The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1905, Page 1

Thefl thirty hours epding mid: wind Cal P Forecast made at San Franch San Francisco and vicinity—Cloudy, unsettled weather Wednesday, #ibly lght showere: brisk southwest A. G. McADIE, Distriot Forecaster. ——— s night, April 197 pos- VOLUME XCVII-NO. 141 SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1905. DINGOVERS OUICK CTRE TOR CANCER Chemist’s Radium Solution Works Wonders. Woman Given Up to Die Is| Restored to Healthin | Two Weeks. | Belief That the Treatment Will Be Effective in Combating Tuberculosis. to The Call. NEW YOE 18.—Important der way in the that indi- st certain is a new and | method in the ap- | ¥ Pri nnounced be- ts of the lize this new of disease | cure tubercu- | whole grewsome | dred maladies. ppointing. It | percent- | penetrate h the new and | t was placed. um was tried, | mprovement. s halted at | Lieber, a | announced a{ WeRI Of prom- eded in dissolving | iting solution ex- | of pure radium not _credit | ally the Flower Lieber’s | most hopeless charac she eagerly con- experimental treat- her first treament the T coating, | jcally known. tumor that dropped off, erneath vel at the e \STEAD OF LAST SLEED Woman Supposed to| Be Dead May Recover. —— Special Dispatch to The Call, WATERBURY, Conn.,, April 318.— Mrs. Dennis McGrath, who wen) to California to recover from nervous prostration, is not dead, as was sup- posed, but only in a trance, and may recover. er sister-in-law, Miss B. McGrath, wering & dispatch announcing her eath, left here for Los Angeles on Saturday with B. S. Cullen, who rep- Y ted other members of the family. | ter arrangements were made for in Los Angeles it trans- at the woman was only in a e and the Waterbury party was intercepted by a telegram near Buffalo. Cullen returned, but Miss McGrath ontinued on the journey. Dennis McGrath made a fortune in e liquor business. His wife was several months ago and they Texas and through Kansas, spending the -winter in Los ngeles. McGrath is well known | nong sporting men —_————— FINED FOR CARRYING CIGARETTE PAPERS | rng Man Made to Pay Twenty- Five Dollars in Indiana - Court. MUNCIE, Ind., April 18.—A young| , was fined $25 and costs to-day the police court on the charge of | ing cigarette papers on his per- This is the first penalty assessed Indiana since the anti-cigarette 11 became effective | bear and a bobeat. | his hunt for the biggest game the Rock- | ies afford. If he gets one more bear, or PRESIDENT FILLS BEAR 1ND BOBCAT Auspicious Beginning of Colorado Hunt. “Bully Sport” Declates the Ardent Pursoer of Wild Game. Newspaper Men Who Attempt to Fol- low the Execative Are Taught 2 Lesson, GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo., April 18.—President Roosevelt has killed a He is satisfled with several, he will be better pleased, but, to quote his own words: “I got what I was after. It was bully sport and I hope it keeps up.” This is the story brought to Secre- ary Loeb to-night by ‘Elmer Chapman, | & courier with a close mouth, who was chosen to bear messages between the President and the temporary seat of government at the Hotel Colorado in this city. While Chapman came through New- castle, where are camped numerous correspondents of newspapers, he brought his story intact. There was no leakage, and all the information ob- tained at that place was derived from a view of a closely rolled fresh bear- skin, which Chapman transferred from his saddle to the car at the railway station. “Is that all asked. . “Isn’t that enough?” he replied. This was about the substance of the conversation _in which Chapmafi par- ticipated at Newcastie. because he knows when not to talk. Before starting on his hunt the Presi- you've got?” he was | dent said he did not want any news- To the three | paper men to follow him. correspondents representing press asso- ciations who accompanied him from Washington the President said: “You stick by Loeb and I will help you all I can. I cannot send out a mes- nger every day, but as soon as there is anything worth telling you shall have it.” The courier got through Newcastle without talking and the President ‘made good” to those who complied with his wishes. _But if the courier was reticent at Newcastle, he was different whenr his journey was at an end and Secretary Loeb had removed the injunction of secrecy. His eyes kindled with a fire that told his admiration for the Presi- dent’s prowess as a_hunter more than could the words at his command. One expression which the hardy moun- | taineer injected into his