The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1904, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMRER 23, 1904 PORT ARTHUR WAR CRAFT [TELLS HOW ESCAPE DURING A STORM Eight T‘orbedo Destroyers Dash Out of Harbor. RUMORED VICTORY Kuropatkin Reports 203-Meter Hill Recaptured. LONDON, Dec. 23, —The Daily Tele- graph’s Chefu correspondent _reports that eight torpedo-boat destroyers have escaped from Port Arthur, where for the last twenty-four hours, he says, a severe snowstorm has been raging. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 22.—General Kuropatkin has telegraphed to the general staff that he has received a report from Chinese sources to the ef- fect that the Russians have recaptured 203-Meter Hill at Port Arthur, with the guns mounted by the Japanese. Kuropatkin’s dispatch, which is dated December 21, also reports further rec- onnaissances by both the Russians and the Japanese, but gays they were not productive of important results. The War Offite has no additional in- formation regarding General Kuropat- kin's report that the Russians have recaptured 203-Meter Hill, but the of- ficials consider it certain that the com- mander in chief would not have sent the report unless it came through ex- ceptionally reliable channels. TWO HEIGHTS CAPTURED. TOKIO, Deec. 22—A dispatch re- ceived by telegraph from the Japanese, Army before Port Arthur says: The right column of the army at 5 o'clock this morning, taking advantage | of the enemy’s excitement, drove the | off the eminence north of Housanyentao, on Pigeon Bay, and oc- cupied the position, .and at 7 o'clock dislodged the enemy from a height on the peninsula west of Housanyentao, | which we occuplied, capturing one small gun. After the Japanese occupa- tion «of the positions’the enemy made a counter attacl@but was immediately | enemy repulsed. - At" present our occupation of the position is practically secure.” A report received from Vice Admiral Togo at 10.o'clock last night said: Ay er taken by our fleet, who is consid: i to be reliable, reports that as the result of our attack since De- cember 13 eight torpedoes struck the peck of the battleship Sevastopol and that at least one took effect on her hull. This seems to have occurred on | the night of December 15, or early on the morning of December 16. The ship | is listing to starboard and-: the side| lights on her lower deck are submerged. | On the night of December 16 one of | our torpedoes struck the bow of a Rus- | sian torpedo-boat destroyer and that | vessel is now aground.” | NO LONGER A MENACE. HEADQUARTERS OF THE THIRD JAPANESE ARMY, BEFORE. PORT ARTHUR, Dec. 22-~During the morn- ing of December 19 the Russian turret | ship Sevastopo! was torpedoed by the| Japanese fleet and immediately listed | ten degrees to the right, remajning fast | on the shalipw shore at the foot of Liaoti Mountain. The vessel is consid- ered absolutely useless for further of- fensive operations. The Japanese bom- bardment of the Russian gunboats and torpedo craft in the harbor continues. Vet Russians Employing Chinese. ERAL OKUS HEADQUAR- {ednesday, Dec. 21.—It is be- Ueved by the Japanese that the Rus- sians are employing Chinese to.dam- age the Japanese lines of communica- tion. and they have no ' doubt that Chinese were employed by the Rus- slans to burn the magazines at Liao- vang. The Japanese say that if they arr<st any Chinese engaged in so ful- filling their obligation to their em- ployvers they will execute them as a warning to other Chinese agaihst a repetition of the offense. AGREI'M T CONCERNING HOSPITAL SHIPS SIGNED Document Exempis Vessels From Port Dues and Other Charges in Time of Peace. THE HAGUE, Dec. 22—The conven- tion on the status of the hospital ships agreed upon by the delegates of the powers to the international conference on the subject was signed to-day in the presence of the Foreign- Minister. Sub- sequently Queen Wilhelmina and the Queen mother received the delegates. The convention exempts hospital ships from port dues and other charges in time of peace. —————— Cashier and Coin Missing. SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Dec. 22.—The cashier of the Dedham Savings Bank of Dedham cfnnot be found. He is said to be short about $20,000 and the bank has commenced suit against him for the amount. The bank had $60,000 deposits. are very often attrfbuted to billousness, nd the stomach is treated to cathartics. That's wrong. the mistake of treating th tomach when the heart is the source o: frouble. -BoatINorth sion Begins Its Session. Al e SENSATION SPRUNG Hull Fishermen Are Said to Support Russia. PARIS, Dec. 22.