The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 29, 1905, Page 1

showers; Porecast made at San Frangi;co tor 80 hours ending '.rhdn)‘h‘, March 2: San Francisco lnd‘v«ctnlly—-(.‘lmflr. unsettied weather Wednesday%possily fresh southwest winds A. G. McADIE, fct Forecaster. THE WEATHER. H H i ALCAZAR— day. - TIVOLI—Comic THE THEATERS. “0ld. Heldelberg." CALIFORNTA—"Z! 'mflm—’"ne Virgintan.™ CENTRAL—"“The Gambler." CHUTES—Vaudeville. GRAND—!"The Beauty Shop." N ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. Matinee. Matines to- Opera. L e 07 \H 12 SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CZAR MAKES PEACE PROPOSAL ST. PETERSBURG, March 28 .- with ev IMERICH TAKES (P - NEW TASK 3 ASHINGTON, March 28.—Presi- dent Roosevelt to- da} boldly took the plunge into Dominican waters,and plunged alone. He be made at the he 1 caused to | State Department an an- incement of his pohc_\' reference to the island mg the interim that the is not in session. Smarting under“defeat, he will not wait for the Sen- ate to act, nor is he willing to wait even for the infor- mation which he has prom- ised to obtain as to the state of affairs in the isl- and, economic and other- If the Senate were in session-the effect of the uncement on thatbody wise. would be explosive. Virtual Protectorate £s- tablished Over Santo Domingo NT DEFIES SENATE “BigStink”tu Intervene, Between Moralesand | His Enemies, | Special Dispatch to The Call { CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, March 28—President Roosevelt has elected to go ehead in- dependently of the Benate in solving the Dominican problem, and at the same time that he announces this de- cision he proclaims a protectorate over the -jsland for the purpose of keeping the Morales Government in power. The fact that the President has pro- claimed this protectorate is really more ortant to the United States than decision to supply Santo Domingo h an American who shall take session of the customs receipts at | the nr '. s. e ports mow occupied by the United £ No matter what may happen, the Unitéd States is committed to a policy | force to any extent that may be required for the purpose of putting revolutions or preventing for- erfe’ence with Morales, It| seem that a very lively sum- | work has been cut outs¥or the | nd, perhaps, for the army as Whatever steps foreign govern- ake for the collection of ncluded in. the new ar- the United States is bound tween these creditors and revolutions may “nited States is bound to down by moral suasion, if ble, and by guns if necessary. ibustering expeditions and debt- ting expeditions alike must be| from landing on the shores of Domingo by the entire fleet of ed States. This. in short, 1s| retation put upon the an- to-day by friends and foes e of the administration. T attitude of the United States sent is shown in the following ons given to Acting Secretary | | tates. | | | 'White House, “Washington, D. C., March 28. “The Acting Secretary of State: I l\e\ e carefully considered the following Continued on Page 2, Column 7. | vent any of the wit Russia has outlined the conditions under which she is prepared to negotiate peace. It is said to-night ery @emhlam or dUthOl‘lt\’ that thanks to the good offfices of America and France the questlon of peace had assumed practical shape BFEF il ~ ) me Ha*ul Man of Armour Accused | by Grand ._Iu-fy‘, Thomas J. Ce With Inter Witne jthl I r With Said to Have 1ried to iofluncs Mea Their ‘iestimony in in 3 ndent of harge of nmoned t SNt n $5000 ‘lh'.' John a former | employe of uup 1esii-, fled berare th T »h wire company. ijelds was i that Con- of the pack allegation is (y ined by Connc not tell all matter charges that Con d not limit his attempt at influenc witnesses to Shields, but that other witnesses, who have not yet appeared in Chicago, have been approached by him and at- | tempts made to influence them as to the ature of the testimo they may give before the Grand Jury When the special Grand Jury vened last ields was one of the firs S to appear. came to Chicago from New York. had testified before a Grand Jury s ting in New York and there is said to have divulged facts which led the Federal officials to believe