The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 7, 1904, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1904. CONSTANT FIGHTING ATTENDS RUSSIAN RETREAT! LATEST WAR BQOW;’\ ARMIES | Gi" IE ‘*‘HE SL AV LONDON, Sept. 7.—The Chronicle” iy | araph last night, says Dain that more than haif of them | that they succumb rapidiy. LONDON, Sept. 7.—The Daily cabling under date of September 6, say on Tiehling and are avoiding Mukden. | rived here to-day with troops. which imy | The Russians have been partly inlerl:('nl FOE NO REST, Ku Ffipc“‘ n's Rear Guard luckily Holds Back he Pursuers. t —_— ain Force Believed to ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. the Fourth, Ei, reach the front and that before the end been T—It is ST. PETERSBURG,. Sept. 7. | Baltic fleet will not be able to sail bef ery of considerable defects in some of {went their trial trips. BULLETINS Chefu, tele- s correspondent at that 10,000 Japanese sick or wounded are at are suffering from beri-beri, and Mail's Newchwang correspondent, “The Russians are relying mainly Eight Japanese transports ar- mediately took train for Liaoyan; ed between Liaoyang and Mukden. stated that by the end of October ith and Thirteenth army corps, totaling 192,000 men, wiil d of September 1100 guns will have patched to General Kuropatkin. —According to an unconfirmed report the ore November, owing to the discov- the vessels, which recently under- Be Extricated From Critical Position. Ui The war situation, in the light of med up as follow Iy impeded by heavy roads and floods, — e in danger of being surrounded is ihe surely of the the Russians burned all the railroad bri ports that the tinues and Chinese arriving at Chefn zeneral land and sea attack to-day. being effected. Japanese losses are heavy. the latest information, may be sum- The Russian forces are pushing on to Mukden, great- conducting an orderily retreat and i followed step by step by the Japanese. Details of the fighting and of the eXact position of the opposing armies are lacking. patkin’s rear guard has been annihilated and that the Russian forces The report that Ku- denied by the Russian general staff. Itussian War Ofiice is entirely confident that the retreat is slowly but From Tokio comes the official report that the bulk Russian force is still at Yentai. Field Marshal Oyama says that idges over the Taitse River and re- The attack on Port Arthur con- say the Russian garrison expects a -3 railroad and Taitse River. The report says that the exact num- other bridges over the A MUKDEN, Sept. 6.—The following essage describing the earlier events s the Japanese attack on General southwest of Liao- 0 was written on the Kiriloff, the war r to Mukden for | fore he was snmi i corre- | Liaoyang | . ‘The | i forming a s 3 e dotted and w th jets of flame > clouds. The ly visible from the Liaoyang. The Ru > was not engaged. »ck the correspondent rode | center, where the Jap- | centrating in an at- through, and climbed ng heights, following a | detachment sent to relieve the skirm- - ishers who had been covering the bat- — ) tery commanded by Pokotiloff, one of | " the heroes of Kiuleincheng. The Jap- | anese, according to custom, were ssag shelling places where they believed 2 erves were located. Be- sondent could. reach had tQ cross a danger | vards, projectiles falling | ursting on it until the very| nd seemed to quiver with wrath. TOUCHING BATTLEFIELD SCENE. There was a touching scene when irmishers were reached. A Rus- soldier met a brother t seen in their nat village. There wer ‘ous greetings and a whom he e ber of Japanese ses since August is not Kk sent, but that cas ualty I being compiled. The field ma will prove heavy. The report | number of guns taken, but it is known that een guns were captured at | Anping and Anshanshan, and earlier | reports mentioned the capture and use against the railroad station at yang of certain ten centimeter Canet guns. Field Marshal Oyama says i that, in spite of continuous for ten days agalnst an oc- cupying semi-permanent fortifications, and the heavy resultant sacrifice, lhe spirit of devotion ¢and determination of the Japanese troops is excellent. General Kuropatkin, according the report, continued to receive inforcemer final strength consisted twelve full divisio The losses sus < are also enemy to re- of at least (180,000 men). ned by the Rus- sians are not known to the Japanese ! field .ox:fi General Kuroki encountered des- perate opposition in the battle on the heights to the west of where he fought continuously and flercely