The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 22, 1904, Page 2

THE SAN FRANC ISCO: CALL. THURSDAY, DECEMBER |22, 1904. vmd IAL ALL East I(_ef;l(—wan IS Only @ Minor Position. CNEES Loss of Hill Not Slavsand Brown|NogiReportsCap- Regarded as Serious. e RSBURG, Dec. 21.—Mili- here do neot attach vital to the capture of the of Keekwan Mountain. They is not part of ths main line ses of Port Arthur and there- without direct influence on the fortress. jeclining to give details, the mits that Russian advices Arthur, sent by General stantially co med the the partial wreck- ships in the har- the censor has been instructed T the publication of the dis- hes. It is claimed that several of he larger ships an® a respectable mber of torpedo-boat destroyers are but they are not being he coming ships ssian second Pacific squad- PET: tary crit Por Russiar UM RN AN e whole series of misfortunes ttended the Port Arthur a bitter chapter in Rus- annals i but since the ar- ri f the latest advices there has been less disposition to criticize Rear A Wiren's failure to make a General Stoessel having decided her defense of the fortress npossible if the guns of the d the sallors landed were Had the ships been able inder the conditions exist- would have been at the the Japanese and have been iced without hope of Inflicting mensurate damage. The mobilization announced yester- ffects a portion of about half litary _districts of Russia. some of the reserve men called olors will be used to complete ength of the regiments’ going e front, by far the greater num. | be formed into reserve units to rep e troops which have already gone to the Far East This vear the conscripts taken num- ber about half a million men, being sbout double the number usually c2lled to the colors. The number of 3 g men annually liable to military service is more than 800,000. e Accused of Aiding Russia. COPENHAGEN, Dec. 21.—Several pewspapers here charge War Minister Madsen with permitting Danish gun factories to manufacture arms for Russia. It is expected that the inci- @ent will cause a storm in Parliament. EARTHQUAKES CAU A PANIC IN PANAMA Houses Damaged by Shock on the Isthmus and People Camp in the Streets, Panama, Dec. 21.—There slight earthquakes, followed one strong shock, at about 12:30 o'clock this morning. Numerous houses here were damaged, and the people, who were thrown into a panic, & now camping in the streets. PANAMA, Dec. 21.—Earthquake &hocks were felt within a radius of 150 miles of Panama and Colon last night. The disturbance was slight. ——— WRALTHY MINER FINDS CHILD AFTER TWO YEARS DAVID, were ter by Norman Webster of California Re- gains His Little One in New York State, NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Norman Webster, said to be a wealthy gold mine owner of Soulsbyville, Cal., has recovered possession of his four-and- a-half-year-old daughter, whom he has been seeking for two vears. The child was found by a constable in Poughkeepsie, Webster's wife visited relatives in England two vears ago and upon her return decided, it is said, to remain n the East, and found a boarding- lace for the child in Poughkeepsie. A constable there heard of the search by the father and watched the child unt!l Webster arrived. —_——— MAJOR HARDIN ACQUITTED OF CHARGES IN MANILA Found Not Guilty ef Neglect of Duty in Comnection With Prison Break. MANILA, Dec. 22.—Major Edward E. Hardin of the Seventh Infantry, U. B. A, has been tried by court- martial and zacquitted of the charge of negilect of duty. Major Hard: was charged with negiect of duty in not having a suffi- cient guard at Malate prison, from which thirty-three native prisoners escaped recently, after killing three guards. e —— SCOTT’S EMULSION A CREAMY FOOD Scott's Emulsion is cod fiver oil prepared as a food— not a food like bread or meat, but more like cream; in fact, it is the cream of cod liver oil. At the same time it is'a blood-maker, a nerve tonic and a flesh-builder. principally it is food for tired and weak digestions, for all who are fat-starved and thin. Itis pleasant to take; children like it and ask for more. WeT send you 2 sample, free BCOTT & BOWNE, gap Pearl Strest, New York | i f the reserves in seven military | But | SR S S Stray Pig Causes Cessation-of ! | Join .in Its Pursuit. —_— FRONT LINE OF THE , BELOW MUK- N THE AN DEF RL DEN, Nov. 20.