him in pos- session of many other det: concern- ing the question under consideration. He was requested to come to Chicago and the Federal officials were instruct- con- | ed to watch the man . Two men were detailed to Shields. One of these secret se e men ob- tained Shields’ confidence and thus learned facts which doubled the pre- | cautions of the Government to pre- ses from being as followed by it was learned coached. Shields these detectives and | that he frequented the offices of Ar- mour & Co., having a private wire at his disposal and answering all- his pri- vate correspondence there. The matter reached a climax yes- terday when one of the secret service men submitted a report to his superi- ors. To-day Shields was In the Grand Jury room from 2 o’clock to 5 o'clock. The section of the statutes under which the indictment was drawn pro- vides that any person who interferes with a witness shall be subjected to a | fine of $500 or imprisonment for three months or both. ———— AFTER THE SCALPS OF HYDE AND SCHIFF State Sefiator Brackett of New York Would Oust Them From Equitable, ALBANY, N. Y., March 28.—State Senator Edgar T. Brackett of Sara- toga to-day flled with Attorney Gen- eral Mayer a petition asking leave to begin an action in the name of the people for the removal from office of James H. Hyde and Jacob Schiff of New York and such other directors of the Equitable Life Assurance So- ciety as may be proved guilty of mis- conduct toward the interests of the policy holders of the Equitable. The petition is brought in the names of Senator Brackett and others from Saratoga as policy holders. —_————— FRENCH SQUADRON WILL VISIT BRITISH WATERS Purpose Is to Emphasize the Cordial Relations Between the Two Countries. LONDON, March 28.—Tt is asserted in well informed circles here that a French squadron will visit British waters during the summer and anchor off Spithead for the purpose of em- phasizing the cordial understanding arrived at between France and Great Britain. J | | | i Charged| > | Russia Refused to French Minister Is Asked to Act as Mediator. DELCASSE WILLIN TO ACCEPT TRU T ST LansdoWne Likely to Take Part in Negotiations. VASHINGTON GIVES OUT NO DETAILS Nature of Action Takenby Amer- ca Not Known. . 28. — A telegram Northern European capitel, ¢ London this afternoon, “I have just learned on reiiable : thority that Ru has asked Delc to act as intermediary and open pea negotiati with Japan. Delc s willingness, but cons wire u.cr\ operation is es- WASHING . March 28.—Diligent inquiry - to-night' failed to develop | what. if'any, assistance this Govern- ment had rendered i the of bringing about preiiminary . negoti- ations for peace hetween Russia and Japan, but igasmuch as the American officials likely knowledge of such a rhatter social functions or were otherw nearly ail to accessible, the inquiry necessarily not complete. It is known that this Government for a long time had stood | | prepared to use its good offices in the ! interest of peace whenever the oppor- tune moment arrived for action with out serious risk of giving offense (o and therely either of the combatants, lessening our power for good. | A prominent head of one of the dipio- | matic establishments here, when shown the St. Petersburg statement, said that he had not received any word from his Government on the subject for severai days and had heard nothing to confirm the report. At the same time he would not be astonished to learn of its accuracy, though he had not ex- pected matters to reach that stage as vet. Regard Japan as China’s Guar; PARIS, March 28.—The press is in a position to complete the diplomatic story of the Russo-Japanese relations, resulting in the war, by giving to the world the exact text of Russia’s final | reply to Japan, dated February 3, 1904, | which ha€ ngver before been made Barcn Rosen, former Russian ter to Japan, did not have an opportunity of presenting the note to Baron Komura. the Japanese Foreign Minister, as it was not delivered to him until February 7, -the day after he had been informed of the rupture. | _Russia has always claimed that the Japanese Government, having decided to break off negotiations and begin | hostilities, deliberately held up the message at Toklo until Kurino, former | Japanese Minister in St. Petersburg, could deliver the instructions sent to | him on February 5 to sever diplomatic | relations. Japan, on the contrary, con- tended that the contents of the reply having been substantially communi- cated by Foreign Minister Lamsdorff to Kurino and being unacceptable on | the main issue, it was useless for Ja- | pan to wait any longer. The text of lhe proposition iollo\\'s‘ {1 A mutual cigagement (o respect the inde- | pendence and tervitorial intagrity of Korea. 