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The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
DISTURBED BY QUESTION
OF JEWISH PASSPORTS
ST. Petersburg Journal Declares the
Issue Is Raised as an "Ante-
Election Maneuver."

ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 16.-The
Russian press Is awakening to the
fact that the question of American
Jewish passports has been raised. The
Novoe Vremya this morning follows
the lead of the Journal de st. Peters
burg, the semi-official organ of the
Foreign Office, in it's denial of the
right of a foreign country to make
overtures for classification of our pop
ulation under the fiction of right ac-
quired by naturalization" and COM
ments with amaZement upon the ar
ticie in a recent number of the Paris
Steele, which represented President
Roosevelt as a new Moses, seeking to
impose upon Russia liberal treatment
of Russian Jews naturalized in the
United States.
The Novoe Vremya proceeds to be-
rate the United States for presuming
TO interfere in Russia's internal af-
fairs, but finally dismisses the whole
matter as IAN American election man
euver."
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
MURDER IN FIRST DECREE
CHARGED TO TOBELNIANN
Some of the Jurors Objected to Death
Penalty and Forced Life Inn
prisOnment Verdict,

Frederick Tobelmann was found
guilty of murder in the first degree
last night by jpry in the courtroom
Of Judge Dunno. The jury recon-
mended that the murderer pay the
penalty of his brutal crime with i'm
prisonment for life. The jurors were
out four hours and the verdict was
only reached after much deliberation.
Some of the jurors held out for the
death penalty, but were finally COM
PEELED, for the sake of a verdict. to
acquiesce to life Imprisonment YER
dict. Tobelmann will be sentenced
September "a.
Tobelmann shot his wife on the aft
ernoon of April 1 at the home of her
brother-in-law at SOS 4 Minna street.
Four bullets entered her body and she
was taken to the Central Emergency
Hospital, where she died the next day.
The murderer called at the hospital
shortly after the shooting and inform-
ed the doctor there that his wife had
shot herself. but the woman, before
she died, accused her husband and he
was placed under arrest.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
ELKS LOOKING
FOR A THIEF
special pIspateh to rhe c.ll.

SAN BERNARDINO. Sept. ia
thief sneaked into the Elks' clubroom
this afternoon. broke open Secreary
Armstrong; desk and stole $S1 or more
of the lodges funds. which had been
collected during the day and had not
yet been turned over to the treasurer.
The theft was discovered at 1880 p.
m, but not the slightest clew was
found. On two previous occasions.
some two or three weeks ago, vandals
entered the rooms during the noon
hour, while the Japanese attendant
was away, and cut and slashed the
fine leather chairs and other leathered
upholstered furniture.
The Elks are indignant and the po-
lice are nonplused, but incline to the
opinion that the damage to the furhi-
ture and theft are the work of a
maniac Sensational developments are
looked forward to in the near future,
as money will not be spared to detect
and punish the guilty person.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
Fighting Not Yet Re-
sumed North of
Liaoyang.
Russian Army Getting
Over It's Panicky
Condition.

MUKDEN, Sept. 16.-The panicky
conditions prevailing Immediately after
the battle of Liaoyang have entirely
disappeared in the Russian army now
concentrating here. Business has been
resumed and the city is quiet. The
Russo Chinese Bank has reopened.
The failure of the Japanese to fol-
low up the advantage gained at Lao
yang has caused surprise here. An in
dependent authority, who accompanied
the rear guard from the positions south
of Liaoyang to Mukden, says that this
failure is accounted for by the fact
that the japanese lost 10000 killed and
wounded in one days fighting and that
they were too tired to continue the
advance.
The japanese are reported to be in
trenched around Liaoyang and to have
repaired the bridge over the Taitse
River.
Twelve thousand soldiers wounded at
Liaoyang have been treated at the Red
Cross Hospital here.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
DISCUSS THE NEEDS
OF VARIOUS ASYLUMS
State Lunacy Commission Holds Its
Regular Quarterly Meeting
at AgneW.

