The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 28, 1905, Page 1

TE ending rancisco and FRUIT MEN NOST FIGHT -Santa Fe Will Inore; the Orange Rate Decisioa. President Ripley Defies the | Japanese Interstate Commerce Commission. Says It Has Ceased to Be a Judicial | Body and Its Rulings Carry Little Weight, ol i ch to The Call —The Interstate s defied by the | pany in a| nt Ripley | he comm ntal decis anges | and | Southern ng orange s over which | shipped. | ted from the %+ embers of the in pooling resident Ri The Ite has ommerce Commis be a judicial bor for the p deet: when | not ge shipments | ing to 30,000 time is slower cars carry | t $600 now of money | nt in mak- demands 11 ignore the de- ssion and rely on stice, because we de- al pursuit | ofitable as < ge-growing be assured s on their invest- | rowers have | ed. | g. Perhaps will compel us t more business than we k we ought fairly to do and to | provide cars w are in excess of our needs in winter s stand idle all summer, but I ¢ so0.” —_—— EX-CONVICI GIFT TO PRESIDENT Revolver That Cannot Be Fired by One Unfamiliar With Its Mechanism. NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—President Roosevelit has a new weapon for his armory in the gift from “Mart” Allen of a revolver so constructed that it can be of service only to its owner. Attempts to fire it unless one is fa- emiliar with its combinations are vain. Alledt invented this peculiar type of | firearm while he was a convict in| Sing Sing Prison, after one of several “convictions for burglary. The idea was | suggested to him when two fellow- convicts escaped by obtaining posses- sion of the Warden's revolvers and hAiding him at bay by threatening him with instant death if he interfered with them. For such emergencies as this he believed a revolver which would be of service only in the hands of a man | who knew the combination by which | to unlock it would be of great value, { and at the suggestion of Superintend- ' ent Collins he worked on his idea for several years. Now that he is free| again he hopes to ve his invention | a adopted by prison n#fl‘lals and others. | ———— HABEAS CORPUS INVOKED BY SHOW GIRL'S LAWYERS | “Nan” Patterson Will To-Day Make Another Effort to Secure Re- lease ¥rom Prison. NEW YORK, Feb. A writ of | habeas corpus calling for “Nan” Pat-| terson, the show girl accused of kili- ing Caesar Young, before Judge Tray- nor in Brooklyn to-morrow was issued to counsel representing Miss Patterson to-day on application to Justice Gay- nor. At the same time the Justice grant- ed an application by Miss Patterson’s ounsel for a writ of certiorari to bring her case before his court on the ground that she had been deprived of constitutional rights to speedy her trial Miss Patterson is now in the Tombs nrison awaiting another fresh morth wind. | A. G. MeADIR, | possession | 1ent | that the Japanese | cannonading in the direction of Gauto | bullets. | last reserves were sent to the firing midnight, Feb- vicinity—Clopdy District Forecaster. | | + ALCAZAR—“Ciptain Jinks.” CALIFORNIA—*David Harum." COLUMBIA—Grand Opera. CENTRAL—“Why Women Sin." CHUTES—Vaudeville: GRAND—“Mother Goose.” MAJESTIC—Old Heidelberg." ORPHEUM—Vaudeville.* | TIVOLI—Comic Opera. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1905. DISASTERS CROWD UPON HOTEL FIRE CAUSES Bl KUROPATRIN| EXCITENENT Slav Army Placed in a Critical Position. Capture Two Passes Opening Way to Flank Movement. Oyama Pours Troops Across Shakhe River and Menaces the Russian Center, i MUKDEN, Feb, 28.—The Russians | report that the Japanese are in pos- session of Ta Pass, and also the pass between Ta . and Kaotouling. The of Ta Pass threatens Fushun, Tiehling and Higesway. Ta Pass is regarded as of the same con- sequence to the Japanese in their operations against Mukden, as was Motien Pass in relation to Liaoyang. In case the Japanese push on from the southeast, there operations will be among the hills. The Japanese MUKDEN, Feb. sse iver last even- the Shakhe having driven in the vanguard. Russian sup- ports came up and stopped the Jap- ing, the Russian | anese advance. On the right flank all is movements of the Japanese an intention of attacking the Russian center, at least in the way of a dem: onstration. Heavy firing continued fo- quiet, but | day to the eastward. The soldiers of the Tsinkhetchen di- vision are in good spirits in spite of the heavy losses they have sustained and the necessity which compelled them to retreat, They are encouraged by the execution they wrought upon the Japanese, whose bodies were piled in heaps outside the redoubts at Beres- nefft Hill and the trenches at Tsm- khetchen. Yesterday afternoon there was a vio- storm of heavy wet snow. The temperature during the night moder- ated ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 28.