The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 25, 1905, Page 3

.with tyranny!”, “Down . sympathy with the -demonstration. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1905. 3 = COUNCIL OF MOSCOW |[FOREIGNERS DEFIES THE EMPEROR| ARE FLEEING TO FRONTIER Reformer Re-elécted Mayor of the City | i R E S_OF RUS AN UNCOMPROMISING FOE O} . WHO F WIELDS GREAT INFLUENCE OVER ALL WHO FAVOR THE SLIGHT! CRATIC FORM OF GOVERNMENT. ER HER SON, EM EST DEPARTURE o e PEROR NICHOLAS II, AND WHO FROM THE PRESENT AUTO- . MOSCOW, Jan. 24.—The Municipal Council to-day hy a vote of 113 to 10 ‘ré-elected Prince Galitzin Mayor of - Moscow. The -Prince is a prominent l¢ader in the local reform movement and resigned recently on the issuance | of ‘the Government declaration con- demning the reformers’ propaganda. The Liberal paper, Russky mosti, has created a sensation owing to its comment on the official state- ment of the St. Petersburg shooting. The paper says: This officlal report does mot come from the the battlefields of Manchuria, nor in a fight with a foreign foe, but in a biocody conflict be- tween troops and Russian burghers. Arms and slaughter may avail to put down a peaceful powerful demonstration, but force 1Is enough to quench the aspl not 'ana provent the movement. for liberty nd a justly organized government coming to tull fruition. Infantry and cavalry are patrolling the city to-night. Grunken demonstrators forcibly dispersed. A conference of employers met at the Bourse to-day, but achieved noth- ing, as the strikers have not yet for- mulated their demands. The employes of the Bari Boiler Works began work this morning, but have = been ..the strikers forced their way into the works and ordered the men to cease. They immediately complied. TRIESTE, Jan. 24.—Several hun- dred workmen assembled before the Russian consulate here last night, crying: “Down with' the Czar!” “Down with abso- lutism!” The police dispersed the bwd without difficulty. A few ar- rests were made, . PARIS, Jan. 24.—The students of the Latin quarter, including a number of Russians, held a meeting to-day in ! St. Petersburg irikers and attempted to make a The police broke up the meeting. No serious incident oc- curred. EVASTOPOL, Jan. 24.—The report the fire at the arsenal on Monday +was’ the outcome of a mutinous out- break of saflors and troops is wholly unfounded. 'The commandant of the port refterates that nothing definite was known as to the origin of the fire. .VILNA, Russia, Jan, 24.—A strike has commenced here. The town is quiet. KOVNO, Russia, Jan. 24.—Work .has been stopped at all the factories and railroad shops here. 3 S ok GOPON FORMERLY HERE. Said to Have Done Missionary Work 0 in San Francisco. ’ . BOSTON, Jan. 24.—Father Gopon, the Russian revolutionary leader, has been in America twice. The first time was in 1893, wheh he first entered the priest- lood. He was sent to Ansonia, Conn., ‘and later to San Francisco as a m! eionary priest among the Russians. He stayed some time in each place, - laboring in the Russian churches. Rus- sian leaders here say that his real mame {8 Father Agathon or Agafon. ‘When he came to Boston three years ago as a delegate to the Boston Yo Metys Christian Association centennial. Viedo- | Several groups of | | bringing greetings from the only Young | Men's Chridtian Association in Rus- sia, that in St. Petersburg, founded through the generosity of the New York millionaire, James A. Stokes, now in Boston, he came as Father Nicholas V. Vassilieff. Though a priest in the Pussian orthodox church, he was only | excommunicated a few days ago. As a worker in the Young Men's Christlan ! Association and another organization | for young men in St. Petersburg he became known as a leader of ability and thoroughly taught thousands of the workingmen. Father Gopon was born of peasant parents at Poltava and was educated through the help of friends of the fam- ily. He speaks English, French and German besides ‘his own tongue. He wrote a book on,Christian Sociallsm that was suppressed by the Govern- ment. He organized the iron workers of Russia into a vast society and in- augurated the strike at the Putiloff works. At BATTLES AND MASSACRES. Correspondents Give Free Rein to Vivid Imaginations. LONDON, Jan. 25.