—The International Commission appointed to inquire into the North Sea incident met at the For- eign Office at 10 o’'clock this morning. Rear Admiral Davis, U. S. N, was present. The commission unanimously elected Admiral von Shaun of the Aus- tro-Hungarian navy to be the fifth member, completed the preliminary or- ganization and adjourned until Jan- uary 9, The opening session was held in a suite of sumptuous saloons of the D'Orsay Palace, Foreign Office. Ad- miral Davis arrived in ctvilian dress, accompanied by his aids, Lieutenant Commander Roy 8. Smith, the naval attache of the American Embassy, and Ensign William F. Bricker, U. 8. N. Presjdent Loubet recelved Admiral Davis in the library of the Elysee Pal- ace this evening. The interview was a brief and formal exchange of cour- tesies, the President expressing his pleasure at the fact that the United States was represented on the commis- sion. HULL MEN CHANGE FRONT. LONDOY, Dec, 22—The publication in St. Petersburg that the Hull fishermen have voluntarily deposed that foreign torpedo boats were among the trawlers off Dogger Bank when the latter were fired upon by ships of the Russian fleet | is probably nothing more than a repeti- tion of similar statements emanating from Hull and appearing in London pa- pers the last few days. Thegg are cir- cumstantial and it would certainly ap- pear to be true that some men of the Gamecock fleet have made statements before the Russian Consul, The name of only one of these has been revealed. He is the boatswain of the trawler Ava and he said to-day that he was induced to make the state- ment while he was intoxicated. The sensational press of England di- rectly charges the Russian Govern- ment with using underhand means, by bribery and Intoxicants, to secure false siatements from men of the Gamecock fishing fleet. The: Russian Consul at Hull to-night said the boatswain of the Ava was { brought to his office, but that he sent him to the Commissioner of Oaths, where, the Consul says, the boatswain swore he saw a Japanese torpedo boat with the trawlers. The Consul says he knows of other trawlers who are ready to make similar statements, but that they are afraid of the consequences. The Censul indignantly denlies that he has mage any attempt to induce fisher- men to make statements. He says that when informed of the nature of the statement the bodtswain of the Ava in- tended to make it was his duty to his Government to render every assistance. MAY EXPLAIN THE INCIDENT. Aliogether an air of mystery sur- rounds the affair, but no credence in responstble quarters is given to the al- legations that unfair methods have been used by the Russian Government. One explanation emanates from Par- is, where it is said that two reporters of the Petit Parisienne recently visited Hull in order to interview men of the Gamecock fleet and secure independ- ent information concerning the Dogger Bank affair. As none of the newspaper reports ajsumes to identify the “‘agents” as Russian, being limited to calling them “foreigners employed by the Russian Government,” this is the most prebable explanation of the story | &ramme of reform for his considera- which, however, may possibly have a |tion. The Emperor wrote on the dis- sequel in the testimony before the In- ternational Tribunal at Paris. B DAILY ARTILLERY FIGHTS. Armies on the Shakhe Are Extending Their Positions Eastward. MUKDEN, Dec. 22.—The opposing armies continue artillery fights. Both sides have extended their positions far to the eastward. There was more artillery firin, from Poutiloff Hill on December 21, which resulted in dispersing a party of Japanese, who were trying to en- trench in front of that position. Chinese report that Field Marshal Oyama and his staff have established headquarters at Liaoyang and that-the Japanese are constructing new forts around the city.- « <ssei A The Japanese gre reported to be suf- fering severély from cold and sickness in the vicinity of Palaszandzi’ and Shilfkhe, where, it 4s sald,” they lost 2000 men in a single week. P The Orenburg Cossacks captured six Japanese scouts on Décember 21, four of whom were badly frozen, their feet. The same Cossacks re- cently ' captured -seventeen Japanese, |, who were unable to fire a single shot when they found themselves sur- Sl B PREDICTS PERMANENT PEACE IN THE BALKANS | resentati LONDON, Dec. 22.