—We have just come in |frem a ride around the front. It was nearly a mile to the extreme front, | throughout fields of the giant millet of Manchuria, which is being Trapidly | burned for fuel. Whole villages of | | Chinese huts have been robbed "“, every particle of woodwork for the | |same purpose. Nearly the whole of i the army is living underground, where | | body heat has to serve instead of fires | Toward noon we came to an exten- sive entrenchment gnd - encampment, where numerous little fires were burn- ing and big kettles swung from cross- sticks, showing that the soldiers were preparing tea. Here the general com- | manding and a group of staff officers | welcomed us and in addition to the | tea one of them actually produced a lemon to go with it. How a lemon ever got into that part of Manchuria was a mystery that the lieutenant re- fused to solve. H There was a disturbance toward the | ferward line of trenches that might | have presaged a Japanese attack and we rushed to a knoll that commanded | a view. There, from a seemingly de- scrted Chinese hut rushed a Thalf- grown pig—a shote of the Manchur- |izn razorback variety. After it a Cossack followed in hot pursuit. Other | Cossacks joined the chase, but the pig, | tureading the trenches, gained the | epen ground and headed for the Jap- | avese lines, less than 400 yards away. | Reckless of death or anything else, six Cossacks dashed in pursuit, with | their long brown coats tucked around | their waists. But the pig headed across |the imaginary dividing line and |charged the Japanese position, The opposite hill slope, to all appearances, | had been vacant and silent as the | srave, but a hidden trench suddenly | gave up a party of Japanese, and away they went after the pig. The Cossacks | stopped and the Japanese headed the pig diagonally back toward the Rus- sian lines. They did not catch it, but a | fresh relay of Russians took up the chase and the pig veered over again to | the Japanese. Not a shot was fired in all this time and the Japanese and Cossacks stood within a hundred paces of one another in the open, laughing at one another’s non-guccess and hurling mutual male- dictions after the pig. The last we saw of it, the pig was keeping strictly to the neutral strip between the forces and_holding westward in the direction of the Liao River. The general laughed, though he also sighed at the thought of the vanished pig, and invited us over to have more tea at his “palace.” “I do not patronize anything but pal- aces,” he explained, as we mounted to follow him, “and there being none here- abouts I had one built,” It was down a steep trail, where the horses fairly sat down and slid on the frozen ground. Overhanging the edge of a narrow valley was ‘the palace, a more than unusually commodious dug- out, and inside was a stove cunningly | built into the wall with home-made bricks. It had had a fire in it the day | before and was shut up tight and still | warm. Before it on the ground sat Prince Radzivil, just:come in from a scout, and warming his red hands against the bricks: There was a table and a tiny window letting in a little light from a tunnel on one side. And hot tea, without lemon this time, added to the joys of living. STATES OF - GERMANY MAY UNITE THEIR LOTTERIES Plan to Organize a Form of Trust Under Control of the Gov- ernment. BERLIN, Dec. 21.—Prussia is ne- gotiating treaties with the other Ger- man States for the collective manage- ment of State lotterles. thus reducing the expenses. The proceeds are to be shared on-an equiteble system-of-per- centages, avoiding the multiplication of agents and advertising and remov- |,ing the necessity for costly competi- tion. Although to buy or sell a ticket in one State for a lottery in another is a misdemeanor severely punishable, it is constantly done. Saxony has been Prussia’s most annoying competitor by raising the capital prize and then conniving at the sdle of tickets in Prussia. Thereupon Prussia was obliged to raise the prizes and to dis- tribute such tracts as “Why it is a duty to subscribe to the lottery, by a clergyman,” or pictures showing a young man bringing his old parent his winnings. 4 ———— NEW GERMAN TAX LAW | AIMED AT CORPORATIONS Proposed Measure Will Compel Them to Pay Where Formerly They Escaped. BERLIN, Dec. 21.—The Govern- | ment aims in the forthcoming revision | of the income tax law to bring under | its provisions limited lability com- | panies, which heretofore have not een subject to this taxation. The chief object of the Government is to | increase the revenue to meet the def- icit, but the measure also embodies | the Government's counter stroke to the Herne Company, which was or- | ganized December 12, with a capital iof $9,000,000, for the purpose of j checkmating the Prussian Govern- ment in getting control of the Hiber- nia Coal Company. In recent years this form of organ- ization has been in great favor with German capitalists. Heavily capital- i ized companies are so organized that foreign investors especially have adopted it, to the detriment of the im- perial treasury. ———————— Made Bishop of Helena. DUBUQUE, ITowa, Dec. 21.