The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 16, 1904, Page 1

cisce fer thirty midnight, Septemd: NO. GGLING [NCREASING Yellow—fifif& Pour-| ing In From | Mexico. ! Situation Alarms Commis- | sioner of Immigration | Sargent. 'ederal Official Will Strengthen His Forces Along the Southern Boundary. Epecial Disp to The Call CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON., Sept. 15.—One purpose p on which F. P. r of Immigration, then the Chine: along the Mexican s reported that hundre e been entering Mexico purpose of stealing service | s rder into the United | st B scene of action of the Chi- | ds has Jargely changed | 4 peaking of | g ¥ rouble along south than ever be- increase. In- to work in the southern < for which ended, the along the | waiting for an | get into this country. e having the greatest trouble fornia, however, and we | our men there. The | ged with Chinese and r way over the Tia Juana iego. It is he culprits in this mor t the conditions as serious, ill visit all of the southern nd end his trip up along the be T xico has been en- immigration and | =ed the danger for the that direction. | WGEOCHEGAN S ACQUITTED Call. The —After a half- this afternoon ex- | omas J. McGeoghe- tted by a jury in Judge‘ ¢ embezzling the sum | the city. | frees McGeoghegan | doing in office, as” the | that can now be made | of ’ ror ag at of falsifying the | re me doubt whether | he cted on that. The verdict to-day was received with ap- McGgoghegan was for fi ? y March a City Treasurer About the first of last shortage was found in his s at once suspended c Later - he Jre- 000 of license McGeoghegan was ccused of taking the money and protested his Shnoner p ong. MecGeoghegan was not allowed a deputy in the office end he employed one himself. This deputy during the trial also denied taking the money. A suit is now pending against the United States and American bonding companies, which were on McGeoghe- gan's bond, for thre amount of the shortage In the tre: ————————— WHO LYNCHED NEGRO INDICTED BY GRAND JURY HUNTEVILLE, Ala., Sept. 15.—The Madison County jail is guarded to- night by Companies G and K, Third A ama Infantry, Captain Lucien) Brown, because threats have been made that persons indicted by the Grand Jury for connection Wi the ig of Horace Maples and placed uld be taken out by their set at liberty. Ben Hill, one lleged iynchers, was captured ged in jail to-day, and the of- oking for nine-others who have beer icted. Judge Speake of the Circuit Court heard rumors of impending trouble and ! telegraphed to acting Governor Cun- ningham asking for militia. The troops reached here on a special train late to- day, and pickets guard all approaches to the jail. No trouble is anticipated so long as the jail is guarded in this man- ner. Captain Brown has orders to pre- serve peace in this community, even If the city be placed under martial law. He has camp equipment and ig pre- pared for a long stay Solicitor Peters denies the rumor that Eheriff Rogers and Mayor Smith have been indicted. The only foundation for this report is the fact that the Grand Jury has asked for instructions as to how to vroceed to bring about the im- peachment of these officers if such ac- tion should be deemed advisable. . —_———— Death Calls Noted Geologist. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Sept. 15.— Clarence L. Herrick, former president of the University of New Mexico and fone of the best-known neurologists in the West, died to-day at Socorro, N, M., of consumption. He was also a hflt‘-‘";. mlogu(d'n‘nd mh.dqfient the 'ew years doing expert «ork in Old and New Mexico, | THE WEATHER. San Prancisco 224 vicinity— | Clondy Priday; fresh west wind. G. H. WILLSON. Local Forecaster, Temporarily in Charge. hours endinx or 163 P i GALE PLAYS | | was swept by a rain and wind storm | farther down the bay than at its head. | 1andings on the bay shore. | was killed by coming into contact with HAVOC WITH SEA CRAFT Great Damage Along the Atlantic | Shore. Number of Small Vessels; Wrecked in Chesa- peake Bay. Serions Damage to Growing Crops in the Western Districts of Maryland. BALTIMORE,, Sept. 15.