The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 29, 1904, Page 1

for thirty Cloudy Monday; wind. TEE WEATHER. cost made at midnight, August 29: Sea Prancisco and vicinity— G. H. WILLSON, Local Forecaster. San Fran- bours ending fresh west | Alcasar— matnan male.” | California—“Tess of the D'Ur- | hervilles.” | Ceatral—*The First Bomn.” Columbia—*Candida.” | Pischer's—“Anheuser Pusa.” Grand—“Under Two Flags.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Tivoli—"“The Toreadcr.” RUSSIANS RETIRE TO LIAOYANG INTRENCHMENTS WITH JAPANESE CLOSELY PRESSING THE PURSUIT LIAOYANG. Manchuria, August 28.---An artillery-battle has been in progress since 8 o'clock this morning on the southern and south- eastern fronts. General Kuropatkin is withdrawing his forces to the inner line of his defenses, and the Japanese are closely pressing the S pursuit. ext BOLD TRAMP N A5 WRECKER Piles Wheat on Santa. | Fe Tracks Near Madera. SRS s Plan Is Foiled by Timely Arrival of a Citizen With Pistol. ——e I nous Deed to Get Even on Trzinmen Who Put Him T d train stopped at let a man named The train- 1 the blind One of the R. Beltzer. T tr to warehouse in three the plat- 3 rom Fresno to n, Boling, and finding him n on a pile of sacks, the deed of the blood- came along, and, a party piling The fel yvered y went to zer, who and who COWBOYS IN NEW MEXIO FIGHT DESPERATE BATTLE Constable at “louguerque Is Killed, and Several Cattlemen Are Wounded. A\LBUQUERQUE, N. M wounded foreman of the tfit, Dia- | in an effort to| influence several of his cowboys to re- | turn to the ranch. became involved in | h one of them. he: iteh, | the cowbo! hom Nunn bbed Nunn's had laid Nunn was hich the began shooting. i Rodriguez, JONDON STOCK EXCHAN RICOVERS FROM DIEPRE ION Yromicr Balfowr's Statement Regard- | Activity of Russian Stezmship | smolensk Has Good Effect. { eek, pated by the r e Russian volunte Smolensk, ow et | the markets re-| ed on tk tement that Pre-| Balfour e to a_deputation iting the London Chamber of | merce on the subject. Business, | vever, continued to be very re-| stricted. icans continued to b active, but had a fluctuating ten- | losely following the move- | of Wall street. Colorado Woman Ruptures a Blood | strangle to death a few hours later. URUGUAY INCURS OLDEIELD'S ARGENTINA'S IRE 3 i | | | AUTONOBILE A Tragic ecident Mars St. Louis Conest —_——— - Sends His Machine i Through Fence. | —_—— |Champion Scorcher Loses Control of | Car Which Deals Dasth to Onlookers ‘ and Iojuries to Himself i e | | | ST. LOUIS, Aug. Blinded by dust i |from the machine of A. C. Webb of ' | Toledo, Ohio, B: ey Oldfield lost con- trel of his machine at the World's Fair | automobile speed contest to-day and | crashed through the outer fence of the | course, killed John Scott, a watchman | emploved at the park, and inflicted in- | juries uppn Nathan Montgomery, a ne- Ero, from which hy died.. Oldfield was painfully injured and his machine com- | pletely demolished. | The accident occurred after a false start. 'The flagman va | |to signal Oldfield and Webb, who were | | leading, that the start was not allow- | |ed, but they did not see his flag and ntinued around the course at a high | | rate of speed. | | Shortly after passing the first turn | |of the mile track, Webb secured the | |lead by a narrow margin and the men LBESIDEN T blinded Oldfield /7. were in relatively the same position ST OE N ‘ | when passing the three-quarters pole. QUZN T ENA. \ 3 | | in making the turn Webb's machine . | | skidded and raised a blinding cloud of dust that completely o e e e e e 7. —% |and half smothered him. 5 OF AR- | Not being able to see that he had D IN WAR completed the turn, Oldfield continued LUTIONARY course and crashed through the Tence. When Oldfield failed to appear fter Webb had emerged from the dust cloud there was considerable ex- iternent, but it was soon announced that he was not seriously injured. The race was run later and won by Webb by a large margin. It was the | most important event of the day, the | prize being the Louisiana Purchase H | his One Republic’s Invasion of Another’ Territory May Lead to War. N BUENOS AYRES, Aug. 28.