The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 23, 1904, Page 1

VOLUME XCVI—NO. 84. SAN FRAN-CISCO, 7’1‘UESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PORT ARTHUR WITHSTANDS TERRIFIC CANNONADE AND SLAUS CLAIM THAT FOE'S GUNS ARE SILENCED ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 22.---A dispatch from Chefu, dated August 22, says that according to Chinese reports the Japanese yes- terday bombarded Port Arthur from 6 o’clock in the morning until 1 o’clock in the afternoon, pouring in heavy fire, but that the Russians succeeded i1_1 silencing the Japanese batteries. The Japanese fleet was not engaged, having put farthe TENPLARS STALLED BY A WASHOUT Special Train Held at Small Town in Arizona. ————— May Not Be Able to Pro- ceed to San Francisco for Several Days, Tourist Knights Given Opportunity to Enjoy Frontier Life in Ash Fork. SRR TS FORK, Ariz., Aug ine of the S: ASH 23.—Traffic ta Fe Rail- tied up. A s after- and all point. of last a large portion of y of King- near “there evidently pletely e-temporary repairs. t has occurred on near Selig- of last sweek weighing over 600 2, from Los Angeles aged to get over the ure afternoon, but a great volume washing over the tracks e offi who are now at a tie-up on tr he ¢ rert special, g delegates to the convention in San be held until further has sixteen cars, two of soldiers from Co- to the Philip- Pacific trac ay of Phoenix, but ate to-night is experienc- red in Arizona thern Pacific, and it will © days before trains can —The hea- Silver City, vept through after a severe the mountains above. No e has yet been reported, lleved at least fifty homes were As the flood came early is thought that every time to escape. The Santa Fe railroad is washed out in manv places and seven bridges be- tween Eilver City and White Water out. An twenty feet deep end & hundred feet wide, runs through Silver City and this was overflowed. stores suffered considerable is b washed away I O North Dakota Crops Destroyed. ANT, N. D.,, Aug. 2 his vicinlty wrecked many Mrs. H. S Hilting was g Losg of crops is heavy. It is that Willow Lakes was en- royed. but the report is un- - reported tirely confirmed B e P EL AP Tornado Visits South Dakota. CLARK, 8. D., Aug. 22.—A tornado struck Willow Lakes, destroying al- most the entire town and also build- ings in the vi ty A farmer was killed and seven persons injured, none fatally. ———— BANKER HELD FOR RANSOM BY BANDITS IN MEXICO N ROSWELL. M., Aug. 22.—John Eiland, vice president of the Bank of Portales, N. M., and a wealthy sheep- I The answer is voluminous, consisting | man, has fallen into the hands of brigands in Old Mexico, where he went on business. Mrs. Efland has received a letter from him postmarked Oputo, State of — 0/L WorKS.i|} || PARP, NG REIAITHE ROST ST Sy e S LS I STANDARD | |1 MAP OF SHANGHAI HARBOR, SHOWING HOW AMERICAN WARSHIP PROTECTED THE ASKOLD, AND A LIKENESS OF THE GENERAL ATTACKING PORT ARTHUR. SAYS KINGS WERE DUPED : Mrs. Maybrick Ac- | - cused in Legal - Document. RS SIS Special Dispatch to The Call. | RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 22—In his | answer to the suit brought against him | by Mme. von Roques, mother of Mrs. OB ILLS NEGRO AN BURNS BODY Awful Vengeance for Attack on White | (irl, | CEDARTOWN, Ga., Aug. 22.—"“Jim" Glover, a negro, was shot to death to- | night near the home of the white girl | he had attacked and his body was 1 2.—A tor-| her daughter was fatally hurt | 1ber of others were seriously | Florence Maybrick, D. W. Armsttcnfl dragged a distance of about a mile | intimates his belief that the British|into this city and burned on the pub- Government was tricked into giving|lic square. A mob estimated at 500 Mre. Maybrick a ticket of leave. | composed the shooting and burning The answer is in the hands of Philip | Yo" The crime for which the negro was | B. Shield, an attorney of this city, to be filed in the Chancery Clerk’s office. It is this action which the friends of Mrs. Maybrick used as a means of per- suading the British Government to re- lease her. | The Baroness von Roques brought suit several years ago, alleging that Armstrong had persuaded her to part, | for $10,000, with lands which he subse- | quently sold for millions. Mrs. May- | brick was said to have an interest in this property, and it was to punish the | persons who had defrauded her that | the British Governigent allowed her to | leave prison on a ticket of leave. | In his answer, Armstrong maintains that she had no interest in the lands. { | of fifty typewritten pages, and goes minutely into the details of Arm- strong’s transaction with Mme. | sentatives. Sonora, Mexico, saying that he has| The answer, upon its face, appears to been captured by brigands, who de- mand a heavy ransom, and that unless srrangements are made to pay the ransom, he will be tortured and killed. She immediately wired to the United States Consul at the City of Mexico to use his efforts to secure the release of ber husband. give rise to two principal questions, the first