The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 4, 1905, Page 1

THE WEATHER : + | | thirty hours ending midnight May 4& | ! : 1905+ | b Sen Franeisco and wviclnity—Clondy Thuredey: fresh Borth winda | A G MoADMR District Forecaster. Prints More News Than Any Other Paper Published i | THD THEATERS. ALCAZAR—"“When Knighthood was in Flower. Gold Mine.™ MECHANICS' PAVILION—“May Fes- tival ™ ORPHEUM —Vaudevilla. Matines to- day. TIVOLI—Comie Opera. — . XCVII—NO. 157. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1905. W03} ueae: - COLUMBIA—"Much Ade About Noth- aL PRICE FIVE CENTS. CMBEZZLER SMITH DECLARES THAT WOMEN WERE THE CAUSE OF HIS DOWNFALL + EMPLOYERS [WILL REAP WILL ASK | No PROFIT | FOR TROGPS| ~ FROM WAR to Quell Riots |10 Be Foiled by in Chicagp. | Neuirals, Rifles Carried Openly oniflmted States Insists Upon! Wagons 2s They Pass Chinese Territorial Through Streets. Entity. | | e — D | . o g Confinuss Betwoen Teamsters | President Cuis Short His Outing to oa iho sin Theroughfares and Discass Peace Terms With fcores Are Badly Hurl Embassadors e e A CAGO, May 3—Rioting in the o-day was so prolonged and of | haracter that many of the have conciuded either peace In the utside interests un- ia has been called out A committee of mem- s’ Association left ¥y to confer with Special Dispaich to The Cail BOSTON, May 3.—A private let- ter from an administration official in Washington says that Embassadors Jusserand of France and Sternburg of Germany are only awaiting the return { of President Rooeeveit to the capltal to learn his views on the question of peace between Russia and Japan before safl- ing for their respective countries. This is the real reason for the President’s sudden change of plans. He hopes be- fore May 15 to be able to do something { for peace. He will communicate to the | Embassadors of the Buropean powers, | to Russia and to Japan, the terms upon ich the United States will insist in trealy of peace between the two warring nations. : As & power having material Interests | 2t stake in the Philippines and com- mercial interests on the Asiatic main- lan8, the United States will be as much entitied as any neutral power to dictate some of the terms on which peace shall The labor nited States will § long ago discussed and decided upon iu Washingtop. Holding fast to the pol icy havingas its sole purpose the main- tenance of the integrity of China and the “open door,” the United States will not only for the expulsion of ia from Manchuria, but it also will expect the Japanese Government to ad- here to the pledges it frequently made, both before during the war, and not attem the annexation of Man- erference with Chinese nistratl of that territory. Fur- | remore, the United States will insist existing before the exigencies of war | | government there. { « declined by | President Roosevelt has been criti- sitive orders | Ci26d in some quarters for the seem- | 2t under Do cireum. | D81y partial attitude of the adminis- | Meers thount . the | Iation in favor of Japan and against | ch beside the Russia. The writer_o( the letter de- | maz‘ “hief of Police | C/2Te% that the President has put the | = iag | 800d faith of Japan to the full test and | @ssumes that all pledges made relative | to the administrative and territorial | entity of China will be carried out.| Japan has been regarded not as fight- | to and | Ing for the conquest of territory, but to | in many in- | Prevent encroachments by Russia upon ded, and at |2 district of the Far East which must ision of more | Fémain open to the commerce of all na- | en. Bvery | tions. | sSome cases A others carry- PREDIOTS TOGO'S DEFEAT. | ed shotguns. | - { iew through- | Russian Naval Officer Takes Rosy | t was made View of the Coming Battle. | " €XPress | ST. PETERSBURG, May 4—Cap-| the Scott Transfer |t8in von Essen, the hero of Port| rded in the same Arthur, and one of the ablest of Rus- rifies were on | sla's naval officers, discussing, to-day, | their waists | the coming naval battle In the Far | 1 cartridges. The past took & resy view of Rojestven- S po usiness 25 | ky's prospects and asserted that he | _|bad e great advantage in many re- spects over the original Port Arthur | squadron. Captain von BEssen declared {that the engagement between Togo | and Rojestvensky was bound to be at | long range. He smiles at the idea that | Ono“h“ Japanese might be able to dis- | ed for ; OTBanize or damage the Russian squed- | ey and the | TOR by torpedo attacks and points out | . | Brac surpriee ac Bort Arvnr. o | R 7 , i sul . nen the memnroct® | “Take the matter of telescopic sights, | in Dealers’ Associa. | 10F instance,” said the captain, “which | h employs 1200 teams, de. 2'¢ almost indispensable in engage- | | n the city irr § The Port Arthur fleet was -without ditions. If dn'\'enme":hg"hm and was unable to obtain the be discherged rights on account of the cutting of MANY OUTSIDERS CLUBBED. |guns bcrigns.iwhile Rojestvensky's mobs that filled the streets in!we know that 's ships were se- business sec to-day were larger | verely pounded in the battle of August than on yesterday. There | 10. Without taking into consideration £ In all sections of tbeime unavoidable depreciation apd the istricts throughout the day, |#act that, though repaired, it was far dozen times the police wi | from being good before the battle, the o to use their clubs and the |ordnance of the Japanese ships suf- guards, who were armed with | fered especially, and though some of anes, swung them whe..e'lr:me 12-inch guns may have been re- Te attacked or thought an as- | placed, it Is impossible that all can was to be made. In many cases | have been renewed. Some of the small- :k hgizardsd were nr»;’car'!ul whom | er guns on the ships actually went to it an & number of eces duri: engagem: knocked Qown mimply_becavse | Ehe batte wy o o 5 the case particularly in a fight neer | centimeter guns on, board the Sevasto- beaten the Wani State MilitiajJapan and Russia'? at Korea be restored to the status | | compelled Japan to seize the reins of | | veries would be made | D€0tS at the éxtreme range now used.| | »— the battle we found a large plece of | believed to have been invol wi ¥ happened 1o be nearby. This was |the muzzie of one of the Japanese 13- | Smith in the Tax Office scandal. The Japanese, however, were abie | 1 convinced that several persons con- o Edward ]. Smith, the defaulting Tax Collector, talked freely to a Call correspondent at St. Lowis yesterday. He denied that o con:piiracy e..rirkd,ud asserted that he clone was responsible for the stealings. :Leona Brooks says the defaulter was traced through hev. The story of her relations with the abscomder, | + which twas first published in The Cail, gave the detectives the vital clew to her whereabouts. She was released last night. LEONA BROOKS SAYS THAT TAX COLLECTOR LOST LARGE AMOUNTS IN STO% GAMBLING e eSS Teke Aor PRIV, » Indictments may be found against Foreman Andrews of the Grand Jury tain von issen commented on|the Penal Code, which constitutes a - h state of efficiency to which | felony. A rigid investigation into the| . On the other hand, the strikers and | Rojestvensky has brought his squedron | dealings of the Treasurer’s and their friends were equally indiscrim- | during the leng months of the vovage | the defaulting Tax Collector. is .*II Omuluedronh‘ez.oflml. M—‘nl’v&;fil—& de. 5 Following is the section which’ An- [ LEONA BROOKS, WHO HELPED LEAD EDWARD J. i | | | + fitrzcg;}ws ;.'FZ&{; Z SHITH " Ts T Woman Confesses Relations With Criminal. |SMITH IS PENITENT —_— Thinks Brothers | Will Stand by Him. ' BROKEN IN HEALTH SIS ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 3.—*T will say | | nothing about the previous defalcation | | or the connection my brothers had with it," declared Bdward J. Smith, San’ Francisco's defauiting Tax Collector, to a Cal! correspondent to-day. “To-night I hope to get a little aleep, - — I | i | ' | i !E?gelgi