The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 14, 1905, Page 1

14, 1908: Tuesday: thirty hours ending midnight, San Francisco and vieintty—Clearing fresh southwest winds A. G. MecADE, District Forecast made at Sen Francisco for March Forecaster. 3 SAN FRANCISCO, TUESD RUSSIAN DEAD STREW THE ENTIRE ROUTE MARCH — mynnml ALCAZAR—""Alice of Old Vincennes.” ALHAMBRA—D'Albert Concert CALIFORNTA—* COLUMBIA—English Grand Opera. CENTRAL—"Faust.” CHUTES—Vaudeville, FISCHER'S—Vaudeville. i GRAND—“L O. ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—Comic Opera. “Mone. Beaucatre.” 14, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 0F RETREAT FROM MUKDEN T0 TIE PASS T. PETERSBURG, S s force, whose artillery have been enormous. with dead. guard is strewn Josses March 14.—Latest advices from Tie Pass indicate that the bulk of the Russmn' while protecting the army has reached that refuge and is rapldlv fortifying to check the Japanese pursuit. which has been fighting as it fell back, is now only a few miles distant. retreat of the “o'rhwnrd on both flanks, intent upon surrounding Tié Pass. Kuropatkin is still dirccting disorganized army and saving the Every acre of ground between Mukden and the battle line of the rear The wounded are being sent to Tie Pass. Japanese soldiers are swarming The rear guard, Ay o [ GQMLRLIFF o « | 1 COMMANDER OF RA!‘Il' FLEET AND ] 1 H TWO M M ED AS KURO- i PATKIN' - 5 THREATENS HER ALL]ES i S : (Mrs. Chadwick May Make Full Con- \ : i fegsion, | e | Special Dispatch’ to The Call. ‘1 CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 13.—The WA,»;ggflwy A | | case of Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick will | | be taken to the Court of Appeals as | | soon~as her counsel has perfected pa- 2 4 | pers and permitted sentence to be im- MARRIAGE BUREAUS HARD T Given Qmet,us by the Supreme Court of Towa. Special Dispatch to The Call DES MOINE monial agencies quietus to-day concerned, by Supreme Court March were given their so far as this State is a of the Iowa contracts desi for money public age polic She claims $2 sation for services te 00 as compen- de; Grobe in going to Chicago to secure informa- tion concerning a woman whom he mplated marrying. The - court is was a brokerage contract stained the disirict court in rj«-r\'"g its wvalidity —————e—— EMPEROR MENELIK FAVORS NATIONAL BANK OF EGYPT Grants It Charter for the Establish- ment of Financial Institution in Abyssinia. JIBUTIL, French Somaliland, March 12.—According to advices received here from Adiabeba, the capital of Al nia, Emperor Menelik has grant- the National Bank of Egypt a char- ter for the establishment of the State Bank of Abyssinia. The capital of $2,400,000 will be contributed by the Bank of Egypt and French and Italian barkers. | ¥ sue arose ir uit of Mrs. ldinger against the estate of Willilam Grobe of Hardin | | her WELL FOR 0F Bl New York Tramp Re- warded With a $10MHL Special Dispatch to The Call. PALD RETURN NEW YORK, March 13.—Mrs. T. Ed- | win Ward of Riverside drive is rejoic- ing over the recovery of a $15,000 dia- mond brooch and a man who, streets, is happy in the possession of a $1000 bill. Mrs. the theater wore, on Saturday night. She among other jewels, a diamond brooch valued at $§15,000. at Rector's she missed the brooch and husband offered a reward of $1000 for its recovery and delivery to Jeweler | Cleven, : Clevenger was called upon to-day by | a4 man who showed him the advertise- ment and asked if the offer of $1000 was made in good faith. The jeweler assured him the money was ready for any one who could produce the gem. “Well,” =aid the man, the thing here within an hour.” The visitor was very nervous and ap- parently afraid of arrest. brooch, and would attend to the busi- ness end of the transaction. “The " fellow looked like a tramp,” said Clevenger. “He said he had lifted the brooch from under a grating in a sidewalk by means of a piece of soap on the end of a stick.” Clevenger called Ward.on the tele- phone and told him the news. Ward kurried to the Maiden Lane shop and handed to-the “tramp” a $1000 bill. bROOCH, until | this afternoon, was a wanderer in the | Ward and her husband went to | After dining | . He said he | would bring his sister, as she had the | | | i | { posed. Meanwhile the woman will go beforc the referee in bankruptcy, and it is said that there she will make good her threat to tell “all she knows” and thus involve many prominent men. Her counsel is urging her to hold her tongue until the United States Court is done with the case, but she is bitter and morose and in a mood to do al- most anything. She was especially re- sentful to-day at not having heard from her husband. District Attorney Sullivan’s mail was heavy to-day with messages of con- gratulations. One came from Andrew Carnegie, one from Commissioner Gar- field of the Bureau of Corporations, and several from the Department of Justice in Washington. Mrs. Chadwick will be allowed to visit her former home in Euclid av- enue and pick out such personal prop- erty as she claims to be exempt un- der the bankruptcy act. _Judgment by default was entered against her to-day in favor of Louis & Co., New York milliners. P A S RICH RECLUSE EXPIRES UPON PALLET OF STRAW Widow of Samuel Berrian, a Hero of Gettysburg, Dies of Pri- vation. NEW YORK, March 13.