The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 31, 1904, Page 23

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 31, 190z 23 ARMY GUARDS TRACKS NEITHER SIDE IS WEAKENING] Both Packers and Butchers Claim Progress in Their| Struggle for Supremacy! —_— RUMOR Agents for Four of the Allied | Crafts Are Said to Have Offered Terms of Peace! AR TR CHICAGO, July 30.—The ~onflict be- | tween capital and unionism, which has been going on in the packing trade in- dustry throughout the country for nearly three weeks, shows no sign of abatement. To-night both of the op- posing interests seem as determined as ever on & fight to a finish. The packers to-night declared they | had practically won their fight and that the strikers were becoming de- moralized. In direct opposition to this statement of the employers the strike leaders asserted that the victory was with the workmen and that it would be & matter of but a short time until the peckers were compelled tc “usk for peace. OF DESERTIONS| SUCCESS -OF RUSSIANS - DEPENDS. ON RAILWAY ight a.nd Day Muscovite Troopers Pdtrol Their” Steel Line Runiing From Port ! Forces of | . | . | BY FRANCIS | Speclal Etaff Correspondent of The Call and the MUKDEN, Monday, May 30.-—)?0!'! ti= last two hours the alr has been | filled with the whistling of locomo- tives on the railway, which runs at a | short distance from the Lama temple, |in which I am writing, ‘and this sound | | will probably continue, with hardly.e break, for the rest of the day and for jell the coming night, as it has con-| tinued for months past. ‘ Soeetimes it is a sport, sharp scream; oftener it is & prnlon‘ed walil. But, whatever form it takes there is no sound save the soupd of guns that excites more interest and apprehen- | sion in Mukden at the present mo- ment than the whistle of the ordinary railway locomotiye. | I need not point out why this®js the y case, for in no war that ever was | waged has the rallway been such an important factor as In the present New York Herald Company, |a big bridge I shudder to contemplate. Arthur to Mukden, the De-_ struction of Which Means Disaster to the . . the Czar. McCULLAGH: . Wew York Herald. _Copyrighted, 1904, All Rights Reser\m! by the twice had difficultles-in crossing the line because } crossed it within'about half a mile of one of these tiny bridges. What %ould have happened to me if T hag crossed within sight of On one or two occasions on which I passed near a snfall bridge I had with me a Chinese “mafoo,” wio looks sus- plciously lik€ a Japanese, being small, wearing corduroys and generally wear- “tn, h‘is queue wound up inside of & Eu-' ropedn hat. As soon as the soldier on guard at the bridge saw me cross the line he sum- moned his companion, and they asked who I was. I explained to them in my best Rus- sian, and at a distance of about a hun- dred yardse that I°was a war cprre- spondent snd that everything yas in order. But thdy were not satisfied,, They wanted to get a nearer view of me, and accordingly ©rdered me to come closer. I obeyed with alacrity, as ‘Official Says All Purchases i they had guns in their hands, but I wondered what would happen to a man Who, under similar circumstances, did Hot know anough® Russian to’ under~ Leaders of four of the allied trades unions which went on strike iIn sympathy the packing-house butchers are said by the packers to | conflict. On a single line of railway Russia depends entirely for success; on the chance of that railwdy proving with have made overtures for reinstate- ment Ro-day. According to the pack- ers, the emissaries from these four ekilled trades sought wh terms the strikers would be re- stated should they return in a body. swer the packers say they gave e peace missionaries was that would be re-employed as tions might warrant, but and net as mem- union. eaders discl tever of the r unions and repeated the outlook for g workmen was 1 ever. to learn upon ! med any | action | inad_quate Japan declared war in Feb- ruary last. Russia has accordingly told off an army merely to guard that long rail- way, while ~11 Japan's efforts, the at- tacks on Port Arthur, the invasion of | Manchuria and the landings along the | Liaotung coast have had for theirwob- : ject the cutting of that frail but for- | midable line of steel. | SOLDIERS GUARD BRIDGE. TPb~ attention the Russians have be- stow-d on their rallway since the out- break of the war has been such that the Chinese might be excused for be- lievws g that the railway locomotive is the “European’s god,” and that if not | ‘:bjecl being presumably to ascertain }nme to injure the tailway. : stand them and continued to ride on. TRY TO INJURE ROAD. About the ttme’T was thus stopped on | the gail®ay several bodies of mounted Japanese, each party numbering sev- {®ral thousand, had®actually found their way, in direct imitation of Dewet when he invaded Cape Cblony, as far as thir- ty miles to the north of Muk@en, their B s much as they could of the disposition | of the Russian forces and at the same Repeated attempts were made by hem to carry oug this latter part of their programme, and althought thege attempts Hivariably fgiled they natur- ally increased the Solicitude ¥With which watched day and night by fervent ¥ the Russians look a . worshipers with rifles in their hands Ipns Iooked aftes thewwiing Similar attempts were made between OPPOSES OPEN MARKET BUYING, Comptroller of Curreney Believes That Government | Should Invite Competition INFORMS THE AUDITOR Should .Be Made Gnly. Aft- er Bids Have Been Sought /| WASHINGTON, July 30.—The Comp- | troller of Curnncy is disposed to put a stop to open market purchases by Government officials, except when they clearly come within the letter of the law. In disposing of the accounts of Pay Director Thompson, in| charge of* the Portsmouth, N. H,, navy pay office for the fiscal year 1803, in which open market purchases amount- ing to several hundred thousand dol- lars age shown, the Comptroller says: . “The purpose of advertising is to in- vite competition by notifying those who have such artigles for sale. Experi- ence has taught us® that purchases shomtd be made in no other way and the law ko conmands -when, time and clrcumstances will permit of this meth- od. When this precaution is neglected by a depargment, fraud and scandal follow as a metter of course. I will not disallow In this account any of the vouchers questioned, but a copy of this commupnication will be forwarded to the auditor for his informafion and it is expected that the ordinary rules relative to advertising, contracting for supplies and making payments therefor in the future wjll be followed by you and all other officers of the navy.” . | south with °such regularity that_one got to expect their passage as a mat- ter of course, just as one expects the rising and the setting of the sun. ©Omne day this comfortable conviction was | rudely wpset. | LAST TRAIN FROM PORT ARTHUR | A train steamed into Mukden station with bullet marks all over it. I went 2 3 ADVERTISEMENTS. MANY PEOPLE CATARRH OI'_ STOMAC“ HAVE A Beautlful Mlchlgan Belle Cured of Catarrh of the Stomach by Pe-ru=na. A : Miss Louise Matt, Battle Creek, Mich., writes: l “I can only say what ‘others have.said luhre me, that Peruna is a most wonderful medicine for catarrhal and stomach troubles. “I suffered so long with indigestion and dysoepsia, and tried so many things to cure me, withcut relief, that | made up my mind my case was hopeiess. One of my friends ad- vised me to try- Peruna for a month, assuring me that || could not fail to find from its use some relief and possibly a cure. So 1 took new courage and bought a bott e of Peruna, determined te give it a thorough trial,” which I did. In just six weeks | was entirely rid of my stomaeh trou. and bless the'day nvlren I'erulm was brought to my notice, MISS LOUISE MATT. AND DON'T KNOWIT. Pe for this is that 4 R a great majority depends “upon catarrh of Catarrh of the stomach may have been set up by #n extension of the catarrh froms the throat or head.. It may be In- duced by late suppers, indigestibla diet, rapid eating, drinking ice water, the use of alcoholic stimulants and many other indiscretions. Cararrh of the Stomach h cases of dyspep- cures catarrh Very Quickly Destroys Beauty. Pe-ru-na