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

Town.” Grand—"“The Lottery of Love.” Orpheunm—Vandeville. Tivoli—“The Toreador.” the 2 VOLUME XCVI—NO. 80. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. JAPANESE CAPTURE RUSSIAN POSITIONS AT PORT ARTHUR, BUT VICTORY IS WON AT TREMENDOUS SACRIFICE OF LIFE CHEFU, Aug. 18, 8 p. m.---A battle of huge proportions raged around Port Arthur on August 14 and 15 and was resumed on August 17. The Japanese, it is reported, sacrificed 20,000 more men, but gained important advantages in the matter of positicn. -wing and resulted in the capture of Pigeon Bay positions and some of the forts at Liaoshan. The main force of the attack was directed against the left At Palunchang the Japanese hastily mounted guns, which did - excellent service in aiding the storming of the right wing, where the Japanese are said to have captured two forts of minor value, mounting eight four-ineh, . two siege and six quick-firing guns. RY ANITEN KMVEN 00T FOR PARKER No Western Staies in Democratic Column, SER T S Even Missouri Is Expected t0 Return Republican Electors, 1 { | [ 1 Silver Men Oppose Clique That Tricked | Them Out of Control of the Party. —A majority n States and uri—this is an National to-day. For B the RepUBNCANS | mocrats, mmitee- be- er itively Jost _of The icke has That in wer State 1900 azed i in Missouri this — TAGGART SHOCKS PARKER. Makes It Plain to the Nominee That His Fight Is Hopeless. | WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—The re- was going around Washington to- that Chairman Taggart, when he | ed Esopus last week, astonished | ge Parker by falling to promise | han 208 electoral votes for the | ic candidate. This is thirty- | rt of the majority required for | election. | And it is further reported that the most liberal estimate Taggart could Jud, r Demo e sh make brought the total up to only 231, leaving eight votes necessary to elect Judge Parker President of the United States Taggart's meager disclosures, it is understood, rudely surprised Judge Parker, who had been much encour- asged by roseate predictions of less sagacious tors than Taggart. It is said that the latter's estimate ran as follows: The solid South, 151; New York, 35; West Virginia, Ne- vada, 2, gnd Maryiand, £; total, Relying upon doubtful States, this | total was increazed by the addition of New Jersey 12, Connecticut 7 and Rhode Island 4; total 231 | et i S MPAIGN TOUR. | Jurist May Continue Making Speeches | Until the Election. | ESOPUS, N. Y., Aug. 18.—On account | of (he meeting of the American Bar | Assoctation in St. Louis on September | 26 Judge Parker probably will go to | the exposition at that time and not | return to attend the New York day ceremonies, which will be held on Oc- tober 4. i It is mot the plan now for Ju: Parker to make any speeches o{z dh‘l: way to St. Louls. It is likely that the Judge will make a detour on his return i order to address political meetings in Indianapolis, Chicago and one or - two other points. The suggestion has been made that after that Judge Par- ker go on an extended stumping tour, Continoed on Page 2, Columa 32, | ble | T | fully. The rumbling of the express | @ negro department store and other ne- BOY SAVES | TRAIN FROM | SASTER Prevents Loss of Life on the Umon Pacific. | oAl s Express Is Stopped in Nick of Time Ciose to a Burn- | ing Bridge. L R E TR SO Lad Runs Three Miles to Give the Warning and Almost Faints | From Exhaustion. Special Dispatch to The Call. OMAHA, Neb, Aug. 18.—Claude Nickerson of Valparaiso, 10 years old, is to-night the hero of all Nebraska. Breathless and almost fainting from fatigue, the little fellow finished at the railroad station of his town yesterday ' a run of three miles in time to enable railroad employes to save a Union Pa- cific express from carrying 180 passengers, a plunging through burning feet bel Was W g home his aunt’s house, where he was g the day. The village where aunt lives is about five miles from boy often makes this ns home along the Yesterday when he 1e to the long trestie two miles from home, he found that the woodwork e knew that the the Union that by nt a catastrophe. Pacific h bt pass haste he might preve: When young Nickerson breathlessly i of the danger, trainmen had to run handcar on the track and make a back to head off the train. The stling of the locomotive was audi- b they reached the bridge. 