The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 12, 1904, Page 1

Forecast made cisco for thirty San Francisco west wind. midnight. September 12: Cloudy or foggy Monday; fresh G, . WILLSON, Local Forecaster. | st San Fran- | hours ending l and vicinity— - | Grand—"Princess Fan Tan.” } ls‘j.mg—"h the Palace of the ing.’ Orpheum—Vaudeville. Tivoli—*The Toreador.”. ” SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1904 BRIGANDS 0 ACROSS | |, BORDER TrainRobbersEscape! Inio the United States, Hot on- the Trail of n Pacific Aip uld Highw Tap the Wires and Send Message as a Part THE WIRES. s district ARBITRATION 1= AWARD AGAINST THE UNION the Republic Steel Com- pany Must Submit to a Waze Reduction. L A Sept. 11L—Victory for the e of the con- the wage mploves A v and its 20,000 skill- iblic Company » a reduction in in pay will be rkers will suffer award was . -night session. —_———— “BLACK HANDS” WRECK NEW YORK BARBER SHOP Carry Out TH Against Life of | Man Who Ignored a Dem- | mand for Money. NEW YORK, S The barber | risop of Joser on Third ave. | wag wrecked by an explosion just | grorning and twen- | ving in the house were into a panie, during which sev- tenants were hurt. ago Stravelll received a with a crudely drawn * in which he was order- ed to deposit $500 between two stones et First avenue and Thirty-eighth street letter closed by saying: “If you do not leave the money you teke care of yourself.” i RUSSIAN CRUISER LENA REACHES SAN FRANCISCO, SURPRISING THE WORLD s ATMING RAPID FIRE U 3 WL ) WEITING - W 77 N A AR \ 3\ QNN \ 7‘ 4 & [#% S WRR 7 st } 0 | | | ®m ¢ SHIP OF WAR WHICH SURPRISED UNCLE SAM'S PORT QFFICIALS AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES' YESTERDAY TEAMING INTO THIS HARBOR WITH PHOTOGRAPHS OF HER OFFICERS; REAR ADMIRAL OF UM AVY IN COMMAND AT YERBA BUENA TRAINING STATlOt\'lT bl St o it ey e This Harbor for Urgently Needed Repairs. The unexpected appearance of the | ecver, when news of her rriendly salut- Ru an cruiser Lena in San Francisco about noon yesterday excited un- 1 interest and gave rise to many questions of international law. As soon as the news of the Lena's arrival became generally known the event was the one topic of conversa- ticn. There were many guesses as to her mission and many fears of diplo- matic complications between Russia | and the United States. | The big slate colored vessel steamed into the harbor with twenty-three slen- der looking rifles looking over her rails, | \‘the blue cross of St. Andrew on her | white flag waving ominously from its | staff. She stol® slowly out of the thin fog that hung over the Golden Gate, her huge hull looming over the water, and came to a standstill as her anchor went down on the bay bottom off | Meiges whart. That fleg is the war standard of holy Russia and those guns are a part of the Viadivostok raiding batteries. Many cases of freight along the wharves are shrinking into the darkest corners of the sheds and the exultant “banzais” arc hushed in Prospect place. It was a surprise that a Russian crulser slipped to the northward of Kamimura, carrijed away from the danger zone and foynd a safe berth in San Francisco’s open port. Her ap- was the signal for all kinds of speculations in’' the public mind. There was general good: feeling, how- ing of the Amebican fleet became known, and when her captain visited the New York, -the Marblehead, the Bennington and the Boston, a klndly} feeling arose in place of doubt and the | fear of complications. The Lena is a converted steel cruiser of the Czar’s royal navy. She was for- merly the volunteer sieamer Kherson, a freighter and passenger vessel of the Black Sea and Mediterranean and Viadi- vostok trade. She was built at Heb- burn, England, in 1895, and is 493 feet long, 54 feet beam and 24 feet draught. The ship is registered at 10,225 tons displacement, has engines of an in- dicated horsepower of 12,500 and her twin propellers will drive her when she is fresh from the dry dock at 19% knots. The Japanese liner America Maru, which may be on this coast about October 1, and which may be an object of interest to the Russian, is an 18-knot boat. 1 SHE IS WELL ARMED. The Lena has a battery of twenty- three modern rifles, as follows: Three 120 millimeters or 4.63-inch diameter, twelve 76 millimeters or 2.96-inch, eight 47 millimeters or 1.85-inch’ and one 37 millimeters or 1.46-inch. These guns are | mounted on the spar deck without shields, and because of their open po- sition are all able to command a wide sweep of firé. One of the 463’s is on the topgallant forecastle, and she is a fast steamer that escapes that carried over the sea in the wake a hunted liner at the rate of nineteen and a half knots an hour, men—a remarkable low percentage of officers to the large crew, showing that Russia has suffered in the loss