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4 RIVAL ARMIES FACE TO FACE ON YALU RIVER France to Send Troops to the Far East. Russia Awaiting Excuse to Pass Dardanelles. Special Dispatch to The Call LONDON. Feb. 17.— France, says the Paris correspondent of the Times, has decided to charter the steamship Cbolon to transport to the Far East St'O men, with officers, of the Forty sixth Colonial Regiment. The Government asked the Com pagnie Nationale the exact number of vessels that could be plated at its dis posal for the conveyance, in case or urgency, of new troops to the Asiatic colonies. • The Brussels correspondent of the Times says the Dutch Government has dh-ji.-tiched three cruisers to guard the poit of Subang. Sumatra, which lies on the direct route for the Far East. Although international law admits the theory that warship* may obtain sufficient coal from R neutral port to reach the nearest home port. Holland evidently is resolved to avoid compli cations by a literal enforcement of her declaration of neutrality. BERLIN. Feb. 16.— Although it is denied In Constantinople that Russia luis :tsked for permission to pass her ships through the Dardanelles, it is known here that, a? soon as England takes any steps to change the present position in Egypt and the Mediterran ean Sea in violation of the Berlin con gress. Russia will pass her vessels through the Dardanelles. The newspapers of the world are ac tive in discussing Germany's policy in the present struggle, without hitting the truth. Chancellor von Bulow is following; the lesson learned by his master. Bismarck. The late Chancellor's idea is made clear by a timely article just published by Dr. Chrysander, formerly physician to the Chancellor. To him Bismarck onoe paid: "The greatest foolishness of my dip lomatic- life was the Berlin congress. I should have allowed Russia and England to eat themselves up like two lions in a forest. Then we would now have more influence than the rest and less danger. I made politics that time like a city Alderman." 1 learn the unpublished fact that Bismarck also declared he regretted that at the Berlin congress he had not allowed Russia to go to Constanti nople. TRILL OF LARK IN HER THROAT By Blanche I'artinston. It does not surprise to learn that Mme. Lillian Blauvelt, the charming soprano, who made her local debut last night at Lyric Hall, was a violinist before she became a singer. She swings that way — in the fashion of a roundly cultivated musician. Possibly most Jike the regretted Mrs. Henschel in her methods is Mine. Blauvelt — a Mrs. Henschel with a voice be it said. There is the same exquisite accuracy of reading, the same unerring taste, the same polished detail. Like Mrs. Henschel's, too, Mme. Blauvelt's is a completely conscious art. Nothing quite sings itself with her, and one's hat staye quite decorously on one's head — if it belongs there — while one listens. Yet this accomplished Amer ican, who comes to us with the adula tory scent of Covent Garden t>ouquets Btill about her, is one of the most thor ougrhjy charming: singers we have had here. No one interested in songs or Einging — and a very lovely young woman — should -miss hearing her, and there will be two more concerts for opportunities. The Blauvelt voice is delightful. There is a comfortable plenty of it. to begin with, and its volume in the upper range is peculiarly full and its quality almost throughout fine and pure. The lowest notes thin out noticeably, but as these are discreetly seldom used. It matters little. But the whole vocal re source is used in a faclleand musieian ly manner that constantly delights. Mme. Blauvelt's trill wan • probably born, not made — it is a liquid and larklike wonder, almost absolute In its evenness. But there is the same fluent and delicate precision In her eealemakingr. in her arpeggl, at every need of flexibility. The singer's enun ciation, too, is admirably clear and her phrasing most intelligent. There •was observable last night a tendency to flat — perhaps a passing trespass. With the exception of some indif ferent examples in her English group. Mme. Blauvelt's programme was a chjoice and pleasing 1 one. It is not easy to understand, however, why the banal Randegger "My Heart" and the equally unnecessary "'Stolen Wings" of Wlllcby should have been chosen. Surely with MacDowell, Oscar Weil, Footc, Chadwick, right at home, the einger need not have gone so far to fare so ill. Possibly the singer was at her best in the "Fruhlingslied' of Mendelssohn, sung with enchanting gayety. The pretty "Will Xleman