NEWCHWANG, March 16.— The Japanese occupied Tie Pass at midnightWednesday {last night).

MISS BURBANK IS DROPPEDFROM THE SERVICE.

Sanguinary Ccrrbat Precedes Japanese Oc-cupation of Kuropatkin's Halting Place.

ADMIRAL TOGO'S POWERFUL SQUADRON IN QUEST OF BALTIC FLEET

CRUISER'SGUNSMAKE

NEW RECORD Russians for a TimeRepel Fierce At-tack by Enemy

Miss Agnita J. Burbank was dismissed from the Govern-ment service yesterday. She is supposed to have beencarrying secrets of the Chinese Bureau to her fiance,Hippolyttus da Silva, who figured recently Nin a scandalconcerning the importation of Chinese women. Miss Bur-bank stoutly denies the accusation made against her.

WOULD SPANHEMISPHERE

WITH STEELTHOUSAND BROWN

WARRIORSSLAIN.

Carnegie's Plan lora Pan-American

Railway. Battle Occurs EightMiles South ofMain Positions

Marine Hits Target MileAway Eleven Times

in a Minute.

Splendid Shootingby Men of the

New York.Faiors Its CoDStrnctloii In-

stead ol Adding totie Hayy.

Simtb Americaa Republics Would BeAsked to Assist iith&

Project.

Handicap of Old-Fashioned OrdnanceOvercome by Uncle Sam's

Marksmen.

SANTOUPOU, March 15. noon.—

Asanguinary combat occurred on

March 14 on the center advanced lineof the Russian army, eight miles southOf Tic Pass. The Russians repulsed

the attack and even made a small ad-vance through 1000 corpses of Jap-

anese. On the right flank GeneralMistchenko. who has resumed com-mand, though his wound has not heal-ed, is holding the Japanese in check.The Russian ti-oops have regained

their normal spirits and fought cheer-fully.

:\u25a0\u25a0_-. LONDON. March 15.—

A dispatch to

Lloyd's, dated Singapore, 6 p. m., says

the British steamship Hongwan '•:. re-

ports liming passed twenty-two Jap-

janrsp warships off Horsburgh, twenty

miles eastr6f^Sirigaporc,Tat; the en-

trance to the '.Straits of Malacca. p >-;,*\u25a0'

BBOKSTCOi, March 15.— A dinner\u25a0cas given to-night in honor of thePcrmanexit Pan-American Railway

rifiabers by Sir Henry CL Dives, thechairman. Andrew Carnegie, who isa member of the committee, sent a let-ter saying:"Ibeg to assure yon of my unflagging

interest in binding us all together bybands of sted as brothers. Against thebig navy let us put the Pan-Americajß ,iiaJS-vrny, liich would cost less money

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Jzi the next twenty years than the tern-;pcrary navy would cost. Allnavies are jtemporary and cost enormous sums lorI. "-nance Our weapon .of defense ]could at least be self -supporting and

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soon become remunerative. . .. '• ."If the United States gave the JIDO,- •!

OtiT',oo3 ward the railway now spentyearly on the navy, conditioned uponThe South American republics pledgingtheir credit for an equal rum,- we should<5o zzore to eliminate the element of*darker, which at best is small, than•vrt shall with all the warships we can

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GREAT STORMSWEEPS BRITAIN

Shipping Along the CoastSuffers Heavily, Score ofj!en Being Lost inOne Case

The ofiice of the censor has already

been removed (o Santoupou, eight

miles north of Tie Pass, and there ar?

intimations th;u it may soon be estab-lished even farther north. The presscorrespondent, though saying nothingregarding the commissariat arrange-ments for the troops, declared that thenewspaper correspondents have beenpractically starved out of Tie Pass. Thismay be an indication of the amount offood available for the army, immensequantities of which were destroyed atMukden, when* practically the entirereserve commissariat had been accu-mulated.

ST. PETERSBURG. March 16 (2

a. m.).—Flanking' tactics by the Jap-

anese apparently are in progress again,

a press correspondent who remains at

Tie Pass telegraphing that GeneralMistchenko on March 11 engaged aJapanese force on the Russian right. Itis possible that the attacking: force wasa Japanese column which disappearedfrom observation during the battle of

Mukden. The Japanese do not appearto have renewed the frontal attack upto noon yesterday, the demonstrationon Tuesday having shown that theRussians were prepared to make a de-termined resistance.

