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SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3/ 1904.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
FIRST MOVE MADE
IN THE FIGHT FOR
DOLBEER MILLIONS
PRESIDENT SENDS
AGENT TO WATCH
THE BEEF BARONS
War News Continued on" Page 2.
Continued on Page 3, Column* 2.
night as a result of falling down the
elevator shaft of her London resi
dence, 35 Belgrave square. Her
thigh was fractured and her knee in
jured. "
i Mrs. Paget opened the
door ' in . the night with the intention
of stepping on the electric elevator.
This was .in the upper, part of the
house at the ; time, and she, not no
ticing this,* stepped into the shaft and
fell to the basement. , ¦
Sympathetic Strike Indorsed.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 2.— The conven
tion of the International Teamsters to
day indorsed the action of President
Shea and the executive board in callinsr
out on sympathetic strike the St. Louis
packing-house teamsters in support of
tiie striking butcher wortaaea.
The girl in her new uniform held
the attention of the crowd, as some
rumors of her etory had been circu
lated. There was ; loud applause as
the insignia of the army was pinned
to the collar of her uniform.
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 2.— Miss
Marie Gibbons, the daughter of a
wealthy resident of Pocomoke City,
Md., this evening enlisted in the Sal
vation Army here and now she is won
dering what her father will say re
garding" her action. Miss Gibbons was
sworn in this evening. With Miss Gib
bons, under the crossed banners of
the army where" they were sworn in
as soldiers, were a former bartender
and two former followers of Dowie.
Maryland Dons Poke, Bonnet
and Plain Blue Dress.
Daughter of Wealthy Resident of
SVLVATJON ARMY WINS
HEIRESS AS A RECRUIT
.Paget, wife of Major "General Paget,
Scots Guards, . and daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Paran Stevens of
New York, was seriously injured last
Mrs. Arthur Pagct the Victim of a
Peculiar Accident in Her Lon
don Residence.
LONDON, Aug. 2.- — Mrs. Arthur
FALLS DOWN ELEVATOR
SHAFT TO BASEMENT
REDDING, Aug. 2.— Game Warden
Eugene Barrlon,.who was .recently sent
from this city to do duty in Mendocino
County, came near being murdered and
has given .up his job and returned
home. .
Barrion was warned the second day
on duty that some one intended . to kill
him. He paid no attention to the warn
ing. Saturday he was waylaid by two
men, who opened fire * upon him with
rifles. Barrion's ,.dog. was killed and
his horse wounded. Barrion sprang be
hind a tree and escaped. He' has re
ported the matter to the > authorities
and they will Investigate/ Barrionwill
not return to Mendocino County.
Official Ignores a Danger Warning and
¦.•<>. Narrowly Escapes Assassina
tion in Forest.
HUNTERS IN MENDOCINO
SHOOT AT GAME WARDEN
McAuliffe wanted peace and put out
his hand to shake hands with the
truculent policeman, but the latter
overlooked the pugilist's peace offering
and knocked him down. ( McAuliffe
sprang to his feet with the agility of
a cat and began raining blov.3 upon
the face of the unknown. Gosney
fought back, but thevprizeflghter in
flicted merciless punishment. Gosney
weakened, but before going to the mat
for a rest he had raised many bumps
upon McAuliffe's countenance.
NEW YORK. Aug. 2.— James Gosney,
a country policeman, came to Newr
York on a cheap excursion from Har
risburg. Pa., crossed to Brooklyn ar.«l
proceeded to create trouble in a bowl
ing alley. He whipped the proprietor
and five men and then gave Jack Mc-
Auliffe, the ex-champion pugilist, ft
hard fight.
Whips Proprietor and Five 3Ien ami
Gives Jack McAuliffe, the Prize
fighter. Hard Battle.
