The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 3, 1904, Page 1

- - > TEE WEATHER. ! Forecast made t San Fran- ©isco Tora30 hours, ending mid- A 3, 1904: 0 and vicinity— Fair Wednesday, with fog in the afternoon; fresh westerly winds. A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. | P - + VOLUME XC\'I— SAN FRANCISC + Alcazar—“The tery.” | | | ' Town.” | THE THEATERS. California—*“The Buffalo Central—‘“Sergeant James.” Columbia—Mice and Men.” | Chutes—Vaudeville. | Pischer's—“The Whirl of the Grand—"“Shenandoah.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. to-day. Tivoli—“The Toreador.” Lady of Lyons.” Mys- Matines ESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1904 LOSSES IN BATTLE AT PORT ARTHUR - TOTAL TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND MEN WHOLESALE ARRESTS OF PRYSICIANS S — Violation of a Local Option Law Is | Alleged. SR SRS Fifteen Hundred Galveston Doctors and Druggists Indicted. g Jury Passes Upon the Granting Irregular Prescriptions to the Thirsty. - GALVE Aug. 2.—The « County has in- N nd druggists for s law and £ 2 he score. e k largest criminal d ny « in Texas. re ti esult of ir- I been or- practice escriptions s all s ied upon lictments returned it ases re sev- no jury 1 convict Neverthe- ients have State and e State courts T | BALKS BANDITS - Thast Holdups Experience to antage on Train - P } X'l"“‘ its who | al on the k from J. at 1o in masked men e car with the whole what was 1 two simi- i hold-up,” commenced e robbers and how to| A happy ipped the next to his e slipped into ved him y after tch and $20. They nis raflroad ticket from St. Los Angeles, but this they re- va rc —The officials of flroad to-night rd of $1000 and conviction of the up the Diamond spe- near Matteson, Iil., to d of $1000 being placed on of the robbers. A his amount for the robbers has been pre- be sent broadcast over‘ country in the hope that it will fa- | jtate the capture of the bangits. —iet—n k. SALVATION ARMY WINS HEIRESS AS A RECRUIT $4000, a rew the head of eac cular offering Daughter of Wealthy Resident of | Maryland Dons Poke Bonnet and Plain Blue Dress. PHILADELPHIA Aug. 2.—Miss | Marie Gibbons, the daughter of a| wealthy resident of Pocomoke City, vation Army here and now she is won- dering what ber father will say re- garding her action. Miss Gibbons was sworn ip this evening. With Miss Gib- bone, under the crossed banners of the army where they were sworn in as soldiers, were a former bartender and two former followers of Dowie. The girl in her new uniform held the attention of the crowd, as some rumors of her story had been circu- Jated. There was loud applause as the imsignia of the army was pinned te the collar of her uniform. Md., this evening enlisted in the Sa-l | . PRESIDENT SENDS AGENT TO WATCH THE BEEF BARONS oCE LErER, Grossco> gees | | CABINET MIN ¥ THE ARE ALL | ] WHO ARE PAVING THE WAY FOR ) TO HAVE A PROS ND _JU WH( VIOLATED. Inspector Seeks Proof of Diolation of Grosscup Injunction. Special Dispatch to The *Call. CHICAGO, Aug. 3.—Inspector Carroll, ecial representative of the United States, Department of Com- merce and Labor, who obtained the evi- dence for the Government on whi¢h an injunction was issued about two years ago by Judge Peter Grosscup of the Federal District Court enjoining larger packing companies from com- bining in fixing prices, either as buy- the | [ | ers of livestock or sellers of meat. was | in the stockyards here this afternoon investigating conditions. The inspect- or's presence is by direction of the De- partment of Commerce and Labor, ac- , it is said, by direct orders from obtain the exact situation. It is not the intention of the Govern- ment, it js said, to take any action toward ending the strike. Carroll's mission is to investigate the situation with regard to alleged violations of the Grosscup injunction. His visit is the forerunner of actlon to be taken by the Department of Justice, which has aiready been supplied with a mass of | | evidence relating to the operations of | the beef trust. STATUS OF THE STRIKE. The meat packers, whose union em- ployes are on strike, claim to be in a better position to-night than at any time since the struggle began. When asked for the packers’ side of the situ- ation Arthur Meeker, general manager for Armour & Co., said: “The strike may be said to be near at an end. At the rate we are engaging new employes it will be only a matter of a short timie now until everything will be in normal