for four davs before he suc- ceeded in dislodging the Russians. It is manifest that the stubbornness | of the Ru n defense at Heiyingtal saved the Russian line of retreat and averted an overwhelming disaster. — quick exchange of news from home. en each went his way and settled | to the work of firing, coolly and | - . The Japanese fire was | e - e c. Their bullets sang like | : r o s they sped overhead and the | . s cracked jokes about it. AR L wo hours later the correspondent | FIGHTING IS CONSTANT. | rezched the battery and found that and another officer, Cos- Japanese Closely Press the Pursuit of N Out & sty iers forty were killed or wounded. Kuropatkin's Arm) B2 TROOPS FIRE UPON LAUNCHES. Saghalien Garrison Causes Japanese Seamen to Retreat. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 6.—The Emperor has received the following | dispatch from Lieutenant General Liapounoff, military governor of the| Island of Saghalien, dated September | wn when and this sapprehen . will 14 these heav . . rming nights SOLDIER FINISHES MESSAGE. ‘;‘r";‘\de:r:”)rhT‘]r::s:?n:::rm:‘?;f“ ? failures, we Bave| Kere the message ended. The officer | Gonerat Kuroki back Cat. Tissns - : "n,;l the | who - forward Kirlloff's last dis- | while their main army is proceeding re ores of = ‘ | north. & lhd 0 ff, who was an enth . s individual, | his work, had gained univer; | RUSSIA YIELDS ON CON - late by wire. | and sympathy. was shot throug }Kl SEIA YIELDS ON CONTRABAND, @ed, but in es. :J:':Hrrfh'a : s’i‘;‘n:;, D {Will Make Concessions to America he roadside and | tense agony, the biood spurting from | and Great Britain. . to the his mouth. Yet his devotion to duty | LONDON, Sept. 6.—The prelim- ng. GENERAL ATTACK TO-DAY. Port Arthur Expects Heavy Onslaught ; by Land and Sea. CHEFU, Sept. 6.—F Arthur was heard here to- ght. Two Chinese interpreters, belonging to the iel household of Lieutenant Gen- commander of the mili- at Port Arthur, have been n and Pa- executed by the arrived here to-day declare that the expects ack on September ere dismounted. e | ship carrying has resulted 2 of the price of flour ADV FR'] l“l‘_MEY\T& PEPSIA yonr wonlerfnl “Casearets™ for OYS Best for The Bowels Pleasant. Paiatabie. r Sieke 2 balk. up, | we | g at Port| a general| to Port Ar-; - ' Yentai colleries indicate a strong pos- Liao- | attacks | s until August 13, and his | | transport trains. Mortally Wounded Correspondent Rides for Hours | to File Graphic Story of the Battle. | tai. | kin’s army. | guard action. hal predicts that the losses | does not mention the | | | e 6: “Two of the enemy’s ships this | . pxu.n Tarasoff was in ¢ harge of the | evening approached Korsakovsk. | His rf\dlh d | They stopped four miles from shore and sent launches toward the sunken cruiser Novik. Our troops opened fire, whereupon the launches returned to | their ships.” failure of each- Main Army Retreats. ficers had not eaten | nce the previous day and | YENTAI Monday, Sept. 5.—Ther: € _rum(j-;n}: zhadnd’fl’\:.nh fl’ltn’;-‘vas heavy fighting northeast of this what provisions he ha te taste of lace to-da h E { £o 1 them to realize the inten- |7 The 'Jkpensse: - (Foupe d caus y their hunger. = correspondent but he was fascinated.” |are now pressing northward along the ridges east of the railway and several | skirmishes have already taken place Prudence urged leave the spot, to ¢nabled him to overcome his sufferings. | inary representations ma . He insisted upon being placed on a | pon sy ocbr e o de by Count Benckendorff, the Russian Embassa- horse so that he could get to Liaoyang | B and file his dispatch. It took fiy ",,._”s‘dor, to the Foreign Office indicate to cover the five and a half miles to |that Russia is on the point of mak- When he reached there|iN8 substantial concessions to the | United States and Great Britain re- exhausted and weak | - from loss of blood that we got him into | 82rding the question of contraband of | war. the hospital, although against his pro- test. He asked me to complete his message for him. I am a soldier and no writer, but I | say that after the awful fight to- day we are still holding our positions. Japanese bodies bestrew all the heights. Their losses must run into the tens of thousands. We have lost G000 thus far. A shrapnel shell burst two paces from General Stakelberg (who remained for fifteen hours under fire), killing two officers. The general was slightly wounded in the leg.” B8 R OYAMA REPORTS BATTLE. T e L Twenty Batteries for the Front. WARSAW, Russian Poland, Sept. 6. Twenty quick firing batterles which the Emperor expected to inspect this week have been hastily placed on trains and have left for the Far East. e - i Japan Imposing War Duty. TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 6.