2. An eazagement on the part of Russia not to impede the commercial or industrial undertakings of Japan in Korea, or oppose her measures for safeguarding such lnerzsu 3. Recognition by Russia of Japan’'s pre- ponderating interests in IKorea, and her right to offer vice and assistance tending to the improve: of the administration of Korea. 2l obligation not to use any part territory for strategic purposes, nor undertake on the coasts of Korea any military works which would menace free navigation of the Korean straits. 5. Recognuition by Russia of Japan's right to send ircops to Korea in accordance with' the preceeding article for the suppression of I surrectiors and disorder calculated to crea international complications. 6. An engagement by Russia to respect the rights and privileges acquired by Japan, as well as other powers, in Manchurfa through treaties with China, Japan to recognize Man- churia and the littoral es beyond her sphere of_interest. 7. A mutual agreement not to impede the unction of the Korean and Eastern China Railfoads when they will have reached the Yalu River. 8. That this agreement supplant all pre- vious agreements between Russia and Japan respecting Kore. 9. The' desirability, 1t possible, of creating a neutral zome In K A careful wmuflson of the fore- going and preceding exchanges, all of which heretofore have been printed fully, confirm the fact that Russia, from the first to the last, insisted that it was inconsistent with her dignity to include in a special treaty with Japan an obligation to respect the territorial integrity of China in Manchuria, reit- erating In the instructions sent to Continued on Page 3, Colymn 2. 4 A of Korcan T END OF THE WAR IN SIGHT ko SN R S THEOREZZE DELZ c*/r,.s.sz-‘ @mozv A OrTURA. pQr VO KoL AES: { ; : S = - e F iRty i | PARTICIPANTS IN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS AND WARSAMN CHIEF OF POLICE WHO WAS WOUNDED PY A BOMB. A | T e RUSSIAN Fears That Gen. LONON, March 29.—The Times’ St. Petersburg correspondent telegraphs as |in a few days. follows: “The entire absence of press and pri- vate telegrams from the front, to- gether with a laconic message from General Linevitch to-night dated Har- bin and saying ‘No reports from the armies,’ evolves fears that communi- cations have been cut and that the Japanése have turned the Russian flank.” S e R JAPANESE AGAIN ADVANCING. Renew the Pursuit of the Army of General Linevitch. GUNSHU PASS, Manchuria, March 28.—The Japanese are again moving forward and the Russlan guard has fallen back from its position about thirteen miles north of Sipinhai (sev- enty-four miles north of Tie Pass) to Chaoumiaodzi, which is situated forty miles below Gunshu Pass. Practically complete reports show that the Russian army sacrificed gen- eral commissariat stores to the value of $1,250,000 and stores for an army corps amounting to $500,000 held at Mukden, most of it having been set on fire. The boots and uniforms among the stores, of which the whole army was in need, arrived from Eu- rope four days before the Russian re- tirement from Mukden. General Kuropatkin ordered the re- moval of the stores, but his order was not executed. -An investigation will be made to establish the responsibility. Ryt e TRAINS mcmmm Jmmmmm | WITH TEE JAPANESE LEFT ARMIES, March 28.—The Japanese army near Mukden is clearing the bat- tlefleld, sorting the enormous quanti- ties of stores and materials cl.ptm-ed and attending to.the Engineers are rapidly repqmn; the bridge across the Hun River, which was badly damaged by the Rus- sians. Trains are now rumun‘\g. the FLANK MAY BE TURNED Linevitch’s Com- munications Have Been Cut. By Francis USSIAN Hun River. They will reach Mukden |- SCORES BR! TISH PRESS. Russian Flumclal Agent Denonn«: English Editors. LONDON, March 28.