The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 4, 1905, Page 1

thirty roary 4: . _————— THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Francisco for hours ending midnight, Feb. San Francisco and vicinity—Cloudy Saturday; light north winds. District Forecaster. G. McADIE, — — e TIVOLI—Grand | * ALCAZAR—"The Gay Lord Quex.” ALHAMBRA—Creatore’s Band. CALIFORNIA—"A Little Outcast.” COLUMBIA—“The Dictator.” CENTRAL—“A Prisoner of War."” CHUTBS—Vaudeville. FISCHER'S—Vaudeviile. GRAND—""The Bonnie Brier Bush.” ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. Matinees at all theaters to-day. opera. VOLUME XCVII—NO. 66. SAN FR'ANbISCO, SATU. RDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS GITNING FLASHES 1§ THE SOUTH Bolt Sets Fire to a Church in North Pasadena. Cloudburst on Mount Lowe Carries Away Part of the Tavern. Long Stretches of Track Washed Out in San Bernardino County and Traffic Is Stopped, LOS ANG ELES, Feb. 3.—Southern California is to-night more thoroughly | soaked with for isture than it has been several and there th vears is ater ir for eighteen years, accord- ments of old residents. t Weather Bu- inch and a haif last twenty 1 in many places possibly three No great damage ted except to street d to excavations for ephone communica- towns shows consid- went and there is he roadbeds of the lines. On the sum- last night there somewhat in and the = Alpine of the and part bank ct the water washed out of the Southern Pacific morning, causing some de- It was soon repaired, and trains yrsumed -tUARInE: dena t} rmoon there was ir known there lars in the busi- looded. During the the North Pasa- ch was struck by burned to the this section everybody. 5 o'clogk to- still on there is Southern Califor- normal rainfall of son, which it has vears. Feb. 3. — To- the proportions mountain_di g great dam: rn Pacifi¢ El Ca n the ity, do! - i mans | Ring Meets With a Cold | partment official was askea to-day - ot e e vig<, | . "I think three warships would,” was n are gone. wais 1| Frost at Jefferson City|ene reply. o that Sepbees : This explains as clearly as anything in the last few an Timoteo Canyon ed to be worse than when much stock eat damage done ! a Is of a definite | came here last night to deliver an |that the only way to protect American T t be obtained to-night. No | “illustrated lecture,” tickets to which | rights in Venezuela is by force, and < ns have n.\“-\'sui east of |had been advertised at $2 apiece. | cOnsiderable force at that. . The slight : ! iy 1';\:‘?’;\’h‘ha‘l‘l.r:l;i;‘; | When he learned that only two tickets oot ffi?" fte“’D’: a‘rhtfn“e; s ted to-ni t one [, h ¢ cer rep Stz D en < kel e for at least twenty- | Bad been s0ld he indignantly declared | (ha¢ the Venezuelan Government may 1 s nger. The Red- | a oy = > < s reconsider itd refusal to accept arbi- r the Southern Pacific | F““";“,‘ awoke ;g“-‘ ARt With | {;ation. . President Castro is still ab- t Redlands Junc- | &% "’;‘ll;»‘ AL, H“'_ k“'d RirSe qunS|sent from Caracas, apparently mak- th trains have reached | 300N fijed agal, Me asked State Sen- |ing merry in some of the small cities, , |a ";ax;dnloul ) Ok JOWS 107 Minister Bowen is not on good terms 8 this immediate vi- &-ional s 2 with Castro and has not been since he t d % - | ‘Certainly, said Kinney, “how v " 55 c ed no serious trouble, | 3 1 , 12 . o thoug o boen 2 "Hmfl) r of |/ Much do you want? ofiended the late Minister of Foreign 1 caused brief | e Temecula branch | while train service | the Hemet | oudbursts in the p nity, which caus- { SAN FRANCISCAN CUT dent Castro, who took up the Foreign ed K i 1 swell. To-night | IN TWO BY A TRAIN | Minister's side, apparently more to e:;. great :— umes of water are coming | barrass Bowen that from any love for : anta Ana ¥ and Lytle | superintendent of Cogquille Coal ana|the Foreign Minister, whom he later 4 ter being | Lumber Company Killed While ousted from the Ministry. - | on Way to Meet Wife. 5 = — e | COQUILLE, Or., Feb. 3.