FREN'i H PHKMIER, WHO IS BELIEV ED TO BE \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0HHII'IHII IFOR THEACTION OF PARISIAN BANKERS IX REFUSING TO ADVANCE MOREGOLD TO RUSSIA. THI'P O>MPK LLINOAN EARLY PF

RUMOR OF A MASSACRE.

DIPLOMATGUILTY OF

VANDALISM

MRS. DUKESOU FOR

A DIVORCEItOCK ISLAND TRAIN

DERAILED IN COLORADO

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:CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING,WASHINGTON,. \u25a0 March 15.—Despitethe handicap of old-fashioned ord-nance, ;the armored cruiser New York, ,at Culebra, P. R., has broken the bestprevious ;American navy records witheight and four inch guns. This ship isnow jgoing out of commission .'at Bos-ton*, \u25a0 having there completed a cruise

from the- Pacific Oui-st. a stop was i"made at Culebra for' target practice.

The best pointer among the four-inchgun crews

'was Private Marine B.

Burns, He made 1eleven hits out ofIfourteen shots lired in one minute. Thetarget, aTcanvas sail twenty-one > feetlong aril seven feet high, was mooredone mile distant from the ship. This isa better four-Inch .'gun score than hasyet been made .in:the. 'American'; navy,even with more modern guns. V

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With the 1eight-inch guns, which arethe heaviest in< the New York's bat-tery, a splendid showing..was ;made.Seamen Keichart and; J. Schwartzkopfeach made seven hits,

*out . of seven

shots .in' two'minutes" and thirty.'sec-;

onds, the target 'being ,one mile fromthe ship. This is an average 0f:2.8\ hits 1per minute. The best previous recordin the American navy was ,six hits!intwo minutes 'and thirty seconds, or 2.4hits per minute.

The New :York has always stood ;highin competitive target practice. ;She wasfifth in the navy last year. ;Her,' splen-did:showing this :time jjis jan indicationthat all scores ;will show a distinct im-provement over the excellent work oneyear ago. ;Lieutenant H. W.;Hinds -isthe :gunnery 'officer ;of

*this ;ship and

Captain Hunker. commander. • r.\u25a0:/\u25a0r.\u25a0:/\u25a0;A new feature of the target practice

of the North Atlantic fleet at Pensacolawill :be. torpedo ;practice. Each Xshipwill fire three torpedoes from1each tubeat a moving -target 800 yards distant.The target: will be a space of 100 feetbetween two boats ,towed at a speed often knots an hour. One umpire willbestationed on V each -;boat to trace :<

4 thecourse of the ;/ torpedo. ;

-The ,range of

SOO yards is chosen because some. of theolder torpedoes have no greater radius.

MISS AGNITA BURBANK. STENOGRAPHER IN CHINESE BUREAU WHO HASBEEN ORDERED DISMISSED BT THE GOVERNMENT BECAUSE OF HERFRIENDSHIP FOR DA SIIA'A. WHO FIGURED IN FEDERAL SCANDAL

Accused of Betraying Department Secrets

BIG PANTHERATTACKS BOY

Special Dispatch to The Call. Special '; Dispatch to Th« Call. »

Meiidocino County Youthfoigages in Desperate Bat-tle A\ ithFerocious Animal

Alleged MurdT of Foreigners by Chi-nese in Muliileu.

SANTon-OU, TEN MILES NORTH

OF TIE PASS, March 15 (noon).—lt isrumored that after the evacuation ofMukden by the Russians eighty for-eigners were killed by Chinese. RichardH. Little, correspondent of the ChicagoDaily News, is reported to be amongthose slain.

A message has been sent to FieldMarshal Oyama asking for informationconcerning M. Nadeau, a French warcorrespondent who accompanied Lit-tle. It has been reported here thatNadeau was captured by the Japanese,

and Little may have met the same fate.The rumor of the murder of eighty

foreigners is hoped and believed hereto be unfounded. Itis assumed thatthey have been captured by the Jap-

anese.CHICAGO, March 15.—Richard H.