-—Among the diplomatists in London connected with the Balkans the suggestions of the possibllity of a Turko- Sea Commis-|Japanese Squadron I Is Cruising Off Singapore. —— LOOKING FOR FOE May Defeat the Baltic Fleet in Detail. —————— Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. BHANGHAI, Dec. 22.—A squadron of powerful cruisers under Admiral Kam- imura has gone south to the China Sea to meet the Russian second Pacific Squadron. SINGAPORE, -Straits Settlement, Dec. 22.—Two Japanese converted cruisers, the Nippon Maru and the Hongkong Maru, entered Singapore Strait this morning and anchored in the roadstead, seven miles from Singa- KEENE WAS - BETRAYED Lawson Adds to His, Wall - Street HiStOI‘Y. Accuses Standard Oil of Treachery to Former Californian. Bostonian Expresses Friendly Regard for the Premier of btock . Manipulators. — Special Dispatch to The Call. pore City, at noon. These cruisers are ! sea scouts of the Japanese battle fleet, | which is composed of two m-sl-clul‘ battleships, two first-class armored cruisers, two second-class crulsers and | a flottlla of twelve torpedo craft. These | BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 22.—Thomas W. Lawson to-day made this statement: “Last Friday I said, in speaking of how fictitious transactions werey made on the Stock Exchange for the purpose BRITON WINS THE HAND OF 'AMERICAN GIRL . NEWRORT SWELL (FOURTEEN IS A FUCITIVE Warrant Out™ for Arrest of ' Multimillionaire Nor- man’s Private Secretary ACCOU Edwin L. Pike Leaves Be-| hind Him Several Un-| paid Personal Obligations | NEWPORT, R. L, Dee. 22.—Sergeant | | Allen C. Griffith, armed with a war- | rant for the arrest of Edwin L. Pike, | private secretary of George H. Norman, ! multi-millionaire, left Newport: early to-day for Boston to apprehend the lncretary, but up to a late hour zo-i night he had not been abie to locate : him. | Pike kept sumptucus apartments on | EBellevue avenue. He dressed well—in | fact, was a Beau Brummel, and wu] | envied by“the young men of his set. He | kept a valet and maintained two estab- | lishments. | Pike’s disappearance, with the fact | that he was secretary to George H. | Norman, has given Newport its biggest | sensation in years. | Yesterday Norman returped from New York and was unable to find his | secretary, who had been left in charge Special Dispatch to The Call. YEARS 1§ | DONGEON TS NOT CORRECT New Yorker, Long Mourned as Dead, Writes to Mother Telling of Startling Ad- venture in South America POLITICAL PRISONER OF REVOLUTION Anxiously Inquires for Wife and Two Sons, Not Know- ing That She and Children Tlad Ddied Some Time Ago Spectal Dispatch to The Call. PORT JERVIS, N. Y., Dec. 22—Un- heard of for fourteen years, during whiéh time he had been mourned as one dead by family and friends, F. C. Hol- ley, a once prosperous business man of New York, has written to his only sur- viving relatives amnouncing that he is alive. He tells an extraordinary story of conflnement in a South American prison. Holley's letter came from Bu- vessels are now on their way to a cer- | °f Making bogus, prices, with intent to tain place, where they intend fo give defraud buyers and sellers of securitigs: battle to part of the Baltic fleet. | ‘I have a five or six page corroborative According to the Japanese captain,| lef};r f;gm James R. Keene. the naval situation at Port Arthur be- | r. Keene denied my statement, and ing now settled and the Russian fleet Said he had only written a short note entirely disabled, Admiral Togo has ' Of two pages, and if I did not publish it turned his attention to the outcoming ' he Wo‘;fld :llel !«;llg:vins n:‘on?y.nl :x:‘; fleet. He declined to give any further | SWered: - right; go ahead.’ e information, but ndr{‘;:ued ,;hut he DOt publish it Monday or Tuesday. I would go west and south and had called prepared to on Wednesday. Late Tues- here to communicate with the Japanese | 4a¥ night he sent me word that if 1 re- Consul. | frained he would publish his copy on 1t is believed here that the Japanese Thursday, and he did. What he pub- have a secret base among the islands | nlhedlls a correct copy of the full five- and will attempt to selze colllers and | p';;f"::"[r;m‘;l'd‘":; ;{":’ Izi;e:'i“l):{ter boats carryil traba; - » . sian flee:?; l:i;:nwl:“r:d t.:h:h;:::;_! to me was not a confidential communi- €se cruisers left at 1:30 o’clock this aft- | f:;‘{"l"m?:,,{":,fi".’:‘f:’:{;:x:; e ernoon. » ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 22.