SAN JOSE, Sept. 15.-The State
Lunacy Commission held its regular
quarterly session at Agnew Insane
Asylum to-day. Secretary of State
Charles F. Curry presided. Members
of the State Board of Charities and
Correction, prominent medical men OF
the State and the managers of the
different asylums to the number OF
twenty-five were present.
The needs of the various insane asy-
lums were taken up. Care of the con-
sumptive element in the asylums was
discussed and will probably result in
the request to the next Legislature for
assistance in preparing an institution
to be used solely for that class. Diet
tables and food service were also con-
sidered. Reports were made by the
medical suDerintendents of the five
different asylums and Agnew asylum
was inspected.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
CANNON OPENS CAMPAIGN.
Speaker Talks of Tariff and Trusts to
Big Audience.

speaker IdlkS Oh IdflH anu lTustS W
Big Audience.
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Sept. 15.-At the
Auditorium Theater in this city to-
night Speaker Cannon of the national
House of Representatives began a cam
paign which he will wage from this
time until election day in the close
Congressional districts Of the country
The large theater was filled to its ut
most capacity and the speaker was re-
ceived with enthusiastic cheers.
Cannon discussed at length the va
rious issues of the campaign, but gave
his especial attention to the tariff and
trusts, contending, with reference to
the former, that the Republican policy
of protection is the only safeguard of
American interests and, concerning the
latter, that the action Of the President
is an unmistakable index of the atti-
tude of the Republican party.
Cannon declared that the Republican
party asked only to be judged by its
fruits and thus tested he was willing
to let the people pass upon the official
acts of the President. The speaker re-
ferred to Bryan in terms of praise,
saying that his feet are in the soil"
"On the currency question he is
wrong, but you don't have to get out
a search warrant to determine where
he stands. Ny God, 1 wish 1 could say
the same of David B. Hill and Alton
3. Parker"
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
DEMAND A SURRENDER.
Japanese Issue a Proclamation to the
Port Arthur Troops.

ST. PETERSBURG, Sept 15.-A
dispatch from Lieutenant General
Stoessel. commander of the Russian
military forces at Port Arthur. says
the japanese are actively constructing
fortifications on the Samhon Noun
tain and at other points and that they
continue to lombard the forts and
harbor. On September they threw
ESQ shells into the town.
The Japanese, the dispatch adds,
have issued a proclamation to the
Russian troops. demanding their sur
render. General StOessel sees in this
proclamation an indication of the en-
emy's consciousness of failure.
sOn September g." says Stoesse'
the enemy received reinforcement
on the west front of the fortress. Dur
ing the bombardment of September 2
the Japanese squadron remained the
whole time in view Of the fortress. =
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
REINFORCING OYAMA.
Fresh japanese Troops Still Pouring
Into Newchwang.

KOUPANTZU, Sept. 16.-The Jap
anese have not yet appeared in the
vicinity of the Sinmintin Railway. The
Russians still hold the great Mukden
road from Sinmintin, protecting the
right flank with a full arpy corps
above the Hun River. The japanese,
who are still landing reinforcements
at Newchwang and sending winter
equipment and supplies up the Lao
River, are operating from the hills
along the east.
Foreign military attaches and news
paper correspondents in numbers left
the japanese side after the lighting at
I.iaoyang. The correspondents also
are leaving the Russian army.
Native refugees are crowding the
trains to the south. but the damage
done to the natives is insignificant.
Manchuria throughout has huge crops
and the people have been enriched by
Russian expenditures.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
ROBS The SEA
OF ITS VICTIMS
DOnvig's Life-Saving Globe
InsureS Safety of Those
Aboard Wrecked Vessels
DEVICE STANDS TESTS
Each One Is Capable of
Carrying 16 Passengers
and a Months Supplies
Special Dispatch t9rhe can


NEW YORK, Sept. 15.-"Suppose a
ship on which you are passenger is
sunk by another vessel. All you would
have to do would be to jump into the
life-saving globe, and even IL you were
adrift a month you would be able to
say truthfuIly that your voyage had
merely been pleasantly prolonged"
Captain ]. NJ. Donvig, inventor Of the
globe life-saver, who thus expressed his
confidence in il, viii explain his device
to the Navy Department in Washing
ton tomorrow and will ask that an
exhaustive test be made OF its merits.
1t has been tried on Norwegian vessels
and on a few ships flying the French
flag.
one globe brought to America by
Captain DOnvig arrived on the Touraine
last Saturday and was unlOaded to-day.
Captain Donvig's globe is large
enough to hold sixteen persons. and Is
provisioned and watered TO supply this
number of passengers for one month
1t is so designed that there appears to
those who have seen II no reason why
il should not be able TO keep afiOat for
an indefinite time.
Captain DOnvig asserts that tests
have proved the absolute safety of
those who have trusted themselves to
the globe. Any number up TO sixteen
persons have only to climb into the
globe, close the manhOles and, without
fear. wait for their vessel to sink. No
matter how great the suction, he says,
the globe will bob up serenely and
right side up. and thereafter ii Will be
merely question OF waiting for an
other vessel to come along and pick
them up.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
PUTS ON UNIFORM
AND TAKES POISON
Thomas Barber. Tile Setter, Winds Up
a Spree With a Potion of
Deadly Strychnine.

