The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 24, 1904, Page 1

thirty hours, ending ber 24: San Francisco and Monday, with fog; winds. A THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Francisco for District Forecaster. midnight, Octo- vieinity—Cloudy fresh westerly G. McADIE, [|¥ THE “THEATERS. ALCAZAR—“The Wilderness.” CALIFORNIA—“Fritz and Snits.” CENTRAL—"Paul Kauvar.” COLUMBIA—"‘San Toy." Cfl‘]’!s—vl‘ndmlh GRAND—"Arizona.” MAJESTIC—“When We Ware Twenty- [& One.”" ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—*Der Rastelbinder.’* VOLUME XCVI—NO. 146. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. oALTIG FLEET WANTONLY SINKG ENGLIGH [lflllNl} ofllP5 Would Kil | Hushand Frenzied Wife Is Disarmed, SAYS HE KIDNAPED THEIR CHILDRENj FRIENDSH]P‘ - - -— 1 | | | S s \I-r Emma Price, , adverti 'rrmur. c ng manager of the e to the Hall of hysterical and de- | ned, and saying that her husband naped her two young children, ! declared that she intended killing him. She was late terry by | she was t for A]a’v m She had | a large revolver concealed in her bos- | om and objected strenuously to being | taken into custody. | da to carry out her threat “I must see my children, I must see | my children to-night,” the anguished | motber sobbed. Almost crazed with | grief she was taken before Captain Burnett, who, after interviewing her, | ordered her locked up on a charge of | carrying a concealed weapon. Mrs. Price said she was worth nearly | $100,000; that she had a summer home | in Boulder Creek, from which the two children were taken yesterday by their | father, and that her mother, Mrs Har- | ris, living on Larkin street, was also | wealthy. ’ Mre. Price appeared at the Hall of Justice about 6 o'clock and asked 2 policeman accompany her to meda and ald her to regain the cus- | tody of her offspring. She was told that her troubles were not police mat- | ters and that she would have to swear | to a warrant against Price. Then tor! an hour she haunted the corridors of | the Hall and engaged in conversation with Peter Duffy, an attache. *“I will give any one $1000 who will get my little ones back for me; ves, T will give $10,000 to have them with me again,” she said She was in an excited condition and cried hysterically. “I have a gun here,” she said, indicating her bosom, “and 1 am going over to Alameda to kill my husband.” She wheeled with a sud- den determination and fled frantically from the building. The police were notified that the woman weas armed and Detective Tay- jor followed her to the ferry, where he placed her under arrest. The revolver, fully loaded, was taken from her. She carried a grip in which she had a bun- die of letters. She sald that she and her husband had been separated for six weeks. “He that | Ala- | | to-ntgn T OUT TO SHOOT HER HUSBAND EFUSED TO HELP HER RECOVER HAD KIDNAPED. -+ | wife of Willlam |'with my two children, 4 and 6 years|Visit to this country was originally old. Friday I came to the city to visit | my mother, on Larkin street, and left | the children with the servants. | morning I received word from my housekeeper that Mr. Price had been there and had taken the children. ! took the first train for Boulder Creek and arrived a few hours after he had left. I immediately boarded a return train and on my arrival here sought the aid of the police. ' Finding my ef- forts unavailing, I decided to take steps to regain the children myself. I | do not remember ‘that I said that I would shoot Mr. Price. If I did it was because I was mad—mad with anguish and rage.” Mrs. Price burst into tears and ex- citedly paced up and down the detect- ives’ office. -“I must see my children ; T must see my children to- night,” she moaned. Mrs. Price exhibited her letters. They were signed variously, full of vulgar and obscene writing and were read by the police. All concerned the alleged misconduct of Mrs. Price. She said they were in her husband’'s handwrit- | ing. ‘When informed that she would have | to go to jail for carrying a concealed weapon, the woman wept, but she did not remain long in detention, as her mother sent down and obtained her re- lease on bail. She went to her mother’s home, where she will be guarded to see that she does not carry out her threat to kill her husband. Mrs. Price has been married twice. The two children over whom the trou- ble occurred are by her present hus- band. She has two sons, one 17 and the other 23 years of age, by her first hus- band. She and her mother own prop- erty in this city, and are well off. She married Price about seven vears ago. When seen at his home in Oakland last night, Willilam L. Price told the story of his domestic troubles. wife had sued him a year ago for di- vorce on account of alleged cruelty, and he filed a cross-complaint, where- upon legal proceedings were dropped on each side. Mrs. Price has since been living mostly at Boulder Creek, where her husband went on Friday to see her and their children. Finding his wife absent, he said, and believing that she had gone on a spree, he took the children back with him to Oakland, intending to bring them to San Francisco to-day and leave them in the custody of their grandmother, - | | at the Legation said: This | 1! His ! 