—No report of al- leged occurrences in Russia appears too wild or extravagant to find place | in some European journals. The free- | dom accorded foreign correspondents telegraphing from Russia, as shown by this fact, is the subject of remark in | the Daily Chronicle this morning as indicating that Emperor Nicholas has vet least one redeeming feature—a ca- | pacity for keeping his word. The Chronicle proceeds to refer to the | promise of. the Emperor to the Asso- | ciated Press to complete the removal of the censorship in news telegrams. . An instance of wild statements is in | the' Daily Mail's St. Petersburg dis- | patches, which describe a veritable battle between strikers and troops | near Kolpino and a wholesale slaugh- | ter of strikers. The Daily Express’ St. Petersburg | correspondent reports similar scenes of | massacre at Radom, and describes | General Kuropatkin's army as ripe for revolt. There are conflicting reports about Maxim Gorky. The St¥hdard’s St. Pe- | tersburg correspondent says the novel- ist narrowly escaped capture, but the Daily Telegraph’s correspondent, who was himself arrested but subsequently releaged, says that Gorky was among those arrested whose only crime con- sisted in having been members of the delegation that visited Witte, president of the Council of the Empire, after a. vain attempt to interview Minister of the Interior Sviatopolk-Mirsky. They are all, the correspondent adds, now interned in a secret section of the St. Peter and St. Paul fortress. The cor- respondent says: 5 They are guilty of no il ohasent AT & e e A P Not one of them would have anything to do with the secret cominittees or. underground agi- tation. It wag they who, in my presence, re- fused to Iisten to the suggestion that a perma- nent committee should be formed to ‘direct a \revolutionary movement. A yo arrested vesterday. . The Daily. Telggraph’s correspondent adds: ’ Sa g 1 am enabled to state emphatically that!of heart — & neither Witte nor Sviatopolk-Mirsky had any and or part in the deeds of the last three days, which they both sincerely deplore as blunders and crimes. . The Daily Chronicle's correspondent | at St. Petersburg also states that Min- | ister of Finance Muravieff appeafed to { the Emperor not to appoint General | Trepoff to the Governor Generalship of the city and government of St. Peters- burg or to declare the city in a state of siege. —_—— | SANTA FE TO ISSUE 1 $50,000,000 WORTH OF BONDS win Bear Interest at 4 Per Cent and May Be Converted Into Common Stock. TOPEKA, Kans.,, Jan. 24.—Practi- cally no opposition was manifested at the meeting of the stockholders of the Santa Fe to-day to the proposition to increase the common stock of the com- pany and issue ‘$30,000,000 of con- vertible bonds. i The purchasers of the issue of the | 850,000,000 of bonds will be allowed | the pMvilege of converting the bonds into common stock at any time the holder chooses. The bonds will bear 4 per cent interest.” The money received frem the sale of the bonds will be used solely in building or acquiring actually -new and additional mileage or prop- erty. President Ripley of the Santa Fe announces that stockholders of the road will have the first chance to buy the $50,000,000 bonds. If any are Jeft they will be offered to the public. Ripley said it might take ten years or | more to use the entire sum. Concern- ing the improvements to be made this vear, he said: We will begin the construction of the Belen cut-off, the Pecos Valley line will be gradually improved, and the two together will be made u through iine. We willggradually transter our transcontinental businébs to that route. ¥he funds that will be placed at our disposal will be available to use at any place on the whole system. We will bulld considerable second track this year. I am mot ready to say what agditional shop facllities will be provided. There have no immedlate provisions made as yet. Necessities will, of course, arise from time to time. Hundreds of Fraudulent Ballots. DENVER, Jan. 24.—The joint legis- lative committee hearing the Peabody- Adams gubernatorial contest spent the afternoon again. to-day listening to the reports of handwriting experts on bal- lots examined. Their reports showed that of 2521 ballots found in ten boxes, 625, most of them Democratic, were fraudulent, having been written by one | | Gopon has | there | Enormous Proclamations ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 24. —Th.l lower section of the Nevsky Prospect, including the Winter Palace district and the quay, where the embassies are located, is in darkness to-night, and there has been a resumption of the panicky feeling of yesterday. Never- theless the suthorities express increas- ing confidence that the backbone of the | strike is broken and say that all the prominent