The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 6, 1904, Page 1

ber ©: San esilter Lol IR THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Francisco for thirty hours ending midnight, Decem- Francisco and vicinity—Fair Tuesday; light east winds. District Forecaster. G. McADIE, | < - = THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—“The CALIFORNIA—West's Minstrels. CENTRAL—“The Suburban.' CHUTES—Vaudeville. FISCHER'S—Vaudeville. GRAND—"In Dahomey." MAJESTIC—"The Senator." ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—King Dodo. Professor’s SANiFRA CISCO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1904. CALIFORNIA MINERS IN CONVENTION LINTEN TO REPORTS OF YEARS WORK DAM PIONEERS ARE COMPLIMENTED Belsh aw Gives an Account of Stewardship | annual Miners’ erday at listened to a M. Belshaw which the as- ged during the remodel the consti- | 1 ganization of the tes to the California yes «ct, 50 reported Pres- will be brought into urt for a test when ) ry costs are provided by niners to prosecute the suit. The e be made in the Polar Star mine and final definition will be =ought regarding hydraulic mining. Dredger mining for gold in the Oro- t was described on the ba- rt made by a committee ne field of operations as material damage to the | edge mining could be so con- do absolutely no dam- | " Laws to prevent the | operations of wildcat mining com- | panies this State were recommend- | ed by Pres Beishaw. PRESIDENT'S REPORT. For gener nformation the report of President Belghaw is given in ;l)ull as follows 3 tiemnen of We are nie Miners' Associa- annual convention & the interests of and 1 trust that will_contribute brenches in the State of - The good which may accrue o the industry sented Is incaleuiable s rebrer ana | aciiberations of this comvention beay "8 158 the 00d Work which bas already been - plished by our association - I desire briefly votn don Xy all your attention to ' Ihe aseociation since | by of the Btale of California in th case . : of the County of Yuba ve. Kate Hayes Mining Com peny, and particularly to the . tence in that opinion: Y et “It is true that the evidence fa show that defendants were mining he e process. but admittedly they the ground slmice process, ng to the evidence. profuced the same effect in King & the hydraulic procees, only to a less de- gree” . It was the opinion of the committee that jr this resson were carried to its logieal conclu. wion. quartz mining and, indeed, mining in this State in | Francisco on the 224 of that month, and It w | the -+ e, with a request foran opinion as to whether this decision might pe made applicable artz aud dredge mining. The universal y some seven buncred letters which were received by the assoclation was to the effect that there was danger that this decisior e used to the detriment of quartz and | ning. WeEile there has been no attempt made as yet | to attack guartz or dredge mining er this a . there 1s no assurance that it will not ‘ pinicn that this 7 as to suc hich might be | was received r district receive better odations. This matter wes referred to Semator Perkins, who, upon nvestigation, Informed the a tion that £ would be impossible to comply with the peti- tion ng of the executive committee 1904, Messrs. Solinsky & Wehe offered to take the Poiar Star | preme Court free of cost for at- | . for the purpose of getting an as to the constitutionality of the | Messrs. Solinsky & Wehe have | iderable work in the case in e way of correspondence and getting it in | proper shape to appeal to the Supreme Court, | are now ready to go ahead and take the | and only await funds to get coples of | pers and also to print the record. It seems 10 me thet It is of great importance | to hydraulic mining (hat we have a Supreme Court decision cn the that. since Messrs. § K Caminetti act already done to provide for the Recessary costs of conduc ing the suit. - DREDGING IS VIEWED. In the early part of May, 1904, a cail was made for & river convention'to be held in San | rumored that there might be some discussion on the evil effects of dredge mining. A speclal | meeting of the executive committee was called | and it was decided that the committee should | %0 to Oroville and make an examination of | the conditions there in order that the repre- | sentatives from this assoctation to the rl\'er“ convention might be thoroughly posted on | matters ning to dredge mining. A majority of the members of the executive com. imittee and Colonel Heuer of the Califor Debris Commission participated in this inve tigation. We were shown every courtesy by the California Dredge Miners' Association of roville, and were given every opportunity O javestigaie the Working of " the dredgers : of that district, both those that were work- fng in the river and those that were work- ing inland. It was the unanimous opinion of committee that the d of this dis- trict were Going no material damage o the and that dredge mining could be o Tondicied as o o absolutely no damage | whatever. 