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SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1903— FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. american embassador to rus^, sia, and;.-a : military scene NEAR KISHENEvi ( ' - Continued on Page 18 { Coltuna 0. est trails in the mountains, and passed the hotel at" an early hour on a fa3t gal- % lop. The President looked very buoyant as, he rode by, but did not look to the right ; nor the. left. Only a few people were up early enough to se him go' by. The plans of camping are still kept se cret, but it is . supposed tie will camp somewhere '.- in the " vicinity ; of . Glacier Point. There is a creat amount of snow LINCOLN, ' Nebr., May 16.— Governor Mickey, to-^ay received a letter^.from Count Cassini, Russian Embassador at Washington, declining - with -thanks the $500 appropriated by the Nebraska Leg islature for the relief of sufferers In Fin land and returning the check..'The;Em bassador in his letter states that the Rus sian Government has provided funds j for the relief of the" Finnish' people and i that the -money, can be better employed -where there* is greater . need ¦ for it." ;• Count • Cas slrl\atctheisame time expresses his' grati tude*- to the Legislature and people of Ne braska.- < ¦;, - - ; Embassador Says the Bussian Gov • eminent Has Believed the Suffer ings of the- Finns. CASSINI BETUBNS CHECK TO STATE OF NEBBASXA' ¦ .No motive; Is known for the deed, other than that Fowler Is ' said to have • refused ¦ become'- a > member, of theVButte"Ele vator - Boys'. . Union.' ; ' , ¦ BUTTE, Mont, May 16.— Martin Fowler, elevator, boy in the Clark building/ early this morning was. the victim of a myste rious assault. Answering a call from the third; floor, he was set upon by a man' and two boys, dragged into the ¦ hail, beaten and kicked into insensibility and seriously' injured. The elevator was then sent crashing into . the basement at /full speed. •'-['.¦;'.¦- '¦ ¦ . ... * ; . ¦.•"'¦¦'<• Boy Befuses to Join Union and Beat . ing Is Thought to Have Resulted. BUFFIANS ASSAULT * AN; ELEVATOB OPERATOR Four day* In Yo»emlte \ Valley and IliKT Tree region. MONDAY, MAY - 18. Leave Raymond.... CjOO p. m. TUESDAY, MAY 19. Arrive 'Keno, Xev...7:3O a. in. I (Via'Virginia and Truckee R. R.) ". Leave Reno 7»4O a. m. Arrive Carson...... 8t55 a. m. Leave- Canton. .... .0(55 a. m. Arrive Reno lltlO a. m. ¦ Leave Reno. .... .12:10 p. m. CVla Southern Pacific.) Arrive Colfax. .' Afternoon Leave Colfax after tvrenty mlnate atop. Arrive Sacramento. .6 145 p. m. WEDNESDAY, MAY' 20. Leave Sacramento. 12x30 a. m. Arrive Redding-.... 8 s3O a. m. Leave Redding. .. .8x40 a. m. Arrive Slsaon 1 ilS p.m. Leave Slsson l:2O p. m. , : — \ Arrive Anhlandr Or. .7:OO p. m. WASHINGTON. -May 1G.-The.: State Department to-day received a long letter from Miss ! Ellen .M. >¦ Stone demanding damages from the Turkish Government on account. of outrages perpetrated upon her by the brigands -who captured her and- held, her prisoner while she was- in the.Turkish empire. Miss Stone does not fix any amount as a basis of her claim. .The. letter Is written from Kear Portage Ontario. . r • ¦ylnithe published • correspondence be tween this Government, and . Turkey- no suggestion for a claim for damages was made. 'There is an. intimation in a note from Spencer Eddy that Indemnity might' be demanded for the amount of ransom of Miss Stone, but this claim has never been jyessed. s *&mi Writes to the State Department Pre l senting Claim. Against 'the: - Turkish Government MISS ELLEN M. STONE i :.-¦¦:, NOW DEMANDS DAMAGES Jew-Slayers Arrested in Kishenev All ¦ Plead Innocence. . ST. PETERSBURG. May 13 (Wednes day).