The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 19, 1904, Page 1

Orph: = “A Thoroughbred tral—"Robert Emmet.” co}l-Nb—:m Eate” and Chutes—Vaudeville. Fischer's—"“A Lucky Stone.” Grand—'The Cowboy and the eum—Vaudeville. Tivoli—“Robin Hood.” VOLUME PRICE FIVE CENTS. RUSSIANS LOSE MORE THAN A THOUSAND MEN IN ATTACK UPON JAPANESE AT MOTIEN PASS ST. PETERSBURG, July 18.-—-General Kuropatkin reports that Lieutenant General Keller lost More than 1000 killed or wounded in the attack on Motien Pass on July 17. The Russians attacked at dawn under cover of a fog, after a night march, and the battle continued fifteen hours. ETROPEAN RIFLES FOR FILIPINOY French and German | Firms Arming Insurgents. Telltale Letter Found Upon; e Person of a Cap- tured Leader. - — ! he Factories Are Dealing With the Tribesmen, s TON, July 18.—Arms for the gents in the Philippin e sup- nd French manu- at last been proved the officers of who r s rament L ¥ was of recently conspiracy and imprisonment. sund a copy of n to Prine Lauis, Ricarte was Hongkong junta K f French and German T their business as ment t of this letter,” to you that a great arms man- nd France so- h me, in which hat it was very g I deposit with him fund eed upon ac- eighteen pesos artridges for to the gentle- insurgents of wish to buy 3 know that the shed the steamers that are rms and that in case of t firms their ngung lose icates very clearly that ed to Krupp in Ger- Le Creusot factory in y at both plants e been taken from captured insur- s made ——————— RUSH TO E ROSEBUD COUNTRY 1S INCREASING Bpecial Trains Carry Many Men and Women Homeseekers to Recently Opened Reservation. OMAHA, Neb., July 18.—The Chicago &nd Northwestern Railroad ran two specials in addition to its regular trains to Bonesteel and Fairfax last night and to-day, carrying over 2000 men and women who propose to register for land in the Rosebud reservation, recently opened for homestead entry by the Government. The rush to the Rosebud increases as the time for regis- tration expires, and it is estimated that count about 60,000 persons have thus far registered YANKTON, 8. D., July 18.—The gi- gantic rush at Yankton develops into almost & stampede. Thirty-three thou- sand had registered up to closing to- night. To-day’s record was 5055, and that will be exceeded to-morrow. The fever for land seems to have taken possession of thousands who heretofore had no thought of coming here to register. The crush in the city and on the trains is indescribable. Rallroad officials say they have more than they can possibly haul to Yank- ton. The Northwestern train, in three sections, brought 2000 persons. Hun- dreds will stay up all night to be early in line to-morrow. —— HUNDRED Di A DAY FROM CHOLERA NINE Refugees From Teheran Give Appall- ing Accounts of the Ravages of the Disease. BAKU, Russia, July 18.—Refugees from Teheran tell terrible stories of the ravages of cholera. They say that on some days the mortality reached 900. The Europeans are abandoning their property and are fleeing to a tamp in the mountains. There is a railroad stations, which are alm without food, et N pitiable condition of affairs at lhel cates That Krupp and Le Creusot | | 4 BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, | have warte, an insurgent leader, | nding knowledge | \LOOMIS IS KILLED . BY A4 BLOW WHILE ™ ‘ i L] PO IR NEGRO WHO ACCOMPANIED F. KEN LATTER'S DEATH AND WHO MENELIK AS BEARER OF TR —e VOYAGE ENDING IN | ING TO THE CAPITAL OF WAS TO DELIVER. LOOMIS ON 1S PRC ) EATY Non-Committal Derdict Is Rendere — by Coroner’s Jury. | ! | KINGSBRIDGE. Devonshire, July 18. E"l-‘ound dead, washed up by the sea |in Bigbury Bay, Devonshire,” was | the verdict to-day of the Coroner’s |jury in the inquest over the body of | F. Kent Loomis. The evidence was | very inconclusive and wholly con- jectural, as pointed out by the Cor- | oner when he advised this verdict, add, |ing that although death was caused iby a blow there was nothing to justi- | fy the suspicion that it was foully ad- | ministered. | Consul Stephens of Plymouth has | charge of the body, which is in a fair | state of preservation. It will be em- | balmed and sent home for burial as | early as possible and practicable. The inquest to-day threw the picturesque little