TRUCULENT POLICEMAN
CLEANS OUT BOWLING ALLEY
• It .is on this statement and what
further information their own men
have been "able to secure that- the
strike leaders base their claims that
the packers are badly crippled, "not
withstanding statements to .the con
trary. A considerable number -of strike
breakers who arrived in Chicago were
dissuaded from going to work by
pickets. z\ •
:. In a statement given out by the
packers * to-day it was asserted that
out of the " 25,526 ;union men who went
out on strike 3056 -had .returned to
work. These desertions from i the
STRIKE BREAKERS ARRIVE.
Despite these declarations of the
packers' representatives, the pens at
the stockyards are filled with cattle
and hoes that buyers make no bids
for in the market. According to com
mission men and officials of the Union
Stockyards and Transit Company, out
of the livestock received yesterday and
to-day more than 19.000 sheep and-10,000
hogs were reshipped, and unsold stock
is rapidly accumulating in the pens.
Twelve thousand hogs remained un
sold to-night, and the prospect of
large receipts to-morrow is causing
the livestock handlers to fear a swamp
ing of their facilities. According to
commission men, there are thousands
of holdovers in all departments of the
yards, and the cattle in the peris' will
not all be out of the way by Saturday
night. In the face of all this shippers
are constantly forwarding , stock to
Chicago, and indications to-night are
that there will be a decided slump in
the prices of the stock.
This assertion was made by Meeker
to-night after the packers had brought
in during the day, according to their
estimates, 1300 new men. Another of
ficial of Armour & Co. said that the
packing firms were doing nearly 80 per
cent of their , usual business. Police
reports of the number of new employes
arriving at the yards to-day bore out
in a large measure the packers' state
ments.
who do will come back as individuals."
CATTLE AND HOGS UNSOLD.
The meat packers, whose union em
ployes are on strike, claim to be in a
better position to-night than at any
time since the struggle began. When
asked for the packers' side of the situ
ation Arthur Meeker, general manager
for Armour & Co., said: . .
"The strike may be said to be near at
an end. At the rate we are engaging
new empioyes.it will be only a matter
of a short time now until everything
will be in normal- condition with us
once more. When the butcher work
men repudiated their agreement " and
renewed the strike, after signing an
agreement to submit all grievances to
arbitration, we made a special effort to
win the fight, and we have been a great
deal more successful in our efforts than
the most sanguine of > the employers
had hoped for. The eld > employes*
places have been filled so rapidly that
very few /of the" strikers win- ever be
able to jet back their places, and those
CHICAGO, Aug. f— Inspector Carroll,
the special representative of the
United States, Department of. Com
merce and Labor, who obtained the evi
dence for the Government on which an
injunction was Issued about two years
ago by Judge Peter Grosscup . of the
Federal District Court enjoining the
larger packing companies from com
bining In fixing prices, either as buy
ers of livestock or sellers of meat, was
In the stockyards here this afternoon
investigating conditions. The inspect
or's presence is by direction of the De
partment of Commerce and Labor, ac
tuated, it is said, by direct orders from
President Koosevelt, who is anxious to
obtain the exact situation.
It is not the Intention of the Govern
ment, it is said, to take any action
toward ending the strike. Carrolljs
mission is to investigate the situation
with regard to alleged violations of the
Grosscnp injunction. His visit is the
forerunner of action to be taken by
the Department of Justice, which has
already been. supplied with a mass of
evidence relating to the operations of
the beef trust.
STATUS OF THE STRIKE.
Special Dispatch \o The 'Call.
Inspector Seeks Proof of Violation
of Grosscup In/unction.
Mrs. Josephine L. Moody. Referring to
the will of April 23, which Mugan and
Gray seek to have probated, the con
testant says:
"That said instrument is i:ot the last
v/ill and testament of said decedent;
that at the time the same bears date
and at the time when it is alleged that
said instrument was signed and exe
cuted, and for a long time prior there
to, the said Bertha M. Dolbeer was not
of a sound and disposing mind and was
not competent to make a will."
¦ The uncle asks that the will be not
admitted to probate and that it be de
creed that Bertha Dolbeer died intes
tate.
j The contest filed by Attorneys Wells
and Tauszky is in behalf of Frazier M.
