The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 19, 1905, Page 4

HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1905 “IF MY HUSBAND ONLY ~ KNEW!” SHE SAID VISITOR TO EILERS TiUSIC COMPANY MARVELS AT AUTOPIANO AND TELEPHONES HUSBAND. And These Two, Both “Crazy”’ for Music and Both Having Missed a Musical Training, Sit Down to an ‘“‘Auto” and in Five Minutes Learn to Play the Operas and the Melodies They Have Cared for All Their Lives. ‘ THESE MUST BE SOLD. And these used planos must be sold. et eve| What a wonderful opportunity for the o mber. | family that wants a good piano at a low ¢ want | Price! Among these rare bargains we have | | a Chickering that has stood for a year | silent fn a rich home for lack of some | ome to play it. It is a $00 plano practi- } cally new, but its price is now $368. There | | to produce ther smaller one for $260. $%5 we have a Kingsbury or a Weber or a Bell & Co. upright plano. Terms, 35 cash and $ a month. A Stelnway, a Kimball or a Knabe for $216 each. Think of it! And terms if you wish of $10 cash and % a month. This is a §10 Christmas gift that will never be is For inside the pi he mechanism, vou to play equaled $165 beys a very dainty little Colonial ahogany A. B. Chase. Your choice of | ree Vose planos at $194, $228 and $256. A | | great 2750 Hazelton for $485. A largest | cize Stelnway, regular $650 value, for $34. $46 for a Bluthner, a Mangott & Berndt | MEANS. ic you can- a | or a Woodworth & Schell upright. And a | hundred others at the same compar: tively small prices. WHERE WE ARE. We are slightly out of the retail dis- . o Nuto. | trict, in our temporary quarters at 514 2 s 848 1o | Market street. upstairs; but s it not - et amd designs, | Worth the nickel car fare to come and have these wonderful see us when we THE CTHER SIDE OF IT bargains to offer you? We are only a € 1 3 few doors bélow Montgumery street. 514 is not hard to remember, but 514 will be hard ever t8 forget once you have seen the bargains we have to offer. The customers of to-day bring new customers to-morrow, and business is rushing. Make this the merriest Christ- mas of all with a beautiful plano. ERS MUSIC COMPANY, 514 Market. HEFUSE TO CIVE (EARNEY POWER * FRESNO, Dec. 18.—In a mass meeting of the members of the California Raisin Growers' Company to-day in the Barton Opera-house the growers voted to sus- tain the directors of the growers' com- pany against its president, M. Theo. Kearney, who had called thé meeting,' de- | manding that the directors and the vice | president, M. F. Tarpey, be deposed, and that he be placed in full charge of the season’s crop of raisins to market it and eliver the proceeds to the growers. In- tead of doing as.Kearney had demanded the growers left the entire situation in FIEND 1S SHOT | BY EflNSTABLE; — Constable John Cos- shot and a Chilean who last night Thompson on the | s from this plac st when he w i dumb man Rot n the righ and killed a powerful fellow and d Angels for about two | me from Tuolumne |the hands of the directors and amended me is sald to be in Mon- } the constitution so that the directors may | depose Kearney. R. Thompson while she | The sitmation in raisin circles has been was serious for several weeks, owing to the Altaville, | | slowness of the Eastern market. Kearney 2 '~ | claigned that he could remedy matters. d for her to | He demanded first that the present con- | it she refused. He drove | tract between the growers' company and . srse and then attacked | the various commercial packers be ab- b or down twice. She es-|rogated. This question and the question her home and gave | of continuing the growers' company were put to the meeting by W. S. Goodfellow of San F: sco. The growers were al- most unanimous in voting that the com- pany and the packers' contract be con- tinued. ‘Do you uphold the directors or M. Theo. Kearney?’ was answered in favor of the directors, Kearney, who has about 900 tons of raisins, has never delivered them to the growers' company, in which he was the chief executive, although the responsi- bilities of that position had been shoved off by him on to M. F. Tarpey, the vice Considerable feeling against y because of his nondeliverance of raisins was evidenced during the meeting. i California Keramic Club have sale of deco- rated China during Dec. 221 Post. Open eve. * to hunt the nd until this breakfast at the constable | mpany the the shooting serious in a Lenther Goods. leather goods that Christmas sealitng Business Profitable. TORIA, B. C., Dec. 15.