Cures Catarrh | medicine, is th: Wherever Located. thesp conditions . are not recognized stomach. “Through; ovebwork and anxiety in my |sbusiness I was very much run down; had loss of appetite, and, what was worse of sleep at night. T was|p ave to consult a physi- Miss Dade Stegeman, superintendentt. of the Chicago North Side Woman's Clubsof Chicago,s {n a recent letter to Dr. Hartman, speaks of Peruna as fol- lows: | Peruba Medicine Co., Columbus, 0.: as catarrh the than that, lo: from dywepepsia, | ar T would . . i | ctan, one of my customers advised that iron deity might Inflict someloy, \oo "0 e on the platform to see it as it stood | Gentlemen: “Peruna h flen b an, when - 3 kde! nd Liapyahg, and only a few entiemen: eruna has often “"( + s S - o e ] i : el 3 it : e to try Peruna, as it had made her a : is sure to cur io appeal 0| greadful punishment on its recalei- q. v 420 six Japanese cavalfymen were | SUrrounded by -a crawd of curlous ygeqpy the members of our clulpin cases of | ™ Y v AR gy f BT 2SN S s » offer his good |trant worshipers. captured in the vicinity of the lath spectdtors’like a steed that has escaped tomiach ok and eharul Jebiliti—ak | well and stron I began to take it, and | vases. never fails, e s n enw After Japan began the wap some- | o =" ¥ e latter | o omia distgnt battle. & . s g ility —also | began to feel stronger, and | Thousands of Pe-ru-na Testimonials to consider the | thing Iike @ panic seized upon ethe |“FUL (0 L e inteq| The marks of thes Japanese bullets | recently in cases of ./a grippe, and always | dose T slept at night, wit on File. Russians with regard to their raflway | _ = “'" un‘i’r‘ r’:' =2 -u""}( 3‘10““ _91 were very numerous on the armored | W/th the Most beneficial resuits. I think a | out awakening,- I took only two bottles, We bave on file many thousand testi \ winning the s_ike and|anq Cossacks used to ride along the | 5 = 00 ,"a]' : ad ok fe[m'& portion of the carriages, but these bul- | great deal of Peruna—often recommend it | noW 1 am well. but L am never without | monials 1k an only ¥ the President,” said |line by night carrying flashlights, by (=%, ¢ CIEV S0 Send Peacetul anc|jets must have been fired from a great | fo my friends, and'am glad fo'say all who | PeTUna in the house Bt any one wishes | give our rea - > may be ans of which they could ascertain | JS8¥IW PAC Chinamen, as we und;mszance and most of them must have | havg, tried it speak a good word for Tt." — yoi 1 T L T O A e | we are receiy ther s if the rails had been tampered wijth *2abanese dressed as o been “ricoch as they generally did | _ pade §: e 2o - ved such e dbapds of Chines€ robbers' td attempt hi o thas UEhock Lefruths lade Sfegeman. - . S | fit from it. and it all who are fll to h nd gratetul anywhere. the same delicate "operation. ® Botnng. mor ” Colton,- 430 East 19th St., t_q-« it, s 1 did, Itomn. as Dr. Uu’!"m'\ for Pe- Admiral Alexieff even issued a pro Sometimes the encounters between verge |lamation® calling ‘on the Chinese to} - to date | protect the line, but I do not thinki]“‘;‘ lm“‘; Feieg }‘1‘“';'"“”"‘ 1o guant the } t cent of |that this proclamation had the slight- e e Huflghuses who want to s mber of c” kers who | est éftect. ° | wreck it/egttain- serious dimensions. For vel We are pre- | The elabbrate measures taken to 1;‘,"‘!“‘. & jweek ag0.a.bang of Ciipsse the strike indefi- | protect the bridges are already knowna [iunghuses attacked a Cossack detachs ; ment and did not retreat untfl they had lost twenty of their number. L These attempts make everybody in Mukden gnxiously listen for the, wh ons well eqnipped with fou 1cres |to the public. A considerable body of | solaiers is generally stationed on each side of a bridge, whic is also protec nd ues.” | ed by at least one field piece.® The ap- ; L L | proaches to the bridge are lined by |ling of the railway locomotiyes. So far, OFIICERS FIGHT STRIKERS. |sandbags! which sometimes extend 8% I have alrealy remarked, that | down the river bank for a distance of | Whistling has béen almost continuous. Pulicc and Union Men Clash and |several hundred yards. Nobody is al- ‘:111 i;‘]"_“l the “VIT““i' has fully justified Many A BUEaIal |lowed to approgen thg bridge unless | ? D I SEPH. Mo, Rioting | he is a Russian officer in uniform and T PIENCE OF WORK. ‘ Joseph at 10 |15 provided with all sorts of permits, b 1o ;' oo *ana i it continues to 2 ‘1‘:".