The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 3, 1905, Page 1

THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Francisco for | y hours ending midnight June 3,11 Sen Francisco and Saturday; fresh west winds. A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. victnity—Cloudy | 1 | x 1 | -+ From Matinees at All Theaters. — XCVIII—NO. 3. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BIG SPLIT~ |DEVELOPS RENDS ThE UITABLE Directors Harri- man, Frick and Bliss Resign. | | Severe Blow Dealt Both| to Alexander and | J. H. Hyde. i Higher Officer to Displace| Former and Latter Asked | to Give Up Control. ! NARY CONFERENCES. of fifty direc PRELIMY t the forenoon ses- xander, who, in ed address, de- | of the Equ! the second vice pres- ed the meetings, de- | to the management es, of which he | a HYDE ENTERS DENIAL. Hyde his address insisted that there was not & single act throughout his entire career with the soclety which weas the subject of 50 much as just m on the part of a fair-minded h po: exception of the nat was a matter rence of opinion as to | rods. He sald that while | d the amount of his ex- the cashier, he felt he s receive it back. Among other falsehoods which Hyde | aid h&d been circu d about him was | he effect that he had given this with the idea of getung the order | Legion of Honor from the French Government. This decoration had, in fact, been conferred upon him two years before, As to his participation in eyndicates, Hyde said he had been in many syndi- | . always with Alexander, in which the Equitable had no concern whatever, nd in y of them had lost money. He ed his participation in such opera- Hyde concluded by demanding the ut- ter rejection and repudiation of any re- rt that criticized his administration and | he would force an opportunity to let ublic know what was behind these acks. It is understood that a motion was then made to discharge the committee and that it was carried TO NAME A CHAIRMAN. | . Hyde's friends on the board then .utea{ Daay that they recognized the welfare of the head to restore public confidence. Hyde sald he had nothing to fear from a fear- Jess and persistent investigation of the | affairs of the soclety, and said that he| O--u-udnhtetcoh-ns] | while drinking met TREE THAT CROWS FAST ‘Burbank MayRev- olutionize Lum- ber Trade. Rapidly Growing Wal- nut Is Latest Crea- tion of Wizard. ——— Obtains Startling Results by Crossing California and English Varieties. Epecial Dispatch to The Call SANTA ROSA, June 2—Luther Bur bank’s latest creation is a rapidly grow- ing walnut tree that bids fair to hurry up usuzal growth of the tree and to hurry down the price of walnut wood. At present walnut wood costs from $250 to $500 a thousand feet. Burbank has de- veloped a walnut tree by crossing the common English and the California wal- n that promises to revolutionize the / trade in this wood. It is sald the new creation grows almost with the rapidity of a weed. The wood takes a beautiful polish, and a splendid grain showing through. ALICE ROOSEVELT AT LONGWORTH HOUSE Report Received That She Will Wed the Congress- man From Ohio. Epecial Dispatch to The Call CINCINNATI, June 2—Miss Alice Ro eit arrived here to-day, attended by her maid, for a visit of a week or longer at “Rookwood,” the Longworth home. In the absence of Mrs. Longworth, oft 2 few days ago for a protracted to her daughter, Countess de Cham- in France, Mrs. Buckner Walling- ther daughter, and Nicholas Longworth, ond D trict, are the hosts at *Rook- Congressman Longworth met iss Roosevelt at Loveland, a station about twenty miles out, and escorted her to the city. This evening a small dioner | party was given by Mrs. Wallingford and Mr. Longworth for Miss Roosevelt. To-morrow Congressman Longworth and his guests will attend the Latonia | Derby, going in a private trolley car. Although the opinion is generally held here that Miss Rooseveit and Congress- man Longworth are engaged to be mar- ried t a formal announcement will be e during this visit, owing to the ab- ce of Mr. Longworth's mother, whose departare for Burope on the eve visit of the President’s daughter ions much comment OLD TRICK IS PLAYED ON A CREDULOUS MAN {Italian Laborer Pays $180 for Box Containing Iron Washers. Special Dispatch to The Call. VALLEJO, June 2—Chief of Police Stanford is keeping a sharp lookout for three Italian bunko men who obtained $180 from Joseph Zerba, an employe of the cement works at Napa Junction, three miles from Vallejo, by means of an old trick. Zerba was in Napa yesterday and three countrymen, | one of whom