Devonshire village | of Thurleston, on the shores of Big- | bury Bay, into a state of unwonted ex- | citement. The court, over which the | Coroner, Dr. Sidney Hacker, presided, | was somewhat late in assembling, in | consequence of the delay in carrying | out the official medical examination of | the body. This was conducted by two | local doctors, whose testimony was to | the effect that there was a contused | wound below and behind the right ear. | There also was a general bruise, in- volving the scalp and the integument of the brain on the left side above the ear. Both wounds, in the doctors’ opinion, were inflicted before death. The American Consul at Plymouth, Joseph G. Stephens, attended the pro- ceedings. After the jury had viewed the body the first witness, Thomas Snowden, a laborer, who discovered the | remains in the breakers, testified to the recovery of the corpse. | A policeman who searched the body | told of the recovery of a gold watch, | which had stopped at 6 o’'clock; some | English gold and silver coins and a ~pocketbook containing $60 in American notes, a report for a subscription to the Blennerhasset Club, a railroad pass issued in the name of F. Kent Loomis, a receipt from the Grand Hotel, Broad- way, New York, for $250, which Loomis desired to be sent to his wife; a gold ring with the name “Mildred” inside, seen the body, and, from information supplied to him officially, he unhesi- tatingly identified it as that of Loomis, who was acting as a special messen- ger for the American Government, car- rying important dispatches from the Government in Washington to the em. bassy in Paris. Dr. Webb, after describing the wounds, said that they were inflicted before death. He added that Loomis might have been stunned and fallen into the water and been drowned. It was not a sharp wound, but possibly the result of a fall on his head. Either he struck something or something struck his head. The blow was not inflicted after death. Supposing the deceased had ascended on deck at midnight tu take the air and gone to an unprotected space where the davits were and fallen, that would account for the wound. He dlec as the result of a blow, but there was nothing to indicate how the blow, which was a very heavy one, had been inflicted. The blow seemed to have been struck in a horizontal direction. The wound was about an inch and three-quarters long and pear- shaped. Replying to Consul Stephens, Dr. ‘Webb said the blow might have caused death if Loomis had not fallen into the water. He thought it was im- probable that Loomis would have re- covered from the blow, even if he had not fallen into the water. Consul Stephens explained to the Coroner that if the time at which Loomis’ watch had stopped was Amer- ican time it meant one o’clock here, which was about the time the Kaiser ‘Wilhelm II reached Plymouth on June 20. None of the official papers carried by Loomis were lost or stolen. e v WOMAN LEAPS OVERBOARD. PLYMOUTH, England, July 18.— Tragedy again marked the homeward voyage of the North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm IL. On the arrival of the vessel here to-day al- most at the hour that an inquest was being held over the body of F. Kent Loomis, it was announced that a sec- ond-class passenger, - Mrs. Lij tz, had® committed suicide by )mu overboard when the ship was one day out from New York. Hundreds of passengers witnessed the suicide and watched the efforts of a lifeboat rescue the woman. Finding the enemy’s position too strong to be taken without the aid of artillery, Count Keller withdrew his forces. LEFT DYING 0N TROLLEY -~ CAR TRACK Brutal Crime With Strike Breaker - as Vielim. Sugged Into Insensibility and Then Crushed Under Maving Wheels. Chiefs of the Chcago Butchers' Union | Will Start Packing Plant | of Their Own. ploye{ of the Swift packing plant, is dying in the County Hospital. His in- juries, in the opinion inspector, were inflicted by strike sympathizers an@ the wheels of a trolley. The men, according to a witness who has talked to the police, set upon Bartusiakovis as he was going home from work. When they could not make him join the strikers they broke his skull, frac- wired his jaw, kicked him on the face, the car tracks. The motorman of a car approach- | ing not