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

ber 28: Forecast made et San Frascleee for thirty hours ending midnight, Novem- San Francisco and wicinity—Fair Monday; light west wind G. H. WILLSON, Local Forecaster. USRI | S - THE WEATHER. | | l S £/ > e ra o s THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—"‘The the Corner. MAJESTIC—"In ORPHEU! CALIFORNIA— ‘Finnigan’s Ball.™ CENTRAL—"“The Little Church Around COLUMBIA—*‘Her Own Way.” CHUTES—Vaudeville. FISCHER'S—Vaudeville. GRAND—"‘The Show Girl."” —Vaudeville, TIVOLI—"King Dodo.” Christian.” Mizzoura.” SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1904. PORT ARTHUR REPELS , TERRIFIC ONSLAUGHT| S |IE SAT Beswegers Are Mczémg No Headway T fig ag The e | | | 1 - OKIO, Nov. 27, 6:30 p. m.—Imperial headquarters has just issued the following announcement: “The works having been nearly completed for our attack against Sungshu Mountain (Port Arthur) and the forts lying ecastward therefrom, a general assault was made from the afternoon of November 26, but owing to the enemy’s stubborn resistance our object has not yet been accomplished. hting still continues.” ~ SLAV HUMANITY TOWARD THE FOE—SOLDIER SUCCORING WOUNDED JAPANESE OFFI AR CER. ARRESTED | 0k JORY TAPEN] Attempt to Fix Big Will Contest | Alleged. l NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—Lee Cohen, a] in the O’Donnell will cas¢, now | heard here in the special term of | upre Court before Justice rrested to-day charged| “fix” the jury for a eration of $1000. J. T. ars of age, who is al- conducted the negotia ed at the same time on | s 14 three sons of the nell and other relatives the Supreme Court for | of the estate of Neal 1 his brother Hugh, who | , gregating more o a statement District Attor- | Kamper told an the contest- vas going on | fixed. The | rtified and ne- | his ‘ was ar- Kamper | ch, it is alleged, who said he was sure | the jury could be! thinking and | Atto sentatives rney was agreed upon for to-day, and when Cohn | and Kamper appeared t y were ar- | rested | ———— | Pelton Sent to the Tmnb'. NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—Frank Fel- ton, charged with the murder of Guy Roche, the gambler who was shot in. Broadway on Thursday afternoon and who died last night, was arraigned to- day before Coroner Scholer and re- manded to the Tombs until Monday, when the guestion of admitting him to bail will be decided by the Coroner after a conference with District At- torney Jerome. Japanese Fail to Turn Kuropat- kin’s Left. LONDON, Nov. 27.—The Daily Tele- graph’'s correspondent at Chefu hears that many of Admiral Togo's vessels are being docked and repairs are in preparation for eventualities. The same correspondent also gives a rumor that the Japanese assault on Port Ar- thur has been repulsed with heavy loss. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 27.—The Japanese attempt to turn General Ren- venkampff’s left, as reported by Gen- eral Kuropatkin, has failed, according to a dispatch from Mukden which has been received here. General Kuropatkin telegraphs a de- scription of a Japanese attack on No- vember 24 against a Russian detach- ment near Esinkhetchen, on the front ol the left flank. “The fighting,” General Kuropatkin says, “‘was fierce, almost amounting to a bayonet engagement, but the enemy was everywhere repulsed and suffered eeverely. The attack was renewed the following morning, the Japanese hav- irg been reinforced, but again was re- pulsed, and at 4 o'clock in the after- noon a blizzard and fog greatly hin- dered artillery fire. The Japanese con- | tinued to advance under cover of the fog, but our forces held their posi- tions and the firing subsequently slack- ened. The Russian losses were nine killed and fifty-seven wounded. “On November 26 the Japanese re- sumed the offensive and endeavored to enve'op our left flank, while advanec- ing against our center. I have received no later reports.” General Kuropatkin also describes the bayoneting of twenty Japanese be- longing to a patrol during a recon- roissance on the night of November 25. L SR FLEET SAILS FROM SUEZ. First Division of Baltic Ships Pro- ceeds Toward Orient. SUEZ, Nov. 27.