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The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
cANNoNADE OF SIEGE GUNS.

MUKDEN. Sunday, Nov. 13.-An
unbroken cannonade of siege guns,
throwing fifty or sixty shells hourly
against the Japanese position in the
region of Shakhe station, was begun
early this morning and ended only at
nightfall, when more than 500 big con-
tact shells had been thrown into the
japanese army's strongest position on
the plain for the purpose of demoraliz-
ing the work of fortification concen-
trated at that point for the past four
weeks. To-day's bombardment was
the most serious attempt yet made by
the Russians large guns and it was
due to the apparent determination of
the Japanese to make Shakhe station
an impregnable defense of the railway
behind.
Both sides have so dug themselves
into the ground, night and day. that
artillery fire. as at Port Arthur, is
practically ineffective and the am
munition is nearly entirely wasted.
Both sides. recognizing this. are re-
sorting to the competition of big guns
and regular field artillery is only oc-
casionaily engaged.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
RUMOR OF PEACE
Anglers THE SLAV
War Will Not End Until
Russia Conquers.
Cassni Says Struggle Must Go On

WASHINGTON. Nov. 14-"Russia
will pursue the war in the Far East to
the bitter end-that is. until Russia
has conquered.
These are the opening words Of an
emphatic statement made at the Rus
sian embassy to-day by Count Cassln,
the Russian Embassaoor- SeVeIdl
times recently the ambassador in the
rane OF his Government has categorlc-
ally denied the possibility Of any inter
AentiOn In the war, but the recurrence
OF rumOrs that the powers contemplated
mediation has caused the Embassador
10 reiterate on behalf of his Govern
inert its position regarding interNeh-
ticn or mediation Of any kind Inc
statement continues:
I deem il my duty 10 reiterate what have
- often said, that Russia will not suspend ~
eny case her military operations IN the + a.
East All rumCrs and reports regarding LIe
possible success Of the direct oNertures Ior
feaee which japan is said 20 have made 70
Russia. and regarding the mediation OF the
-.---r~e n nv 0Tfniou are started for the pur-
pose Of convincing the public that the enc OF
- war IS close at hand. In this way II Is
hopeG that the public may be LED 10 believe
thar japanese loans offer attractive invest
Russia can no more admit OF it than could
Great Britain IN the Transvaal or the Ohlteo
,-resfiee of a country is az stake sll other con-
siderations are and must Be put aside. SOM
persons may think that financial difncultes
will influence Russia 10 end hostiliues. Such
an opinion is based the false assumption
81 Russia financial resources
There is no doubt whatever thst hussia;
Who's annual income exceeds one milliard or
dollars cannot be Influenced in her attitude
toward the outcome Of the war by the amount
a. ua~ expenditures. Is IL not altogether out
O. the question that Russia. who dld not eA-
re-t war should IN The moment when sne
was mobiizing her army and is sending corps
after cCrris in fighting readiness 70 the Ear
East suddenly call q halt on hostilites. par
ticuiarly after she has for nearly year
without any difficulty recourse to extra
ordinary rnea silres. been able 10 carry ali the
extra expenses
tho new japanese loan. That is an affair tor
she barkers and for the public, who are able
10 decide what advantages or non-adVantages
fAe investment offers But there can be N
necessity for commenting upon Russia
credit. Any one acquainted with the faIls
Exchange l. able TO convince himself OF tne
solidarity of Russia's finances.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
WOMAN CREATES A SCENE
IN DIR. RAINsFoRD'S CHURCH
One Report Says She Drew a Re-
volver and Threatened to
XIII Him.

NEW YORK, Nov. 14.-According
to stories printed to-day Rev. DR..
William r. Rainsford, rector Of St.
Georges Episcopal Church and one Of
the best known clergymen in this city,
was threatened by a woman in his
church on Sunday. Published ac-
counts say that the woman rushed
into the rector's study armed with a
revolver and after some conversation
threatened to kill him.
DR.. Rainsford's secretary informed
the press tonight that on Sunday
morning after the IL o'clock service
several people went forward to the
pulpit to greet the rector. Among
them was a woman. He says there
was conversation, that the woman
asked several questions, among them
one as to what had been done with
her money, which led DR.. Rainsford
to believe that she was irresponsible
and he referred her to the sexton. The
secretary also states no threats were
made and no weapons exhibited.
Miss Mary Byron was taken into
custody by detectives to-day and later
arraigned in court. Sexton Chapman
identified her as the woman who ap-
peared in the church yesterday. She
was sent to Bellevue Hospital for ex-
animation.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
sLAv MENACE TO INDIA.
Lord SelbOTne Says England Must
Look TO Her Frontiers.