agitators and many extreme Liberals have been arrested. Father | disappeared and is said to directing the strike be in Moscow there. For the moment the men here are without a plan of action and are seem- ingly commencing to realize that with- out arms it is folly to resist the troops. If the strikers are paralyzed is general fear that the revolu- tionists and terrorists, who are com- g to the front, will begin a reign of bomb throwing, and that the political exiles’ association, known as the “li- legal Red Cro "’ will make large con- tributions. : There is no truth in the report cir- culating that strikers 30,000 strong are warching upop Kolpine, twenty miles from $t. Petersburg, for the purpose of seizing the small arms factory there. | An official account of yesterday's events Is as follows: During Monday there were no collisions be- tween the rioters and the troops. Detach- ments of soldiers had no need to use their arms, as the crowds dispersed when the troops appeared. In the course of the day an attempt was made to attack Gostinny Dvor market, but it was resulsed. Workmen at the electric stations joined the strike in the evening. Then some groups, tak- ing advantage of the darkness, began to break windows in the shops, but order was every- where quickly restored No person was killed or wounded on Mon- day. The cxact number killed on Sunday was 96; tnjured 333, of whom 53 were treated at the ambulance FOREIGNERS ARE FLEEING. The terror of the people has been somewhat relieved, but the dread of the next few days continues. Many | foreigners e leaving Russia. The | foreign embsz s are not manifesting alarm. They are expressing confidence | that the Government will be able to | handle the situation, and that there is | nothing now warranting apprehension for the lives or safety of their fellow countrymen. The authorities insist | that the danger is exaggerated, con- tinuing to scout the idea of a revolu- tion and maihtaining the ability of the Government to meet all emergencies. Early this morning a_ press corre- spondent drove up the Nevsky Pros-| pect and found that the damage done during the night to the store fronts was greater than was apparent last night. A large number of business premises were wrecked, the mob hav- ing devoted itself principally to con- fectioners and pastry cook: crowds of s many sightseers, encouraged by the | mild" weather, were promenading the sidewalks this morning and the street cars were again in operation. The correspondent noticed several men . distributing proclamations. The people were formerly shy of accepting such documents; now they are eagerly taking them and have nicknamed | them “lastochke” (swallows), an allu- sion to the spring which has hecome a synonym of evolution. The corre- spondent secured a number of copiék. All are signed by ““The Russian Social Democrat Labor Party.” One procla- mation, dated January 22, reads: Comrades—So_long as autocracy exists, no improvement 1n_ our condition is possible; therefore, we continue to inscribe. on our ban- ners tae followinz demands: “The immediate cessation of the war. | “The summoning of & constitutional assem- bly of representatives of the peopie elected by universal and equal suffrage and by direct secret ballot. ““The removal of class and race privileges and_restrictions. ““The inviolability of the person and domi- cile. “Freedom of conversation. speech, the press, meetings, strikes and political associations.” “LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION. A second proclamation, dated Janu- ary 23, says: The proletarial of all countries are united. €itizens, you yesterday witnessed the bestial cruelty of the autocracy. You saw blood flow- ing in the strests. You saw hundreds slaugh- tered, defenders of the cause of labor. You saw ‘the death and heard the groans of the Wounded women and defenseless children. The blood and brains of workingmen were spat- tered around where their heads had been laid. Who directed the soldiers to alm their rifles and tire bullets at the breasts of the labor- ers? 1t was the Emperor, the Grand Dukes, the Ministers, the generals, the nobles of the court. They are the murderers. Slay them! To arms, comrades! and the arms smiths'. Lay gu! wi Liberate the defenders of free- Demolish_the police and gendarmeries” the Government and state dom. stations _and all buildingd. We must thrown down the Emperor and the Government and must have our own govern- ment. Long llve the revolution! Long live the constituent ‘representatives of the people A