The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 20, 1904, Page 27

Forecast mede at thirty bours ending ber 20: G H THE WEATHER. San Francisco and vicinity—Cloudy Sunday: fresh west wind. Locel Forecaster, Temporarily in Charge. San Franeisco for | midnight, Novem- | | WILLSON, —— THD THEATERS. ALCAZAR—'‘The Climbers." Matines to-day. Family.” to-day. COLUMBL. to-day. day. TIVOLI—“The | Tinee to-aay, CALIFORNIA—“A Friend of CENTRAL—'"Winchester.” “The County Chairman.™ CHUTES—Vaudeville. FISCHER'S—Vaudeville. GRAND—"‘The Show Girl" MAJESTIC— "Hearts Afiame. ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. the Matines Matines Matines to- essenger Boy.” Mat- ucta.” - VOLUME FI FTY PAGES—SAN FRANCISCO. SU PRICE FIVE CENTS. DESPISED MINING STOCK TO ENRICH A DENVER PARISH Happy Sequel to ized Speculation With Cathe- | dral Fund. RICH STRIKE BOOMS THE SHARES Special Dispatch to The Call 18.—The specula- louded the life of hael Callanan and plans for building & turn out better t of and to strike in the Little Nell mine e Creek promises to accom- Father Priest’s Unauthor- wes induced to speculate in mining stocks, and, thinking to raise more money for the erection of the cathedral in this way, he secretly Invested $26,- 000 of the funds in his care in stocks. A slump In the mining market and a | call upon the priest for funds led to his confession. The securifies were placed in the hands of Bishop Matz and ap- | praised by experts, and it was believed | the at time that they were almost | worthless. Within the last two days strikes of | phenomenal value have been made in the Little Nell mine at Cripple Creek, ore samples of which, running as high | as $10 to the pound, have been discov- | ered. There is no doubt that the cathe- dral will recover all its money invest- ed, with handsome interest. and the | priest, who also Invested his personal | | fortune, will reap a harvest. | SHIP AND TWELDE MEN REPORTED LOST Barkentine Makaweli Said to Have Gone Down Off Vancouver. Mpecial IDAPRt 50 Theptae- | ramored at Antwerp that the C., Nov. 19.—The he west of word e craft, -+ together with the stern part of her d ouse, a smashed boat and other M weli was built at and was owned | of San was regist uezuer, flyink sig- as picked up by the 1 Cit brought safely to Royal Roads. The storm is the worst | known in years. | " James Rolph, one of the owners of | the akawell, sald last night that| their vessel was coal laden and he still | | belteves her to be all right. | + MANAGER 0 Bids for the Exclusi PICKPOCKET'S PLAN ASTOUNDS F A HORSE SHOW ve Privilege of Rob- bing New York’s Elite. Special Dispatch to The Call king pockets in the Garden e Show week. gasped the Horse Show know what arrangements ave now,” continued xhe‘ ‘but I can do something | let me keep in| thers entering | ate in the crowd. ice and presentabl ts. T'll see t | of the profits l ed horse show repre- | . sentative was so full of explosives that | Eceme | he almost choked before he could | n to call the police. Then the| - 1l stranger quietly departed, closing | 3 e door carefully behind him. - — -+ LURES GIRL OF FOURTEEN | SAN FRANCISCO SHRINERS AWAY FROM HER HOME Sacramento Man a Prisoner in the Omaha City Jail on Serious Charge. HA, Nebr., Nov. 19.—John Har- a prisoner at the City y charge of assault. is Lena Hammond, of Overton, Nebr. d admits she came to Omaha who was a guest at her home, where she lived, son promised to take 2 und work here at his iber, awalting the re- s to take them to the have a hearing next ave a wife and two mento. B MARQUISE DES MONSTIERS IS VICTIM OF PARALYSIS Woman Who Recently Created Sensa- tion by Renouncing Catholic Faith Is Seriously IIL 19.—The (formerly Marquise Mary G. renounced sly v there was worse. She late clearly fending he CIRCUS TICKET WAGON IS ROBBED OF $30,000 ¥orepaugh-Sells Traveling Show Suf- fers Heavy Loss at Stand in New York State. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 19.—A tele- received to-day by Mrs. Lewis B confirms the story of the rob- bery of the Forepaugh-Sells circus at Tarboro, N. ¥. The amount secured by the robbers, who held up the ticket wagon, was $30,000. who says his home is at Sacra- | '| NEW YORK, Nov. 20—At least | JOURNEY TO FAIR NEVADA Banquet Given in Their Homor and Proves a Most Enjoyable Affair. | RENO, Nev., Nov. 19.