The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 22, 1904, Page 1

THE WEATHEER. Tcrecast made at Fian- | cisco for rity how eading | August - reigco and vicinity— ‘ongy Monday; fresh G. B. WILLEONW, Ticeal Forecaster. JAPANESE. CAPTURE ONE SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, Alcazar—*The Pride of Jennico.” California—“The Man of Mys- ' Central—"“A Spy at Port Arthur.” Columbia—*“Candida.” Chutes—Vandeville. Fischer'’s—"Anheuser Push.” Grand—*“Meld by the Enemy.” Orphenm—Vandevill Tivoli—*“The Toreador.” 1904, F THE FORTS OF PORT ARTHUR'S INNER DEFENSES: AMERICAN WARGHIPS PREVENT VIOLATION OF NEUTRALITY IN SHANGHAI HARBOR CHEFU, Aug. 22, I | a. m.---The Japanese have swept the Russians from Pigé,Qn_Bay and captured the northernmost fort of the western line of inner defenses at Port Arthur. The OLIVE BRANCH HELD OUT AT SAN ——————— — -+ 5 TA CRUZ Leaders Ready to Fight for Harmony. Inland Demo- crats Tire of Strife. Special Dispatch to The Call. SANTA CRUZ, Aug. 21.—The Demo- crats desire harmony and are ready to fight for it. One supremg effort, how- ever, will be made to secure peace with- out a clash upon the fioor of the con- vention. Appeal will be made to Farm- er Ed White of Watsonville to induce BALLOOS LONG RACE — St. Louis to Wash- : : 1 < who wir T0 oRDE i POLITICTA VHO 15 PRO ; — R Special Dispat CONPESSES [URDER 0N DEATHBED P Mystery of Gilbert INTERNATIONAL POSTAGE | gy MAY BE l{l?l)l'('lll); Gates’ Fate IS geat Britain and Ger- | many F ASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—The reduc- tter postage rate between e from five will b g = aeronauti will 1 ! a mnw,n“ | nument in Louisiana | in the Plaza St at present there are t the contest. Who the contes has not been 2 te s rules of m t a ants are —_— Spectal Dispatch to The Call. CARBONDALE, Iil, Aug. 21. —The g t mystery which for thirty years surrounded the murder of John W. brother, Gilbert, has been ates’ portant reform we now ed, and Alexander Jester has con- r is the reduction of the |fessed to the murder. | age between this country Gates was killed in Hulanis lane, in s There is| Andrain County, Missouri, in January, ¢ the next ses-|j157) He was traveling overland with sien e I iareh | Jester, the latter exhibiting in every and and Germany. | 1OWD @ trzined buffalo calf. Jester was - ) obtain at least | captured in Kansas by Azel A. Gates, six week both w John W. Gates’' father, a few weeks | it} afterward, with Gilbert's belongings, £ gy | including team, clothes and watch. He | (LAIM JUMPING LEADS | was taken to Mexico, Mo.,-and shortly | p TO TWO VIOLENT DEATHS afterward escaped from jail and was | % not found until twenty-seven years ST. MARIES, Idaho. Aug. 21.—TWO | ,¢e; - when his sister, Mrs. ‘Cornelia | men are @ead and a third is missing as | Street, divulged John W. Gates his | e result of quarrel over alieged | whereabouts. | n Marble Creek, near | tes took a special train, with de- | bodies of P. Bou- | tectives, captured Jester and placed | Lin re found on the | him in the Rulls County Jail, where, in Marble Creek and Gor- | July, 1900, after a four weeks' sensa- | +’¢ body had thirteen bullet | tional trial, he was acquitted, owing | bodies were scme distance | to the absence of a corpus delect! case. | ne third man, Tyler is miss- | Forty-eight hours after his acquittal | . | he practically admitted to a newspaper er information | man his guilt, but a pledge was exact- | . is said Bou- | ed that the story would not be related e claim jumpers. | until Jester's death. | bout Tyler. The| On his deathbed, it is claimed. he | Fheriff and Coroner left for the scene | admitted having killed Gates by cutting | this afternoon and have not yet re- | his throat and sinking the body in Beel turned - ! Creek. leay | dominate the convention. | party him for the sake of harmony and unity to retire from the field as a candidate for chairman of the convention. Early to-morrow morning Isidore Dockweiler and White will hold a conference. White promises to come early and in- spect the olive branch. Inland Demo- | crats, who are weary of the party strife in San Francisco, assert that peace must prevail some time, and now is the accepted time. But Gavin Mc- Nab, leader of the “organization,” and Jim O’Brien, commander of the “Horse and Carts,’’ are here, and each is ready for a scrap. The convention of 730 delegates will be called to order by Timothy Spellacy, chairman of the State Central Com- mittee, at 2 p. m. There will be some proxies from = districts where the primary election law does not apply, but not a great number. It is gossip | to-night that the convention will nom- inate a candidate for Associate Justice |of the Supreme Court and will also adopt resolutions favoring the creation of a court of appeals. A resolution favoring the proposition to issue $2,000,000 of bonds to extend the San Francisco seawall will be present- ed. It is expected that the convention will lend its approval, as the money to meet the interest and principal of the honds must be paid from tolls collected by the State Board of Harbor Commis- sioners, and will not be a tax upon the real estate or personal property of the taxpayers. McNAB TO THE FORE. SANTA CRUZ, Aug. 3.