—Vice Admiral Volkersam's division of the Russian Second Pacific squadron sailed this morning escorted by Egyptian Coast Guard cruisers. LONDON, Nov. 28.—The progress of the Russian Second Pacific squad- ron excites daily growing interest. Japanese correspondent of the Morn- ing Post, discussing possible prepara- tions to meet the squadron, suggests that Japan rely upon the older war- ships to maintain the blockade of Port Arthur (in fact, the corre- spondent asserts they already are so employed) and thus enable Togo to release his more modern vessels for an overhauling at Sasebo, preparatory to meeting Admiral Rojestvens! SrSIE N R ‘War News Continued on Page Two. OULDHANG 10 SAVE HER SOV-IV-LAW Woman’s Coniession of Murder Is False. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. CHEYENNE,. Wyo., Nov. 27.—Mrs. Nancy Richardson, a ranch woman of Fort Bridger, Wyo., some time ago confessed that it was she who shot Mrs. Leona de Mars, a neighbor, who was wounded during a fight over the division of irrigation water last Au- gust and died a few days ago. Mrs. Richardson said she was prepared to suffer any penalty, even death. Her confession was made to shield George Renner, her son-if-law, who is, a prominent ranchman of Fort Bridger. Renner, however, is now in jail, pre- pared to make a full confession, and Mrs. Richardson has been discharged. At the time of the fight it was sup- posed that Mrs. Richardson did| the shooting, but admissions of Rehner and his mother-in-law show that Ren- ner was disguised as Mrs. Richardson, What gave the officers a clew was the statement of the dyving woman that bher assailant, although she resembled Mrs. Richardson, threw stones at her with the force and accuracy of a man and his veice was distinctly masculine. Mrs. Richardson, it is now learned, was secreted in the brush and wit- nessed the assault. The crime shocked all Wyoming and its surprising sequel has caused a sensation. —_——— TRAVELER'S BODY FOUND BESIDE RAILROAD TRACK Remains Supposed to Be Those of M. J. Byrnes, Representative of a San Francisco Firm. SAN JOSE, Nov. 27.—The body of a man supposed to be M. J. Byrnes, a travelf nlelrum for Young & Beale, dealers in willow ware, of San Fran- cisco, was found beside the railroad track near Hillsdale this morning. It is believed he fell from an’ early morn- ing freight train. | PRICE FIVE CENTS SHOT DOV AT HOME New Mexico Killed. Window Takes Life of Colonel Chaves, Murder Believed to Have Been the ket of Revengeful Stockman of the District. Special Dispatch to The Call. LAS VEGAS, N. Mex,, Nov. 27.—Colo- nel J. Francisco Chaves, - Delegate in Congress from New Mexico for three terms, for twenty years a member of the Territorial Senate, for ten years its president, later Superintendent of Pub- lic Instruction, and known widely as a Repubilcan leader of New Mexico, was shot dead at 7 o’clock last evening. Col- onel Chaves had finished his supper at his ranch in Pinas Wells, and was sit- ting by an uncurtained window read- ing, when some one fired from without, killing him instantly. . Word was sent to Santa Fe, a hundred miles away, this morning and fifty men with blood- hounds were sent to the district. The Chaves family has been promi- nent in New Mexico for years. Colonel | Chaves’ grandfather, Francisco X. | Chaves, came originally from Spain. Another member of the family was the Governor of New Mexico under the Mexican rule in 1846. .One of his broth- ers, Felipe Chaves, is a banker in Belen, N. Mex. Colcnel Chaves was an attorney, and last year he relentlessiy presecuted the stock thieves in his county. He had recently had trouble with, rustlers who interfered with his sheep ranches. It is believed the mur- derer i8.a revengeful stockman. FRIENDS WORK 10°FREE fIN President to Be Asked to Take Up Case of Baker in Jail Here for Treason —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. SOMERSET, Pa., Nov. 27.