—From the cool {and inviting shores of San Francisco over the hot and burning sands of Ne- | vada Islam Temple of San Francisco journeyed to Reno to-day, and from that time until now the city has been | &t their command. More than fifty came with the caravan. They were, | Breeted by many times that number | here, for from all parts of the State | Shriners came to do homage at the | temple. | _Hon. Frank H. Norcross, Supreme ! | Judge-elect of Newvada, acted as toast- | master at the conclusion of the cere- | monies to-night. In all about forty tyros were initlated. The ceremonies are said to have been the most gor- geous, as well as interesting, ever held in Nevada. The banquet that followed | in_itself was a feature. To-morrow the Shriners and their friends will go to Virginia City to visit the Comstock mines. They axpect to | leave for home Sunday evening. | \FIFTEEN LIVES | | LOST BY FIRE ‘ IN NEW YORK| | | { | EEESER SO | twelve lives were lost in a fire in a' | Brooklyn tenement-house early to-day |and the firemen are searching for | other bodies. It is belleved that the death list will equal fifteen. Twelve persons were injured, none, it is be- | lieved, fatally. . 1 Colonel Breckinridge Dead. LEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. 18.—Colonel William C. P. Breckinridge died at 11:40 p. m. as the result of a stroke of paralysis sustained Wednesday. The end came peacefully. [ | sengers, Salt Lake College RUMOR .f. OF SBA HORROR Liner Kroonland Said to Have | Fmg@gefl. | Nearly Fifteen Hun-| dred Passengers on Vessel. Oificials of the Red Star Company Discredit the Report. wEsiElantl face of the hill. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, Nov. 19.—A dis-| patch to the Central News from Brussels ys it S| [ | Red Star line steamship Kroonland, with 1445 pas-| | has foundered in| midocean. [ The officials of the Red Star | line have no information of | | any kind, and discredit the report. The Kroonland sailed from Antwerp on November 12 for New York. - JAPANESE AWAIT PORT ARTHUR'S FALL | BEFORE ATTACKING KUROPATKIN. UKDEN, Nov. 20.—The position at the front is unchanged. Positive information received here contradicts previous reports and says that the Japanese have decided not to begin a serious operation on Mukden before a definite result at Port Arthur—either a fall of the fort- ress or a necessity for the Japanese to bring up reinforcements from Jdpan and recommence the arduous work of the campaign. Untll then they intend to confine themselves merely to holding the Russians in check. Officers who have just arrived here from the extreme right say that the fighting which commenced there showed that the Japanese apparently were tésting both the Russian flanks armies occupy very strongly fortified positions. All the ranges are carefuily marked and whichever army attacks is likely to suffer severe losses. | The Japanese batteries have secured the range accurately at Poutlloff Hill and are throwing shells systematically, covering the emtire sur | —_— in turn. Both i r | : | THE BEST ARGUMENT AGAINST WAR—HIDEOUS SLAUGHTER ON SOUSHAN HILL, A HOTLY CONTESTED POSITION AT LIAOYANG. | -+ 1S JAN [URDER WOME THE ! Ok Wi LONDON, Nov. 19.—The Japanese| diplomatic representatives in Europe, at the request of Tokio, have made in- quiries into a report that Russia is| acquiring a new fleet from Chile and | Argentine. The Tokio government was | recently informed that Chile and Ar- gentine had sold or optioned to Co- lombia six or seven war vessels, which Colombia intended to turn over to Rus- | sia. | Inquiries carried on here and in South America by Japanese agents have| elicited an emphatical denial from both Chile and Argentine. These govern- ments are said to have stated that they are anxious to sell certain vessels, but not at the risk of being heavily muleted for breach of neutrality. Despite the official denials which have been transmitted to Tokio, more than one Japanese diplomat in Europe is apprehensive that in some way or other these half-dozen war vessels may Student Makes Confession, | Twice Attempts to Take Life by Siashing Vic- tim’s Throat. Young Prisoner Explains That He i shortly pass under the control of Rus- c"mwt RMt Sudden lmpnlse sia. ’.’T&x];ane!e independent inquiries 1o Kill confirm the published statement th: an American house is concerned in ne- ety o gotiations looking to such acquisition on the part of Russia. The efforts of Russia to stimulate shipbuilding within her territory, as detailed in the dispatch from St. Pe- tersburg last night, have been known SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 19.—Roy Scott, a young college student, whose mania is to kill women, was captured tosdsy Nftr making i seond ale to leading firms for some time. tempt to murder, He narrowly escaped | ent of the Russian Admiral lynching at the hands of an infuriated | re:;:n]ay‘ m;de an offer here to one ;yl mob, but was safely landed in jail byf the largest British shipbuilding firms the police. in which he guaranteed a certaln The murderous assault to-day oceur- | number of orders and a form of sub- red at the intersection of Main and | gidy if the firm would oven a navy Second South streets, the busiest cor- | yard on the Baltic. The terms were ner of the city. In broad daylight Scott | ypeatisfactory and the offer was re- met Elsie Gallacher on the street and | fysed. A somewhat similar sugges- suddenly reaching out with a large|(jon is now under consideration by pe:ltlt’mlfe slj:shnd hel: nct;ross the 1’.