—As he was “ ~ 14 and crops will | about to board the train to Marshfield 1 k T to meet his wife from San Francisco, ]1 i = ohere have|j . Christie was run over and in- ‘ be owers this evening and | gian(ly killed at the depot at 11 for a stormy night. Re- | 010 0§ 1€ morning: Christie was ; the country show that at the rainfall was much than in the city, and that, as :‘T] r;vl‘"t’;:e;\,.:‘-,{qpnflp ,,:'”“’;1"‘: vas due at Marshfield to-morrow on o = 7 i ; the stcamer Breakwater. Special Dispatch to The C ntains was endo s evi- - g ect 1. s tremcnfons s - evi Standing on the track as the train e poreciatics s ed by the fact that the San Diego , which for so many years has | n_visibie above the sands in! , now shows a broad, toward False Bay et civy « 5 IS DERAILED. | i ! FLYER 1in Brings Disaster to Santa Fe Overland. 1 KINGMAN, A. T., Feb. 3—A broken |4 ail near Yampai »d Santa Fe fiyer early this | morning. When the derafled machesl stopped they were within a few feet of a deep ravine. “Several people were | thrown from their berths, but none | were serfously hurt. Raiiroad Canyon, where so much trouble occurred last summer from washouts, i& again wasked out and it will be several daye before trains are running on time. All westbound trains are held at Ash Forks and eastbound trains at Needles. Two heavy *‘fills” are entirely gone, one 1200 feet in length and the other 500 feet. Rain has been falling here since early yesterday evening and to-day there was a heavy downpour. The valleys and ravines are awash and freighting ¢ more | courses than has | et ’""’r"':li-‘ ‘hef"; | ficial Washington stood still in aston- | tire Instrument. A new agreement, un- wers, with flashes Of |ishment to-day when it heard the|der which the United States will ad- sual feature of rain- | " | : PRESIDENTS | NEW TREATY INVITATION [ WITH BLACK DECLINED! REPUBLIC Cannon Refuses to:Fir’stAgreementWith; Attend a State Santo Domingo | Dinner. Put Aside. | | Speaker Mecause He, Second Pfifig Framed§ Was Not to Be Given With Care for the . | Precedence, Senate’s Action, | Sends a Note and Femsins Away From Affair in Honor of the Supreme Court. (RIS AN lieved, Will Continue in the Tarbulent Country. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—To “Uncle | Joe” Cannon, Speaker of the House, belongs the distinetion of being the first man who has declined to dine in the White House since Rosoevelt be- came President, and all social and of- Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Not only has the State Department amended the protdcol signed in Santo Domingo on January providing for an American fiscal protectorate over the turbulent republie, but it has disapproved the en- minister the affairs of the black repub- lic, is being framed. It is yet to 'be signed, and as the Senate is to ratify it it is now being drawn with great care at San Domingo City under daily in- | structions from the department to Daw. Cannon ‘was inyited to the state din- | ner given last night to the members of | the Supreme Court. It was decreed |that as this dinner was to the mem- ! {bers of the Supreme Court, the Jus Dangerons State of Affairs, It Is Be-!: |tices should take precedence. The Chief Justice is: in mourning for his { wife and could not attend, so the place | | of honor at the dinner fell to Justice | Harlan. | son, the ‘American Minister. He is ex- pected to sign it within a few days. An effort was made to-day to ascer- taln whether, if the Senate fails to act| upon the treaty before March 4, the | Fermer Champion John 1 of the engine bell. { other articles of high value were de- | When Speaker Cannon learned that | | the court was to be accorded preced- | | ence over him he sat down and penned |2 note to the President, in which he | arserted that, as Speaker of the House, | he could not be outranked by any per- |son at that dinner, except the Pres| | dent, and he begged the President to excuse him. " This the President did and will doubtless have Speaker Can- non to a dinner where he will be able to accord him the position which his rank commands. It is explained that dent will"assume charge of Santo Domingo’s affairs. The State Depart- {ment ayoids any statement on this point, but it can be stated that the President believes the executive.has the | power to pursue such a course. Whether the Senate adjourns without | action or not, a dangerous state of | things will