—Reports from down the Chesapeake Bay indi- cate that last night’s storm was un- precedented in its fury and long con- tinuance. For nearly ten hours last night and early this morning the bay which evidently was more severe The storm played havoc with ship- | ing, in the nofthern part of the bay | particularly. The wharves at both | Betterton and Tolchester were par-| tially washed aw\y, while sail boats, steam launches a\d ail light craft| around Tolchester, \Havre de Grace and Betterton were badly damaged. In many cases the boats were washed away and lost. The steamship Joppa, from Easton to Baltimore, tried in vain to make Her cargo listed and for hours she pitched and rolled with water dashing into her| s and drenching panic-stricken engers. She reached this city safe- ly after several hours’ delay. On the Lower Susquehanna a schoon- er and yacht were blown ashore and a tug sunk and in the bay a dozen ‘‘bug- eyes” and smaller craft were driven ashore In this city to-day William Norton a live wire blown. down during the storm, Dispatches from Western Maryland report serious damage to growing crops and fruits by the wind and rain. ThPl rainfall .during the prevalence of the storm for seventeen hours was 5.08 inches. A MANY LIVES ARE LOST. | { | Tug Is Swamped and Eight Persons Are Drowned. NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—A number of‘: lives were lost, much property dam- | aged and several ships wrecked in the storm which ravaged the Atlantic| coast last night and to-day. | The greatest loss of life was near | Wilmington, Del. The tug Israel W.| Durham, with a crew of six men and four other men, employes of the Amer- ican Dredging Company, was swamped in the Delaware River early to-day, during the height of the storm. Eight of thé ten persons on the little craft were drowned. From farther down the | ccast—Jacksonville—comes the report that five men were drowned off| Charleston. This report was brought in by one of the coast liners. New York suffered comparatively little. The wind and rain and thunder and lightning were terrific, but little actual damage was done. Nineteen coal barges went adrift in the bay and to-night their wreckage strews the shore from the Battery to the Narrows, but no lives were Jlost. Several small vessels also went ‘ashore on_various parts of the coast near New York. One fatality was reported in this city, when a piece of cast iron fire escape was blown from a building and struck Carl Hertznock, killing him instantly. A fishing steam- er, the Joseph Church of Greenport, N. Y., struck on Peaks Hill bar to-day and was smashed to pieces. The captain and crew of twenty-one men were saved. From Wilmington, Del, to-night comes the news that great destruction was caused by the storm. Trees were uprooted, houses flooded and crops ruined. . _—————— GOVERNMENT FORCES DEFEATED BY THE REBELS Paraguayan Revolutionists Make Win- ning Fight—Peace Negotiations Fail of Their Object. BUENOS AYRES, Sept. 15.—¢There has been a complete failure of the ne< gotiations between the Paraguayan Government and the revolutionists, owing to the persistent demands of General Escobar. The rebel vessel Sajonia attacked the port of San Antonio this m~rning, General Ferreira making a simulta- neous attack by land with cavalty and I infantry aftér a réconnoissance in the diréction of Lierono, where a consid- erable number of Government troops were encountered. The combat lasted three hours and resulted in the defeat and dispersal of thé Govéernment forces. The extéent of the losses is un- known. i FRSERESE - R, LUCK TURNS AND LEITER WINS BACK A FORTUNE Millionafre Plays Faro and, Though | Once Behind $72,000, Stays. and | Quits Winner by $4000. SHERIDAN, Wyo., Sept. 15.—Joe Leiter, thé Chicago willionaire and one of he proprietors of the big “U Cross” cattle outfit near Clearmont, came up from the last’ night. Shortl, ‘opped into Littleton's saloon and be. an faro. - 18 no limit to the there and v‘arwnldon deep in play. Bets of 87000 were made and lost oh a single card the Chicago millionaire was $72 the bad. Then lyck and when the game o'clock this morning winner by $4000. : Tivol THE THEATERS. “| /Alcazar—*“The Second in Com- - ‘mana.” California—“Marta of the Low- land: Ontr-a"ouy a Shop Girl.” | —“Princess Grand- Majestic—“In the King. Orph -Vaudeville. e Toreador.” Fan Tan. Palace of the . ~ e, RIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1904. PRICE F!