TYPES OF ALBANIAN SOLDIERS IN THE ARMY OF THE SULTAN OF TURKEY. TO THE ALBANIANS ARE CREDITED MANY OF THE OUTRAGES THAT HAVE BEEN COMMITTED IN THE BALKANS, WHERE TURKISH TROOPS ARE ALLEGED TO HAVE MASSACRED MORE THAN 60,000 CHRISTIANS. HAMILTON. Mont., Sept. 10.— After be ing out two hours the jury in ttie case of Walter Jackson, charged with the mur der of Fonnie Bucks, a 6-year-old boy, to-day brought in a verdict of first de cree murder. The murder of the little boy occurred several weeks ago and was a peculiarly atrocious crime. On account of certain features connected with it widespread indignation was aroused and Jackson narrowly escaped bciiyr lynched. Murderer of Young Boy Is Convicted. OMAHA, Ncbr., Sept. lO.-Bishop Rich ard Scannell of the" Omaha diocese of the Catholic church has taken a definite stand in the matter of Catholics becom ing members of the International Typo graphical Union, and makes the plain statement that a Catholic cannot belong to the union and receive absolution from a priest. Bishop Scannell said that no man could be a good member of the Roman Catholic church and adhere to the principles of the typographical obligation, and further, that unices the obligation Is changed. Catholic members should get out of the organization. Catholic Bishop Says Typographical Operators Must Change Their Obligation. PRELATE OBJECTS TO THE OATH OF A UNION LONDON, Sept. 10.— Another confer ence looking to the improvement of the condition of Ireland ¦will be called short ly. Captain Ehawe-Taylor, who was sec retary of the recent landlord and ten ants' conference in Dublin, which was in strumental In securing the Irish land bill, purposes to invite representatives of the Orangemen, Roman Catholics and Protes tants and the heads of the educational Institutions in Ireland to meet in Dublin and confer together for the pur pose of finding a common ground on which all may Etand, thus ending the re ligious difference in connection with ed ucation, which has lasted for centuries and which has been responsible for many of Ireland's difficulties. Captain Shawe-Taylor Will Invite Conflicting 1 Interests to Meet in Conference. HOPES TO END RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES IN IRELAND Price contends thai the collection was permissible under the law as he inter preted it, and admits that he remembers having collected an additional $50 on each of 123 claims. He did not know how many more he assessed in the same sum. Murphy telegraphed to the Department of Justice that his explanation had been forwarded and simultaneously presented his resignation. The Department of Jus tice refused to accept the resignation, and, pending receipt of Murphy's explanation, has ordered his suspension. A protest was received recently by the Commissioner of Lands from ah applicant for patents for mining claims in Arizona, asserting that ten claims which he had filed and the fees for which, amounting to f.W, had been regularly deposited in the of- Cce of the Surveyor General, had been held Up by Price. The applicant in his pro test declared that, although the necesary lmprovements on the claims had been made, the patents had not been obtained until he had paid over to Price an addi tional 550 for each application, which he finally did. The only explanation offered by Price, according to the protest, was that the law authorized him to make this additional charge. Price is accused and his chief clerk is suspected of having conducted lucrative business In the granting of patents to mining claimants in Arizona and in the sale of rr.aps of mining tracts which had been prepared in the Surveyor General's office at covernment exaense. Under the law a fee of $50 is required cf all persons filing application for min ing claims. In return the law provides that at the end of a year a patent shall be Issued by the Surveyor General, pro viding that the applicant has Improved ilsjdaijR to. the value of fKS.-- CALX. BUREAU. 1406 G STREET. N. W., WASHINGTON. Sept. lO.