continue in Santo Domingo. | The republic’s blindness to its just ob- ligations will irritate foreign govern- ments as formerly:. The only reason ¢ : S vhy they have ‘sent punitive fleets if the President had not given the Su-| WY puni t premie Court of the United Statex pre-{ % Santy, Dan beret Jed cedence at the dinner given especially to its members the dignified Judges would have felt deeply affronted. ‘Washington is wondering what the plain. folks of Danville, IlL, will say when they hear what their democratic idol has been doing. S| - | tnetr hape That the United States wontd |take the wunpleasant task off their hands. The intention of the President | is so to police Santo Domingo that Eu- | ropean governments will have no ex- cuse for violating the Monroe doctrine. The American warkhips are plenti- fully distributed about Santo Domingo. The Newark is at Monte Cristi, the Tacoma 2t Castine and the Stewart at San Domingo City. The Detroit is at Puerta Plata. poate L FORCE FOR NEZUELA. J0RN L FAILS A8 A LECTIRER {Former Champion of’ Prize Warships May Be Necessary to Bring | Castro to Terms. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—“Do you think a warship would have a good ef- fect on President Castro?” a State De- | can the situation in which the rela- tions of the United States and Vene- zuela are to-day. The crisis is draw- ing near. There is one ray of encour- agement in the idea prevailing here, Special Dispatch to The Call JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Feb. 2.— L. Suliivan Affairs by sending out that official on a matter of diplomatic import while he was giving a party. Bowen, in or- der to preserve the good relations, was compelled to write a letter of apology to the Foreign Minister and also had a notable correspondence with Presi- “Oh, $25 will be enough.” answered the former champion. “You can have $500 if you want it.” “No,” was the reply, “I simply want car fare.” S S superintendent of the Coquille Coal and Lumber Company and came herc ! from San Francisco. Mrs. Christie i NOW_REOUIRED was cked down to the depot, Chris- ST. PAUL, Minn, Feb. 3. — Peter * tie gave no sign of hearing the ringing Eberhart is supposed to be the name He did not move | o¢ 5 farmhand who vesterda % : k 2 n y y drank a‘;"l the rear car was upon him, when ! o ooy pottie of nitro-glycerin on a tried to leap to safety, but was, i knocked down and his body cut in two | *¥a8er, froze to death while walking | by the car wheels, home and to-day exploded when ef-: —————————— ‘ forts were made to thaw him out. JIMIKERS MEET TROOPS IN DEADLY GONFLIGT RUSSIANS BOMBARD JAPANESE LEFT WING \ CHURIAN ARMY. AND JAPANESE! PULSED ATTACK OF SLAV FORCES ON THE'LEFT FLANK. Heavy Artillery Fire Kept Up- ; Alungirnm, LOSSES GREAT ON BOTH SIDES Generffirmen— berg Resigns Cn@_@nd. GENERAL OKU'S HEADQUART- ERS, Feb. 3, noon, via Fusan.—The Russian forces opposite the Japanese left wing are showing some activity. A Russian-detachment attacked Pe- kowtai (Heikoutai?), but was driven back, leaving 160 dead. A bombardment of the wing continues. Considerable aetivity was manifested entire. left tan and Letaiyetun, and it is believed yesterday (February 2) opposite Shen- | the Russians are preparing for another ! Riotous Work- men Shot Down in Poland. WARSAW SHOPS ARE REOPENING Czar ffins {0 Delegation of PI:i_I]EI‘S. WARSAW, Feb. 3.—Warsaw news- papers reappeared this evening after eight days' snspension of publication. They are subjected to the most severe censorship under the orders of Minister of the Interior Bouligan. Most of the shops reopened to-day, but only a few . of the strikers returned to worlk Scattered instances of violence were reported to-day. A student of the university was killed | this morning by a soldier and strikers | killed a workman who had beem in communication with the military au- thori { attack. They fired cccasional salvos of | artillery and volleys of musketry. The . Japanese remain in their | tempted to resume their employment trenches and do not answer the Rus- | to-day, but strikers entered the bull sian fire. !ing and demolished the machinery. rkmen of a cutlery factory ag- TOKIO, Feb. 2.