—Directors gic Sealing Commission held y meeting to-day and made | e annual meeting pected a divi share 1« PIONEER WOMAN DEAD. cent a e commis: dividend 1 five per cent s of the commiss an be secured will be | ing of the year. RS .~ S S GILROY, Dec. 18.—Mrs. Mary Tully, widow of the late Congressman P. B. Tully, and mother of Mrs. H. J. Riggins and Mrs. G. E. Rea, died h2re this morning after a lingering iliness. Mrs. | Tully was the eldest daughter of the well known pioneer Julius Martin. She New Califorunia Postmaster. came to California in December, 1843, WASHINGTON. Dec. 18.—Anna H. |crossing the plains. Mrs. Tully was Gerberd has beer yinted post- jone of the earliest ploneers’ of the at Hueneme, Ventura County, | State, Her life was passed In this | valley. o Pierce Arrow Touring Car Lrrived Now to be seen at the Garage of the / Mobile Carriage Co., cor. Golden Gate avenue and Gough street : : The car that won the noses of the police, | GLIDDEN TROPHY INSURGENT LETTS BATTLE WITH LOYAL DRAGOONS. ~ Defeat Troops Escorting German 'Re/fugees and Make Prisoners of Kaiser's Subjects. Captives Are Taken to Lennawarden Castle, Where Rebels Hold Orgy Over Them. WALCK, Province of Livonia, Dec. 18—Details have been received here of a battle between the mem- bers of a company of dragoons, who were escorting a wagon train containing twenty German families, and an armed band of 4000 Letts, near Roemerschoff. [ The expedition was trying to escape to the southward, but the. ammunition of the dragoons, as the re- sult of constant skirmishes, was running low, and it was decided to reach Riga. roads cross the expedition ran into a Lett camp, whichs was strongly barricaded. When at a point where the The Letts opened fire, whereuson the dragoons charged, but were repulsed. The Letts then took the offensive. The ammunition of the Aragoons becoming exhausted, they surrendered, with their charges, on the understanding that they would give up their guns but would be ailowed to- retain their revolvers. Another band, however, made its appearance and insisted that the capture was effected in its territory. The members of this band then carried off the captives to Iennawarden Castle, where they held a regular orgie over their victims. MITAU, Province of Courland, Sunday, Dec. 16. ~-The troops. in order to avoid annihilation a{the hands of the insurgents, have been forced to abandon the country districts and to concentrate at Riga, Mitau and Libau, where they actually are standing on the defensive, unable to make headway against the insurgents. detachments have been defeated. The garrison of Tacum (Uniucknin), consisting of Several a squadron of dragoons and a company of infantry, not being able to depart in time, was set upon at night and lost its commander, Lieutenant Col- onel Mueller, and thirty men. The insurgents, evading the sentinels, penetrated the town and laid wire entanglements in front of the houses in which the wounded soldiers were quartered. They then set fire to the houses, and the troops, rushing out, were shot down from the roofs or cut up in the narrow streets. The soldiers retreated in coniusion, leaving their dead. The latter were horribly mutilated by the in- surgents, o gouged out their eyes and cut off their ears and hands. The insurgents, who formed in bands, have a regimental organization and are well armed with mili- tary rifles and bayonets. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 18, 7 p: m.— The Workmen's Council, under the very has succeeded in printing 100,000 coples of its paper, an- nouncing that the Government has de- clared civil war on the proletariat and saying that the challenge must be ac- cepted. In its appeal to the people, the council declares this is the Government’s last fight; that the throne of the Roman- offs is tottering and that another blow will cause it to fall. The councll adds: “While the Government of St. Peters- burg is falling, its own regiments are rising against it and at Riga a republic has already been proclaimed. A few regiments may still be faithful, but the army as a whole is on our side. The Government wants to fight. It shall have it. “The people are for us. If we are de- feated it will not be our last battle. We can fight on. The Government is risk- ipg everything—its army and finances. “De Witte cannot play his hypoeritical game any longer. The Government has only made concessions to save itself from ruin. Now, seeing that its fall is inevi- table, it is making a last despairing ef- fort to recover its power. “We would have