third proclanvation appeals to the people not to attempt to injure pri- vate property. General Prince Vasilchikoff, com- mander of the guards, has not yet an- nounced the stringent rules usually accompanying a state of siege, such as forbidding persons to leave their : houses after 10 o'clock at night with- out special p: s and the extinction of all lights in private quarters after that hour. The authorities evidently are still confident that they have the situation well in hand. There is no confirmation of the re- port that the Emperor and Empress and their children are going to Co- penhagen, or, on the other hand, that the Emperor has decided to appoint a mixed commission of officials, em- ployers and workingmen to consider the strikers’ demands, notably the assembly of the or two persons. . sl o Scott Again to Go to Senate. CHARLESTON, W. Va., Jan. 24— The Legislature voted separately to- day for United States Senator. Sena. tor Nathan B. Scott received a ma- jority of the votes. To-morrow i Joint Senator Scott will be re. elected. % ———————— Prominent New Yorker eDad. NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—Ex-Congress- man Edwin Einstein, a wealthy lawyer, who was the Repul idate of New York , in 1892, died sud: failure. Gl mly question of eight hours’ work per day, Era of Bomb-Throwing May Follow Mobs’ Defeat. at the low a Call for Blood shouted “Hurrah!” in token of vie- tory and this possibly was the reason that the strikers, believing they had already won the day, refrained from committing excesses yesterday. Father Gopon’s popularity is unim- paired, but it is already evident that the Social Democrats are getting the upper hand and that they are encour- aging the people to violence. From a trustworthy source it is learned that Father Gopon sent a letter to the So- cial Democrats in the Yollowing terms: They have fired upon and massacred us, but are not vanquished and the day of our triumph is nigh. Do not spoil our triamph by taking up arms and resprting (o violence. Content _yourselves with destroying the por, traits of him who Is no longer worthy to our Emperor. This pacific admonition irritated the Social Democrats and does not meet with a response from the workingmen, who apparently are thirsting for vengeance and are clamoring for their leaders to distribute the arms. The revolutionists are reported to be actively preparing bombs and infernal machines to wreck the post and tele- graph offices and destroy other Gov- ernment property. They talk wildly of issuing a manfesto declaring a pro- visional government. They seem to have broken completely with the Zemstvoists, whom they treat with contempt on account of what they call their “truckling” to autocracy. Even Prince Truebetskoi, who led the re- formers of Moscow, is regarded by them with suspicion and even hatred because in an article published by the Pravo he described the revolutionists as a_“Port Arthur inside of Russia,” which Russia would have to over- throw. AGITATORS UNDER ARREST. Hessen, editor of the Prave, whose advanced Iiberal views are well known, has been arrcsted. The Workingmen's Club has been closed by order of the Prefect of Police, Professor Karsaff and Annensky and Pechsechonoff. three well-known writers, and Town Councilors Kedrin and Schnitnikoff, | who are also lawyers, were arrested | during the night. | Traffic between St. Retersburg and | Moscow and St. Petersburg and War- | saw is uninterrupted. The Northern | express arrived on schedule time. During the afternoon came the news that workmen were going out at Kov- no and Vilna, but particulars were lacking. Although the crowds on the Nevsky Prospect continued to increase, just as they did vesterday, there were no col- lisions. Moreover. during the day several of the smaller mills resumed work, and the men at other mills as- sured their emiployers that they were auxious to return, hut that the strikers threatened to kil them if they did so. The wildest rumors were in circula- tion. A mob was reported to be march- ing on Tsarskoe-Selo to see the peror, as the multitude marched Versailles to ask King Louis XVI of France for bread in 1779; but the story is_utterly without foundation. of Russia are always laid at the door of Great Britain, the feeling against the British had become intense, it be- ing charged that the British are sup- plying money to bring about a revo- lution. Cossacks, while dispersing a crowd ot strikers at 4 o’clock, drew their swords and wounded several men. Work has beten suspended at the works of the Belgjan Electrical Com- pany, which furnishes the majority of the electric supply of St. Petersburg. —————ee Texas Renames Culberson. AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 24.