-Another scandal has been unearthed in the Land OfSce of the Interior Department. As a result of a prorrpt investigation conduct ed by the Department of Justice, at the Instance of Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock, Hugh F. Price, Surveyor Gen eral of Arizona, was dismissed to-night by order of Acting Attorney General Day. "W". E. Murphy, chief clerk under the Surveyor General, has been suspended. Special Dispatch to The Call. Suspect Is Accused of Hav ing Trafficked in Min ing Patents. Summarily Ousts Ter ritorial Surveyor General. Department of Jus tice Uncovers Frauds. DISMISSES AN OFFICIAL OF ARIZONA Turks Committing Jllmost Incon* ceivable Out* rages. PORTE HEEDS AMERICAN DEMAND AND REMOVES BEIRUT VALI; BULGARIA WILL DECLARE WAR UNLESS POWERS INTERVENE FLIES ROAR NEAR RESORT IN A FOREST Camp Vacation in Sonoma County in Peril. Fires Destroy Woods and Menace Many Small Towns. Valuable Timber Makes Fuel for Conflagrations in the North. SANTA ROSA. Sept. ID.— A fierce forest fire, which for the past few days has been raging in the vicinity of Guerne vllle, on the Russian River, to-day swept down through Russian River" Heights, above Guernewood Park, and now threat ens Camp Vacation, a -popular summer resort at the terminus of the Guerneville branch of the California Northwestern Railway. A special train this afternoon carried a large number of section hand3 to the scene and the regular train carried 200 more. "Word received from Guemevflle about dark was to the effect that the fire was still burning fiercely and was beyond control. TWO TOWNS IN DANGER. REDDING. Sept. 10.— The greatest for est fire in the history of Western Shasta County has raged for several days about the towns of Igo and Ono. It Is now rac ing rapidly toward a great belt of timber which lies along the Shasta side of the range of mountains which divides Shasta and Trinity counties. The fire started from an unknown causa Tuesday morning r.ear the farm of Mr3. Catherine Ritchie, near Ono. All fences and Improvements on the Conrad farm, excepting the dwelling and barn.^were destroyed. The properties of Robert Richter, John . P. Wright and William Richter were saved only by the greatest effort. The water supply of the Happy Valley Irrigation District was menaced. The entire country was aroused, the resi dents turning out in a body to combat the flames. Yesterday the town of Ono was threat ened, the fire burning its way into the little settlement. A high prevailing wind is carrying the flames at a tremendous speed. Not infrequently they leap can yons 400 yards in width. To-night the fire is racing west and i3 beyond control. Luckily the country in the path before it is very sparsely set tled. BATTLE WITH FLAMES. NEVADA CITY. Sept. 10. —A big forest fire is raging between Downieville and Sierra City. For a time It was thought that the town of Downieville would ba destroyed. The tire broke out yesterday morning owing to the dry condition of the country and spread with frightful rapidity. All the available men in Dow nieville were hastily called out and im mediate preparations were made to stay the progress of the flames. Sparks from the fire were blown right into Downieville. In order to prevent them from setting fire to the roofa of buildings, which are as dry as tinder. It was necessary to attach fire hose to hydrants and thoroughly wet all the roof3. Before the flames were under con trol an immense stretch of country was burned over and much valuable timber was destroyed. Another fire is raging between Camp tonvllle and San Juan, near Badens. It is not known how this fire originated. A large tract of country is being burned over and much timber will be destroyed. Men on the scene fighting the flames be lieve that ho damage will result other than the destruction of forests. AUTOMOBILE GOES DOWN" SIXTY-FOOT EMBANKMENT New York Physician Receives Fatal Injuries and His Niece Is Killed. TUXEDO PARK. N. Y.. Sept. 10.— Dr. Edward C. Rushmore of the Tuxedo Colony was fatally injured and Miss Cor nelia Herrick of Southampton, his niece, was killed In an automobile- accident at Arden to-day. The automobile In golns up a steep incline 300 yards from E. H. Harriman's summer home gave out and the brake would not work. The machine rushed backward down the hill, going down a sixty-foot embankment on the mountain side. NEW YORK ACTOR DIES IN A CITY HOSPITAL No Friends or Relatives Are at Hi3 Bedside When Death Comes. BOSTON, Ser>t. 10.