Dolbeer, Jane Ann Brown and Alice H.
Fern of Brooklyn, and Stephen Dol
beer of Queens County, Xew York.
After reciting that Miss Dolbeer died
without issue, husband, father, mother,
brother or Bister, the paper gives up
the relationship of the contestants in a
way which leaves it in doubt. It is
said that the father of John Dolbeer
was Nicholas, long deceased, and
"Moses Dolbeer was one of the broth
ers." It is not certain whetb - Moses
was the brother of Nicholas ** jf John,
hut if it was the latter th<- .he chil
dren of Moses, who contests the will,
are the first cousins of the dead girl.
Moses died in December, 1903.
The heirs represented by Attorney
Schaertzer are yet to be heard from.
"Well, this makes my third hold-up,"
h-o said to himself, and he -commenced
to ng-ur* on how to beat the robbers
out of the prospective booty.
In a purse he had $400. and how to
save that was the question. A happy
thought struck him, and he slipped the
purse Inside his garments, next to his
ekin. A diamond ring he slipped into
one shoe. A sigh of relief escaped him
as the robbers went on their way after
taking his gold watch and $20. They
also took his railroad ticket from St.
Louis to Los Angeles, but this they re
turned.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2.— The officials of
the Illinois Central Railroad to-night
decided to increase the reward of $1000
for the arrest and conviction of the
bandits who held up the Diamond spe
cial last night near Matteson, 111., to
$4000, a reward of 51000 being placed on
the head of each of the robbers. A
circular offering this amount for the
capture of the robbers has been pre
pared and will be sent broadcast over
the country in the hope that it will fa
cilitate the capture of the bandits.
.- ST. LOUIS, Aug. 2.— The bandits who
held' up the Diamond special on the
Illinois Central Railroad took from J.
t.. Croft of 1331 Calumet avenue, Los
'Angeles, a watch and chain valued at
StO and t-Q in money, but owing to
Croft"* quick-wittedness leXt $40u in
Hv*~ - " ."¦ ' - - "
When Croft saw the masked men
coming down the aisle of the car with
revolvers in their hands and the whole
crew in tow he knew exactly what was
up, for he- had been through two simi
lar experiences.
Special Dispatch io The Call
The first guns in the prospectively
long battle for the millions of Bertha
M.Dolbeer, who .flung herself from a
ninth-story "" window in New York on
July 9, were heard yesterday in
the Superior Court. On the probate
calendar It was announced . that the
court would hear the application "of
William G. Mugan and George D. Gray
for the admission of the will to pro
bate. Judge Hunt was sitting -for
Judge Coffey, who is away on a vaca
tion.
Attorneys Pillsbury and Williamson
appeared for the. executors named in
the will and answered "ready" when
the case was called. \ Then Hiram W.
Johnson, who is attorney for Adolph
Schander, an uncle of the unfortunate
girl, told the court that a contest to the
will had been filed and asked for a con
tinuance of the hearing. Judge Hunt
thereupon . set the matter over until
August 12. Besides the attorneys for
the contending interests, the adminis
trators, Mugan and Gray, were in
court.
Two contests were filed in the case
that of Schander and that of the New
York heirs, who were represented by at
torneys, George R. "Wells and Edmund
TauszkyV In the Schander contest the
document recited the circumstance of
Miss Dolbeer' s death and said that the
heirs at law were the uncles, Adolph
'and Horatio Schander and an aunt,
CABINET MINISTERS WHO ARE PAVING THE WAY FOR A PROSECUTION /
OF THE SO-CALLED "BEKF TRUST' -AND JURIST WHOSE INJUNCTION
THE PACKERS ARE ALLEGED TO HAVE VIOLATED.
Two Contests Filed by Uncle and
Other Relatives.
