Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 76, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 21, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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THE WEATHER;
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22122nd St,
T USED AY,
1905.
TEXAS,
FEBRUARY 21,
GALVESTON,
XXV.
NO. 76
VOL.
OTHERS MARKED TO MEET
GROCERIES
DEATH LIKE DUKE SERGIUS
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135 union
WILL TEST THE LAW
GOVERNMENT WORK
25c
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25c
RUSSIANS DISCOURAGED.
AMUSEMENTS
The
WAH SING’S FUNERAL
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7
weather bound.
WRECK ON ITALIAN ROAD.
NONE SO GOOD.
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His Assassin Says Other Evil Advisers Among
Royal Cabal Will Go Soon. ,
Wholesale Establishments Will
Test the New Sidewalk
Ordinance.
Big Docks at Charlestown
Heavenward in Smoke.
25c
,25c
.25c
25c
95c
25c
25c
COSTLY FIRE IN
BOSTON HARBOR
2 pkgs
Cream of Wheat
Few Bodies Brought Out and Work
of Getting at Them Is Tedious
and Dangerous,
MINE DISASTER
APPALLING ONE
CONSIDER HIS DEED AN ACT OF
DUTY TO HIS RUINED COUNTRY
A Chinaman Started off on His
Long Journey From Galves-
ton—the Funeral.
Sea Wall Bond Beer the acme of per-
fection of the brewer’s art—nothing- like
it as a good tonic, so refreshing and in-
vigorating. Phone in an order for a trial
case.
the
the
the
big
LINER PHILADELPHIA’S
PERILOUS ESCAPE
'This sale of boys’ suits at
$4, means a saving- of $2.50 to
ihe purchaser, for they were the
best $6.50 suits we ever sold.
Styles for boys from 2^ to
17 years. Solid and fancy colors.
€][ All our $1 and $1.25 knee
pants, this week, 75c.
All boys’ Winter Goods at
cut prices.
..$1,50
....75c
$1.00
..$1.00
,$l.00
25c
GRAND DUKE PAUL REINSTATED.
By Associated Press.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 21.—It is officially
announced that Grand Duke Paul has
been readmitted to the Russian army with
his former rank of lieutenant general and
aide-de-camp.
Loss on Docks and Freight and Dam-
age to Vessel Will Reach
About $1,000,000.
48 lb sack Tidal Wave
Flour
24 lb sack Tidal Wave
Flour ....
18 lbs
A Sugar
14 lbs H and E
Sugar--------------------
9 lbs Good Rio Coffee
(Green).
3 pk'gs Aunt Maria’s
Pancake Flour..
2 pkgs Buckwheat
Flour
6 small cans
Cream
3 large cans
Cream..
3 two lb pkgs
Oat Meal..
3 cans Winner Brand
Condensed Milk
Meadowbrook Condensed
Milk, doz cans ...
10 lbs
Pearl Grits
6 lbs
Japan Rice
10 lbs'
Cream Meal
5 lbs
Head Rice
Numsen’s Okra 2 lb
cans each
Numsen’s Okra 3 lb cans
2 for,
25c
.250
JOc
25c
25c
25c
B. A. COOK
WINES, LIQUORS and GROCERIES
Phone 723
SPECIAL
IO lb Pail Qfln
Pure Leaf Lard vuu
5 lb Pail >1 Ep
Pure Leaf Lard .*Twu
GRAND OPERA HOUSE
TONIGHT AT 8.15
W. E. NANKE VILLE’S
CONSOLIDATED
MINSTRELS
BILLY VTA IN
Highest Salaried Comedian in Mins rels'y
PRICES—25c to $i.O3
ROBT. I. COHEN
Correct Clothes For Men and Boys
Improvement at Brazos, Santiago
Progressing Slowly—Jetty at
Aransas Pass.
Says the Emperor is an Innocent Dupe and That Army, Police and
Spies Will be Unable to Save Those Doomed to Death
by the Terrorist Party
No Hope Now of Ever Bringing
Out Any of Men Alive.
