The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 10, 1904, Page 1

thirty hours ending ber 10: San Franciseo and Monday; brisk southerly wind. midnight, Octo- vicinity—Showers I WE— MAJESTIC—“A Japaness Nightin- Local Forecaster (temporarily in gale."”" charge). ORPHEUM—Vaudeville, TIVQLI—"Der Rastelbinder." LA § + { CRe— y g THE THEATERS. CHUTES—Vaudeville. COLUMBIA—“‘The Office Bov.™ FISCHER'S—“Down the Line.” GRAND—"‘The Burgomaster.” LYRIC HALL—“Much Ado About Nothing." VOLUME XCVI—NO. 132. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Russians Begin Forward Movement and Break Japanese Line at Bentsiaputze ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 10.---General Kuropatkin's order of the day announcing his determination to take the offensive is supplemented to-day by the news that an offensive movement has already been hegun and that the Japanese line has been broken at Bentsiaputze. The Japanese occupied a front of about fifty-two miles, stretching from Bentsiaputze on the east through Yentai and across the railroad to the banks of the Hun River on the west, If_UROPATKIN DECLARES TIME IS NOW RIPE FOR ATTACK UPON ITALY IN FEAR 0F DISORDERS Seventy Thousand Reserves to Be Called. MRS 0T 2 Strong Force to Be Held in Readiness to Quell Disturbances. Premier Giolitti Takes Action to Pre- vent Spread of Any Outbreak - by Extreme Parties rves, Premier e a strong con- at Italy pts at disorder he extreme paf- has ordered all of- eturn immedi- be no more holi- — o ez DIES IN TRYING 10 SAVE LIVES Brave Engineer Enters Gas- Filled Tunnel to Rescue Comrades and Perishes - Mich., Oct. 9.— the Grand Trunk h runs from Port A coal e passing ree mem- = suffocated lay stalled eer pulled train engir push the Superin- another man vor to nd 1als engineer, Port COLEMA? DUCTOR DUCTOR SIMPSON, Sarnia, STILEY, Sarnia, M'GRATH, Sarnia. ELLIS, Sarnia. Forester, with great d, jumped into the r tank of the engine, iough air to pr although he is in a seri- to-night. Forester was nearly two hours before and his escape is ulous. ————— DOWIE VOICES OPINION OF THE GAME OF POLITICS . Says Politicians, Like Cards, Become Dirtier Every Time They Are Handled. WAUKEGAN, IlL, Oct. 9.—This after- noor Zion City, John Alexander Dowie ke on politics, basing his theme topic ““The Nation's Choice President.” He said that Zion was to use its influence pleasing to God and that is what all should do. Dowie's Theocratic party is for the rule of God. “Instead of it being a government of the people, by the people and for the people, it should be of the people, by God and for God, and that is what we are going to vote for,” said Dowie. ““The politicians of to-day may be com- pared to a pack of cards; the more they are shuffled, the dirtier they get. The more politicians are thrown here and there the dirtier they become. The people of this land cannot be wisely governed as long as they are governed by thmselves. Men can never be wise as long as they want to advise. Man was made by God and was made in- ferior to him; therefore, God should rule and we intend that he shall rule.” in | Notice is also | t returned and | ting to rescue the | t Huron, superin- KING PETER ANOINTED \Zicha Scene of the Ceremony . i | | | | | | | | | ez OF SERVIA. WHO YESTERDAY > FOR ROBES OF STATE AND RECEIVED WITH SEAL OF THE GRACE OF THE HOLY GHOST. ¢ 3 A _BRIEF TIME DROPPED HIS IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY THE I ZICHA, Servia, Oct. 9.—The anoint- ing of King Peter was performed here | with great ceremony this morning. At 9 o'clock, amid the pealing of belils, the King, in full coronation robes, | proceeded to the church, where the | Metropolitan, attended by an array of | Bishops and clergy, celebrated high mass. The King, then formally invited to anointment by :%a Bishops, laid aside his crown, regalia and sword and proceeded to the Tkonostas, where he took up his position on a gold em- [P AR SR | FREIGHT TRAINS COLLIDE ON THE NORTHERN PACIFICO ]‘P‘lnm-n Killed and Two Trainmen { Injured as Result of Accident in Montana. | MISSOULA, Mont. Oct. 9.