Attiring himself in the uniform
that he wore in the parade on Labor
day, Thomas Barber. a member OF
the Tile Settlers Union. lay upon his
bed yesterday and swallowed a fatal
potion of strychnine. Before taking
the poison he had written on a piece
of paper the following:
MY graveyard suit, boys; better
than having no suit at ALL"
Barber came here a few months
ago from Los Angeles. where his wife
is living, and occupied a room at the
Golden Gate Hotel, 164 Fourth street,
He had been out Of work and drink
ing heavily for several days. On last
wednesday night he requested Max
Kern, the barkeeper of the hotel, to
awaken him at $3.50 a. m, so that he
would be in time to go to his work.
At that hour Kern found his dead
body.
Barber was about so years old.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
CHINESE ARE SUFFERERS.
Numerous Villages Destroyed by the
Shells of the Combatants

Nails correspondent at Mukden, tele-
graphing under date Of September II,
draws a distressing picture of the sad
condition of Chinese refugees, who
are fleeing from their homes and
crowding into Mukden. The whole
fertile plain around Liaoyang has
been depopulated and numerous VIII
lagos have been burned by the explo-
sion of shells.
While they are thus expelled from
their homes and deprived of the prof
its of harvest, the natives can obtain
no compensation in the form of extra
work or business arising from the
war, because the profit from the sale
of provisions, etc, TO the combatants
has been mostly secured by clever
contractors or rascally interpreters.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF
MATCHMAKER WEBER
Dies I'm Hospital From Fractured
Skull and Coroner Cannot Learn
How 1t Happened.

Eugene Weber, a matchmaker. re-
siding at 100 McAllister street, died in
the Lane Hospital yesterday from the
effects of a fractured skull. Deputy
Coroner Charles Meehan. who went
out for the body, was unable to learn
how Weber's injury had been re-
ceived. He was informed by the per-
sons in charge of the Central Emer-
gency Hospital that Weber had been
brought there by Policeman Jacob
son or Jaikson or Jenkins, they really
couldn't say which. Then the deputy
went to Weber's home and it was
fatty denied that any accident had
happened there. The Coroner has
passed the matter uD TO the police to
find whether Weber was the victim Of
an accident or a murder.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
DELIBERATELY PLACES
HEAD UNDER THE WHEELS
Unknown Lies Upon Track and Is De-
capitated by Slowly Moving
Locomotive.

VENTURA. Sept 15.-An unknown
man killed himself to-day at Saticoy
station by deliberately STOPPING and
placing his head under the wheel Of a
slow moving locomotive. His head
was severed from his body. The man
had been seen hanging about the sta
ton. but nothing peculiar was noticed.
As a freight train approached,
drawn by a big locomotive, the man
neared the engine, took off his hat and
stuck his head beneath the heavy
wheel He was aged about 40. Of
light complexion and dressed as a Ia
bOrer. Nothing was found on his per-
son except a scrap Of paper containing
the name "O'Hara-"
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
Small Boy Is in Luck.

Captain A. c. Freese. ex-Public
Administrator, found small boy in
tatters at Meiggs wharf yesterday af-
ternoon and took compassion on him.
He put him in buggy and drove him
to the Central Police Station. He
gave Policeman J. B. Collins S5 to
purchase an outfit for the boy. The
youngster was taken to the City
Prison and after he got a bath he was
rigged out in his new clothes. He said
his name was Willie p. Dale. but
could not tell where he lived. About
an hour later his mother. who lives
at 363 Minna street. called at the
prison for him. She said he and his
elder brother went out yesterday
morning and Willie would not return
home. He had good clothes at home
and wore them when necessary.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
RUSSIA AWAITS THE NEWS OF PORT ARTHUR ASSAULT
Kommander Islands Reported Besieged by
British and Japanese Vessels.

ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 15.-The
Emperor has received a dispatch from
Viceroy Alexieff conveying the follow
ing:
"A dispatch from Yakutsk, Eastern
Siberia, dated August 13. says the
kommander Islands, off the coast of
Kamchatka, has been besieged by jap
anese and British schooners and steam
ships up to July %. Two of these
schooners and the steamships were
armed with guns. In driving them off
ten japanese were killed and many
wounded. We sustained no loss.
Near Kamchatka five japanese fish
ing schooners have been burned. Their
crews were annihilated
The Japanese announced the annex
alton of the territory and proclaimed
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16

it a Japanese protectorate. They we're
subsequently captured oy 12O Russian
reserves.
''Kamchatka remains true TO her old
traditions. The inhabitants have taken
up arms and are ready TO shed their
blood for their faith, their Car and
their fatherland."
The Kommander Islands are the is
lands for whose protection agains.
these very expeditions arrangements
were made by Russia with Great Brit
ain and the United States.
An official report has also been re-
ceived Of the landing of a Japanese
force of $50 naval reserve men on the
west coast of Kamchatka, who de-
clared the sovereignty of Japan over
the peninsula. but were afterward de-
feated by Russian force.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
Seek to Protect Forests.