“Unless all signs fail Gavin McNab's influence will Upon the McNab slate for chairman is written the name of Isidore Dockweiler of Los Angeles. The followers of James H. O'Brien’s “Horse and Cart” brigade talk of putting forth Ed White, hrother of the late Stephen M.'White, as the exponent of the Hearst faction of the for chairman, but the leading Democrats say that the use of White's name in this connection is unauthor- ized. The victory of the “organiza- tion”” over the O'Brien forces at the San Francisco primary election is ac- cepted by many of the interior Demo- crats as the finish of Hearst so far as prestige in the councils of the Dem- ocratic party of the State is concerned. It is said by the party leaders that the “Horses and Carts” will not be able to rally 1560 delegates to the support of any candidate for chairman who Continued on Page 8, Column 1. Russian artillery prevents the Bay. | o WL | OF REBELS | VICToRios " ‘Paraguayan Army Loses Guas to Enemy. Insurgents Set Up Provi-| sional Government and Locate Q‘apltal. —_— | Revolutionary Leader, General Ferreira, | | Chesen for President and Gonzales | Novero for Second Place, | BUENOS AYRES, Aug. 2L.—An ar-| | tillery engagement has been fought be- {tween the San Jocimino battery of the Japansse occupying the fort on Pigeon ll'Yankee ' Checks Jap- ‘ anese. ' Protects Dis- abled Slav Cruiser. SHANGHAL Shanghai was thrown into a feve August 27.- of excitement this afternoon by th arrival of a Japanese torpedo-boady - AMERICA’S REPRESENTATIVE IN SHA PROTECTING THE NEUTRALITY O ORDERS TO PRE' BELLIGER Al WHO, AS DEAN HE HARBOR, AND ON ENT ACTION BY A JAPAD SULAR CORPS. HAS. TAKEN THE TEsD NITED STATES WARSHIPS THAT, HAVE i FORCE, | Piraguayan army and a body of rev- olutionists, in which the latter suc-| ceeded in disladgifis the guns of the Govy ent fopte. The losses on either side ‘are, notyftated. | Therd L e e ’Asuncinn. the capital of, Paraguay, | since last report. 11 1 The insurgents have established nl | provisional government with the Cap-‘ H {ital at Villa del Pilar (112 miles from | Asuncion, and have nominated General | Ferreira, their leader, for President, and | Gonzales Novero for Vice President. Four secretaries also have been named. | One of these, Deputy Soler, has started | for Rio Janeiro and other capitals to | endeavor to secure the recognition of | the revolutionists as belligerents by the | various governments. This is taken to | indicate that rapid operations by the insurgents have been impeded through | non-bombardment of the capital, ow- | ing to the intervention of the diplomat- | ic corps at Asuncion. Despair is felt at the capital over the failure of the negotiations for a set- tlement of the difficulties. All imports have been suspended and articles of prime necessity are hardly | otiainable at famine prices. The ar- rival of the Argentine gunboat which | was dispatched last week for the scene | of the trouble has not yet been reported and a torpedo-boat destroyer has been in search of the missing vessel. ———————— TAKES MORPHINE TO END | LIFE FULL OF MISERY THREATENED WITH DEATH BY TORTURE Wealthy Italian of Chicago in Fear 0f ASSassins. S LI Ty Special Dispatch to The Call. Penniless and Despondent Stranger in Spokane Kills Himself When His Money Is Gone. SPOKANE, Aug. 2l.—George L. Woerheide committed suicide here to- | day, taking morphine. It is not known | here who he is or how long he has been in Spokane. A letter found at the foot of his bed tells a pathetic tale of mis- fortune and hurt pride. Pawn checks found in the pockets of the deceased showed that in the past few weeks he has, from day to day, turned into money everything belong- ing to him in the way of wearing ap- parel and personal effects, he evidently using the money to live. Not a cent was found in his possession. The last money seems to have gone for the room | in which he took his last sleep. He | was carefully dressed. The letter contains a request to the Chiet of Police to notify A. H. Woer- heide of St. Louis of the death of the writer. CHICAGO, Aug. 2l.