The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 8, 1904, Page 1

Forecast made cisco for tairty westerly wind. Local midnight, Angust 8: San Francisco snd vicinity— | Cloudy or foggy Moxnday; G. . WILLSON, TEE WEATHEER. at San Pran- | hours ending | brisk Forecaster. S 0. o ™ 14 Tora.” Chutes—Vaudeville. Pischer's—“The Whirl of the “A Parisian Romance.” Orphenm—Vaudeville. Tivoli—"“The Toreador.” Millionaire VOI SAN FRA NCISCO, MON DAY, AUGUST 8 1904. PR JA PANESE AGAIN ATTACK PORT ARTHUR'S DEFENSES AND MEET WITH REPULSE INVOLVING HEAVY LOSS repul -tedd to have been was splendid. HUNDRED PERSONS | FRISH Train in Colorado Plunges Into River. | —————— I1-Fated Travelers Are Drowned and | Crushed. | s Are Washed Ashore a Mile From Scene of the Wreck. PTEBLO, Colo., Aug. 8.—/| The ‘ollowing dead, vietims of the wreck of the Missouri fiver. which went through a | lze at Pinon last night, hiave been identified: Dr. W. H. Mock. ss Ella Wood. V. H. Lamoon. \ Miss Minnie Selby, a musiec | teacher Lowell Durman, a clerk. Aug 8.— the Missouri Pacific igh a bridge r dry creek, near Ede the Denver and Rio ( Rai about eight mile m | at 8 o'clock | last night. It is estimated that of the 125 passengers on board tt between 80 and . either under torrent, or beneatl availabl Grande and ) Tl als left for the scene About 11 o'clock a second train, | ng stretchers, coffins and a About 1:45 o'clock this morn ing the relief train returned to the city, bringing those had ‘escaped with their lives, number | ing about 1 know who have not fallen victims | of the disaster. who all so far as now | A speciai to the Chieftain says "* the bodies of three young women, | unidentified, were washed ashore ! " one mile below the scene of the | - & I M. Killen of Pueblo,| s | W rec M. badly injured. crawled out of a chair car one mile below the DENVER, Aug. 8 —A special | train, carr g Chief Surgeon J. \W. O’Connor. Superintendent of \[rs. W. H. Lamoon. { | tablelands. DALAL LAMA FLEES FRO) THE BRITISH Younghushand’s Ex- pedition Reaches Lassa. e bl Invaders Pitch Camp Near the Sacred Mountain of Potala. Appearance of Tibetan Capital Agrees With Descriptions * Given by Explorers, SIMLA, British India, Aug. 7. — The British expedition into Tibet reached Lasca at noon on August $ with ne further fighting. LASSA, Tibet, Aug. The British expedition is encamped a mile from the sacred mountain of Potala, on which is | situated the Dalai Lama's palace and in the immediate vicinity of the Lama’s private gardens. The Dalai Lama fled to a monastery, eighteen miles distant. It is reported that he has ghut himself up in strict seclusion, refusing to see even the highest state officers and declaring that he will remain secluded for three years. Colornel Younghusband has recefved a ceremonial visit from the Amban, who promised to assist in arriving at a set- tiement and made gifts of food to the British troops. The appearance of the city shows the descriptions by explorers to have been | extremely accurate. The surroundings are very fertile, and the whole place gives evidence of great prosperity. A brilliantly costumed group watched the approach of the expedition from | the roof of one of the structures on | Potala Mountain. ——— SPLENDOR OF POTALA. Magnificent Panorama Awes the Sol- diers of Younghusband. LONDON, Aug. 8.—The Times corre- spondent with the British at Lassa de- scribes the first birdseye view of the forbidden city as a magnificent sur- prise. “There was nothing in the whole ap- proach up to the last moment,” the cor- respondent says, ‘‘suggesting the ex- ite foliage and towering architec- een when Lassa from end to end l‘lrak,~ upon the view, Potala would dominate London and Lassa is almost eclipsed by it. There is no lack of population in Lassa’s streets. Although Tibetan sol- diers reported as numbering between 4000 and 5000 retreated during the night, no malevolence has been displayed— only pinsatiate curiosity.” The other correspondents agree as to the magnificence of the situation and the panorama and splendor of Potala, but they conmsider the city itself not striking. The Daily Mail's correspond- ent sa “Potala surpassed the greatest expec- tations. The golden domes shone in the sun like tongues of fire, and they must strike with awe and veneration the hearts of pligrims from the barren e~ REFORM ELEMENT WIN AT THE POLLS IN SYD Election Is Marked by Great Exercise by Women of the Ballot Franchise. SYDNEY, New South Wales, Aug. 7.