preferred delaying the decisive conflict until better . prepared, but reaction makes retreat impossible. A revolutionary conflict cannot be avoided.” APPEALS TO THE ARMY. The paper also contains a direct appeal to the army, which is signed “The Pan- Russian Union of the Army and Navy. This appeal inveighs against the tyranny of the Government, which, it says, em- ploys the army not against a foreign foe, but to shoot down its own people. It urges the soldiers and sallors to remem- ber their parents, their wives and,their children; to take a share in the emanci- pation of the nation, to organize secretly, to take oath not to shoot down the peo- ple and to join in the general strike when it shall have been proclaimed. In spite of the fury of the revolution- ists, however, considerable confidence is expressed in Government circles that the extreme elements, in the present temper | of the workmen, will not dare to call a general strike and if they do the chances are that it will be a failure. The Bourse Gazette says it is rumored that $50,000,000 in gold has been shipped abroad to help in supporting Russian se- curities in the foreign markets. CALLING FOR MORE TROOPS. Governor Regensk, at Riga, is still urgently calling for troops. He reports that, besides the fact that armed insur- gents are disputing the passage of the soldiers, the railroad tracks are damaged in all directions and he adviges that troops be sent by water. It now transpires that one-half the re- inforcements of troops on board the train wrecked on December 14 near Stock- mansof, Livonia, surrendered to the surgents. Governor Regensk’s latest ad- vices =ald that the remainder of the troops held out for four days. Their position, when last heard of, was des- perate. The following statement of the Govern- ment's position was made to-night and may be accepted as authoritative: “The Government sincerely desired to introduce the new regime without having recoursé to harsh measures, but it re- celved no support from the constitutional- ists or other moderates, while the prole- tariat organizations, under the leadership of the Soclalists, continued their mad campaign in favor of armed rebellion and openly incited the army and navy to mu- tiny. The climax of this campaign was reached when .efforts were made to at- tack the credit of the country in the midst of a considerable panic. Had the Government allowed such efforts to go unchallenged it would have precipitated complete financial and industrial ruin. DES] TE REMEDY NEEDED. ‘“‘After all, self-preservation is the first law of nature, and, besides, without the restoration of ‘a semblance of order, it would be impossible to hold the elections for the douma. The case was a desperate one and it démanded a desperate remedy. “The Government believes that the radi- cal alms of the Soclalists have the sym- pathy of only a fraction of the popula- tion, and that if their leaders should suc- ceed in overthrowing the monarchy and In plecing their doctrines in practice they would be swept out of existence by a counter revolution. “Nevertheless, the Government is on the horns of a dilemma, as, no matter how honest its motives, in the present state of excitement they are bound to be misrepresented; while, on the other hand, if enot order can be restored to hold the elections the cry will be set up that the Government hLas adopted this expedient to control the elections and to capture the douma. We have taken the only course left open to us.” e it DOES NOT FEAR THE CONFLICT. Government Belleves Gemeral . Strike Movement Will Fail. - BT. PETERSBURG, Dec. 19, 3:10 a. m.— There is doubt as to whether the pro- letariat organizations will risk proclaim- ing a general strike as their answer to the CGovernment’'s policy of repression. They are anxiously waliting responses from the provinces, especially the de- cision of the railroad men, whose central cal ittee is holding a prolonged session at COW. it e ke B _strongest argument lers ~delay is that the Government before January 22 in ~“cup the organizations | throughout the country, leaving the rev- | olution in a stre m. . _ The Government counts on the split in the ranks of the workmen, | wi was by starvation in- | the counsels of such men as Father Gapon, who advised his followers not | to heed the advice of the Soclalist agi- | tators and revolutionarfes. | Among the workmen in the mills and factories here, the proprietors say, there has been a great change of sentiment. The men generally are satisfled with the FEmperor's last