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The San Francisco call., 1904-06-03
AIexieff Succeeds i'm Com
pelling KurOpatkin to
Advance.
General Is Forced to Act
Against His Better
Judgment.

PARIS, June 3.-The correspondent
of the Echo de Paris at st. Petersburg
telegraphs:
"Viceroy Alexieff and General Kuro-
patkin having asked the Emperor to
settle their. dispute, his Majesty sum-
moned a council of war. including Min
ister of War Sakharoff, Marine Minis
ter Ayellan and Minister of the Interior
Plehwe. The council debated for sew
eraI hours at Tsarskoe-Selo.
''I have reason to believe that the
necessity Of preserving the naval base
at Port Arthur. and the lost prestige
that the fall of Port Arthur would en-
tail were the arguments that prevailed
in the council. General Kuropatkln
therefore has been advised to attempt
to relieve the fortress, but to act with
the greatest prudence. A general whom
/ interviewed on the subject Of the
council said: If Kuropatkin is weak
enough to advance he will commit a
serious blunder. The number of his
troops is insufficient and the conditions
under which he would act would be un-
favorable He might meet an almost
irreparable reverse and Port Arthur
be further from relief than ever. If we
try to relieve Port Arthur we will be
doing exactly what the Japanese
hope"
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-03
FISHING TRIP NEARLY
ENDS IN A TRAGEDY
Two Oakland Residents Lose Their
Way in the Boulder Creek Coun-
try and Almost Perish.

BOULDER CREEK. June A fish
ing trip TO the Big Basin nearly had
tragic ending for two young men from
Oakland, Bowes and Gardiner. plumb
ers in the employ OF Fay & Co. Spend
ing Saturday night at Blooms mill,
seven miles from Boulder Creek, they
started early Sunday morning for the
west fork of the Waddell a stream
famous for fishing, under the directions
Of Guide KOhlberg. The fishing grounds
reached the guide was dismissed and
starting alone down the stream the
young men were lured farther away
from their starting point. AS Gard
iner stated this evening, after filling
their baskets they wandered through
the dense forest, admiring the beauti-
ful trees, and when it was time to re-
turn took the wrong trail and were
hopelessly lost in the famous chalk
ridge country, where every gulch and
hill looks alike Bowes, who is of
very nervous temperament, became
greatly alarmed. Crawling into a hol-
low log they sought to sleep, but
BOwes, in his excited state, grew worse
and by morning was delirious. Their
continued absence caused alarm and
several searching parties were sent out
from the mill. One Of the parties, un-
der the command of Walter Bloom
found them some twelve miles from
the MILL exhausted and worn out. They
were placed upon stretcners and car
ried to the mill, where medical at
tention was given them, and in a few
days they will be able to return to
Oakland
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-03
HACKMEN WAIT FOR RESULT
OF THE POLICE COMMISSION
and TeIegraphers Have De-
mands Granted.
5RER
GM s1

Hackmen are to wait for the final
action of the Police Commission to-
day regarding the issuance of licenses
to drivers. Thursday night is the
meeting time of the union, but as the
commission is to decide to-day what
shall be done in the way of granting
permits no action was taken beyond
the order that all union men and
union owners wear their colors.
The majority of the shoe workers
have decided to return to work. There
are a few who will stand out, but the
union has decided against them. Those
who fail to return to work will be sue
ceeded by men named by the Interna-
tional Union.
1t looks now as if the troubles be-
tween the leather workers and their
employers are about to terminate.
Open shop cards have been called off
and it appears as If there is to be a
mutual understanding.
All questions between the teleg-
raphers and the Southern Pacific have
passed. An advance was granted the
men and as that was the only conten-
tention there was nothing further to
do. Linemen who work for the city
will be allowed time off for all over
time, but they will not get extra pay.
That question was settled at a meeting
of the Police and Fire Commission
last night.
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DECIDES IMPORTANT SUIT
IN FAVOR OF GOVERNMENT
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Reverses Lower Tribunal i'm the
Sugar Cases

NEW YORK, June 2.-The United
States Circuit Court of Appeals to-day
handed down a decision in favor of
the Government in the case of the
United States IS. Bartram Bros, Ben
jamin Howell & Co. and the American
Sugar Refining Company, holding that
sugar imported into this country was
assessable on a scale based on the
polariscopic test made in a tempera-
ture of 25 degrees centigrade. The de-
cision reversed the Circuit Courts rul-
ing and sustained the opinion of the
Board of United States General APP
praisers. In Importance the case ranks
second to none in customs laws and
involves directly more than 10000
protests of importers throughout the
country.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-03
RECEPTION TENDERED
BY TEACHERS CLUB
Officials of Educational Department
Pleasantly Entertained at
SteinWay Hall.