““1 nd countersigned by dozens f‘l do its duty for ahother four montfs squad rv beam of a bridge 45 watchea| th¢ Russians should treat it as the < policemen Hned and might by anxious eves, the |J2Panese treat mountains which have < to oppose a |, oo op “;m_h nve will Batare Brthe | rendered distinguished service to the nd-to- | 0“0 leh awaits them In case the| COUDLTY” by ornamenting ethe land- bridse sustaing injury while they ake scape, and should® make it henceforth g 1 ncumbent on every loyal subject of the s Even ligfle bridges only a few yards | (287 10 speak of the railway as “Mon- across aré protecteq by two soldiers, (:“‘ the Railway," in the same why as - pwho watgh in turn, the man oft“duty | e Japanese spiak of Fujiyama as i [ reposing Tn a little straw hut just cape,| ¥ Wisan. 3 ‘ the fght, | apje® of accommodating two persons | Frince Khilkoff.certainly deserves the £ 3 S EUDE Lt S e wettle s balitcloss 0 lhe‘de(a}alum he recently received for the | ¥ | have 2000} .%oy track. | magnificent work the railway is doing = mMOrrow morning : > 4 under his management. The amount of two car- | STOPPED BY sr\'nn { that work is not properly. appreciated » m ich will Atthough provided with full creden- | by anybody who does not see the trains B train from |tials as a war correspondent and with /,go past. X a conspicuous red brassard, I have I have never seen a more imposing ex- a fln G - | hibition of the power and might ' of 570 . | Russia than T have witnessed day after | gl = | day during the last four weeks at Muk- et ————— e e R { den. The endless proc: n of implements | of destruction and of men tc make usé -~ of them dwarf juto utter significance . any procession that ¥ have ever seen, A althbugh at times I cannot help ask- ing myself, as I watch them rolling | s swiftly past, how many of these brave & young fellows will ever come back. A partial answer to my question is supplied by the hospital trains. These trains c st of spotlessly clean white carriages with a red cross painted out- side, and Red Cross nurses flitting about inside like angels of mercy. In- stead of being, as one would expect, abodes of pain, they are filled with light.and cheerfulness. WOUNDED WELL CARED FOR. JOSEPH FREDERICKS & CO. beg to announce that the lease of theiz establishment on Market 0 I have never yet looked on oneé that Street, opposite Kearny, has been o ]ldl: not envy li;e o;:cuvantsé chne S . . of them were Sericusly wounded, for purchased by Dr. H. E. Law, dangerous cases had to be treated as which necessitates their early re- moval. At a sale, which will be- gin at an early date, their entire stock of Furniture, Carpets, Dra- | near the front as possgible, and all seemed to be perfectly happy and con- tented. As 1 walked about the Mukden rail- way station on a warm sunny day, | | rings of paint. The passengers on the trdin had not much to say. Japanese had fired ¢n them from a dis- tance of thr+- or four versts. DANGOROUS COUNTRY. {rom that time to the present a veil [have just spoken of. has been interposed between Ports Ar- ) extremity of it lies .thur amd Mukden. far south as Tahshihchiao, near New- They related: that the | write o ‘me orld ured —‘—-———‘—* | twebn Port Arthur and the \'fben)y's" The Japanesg seem to have learned | headquarters. -} very soon of this condition of affairs, I am wrjting this letter near m.