The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1905, Page 1

* . Madagascar, January 2, A *“who have given their blood and lives for their with blockade is not supplied with necessary - underground enemies of Russia who are in- B “dition, but it has been public gossip - from cancer. "REFORTIFYING PORT ARTHUR. unsettied weather showers by night; wind. Dis THE WEATHER. San Francisco and vicinity—Cloudy, A. G. McADIE, Friday; possibly fresh southeast ALCAZAR—*Old York." trict Forecaste THE THEATERS. CALIFORNTA—*Yon Yonson. COLUMBIA—*'Sultan of Sulu.” CENTRAL—"Child Slaves CHUTES—Vaudeville, FISCHER'S—Vaudeville. GRAND—"The Darling of the Gods." Heldelberg.* af New VOLUME XCVII—NO. 37. SAN FRANCISCO, FRID;\Y, ANUARY 6, 1905. “RUSSIA LOSES BATTLESHIP OF BALTIC FLEET Report of Foundering of Warship Disaster to the Carrying t Kniaz Suvaroff, he Flag of Rojestvensky. Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyright, 1905, by » PARIS, Jan. 5.—The St. the Herald Publishing Company. Petersburg correspondent of the Paris edition of the New York Herald telegraphs that Vice Admiral Rojestvensky’s flagship, the battleship Kniaz Suvaroff, has struck a rock and foundered. MAKES DENIAL OF THE REPORT ST. PETERSBURG. Jan. 6 (By A Admiarl Rojestvensky’s flagship, the struck a rock and sunk are unfounded ssociated Press).—Reports that Vice battleship Kniaz Souvaroff, has ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 6.—The latest report from Vice Admiral Rojes- ventsky's squadron was contained in & dispatch dated Tamatave, island of in which it was #tated that the vice admiral’s division of the Russian second Pacific squad- ron, consisting of five battleships, three criiisers, two transports and a hospi- tal ship, had anchored on that day in the roadstead of Sainte Marie, an island ©n the east coast. The Kniaz Suvaroff, flagship of the second Pacific squadron, was a battle- ship of 13,516 tons, with a nominal Epeed of eighteen knots. She launched only in 1901 and was one of newest four battleships of Russia, ail of the same class, the others being the Alexander the Third, the Borodino and the Orel, with which it was hoped Ad- miral Rojestvensky might be able_to cope with the four remaining b&de- | _®hips of Japan. The Kniaz Sgvaroft | was armed with four 12-inch guns and | twelye 6-inch guns and for protection ‘against torpedoes had four inches of tmal halow thganps Kad halt Admiral - Sthov¥l Petrovich Rojest- vensky, whose flag was flying on the Xniaz Suvaroff, was born 56 years ago and recelved his early naval training in the Russian Corps of Marine Cadets &nd in the Marine Academy. He left the latter institution in 1876, in time to take part in the Russo-Turkish war. Tn the following year he earned the fourta class of the Order of St. George for his gallant attack with the Vesta on a Turkish warship in the Black Sea. He became a second-class captain in 1885 and up to 1891 commanded a succession of warships, among them the Viadimir, the Monomach and the Pervenez. In 1896 he was promoted to rear admiral. He’' commanded the y squadron in the Baltic during the ma- neuvers carried out in the presence of the German Emperor in 1902 and on that occasion received the thanks of the Czar and was attached to the im- perial suite. Last vear he was ap- alternate to the chief of the Ity staff. definitely announced yester- that because of the fall of Port pointed day Arthur orders would be sent to the Paltic fleet immediately for its recall to home waters. The integtion of the Government is to hold the fleet here until It_has been brought up to its full &trength by the addition of vessels now undergoing repairs or in process of con- struction. AT A COURT-MARTIAT, FOR STOESSEL. Announcement Arouses Indignation of Russian Populace. ST. PET SBURG, Jan. 5.—Few incidents of the whole war have aroused more bitter criticism than the blunt announcement, officially is- sued by the General Staff, that Gen- eral Stoessel will have to come home and stand court-martial for surrend- ering the fortress of Port Arthur. While this is an ancient regulation and quite according to law, it is bit- terly resented on all sides that such an announcement should have been gratuitously made in the same bul- Jetin containing Gerieral Stoessel's ap- peal to the Emperor for “lenient judgment on a garrison reduced to shadows, who have done all that was possible for human beings to uphold the honor of Russia in the face of her enemies.” The Novoe Vremya, despite the example made by the suspension of the Russ yesterday, says: By all means let us have a court-martial d make it, if possible, severe. The cruel ge will, perhaps, deal leniently with those country. Perhaps, also, the .court will deter- mine why a fortress known to be threatened d and munitions to enable it to hold out. rhaps such a court will bring to light many rk, hidden things and expose the creeping, 1 da. Iy more dangerous to the nation than those who fight in the open. There is no definite ’information here regarding General Stoessel's con- for some time that he is suffering Mt Vit A Japan Will Make the Captured Strong- st . hold Impregnable. CHEFU, Jan. 5.