—The general election has resulted in a victory for the oppesition party, which advocated reform in the ex- travagance of the administration. It is expected that the Cabinet will re. sign. The features of the election were the great exercise of the franchise by women, to whom it was only recently granted, and a large accession to the strength of the Labor party. ————— ATTINDANCE AT FAIR IS ON THE INCREASE | Six Hundred Thousand People Visit Exposition During the Week Just Ended. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 7.—The attend- ance (137,167) at the world's fair yes- terday, manufacturers’ day, was ex- ceeded by that of only two other days, opening d. 187,793, and the Fourth of July, 1 140. Another day of the past week, Tuesday, children's day, showed the fourth largest attendance in the history of the exposition. The past week was the best in point of attendance up to the present. For the first time the 600,000 mark was passed. — % left at 12:45 c’clock for the scene of the wreck at Pinon. No defi- nite information has been received by the officials here. The Rio Motive Power F. Mertsheimer and other Rio Grande officials Grande officials fear that the loss of life has been heavy. Dala | CTHE Bishop Potter . Answers His | Crties Great Evil Re- placed by a | Lesser. | | SR o Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—Concerning the Subway saloon, for which he stands sponsor, Bishop Potter said to- | day | "I have publicly stated that I never | dreamed of regarding the present sa- | loon as either & blessing or a necessity, | and no ~-ord of mine, whether uttered | recently or at any other time, warrants | any such inference. ~ “ave simply re- garded it as an inevitable and neces- sary evil until it is displaced by some- thing better. “To close it, whether on Sundays or on any place it by something worthy of public respect and legal protection; controversy is simply with those who have no other aim in dealing with a mischievous institution than to sup- | press it, whereas the only hope for reform is in displaceme: t by substitu- tion “To have urged the importance of temperance reform in England twenty years ago would have been, in many ener than a smile, a snee- But Bng- | lish ‘ecclesiastics, Fnglishmen of .rank. English statesmen and men of lcarned professions have been aroused at length to a more ir ‘'ligent apprecia- tion of the situation. “By means of coffee-houses and cab- men’s shelters and reading-rooms and clubrooms, they have made bid for patronage of those men and women of the laboring classes who first ~ uflt e | gin palaces of England by their wages |and then supported them by their vices. “And it is no exaggeration to say that nothing which has occurred dur- ing this century has done more to win for the Church of England the sympathy of the common people and the friendship and respect of the mul- | titude than the organization and the | work of the Church of England Tem- | perance Society.” The criticisms of Bishop Potter’s par- ticipation in the dedication of the Sub- way Tavern were supplemented from many pulpits to-day. Some clergymen, especially evangelists and temperance workers, condemned the Bishop's action in emphatic terms. Bishop Peterkin of West Virginia, however, said that Bishop Potter prob- ably had in mind the solution of an ad- mitted problem | At the Fifth-avenue | Church Rev. Dr. G. said: | "It is to me the most inexplicable | thing I have ever heard of, that such | & seal of approval should be put upon | the most damning traffic in the world.” AR SRR LIKENED TO JUDAS ISCARIOT. Presbyterian Campbell Morgan | Philadelphia Evaneelist's Opinion of the New York Bishop. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 7.—In an ad- dress this afternoon Rev. Alfred Smith, temperance evangelist, said: “When Bishop Henry C. Potter went | through the performance of dedicating with solemn ceremonies, in the name |of Jesus Christ, a place where intoxi- | cating liquors are to be sold as a bev- erage, he was guilty of blasphemy and |every day that he gives to such a | scheme his sanction and blessing he is guilty of as base a betrayal of Jesus Christ as Judas Iscariot was ever | suilty of.” | Rev. J. W. Lee of Camden said from | his pulpit. to-night: “Bishop Potter lowered his manhood |and destroyed his influence for good, vhile the devil rejoiced and hell was enlarged.” The Rev. A. B. Leonard, correspond- |ing secretary of the Missionary So- | clety of the Methodist church of New York. raid: “No matter whether the saloon is | blessed or not, it belongs to the devil just the same.” The speaker plauded. STROUDSBURG, Pa., Aug. 7.