-‘rur soon after a little surprise for them their next visit. when they pay they had crossed the| I might mention, by the way, in this | northern limit of'the “no man’'s land” I| Yalu mounted- bands of them—each | connection that on his return from At th hern | band being several thousand strong— | South Africa the Japanese military at- the beleaguered swept over the country to the east of | tache with the English forces during Trains only go as fortress of Port Arthur,.which will nev-| the railroad. . | the. Boer war presented a voluminous er, if the Japanese have their way, hear ering that the Japanese ane no- | report to.the Mikado. chwang. Below Tahshihchiao lies a:*no | the ‘whistle of a Russian railway en-| toriously bad horsemen, riding indiffer-| Not a word of this document, which man’s land,” neither Chinese nor Rus- | glne again. n, swarming with Japanese soh"els\ and with Chinese bandits—a land on| ent h The captain.of a battleship naturally,| ride | lives aboard” his vessel. The censor’s| whole es and: pitted against the finest | excited mucft spec tion at the time, in the world, with practically the | was made known to the public, but [ of the great horse-breeding re- | should not be surprised if it pointed out which a Ilghl by night'or the sound of office is a railway carrfage on a siding | gion of Mongolia at their disposal, their | how easNy the tactics of Dewet could a horse’s hoofs excites the attention of | at Mukden, and when people meet one | teme rity in venturing so far as (hey did|be imitated by bands sentries and patrols and in which a | anotherin;the streets theydo not speak man is given a very short time wherein | about the weather or say, to make up his mind to stop or to°be | comment allez-vous?” They fired on: a lind which Russians will nevertheless continue to cross at®the risk of their lives in order to convey in- formation backward ‘ahd forward be- of Japanese into the he | horsemen roaming’through Manchuria, t of Manchuria is astound- Bon Jour! upporting themselves on the country, {aye| They have now fallen back, owing to | getting information of the Russian | yoti been to the station thi nmn\lng" the damage inflicted on the Japa: e | movements and the. disposition of the ‘ur “Did*yow see any t ns come in to- llines . of cemmunication® by General | Russiin forces from the friendly in- lrlay"" _IU\L as people living-in a se aport | Mistchenko and his Cossacks. In' the | habitants and breaking the railway and :peak of ships arriving. "meantime the’ Russiagns are preparing' telegraph lines as often as possible. RTISEMENTS. Suits this ‘The price is no because the suits They could easily bring more money right here in our own store.and surely our customersalwayslook tous forgood values The fabrics are late fall patterns of browns,grays,bluesand otherdark effects. You are as welcome to inspect the stock in the store as you would be to look in our show windows. We guarantee a satisfactory fit. If you to Your Measure for $12.00 - peries and Wall Paper will be subjected to/ most sensational re- ductions. Meanwhile, the public is cordially invited to visit the store and inspect its exclusive stock of fine furmshmg> before making qu:‘ oses. /leoking at a hospital train, I could not help thinking that these smiling in- | valids, in their neat carriages, wege | enjoying the happiest period in thelr ¢, they had done [thelr duty manfully to Russia and the Czar, many of them wore the coveted | 8t. George's Cross and other decora- tions and all looked as if they were al- ready in the?Elysian fields. ° The private soldiegs had clean faces ®nd wore clean linen, so thatethey seemed quite different men from the unshaven, grimy warriors whom I have been accustomed to meet at Port Ar- thur, Inkow, Liaoyang and Mukden. The highest degree of human felicity consists in getting slightly wounded nd being sent to the rear, to be re- ]g-rded with moist eyes and waited on with sisterly solicitude by the hand- some girls of the Russian Red Cross, For several weeks® after I came to Mukden the trains ran daily north and you. prefer. guarantee. - We repair, ments free also. Out-of-totwn ces- tomers should write for sclf- measuring blank and samples. are not pleased we will make another suit or return your money, whichever You don’t find other tailors giving such a liberal For Monday and Tu night shirts, regular six bit values, for 40¢ SNWOOD (0 740 Market Street and Corner Powell and Eddy Style Made indication of the value, are really underpriced. sponge and press the gar- ssday only—Men’~ Our self-measur- ing blank assures out-of-town cus- tomers of a satis- factory fit.