— It develops that a rtian who entered the. city hospital last week complaining of illness and who aiod of Dneumonla Monday night was Fred erick Clifton of New York, the well known actor and member of the "Sign of the Cross" company which has been playing here. There were no friends or relatives at the bedside when death cam.'. Clifton came to this country from Erg land about twenty years ago with a Oil bert and Sullivaa opera company. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1903. PRICE FIVE OEOTS. VOLUME XClV-OsO. 103. Continued' on Page 2, Column 5. GALVESTON, Tex., Sept. 10.— W. R. Scott, who recently resigned as general superintendent of the Forth Worth and Denver City Railroad, with headquarters at Fort Worth, and who has been spend ing the last few days in Galveston. will leave soon for California to accept the position of division superintendent of tfie Sacramento division of the Southern Pa cific - Railroad. The appointment is of. f ectlve September 15. Previous to zolag to Fort Worth, Scott was division super intendent of the Santa Fe at Clebourns. W. R. Scott Accepts Position of Su perintendent of Sacramento Divi . sion of the Southern Pacific. RAILROAD MAN OF TEXAS IS COMING TO CALIFORNIA The authorities here are busily search ing for the persons who looted the vault and it is rumored that a number of ar rests will be made. BAKERSFIELD, Sept. 10.— The ballots stolen from the City Clerk's office, on which depended the result of the Mar shalship election contest now pending In the courts, were burned in a gully in the foothills two miles from town on the morning of August 22. A farmer passing about 2 o'clock saw two men in the act of destroying them, and the remains of them were collected by Constable Stroble and Marshal Farris of Kern. FARMER SEES THIEVES BURNING THE BALLOTS Remnants of Bakersfield Election Papers Are Found and Arrests May Be Made. that the Pomaks, or Bulgarian Moham medans, ¦ would follow suit, but do not know where they can find refuge. The great forest of Pirln is burning. The. Turks set fire to the forest in four places and the flames are visible at a great distance. Fighting is reported to be taking place near Melnlk and another fight is also go ing on in the vilayet of Monastir. At Bukovit, between Krushevo and Gostiva, the Insurgents surprised a body of Bashl Bazouks pillaging the village. The latter were attacked and many were killed. Near Mldesch, district of Kostur, it Is reported,- a band led by Tohakaloroff has defeated a detachment of .Turkish troops, who .lost about .sixty killed. WOUNDED CROWD HOSPITALS. Many wounded Turks are arriving at Monastir, filling the hospitals. The popu lation in the district of Veles is reported tobe in a terrible condition. Nearly all the .villages have been plundered and de stroyed. . : The old men, women and chil- Telegrams from the " frontier Indicate approaching disturbances in Northern and 'Eastern Macedonia. A telegram from DJoumaia Bays the rich Turks/are leaving the villages In that .district' and The official view of the situation con tinues pessimistic, but in other quarters the belief prevails that the powers will shortly propose a new scheme of pacifi cation in Macedonia and thus remove the possibility of a Turko-Bulgarian war. j Much confidence is expressed that the approaching visit of the Czar to Vienna will result in the peaceful solution of the "difficulties. ."'¦.. i .'¦• TARDY POWER'S MAY ACT. ists regarding the terrible barbarities practiced by the Turkish regulars and Bashi Bazouks on helpless women and children in .Macedonia. The Sofia Gov ernment has hitherto withstood all at tempts on the part of the Macedonian committees in an attempt- to draw Bulga ria Into a war with Turkey, but the trend of affairs is dally becoming more critical and the position of the Ministry more dif ficult. garian villages in Macedonia are causing much excitement in political and general circles here. "While Premier Pe troff's intimation that Bulgaria would soon be forced into war unless the powers intervene was conveyed in the course of informal conversation with the diplomats in Sofia and in no sense intended as an official communication, it may be regard ed as an indication that the patience of the Bulgarian people is becoming ex hausted. ' Every day brings news of fresh mas sacres and outrages in Macedonia, The revolutionary organizations to-day pub lished elaborate statistics, giving the names of 111 villages burned by the Turk ish soldiers, the number of houses in each, the date of the incendiarism and particu lars of the number of persons murdered in each case. Official representatives residing here are susDiciously reticent, but no doubt ex- gm^ OFIA, Bulgaria, Sept. 10.