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THE SAN FRANCISCO' CAL: LOUISE WORT WOULD FORGET THE PAST —_— Comes Into the Wor and Live for HINGTON CASE INVOLVES VAST INTERESTS Complaint Against Southern Roads Strikes at Vital Issues of Railway Problem 1d to Begin Life Anew Her Children. TAKEN UP BY MOODY Will Be Taken in Matter | Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, June 11.—Should the { Receivers’ and Shippers’ Association of | | Cincinnati. succeed in getting Federal | action against the group of Southern irni]roads, for which it has petitioned President Roosevelt, it is agreed Dby |all concerned that the case will be | much more important and far-reaching | than the Northern Securities Company. | Both the Government officials and the | railway presidents have begun to ap- | preciate the importance of the case. Hvery great railroad in the country is | interested. Attorney General Moody spent part of to-day in-the consideration of the prayer of the petitioners. He said to- night the case had not been given suf- ficient consideration yet to warrant any prediction as to whether the Govern- | ment would proceed to investigate by volved in this case. It is reported and not denied that | the Receivers' and Shippers’ Associa- tion has begun this contest very large- 1y for retaliation upon Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern Railway, and the officials of the Atlantic Coast Line, posing the Esch-Townsend bill or any other similar measure. One of the rep- resentatives ported to have said that if the rail- way men are put on the defensive in the matter of anti-trust law they will have less time and energy for fighting a rate bill. Z// c 754 | tended that this should be greater and | on this complaint the petition for Gov- ly the Northern and Western States, also to_the damage of the commerce of of the Southern States, by depriving the people of those States of the advan- ports inte:Southerm territory, and: by depriving the people of the Southerr of the petitioners is re- | violating the Sherman | Continued From Page 1, Columa 7. conclusion of hostilities -is desirable, a disgraceful peace would be intolerable and that only a national assembly should decide the guestion of war or peace. With the single ecxception of the Novoe Vremya, the newspapers, whether. they are for peace or not, join in aj chorus of praise of President Roose- | velt's friendly and well-intentioned ac- ! harks back to its action in the case of the Russian ships at Manila as proof | of his unfriendliness. No report from Rear Admiral Nebogatoff has yet been recelved and this fact, combined with | the wording of the Emperor's dispatch to Vice Admiral Rojestvensky, Is creat- ing endless talk throughout the city. In the Emperor's message to Admiral Rojestvensky he thanked the admiral and all the officers who had honorably | done their duty. This restriction of | the Emperor's thanks, a dispatch from ! | Bt. Petersburg on June 9 said, was | fanning the ugly talk regarding the surrender of the ships and the conduct of some of the crews. —— JAPANESE ARE SUSPICIOUS. Fear Tokio Will Again Be Cheated of. the Fruits of Victory. TOKIO, June 11.—The Japanese continue { to maintain an attitude of reserve toward | the question of peace. There were some | | demonstrations in the streets of the capi- | | miral Togo's vietory, as well as Field | Marshal Oyama’'s opportunities, by con- | senting to an armistice now. It is felt that Togo's victory opens the entire Rus- sian Pacific Coast to invagion and Oyama | is capable of speedily taking Harbin, cut- | | to improve their positions and strengthen | | their forces. | There is a general demand that Japan | | carefully safeguard her interests if an | armistice is declared. Sunday brought no important develop- No information answer to | ments in the situation. concerning Russias formal | | The selection of the Japanese plenipo- | tentlaries to arrange terms of peace ig The:names of already being discusscd. peace vary widely and include both in- | demnity and cession cf territory. It is| beHeved that the Peace Commissioners will meet somewhere in the Orient. The Jiji says: ultimate conclusion of peace. ““Much as Japan would like to sée peace of peace. It probably will become neces- sary to affange an armistice at ...e com- mencement of negotlations, and it will be essentfal to obtain some guarantee before concluding an armistice in order, to pre- vent ‘the intérésts of Japan from suf- fering in the event of negotiations being broken off. ““The great and -unprecedented Japanese victory must not be forgotten. Russia's at power is not easily broken down. It