—Routkowsky, the Russian financial agent in Lon- don, has sent a'long letter to the Lon- don newspapers protesting vigorously against what he calls the deliberate campaign carried on the past three years not only by the British press but also through journals connected with the British press in America and in France, to damage Russian credit by predicting insolvency and revolu- tion. The letter says: Milllons of familles in Europe have -in— vested the savings of a lifetime in Russian securities and would be ruined by the sale of the bonds in a panic. It is eriminal to. at- tempt to ruin such people by misstatements and misrepresentations, and in any individual case any court of law would award damages to the suferers, —_—— EAGER TO BUY -‘IAPAN’S BONDS. Londoners Slru“le for the Privilege of Lending Money, LONDON, ‘March 28.—When the prospectuses of the Japanese war loan of $150,000,000 was issued to-day the | neighborhood of the issuing banks resembled the scenes witnessed on the first nights at popular theaters. Long lines of people were struggling for ad- mission and special forces of police controlled the streams of eager inves- tors. The interiors of the banks were filled with shouting crowds, strug- gling to snatch prospectuses. S Sl Baltic Ficet’s Disappearance. TAMATAVE, Madagascar, March 28.—1It has been definitely ascertained that the whole Russlan second Pa- cific squadron left the waters of Mad- agascar March 16 for an unknown destination. ——— Fall i Price of Russian Fours. ST. PETERSBURG, Mlg 3.28 R m.—A nmfl-vlnh prevailed on thn i # H strong at Talenpuse, the Japanese imperial guard. ter. We were fiercely shelled Escape absolutely impossible. ~ 4's fell a point to 85%. & poais Aok o N)AKDTRAMP SHIP. Ocean Monarch ' m 'l'wlca by Japanese Cruisers. SEATTLE, March !!.—\hpnm cruisers twice stopped and boarded the British tramp steamship Ocean Monarch, which' arrived here to-day, twenty-six days out, while she was in the Japan Sea on her voyage to his port from Kobe.. On both occasions the Monarch was informed of the cruisers’ desires by a shot fired across her bow. The Monarch had no cargo, being in ballast on her trip over and after ing the vessel and her papers the boarding officers allowed her to proceed. Her officers say the coast of Northern Japan and Siberia is so thoroughly guarded that it would be impossible for a successful attempt at kade running. . e Two British Seamen Perish. © TOKIO, March {28.—Two of the crew oguummmum have died of exposure. of JAPANESE GET CALL WAR CORRESPONDENT Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyright; 1905, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. » PRISONERS' VOKA, Japan (Via Tientsin), March 27.—I was captured with a Russian detachment about 5000 - We marched through all of one terrible night and at daybreak found we were surround- ed. ‘A heavy fire was poured into us from all sides, and, as we were in a wide, bare valley, there was absolutely no shel- mander in chief was killed. Many officers were wounded. McCullagh. QUARTERS, SHIZ- near Tieling, on March 11 by with shrapnel, and our com- _ - e M ——_— ‘Boetse here to-day. Russian mwm ice while attempting to reach Vladi- vostok. e i Japan’s Losses at Mukden. TOKIO, March 29.—A revised esti- mate of the Japanese casualties in the Dattles of Mukden and Tie Pass place the number at 57,000. General May- eda, who was wounded at Mukden, is dead. —_———— FRENCH CRUISERS SENT & TO ESCORT THE KAISER Wilhelm Witnesses Military Exercises " in the Capital of Portugal. TANGIER, March 28.—'1"0 ml cruisers left to-day to escort the steamship Hamburg, with the Em- peror of Germany on board. through the strajts. Mulai Abdul Malek has arrived here to welcome Emperor illiam. LISBON, March 28.—Emperor Wil- Ham and King Charles this morning witnessed exercises by a cavalry regi- ment, a deuchmtnt of artijlery and a m sharpshooters. The Em- peror subsequently conducted over the Belcm Monastery. _After o R, ';:'n;cm and Queen the Amelia visited the public buildings of