Little cabled direct from Yinkow yes-terday to the Chicago Daily News. Hesaid he had been captured by the Jap-

anese and was beinp taken to Kobe.The cablegram contained referenceswhich demonstrated that the message

v.as from Little personally and that hewas alive and well. Yinkow is the sea-port of Newchwang. and is the place

to which Little would naturally havebeen en route to Japan.

The complaint also contains thestatement under oath that Mrs. Dukeexpects in due time to present her hus-band with an heir. She asks for per-manent alimony and due provision forthe issue of their marriage.

NEW YORK, March 15.—From amadhouse to the divorce court is thelatest shift of scene in the Brodie L.Duke case. Mrs. Alice Webb Duke hasbrought suit for separation on theground of abandonment and non-sup-port.

In her affidavit the "tobacco que«n"says her husband has been staying forfour weeks at the Marlborough Hotelat Asbury Park in the care of a nurseand a physician.

All the train men injured were ableto continue on duty and all the passen-gers were able to continue their jour-ney. The train arrived here at 2o'clock this afternoon.

Employes and Passengers SlightlyHurt, but Able toContinue

on Their Way.COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo., March

15.—Shortly after 6 o'clock this morningRock Island passenger train No. 15,from Kansas City and St. Louis, wasderailed four miles east of Flagler, inthis State, and several persons wereslightly injured, but no one seriously.The accident is attributed to a brokenflange on the engine. The engine, bag-gage car, smoker and chair car left therails, the smoke 1* going over on its side.

The injured are: Engineer RobertCoots, Baggageman A. V. Huffman,Fireman J. C. Grant, Mail gierk \V. D.Lane; passengers

—Belle Lee, Ezra Ha-

ker. W. C. McMain, Mary Funk, Mrs.James Bledsoe.

YOUNG WOMAN DROPSFROM SIGHT IN DENVER

TOGO SEEKING HIS PREY.

ing fleets.The high winds have caused ter-

rible havoc along the coasts of theUnited Kingdom. The lifeboat sta-tions are busy and shipping every-where is seeking shelter. Numbersof minor wrecks, accompanied byJoss of life, have been reported. Ter-rific seas are running.

The departure of Qusen Alexandra,Princess Victoria and other membersof the royal family from Portsmouthfor I>l£bon to return the visit of theKing and Queen of Portugal, whichwas to have occurred yesterday, waspostponed until to-morrow.

QUEEXSTOWX. March—

TheBritish ship Wray Castle, from Port-land, Ore., which arrived at Queens-town yesterday, has been drivenashore, aiid several others havedragged their anchors owing to theseverity of the gale off this coast. TheWray Castle lies on the eastern bankin Whitegate roads. Seas are break-in? over her, but possibly she may\,t towed off after being: lightered.

npRTLAXD. Ore.. March 15.—TheBritish ship Wray \u25a0tl^aalied fromthis port for Cork on October 26. Shecarried 16.84 6 centals of wheat, val-urd at {21.14! and ?2 '•\u25a0\u25a0" centals ofbarley, worth $52,100. The WrayCar-t'e was commanded by CaptainOwens and was dispatched by Bal-four. Guthrie Sz Co.

-Mar.-n 15.—A storm of

hurricane force descended upon theIrish r.nd English coasts during then^ght, and it is feared that many dis-asters have occurred. The telegraphlines are broken at many points, andthe British ship Khyber has been to-t-ally wrecked off the Cornish coast.Twenty-three of her crew weredrowned and three were saved. TheKhyber sailed from Melbourne, Aus-tralia. October 26. for Queenstown./

The storm sweet over the north ofIreland early this morning and didgreat damage to property. Fears areentertained for the safety of the fish-

STOCK EXCHANGE -SEATS-

BRING A RECORD PRICE

Agnita J. Burbank, stenographer inthe Chinese Bureau, has been droppedfrom the service by order of the de-partment at Washington. "For con-duct unbecoming a Government em-ploye and detrimental to the service,"

the order of dismissal reads. ,

The specific charge against Miss Bur-bank is that she "tipped off" secrets ofthe department to Hippolyttus AmadorLesola Boa da Sllva, the Portuguesewho was arrested several months ago

•>n the charge of smuggling Chinesewomen into the country for immoralpurposes. Miss Burbank is Da Silva'sfiancee and Commissioner Hart Northbelieves that she has been keeping himsupplied with information which thedepartment wanted to keep secret.