—Rev. John P. Carroll former president of St. Joseph's College of this city, was to-day consecrateéd Bishop of the dio- icese of Helena, Mont. Archbishop | Keane of Dubuque officiated as conse- | crator. Archbishop Glennon of. St. {Louis preached the sermon.” Twenty prelates and 200 priests were present. o Japanese Fail to Retain the Etze Fort. ture of Rus- sian Guns. P Continued From Page 1, Column 3. Rojestvensky’'s squadron to testify be- fore the international commission, made statements during his journey | to Paris that are exciting consider- | able stir in official and diplomatic cir- cles, as indicating a rather defiant and belligerent tone on the eve of the as- | embling of the commission. Some of Clado’s statements were strongly an- tagonistic to Great Britain, he declar- ing that the British agitation over the ! North Sea incident, leading up to the ppointment of the international com- | mission, was a plan to delay the Rus- | sian second Pacific squadron from r lieving Port Arthur, | He also asserted that another cam- | paign having for its object the passage of the Dardanelles by the Russian Black Sea fleet would be launched at an opportune time. In the meantime, he added, men and equipment from the Black Sea fleet would be sent to aid the second Pacific squadron. Seas Lo S Russia Buys Drexel's Yacht. LONDON, Dec. 21.—It {s said that Russia has bought Anthony J. Drex- el's fine steam yacht Margarita, pay- ing $650,000. —— SENSATION | S SPRUNG | BY HUTTON Continued From Page 1, Column 4. NS A ) nj | women, the one word “almost” making it apparent that the dismissal of | every man that had served in Bacon | place during a “reasonable period last | past” would do irreparable injustice to | songe one, Drinkhouse and Howell came strong- 1y to Reagan's support and also voiced the opinion that such a course would be wrong and unjust, and Drinkhouse | added that even if the City Attorney ! did decide that policemen were not en- | titled to trial he would ignore such an | opinion and give every man in the de- | partment the right to be heard in his own defense. Hutton’s report was read into the record, however, but it is not | probable that the City Attorney will be | asked for advice, unless upon the appli- cation of Hutton, acting alone and un- supported. Prior to the development of this in- teresting condition of affairs the board awakened the interest of the audi- ence by announcing that it would visit every so-called French restau- rant in the city that has rooms in which meals and drinks are served for the purpose of ascertaining whether they should be allowed to re- tain their liquor licenses. All of the big resorts will be first visited and then the little ones will come in far inspection. From remarks made by | the commission it is apparent that the | raid on this class of resorts is about | to begin. Several employment agents spent a bad hour before the . Commis- | sioners last evening. The charges| against them were that they accepted fees from applicants for po- sitions when the positions were but fig- ments of the imagination. Kelly & Davis, who conducted a place at 130 Sansome street, lost their license for sending a number of men to work on a farm near Sacramento that inves- tigation established was at the_time under several feet of water. Miss R. J. Perry, who conducted a place in rosm | 325, Phelan building, lost her license ! for a similar offense. AR ! A. J. Costigan & Co. and Robert Hausmann, who conducts his business | at 51 Third street, got continuanceés. of the cases against them that‘missing witnesses might be located. B Paul's restaurant on Bush street' must hereafter run in a manner that will insure freedom of inspection of its' every nook and cranny. After hearing the charge of Joseph )l’homnkml‘th&tj he had been robbed while spending a pleasant hour with two fair fr ers of the restaurant, the commission | ordered Paul to remove the doors of the booths in the place. The commis- sion further announced that it would inspect the place and'if the booths. even with thé doors removed, were found to be objectionable they would be ordered taken down. ' After hearing all the facts relating to the charges against Morgan's cafe, | Eddy street, near Powell, the board ordered Morgan's license, which ‘ex- pired last