of her brass-buttoned sea fighters. They are Captain A. T. Berlinsky, Commander Rytschagoff; Lieutenants Grau, Ivan- off and Zotoff; Sub-lieutenants Aver- kief, Mihailoff and a-Dingin; Mid- shipmen Spechneff,” Tarorvenko and Kahtin; Chief Engineer Ratmanoff: Asgsistant Engineers Semenov, Federoff and Kakatzan; Surgeon Zabatkin and Chaplain Osikoff. The officers of the Lena report that she left Viadivostok thirty-qne days ago and came by way of St. Mary, -a small vort in the Saghalien Islands, and keeping well to the north had an uneventful run for San Franecisco. Asked the reason for a trip aeross the Pacific at the time when the Czar's fast ships may be useful in the Orient; they said the steamer’s bollers are.in bad condition and must be revaired. When questioned concerning Japan's possible objection to a Russian seeking a place of refuge in a neutral port, they an- swered that if necessary the ship could be digarmed and dismantled, but that at least a month would be needed to' e repairs. They "averred that :g?l.td lenty of coal, but th plenty of co: ut the vessel mi'nfl too high out of the water to have much. fuel in her bunkers. . The captain, T the salutes -and of- fictal visits been exchanged be- tween his ship and the New York, Bos- ton, Benningfon and Marblehead, left the Lena an ore to visit the Russian Consul On ship’s decks and in the _on_Page- 3, Column- Stérts onl ~||Russia’s Formidable Baltic ts Trip to Far East. ———p e | | Red Men Threaten to Boycott Schools KRONSTADT, Sept. 1L.—The Baltic fleet - saited - to-day for the Far East. The /vessels of the fleet ure the battle- ships' Souvaroff, Vice' Admiral Rojest- vensky's flagship, the Navarin, the Sissoi, the Veliky, the Borodoino, the Alexander HI, the Orel, the Oleg and the Oslabya, Rear Admiral ~Voelker- sam’s flagship; the cruisers Admiral Nahakimoff, the ‘Dimitri Donskoi, the Aurora and the Almaz, Rear Admiral Enquist’s flagship, and several torpedo- boats and torpedo-boat destroyers. The fleet will merely touch at Libau, where it will be joined by twelve transports, colliers ;and supply ships; already wait- ing there, and will then procesd direct to tHe ‘Orient. : The scene on'the departure of the fleet was an imposing éne. At dawn the first ‘anchor was holsted on the swift cruiser Aurora, which, accom- panied . by two torpedo-boats, slipped out of the harbor. The town was awak- ened by the booming of' the guns of the forts as the Aurora, sped ‘toward Libau 'in advance of tlie main squad- ron. = FAREWELL TO THE' CZAR. ' * + At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the time. set for the departure; of the re- mainder of the fleet, the Imperial yacht, with the Emperor, Grand Duke Alexie, the High Admirai,. and other high naval officers on-doard, .put out from Peterhof on’the other side of the bay. With an escort’ of three ‘torpedo- boats. * Admirals Rojestvensky, Voelk- ersam. and Enquist went on board the imperial - yacht and persanolly said farewell to the Emperor. Then, with the destroyers ahead and abeam, the Souvaroff led the squadron down the Finnish Gulf.- The water front and piers and forts were crowd- ed with spectators. . The.ensigns on the yachts.were dipped and the’ guns of each-chain of forts across’the bay jeined in an Admiral’s salute, while from the signal masts above the forts fluttered a string of colored flags read- ing, “Good luck 'to.’nu Baltic fleet on The. w all day has-been, alter- ot 3 shine followed up on the southern hori- zon by-the blur of a rain squall across the gulf. : BRIEF STOP ‘AT LIBAU. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 12, 2:33 m.—The departure of the Baltic flee | for' the Far ‘East is officially an- | nounced. _Admiral Birilieff, commander jof the naval forces at Kronstadt, will accompany the fleet as far as Libau, frem which port this modern armada of almost forty pennants will sail im- mediately for the Orfent. The Admiralty does not state how long Admiral Rojestvensky will stop at Libau, but it is understood that it will, be for only a few days. The plan for the cruise has been divulged. Colliers accompany the fleet for ‘the purpose of supplying the tor- pedo-boats and torpedo-boat destroy- ers, whose steaming radius is small. Other colliers’ have already sailed or Pare awaiting orders at foreign perts to | meet the squadron on the way. All the vessels are equipped with apparatus for coaling at sea. The general opinion is that the ves- sels will go by ‘way of Suez., but some rumors say that the Cape route will be taken. The decision of the Admiralty to send out the fleet in the face of the existing | situation iz the Far East is evidence of the temver of the Government to prosecute the "'war to the finish. It is; understocd that there was considerable divergence of expert opinion on the guestion of delaying the sailing of the | fleet until the spring, but the Emperor | turned the scale in favor of immediate departure. In this connection there are other war moves. Mobilization in Southern Rus- sia -was announced to-day and prac- tically all of the.reserve officers of the navy have been called out. pAE 4 S ‘War News Continued on Page 3. Predicts Control for Ivish. BOSTON, Sept. 1l.