The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 11, 1905, Page 1

thirty hours ending 11, 1808: showers; fresh south A THE WEATHER. — e Forecast made at San Fhapcisco_for Ban Francisco and vieinity—Cloudy unsettled weather Saturday, probably District Forecaster. ¥ midnight “March- ‘winds. G. McADIB, lmmt.— A | GRAND—“T. O. MAJESTIC— MECHANICS F i ALCAZAR—‘The Middle - CALIFORNTA—“David Harum." Mizpah."" PAVILION—Norris & Howe's Clreus. I EUM— Vaudeville. TIVOLI—Comic Opers. | Matinee at all theaters to-day. Texas Steer.' CHUTES— Vaudeville. FISCHER'S—Vaudeville. VOLUME XCVII—NO. 10 2. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. KUROPATKIN'S ARMY IN DISORDERLY RETREAT PURSUED BY THE RELENTLESS NIPPONESE. ~e DETEC ARR VES E AT | At Once Begin Work CLOUDBURST PUTS STOP 0 TRAFF Several Villages in on Stanford | New Mexico Are Mystery. | Miss Berner Is Interviewed Twice by Reynolds and Callundan. Ssys Mrs. Stanford Feared Natives in Egypt and Saw Vision Before Sphynx. SOILOS S S them will ey wili -return He says that wish for the actress and that she more valuable than to the the bi- inquest s speak highly of the igh Sheriff Henry and | s have done. | - STRANGE TALE. | TOURIST TE Says Mrs. Stanford Saw Vision Before | the Sphinx. fal Cable to The Cal | HONOLULY. rch 10.—An English astus Pelham, who ng in Hon says he met rty at Assuan, | 4 an elephant’s | the butler, who | his em- | ast ye He s Albert Beverly, asing curios nford was at hat the that time in tives would | says Pelha She would | room at the hotel and her | vthing she needed were r by the but Beverly | , according to the tourist’s Mrs. Stanford had him sleep at the door of her room and he never | left the post without notifying her and wowing that she was awake Miss | ner, the secretary, was always with | Mrs. Stanford her room. . Stanfor d the landlord of the | hotel she mus eave because of fear that the natives would kill her. | Pelham further says Miss Richmond | was with the party in Assuan and that | ehe approached him with a request to | help her change places with some other | mald as she did not wish to remain longer with Mrs. Stanford. The tourist declares that the Egyp- tian Gagzette in Alexandria published storfes during Mrs. Stanford’s stay at Cairo in regard to her fears of the natives, These were =aid to have shed, but she was compelled to leave the pyramids because she saw visions before the sphinx. Pelham says that he met the party later in his travels and Beverly then said he was anxious to leave Mrs. Stanford’s servic A DA REPLIES TO OCRITICISM. Lathrop Says He Did All He Could to Investigate Poisoning. LO ALTO, March 10.—Charles hrep was first informed of the of the inguest at Honolulu he came down to Palo Alto to e train for San Francisco this morning. He found awaiting him at the depot Phil Atkinson, the head guardian of the university grounds, who handed to Mr. Lathrop a copy of this morning’s Call. Lathrop read the lines slowly and Continued on Page 2, Oolumn 3. ¥ G rest wher take \ Fiooded. ‘Trams From California Are | Held in tbe Town } of Gallup. s e ) Heavy Rainstorms in the Sonthwest [ Cause a Great Loss fo the { Coast Lines. Epecial Dispatch to The Call ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., March 10.— e coast lines of the Santa Fe west from this city in the Rio Puerco n are again threatened with seri- washouts. Near Bluewater two all mountain streams known as San e and Bluewater creeks join and empty into the Rio Puerco. For the ye and nights rain has ntly and last night, fol lowing a cloudburst, the streams over- fiowed their banks. The Bluewater dam broke, flooding the towns of Bluewater, Grants and Cubero and the track for several miles, to a depth of several feet. Eastbound trains last night and to-day were held here, while those from California were held at Gallup. At this hour trains are moving again, but with orders to run very slowly. The Rio Puerco, one of the treacherous streams in the Southwest, is still high and local railroad officials | are alarmed about the safety of the big iron bridge across this stream. It is stated here that a work train had to make a fast run last nigrt to save itself from being caught in the tor- rents of the water. All trains are be- hind time to-night. St T G ke High Waters in West Virginia Damage the Rallroads. MORGANTOWN, W. Va., March 10. o flood since 1888 has wrought the age done by high waters here to- The Monongahela River has reached a stage of twenty-gix feet, The and Ohio and the Morgan- d Kingwood railr both paralyzed in this vicinit: 3 It will be at least four days before trains can be run on the Morgantown a4 Kingwood Railroad. BOMB EXPLODES, KILLING EICHT Explosive Intended for Use of Anarchists Bursts in City of St. Petersburg|s LONDON, March 11.