—Ac- cording to press dispatches from Muk- | den the Japanese last evening crossed | the cry Shakhe River, but the place of sing was eliminated by the censor. The advance was checked by Russian reinforcements. This was the most important news from the scene of war to-night. Fighting is continuing on the Russian left flank with the indications that the Japanese are plapning an at- | tack against the center, but the Rus- sians claim their positions are impreg- nable. A dispatch $rom General Kuropatkin, dated February 26, says: “The enemy is continuing the of- fensive against the front of our Tsinkhetchen detachment and has turned both its flanks. The Japanese also have advanced against Kantie Pass, turning our left flank, but all attacks on Tangu and Beydaling have been repulsed. The offensive move- ment against Bomapudz also has been repulsed. At some positions our rifle- men forced the Japahese outposts to retire. Colonel Gorsky was severely wounded.” General Kuropatkin, in another dis- patch dated February 26, announced had commenced and Wanfun passes. . BATTLE IN THE PASSES. Slavs Use Bayonets When Ammuni. tion Is Exhausted. MADYADANI, Manchuria, Feb. 27.— After fighting of -the most desperate nature, the Russians remained yester- day evening in possession of Che and Da passes, against which the Japanese had been flinging themselves madly from noon until dark. The Russians, who were greatly outnumbered, sus- tained repeated attacks, some -units losing as high as 70 per cent in killed or wounded in hand-to-hand fighting with the bayonet, to which they were reduced through having fired their last In order to hold Da Pass the line. The Japanese turning operations in the region of the Gauto Pass were checked by a battalion of Russian in- fantry and several squadrons of cav- al which repulsed the enemy with heavy loss. The Japanese also tried to advance upon Nagou and Vanupudzi, but were repulsed. The preseht operations commenced on February 19, when the Japanese made a night attack upon Haba Pass, ven miles south of Tsinkhetchen. On February 20 they attacked Vanze Pass, ven miles southeast of the Tsinkhet- chen positions, which themselves are ! far in advance of the general front of the army. The Russians made a coun- ter attack on February 21 and tempo- rarily gained ground, but on the even- ing of February 22, in the face of su- perior numbers, they were flanked and retired on the fortified line at Tsink- hetchen. g The Japanese stormed Beresneff Hill throughout February 22, simultaneous- ly enfilading the Tsinkhetchen posi- tions with artillery and outflanking the Russian infantry. e JAPANESE IN MONGOLIA. Only a Small Numl’r Engaged in In- citing the Chinese. MUKDEN, Feb. 27.—A correspon- dent who has returned here after a trip westward to, investigate the re- ports of the presence of Japanese in "“Continued on Page 3. Column 6, pickets of | indicate | ' Windsor Guests Flee i “From Flames ani Smoke, Aged Couple Are Overcome, but Are Rescued by Firemen. bustion of Rubbisi? in an Un used Elevator Shaft. —_— old elevator shaft at the rear of the | Windsor Hotel at Market and Fifti | streets, and but for the prompt -ac- tion of the employes of the hotel and the fire department San Francisco might to-day be mourning over a holo- caust. With both floors of the hotel filled with more than 120 guests and a fierce blaze eating through the floors and halls in the rear of the building, it would have been only a few seconds before the entire building would have been in flames. At about 12:30 this morning E. P. Hiiton, who formerly lived in the | hotel, was talking with the day clerk, | G. L. Deal, in the front office. His| attention was attracted by shouts and screams in the rear of the building. | Springing up the stairs he advanced to the rear of the second floor, only to be {enveloped in increasing waves of smoke. Peering down the stairway on the Stevenson street side he saw the blaze coming from the direction of the kitchen. eating its way along the cas- ings and up the elevator shaft. With the assistance of Deal, Hilton succeeded in arousing the inmates and tumult had aroused the roomers throughout the two floors and