Monday, renewed. The license of Mark Augenblick, who con. | ducted a saloon at Polk and Jackson ! streets, ‘was ordered reissued to him; it having been revoked some weeks ago ! on complaint that the place was ‘dis-| orderly. Augenblick promised to cor- rect the strenuous tendencies o s patrons. l The cases against Patrolmen John D. Berrie and Cormac McGorty, ! charged by George Miro with receiving a bribe for suppressing a report of a dice game in a saloon at Devisadero and Sutter streets, was continued for | 2 week after Attorney Willlam Denman | had testified that Berrie's character is most exemplary, 5 ! Patrolman P. J. McManus, who was | charged with negligence in connec- | tion with the preparation of a report regarding the prosécution for misde- meanor 'of one Louisa Price of' 106 Taylor street, was. exonerated, it hav- ' ing been established that what ap-| peared to be negligence on the patrol- man’s part was unavoidable error. i The board, on adjourning, an-' nounced that it would do so out of respect to the memory of the late William Alvord, who for a neriod of years served the people in the capacity | of Police Commissione: plibatdenin. v e SN ‘The real estate agent ought to shine as a conversationalist. He has lots to ialk about. > uent- | - | tion that a paragraph of the plaintiff's MAIN LINE FORTS NATE IDLE BY DROUGHT Pennsylvania Coal Mines Forced to Close. One Pittsburg (%[—npa,ny Re- leases All Unmarried Employes. Soarcity of Water Threatens to Cause & Total Suspension of Operations. Special Dispatch to The Call. PITTSBURG, Pa, Dec. 21.—The| Pittsburg Coal Company has found it | impossible to run its mines, on account 5 of the three months’ drought, which is assuming alarming proportions, and to- | | day it announced that until further | notice there would be no workfor its | unmarried men. All those who have, families dependent upon them will be | taken care of, go far as possible, though it may be necessary to shift them from | mine to mine. About ten thousand un- | married men were ordered off work to- | day. | This is the first time in the history | of mining in western Pennsylvanu’ that so many mines have been ordered | closed through drought. Little or no | | coal has been sent down the river since | late in the summer and it will now take | | several days’ rain to start%the coal out and open up the mines. The scarcity of water also has caused the coke ovens and the railroads to partially suspend operations, and um{ less relief comes soon the mills will be, seriously affeeted. I The public schools of Wilmerding | and Wilkinsburg, near here, were dis- | missed to-day on account of no water. | The production of the coke region is| demoralized. The output of the ovens has been reduced one-third and the loss is estimated at $1,000,000 a month. | The Westmoreland Water Company, which suplies Greensburg, Jeanette, | Pennmanor and Irwin, announces there is barely enough water to last through the week and it will be necessary to shut 9ff water to keep enough for fire- fighting purposes. | Eight towns in Turtle Creek Valley | were without water to-day and there| were great dread of fire and many un- | washed faces, while the schools were | compelled to close. The engines of the | Pennsylvania Water Company, supply- ing the towns, broke down this morn- ing leaving the villages dry. The water in the rivers is low and is filled with sulphuri¢ acid, eausing much damage to the machinery in the mills and the bollers of locomotives. ot ALL WALL STREET 1§ I\ LEAGLE Continued From Page 1, Column 7. ~% nished $100,000 of the money and that | $60,000 was raised on a note given by one of the Bay State Gas companies. . Chapman has not said from whom he got the $225,000 that he carried to Wil- mington, Del, in two dress suit cases, or “grips.” Senator Gray, in whose of- fice the transaction took place, it is said by Roger Foster, was the lawyer for Dwight ‘Braman. Henry Wellington Wack’s complaint against Thomas W. Lawson, based on his conduct in depreciating the value of stock in the Amalgamated Copper Company, will not be considered by the Grand Jury. Assistant District Attor- ney Smythe, to whom the matter had | been referred by Jerome, told Wack to- | day that unless he produced stronger {‘'evidence than was in his possession against Lawson the District Attorney | “would not be justified in taking any | ction. C. M. Beattle, lawyer for Wack, said he would go to a magistrate and seek to have a warrant issued for | Lawson's arrest, 1 BAY STATE GAS LITIGATION. | BOSTON, Dec. 21.