confided to Zerba and the other two strangers that he had discov- ered a treasure box containing several thousand dollars in a fleld near the State Hospital. The confederates were anxious to buy the box, offered $220 for it. The stranger finally agreed to sell for $400 and Zerba put up nine $20 gold pleces and the other two men the balance. The quartet went to the spot designated and dug up a tin box. On the way back to town the three strangers disappeared, but Zerba was so intent on getting to a blacksmith shop to open the box that he did not miss them. He found a sack of | washers inside SANTA FE COMPANY'S TICKET OFFICE ROBBED h Burglars Carry Safe to Rear | of Shed and Break It Open. BAKERSFIELD, June 2—Some time between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock last night thieves broke down the door of the Santa Fe ticket office, placed the 700- pound safe on a truck, carried it behind the freight office, a few rods away, and broke it open with tools from the tool- house, which was also robbed. The safe contained $192, which was taken. Although many vard hands and em- ployes of the freight office were on duty, and the safe was removed from the office at a busy time of the night, the robbery was not discovered until after 1 o'clock. City. Two saloons were alzo broken into last night and $150 taken from siol. machines. Congressman from the Sec- | it is not likely even if such is the | DISASTROUS EARTHQUAK INIAPAN (Great DamageWith . Loss of Life * Feared. ECentral Portion of the Islands Visited by Temblor. ° { Report From Tokio Says That the Details Have Not | Been Learned. TOKIO, June 2.—Se- vere earthquakes have oc- |curred in Central Japan, ex- |tending generally from the iProvincc of Hiroshima to |the Straits of Shimonoseki. [ The extent of the damage ;and loss of life is not yet |known, but it is feared that |it is heavy | CETTINJE, June 2—Later descriptions | of the earthquake from Albania snow | that 100 persons were killed and 290 in- | jured and that the town has been com- pletely devastated. There were twelve | shocks. The inhabitants are now living |in the open, while the foreign Consuls have been provided with troops. The au- | thorities have organized parties to search | for the bodies of victims. It is feared that {the list of casualties will be considerably | increased. REBSTOCK WILL 00 TO PRISON |Trial of Election Official Ends in Convietion for | Fraudulent Acts at Polls —y | The jury in the case of Joseph Reb- | stock, whom the Grand Jury indicted for | misconduct in acting as an election of- ficer at the Almshouse precinct last Octo- | ber, was last night declared gullty as | charged and recommended to the mercy | of the court. This means that he must serve a sentence in prison. Evidence had been submitted and re- |Jected and the case had become so in- | volved that the Judge's final instructions | to the jury were that a conviction should | not be "brought in unless the defendant | was guilty of willfully and knowingly violating the election laws, and that if | he acled contrary to the law and believed himself to be acting in accordance with the law he should be acquitted. The jury retired to its chambers at 3 { o'clock in the afternoon, and at 10 o’clock | returned the verdict charging the affictal | with the felony. District Attorney Byington attempted to | address the jury in his carefully prepared closing argument, but Judge Lawlor sus- | tained the objections of the attorneys for | the defendant on the ground that as By- | ington had agreed to submit the case last | week without the closing proceedings the court would not allow him to change in viclation of his agreement. {BARCELONA PALACE DAMAGED BY BOMB {Explosion Takes Place in | House of the Governor General. BARCELONA, June 2—At 6 o’clock | this cvening a bomb was exploded im the palace of the Governor General, do- ing considerable damage. Ten arrests ave been mad PARIS, June 2.—King Alfonso and Pres- | ident Loubet to-day visited the military | school at St. Cyr, where they witnessed scme cavalry evolutions and drove thence | to the Palace of Versailles, later visiting | the Aero Club and witnessing an automo- | bile procession and horse races at the Bois de Boulogne course, | As King Alfonso was leaving the The- atre Francals to-night six’ horses of his escort shied, throwing and slightly injur- | ing the troopers who were riding" them. The mishap occurred within a few yards of the scene of the recent bomb outrage. Volita, the anarchist, to-day pointed out | the place where he said on Thursday that ! five uncharged bombs from Barcelona | had been hidden by himself and several | companions who were for an attempt on King Alfonso’s life. Only anarchist papers were found. —_—— | Rioting Is Renewed at Lodsz. , LODZ, Russian June 2.