—One of the worst freight wrecks which has occurred on the Rocky Mountain di- vision of the Northern Pacific in many | years took place early to-day about five miles east of Garrison, Mont. An extra eastbound freight had orders to | meet three sections of a westbound i train at Big Bend, but owing to a mis- | construction of his orders the en- gineer of the extra pulled out ahead |of time and met the second section of the westbound train in a deep cut while both trains were running at a high rate of speed. Fireman Bowman of the extra was killed and two other trainmen slightly injured. Freight cars loaded with freight for the Orient were piled twenty feet high and the wreckage of both trains was scattered along the track for a considerable distance. It ‘was impossible to build a track around the wreck on account of the deep cut and traffic was delayed for eighteen hours. — broidered carpet and where the Metro- politan, taking an impulla containing the Holy Christ in one hand and the anointing rod in the other, touched his Majesty with the rod on the forehead, nostrils, mouth, ears, chest and palms of the hands, making each time the sign of the cross and saying: “The seal of the grace of the Holy Ghost.” The King was then conducted to the altar and partook of the communion, afier which he returned to the throne, where he resumed hjs royal emblems, -+ PHILADELPHIA GIRL WILL NOT WED TITLED FOREIGNER Miss Sellers Prefers Clinton Bidwell of Pittsburg to Baron Franz Ed- ward Von Hertz-Chenberger. PHILADELPHI.A. Oct. 9.—Society is discussing the engagement of Miss Sellers, daughter of the late David Sellers, to Clinton Bidwell of Pittsburg. By the announcement it became known that Miss Sellers had refused Baron Franz Edward von Hertz-Chenberger, captain in the Royal Guards of the Australian empire. Miss Sellers met the Baron in London about a year ago. They were frequent- ly seen together, and when the Baron followed Miss Sellers and her mother to Berlin soclety believed it would hear of another international engagement. —————— Californians Reach St. Louis, ST. LOUIS, Oct. 9.—One hundred: and fitty members of the State Board | of Trade of San Francisco arrived here to-day in a special car. The party came to visit the World's Fair and to- morrow will be given a reception in the California bufld’nl. SPARKING INDORSED BY PRIEST He Encourages Boys and Maids to Spoon. — Adds That He Hopes It Will Lead to the Altar in Due Time, New Jersey Rector Doss Not Heed Petition of Parents of Members of His Dramatic Society. HOBOKEN, N. J, Oct- 9.—"My friends, if you don’'t spark here, you will spark somewhere else. If you don't spark with one another you will seek. strangers to spark with. As for spark- ing itself, I am Mheartily in favor of it. I hope it will lead to the altar and that I will be allowed to marry you.” So spoke Rev. Andrew Kenny, rector of St. Anthony Roman Catholic Church of West Hoboken, to the members of his dramatic society, whose parents ob- jected to their rehearsing for the play on the ground that it gave the young folks too great a chance to spark. The society is composed of twenty handsome youths and pretty maids. Two weeks ago they began rehearsing for a play. The parents of the young people did not mind their being to- gether on one evening, but after a while the girls and boys would go out every evening and 3s an excuse would merely say, ‘“Rehearsal.” A petition accordingly was circulated by the pdyents and presented to the priest. It requested him to discontinue the rehearsals. They had heard of kiss- ing and hugging behind the scenes, they declared, and even in the play a youth and a maid were allowed to embrace and osculate. The priest will not listen to the petition of the parents. — & WEDS VICTIM 0F WHITECAPS Miss Lulu Ward Says She Wants to Nurse Man Who Suffered for Her Sake Special Dispatch to The Call. KELSO, Wash., Oct. 9.—Miss Lulu ‘Ward, the flancee of M. Kelley, the young man found on Friday almost dead as the result of a horrible white- cap outrage, to-day obtained & mar- riage license and was married this aft- ernoon to Kelley. “I want to nurse the man who has suffered for my sake,”” she said. Mrs. Kelley has her suspicions as to the perpetrators of the crime, She sus- pects a man named., Baker, who in Council Grove, Kans., the former home of herself and Kelley, proposed to her and was rejected. He has been seen in Seattle and in Portland. On Thursday a note written upon the back of a love letter from his fiancee to Kelley and telling his wheréabouts and condition wag found pinned to the door of Sam- uel Colwin’s house. Kelley on Monday last was seized while on the way to Kalama to get a marriage license by two men whom he did not know, one of them being dis- guised as a woman. The men took him into the woods, bucked, .gagged and tied him to a tree. He was discovered by a hunting dog, whose bark