story was: ‘Say, fellows, he’s a ‘beaut,” and no mistake. The way he scents game would make you think he was born in the mountains and had never left them. Say, now, being President don’t make any difference with a man that's got | the real stuff in him. Goff said he was the real thing and did not need show- ing, but I didn’t believe it.” According to Chapman, the Presi- dent is taking the true sportsman’s de- light in the rough life of the camp. He is ome of the first to be stirring in the morning and always the first to sit down to breakfast. The fare seems to suit him, although he has said several times he would be as well pleased if it were less pretentious. His idea of camp life is one kind of meat at each meal, and that fried; vegetables of the canned variety, coffee made over an open fire and the smell of smoke in everything that i cooked, Things are different at Camp Roose- velt, as the boys have dubbed the out- fit on the Charley Penny Ranch. But the President has been warned that the chef may not be able to do such good work after the camp is moved and that the party may get enough canned food to please even the Presi- dent. The big white horse which the Presi- dent rode out of Newcastle on Satur- day is his favorite of the three that were taken along for his personal use. It is not fast, but it is strong and the trail is never so stormy but that the President and his steed cover it if any horse can get through. Big ““Jake” Borah, known as the most intrepid bear hunter in the Rockies and the man who will take the most des- perate chances on a ride after the dogs, admits that even the mountain guide of many years' experience has some things to learn about riding. He says he can teach the President nothing. A huge pair of leather breeches has been added to the President’s hunting costume. When he left Newcastle on ! Saturday he wore heavy canvas trou- sers without leggings. The flap was taken out of the baggy trousers by binding them about his ankles with course twine. Now he has adopted the leather breeches, as he has found that they better turn the wind while on a { hard ride. The early mornings and afternoons after the sun has sunk behind the mountaing have been cold. Storms have bien numerous in the vicinity of the camp and farther up the moun- tains it has snowed heavily. The thought. of starting home appar- ently has not entered the President's head. He said he intended’to enjoy himself as much as possible during his outing and his companions believe he is doing it. If he has had thoughts of affairs in Washington he has not com- municated them to the mountaineers. Business will wait until Secretary Loeb's arrival at camp to-morrow. He was chosen | BRAINS ARE \ DENAND Possessors Urged to Bequeath Them to Science. Committee of Anatomists Will Search for Willing Subjects. - Hopes to Obtain Information of Great Value to the Human Race, Epecial Dispatch to The Cail. PHILADELPHIA, April 18.—A com- mittee to operate with an international commission appointed by the various medical schools of Europe to report upon charactertistics of the human brain has been appointed by the Wis- tar Institute of Anatomy and Biology here, and the mooted question as to whether the weight of a man’s brain is a criterion of his intelligence and genius is at last to be settled. Thousands of brains of criminals and | idiots have been examined in the great j prisons and asylums, and a very ex- tensive and valuable collection of sta- tistics made, but the brains of men at the other end of the social ladder—the brains of men morally, intellectually and soclally great—are almost un- known to anatomists. It is only on rare occasions that they have had op- portunity of studying such brains. There is a strong belief among anat- omists that, if it were possible to care- fully study and dissect a series of these great brains, information of the greatest value to the human race | would be obtained—information which would finally set at rest the long dis- cussion regarding the relation of brain weight and intelligence, and be of vast importance to educators and criminol- ogists. One purpose of the Philadelphia movement is to create a willingness among prominent men—great artists, authors, engineers, statesmen, gener- als, etc.—to begueath their brains to science for, weighing and examination. There are three organizations now in existence—the Mutual Autopsy Society of Paris, the Cornell Brain Association and the American Anthropometric So- ciety—the members of which pledge their brains to science for examination after death. NEW EARS GRAFTED 0% RL'S HEAD Are Made of Rubber, hut Resemble Real Ones. —_— Special Dispatch to The Cail. TOLEDO, Ohio, April 18.