—The majority of the persons ar rested for participating in the anti-Sem itic outrages at Kishenev have been tried and sentenced to various punishments. Although most of them 'were arrested on returning to their homes after the second days' pillage, with their arms ¦ full " of plunder, all of the prisoners , protested their Innocence and pleaded- that they found the things in the streets ; and i were taking them to the police : station. PUNISHING HOB'S MEMBERS. and, in the name, of his Government, pro test against reported lynchings of negroes by mobs In this country, which probably' would result in a polite intimation to the Embassador that he was going beyond the limits of his proper business. " That is the state of the case officially, but it may be added that the limited action taken by the United States ha; served a purpose in making known to the Russian Government that the moral influ ence of the United. States is directed to ward securing an amelioration of the con dition of the Jews in Russia. * WASHINGTON,^ May- 16. — Captain French E. Chad wick, it is announced' at the Navy Department •to-day, has tenta tively-been selected. as the successor of Rear Admiral Bumner when . the ¦ latter concludes hi* tour of sea service next wiriler. Captain' Chadwick" is now Presi dent of the Naval- War College;at-New port and Is - a '.member, of -the '. General Board. He wiirreach -the grade', of rear admiral before • it" is 'time? for J Rear Ad miral Sumner to be relieved. Chad wick to Succeed Stunner. PRESIDENT > ROOSEVELT'S STATE TOUR Marked copies of the Jewish newspapers end personal representations are pouring In on the State Department, all relating to the reported '.killing and maltreatment of Jews in Bessarabia. Some of these, at least, show misunderstanding of the situ ation. Embassador McCormick has been criticized for denying that any massacre occurred. It Is said at the department that the Embassador has made no state ment of his own on the subject; he simply transmitted textually the reply of the Russian Government to a request made by the United States that relief funds be admitted for distribution among the suf ferers. The Russian Government's reply, published at the time, was that there was no such suffering as had been reported and no occesion for relief. McCormick could not question the veracity of his offi cial information and eent the denial along without comment, distinctly placing it upon the Russian Government. The State Department feels that it can do no more than It has done In the cause of the oppressed Jews. It has not learned officially that a single one of them is an American citizen, so it has no warrant for interference. There is no parallel between ihe cases of the Jews in Roumania and those in Russia. In the first case, it is said at the department, the United States had a ground for intervention because the Roumanian Government's action was in juring the United States by dumping a horde of undesirable immigrants upon her shore. It was not "asserted that this re sult follows the Russian Set, which, moreover, it is pointed out, was notoffl cia.1. It is precisely as If Count Casslnl cfcould present himself to Secretary Hay. "I am cure that the reports have been grossly exaggerated. The most drastic measures have been taken by the Russian Government to prevent repetitions of the troubles and the Government always has done all that is possible to prevent them." WASHINGTON. May 15.— Count Cassini, the Russian Embassaior, said to-day with reference to the recent troubles in Russia: McCORMICK CAN DO NOTHING. Unjust Criticism of American Em bassador to St. Petersburg. Visitors in the Vcdley Gild Gold of Nature to Make a Holiday for I(p6$evelt, But He Re* mains Secluded. To-day " the . weather changed and be came very cold. It is feared that it Is snowing in the glacial, meadows. Plenty of blankets and a good shelter tent wero provided by the Yosemite Stage and Turnpike Company and. although it does snow, the President - will ' be very com fortable. Some in his party say that this Is Just the kind of a trip ne will enjoy. Severe weather cannot frighten him. If he makes Glacier Point to-nJght he will have covered thirty-five miles of tha hardest kind of mountain climbing. To-moiTow night. It is thought, he will camp in Little Yosemjte. air. Muir Is making the itinerary and as he discov ered the Little Yosemite. it is likely ho will go there. Those are excellent camp ing grounds and fine fishing. Monday morning the President will come down the Vernal and Nevada falls trails and gallop down the valley to the Bridal Veil, a distance of six and a half miles, where he will meet his stage leaving the valley. It Is thought that he will not stop at the lower hotel at