long afterward saw the body in time to stop the car, bt not before the wheels had passed over Bartusia- kovis' shoulder. The injured man was | taken to the County Hospital. He has | not regained ¢ ousne | Mrs. W. Clifiord, attracted to her L window by the sound of men fighting, the attack and declares she can of Bartusia saw identify several sailants. DONNELLY'S ADVICE UNHEEDED. | | President Donnelly to-day sent out a | ¢ircular urging the men against vio- | lence, as follow “We must win—because every Amer- jcan citizen must have living wages; must have the very best for the chil- dren; must stand for recognition of the union. “We can win—if you stick by the union: if you obey the union when it says ‘Molest no person or property and abide strictly by the laws of the coun- try." MICHAEL DONNELLY.” Of the men injured in Sunday’s riot near the stockyards, two are in a criti- cal condition. A flank movement by the strikers de- veloped to-day in the announcement by President Donnelly that in conjunction with William Sterling, vice president of the Butchers’ Workmen's Union; John Floersch, secretary of the Packing Trades Council and Philip Murphy, “champion butcher of the world,” re- cently employed by Swift & Co., he will start a small packing house where union butchers may secure supplies -at prices which will enable strikers to purchase meat without contributing to the profits of the big concerns. Cattle and hogs have already been bought, President Donnelly asserted, the plant secured and operations are expected to begin to-morrow. TEAMSTERS MAY STRIKE. ' A special meeting of the Packing- house Teamsters’ Union will be held on ‘Wednesday night to determine whether or not the drivers shall quit work. The teamsters to-day protested against several of the companies endeavoring to have the teamsters haul supplies for strike breakers. S The operating forces of the big kovis® as- e CHICAGO, July 18.—Slugged into in- sensfbility by a haif-dozen men to-day and left for dead on the tracks of-the ' Ashland-avenue trol-| | ley lines at West Forty-seventh street, Anton Bartusiakovis, an em- head and body and then threw him on | - plants approximated about half the normal to-day, according to reports given out. All did a great deal of kill- ing, it was claimed, Armour slaughter- ing cattle at the rate of 140 an hour, and Nelson, Morris & Co., with 1800 men at work, slaughtering 120. Swift & Co. were said to have 1600 men in their plant killing 100 cattle and 150 hogs an hour. All of the departments were as- serted to have been in operation. <52 e e FINAL EFFORT FOR PEACE, Should Donnelly’s Plan Fail General Strike Will Be Called To-Day. CHICAGO, July 18.—One more effort will be made to settle the stockyards strike by arbitration. To-morrow Pres- ident Donnelly, of the striking union, will send to the packers a letter asking for another conference. Donnelly will D il i R i A _ Continued on Page 2, Column 1, GENERAL KELLER ADUANCES AT NIGHT AND ATTACKS AT DAWN UNDER CODER OF FOG — Zoor LANIDOWNE G710k FoRL g SECPETAEY> B2 e P R EUROPEAN STATESMEN WHOSE GOVEHR NEUTRAL STEAMSHIPS ‘ BY RUSSIAN WARSHIPS AND OTTOM R I OF THE BLACK SEA | FLEET TO PASS THE DARDANELLE SPITE OF THE TREATY OF PARIS. i3 e : P2 - P Kuroki’s Army Repels the Foe and Gains a Decisive Dictory With a Trifling Loss. LONDON, July 19.—The Daily Express this morning prints the following dispatch, dated July 18, from its correspondent at Malta: “The British Mediterranean fleet left here to-day for Alexandr It is believed that the destination of the fleet may be connected with the presence of the Russian volunteer flect steamships in the Red Sea. The British cruiser Terrible is said to have sailed from Suez to-day for the purpose of looking after the in- terests of British merchantmen.” LONDON, July 19.—The corre- spondent of the Times at General Kuroki’s headquarters says that the Japanese loss during the fighting at Motien Pass on July 17 was trifling. TOKIO, July 18.