The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 28, 1904, Page 1

tober 28: San vieinity—Cloudy erly wind. A. THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Francisco for thirty hours ending midnight, Oc- Friday, light rain by night; G. District Forecaster. Francisco and probably light south- McADIE, ALCAZAR—"“The CALIFORNIA—“Fritz and Saitz."” CENTRAL—"Paul Kauvar." COLUMBIA—"‘San Toy." CHUTES—Vaudeville. GRAND—"‘Arizona." MAJESTIC—" “When We Were Twenty- One.” ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—"Der Rastelbinder.” o - BB Wilderness.” SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. il Japanese Renew the, Offensive and Drive SIMck. RUSSIAN POSITIONS TAKEN ————— Mukden Hears Alarm- ing News of Enemy's Advance, P S DUEL OF ARTILLERY IS ON e | MUKDEN, Oct. 27, 10:15 p. m.— | News has just been received here that | the Japanese yesterday resumed the offensive on the east front and made @ slight advance. It is rumored that the Japanese have taken all the Rus- sian positions at Erdagou, between Huansian and Findlapu, on the road from Mukden to Bentsiaputze, but the | report has not been confirmed and appears improbable. MUKDEN, Oct. 27.—There was a re- connaissance in force last night by the Russian western flank, and desultory firing continued till 2 o'clock this morn- The Japanese were discovered to be hurriedly fortifying along the whole line, but this does not, of course, pre- clude the possibility of an attack by | them. | The artillery firing on the Russian which began yesterday and lasted | the night, has spread south-| g | ard | The weather has again cleared and is | much better for active operations. The days are warm and sunny, nights are cold, and some of the Rus- | sian troops, whose winter overcoats have not arrived, are suffering from the | celd Suspicious movements of the Japa- nese have been observed west of lhe1 railroad. The Chinese say positively that the Japanese are preparing to turn the Russian right or break through &} sle point of the lines. was an artillery fight on the | night of October 2 on the north shore of the Shakhe Ri directly south of Muykden. The cannonading, which was | heavy, was continued to-day. The Rus- sians are attacking. Should the Japa- nese be successful the fighting it is be- lieved will continue up to the walls of Mukden. This morning occasional shots | were heard on the western front. The whole army is delighted at the appointment of General Kuropatkin as commander in chief of the land forces in the Far East. The one idea among the There is every en is to advance. 2 when the next fight 11 be a desperate one. Ev precaution has been taken by the Russians to deal generously with Chinese who have suffered through the fighting in their territory. Not only| has a special commission been pcreated the purpose of paying for all food | forage commandeered, but compen- | 1 is awarded for houses in vil- lages destroyed. This course has as-| tonished the natives beyond measure, and there ha been many remarkable scenes during the disbursements of the commission. Chinese who had suffered by the loss of property fell upon their ind com knees and thanked the Russian officers for repaymen WITH THE RUSSIAN EASTERN | ARMY, Oct. —The heavy firing last night and this morning was only the | artillery exchanging shots. Both firing | lines are now facing each other with-| out outposts. . SR - HOW THE POWERS STAND. i ROME, Oct. 27.—Although no request | has been received by the Italian Gov- ernment regarding the removing of in- | ternational restrictions for the passage | of the Dardanelies by ships of war, the question has been more or less dis-| cussed between the powers since last January, when Great Britain addressed & protest to Turkey against the passage of the straits by Russian torpedo-boats, While no conelusion was reached, the attitude of the different powers appears to be as follow Great Britain is decidedly opposed. Germany considers herself an uncon- cerned spectator, whose interests in the | disputed matter would be neithér fur- | thered nor prejudiced by whatever so- Jution might be reached. Austria_always upheld the principle that the Dardanelles should be open to all or none. France, because of her present alli- ance with Russia, views the questiow in a different light from that in which she regarded it at the time of the Crimean War, when allled with England in the treaty of 1856, which was confirmed by the treaty of Berlin, she favored the prohibition of warships passing the straite. Notwithstanding the intimate rela- tions between the houses of Savoy and Romanoff, the Italian Government has no rcason to change from the attitude assumed in the Crimean War, in which | Pledmont participated as the ally of England. The Italian Anglophile feeling is voiced to-night by the Tribuna, a lead- ing Government paper, which calls Ad- miral Rojestvensky a lunatic, adding | that if complete and prompt satisfac- tion is not given war will be inevitable. — War News Continued on Page 4. Py, Post for Rough Rider. OTTAWA, Kans., Oct. 27.—Rela- tives of Ben Daniels, the former Rider under President Roose- welt, have received notice of his ap- | this time. So quickly Resumed on the Shakhe and Oyama Gans Grouna INCENDIARY PIRE. RAGES 0N WHARVES Great Loss of Life and Property in New York. Four Big Steamships Are Burned and Crews Un- accounted For. Big Freighter Arizona, Built at Union Iron Works, One of the Vessels D:stroyed. i . Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Oct. 28, 3:03 a. m.—Fire, believed to have been of origin, swept over the piers, warehouses and shipping at the Terminal Com- pany’s stores, South Brooklyn, early this morning. It was still burn ing at 3 o’clock this morn- | ing, and at that time two | lives were known to have been lost and | there were fears that this number would be multiplied many times. Four fine ocean-going steamships were burning from bow to stern and were believed to be doomed, and hundrede of thousands of dollars’ worth of cotton, hemp and general cargo that the China ships bring in were all ablaze and irreparably dam- but the | aged The known dead: POLICEMAN PATRICK CUSHING DIUFourlh-avenue station, B:);)(klyn. NIDENTIFIED F; hem- med in by flames, :i'eénxg ihrfly Thed the water. CREWS MAY BE LOST. As to the fate of the crews of the ships, there can be only conjecture at did the fire spread, according to the reports, that it was impossible for them to escape. The ships lost are the American, the Arizonan and the Nebraskan of the American and Hawalian Steamship Company and the Citta di Palermo of the Italian line. They are fast to the piers, blazing at all points. It is im- possible to get near enough to drag them out into midstream. That the fire was of incendiary origin is the testimony of two private detect- ives. There has been much ill feeling between the Terminal Company and | some of the residents of the neighbor- hood because the company desires to close certain South Brooklyn streets. Owing to the late hour when the fire was discovered, it was impossible to learn anything definite regarding in- surance. ALL FINE NEW VESSELS, The American, the Nebraskan and the Arizonan were all new vessels, and among the best in the Atlantic and Pacific trade. The Arizonan was launched only last year, having been built at the Union Iron Works in San Francisco. Her gross tonnage was 8762; length 470 feet, breadth 57.2, depth 31L5. The Nebraskan was built in Camden and launched in 1902; gross tonnage 4409, length 360 feet, breadth 46.2 feet, depth 24.6 feet. The American was built in 1900 at the yards of the Delaware River Com- pany, Chester, Pa.; gross tonnage 5591, length 4068 feet, breadth 511, depth 30.3. Each of these ships was of steel con- struction, and was equipped with twin screws. They were taking on cargo and were lashed fast to the piers, which burned so rapidly that it was impossible to save them. —_——— | RIOTS OCCUR IN TWO DISTRICTS OF RUSSIA Head of St. Petersburg Police Depart- ment Hastens to Province of Vilna. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 27.—Se- rious riots are reported to have oc- curred in the province of Vilna. Gen- eral Ridzeveky, the new head of the police department, has hurriedly pro- ceeded thither. MOHILEFF (On the Dneiper), Rus- sia, Oct. 27.—There have been no anti- Jewish riots here, strictly speaking, as reported in some quarters, but consid- erable disorders with ' army reserve men have occurred in connection with the mobilization. Drunken peasants in the streets attacked houses and shops, and most of the local traders being Jews they suffered, but the houses of the local officials were also attacked. The desertion of Jewish re- serve men, who are fleeing abroad, helped to incite the populace against them, as Christians had to take their places. —_—— VATICAN EAGER TO JOIN IN PEACE CONFERENCE ROME, Oct. 27.—The Vatican is sounding different powers on the sub- ject of *he admission of its .repre- sentative at the proposed second Hague conference, on the same ground as the admission of the South American republics, which were not represented at the first conference. The Vatican emphasized the fact ‘that it was excluded from the first confer- ence chiefly because of the opposition of the Italian Government, supported by Great Britain, which asked in ex- change Italy’s support for the exclu- sion of tives of the Boer re- =ublics, incendiary | LIKE 618 WILL S b5 SERVED Unique Scheme De—l vised by an Un- known Inventor, | - i or Classic Airs by Turp- ing a Key. Tuneful Melody Will Be Carried to Residences or Offices Through Underground Pipes. Special Dispatch to The Call. | PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 27.—Music out of a pipe to be turned on or off like | zas is the plan of a company which Customers Can Get Ragtime has asked for a concession from the Lewis and Clark Exposition. The com- pany is represented by F. O. Abbott, a Seattle attorney, who is now in Balti- | more, Md., but who promises on his return to incorporate a company for $75,000 and exploit the invenilon. The concession at the exposition is to ad- vertise the scheme. Abbott’s proposi- tion is now being seriously considered by President Good, who is very favor- ably impressed. According to the story told the expo- sition officials by Abbott, the inventor, whose identity remains unknown, plans to place an orchestra in a central sta- tion. Tubes fitted with the inventor's secret apparatus will run from this sta- tion to the offices, stores or residences of the customers. The programme. will be carried out daily. A customer notes that at a certain . time