—Shippers have been notified that effective Octo- ber 1 a war duty of 10 cents per sack will be taxed on flour entering Japan- esc ports, | g \rvng‘ of death, with k2 > messengers hurtling all aroupd FIGHTING NEAR YENTAL Rus: 1 gunner stood - 1 utterly without heeding the " x nger to which he was exposed. Russians Hold Kuroki Back While | | come. | | what it terms St. e | KUROPATKIN'S FLIGHT NOT TO END AT MUKDEN —— Commissariat Arrives at Town and Continues Northward. _— Retreat Is Carried Out in Good Order Despite Difficulties. B — MUKDEN, Sept. 6.—The commissar- iat and columns of artillery are arriv- ing here and proceeding northward. General Kuropatkin's army is engaged in an extensive rear guard action. The retreat of General Kuropatkin's army is being carried out in good or- der, despite the terrible condition of the roads, rendered sodden by the ralns which fell yesterday and to-day, which mire the lumbering guns and heavy Long lines of com- missariat wagons, drawn by steaming mules, horses and even bullocks, are straining their way north over the soaking, cut-up main road:from Yen artillery and back of them Kuropat- o Kuropatkin’s flanks, keeping Russians engaged in a continuous rear The progress of the re- treating army has been slow, owing to the necessity of first getting through the baggage and guns, but the heads of the commissariat trains already have| passed through Mukden and are con: tinuing their way toward the north. The main Japanese army is marching up along the roads eastward of Russian lines of retreat, which con- verge at Mukden. Another - Japanese force is heading for Mukden from the westward, coming from the direction of Liao River. Marshal Oyama seems to be making a race for Mukden. He has great su- periority in numbers, especially in ar- tillery. As this dispatch was filed' the cor- respondent could hear the booming of the Japanese cannon, which are in play Numbers Masterly Achievement. LONDON, Sept. 7.—English opinion regarding the situation in the Far East is not much influenced by General Ku- ropatkin’'s reassuring dispatches. Al- most all of the difficulties of the retreat ! reported in the Jatest dispatches have been foreseen by the English military | observers and indeed the Russian con- | { fidence following so closely the period of what was regarded here as exagger- ated depression, combined with com- plete Japanese silence regarding the pursuit, leads the Daily Graphic to be- | lieve that the Japanese generals “‘have not yet given up all hopes of inflict- ing a (ru*hlng blow on the Russian main army. The Daily Mail's Mukden correspond- ent, wiring under date of September 5, appears impartially to sum up the situ- Behind them come long trains of | The Japanese are hanging | the | the | ADVERTISEMENTS. California Soyvenir Cups Free With any purchase of $3.00 or over we give free a beautiful California Souvenir cup These cups were made in Carlsbad, Austria, of a fine quality porcelain. The pictures here shown are one-third size. Each cup contains three views—New Cliff House, Mariposa Big Tree “Wawona” and the Golden Gate from Fort Point. Should you require anything in men’s or boys’ clothing, furnishings or hats, make your purchasé here. You will get reliable goods at the lowest possible prices and a souvenir cup free, which is worth one dollar. SN'WO00D 5(0 740 Market Street and Corner Powell and Eddy Strects CUPID AT WORK [TELLS POLICE - IN A HOSPITAL OF HIS CRIME Meets Relief Expedition. HAMMERFEST, Norway, Sept. 6.— The Norwegian steamship Vircola, which has arrived here, reports that |she met the Zeigler relief expedition fourteen miles from Mukden. The | | steamship Frithjof on August 27 in skies are black and the air is stifling | Hamude 79 north and longitude 52 with the sease of suffocation, which is st. e Frithjof up to that time had felt here before a storm breaks—| ‘;eaerh unable te reach Franz Josef trange I r bet the. el ts | Q . . e n | 2na the menacing attitude of ihe con: | Sl Bernardino Stableman | White and ‘.\egro g 1] 111 ] et ST SRR R s A | Elopes With a Helpless| Dead in Streets of East St. ADVERTISEMENTS. o, i 2 | . x | - g - | 3 BRITONS PRAISE KUROPATKIN. | Tpnyalid From Infirmary| Louis Killed by Barkeeper! Regard His Escape From Superior ciSag s PSS S EAST ST. LOUIS, Sept. 6.