—Manchurian head- | quarters, telegraphing yesterday (Feb- says that on that day the Russians resumed their activity in front' of the Japanese left, and that there has been comstant skirmishing along the fronts of both the cpposing forges, exchanges of heavy artillery fire taking place. The Japanese again charge the Russians with the mutia- tign of their wounded. Portions of the report. follow: “On Wednnflny‘(lfebm:ry 1), in tl:; jon of: the . right, H_bodies 4_ my attacked us fll directions. vy'(lw, . from o'clock merning, ssian artil- lery on the west front of Ta Mcuntain, and Liuchiéntun shelled Fangshen and Putsawo ard their vicinities. The enemy’s - infantry immediately sur- ronnded Pangshen. but we repulsed them. ' “In the direction of the center on Thursday the enemy’s artillery situated about a mile and a quarter north of the village “of - Shakhe and on Wenpao Mountain . bombarded the southern heights of Shakhe village. “Constant collisions between scouts took place to the perth of Chengling- GENERAL “WHO SUCCESSFULLY RE- MRS, DAVES FEEBLE ~ CONDITION Too Ilfi)—Reply {0 Statements of ~ Gen. Miles. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the president of the Confederate States, is living in this city at the Hotel Gerard. Mrs. Davis has been confined to her apartments for the past week and to-day when a re- porter called on her, she sent word by her secretary that she was tco ill 'to be seen. Through the secretary Mrs. Da- vis was asked if she cared to make a statement concerning General . Mileg’ utterances to the effect that he had been compelled to shackle Bavis after his capture because the latter tried to escape. ' Mrs. Davis replied that she was unable to discuss the matter at this time because her health would not permit it. It was learned at the Hotel Gerard that Mrs. Davis has been in poor health for some time. So feeble is she that all meals are served in her private apart- ments. ¢ ROW OVER WOMAN CAUSES THE ARREST OF TWO MEN Valuable Paintings Lost in a Fire. ! Peter worked for Claude Argonvale NEW Y e % near Wheatley, Minn., and while in ORK, Fecb. 3.—Fire to-nlght p " village yesterday got drunk with ourt, the countryjine Town Marshal, who showed him | r of the | pottle of nitro-glycerin, saying it was ' & Co. ofi{aken from a bank robber. Peter bet N/ Morristown, | that he cculd drink the contents and N. J.. entailing a loss of about $400,000. | never feel the injurious effects. He Valuabie paintings, furnishings and! drank the nitro-glycerin and for home. Whether from the explosive, whisky or intense cold, he failed to get home, and this morning was found by the roadside frozen t6 death. The body, which was badly distorted, was picked | New York, situated near stroved. In the house was a Jug for which Kuhn paid $100,000. — and staging are at a standstill. This is the first heavy winter rains this coun- try has had in years and the whole country is sodden. Two inches of rain fell during the storm. This afternoon Gold Road stage, in crossing the can- yon below here, was over‘urned by the rush of water, two horses were drown- ed and the driver escaped only after being carried far down by the torrent. The stage has not yet been found. ! fhae | up and hauled to the Argonvale home, where Peter’s late boss undertook to thaw him out so that the body might be placed in a coffin and properly com-. ‘While the body was left {n an outbuilding near a stove, in which was a roaring fire, the nitro-glycerin exploded. The building was complete- ly wrecked, and one button, a boot heel and 2 piece of Q‘.;v;tcth chain were eter, all that was found 4 Tacoma Jail Holds San Franciscan ‘Who Punched Traveler for Show- ing Attention to Former's Wife. TACOMA, Feb. 3.