—Found dving upon a pallet of straw in a large house in the heart of Flushing's most exclusive section, Mrs, Phoebe A. Ber- rian, reputed to be worth $500,000, came to her end because since the death of her husband she had been a recluse. The widow of Samuel Berrian, one of the heroes of the famous Hamilton | Rifles volunteers, who covéred them- selves with glory in the battle of Gettysburg, - Mrs. Berrian, since the death of her husband, nearly twenty years ago, has led a life of seclusion. The only food found in the house was a can of corn, a few anples and a loaf of bread. Privation, causing a general breakdown’ of the system, was the “I will bring | verdict given by physicians who at- tended the woman. MISSOURI REPUBLICANS HAVE A NEW CANDIDATE OFAMAS ARMIS MAY YET CAPTURE SLAY CCMAMANDER Kuropatkin Left With but 100- 000 Troops. e ESCAPE: CUT. OFF Retreating Force Brought to Bay al Tie Pass. The Russian general staff reports that “the main body has already com- pleted its retreat and the rear guard southward is falling back slowly.” What eithen the “‘main body” or the “rear guard” consists of has not been definitely fixed, but from the dispatches from the press correspond- ents with the Japanese and Russians the two combined must be but a small portion of the army which General Kuropatkin_had gathered along the hanks of ti aledie und Hun-rivers. And yet those who have reachd Tie Pass, worn out. from-many--days-of fighting and retreating, are not out of danger, the Japanese, it is reported, having already started another turn- ing movement, which will forge the Russians on to the plains north of Tie Pass, where, in their disorganized state, they wguld be easy prey for the victory-flushed soldiers of the Mikado. The men who escaped are strengthen- ing the fortifications in Tie Pass, but it is hardly possible that the pass can be held in the face of the overwhelm- ing forces opposed to the Russians, and it is not likely that Oyama will rest satisfied with his victory at Muk- den, 2s he did dfter Liaoyang. There will he no uneasiness as to the tood supply as long as communica- tions are . maintained to the north- ward, as large bands of cattle roam the plains, under Cossack hex ders, and ver: ay is a huge The Rus- commissariat department. sian soldiers are alwars well fed, the soup kitchen on wheels always keep- ing in touch with the men. . As to the losses, General Kuropat- kin now admits that 50,000 wounded were carried off the field. This. with the 26,500 dead left on the field, the 40,000 ‘prisoners and.-the wounded left in the hospitals, comes somewhat nearer the latest Jananese estim: that the total Russian losses were | 155,000. At this rate Kuropatkin can- not have more than 100,000 effective fighting men with him. The army of General Linevitch seems to have made the best retreat, but this no doubt was due to the stubborn fight made by General Reanenkampff on his extreme left and the equally flerce re- sistance of General Kaulbars on the right, the latter general losing 25,000 men. Neither the army ‘ot Kaulbars nor that of Rennenkamdff has yet been accounted for by the dispatches, After his defeat around the Western tombs, Kaulbars, finding his retreat directly northward cut off, made a detour to the eastward, where he wasistill fight- ing at last accounts. Rennenkampff also must still be ig the hills to the eastward, as it took a press courler three days to reach Tie Pass. The Japanese report the capture of twenty-four more guns—sixty-six in all, a rather small number considering the decisive defeat and the number of men cantured. The Japanese losses have been remarkably light, in view of | the length and severity of the fighting. In all the speculation as to peace the one point that is coming to the front is that Russia would prefer to- settle directly with Japan without the aid of any third nation. This is in line with the dream of many leading Russians, that the natural allies in the Far East! are Japan and Russia, they being the only nations-whese domains border on Korea and Manchuria, both having in- terests besides those of trade. = —— NOT YET OUT OF TRAP. l Russian Army Likely to Be Sur- rounded at Tie Pass, ST PETERSBURG, March 14, 1:55 a. m,—Russia’s “grand army,” with the exception of the thousands killed or taken prisoners on the plains and mountaing around Mukden, is. gather- ing slowly behind the fortifications of Tie Pass,” which were built as a refuge before the battle of Llaoyang, and is feverishly engaged in the work of re- JEFFERSON CITY, March 13.