might require years before the ultimate result of the war is attained. Japan does The Jiji thanks President Roosevelt and pays tributé to him for his action. It concludes by warning the people to be prepared for the non-success of the negotiations ~and ~ for the possible necessity of continuing the struggle. The Nichi Nichi writes in the same strain, warning the people not to count on peace while the war party in-Rus- sla continues to exert its influence over the Emperor. It urges Japan to insist on somie guarantee so as to secure its protection of an armistice should be declared. Japan's terms may not be ex- | the fact acting, the paper s, but of her unqualified victory be forgotten. The Nichi cludes by saying that “the situ quires calmness and watchfulness.” il i NO HITCH IN PRELIMINARIES. President Is Well Pleaved on His Re- turn to Washington. WASHINGTON, Jur. 1L—After a two days’ sojourn with Mrs, Roosevelt at the picturesque little woodiand home recent- facetiousr, “Are you still sitting on the 1a?" ‘he Secretary assured the President that' the lid was still down. 1t i€ not possible at this Ume to say wiien the formal replies from Kussia and however, and the assurance is given that the withholding of the notes is not due to any hitch in the negodations. The formal peace conference will be held in Washington, both of the belliger- ents favorably regarding this capital as a place for the drafting and signing of a treaty of peace. success in opening a way for peace nego- tiations between Ilussia and Japan is the absorbing theme here, and France has with pictures of the White House as the | scene of the historic peace movement. Paron d'Estourneiles de Constant has given the press an authorized interview Premier Rouvier politely declining to take toe. inftiative for, peace.. The, Baron sad: JAPAN'S PEACE TERMS SURPRISINGLY MODERATE hending what immense service it could | render the belligerents in taking the ni- tiative for peace, which neither of them could be the first to take.” .The Temps to-night say “It might have . thought that { France cculd have played the great role which has fallen to the United States, but circumstances otherwise decided. France can, however, rejoice in .ae success of her sister republic, which is due to Presi- dent Roosevelt's spirit and readiness of decision.” ten. Theése are practically the same as former speculative conditions, namely, an i indemnity of $650,000,000, a Japanese pro- | tectorate cver Manchuria and Korea, the cession of Port Arthur and part of the trans-Manchurian railroad to Japan: for- feiture of the interned warships, the witn- drawal of Russian warships from the Far | East for a period of twenty-five years and the occupation of Vladivostok until these conditions are fulfilled. The Russian conditions, according to the dispatch, reject the question of an in- demnity and give a qualified xci:egunu j of the other terms. ° —— e : LONDON PRESS SKEPTICAL. Regards Peace as Improbable Until Limevitch’s Army Is Crushed. | LONDON. June 12—Some of the Losi- don morning rewspapers are still skepti- cal of the possibllity of peace resulting | from President Roosevelt's efforts, but ! all admit the unexpectedly swift progress 1of eyenls and pay the highest tributes | of praise to the President's dipigmacy. If well developed pians for the coming bat- tle, it wili be an indication that the Jap- anese Government has good reason to know that' Russia is in earnest in her desire to arrange for peace. The Daily Telegraph, Which may be re- certain tha‘ there will be temporary de- lays and hitches. The paper Bases this belief on its conviction that Japan's terms, in their broader outline, must have been known to all parties concerned be- fore negottations reached their present stage and that had thete been a single proposal which would be absolutely un- fore, there is much curlosity to see the exact terms of Russia's reply to President | it being supposed here that Russia only desires tn hear What Japan has to pro- pose. According to the Tokio correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, General Linevitch glory with the Japancse navy if the cam- | LAWSON TURNS GUNS ON RYAN Denounces the New Power Which Has Appeared in Affairs of the Equitable AGENT OF “THE SYSTEM” , . |tlon. The Novoe Vremya, on the con- | 1 off " \f & > | nct fear the prolongation of the war, but | A dispatch from St. Petersburg to the ells ow ce [Attorney General Not Yet trazy, calls it an hfi‘,‘;f,r?::;"i'a::‘?ig:: the eavy losa o lives involved moves | Eclaire gives the alleged detailed condl- Bostonian Used + H o the people from tae depths of their | tions of both sides, the vapanese condi< Bo R W 0 Bol'r()w Able to State What Action | with playing the Japanese game. It hearts.” tions numbering eleven and the Russian v as Use Millions in Financial Game - Special Dispatch to The Call. BOSTON, June 11.