all, as he said on leaving that he did not want to step Inside of a hotel for three "Gays. CHANGE OF PROGRAMME. The Yosemite Commissioners and peo ple in the valley are sorely disappointed that the President is not going to make them a visit. They have decorated the valley profusely and had arranged a lengthy programme, but the President said he was tired of electric lights, bombs, etc.. and he intended to en joy himself up here. His sole guide for this trip is Muir and when any one asked him what was going to be done he re ferred them to Muir. Several itineraries were arranged for him, but Muir had ar ranged an entirely different one. Secre tary Loeb was the onjy one in his party that knew of the proposed p!an.<. A good many of the party have re mained over at Wawona and do not la- on the Glacier Point road. Washburn brothers sent men out on the road a, week ago to break a trail In for th« President's use. In some places they re ported the snow waa fourteen feet deep. Without the President's knowledge this programme was circulated broadcast and people came into Yosemite from hundreds of. miles away to see -him. When they found that the President was. not to be seen their disappointment was very great. The President was not - told of this pro posed change in the programme until yesterday and even then he f was not told that people were coming from such long distances to see him." As "he was tired out as the result of the hospitality of San Francisco he decided ¦ that he would ad here to the original plan- and spend the next few days in seclusion. Jorgenson's cabin,, in" the center of the valley, is well prepared for the President and; he is eagerly 'awaited.. All the hotels and pub lic camps are "crowded to ' overflowing. . , ; 'C WAWONA, ' Mayi.. 16.— TH» President camped in the MariDOsa, Big Tree grovs last, night. He and^Mr.Muir were, up at dawfi \ thjs ; morning! ; They came'i tearing -down ' Lightning Trail, *one of ' the steeps Notwithstanding, the fact that the Pres ident, ' before leaving -Washington, out lined the programme he was to follow during his stay in the Yosemite, the Yo semite Park Commission decided that he should follow another , programme, which they adopted without consulting him. This latter programme provided for' fireworks, the firing of dynamite" to- produce loud echoes and the participation by the Pres ident in *ftne sort of public ceremony. CROWDS' OF. VISITORS. cier Point this morning -and is thought to be at thehotel to-night, but there was no word from 'him to Secretary Loeb when his' party reached the Sen tinel Hotel here this afternoon. Snow fell to-day in the mountains In which the President is traveling and the weather became quite cold. Should the weather become too cold for outdoor camping there are a number of shanties located in different" parts of the moun tains In which the President could spend the night quite comfortably. . . <•» ya>OSEMITE, May 16.— President \f Rooseveft has not • been heard W from to-day. He Is supposed to have been in the vicinity of Gla- Mrs. James L. Blair, president of the Ladles' Board of World's Fair Managers, is mentioned for president. The organi zation is composed of some of the most prominent women in S.L Louis. ST. LOUIS, May 16.— Forty St. Louis society women have 'held meetings and are making plans to organize a woman's club for St. Louis which will be on the order of a man's club and will be com posed of leaders of the city's exclusive set. One of the women interested in the organization of the club and establish ment of a clubhouse was asked to-day if it would be like men's ; clubs in respect to liquors being obtainable. "I suppose," she said, "that It will be possible fora woman to get a highball at a woman's club." Special Dispatch to The Call. PICTURESQUE RESIDENCE OF CHRIS JORGENSEN. THE WELL-KNOWN ARTIST. IN THE CENTER OF YO SEMITE VALLEY, WHICH HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR THE PRESIDENT AND IN WHICH HE IS EX ¦ PECTED TO REMAIN DURING A PORTION OF HIS OUTING. It Will Be Patterned After Those of the Sterner Sex. The extreme . penalty is twenty years' imprisonment, and he is expected to get the limit. District Attorney Warren said: "It Is a triumph of law and order against the effort of a perjured defense. The trial was a long one and the defense made the most stubborn fight I have ever known in a Monroe County court, but I have at no time been apprehensive of. the result. It was a clear case and the de fendant was fortunate to escape indict ment for murder." • ¦ For the % first time since the. trial began Dr. Kent showed evidence of nervousness. His father, A. Dorr Kent, who has stood by him throughout the four. weeks' trial, sat with his arm around the back of his son's chair. ROCHESTER, N>" Y., May 16.