—Dr. H. E. Harlan, a local surgeon, was success- ful to-day in performing perhaps the only operation of its kind in the world. He placed a pair of rubber ears on the head of a girl who had lost hers in an accident. The false ears are so tinted that they cannot be distinguished from real ones. They are held in place by a steel band and by silver tubes extending into the inner ear. The accident occurred nearly five years ago. The girl lost her entire scalp and ears, and a great lot of skin from her face, which will be replaced by grafting. e — L0ST LEG RESTORED BY NATORE Special Dispatch to The Call. DENVER, April 18.—Denver physi- cians are interested in Harry J. Myers, a orinter. One of his legs, which was amputated in September, 1901, is liter- ally growing back on, being replaced ’by a new leg of flesh and bone at the rapid rate of neafly one-half inch a week. Myers' right leg was crushed in a wreck at Springfleld, Mo., in 1899. It was not amputated at the time, bue had to be in 1901 to prevent blood' poisoning. It was cut off three and a half inches below the knee. Within the week a half-dozen reputable physicians have verified Myers' claim that-the leg is growing. \ IS AT ,OPENS NEW GOLD FIELD NS AR Russian Fleet Ap- pears to Be Divided. ]wv AD A ; 060's E’:—"ESIGIITEb Denver Man Makes Strike at Death - Claims the District Is as Rich as Tonopah or Bullirog. U Lucky Discoverer Refuses to Reveal the Exact Location of His Claim. ——— Epecial Dispatch to The Call. DENVER, April 18—Charles T. Aus- tin, a well-known Denver business man, has struck it rich in the Nevada gold district and may become a millionaire, He has just returned from Goldfield, Nev., near which place his interests are located, and has brought with him samples of free gold from his property. ‘With Austin are interested William H. Webber, also of Denver, proprietor of the Dewey Hotel; W. H. Wells of Philadelphia and G. E. Blair and F. Lathrop of Salt Lake City. The prop- erty is in a new and perhaps richer field than either Tonopah, Bullfrog or Goldfleld. Austin js _not ready to di- fulgs the location is mine, but it Death Valley. Austin says that there is no doubt about the success of the strike. Among the samples he brought back with him is a small vial containing free gold to the value of $7 or $8, which he sifted from a bucketful of loose dirt himself. His partners have been prospecting in Nevada for the last six months. Austin was for many years treasurer of the Denver Dry Goods Company. MAY WHEAT DEAL NEARS THE CRISI Gates Buys and Ar- mour Sells in the “Pit” Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Abpril 18.—The May wheat deal is fast nearing a crisis—a crisis that may approach in importance that which marked the finale of the cele- brated Leiter deal of 1898, It is Gates and his crew against the so-called Armour forces. The spectac- ular Wall-street figure, who has blazed to the front in daring and chance-tak- ing, has t: the whip into: his own hand, and now until the deal be- comes a matter of history he will be at the throttle. To-day much of the support given to strained May was credited to Gates. Armour tried to head off the influence of purchases by selling: Where he sold May he : redoubled in purchases of July. To make the situation all the more complicated Gates is said to be taking on July wheat. e e ABSENT-MINDED MAN GIVES HIS WATCH TO A TRAMP COLORADO CITY, Colo., April 18. ‘With his gold watch in one hand, endeavoring to ascertain the time, and a hamburger sandwich in the other, “Sunny Jim” Gould of Colorado City was approached by a tramp on Colo- rado avenue last night, and asked for a dime with which to get something to eat. ~ ; Intending to give the stranger the sandwich, Gouls absent-mindedly gave him the atch, which was speedily accepted. Gould talked with a friend for ten minutes before dis- covering his loss, by which time the stranger had disappeared. The watch was recovered this morn- ing in Comers' saloon, where the thirsty stranger had pawned it for 65 cents’ worth of drinks. Size of Linevitch’s Army. TOKIO, April 18.—The Russian force concentrated along the Changchun- Kirin line and southward is estimated at 200,000 men. A final revision of the numbers of prisoners captured at Port Arthur been 41,600, is uvvdexg{luqd thit, it is on the edge of | shows the ‘total to have arring Rojestven- sky’s Passage . Northward. SLAVS CUT A CABLE S Sever Line of Com- munication With Formosa. LONDON, April 19.