&2):!. the Vickers-Maxim Company, but it cu ng a deep gash about an incl length, The act was seen by a hi: | & ot MESUIDDEIDNEY er of persons, who quickly surround- CK. INNERS. ed the youth and handled him roughly DARING BLOCEADE RUN until he was rescued by the police, The girl was not seriously wounded. At the police station young Scott confessed that he had made a similar v, — assault upon Mary Burton, about five| CHEFU. T!fi‘“ lai;d T:’:e g:’“‘" weeks ago. At the time, the Burton | Steamship Taiping = # doe s girl's story that she had been slashed | steamship Progress, from Viadivostok, in the throat by a man she did not! carrying about one thousand Chinese recognize excited much comment, butjfrom that port, arrived here to-day. no effort was made to locate the guilty | They report that the British steamship person. Allanton (which was captured by the Young Scott is the 22-year-old son of | Vladivostok squadron, condemned by a ‘Walter Scott, secretary of a mining | prize court and subsequently released machinery company. He is a student | when the judgment was annulled on ap. in the Latter Day Saints’ University | peal) left Viadivostok on November 12, and has always been nervous and sub- | loaded with ammunition, and that she ject to hysterical attacks. By his own | would attempt to run the blockade of statement he is a homicidal maniac. Port Arthur. ta ““The impulse to do wWrong comes over From another source it is learned me at times and I cannot resist it,” {s | that the British steamship Victoria, his statement to the police. laden with provisions, has again suc- Elsle Gallacher, the victim of to-day’s | ceeded in eluding the Japanese war- assault, is 19 years old and well con- | ships and reached the harbor of Port nected. She had never seen Scott be- | Arthur. # fore his attack upon her. A passenger on the Taiping says that Steamships Succced in Eluding Ad- miral Togo's Fleet, s Japan Believes Russia Is Acquiring the JNavies of Chile and Argentina the cruiser Bogatyr of the Vladivostok squadron is now, held up by pontoons, while the two other vessels of the squadron, the Rossia and Gromoboi, have been less seriously damaged. The passenger says it is not known how the damages to these vessels were re- ceived. A dispatch from Shanghai on No-| vember 4 said that the Victoria, hav- ing succeeded In running the blockade of Port Arthur with a full cargo of | beef, returned to Shanghai on that date. It was reported from Tsingtau on October 7 that the Progress had re- turned there from Vladivostok and that her captain declared he found it easy to elude the Japanese ships in that vicinity. A Rk Bl APPEAL FOR REFORMS. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 19.—The meetinf of representatives of Zemst- vos, which had been looked forward to with so much hope, was held this aft- ernoon ‘at a private residence in this city, but at the last moment the Gov- ernment withdrew the official auspices under which it was to be held, because the representatives declined to adhere to the original purpose of the confer- ence. A hundred interested men, included among whom were some of the most prominent figures in Russia, therefore met and discussed a carefully prepared memorandum, practically embodying a recommendation for a national repre- sentative body to have a share In the government. This memorandum will be presented to Emperor Nicholas. The memorandum includes ten sec- ticns, of which seven were indorsed at to-day’s meeting. The remalnder, it is expected, will be approved at a meeting to be held to-morrow. e RUSSIANS FEAR CAPTURE. PARIS, Nov. 19.—Semi-official ad- vices from Chefu say that the offi- cers and crew of the Russian torpedo- beat destroyer Rastoropny, who have been ashore since the blowing up of their boat, assert that the commanders of the Japanese torpedo boats which entered the port threatened to take the ussians prisoners. The latter, it is dded, belleving the Japanese would attempt to_carry out their threats by landing in spite of the neutrality of Chefu, have sought refuge on a Chin- | ese cruiser in the harbor, where, it is said, the Russians will be protected against a possible attempt to make them prisoners. . The foregoing is regarded in official quarters here as involving a rather flagrant disregard of the neutrality of Chefu. | further Besiegers Renew the i Frerce Assault Upon Forts Held by Stoessel’s Men SHANGHAI, Nov. 19.—The Japan- ese resumed their attacks on Port Ar- | thur on November 17, making a furi- ous assault, which resulted in their occupation of underground chambers | in important positions. | MUKDEN, Nov. 19.