-Dr. Le land Dorr Kentv accused on four counts of having aided and assisted In the sui cide of Ethel Blanche Dingle, a handsome nurse and former telephone girl, iv-ith whom he eloped, was found guilty on the third count this afternoon. The third count, the most serious one, charged that he stabbed the • girl to death. The Jury was out four hours and took two ballots. Special Dispatch to The Call, Rochester Jury Finds Dr. Leland D. Kent Guilty. ST. LOUIS SOCIETY WOMEN ORGANIZING UP-TO-DATE CLUB ASSISTS IN SUICIDE OF THE GIRL WITH WHOM HE ELOPED NEW YORK, May 16.— Henry Austin Adams, once a popular and prominent pastor of the Protestant Episcopal church, who became converted in a sen sational manner to the Roman Catholic faith and who disappeared mysteriously last August, has been found. He is: in Auckland, New Zealand, masquerading under the name of Wilfred West. To some of his former friends, among the Catholic clergy, he has sent appeals for monetary assistance. Adams writes that he is dying, but that statement is not borne out by Information obtained from others. Relatives and friends have not been able" to learn the whereabouts of a 19 year-old girl who disappeared from his home about the time Adams left here. Adams has written that he knows noth ing of the young woman, whom, he de scribes as a "German musician, a mystic soul and a Catholic saint." He expresses the opinion that she has been driven to destruction by "cruel slanders which have been heaped upon her, construing her most holy emotions into sins of a most vicious nature." Mrs. Adams, enraged at her desertion by her husband and indignant at the In-, Eults which . she believes have ; been put upon her, 'has Employed -'detective's * and much .will ;depen\i';_upon -the < report • made by them* ib her. i«* .i v .;^^ :¦* * v /WIFE .QATHrfej INFORMATION. Already inf ormtftioh \ oi a' strange na ture has been gathered and Mrs. Adams, who is ' living n^ar Chappaqua, ¦ West chester County, is not in a forgiving mood. One of the most remarkable exhibits whfch ha3 been placed in the hands of Mrs. Adams is a novelette, written by Adams a short time before his disappear ance. This is frankly and by some be lieved to be almost brutally autobiograph ical in its nature. There had been accumulated in a New York bank to the credit of Adams $15,000. After his acquaintance with the "girl of the mystic soul" the bank account began to -dwindle. It is said there was only about $4000 to his credit in August a year ago. / Two stories are told of what occurred at that time. One is that Adams took passage as a steerage passenger on the Augusta VictorlE^ which sailed from New York on August 14. When the ship was outside Sandy Hook, Adams was startled and alarmed to llnd that the "girl with the mystic soul" also had taken steerage passage on the same ship. Recognizing the mistake they had made they trans ferred from the steerage to the first cab in. That is the story told by those who investigated the disappearance of Adams. His own story Is different. HOW ADAMS EXPLAINS IT. "My mind was a blank for many days before I left New York," wrote Adams to a friend here. "I knew nothlns . of what I was doing and I first came to my self on bo^ard a steamship, where I. was working as a common seaman. I contin ued the voyage, doing my duties as best I could, and though I often thought that I would die, God's grace saved me." No mention was made at that time of "the child with a mystic soul." Of her not much is known. That she disappeared from' her home about the middle of Aug ust of last year is admitted. She has been heard from on one or two occasions since then, but her present