\'I;. CENTS. RUSSIAN CRUISER KOREA i SIGHTED AND ESQUIMALT Cruiser Boston in Quest of Japan- ese Fleet. The United States cruiser Boston left port early yesterday morning in command of Commander John Hub- bard, with orders to patrol up and down the coast to ldcate, if possible, the Japanese warships that have been reported or are supposed to be in this vicinity. Admiral Goodrich, in view of the many rumors of the’ presence of foreign warships, deemed this action necessary in the interest of the mer- chant marine. The rumors that have; come from all, sources and channels re- garding the : appearance , of Japanese’ warships' off ‘the héads had caused much consternation’ in ‘marine insur- ance circies. [Marine insurance rates threatened to advance as high as 3 per” cent on outgoing . ships and their car- goes. All day long.the Boston kept in close communication with the shore by | means of her wireless telegraphy sys- kent Admiral = Goodrich advised as to her move- tem. She thoroughly ments. she had not discovered the alleged fleet of Japanese L warships that was supposed to have been in close pursuit of the Russian cruiser Lena.. Admiral Goodrich, in speaking of the Boston's mission, said: “1 deemed it best, in the interest of this Government and also.Of the mer- chant marine, to.send out the Boston. There had been so many conflicting ru- mors that 1 felt that it was advisable for her 40 cruise up and down the coast. She has kept me closely in- formed all day of her whereabouts and her movements by means of her system of wireless telegraphy. The workings of the machine have been absolutely perfcet, and this practical test of the syetem has been of incalculable value. The Boston will return to port to-mor- row.” Everything on board the Russian transport Lena was going on as quietly as possible yasterday. The orders from ‘Washington to the effect that she was to be dismantled seemed to have very little effect upon either the officers or the crew. Whatever they thought upon the subject they kept to themselves. Their countenances were as stolid as on the day they arrived here. They moved about the decks in that same easy going fashion that has marked their movements since the Lena has been in port. The only outward signs of life on the Lena was the scraping of her hull, which had become green and mossy and bore a dirty brown ap- pearance. This is now being trans- formed by the crew into a brilliant black. Boats on all sides were en- gaged in this occupation. Late yesterday afternoon a report|” ¥ reached this city, in a cablegram from a prominent merchant in Honolulu, that one of the interisland boats that had been plying between that place and Kaul had seen a number of Japan- ese warships hovering in the vicinity. Whether they were Iying off the harbor of Honolulu and watching for one of the merchant marine steamships which they believed would call at Honolulu on her way to the Orient or were lying in watch for the Lena was not made apparent in the dispatch. Admiral Goodrich, in speaking of the improbable story of the court-martial of Captain Berlinsky, expressed great surprise that any credence had been given such a report. No one in the naval contingent here, he said, could possibly have intimated a belief that the Rus- sian commander was in danger of bé- ing called to account to his Govern- ment for his actions! Captain Berlin- sky 18 here with the authorization of his own Government. All day long yesterday the same careful that has been in at- tendance upon the Russian warship Up to a late hour last night | since her arrival in this port is still | at her command. The Paul Jones, which is lying imi iaf gouth of her, and the launch .from both keeping a cl on every | is not understood. One _ad- boat that approa The Ben- | vanced is that the Lena, while en- nington, whose anchors were fouled, d in scouting, has s and yes she was able to move up nearer to the Russian vessel. ¢ AW i for the Marblehead are | here, in getting them cicared | SEA e - President Order of Lena. e 4 | | WASHINGTON, - Sept. - 15.—Acting Secretary of State Adee to-day gave out the following statement regarding the Russian ship Lena, now at San Francisco:’ The President has_to-day. issued an order, through the acting Secretary of State, direct- ing that the Russian armed transport- Lena, now at San ‘Francisco, be taken into custody by the naval authorities of the United States and disarmed, The main features of the con- ditions prescribéd are that the Lena be taksm 1o the Mare Island Navy Yard and there dis- armed by removal of small guns, breechlocks of large guns,’small arms, ammunition and ordnance stores and such other dismantlement as may be prescribed by the commandant of the navy yard; that the captain give a written guarentée that ‘the Lena shall not leave- San Francisco until peace shall have been con- cluded: that the officers and crews shall be paroled, nof to leave San Francisco until sofhe