—According | to statements made to-night to Chief | of Police Purdy by Louis Kane, for-| merly a barkeeper in the Yellow Dog | | SAN BERNARDINO, Sept. 6.—One of | !the most sensational elopements on | \record in this part of the State was| | that of Roscoe Humphries, a local sta- | bleman, with Mrs. M. E. Carter, which | tcok place Sunday and has jun come Saloon, the latter is guilty of having killed the two men found dead under to light. mysterfous circumstances near Black | For the past six years Mrs. Carter, , who is 32 years of age, has been an in- mate of the County Hospital, a help-| {less invalid. Her sole means of moving about was a creaky wheel chair. Some ‘t\\o years ago Humphries was a nurse at the hospital and there he fell vio-| | lently in love with the invalid, who is| !a remarkably pretty woman in -phe\ of her infirmity. ’ Nothing was thought of the attach- ment by the other nurses until Sun- day, when Humphries went to the hos- Bridge last night. Kane, in his statement, says that his | reason for killing Reynolds, a white | man, and Green, a negro, was that they | were strike breakers. He told Chief | Purdy that he was formerly employed | as a butcher and, although he had sur- | rendered his card, he was a “strong| union man and had used every means | in his power to further the cause of | unionism.” at Cut Prices My work has the individuality of good quality. Try it. Youll pleased. . DEVELOPING: Roll of six, 10c. Roll of twelve, 15c. PRINTING: 3¢ to Sc. Velox finish, ] Solio finish, pital and left the place with Mrs. Car- ter. That was the last seen of them and this evening word was received ation, saying that the relative positions of the opposing forces are about the same as ever. The enemy is advancing from the south and threatening the Russians at the same time from the east, but the decisive battle is still to! and are to be married to-morrow. Mrs. Carter’'s parents live at Cuca- The Standard, which comments upon | Petersburg’'s “attack of nerv. and its not aitogether sur- | prising readiness to believe anything, | however disastrous, thinks that if the; Russians can get to Harbin there will be a long pause in th® war. The same | paper has no doubt that the Japanese will follow their enemy thither, as they | did to Liaoyang, but it does not think HEAVY HOP CROP I\ B that the pursuit can be carried out as | STATE OF WASHINGTO} far as Harbin until after the winter e season. Estimated Output Is 41,500 Bales, a message from the couple. The board of | | directors at the hospital were much perturbed over the matter, but Mrs. Carter has arrived at more than the age of discretion and nothing is to be done in the matter save to send congratulations. “Kuropatkin has won the race,” says Large Increase Over That of the Daily Telegraph, “and saved the | Last Year. greater part of his army by one of ' 3 i the most masterly retreats of military | SBATTLE, Sp-',"' S TFa :ay the history. Few things in the record of | harvest of the Washington hop crop will begin. It is estimated that 10,- 000 pickers will be required. Reports show the condition of the crop gener- ally to be good, though there has been a shrinkage in some localities. mates put the prospective crop at 41,- 500 bales, an increase of 5000 bales Prices are high, war have been finer than the energy | and determination with which the Czar's commander-in-chief prevented | the victors from converting a defeat into a catastrophe, and the result will | have the most far-rcaching influence | upon the whole future of the war. Com- bined with the stolid staying pow of Ivan Ivanovitch, the tact which saved the situation after Liaovang and | again at Yental saved it once more | R AR L A T e at the Hun River and protected the |™ crossing of the bulk of the forces.” | declares that the Japanese triumph At what cost this was aW’JmPll!hEdl from every point of view is one of the and whether the Japanese have been ‘ most extraordinary feats of arms ever “yet wholly thwarted of their prey,” performed by ‘any people and vindi- the Daily Telegraph says will not be | cates the claim of the Japanese to be known for some days; but assuming | regarded as a great power, treating on that Kuropatkin had 190.000 men at | equal terms with the foremost of west- Liaoyang, the paper says, he will be | ern states and counting with the Brit- comparatively fortunate if he leads | ish empire and Russia as one .f the 120,000 men to Tiehling or to Mukden, | and that number will be sufficient to have prospects for the future. Though Kuropatkin's resource meets over last year. stances being known where growers have refused 26% cents a pound. | destinies of Asia. immeadiate | ST e | CHEERING NEWS FOR THE CZAR. l\urnnnlkln Revorts That His Army Japanese Commander Says His Losses ‘Will Be Heavy. ADVERTISEMENTS. with such praise, the Daily Telegraph | Is Out of Danger. ST. PETERSBURG, Sent. 6.