—Thomas W. Lawson says he is not surprised at the turn af- fairs have taken in the' Equitable™ Life Assurance Society scandal “When a piratical crew in command of a stanch craic finally arouses all honest men by its depredations,” sald Lawson, “there are only two things possible for the éréw to "do, beach her and take to the woods with what loot they can lug off or turf hér over to a bolder band, whko will agree to put’ them ashore to cover their flight with their. game. “My only comment on the new move is that I am not surprised it has been turned over to ‘the system,” bag and baggage. Ryan and his pals will see that not a single trick is lost from now on. He {9 an old hand at this game and needs all of that $400,000,000 in his business. Ryan and his pals have been looking for newy banking facliities for some time, for, between tobacco and the tractions and “His 14-year-old office boy, Leary, bor- rowed $4,000,000 from a New York trust company at one crack, on his note, backed by his wages at 36 per week, at a time when it was a criminal offense for a trust company to loan any individ- ual over a fraction of this amount. Then | | | | special counsel. The railroad rate ques- | tal late last evening and to-day students ‘ ly purchased by her near C.arlottesville; | hegotiations should reach the stage of an < A | | tion, as it is-mow pending in Congress, | organlzed a celebration, but a rainstorm | va. (he President returned to Washing- | actual arrangement for an armistice, it | & dozen other schemes, the ';:“:-4 | | and’the President’s contention for the.| speedily cleared the streets. . ton to-night. The « resident was In excer- | Will b feit that peace at last is in sight, | banks and trust companies were becom ; | rate-making power for the Interstate | 1t sccms to be the popular fear that|jcnt epirits, and as he grasped Secretary | because it-is argucd that if Japan con- | Ing pretty well congested wit s gecuti- 1 | Commerce Commission are directly In- | Japan wiil sacrifice the advantage of Ad- | Tafe's hard in a hearty clasp he inquired, | sent 10 silspend Field Marshal Oyama's | tes | ing the rallway and fsolating Vladi- | japan to the Presidencs iden..cal notes | garded as a Government organ, believes |l who have 'been very prominent in |vostok. It is feared, also, that the Rus- | ket ey O vente the pabic. The situacion | that there is cviry reasom fto expect a | Ryan organized the Morton 'l‘r"lalt Co&: Washington in the last few months op- | sians will take advantage of an armistice | i yitc' satisfactory to the President, | satisfactory issue, though it is almest | pany with his office boy as president, New York banking authorities stamping everything as O. K. ——e——eeee Photographic war. Our finest platino Paris s, $3 per dozen: cabinets, $2 per dozen. Praperial’ Studio, 744 Market street. . —_————————— Chinese Labor Unsatsifactory. MEXICO CITY, June 1l.—Centractors | | | Bastern seaboard cities ave also | President Roosevelt's proposal has been SNSRI acceptable, Ruseia would not have en- he Vera C: d Pacifio Railway | | much concerned in the case, because it | received here, and the Government pre- - . " 3 gaged in the negotiations at all on the Vera Cruz an ! | |15 based on what the petitioncrs call | served an attitude of silence. ARPIICS DENDSS o namoRY Other papers maintain that there will | have decided to exclude Chinese from the | | diserimination in favor of Northern | An armistice which will fower the bay- | peqdent Acts While Burope Hesl- |be little chance of peace until General |ranks of their laborers. iney have ex- points. he West already has a dif- | onets of the two enormous armies facing ke, the Taftlatts Linevitch shall have been driven across | perimented with them and fin r | ferential against Boston, New York, | one another on the M.anchurian ffohtier GES 16-F RN, Tup . e velt's | the Amur River and until the Japaness | work is unsatisfactory. | Philadelphia and Baltimore. It is con- | Will, it is believed, be speedily concluded. PARIS. June 1l.