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FULLY ONE HUNDRED
ENTOMBED THERE
RUSSIANS SHELL LA FATAL
By Associated Press.
Tokio, Feb. 21.—Field Marshal Oyama,
reporting today, says that a small infan-
try attack was made on Fang mountain
on Feb. 20. The Russians shelled Lapata!
on the night of Feb. 19, using heavy guns.
During the year 1904 there' were mined
9,650,000 tons of coal in Japan. Ten years
age the Japanese coal production did not
exceed 3,000,000 tons.
UNCLE EPH will save you m«tte.y.
be taken to the surface and re-
having been overcome by the
This leads the rescuers to believe
Isabel Irving,
Sara Truax,
James O’Neill,
J. E. Dodson,
Jameson Lee Flnmy.
THE TWO ORPHANS
PRICES—50c to $2 00
TOMORROW NIGHT ONLY,
The Greatest Cast Ever Organized
9—FAMOUS STARS-9
Mary Hampton,
•Elite Proctor Otis,
Louis James,
Clara Morris,
other is ready to take its place and con-
tinue the work.
State Mine Inspector J. W. Gray was
on the scene all night directing the work.
A staff correspondent of the News at
the Virginia mines telegraphs at 10 o’clock
that only one body had been recovered
from the mines.
The exact number of men who were
in the mine are now placed at 116. The
work of digging through to the entombed
men is going on without cessation.
Practically all hope has been abandoned.
The latest report from the Virginia
mines is to the effect that three bodies
have been recovered. All were blackened
and disfigured and give evidence of the
terrible struggle which the unfortunate
men had before giving up their lives.
Thousands of people gathered about the
mouth of the mine when the bodies were
brought up and distressing scenes were
witnessed when the bodies were identified.
The rescuers are still at work. A late
rumor says that no less than 50 dead
bodies are in. sight. At noon practically
no hope is held out of finding any of the
entombed men alive.
The work of rescue, is most difficult
owing to the prevalence of noxious gases.
The most of the best for
the least money. 3 few of
this week’s bargains.
3 pkgs
Egg-0-See
3 pkgs
Price’s Food
Watching Vour Watch
to see how far wrong it is might be a
confidence losing sort of pastime, but
if your watch has ever kept accurate
time we are pretty sure we can make
it keep accurate time again.
Of course the needed repairs will
largely depend upon how much you-
have neglected your watch, but the
cost will not be too high.
*»alzmann*s—Jewelers and Op 1 i c I a ns
Reported They Expect to Vacate Muk-
den-Kuropatkin’s Position.
Pekin, Feb. 21.—An Englishman, just re-
turned from a three days’ visit in Muk-
den, reports the predominant feeling
among the Russians there, both civilian
and military, to be absolute discourage-
ment. Many talk of the early occupa-
tion of the city by the Japanese as a
foregone conclusion. The visitor formed
the opinion that the discouragement
among military men was intensified by
the fact that General Kuropatkin has his
Bottle of Liquozone free. Cut coupon
out of today’s ad. and mail it. An order
on J. J. Schott for a bottle will be mailed
you free. _______ '
Tonight, fair and warmer; Wednesday,
fair; light to fresh variable winds.
S2NGVPS
Lot on north side Broadway between
29th and 30th—for $1400 Lot on north
east corner Joth and Broadway—for
$1700. Liberal terms.
HOSKINS FOSTER
RS
Bottle of Liquozone free. Cut coupon
out of today’s.au. and mail it. An order
on J. J. Schott for a bottle will be mailed
you free.
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pocket full of the kind of money thri devil
is said to be very fond of. At intervals
of every two minutes the money distrib-
uter would threw away a piece of paper
money and the American kids that fol-
lowed the hearse like “coons” after a
circus parade picked them up before they
touched the earth. If the evil spirit was
making any effort to get Wah he failed
to receive the money and it may be Wah
will have a big account to settle when
he gets beyond the jumping off place—
the grave.