—Another un-| successful attack upon Port Arthur; was made on November 15. | ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 20, 1:40 ] a. mi—The War Office announced at a late hour last night that it had no dispatches regarding the | fighting near Mukden. In the ab-| sence of officlal dispatches press tel-| egrams are regarded as evidence that important developments are In prog- ress and it is not improbable that a general engagement is going on. General Sakharoff, under date of No- vember 18, reports a reconnalssance on a large scale on November 17 in the| direction of Malkal and Chitaitse, on the right bank of the Hun River. The Japanese showed some resistance, but | were dislodged from these villages and from the bridges across the Hun. At daybreak the same day the Japanese repulsed a squadron of Cossacks thirty miles south of Sintsintin. General Stoessel, in a dispatch to the | Emperor dated November 2, says: “T am happy to report to your Majes- ty that all the assaults from October 25 to November 2 were repulsed by our | heroic troops. The most desperate as- sault occurred on October 30, but,| thanks to the bayonets of the reserves | and the bravery of the volunteer sharp- | shooters, the enemy was repulsed at all points. The Japanese did not return to | the attack the same day and left a great number of dead uninterred upon the fleld. “On October 31 the enemy twice as- saulted, but each time was repuised at the point of the bayonet and with hand grenades. Several of our officers and men were wounded. “The spirit of the troops is excellent. It is difficult to establish any distinc- ! tion as regards bravery. All are heroes. | The bombardment of the fortress con- tinues without intermission.” General ‘Stoessel praised the work of the Ambulance and Hospital Corps, mentioned a number of officers for dis- “tinguished bravery, and concluded: | “The Japanese losses were enormous. | I estimate them at 10,000.” | MUKDEN, Nov. 19.—Late yesterday | the Japanese opposite Poutiloff (Lone Tree) Hill attempted an advance un- der cover of their artillery and reach- | ed a small village between the Rus-| slan and Japanese positions, but, ac- cording to accounts brought by cour- | fcrs from the fleld headquarters, they | were repulsed with heavy losses. ‘The Japanese are making simul- taneous attacks along the railroad, but so far, it is reported, without result. | The big guns continued firing until last midnight. MUKDEN, vere artil Friday, Nov. 18.—A se- fire was opened on the Russian commencing at day- light to-day and lasting for several hours. There was Intermittent firing during the day. The Russians are ex- pecting a general attack by the Jap- anese. —_—— FIGHT WITH TORPEDO-BOATS. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 19.—The Tele- graph publishes a letter from Taagier, written by a Dutch engineer named | Kooy, who is connected with the wire- less telegraph system on board the Russian transport Kamchatka, belong- ing to Admiral Rojestvensky’'s division of the second Pacific fleet. The letter says that shortly after the Kamchatka anchored at Skagen for coal, a wireless message was received, sfating that four torpedo boats which had been pur- chased by Japan had left the Danish fiords. When the Kamchatka left Skagen she was convoyed by two cruisers, but lost them on the first night during & fog. The weather cleared on the sec- ond night and shortly after 8 o'clock four vessels were sighted, steaming rapidly. An order was given to man the guns and the Hamchatka fired blank shells as a warning to the ves- sels to change their course, They con- tinued to approach, however, where- upon the Kamchatka commenced a fu- rious cannonade. Two torpedo boats crossed the line of fire. Under the searchlizht. Kooy says in his letter, he clearly saw two torpedo boats, and he is certain they were not Russian vessels. One of the torpedo boats launched a torpedo. but the Kamchatka changed her position and no damage was done. The torpedo- boat then slackened speed and Kooy believes she was damaged by the fire from the Kamchatka. It is stated that the second torpedo-boat also launched a torpedo, but he did not see it. The other torpedo-boats disappeared. and he believes they attacked Vice Ad- miral Rojestvensky. The Kamchatka sent a wireless warning to Rojest- vensky. The writer says that every one in Kronstadt knows when and where the Japanese purchased the tor- pedo-boats. ——— Baltic Fleet’s Destination. MUKDEN, Nov. 1.—The Russian of- ficers here say the Russian Second Pa- cific Squadron will not be handicabved should Port Arthur fall. The squadron will proceed to Vladivostok. even in the event that Port Arthur holds out. because there is better accommodation at Vladivostok. Small hopes are enter- tained here of the effectiveness of the Port Arthur squadron.