attracted a passer-by to the sceme. Kelley, it is stated, will probably recover. —_———— | to_Punish_Natives. —ROTtYEAL SECE LISBON, Oct. 9. — The latest news | from Angola shows that the disaster | packed to the Port force in the recent fighting wi the Cuanahamas in Southwest Africa, is more serious than was at first reported, the number of killed Gove being The mnflltouul;lfl"wve mncompmdofl ars to the THE TROOPS OF MIKADO | “Heretofore the enemy in operating has relied on his great forces and disposing his armies so as to surround us; has chosen as he deemed fit his time | for attack; but now the moment to go tc meet the enemy, for which the whole army has been longing, has come, and the time has arrived for us to compel the | Japanese to do our will, for the forces of the Manchurian army are strong enough to begin a forward movement.”—From order of day issued by General Kuropatkin. Little Brown Men Forced to Withdraw Fighters of Czar Jeize Key to Situation. Troops of Mikado Harassed by Cossacks. MUKDEN, Oct. 9.—The Russian for- ward movement has begun, and Bent- siaputze has been captured with a small loss. In order to gain a clear un- derstanding of the situation, it may be stated that two days ago the Japanese | divisions conifronted the Russians north of the Taitse River. Their left flank, consisting of two divisions, was on the railway at Sandiapu, thirty miles southwest of Mukden and close to the Hun River. Their center, tomprised of four divisions, occupied the railway be- tween the Lisoyang and €handiaputze, twelve miles noth. Two more divisions occupled the extreme Japanese right, along the road between Bentsiaputze and Bensihu. Their front extended about fifty-two miles. The position at Bentsiaputze was strongly fortified and intended to with- stand attack. It is reported that Gen- eral Kuroki was there in person. The Japanese had omitted to fortify one Lill, which was the key to the position. The Russians, aware of this omission, made a wide detour eastward and seized the hill with little opposition. The hill, once occupied, exposed the whole Japanese position’ to a heavy flanking fire. The Russians also turned the Japanese right and, the fortified positions thus becoming untenable, the Japanese were forced to withdraw hur- riedly from Bentsiaputze, fighting a rear-guard action, in which they suf- fered heavily. The Russian losses throughout were small, although severe opposition had been expected. ,General Mistchenko's Cossacks had been har- assing the Japanese outposts for sev- eral days and were entirely successful in a number of engagements. The Russian southern advance began on October 4, with the occcupation of Shakhe, a railway station. The next day the station, which had been dis- mantled by the Japanese, was restored by the railway brigade, following im- .mediately behind the fighting line, and the same brigade also restored the bridge across the Shakhe River. On October 6 General Mistchenko ad- vanced almost to the Yentai mines, driving in the Japanese outposts with heavy loss at an expense of only one killed and five injured. The Russian forward movement be- ing made in the heaviest marching or- der, one sees everywhere whole com- panies of which every man carries a large knapsack on his back, a rifle on his shouder and a large kettle or tea- pot slung to his waist, while hanging from the belt is the cartridge case in front and a big wooden water bottle and an axe, pickaxg or spade on either side. Altogether, with overcoats, the equipment weighs 100 pounds. The sol- diers move steadily and cheerfully, though the column looks more like a pack train than an army. First-aid stations of the Red ross are being or- ganized and the nurses are working untiringly everywhere. Doctors and sis- ters of charity are going to the front in Chinese carts at the rate of two miles an hour over heavy roads, but are cheerful and devoted as ever, in spite of the imminent prospect of more of the difficult and dangerous work un- der fire which won them the undying gratitude of the army at Liaoyang. Chinese reports of the Japanese movement state that Lieutenant Gen- eral Fushimi, with two divisions, is moving to flank the Russians. His force is already on the Liao River, within twenty-two miles of Simmintin. A simultaneous movement, it is under- stood, is being carried out by General Kuroki to the eastward with the object of striking the railway and flanking the Russians out of Mukden, as was done at Liaoyang, but the conditions are: now rather different. i o A CREATES ENTHUSIASM. COMMANDER OF MANCHURIAN FORCES GIVES PRAISE TO HARDY FOLLOWERS ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 9.