—There was a renewal of rioting here this morn- ing. A crowd of people stoned a ‘ment of Cossacks and the latter ! killing two persons and wounding others. » ROOSEVELT MOVES TO END WAR IN THE FAR EAST PR R A President Roosevelt yesterday made a move toward ending the war in the Far East. In a conference with Coun Cassini, the Russian Embassador, he expressed an earnest wish that the Czar conclude peace with Japan, as’ believes a prolongation of hestilities will not result in victory for the Russian arms. — PR - e v COUNT CASSINI, RNES' THE RUSSIAN EMBASSADOR TO THI § COUNTRY, WHO WILL COMMUNICATE TO HIS GOVERNMENT THB T WISH EXPRESSED YESTERDAY BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT THAT THE CZAR CONCLUDE PEACE WITH JAPAN AND END THE WAR IN THE FAR EAST. RUSSIAN NAVAL AUTHORITIES BITTER TOWARD NEBOGATOFF Argue That He Should Suffer Death for Striking His Colors and Surrendering His Warships to the Enemy. ST. PETERSBURG, June 3—Feeling in the Admiralty against Redr Admiral Neb- ogatoff continues to run high, the ma- Jority of the naval authoritles being deaf to the appeals of the few who insist that the admiral’s action in surrendering his warships should not be condemned until the circumstances become fully known. The majority say that they could forgive anything but surrender, and point to the precedent set in the case of the Russian warship Raphael, which, in 1829, during the Russo-Turkish war, struck its colors to three Turkish ships which surrounded it. Nicholas T meted out a terrible punish- ment to the officers and crew of the Ra- phael, ordering that all of them should be shot after their exchange, and direct- ing that if the ship should ever be re- captured its infamous history should be blotted out by the total destruction of the vessel. The Raphael, strange to say, was re- captured thirty-four years later at Sinope during the Crimean war, a son of the captain who surrendered her taking part in the battle, and to this son fell the task of executing the dead Emperor’s or- der to destroy her. Many naval author- itles declare that the Emperor should re- serve the same fate for Admiral Nebo- gatoff. ‘While hope for the safety of the pro- tected cruisers Oleg and Aurora has been generally abandoned, some of the naval authoritles believe it possible that their commanders, realizing that the fleet had been practically destroyed and that Viad- ivostok as a harbor of refuge would only prove a death trap In the end, lald their course either for Nicholaieff, at the mouth of the Amur River, or for Petro- paviovsk, in Kamchatka. There is plenty of coal at both places to repienish the . bunkers of the cruisers. The ships could then escape across the Pacific, and either be interned in the United States or return by way of Cape Horn. One rea- son why the Aurora may elect to go to Petropaviovsk is that. her |commander married a hatkan woman and thoroughly familiar with the waters of that coast. ; the Russian. ity Department, the disaster to the ! fleet does not necessarily mean the collapse of the cam- =l article preaching a vigorous prosecution of the war on land to the bitter end. The Radical paper (Synotrechestva) did nqg appear Friday, it having gone beyond the privilege of criticism accorded to the mnewspapers in this hour of disaster to an extent which exceeded the patience of tile authorities. The paper attempted to print over eleven solid columns of rabid criti- cism and antl-Government tirade. A few coples have been printed for private cir- culation, and they show little but white paper divided by column rules, with one space surrounded by a significant black border. — TELL OF THE BATTLE. Russian Commanders Say That They ‘Were at Mercy of the Foe. LONDON, June 3.