3 Under date of May 16, 1904, this associa- tion received an invitation from the Cali- fornia Prometion Committee to send delegates to the river convention. This Invitation was accepted and our association was representcd during that convention. However, the matter of mining was not brought up in’the conven- | tion, so our delegation was not called ®pon 1o acclaim or defend the mining industry. resoluti de presentati Gillett, First District, in the House, X, | sald, were working hard to | | CRITICIZES LAXITY OF OUR LAWS Conan Doyle Points Out Danger to America, X = e A LONDOD Dec. Lord Chief Jus- 6. tice Alverstone was the principal guest | at the dinner of the Authors’ Club last | night. A. Copan Doyle, who presided, referred to the laxity of the law and its administration in the United States and said that the great nation had out- grown its legal strength with appalling results. While Great Britain in the Boer war los 000 lives, the United States lost, in the same three years, es through murder or homicide. peaker said, would be a pite- ous setback to the high hopes of those who looked to America as the Utopia of the future, but he added, America would crush this foul growth by strength & the machinery of the law and putting Judges on a higher basis, Lord Alverstone in reply said he agreed with every word Doyle had spoken and that his remarks were no stronger than he had heard from many Americans themselves. But in regard to the treatment and reclama- tion of ccnvieted criminals, Lord Al- verstone said (Great Britain had much to learn from America. Americans, he system not only hum; b X e 3 ane but tr 2 ventive of crime. S —_———— GERMANS WILL STUDY AMERICAN AVAL METHODS | Plans of This Country Preferred in Kaiser'’s Realm to Those of Great Britain, BERLIN, Dec. 5.—The keen inter- est with which Germany is watching the growth of the American navy and | the high opinion entertained by naval men in Germany technique is shown the naval budget grally covering the icers to the United States to methods of building apd arll::‘::: warships and other matters that may be applied to the betterment of the GeTrll?a“ navy. e recommendations of tary of the Navy Morton in his ans:sxr:l re- port to the President are published prominently, and it appears that American plans are much preferred of American naval by the inclusion in of an item speci- to those of Great Britain j val circles here. g ———— PORTUGUESE KING KN DOWN BY CAB IN m LONDON, Dec. 5.—As & result of a collision between a cab and a car- riage this morning King Carlos Portugal, who is visiting Great of tain, was knocked down while walk- ing along a footpath. The King was slightly shaken up, although other- wise uninjured, and arose before any member of his could reach him to aid him. He w: into Bucking- ;I“-m Palace, making light of cost of sending of- | s CARNBGIES DENIAL IS EMPRATIC ‘Puts Mrs. Chadwick in Position of Forger. —_— Says He Signed No Notes and Does Not Know the Woman, i | Ber Arrest by Unifed States Secret ! Service Men Regarded as Probable. | NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—Mrs. Cassie L. | Chadwick, whose financial difficulties have caused widespread interest, is at the Holland House to-night. At the | hotel are at least three officers of the | | United States secret service and they | have been particularly aiert for the | past twenty-four hours. A gentleman | closely connected with the case says | that there is a strong possibility that | an arrest will be made in New York | within a short time and that it will be | of a person closely connected with the | now-famous case. ‘s Philip Carpenter,“ehief counsel in | New York for Mre. Ghadwick, was seen {at the Waldorf-Astoria at midnight. When asked concerning the probability of the arrest of his client he said: | “Mrs. Chadwick is absolttely inno- | cent of intent to do wrong. She has done nothing to warrant legal proceedings and sk aunot be-cenvicisd ef Wrong- doing.” When asked about that part of sec- tion 5209 of the United States Revised | ishment of any person who ‘aids or | abets” a national bank official in the | performance of any act which is illegal, | Carpenter said that whatever transac- | tions Mrs. Chadwick had had with bank officials had been strictly of a business nature. She had borrowed | money as any person would, and had | not interested herself in the capitaliza- | tion of the bank in question. The law- | ver was asked what might be the result if it could be shown that a violation of the statute which makes it a crime for a person borrowing money frem a bank to make a statement concerning her as- | sets or ability to meet the obligation | which was knowingly untrue. Car- penter reiterated his statement that Mis. Chadwick was absolutely innocent | of any wrong. CARNEGIE IS ANGERED. Andrew Carnegie was shown a copy of to-day's dispatch from Cleveland, in which District Attorney Sullivan of that city was quoted as having said that