Not all of the teachers in San Fran
cisco nor half of them were present
last night in Steinway Hall at the re-
ception given. by the San Francisco
Teachers Club to the officers of the
School Department and other city Of
ficials having duties concerning the
schools. The comparatively small at
tendance and the lateness of those
who responded to the invitation in
arriving were the only things to mar
an otherwise most delightful affair.
The guests were cordially greeted
by A. L. Mann, president of the club,
and among the notable educators in
attendance were State Superintendent
of Public instruction Thomas J. Kirk,
DR.. Frederic Burk, president of the
San Francisco Normal School; City
Superintendent William H. Langdon,
Deputy City superintendent A. E. Nc
Curda and City Engineer Thomas D.
Woodward, former president of the
Board of Education. Others appeared
during the evening and with the
teachers present and their friends en-
joyed to the utmost the fine musical
programme rendered under the direc-
ton of Miss Estelle Carpenter, super
visor of music in the city schools.
The programme follows: THE Fairy
Love Song Miss Viola Van Orden;
"Mazurka," Miss Isabelle Seal; THE
Swallows" Miss E. vacoucellos; solo,
Mr.. McCurda; Flower Song (Bevig-
nani), Miss Daisy Cohn; violin solo,
Miss Isabelle Seal.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-03
Entire Battaions Are Destroyed to Man by the Russian
Fire. but Others Spring Forward to the Attack
Until Foes Lines Are Pierced.

LONDON, June 3.-The Times
steamer Haimun returned to Chefu
yesterday from a cruise in Kinchou
Bay. The correspondent aboard learn
ed from Port Arthur refugees that the
native and civilian population get only
such food as arrives on junks from
Chinese ports or what they them
selves have secreted. The military su-
thorities requisitioned all available
food On half rations it is estimated
that the garrison has enough for five
months.
The five damaged warships moored
at the Port Arthur jetties, the corre-
spendent learns, have been denuded Of
everything movable. Lieutenant Gen
eral Stossel retains a large number Of
junks in the roadstead. The objecc of
this measure can only be conjectured.
The correspondent says:
Eye witnesses of the battle of Kin
chou describe it as an unprecedented
military spectacle. Forty thousand
japanese were massed behind the west
ern spur of Mount Samson, under
such small cover as was afforded by
in 1000 yards of the Russian works.
There was so little room TO deploy for
attack that battalions Of Japanese
troops were Obliged to stand III the
sea, waiting for the moment of at
tack, exposed to a veritable inferno
of fire from the Russian batteries. The
shells plowed into their masses.
Meanwhile battery after battery of
Japanese guns went into action upon
the Chilishwang and the Kauchiayan
fats and a sustained gunboat fire
played upon the Russian works. Their
lines were fringed with bursting pro-
jectiles. About midday the energy of
the Russian defenders in the works
in front of Mauchiaying village seemed
exhausted by the gunboat fire. Two
Japanese battalions appeared over the
saddle between the peaks and made
desperate effort to carry the nearest
Russian works. At first the struggling
walls of Mauchiaying gave them some
cover and a moments breathing space.
Then the gallant little infantrymen
crept again up the slopes toward the
Russian position. 1t was an impossible
task. AS yet the defenders had not
been sufficiently shaken. An avalanche
of concentrated fire from infantry in
the trenches, machine. guns in the Rus
sian works and quick firing field ar
tillery in the supporting defenses
struck the Japanese. They melted away
from the glacis like solder before the
fame of a blowpipe. A few, who
seemed to have charmed lives, strug-
gled on until they reached the wire en-
tanglements.
1T was in vain. Heroic effort was
wasted. Within fifteen minutes those
two battalions ceased to exist, except
as trail of mutilated bodies at the
footfof the Russian glacis.
Seeing the failure of this attack, the
gunboats and supporting artillery
concentrated the whole of their fire
upon the point where General Oku had
determined to drive home his wedge,
and by evening the works were prac-
ticable for an assault by a general who
had such infantry as the Japanese and
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-03
RUssIA's K1NoHou LOSSES.
Thirty Officers and Eight Hundred
Men Killed or Wounded.