speech, in which his | Majesty declared It was his unchanged ! purpose to carry out all of the reforms promised in his manifesto. Nevertheless, according to the proprietors, the men may be easily swept away on the tide of passion, especially if bloodshed take place. | ' There is considerable nervousness be- | cause of rumors that the royal dethon- strations which. have been planned for to-day, the Emperor's name day, are to be made the occasion for the turning | loose of the “Black Hundred” here and { in Moscow, but it is extremely doubtful | that even the most reactlonary officials 7‘ will be able to provoke rioting in such a | erisis. | The warning of ‘the Government to the | labor- leaders that it would be unable to | protect their follows from the fury of the populace in case of another general strike seems to be justified by a dis- | patch from Rostof-on-Don, according to which & mob attacked & committee of railroad men called to discuss the ques- tion of a strike, and beat its members nearly to death. A dispatch from Kieff reports wholesale arrests of labor leaders there. he council at Tsarskoe-Selo, which, in | addition to Count .de Witte and the | members of his Cabinet, is attended by Grand Duke Nicliolas, General Count Alexis Ignatieff, Baron Kolde, M. Bouli- | gan, M. Guchkoff and elght of the Em- peror’s old tinfe founselors, sat until late | into the night discussing the election law. | No report of the proceedings has been re- ceived, but it is believed a decision has not been arrived at. The eagerly awaited manifesto to the military, giving the soldlers incrensed | pay and granting improvements in serv- ice conditions, will be published today. pEae OF FRIGHTFUL ATROCITIES. | Baltic Refugees Fleeing to the Prussinn Border, BERLIN, Dec. 19.—The Local An- zeiger has the following from Eydt- kuhnen, East Prussia, dated Decem- ber 18: “A train of about eighteen cars brought fugitives here this afternoon from Riga by way of Duenaburg, West Russia. “Over 400 refugees from Libau and Mitau have arrived. The regular train ITELL from St. Petersburg brought 200 refugees, many of them women and children. “The waiting rooms here are over- crowded. The further movement west of all the refugees is impossible at present. Many of the men are return- ing to Russian points, in order to make an effort to bring out the remaining members of their families. “The refugees report that brutalities of the most frightful description have been committed in the Baltic reglon. “Many officers have been horribly mutilated by the Lithuanian peasants at Libau, Riga and Mitau.” The Tageblatt's correspondent at Klel says that a number of freight steamships have arrived at Holtenau, Schleswig-Holstein, with Russian fugi- tives, chlefly owners of landed estates. GERMAN VESSEL GOES TO RIGA. ‘Will Bring Away Endangered Subjects of Emperor Willlam. KOENIGSBERG, Prussia, Dec. 18.— The German steamship Volga safled to- day for Riga to bring away German subjects whose lives are endangered. BERLIN, Dec. 18.—The decision of Chancellor, von Bulow, with the ap- proval of the Emperor, to send German steamships to ports of the Russian Baltic provinces and bring away the Germans who are in danger is regarded as most important, The optimism as to the outcome of the Russian disturb- ances seems to be shaken. The Lokal Anzeiger, ysually most careful of what it says In matters concerning the Gov- ernment, asserts that dther measures i than sending ships to Baltic ports have been considered by the Government, but the paper adds that none of them appears necessary at present. gt e CROWN JEWELS SENT ABROAD. Said to Have Been Put Beyond the Reach of Revolutionists. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 18.—Martial law has been declared in several dis- tricts of the Government of Poland. ' All the men arrested ,at Saturday's meeting of the Workmen's Council have been released with the exception of thirty-two, who refused to give their names. A train which was derailed on Sat- urday mear Gatschina is understood to have had on board $10,000,000 in gold. It is rumored that the crown jewels |have been sent abroad. H The War Department is concentrat- : ing two army corps to suppress the re- volt in the Baltic provinces. \According to the Government's informktion, 60,- 000 Letts ;ere under arms. s ¢ amoEE GERMAN BARONS IN CAPTIVITY. Held Prisoners by the Insurgents of Livonia DORPAT, Dec. 18.