he had recently in his possession a note for $250,000 signed by Car- negie’s name and indorsed on the back | "C. L. Chadwick.” His secretary gave out this statement for Carnegie: | “Mr. Carnegie says that it is years | since he has given a note of any kind | or indorsed any note. He says that | there are no notes in his name out- | standing at present. Mr. Carnegie wants me to say that he does not want to be bothered any more about this Chadwick woman. He is quite angry over this persistent use of his name and wishes it to cease at once. Once for all, he never knew Mrs. Chadwick, or any such other woman, and he never signed any such paper as the reports credit him with. That is all.” | When the attention of Philip Car- | penter was called to the dispatch that | notes purporting to have been signed iby Andrew Carnegie had been found by United States Bank Examiners he disclaimed all knowledge of such notes ;and added: | “Mrs. Chadwick has not only denied | that she is a relative of Mr. Carnegie, | but has also denied that she has ever received any financial assistance from . : Carpenter was told of the statement made by President Beckwith of the ! @efunct Citizens’ National Bank of { Oberlin to-night, in which he stated | that the bank held Mrs. Chadwick’s notes to the amount of $1,250,000. In reply he said that he had no knowl- | edge of any of Mrs. Chadwick’'s Ohio | transactions. THOSE CHADWICK NOTES. CLEVELAND, Dec. 5.—There were | numerous developments to-day in con- { pection with the affairs of Mrs. Cassie | 1. Chaawick and the troubles of the closed Citizens' National Bank of Ober- |““’ Ohio. President C. T. Beckwith and Cashier Frank Spear of the latter institution were brought here from Oberlin by United States Marshal { Chandler and a de; uty shortly before ,noon. The bank officials later were ar- i raigned before United States Commis- | sioner Starks. Both pleaded guilty and ! waived a preliminary hearing. Commis- sioner Starks fixed the bail at $10,000 in each case and bound the two men | over to the Grand Jury, which will meet in February next. Both prisoners were released on bond this afternoon. That the Oberlin bank or President | Statutes which provides for the pun- | JAPANESE N1 AMBUSCADE Slaughter by Rennen- kampif's Men R%d. More Than Fiiteen Hundred Dead Left on the Battlefield, Nogi's Warriors Are Attacking the Northern Line of Forts at Port Arthur. TOKIO, Dec. 6, 10 a. m.—It is re- ported that the Japanese bombard- ment against the fleet at Port Arthur s proceeding to the satisfaction of the attacking forces. On the evening of the 4th Inst. (Sunday) twb or three | Russian ships were fired and burned in a half hour. Their names and the extent of the damage done are not known. It i« generally believed that the Russian fleet must either make an early sortie or suffer irreparable dam- age. LONDON, Dec. 6.—A dispatch from Chefu, dated December 5, to the Daily Telegraph says: “Heavy firing continues at Port Ar- thur to-day. The Japanese are making most determined and persistent efforts to capture the northern forts.” MUKDEN, Dec. 5.—A four-day artil- lery duel on the Russian right wing has failed to alter the gen- eral situation. There is considerable illness among the Russian troops, consequent upon close confinement to the trenches and | bomb-proofs and the continual nervous strain, y There is a persistent rumor that the force of Japanese sent to turn General Rennenkampff's flank has been re- pulsed with great loss. The story is not. yet officfaily condimed. bac = de- | tails are given with great circumstan- | tiality. It is stated that General Ren- nenkampff, who knew the movement was maturing, awaited the Japanese at the mouth of one of the captured passes, and that the Japanese turning | force threw itself unsuspectingly into | the ambuscade, where, after the fight, | the Russians collected 500 Japanese | corpses. | _ It is added that there are 1000 more | Japanese corpses, which it is impossi- { ble to collect, owing to the fire of the | Japanese. This does not include the | Japanese loss in wounded. | The Russlan loss, according to this account, was only thirty or forty men. ENTRAPPED AT POUTILOFF. On the night of December 2 the Jap- anese began a heavv artillery fire on | Peutiloff (Lene Tree) Hill, paving the | way for an infantry attack. The Rus- slan artillery answered vigorously for several hours and then slackened. The Japanese, believing the Russian fire had been silenced, flung themselves in masses against the trenches, where they were allowed to come within close range and then were met with wither- ing volleys and a counter charge with | the bayonet. The Japanese fled, hav- ing sustained enormous losses. A Cossack expedition which was sent on the night of December 2 to capture | a Japanese battery on the Russian | right flank was only partly successful. The Cossacks killed the Japanese sen- tries and gunners and got possession of the hattery, but were unable to re- | move the