0 men climbed off to run across the Another stayed on the car,| t at full eed across the| where the s were leaping The crossing was made success- fore ra iriving bridge high flan distinct as the handcar rounded the curve between the train and the bridge. | At the sight of the danger flag the| engineer brought his train to a stop, almost on the approach to the bridge. NECROES PLAN BUSINESS W 4R [PON WHITES —_— ) Organizing to Control Tnegr* Own Trade in Mis- | SISSippi. Special Dispatch to The Cail. JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 18.—Negro la- | bor unions are being organized here| with the purpose of boycotting the whites and throwing all their business to_other negroes. The movement is the result of the passage of the “Jim Crow” street car law, which greatly angered the ne- groes. They successfully boycotted the cars, and no negroes are patrons of them __A megro bank and a negro undertak- ing establishment will be started, and gro establishments are in contempla- tion. There is a disposition on the part of the whites to encourage foreign fmmi- | gration, particularly of Italians, as a siategulrd against this threatened ac- tion. g DANISH TORPEDO-BOATS COLLIDE AND ONE SINKS COPENHAGEN, Aug. 18.—While the Danish squadron was engaged in ma- neuvering in the Great Belt to-day the torpedo-boat Haverstr was sunk in col- lision with the torpedo-boat Storen. The crew of the Haverstr was rescued. The Btoren was only slightly injured. | Stoessel Sweérs ‘When Asked to Surrender. Garrison’s Com- mander Flies Into Great Rage. Special Dispatch to The Call. CHEFU, Aug. 19—News of the terrific fighting at Port Arthur on August 14, 15 and 17 was brought to 1 this port by two junks, one of which left Port Arthur only last night and was carried across at high speed by a gale. On this junk, concealed in the baggage of some Chinese, was a Rus- sian, who may have been the bearer of important dispatches. The position that the Japanese oc- cupy on Liaoshan Peninsula is not | clear, but numerous Chinese sources aver that the Japanese have been seen in force in that section. Appar- ently a cruising attack, originatirig in Louisa Bay, swept through the Pigeon Bay positions into the penin- sula in the doing of which a majority of the soldiers of the expedition were sacrificed. On the night of the 15th the battle lulled somewhat, when the Japanese sent terms of surrender to Lieutenant General Stoessel. The terms pro- | vided that the garrison should march i out with the honors of war and join General Kuropatkin; that all civilians {be brought to a place designated by the Japanese admiral; that the Rus- sian warships in the harbor—the bat- ‘tleships Retzivan, Sevastopol, Po- bieda, Peresviet and Poltava, armored cruiser Bayar, the protected cruiser Pallada and twelve or more torpedo-boat destroyers and four gunboats be surrendered to the Jap- anese. Lieutenant General Stoessel is al- leged to have received the terms with a burst of wonderful profanity, his habitual taciturnity deserting him. He ‘strode the floor until he became calmer and then remarked that if the Japanese proposition was a joke it was in bad taste. General Stoessel’s treatment of the Japanese major was courteous, but the PORT ARTHUR AS SEEN FROM A | POINT OUTSIDE THE ENTRANCE TO THE HARBOR. War Bulletins. Speclal Cable to Phe Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. LONDON, Aug. 19.—FEleven Rus- sian warships have left Libau. St. Petersburg dispatches received in Lon- don report that the remainder of the Baltic fleet will leave Kronstadt on Sunday. Libau is an advapced Rus- sian naval base near the Prussian bor- der. CHEFU, Ang. 19.—A frightful in- cident of the recent fighting at Port Arthur, refugees report, occurred in the storming of forts 3 and 4 on the right wing, when land mines were ex- ‘plod!,'d. It is alleged that two Jap- anese infantry regiments, two squad- rons of cavalry and one artillery com- pany were destroyed. - CHEFU, Aug. 19.—Two Japanese torpedo-boat destroyers entered the harbor at 5:30 o’clock this morning. ‘Tht‘y remained a half hour and then departed. Five other destroyers are reported to be outside. Chinese Ad- miral Sah expressed the opinion that the Japanese destroyers are searching for Russian ships. BERLIN, Aug. 18.