LONDON, Nov. 14.-Lord Selborne
First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking
at Bristol tonight and referring to
Russia's having granted Great Brit
aims just demands. said the crisis just
experienced was an occasion for the
country to take stock of it's defensive
organization. and, in dealing with
this question. it was impossible to ig-
more the rapid march of the Russian
empire toward the Indian frontier.
1t was useless. Lord Selborne said,
for business nation. dealing with
its liabilities, to mince matters. In
stead of a vast tract of impossible
country separating the two empires,
Russia had two railways terminating
at the Afghanistan frontier, only a
matter Of 400 miles from the Indian
railway. He hoped there never
would be war between the countries,
but Britons were bound to consider
what the Russian military organiza-
tions had succeeded in achieving in
Manchuria, at the end of 5000 miles
of single track railway line, and TO
govern British military preparations in
India accordingly.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
DOAN's PILLS.
PLENTY OF It.
Lots More Proof Like This, and
Ii Is All From San Fran
cisco People.

The proof OF the pudding is in the
eating of II" If any city or town in
the Union has sufficient proof on the
following subject it is San Francisco.
Genuine merit is finding its reward
IN the hearty Endorsement of local
citizens. When people right here at
home, friends and neighbors of our
readers, give a statement like the fol-
lowing for publication it is proof
convincing for the most skeptical.
Read this testimony:
+. /. Smith, boxmaker in the Ma
tionsl Box Factory, residence z4I
Folsom street, says: IF / was not
thoroughly impressed with the fact
that Doan's Kidney Pills can be de-
pended upon / would never have
gone out Of my way to recommend
the preparation to others suffering
from kidney complaint Before
took a course of the treatment l had
tried more than one standard rem
edy, but the results as far as stop
ping the trouble were Just as re-
motely in the distance as when | first
noticed that my kidneys were out of
order A sure indication that in some
way the action of my kidneys was up
set was too frequent action of the
kidney secretions added TO the back
ache, particularly if / contracted a
cold. For the last six months there
has not been an indication of either
excited or weakened kidneys"
For sale by all dealers Price soc.
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Remember the name, Doan's, and
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The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
LIGHT THROWN
ON THE NORTH
SEA TRAGEDY
Letter Tells of SIav
Drunkenness and
Fight.
Special Dispatch to The Call.


MINNEAPOLIS. Nov. 14-Horrible
in detail and appalling in it's disclosure
Of incompetency, stupidity and drunk
enness in the Russian navy is an ac-
count of the recent sinking of English
fishing-boats by the Baltic fleet. re-
ceived from an alleged inside source
by X. T.. Dent of the Minneapolis
Chamber of Commerce.
When the Russian fleet reached Cher
bourg young lieutenant wrote a let
ter to his father, wealthy st. Peters
burg merchant, describing the affair.
This was shown to the Russian corre-
spondent Of the Manchester (England)
Guardian, who sent a literal transIa-
ton to his paper The Guardian print
&c IL, but first eliminated such details
as might be most offensive to Russia
A friend of Dent saw the original
translation and sent the gist of it to
him in a letter received to-day. From
the letter there can be little doubt that
the men of the Baltic fleet were drunk
and scarcely knew what they were
doing. The letter reads as follows:
We knew we were out of our course
and were afraid we would run aground
somewhere. OF the crews, officers and
men, many, l regret to say, were in
toXicated. An alarm was given that
the admirars flagship had grounded
and in the confusion that followed this
report three vessels of the rear SQUAD
ron collided. While all was confusion
we came across what looked like a
fotilla Of torpedo-boats and we opened
fire. Later in the night there was an
exchange Of shots between our vessel
and another. and it was only when we
recognized from a small shell that
came aboard, but did not explode, that
the ammunition was Russian, that we
discovered that we had been firing upon
one another. We had several men
wounded"
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
INSANE MAN PLUNGES
TO FRIGHTFUL DEATH
Thomas Luby Leaps From Window on
Sixth Floor of United States
Hotel.