Victim of Three Holdups
Uses His Experience to
. Good ..Advantage on Train
WEALTHY YOUNG WOMAN OVER WHOSE ESTATE A BITTER FIGHT IS
PROMISED. ONE OF THE- RELATIVES WHO FILED A CONTEST YES
TERDAY AND, THE ATTORNEY WHO REPRESENTS HIM.
WISE TRAVELER
BALKS BANDITS
GALVESTON, Tex.. Aug. 2.— The
Grand Jury of Belle County has in
dicted 1500 physicians and druggists for
violations of the local option law and
. they are being arrested by the score.
This will make the largest criminal
docket of any court in Texas.
The true bills, are the result of ir
regular prescriptions having been or
dered by physicians in their practice
and the filling of these prescriptions
by the druggists. If all are tried upon
the separate indictments returned it
is. believed the cases will require sev
eral months of the court's time.
It is the general belief that no jury
can ever be impaneled that will convict
the .physicians^ and druggists on the
< harjres preferred "oy the Grand Jury, !
but this was also the belief when the
complaints were registered. Neverthe
less, the wholesale indictments have
created a sensation in the State and
the criminr.1 branch of the State courts
threatens that if impartial trials are
not had and the men convicted, pro
vided the testimony is conclusive, the
State will take a hand in the proceed
ings.' ' . ' v. '
Th? developments are looked forward
to with much interest, as many prom
inent men are involved.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
"It is true that Huntington is to
build from Fresno to "Wawona and that
he is going after a big Yosemite busi
ness, but the proposition ¦ is backed by
Mr. Huntington, W. G. Kerchoff. A. C.
Balch and other Los Angeles capital
ists. Harriman is not in it at all."
Wawona is within sixteen miles of
the Yosemite Valley, which is as near
as any railroad can get to the Govern
ment property. The electric line from
Fresno wi!l be seventy-nine miles in
length and will cost about Jl.OOO.OCO
to build. The route will be by way vt
Clovls and Crane Valleys. "With Fresno
as the center, Huntington intend3 to
run various electric lines through that
part of the State.
The corporation holdings are founded
on_property and water rights ov.ned by
an old man named "VV. V. Clark, who
has held them for many years. The
Mokelumne ditch, as the water course
is to be called, will be built from the
junction of the north and south forks'
of the Mokelumne River and will con
vey an enormous amount of water to
various drops, where turbine motors
will generate the electricity. Murray
M. Harris and others of this city are
investing capital in this corporation.
Harris is in Fresno.
It has been stated that E. H. Har
rlman is interested with H. E. Ilunc
ington in the Fresno Traction Com
pany and other enterprises there and
that he Js also a party to the big elec
tric power deal in that part of the
State. To-night an officer high in the
Huntington companies made an em
phatic denial of Harriman's reported
interest. He said:
"I am credited with selecting gitea
for power plants in that district to bo
used by Mr. Huntington in connection
with the Fresno Traction Company
system," he said. "I never made a "
survey up there and am not employed
by the corporation which is doing the
work. It is not H. E. Huntinjrton. but
the Sierra Nevada Water and Power
Company. ' " - -
"It is a big proposition. "W. G. Clarlc
of Seattle, formerly of San Francisco. *
who is manager of the new company,
told me that over $20,000,000 would be
expended by the corporation in the de
velopment of a big power supplying
business. They intend to carry the
'Juice' all the way to San Francisco
and also feed various cities in the San
Joaquin Valley and on the coast of Cen
tral California."
Masson returned to-nighr fromFrea
no and told of the formation of a big
corporation backed by English ana.
American capital, which is planning
to use the waters of the Mokelumus
-attfl other rivers and streams in Cala
veraa and Tuolumne counties to gene
rate electrical power.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2. — An elec-.
trlcal power scheme of gigantic pro*
portion, /backed by unlimited capital
and having for Its object the supply
ing: of San Francisco and other cities
in the central portion of the State, 13
the latest of the big development en
terprises in California, the particulars
of which were made public to-night
by R. S. Masson, chief engineer lor
H. E. Huntington and his associates,
both here and at Fresno.