guns, owing to the rapid ar- | rival of Japanese reinforcements. | On December 3 Captain Gichkoon and Corporal Companetz crawled up close to the Japanese position, where they re- mained under a heavy fire all day, making sketches of the whole position, and returning in safety. An attack by Japanese on Poutlloff Hill on December 3 was probably due in part to a wish to distract attention from sapper operations on a neighbor- ing hill near the village of Shakhe, but these operations were discovered and repulsed, and the Japanese fled. RUSSIAN NIGHT ATTACKS. Skirmishes continue. On the night of November 30 Captain Alexandroff, with thirty men, routed a force of fifty Jap- anese by a surprise attack om the trenches. The same night velunteers under Lieutenant Videtska suirounded and destroyed a picket of twenty-five Japanese near Tougou. This led to a hand-to-hand fight in the Japanese un- derground trenches, where twenty more Japanese were bayoneted. The Rus- sians lost severely in this fight, a num- ber being caught in wire entangle- ments. Altogether ten Russians were killed and fourteen wounded. The nif of December 2 there was another Hussian attack on Japanese trenches, in which a number of troph- fes rifles were secured, but at the cost e life of staff Captain Man- K one of the most daring of the Ri who was killed in hand-to-hand fighting. The Japanese did not reply to a heavy cannonade of their works by Russian siege guns south of Suchiatun (a rail- way station near Shakhe village) on Friday, though they had previously shelled the vicinity of Suchiatun with the identical ammunition and Russian ‘guns captured on board the East Asia- tic Company's steamship Manchuria last spring. The capture of the Manchuria was a severe loss to as it de- prived them of 7000 tons of ammuni- tion intended for the large long-range guns at Port Arthur. It was said in following the report of the capture that if the Manchuria had reached Port Arthur safely the whole situation would have been changed. The Russlan Government regarded | the Manchuria’s cargo as of the high- i ol s il it St~ Sat center and | DESPERATE BREAD RIOTS IN RUSSIA DISTR E59 MOBT PITEOUS TROOPS HKILL S TARVING MEN Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, Deec. 6.—The Express | prints a letter from Moscow stating that the terrible strain imposed by the | war on the internal resources of the| country has brought Central Russia ! into hunger's grip. Desperate bread | riots are reported in more than a hun- | dred districts, and the peasantry are | 'dylng of starvation by scores. If the | ) strain continues much longer they will | die by thousands. There is piteous distress even in Mos- | cow. Black bread has risen 20 per cent lin price. Rioting is feared and troops are kept on the alert. The price of bread trebled at Tver and quintupled at Uglitch. The unceasing demands of the Gov- ernment and the shameless corruption of tax collectors are driving the people to madness. Many have been killed or wounded by soldiers in suppressing food riots. The soldiers themselves looted provision stores at Dunaberg and joined the peasants in sacking the bread shops in the Nijni Novgorod dis- triet. Violent demonstrations against the war have been made throughout the country. If the people were united there would be a revolution. The Odessa correspondent Standard says that another of the popular | anti-war demonstration occurred there on Sunday, it being the fourth of four days’ demonstrations. Those who took part in them were chiefly respectable artisans and students. Three hundred arrests have been made. Troops and police patrol the streets nightly. AUTOMOBILE PREY TO Series of Gasoline NEW YORK, Dec. 5—Ten persons were injured and $260,000 worth of property wag destroyed as the result of | explosions caused by a spark leaping | from a gasoline machine on which a chauffeur was working in an automeo- bile garage on West Thirty-ninth street to-day. Forty automobiles were destroyed or | badly damaged. and so rapid was the | progress of the fire that men working in the second story of the bullding had | no opportunity to escape by way of | the stairways and were forced to leap from windows, sparks which started the - fixe! communicated with a tank holding 100 gallons of gasoline. " There were forty- GLITTERING BALD HEAD SAVES LIFE i Reflection From a Pate Warns Engineer. Special Dispatch to The Call NORTHPORT, Wash., Dec. 5.—The bald head of a man saved his life last night. As the train of Engineer Charles E. Hoofer swept around the | curve to the long bridge crossing the Columbia River the headlight of | the engine fell upon something ghtter- ing between the guard rails across the bridge. Hoofer reversed his engine in time to stop within ten feet of the | prostrate body of a drunken bald-, headed man. i Shaking the fellow, the engineer | and train crew sought his name, but | could get no intelligent answer. When he saw the engine, however, and was | informed of his narrow escape from death the man was partially sobered. | —_————————— E ROMNEY FOUND } IN A MINER'S COTTAGE GE Painting Brings Thirty-four Thousand | Dollars in Aunction Sale in London. LONDON, Dec. 5.