10 TIGHTEN THE B0 | | ‘Royal Prince Sails From Japan for i America. (}eneral Fushimi’s Mission Is to Draw the Two Nations Closer. | Coming First to San Francisco, but | Will Assume Cfficial Status at 8t. [ Louis and Washington Only. YOKOHAMA, Oct. 23. — Lieuténant | General Prince Fushimi, special im- perial envoy to the St. Louis exposi- tion, sailed to-day, with his suite, on the steamship Manchuria for San Fran- cisco, amid general enthusiasm. Prince Fushimi was attended from Tokio by officials of the imperial household, American Minister Lloyd C. Griscom and the entire American Legation staff in uniform. Arriving at Yokohama, the Prince and his party proceeded to a detached imperial palace, escorted by the Governor of the province, the Mayor of Yokohama and city officials |and the American consular officials. Shortly afterward Prince Fushimi embarked in the presence of an im- nense crowd, ‘aiild shouts—- and “America.” WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—It is stated authoritatively to-day that the purpose of the Emperor of Japan in sending on a visit to this country his adopted | brother, his imperial Highness, Prince | Fushimi, who will reach San Francisco | about the middle of November, is to strengthen by every appropriate means Hhe traditional friendship between the Lnx!Pd States and Japan. VISIT PLANNED LONG AGO. Kogaro Takahira, the Japanese Min- | ister in Washington, in a conversation | ““When a person of dignity travels in | foreign country it is almost always | the case that the occasion is used to | start some speculation in regard to the | object of his journey. So I do not ex- pect that exception should be made of the visit of his imperial Highness. But to attribute it to the so-called change in American feeling, as represented by | some newspapers, is entirely a ‘guess,” | from wild imagination. The Prince's brought into consideration as long ago < last spring, but as it was a part of his object to see the world's fair at | 8t. Louis, it was considered advisable to defer it to the autumn, when the exhibits would be in a.more complete form for observation, and for that | reason this time was chosen for his visit; but there is, of course, no ques- tion about the principal object of his visit being to strengthen thereby the ties of genuine friendship so happily existing between the United States and Japan in a most appropriate manner, | bat not in such ‘patchwork’ fashion as | bas been reported in some quarters. “His Highness will maintain his of- PILE TIES INTHE PATH OF TRAINS Vandals Make Des- perate Attempts to Ditch Cars, Vigilance of Train Hands Prevents a Disaster Near Modesto. Appalling Loss of Life Would Have Resulted but for Discovery of the Obstruetions. Epecial Dispatch to The Call MODESTO, Oct. 23.—The people of this vicinity are stirred up over two malicious and almost successful at- tempts to wreck Southern Pacific trains between Modesto and Salida early Sunday morning. At two different places on the main line ties were piled on the track, nearly causing. the de- raflment of a heavy freight train and the wreck of the morning Fresno pas- senger, A northbound freight, No. 253, was several hours late in passing through this place Sunday morning. When the train reached the switch on the south side of Salida, five miles to the north of here, the engineer saw a pile of ties B0’ the track. Djf prowpt action the train was checked and struck the ties with little force, no damage being done. The second attempt would have cost many lives if successful. The north- bound Fresno passenger left here at 7:55 Sunday morning and, on account of the attempt on the freight train, was run at slow speed to Salida. About a mile to the south of Salida the engine struck a pile of ties placed on the in- side of and parallel with the rails. The tender of the engine was torn off by the force of the impact. The whole train was jarred and the passengers were greatly alarmed. By almost a miracle, however, the train kept to the rails. Arriving at the Salida switch, where the attempt on the freight was made, the train crew found another lot of ties on the track, these being so wedged and jammed into the switch frogs that the train would have been ditched if it had struck them. Guards were promptly stationed and one