At the grave at Lake view much incense
■was burned and much jabbering in the
native tongue was indulged in and fare-
wells were given Wah as in spirit his
brother and 37 cousins gave him the glad
hand and. helped him across the dike or
river embankment in the start for the
other world. At the foot of the grave an-
other large “spring” chicken, well done,
was placed in a pan with a large piece of
salted pork and a few other delicacies,
which will probably be eaten by some
native of Galveston island before midnight
tonight. This food is intended for Wah
on his long journey which is supposed
to be cut short by his generousity in dis-
persing money to keep the devil in good
humor It is said one fine chicken will
furnish food for one celestial for 10,000
miles on the other side of this world. The
almond-eyed fellows must either travel
like the wind or eat very sparingly after
crossing the divide if this be the case.
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GALVESTON TRIBUNE.
M A Journey,
risks, and which involves
absence from your home and neglect
of your business? In nine cases out of
ten the necessity for thi^can be obviated
by the use of the Long Distance Telephone
The Southwestern Telegraph
anti Telephone Co.
ANCHORED AND COALING.
By Associated Press.
Frederickshaven, Denmark, Feb.. 21.—
The third Russian Pacific squadron
anchored today in Skagen bay and is coal-
ing. The squadron has been joined by
some other units and now consists of five
ironclads, an auxiliary cruiser, a gunboat
and three transports.
headquarters in a train, as if ready at
any time to retreat northward, and by
the fact that extensive preparations are
being made at Tie Pass to give battle to
the Japanese, which implies a previous
Russian defeat at Mukden.
It is reported also that immense con-
fusion prevails at Mukden, according to
the same authority. He states the Chi-
nese are- well paid and well treated by
the Russians, and are doing a roaring
business. Train loads of supplies are
daily carried to the Russians by the Chi-
nese railway, via Hsin-mintun. One of
the most serious consequences of a Rus-
sian defeat would be the cutting off of
this source of supply.
Many Japanese interviewed recently ex-
press alarm at the suggested revision by
an international congress of the terms o£
peace between Russia and Japan. When
it is remembered that the origin of the
present war is traceable to international
Interference after the war between China
and Japan, one can not but be surprised
at the concern of those who witness the
present intrigues for summoning an in-
ternational conference.
Wah Sing was laid to rest this afternoon
with due ceremony prescribed by the cus-
toms and beliefs of his country. The
funeral of Wah Sing took place from the
undertaking parlors of Malloy, Norwood
& Co. and attracted a| large crowd of
curiosity seekers. Wah Sing was 50 years
of age and leave a widow and several
sons and daughters, the youngest a lad
of four years,’ m: China, and one brother
in Galveston, besides no end of cousins
in this country and in the Orient to
mourn his demise or rather his passing
from this World to another. He was a
good Chinaman, as Chinaman gq, and he
went like all good Chinaman must go.
Pie had recently • returned from a year’s
Sojourn in China spent with his family
and was stricken ill about 10 days ago^
He had an interest in a restaurant on
Twenty-fourth and Market streets. His
•was the second Chinese funeral to occur
in Galveston within the last 15 years.
Many' of the Chinese establishments in
the city closed this afternoon out of re-
spect to the memory of their dead cousin.
That Chinamen might attend the funeral
on all establishments notices were posted
telling of the journey undertaken by Wah.
In a plain coffin with a nickel plate in-
scribed “At Rest” the mortal remains
of Wah Sing rested at the undertaking
parlors while a party of mourners per-
formed the obsequies over the coffin com-
mencing at 1.15 o’clock this afternoon and
continuing for three-quarters of an hour.
Wah was attired in his best civilian
clothes and hat just as he appeared many
times in and about his restaurant. He
was not even shaved but will probaly stop
en route to get a shave, and, perhaps, a
hair . cut. His brother and cousins cried
over the remains and’ his brother was
deeply afflicted with grief and was well
nigh prostrated. He had not eaten a
morsal of food since the death of his
brother and wept continuously. As chief
mourner he was the only one that bared
his head and, having certain duties to
perform, attracted attention and excited
pity. At the foot of the coffin incense
was burned constantly and in a pan was
a broiled chicken, some pork and other
food; the latter was thrown away just
as the hearse-left with the body for Lake-
view cemetery.