—The Daily Mail's correspondent at Singapore learns that Russian agents have cut the cable between Fuchow and For- mosa. A dispatch to the Daily Mail, dated Manila, April 18, says: “This morning sixteen Japanese cruisers and torpedo-boat destroycrs were scouting off Sampaloc Point.” ST. PETERSBURG, April 19, 3:10 a, m.—A sheaf of dispatches from of- ficers of the various battleships, cruis- ers and torpedo-boats of the second Pacific- squadron has been received. They bring no information beyond the news that all“are well on board and the censorship suppresses the names of the' places where the dispatches were filed, 4 LONDON, April 19.—A' dispatch says!’ “I'wo junks bave been blown up by mines near Chusan. The ap- pearance of mines south of Shanghai is causing great apprehension for the safety of European mail steamers. LEBUAI:I, British Borneo, April 48. The United States torpedo-boats Chauncey and Barry lefy this port this morning to join the cruiser Ral- eigh in a patrol of the Southern Phil- ippine Islands. LONDON, April 19.—The latest news from the Far East shows to & cer- tainty that a portion of the Russian second Pacific squadron was still coal- ing at Kamranh Bay on Saturday morning, April 15. This news was taken to Singapore by the British steamship Sue Siang and to Hongkong by the French steamship Phu Yen. The former merely reported having passed the Russian ships at 11 o'clock in the morning. The Phu Yen's' officers saw twenty vessels coaling in the bay, and it is suspected that the remainder of the fleet was inside the harbor. According to the Daily Mail's corre- spondent at Singapore, the Sue Siang, which was not molested by the Rus- sians, sighted a big French warship two hours later, fourteen miles to the southward, evidently proceeding to Kamranh Bay. The pilecemeal character of the news excludes the possibility of any accurate estimates of the movements of Vice Admiral Rojestvensky's squadron. but it would indicate that the vice admiral has divided his forces, a portion of which_went northward before Satur- day. What has occyrred since then it ig impossible to say and there is no clear evidence even that the Russians have been within the three mile limit. which would bring them, according to international regulations, into infringe- ment of French neutrality. The fact that they were visible to ships would appear to show that they were outside the limit. Japanese sentiment, however, is greatly disturbed. The correspondent at Tokio of the Daily Telegraph says he has no hesitation in declaring that. should the occasion arise and her ore- liminary protests be ignored. Japan would regard any anchorage occuvied by the Russian fleet as its naval base and deal with the situation accord- ingly. niydlspntch from Saigon states that a quantity of goods purchased there has been delivered to a portion of the Rus- sian fleet off the coast of Indo-China. It is impossible to locate Sampaloc Point, off which, according to the Manila correspondent of the Daily Mail, sixteen Japanese cruisers and other craft were scouting on Thursday morning; but the Daily Mail believes the Japanese fleet was maneuvering to prevent the Russians entering the Pa- cific between the Philippine Islands and Formosa. e S S g LULL IN. LAND OPERATIONS. Army of Linevitch Is Restored to Its. ‘ Former Strength. ST. PETERSBURG, April 19.—M. Taburno, an Associated Press cor- respondent who has returned from Manchuria for a short vacation dur- ing the lull in operations there, says he does not expect serious fighting for at least a month or six weeks. He says the Russian army, which is oc- a line southward of Siping- , is busy with reconnaissances as far south as Changtufu and has al- ready been recruited to the strength Continued on Page 2, Column 1. GREAT MENS [INAVAL ENGAGEMENT MAY OCC 'NEAR PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. QUESTION OF NEUTRALITY DISTURBING THE NATIONS French- Government Protests Attitude Has That Its Been Correct. LONDON, ‘April 18.