—The southern part of Livonia and the greater part of Courland are completely in the posses- _sion_of the lnlutl;::l. The military are still much too feeble to cope the situatiol, The region between Riga and Wenden is a wilderness. The buildings on all the estates have been burned and plundered. A number of German Barons and their familles are held prisoners by the {nsurgents. e THREE HUNDRED KILLED. Heavy Casualties During the Fighting at Mitau. BERLIN, Dec. 1.—A dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger from Koenigsberg, Prussia, to-day, timed 2:15 o'clock this afternoon, says: “During the street fizhting at Mitau, the capital of Courland, 300 persons were killed. ‘At Lennewarden, in Southern Liv- onia, the revolutionists liberated all the prisoners and shot Assistant District Governor 'Peterson and M. Maximo- vitch, his secretary, and threw their bodies into the rive: Street RSy S JEWS URGE INSURRECTION. Proclamation Issued by the Warsaw Soctalist Bund. WARSAW, Dec. 18.—The post and telegraph strike continues here:” The strikers are determined to persist un- til the central committee at Moscow orders them to resume work. The Jewish Socialist Bund has is- sued a proclamation urging prepara- tion for an armed insurrection. e Csar Intends to Restore Order. BERLIN, Dec. 18.—Count von Al- vensleben, the retiring German Em- bassador at St. Petersburg, talking to the St. Petersburg correspondent of the Vossische Zeitung 'regarding his farewell audience of Emperor Nich- olas, said the Emperor spoke freely about the situation and said firmly that he intended first to restore order and then. to carry out all the reforms promised. His Majesty added that he relied upon the assistance of the Na- tional Assembly. R T Fate of Kronstadt Mutineers. KRONSTADT, Russia, Dec. 18.—The military court has acquitted elghteen out of forty-nine privates of the Kron- stadt artillery who were charged with mutiny. in connection with the recent outbreak here. The others were sen- tenced to terms of imprisonment rang- ing from two to twenty-four months. £ R san Ty American Arrested in Italy. MILAN, Italy, Dec. 18.—The police here have arrested Frederick Bach- mann of New York, who is said to have been an accomplice in a theft of $5000. Bachmann is 19 years of age. —_—————— ‘Well Known Doctor Il SAN JOSE, Dec. 18.—At his resi- dence in this city, Dr. F. C. Gerlach, president of the San Jose Board of Health, is seriously ill with a compli- cation of diseases resulting from an aggravated attack of la grippe. He ‘was taken sick a week ago and his condition grew rapidly worse. At pres- ent the gravest fears are entertained for his recovery. Dr. Gerlach is very well known and popular in this sec- tion. He has been connected with the Jocal board of health for a number of years. —_————— Try the United States Laundry. Market street. 1004 Telephone South 420. * —_——— Californians in Paris. 2 PARIS, Dec. 18.—E. E. Caswell of Ban Francisco is In Paris. —_————— GAS CLAIMS AGED CLOAKMAKER.— Charles Smith, an aged cloakmaker, was found dead in hiz room, 1996 Folsom street, early this morning, gas having produced death. TIPAY ACAINST SHAC I CHNA Fails to Get Concessions it Expected as a Result of Recent War With Bear KOMURA UNSUCCESSFUL Russia, France and Germany Believed to Have Used Influence Against Mikado TOKIO, Dec. 18.—The continued fail- ure of Baron Komura to conclude the negotiations with the Chinese Govern- ment at Peking, which were begun after the close of the Russo-Japanese war, is an open secret. It is believed by some Japanese here that the extent of the concessions to Japan are such as wili fail to give satisfaction. For example, the buiiding of the Kirin-Changchung Railway has not been conceded, and the | siationing of railway guards is not to | be permitted, leaving the Work in the hands of the police, who will be with- drawn when the period for the with- drawal of troops expires. China’s firm attitude is believed to be | due to combined pressure Indirectly ex- erted by Russia, France and Germany. The outery against the alleged weak- ness of the Cabinet is increasing, and some persons advocate the suspension of the Peking negotiations. The kindness of the Emperor of Ger- | many to former Japanese prisoners of | war on their way home is appreciated. but the Japanese appear to be distrust- ful of his style of diplomacy. Ko Makes the lightest most delicious and hot biscuit The leading newspapers are express- ing indignation over the attitude of China. The Jijl advocates the sus-| pension of the negotiations at Peking. | The Nichi Nichi says that should China | continue obdurate such measures as | may be necessary_ should be taken to “insure to Japan her rightful acquisi- | tions.” H General Kodama will go to Formosa | on December 22, where he will resume the office of Governor, which he filled prior to the late war with Russia. 