hasty preparations were made by the guests for leaving their places of peril. Hilton made a desperate attempt to go below into the kitchen with a view to rescu- ing the Chinese cooks, if any were there asleep, but the attempt was futile and he was compelled to retreat. Later it was learned that the Chinese were not in their quarters, GUESTS DESCEND LADDERS. By this time. the department was on the scene and Chief Sullivan di- rected the turning in of afsecond alarm. Ladders were quickly raised to the windows on the Stevenson street side, through which were scrambing many of the guests in their night- clothing. The coolness of the fire- men gave the frightened inmates re- assurance and prevented any leaping to the ground, although the flames could be seen directly behind them and the heat was becoming intense. In the front of the house the ele- vator was making many trips, taking down the partially clad guests, and the stairways were jammed with men and women in all stages of attire. Here A. T. Kendall, the manager, and the night clerk R. Hutchings, were lulging them to be calm, as the dan- ger was confined to the rear of the | building. Many women were hysteri- cal and a few fainted. This, combined with the shouts of the firemen and the | ncise of the engines, gave the scene the appearance of a catastrophe. Over 120 guests had been in the course of a few minutes aroused from sleep, huddled down into the street or car- ried out through the windows in the strong arms of the firemen. A BRAVE RESCUE. One of the narrowest escapes was that of Mrs. Annie O'Connor of Butte, Montana. She occupied & room next to the shaft, and with her young nephew, who slept on a cot, failed to hear the summons of the hotel em- ployes. Captain Woods and Driver Lictor broke into the room and car- ried them to the fire escape and thence down a ladder to the street. Norman Charles and his wife, also ‘of Butte, were in room 79. They are an elderly couple and before reaching the door of their room v-ere strangled by the smoke and became unconscious. They were carried to the hotel par- lor and revived. Mrs. B. Crosby of Virginia City was also suffocated and re‘malned unconscious for twenty min- utes. Mrs. J. E. Ewald reported to the po- lice that she had been robbed of jep‘:- elry, money and a watch amounting to $150, which lay on her bureau. She in- | tended leaving for Los Angeles to-day ! i and has only her ticket and baggage checks. Her sister, Ida Gray Scott, re- ported the loss of a gold watch. Mrs. William Trewelia is the lessee of the Windsor and the building is owned by D. Fricot; $: insurance . n the furniture will cover all loss. Regarding the origin of the con- flagration, Fire Marshal Towe said' that it started among a mass of mb-l | i bish that had been permitted to accu- mulate in the unused elevator shaft and that the flames were probahly | result of spontaneous combustion. —— EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY ADMITS SLAYING WOMAN James Neal Tells Denver Police of Murder Committed Two Years Ago in Indian Territory. DENVER, Feb. 27.—James Neal, 18 yvears of age, who has been living in Denver -under the name of Roy Dal- lew, has given himself up to the police and éonfessed that he murdered Cyn- thia Johnson, a widow who lived on a farm near Kenniston, I. T. Neal says he killed the woman because she had drawn a revolver and said she was going to kill him. He says the crime was committed June 28, 1903, \‘.hcl Blaze Is Caused by Spontanecus Com- : Fire started early this morning in an clearing the rooms adjacent m dames. By this- time” the NOi PRICE FIVE CENTS. ISENATE. SHOWS NO MERCY. '- TO THE FOUR BOODLERS PURGES LEGISL p— = ¥ > f— Bl SLOAD N PRICE OF NAY WHEAT Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Feb. 27.—John W. Gates and his assoclates, it is said, have’ abandoned the deal in May wheat. Millions of bushels of the cereal were thrown on the local market’ to-day: by the clique houses, causing the prices to fall with a crash. b The paper loss to the Wall street crowd is estimated at $750,000, comput- ing on the high figures of a fortnight ago, but they still had a good margini of profit over the average 'purchase price. The slump caused a. panic among the smaller holders who had been following the bull leader with the, innocent faith of the lamb being led to: the shearing pen. ; H Thé price of May wheat fell to $1 1414, Less than two weeks ago it .sold at $1 21%. The closing price yesterday was $1 18%. The trade was