of the Southern Pacific detectives is now on the scene. Deputy Sheriff Kiernan of this county late this even- ing arrested two suspicious characters on the Tuolumne River near here. The prisonérs slept in a boxcar at Salida Saturday night. They left that place and started toward Modesto shortly before the attempt to wreck the freight and were seen two miles to the north of here an hour after the attempt on the passenger. They refuse to talk or give their names and can give no explana- tion of their doings after leaving Salida. It is conjectured here that the ties were piled so as to ditch the north- bound Owl, which passed at a high rate of speed shortly before the freight struck the first obstruction. Had the Owl struck either pile of ties the loss of life would have been terrible. ficial status as Imperial Prince only in Washington and St. Louls, but in all other cities he will travel incognito. This is another evidence that he is not coming here to start a ‘boom,’ as has been reported. After his visit to the fair, where he will be particularly interested to see that wonderful dis- play of American genius and' energy, he will visit the educational, commer- cial and industrial centers of this country, such as Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburg and Chicago, to study the true causes of the greatness of the United States and also the le- gitimate interests of this great repub- lic in the Far East. HONORS TO BE SHOWN HIM. “As to the so-called change in American sentiment toward Japan, so often alluded to recently in.some newspapers, I do not feel it at all. It may be because I have not been sub- Jjected to a fit of nervousness for some time that I do not feel such a change, if there is any. But, in my opinion, so long as Japan has nothing in her motive nor action that may be con- sldered prejudicial to the legitimate interest of all nations, she has no fear of losing the friendship of any people; and, even if there should occur some deviation in this sentiment, through misunderstanding or on account of mischievous agencies, such misunder- standing soon must disappear, inas- much as there is no real ground for its existence. We are not afraid of any such misunderstanding, but we implicitly rely upon the keen intelli- gence and good sense of the people for a correct judgment of our cause and position.” Pierce, the Third Assistant Secre- m«m“mmm" From an unofficial source it has been learned that the Owl of Sunday morn- ing carried much that was valuable. —_——— FITZ FLOORED IN GOTHAM BY AN OLD GRAY HORSE Animal Lands With His Left in a Scene of “A Fight for Love.” NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—Fitzsim- mons has been knocked out twice, but for the first time in his life he was kicked out to-night. It happened during his performance of “A Fight for Love” in the Lyric Theater, Ho- boken. The victor in the kicking match was an old flea-bitten gray horse, rented for the evening from a transfer man. The blow landed as the pugilist backed up to the horse to show his parlor tricks in shoeing. The animal’s left hind hoof got to Fitz in the region below the belt and he fell on his face, while the house howled. ‘When he recovered, he walked over to the gray horse llld kicked him in the ribs. “I get this for working on Sunday,” said Fitzsimmons to the audience. e o g preparing the programme for the en- tertainment of the Prince. High honor will be shown the distinguished member of the royal house and, in addition to a dinner by the President in the White Bolll‘e. there will be a round of official entertainments in his honor. It is probable the Prince’s tour will include a visit to West Point, as his Highhess is keenly in- terested in military matters, having Secre- | already fought with mm in the ‘Eastern war. g SLAV WAR VESSELS TURN THEIR CANNON UPON FRAIL CRAFT Two Boats Sent to the Bottom With Their Crews and Others Damaged by Solid Shot HULL, England, Oct. 28.—A. M. Jackson & Co., solicitors for the owners of fifty Hull fishing boats, have notified the Foreign Office and Admiralty of an attack on the fishing fleet by the Russian Pa- cific fleet (commonly designated as the Baltic squadron), com- manded by Vice Admiral Rojest- vensky. The official information is that shortly after midnight on Friday the Russian squadron fell in with the Hull fishing fleet in the North Seca. The tirst portion of the fish= ing fleet passed saicly. Then the Russian ships turned their searchlights on the British ves=- sels for some time and a little later opened fire, 5 The steam trawler Cranc was sunk and the decapitated bodics of her skipper and mate have been brought to Hull. The boats were lowered and other members of the crew who are understood to be seriously wounded are on board the mission ship. The only slightly injured member of the crew has arrived at Hull. The steam trawlers Moulmein and Mino have arrived at Hull seriously damaged by shots, the latter having sixteen holes in her |+ British Press Regards hull. Russian Gunners Make Targets of Hapless Trawlers LONDON, Oct. 23.