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Forecast made st San Franciseo for thirty hours enfing midnight May 31: 22 San Francisco and vicinity—Partly cloudy Wednesday; light west ‘wind. G. H. Local Forecaster. CHUTES—Vaudeville. COLUMBIA—"“The Duke af KW GRAND—“The Holy City.” Matines. | MAJESTIC—*Mizpah."™ ROJESTVENSKY CAPTURE FTER HIS RESCUE FRO! Vice Admiral Rojestvenshy is a Japanese prisoner. When his flagship, the Kniax Souvaroff; went down he was swept into the sea. A Russian torpedo-boat destroyer rescued i, but was run down and captured by a Fapanese vessel. The fact that Rojestvensky had been rescued from the sea: gave rise to the PRICE FIVE CENTS. D ABOARD A DESTROYER DEATH BY DRO NING. TN TNED N PARS Dagger—B;éfidished Trails Bandit, Who | Letter in Face of the | Young King, | Revolutidxfist Rushes at His Carriage on the Avenue. People in General Cheer the Spanish Ruler on the Street. ne to-duy line " of OLGA NETHERSOLE COMING TO AMERICA ess Will Visit San Fran- cisco in-a French Play. —Olga Nethersole will now | the terms of d Miss Nether- ork next October. ch sne will make her Theatre Franc ason. An English ada been made by W. L. eminent L« tic and play rranged with Miss Neth- owing her season in New ppear in twelve of the United States cisco en | | mer cellmate ECCONICT A SUCCESS 5 SLEUTH Had Once Been Cellmate. Novel Means Adopted by Railroad Company to Capture Outlaw. Corporation Entrusts Former Smuggler With Task of Recovering Booty. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. BELLINGHAM, W am Miner, & no train robber, has beén ca ght by his for- in San Quentin prison, who as a detective, passes under the Just cloped that valuable se- , worth between '$75,000 and $100,- 000, were secured by the men who looted the Canadjan Pacific express at Mi; J y miles north of here, - since the robbery has had a T, believed to e of the ba: From the ned of the leader of the held up the train the of- ed beyond -question that ng. e who h been stationed atch for Miner's return to this e he has relatives, was in entin (Cal.) prison when Miner nce of er, w eils Island for his term the acquainted with nd it was for this reason that he ed a term at M r offense. - Du has been assigned by the Can- Pacific the task of securing the of the securities. It is understood he is empowered will not be prosecuted if the se- s are given up. REW RECRUTS O STRIKERS Spread of the Walkout .| Among Chicago Teamsters | Is Predicted for To-Day — CHICAGO, May 30.—There was nothing done on either side of the teamsters' | strike ‘to-day, but active hostilities are promised for to-morrow, and the chief trouble is expected to come in the lumber district. In addition to the lumber teamsters who are now out, thers will, in all prob- | ability, be a strike of all the men em- ployed by thirty-five sash and door fac- tories, as these concerns have announced that to-morrow they will continue mak- ing deliveries to boycotted houses. Ap- plication has been made by them to the Acers of the Employers’ Teaming Com- pany for 225 drivers, and these will be sent into the lumber district to-morrow. The number of union men who are ex- pected to strike by noon to-morrow. is about 206, and it is expected that the ex- tension of the strike will cause more riot- | Tng in that part of the city. The police | declare, however, that they are abund- antly able to handle the situation. A break in the ranks of the Team Own- ers’ Association occurred to-day. The members of this organization have throughout the strike acted more with the teamsters than they have as allies of the ployers’ Association, and have for the greater part refused to make deliv- eries to boycotted houses. The Weaver e. He was in for smuggling and | elected for the task of locating the | to promise that | | Coal Company, one cf the largest con- | cerns in the city, announced this after- | noon that commencing to-morrow it | would make deliveries of coal to all boy~ | cotted houses. The firm employs fifty May 30.