—The correspondent at Tokio of the Daliy Mail cabling to his paper concerning the naval battle between the Japanese and Russian fleets says: “Owing to the heavy sea in the earller part of the engagement the Russlan hulls ‘were disclosed below the water line, pre- senting & good target and enabling The Japanese guns to usurp the functions of torpedoes. “The commander of the torpedo-boat de- stroyer Mursame, describing his attack on the battieship Kniaz Souvaroff, says he discharged two torpedoes against her from a distance of 100 yards. All the Russian survivors confess, that the Japan- ese formation was never broken, and say that their shooting was magnificent.” The Moji (Japan) correspondent of the Daily Telegraph gives 'a story told by Captain Rojinoff, commander of the Rus- sian crulser Admiral Nakimoff. The taip says: ”fwép cho{: the shortest route to Viadi- unhappily enticed by the Japanese fleet and were completely surrounded. “Qur position was hopeless from the beginning of the battle. We had fallen into a bitfer trap. It was cruel, moreover by the suction, whirled about and lost our breath. P a3 “We forgot everything, bu were picked up by the Japanese fishermen. ‘We had intended to die and floated about in the water, as it seemed, for hours, watching the havoc created by the ex- | plosion of Japanese shells.” e SOUNDS PRAISE OF FRANCE. Lord Lansdowne Tells of Country's Becretary for Foreign sence of Premier Balfour, who is ill, pre- sided at the dinner of ~ Conservative agents last night. Replying to the toast of the health of Balfour, Lord Lansdowne referred to the hope expressed for a re- newal of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, and sald that the only practical question would be as how best to strengthen tne existing alliance. Never were the relations between France and Great sald that the one great hope df Great Britain just now was to secure peace In the Far East. Lord Lansdowne proceeded to speak of the necessity for maintaining the army and navy. This necessity was illus- trated by Japan, which Bad exhibited a spirit of - patriotism that all countries might emulate. et DECISION IN CALCHAS C\All. St. Petersburg Certain That It Will Be - a G he Confers Envoy Czar. !D_oes Not Thin Russia Can Succeed, 4 Acts as Friend of Powers - Involved, WASHINGTON, June 2—The President to-day struck a blow for peace in the Far East. In conference at the Whits House this afterncon with Count Cassini, the Russian Embassador, the President pressed the earnest wish that ‘would forthwith conclude peace with Ja- pan. Prolongation of the war, he believes, will not result in victory for the Russian arms and can only sorve to increase Ja- pan’s demands and render more difSeult the drafting of a treaty of peace which the Czar, as wellas the Mikado, can sign. The President spoke, he said, as the friend of Russia no less than of Japan, and on behalf not only of the Washing- ton Government, but in the interest of humanity. Until his words have reached Tsarskoe-Selo and have been compmuni- cated to Emperor Nicholas in the friend- Iy spirit In which trey were the effect cannot be esumated. Soon after reaching his embassy Count Cassint be- gan the preparation of a dispatch to his Government. Neither at the White nor at the embassy could a férmal state- ment Tegarding the conference be ob- tained. Throughout the dipiomatic corps thers is a strong hope that to-day’s con- ference marked the first step toward peace, but the general opinion is that weeks may elapse befors even primary negotiations can be begun. Diplomats ex- press the hope that Emperor Nicholas ‘will receive the President’s words as the With of and will weigh it accordingly. Unaccomparied, Count, Cassini, the Russian Embassador, called by appoint- ment at the White House. He was ush- ered at once Into the blue room, where he was joined immediately by the President, and a conference followed that lasted for nearly an hour. . HOPES FOR AN EARLY PEACE. Appreciating the natural feelings of the Embassador on such an occasion, the President began the conversation by & frank personal expression of sympathy for Count Cassini, alluding to ‘the severe strain under which he has been for the past few days and deploring the terrible loss of life and consequent sorrow caused by the recent battle in the sea of Japan. ‘Without further preliminaries a general and entirely informal and personal conm- versation on the whole situation followed. The President informed the Embassa- dor that he earnestly hoped for an early peace in the Far East, and pressing this hope he voiced not only his strong personal sentiments and those of his Government, but Re belleved they ‘were held by all of the powers. His opin- fon was that it would be a mistake for Russia to continue the war. In addition to the suffering entalled by the naval con- flict he did not belleve that Russia has anything to win in prolonging § & {1 Ll 1t would inure to the interests of the St. Petersburg Government to conclude peace at once. AGAINST CONTINUING WAR. dent In support of his conviction that as between a continuation of the war and Having received no word from his Gov- ernment since the annihilation ’s fleet save the brief official