Singen" of Hildach also found her in charmingly responsive mood. One re membered the singer's Covent Garden laurels with her "Una voce poco fa," rendered with delightful technical adequacy and no little dramatic ac cent. The rarely heard "Les Vepres Siciliennes" of Verdi gave us the Blauvelt trill and several other sorts of satisfaction, and the "Comin* Thro' the Rye" encore that evidenced it the engaging naivete that Is the peculiar Blauvelt charm. The singer was greeted throughout in friendly and ap preciative fashion by a fair audience. To-morrow evening's programme is as follows, and the third and last, equally interesting, will be given on Saturday afternoon: U.) -Mh pres* alia" ..., Paradiw (i,) "Haul" Mozart i -i "K* Dana" Durante i..' "Mondnacht •..Schumann ■ : ■ "llipn Uebe. irt Gruen" Brahms «<•» "O Komm im Traum"....,..... tiszt tut Gutp.u Morgen , Grl*g ••La l'auvctte Gretry fn> "L/afosencv*' Blzct <li» "Pourquol rrstrr senlette".... Saint Saens <»•) "lx% Flllwi de Cadiz" Dellbea Oi> "Rows After Rain" Uza. Ixhmann <Ji) ■' 'Twas April" '. N>\1n <«~) "Ir1*h Folk Sonu" Foote <rf> "TV-y Say" Randegrger "Valse Romeo et Juliette" Gounod COMMANDERS OF JAPANESE MILITARY FORCES IX KOREA, AND MAP OF LIAOTUNG PENINSULA, MANCHURIA, WHERE JAPANESE TROOPS ARE LANDING. SINKING OF THE BOYARIN HEAVY LOSS TO RUSSIA One Hundred and Ninety-Seven Officers and Men Perish on Cruiser Blown Up at Port Arthur. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 16.— The re port that the Russian cruiser Boyarin Mas blown up last Saturday at Port Arthur and that all of her officers and crew, 197 in number, were lost, is con firmed from a private source. The Boyarin "was 348 feet long, of 41 feet beam and 16 feet draught. She was of 2200 tons displacement and her trial speed was 25 knots. Her arma ment consisted of six 4.7-inch guns, eight 1.8-Inch guns, two 1.4-inch guns and three machine guns. She also wa.s fitted with six torpedo tubes. The Boyarin took part in the engagement of February 9 at Port Arthur. Information has been obtained at the Foreign Office that Secretary Hay's proposition to limit the area of war operations is considered "practicable" and that a response will soon be forth coming. Viceroy Alexieff is being con sulted and the authorities are doubtless awaiting an indication as to how the proposition will be received by Japan.! The sympathetic reception given by the powers to Hay's note and the rep resentations the powers have made here have undoubtedly had a good effect upon official opinion and'the Russian Government shows a more friendly spirit toward the direct representations made by the United States. The American Government is now pressing for an answer, to the request that United States army officers be al lcwed to accompany the Russian field operations, | but it is explained that Viceroy -Alexleff, to whom the request was referred, has not yet replied. WAR MARS CARNIVAL WEEK. Carnival week, usually the gayest of the year in Russia, opened yesterday, but under the shadow of war the mer ry-making was only a ghost of that of former years. In St. Petersburg all of the festivities, including balls, public and private functions and fashionable weddings, planned months in advance, have been abandoned. Business, how ever, is as usual suspended and thou sands of little Finnish sleighs, with tinkling bells, which for this one week are allowed to compete with the regular drosky drivers, whisk people through the snow-covered streets at cut prices, although their occupants evidently are not possessed - by the true carnival spirit. The rush of crowds to buy extra edftions of the newspapers, the intense activity at the War and Marine Min- 1 istries and the -crowds about the ad miralty, anxiously inquiring regarding the fate of relatives, are grim remind ers of where the thoughts of the peo ple are. Instead of the customary fes tivities the theaters gave double per formances for the benefit of the Red Cross, and last night the artists' ball, one of the biggest events of the social season, which it was intended to aban don, was held in a hall decorated to represent the feast day of Benares. The artists were attired in the garb of Hindoos, with the object of swelling 1 the Red Cross Society's funds. ISSUE OF CREDIT NOTES.' ■ An issue of 50.000,000 roubles credit notes, secured by gold, was made on February 13. The- comparatively small Influx of circulating credit notes Into the treasuries and the Imperial Bank and the Increased withdrawals for the Far East are assigned as the reasons for this operation. The total of the credit notes in circulation oh February 14 was 680,000,000 roubles. Admiral Wirenius has been instructed to hold the Russian squadron, . consist ing of the battleship Oslabya, the cruis ers Aurora and Dmitri Donskol and a number of torpedo-boat destroyers at Jibuti)* French Somaliland, until fur ther orders. A semi-official telegram, dated from the headquarters ol the Viceroy at SAN. FRANCISCO CALL. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17/ 1904 Port Arthur, says the German cruiser Hansa, which had been sent to remove German subjects from Port Arthur and which had on board also a number of Russian women and children, was fired upon by Japanese warships. The tele gram reiterates the statement that three Japanese torpedo-boats have been sunk in a night attack on Port Arthur. BORRISOF. Russia, Feb.,16.— The de parture of General Rennekampff for the front to-day was the occasion of a great demonstration of patriotism. He was carried to the railroad station on the shoulders of his fellow members of the Officers' Club. WILL CARE FOR THE WOUNDED. KIEFF, Russia. Feb. 16.— Five sur geons and fifty female and thirty male nurses here have volunteered for ser vice in the Far East: % PARIS, Feb. 16.— A dispatch to the Figaro from St. Petersburg to-day says: "It has been decided to hold the Rus sian squadron from the Mediterranean, now in the Red Sea and bound, for the Far East, at Jlbutil. French Somali land, until further orders. Admiral Rojdostwenski, chief of the marine staff, is going to assume the naval command at Port Arthur. The stop ping of the Russian squadron at Jibutil may lead to international complica tions, Jibutil being a neutral French port. It is understood that France is not likely to ask the squadron to leave." ATTACK ON GERMAN SHIP. PORT ARTHUR, Monday, Feb. 15.— The firing on the German cruiser Hah sa by Japanese warships occurred while she was proceeding to Port. Ar thur to take away, the German resi dents and not when the latter were on board of her. The Hansa was not damaged. On her arrival at Port Ar thur she took on board a number of wives of Russian sailors and left the port without/ further incident. The work of repairing the damaged Russian battleshlpsjs. progressing rap 1 idly. The Chinese workmen were panic-stricken by the bombardment, but they are now working well, regard less of the "approach of . the Chinese New Year. Investigation shows that the city and fortress were not damaged in the slightest byMhe. Japanese attack. The people naturally" are anxious and busi ness Is at a • complete* standstill, but the utmost tranquillity prevails. After the religi6us services on Sun day there was a military review before the Viceroy. Admiral Alexieff, who de nounced the action of the Japanese In attacking before declaring war" as bar barous, and expressed confidence that the Russian soldiers would fully avenge themselves. Reports from the interior indicate that the Cossacks are mobilizing with great enthusiasm. In the Amur dis trict they are riding in squads from village to village, waving Russian flags and demanding an early chance to meet the enemy. Russians Lose Cargo of Wagons. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Feb. 16.— The Stoughton Wagon Company, which recently shipped 500 army wagons in several lots to Russian ports on the Pacific, has been notified from St. Petersburg that the last shipment fell into the hands of Japanese. 1 The dispatch does not state the size of the shipment. Russian' Consulate Burned. SHANGHAI, Feb. 16.— The Russian Consulate here was destroyed by fire on Sunday night. The cause has not yet been ascertained. The Russian gunboat Manjur, which was trapped by the Japanese warships at- the mouth of the Yangtse River, is now being dismantled. Russia's Port Arthur ward Korea. Continued 1-Yom Page 1, Column 7. with difficulty by United States Consul Miller, together with three women refugees, whom the civil administrator had assured Miller would be protected. POWERS MAY HAVE TO ACT. The administration admits the grav ity of the situation, but declares that Viceroy Alexieff alone can remedy it. It is believed here, however, that the maintenance of order at this treaty port and the prevention of these vio lations of international rights can be insured only by an instant international plan, supported by an armed force. Mines have been constructed and pre parations made for depositing them at the mouth of the river here, where the forts have been occupied by a field battery of artillery and guns from the Russian gunboat Sivotch. D. J. MILLETT CAUGHT AFTER LONG SEARCH Man Who Robbed Telephone Com pany in Columbus, Ohio, in 1902, Confesses Guilt. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16.— Since Au gust, 1902, at the request of the police department of Columbus, Ohio, peace officers all over the country have been looking for D. J. Millett and Katie Alexander, both, of whom are wanted on felony charges of embezzlement. S Millett was captured In a cheap lodging-house on East Fifth street to night by Sheriff ,White and admitted that he was the man wanted and stated that the woman, whose downfall he had caused and who fled from .Columbus with him was In San Francisco. Later a telegram was received here by the Sheriff stating that, Katie Alexander had been arrested there. For more than eighteen months this couple had been wandering from city to city subsisting upon what they had stolen. Both were employed in Colum bus by the Citizens' Telephone Com pany, Millett as assistant cashier and the Alexander woman as an operator in the cashier's office. , In August, 1902, they suddenly disap peared, and the information of the of ficers here Is that he stole $2000, while the woman took $7300 of the cash be longjng to the company. All efforts on the part of the Ohio officers to find them failed, and the American Bonding and Trust Company of Baltimore of fered a reward of $300 for the capture of the man. It* was through the efforts of the Chief of Police at San Jose that the captures were made. That official learned. that the couple had been in that city and that they had separated there, the man coming south and the Alexander woman going to San Fran cisco. Some message passed between them which was intercepted and which gave the officers a clew as to their whereabouts. Millett arrived here two days ago and has been spending most of his time in' his room. He confessed his guilt to night when arrested, and expressed the hope tflat the woman would also be ar rested and gave the officers her San Francisco address. Later the news of her arrest was received here. Millett is willing to return to Ohio without a requisition. Insolvent Saloon Man. James K. P. Lewis, a saloon keeper at" Sawyer's Bar, j Siskiyou County, filed a petition "in insolvency yester day In the United States District Court. He owes $1340 and has $853 assets. UNITED STATES MARINES TO SAIL ON THE BUFORD War .Department Orders Transport in San Francisco Harbor to Be Prepared for Immediate Service. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU. HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. — The War Department has instructed Major De vol, quartermaster of the transport service at San Francisco, to arrange to receive on board the transport Bu ford 600 marines, with accompanying officers, twenty-two in number. For what objective point they are intended has not been given out here. At any rate they will be landed at San Fran cisco by the time the Buford is ready to sail, which will before the end of the month. Authorities here positive ly decline to state whether the marines are intended for the Orient, the Philippines, or Panama. The orders are imperative, however, and the Bu ford is to sail as soon as the marines can be put aboard. The transport Buford. which has been in San Francisco harbor for the past year or more, was recently com pletely overhauled and put into sea going condition. She is now ready to go to Portland to load lumber and may sail for that port at any moment. Major Devol says that the lumber is intended for Manila, but whether the marines would board the transport at Portland or the Buford would come back to San Francisco to receive them he was unable to say. The Buford's capacity will be taxed to the utmost, both in the cabins and the hold. The transport Dix, which is loading 5500 tons of oats at Portland, prop ably will be back here before long, as, she is to be fitted up to receive 230 mules, which have already been pur chased and will be received here ready for shipment on Saturday. CHINESE COMMANDED WILL DEFEND BORDER AGAINST -INVADERS TIENTSIN, Feb. 16.— Yuan Shih Kai, commander in chief of the Chinese im perial army and navy, has officially in formed the French general, who is dean of the European commandants, that he purposes moving on February 18 the imperial troops now at Paotingfu to Kinchou, near the head of the Liaotung Gulf, to guard the frontier. Fighting, Y.uon Shih Kai added, would not be al lowed in China proper, and defeated belligerents crossing the frontier would be disarmed. It is believed that the Peking troops also . are moving overland toward the border. RUSSIAN SOLDIERS.' ! f THREATEN UNITED STATES GUNBOAT YINGKOW, Feb. 15.