—Frederick M. Baker, 22 years of age, whose father, Jeremiah Baker, lives five miles north of Somerset, is held a military prisoner at San Francisco and is des- tined to spend his life behind the prisd on walls unless an appeal for clemency soon to be made to President Roose- velt meets with executive approval. Young Baker enlisted in the marine service at San Francisco without the knowledge or consent of his parents and claims that while he was attached to the cruiser Charleston; which was lost on the rocks in the Philippines, he was cantured by the insurgent forces while on shore leave on the island of Cebu. He was held prisoner until Jan- uvary, 1900, when, with a view to es- caping the barbarous treatment ac- corded him by his captors, he was in- duced to take service with them, which he did, he says, with the mental re- solve that he would make his escape to the United States forces at the first opportunity. He escaped six months later and gave himself up to the American officers only to be arrested and court martialed for treason. He was convicted and sen- tenced to life imprisonment. Much interest has been aroused at Somerset in behalf of the young man and an effort will be made to have Congressman A. F. Cooper take charge of his case. STEEL TRUST WILL OWN RAILROAD TO SEABOARD Report That It Would Build Line From Chicago Apparently Is Confirmed. NEWCASTLE, Pa., Nov. 27.—The [ story sent out from Chicago some days tago that the United States Steel Cor- poration had decided to build a raifl- road of its own from Chicago to tide- water to carry its products appears to have been more truth than poetry. It was announced to-day that the Pitts- burg, Bessemer and Lake Erie Rail- +road, which has surveyed its line from ! a point near Butler to this place, a dis- tance of thirty miles, is but the first link in the chain which the big steel trust intends to forge. 5 The plans were laid some time ago and were carried on under cover of the little excitement caused by the ru- ! ENVELOPED [Y FIRE OV KE' PEAK 7| Political Leader of Young Girl Lost at Night Nearly Perishes, Bullet Fired Through tm;Sleeping in Open, Her Comb Explodes From Blaze She Started. Miss Mande Arnold, a Wealthy Chicago Girl, Saved by Stanford Student Who Was With Her. Special Dispatch to The Call. COLORADO SPRINGS, Nov. 27.— Lost on Pike's Peak, forced to sleep in the open and narrowly escaping death from the flames of a bonfire was the experience of Miss Maude Arnold, a wealthy Chicago girl, whose father, B. J. Arnold, is the consulting engineer of the New York Subway Construction Company. In company with her broth- er, 14 years old, and Harold Maurer, of Chicago, Miss Arnold, who is 19 years of age, scaled Cameron’s Cone to the south of Pike's Peak ¢n Saturday. In attempting to make the descent the three lost their way, and, darkness coming on, were compelled to spend the night in the open. The trio fell asleep beside a bonfire, but later were awakened by the explo- sion of the comb in Miss Arnold’s hair. She was soon enveloped in flames. Heroic efforts were required to smother the fire and save the xoung woman's life, and as it was much of her beau- tiful hair was destroyed. A searching party was sent out early Sunday morning, but the trio returned to Célorado Springs alone. Miss Ar- nold is suffering from the shock of her experience, and her mother, who is an inva’ 4, is prostrated as a result of it. T was on his way. (rom—Cucm_L to Stanford University and stopped off in Colorado Springs to visit the Ar- nolds. He is the son of a wealthy Chi- cagoan. Maurer will leave Colorodo Springs for California to-morrow and immediately take up his work at the university. The quick work on Maurer’s part was probably all that saved Miss Arnold from a horrible death. Maurer was the first to awaken after the explosion. With his coat he succeeded in cmother- ing the flames which were enveloping the girl. PREFERS DEATH | T0 DISCRACE German, Believed to Be Well Connected in Europe, Ends His Life *in Cincinnati L IR CINCINNATI, Nov. 27.