At a meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the California Water and
Forest Association last Wednesday the
question of treatment of denuded for
est lands and the matter of fire pro-
lection were discussed. The neces-
sity for legislation on the subject was
unanimously admitted. Those VINO
were present at the meeting we're
Chief Justice Beatty, in the chair;
William Thomas, F. W. Dohrmann,
". H. Mills, Arthur r. Briggs, n. p.
Chipman, Washington Dodge and T..
C. Friedlander.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
STILL HOPES FOR VICTORY.
Russian Newspaper Advises Populace
to Be Patient.

ST. PETERSBURG, Sept 16.-In
the course of a long review Of the
battle Of Ldaoyang the Novosd says:
The world is just beginning to re-
alize how little tangible result ac-
crued TO the japanese from the Drill
liant victories so exultantly announc-
ed and widely acclaimed at Toxic. The
real result was shown by the immedi-
ate fall of japanese stocks in the mar
kets of the world. Field Marshal
Oyama is now endeavoring TO reor-
ganize his exhausted army, but IT will
be a long time before he encompasses
a Russian Sedan"
The article concludes with the state
ment that foreign critics agree that
there has been no practical result OF
the great battles ano that there VIII
be another as great or greater. The
paper admonishes the Russian people
TO wait with patience for the newt
able Russian triumph.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
FIRE DESTROYS
THE BREAKERS
Finest Summer Hotel on the
North Pacific Coast Is
BURNED TO the Ground
SAVE THE OUTBUILDINGS
House Was Without Guests
and Blaze is Believed TO
Have Started From a Flue

long BEACH. Wash. Sept. Is
Famed by strong north wind and free
TO run their course because of lack Of
fire fighting apparatus, flames this
evening destroyed The Breakers, -
one 0f the finest summer hotels on the
North Pacific coast Nearly all of the
contents Of -he hotel were also de-
str0ye6. but hard work on the part Of
the volunteer firemen from Long Beach
and IlwacO prevented the loss Of out
buildings and neighbOTing houses.
The hotel was burned 10 the ground
entailed z loss estimated at ts7, 900.
The IRE is said to have started in the
kitchen. and is supposed TO have been
the result Of defective stove arrange
ments. There were no guests at the
hotel, the season having ended
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
THUG BEATS WOMAN
ON HARRISON STREET
John Benson Attempts Robbery, but
Is Prevented by Policeman
HI. G. Schmitt.

John Benson was arrested last night
by Policeman H c. Schmitt imme-
diately after he had attempted to rob
a woman, named Mrs. Courtney, on
Harrison street. Schmitt answered
the woman's screams and by his time
ly arrival captured the would-be rob-
Der.
Benson knocked Mrs. Courtney
down near the Sailors Home, at the
lower end of Harrison street. Brutal
ly kicking her, he demanded her
purse. Her cries attracted the atten-
ton OF a fireman who was passing,
and, as he ran toward her, he blew his
police whistle. Benson ran into the
yard OF the Sailors Home, where he
was captured by the policeman and
booked at the Harbor police station.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
RAILROAD CHANGES
MADE on OREGON LINES
Departments Are Consolidated and
Management Proposes Many
New Plans

PORTLAND. orr, Sept 15.-Within
the next few days a circular will be
issued announcing the appointment Of
Richard KOehler, formerly manager
OF the Southern Pacific lines in Ore
gon. purchasing agent for the South
ern Pacihc-OregOn Railroad and Nav
igation system in Oregon
The Office Of purchasing agent Of
the Oregon Railroad and Navigation
Company formerly occupied by Z. G.
Wheeler has been abolished. together
with the Office OF manager OF the
Southern Pacific lines in Oregon The
entire management Of the consolidat-
ed lines has been placed in the hands
of F. z Calvin. General Manager
Calvin has prepared and submitted to
the executive board plans for many
changes in the operating system of
the roads, the changes recommended
affecting every department
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
HEBREW ORPHAN ASYLUM
MAKES LARGE PURCHASE
Now Has Possession Of an Entire
Block Opposite Public


Davidson & Leigh have sold the two
hfty-vara lots on the west side OF
Scott street. extending from Hayes to
Grove, to the Pacific Hebrew Orphan
Asylum for S47.5OO. As the asylum
owns the other four f1fty-varas, this
purchase gives il the whole OF the
block bounded by Devisadero, Hayes.
Grove and Scott streets, opposite
Alamo Square.
The same firm has sold for "A. p.
Hotaling & Co. the property on the
west side Of Howard street, 100 feet
south of Twelfth, 155 feet front by $50
feet deep. with two old dwellings. for
So. 500 to O'ConnOr Bros. The pur-
chasers are having plans drawn to
erect twenty-four dwelling places on
this property.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
MAY BECOME ONE BODY.
AfiIiation of United Mine Workers
Wish Western Federation Planned.