In the coffin, was a large supply of
paper check-money with which Wah Sing
is to pay his way on the long journey to
Heaven and bribe the devil should his
Satanic Majesty attempt to interfere with
Wah’s movements. On the. hearse with
the driver sat a Chinaman armed with a
By Associated Press.
Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 21.—By an explo-
sion in the Virginia mines, about 18 miles
southwest of Birmingham, at 4 o’clock
yesterday, between 110 and
miners are entombed and it is believed
the entire number suffered an awful
death.
The new sidewalk ordinance about which
so much has been published pro and con
in The Tribune is to be given a thorough
test next Saturday in the
court. Four wholesale establishments
have been charged with violation of the
ordinance by occupying several feet of
sidewalk space, day and night, with boxes
and barrels and other stuff, and they have
decided to give the law a test. Their
eases were called this morning before Re-
corder Royston, but the defendants called
for a jury and it was agreed to postpone
the cases until next Saturday. The firms
are S. P. Migtrot, on Mechanic street;
Ben Blum, M- Ullman and D. Heiden-
heimer, on Strand.
The fruit and vegetable men are com-
plaining bitterly about the law or its en-
forcement and declare they are being'dis-
criminated against In favor of otlfer es-
tablishments., They declare their goods
and wares placed on the sidewalk within
the four feet allotted to. them for display
purposes are merely on exhibition and not
for sale and that they bring in their goods,
showcases and peanut and popcorn roast-
ers every night. They call attention to
other wholesale and retail establishments
who are allowed to block the sidewalk
even beyond the prescribed limit night and
day.
Another complaint, heretofore mentioned
in The Tribune, which the fruit and vege-
table men declare is an outrage and gross
discrimination, is the pushcart peddlers
who now occupy prominent sites on the
streets to the damage of the fruit and
vegetable dealers who have been forced to
move from the streets or sidewalks into
buildings. The pushcart industry is rapid-
ly growing in Galveston and, as has been
explained heretofore, there is no law on
the books to regulate these peddlers. The
one ordinance pertaining to this. traffic
givas the pushcarters permission to stand
on the streets with their carts provided
they secure permission from the property
owner before whose establishment they
take their position. They are not subject
to taxation for vehicle tax and, in fact,,
enjoy privileges not accorded to other in-
dividuals in the same line of business.
The new ordinance and the old ones per-
taining to sidewalks and pushcarts and
other street and sidewalk obstructions are
being given the closest consideration by
the proper authorities and it is quite
probable amendments will be made or new
laws adopted after a test of the present
ordinances.
By -Associated Press.
New York, N. Y., Feb. 21.—An accident
has occurred on the Vienna-Nice express
near Vicenza Station, says a Hferald dis-
patch from Milan, Italy.
A freight train had just drawn up out-
side the station when the express came
into collision -with the rear trucks.
There was a panic among the passen-
gers, most of whom, were asleep at the
time. Only three persons were injured, an
Austrian and two railway employes.
By Associated Press.
Moscow, Feb. 21.—The assassin of Grand
Duke Sergius maintains! an attitude of
profound indifference. When pressed to
reply to a question he declared, that all
efforts of the authorities would have no
result.
Before the victim was laid under earth
other victims would be found. Regard-
ing his motive the assassin said he was
only acting in the interests of an op-
pressed people. He considered the deed
an. act of duty. The grand duke had for
corporation years violated every canon of ordinary
decency and ruined the country while ex-
ploiting the weak will of the emperor for
their own ends. They made him a tyrant,
so the people execrate him. He was
aware that the emperor was an innocent
dupe and his party decided to deliver the
emperor from the evil influences sur-
rounding nim in the hope that he will
some day join in the movement and be-
come the head of a national government
based on western lines. Neither police
nor spies, the assassin added, would be
able to protect those who were doomed
to death.