Thirty Officers and Eight Hundred
Men Killed or Wounded.
ST. PETERSBURG, June "A, semi
official telegram from Mukden, dated
to-day, says the Russian. losses at the
battle of Kinchou on May rs were
thirty officers and 800 men killed or
wounded. The guns abandoned by the
Russians were first rendered useless.
According to information in pos
session of the general staff, the enemy
has five divisions and five reserve
corps, about $4,000 men, on the Lao
tung peninsula, and at least seven di-
visions and seven reserve corps, or
about 125,000 men, in Southern Man
churia. Although the impression pre-
vailed among the members of the gen.
eral staff that General Kuroks pur-
pose was to make feints to prevent
General Kuropatkin moving, but not
to attack him until the result of the
campaign against Port Arthur was de-
termined, there is now apparently more
inclination to believe he will try
demonstration in force, which might
result in a decisive engagement The
Japanese commander is constantly
shifting his columns back and forth
to conceal his real purposes, the latest
reports received being that he has
again abandoned Saimatzsa, north of
Fengwangcheng.
All the reports received at General
Kuropatkins headquarters from the
Kwantung peninsula are increasing the
extent Of the japanese losses at Kin
chou, one to-day making the number
at about 10000 men.
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Church People Enjoy Concert.

A musical evening was enjoyed by
the members and friends of the Fourth
Congregational Church, Stockton and
Green streets, last night. Every num-
ber on the programme, whether vocal,
instrumental or orchestral, drew forth
the heartiest applause as did also the
admirable recitations of Miss Ethel
Cotton. The Occidental Male Quartet
rendered it's selections with excellent
judgment and Miss Tibbetts and Miss
Hucks sang a serenade by Delibes de-
lightfully. w. +. Christ and Mr.. lie
Noir sang the duet, "Guala," and the
Chinese Girls Quartet was feature.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-03
FATAL FIGHT BETWEEN
WHITE AND COLORED MEN
Receive Wounds That Cause
Their Deaths,

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, June "A
fight occurred at midnight in a res
taurant on Central street. As a re-
suit one man is dead and two NOR
tally wounded. Constable G.. G.. Gam
BILE and T. w. Mccarthy were eating
when Lum and Wash Miller, negroes,
came into the place and asked for
something to eat.
Mccarthy ordered the negroes to
wait until he and Gamble finished
Shooting at once began. Lum was
shot by Gamble and killed, but not
till he had shot Gamble in the abdo-
men and in the leg. Wash Miller was
shot through the right arm and in
the chest by a negro named Cook,
who was trying to hit Constable Nc
Carthy. The two wounded men can
live but few hours.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-03
Mccormick May Take a Rest.

ST. PETERSBURG. June 2.-Spen-
Ger F. Eddy, secretary of the United
States Embassy, has gone to Paris on
a three weeks visit to his mother, who
recently recovered from q severe ILL
ness. Shortly after his return, if the
conditions permit, ambassador Nc
Cormick and Mrs. Mccormick will go
to Carlsbad for a months sojourn.
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on this point. A portion, which was
made public, said that every ship ex-
cept the Pobieda was now ready to go
to sea at moments notice and that
the channel was clear. He confirmed
the belief which existed here, that the
Japanese will continue their efforts to
block the channel before the decisive
moment to storm the fortress on the
land side arrives, and has made plans
accordingly.
In the opinion of the most compe-
tent military critics the land fortifica-
tions must be preached before a gen
eral assault can be risked and that is
not considered possible-in less than ten
weeks.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-03
RUSSIAN RAIDERS ACTIVE.
Destroy Supply Ships and Capture
Provision Trains.

VLADIVOSTOK, June 2.-Letters
from the theater OF war report that the
Russian raiders have succeeded in
penetrating as far as Gensan and also
south of Anju. They have destroyed
depots of Japanese supplies and cap
tured provision trains Koreans are
fleeing to Manchuria to escape the
hardships of war. Chinese are moving
from Kwantung into Northern Man
churia in order to avoid living in terri
tory under Japanese control
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-03
DISCOVERS A MICROBE
WHICH CAUSES PHTHISIS
Professor Schron, Who First Found
Life i'm Crystals, Gives an Impor-
fanf Demonstration.