— Threatening demonstrations have been made against the British gunboat Esplegle and the United States gunboat Helena by Rus sian soldiers, whose assaults upon and depredations against other foreigners continue. The civil administrator is making every effort to arrest the of fenders, and has assured Captains Bar ton and Sawyer and Consul Miller that full: reparation will be made. " > The Eleventh Siberian Regiment'pa raded at Newchwang to-day In full strength.. . - The Russian authorities deny the-re port of the loss of Russian vessels near Weihalwei. .It is said here that Japan will wait indefinitely 5 to land troops in Manchu ria, as she considers that the - control of the seas obtained hf Japan nullifies to a great extent Russian interests in the East. Explosion in a Buttery. TIENTSIN. Feb. 16.— It Is reported here that a big explosion has occurred in the Golden Hill battery at Port Ar thur. No details are given. All of the forts there use black powder. • The local officials of the Postal Tel egraph-Cable Company are advised that the cable between Hongkong ami Foochow has been repaired, restoring normal communication between Hong kong, Shanghai and Japan. The Jap anese Government advises that all tel egrams, to and from Nagasaki or in transit through Nagasaki are subject to military censorship since the 15th inst. Charges Snow With Conversion. In an answer and cross-complaint filed yesterday by the Realty Invest ment Company to the suit brought .against it by H. W. Snow for money for services alleged by Snow to have been rendered the concern by him. a general denial of Snow's charges is made. In the cross-complaint Snow is charged with converting to his own use $1142 advanced him by the company. Meets- Stranger and Is Robbed. Pete Dupont, a recent arrival In town, met a stranger in the street last night and together they sought the flowing bowl early and often. Shortly after midnight they went to the Park lodging-house, 624 Kearny street, and in the hallway the stranger hit Du pont on the jaw. knocked him down, robbed him of $270 and fled. Dupont can give no description of the robber. Russian Passports. A journalist, Prince Metchersky. sent by the Czar to investigate certain agrarian troubles, has demonstrated the absurdity of the passport regula tions of Russia. Prince Metchersky crossed to Rou mania and purposely obtained one of the permits of the sort required for taking livestock over the border. He then went to a Russian frontier post and presented the document to the official- in charge as his warrant to pass. Like many others in similar positions, the man could read no Rou manian and little Russian, but he was duly impressed by the* big. official looking 'paper! with *its coat of arms and seal, arid he, readily stuck the Russian vise on it. At the end of his investigations Prince Metchersky returned to Mos- V cow. When, the opportunity came he presented the document to the Gov ernor. "My passport," said he. "I entered Russia and traveled there five months on the authority of the doc ument, Which describes me for, pur poses of identification in terms which I think, you will admit are neither flattering nor true." . . _ .. . • - The Governor took the document and Ba-yv 1 to his amazement that Prince Metchersky figured there as a "black sow, full; grown, with one ear partly torn, away."— New York Commercial. The "housesmiths" are those iron workers who put together the steel skeleton frames which are used in the construction of all large buildings. Sixty Thousand Japanese on Frontier. Bar Russian Ad vance Into Korea. LONDON, Feb. 17.— According to spe cial dispatches published here this morning from Tokio, the Russian squadron has returned to Vladivostok. The Tokio correspondent of the Daily Mail says in a dispatch that two Rus sian warships appeared off Okl Island, in the Southern part of the Japan Sea. on Sunday. The correspondent at Chemulpo of the Dailv Express makes the astonish ing statement that Japan has already landed 120,000 troops in Korea, 60,000 of which are extended along the fighting front south of the Yalu River. The London press attaches the great est significance to the departure of Viceroy Alexieff from Port Arthur, and comments upon the sudden throwing of Russian troops into Nevvchwang as in dicating Russian apprehensions that Port Arthur is in danger and that the Japanese attack may not. after all. be made where it is expected, on the Yalu. All reports tend to confirm the impres sion that Russia has little or nothing to expect from sea operations. SUPPLY OF TORPEDOES LOST. According to a dispatch to the Paris edition of the New York Herald. 