STOESSEL REACHES CRIMEA.
By Associated Press.
Kaffa, Crimea, Feb. 21.—Lieut. Gen.w
Stoessel, former commander at Port Ar-
thus, arrived here today.
By Associated Press.
Boston, Mass., Feb. 21.—The large
double piers Nos. 3 and 4 of the Hoosac
line in Charlestown, together with con-
siderable valuable freight, were complete-
ly destroyed by fire early today and the
steamer Philadelphia of the Furness-Ley-
land line, from which the crew fled so
hastily that three were injured, was
hauled into the stream with her upper
works ablaze.
The loss to the Boston and Maine Rail-
road company, owners of the docks, is
estimated at fully $400,000. While the
damage to the Philadelphia and the mer-
chandise will, it is thought, bring the
total loss up to about a million dollars.
The adjoining pier, No. 5, which was
burned last November and which was
being rebuilt, was slightly damaged,
while the steamer Dalton Hall, on the
opposite pier from the Philadelphia,
backed out under her own steam, prac-
tically uninjured.
Chief Steward Fellows of the Philadel-
phia jumped overboard and was rescued
in an exhausted condition, while one fire-
man of the steamer jumped to the deck
of a nearby lighter and had his leg
broken. Capt. Dickinson and wife were
taken off by the fireboat after they had
been driven to the stern of the burning
steamer and were about to jump into the
water.
The fire started presumably from spon-
taneous combustion in some hay on pier
No. 4 at 1.30 o’clock this morning, and
swept with terriffic speed through the
long shed. Within five minutes after it
was discovered fully a quarter of an acre
of the covered pier well filled with most
inflammable goods was wrapped in
flames. Blazing brands were carried
across the harbor to the city proper but
fortunately away from the large grain
elevatpr at the head of pier No. 4.
The Philadelphia, which arrived last
Saturday from Liverpool and had dis-
chraged about one-quarter of her cargo,
caught fire within a few minutes. Her
crew, who rushed on deck at the first
alarm, were driven over the side by the
great volume of flames which poured
across the docks. But few harbor tugs
were in the neighborhood and it was near-
ly an hour before she was hauled from
her perilous position.
More than half of the fire department
of the city was called into service and
fought the fire until dawn before it could
be subdued.
Chief Steward Fellows of the Philadel-
phia was taken to an hospital, where he
is pronounced to be in a dangerous state.
Four others, including two firemen, were
taken to hospitals, but will recover.
BARGAINS
1 2-5 lots 40th and S—for $300. 4
2-3 lots 40th and ave. Q—two are cor-
ners—for $1600.
HOSKIN S FOSTER 221 22nd St.
Real Estate and Notary Public,
an
Scores of vigorous rescuers are at
work digging into the mine to relieve
their friends and comrades on the inside.
The explosion is believed to have been
caused by an accumulation of dust.
It, is also believed that as the entire
quota has probably been killed the details
of the cause of the disaster will never be
known. The news spread like wildfire
throughout the whole district. The com-
pany is almost isolated from the rest of
the world, as there is no telephone sta-
tion at Virginia, and the only wire run-
ning to the place is a dispatcher’s wire
of the Birmingham Mineral railroad on
.which Virginia is located. Details of the
disaster are slow to come In, but each
man who arrived in the city from the
scei?e told a more grewsome ^tory of the
horrors.
The class of miners employed was- the
best in the district and all belonged to
the United Mine Workers of America.
Since the strike has been In the Birming-
ham district many of the most indus-
trious and thrifty miners of Pratt City
and other important mining points have
removed to the Virginia mines-, so that the
mines were being worked to their full
capacity by the most skilled miners of
the community.
Relief trains with surgeons and work-
men were dispatched from both Birming-
ham and Bessemer as soon as the news
of the disaster was learned.