—General Kuroki reports that two divisions of the Rus- sian army made a desperate assault on Motien Pass at dawn on July 17, but were repulsed. The casualties were not stated. At 3 o'clock on Sunday morning, a heayy fog veiling their movements, two divisions of Russians, commanded by Lieutenant General Keller, made an assault on the Japanese positions at Motien Pass. General Kuroki's report adds that the Russians assailed all the Japanese positions at Motien and in its vicinity desperately. The Japanese re- sisted stubbornly, repulsed the Russians and pursued them for a considerable distance westward. Kuroki in his re- port praises the valor of his men. LONDON, July 19.—The Morning Post’s correspondent at General Kuroki's headquarters, telegraphing under date of July 17, says: “A Russian force, apparently about 20,000 strong, attacked the front, left and right of the Japanese positions on the western slope of Motien Pass at 2 a. m. to-day under cover of a dense fog. The sudden onslaught drove in the Japanese ‘outposts, but as soon as reinforcements arrived the Japanese gallantly advanced to the attack and after severe fighting drove off the Rus- sians and reoccupied the position. The Russians retired, their retreat being well covered. The fighting lasted until 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and when I left the scene desultary firing was still proceeding.” . ST. PETERSBURG, July 18,~The following dispatch from General Kuro- patkin to the Emperor, dated “July 17, on our eastern front,” was given out to-night: “After the occupation by General Kuroki's army of the passes in the| Fenshui Mountain chain, our informa- tlon concerning his position was in general inadequate. According to some réports his army had been rein- forced and he had even extended his forces toward Saimatsza. Other re- ports said that a displacement of his of Ta Pass and Siuyen. There were even indications that Kuroki had transterred his headquarters from Taskhahekan to Touinpu. “On’ the strength of this information received and on the basis of recon- naissances which had been made, the hypothesis was formed that the prin- cipal forces of the enemy were con- centrated around Linshankwan and that their advance guard should be strengthened in the passes of Siaokao, ‘Wafankwan, Sinkia, Lakho and Pa- pau, as well as at Sybey Pass, two and a half miles north of the road and half the height of Siaockao Pass. KELLER ORDERED TO ATTACK. “On July 16, in order to determine the strength of the enemy, it was de- cided to advance against his position in the direction of Linshankwan. Lieutenant General Count Keller had been instructed not to start with the object of capturing the pass, but to act according to the strength of the force that he would find opposed to him. “The left column of the expedition- ary force, consisting of three bat- talions, was dispatched toward Sybey Pass. The entire column, commanded by Major General Kashtalinsky, con- sisting of fourteen battalions - with twelve guns, was destined to attack Siaokao Pass, the heights surmounted by the Temple and Wafankwan Pass. The right column, eight battalions strong, was occupying points where the roads ding to Sinkia and Lakho passes cross, in order to cover the left flank of General Kashtalinsky's col- umn. The general reserve was left at Ikhavuan, and a portion of the force occupied a position at that place. “At 10 p. m., July 16, the head of | the column advanced from Ikhavuan. troops had been made in the direction | At 11 o'clock a battalion of the Sec- ond Infantry dislodged a Japanese outpost at the point of the bayonet at the crossing of the Lakho and Sinkia | roads. JAPANESE FIRE EFFECTIVE. “The details of this engagement have not been verified, but its general course, according to telegraphic re- ports sent in by General Keller, was as follows: “During the night the Japanese had evacuated Siaokao Pass and the heights surmounted by the Temple, leaving- only outposts there. At dawn General Kashtalinsky's column occu- pied these passes, driving back the Japanese advance posts. “At about 5:30 o’clock on the morn- ing of July 17 the Japanese, in con=- siderable strength and with numerous guns, occupied Wafankwan pass and the mountainous bluffs to the south on the flank of General Kashtalin- sky's column. From this position and from the crest of the mountains to the east of the heights surmounted by the Temple the enemy directed a very heavy rifle and artillery fire. “General Kashtalinsky advanced to occupy the bluffs, sending forward at Continued on Page 2, Column 4, ,