—A great|tina and Uruguay have become much | Exposition trophy, valued at $500. sensation has been created here owing |strained owing to this incident. In a three-mile exhibition Oldfield to the surprising by troops of the ';‘“-i T v*__‘ 4 % made the distance in 3:15 2-5. ernment of Uruguay of a Uruguayan | ARAGUAY REBELS ACTIVE. £ s POy insurrectionary force numbering 180 | BAKER; (KLY SAUOQON MEN BUENOS Paraguayan AYRES. Aug. 23. — The | revolytionary vessels are | i men, fully armed and equipped, under CLOSE UP THEIR PLACES Colonel Pampillon, on a steamship on ST - o " ¥ extremely active. They are carrylng |For the First Time in Fifty Years :hre ‘Il,rruxuayan coast, but in Argentine | men, horses and arms and are search. Thirsty Citizens Are Unable to erritory. | ing all passenger boa =+ 56 & Drink b President Ordenez ‘ruguay had| Argentine warship yvesterday ey [e} BAKER CITY, liquor Not a been warned that preparations were any of being made for an insurrectionary ex- threatened to fire on the revolutionary | squadron if it intercepted vessels fly- | rink of by s pedition, and dispatched two forces Ing the flag of the Argentine republic, | the saloons of Baker City to-day. Ap- with armed vessels to watch for the ——— parently of their own, free will the | expedition. At night the Government| Pery May Be Spared‘a Rew | saloon men to-day decided to obey the troops attacked the insurrectionists rr:m o A" o Revolutlon. | 425 closing law and closed their with a continuous and merciless fire. AIMA, Peru. Aug. 28. — Jose Pardo, | places without further notices from Many of the latter swam ashore, but | WO Was elected President of Peru in | the Sheriff. Baker City was founded fifty years ago eight, badly wounded, © The fate of the others The insurrectiona el was cap- tured and with it a considerable quan- tity of telegraph apparatus. Diplomatic relations between Argen-| June last, will be inaugurated on Sep- tember 24. Excitement over the polit- ical situation in. Peru is lessening. Furlmfr President Pieriola, Dr. Durand and the people are oppose evo- | i Tation T Dropte are opposed to a revo- | Sy AT [Brown, who is now in"his | secona term, recently decided to en- — % | force the Sunday closing law. He was | told that it was impossible to do so, but nevertheless the results he sought POST ON HUDSON BAY | have been accomplished. : s : 6 il | jo I S R Owner’s Failure to Screw on the Stop- 1 Canadian Government Will Charter SHOOTS STEPDAUGHTER per to the Kerosene Tank | Sealing Steamship Erik to Carry | AND HER SWEETHEART Causes Disaster. | Coal, Provisions and Material. H 2 W YORK, Aug. 28.—Three per-| § JOHNS, Newfoundland, Aug, |Jeslous Chicago Parent Kills Himself probably will die as the result of | 25.—The Canadian Government pro- | After Attempting Two ere captured. not known. -day and to-day is the first day ever been dry. All the saloons, nd shops were locked up to the amazement of the tow to FRANKFURTER BOILER'S WILL ESTABLISH o) EXPLOSION DEALS I)EAT‘H! POLICE plosion to-day in the apartment pcses to charter the sealing steamship | S enweig in a tenement in | to proceed to Hudson Bay again | CHICAGO, Aug. 28.—Jealous he- treet. ’I_hPy are: _P.r\ enweig’s | with coal, provisions and outfitting | ca of the attentions paid to I 1‘“"”"""’"?“1".’,”" nd hl; material, accompanying the Dominion | stepdaughter by her sweetheart, Lo- vld bab, ‘he ex}!lv £10M | steamship Arctic, formerly the Ger- renz Lentsch attempted to kill both and & small fire that followed created @ | man steamshin Gauss. The Erik will | with a revolver and then ended his panic in the tenement. 