—Governor Car- | drivers, and it is expected they will all ter, in @ message vetoing portions of | Walk out in the morning. There were to- the appropriation bill, has called at- |32y several rumors of peace negotiations, tention to the fact that in a majority | Dut none of them amounted to anything. nces the salaries of white em- T ST of the Government of the Ter- Automobiles Go Up in Smoke. sduced while the slarales BOSTON, May 30.—The Beacon gar- fian employes were in- | age, an extensive establishment oper- The House, before the final |ated by A. R. Bangs on Brimmer street, nment of the Legislature, unani- | and James Hewitt's carriage manufac- passed a resolution regretting | tory adjoining were damaged to the the Governor had accused the |extent of $150,000 to $200,000 by fire Legislature of drawing the color line, | to-day. Thirty-five aytomobiles were and declaring that it had not done so. | destroyed. LEGISLATURE ACCUSED BY GOVERNOR CARTER HONOLU! STILL NORE FOR LOOWIS ~ TOEAPLAN | Brought Up | Against the . Diplomat. In It He Speaks About a Personal Claim in Venezuela. Assistant Secretary Asserts the Transaction Was a Regular One. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. | CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, | WASHINGTON, May 30.—Secretary Taft | returned to Washington this morning and | resumed the investigation of the charges | against the otficial Integrity of Assistant | Secretary of State Loomis. One of the { most important documents considered by | Tatt was a letter written by Loomis to | W. W. Russell, who was then secretary of the American Legation in Caracas. This letter was found in the legation by Bowen, when he succeeded Loomis there. It was addressed to “My Dear Mr. Russell,” and read: “Regarding the | Malvino Mercado claim that I bought, | you may tell the Venezuelan authorities | that T am willing to dispose of it for one- half of its face value. Of this I want 30 per cent in cash and the rest in salt | bonds at elghty. These bonds are now | quoted at eighty-six.” Loomis has entered a detailed expla- nation of this letter, which, he says, was in a box in the safe in the legation, | which Bowen opened, keeping the con- | tents to use against him. Loomis ex- plains that the Government of Spain sev- eral years ago sold to Venezuela a tor- pedo boat for 400,000 polivars, and Vene- zuela gave as security for payment 1,000,000 bolivars’ worth of Venezuela salt bonds at par. When the 400,00 bolivars had been paid for the boat, according to Loomis, it was decided, with the approval | ot the State Department in Washington, that the surplus of the 1,000,000 bolivars’ worth of salt bonds should be handed over to the American Minister in Caracas | and that he should pay with them cer- tain claims against Venezuela which had been adjudicated. Loomis says this was done, and that 160,000 bolivars in_salt bonds were paid to Mercado, a promoter in Venezuela; 60,000 bolivars in salt bonds were to the German railroad for a sim- ilarly adjudicated claim and that other minor claims were satisfied. This was simply a transaction for Venezuela by the American Minister. Loomis further explains that A. F. Jau- | rett, then editor of the Venezuela Her- | a1a, and semi-officially attached to the | American legation, was about to make a | loan to Mercado, but lacked $3000 of the amount desired. Loomis lent him that sum., He accepted as security from Jau- rett a portion of the Mercado claim. | When ILoomis afterw#rd desired to | leave Venezuela for his annual vacation, | he sought to collect the money he had | loaned, and wrote Russell the letter which | now figures in the case. —_—e————— EIGHT-HOUR DAY ADOPTED FOR THE CANAL EMPLOYES one | ‘Will Apply to the Laborers and Me- chanics on the Isthmus Beginning Next Month. WASHINGTON, May 30.—The admin- istrative office of the Isthmian Canal Commission has received the following cablegram from Governor Magoon at Panama: “E. J. Bonesteel died yesterday. S. P. Thomas, American employe at Gor- gana, taken sick with yellow fever on the 25th. Executive committee adopted resolutions to-day providing for the | paving of the streets of Panama Ciiy | as indispensable to sanitation of the | isthmus; also adopted resolutions fixing eight-hour day for laborers and me- chanics, commencing June 1.” ——— FAMOUS GERMAN VINEYARDS DAMAGED BY COLD WEATHER Middle Rhine Region as a Result Wil Produce but a Poor, Crop This Season. BERLIN, May 30.