—The Sen- ate and House of Revresentatives met separately to-day and balloted for United States Senator. Charles A. Cul- berson, the incumbent, was elected without oppesition. Several Injured in Illinois, ALTON, 1ll, Jan. 24.—A. G. Chap- lain, a fireman, was killed and several passengers were Injured to-day in the wreck of an Illinois Terminal Railroad | articles 15 and 16 of the law for the Em- | In certain quarters, where the woes ; FOE OF MASSES TO COMMAND Nicholas Calls to His Aid Man Condemned to Death by Revol utionists Moscow’s Former Chief of Police to Put 8T. PETERSBURG, Jan. 24.—The ap- | pointment of General Trepoff, the former Chief of Police of Moscow, to the Governor Generalship of St. Peters- burg was accompanied by an imperial decree_announcing the creation of the | post of Governor General. The incum- bent of this office, the decree states, will be in control of all the depart- ments of administration of the city | government of St. Petersburg, with| power to demand the assistance of the military and possessing all the rights of the Minister of the Interior over ap- | pointments to the Municipal Council and the Zemstvos and over the right of individuals to remain in the city. | The decree, which is addressed to the| Senate, says: “Recent events have shown the neces- sity for the adoption of measures for the preservation of state institutions and public security adapted to the ex- traordinary circumstances of the times. On this account it was considered nec- essary to create the office of Governor | General of St. Petersburg on the basis | of the provisions of the law prescrib- ing the duties of Chiefs and Governor Generals and of the following regula- tions: ; “First, the city and government of | St. Petersburg are placed under the| authority of the Governor General. “Second, on the questions where the | maintenance of state institutions and public security are at stake all the local civil authorities and all the edu- cational institutions are made subject to the Governor General. “Third, the Governor General has the right, with the assent of the Minister of the Interior, to enforce measures | sanctioned by article 140 of the censor- ship statute. “Fourth, apart from the right of mak- ing obligatory the regulations in ac- cordance with law providing for stricter | maintenance of order, the Governor General will be empowered to make obligatory the regulations affecting ob- | jects of property of any kind in the| interest of public tranquillity and order | in his jurisdiction; while cases of viola- tion of these regulations, the penalties | and method of procedure prescribed in ! stricter maintenance of order are to be | | adopted, whereby the Governor Gen-| | eral can commission the Governor and | | prefect of St. Petersburg, who are sub. { ject to him, to deal with sald cases. | " Another section subordinates to the { Governor General all the gendarmerie | in the administrafion, and every gen- | darme in his official district, as well as | the authorities and official personages | in the zone, is expropriated for rail- | | way purposes as far as police matters | | are concerned. | All the rights of Minister of the In- terior with reference to the confirma- tion in office of members of the com- munal authoritie§ and zemstvos in the territory of the St. Petersburg Gov- | ernment are transferred to the Gov- ernor General. The Governor General is empowered | to prohibit individuals remaining in his official district £kl S AT KEEN INTEREST IN JAPAN. | Feeling That Riots Will Hasten End of the War. | TOKIO, Jan. 24.—The Japanese are keenly watching the developments in St. Petersburg. -The newspapers pub- lish extras with accounts of the riots, which are eagerly read. The people were shocked at the death roll and there is a widespread feeling that the bureaucracy will be powerless to stem the tide of reforms and that the downfall of the bureaucracy must end the war. A member of a foreign le- gation said: “The war is over unless the Rus- sian people are crushed with an iron heel. It has brought about a crisis. The Japanese army is now fighting the battle of the Russian people.” g 35 Convention Postponed. Down the Strike: was to have met here on January 29, has been indefinitely postponed by or= der of the Minister of Agriculture. SAYS SOUTHERN WHITES MUST REMAIN SUPREME Governor Frazier of Tennessee Talks of the Race Issue at In- augural. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 24.—Gov= ernor James B. Frazier was to-day inaugurated as chief executive of Tens neesee to serve his second term. In his inaugural address Governor Fra- zier said in part: The cxigencies of the civil war freed the slave, but the black man remained, and with him a problem unparalleled In its difficulties. ‘The problems of industrial regengration and racial adjustment were laid upon the men of the South and they were commanded to solve them in peace and honor. But our le in leu than forty years, with little help and ympathy from any source, have almost solved the one, and, if let undisturbed, are hopeful of the other. On the supreme question which touches our racial integrity and supremacy let us give all mankind to understand that there will be neither compromise nor the shadow of turning, and that the white people of the South must !'and will preserve that civilization which has made them as a race and people strong and great. Let us with patience bide our time, and it the fssue upon these questions comes, and I pray God it may not come, then let us calmly and with dignity and firmness stand upon our constitutional rights and demand that whatever Is meted to us shall be given in like tenor and effect to all other sections of our country. e ARRESTED FOR AIDING IN SUICIDE OF A GIRL Man in Custody Who Formed Pact ‘With Woman and Then Backed Out. MILWAUKEE, Jan. 24.—Arthur Jenry Milligan, alias E. S. Terry, alias Arthur Henry Spmith,” alias Arthur Henry Brown, with whom Florence Q. Groves agréed to commit suicide at the Hotel Blatz and who backed out after she had fulfilled her agreement on Monday morning, was arrested in Ra- cine to-night, used of aiding a sui- cide, and brought back to Milwaukee. Milligan said that Florence Groves tcok carbolic acid in his presence at the hotel after she had made three ate tempts to kill herself. Milligan was not married to her. The couple left the Groves residence in Chicago and eloped with the inten- tion of marrying, but lack of time pre- vented the carrying out of the plans. “Every day that we were at the ho- tel.” said Milligan, “we planned to kill ourselves. Finally we set Mon- day morning as the date. I didn't have the nerve to follow her.” -— TALENTED GIRL DIES. Former San Jose Belle Passes Away in Philadelphia. SAN JOSE, Jan. 24.—Miss Birdie Ash- more, a former well-known young so- clety favorite of this city, died suddenly in Philadelphia to-day of heart dis- ease. She was the daughter of Mrs. M. J. Ashmore of this city. Her father for a number of years was County Clerk of Santa Clara County. The de- ceased was a very beautiful girl. and prominent in musical circles. For a number of years she was a teacher in the city schools. A few years ago Miss Ashmore went to Manila with her sister. She was in the school department there for some time. Later she returned to Califor- nia, and then went to Philadelphia to study music. ————————— DEATH OF A PIONEER. Well-Known Business Man Answers Last Call. SAN JOSE, Jan. 24—Rufus L. Hig- gins, a ploneer resident of Santa Clara and one of the best known in this county, died suddenly to-night &t his home in Santa Clara. He had been ail- ing for a few days. Death is supposed to_have resulted from heart disease. Higgins was a native of Maine and and to make an investigation of the shooting of the strikera. PREMATURE REJOICING. All sorts of rumors are circulating in both official circles and among the workingmen. A curious report spread among the men last night was that the Emperor had given in and that three white flags had been placed over the Winter Palace, signifying that he had consented to reduce the maximum legal hours of work from eleven to eight. According to this leg- end, the Emperor would have dis- played a red flag if he had decided to refuse the strikers’ request. Many workingmen, deceived by the rumor, IS Cigar Quality SAN FRANCISCO SMOKERS will soon have opportunity to participate in the cigar values that have built our great business of hundreds of busy stores. ~ UNITED CIGAR STORES CO. Largest Cigar Retailers in the train near here. A car containing| ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 24.—The |61 years of age. A widow and two chil- thirty passengers turned over. congress of agriculturists, which | dren survive him. ADVERTISEMENTS. World OF ST. PETERSBURG UNDER CZAR'S SIEGE PROCLAMATION,? WHICH MAKES HIM ABSOLUTE MASTER OF THE CAPITAL CII_Y+?