—John Redmond, the Irish leader, degjared to-night at a crowded mass meeting that in view of the present complex political situa- tion in Great Britain the Irish Nation- alist party is in a fair way to control | gers on the Columbia. 3 | Texas and the lo | crops there will not be heavy. | including the | house, were washed away by the flood. DISASTER ENDS TRIP CH Eight Persons Meet Death in the Delaware. co— e Steamship Crashes Into a Small Crait Carrying Picnickers. T Cuts Pleasure Boat in Halves and Oaly Four of Its Twelve Cc- cupants Are Saved. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 11.—The Del- aware steamship Columbia, its way from this city to Bristol, Pa., to-night | crashed into a steam launch ten miles north of here, grinding it to pieces and causing the drowning of eight of the twelve occupants of the small boat. All of the party were Philadeiphians. The dead: JOSEPH FORTESCUE. WADE ADAY. THOMAS DUFFY. THOMAS CORVESCIER. ANNA YOUNG. JOSEPH PFROMER. MRS. JOSEPH PFROMER. ENGINEER JAMES BRIGGS, The launch w owned . by Joseph Fortescue and the party had been made up of his frie: The day was spent in a cruise up the river. The re- turn trip was begun after nightfall, the pilot keeping close to the Pennsyl- vania shore. When a puint near Anda- lusia was reached the Columbia sud- denly loomed up in the darkness. For- tescue jammed his whee! to starboard, but just a moment too late. The big steamer struck the launch squarely in the middle and cut it in half, throw- ing al! the occupants into the water. A panic ensued among the passen- Dozens of life preservers were thrown overboard to L] in the water and a beat was .{mb lowered. When the rowboat reached the spot only four persons could be found in the darkmess. It is belleved that several of the victims were crushed by the paddle wheels on the Colum —_— | RIVER OVERFLOWS BANKS AND DOES GREAT DAMAGE Hundreds of Homes in Settlements Along the Rio Grande Are Destroyed. ALPIN, Texas, Sept. 11.—The Rio Grande River is on the worst rampage in its history and great destruction of property has already occurred at Pre- sidio del Norte, Ojinito and many other smaller settlements situated on both sides of the river for a distance of 300 miles along its course. The valley is narrow along the river through the Great Bend region of s by destruction of According to information received to-day from a mounted courier, who came direct from Presidio del Norte, more than 100 ises of that town, States Custom- Un The flood is said .to have swept away whole settlements of houses occupied by Mexicans between Presidio del orte and Beuquillas. No reports of loss of lifer have been received. | INDIAN TERRITORY | HAS A RACE ISSUE If Negro Children Are Admitted. WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—The Gov- ernment may have to deal with a mixed school problem in Indian Territory. Reports have reached the Interior Department that some of the Indians of the Five Tribes are threat- ening to boy~ott the new schools which Will be established in the Territory this fall if negro children are permitted to attend. It is seid that protests from influential- men in the Territory will be filed with the Secretary of the In- terior against mixed schools and that much feeling exists. The objection to mixed schools first came from the Chickasaws, who are. said to take the position that Con- gress, when it passed the bill, intended that the appropriation should be ex- | pended on the education of Indian chil- dren alone. —_——————— yHITE STAR LINER GOES by ASHORE OFF SANDY HOOK Steamship Germanic Loses Bearings in a Thick Haze and Runs Aground. NEW YORK Scpt. 1* The White Star line steamship Germanie, in the service of the American line, which safled for Southampton on Septem- ber 3, went aground in the main ship channel, about three-quarters of a mile off Sandy Hook, about 11:30 oclock to-night. A thick haze pre- valled at the time. Reports from Sandy Hook show that the steamship does not appear to be in a bad posi- tion. She may possibly float clear at the next high water, to-morrow morn~ ing. _———————— SUPERINTENDENT OF DEAD ’ LETTER OFFICE TAKES LIFE WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—The dead body of David P. Leibhardt, superin- tendent of the dead letter office of the Postoffice Department, was found to- night. Evidently it was a case of sui- cide. There was a bullet in the temple. Several letters to friends Bhad beeen lefh