—The statement in the censored dispatches from corre- spondents with *General Nogi's army that the Japanese lost only 50,000 men in taking the fortress is declared to be was | | thirty i the refortifying of Port Arthur. Vast {avantities of cement and timber are |already on the Yalu River for this pur- pose, while steel plates and other manufactured material are ready in IJ;.pan for transportation to the fort- ress, Ammunition, food and medical sup- plies to last for years will be sent to Port Arthur, Japan being heedful of the mistakes made by the Russians. s e P STOPPED. RE‘L[L | Japanese Turn i Carrying Supplies. | WEIHAIWEI, Jan. 5—The British | cruiser Andromeda, which sailed from i here yesterday for Port Arthur with | hospital stores and surgeons to assist {the sick and wounded, returned here to-day, not having been allowed to make a landing at Port Arthur. The cruiser proceeded to a small bay ten miles north of Port Arthur, where she ‘was met by some Japanese. The latter refused all assistance or stores of any kifid and declined “to allow the" ship's officers 10 approach closer, the reason given being the presence of uniocated mines. CHEFU, Jan. 6.—Japanese Consul Mizouno-to-night notified Russian Con- sul Tiedemann that the first of the 1000 Russian non-combatants at Port Ar- thur who are to come to Chefu will ar- rive on Friday. It will be some time before the entire 1000 reach here, owing | to a shortage of transportation facili- | ties. | The authorities at Tokio having re- fused a proposition made by the Rus- sian Minister in Peking, Paul Lessar, to send a ship laden with medical sup. plies and food for the invalids, it has been suggested that this ship be divert- ed to Chefu for the benefit of the non- combatants. Consul Mizouno says that the refusal of the Japanese to allow either the An- dromeda or the ship’proposed by Min- ister Lessar to visit Port Arthur is in pursuance of a strict policy not to al- low any foreign vessel to approach the harbor. It is understood, however, that the refusal of the Japanese to accept the aid tendered by the Andromeda was an error born of their desire to show to the world that Japanese hu- manitarianism was fully equal to the occasion. Sympathy for the sick and wounded Russians at Port Arthur is widespread, but the suggestion that they be cared for at Chefu, Tientsin, Shanghai, Wei- haiwei and Tsingtau has led to an in- quiry which developed the fact that the combined facilities of the places named are equal to harboring only a very small percentage of them. The general opinion here is that the great majority of the sick and wounded will be com- pelled to remain at Port Arthur until they are sufficiently convalescent to return to Russia. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 5.—The an- nouncement from Weihaiwel that the Japanese turned back the British cruiser Andromeda, having on board doctors, nurses and hospital stores, so much needed at Port Arthur, arouses ifdignation here, and goes far to de- stroy the good impression created by the attitude of the victors. If the Jap- anese were unable to allow the Andro- meda to enter Port Arthur, it is not un- derstood here why they did not permit the Andromeda to land her supplies at Port Dalny unless the Japanese did not care to reveal the condition of the be- sieging army. VICTORIA, B. C. Jan. 5.—The steamer Kanagawa, which took a car- 80 of submarine boats to Japan on her last trip from Seattle, arrived to-day from the Orient. The torpedo-boats were shipped in sections. Officers of SENATORIAL BATTLE IS STILL TAME Forces of Southland| | e of the State. HE River Improvement and Drainage Association of California reached a unanimou:s agreement yes- terday regarding a plan for the improvement of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and the reclamation of 1,000,000 acres of land that annually are menaced by floods. when reclamation is permanently affected the value of $100,000,000 will be added to the taxable property The report of a board of engineers was accepted as a working basis. VER INPROVEMENT PLAN 1S ADOPTRD Not Unitedona | .Candidate, ’ | Likely to Lose the Toga Unless They / Adjust 4. . Differences, | — e Bard's, Managers Expect to Bring: About a Conference When He Ar- | rives From Nation's Capital. Spe: 1 Dispatch to The Cail. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 5.