—In | organizing and further -!mm the Republican caucus to-night the |its lines. Acco: bulloting resulted in the selection of Judge S. P. Spencer of St. Louis as the choice for United States Senatorandac- cording to the agreement the ballots of the fifty-three Republicans m-elqnt ‘at the caucus to-night will be cast for him for the next two days. rding to staff, the main ! _has lnx in touch wm: Japanese. In i BEEF MEX [N WAR T0 THE KN bl DANAGE BY STORM N MOUTH: ! HAY PUTS - THE BLAME N LOOMIS Independems Unite; Two lees Are Lost Dlsagreem 0t Over to (;rusn the Big Five. Three M 1li,n Dallar. Fund Raised to Carry on the Fight, Packers Not in the Combine Are Giviag Valuabls Assistancs to the Government. e Epectal Dispatch to The Call, CHICAGO, March 13.—It is to be war to the knife between the *“big five” of the beef combine and twenty-six firms and corporations classed as in- | dependent packers. The fight for a standing in the courts and before the public will be begun in Chicago on March 20, when the special Federal Grand Jury will begin its investiga- tion of the affairs or the alleged beef combination. A fun# of $3,000,000 has been raised to carry on the fight against the beef combine and to set the claims of the independent packers squarely before the American people. The independent padkers are under- stood to have held meetings in Kansas City the latter part of last week. These conferences were called to deyise plans, offensive and defeusive, so that when the Federal Grand Jury takes up the subject one week from to-day they will be in a position to.defend their business interests against any allega- tions which may be charged against them by the “trust,” which is said to be seeking a means of shifting the re- sponsibility for the present infraction of the anti-trust law. The Kansas City conferences of last week were transferred to Chicago on Saturday and were continued to-day. The leaders of the “independent” co- terie met during the forenoon and this afternoon in the First National Bank | building: John Sulzberger, resident vice presh‘lent, of Schwarzchild & Sulz- berger, the Targest of the independent packers, attended - thé gonference. “When questioned afterward he refusea to discuss the subject of the Govern- ment investigation. Joseph Weissenbach, attorney for the Schwarzchild & Sulzberger Com- pany, was asked: “How about the story that the and S." people have been offered 000,000 by the trust for their business?"” “I know nothing about that,” said Weissenbach. ""See Mr. Sulzberger.” More than two hundred subpenas have been issued bv the Federal au- thorities for the forthcoming inquiry by the Grand Jurv. Among these are a number which have been served on the “independents” at their own request, it is said. They are reported to have glven information to the secret service department in Washington, under John E. Wilkie, to Captain Porter and his men of the same department in Chi- cago and to others in Kansas City ana elsewhere. — ATTRIBUTES RELIGIOUS MOTIVES TO PUGILISTS ‘8. University of Chicago Professor Says They Are Trying to Aid Mankind. CHICAGO, March 13. — Professor Albion W. Small spoke at the Junior {Cellege Chapel service at the Univer- sity of Chicago to-day and advanced some ideas which caused comment. “It is conceivable that a gambling- house keeper cr prizefighter may have a motive which is as religious as that of the truly devout man,” said he. “For instance, the prizefighter who thinks the men of his day are becom- ing effeminate and good for nothing but to smoke cigarettes may resolve to bétter the condition of the men by preaching the strenuous gospel and in so doing have a motive which is re- ligious, although unknown as such to the world.” e e MUSIC ALONE CALMS GIRL IN HYSTERIA M ) Suffering From Shock. She Is Quieted by Means of Soothing Songs. EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill., March 13.