1 DODCE THES WITESS STAND NEW YORK. Dec. 18—Charles F. Dodge, former husband of Mrs. Charles W. Morse, was the first witness in the Hummel conspiracy case to-day. He told of money he had received from Hummel and of conferences with the latter. He had, he said, been lavishly suppiied with money by Hummel. Captain Morse testified that Hummel | told him Mrs. Morse's second marriage could be upset, and added: “I then gave him instructions to break up that mar- riage if he could. I requested him not to let me be known whatever in the mat- ter.” TAKES WIFE'S LAST CENT AND LEVANTS Los Angeles Merchants Want to Know Whereabouts of Contracter. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18.—Adoiph Hers, for five years ome of the moct extensive painting contractors in the city, has dis- appeared, leaving «a host of creditors. His wife is without a cent, as Herz borrowed her last $10 when he kissed her good-by last Friday, saying he was going to Mon- terey to get a big contract. To-day from Sacramento the wife recelved a brief note telling her that he had left her for good, did not intend to return and asking her not to grieve for him. Financial dif- fieulties are believed to be behind the man's deoarture. It has been learned that he gave two checks when he had no funds in the bank and his bills to Los Angeles wholesale houses will, it is said, amount to more than $5000. S Balfour Discusses Fiseal Polley. LEEDS, Eng. Dec. 18.—Arthur J. Balfour, the former Prem addressed 5000 persond at the Coliseum here to- night, dévoting his speech almost ex- clusively to a discussion of the fiseal policy, on which the Unionists would conduct the campaign. Tn the winter of 1904 witness said Hum- mel told him Dodge had been arrested in the South for perjury and that Captain Morse ought to do something about ft. “Did he ask you to put up $10,000 ball for Dodge?” “Yes, and I came on next day with the $10,000 and gave it to Hummel. T never got it back. Later on, in response to another message from Hummel, I went to Stamford, Conn., and gave $3000 to Na- thaniel Cohen.” The witness said that in addition to this payment he afterward gave successive | sums to Cohen, making a total of $29.500 exclusive of the bail or the original $15,000 fee. “Did you ever get any of that money back?”’ “No, sir,” Captain Morse testified, and said that he took it upon himself to break up the marriage regardless of cost, in the interest of his nephew's chfldren. —_——————————— SHAKING FOR DRINKS 1§ NOW \ ALLOWED IN SAN DIEGO City Trustees Repeal Ordinance Pro- hibiting Dice G and Sale of Liquer on Sunday. 3 SAN DIEGO, Dec. 18.—By a vote of six to three the City Council to-night repealed the so-called Kelly ordi- nance, under which hotels and restaurants are prohibited from sell- ing wine on Sunday and by which shaking dice for drinks in saloons js forbidden. The referendum ordi- nance under which saloons must close on Sunday and which prohibits screens I8 not affected by the Council's action. —_—————————— Passes Away in Oregon. GRANTS PASS, Ore., Dec. 18.—George Walter, a former merchant of San Francisco, died at Applegate, Ore. few days ago of appendicitis. Mr, W. a Sold by THE OWL DRUG CO., 1123 Market st. and 30 Geary st. Dr. Lyon’s PERFECT Tooth Powder Cleanses and beautifies the testh and purifies the breath. ter was a prominent member of the Masons and Odd Fellows, having as- sisted at the laying of the cornerstone of the Odd Fellows’ bullding in San Franecisco. He also was a veteran of the Indian wars in Southerd Oregon. He is survived by a widow and eight children. Holiday Attractions In Colored Department, New Empirz Coats, Jackets, Suits, Petti- coats, Furs, Skirts, Waists, Etc. New Empire Coats .........88.50 to $17.50 New Tan Jackets......\...8$7.50 to $15.00 New Long Coat Suits. .. ..$15.00 to $35.00 New Silk Petticoats........$5.00 to $15.00 New Neck Furs...........8$2.80 to $20.00 Children’s Fur Sets..........$1.25 to $3.50 i NEARLY ALL PURCHASED SPECIALLY | FOR HOLIDAY TRADE THE .815.00 to $25.00 BLACK GOODS HOUSE Old Re- liable” is easy to buy. easy to shave with quires neither ltro»&hln:; honing. An unexcelled shaving device . . nar; steel of the ihl; and the construction. Standard as low as.. S < n e s $1.00 promptly filled. THAT MAN PITTS, - F. W, PITTS, The Stationer, Y