being as to whether the estate of Mrs. Maybrick, of which so much has been heard in connection with the agitation for her release, is a myth; and, second, as to whether, apart from what the facts may be as to Mrs. May- Wrick’s interest, the transactions be- von | Roques and her agents and repre- | thus punished was an attack upon ‘Levla Reeves, the 13-year-old daugh- |ter of a well-known farmer. The story of the crime was the most re- volting that had ever been given to | the public from this immediate sec- tion. After the little girl had pro- tected the negro from the attack of a large dog owned by her father he fol- lowed her to the pasture whither she | was taking a cow, caught her, choked {her into insensibility and left her | bleeding and unconscious in the field. This occurred early this morning. | Bloodhounds were on the negro's trail all day and he was captired some time late this afternoon and carried to the | home of the girl, who unhesitatingly identified him as her assailant. In the meantime a crowd of 500 | persons gathered and summary jus- Aice was meted out to the negro as soon as it was learned that the young girl had positively identified him. The negro confessed his guilt. Im- mediately the crowd took him away from the posse that had captured him and his body was riddled with bullets and afterward burned. - e S TR AR . tween Armstrong and Mme. von Roques were characterized by any semblance of fraud. \Great Sacri- fice of Life Continues. ————— SHANGHAI Au .—The Viceroy Taotai Yuan that a Chinese fleet be dispatched to Shanghai. The Ameri- can Consul, J. Goodnow, declares that he has no intention of interfering be- yond protecting American property. Another meeting of the consular body has been called for 3 o'clock this af- ternoon to further consider the As- kold-Gromobol situation. LONDON, Aug. 23.—According to the Moscow correspondent of the Morning Post Lieutenant General Stoessel concluded a telegram to an intimate friend there with the words, “Farewell forever. Port Arthur will be my tomb.” LONDON, Aug. 23.—The Paris cor- respondent of the Daily Chronicle sends an extraordinary story to the effect that Russia is trying to induce France to buy Argentine and Chilean men of war for the purpose of rein- forcing the Baltic fleet. LIAOYANG, Aug. 22.—The follow- ing is supplied by a, Russian corre- spondent of the Associated Press: “With each additional report from Port Arthur wonder increases both at the persistence of the Japanese at- tack and the heroic stubbornness of the defenders of the fortress. The Japanese are literally throwing away thousands of lives in the hope of shak- ing the courage of the Russian troops. Major Generai Fock sends word that he is confident the fortress cannot be taken, but that if it is taken the whole Japanese army will have to immolate itself on the slopes of the fortifica- ticns. > “There were flve desperate assaults on the Green Hills July 26, the Japan- ese returning each time with ap- parently inexhaustible reinforcements. On the final assault, however, the Jap- anese broke badly, throwing away their guns, cartridge belts and even their boots to facilitate their flight "Continuea on Page 2, Column 4. of Nanking has refused the request ()I’I *GIRL MEETS TRAGIC EXD Drowns in Merrimac in Sight of Her ~ Hushand. Special Dispatch to The Call ST. LOUIS, Aug. 22.—On the Merri- mac River, three miles above Valley Park, Harry Wright, grief stricken, searched constantly to-day for the body of his young wife, who until a year ago was Miss Rene Miller of Chico, Cal. Her death occurred yester- day afternoon as she and her husband and Clyde Brown, a friend, attempted to shoot the Hoffmans Springs Rapids in a canoe. Mrs. Wright knew little or nothing of paddling and on entering the canoe ex- pressed a desire to learn. Her husband allowed her to sit in the bow of the ca- noe while he paddled at the stern. Once on the crest of the rapids the canoe ad- vanced with a lurch. Mrs. Wright lift- ed her paddle from her side to that on which her husband was paddling. In a twinkling the canoe overturned, the en- tire party disappearing in the water. Hér body did not reappear. —_—— { New Guardian at Yosemite. YOSEMITE, Aug. 22.—George T. Har- lew, former secretary of the San Fran- cisco Harbor Commission, and who was appointed guardian of Yosemite Valley and the Mdriposa grove of big trees by the Yosemite Commission, August 8, reached here to-day. He succeeds the present occupant, J. F. Stevens, on September 1. The guardian elect in the next few days will make a tour of in- spection with the retiring guardian. E ———— ‘Writer of Creole Stories Dead. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 22.—Mrs. Kate C. Chogin, well known as an author, especially as a writer of stories of Cre- ole life in Louisiana, died to-day. N POPULAR \ CHICAGO Tribue's Canvass Shows Repub- lican Gain, — Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Aug. 22.