—Walter W. Law- son of San Francisco and W. H. Wil- burn, a commercial traveler, are in jail as the result of a quarrel last started { night in the women's parlor of the | TUG TURNS TURTLE Tacoma Hotel over the attentions.paid by Wilburn to Mrs. Dawson. Lawson claims that his wife, whom he married a vear ago, left him' sev- eral weeks ago while he was 11l with typhoid fever in a San Francisco hos- pital. Following her north he caused a scene at Seattle, where Mrs. Lawson and burn -were. ,-tonpf,ni. The day Lawson’s wife ol a restrain- ing order to prevent his molesting | . Last night at the Tacoma Hotel | Z:r n_struck Wilburn with his fists, b laims’ that first * af ilburn - tempted to draw a revolver. ' tzu and Yaotun. “In the direction of the left on Thurs- day. morning the enmemy's artillery fiercely bombarded Chenchiehpao. Our artillery responded. “According to a reliable report the enemy has built a raifroad from Such- iatun, which is five miles north of Lamuting, to Suhupao, and has opened traffic thereon. “At 8 o'clock on Thursday morning the enemy’s field and heavy guns con- centrated a fire against Yatzupao (two miles northeast f ' Chenchiehpao). Subsequently a Russian division en- tered the southern village of Changtan and dispatched a brigace to attack us. We repulsed the brigade. “According to a reliable report, our picket, censisting of an ‘officer and twenty-eight men, was surrounded near Huanglashatzu January 26. Our picket resisted to the last, when most of the PREPARED 10 STRIKE AT GERMANY British Place Ships i wounded surrendered. The enemy ln e Or mutilated all our wounded.” ; prsiher st Gi:IPENBERG RESIGNS. Sea. —_— LONDON, Feb. 3.—A speech delivered in the Hampshire village of Eastleigh ‘last . evening ' by Arthur Hamilton Lee, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, has created much excitement. In dealing with the recent redistribution of Great Britain's naval forces, Lee frankly de- clar that Great Britain had not so much to keep her eyes on France and the Mediterranean, but should look with anxiety, though not with fear, toward the North Sed, and the fleets had been so distributed as to enable them to deal with any danger in that direction that may occur. If war should unhappily be declared, he continued, under existing conditions the British navy would get its biow in first, beforg the other side had time to read in the papers that war had been declared. He maintained. that “by re- cent' naval reforms ‘Great Britain's strength ag a naval fighting power has been doubled during the last few weeks.” - The speech, which was delivered at a railway dinner, in nowise of a politi- cal character, is commented on in some of the London morning papers as ex- ceedingly indiscreet and likely to be greatly resented by Germany, at which it evidently pointed. The Daily Chron- icle suggests that - Premier Balfour ould muzzle his Civil Lord of the | Admiraity. . S P I S Russian General Retires From Com- mand of Second Manchurian Army. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 3.—Lieu- tenant General Gripenberg has asked to be relieved of command of the sec~ ond Manchurian army and has hand- ed ‘over his command to Lieutenant General Myloff because of ill health. It is believed in military circles that the succession of Lieutenant General Myloff to the command of the second army of Manchuria does not neces- sarily mean that the position of sec- ond in command in the Far East has devolved upon him. General Myloff has a good record as a fighter, though he was not present at any of the great battles of the Manchurian eampaign. He is 62 years old. He fought in the Turkish campaign and saw a great deal of service in the Caucasus. He was appointed to the command of the Eighth Corps in 1901 Ma~ ~huria with that corps frem Oaessa. The Eighth Corps was one of the latest.corps to arrive there. Army officers confirm the report that General Gripenberg is in il health and point out that he was seri- ously ill a year before his appoint- ment to the command of the second army of Manchuria. L ——— JAPANESE ARE REPULSED. Brisk Fighting Takes Place on the Left Bank of the Hun River. ST.. PETERSBURG,. Feb. 3.