The mine is owned by the Alabama
Steel & Wire company, but leased .and
operated by Reid & Co.
J. D. Hillhouse, assistant state mine in-
spector for Alabama, went to- the mines
this morning to investigate the disaster
of yesterday.
President Ed Flynn of the Alabama
United Mine Workers, and National Com-
mitteman W. R. Farley, together with
Joe Hallier, district organizer, have left
for the scene. President Flynn said be-
fore leaving that there were 135 men
employed in the mine regularly, but as
yesterday was pay day, he could not say
whether the full quota was in the mine
at the time of the disaster or not.
E. T. Schuler, one of the officials of
the Virginia mine, where more than 100
miners were imprisoned last afternoon
by an explosion, was advised at 3 o’clock
this morning that the rescuers were very
close to the entombed men, and that one
body had been found and removed.
Schuler thinks there is a good chance for
a number of miners to be found alive, as
he says the air shafts- into the mine are
working. The rescue party worked all
night and was augmented by miners
from various mines in the district.
A telephone message from Bessemer,
six miles from the scene of the disaster
at the Virginia mines, where about 150
men were entombed, by an explosion late
last afternoon, said at 9.30 o’clock this
morning that an unconfirmed report had
reached there that the rescuers had
reached the interior of the mine and 60
dead bodies had been found. Whether
this rumor is true or not-it is known that
practically all hope of finding any im-
prisoned men had been abandoned.
The rescuers during the night encount-
ered much at ter- d amp'J and many of them
had to
vived,
fumes.
that the entombed men could not pos-
sibly have lived this long in their dark
underground habitation.
Hundreds of miners gathered at the
Virginia during the night from all over
the district to help in the rescue work,
but only a limited number can be em-
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ployed. However, as soon as one shift
is tired or overcome by after-damp, an-
Mr. E. M. Hartriqk, assistant United
States engineer, returned last evening
from Southwest Texas where he spent
several days inspecting government im-
provements underway at Brazos de San-
tiago and Aransas Pass. He said that
the unprecedented period of bad weather
in and about that section of the coast
country for the past three weeks tended
to very materially interfere with the pro-
gress of work.
Clarke & Co. had just started work at
Santiago, where ther are to dredge a 10-
foot channel from the wharf at Point
Isabel to the mouth of Brazos de San-
tiago, when the bad weather came on.
The succession of north gales stirred up
the waters of the gulf and the rough sea
played havoc with the dredging plant
and outfit. . The small army of work-
men would wake ui> every morning to
find the long pontoon lines sunk and the
pipes collapsed, due to. the rough sea. It
would require the greater portion of the
day straightening out the lines and re-
pairing the damage, only to have the
occurrence repeated the next night. Dur-
ing the two weeks of almost continuous
freeze and rainy weather the workmen
divided their time between hugging
boilers and making their way over
dredge and attending fleet to keep
property from being wrecked.
dredge No. 4, that worked in the grade
raising canal at Galveston is to do the
dredging at Santiago. She carries .a day
and night crew with a fleet of barges and
other equipment for such work.
The contractors are hauling oil fuel for
the dredge from the Beaumont fields by
rail and it is costing $1.65 per barrel landed
on board the dredge at Santiago. The
contractors shipped a supply equal to the
amount required to keep the dredge in
operation night and day until the com-
pletion of the contract, but the tank
barge was lost within a few miles of its
destination. Now ‘another tank barge
with a supply of fuel oil is en route to
Santiago, but owing to bad weather had
to put in at Aransas Pass where it is
Meantime oil is being
shipped by rail to keep the dredge in
operation.
Mr. Hartrick made an inspection of
the work at Aransas Pass, where Haupt
is putting in his one-jetty system, the
government having decided to give the
single jetty a practical test. He said to
all appearances the succession of storms
on the- coast have no bad effect on flie
jetty. While his inspection was not a
critical one he said the jetty had with-
stood the storms in splendid shape and
had riot sunk to any preceptible degree.
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