— Thrown into violent hysteria by an encounter on the street on Saturday night with a footnad, who robbed her of $10, Mamie Powers, aged 18 years, lies at her home unable to recognize : those about her, and is quieted oniy while songs are sung to her. tending physician thinks that the soothing influence of the music will eventually restore her to health. Dur ing a lucid moment she suddeniy cried: “Send for Will McGraw; I want him The music immediately calmed her ' and it was kept up all night until she sank into a deep sleep. On awaken- ing to-day she again became hysteri- cal and music was again used to ~ooth her. —_——— SPOTTED FEVER CAUSES ¢ MANY DEATHS IN E_As’l' Forfy Persons Die Weekly of the Dis- ease in New York NEW YORK, cerebro spinal meningitis, or “spotted fever,” is killing about forty persons -’mklnmhellywuunrtédn» ‘9 by Commissioner Darlington of Health Department. Reports re- camd\trom cities and towns in Con- The at- | by Destruction of . a Bridge. Vessels Are Wrecked at Long Bgach and’ Piers Are Demolished. Crops in Orange B:'t Injured and Rail- | road Service Crippled by Wind and : ain. U Special Dispatch to The Call Southcrn California received the brunt of yesterday's storm. In Los Angeles a bridge across the Los An- geles Fiver was washed away and two | persuns were drowned. Many others were injured. In other southern coun- ties the damage was great. Vessels were wrecked, wharves destroyed and other property at the beach resorts blown down. The crange crops were also injured. tral California the storm did little if any damage. The downpour was wel- comed in these sections. LOS ANGELES, March 13.—Two Lives lost and five persons seriously injured in the wrecking of a bridge across the Los Angeles River this morning; nearly 3.50 within thirty-six hours; cloudbursts at {many points; railroad service crippled by washouts so that no overland trains reached this city to-day: four | small vessels wrecked at Long Beac thiee pleasure plers demolished by the waves on Santa Monica Bay and €00 there and a large section of the San Pedro breakwater trestle demolished— isuch is a partial record of the dam- {age done by cne of the most severe stcrms that has passad over Southern Celifornia in a number of years. TThe storm begun Saturday with a gentle rain, which continued until until Sunday afternoon, when the |wind reached the maximum velo- city of forty miles an hour and the rain descended in torrents. Sunday right there was a lull in the storm, but this morning it was renewed with added fury and tor two hours the rain fel! and wind blew with almost unpre- cedented fury. y Cloudbursts occurred in many places, especially in the foot- hills. deént at 11 o'clock. this morning which €St two hves and resulted in the seri- ous 1njury of nve persons. On the Seventn-sireet bridge across the Los Angeles River a large crowd had col- lected. The rushing waters under- m:red the sunports and the whole structure rell into the stream and was | carried away. ‘I'wo men whose names have not been learned are known to who clung o the timbers of the wrecked uridge, were dragged ashore, maimed and vleeding. The most seri- cusly injured ''s Mrs. Clara Webb, who surtained a iracture of the skull. The others injured are: A. B. Bragsg, both lzgs crusned; Alonzo ‘Thomas, both arms broken; Leonard Carmichel, in- ternally injured: J. Braggman, collar Lone broken and ribs fractured. Sev- leral other persons were severely in- jured, but were able to go to their homes. The wreck of the bridge took a span of the Ninth-street bridge with 't and there is now no crossing over the river below Fourth street. About the time the bridge was car- rieé away the Boyle Heights Methodist | CLurch ‘was struck by lightning and the steeple demolished. Three miles away on West Eighteenth street a va- cant house was also struck by light- ring, ignited and destroyed. Cloudbursts in the foothills caused a total suspension of railroad traffic in all _directions. Trains to the north were heid here since yesterday after- noon. At Burbank the Southern Pa- cific track was washed away for a distance of a quarter of a mile or more | and to the eastward there were wash- outs which prevented any trains from that direction reaching this city. The storm along the coast was even ! niore severe than in Los Angeles. At Long Beach four pleasure steamers were washed against the new pisr and llost. At Terminal Island the water In Northern and Cen- | inches of rain | cther damage done amounting to $200,- | e 1he torrents of water rushing down | the Los Angeics River eaused an acei- | have been swapt away and five others, | Sevenlh-street] l | Sunday morning, increasing in intensity | | has no patience with Santo Domingo Treaty Assistant Secretary Gharged With Having Framed the Convention. | Held Responsible for Embarrassing Position in Which It Has Placed the President, — . Spectal Dispateh to The Call. WASHINGTON, March 13 —There 18 a persistent rumor here that Secretary Hay and Assistant Secretary Loomis have had a serious disagreement over the Santo