5 take detachments of the North- f ] Rosenweig, who is « frankfurter ped- | west mounted police, landing thom at ! 20 yvears old, the dier, had filied the tank of his frank- | Centers, where 1t is intended to ootar. hot in the furter boiler with the wick, it is believe ing on the stopper. —_————— LAUGHS HERSELI' TO DE OVER JOKE TOLD BY ne and lighted without screw- lish police posts. The Erik will be absent about two months. she sat at a piano, while her sweet- 3 Edward Moeller, was shot in the thigh as he stood beside her. © The girl probably will die. Moo ler’'s condition is not serious. —e—— | KILLS BROTHER-IN-LAW AND WOUNDS SISTER | ————————— | FINLAND'S PARLIAMENT IS SUMMONED BY CZAR | TH "RIEND | Tmperial Decree 1s Issued Calling for an Ordinary Session at Hel- singfors on December 6. £T. PETERSBURG, Aug. 28.—An im- perial decres has been issued summon- | Vessel and Is Strangled to Death. LIDA, Colo., Aug. Newark Murderer ¥Flees Meadow and Is Believed to —-Mrs. Mary | aged 27, a widow Lead- | ve Perished. S LA e mf“me Fejacam: of I;;m"d 0. Tt Hik \:EWAR}?.\:L J ”f:g 28.—Nunzi s 5~ Bite At o B} ordinary session at Helsingfors on De-| ., 2 e ehns ol g SR (llfplp;l;ghilrx!g 3 )::V ity, as the result| (o por’s” Under the same docres the | Marino was shot .and killed here to- next meeting of the Finnish Diet will| ooy, fue brotherin ok, Guiseppe pRicS A ! no, perhaps fatally. . Marmanno, in his The Finnish charter provides for g | SOTts, to elude a crowd of pursuers, natlonal parliament, conslsting of four | e 'of “the. city. where. tha suit. auil estates, the Nobles, the Clergy, {the creq by four feet of water, is in many Burghers and the Peasants. The Es-|places ten feet.deep and. more yield- tates are convoked by the Emperor of | ing than quicksand. It is believed he Russia, who is Grand Duke of Finland. | perished. A friend who w: dining with Mrs. Ellis was-telling a joke when her host- . who was in the act of swallowing a spoonful of mush and milk, began laughing. The mush became lodged in her throat and in her efforts to cough it up Mrs. Ellis burst a blood vessel in her left lung, causing her to ere and at once. The Russian position is st Blinded by Dust, Driver| inly attempted i back lo the Salt | All of the Russian advanced positions have been abandoned. General Kuropatkin's concentration of his forces by lessening. the ent of his front means that he has elected to havea the decisive battle occur h . fo———— - ikl TENDEREO - NAID FAILS S ROBBER New Yok Girl’s Joke Nearly a Tragg_dy. Alice Pulsi_p_per Holds Up Crowded Yellowstone Stage Coach. rongly intrenched. &1 | } Cries ““Halt” Bravely, but Drops Her || Battery and Screams When Driver I Aims Pistol at Her Head. Special Dispatch The Call POCATELLO, Idaho, Aug. 2. iss | | | | Alice Pulsipper, daughter of F: K. Pui- sipper of New York, undertook to held ! | up the Monia-Yellowstone stage for a lark a few days agoe, and narrowly es- caped being shot in the attempt. The | Pulsipper family have been occupying | a cottage at Grayling Inn, just outside the Yeliowstone Park, during the sum- {m - | It was in response to a dare that Miss | Pulsipper decided to held up the stag She dressed herself in men's clothing, with boots, sombrero and leather | | sings. Mounting a horse and adding | | two big revolvers to her equipment, she stationed herself at a turn of the road, where she was concealed by timber and thick undergrowth. I(itrobafl&n’s A | vanced Posts | Abandoned. leg- | leg Just before dusk the stage. filled with e Eastern tourists, came along. Miss Pul- | LIAOYANG, Aug. 2.