—The an- “Second, I have no desire to do or say nouncement that four Japanese cruis- | ;;;wthlrfa to "In‘mz or “‘j""e&“" Keene. ers and twelve torpedo hoats are pro- | 7 ritngs dn - BATBEK and, thas zant ceeding west from Singapore is re-| celved here with much interest. It is | SPoken of him :’“’“’ plainly my feelings not believed, however, that such a ‘1‘ m;‘t him, and my treatment of him y Japan with an idea of engaging in! ' iof offensive operations, but it is regarded | ;;‘"I;h"w my feelings; but in "]‘i‘m'}‘l! pose of this squadron to keep a sur-/ veillance over the two detachments of , 1 rélate, show the exact line of truth. the Russian fleet which are expected, KEENE'S STRENUOUS WORK. to soon unite in the neighborhood of “For years there was in the employ Madagascar. It is generally believed of Willlam Rockefeller a man who han- that Vice Admiral Rojestvensky in- | dled all confidential transactions and tends to establish a naval coaling base | papers connected with them of the on some small island between Mada- | ‘Standard Oil.’ In the midst of the ¢op- gascar and the Philippines and that | per deal a great ‘leak’ was discovered the Japanese cruising squadron is to at 26 Broadway. Enormous transac- mark the rendezvous for Vice Admiral tions were being '‘conducted in Wall Togo's information. The belief is ex- street, ostensibly in the name of ‘Stand- pressed that Admiral Rojestvensky will ' arq Oil'—that is, when certain stock be able to catch up with the Japanese deals were made, rumor credited them scouts, who, it is belleved, he could|to ‘Standard Oil.’ A most thorcugh se- easily destroy, thereby“weakening the | cret investigation was started, but Japanese in the final naval engage- without success. Traps were laid and Tasut. finally game was found in them and the Two of | the sovere tation. of | point. * — 4| ‘leak’ discovered. ~ “Consternation reigned at the ‘Sys- (ZA R ANG ER ED tem’s’ shrine. = Mr. Rockefeller’s confi- 2 exploded and the world, particularly b the financial world, for a short day was aliowed a glimpse of the terribly black AR duplicity which at all times underlies ‘Wall street. The services of the Grand constitution and the convocation of a |James R. Keene at this time was selling | National Assembly is useless. Such is | At OVer par. The necessities of James the construction placed upon the in- | Fogens, vira Trasiioy, flr% iteed dorsement written in his own hand on | glv.eneu and dhe seod will.of Bikndard the resolutions telegraphed by the | Ol'; DeXt, In connection with his rub- | of the Zemstvos to present a _;and James R. Keene rolled up his DT | sleeves for the most ik uriit piece of work In his most strenuous life, and 4he fur flew—the people’s fur. STANDARD OIL TREACHERY. dential man was quietly Mismissed. | Simultaneously with his dismissal a tremendous Third-avenue bomb was ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 22.—Em- | Jury were sought and things for a few peror Nicholas formally notified the , days looked ominous for certain men. country to-day that agitation for a| “The hatred of ‘Standard Oil' for Chernigov Zemstvo on December 20, | ber stocks. A certain man succe.eded in begging him In the most loyal manner |@Mal§amating the ‘Standard Oil’ hatred 'to convocate legally elected members | f Keene and the Keene necessities, patch: “In consideration of Keene doing a good job up brown, the ‘Standard Oil’ ‘would ‘subseribe one-half of the money I consider the action of the President to be presumptyous and tactéss. Questions of state administration are of no concern to the Zemstvos, whose functions and rights. are clearly defined by the iaw. {ton. In 1901 he was appointed Minister =Checks. | of his personal business affairs. Upon | examination of his accounts, which were not found in a satisfactory con- « | dition, Norman immediately obtained a I | writ of attachment to be served upen | the secretary’s account in the National 4 | Exchange Bank, but no balance was found. An attachment was placed on NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—The engage- | Pike’s personal property and at his ment of Miss Alice Blight, daughter of | boarding-house a keeper was placed in Atberton Blight of New York and Phil- | charge. adelphia, and the Hon. Gerard Lowther, | Norman had been accustomed to turn British Minister at Tangier, has just | ©Ver to his secretary considerable sums AMERICAN GIRL WHOSE EN- GAGEMENT TO A BRITISH DIP- LOMAT HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED. heen announced by a private cablegram , °f money, with which to meet personal | from London. | obligations. These sums were deposited Lowther was for some time secretary | PY the secretary to his own account of the British embassy in Washing-|and drawm