—Following is the text of an order of the day issued by General Kuropatkin and dated October 2: “More than seven months ago the enemy treacherously fell upon us at Port Arthur before war had been declared. Since then, by land and sea, Russian troops have performed many heroic deeds of which the fatherland may justly be proud. The enemy, however, is not only not overthrown, but in his arrogance continues to dream of complete victory. “The troops of the Manchurian army, in unvarying good spirits, hitherto have not been numerically strong enough to defeat the Japadese army. Much time is necessary for overcoming all the difficulties of strengthening the active army so as to enable it to accomplish with complete success the arduous but honorable task imposed upon it. It is for this reason that, in spite of the repeated repulse of Japanese attacks upon our position at Tatchekiao, Liandiansian and Liaoyang, I did not consider that the time had arrived to take advantage of these successes and to begin a forward movement, and I therefore gave the order to retreat. HEROIC DEFENSE AND MASTERLY RETREAT. “You left the positions you had so heroically defended, covered with piles of the enemy's dead, and.without allowing yourselves to be disturbed by the foe and in full preparedness for a fresh fight. Af'.r a five days’ battle at Liaoyang you retired on new positions which had been previously prepared. After successfully defending all advance and main positions, you withdrew to Mukden under most difficult conditions. “Attacked by General Kuroki's arm- you marched through almost im- passable mud, fighting throughout the day and extricating guns and carts with your hands at night, and returned to Mukden without abandoning a single gun, prisoner or wounded man, and with the baggage train entirely intact. “I ordered the retreat with a sorrowful heart, but with unshaken con- fidence that it was necessary in order to gain complete and decisive victory over the enemy when the time came. “The Emperor has assigned for the conflict with Japan forces sufficient to assure us victory. All difficuities in transporting these forces over a dis- tatice of 10,000 versts are being overcome in a spirit of self-confidence and with indomitable energy and skill by Russian men in every branch and rank of the service and every social position to whom has been intrusted this work, which for difficulty is unprecedented in the history of warfare. “In the course of seven months hundreds of thousands of men and tens of thousands of horses and carts and millions of pounds of stores have been coming uninterruptedly by rail from European Russia and Siberia to Manchuria. |“COMPEL JAPANESE TO DO OUR WILL.” “If the regiments which already have been sent out prove insufficlent, fresh troops will arrive, for .he inflexible wish of the¢ Emperor that we should vanquish the foe will be inflexibly fulfilled. Heretofore, the enemy, in operating, has relied on his great forces and disposing his armies so as to surround us; has chosen as he deemed fit his time for attack; but now the moment to go to meet the enemy, for which the whole army has been long- ing, has come, and the time has arrived for us to compel the Japanese to do our will, for the forces of the Manchurian army are strong enough to begin a forward movement. Nevertheless, you must be unceasingly mind- ful of the victory to be gained over our strong and gallant foe. In addition to numerical strength, in all commands, from the lowest to the highest, the firm determination must be to prevall, to gain victory.. Whatever be the sacrifice necessary to this end, bear in mind the importanca of victory to Russia; and, above all, remember how necessary victory s, the more speedily to relieve our brothers at Port Arthur, who for seven months have heroically maintained the defense of the fortress intrusted to their care. PRAYERS OF ALL RUSSIA FOR SOLDIERS. “Our army, strong in its union with the Emperor and all Russia, per- formed great deeds of heroism for the fatherland in all our wars and gained for itself well-merited renown among all nations. Think, at every hour, of the defense of Russia’s dignity and rights in the Far East, which have been intrusted to you by the Emperor's wish. Think, at every hour, that to you the defense of the honor and fame of the whole Russian army has been confided. “The illustrious head of the Russian fatherland, together with the whole of Russia, prays for you, blesses you for ycur heroic deeds. Strengthened by this prayer and the small consciousness of the importance of the task that has fallen to us, we must go forward fearlessly, with a firm deteruale nation to do our duty to the end without sparing our lives. “The will of God be with us all.” — 's Order to Advance Arouses Soldiers of Russia. MUKDEN, Oct. 9.