—The St, Peters- burg correspondent of the Daily Mail telegraphs as follows: this (Saturday) morning an explosion in the center of the city at Vosnacen- sky Prospect and facing the Isaac Cathedral, blew out the interior of an apartment-house, killing four men and four women. It updoubtedly was the accidental ex- plosion of an anarchist bomb, killing those who intended to use it."” ONCLE SAM MAT LOSE MILLIONS Judge Decides That Gorv- ernment Had No Right to Collect Duty on Raw Sugar NEW YORK, March 10.—Judge Wheeler, in the United States Circuit Court, to-day handed down an opin- fon, whi if finally sustained, will cost the United States Government $5,- 000,000. This money the Government will haye to refund to the American Sugar Refining Company for duties paid on raw sug=r imported from Cu- ba in 1903 and upon which the com- pany contended that a reduction of 20 per cent should have been allowed un- der the then existing treaty. —_———— FIRE IN PHILADELPHIA ENTAILS $100,000 LOSS PHILADELPHIA, March' 10.—The three upper floors of the seven-story building at 1302-1304 Filbert street were destroyed by fire to-night, entail- ing a loss of $100,000. r mgpst | “At 4 o'clock | Bolchotamorskair, | General Kuropatkin’s army is_in full flight for the hills back of Mukden. IVANAS CTORY - COMPLETE ol D Russians Abandon Big Guns and Munitions. In Mamgm 0 - the Hills Back - 0f Mukden. WITH THE WESTERN JAPANESE | ARMIES, March 10, 1 p. m.. vila Fusan (delayed in transmission).—During the night General Qku’s army ad- vanced almost to the railway, despite a desperate resistance, occupied Sujaton Station, the wmain Russian supply depot, and captured enormous quan- titles of supplies, including 6.000,000 rifle cartridges and other supplies in | proportion. The Japanese are not bhurrying their movements, being de- termined to lose no chance to make victory certain and decisive. They are coufident of the success of their plans. NEWCHWANG, March 10.—Accord- ing to reliable information received | here, the Russians, having been driven out of Mukden and Fushun and with the railroad cut, are retreating in a | demoralized condition to the hill coun- try towards the northeast. Detached bodles of Russians are roughly entrenching with a view to checking the pursuit, but no great rear- guard action is being fought. It will be impossible for the Russians 10 keep any sort of resistance for many days, as there are no means of provis- ioning in the rough country to which they are retreating. | It is believed that the Russians may attempt to reach Kirin, 225 miles north- east of Mukden, through the valleys, but a special Japanese corps from the direction of the Yalu River (probably General Kawamura's forces) threatens to cut them off. General Kuroki is advancing north- west and is -forcing .tne Russians against General Nogi's army. The casualtiées on both sides have | been enormous. The Russian Sixteenth | Army Corps was practically annihil- ated at Tatchekiao. Eight Russians fell at Leukuanpao. TOKIO, March 10, noon.—It is un- ficially reported that the Russian cth west of Mukden consists of The Japanese, who de- two cerps. str | Russians northward, and the portion | of the Japanese center preseing the Russians northward along the Mukden | road is now engaged six miles north of the Hun River. Nearly ali the Russian heavy guns and many field guns have been cap- | tured. RUSH FOR TIE PASS. The defeated army is now rushing northward toward Tie Pass, around | which are high hills, which were pre- | pared for defense after the battle of | Liaoyang in September, there being no | hope at that time that the Japanese would allow the defeated army to rest south of the