—President Roosevelt's | o) "hove captured Viadivostok. There- port has been received from the head- quarters of the Manchurian asmies: ernment action against the Southern : 2 . ® | Roosevelt. especially since the publica- | Qud 3 prsi Eeporat el S OUthern | Marauis Ito, Premier Katsura, Forelgn | forgotten hcr own troubles with Germany | ¢St L, SIS L0 Komura, Jap- | “On June 8. at ¢ o'clock in the mown [ . | Minister Kofnura, Marquis Yamagata and | over Motocco to join in enthustastic ap- | (o1 Of 1he FEBY BE 0TiR Bttt < | ing. we drove the enemy from the | PR o others are being suggested for possible | proval of the American initlative. Por-| . ,ung the proposal to meet Russian |northern heights of Liangshuichuan | o o e & tps | heads of the,commission. | trauts of President Roosevelt, Embassador | i, ntentiaries “for the purpose of ne- (and Nanchengtsu and occupled those fiega) oarB0EEin ANGABEA. T gma: | Popular estimates of Japan's terms of | ;‘l""f‘ ‘::,',"f:;,;ezs‘(":‘m;: ":2 ,%’;‘:’:n'm' gotiating and concluding terms of peace.” | positions. On the same day we occu- : . | or Cass : X 4 pled the vicinities of Erhshihlipa. ten miles northeast of Changtu: Shufang- tai and Tungchiatzu, ten miles north of Changtu, and Hoingtungshan, thirteen miles northwest of Changtu. tages that would flow from free com- ; ap- | in which he severely arraigns the action . " { ion of .nde; “Japan has shown a willingness to ap- | In whic fcyeiety o {1s in a hopeless position. He is virtually | {$oton. of dndengnisnb i foad Jimes. | oine plenipoten saries to meet the Rus. | of the European powers and applauds | 1 10 8 BOREITRS PRI Lofotaant ‘save | The town of Cardift. Wales, receniv i Sppa i opmlrin e S ¢ | Flans and negotlate peace: but it is pre. | Presidént Rooseve's Initative. — The | surtoundey So8 TE0 SEROCElt QUi L M (BT 8 oy millions of ‘oreign | Virginia ' gateways and: South Atlantic'| %" think this will lead to the | Baron had just received a letter from | B o s it e was the severity of their sting. espe- clally along the water front. that the - a b .| States “of the advantages that wouwid hort of che full Tights “The United States has given hesitat- < R Bo » A5 RETURNED 70 HER HOME AxD nzR | | follow from free competition of ‘inde- | 5f ‘sietors and placing-the peace of the!| ing Furope & wWholesame exzmplc. All ARMIES ARE YET ACTIVE. docks were Rt e F YEARS IN SAN QUENTIN PRISON pendent railroad lines leading. from | Opend on a permanent basis will-satisty | Eyrope ardently desired peace. yet al- 2 e W . MURDER the Ohio and Mississippi River gate- | japan. It is premature to discuss terms | lowed the war to go on Wwithout compre- —The following re- s B AR i S5 4 | ways into Southern territory." v nses and 1 had It was rapture .ildren remem- re still greater to see | TEAM OWNERS at my return. They!ll | s s ze now why 1 was ovi re in thaj ar E without payfng:them = | he ve cof y have been surprise ther as ographs taken of them sband she had kept her, but the photo- healthy and the serving the size served left her t of her enlarged p! ur offsp, CHI DREN QUESTION NO MORE. was th surprising thing to e 0 1 back my I can’ be now help to | a As been so faithful to REMAI ALOOF CHICAGO, June 11.—The Chicago | Team Owners” A8gociation, an organiz- ation employing 8000 union teamsters, has_decided to remain neutral in the | present labor struggle now in progress in. Chicago.. Bver,since the commence- . ~ ment of the teamsters’ strike the Team oreliead s f brushing ¥ the | Owners' Asspclation has beey anxious Obwebs Tront. het mind, and | to have the question of making deliy- with a wan but proud smile 4t | orfes to strike-bound houses submitted .w."m,d, who sat Beaming under the : to. arbjtration. The teamsters, by a rea ‘i?;l‘;'l'{p‘"“‘! ‘h"‘ ""d‘ “i"’"“ ‘;7‘""“ unanimous vote, refused to agree to the | the's ieved that the team owners would force a strike of these 8000 drivers by ordering them to make deliveries to firms. involved in the strike. In an effort to learn the sentiment of the members of the association re- garding the matter, it was decided to take a referendum vote on the question. This vote was completed to-day and resulted in 155 of the members voting to remain neutral during the troubl and in three members voting to compel be happy ¢ happy. with him and my | I will e horrible excepting the persons about | me who were kind. I will never forget them Mrs. her pricon ¢ Worthington passed her ha d over mily has been reunited and | has been estabiished ‘where be- nly longir From Mrs. thington's appearance and her con- Versation one 18 led to the belief that the prison board has made no mistake in mer Son Worthingtons live at 1249 Pacifiq The husband and father was for- photographer on a morning + street. merly a paper, but 1s now a special officer. wcision reached by the owners means that there will be no strike of these men and the threatened expansion of the trouble in this direction has been | averted. Negotiatione for peace, which prom- ised for a time last week to be suc | cessful, have