PUEBLO. Colo, Sept 15.-Rumor
is current tonight to the effect that
the United Mine Workers of District
No. Is, now in session here, will meet
tomorrow with President Meyer of
the Western Federation of Miners for
the purpose of perfecting plans for an
affiliation of the United Mine Workers
of the district with the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners.
1t is said that the convention Is in
dignant at the action of the national
organization in Withdrawing support
from the strikers in the Southern coal
fields of Colorado and that the dis
trict organization will surrender its
charter and ally itself with the West
ern Federation.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
To Give Comic Opera.

The comic opera, Prince Mathu-
salem," by Johann Strauss, will be
produced on Monday evening, October
8. at the Alhambra Theater, the pro-
ceeds to be devoted to the erection of
Sacred Heart parish new school.
Neither labor nor expense has been
spared to make the production of the
opera an artistic success.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
SONONA ADOPTS A
NEW GAME ORDINANCE
Restrictions Arc Closer on Deer Hunt
ing and Bag Limits OF Birds
Is Reduced.

SANTA ROSA. Sept Is. - The
Board OF Supervisors have adopted a
new ordinance, effective October !, re-
gsrding game. The open season for
deer is changed from July Is and Sep
tember I 10 August and October 1,
making il a month later in closing
and two weeks longer than formerly.
The bag limit Of birds is cut down
from fifty 10 twenty-five per day, to
cause market hunters TO cease their
depredations-
The former game ordinance was de-
clared invalid by Judge Prewett OF
Placer Count-r because IL discriminat-
ed in favor OF SOnOua County resi-
dents II provided that game killed
IN Sonons County could not be sold
outside the county, but il could be dis
posed OF within the county This was
held 10 be q discrimination.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
CzAR,s UNCONSCIOUS HUMoR.
Accepts SIberians' Offer to Die for
the FatherIand.

ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 15.-Con-
siderable amusement has been caused
by slip of Emperor Nicholas in ac-
cepting the offers Of several companies
of Siberian militia which volunteered
for service at the front. The petition
reads:
We humbly lay at your Majesty's
feet our desire to be permitted to fight
and die for the fatherland-"
The Emperor. in accepting. wrote
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16

IRISH VOLUNTEERS TO PICNIC-Com-
pany A. Irish Volunteers. will hold its twelfth
annual picnic in Shell Mound Park next Sun
day. September Is. The members Of the or
ganization have been drilling assduously for
the military features on the programme. The
committee arrangements has made elaborate
plans for the enjoyment of those who will at
tend the picnic.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
WILL STAND BY PARTY.
Governor La F'Ollette's Followers
Write to Chairman CorteIyou.

WIG I'D OIldIfHldH OOTUcIyOu'
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. 15.-
Pledging themselves to abide by the
decision of the Republican National
Convention until it is reversed by the
Supreme Court, 147 of Governor La
Follette's most prominent followers
have signed letter which they have
sent to Chairman George B. Corteiyou
Of the Republican National Commit
tee, declaring that all questions af-
fecting the unity and regularity of the
party must necessarily be submitted
to the highest political tribunal for
settlement, and that such settlement
will be accepted by all good Repub-
licans unless it be found at variance
with the decision of the courts.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
Santa Clara Votes Bonds.

SAN JOSE. Sept. 15.-The election
held at Santa Clara to-day to deter
mine the question of a $4,000 bond
issue to erect a new high school build
ing resulted in 313 votes for to Sc
against.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-16
WORK BEGINS ON THE
SANTA CRUZ RACETRACK
Board of Trade Will EndeavOr to Sc
cure the State Fair for Sea-
side City.

SANTA CRUZ. Sept. 15.-Work has
been commenced on the new race
track in East Santa Cruz. The track
lies between Sequel avenue and De
Laveaga Heights.
An effort is to be made by the
Board of Trade TO get the State Fair
here. The Board OF Trade also fixed
September 26 as Odd Fellows day
during the Grand EncamDment.