—A man be- lieved to be prominently connected i Germany committed suicide by hangin; himself in his cell at the Central police station here to-day- He was registered as “Max Rickhardt, aged 27, Germany,” at the police headquarters. He he reg- istered at three hotels here under dif- ferent names and under other names in St. Louis and elsewhere throughout the country he was called “The German Prince of Many Aliases.” He was ‘tall, fine looking and faultlessly dressed. To- day he was moaning about “Liddle,” &nd repeatedly said: “She will never know what became of me.” Letters were found addressed to Lid- die Lang, Reichenbach, Saxony, Ger- many, and he repeatedly said she was waliting there for his return. He prayed she would never hear of his downfall. He was arrested last Tuesday at the Grand Hotel, where he had registered as Clement Christian Lauteren. He was charged with being a hotel thief. He was wanted in Indlanapolis, Louisville, St. Louis and other cities for hotel rob- teries. TAKES STEPS TO CRUSH BULGARIAN MOVEMENT Sultan Orders the Uprising Put Down by the Quickest Possible Movement. SALONICA, European Turkey, Nov. 27.—The Bulgarian revolutionary movement has recently.assumed such alarming proportions that the Sultan is sending Nazir Pasha to Salonica as special envoy with instructions to take all the measures necessary to sup- press the Bulgarian movement by the quickest possible methods. Ten bat- talions from Albania are expected here soon and the Redifs will prob- mor that the steel trust would take |ably be mobilized in order to afford the Erie road for its own. out now that the trust never wanted the Erie, but had all along figured on having a line of its own. Failure to get greater special reduc- tions on rates for their product is the caus> given here for the building of the new line by the Bessemer people, in- cluding Carnegie and others interested directly or otherwise in the big steel trust. Constabulary En Route Here, ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 27.—The two companies of the Fourth Constabu- lary, numbering 280 men and four- teen officers, not including the band, under the command of Major A. D. ‘Haskell, departed to-night for San Francisco. AL It comes effective military protection in every | village of Macedonia. e e FRENCH COURT SETS DATE FOR REJANE DIVORCE CASE Report That the Actress and Her . Husband Had Become Recon- © ciled Proves Untrue. PARIS, Nov. 27.—The third tri- bunal of the Seine has decided to hear the Rejane-Porel divorce case on Monday next. It was understood that Madame Rejane and her husband, M. Porel, director of the Vaudeville Theater, had become reconciled dur- ing the summer, but the fixing of the date for the formal hearing indicates that the breach continues. GOLD STOLEN FROM THE BANK UNDER W IS FOUND EBER'S BARN Coroner and T hree Assistants Locate Tin Can Full of Yellow Coin. LAST LINK IN CHAIN OF EVIDENCE Special Dispatch to The Call stolen from the Placer County Bank by a masked bandit last May has been found and young Adolph Weber, who since his arrest on the charge of mur- | dering his father, mother, sister and | brother, has rested under the suspicion | that he was the bold highwayman, who | broad daylight entered the bank and | at the point of a pistol held up (he{ cashier for $5000, has had the charge | of robbery preferred against him. The ‘ money was found on the Weber prop- | erty in a cowshed last Wednesday by | Coroner Shepard and three assistants. | The discovery of the gold on the| Weber homestead, in a place not many | feet removed from the spot where was found the bloody pistol with which young Weber is supposed to have dealt | death to his parents, his schoolgirl sister and crippled brother, is regard- ed as almost proof conclusive that the prisoner’s lust for gold drove him to commit the two crimes, one foul and flendish, the other bold and daring. Immediately after the gold was found the bank officials were informed. | The fact that it was found on the Weber estate caused them to form but one conclusion—that Adolph Weber, as they had long suspected, was the thief. Cashier Smith swore to a com- plaint charging Weber with the crime of robbery and a warrant was issued by Justice of the Peace Smith. It was served on Weber in his cell yesterday morning. EXPECTED A SCENE. 