—The dullest Senatorial campaign ever conducted in Sacramento is just beginning to sive some signs of animation. At last the members of the Legislature from the south comprehend that if they do not| | speedily adjust their differences of opinion and consolidate their entire forces in the support of one candidate the legislators from Central and North- ern California will hand the toga to| | George A. Knight or Arthur G. Fisk. | There are indications to-night that| | measures will be taken soon to bring| | | together all the conflicting forces in| ; | | the ranks of southern Republicans. Ac- | | | cessions to the Knight column have a | tendency to accelerate the negotia There is elation at Knight's quarters and depre in another { camp over a report, which is generally | accepted as authentic, that James Gil- State Librarian, has captured and | transferred to Knight the Sacramento delegation of three members—Senator | James\A. McKee and Assemblymen Charles O. Busick and Frank J. O'Brien. Oldtimers assert that a Sac- ramento delegation can see a railroad | programme earlier, catch it quicker {and hold it longer than can any other | ageregation of statesmey in the land. Hence some special significance is at- tached to the attitude of the Sacra- t mento representatives. All this leads{ | * to a surmise that the gilded brick which Herrin has molded will bear the initials “F. P. F" instead of “G. A. K.” ‘The Flint boomers do not contemplate | the candidacy of Knight with serene | complaisance. They complain with | some degree of justice that their candi- date has been hammered because Jere HLorrus P Burke, John Mackenzle and Walter | Parker of the Southetn Pactic politieay JEHNLH CS. | staff are espousing Flint's candidacy. LRESIDENT and aftar the hammering another aspi- rant for the Senatorial toga succeeds to the favor of the corporation. Judge | Dibble, who is here as George Knight's chief of staff, insists that Herrin is keeping “hands off” as between Flint and Knight, but the railroad blanket of neutrality does not cover Senator Bard. who is exposed to the mercless ele- ments of corporate disfavor. Bard has done something or there is apprehen- Jorry &, S i \ QA AN 7 e DAY : X \\‘&-\W‘ / -+ = g y 1 — | | | sion that he will do something to incur | %—— 2 - the » displeasure of Herrin. Lynch, MEN WHO WERE ATTENDANTS AT THE DELIBERATIONS YESTERDAY OF THE RIVER IMPROVEMENT AND DRAIN- Burke, ' Parker and Mackenzie are ex- AGE ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA IN THIS CITY AND WHO TOOK A PROMINENT PART IN THE PROCEEDINGS pected to hammer Bard until he is WHEN PLANS WERE CONSIDERED FOR RECLAMATION OF LARGE VALLEY AREAS. i driven from the field and then Herrin will step in and say to the Republicans of the Legislature, “My hands are off. You can give the Senatorship to my candidate of the north or my candi- date of the south.” ‘When Senator Bard arrives in Sacra- mento steps will be taken to bring about a conference of the leading Re- publicans of Southern California. Frank P. Flint openly asserts that he would sacrifice his own personal ambi- tions rather than that the south should lose the Senator. Henry T. Oxnard stands ready to cdst the weight of his influence for harmony on the Senator- ship in the south. Tt is said that Sen- ator Bard, whose ambitions are not in- tense, will be as magnanimous as his competitors are. The importance of harmony and a consolidation of all the Republican forces in the south were topics dwelt upon at a conference be- tween Dr. Rowell and Oxnard this aft- ernoon. CONGRESS BALKS THE PRESIDENT No Railroad Rate Legislation at Present. — BARD IS COMING BACK. Senator Will- Visit Sacramento and Meet Members of Legislature. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 6. — United States Senator Bard is supposed to be p on his way to Sacramento to enter in Sotgal m"-‘:!—" e person the Senatorial fight. He tele-| CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, graphed on Wednesday that he would | WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Railroad rate start to-night, and if he did 5o he may | legislation is dead, so far as the pres- be expected in the California Capitol on | ent session of Congress is concerned. Monday next. The Senator’s managers | It was said. by leaders in bqth branches felt that his interests demanded his to-day that nothing could be done, no presence here and that he owed it to matter how much President Roosevelt those legislators who had never seen ma: him, but who wanted to vote for him, | may desire It or how much he ¥ an opportunity to size him up before | Urge it. the Kanagawa report that the Jap- anese Government now has about' submarine vessels, many of | which are readv for service, Others are being put together at Kure. | —l BRITONS IpSE CHINA’S FAVOR. SHANGHAL Jan. 5.