—Nemirovich Dan- chenko in a dispatch says: “General Kuropatkin's order to ad- vance, which was read to the troops after a church service October 2, evoked wild enthusiasm. It was a beau- tiful day. Officers and soldlers were around General Kuropatkin's train, the steps of which were used for a pulpit, from which Father Golubeff preached to a multitude that stretched farther than his voice could carry. Father Golubeff uttered a fervent prayer for victory, and raising a cross K | aloft and turning to the general said: * 'd “The anclents commanded their sons to| return with their shield, or on it. I say to you, go forward with the cross, trusting in Christ.” “His words were received in solemn expectancy by the men who did not yet know a forward move had been deter- mined upon, though there had been a period of preparation that had aroused strong hope. The crucial moment came after the service. The St. George Cross was distributed, the Ussuri Cossacks and the men greeting the names of Skobeleff and Adzioff, the great Rus- sian heroes, with loud cheering. Then came the march past before the new wearers of the St. George Cross. Kuro- patkin, who meanwhile was standing behind the newly decorated men, smiled grimly and stepping to the front read personally the announcement for a for- ward movement. This was received by deafening cheers as far as it was heard and understood, ‘but quicker than print- ed coples of the order could circulate the announcement went from camp to camp and from bivouac to bivouac, the men acting like schoolboys on vacation when they learned what was in the wind. “It is true that the army is now fit to measure itself with Iits Japanese foes. Kuropatkin has gathered up re- inforcements and welded an incomplete army into a compact whole and is ready to advance agalnst what we have reason to know is a brave and clever enemy- “Viceroy Alexieff arrived from Har- bin October § to say farewell to Gen- eral Kuropatkin, in view of the lat- ter’s departure for the front, and Vice- roy Alexieff’s probable return to Rus- sia. “We left Mukden the afternoon of the same day amid the cheers of the sol- diers, for the purpose of overtaking the regiments on their way to the front. “The men are now thoroughly rested and equipped and there is no trace of the fatigue shown at Liaoyang. There is a very different spirit abroad than that noticeable on the retreat from Tatchekiao. better spirits the nearer they get to the front. *“* ‘Now it is our turn,’ is heard every- where in the ranks. The veteran who fought with Skobeleff we left at Muk- den in fine trim. The gray haired old Turkestan fighter seems to have grown quite young out here. ACTIVITY IS EXPLAINED. Japanese on Lookout for British Ves- sels With Provisions. CHEFU, Oct. 9.—The increased ac- tivity of the Japanese fleet blockading Port Arthur in the stopping of mer- chantmen is due to a lookout which is being kept for three British ships which, it is suspected, intend to at- tempt to enter Port Arthur with tinned meats and vegetables. The British steamer Victoria was stopped nead Weihaiwei this evening and the above explanation was made to her by the Japanese boarding officer. PR wairsn Russian Railroads Busy. CHELIBINSK, Russia, Oct. 9.— There is the greatest activtity on the railroad. Men. munitions and artil- lery are passing through, bound east- ward. The men are provided with warm clothing and travel in comfort- able Siberian carriages, all in good condition. SR I Pt Minister to Come Home. WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—Edward V. Morgan, United States Consul at Dalny, who never was able to take his post because it was In the midst of the theater of war, has cabled the State Department from Shiakwan for per- mission to return to the United States and this has been granted. p SRR Al Dowager Empress Il LONDON, Oct. 10. — Seriously broken down by her Red Cross labors, the Dowager Empress of Russia has been confined to her bed since her ar- rival here.