other understanding as to their disposal may be reached between the United States Gov- ernment and both the belligerents- tmat after disarmament the vessel may be removed to a drydock for such reasonable repairs as will make her seaworthy and preserve her in good condition during her detention; that she may be 50 repaired at the navy yard if the Russian commander should so elect; that while a private dock the commandant of the navy at Mare ‘Istand shall have custody of the shi and the repairs shall be overseen by an en- gineer officer to be detailed by the comm: ant, end that, when so repafred, if pe; shall not have been conclud=q, the vessel shall be taken back to Mare Island navy yard and be there held in custody until the end of the war, This action has been taken upon the written the commander of the Lena, ad- dressed to Rear Admiral Goodrich. dressed to Rear Admiral Goodrich, setting forth that, as the vessel s incapable of putting t sea ‘without needful repairs, she must disarm, and ing uu:' ‘needmt repairs be permitted The Secretary of the has tel ed e Secref na; e The Piesidenta. order 10 San. Franciso aad siven instructions to Admiral Goodrich and to Captain McCalla, the commandant of the Mare Island Navy Yard, to carry out its provisions. The main question regarding the Russian transport Lena having been settled, officlals of the administration -and of the two belligerent govern- ments will now devote themselves to reaching an understanding regarding the officers and créw of the vessel. As indicated in the statement made by the Staté Department, the present ar- rangement is but a temporary one, de- signed to meet thé cuestion as it im- mediately presents itself. It is not likely that the officers and crew will be allowed l-sain to participate in the war, unless Japan should waive her prerogatives in that regard, which is not believed to be at all probable. . An arrangement will be effected whereby the men either will be per- mitted to return to Russia or interned in the United States, as the transport is to be until the close of hostilities, at the expense of the Russian Govern- ment. Presumably some members of the crew will remain in charge of the ves. sel as caretakers, a privilege to which the United States s not likely to raise any objection. — - e-w-e & the Russtan . in San. isco although the motive of the trip SHIPS PREPARE\ FOR - AT S R R N A SR [ [|Slav War Cratt Is warship Lena is. exciting keen interest | from - Off Vancouver Island. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. VICTORIA, B. C., Sept. 15.—Members of the crew of H. M. 8. Grafton, just returned from Comox, report the pres- ence of the Russian auxiliary cruiser Korea in the Pacific off. the northern coast' of Vancouver Island, steaming slowly - southward. They expect that ‘the ‘Rorea. will come to Esquimalt or Victoria. She is described as a larger vésdel than the Lena and is command- ed by an officer of high rank in the Russian'navy. The news - has caused much excite- ment at Esquimalt, where preparations to deal with her case, should she enter, are now being made. H. M. S. Grafton, flagship of the Pa- cific squadron, has entered the drydock for a rush cleaning. She is to be out in twenty-four hours. H. M. S. Flora is at her moorings in Esquimalt harbor under steam, ready to put to sea on an instant’s notice. The Grafton also will be made ready for immediate sea ser- vice 'on issuing from the drydock. Should the Korea continue on her present course she would be due off Victoria about Saturday evening. It is said that the orders received by Commodore . Goodrich from the Ad- miralty are extreme. The commodore, it is believed, is to prevent interference of any sort with'British shipping. A commissioned officer of the Graf- ton said to-day to a press representa- tive that if the Korea put in here her case would be attended to in short or- der, meaning that the commander of the station had his instructions al- ready as to what to do, whatever plea the - Korea's commander advance. A hint dropped to-night by a naval offi- cer is to the effect that the order will be to dismantle unconditionally and send her crew home by Canadian Pa- cific Railway. The shipping agents here are very anxlous since the news of the Korea's near presence leaked out. The Rus- sian vessel is regarded as a direct menace to British shipping. Another serious renort leaked out from Esquimalt this evening, to the effect that imperative orders have been received from London to rush to