—What 1is be- lieved to be a genuine Romney, done in that artist’s best period, has just been sold at auction for $34,000. The painting was part of the estate of a man who lived in a miner's cottage at White Haven, Cumberland, and who had a hobby for buying and cleaning pictures. Every picture he cleaned he spoiled. For some reason he did not clean the Romney, and after his death it was found tied up with two other pictures, which, with the Romney, he had bought for less than $5. One of the three is beiieved also to be a Gainsborough, though it brought only $200 at the sale. The Romney canvas measures §0 by 47 inches. It is a portrait of two children walking in a landscape, ac- companied by a little terrier. ——e————— HIGH POST FOR FRIEND OF RUSSIAN PEASANTS i S8T. PETERSBURG, Dec. 5.—Great | satisfaction is expressed by the press ' at the appointment of Kutler to be As- | sistant Minister of the Interior. Kutler !is a man of wide experience and has i been Iidentified with all branches of peasant reform work. His appointment is expected to aid greatly in the pro- gress of reforms among the working classes. | —_———— Moors Attack French Citizen. TANGIER, Dec. 5.—The residence of Gautsch, director of the Compag- nie Marocaine, was attacked the night of December 4 by Beni M'Suar tribes- Guards drove back the assail- —— Kaiser After Menelik’s Trade. BERLIN, Dec. 5.—Emperor Wil- liam, according to t‘:: Tagsbdlatt, has decided to send a nipotentiary to negotiate a commercial treatv with | and a diamond r GARAGE IS FLAMES. Explosions Endangers Building's Occupants five automobiles in the building. and the dense smoke prevented the saving of the majority of them. The 100-gallon tank exploded soon after the fire started and spread the flames to other tanks and in a short time there were ten distinct explosions, filling the building with fire and smoke. The garage is in the heart of the theater and hotel district of Broadway and rumor spread that the Metropoli- tan Opera-house and several of the big hotels were doomed. An immense crowd gathered and the police reser®es were summoned to keep the people out of danger. The- garage —was. prastically Yas stroyed, but little damage was done to nearby property. -— MRS. FAIRS RARE JEWELS TO BE SOLD Heirs Place Fine Col- lection on Exhibit. —— Special Diepatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—At the Knick- erbocker Art Gallerfes, 7 West Twenty- eighth street, a coilection of diamonds, pearls and other jeweiry and silver- ware, laces and furs owned by the late Mrs. Charles L. Fair, who was killed in an automobile ent in France in | 1902, have been placed on exhibition. The collection will be sold by C. E. Smith next Friday and Saturday after- noons. The sale is to be made by order of John B. Bonnell, nephew of Mrs. Fair and attorney for her heir: A valuation of $100,000 has placed upon the collection. The d of diamonds is especially fine. M the set diamond pleces comes : d from leading jewelers of New York, Paris and San Francisco. Among the nota- ble pieces are a chain of diamon pearls and platinum, with 39 diamonds and 38 pearls; a pearl and dlamond gir- dle, with some 3300 pear's; a diamond and pear! collarett with 900 pearls, with 52 gems. —_—— RUSSIAN PAPER REBUKES AMERICA ON LYNCHINGS Claims There Is More Race Prejudice Here Than in the Czar's Dominions. ST. PETERSBURG, Dee. 5.—The com- mission which has been instituted to re- vise the passport regulations and to | which the question of the recognition, without discrimination, of American passports was referred by the Foreign Office hag been eniarged and strength- ened .by Interior Minister Sviatopolk- Mirsky. The commission has not yet reached the question raised by the United States. The Novoe Vremya discussing subject contends that so long as the present Jewish laws are in force in the empire it Is impossible to grant to for- eign Jews greater privileges than are granted to native Jews. Besides, the paper argues, “from the frequeney of lynching and the general treatment of negroes in the South,” that there is more race prejudice in the United States than in Russia. ———— REPENTS OF ACT AFTER HE HAD CUT HIS THROAT the 3 Chicage Publisher Urges Physician to Save Him, but Wounds Were Fatal. _ CHICAGO, Dec. 5—When B. S ‘Wasson, a publisher, felt himself dy- ing to-day after he had cut his throat he urged the physician who was bend- ing over him to save him. While prep- arations were being made to remove the man to a hospital he died. The tragedy took place in the bath- room of the home of Wasson's mother, Mrs. Sadie Wasson, in Drexel boulevard. Wasson was ‘engaged in the publication of a railway magazine. —_——— Republicans Elect Mayor. - PORTLAND, Me.. Dec. 5.—James P. Baxter (R.) was elected Mayor to- day by 1027 majority.