—Rev. Dr. Bennett, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church here, said to-night: “I can readily imagine that the devils In hell held high carnival, clap- ped their hands with joy and grinned { with delight at such a spectacle as | they beheld.” was vociferously ap- ——— BUYS A JAG AT THE TAVERN. NEW YORK, Aug. 7—Clarence Ho- ran admitted in the Jefferson Market | Police Court this morning that he was not in the habit of drinking fancy drinks and promised to stick to strajght whisky hereafter and avoid the temptations of the new Subway Tavern. It was a simple story that he told to Magistrate Ommen, but it {cost him a $5 fine. . He said that out of curiesity he vis- ited the place that Bishop Potten had stamped with his approval, and the prices of fancy drinks were so cheap that he could not let them alone. He drank three pousse cafes, two brandy cocktails, four absinthe frappes and 1two ligueurs and then the police got him. particular days, is not to dis- | and my | quarters, -to provoke a-smiléand, oft-| | SUBWAY TELLS WHY HE AIDS SALOON g ING OF A SALOON HAS SUBJECTED HIM TO A EPISCOPAL ECCLESIASTIC WHOSE PARTICIPATION IN THE FORMAL OPEN- AND CLUBROOMS FOR WORKINGMBEN IN NEW YORK FLOOD OF DENU CIATION. Rev. J. A. B. Wilson Accuses Bishop Potter and His Fellow Churchmen of Intemperance. In Trinity Methodist Church, corner of Market, Noe and Sixteenth streets, the pastor, Rev. John A. B. Wilson, last night took up the utterances of Bishop Potter of New York and his dedication of the Subway Tavern with religious services, and sald in part: “I have long regarded Bishop Pot- ter as the greatest ecclesiastic In America. Whatever he may say or do in these days of evident senility, the development of his diocese during the period of his incumbency is a suf- ficient monument for one man, even if he could live half a dozen lifetimes. In this he has been broader than his church and has found room for men of the widest divergency of thought and ecclesiastical practices and by the strength and tactfulness of his own personality has made the whole diocese homogeneous. “His church, however, does not deal with great problems. While the other bodies of Protestantism are dealing with the problems that touch the lives of the people, like the pres- ervation of the American and Christian Sabbath and how to meet the awful aggressions of the liquor traffic with its 150,000 deaths per year, its con- tribution of 80 per cent of crime and 60 per cent of pauperis.., Bishop Pot- ter's church is engaged in settling the stupendous question of the color of al- tar cloths and other millinery, or how to get its 750,000 communicants called the Catholic church, as though this big label on this comparatively small ec- clesiasticism would make it larger or more impressive. “And yet, even his own church peo- ple, though so few of them are total abstainers, are not ready to go withs him in his attempt to make drunkards of men with benefit of clergy. No wonder he is perplexed as to a prac- ticable method of dealing with the drink evil while he and his fellow churchmen are almost universally wine bibbers and do not turn their glasses down even at public banquets, where example, either good or bad, is so po- tential. “It is very difficult for these society people to convince the workingman that he ought to give up his beer while they hold on to their expensive wines. And this is why the Bishop is in such despair over the problem. Let the Bishop and his fellow church- men themselves quit_ drinking first, then commend total ab:tinence to those about whose condition they are in such real distress. Let them join the ranks of temperance and prohibi- tion agitators with their great social prestige and they will find that their efforts will amount to something. Trink what must be the condition of the mind of this once great man when, Episcopal | to make whisky less intoxicating to the poor, he extends his hands in bless- ing and sings a doxology over a new drunk-factory. “Here stands this Christian Bishop, with extended hands, pronouncing a blessing upon another saloon. If this be not recreaney to a sacred trust, then the only loyal moment in Peter’s life was when he denied his Lord and Mas- ter. “But let us hope and believe that senility is the secret of this otherwise inecomprehensible attitude.” Rty et SR VANDERBILT BOYS STILL STRANGERS TO EACH OTHER Story That Child Was to Be Used as Means to Effect Reconciliation Pronounced Absurd. NEWPORT, R. I, Aug. 7.