—Judge Braley, in the Supreme Judicial Court to-day, gave a hearing on the question of al- lowing the demurrer of the defendants in the suit of the Bay State Ges Com- pany of Delaware against Thomas W. Lawson and others to restrain Lawson | and Weidenfeld from parting with 50,- 290 shares of Bay State Gas Company , of Delaware stock; 374 ($1000) 5 per cent | bonds of the Buffalo City Gas Compa- | ny; 140 ($1000) debentures of the Buf- | falo City Gas Company. It is asked | that these securities be delivered to the . laintiff because of an alleged conspir- cy to divert the funds of the Delaware thmpany to the uses of the conspira- ors. . The answer and demurrer of the de- fendant, Lawson, are denials of the al- legations of the plaintiff. The defend- ant describes many * transactions in connection with gas matters and de- clares that the Bay State Gas Company of Delaware still owes Lawson and Weidenfeld $488,434, as a result of deal- ings begun in 1895. Counsel for Lawson presented a mo- bill referring to coll acy be stricken out. The plaintifi’s attorney maintained that the charges of Lawson:against the Delaware Company weré excessive and that the fact that excessive charges were made and allowed appeared to show collusion. He declared that it was the aim of the litigation to show Re- ceiver Geéorge W. Pepper of the Dela- ware Company the exact relation be- tween that company and Lawson and Weidenfeld. Judge Braley reserved | decision. { ¥ usion and conspir- To Cure a Coid in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tabiets. An refund the ey if it falls t @ . Grove's sign: :?h--nhus 3.'.‘- '"Romantic Story Back of | ings, | idea at that time of the amazing value Will be in at- tendance and give a hand- some present, ADVERTISEMENTS. e e G (LRI o AU fmioi e & > ) Ui to every boy ; calling, ac-° companied by parent. or guardian Suits and Overcoats For Men New styles, with our concaveshoul- ders, in all colors and designs, $14 to $35 FancyVests $2.50t0 $10 Smoking Jackets ... . .. $4.50 to $12 ForYoyng Men Latest cut, with side and center vents., In worsteds and cassimeres, $7.50t0%25 -For Boys Etons, Russians, Norfolks, Two- piece,Three-piece, Four-piece Suits, $3 to 812 CLOTHING® ORDERS ISSUED Mill to BROWN %= ‘Man SI6'SIS MARKET ST.ndtiTomeey e ROMNET CANV S BRINGS FORTUNE Recent Sale of Picture in London for $34125 S sboapuse Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, Dec. 21.—Behind the sale of a Romney picture at Christie's for 6500 guineas ($34,125) lies a romance. 1t opens forty years ago at the little | seaport and mining town of White- haven, on the Cumberland coast. A small tradesman had fallen into diffi- cultles and a sale was held of his| household effects, which was attended chiefly by frugal housewives in search of bargains in the shape of pots and | pans and second-hand furniture. Their interest slackened whan the auctioneer unrolled c¢hree grimy canvases, and a local wight, who had strayed upon the scene, bought the lot for a few shill- without the faintest idea that among them was an art treasure that would be worth a fortune some day. In fact, he cared little for pictures him- self and bought them more as a joke than anything else. Among the women present was Mrs. John Tomlinson, bent on picking up cheaply some articles of domestlc util- ity. Her husband was a clvil servant of sorts, beihg a “Government distribu- tor of stamps,” and a man of some in- telligence, with a liking for pictures. ‘Thrifty Mrs. Tomiinson did not believe in wasting money on such things her self, but she told John of the incident. The next day he sought out the pur-! chaser, wha gave himself credit for displaying remarkable shrewdness in selling them again for twice what he had paid for them. Tomlingon stretched the canvases and hung them in his house. He had no of his find. Some ‘“painter chaps” in the neighborhood told him _that they were certainly good pictures, which he regarded as a flattering tribute to his own judgment and cultured tasts. On the strength of them, .as the years rolled by, he acquired quite a local rep- utation as an art connoisseur. - Artists visiting the neighborhood frequently dropped in upon him and admired his little collection. He received several local offers for them, which he stub- bornly resisted. One artist settled at Whitéhaven re- peatedly tried to induce him to part with the Romney canvas. He was not quite certain that it was a Romney, and the price he offered was only a fraction of what it fetched at auction, but it represented a prodigious sum to ; Tomlinson. Still he declined. He had enough to keep him in comfort in his | old age, and