—The Russian| | | sipper rode her horse intq the middle forces have been disappointed by | | of the road and pointing both pistols at the driver commandeg him to halt. | Bill Ripley, the driver, is a grizalg old | frontiersman, famous as an INdian | fighter in early days. Without a word | he drew his own revolver, leveled it at the figure in front of him and was in | the act of firing when Miss Pulsipper, | another unexpected withdrawal. The whole eastern division and the troops | on the Anshanshan position have been | ordered to fall back tc positions nearer | Liaoyang, just as the soldiers were | pecting another advance. The Jap: | CAPTAIN OKADA.. INTERPRETER. ese are not following the Russians. | WHO DOLES OUT WAR NEWS | with a w shriek, dropped both weap- | The uvdvamw tro!n the south is ap-| | TO' CORRESPONDENTS. | ons and ged him not to fire. Ripley | parently being pushed home. Sounds | g—— | lowered his gun just in time to prevent | of artillery from' that direction - are | he Naiiet Steming the Wesmen's Sody. plainer than they were yesterday. The Chinese at Liaoyang are bring- | ing out women and children, which | they usually do when expecting a Jap- | | anese advance. | The Russians have sustained a hot| | artillery fight all of August 26 on the | eastern front, ‘but held all their posi- | tlons. The understanding was that the | Russians would ‘concentrate heavily {the followIng morning for an attack | of the Japanese in that direction and | | the surptise great, therefore, at | the order to retire. The explanation' iIs given that the Tenth ‘Corps, especially General Her- | schelmann’s ' division con the extreme was confronted by a greatly su- | . Though the Russians fought bravely and held all their positions, they had lost an im- i o iy | As Miss Pulsipper tearfully explained War Bulleting. | e e e v | sengers, badly frightened only a meo- . | ment before, laughed long and loud. LONDON, Aug. 29.—The fihanzhal; Ripley did not take a humorous view correspondent of the Times says that | of it, but in solémn tones warned the the disarming of the Russian oml«-ri young woman of the danger she ran by Askold and the torpedo-boat destroyer | Playing jokes with guns in the Western ; <gEa pgicrk gy P | mountains. After delivering his lecture Grozovoi will begin vm day (Menday). he permitted her to return in confusion — e ag A to the cottage at Graylings. TIENTSIN, Aug. 28.—Reports just | "y g the third time this season that arrived represent the Japanese as hav- | gir) visitors to the park have essayed | ing reached a point within 1200 yards | to emulate Dick Turpin. As a danger- of the new town at Port Arthur, om ous recreation this latest fad makes | the west side, and as being within a | automobile racing seem tame, and com- mile of the east dock basin on the | Pared with it looping the loop is sport enst side. Strong reinforcements, it is | (0T babes and octogenarians. Through gredat good luck nothing of tragedy has suid, arc hurrying up from D"'“"b‘:)“‘: i ;w-ndu:i nn; of zhe‘ altemixs.y but mense number of officers. Probably leaving reserves at strong efforts are being made to dis- | the retirement from the Anshanshan {places. ° | courage future operations, as many of | position arose frem the same reascn. s oo ' | the drivers here have the Western habit The whole mountain division, as well TOKIO, Aug. 28.—Unofficial reports of shooting first and leaving investiga- state that since the explosion of theis magazine at the foot of Giaoti Hill the Russlans in Port Arthur appear to be destitute of smokeless powder. [ — ions for the Coroner. TAKE:! : MM OF MANEUVER CAMPS !as the eastern troons, retired apparent- | ly not because of the pressure of . the Japanese, but for strategic reasons. | The'rains had made ‘a thick and | inding mud, which almost paralyzed | wagon transportation and made the w e movement of guns even more difficult. | shells, from a concealed battery in the | Automobiles to Be Used to Lay the Though the Japanese witnessed the | vicinity of Pacshankan, began ' falling | Ground Wires for Fleld Work | slow retirement of the eastern division | in the road west of Kaofengshik, lead- at Manassas. they made 1o uttempt™to follow the |ing to Lizoyang, thus threatening to| HEADQUARTERS CAMP, GAINES- Ruaslans, being apparently exhausted | sever communication to the west. The | yyr & Va. Aug. *S.