—The North | China Daily News reports that Chou Fu, the new Viceroy of Nanking, has appointed a German named Basse as manager of the Chinese arsenal at | Shanghail. This probably means, the | paper says, the ousting of the present | British manager of the Ordnance De- partment and the bringing of the Chi- nese arsenals at Chinanfu, Hankow, Shanghai, Nanking and Tientsin into German hands. g S absurd by Russian naval officers here. Their lowest estimate, based both on personal observation and on stories told by prisoners, places the Japanese lose at 80,000, Advices from Japanese sources say that the condition of Port Arthur is . chaotic, but that General Nogi and General Stoessel are rapidly system- atizing affairs there. General Nogi s prepared, through .agents who have been recruiting for months, to put a horde of Chinese coolies at work in Torpedo-Boat Sails for Russia. NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—The torpedo boat Gregory, . bullt by Lewis Nixon at Perth Amboy, N. J., for the Rus- sian Government, left New York har- bor this afternoon, passing Sandy Hook outward bound. ' It has been re- peatedly reported that the would- go to Russia nnder her own power. e War News Continucd on Page 2. they did so. The managers say the; The collapse of the campaign for gov- are not in any way afraid of (heyruul{ ernment supervision of raflroad rates of the “sizing up.” They telegraphed 'takes away from the present session him on Tuesday that, in their opinion, | the only real live question which prom- Bl e e atn Message being | jseq at one time to keep Congress agl- of a most urgent nature and calling for tated. When the President gave up all an_immediate reply, Bard’s managers waited for an answer, but yefll:l"d.lyl hope of having something done in the went by and none came. To-day was ;line of tariff revision, he had reason to nearly done, and still there was no|believe sqmething might be accom- word. The Bard people wondered what | plished in railroad legislation. But this was wrong. This evening State Senator has now gone the way of tariff revi- Rovwell of the Bard headquarters ¥ aton ] ened to be in a hotel other than . rese! been gne where the headquarters are ::e‘ ThS. D 5 -ltmfi:&u ht::l to looked over the telegrams in'the ‘R | brought about by an ure to box, thinking one intended for him|come to an agreement on the form of might have been sent to that house by ' legislation. The belief was expressed, mistake. There he found a telegram; both in administration circles and in from Senator Bard opened. It had | Congress, that something should be come yesterday morning and had lain! gone at once to remedy the evil point- in the box nearly two days after being t in the President’s message, but read by some one It was not intendag,|d out in € was th < ) ! only on this point was there any agree- Senator Bard announced in ‘the tele- | ment. When it came to methods, not to gram that he would start for Califor- | say the phraseclogy of .the bill to be nia Thursday night unless the irriga- | presented, there were almost as many tion-and statehood legislation, which | giferent - views as members of ‘the Cabinet and was then occupying his attention, de- leaders: in conlgn. ¢ Senatcr Elkins had anof confer- tained him lv.oo lt;ng; o & o The opening of the telegram and the wi e President to-day, on Rowell “uumn%-‘m»wuh ilmu;‘ho failure to put it in the hands of earlier are in keeping with some other | would not- say' that there + Continued on Page 3, Columna 3. FINDS NEW SATELLITE OF JUPITER Important Discov- - eIy at Lick Ob- srvlony Special Dispatch to The Cail. SAN JOSE, Jan, 5.—Lick Observatory has discovered a sixth satellite of Jupi~ ter. The discovery was made by Pro- fessor Perrine by means of the Cross- ley reflector and is the result of a sys- tematic search begun early in De- cember. On photographs taken at that time of the region west of Jupiter the image of an unknown body, which changed its position nightly, was found by Per- rine. Since then investigations have been carried on to decide whether it ‘was a satellite or one of the asteroids. During the present week observations have been made which leave no doubt that the body is revolving around the planet. Last night it was forty-five minutes of an arc due west of the planet and the distance is now increas- m%h‘e“’::{elme is of the fourteenth magnitude, and to detect it requires a telescope large as ten or twelve inches in diameter. ‘The orbit of this moon cannot be de- termined untll observations extending over weeks have been obtained. However, Professor - Perrine says. it is RARFIEL) GOES AFTER BEEF TRIST Personal Inquiry to Be Conducted in Cicgo. Spectal Dispatch to The Call CHICAGO, Jan. 65.