on by the secretary's Norman went away a week to Chile and was lately transferred to | 280 and left $2000 with his secretary. Tangier. | It is reported that there are several The indorsement was printed in the Official Messenger this morning, dash- ing the hopes of the extremists. It | does not come as a great surprise. The Emperor,”from the beginning, al- necessary to float the new rubber cbm- pany and loan its magic name to the enterprise. First, the total amount was $5,000,000, ‘Standavd Oil' $2,500,000; then $10,000,000, ‘Standard Oil' $5,000,000; though he has shown himself favor- | finally $15,000,000, ‘Standard Oil' $7,500,- ably disposed toward a more liberal | 000. Public announcement was made regime and in entire sympathy with i and everything went as merry as a some of the Zemstvo demands, had re- | steam clipper at a fleecing bee, and solved not to yield the principle of | Keene completed his job, and—well, autocracy. Upon this point, it Is un- | ‘Standard Oil' never forgives an in- derstood, all his advisers, including |jury. Interior Minister = Sviatopolk-Mirsky, agreed, but the character of the agi- tation followed the meeting of the presidents of the Zemstvos, and the actioh ‘of. various provinctal Zemstvos and munieipal councils, ‘coupled with the recent demonstrations at St. Pe- tersburg, Moscow and elsewhere, prob- ably served to strengthen the hands of the reactionaries and convinced the Emperor of the imperative negessty for a plain-spoken announcement of ign’s position upon the main “What the immediate effect of the mperial rebuke administered to the Chernigov Zeémstvo will be is prob- lematical. It may only serve to fan the flames and be used by the revolu- tionary organizations to increase the agitation, and in turn compel its rep- on. " ————— Christmas Picture Frames. % ' Bxquisite patterns in oval, circle ana ‘square rr:“;v"' finished in .“tt.'h gold lac- s Towns, quers an ns, !or"Ch dainty 1d ornaments. nborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. * e —e——— KINGSTON, Jamaica, Dec. 23.—The Fruit Company's an A‘dnlnl Vabd en! Sioraat hasbor. Tha wreoking sieamer’ Bost Morant 3 shaving outfits. Deckelman flsn,u. et i e B “Suddenly {ts subscription and its name were yanked away from the new rubber company and James R. Keene was longer of experience and shorter of faith than ever before in his mar- wvelous' career; but I will tell this part of my story.in the fullest detail when I reach it in the regular sequence of events.” Lawson also exhibited a létter .from Denis Doriohue of New York, in which the latter said: “I shall always remember Thomas W. Lawson; the man, as one of the most ‘winning personalities with whom I have crossed blades during my twenty years of journalistic sword play—a eavalier like the good Sieur Bayard, ‘Sans peur et sans reproche,’ " Lawson also renewed his attacks on H. H. Rogers, but sajd nothing of pub- lc interest. ADDICKS SEEKING TROUBLE. BOSTON, Dec. 22.—The Boston Journal will say to-morrow morning that J. Edward Addicks, who has been prominently identified with gas companies in this city, arrived in Bos- ton to-night, and the'Journal under- Dewey | Stands that he came here for the pur- pose of having an interview with E Afim‘w*fi: J.?fi’m, a 1 street news- mm I‘In court on Satur- ar- |, ————— PERSONAL. Dr. James D. Fair of Chicago is at the Lick. ¥ ‘W. W. Chapin of Sacramento is at the Palace. Dr. G. H. McGeer of Tacoma Is at the Grand. g Dr. G. P. Doyle of Bishop, Cal., at the Grand, 3 A. O. Lowe, a Woodland capitalist, is staying at the Lick. Harry A. Cotton of Port Townsend is staying at the Grand. John Markley of Geyserville regis- tered yesterday at the Lick. William L. Davis of Springs is at the St. Francis. Frank Kernan, a mining man of Val- dez, Alaska, is at the Occidental. A. H. Naftzger, the well known Los Angeles fruit grower, is at the St. Francis, G. F. Harrington and wife of Har- rington, Ariz., are staying at the St. Francis. Attorney Frank H. Short of Fresno is here on legal business and staying at the Palace. ‘W. B. Clapp, who is connected with the United States Geological Survey, is at the St. Francis. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Hovey of Chicago were among yesterday's ar- rivals at the St. Francis. President David Starr Jordan of Stanford University is at the St. Fran- cis. C. P. Hill, a mining engineer of Hill- crest, Canada, is registered at the Palace. Among yesterday’'s arrivals at the Palace was W. H. Holabird, a well known mining and lumberman of Los Angeles. Hervey Lindley, president of the Klamath River Railroad Company, is in this city for the holidays and reg- istered at the Palace. J. F. Van Rensselar, general agent of the Southern Pacific Company at Atlanta, Ga., and wife, who are visit- ing for San Francisco for the first time, are guests at the St. Francis. ‘Word has been received here that A. P. Stewart, district freight and passenger agent of the Chicago and | Alton road, is confined to his bed in| St. Louls with a broken leg, the result | of a recent street car accident. Stew-! art left here three weeks ago in re-| sponse to -a summons from his chief and was preparing to leave St. Louis for San Francisco when he met with | the accident. According to a letter | received here yesterday he will not be able to return to San Franeisco for | several weeks. —— Calif in New York. NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—The follow- ing Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—H. R. Ber- nard, at the Albert; W. N. Kelly, at the Hotel Imperial; F. L. Lowell, at the Holland House; M. J. Bdcon, at the Vietoria; J. W. Matthes and wife, at the Astor; G. G. Sanches, at the Grand Union; F. L. Stroh and O. D. Tolsin, at the Hotel Imperial; J. Bren- Colorado nan and H. B. Muzy, at the Herald | Square, and Miss M. Newhall, at the Woodward. ul: the Park Avenue; C. N. Thomas, at the St. Denis, and Miss A. Wade, at the Earlington. From Los Angeles—R. L. Lewellyn, | ——— Californians in Washington. | | personal accounts of Pike which are left unpaid. MORTON TALKS FOR RAILROADS Svecial Dispatch to The Call. | cALL BUREATU, POST BUILDING, | WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—In his strug- | | gle with the interstate commerce | problem, his desire being to see the| | commission granted the!power to regu-; | late rates, Presi@ent Roosevelt has ! called Secretary Morton into confer- | ence a great deal lately, appreciating his | knowledge and experience as a railroad | { man. It now develops, according to a | New York statesman who is close to| both the President and the Secretary, | and who talked to both on the subject | to-day, that Secretary Morton has a very strong leaning toward the nll-; ! road interests in this business and has| upheld them to such an extent that he | and the President show signs of drift- i ing apart. 1t is said that Morton has urged upon the President the right of the railroads to pool in their service to . terminal points where they are now competitors. This point is one which the railroads | have long been claiming, and Secretary Morton is reported to have said that if | it be now granted all opposition on their part to the proposed extension of the powers of the Interstate Com- merce Commission would be with- drawn. The President, however, declines to make this concession, according to the | authority referred to, and the discus-| | sion has continued until there is some | show of feeling between the President and the Secretary. ——————— ASKS COURT TO COMPEL CHILD TO SUPPORT HER‘ | | California Woman Is Defendant in an caramanga in the department of San- tanda, Colombia, South America, to his mother, who lives In Otisville, N. Y. Holley was a salesman for the Inger- soll Drill Company. He was suceessful, and it was just fourteen years #80 that a letter reached his mother announcing | that he had completed a $25,000 contract {in one of the important cities of Co- | lombia, and was about to start for home. That was the last heard from him from that day until to-day. Noth- ing concerning him had been learned, | an exhaustive investigation was futile | and eventually the supposition that he | had met death in.,some remots place ‘was accepted. | When he went to South America Hol- | ley bad a wife and two sons in a cozy | home in Homowac, Ulster County, N. { Y. . The wife, still mourning him, dfed several years ago and both sons were killed in accidents. Holley does not know this and makes an anxious in- quiry in his letter. He says that when he arrived in Colombia one of the then frequent revolutions was in progress, bHut he took no particular interest in it and proceeded to transact his business. He had done so and was on the eve of leaving town when, without a word of warning, he was arrested as a political prisoner and without an explanation of the nature of his offense thrown into a dungeon. In the vicissitudes of Colombian poli- tics and the many changes in the Gov- ernment he was finally forgotten, and as all communication with the outside world was denfed him he could not even fearn which of the contending partifes had caused his arrest and long captivity. —_——————— BLACK WILL 'OPENLY ANNOUNCE CANDIDACY Platt’s Declaration of War Does Not Alarm New York’s Former Governor. NEW YORK, Dec. 32.