—Inquiries now completed regarding the extent of the damage caused by the recent cold weather to the vineyards of the middle Rhine region show serious losses in the best districts. The vineyards present a sorry spectacle. Some famous vine- yards in locations like Johannisberg, Geisenheim, Erbach and Hattenheim suffered particularly and will hardly produce anything like an average crop. ‘Ehlne Hessen also suffered severely, DISASTER 10 FLEET COMPLETE: Only Two Slav Ships Reach Safe Port. Cruiser and a De- stroyer Put Into Viadivostok Russians Claim They Saw Two Japanese Battleships Sink. Submarine Boats Manned by American Crews Partici- pate in Battle. According to the latest reports from Vice Admiral Togo to his Government, the Russian ships sunk or captured ndbw number twenty-two, while full particulars are not yet in. The admiral says that none of his big fighting ships were seriously damaged. Vladivostok reports the arrival there of the protected cruiser Al- maz and the torpedo-boat de- stroyer Gronzy. The officers of the Almaz say they witnessed the sinking o! two Japanese battle- ships and that two Japanese cruis- ers were listing badly and seemed about to sink when the fog ob- scured their 'view of the battle. Evidence ' accumulates that Togo utilized submarine boats in the battle, and that these vessels sank several of the Russian iron- clads. An American builder of submarines says these vessels were manned by Yankee'crews. VLADIVOSTOK, May 30, 4:30 p. m.— Two ships alone of Vice Admiral Ro- jestvensky's powerful flotilla, the swift cruiser Almaz and the torpedo-boat de- stroyer Greany, lie at anchor here to- day In the curving harbor of the Golden Horn, they having séparated from the fleet in the early stage of the battle which began in the Korean Straits on Saturday, and headed, in obedience to orders, with full speed to Vladivostok. Up to 4 o'clock this afternoon no other vessel of the Baltic fleet had yet arrived and the signal stations at As- kold and Rimskykorsakoff islands re- ported none in sight Officers of the Almaz and Grosay say that both fleets had already sustained terrible losses when the Almar and Grozny broke through the hostile line. Of the Ji ese, two battlesbips had gone down before their eyes, and two cruisers, thelr sterns high out of the water, seemed ready to plunge bow foremost to the bottom of the wea. The Russian fleet, they say, was even in a sadder plight. Rojestvensky's flag- ship, the Kniaz Souvaroff, and her sis- ter ship, the Borodino, and the cruisers Oslabya and Ural were uttérly destroy- ed, and when the fog closed down and hid the scene of battle from sight of | the northward speeding ships a third great Russian battleship, the Alexander III, seemed in sore distress, but, limp- ing northward, was putting up a val- | iant fight against throngs of torpedo- boats, and still continuing her attacks on the cruisers of the island empire. Torpedo-boats also were clinging round the other ships of the fleet like angered wasps, separate flotillas. darting in again and again to launch their wea- pons. . The Almas, which arrived at her an- chorage here. on Monday evening, no 5 bears scars of battle. Her mizzenmast is shotiaway and one of 'her smoke- stacks is pierced by a cannon ball. But the Grozny, though en hours in @ running fight at short range with a 1 slgns ed for several Japanese d 3 q:gthomy. After her com- mander, Captain Andriffski, had been 5 VICE ADMIRAL ROJESTVENSKY, THE DEFEATED COMMANDER OF THE BALTIC FLEET. shows | this morning. report that ke had escaped to Viadivostok. __ wounded and an officer and three men | citement. The fact that a battle be- had been killed, the Grozny succeeded | tween the rival fleets was imminent, if in sinking her opponent with a luckily | Rojestvensky was not already at death placed shot and reached Vladivostok : grips with Togo, was made known without further adventure at 11 o’clock | through telegrams from Europe, and 5 when it was learned on Monday morn- For the past two days Vladivostok has been buzzing with rumor and ex-| Continued on Page 3, Columa &