—Antonio Sbar- baro, a wealthy undertaker and one of the miost prominent Italians in Chi- cago, lies at his home, hovering be- tween life and death, as the result of a severe shock following the receipt of | a threatening letter from the mysteri- | ous band calling itself “The Five Skel- etons.” The letter is written in red | ink and makes a demand for $10,000. The writers are believed by the po- lice to be a branch of the “Black Hand"” society that kidnaped Antonio Mannino, the son of James Mannino of Brooklyn. This theory has been ad- vanced by the detectives because of the fact that Sbarbaro had been threat- ened on another occasion, presumably by the same band. Unless the money is carried to a lone- some spot on the prairie and placed in the hands of a member detailed to receive it, “The Five Skeletons” de- clare, Sbarbaro will be tortured to death. “The Five Skeletons have decided to torture you to death in the most hor- rible manner if you do not comply with this request,” the writers declared in the letter. ‘“You must have heard of many violent deaths among your country people. Well, they were caused by the Five Skeletons. They were fool- ish enough to defy us. Do not inform the police or try to deceive us. You are watched night and day.” ————— PREPARING TO HOLD THEIR | SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING | Delegates to American Mining Con- gress Arrive in Northern City on Every Train. PORTLAND, Aug. 2l.—Members of the American Mining Congress and delegates from throughout the United States arrived on gvery train tn-dayi and representatives from Canada and Mexico are among those expected to- night to attend the seventh annual ses- sion of the organization which com- mences here to-morrow morning. Sentiment strongly favorable to con- tinuing President Richards at the head of the congress for another term is expressed and his re-election is a strong probability. Convention politics, how- ever, center chiefly about the contest between Denver and Salt Lake City ! for permanent headquarters, though there is considerable interest in the selection of the convention city for the next annual meeting of the congress, for which El Paso,. Tex, is a strong candidate. Finds Wife Dead on Floor. SANTA ROSA, Aug. 21.—When Jo- seph Seery returned from work Satur- day evening a sad sight met his gaze. He found his wife lying dead upon the floor of their bedroom. She had been dezd several hours, having succumbed to an nuuckb?t !‘zeur;‘ diaeg::. to which she was subject. TS, T native of New York, 41 years of aye,| Sbarbaro was ill at the Pasteur In- and had been a resident of Santa Rosa | stitute when the letter was received at for many years. his home. His wife and family in- which was sighted coming in from the south at half past four o'clock. She passed Woosung at full speed Ll BUILD A TAILROAD Cost Eventually Is and started up the river toward Shanghai. The United States torpedo-boat destroyer Chauncey slipped her cable and followed the Japanese destrover. The Japanese boat was cleared for action. She anchored off the Cosmopolitan dock, where the Russian cruiser Askold is uh- dergoing repairs. The Chauncey Russian Consul best protection. A posse of 300 friends and detectives, armed heavily, guarded the carriage in which Sbarbaro and his wife rode. Italians crowded the side- walk in front of his residence, praying and crossing themselves as the invalid was carried into the house, to Be Met by came to an anchor practically be- Nevadans tween the dock and the Japanese s A Japanese squadron is twenty Special: Dispateh: 4 The CRIL. miles from Woosung, the outside RENO, Aug. 21.—The United States 5 . The United States monitor County, to Hazen, on the main line of the Southern "Pacific’'s road. The en-| destrovers have been ordered to be project is so feasible that it is under-| % I ity i stood bids are to be called for within | Teady to protect the neutrality ot The power is to be developed upon the x5 big Government canal within a few| American CO““‘[G"“F"?“ Good- now has called a meeting of the is capable of generating hundreds of horsepower. The aim is to make Fal-| A » morrow morning. It is believed mense agricultural area about to be | ¢ ~ . oAt s Dk ChEciti Chartiky. | that the foreign Consuls will then owning the line, the aim being to have } hands of the Taotai in dml‘-": the people own and conduct it, paying | % 2 » with the question of the Russian The line between Hazen and Fallon willbe, about sixteen mfles long. The | .. 2 There are at present no Chinese bridges and a few small ones being re- | men of war in this port, but the quired over the entire route. nese cruiser be sent here immedi- formed him and he was made much | _ 1 worse by the news. Last night the |atel order that he might be afforded the " here tlatly refuses to disarm the \skold and the Russian torpedo- destroyer. i s harbor of Shanghai. Government is now figuring upon the | Fallon, the county seat of Churchill Monadnock and two torpedo-boat gineers are now in the field, and the| the next few weeks. { Shanghai. miles of Fallon. One fall of several feet Consular body for 10 o'clock to- lon the distributing point of the im- The Government has no intention of | arrange means to strengthen the the cost of construction on easy terms. warships here. country is perfectly. level, but two large | Taotai has telegraphed that a Chi- o - wealthy Italian was taken home in The General boat destrover Grozovoi or to Continued on Page 3, Column 3.