—Louis F. Payne, one of ex-Governor Black's supporters In the United States Sen- atorship contest, said to-day that Black was a candidate for Senator Depew’s place. Payne continued: “Mr. Black’s friends knew all along that he was in the fleld, but now he is ready to come out openly and make his fight for a seat in the Senate.” Before leaving for Albany to-day Governor Odell received the commit- tee appointed by the conference called by Senator Platt yesterday. He was evasive and non-committal in discuss- *ing. the situation. IOWA CITY, Ia.. Dec. 22.—The JIows Brew- ery was burned to-night. Loss $100,000. T S ——— e ADVERTISEMENTS. WRONG IDEA. Don’t get the wrong idea into your head that starvation is good for dys- pepsia. It's not. Those who have not studied the sub- fject very deeply, or with trained sclen- tific wminds, might think so. But facts prove otherwise. All specialists in stomach and diges- tive disorders know that it is best for Action Brought in Omaha by Mother. OMAHA, Dec. 22.—Elizabeth B: Reeves has filed in the District Court a petition and affidavit for a writ of | attachment and garnishee against| Margaret L. Getty of California. The defendant is the daughter of the plaintiff, who alleges that her daugh- ter. should contribute to her support and in the affidavit it is asserted that the sum of $1000 is now due her from | | Mrs. Getty under a contract. The defendant, though a resident of Cglifornia, owns property in Omaha, which is specified in the papers and | is said to be owned by Mrs. Getty in | | her own right independent of her hus- | band. It is sought to attach the prop- | erty and garnishee the proceeds from | the same for the benefit of the! n;other. | —————————— CLERGYMAN ARRESTED FOR ROBBING A STORE | Faints When Taken to the Police i Station on a Charge of TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 22.—Among | | the shoplifters arrested last night by department store detctives one man, | | taken by Roger Bresnahan, the noted | dyspepsia to be well fed. Why, dyspepsia is really a starvation disease! Your food doesn't feed you. By starvation, you may give your bowels and kidneys less to do, but that does not cure your digestive trouble— simply makes you weaker and sicker: less likely to be permanently cured than ever. No, the only right way te permanent- 1y cure yourself of any form of dyspep- sia or iIndigestive trouble, is to eat heartily of all the food that you find best agrees with you, and help your digestion to work with Stuart’s Dys- pepsia Tablets. This is a safe, certain, scientifie, re- liable method of treatment, which will never fail to cure the mest obstinate cases If persevered in. Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets have a gentle, tonic, refreshing effect on the secretory glands of the entire digestive They gently force the flow of fresh igestive juices. They contain, themselves, many of the chemical constituents of these juices, thus when dissolved they help to dissclve the food around them in stomach or bowels. They therefore quickly relieve all the a ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—The follow- | ball player, proved to be Rev. 8. Gobiet. symptoms of indigestion, and coax the ing Californians are in Washington: At the New Willard, Mrs. F. M. Kelly of San Francisco; at the Ebbitt, W. G. Hunter of San Francisco. e ——— Christmas Clocks and Candlesticks. | which he §orfeited when his case was manent Get one of our clocks, the quaint gola- | called to-day. He is a Bowling Green_ Stuart en ones that every one wants, or a gold mwzwdfllfifimmhrl nice ive Christmas pres- ntm"u.v rn, Vi @0-." 741 Mar st.e w’l%.ml—m Announces that the Wdl‘t Canal charge §1 - — 2 Running 3w | He was charged with having stolen ' | two pairs of cuff buttons. ‘When he was registered at the Cen- tral station he fainted. Later he re- covered sufficiently to put up $10 bail, | divine. —_———————— High Prices Realized for the Pelts. VICTORIA, B. C., Dee. 32.—The an- nual meeting of the Victoria Sealing Company, which embraces virtually all the Canadian sealers in the Pacific, will be held to-morrow. Last year's catch was high and the prices realized for the pelts in London were good, the season being a profitable one to the company. ¥ 5 glands to take a prover pleasure in do- ing their proper work. 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