NAPLES, June 2. - Professor
Schron, the discoverer of life in crys-
tails, gave a public demonstration to-
day that he had found a new mi
crobe, which causes phthisis-a mi
crobe quite different from that caus-
ing tuberculosis. Professor Schron
affirms that this discovery explains
why Dr. Koch's serum not only did
not cure phthisis. but aggravated it.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-03
Hangs HimseIf in PARK.

n w. Charles, a carpenter about 65
years of age, committed suicide by
hanging himself from a tree in Gold
en- Gate Park last evening. Little is
known about the suicide except his
name and the fact that he is MEM
ber of the Carpenters Union. A card
in his pocket disclosed these facts.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-03
Prince Dolgorouky May Be Ehled.

Prince DOlgorouky May Be Exiled.
ST. PETERSBURG, June 2.-Foreign
Minister Lamsdorff refuses to make a
complaint against Prince Dolgorouky,
who committed a personal assault ON
the Minister on Monday evening. The
Prince is still under arrest. If the
medical authorities decide that his
mental arrangement is not sufficient
to warrant his incarceration in an asy-
lum he probably will be forbidden to
live in st. Petersburg.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-03
NAVAL BATTLE PROMISED.

ST. PETERSBURG, June At can
be predicted safely that the Russian
squadron at Port Arthur will not wait
until the last moment before going out.
The Admiralty seems to entertain no
fear. if the situation there becomes
desperate, that the squadron will be
caught like a rat in a trap.
Rear Admiral Wittsoeft's dispatch,
given out yesterday, gave assurances
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who was prepared to take the response
bility of such fearful losses.
The word was given for bayonet
attack. Then the whole Japanese
front surged forward and the moral
balance went over to the side of the
Japanese, the Russians retiring before
them"
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-03
FIND HOMES FOR BABIES
IN DEPLORABLE CONDITION
Condition of Private Institutions
for Care of Infants.

for Care of Infants.
Deputy Health Officer Adler yester-
day filed a report with the health Of
ficer showing that he had, together
with Auxiliary Inspector White, in
vestigated several private homes for
babies and found. them in a deplor-
able condition. At the place of Mrs.
O'Hern, 731 Folsom street, the re-
port says, sick baby suffering with
enteritis was found and ordered re-
moved to better surroundings. At the
place of Mrs. Bridley 0756 Folsom
street, there were four children rang
ing from four months to five years,
who were in filthy beds and in rags.
At another baby home two adults
were found intoxicated and the baby
inmates were poorly cared for.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-03
Noted stallion Is mead

SACRAMENTO, June 2.-Sir Mod
red, a noted stallion. died from old
age atSRancho del Paso to-day aged
twenty-seven years. He was the sire
of many winning racers.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-03
Murderer Is Electrocuted in Ohio.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June Carl
Berg, sentenced to death for the muir
der Of John Geuford at Wauseon,
Ohio. in July, 1903, was electrocuted
in the annex at the Ohio penitentiary
at 1908 a. m.
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ended as 1t did. Budd came near going
to the hospital with a broken jaw.
Tarpey is good with his right hand
and clever with both feet, If he isn't
ambidexterous."
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-03

STOCKTON, June .. Charles Wagner. a
bicycle thief, and Charles johnson, who passed
a forged check for small amount, were given
three and four years. respectively. In san
Quentin to-day, after pelading guilty.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-14

and too pretty for shopping or pedes-
trian wear.
The skirt, which is made upon the
plainest lines, is trimmed with long
stitched bands of brown broadcloth of
the same material as the gown. These
bands are cut in points and are so long
that they reach from the belt right
down to the bottom of the gown, where
they are finished in sharp points, each
point fastened with a big brass but
ton. The skirt needs no other trim
ming than this, for it is a kind Of trim
ming which carries its own dressiness
with it.
The upper part of this suit, which
is one worn by one of the Vanderbilt
women, was cut as an Eton, which
closely fitted the figure. 1t was trim
med with stitched bands of broadcloth,
each one finished with a brass button.
And these bands, somehow, produced
the effect of box plating.
The sleeves were very wide and very
full and were brought in at the hand
into wide cuff, which was split open.
This cuff had four brass buttons.
In all of these visiting costumes a
nne sleeve eIlecI Is produced by the
very wide plating around the hand.
The lingerie cuff it is called, and all
materials from the durable and wash
able lawn to the delicate chiffon are
employed in it's manufacture
The most useful and the prettiest
from tailor point of view of the
lingerie cuffs are produced by making
the ready made knife plating, which
comes at about rs cents a yard, and
buying enough of 1t to sew into the
sleeves. 1t does not take a great deal
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-14
Girl Who Got just What She Deserved