caught un- aware by the severe break to-day and wheat, bought by outsiders at fancy. prices, was sold at a tremendous loss. Trading proceeded in the usual way for about an hour, whén without warn- {ing the market suddenly started to tumble. “Gates has thrown up the sponge!’” the brokers shouted as they saw prices giving way, and some of = the bears gave vent to their enthusiasm by fran- tically waving their hats. The demon- stration, however, soon took a more serious turn. The commission. houses that were loaded with wheat on which margins were fast disappearing, selling on stop-loss orders, threw the market into a fever of excitement which quick- ly spread to all parts of the floor and then to the commission offices throu 1¢). out the downtown district. 4 It is difficult to say how far reach- ing the panic might have become if Armour had not come to the rescue of the market. That _interest bought heavily around the low point. A Other big houses also came to the support of- the market. Short wheat was covered in large quantities. These purcha: effecte® a partial restoration of. confi- .dence and brought about a rally whi landed the May price.at $1 16%. After this the market quieted somewhat. i bia. dled t0-48Ys . 1 . L otu s i=HD & .hand it was said that Jai . result - that the tape recorded il Some ! SA LA LA T S TR ET NN \ NN N S RAILROAS CONTROL I3 NEW HANDS NEW . YORK, Feb. 27.—The report that E. H. Harriman had lost control of Union Pacific Railroad gained cur- rency in Wall street to-day, and, while it could not be confirmed, the belief ‘was expressed in conservative quarters that it was not -idle.gossip. It has been known for some time that H. H. Rogers and Willlam Rockefeller each personally held as large a block of .Union Pacific stock as any one individ- ual; it is believed that Harriman and his friends retained a sufficient amount to secure to them complete administra- tive control of the property. On one es J. Hill and his friends had secured the stock, and on the other it was asserted that D: G.:Reid and Judge Moore of the Rock Island Company had it. Enormous transactions marked the trading on the Stock Exchange to-day, the total reaching approximately 2,000,- 000 shares. Of this amount about 425,- 000 shares represented dealings in Southern * Pacific. The other Pacific stocks were exceedingly active. The. plunging tactics of powerful stock speculators apparently were con- centrated on Southern Pacific, wmxl the ong “strings” of quotations running into 10,000 and 20,000 share totals without interruption. At 70, blocks of thou- sands. of shares, ting - 17,000, were transferred before the price cross- ed that figure and advanced fraction- ally. . During the closing days of last week Union Pacific and New York Central were the leaders in activity and ‘strength. Thouc!: there -were . ll.rte“ dealings in those two stocks to-day, was apparent that speculative interest had switched over Sunday and that the operations of the big dealers were be- ing directed to Southern Pacific. | Less.was heard to-day of alleged deals between the Union Pacific and ‘Vanderbilt interests, ‘:(:lncemtu; which ;. c sto- of extraordinary v ; 't!u' ‘.' by SN S ELILED! HORSEWHIP SETS FIRE T0 MASHER Epecial Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Feb. 27.—Leroy Stevens, 24 years old, one of the vermin breed styled ‘“mashers,” was unmercifully horsewhipped on Saturday by Dr. Rob- ert H. Harvey, a practicing South Side physician. . Stevens for several days past had been annoying women in the neighborhood of Twenty-first street and -Calumet avenue. Saturday he ‘went to the rear of Dr. Harvey's resi- dence and summoned Mrs. Harvey to the door. Just at point Dr. Har- vey, returning from & visit to a pa- tient, turned into the alley. He saw the man, and turning his horse about, stopped just out of view. Taking the whip from his buggy he crawled along the wall leading into his yard. All unaware of his danger s:‘:':.n:f?;n“'- S or E. J. E # the | was talking to Mrs. Harvey. her husband approaching with whip, but engaged the prospective vic- tim’s attention. Suddenly Stevens felt | Sum of 3350 in United Sta the lash across his neck. Again and UPom an again he was struck. Suddenly smoke | € began to curl around the body of Stev-| ens and it was seen that his clothing was afire. In applying the lash Dr. Harvey had ignited .a match in Stev- ens' pocket and in a few minytes his clothes were ablaze. Not until then did Dr. Harvey desist in his applica- tion of the whip. Stevens was painfully but not seri- ously burned, and to-day in the Har- | rison-street police station he was sen- teneced to three months in the Bride- well. 3 —_—— HOUSE VOTES TO ADMIT s _CHINESE TO WEST POINT Hull's Resolution Adopted Butler’s Objection to Unani- - mous Consent. ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The con- troversy over the admission to the West Point Milltary Academy of two Chinese gubjects, ‘the resolution having “in view. Its consideration s consent was objected Butler ATURE OF BRIBE- | the TAKERS Yotes to- EXDBl; - the Crooked Quartet. oty WRIGHT PLEADS- — Dramatic’ Sgene in the Upper HOusE = —_— 4 Special ‘Dispatch te The Call, SACRAMENTO, Feb. 2i.—With the brand of Qribery upon them, E. J. Em- mons, Frank French, Eli Wright and | Harry Bunkers were expelied from the , Senate shortly after noon to-day. One by one the disgracea Senators were driven from among the men that have beén their -colleagues. Merey was shown to none of them. Wright made® a desperate fight and pitiful appeal for favor, bue it availed him not. Before God he swore h’ innocence and damned his accusers. Ai the press hé aimed his impotent shafts and sought to place the mark of perjury on the- men whose oaths have proved him guilty. It was the last dramatic scene of the many that have marked the progress of the scandal. ‘When he went down to defeat and it | was plain that all hope had gone Mrs.® | Emmons, the faithful wife of the boodler that lies stricken in Went- worth-Igo Hospital, rose frcm her seat and with tear-blinded eyes groped hem way -to the corridor. The devotione of this good woman struck deeper than all the argument of Wright or the, pleading of Attgrney Cator, his coun- sel. As she left the rvom, women among the spectators burst into tears and the Senators about to pronounce judgment upon her nusband bowed their heads as though in the presence of the dead. The strain was iutense and Senators and spectators, awed b; térrible - significance of it hushed their voices while the clerk,, calling the names as measured as the tolling of a bell, ushered the accused into a new world of endeavor, honest® or dishonest as they will it shall be. BUNKERS ABSENT. Bunkers was absent and escaped the trying ordeal. It was announced that, he was in jail; that he had been sur- rendered into custody to give validity to the appeal for a writ of habeas corpus ‘sworm out in his behalf. French, sullen and prepared for what he knew to be inevitable, was at his desk. When. the roll was called and expulsion was the verdict against him he rose and, sweeping his eyes over the Senate, said: “Thank you, gentle- men,” and lumbered out of the cham= ber, his career as a legislator forever ended. After the vote against. Wright had been pronounced he still remained at his desk, his face white as chalk. Finally, when a few of his friends joined him and expressed their sym- pathy, he tried to force a smile and, gathering up his effects, departed to return no more. There vas no Senator present to raise his voice on behalf of the accused. They were alone in the last hours of their woe. \ ‘When the matter of censideration of the report of the investigating com~ mittee was called this morning the clerk read its findings. Senator Short~ ridge then asked what the effect of the adoption of the réport would be; if in itself it would have the effect of ex- pelling the accused from the floor. “It would not,” said Speaker Andes- son. “1 have prepared against this ques- tion,” said Senator Lukens, “and I ask following resolution was placed in the hands of the clerk: ‘““Whereas the special committes of investigation appointepd January 30, 1905, to Investigate all charges and statements contained in the afdavit of Willam Corbin filed on that with the secretary of the Senate, tofore and on the 20th £ Ying Hsing Wen and ; Chea Chen, was renewed in the | - to-day, when Hull of Iowa | whose of this Senate, did receive and | cept from one Joseph S. Jordan understanding ial action of said Emmons Senator would be influenced the manner following, viz: Emmons as such Senator and protect the interests of the nix Savings, Building and ciation and The Renters’ Building and Lean tion, two ‘whose bu methods were about to be investigated by the Com- then about te be investigated by the Com- | mittee ':n Commissions and Retrench~ ment. . “Sixth—That on the 25th day of Jan- Sacramento, the | uary, 1905, in the ecity of and | — i Continued on Puge 3, Column f. .