Special Dispatch to The Call
CHEFU, Aug. 3, 1 1 a. m. — A
desperate three days' assault upon
the inner defenses on the northern
and eastern sides of Port Arthur
has failed, according to advices
brought by two junks, which ar
rived here to-day. A Russian
who escaped from Port Arthur,
via Pigeon Bay, on the night of
July 29, says that the earth
trembled under the terrific can
nonading, which began at 4
o'clock in the morning of July 26
arjcl ended during the night of
Tuly 28, when .the battle ceased. A
Chinese* who -ihas "arrived 'here oh
a separate junk confirms the Rus
sian's statement, that Russian
killed and wounded during the as-,
sault numbered between 5000 and
6000. The Japanese, in their re
peated assaults against the east
ern forts on the hills, through
barbed wire entanglements and
Over mines, displayed fanatical
bravery. They were mowed down
by the hail of shells and bullets
and the explosion of mines under
their- feet. Their losses are esti
mated at 20,000. The Russian
declared that the Russians held all
the eastern forts leading to Gold
en Hill and that the Japanese,
shattered and exhausted, retired
to the eastward.
As related by the passengers of
the two junks, the Japanese ad
vance, which began from Kwo
kau before daybreak on July 26,
was directed against Kikwan,
Kinkitun, Kinkishan and Pchtou
shan forts, lying: near the shore.
The Russian outposts were driven
back. In the meantime Admiral
Togo shelled the forts at long
range, but the return fire of the
forts kept his ships at a safe dis
tance* rendering the co-operation
of the fleet ineffective.
On the morning of July 27 the
Russian fleet steamed out, keep
ing under the protection of the
Golden Hill guns. The Russian
vessels did not fire upon the Jap
anese and soon returned to theii
anchorage.
The assault ¦ on the northern
side of the city occurred on July
27. The Japanese left at Hsikau
advanced on the Russians at
Shinshiying^ but were repulsed.
The junks were within hearing
distance for three, days after leav
ing, but no more firjng was heard.
The Russian hospitals in Port
Arthur are said to be swamped.
Thousands of wounded are lying
in •houses and shops of the Chi
nese, the owners having been
evicted,- with the exception of one,
who acts as /caretaker of f, each
place. Medical attention is ade
quate. . :¦ .;.-¦• -;
Generating Source Is Said to Be on tha- .
Clark Holdings Along the
Mokelmnne River/
Grand Jury Passes Upon the Granting
; > ; of Imguiar Prescriptions
¦ %::'¦/ to the Thirsty.
Pigbt With Fanatical Cour
age Tiirougi) Barbed
Wire and Mines. /
fifteen; Hundred Galveston
% ¦ IJoctors and Druggists
Great Syndicate Will Sup-'
ply Bay Cities With
Electricity.
fail in an Attempt
to Capture Inner
Defenses/
Project ol Millions
Is Disclosed by
Engineer.
plation of a Local
Option Law Is
WHOLESALE
ARRESTS OF
PHYSICIANS
PLANS BIG
ENTERPRISE
FOR POWER
Crushing Defeat
of Attacking
Japanese.
LOSSES IN BATTLE AT PORT ARTHUR
TOTAL TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND MEN
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THE THEAT233.
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California— "The Buffalo Myi
. tcry.'!
Central — "Sersreant James."
Columbia — "Mice and Men.**
CJintes — Vaudeville.
Fischer's— "The Whirl of the
TOTTO."
Grand- — "Shenandoah."
Orpnexun — Vaudeville. Katlnee
to-day.
Tivoli — "The Toreador." ¦
The San Francisco Call.
THE WEATHER.
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g Forecast made at San Fran
cisco for »30 hours, * endlnsr mid
'«tU$V A.iartt«t : i> 3,.l3d4T
Saa Francisco and vicinity —
Pair Wednesday, with fear In
the afternoon; freah werterly
triads.
A. G. McADIE.
District Forecarter. .