whereabouts Is un known, except it be to her relatives, who refuse to discuss it. Mrs. Adams says: "I will not speak the name of the un fortunate girl who hypnotized my hus band. He first met her. at a summer school near Baltimore and from the first he seemed to be enthralled by her. When she came to New York a year ago last winter I heard so much about the time spentNvith her by my husband that I felt upon to speak to him about it. He believed I was jealous and to prove to him -that I was not I invited the young woman Into my own home, and abandon ment by my husband was the result of s my trust in him." \ Speciul Dispatch to The Call. Detectives Seek a Young Woman Who Disap peared With Him. Men, Women and Babes Share Same Fate. Almost every woman, and the young girls as well, were subjected to a worse fate than death when they fell into the hands of the brutes, and those who were permitted to live had noses and ears cut off ard limbs broken in many instances. One mother strangled her infant for fear Its cries would reveal her hiding place in a closet. Several were killed in their hiding places in kitchens and closets. A woman, who fought valiantly to pro tect herself and child, was dragged to the street. Using the child as a club, they beat tht mother until both were apparent ly dead and then they brained them to make sure. In one house a woman was found nafled to the floor by a great spike through her throat. "WOMAN NAILED TO FLOOB. The bodies of no fewer than nine chil dren were found in the street. The body of one was torn in two. The murderers carried the children to the .upper windows of the house and threw them to the street. When a baby struck on its herd there was a shout of triumph. The gangs attacked the synagogues with great fury. A sexton who tried to pro tect the sacred scrolls was disemboweled. Others met an horrible a fate. A Jew who tried to protect his daughter had " his longve plucked from his mouth to silence his p'eas for mercy. The windpipe was drawn out wtth it anfl his ears were sliced ofl*. The creatures seized the daughter, sir;pr>ed her in the street, and then coolly brained her. Men and women were nailed to the floor because the murderers would not take time to make crosses. HOEBID FOBMS OF TOBTUBE. Mere killing and looting no longer con tented the murderers. The fiends, working in bands of eight or ten, each played a part IS inflicting torture. One would break the nose of a victim, others would break or dislocate arms and legs, cut off his ears and otherwise mutilate the helpless captive, in ways too frightful to record, before death came to his relief. have already been told of the claying and torturing of Jews. The black est deeds of Nero's reign, the horrible In flictions- of the dark aces, are not so frightful as the atrocities visited upon the Jews of Kishenev during the three days of terror. "While neither the military nor the po lice took actual part in the shambles be yong preventing Jews assembling, they did net hesitate to point out to the mur derers the houses in which Jews lived. Certain it is that after the crowd dis persed from that part of the town work ing bands of eight or tea were organized, and that each had axes, bludgeons and bars of iron to break in heavy doors. For perhaps an hour the ruffians con tented themselves with beating the Jews, robbing them and destroying their prop erty. By 4 o'clock they had become mad dened with the lust for blood and the reai slaughter commenced. From beating inoffensive men to death to worse cruel ties was an easy step. By nightfall Kishenev witnessed a car nival of murder and torture such as no human being had ever looked upon. « »EW YORK. May 16.— The World /U / has the following from London: / All news that comes from Kish • ™ enev "adds to the horrors that Special Dispatch to The Call Dr. Adams Masquerad ing Unier Assumed Name. Missing New York Pastor Now in Auckland. No Torture Too Horrible for the Mob. CLERGYMAN APPEARS IN DUAL ROLE PRESIDENT ELUDES CROWDS AND RIDES IN SNOWSTORM TO EWJOY YOSEMITE BEAUTY BLACKEST DEEDS OF NERO'S TIME LESS FRIGHTFUL THAN THE KISHEMEV ATROCITIES VOLUME XCIII— XO. 168. Pages 17 to 30 Pages 17 to 30 PRICE FIVE .CENTS. The San Francisco Call.