he did not hanker after riches. Strangely enough, no news of | the Whitehaven treasure ever reached the earg of the big dealers, and in con- sequence none of the hungry roving commissioners of the art world ever descended on the town of the under- sea mines. Tomlinson died intestate when near- 1y 90. Some of the heirs wrote to Chris- tie's about his pictures. One of the ex- perts of the firm was dispatched north and saw at a glance the richness of Whitehaven's secret. Very different was the scene at Christie's sale from that other sale forty years earlier. The place was jammed. For two and a half hours the patient sightseers awaited the appearance on the easel of the pic- | ture which the Whitehaven house- | wives had eyed with disdain. At length the unframed canvas, so long the adornment of 1 humble mari- telpiece, was hoisted up. Hundreds of wedged elbows stiffened. Hundreds of eager eyes turned to the picture. The dealers cleared theéir throats, “Five - hundred guineas,” exclaimed the eldest of them, and the battle had begun. The bidding advanced by hundred- guinea stages until an impressive pause proclaimed that the limit had been’ reached and the fall of the hammer terminated the scene. Lockett Agnew, the well-known London dealer, had se- cured for $34,500 in American money. The two other Whitehaven pictures which were included in the sale—por- traits by Tilly Kettle and painted soma time prior to 1783—fetched $1285. The lot that had been sold for a few shill- ings in 1864 realized $35,410 in 1904. Such is the romance of picture buying! The Romney picture represents two little children, one a girl carrying a doll, and the other a mite of a boy, ap- parently her brother, walking proudly by her side, as though intent on pro- tecting her with his toy gun. The paint- ing of the two heads, especially that of the little maid, is of excellent bloom. But the canvas has been sadly neglect- ed and there are traces of village paint upon it. After undergoing careful treatment at the hands of the skilled picture mender its appearance will be greatly improved. When next sold it may fetch several thousand dollars more than Agnew paid for it. The | highest recorded price paid for a Rom- | ney at an auction sale is $55,275. How such a fine specimen of Rom- ney’ haven is a mystery that has not yet been fathomed. But its discovery has led to a lot of rummaging among dusty lumber rooms all over the country, and every mail brings dozens of letters to Christie’s requesting them to send ex- perts to examine pictures which the writers are convinced are Romney's or Gainsborough’s. —————— Brief Session of the Senate. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—After a session of four minutes’ duration the Senate adjourned to-day until Janu- ary 4 next. work originally reached White- | INO EVIDENCE AGAINST THEM Men Arrested on Suspicion of Having Murdered Mes- senger Roberts Released —— Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 21.—Jarvis | and Schwindler, who were arrested at Burlingame, near San Francisco, on | suspicion of being implicated in the | recent robbery of a Santa Fe train and the murder of Express Messenger Rob- | erts, were released from custody this | afternoon and returned to San Fran- cisco with their employer, F. J. Mackey | the millionaire horse owner. The Grand | Jury spent the better part of two days investigating the case, summoning wit- nesses from San Francisco, Los An- | geles and desert points, but this after- noon the District Attorney advised the jury that he would file a motion to dis- { miiss the case. The men had been in | the car immediately ahead of the robbed express car, attending a lot of horses for Mackey, but there was noth- | ing more than that to connect them with the crime. —_——————— The cash-on-delivery parcel post system has worked successfully in Germany for forty years. France, Aus- tria, Switzerland, Italy, Holland, and, in fact, practically every country on the continent, has adopted it, as also has the United States. ADVERTISEMENTS. ¥ beiieve that the price is mo We have hits in ali the latest styles of soft and stiff shapes at $1.30, $1.95, $2.50 and $3.00, and the J B. Stetson at $4.00. French silk opera hits at $6.00, which sell for genuine $8.00 everywhere else. Buy hats here and vou buy to the best possible ad- vintage. SNWO0oD 5(0 740 Market Street Why Not Give| Him a Hat? If you want to give some friend a dependable hat for Christmas then visit our hat department and make your selection. The value in our hats is so good that ‘the re- cipient would be led to re than it realiy is.