completion the Signal Hill fort, com- manding Esauimalt and ten miles of the strait. Work accordingly will be hurried night and day and the huge siege guns mounted without delay. ‘One of the naval officers remarked a few days ago that grave apprehension j= now entertained of Germany’s en- trance into the quarrel; hence, no Jdouht the feverish activity here. ‘The Korea formerly belonged to the Danish-Russian East Asiatic = Steam- ship Company and was, according to advices from Copenhagen August 31, together with the same company’s Kitai, equipped as a Russian auxiliary steamship. The vessel, it was stated, would be attached the Baltie squadron. The Korea's dimensions are given as follows: Length, 409 feet; beam, 49% feet, and depth, 19 feet. Her tonnage is registered as 3857 and her horsepower as 567. The Korea was built in 1899 at Flensburg, Denmark. ey ASKOLD INCIDENT NOT me[ Japan’s Demand That Crew Remain g Board Yet Unanswered. SHANGHAT, Sept. 15.—The taotal still delays giving a formal answer to the Japanese demand that the créws of the Russian protected cruiser Ask- ( old and the Russian torpedo-boat de- stroyer Grozovoi be confined on board these vessels, but it is understood that the Jananese cruisers will frustrate any endeavor to ship the. r here.. . The. disarming to of the * [ERCE FIRE ST CITY MAY HEAR AND SEE O OF HALIFAX| TELEPHONE FlamesDestroy Prop-| Portland Man Makes erty Worth $5@§90. the Progress of the ‘Conflagration. Wharves, Hotels, Warthouses and a Number of Retail Stores Consumed Before Blaze Is Controlled. HALIFAX, N. S.,°Sept. 15.—A fore tunate shift of the wind saved Halifax from destruction by fire to-day. Nev- ertheless the city suffered a loss of a half-million dollars in the business part of the water front, and the prog- ress of the flames was stayed only by the dynamiting of a dozen buildings by the sailors from the fleet and soldiers from the garrison. Between 23 and 4 o’clock this after- noon, when the fire was at its height and a fearful southerly gale was push- ing it straight toward the heart of the business center, consternation reigned throughout the entire city. Shortly after 4 o'clock, however, the wind shifted and turned the flames along the wharves and warehouses. There the fire raged on lower Water street practically beyond control until 4 Remarkable Discovery. | Dynamite Is Used to Stay ) Sense of Sight Adds fo the Utility of Long-Distance Talking. Device Permifs the Persons Who Ars Conversing to Be Plainly Seen by Each Other. Speclal Dispatch to The Call PORTLAND, Sept. 15.—A telephons arrangement by which those speaking may also see the face of the person at the other end of the line has been in- vented by a Portland man, J. B. Fow- ler of 115 Russell street. That the apparatus does what the inventor claims for it is best proved by a visit, for as he has no patent upon it as yet, scientific explanations are lacking. Ever since 1878 Fowler has been working upon a device by which two persons at a distance might see one another’s features. % Two months ago he hit upon the idea, which, followed out, has resulted in the apparatus exhibited by him to- day for the first time. A newspaper man made so thorough an investigation of the apparatus this evening that fake is impossible. How far it will be pos- 7 o'clock to-night, when two hundred | sible to see faces over the wire must sailors with torpedo apparatus landed and with the assistance of two hun- derd troops checked further progress by removing, with the aid of dynafite, a dozen small buildings. The fire consumed six wharves, two coal piers, two hotels, a dozen ware- houses and a number of retail shops. During the fire a largé tree fell, kill- ing Flora King, 28 years old, and wounding two others. - . Admiral Sir Archibald Douglas per- sonally directed the sailors in protect- ing imperial property, and two hun- dred marines patrolled the streets. One fireman was fatally injured by a live wire, and another was badly hurt by falling slate. The burned district, which covered about two acres, was one of wooden buildings three and four stories high, many of them built years ago, when Halifax merchants dealt heavily in fish. Crowds of people who had rushed down Smith wharf found themselves hemmed in with the fire on one side and the harbor on the other, and all had to be taken off by launches from the warships. By this time the entire city had begun to realize the gravity of the situation. At half-past 3 it looked as if nothing could stay the progress of the