400 torpedoes, being two-thirds of Russia's entire available supply of these arti cles, were, destroyed on board the Rus sian cruiser Variag. The Tckio correspondent of the Dally Chronicle cabl«»«> that it is said officially that several thousand Russian troops have reached Antung and that it is ru morea that 20,000 Russians have arrived at PIngyang, on the Tatons River, in Central Korea. The Chronicle, how ever, regards this rumor as improb able, unless the invasion of Korea pre ceded the outbreak of hostilities. The Seoul correspondent of the Daily Mail, in the course of a descrip tive narrative of the Chemulpo battle, says that before the fight the captain of the Russian cruiser Variag had a conference with the British, French, and Italian captains aboard the Brit ish cruiser Talbot. in which he asked for the protection of a foreisn war ship on leaving the harbor. The re-* quest was refused. The British launch, delivered ?i protest to the Japanese admiral immediately before th» ajcp tion. AMERICANS HOLD ALOOF. The Americana present refrained from attending the naval conference or partaking in the demonstration, al though some of the Russian wounded were received on board the United States gunboat Vicksburg. While the Variag was being sunk her captain, fearins the Japanese would rearh the vessel before she set tled down, requested the captain of the Talbot to fire at her waterline. This request also was refused. It is said Great Britain is about to appoint Consuls at Mukden and An tung. In a dispatch, dated Port Arthur. February 13. a correspondent of the Times gives a description of seven Russian warships, which, he says, are lying disabled there. They include the battleships Sevastopol and Petro polavsk. which have not been named in previous reports of the action. The correspondent says that altogether eleven Russian ships were put out of action at Port Arthur. Continuing, he declares that the Japanese were driven from the neighborhood of Kinchow, near Newchwang, after a skirmish, in which 150 Japanese were, taken prisoners and 170 Russians killed. In an editorial article the Times re marks that, as this correspondent does not mention the injuries sustain ed by the battleships, and as the Kin chow story has not been reported from any other source, it would be well to accept his report with some reserve. Errors Cause Case's Dismissal. RIVERSIDE, Feb. 16. — The case of the People against Kimbell, the Su pervisor of this county, who was charged by the Grand Jury with mis conduct in office and recommended for dismissal, was thrown out of court this morning by Judge Bledsoe, who sustained the demurrer of th# defense to insufficiency of the indict ment. This is the fourth of the Riv erside alleged boodle cases to be brought into court and dismissed on account of errors. in the prosecution. ADVEBTISEMENTS. OPERATIONS A FAD. Public Gradually Awakens to the Fact. The latest fad in operations has been the appendicitis fad; before that the fad for rectal operations (piles, etc.) held sway. Hundreds of patients were frightened and hurried into hospitals, operated upon and robbed of their last dollar, when the trouble was a simple case of hemorrhoids or piles only, easily cured at home with a simple remedy costing but 50 cents a box. "I procured one 50-cent box of Pyra- mid Pile Cure of my druggist, with the' intention of buying a larger box later.: but was happily surprised when I found ; that I was cured, and still have six] •pyramids' left out of the first and only I box. I •have not had the least sign of piles since I used this one box, which has been about two months; previous to using Pyramid Pile Cure I had the worst kind of bleeding and protruding piles for over thirty-one years, and no one knows, except those who have had the piles, the pain and misery I suf- fered, u* "1 am a poor man. but have often said I would give a fortune, if I had it, tq be cured of the piles, and now I have been cured for 50 cents. I should bo very ungrateful if I did not thank you and give you every privilege to use my name and this letter,' when I know there are so many who suffer as I did J. A. Weismiller, 1100 Bladensburg road, Washington. D. C." The Pyramid Drug Co.. Marshall Mich., publish a little book on the causes and cure of piles, which they will be glad to mail free to any ap- plicant, and we advise all sufferers from this painful disease to write to , them for it.