—Following the charges made by 'Attorney General Moody that the packers were in a con- spiracy to control the market of the na- tion for fresh meat, it was learned to- || day that Secretary Garfield of the De- partment of Commerce and Labor is coming to Chicago to begin an investi- gation in person. The packers are much agitated over the news. Z It is said Secretary Garfield is, anx- ious to have the Federal courts pass on the question of whether he can com- pel the packers to produce their books and submit to® direct examination on the witness stand’ as to the methods they follow in business. At the annual meeting of the stock- holders of Swift' & Co. to-day Presi- dent Lewis F. Swift said: “It is needless for me to say to those present, who are more or less famsliar with the facts, that the reports In cir- culation about the ‘beef trust’ are without foundation. There is absolute- 1y no conspiracy or combination to con- trol either the purchase of livestock or the sale of meats or packing-house ucts. On the other hand. the pack- prodi _ times farther from the |ing industry is subject to the severest :ffn.f in..:."u the outermost of the five [ kind of . competition, both in buying satellites ly. known, and it is | and selling, and the per cent of profit possible that the period of revolution | on sales in the packing industry is less around . the' planet is from 'mg?:mmum that led to the covery of the satellite were the first six to eight | than in other lines of now.” iust er- | age Association of California, | rivers and their watersheds. It was estimated that —— % Steps Taken {0 Interest Legislature Co-operation of the Federal Power Is Sought. COST CONSIDERED Important Meeting Is Held at the Palace. HARMONY IN WORK Unanimous Action Is Taken After Discussion. SRR LSS The River Improvement and Drain- at a meeting held yesterday at the Palace | Hotel, unanimously adopted a report of | its executive committee, in which a plan was embodied for carrying out the great work which is advocated by the assoclation. It was set forth in the re- port -that 1,000,000 acres of land now subject to ravages by floods in the val- leys of California, by the rivers, can be reclaimed, and that the increased value of the land, for purposes of taxation, will yield to the State an annual added revenue of $300,000. These statements were based upon the report of a com- mission of engineers who visited the great interior valleys and inspected the The engi- neers are T. G. Dabney, Henry B. Rich- ardson, M. A. Nurse and H. M. Chit- tenden. The report of the commission of engi- neers was before the River Improve- ment and Drainage Association in pamphlets. One paragraph is as fol- lows: “The direct benefits to the entire Sac- ramento Valley as the result of perfect- ing the plan of improvement in the reclamation of about 1,000,000 acres of extremely fertile land and placing it in a position of assured safety from over- flow, together with direct and indirect advantages to many associated inter- ests, must be expressed in a moneyed valuation reaching at least $100,000,000, which will assuredly justify the cost of the work required to bring about these results.” It was estimated that the works pro- posed by the board of engineers will cost something like $24,000,000. The works are, as planned, to consist of channel rectification and enlargement by the point action of natural and me- chanical agencies and also the gradual concentration and confinement of the volume of floods of the rivers and the lesser streams of the Sacramento Val- ley between lines of levees so located “as to ultimately provide ample chan- nel area for transporting all the flood - volume.” In the meantime, until such channel rectification shall have been sgcured, the engineers suggest that “relief will be afforded the levees by introduction of escapement weirs to temporary by- pass channels for conducting the floods through the ins.” Concerning the engineering plans there was no discussion at yesterday’s meeting. Some talk took place regard- ing the means proposed by the execu- tive committee of the River Improve- ment and Drainage Assoclation to se- cure funds to carry on the great works. " COMMITTEE SUGGESTIONS. The executive committee suggested, briefly expressed, that the lands within the drainage district should pay one- third of the cost, the State to pay one- third and the Federal Government one- third, but also recommended that a method of officially determining the cost to be borne by the different inter- ests should be provided. Nothing can be done, so it was set forth, to affect the regimen of the rivers without the consent of!the Federal 'Government, and joint action of the State and Fed- eral Governments should be secured as the first step. Therefore it was pro- posed by the executive committee that the Legislature should be asked to rec- ommend to Congress the adoption of a joint resolution authorizing the ap- pointment of a board of three engineers of, the United States army to examine and report upon the report recently submitted by the board of engineers that viewed the Sacramento and San uin rivers. Jn:qmlnorfly report was flled by Charles ‘Wesley Reed and E. A. Walcott. Reed ‘made the principal speech in support of the contention in the minority report that the way to proceed directly was to have a constitutional amendment submitted to the people in regard to the action that will be necessary to raise the State’s share of the more than $20,. 000,000 to be expended. This caused some rather warm discussion, but in the end, after the minority report had been rejected, Reed and Walcott voted to make the action of the association