—The Idaoyang correspondent of the Lokal Anzeiger {in a dispatch dated August 18 says | that General Kuroki's right is ap- parently withdrawing and the advance in the direction of Mukden seems to have been abandoned. <+ o+ a three days’ truce in which to bury the dead. This was refused. The battle was renewed at 10 o'clock on the morning of the 17th, and as the junk left it was being waged furiously on afl sides. The Russian refugees express con- fidence that the fortress will hold out. They say that reinforcements from - General Kuropatkin are ex- ! pected within a fortnight. The refugees further say that the warships now at Port Arthur are still in fighting trim. This statement seems hardly credible in the light of recent developments. It is stated that Admiral Withoeft’s his reply was prompt and character- | a5t signal during the battle of Au- istic. The Japanese major then asked for " Continued on Page 2, Column 4 PARAGUAY'N - CAPITAL I ONMBARDED b B, R el Ships of Insurgents Shell City of Asuncion. S S | Cannonade Lasts Forty Min- utes and a Truce Is Then Daclarad. Rebels Delay Attack for Twenty-Four Heurs to Enable Non-Combatants to Seek Safety. day for forty minutes. The extent of the damage is_unkagwn.. - {.The Goserament artiilery. rppited o | the” insirgents and one gzup burst, | wounding several Government soldiers. The Ministers of Argentina, Brazil, els and held a long and et conference, at the end of which a truce of twenty-four hours was de- lared in order to give the women and children an opportunity to leave the b 1 before further bombardment. Absolute reserve is maintained in re- gard to the conference, butit is said that the Ministers protested to the in- surgent leaders against the bombard- ment Government scouts returning to Asuncion were mistaken for the insur- gentd and fired upon. Twenty of them e wounded. The Government has a force of 5000 Japan Must Pay a Heavy Price for Port Arthur, Remington rifles. Panic prevalls at Asuncion. Women nded. mpossible to obtain accurate details of the bombardment, as com- munication is completely cut off. | e T e Dt ol EMPLOYS FAITH TREATMENT T0 Russia Expecting News of Strong- hold’s Fall. | Special Cable to The Call and New York | Herald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York | Herald Publishing Company. | ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 18.—With patches published this afternoon that 5 - Genersl Stocssel had refused the snal| (hpistian Scientist Asserts That the Mathed Proved Russians accept, with characteristic fortitude and inborn fatalism, the fact Eifective. Special Dispatch to The Call. that the last act of the siege of Port Arthur has commenced. All seem agreed that the fortress will fall, but are unanimous in thelr ex- pressions that the enemy will be mads to pay dearly for his victory. I hear OMAHA, Aug. 18.—Prominent Chris- tian Scientists, at a convention of that church to-day, declared that faith was an effective means of stopping run- | aways. Mrs. A. C. Wakeley, wife of a for- much discontent expressed that, whereas the sinking of the Rurlk took | mer Judge of the District Court, re- lated her experience with a runaway place last Saturday, it was announced | which occurred a few days ago. A here for the first time to-day. But | this is nothing new. Little is known here, as a rule, of the war news until team of spirited horses dashed down the Burt-street hill, the Ilines being held by 14-year-old Florence Fuller, it is four days old, when the European edition of the Herald and London daughter of a Western ranchman. At the foot of the hill piles of granite papers arrive. The intelligent classes | complain of this condition of affairs. | stones blocked the path of the gallop- ing horses. To onlookers it seemed The loss of the Rurik comes as a| terrible blow, but is mitigated by the | news that the Rossia and the Gromo- bol have returned to Vladivostok. The that the child would be dashed to death. “I stood In the street and gave the faith treatment,” declared Mrs. Wake- Russ, in a sensible article, remarks: “It is_seven days since the naval | ley. “You all know how those horses became gentle in an instant.” battle. We know comparatively noth- ing. If a great disaster has befallen | | our fleet, it is surely known. Admiral| Togo’s reports of losses in men are | serious for a sea battle. The return of | our squadron to Port Arthur is un- | confirmed.” It is a fact that the horses stopped as if by a miracle. —_——————— ENTERS UPON HIS DUTIES TOKIO, Aug. 18.—A report has AS FINLAND'S GOVERNOR been received here from Admiral Togo | saying that the gunboats Maya and | Prince Obolensky Has Been Warned | Amaji. which were on guard duty in That He Will Be Assassinated the neighborhood of Shampoingtao on Within a Week. 11, di d th AnEent S and another susian | HELSINGFORS, Finland, Aug. 18.— gunboat Giliak and another gunboat near Shensen engaged in shelling the | Prince Obolensky to-day assumed his functions as Governor General of Fin- Japanese land forces. The Japaneses vessels attacked the enemy and a shell | land. Upon his arrival here he was from the Amaji hit the Giliak. The | driven to the Uspensky Cathedral, latter retreated hastily to Port Arthur.