1 The serving of the warrant, in the| eyes of the officers and the bank offi- cials, was more than a formal affair. | With them it was the completion of a| chain of evidence that branded Weber | not only as a thief but as a foul and| fiendish murderer, a creature capable of | dyeing his hands in the blood of his| kin to satisty his love for gold. They | expected that Weber would show some sign that the mass of evidence against him was having an effect upon his iron | will, that he would weaken and betray his inmost feelings, and it was even, ‘expected that the vouth might give| up the hard struggle he is making | ngn‘lnn circumstances and confess his gullt. | But they were disappointed. When | Sheriff Keena stepped into the cell of the accused and unfolded the imposing document that charged the boy with | robbery, young Weber displayed only curiosity. As the Sheriff read aloud | the accusing wordé Weber's eyes glit- tered. Then he smfled, the same con- temptuous smile that he has worn at all times since his arrest. “Oh,” he said, “I thought you had| discovered the motive for the murders.” There was not a tremor in his voice | and when he took the warrant from the Sheriff his hand was steady. Hasti- ly he glanced at the paper and then with a shrug said: “This is a trivial matter. It does not amount to anything. I hope the mur-| der charge will be heard first. I want to get it off my hands.” SENDS FOR BANKER. At Weber's request Banker Lubeck, president of the Placer County Bank, was summoned to the cell. Weber | asked the banker if he would press the robbery charge before the con- clusion of the murder trial. “The law will have to take its course,” answered Lubeck. “I do not | know what course will be pursued.” The money was found in the Weber barn in the cowshed under a foot of | packed earth and manure. On Tues- day last, the day after the finding of the pistol, Sheriff Keena and Coroner Shepard made up their minds that| the bank money was not far away | and hit upon the barn as the most | likely place. Shepard even suggested | the cowshed, but as they had no pick and shovel the search was postponed. Sheriff Keena went to cramento Wednesday morning in "search of some one to identify the pistol and cartridges. Shepard engaged three men, who have been his trusted lieutenants ever since the tragedy—Clarence Geer, Ben Dependener and John Monaghan—to aid in the search. Borrowing a pitch- fork, they went direct to the barn. ‘While his assistants were turning over the hay in the loft Shepard went home and returned with a pick. This he put into the hands of Clarence Geer and directed him where to dig. Be- fore ten minutes had elapsed and when a hole about a foot deep and as wide had been dug, the pick struck an obstruction that gave forth a metallic sound. The loose earth was shoveled out and a five-pound lard can fu'l of $20 «geld pieces was un- covered. Coroner Shepard went to town with the money, while Geer, Dependener and Monaghan continued pitching hay as if nothing had happened. SECRECY MAINTAINED. Shepard. is the only man who knows where the money is now, and he says he does not know how much there is. Sheriff Keena and Banker Lubeck were told Thursday of the find, but it was deemed best not to make it public until Keena returned from San Francisco. Keena got home last night and this morning read the warrant to Weber charging him with the robbery. Banker Lubeck is the most surprised man in town. Though he has looked upon Adolph Weber with suspicion for many days and has therefore displayed considerable interest in the youth. He has not until to-day, when he was summoned by Weber to his cell, and made an effort to see the youth. Lu- beck was seen after his interview with the youth, and said: “He is a remarkable specimen of hu- manity. Why, he actually laughed at me."” It is now probable that the rob- bery charge will be heard before young ‘Weber is placed on trial for the murder mother. District Attorney Rob- he stepped on the train this after- ‘““We have a complete chain AUBURN, Nov. 27.