flames from the main business section of the city and into the residential section beyond. Every effort on the part of the firemen to stay the flames was futile. # Then came the providential shift of wind. - By this time the government officials had assumed full charge of the situa- tion, for not far ahead were the big ordnance yards, in which were thou- sands of tons of powerful explosives. A party of sailors, together with a company of Royal Engineers, landed to the north of the fire and began blow- ing up buildings. For an hour the en- tire city was shaken by the terrific ex- plosions. More than a dozen buildings were leveled, and at 7 o’clock the fire had reached the cleared space, where it stopped. $ ————————— FIVE YEARS IS SENTENCE OF AN ENGLISH SCAMP Felon Who Allowed Another to Go to Jail for His Crime Is Punished. LONDON, Sept. 15. ‘William Thomas, aliag John Smith, who plead- ed guilty at the Old Bailey yesterday to the charges against him, including the admission that he was convicted in 1887 under the name of John Smith and served a term of five years” imprisonment for obtaining money and jewelry from women under false pretenses, was to-day sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. It was in mistake for Willlam Thoma: at a man named Adolf Beck sei two terms of imprison- ment on the charge of obtaining money and jewelry from women under false pretenses, owing, it is asserted, to police conspiracy. CROWN PRINCE NOT EXEMPT FROM THE DISTRICT TAX Ham Must Pay an Assessment on His Income. BRESLAU, Prussia, Sept. 15.—The | Were _in possession Prince Frederick appeal of the Crown Willlam agsinst paying taxes on his estate at Ocls was decided ‘business, against hint | cittes spent. admintstra- | To-night a constant yet be ascertained, for Fowler has kept the entire line within his own resi- dence. To the observer there appears an apparatus much resembling\the front end of a large camera. There is also a telephonic transmitter. To see over the wiré one puts his eyes to the tube which corresponds to the.lens of a camera. Miss Lillian Fowler went to the ‘other end of thé wire, g'enty-flve feet away, in another room, and where any reflecting by mirrors was out of the question. Her face showed up as distinct and clear as a miniature paint- ing. As she spoke her lips were seen to move. The observer was in darkness that he might see the more clearly. Fowler has not yet doubled his apparatus so that both persons may observe one an- other as they speak. He believes that this. can easily be done. Apparently eiectrical incandescence plays a large part. _—————— PARIS EXCITED BT OUEER RACE Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. PARIS, Sept. 15.—Everybody ia - ing about the proposed automobile launch race across the Atlantie. It is the one absorbing topic of conversation in automobile circles. Opinion, at first almost entirely skeptical as to the pos- sibility of one of these frail craft push- ing her way from Havre to Sandy Hook, is now beginning to veer. The question being asked now is not if it can be done, but what is the best month to try it. I was able yesterday to get the opin- ion of Anthony Drexel on the subject. Drexel remarked that May had been suggested as the best month in which to attempt the voyage. This he consid- helmsman the best opportunities of suc- ceeding. o Yesterday two further entries wers made. The first was M. Garcin, and was dispatched from Marseilles. M. Garcin is the owner of the named Bohemian. The second, and by far the most.san~ sational entry up to the present timae, is that received from M. Thubron, own- er of Trefle-a-Quatre. M. Charley me that M. Thubron intends to this boat across with the others. M. Vedrine also announces his tion of risking the perils of the deep an attempt to win M. Charley’s francs. ————————— EAGLES IN POSSESSION OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORN I day. - tors, who upheld the judgment of the |trians, men, women and -childrer cantonal authorities, that only the|lmned the sidewalks of ‘the m sovereign and not members of his family is exempt from taxation. The tax administrators assessed the Prince thoroughfares, which were illuminated by._thousands of electric ights. The Grand Aerie of the order will $1250 on his income from the estate j continue in session until-late Friday crews away | of $31,500. night and possibly may remain over Sunday. At to-day’s session it was de- clared to be the sense of the Grand Aerle that State conventions should be ki