—Japanese diplo- mats and others in London regard the alleged breaches of neutrality by France in'allowing the Russian Second Pacific squadron to tremain over time on the coast of Cochin China as one of the most serious developments in the situation. Minister Hayashi and Baron Sumatsu, former Japanese Minister of the Interior, were both seen to-day, but they were disinclined to give a hasty expression of opinion or to anticipate official advices giving the facts as to the period the Russian ships may stay in French waters. . Minister Hayashi was particularly reticent, and said he preferred to await confirmation of the reports which have appeared to ‘indicate a serious breach of meutrality. Baron Sumatsu, who took a view' that was very far from being alarmist, said that if the reports were true Japan would have good' cause to complain. Japan, how- ever, had no Intention of seeking a quarrel with France. He added: “Japan is far from coveting Cochin China, as has been imputed in some quarters. I do not think that France is encouraging the Russian squadron to misuse French friendship. On. the contrary, I believe that France is really anxious te avoid trouble on account of the Pacific squadron. In fact I think responsible Frenchmen regard™ the squadron as an unwelcome guest, and, therefore, I am fully convinced that France will manage the matter in such a way as to avoid being compro- mised.” PRESS SCORES FRANCE. TOKIO, April’ 18.—Discussing the presence of vessels of the Russian sec- ond Pacific squadron at Kamranh Bay, on the east coast of French Indo-China, the Jiji Shimpo declares that the use of the island of Madagascar by the Rus- slan squadron was a direct and pro- longed violation of the principle of neu- trality, but on account of the distance Japan in that instance simply lodged a protest. The paper, however, insists that Russia is now using Kamranh Bay as a base for action against her op- ponent, and she intends to use it as the point for effecting a juneture with the remaining division of the squadron. “If the uSe of Kamranh Bay is con- tinued,” the Jiji Shimpo adds, “Japan must regard its neutrality as complete- 1y ignored and Japan will not be obliged to respect its neutrality. Violations of neutrality in distant ports are not im- portant, but 'when close to the zone of war it is impossible to’ view them with the same leniency.” The Jiji Shimpo further declares that France is lending the Russians effi- — | clent assistance, thus actually joining issue with Russia against Japan, and that it is now necessary for Japan ta notify Great Britain and obtain her cc. operation, according to the terms of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. “Protests,” the paper asserts, “are unavailing. The time for action has come.™ - The Nichi Nichi to-day says France has been a party to keeping the loca- tion of the Russian squadron a secret, and adds that France does not observe the twenty-four hour rule; but, the paper adds, the spirit of neutrality at- fords no excuse for extending such hospitality to a belligerent squadron, and it expresses the hope that France will take steps to abide by her obliga- tions and duties as a neutral power. The Asahi Shimbun asserts that France has deliberately kept the pres- ence of the Russian squadron a secret. The paper expresses regret at the fact and hopes the Government of Japan will act decisively. EVERY PRECAUTION Takew. PARIS, April 18.—The French Gov- ernment has tiken every precaution to secure the observance of neutrality in French waters in Indo-China. To this end instructions have been sent to Governor General Beau of Indo-Chi- Da again. calling his attention to the regulations concerning the observ- ance of neutrality issued at the out- Set of the war. These are identical with the neutrality rules in force dur- ing the Spanish-American war. It is believed Admiral de Jonquieres, commander of the French naval forces at Saigon, in proceeding to Kemranh Bay, where part of the Rus- sian second Pacific squadron has been seen, is following the Governor Gen- eral's instructions. The latter were not the result of the report that Japan contemplated making representations on the subject, as no such action has thus far been ordered and France has from the outset acted voluntarily in seeking to maintain the neutrality of her waters. This, however, is imci- dentally difficult at remote points not connected by telegraph and far from opportunities for official communica- tion. Nevertheless, the instructions sent to Beau contemplate the full ob- servance of neutrality. It is probable that this has been known to the Russian naval com- mander. However, it is impossible for France to anticipate or econtrol the movements of the Russian squad- ron and she can only direct the Gov- ernor General to enforce the regular rules concerning neutrality. The of- ficials here have no information con- cerning the length or circumstances of the stay of the Russian vessels at Kamranh Bay and therefore they are unable to determine whether the ships are actually within the territorial " Continued on Page 2, Columm 7.