—Major General { by the duel of August 24 and | still controlled the road to prh barcnra sk =y | corBIN | the desperate ahd unsuccessful all | H. C. Corbin assumed command of the | attack of August Japanese fire ceased jn the even- | maneuver camps at Manassas, Thor- | To-day the sou !inz but commenced again this morn- | oughfare ard Ga ville to-day. Later ing upon the Kacfengshik position, but | Russians did not repiy the Jap- | apparently suspended their oper- | while the Rus- | was heard pl more to the sout east. The Japanese seem to be a Mng along the entire front nar- General F. D. Grant, in co division No. 1 at Manassas, J. F. Bell, in command of divisien ularly moving with a large force up | to a more favorable | 2 at Thoroughfare, as well as all ! the valley of the Liao River. ! position. 2 | brigadier commanders from the two | T | The gradual withdrawal of the Rus- | "fl_;r)v ‘a"edltu p«;’ their re EXPECTED A BATTLE. | sians before the Japanese advance the he strength of the two main camys | S | Russians consider as increasing the | at present In B0 Mt During . U > s o 5 1. v of their position, as it is freely | cOming weel h! orce wil 2 OeCu- | Russian Trooy 3. Surprised at the Or \dged that the Japanese are |Dpied with drills and practice work. The | der to Retreat. i them in detail in the | main thing tc be accomplished in this | LIAOYANG, Aug. The Russians generally | time is the laying out of the two camps | retired from Anshan ty and valor of the Jap- | in skeleton form for the reception of the larger of regular army T o There is still heavy firing in the di- | troops and itia to arrive next all ‘d‘ s d{ rection of Anshanshan Saturday and Sunday : o S, AR Tty | The Signal Corps has completed its - " T | work of connecting each camp and MIKADO TAKES GOLD FIELDS. |yeadquarters by telegraph and tele- {after a fight w | morning of August 26 yin a desultory manner | night. | tate mi Arrangements for a batile had been night time, when the completed by | was received with disappointment by | the troops. The retirement was made 1in an orderly manner. The plain between Anshanshan and Halcheng was covered with Japanese i troops, who burned the bridge and shelled the railway station after the Russian retirement. The Russian losses amount to 300. The Japanese are advancing with great rapidity. They are now within three miles of Liaoyang. At 3:30 o'clock yesterday Japanese {order was siven to retire, on account! TOKIO, Aug. 28.—Following an tn- | Phole; T% Z\ngri‘;’:;‘:;7d;‘:'r\';?:b|!:; in the situation to the easts The order | spection made by Government engi- : to lay ground wire for field wor neers, the Government has issued a [, To-night rocket signaling between proclamation making complete reser® headquarters camp and the Manass: on to itself of the gold fields re- | camp, nine miles away, was carried cently discovered in the province of | Suecessfully. Iwate. The engineers estimate these f Craiser Visits Spanish Part. fields will yield gold to the value of §500,000,000 and they are now pre-| LONDON, Aug. 28.—A dispatch to Jloyd's from Vigo, Spain, says that paring to start mining operations. T is estimated that the annual yield of | tne Russian auxiliary cruiser Don, for- merly the German steamship. Fuerst the mines will be $15,000,000. P Bismarck, has put into that pest for ‘water. War News Continued on Page 2.