Thomas Luby, registering from this
city, secured a room at the United
States Hotel on Eddy street last even
ing and later was discovered roaming
about the halls apparently insane. The
hotel attaches summoned the police,
who went to the sixth floor to arrest
the man.
When Luby saw them he ran to the
end of a hallway and plunged through
a window. He fell five stories, strik-
ing the roof of a shed between the
hotel building and Lyric Hall. His
body crashed through the roof and
was found lifeless on the ground by
the police officers few minutes later.
Luby was about As years old, stout
in build and was apparently laborer.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
DOES NOT EXPECT BATTLE.

BERLIN, Nov. 14.-Colonel Gaed-
ke, the Tageblatt's correspondent in
the Far East, in a dispatch from
Mukden, November IA, says:
THE situation is unchanged. A de-
cisive battle is improbable before
spring. The Japanese will not attack
until several weeks after the fall of
Port Arthur and the Russians are
awaiting such an overwhelming supe-
riority in numbers as to leave the
question of victory beyond doubt. The
Russians are constantly receiving re-
Inducements and the troops are in
good spirits and excellent health
Even the outposts are well sheltered
against the cold
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
MADAME sroEssERs APPEAL.
Pathetic Letter From the Wife oi
Port Arthur's Commander.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. AN Per
loft, the milliohaire merchant of Mos
COW, has received a pathetic letter from
Madame Stoessel, wife of General
stoessel, dated Port Arthur, October "a,
appealing to the rich Muscovites for
money to assist the helpless wounded
defenders Of the fortress. some Of whom
have lost both arms, others either an
arm or leg some of them blinded and
others suffering from wounds in the
spine and who will be crippled for life.
There are, she adds, very many such
unfortunates.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
HOTEL FOR WORKING
WOMEN FOR NEW YORK
New Enterprise In It's Management
Will Combine Philanthropy
and Business

and Business.
NEW YORK, Nov. IA hotel for
working girls and working women will
soon be built in this city if the plans
now under consideration are carried
out. Philanthropy and business will
be combined in the running of the
hotel Plans have been submitted by
an architect, involving the expenditure
Of 100000, but several well-known
men interested in the project think
that there will be no difficulty I'm rails
ing whatever money is necessary. be-
cause assistance has been offered by
men prominent in the financial world.
The hotel probably will be in the
neighborhood of the large department
stores on the West Side, where many
girls and women are employed. Their
board at the hotel will be about SO or
"a a week. Nothing will be said to
the guests about religion or their
family affairs.
If the girls are out of employment
at any time the management will try
to tide them over until they get work.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
RUSSIAN GUNNERs BUSY.
Annoy Japanese Employed in Building
Trenches.


G En- NERAL KUROPATKINS
H HEADQUARTERS, Sunday, Nov Is.
Frequent fights between the opposing
patrols occurred to-day. The Rus
slams, with heavy Howitzer and six
inch gun batteries, shelled the Jap
anese trenches and gave the working
parties little respite.
Large numbers of Russian officers
are arriving at the front to replace
those who have fallen. The Russian
army is realizing more fully day by
day the enormous task involved in
driving back the Japanese. Great
hopes, however, are placed in the
Russian second Pacific squadron.
The troops are now better fed than
at any previous period and the roads
are in good condition, enabling rein
forcements to leave the trains at sta
tions higher up the line and march to
Mukden, thus relieving the pressure
on the railroad.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
RUSSIA'S GREAT TASK.
Work of Double Tracking Siberian
Railroad About to Be Begun.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 14.-The
official announcement that the En-
peror has approved the plan for dou-
ble-tracking. the Siberian Railroad
and that $4,000, 600 has been assigned
for the beginning of the project is
greeted with the heartiest approval
by the press of this city. The hope is
expressed that the work will be begun
Immediately and pushed to a rapid
conclusion, as one Of the surest means
of ending the war.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
Maud Amber Not Married.

The story circulated several weeks
ago that Maud Amber had married
again is shown to be without founda-
ton. The following cable has been
received from the actress herself:
Melbourne, Nov. IA. No truth in the
rumors of my marriage. They are an
invention of Wilkerson and his at
torney to gain sympathy.
"MAUDE AMBER
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
Lands Are withdrawn.

PORTLAND, Or, Nov. 14.-The
land office in North Yakima was noti-
fed te-day of the withdrawal from
entry of a large area of land in the
Priest Rapids district of this county
preliminary to the building of the
proposed Government irrigation canal.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
RUSSIAN CAVALRY IN FIGHT.
Squadron Loses Many Men in Attach
Upon Japanese.