—With the arrival of Cornelius Vanderbilt the ru- mors of a reconciliation between the Vanderbilt boys have been revived, but there has been no reconciliation and none is in sight. The story that the four months’ old baby, Cathlene, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. “Reggy,” is to bring about a reunion by giving a party at Sandy Point in honor of the children of her uncles, Cornelius and Alfred G., is de- clared absurd. Inquiry at Sandy Point farm to-night elicited the information that baby Cathlene’s parents have no intention of giving an entertainment in order to bring the Vanderbilt boys to the family altar. ——e—————— MUST STAND TRIAL ON CHARGE OF MURDER ‘Woman Accused of Poisoning Step- daughter Is Ordered to Jail by Mayor. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Aug. 7.— At the conclusion of the preliminary hearing of rs. Rae M. Krauss, charged witl¥ having poisoned her stépdaughter, who died Tuesday morning in convulsions, Mayer Lucas ordered that the defendant be re- turned to jail to await trial at the Oc- tcber term of the Blackford County Circuit Court. MOB OF COLORED MEN LYNCHES NEGRO MURDERER Takes Prisoner From Constables, ‘Hangs Him and Riddles Body ‘With Ballets, SELMA, Ala, Aug. 7.—Edmund Bell, a negro, was taken from three constables by a masked mob of 300 of his own race, eight miles from Selma yesterday afternoon, and: ed to a tree and his body riddled with bullets. On Tuesday night Bell assassinated Houston Cruggs, another negre, | RE RAGES N ARMENAL AT TOULOY Flames%troyings French Naval Stores. Conflagration Spreads Rap-| idly and Entire Plant Is Daomed. ; Troops Are Called Out and the Firing of Guns Brings Help From | Every Quarter. TOULON, France, Aug. 8.—Fire broke out in the arsenal here at mid- night, originating in the extensive stores. The fire spread rapidly and now threatens to embrace entire blocks of buildings. Troops were called out at once and mustered in the street. The prefects of the maritime ports are organizing assistance and admirals and generais are helping in the work at the pumps. A reserve squadron has been called upon to aid. ‘Within an hour after the fire broke out the entire population was aroused. Guns are being fired as signals for help, | which is coming in from the whole | country side. The flames are spreading with great rapidity. ———— LOSE THEIR MINDS AFTER ! SWIMMING LONG DISTA.\'CEi T i Contestants in Race Become Crazed and Are Dragged From the ‘Water by Friends. NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—Clifford G. Baxter, a civil engineer, and Capuin‘ John Enright of the South Beach Life- | saving Station started on a swimming | contest from the Brooklyn bridge to the iron pier at Coney Island to-day and both were taken out of the water temporarily crazed after swimming for | seven hours and when within a mile of their goal. The distance is estimated | at thirteen and a half miles. | Baxter passed Enright at Nortons | Point, when both men were nearly ex- hausted. Enright soon afterward de- clared that some one was holding him ack and began to rave. He was taken from the water. A brother of | Enright's, seeing that Baxter might | finish, became excited and jumped overboard. He caught Baxter and| Baxter's crew fought him off with an oar. By this time Baxter developed | a delusion that a devil fish was towing him and that he was starving to death and his friends dragged him from the water. e e EXPRESSES REGRET THAT HE MUST RETURN TO ROME Cardinal Satolli Says Happiest Days | of His Life Have Been Spent in This Country. NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—“I regret more than I can say that I have to leave this country that I love so well, | but I must return to Rome, where a special conclave of Cardinals has | been called for the election of three new members of the college.” This was the statement made yes- terday by Cardinal Satolli as he was leaving the parade grounds of the| camp of the cadets of the Church of St. Dominio at Huntington, L. I, where he had reviewed the corps and bestowed upon it the apostolic bless- ing. 9"You may say for me,” the Cardinal continued, “that my trip here has been most pleasant and reminds me of the days when I resided in this coun- try, days that I look back upon as the happiest of my life.” —_———— WOMEN DESTROY WHISKY AND CHASE THE OWNER Kansas Females Become Imbued With the Carrie Nation Spirit and Are Arrested. RANSOM, Kans., Aug. 7.