—Of 10,988 voters personally requested by the| Chicago Tribune to announce their | preference for President, 6504 named Roosevelt, 3789 were for Parker and 548 expressed themselves for Debs, the Socialist candidate. This is a gain of 498 in the usual Republican vote and a loss of 420 from the usual Democratic vote. | T Many union men said the Demo- | cratic or Socialistic party held out the greatest hopes to union labor and ex- pressed bitterness toward President | Roosevelt for what they called his share in the responsibility for the use | of troops in the Colorado strike troubles. The proportion of Roosevelt men | among the laborers was large and | there was a Democratic loss. The Socialist vote showed a considerable increase. The two large parties ran close among the teamsters, there being , 280 for Parker and 277 for Roosevelt. | —_——— SENATOR HOAR'S CONDITION SHOWS NO IMPROVEMENT Latest Bulletin Reports Aged States- man Sleeping After a Not Very Good Afternoon. WORCESTER, Mass., Aug. 22.—The following bulletin was issued from the home of Senator Hoar at 9 o’clock to- night by Rockwood Hoar: “The Senator is asleep. He has not | had quite as good an afternoon as he had yesterday. His condition is not materfally changed. The prospect is he will have a quiet night." LIGHTAI r out to sea. PLAYS SOME 0D PRANKS ‘Residents of Covina Witness Queer Storm. —— s Every Portion of the Town Receives Visit From Lively Bolts. Trees Are Splintered and a Cleaver Is Knocked From Butcher’s Hand, but No Lives Are Lost. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. COVINA, Aug. 22.—A terrific light- ning and thunder storm. accompanied by heavy rain, burst over this city shortly before noon to-day, and the absence of fatalities is considered miraculous. The flashes came in quick succession and appeared to strike every time. A large tree seventy-five feet high in the grounds surrounding the residence of Mrs. Platt-Larkins, at the corner of { Center and Third streets, was splint- | ered into a hundred parts, many of | them the size of fence rails. The frag- | ments, some weighing 300 pounds, were attered from eighty to a hundred ! | feet in every direction. Mrs. Larkins | and her daughter, who were alone in | the residence, were stunned by the | shock. The Covina Valley Meat Market, two | blocks to the north of the Larkins | house and in the very center of the business section of the town, was next struck. The lightning melted the tele- | phone and electric wires, burned out a | transformer, twirled the steel cleaver out of the hands of a butcher named Monroe, who was working at the block, |and fired the woodwork just above the CALIFORNIA [ROOSEVELT doors. By the quick application of a few bucketfuls of water a serious con- flagration was averted. The next flash struck the substation of the Pacific Light and Power Com- pany, near the Southern Pacific depot, setting fire to the transformers, which are a total loss. The fire burned flercely for several hours. This leaves the city in total darkness to-night and until such time as the transformers can be replaced. The loss to the company will amount to $12,000. A barn on the Winkler ranch was struck and George Jeffrey, who was feeding the horses, was stunned by the shock. Damage was also done to the local telephone system. Steady rain fell all this afternoon. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22.—An un- expected rainstorm coming from San Bernardino to the coast and spreading out like a fan traversed the valleys of this and Ventura and Orange counties this afternoon, the precipitation in many places being three-fourths of an inch. In the mountains the rainfall was much heavier, in places amount- ing to two inches or more. Only at Covina is any serious damage report- ed. Hay in places was damaged, but the loss will not be serious. This is the second heavy summer storm with- in two weeks, but this time it was un- accompanied by a high wind. BAKERSFIELD, Aug. 2 -A heavy cloudburst in the Tehachapi Moun- tains at 3:30 this afternoon has result- ed in a complete tieup of traffic on both the Santa Fe and Southern Pa- cific south of Bakersfleld. Two hun- dred feet of track is washed out two miles north of the town of Tehachapi and tunnel No. 12 is completely block- ed with earth and gravel. A water tank has also been washed away. The Santa Fe limited, westbound: the Southern Pacific overland, west- ! bound, and the Owl from Los Angeles are stopped, while the Southern Pa- cific, eastbound, and the Owl, south- | bound, will be held at Bakersfield. Trafic will not be resumed until to- morrow. —_—————————— Killed in Mine Explosion. WALLACE, Idaho, Aug. 22.—In an explosion at the Morning mine at Mul- lan, Idaho, this afternoon Z. Carter, a miner, was killed and three other miners injured. Of the latter D. Carter, a brother of the dead man, is fatally wounded. The cause of the ex- plosion is unknown. —_————— Many Register for Claims. GRAND FORKS, N. D, Aug. 22— Fifteen thousand and seventy-six per- sons have registered for claims on the Fort Totten Indian reservation. The drawing will begin Wednesday morn- ing at 9 o'clock,