his favorite plece of music will be played. He turns { @ key and a burst-of music from brass, reed and stringed instruments fills the | room. The subscriber gets the music | he wants, sweeter and more natural in | sound than when produced by a phono- | graph. | Tt is believed that the music may, by | this m be served to customers as far di from the central station as are customers of a central the steam-heating plant, which-supplies an entire city by underground pipes. The details of this invention are, of | course, closely guarded by Abbott. He is willing to put up a heavy bond to | carry out his part of the contract, | should the concession be granted. The | phonograph plays no part in the inven- tion, for the music is heard first hand by the customer. Nor will it be mec- essary to stand as close to the music tube as to a phonograph, for the gas- | pipe symphony may be heard for a con- siderable distance. COLLIDES WITH 70 AND SINKS |Steamship Mainlander Hits } Smaller Craft in Fog and Goes to Bottom of Ocean | SEATTLE, Oct. 27.—The steamer | Mainlander of the Pacific Coast Steam- | ship Company’s fleet lies at the bot- tom of Puget Sound, off West Point lighthouse, four miles north of Seattle, | having been sunk about 6 o’clock this evening in a collision with the power- ful tug Sea Lion. No lives were lost, despite the fact that the Mainlander had sixteen passengers and a crew of thirty. While the Mainlander went down with everything aboard save the people, the tug was but little injured, | and her crew escaped without injury. But for the Sea Lion’s having stood by, everybody aboard the Mainlander gdoubtless would have perished. With- in twenty minutes from the time the vessels' came together the Mainlander went to the bottom. At tfe time of the collision the Main- lander was returning from Bellingham. The Sea Lion was towing the British ship Celtic Monarch up the sound. A ! dense fog enveloped the sound. Neither | master could see a ship’s length ahead of his vessel. Captain Ellsmore says he had come to a dead standstill at the time of the collision, and in fact was slowly backing. Both he and Cap- tain Mauter kept blowing their fog- yhorns and though the weather was thick each heard the other plainly. After knocking a hole in the port side of the Mainalnder the Sea Lion went alongside the Mainlander, which | was rapidly sinking, and took off her passengers, crew and She then took her tow to Ballard, returned and attempted to tow the Mainlander ashore, but without success. The Mainlander was valued at $100,- 000 and was heavily insured. —————— Two Injured in Collision. SEATTLE, Oct. 27.—The esst and west bound passenger trains on the Great Northern collided at Richmond Beach to-day. The failure of the afr- brakes to work is the ca ELECTION BOARD ESCAPES BY TIE VOTE OF JURORS Evidbice A o laid against ..‘dg\. Jury Fails i fo | Take Intares. in Charge That Assesso: Eased | Tax ‘ Burden of | Fhelan and Guts Inquiry | Short | by Refusing | fo Hear Witness. L2 PRESIDENT FORTY-SIX YEARS OLD Mr. Roosevelt Cele- brates Birthday Anniversary. —— Special Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—President Roosevelt celebrated the forty-sixth anniversary of his birth to-day by hard work in the executive offices, a long walk with his children and a family dinner in the private dining- room of the White House. The anniversary was remembered by hundreds of friends in all parts of the country, who sent him congratula- tory messages. Among the early call- ers on the President were Attorney General Moody, Secretary of the Navy Morton, Senator Knox and Assistant Secretaries Loomis and Oliver. Mrs. Dewey, wife of the admiral, made a brief call this morning to join in the congratulations. She left the White House with a half dozen beautiful white roses which had been present- ed to her. No caller was more welcome than -rmlu-m'rhomn tmnn‘t:i: who :u Na partment watchman when 3 Assistant Secretary the President was of the Navy. £ “This is my birthday, too,” said “I am 82 years old and I al- ways ofl’l_ here on the President's birthday.” ° Dennis lost both arms in an explo- sion on the Princeton at Gibraltar in 1847. He was firing a salute to a Fom‘;& Mayor Phelan was bef: exte..t in the assessment of his properties. nst Ruef Lacking HE Grand Jury had a protracted and stormy session yesterday, but nothing was accomplished. The factions split in the vote to prosecute the Election Commissioners. The charges against Ruef failed of substantiation, direct evi- dence being altogether lacking. Morris Levy had a short go with the jurors, but no basis for a case was ore the Grand Jury in connection with charges that he had been favored to a liberal Assessor Dodge was also a witness. The jurors grew tired of the investiga- tion, regarding it as unwarranted, and adjourned while Nealon had yet another witness to cail. XN CosT 3 420,000 IL -25 vears oo ASSEISED TO DAY 270,000 o8 32 FERCHNT OrCOST ey 7 § New 8o10im03 Tumouaneur THESTATE WASHIHCIY DDGE DEMOCRAT PLAYS JOKE ON_ WOMEN Mrs. Roosevelt’s Donation Is Voted to Mrs. Parker. —_—— Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Oct. 27.