condition with us once more. When the butcher work- men repudiated their agreement = and renewed the strike, after signing an agreement to submit all grievances to arbitration, we made a special effort to win the fight, and we have been a great deal more successful in our efforts than the most sanguine of the employers had hoped for. The cld employes’ places have been filled so rapidly that very few of the strikers will ever be able to get back their places, and those nt Roosevelt, who is anxious to | who do will come back as individuals.” CATTLE AND HOGS UNSOLD. This assertion was made by Meeker to-night after the packers had brought in during the day, according to their estimates, 1300 new men. Another of- ficial of Armour & Co. said that the packing firms were doing nearly 80 per cent of their usual bueiness. Police reports of the number of new employes arriving at the yards to-day bore out in a large measure the packers’ state- ments. Despite these declarations of the packers’ representatives, the pens at the stockyards are filled with cattle and hogs that buyers make no bids for in the market. According to com- mission men and officials of the Union Stockyards and Transit Company, out of the livestock received yesterday and to-day more than 19,000 sheep and.10,000 hogs were reshipped, and unsold stock is rapidly accumulating in the pens. Twelve thousand hogs remained un- sold to-night, and the prospect of large receipts to-morrow is causing the livestock handlers to fear a swamp- ing of thelr facilities. According to commission men, there are thbusands of holdovers in all departments of the yards, and the cattle in the pens will not all be out of the way by Saturday night. In the face of all this shippers are constantly forwarding stock to Chicago, and indications to-night are that there will be a decided slump in the prices of the stock. STRIKE BREAKERS ARRIVE. It is on this statement and what further information their own .men have been able to secure that the strike leaders base their claims that the packers are badly crippled, not- withstanding statements to the con- trary. A considerable number .of strike breakers who arrived in Chicago were dissuaded from going to work by pickets, In a statement given out by the packers to-day it was asserted that out of the 25,526 union men who went out on strike 3056 had returned to work. Phese desertions from the Continued on Page 3, Column 2. | | bravery. They were mowed down Crushifieteat of Atfacking Japanese. Fail in an Attempt o Capture Inner | Deienses. T | Fight With Fanatical Cour- age Through Barbed | Wire and Mines, 3 CHEFU, Aug. 3, 11 a, m,—A1 | desperate three days’ assault upon ] ; the inner defenses on the northern i | and eastern sides of Port Arthur | has failed, according to advices brought by two junks, which ar- | rived here to-day. A Russian| ! who escaped from Port Arthur, | via Pigeon Bay, on the night of | July 29, says that the earth| trembled under the terrific can- Inonading, which began at 4‘ o’clock in the morning of July 26| and ended during the night of | July 28, when the battle ceased. A{ | Chinese who has arfived here on a separate junk confirms the Rus- sian’s statement that Russian killed and wounded during the as- | sault numbered between 5000 and 6000. The Japanese, in their re- peated assaults against the east- ern forts on the hills, through | barbed wire entanglements and over mines, displayed fanatical I by the hail of shells and bullets and the explosion of mines under their feet. Their losses are esti- mated at 20,000. The Russian declared that the Russians held all the eastern forts leading to Gold- | en Hill and that the Japanese, shattered and exhausted, retired | to the eastward. As related by the passengers of the two junks, the Japanese ad- vance, which began from Kwo- | kau before daybreak on July 26, was directed against Kikwan, Kinkitun, Kinkigshan and Pchtou- shan forts, ])'in} near the shore. The Russian outposts were driven back. In the meantime Admiral Togo shelled the forts at long range, but the return fire of the forts kept his ships at a safe dis- tance, rendering the co-operation of the fleet ineffective. On the morning of July 27 the Russian fleet steamed out, keep- ing under the protection of - the Golden Hill guns. The Russian vessels did not fire upon the Jap- anese and soon retirned to theit anchorage. The assault on the northern side of the city occurred on July 27. The Japan:se left at Hsikau advanced on the