—The Emperor has received the following dispatch from General Kuropatkin: “The Japanese during the night of January 31 attacked Djantanchenan, on the left bank of the Hun River, oposite Changtan. They captured the village, but subsequently were driven out with great loss. The Russian cas- " WHILE TOWING BARGE ‘Captain and Crew of Vessel Have Nar- Escape From Death by Drowning. and went) to | Most of the strikers apparently are not yet willing to return to work. Werkmen in all the sugar factories of Poland, which number forty-two, struck vn February 2. These factories hitherto have been working day and night to supply the troops in Man- churia. The employes of the iron works at Sesnovice struck to-day. Reports from Lodz say the disturb- ance there ended quickly. The mili- . tary fired one volley, killing two and ing two. and the rioters imme- W e, e fowa. s T it Anthorities have taken precautions to maintain order. i a réport from Radogoszez that a mob there killed one officer and two soldi-rs. A _general strike began this morning . at Pabianica. LODZ, Russian Poland. Feb 3.—In a conflict between troops and strikers at the Kounitzer factory here to-day the. soldiers fired, killing six persons and wounding forty-eight. Shooting alse occutred at the Keller lace factory. BERLIN, Feb. 5.—The Lokal An- zeiger's Warsaw correspondent that at Lcdz there was a bloody en- counter on Friday, the military firing on strikers and causing great havoe. In the fight several days ago, the cor- respondent says, sixteen strikers were killed and fifty-six wounded, of whom thirty-eight wece severely injured. i CZAR RECEIVES WORKMEN. | Entertains a Deputation of Printers at Tsarkoe-Selo. LONDON, Feb. 3.—A news agency dispatch from St. Petersburg says Em- peror Nicholas to-day. recelved at Tsarskoe-Selo a deputation of five workmen from the Star Printing ‘Works. - He questioned each man close- 1y regarding the character of the york and hours of employment, expressing satisfaction with those who had con- scientiously performed their duty and said he hoped to visit the establishment in_person. The audience occurred in the great hall. The Emperor was accompanied by Minister of Finance Kokovsoff and Prince Solitzine, manager of the print- ing works. When the Czar expressed a desire to visit the printing establish- ment the Minister of Finance said the establishment was well worthy this mark of imperial favor. In dismissing the delegation he asked them to convey thanks in his name to their comrades, who had.done good work in the service of the state. He expressed satisfaction with the bearing of the delegates. At the conclusion of the interview permission was given the delegates to visit the palace building and after- ward they were entertained at din- ner. ———— QUESTION OF EQUALITY. 7 Deliberations of the Committee of Ministers Prove Satisfactory. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 4.—Off- cial reports of the deliberations of the committee of Ministers on guarantees for the observance of laws and ahr the prevention of arbitrary conduct by officials evoke general satisfaction. The proposal to restore the Senate's - original character as the chief guar- dian of the laws is described in some quarters as the cornerstone of the new edifice which is building on the ruins of ‘the bureaucracy. Special commissions of the Min- isters of the Interior, Finance and | Justice are busily engaged studying ltm questiotis of equality, peasants’ | legislation, strikes and state insurance } for workmen, which were outlined by ! imperial ukase on December 25. ot S ot a | GORKY STILL IN'JAIL Novelist and Companions to Be Tried | on Political Charges. - | ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 4—ifis the | intention of the Government to bring s %wyp& the ov caj from the pilot house ;%mam “ane | Naet otta, together with the o gt A ASTORIA, Feb. 3.—While towing a. the Hotel Nort) # | barge to-day. the tug M.: F. Hazen r e striick a hidden fish trap and turned - following | turtle. . The captain of the tug es- d ‘managed to cling | though until rescued .by the steamer 0 thers of ‘Hazen's crew, who had scrambled - ualties were 100. ‘“The Japanese, after a severe can- nonade, reattacked our forces at Diantanchenan at noon February 1. The R 3 first retired, but ulti- mately reoccupied the village, al- some outlying portfons are still in the hands of the enemy.” ‘The commander in chief adds: “De- and publicists to trial on pelitical charges. Governor General Trepoff to- day said: “The whole case is now in lusion of which the Pro- At rator General will decide whether the: "~ Continued on Page 2, Column 3. Continued on Page 3, Colums b | Maxim Gorky and seven other authors