Tie Pass. That the Rus- siang have lost many men and large quantities of ammunition and supplies ia certain, for with a single track rail- way to the north it would be impos- sible to remove the large stores which had been gathered together at Muk- den. These, it seems certain, have been destroyed. The Japanese have not yet reported the capture of guns, which { they generally do almost immediately, but it seems hardly likely that Kuro- patkin could have removed all of his artillery. On the 1st of January, according to correspondents who have just returned from Mukden, the Russians had in, po- sition along the Shakhe and the Hun | rivers 1500 guns, including a number of six and eight inch guns on cement foundations, straddling e rallway just north of Shakhe station. In addi- tion, many gunsg arrived in Mukden during January and February, so that the Russian artillery, when the big ! battle started, must have numbered neariy 2000 pieces. It is likely that Kuropatkin has sacrificed some of these and is bending all his energies to | extricating his army. That his task is | a difficult one all the dispatches indi- | cate, but Russian sympathizers point | to his retreat from Liaoyang, where conditions were opposed to him. ROADS ARE FROZEN. The retreat from Liaoyang ac- complished during a terrific rainstorm, over roads hub deep in mud, while at thousand ! d the railroads, are pressing the | i the present time the Manchurian roads are frozen hard as stone and have been worn as smooth as asphalt by the con- * tinual passage of the big wide-tired commissariat wagons. result of Oyama's great turning movement de- pends almost entirely upon Kawa- mura’s army, which has not yet been located definitely, although supposed to be moving from the east toward Kuro- patkin’® line of retreat. Should he reach the military road, which runs al- most in a direct line from Fushun to Tie Pass before the passage of the Rus- sian army, the circle will be complete, as Nogi's guns already command the railway and should soon control the Mandarin road, which is but a short distance east of the railroad and runs parallel with it. - The army of General Kaulbars, which has been pressed back across the west- ern plain, fighting every inch of ground, is moving northward to pro- tect 'the line of retreat from the attacks from the westward, while General Bil- derling is protecting the rear against Generals Oku and Nodzu, and Line- vitch is doing his best to hold the military road against Kuroki. They have numbers against them, but have succeeded against odds in similar re- treats before. The appearance of Gen- of the Russians, with the object of preventing their arrival at Tie Pass. ' tion to stem the advance of Oyama. The Russians abandoned great quantities of stores and many of their big guns. Tie Pass;-a heavily fortitied stronghold, is their objective point. Field Marshal Oyama is still in pursuit Should the Russians reach their stronghold they will be a posi- — | FIELD MARSHAL OTAMA. wnoss'BW GEN KUROPATKIN, COMMANDER OF THE ARMY OF THE CZAR. HAS WON HIM FAME A A MASTER OF THE STRATEGY OF VICTORY . OVER WAR. WITHOUT 1LOSS ———ii. ST, PETERSBURG, March 11, 4:35 a. m.—Up till this time no further dis- patches of yesterday’s date have reach- ed t. Petersbu , the censors releas- T8, ing, however, a belated dispatch dated ‘Wednesday afternoon, giving detalls of the retirement to the Hun River and the dsposition of - his drrl_ bing’ the dust storm, under cover of which -General Kuropatkin arranged retreat. “We gasp for air,” the dispatch says, “but breathe not air, but a continuous fine powder which is filling space—irritat- ing particleg of fine, yellow dust. Every gust of wind raises and swirls this dust. . The fog drives in denser columns before it. in which at five or six paces it is impossible to distinguish objects.” During the retirement on March 8 the |MESSAGE T0 G2 LACONIGALLY TELLS OF CRUSHING BLOW Grim Tale 1s Told in Few Words by General. ST. PETERSBURG, March 11, 3:30 & m.—“Last night all our armies coms menced to retreat.” Tbhe greatest defeat in the history of the Russo-Japanese war was made e (ha Tatey, cighs isee’ St the try el w OG:I:»TI Kuro':“mn to Emperor Nich- Countinued on Page 3, Cotumm & .