—Among the features of the harvest home festival held by members of the Reformed Church in Flushing on Wednesday ‘was a voting contest to decide who was the most popular woman. The prize to be awarded was a framed photograph of the White House in Washington. This had been donated to the festival by the wife of the President and bore an autograph signature of Mrs. Roose- velt. The leading candidate in the voting was Mrs. Swain, wife of the pastor of the’church. There was a gen- eral understanding that the competi- tion was to be limited to the women of the congregation. The ballots, of course, were for sale. Attending the festival was William J. Rasquin Jr., a Judge of the New- town municipal ecourt, a member of the church and an ardent Democrat. When asked by a pretty girl to vote in the competition the Judge smilingly led: “T'll take all you have.” He then placed the tickets, seventy in number, in the ballot box, after writing on each the name of Mrs. Alton B. Parker. It happened that Judge Rasquin was called upon to an- nounce the result of the contest. Then the statement that Mrs. Parker had received a majority of the votes and mmuum”v AL,y I . \' GIRL WEDS A CHINESE OF WEALTH Miss Staley of This City Bride of a Merchant. —_— Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M, Oct. 27.— Miss Daisy H. Staley, said to be well known in San Francisco society, and Sam Yonford, a Chinese, who claims to be a wealthy merchant of the Coast city, were married here this afternoon by the Rev. Wilson J. Marsh, pastor of the First Congregational Church, at the pastor’s residence. Miss Staley and the Chinese arrived in Albuquerque this morning over the Santa Fe from the West, and at once drove to the office of the County Clerk, where they applied for a marriage license. The clerk at first refused to grant the license, but the Celestial and his bride-to-be convinced the official that he had no option in the matter, and the document was issued. The couple then drove direct to the resi- dence of the minister, who performed the ceremony without queston. The Chinese and his bride declined to make ‘any statement in regard to their union other than that they will return to San Francisco, after a wed- ding trip in the East, to make their home. - To the minister, Yonford show- ed documents to prove that he was a merchant of wealth and standing in mllh- Staley e p-:l:tl to ey was ly declared FORMER MAYOR AND PRESENT ASSESSOR, WHO APPEARED BEFORE THE GRAND JURY. —_— | The Grand Jury was after big game | yesterday, but out of a session that was | full of exeiting situations and indus- | trious effort to implicate various per- =ons in the toils of the law there came nothing. Lengthy testimony was in- troduced in a variety of matters, but | not in one case was it of the direct sort that fastens guilt or furnishes a basis | for accusation. The attempt to prefer a charge of misfeasance against the Election Com- missioners failed by a vote of nine to nine. The testimony taken in the Ruef matter was of the hearsay order and not to be regarded asevidence. No proof was addueed - involving Morris Levy in questionable = connection with the saloon adjoining the Baldwin Thea- ter, and nothing was accomplished in regard to the allegations of Juror Neai- on that Assessor Dodge has shown fa- voritism toward former Mayor Phelan in the valuation of his properties. On every matter before the jury there was discord. A number of the members are of the clamorous type when their prejudices are touched, and from the start-off the lack of harmony manifest- ed itself jn the fling of words and the obstruction to proceedings. The tryout of the factions in the in- quisitorial body, over which there has been so much speculation, took place in the vote on the case of the Election Commission, which was the first taken up. Wakefield Baker's absence saved the commission from prosecution. With- out him Foreman Lillenfeld failed to obtain a majority vote, on which the District Attorney would have been di- rected to proceed against the Election Board to remove it from office. On a former occasion Baker sided with those who urged steps against the Com sioners, and it was expected that he would do so again. But urgent business had called him out of town. FACTIONS MUSTER FORCES. Those favoring prosecution had mus- tered all their strength but this one member, while the opposition was on hand with its full force of nine mem- bers. It was the first time since the jury was impaneled that as many as eighteen were in attendance. Assistant District Attorney Whiting was on hand to lend the assistance necessary if action should be taken against the Election Commissioners, and he advised the Grand Jury that the law did not require the votes of twelve members, as in indictment pro- ceedings, to present an accusation for removal. from office. A majority vete would suffice, he sald, and then Fore- man Lilienfeld without further delay urged a roll call. When the result was announced he insisted that another vote be taken, but the strident voices of the opposition were &oe in test that he gave up attempt. wfi was reported that Foreman Lilien- feld had been approached yesterday morning in an endeavor to have him sidetrack the charges against the Hlee- tion Commissioners. His answer was a stout refusal. He refuses to divulge the name of the person who came to him, but denies positively that it was any nnected with the municipal moog;nm.-finwmuam-m s s Rl st - Contigued on ¥ ~~ §. Column 4. b