—The TOKIO, Sept. 6, 7 p. m.—It is of- ficially announced that a portion of the Russian force remains at Ying- shuissu, south of Yental, where the bulk of the Russian army is as- w sembled. An extended report from Field idar- shal Ovama, the Japanese commander Back to Sound Healih l | Emperor has received the following Idnu-atch from General Kuropatkin, dated September 5: “To-day (Monday) the army is ad- vancing northward. It has extricated itself from the dangerous position in which it was bplaced, being threat- ened by the enemy and having a narrow front. The enemy through- it the day cannonaded the rea: in chief in the field, was received in SPeedY conva.lescence, new ;‘;j;rd. es;ecially its laft flank, but fEbkio 1o day and mefie: pEMis b, h a,nd appetite fol- without much effect. We lost about night. It is largely devoted to a re- view of the fighting which took place between August 24 and September 4. | The announcement that the Rus- {sians will retain possession of the l sibility of a battle there. Yentai is YJre only colliery in Northern Man- churia, and its possession is of vital importance to the Russians in connec- tion with the operations of the rail- ¥ road. Field Marshal Oyama reports that a portion of the Russian troops hold Yingshuissu, south of Yentai, and that General Kuroki's right is in close touch with the Russians. He an- nounces also that the left and center Japanese armies, under the command. respectively, of Generals Oku and Muchang and along the railroad. Genera! Kuropatkin burned all the i = stren, low tgte use of "NHEUSER BUsC WM«W The perfect malt-tonic and flesh- builder. Itis a pre-digested easily retained by the most deli- cate stomach. All Druggists sell it. Prepared only by § Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass’n 100 maen to-day. e RAIDERS AT LAST l-‘Ol:ND British Cruiser Conveys Cnrl Orders to Volunteer Steamships. ZANZIBAR, Island ®of Zanzibar. Sept. 6.—The British cruiser Forte early this morning found the Russian volunteer fleet steamships St. Peters- burg and Srpolensk within the three- ‘mile limit and communicated to them the orders of the Russian Government to desist from_imterference with neu- ! tral shipping. The commanders of _the Russian vessels said they would ! forthwith proceed to Europe. AN I Rear Guard Not Annihilated. food, Nodzu, have haited on the left bank of the Taitse River, and thl(nl“l is his fl.l-uth..-ll. 3 ST. I:meufilg' SQ:L .;_l.ll;:: intention to disnatch a portion of St. Louis' Greatest Sight is ‘Busch Brewery. report was circulatio) them to occupy the heights north of . See it while the Fair. last night of the gnnihilation of Gen- eral Kuropatkin's rear guard was un- true that the couple were at Long Beach| o) poynolds and that the latter made | Esti- | in- | three permanent decisive factors in the | monga and they were unaware of the | Kane says that he then shot Reynolds affair until they heard of it through a l through the heart and hid his body | the bullet penetrating Green's heart. |a revolver wounded his wife. In describing the killing Kane told | Chief Purdy that he and several strik- | ing butchers had had an argument a motion as though to draw a revolver. in the bushes. According to Kane's statement to the police he killed Reynolds at 3 o'clock | in the afternoon. After closing the saloon at 7 o ’'clock at night Kane says | he started to go home and while cross- ing the Black Bridge recognized Green, who was approaching him, as a strike | breaker. Kane says that he hid behind a sup- port of the bridge until Green was within a few feet of him, when he placed his revolver on a ledge and fired, —e— KILLS WIFE AND ATTEMPTS TO SLAY SISTER-IN-LAW Husband Who Had Been Abandoned Because of His Habits Uses Deadly Revolver. ITHACA, N. Y., Sept. 6.—Jesse Ba- ker, aged 23, has shot and killed his young wife. Mrs. Baker, her mother and sister were returning from the fair grounds. While walking a short cut through an orchard Baker sud- denly encountered them and drl'l'lln‘ er mother and sister unsuccessfully at- tempted to take the revolver. After shooting at his sister-in-law he fired again at his wife, killing her instantly. Baker then fled. 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