—Trouble broke out here yesterday when George Sickelbour, the owner of a threshing outfit, went to the depot to get a box of whisky. Several women chased him away with hatchets and then chopped | the box to pieces and broke the bot- | tles. Sickelbour went to Ness City and had several of the women ar- rested. They were Mrs. L. B. Dubbs, Mrs. M. P. Newman, Mrs. 8. Funk, Mrs. Ida Graham, Goldie Darby, Flora Sunley and Mrs. Clara Sheelenberger. ———e—— AGITATION IN HAYTI QUELLED BY GOVERNMENT Looters Are Killed and the Antl- Foreign Movement Is Stopped at Port au Prince. PORT AU PRINCE, Hayti, Aug. 7. Two persons who had been found guilty of looting at Archaies were shot at the scene of their crime. In other towns there is some agitation, but the energetic measures taken by the Gov- ernment have put a step to the anti- foreign movement, | July 26, | which captured Wolfs Hill | of a mile from the | Washington Wi DEFENDERS DRIVE BACK EMEGERS Stoessel Reports Vic- tories of His Men. Heavy Casualties in Fight- ing Toward the End of July. Japanese Cruiser Is Alleged to Have Struck a Mioe and Sunk Of Port Arthur. ehipiens LONDON. Aung. 7.—The Times correspondent ag Tokio, under date of August 7, says that there are unofficial reports there that the Japanese have captured commanding positions north and northeast of Port Arthur at a dis- tance of 0 yards from the main line of Russian defenses. LONDON, Aug. $.—The Daily Tele- graph’s Brussel's correspondent hears that owing to the impossibility of floating a foreign loan, Russia has de- cided to raise an imternal loan of $75,000,000 and also to establish an income tax. ST. PETERSBEIT Aug tenant General Stoessel, c the Russian military forces at Por thur, in an undated dispatch to Emperor says: “I am happy to report that the t repulsed all the Japanese and 28 with enormot The garrison's enthusiasm wa Lieu ng mmand the ¢ ordinary. The fleet assisted in - fense by bombarding the Japanese flank. “Our losses during the three days' fighting were about 1500 men and forty officers killed or wounded. A ding to statements of Chinese and prisoners 0.000. the Japanese lost as many as Their lo were great tha enemy has not had time to remove dead and wounded.” CHEFU, Aug. 8.—The Japanese force is now in- about two-thirds s at Port Ar- so trenched in the va thur. A Japanese cruiser Is alleged to have struck a new mine and to have sunk jmmediately in the vicinity of the Cris- tova battery The Russian cruiser Bayan has a small hole above her water line, which was inflicted by the explosion of a mine which had floated to the harbor en- trance. The Japanese have occupied Louisa Bay, landing troops, with the probable intention of attacking west of the city. The Russian artillery harasses the Japanese, who are attempting to ad- vance their trenches. The foregoing information was brought here to-day by Russian refu- gees who left Port Arthur on August 4 £ P e NOT IN QUEST OF ADVICE. Act for Itself on the Question of Contraband. WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—The state- ment was made to-night in high of- ficial quarters that, contrary to the reports from abroad, the United States has not been sounding the European Governments with a view to ascer- taining their views of what should be considered contraband in the present struggle between Russia and Japan. This Government is determining for ftself what classes of merchandise it considers contraband without sugges- tion from any other power, and when a decision has been reached its atti- tude on the subject will be made pub= lie. =i DARING JAPANESE CHARGE. One Thousand Russians Put Out of Action in a Few Minutes. GENERAL KUROKI'S HEAD- QUARTERS IN THE FIELD, Friday, Aug. 5.—Detailed reports arriving at | headquarters show that the right wing of the Japanese army had the hard- est fighting during the battle of last Sunday. A sensational feature oc- curred at Chobaidai Pass, ten miles from the Motien Pass. A brigade con- stituting the center column raced with two Russian regiments for the posses- sion of the summit commanding the Russian flank. The Japanese fired as they ascended. dislodging the Russians from the rocks and killing or wound- ing 1000 in a very few Japanese sustained JAPAN LOSES NOTE Yamaguchi. Famous Since the Boxer Rising, Succumbs to Disease. 7OKIO, Aug. 7.—Lieutenant Gen- eral Yamaguchi of the Fifth Division, who commanded the Japanese troops during the Boxer uprising, died to- day after a lingering illness. The Em- peror made General Yamaguchi a Viscount yesterday. i, TR ‘War News Continued on Page 3