| where he attended divine services. It probably was the fifth torpedo- | Subsequently the Governor held a boat destrover flotilla, under the com- | grand reception at the Imperial Palace. mand of Captain Mathuoka, that sank | The Governor will start at once on a the Russian cruiser Pallada on the | tour of inspection of the Grand Duchy. night of August 10. Captain Mat-| Princess Obolensky, wife of the new huoka reports that he approached | Governor General, is sald to have re- a cruiser of the Pallada type and at a | ceived many threatening letters declar- distance of 400 yards fired a torpedo, | ing that her husband would be ‘killed which he saw hit the cruiser and ex- lwnhln a week after his arrival in Fin- plode. SRR e GUNBOATS IN ACTION. One Russian Vessel Off Port Arthur Hit by Japanese Shell. Y BUENOS AYRES, Aug. 13.—Three | insurgent vessels bombarded Asun- | cion, the capital of Paraguay, yester- | | | Italy and France boarded one of the | soldiers, 500 of whom are armed with | ring to attend those who may | d O QUARTER FOR TICKET SCALPERS ‘Railroads Combine - in a General | Crusade, e Prosecutions Will Be Insti- tuted in All of the Large Cities. | | | | Campaign of Publicity to Be Con- ducted in Connmection With % Legal Fight. | | Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—Leading rail- roads of the country have decided to | use every means, both collectively and Himafeidually, to put railroad ticket- { Scalpers out of business in swery city of any considerable size from New York to San Franecisco. | _They have acknowledged George H Daniels of the New York Central as | their leader in this crusade, and he is beginning the conduct of a bureau with this purpose in view. cutions in the courts have been co: ducted mainly in St. Louis, where the scalpers have been doing a “land office™ business in Vorld's Fair excursion tickets, and several scalpers have been | sent to jail there for defying the in- Jjunctions of th ited States Circuit Judges in Missouri, who forbade the sale of rallroad tickets by unauthorized persons. The raids made in St. Louls were at the instance of many purchasers who were compelled to pay fare by con- ductors. In these raids by the police | hundreds of non-transferable tickets | were seized and confiscated. The railroad men say the scalping business has grown to be so disrepu- table that it should be a comparative- |1y easy matter to put the scalpers out of business by a campaign of pub and this is what Daniels is doing at | present, while other railroad passen- ger agents, isted by detectives | gathering evidence to be used ag scalpers doing business in New York, and inter- Chicago, San Francisco | mediate cities. —— & KNEE BREECHES WILL BE WORN Men Guests at Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs’ Newport Ball Must Don Court Garb e Special Dispatoh to The Call. NEWPORT, R. 1, Aug. 13.—The men guests at Mrs. Hermann Oeirichs’ bal blanc to-morrow night will wear whits | satin knee breeches, with coat and silk stockings to match, and that in spite of a stormy rebellion that has almost riven the “400.” The social board of strategy sat on the court dress problem to<day and likewise sat on the recalcitrants. It de- veloped that money considerations wers behind the men's objection to the rai- ment and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish thus declaimed against what she called sor- did meanness. “If the reports are true and the men refuse ‘to expend a few dollars in re- turn for the magnificent function Mrs. Oelrichs is giving and if they are too poor to buy the breeches, wb( I will buy them for their use.” So the ball will go ahead as sched- uled. CLEARING-HOUSE SYSTEM TO BE USED BY RAILROADS Expert Employed by Hill and Harri man to Demonstrate Feasibility of Scheme. CHICAGO, Aug. 13.—G. W. Midgley has been employed by the Hill, Harri- man and other big railroad interests to demonstrate the advisability of ap- plying the clearing-house system to railroading and to devise a plan for so doing. Midgley’s duty Is to show the railroad magnates how business prin- ciples can be applied to the use of rail- road equipment, how economies can be effected in the handling of freight at terminals and how big savings can be made in the settlement of interchange accounts. ‘The most important and promising ot these reform's is said to be the develop- ment at important tonnage centers of extensive clearing yards.