Russians at Shinshiying, but were repulsed. The junig{s were within hearing distance for three days after leav- ing, but no more firing was heard. The Russian hospitals in Port Arthur are said to be swamped. Thousands of wounded are lying in ‘houses and shops of the Chi- riese, the owners having been evicted, with the exception of one, who acts as caretaker of each place. Medical attention is ade- quate. — ‘War News Continued on Page 3. FIRST MOUE MADE IN THE FIGHT FOR DOLBEER MILLIONS SCHANDER | | | 1 | | { | TERDAY WEALTHY YOUNG WOMAN OVER WHOSE PROMISED, ONE OF THE RELATIVES AND THE ATTORNEY WHO REPRESE) ER FIGHT IS D A CONTEST YES- | TS HIM. Two Contests Filed by Other Relatives. The first guns in the prospectively long battle for the millions of Bertha M. Dolbeer, who flung herself from a ninth-story window in New York on July 9, were heard yesterday in the Superior Court. On the probate calendar it was announced that the court would hear the application of William G. Mugan and George D. Gray for the admission of the will to pro- bate. Judge Hunt was sitting for Judge Coffey, who is away on a vaca- tion. Attorneys Pillsbury and Williamson appeared for the executors named in the will and answered “ready” when the case was called. Then Hiram W. Johnson, who is attorney for Adolph Schander, an uncle of the unfortunate girl, told the court that a contest to the will had been filed and asked for a con- tinuance of the hearing. Judge Hunt thereupon set the matter over until August 12. Besides the attorneys for the contending interests, the adminis- trators, Mugan and Gray, were in court. Two contests were filed in the case— that of Schander and that of the New York heirs, who were represented by at- torneys, George R. Wells and Edmund Tauszky. In the Schander contest the document recited the circumstance of Miss Dolbeer’s death and said that the heilrs at law were the uncles, Adolph and Horatio Schander and an aunt, Mrs. Josephine L. Moody. Referring to the will of April 23, which Mugan and Gray seek to have probated, the con- testant says: “That said instrument is not the last vill and ament of said decedent; that at the time the same bears date and at the time when it is alleged that cuted, and for a long time prior there- to, the said Bertha M. Dolbeer was not of a sound and disposing mind and was not competent to make a will.” The uncle asks that the will be not tate, The contest filed by Attorneys Wells and Tauszky is in behalf of Frazier M. Dolbeer, Jane Ann Brown and Alice H. Fern of Brooklyn, beer of Queens County, New York. After reciting that Miss Delbeer died without issue, husband, father, mother, brother or sister, the paper gives up the relationship of the contestants in a way which leaves it in doubt. It Is said that the father of John Dolbeer was Nicholas, long deceased, and ““Moses Dolbeer was one of the broth- ers.” It is not certain whetb - Moses was the brother of Nicholas ~ »f John, hut if it was the latter th _he chil- dren of Moses, who contests the will, Moses died in December, 1993. The heirs represented by Attorney Schaertzer are yet to be heard from. e HUNTERS IN SHOOT AT G MENDOCINO ME WARDEN Official Ignores a Dangér Warning and Narrowly Escapes Assassina- tion in Forest. REDDING, Aug. 2.—Game Warden Fugene Barrion, who was recently sent from this city to do duty in Mendocino County, came near being murdered and has given up his job and returned home. Barrion was warned the second day on duty that some one intended to kill him. He paid no attention to the warn- ing. Saturday he was waylaid by two men, who opened firé upon him with rifles. Barrion’s dog was killed and his horse wounded. Barrion sprang be- hind a tree and escaped. He has re- ported the matter to the authorities and they will investigate. Barrion will not return to Mendocino County. 3 | FALLS DOWN ELEVATOR { SHAFT TO BASEMENT ! Mrs. Arthur Paget the Victim of a Peculiar Accident in Her Lon- don Residence. LONDON, Aug. 2.—Mrs. Arthur Paget, wife of Major General Paget, Dots Guards, and daughter 6f the late Mr. and Mrs. Paran Stevens of | New York, was seriously injured last { night as a result of falling down the elevator shaft of her London resi- dence, 35 Belgrave square. Her thigh was fractured and her knee in- jured. > Mrs. Paget opened the gelevator door in the night with the intention | of stepping on the electric elevator. This was in the upper part of the house at the time, and she, not no- ticing this, stepped into the shaft and | ‘juice’ Uncle an& ‘ said instrument was signed and exe- | admitted to probate and that it be de- | creed that Bertha Dolbeer died intes- | and Stephen Dol- | { as the center, are the first cousins of the dead girl fell to the basemeat. ; . PLAXS BIG ENTERPRISE FOR POVER Project of Millions I Disclosed by Engineer. —_— Great Syndicate Will Sup- ply Bay Cities With Blectricity. Generating Source Is Said to Be on t;m- Clark Holdings Along the Mokelumne River. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2.—An elece trical power scheme of gigantic proe portion, -backed by unlimited capital and having for its object the supply~ ing of San Francisco and other cities in the central portion of the State, 13 the latest of the big development ene terprises in California, the particulars of which were made public to-night by R. 8§ Masson, chief engineer for H. E. Huntington and his assoclates, beth here and at Fresno. Masson returned to-night from Fres- no and told of the formation of a big corporation backed by English and American capital, which is planning to use the waters of the Mokelumne fand ether rivers and streams in Calu- veras and Tuolumne counties to gene= | rate electrical power. “I am credited with selecting sites for power plants in that district to be used by Mr. Huntington in connection with the Fresno Traction Company system,” he said. “I never made a survey up there and am not employed by the corporation which is doing the work. It is not H. E. Huntington, but the Sierra Nevada Water and Power Company. “It is a big proposition. W. G. Clark of Seattle, formerly of San Francisco, * who is manager of the new company. told me that over $20,000,000 would be expended By the corporation in the de- velopment of a big- power supplying business. They intend to carry the all the way to San Francisco and also feed various cities in the San Joaquin Valley and on the coast of Cen- tral California.” S The corporation holdings are founded on_property and water rights owned by an old man named W. V. Clark, who has held them for many years. The Mokelumne ditch, as the water course is to be called, will be built from the junction of the north of the Mokelumne and south forks River and will con- vey an enormous amount of water to various drops, where turbine motors will generate the electric Murray M nd others of this city are investing capital in this corporation. Harris is in F It has been sts riman is in ington in the Hare . E. Hunt« Fresno Traction Cor pany and other enterprises there a that he is also a party to the big elec- tric power deal in that part of the State. To-night an officer high in the Huntingto mpanies made an em- phatic ¢ Harriman's reported interest. “It is true that Huntington build from Fresno to Wawona and he is going after a big Yosemite busi ness, but the proposition.is backed b Mr. Huntington, W. G. Kerchoff, A. ( Balch and other Los Angeles capitai- ists. Harriman is not in it at all Wawona is within sixteen miles the Yosemite Valley, which is as as any railroad can get to the Gover ment property. The electric line fro Fresno wi!l be seventy-nine miles length and will cost about $1,000.000 to build. The route will be by way of Clovis and Crane Valleys. With Fresno Huntington intends to run various electric lines through that part of the State. —_——— TRUCULENT POLICEM CLEANS OUT BOWLING ALLEY Whips Proprietor and Five Men ana Gives Jack aliffe, the Prize- fighter, Hard Battle. NEW YORK. Aug. 2.—James Gosaey, a country policeman, came to York on a cheap excursion from Har risburg, Pa., crossed to Brooklyn and ptoceeded to create trouble in a bowl- > v 4 r mn a ing alley. He whipped the proprietor and five men and then gave Jack Mee Auliffe, the ex-champion pugilist, & hard fight. McAuliffe wanted peace and put out his hand to shake hands with the truculent policeman, but the latter | overlooked the pugilist's ce offering and knocked him down. iffe sprang to his feet with the : a cat and began raining blows upon the face of the unknown. Geosney fought back, but the.prizefighter in- flicted merciless punishment. Gosney weakened, but before going to the mat for a rest he had raised many bumps upon McAuliffe’s countenange. e Sympathetic Strike Indorsed. CINCINNATI, Aug. 2.—The eonven- tion of the International Teamsters to- day indorsed the action of President Shea and the executive board in calling out on sympathetic strike the St. Louis packing-house teamsters in support of &he striking butcher workmesm,