—The attack by the Baltic fleet upon the hul] fishing boats occurred 200 miles off Spum Head. The Russxan ships were steam- mg in line. The leadmg ships of the fishing fleet passed without incident, though most of the Rus- sian vessels turned searchlights on the trawlers long enough to prevent any mistake as to identity. After the bulk of the squadron had passed it opened fire, nearly all participating in the firing. The Crane was struck below the water line and raked above deck. Skipper Smith and Third Hand Loggott were decapitated by a shot, many of the crew being seriously wounded. Another trawler also was sunk, but the Moulmein, which brought the news to Hull, has no particulars as to her fate, The news has ‘created an intense sensation and the greatest indignation in Hull. The Moulmein arrived with her flag at half- mast. Her skipper states that the trawlers were fishing ahout 220 miiles east of north of Spurn Head at 1 o’clock Saturday morning, the weather being hazy. when the outlines of several vessels, apparently warships, sailing in a line, were dimly seen. While the crews were watching the war- ships, searchlights were flashed upon them, in the glare of which the Moulmein’s crew observed what they took to be torpedo-boats approaching, appar- ently with the intention of boarding the Moul- mein. They steaméd away, however, and soon the fishermen were horrified to find they were being fired upon. First one and then another trawler was struck by the flying shot. What seemed 10 be a round shot —— e e Continued on Page 3, Column 4. ] +— ERMRSE - OVERCAUTIOUS COMMANDER OF THE RUSSIAN PA- | CIFIC FLEET, WHICH FIRED UPON AND SANK BRIT- ISH FISHING VESSELS ON THE NORTH SEA. the North Sea Affair as Plain Act of War LONDON, Oct. 4.—Foreign Minister Lansdowne and M. Benckendorff, the Russian Embassador, both were out of town yesterday and all the government offices in London were closed, as usual on Sunday; therefore no official view could be gleaned of the firing by Russian, war vessels upon a British fishing fleet in the North Sea. The first reports of the affair received in London were regarded as almost incredible. When, however, cumula- tive evidence no longer left doubt of the general accuracy of the reports, astonishment became bewilderment as to ‘what possible motive could have led Russian officers into such an extraordinary and inexplicable course of actiom, which, unless a satisfactory explanation be immediately forthcoming, is only to be regarded as an act of war. This is the view taken editorially by all the morning pa- pers. The worst feature of the story, as viewed here, is the heartlessness displayed by the Russian fleet in steam- ing away without taking the trouble to ascertain even ‘whether its fire had inflicted any damage and without any effort to rescue the victims. ‘While admitting the necessity of a suspension of judgment for investigation and explanation, the morning newspapers are unanimous in demanding that the gov- ernment instruct Embassador Hardinge to make the strongest representations to the St. Petersburg Govern- ment and obtain reparation and apology and assurances of the Russian Pacific fleet's good behavior for the fu- ture. It is held that the omission of the Russian fleet to stay its course down the channel to offer an explanatfon makes the case look exceedingly grave, and the only pos= sible solution of the mystery is that, excited by rumors recently spread of Japan's intentions of the Pacific squad- ron, in the event of its salling, the Russian gunners yielded to panic and supposed that the trawlers’ rockets were the signals of an enemy’s fleet. In view of the decision in the Allanton case it is regarded as quite impossible that the St. Petersburg authorities can be in any way responsible for the incident. Considering the circumstances in the case, the news- papers treat the matter with commendable calmness, but are firm in demands for immediate satisfaction. The Chronicle says: “The next twenty-four hours must settle it one way or the other. Only two modes of settlement are possible. Either explanation, apology end generous compensation to the victims’ families or an ultimatum.” The Standard says: “An explanation should be promptly and sternly de- manded for the intolerable outrage. The Russian Govern- ment should be informed that it is expected to recall its fllstarred squadron; first, in order that proper Investigation — e —— Continued on Page 3, Columa 5,