—The money | of evidence in the robbery case, and will probably bring it to trial imme- diately. There are several links yet to be found in the murder case. I may bring up the other murder charges, that is those of the killing of Julius Weber., Bertha Weber and little Ches- ter Weber, before the Grand Jury, which meets next Tuesday, as a pre- cautionary measure. I leave for San Francisco to-day -on other business and will return Monday night."” QUESTION OF REWARD. When seen by a Call reporter Cor- oner Shepard had little to say beyond admitting that the stolen money had been found. Shepard said he hoped that he would have no trouble with | the bank officials in getting the $1500 | reward offered by them. “Not so much for myself,” said Shepard, “but I do want to see my three assistants—Geer, Dependener and Monaghan—well paid.” Sheriff Keena, when interviewed to- ay, said: “There are many things which I cannot tell the public at this time. The finding of the bank money was the missing link which proves Adolph Weber guilty of the robbery charge. Shepard has been of great assistance to me in both cases and he is entitled to the reward, and will get it. Under Sheriff May stil believes that Weber may have purchased the pistol in Auburn and has been devoting his efforts to several clews which point that way. The question of who shall be ad- ministrator of the Weber estate will not be settled to-morrow. Special Ad- m:nistrator Shepard, who is the Coun- ty’s Public Administrator, has filed, an opposition to the petition of John Adams, Adolph Weber's guardian, for letters of administration. Shepard's contest will stay action by the court forjtwo weeks. SRkepard is contesting thé appointment of Mr. Adams as ad- ministrator of the estates of Julius Weber and Mary Weber, and he has also filed application for letters upon the estates of Bertha and® Chester Weber: — MOTHER'S LONG SEARCH ENDED Woman From Whom Three Little Ones Had Been Stolen Finds Babes in the Woods Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, Nov. 27.—After searching for nearly a year over a thousand miles of territory for her three chil- dren, who had been abducted by her divorced husband, Ida Wilson of Odin, Indiana, has located her babies in a se- cluded spot in the forests of West Ta- coma County. Her attorney is to-day at Bellingham, awaiting the return of Sheriff Thomas, who was sent after the children after securing a warrant from the Superior Court yesterday. It is claimed that John Wilson had an uncontrollable temper and beat and maltreated his wife, leaving upon her body scars which she will carry to the grave. The day before her divorce de- cree was entered Wilson took their three children, aged 3, 5 and 7 years, and secretly departed. The mother, who had been awarded the children became almost frantic. After months of searching, by accident the children were found to be in Oklahoma. Before Mrs. Wilson could reach there Wilson came to Washington, settling in the woods near Lynden. Mrs. Wilson re- newed the search, flnally locating her babies. B T — OVER A MILLION NAMES ON THE PENSION ROLL List of Pensioners Is Now Greater Than at Any Time Since the Civil War. WASHINGTON, Nov. 37.—More than 1,000,000 names are on the pen- sion roll, the largest number since the Civil War. All a veteran now has to do to get a gemlon is upon reaching the age of 62 years to make affidavit of this fact and a pension mediately granted. Commissioner Ware will leave the office on December 15, but having two weeks’ Jeave of absence will not actually retire until January 1. Cap- tain F. M. Kelly of Illinois, the second deputy commissioner, has the endorse- ment of Senators Cullom and Hop- kins and the entire Illinois delegation in Congress for the place, and his friends believe he has a good chance of receiving the appointment. ———t———— NEW TREATY MAY END TRADE WAR WITH RUSSIA St. Petersburg to Negotiate for a Commercial Agreement With the United States. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 27.—As soon as the new Russo-Germdn treaty is ratified Russia expects to open ne- gotlations for the revision of commer- cial treaties with other powers. One of the most important results doubt- less will be the ending of the trade war with the United States, which arose over the imposition of a coun- tervailing duty on Russian sugar a few years ago. Russia retaliated.’im- posing the maximum duty on Ameri- can goods, practically ending Ameri- can impertations and destroying the growing Russian market for Ameri- can manufactured goods. The loss to Ames trade has been about $10,- ooo,ao annually. is im-