Domingo treaty, and that Loomis will retire from the State De- vartment. This is attributed to the opposition the treaty has met with in the Senate and the individual responsi- bility for the treaty as first written is blamed- for this. Secretary Loomis has had charge of the treaty and is generally understood to have framed its terms. The embarrassment to the adminig- tration resulting from this proposition is resented by the President and he any of his ad- visers who get him into such a predica- ment. This well-known fact no doubt is responsible for the most part for the rumor that something will be doing in the State Department as a logical sequence. Secretary Hay is at home sick and Leomis has gone for a three weeks trip to the Pacific Coast The Senate will do its utmost to com- plete the Santo Domingo treaty, ratify it and adjourn this week. This was manifested when the treaty was taken in executive session to-day. For more than an hour the Senatows dis- cussed ways and means and finally agreed to meet at 11 a. m. daily in or- der to give time for a full discussion of the measure and still adjourn by Saturday. It is conceded that if the vote were delayed beyond that time a quorum of the.Senate could not be maintained. Oniy one amendment was offered to- day. That was presented by Senator Bacon and provided that such expenses of the army and navy as may be in- curred by carrying out the provisions of the treaty shall be paid from the rev- enues of Santo Domingo.~ This amend- ment was pending at the time the Sen- ate adjourned and will be taken up to- morrow. The Democrats discussed the depth the United States is likely to gain if it enter upon the policy of debt-collect= ing. Senator Burrows read a statement which declared that the original in- vestment of the San Domingo Im- provement Company was only $§1500, ,and that it had .grown to §4,500,000, drawing 4 per cent -————————— | washed out the underpinning of several | beach cottages and the occupants were ¢bliged to seek other quarters. The' j most serious damage was at Santa' i Monica- Bay. There three pleasure . wharves were wrecked completely and ! | the three-mile board waik badly dam- |lged. At a resort known as Venice j a ‘hotel was being built at the end of . i a pler known as a ship hotel. This! | was. carried A iter was carried into the water nd saved himself only by clinging 0 a pile. In the foothills there was a tremend- ous rainfall. La Oanyada reports than four inches precipitation for the storm and in Canyon | out to sea and wrecked. | Legal more | I was the next upon the list. TAKE AN O0ATH 40 END LIVES tring of .\‘uicidw in Tue- son Causes Belief in Exist- ence S of a Foolish Pact - Special Dispatch to The Calt. TUCSON, Ariz., March 13.—The, po= lice officers have unearthed what they believe to be a suicide club among a certain coterie of young men and womeh in this city. Two weeks ago a young girl of good family, Lena Ochoa, blew out her brains with a revolver; a few months ago her sister committed suicide in the same fashion. Last night Jose M. Paredes, a friend of the Ochoas and a pallbearer at the funeral of both of the Ochoa girls, took car- bolic acid and died in terrible agony. After the last funeral Paredes re- marked to some companions that he Officers are, following up a clew which they belisve will lead to the discovery of the next person who is slated to die by his or her own hand. Paredes had no love af- fair and his accounts at the place where he was employed are correct. The fact that there was no gonceiv- able metive for Paredes’ suicide and the peculiar coincidence of the three suicides led the officers to investigate the so-called suicide club, with the re- sult that they now believe there is m\uch more to it than was at first sup- '\, sk — TRIAL OF HEARST'S sUIT AGAINST McCLELLAN Action to Prevent Payment of City Lighting Bills in New York. NEW YORK, March 13.—The trial of the suit brought by William R. Fiearst to prevent Mayor McClellan, City Controller Grout and City Cham- the Pacoima there was a fall of more than six|berlain Patrick Keenan from pdying cleaned the canyon of trees and tages. A family named almost drowned, their house being car- ried a mile down stream. The occu- pants saved themselves by hanging to the Mw e ln(en-ny of the March u‘——’l‘h-lt inches, causing a flow of water which city lighting bills for §1.200.000 w: Brooklyn to-day. The bills vor' com- tracted in 1903 and the early part 1804 and amount to about $4,500. which are alleged to Be too high by $1,200.090. Counsel for Hearst to-day declared in court that the bills were extortion- ate and that the cost of an arc light for a year was 3146 to New York, vlne other cities pald only $38.