GENERAL KUROKPS HEAD
QUARTERS, Nov. IA squadron of
Russian cavalry yesterday afternoon
attacked the Japanese in the neigh
borhood of Litiatum. The Russians
were so severely repulsed that at dusk
they were still gathering up their dead
and wounded
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
TO WELCOME BALTIC FLEET.
MikadO and His Tacticians Planning
for the Reception.

TOXIC, Nov. 1.-THE Emperor
presided over an extended confer
ence of the military and naval staffs
at the palace to-day The proceed
ings were secret, but ii is understood
that the Emperor discussed with the
officers plans for meeting the vessels
Of the Russian second Pacific squad
ron when they arrive in Far Eastern
waters
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
Cburch will Not Bar Negroes.

NEW YORK. Nov. 1.-THE New
York Presbytery, the local governing
body of the Presbyterian church.
voted against the establishment of a
separate presbytery for the colored
race by an overwhelming majority at
a meeting here to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
GREAT BATTLE NEARING.
Russians Believe Oyama Is Ready to
Attack KurOpatl1in.

ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. 1.-THE
latest indications from the front point
TO an early resumption Of the mill
tary operations on a large scale. Field
Marshal Oyama has received heavy
reinforcements from Newchwang and
evidently is about ready to wage bat
tie for the possession of Mukden. The
Japanese are showing particular ac-
tivity on their right flank, as if they
were contemplating a turning move
ment from that direction. General
Kuropatkin has fortified his positions
along the Shakhe River and, as he
seemingly is prepared to accept bat
tie. he doubtless has made disposi
tions to block a flanking operation.
According to the opinion of the mill
itary authorities here his left flank
is secure.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
Last May 1 endeavored

some quail. Last May 1 endeavored
to bring about the re-existence of that
happy tie which embellished our boy
hood days. He responded not to my
effort and until the fatal evening Of
November 10, when / sank exhausted
beneath the little magnolia tree in
front of my burning home, no evidence
of recognition passed between us.
"A. WEBER
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
MAKES A COUNTER CHARGE.
Kuropatldn Claims Japanese Wear
Russian Clothing.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 14.-Gen-
eral Ldnevitch has assumed command
of the first Manchurian army.
General Kuropatkin, in a telegram
to the Minister of War, denies the
Japanese charges to the effect that
Russian troops disguised themselves
in Chinese clothing, and makes coun-
ter charges against the Japanese of
wearing Russian uniforms in the at
tack on Shakhe on October IA, where
by they were enabled to approach
close to the Russian batteries and
capture several guns of the Thirty
seventh Brigade.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
GENERAL KUROKI LIVES.

Toxic Declares Rumor of His Death
TO Be Absurd.
TOXIC. Nov. 15.-The japanese
army staff pronounces the report of
General Kurokfs death to be absurd.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
Starts to Join Baltic Fleet.

COPENHAGEN, Nov. 14-The
Russian auxiliary cruiser Kuban ira
versed the great belt to-day, going
nOrthWard.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15

days have been increasing. The Jap
anese are displaying great activity
eastward. Fears are expressed that
the railroad will not be able to bring
up sufficient supplies.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15

STOCKTON Nov. 1.-THE body OF Edward
Foundation. a longshoreman. who was missed
from the Captain Weber a week and a half
ago while the steamer was en- route TO San
Francisco, was found yesterday In Whisky
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
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The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
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The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15
HIRED BY JAPAN.
EN-British Ordnance Expert VIII
Teach Mikado's Soldiers.

Teach MfkadO's SOld1erS.
Los ANG ELES, Nov. 14-E. II.
Gatlif. who occupied responsible
position as a British instructor in
ordnance during the late BOer cam
paign. has been offered and accepted
p contract for similar duties with the
japanese and will probably leave for
japan on the steamship Manchuria,
which viii sail from San Francisco on
the 26th inst Colonel Gatliff has re
sided near san Bernardino for the
last two wears being retained by the
big water companies as an expert civil
and electrical engineer.
His contract with the Japanese
Government viii take him to the firing
line i'm Manchuria, where he will assist
IN operating the heavy machine guns
imported from England and the Unit
ed states and instructing the japanese
ordnance corps in the handling of
these weapons
During the Boer war Gatlif was
wounded, ball plowing across his
face. leaving A prominent scar. He
states that the ordnance corps at
tached 10 all the japanese armies are
handled by English and American Of
ficers.
The San Francisco call., 1904-11-15

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Japanese Displaying Activity.
NUKDEN, Nov. 14.-Since yester-
day signs that a serious engagement
viii take place within the next few
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