man who was the least commonplace.
Deep down in the labyrinths OF her
mind AIphoretta had planted an idea
that some day she would be discover
ed, wooed and won by some tall man.
brave and true. He, would be the
owner of vast estates, a yacht, a city
mansion and a Newport villa. He
would be a collector of priceless works
of art and a connoiSseur of rare vim
tages. He would be a leader among
men and a defender Of women. His
wealth would be unlimited and he
would be liberal to fault. He would
be a Herbert Spencer in intellect. a
James K. Hackett in form and a Harry
Lehr with the women. His name
would be Percival or Reginald or
Piedmont or something equally ador-
able. To AlphOretta he would be con-
stant and true Her wish would be his
law and her every whim would be
gratified. He would surround her with
maids. secretaries and all that her
heart could desire in furs, frocks and
frills.
True. no man of that description
had shown desire to accumulate Al
phoretta. But she had a hunch thar
it was only question of time when
he would appear upon the scene and
lay claim TO her heart and hand. That
is. why she held out on the local sI1D-
ply OF galbait.
After spinning around in drear,-
land for a considerable spell Alphor-
eta settled down and married tra
foreman of a guano factory.
moral: You never get more than ia
coming to you.
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which she secures to a ribbon stock
and fastens around the throat. They
give the finishing touch to the gown
and are specially useful for raising the
neck when the dress has been cut de-
cOllete
1t is really remarkable TO note how
the trimming is being pushed off the
shoulders. 1t is sagging lower and
lower, until it finds expression in the
sleeves, which are a mass of ruffles
around the elbows and the wrists Ger
tain bodices are almost plain as to the
stock and perfectly plain as to the
yoke. But when it comes TO the shoul-
ders there is a tiny fiat epaulet. Then
come the ruffles, and by the time the
wrist is reached the elbows and wrists
are one great fluffy mass of lace and
chiffon, of soft, flying silks, all knife
plated, of the most delicate dotted net
and Of ribbon ends.
Nor are these fancy sleeves peculiar
70 the silk gown alone, for they are a
feature OF the cloth dress as well.
Visiting dresses of rather somber cloth
are made glorious with deep dotted
plaitings. which fall from the elbow
down over the hand, coming out of
the sleeve in one great cascade at the
wrist
There is no doubt that it is to be a
velvet spring. for the new velvets are
not only beautiful in color, but deli
cate in texture. They are, many Of
them, quite as thin as ladies cloth
and there are a few expensive grades
that are very delicate indeed and are
called chiffon velvet, though they are
by no means as thin as chiffon.
When velvet can be made thin
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-14

NCE upon a time there lived In
the town of Segreganset
blonde. She was slender, fiex-
~ ible, emotional and worth see
ing without veil. Her eyes
were of an azure blue, her fingers
tapered. her instep was high and her
name was Alphoretta.
AIphoretta was as high-strung as a
concert violin and as graceful as the
weeping willow. Even when she was
all by herself she would sit on the
very edge of the chair with her skirt
wrapped under and her shoulders
thrown back just as though it was not
the least bit painful.
There was nothing prosaic about
Miss Alphoretta. ~She was a stickler
for high and lofty eff@ts-
Every morning when the crystal
sunbeams peeped through the heavy
hangings at her window and bathed
the room in a tender, golden light, AL
phoretta would open her night-worn
eyes, desert her pillow, make a care
full toilet and stroll into the garden,
where she would peruse Poems Of
Passion mid dew-kissed daffodils
while her mother prepared breakfast.
To the he-belles of Segreganset Al
phoretta was absolutely ungetatable.
They did not grade high enough to
segatiate in her class.
Every time lof them would take
q step in her direction she would wave
q red light. Fact is, Alphoretta's aim
was high. She was not going to
chance herself to beslanded by any