apparently been aban-' BARILLAS | What the employer said: «The best stenographer I ever had” { The Smith Premier E the teamsters to obey orders. The de- | mployment De What the employee said : ¢“The best position I ever had” any make of machine call us up. artment Did It 5 ' When you want a competent stenographer (male or female) to operate | | when 1 home,” said Mrs. T i B tntr se of the children | | doned for the present at least, as both' | & were mine, Thelr | / | sides are so far apart on any plans of | s 36" M B | / | settlement by mediation that further| e urnls em romp y but to see three | efforts in this direction are believed tol £ place of the al- be futile. : 3 last strange to trange now. ne, even The me. My the next 2 now where 1 ask questior have any »wn while in prison. least mine, after a ration, are that you everything all over y ot liberty, ms new to me, and I must ut the world again, for I to They treated me son—for several years for Mrs. Belle but the dreadful arly drives you in- wish to see something new. You get tired of the same walls, even the same faces, though I never liked to See a new one come in as some did. Many a time I thought ‘Oh, if - could only be alone, where I could not see anything or any body, nor think of anything.’ “I didn’t expect 10 be released on Fri- 1 thought my parole was coming, it nop so soon. 1 was all unprepared and 1 couldn’t fully realize my good fo tune until I was on the bus on my way to Greenbrae. The other women all crowded around and congratulated me when the announcement was made and threw rice after me when I left. I was almost dazed, and as the world 1 had been taken from began to unfold again about me I became nervous. Even the build- ings looked strange, and I was bewlldered when I got on the ferry-boat among the erowd. FAMILY IS REUNITED. “Then when I walked up to the front @oor of my house, where my husband and children were, it seemed as if a cloud clasped in | ce my rélwzse,1 REVOLUTION Continued From Page 1, Column 4.° oldest a boy of 1. | | (paper). Immediately after the printed and the original was withdrawn from | Congress. This act is attributed to Ca- [ brera’s desire to avoid explaining how | the funds of the Government had been disbursed and to keep the foreign credi- | tors in ignorance of the financial con- | dition of the republic. Several of the | coples of the report were sent {0 Eng- |land, and it is claimed that the Brit- | ish Government, through its Central | American Minister, has since demanded |of Cabrera a statement of the coun- | try’s finances, with a view of datermin- | ing whether the President has sufficient | reason for defaulting on the interest | on the several million dollars due Eng- | lish bankers. | expects to leave the Palace to-day for |a short stay across the bay with his niece. Ie could not say just when Manue] Dieguez would reach S8an Fran- cisco. During the day he remained in his apartments, but in the evening he went for a walk and his son accepted an invitation to dine with friends. ————— Arbitration is the basis of interna- tional peace and the proper manner in which to settle all differences, but the Rainfer men refused to arbitrate. ¢ ——— SALONICA, Turkey, June 11.—In the fight- ing at Pantchatin, near Vodels, on June it is said that the Greeks lost three kill M or the Bulgariang lost twenty-eight wounded, ua‘- seventeen prisoners who were executed by their captors. report had been issued Cabrera sent his | agents out to gather in all the coples | The general said last evening*that he | | The employers declare that they have | conceded “every poifit pessible. The | strikers assert that a settlement along the lines proposed by the employers would mean “dishonorable surrender,” and thig the officials 6f the Teamsters’ | never do. ¢ One of the causes for the prolonga- | tion of the present strike is said to be the political ambitions of several Chi- |cago union leaders. At least three of the Chicago labor leaders desire to be | president of the natlonal organization |of the teamster: SMALLPOX SPREADS } THROUGH VALPARAISO City in Filthy Condition and | Two Thousand Cases Reported. Special Cable to The Call and New York Her- ald. pr)‘{llht. 1805 by the New York Her- ald Publishing Company. 1 a5 | VALPARAISO, Chile, June 11, — Smallpox is increasing, fostered by the filthiness of the city and the lack of sanitary implements.- The lazaretto is filling rapidly and there.are more than 2000 patients scattered throughout the city. Little or no precautions are be- ing taken to prevent contagion. Smallpox i8 raging in other cities also. 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