-day when several workmen were on the scaffold- ing on the upper floors and the streets were crowded. Reports of serious loss of life were circulated and the streets became quickly blocked so that ‘the police reserves had to be called. A stone coping, several tons in weight, was being lowered from the eleventh floor when the ropes and the boom of the tackle broke. There were many narrow escapes from death in the crowd on Park Row below. Three persons were seriously injured. The coping crashed through fifteen inches of planking and imbedded itself about #ix inches in the concrete sidewalk. I | | | the arrest and conviction of persons |- { "Z1\> S | U | # HAND-TO-HA IN THE RUSSIAN TRENCHES — TYPICAL SCENB OF THE HTING ATT: G KUROPATKIN'S DESPERATE RES NC APANESE ADV E TO THE NORTH. il L ERE H False Rumbr Circulated by Jap an- ese With Hope of Enticing Kuropatkin —_— Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Southward. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. HAICHENG, Tuesday, July 12.—A detachment of Major General Mist- chenko’s army fought a brilliant engagement to-day near the Black Moun- tains. miles from Tatchekiao. Some prisoners were taken. The Japanese are entrenching five LONDON, July 15.—~The Daily Chronicle’s Tokio correspondent says that on July 14 the Japanese occupled Yinkow, the port of Newchwang, and that the 300 Russians who were in the town escaped with difficulty. ST. PETERSBURG, July 14. — WHen the official Gazette yesterday afternoon published a special edition stating that Viceroy Alexieff had informed the staff here that $0,000 Japanese had fallen in an attack upon Port Arthur, people who dismissed such news as being false when announced from irresponsibie sources finally believed it. Great was the feeling of pleasure that at last a victory for Russian arms could be an- nounced. It appears now, though, that the whole thing was a miserable hoax on the part of the Japanese, in order to mislead General Kuropatkin and cause him to advance. The consequent morti- cation and disgust felt to-day had no limits. To make matters worse, according to the latest dispatches General Oku is seriously threatening Newchwang with a large force, While Japanese Field Marshal Oyama has taken the direction of the investing forces at Port Arthur and the best ship in the Russian nayy in the Far East, the Movik, has been damaged. It is now realized that the rainy season, as deterrent to active opera- tions, is going to be disregarded by the Japanese. ASSOCIATED PRESS VERSION. ST. PETERSBURG, July 15, 2:15 m.—The people of St. Peters- retired last night in a happy frame of mind. The ab- sence of a dispatch from Lieutenant General Stoessel, commander of the military at Port Arthur, regarding the reported disaster to the Japanese on Sunday night is generally attributed to the delay in communicating official news, owing to the ahsence of the Em- peror. Private dispatches recelved at St. Petersburg from Russian sources in the Far East confirm the reports from Mukden and Chefu. According to a usually reliable source the Japanese losses were 28,000 and the Russian losses 1800. The city remains in a ferment of ex- citement and the extras are eagerly bought in the hope of finding the long expected dispatch from General Stoes- sel. It was only late last night that a dispatch arrived, which, had it become generally known, would have tended somewhat to dampen the enthusiasm. This was a dispatch from Tatchekiao, communicating an undated dispatch from Port Arthur received on July 13. It did not mention the assault or the repulse, but it is quite possible that the dispatch was sent from Port Arthur earlier than July 10, so that it cannot be fairly regarded as contradictory evidence. It is quite certain up to this date that there is no disposition in St. Pe- tersburg to question the truth of the news. There is a general conviction that if Viceroy Alexieff decided-to com- Continued on Page 2, Column 3, v | ing driven from Prospect Park to the | but the woman begged to be permitted VSTERY | NACH | SENSATION 0ld Man Dies Sud- denly and Woman Dimflrs. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, July 14—Charles W. H. | Carter of No. 148 Lincoln road, Breok- lyn, died last night in a cab while be- St. George Hotel. He was 70 years old and rated as a millionaire. A mys- terlous veiled woman, who was with him, has disappeared, and although foul play is not suspected. detectives are searching for her. Carter met a young woman last night in front of Brooklyn Borough Hall. After a few minutes’ conver- sation he engaged James McGuire, a cabman, to drive them through the park. McGuire was half way through the park when he heard sharp raps on the cab window and a shrill, fright- ened .voice of a woman. He stopped his horse and inquired what had hap- pened. “For God's sake, come down,” she said, “this-old gentleman has hl‘ntedl and I fear that he is dying.” Carter had fallen from his seat and | was unconscious. McGuire suggested ' that they drive back for a physician, to leave them. When McGuire re-| fused she begged that they be driven back to St. George Hotel. She begged to be allowed to go first into the hotel to warn the man’s family. McGuire| let her go and she has not been seen | since. At the hotel Dr. Henry was called and said that death had prob- ably been instantaneous. No one was at Carter’s late to-night. —_——— PRINCESS VICTORIA SUBMITS TO OPERATION LONDON, July 14.—Princess Vic- toria of Schleswig-Holstein has been operated upon for appendicitis at Windsor Castle. She Is not yet out of danger, l to be free to do effective HOOSEVELT THE FRIEND OF TOILERS 'Thus Declares Lead- ing Organizer of Unions. —_—— Editor of Western Laborer to Take an Active Part in Campaign. Urges Workingmen to Vote Against Corrupt Influences Dominating the Demeeracy. Special Dispatch to The Call OMAHA, July 14—Frank A Ken- nedy, editor of the Western Laborer and general organizer of the Federa- tion of Labor, to-day sent his resigna- tion to President Gompers. plained that He ex- he intended to make a campaign for Roosevelt and desired work. In a sensational editorial Editor Kennedy exhorts labor unions to enter politics and to abandon Bryan and support Roosevelt. “Exigency and political policy com- pel Bryan to remain in a party which we think he must despise in his heart,” says the editorial. “But we cannot fol- low him in the support of a mam Who has been a dummy, who has pilfered a mational nomination through the management of men possessed of all the evil traits of Benedict Arnold, but having none of his virtues.” After speaking of the Populist farce | enacted at Springfield the Laborer ed- | itorial declares: ’ “We must trust Roosevelt, whose policy we do not yet know, rather than Parker, the sphinx, the policy of Dave Hill and the corrupt influences man- ifest in the Democratic convention.” He asserts that Parry’s influence has made both platforms practically silent on labor questions and that the time has come when unions must take an active part in politics in defense of their very existence, and concludes: “The Western Laborer will support Theodore Roosevelt with all the power it possesses and will do its Dbest to show Bryan's friends a way to rebuke his enemies.” A WILL RECEIVE THE MINERS. President Grants Audience to Delega~ tion of Union Men. OYSTER BAY, L I, July 14—Presi- dent Roosevelt will recetve, either to- morrow afternoon or Saturday, a com- mittee of the United Mine Workers of Pennsylvania, the members of which on Tuesday went to Oyster Bay to pre- sent a petition regarding the Colorado labor troubles which the committee failed to place in the President's hands. Secretary Loeb to-day received a tel- egram from D. J. Davis of Wilk s barre, Pa., on behalf of the miners, In- quiring whether it would be possible for a regularly accredited committes to see the President to present the pe- tition, as the first committee had failed to reach the President because no previous appointment had been made for it- members. In response, Secretary Loeb promptly telegraphed to Davis that the Presi- dent would be pleased to see the com- mittee either to-morrow afternoon or on Saturday, as either dats would be convenient to him. President Roosevelt, accompanied by his sons Kermit and Archie, and his nephews Philip and George, sons of Emlen Roosevelt, and one or two friends of the boys, spcat last night on the shore of Long Island, with the sky for a canopy. The party left Sag- amore Hill in two rowboats early in the evening, taking with them blan- kets, cooking utensils and food. The night was delightful and the experi- | ence was enjoyed thoroughly by the President and his young companions. They cooked their own breakfast this morning, the President being an adept at the preparation of an outdoor meal. They reached Sagamore Hill early in the day. The President received several calls to-day from personal and political friends. Among the visitors was M. A. Gunst of San Francisco. PARKER'S MANAGERS CONFER. Nominee Summons New York Leaders to His Esopus Home. ESOPUS, N. Y., July 14 — The ex- pected visit of State Senator Patrick H. McCaren to Judge Parker was the only item of interest at Rosemont to- day, beyond the installation of a tele- graph operator in the newly arranged office at the lodge beside the gates. There were nearly 400 letters im the Continued on Page 3, Column 5,