— The con fi tinuous reports of wholesale mas ¦ sacres of the Bulgarian popula 9*J tion and the destruction of Bul- CHICAGO, Sept. 10.— General John C. Black, recently elected commander-In chief of the G. A. R., to-day appointed his personal staff and issued his first general order in the form of a fraternal greeting to the members of the organiza tion. In the ensuing year the national headquarters will be in Memorial Hall, Chicago, and will be in charge of Adju tant General Charles A. Partridge. The following were named as members of the staff: Adjutant general, Charles A. Par tridge of the Department of Illinois; quartermaster general, Charles Burrow3 of the Department of New Jersey; In spector general, Edward B. Messer of the Department of New York; judge advo cate general, James Tanner of the De partment of New York. Recently Elected Commander in Chief of Grand Army Issues His First Order. GENERAL BLACK NAMES HIS PERSONA!, STAFF Bade was arrested by Chief . of Police Stanford. Hewston died very soon after the shooting. The shootlnsr. which occurred on Caro lina street at 8:30 o'clock, was the result of a brief quarrel. Bade and Hewston lived on the same street and between the families of each there had been some ground for enmity. When Hewston taw Bade to-night he entered into a conversation with him and in a few minutes the two were involved In a dispute. Eventually Hewston turned away and hurried to his home, his anger at a pitch that boded nothing- good for Bade. The Grand Army man conjectured that the negro would return and he im mediately armed himself with a shotgun. Half an hour later Hewston reappeared, and, after renewing the quarrel, drew a rcvol\-er. Bade instantly opened fire, a charge of heavy shot entering the negro's Eide. He fell to the ground and for sev eral minutes struggled in a vain effort to rise and discharge at Bade the weapon he still clutched in his hand. VALLEJO. Sept. lO.-Charles Bade, an elderly resident of this city and promi nent In Grand Army circles, to-night shot and killed Lloyd Hewston, a young: negro, while the latter, armed with a large re volver, was seeking the life of the vet eran. Special Dispatch to The Call At 4 o'clock he was awakened by a mosquito 'biting him. He smelled gas and found his six friends almost dead. They had blown out six jets. Had the discovery been delayed ten minutes all would have been dead. "WHEELING, , W. Va., Sept. 10.— The sting of a mosauito bite saved six lives early this morning. I. M. Crum, a rail road official, was entertaining six friends from the country, who came to see the State Fair. He put them on' the second floor of his home on the island. Special Dispatch to The Call. Tragedy at Night on Street in Vallejo. Awakens Man in a Gas-Flooded House. OLD SOLDIER SHOOTS DOWN ARMED NEGRO MOSQUITO'S BITE SAVES SIX LIVES JOFIA, Sept. 10. — Premier Petroff has informed the rep resentatives of the powers in Sofia that neither the Gov ernment nor the Bulgarian people can witness with indiffer ence the annihilation of the Bulgarian element in Macedonia, and unless the powers can find some means of restraining Turkey's terrible repressive measures Bulgaria will be forced to depart from her present attitude of neutrality. CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. lo.—The Porte has heeded the demand made by the American Minister and the French Embassador and has dismissed Reshid Pasha, the vali of Beirut, zvho was charged with responsibility for the recent outbreak against Christians. Nazim Pasha, his successor, has taken energetic .action, with the result that quiet is restored and the necessity for landing American marines has passed. The San Francisco Call