Da Silva's movements showed thathe was getting "inside tips" and the

lHsioner decided that they cametrom Mies Burbank. He notified thedepartment at Washington and thesti-n.jgrapher's dismissal was the re-suit.

Th«= woman stoutly denies that thecharges are true. "Let them prove it!They can furnish no proofs that 1 evertold departmental secrets to anybody,"she declared.

"My work has always been satis-factory. Even Mr. North admits that.("haricK Meehan. the Chinese inspectorin charge, has told men since the occur-rence that 1have always given perfectsatisfaction as an officer. Mr. North jhimself spoke highly of me to Com-missioner General Sargent, and whileIappreciated what he said, Iconsidermore critically what he has donesince." j

Hsjbty- Three Thousand Dollars Paidin Two Caws in New

VorL.NEW YORK. March 15.

—Two seats

on the New York Stork Exchangewere sold to-day for $83,000 each.

Is a new high record price, ex-the previous highest price

few days ago by $500

URIAH, March 15.—Clark Hill, thir-.teen years old, livingon the South EelRiver, killed a panther Sunday thatmeasured twelve feet from tip to tip.Young Hill waa out on the range andcame across the carcass of a steer thathad been killed and partly devoured bysome wild animal. Not knowing whatto <io, lip returned to the house for help.Finding every one gone, he called hisdogs and started out and after severalhours' chase succeeded in treeing apanther. As ht- was walking aroundunder the trep. trying to get a chancefor a shot, the panther sprung at himand knocked him over. A desperatefight ansued. The interference of thedogs enabled the boy to regain hisgun and he succeeded in shooting thepanther in a vital spot. As the animalwas too big for him to handle, he cutwme brush, on which he rolled thecarcass and attaching the crude litterto his hors?, proceeded homeward intriumph. The panther is the largestspecimen ever killed in the county. Ithad been preying on the stock onneighboring ranches for severalmonths. .

Mlfig Grace Richardson Disappears iDColorado on Her Way Home

From San Francisco.DENVER, March 15.

—Miss Grace

Richardson, the daughter of C. F.Richardson of West Plain, Mo., whostopped in Denver on January 12 onher way home from a visit in SanFrancisco, has not been heard fromsince that date. Her father was no-tified of her safe arrival here andwrote to her in care of the hotelwhere she had stopped for one day.His letter was returned to him. MissRichardson Is 22 years old. tall, dark-haired and blue-eyed. Her fatherconnects her disappearance with theMount Cutler tragedy, but the womanfound dead near Colorado Springswas killed in November and had lighthair.

LONDON, Mar^ch 16.— The appear-

ance of Vice Admiral Togo's fleet in thecourse that would be followed in anyattempt by Vice Admiral Rojestvenskyto make for Vladivostok is the mostinteresting newg of the day. It is notknown whether Vice Admiral Togohimsalf is with the fleet. According tothe Daily Mail's correspondent at Sin-gapore, who visited the fleet, the offi-cers were unusually reticent. TwoJcpanese officers landed and conferredwith the Japanese Consul, and it wasunderstood by the correspondent thatthe squadron would shortly sail again.as it required nothing. The presump-tion concerning Rojestvensky's squad-ron is that it is still off the coast of

cept -Russian Fleet.Powerful Japanese Squadron to Inter-

CXISADE AGAINST WO.MEVSHOSIERY IX SHOP WINDOWS

WASHINGTON. March 15.—Thetable upon which rested the bibJfkissed by Theodore Roosevelt whenhe took the oath of office is in a repair

shop as the result of an act of vandal-ism said to have been committe.1 bya member of the diplomatic corv \u25a0Inauguration day.

When the President left the standthe diplomatist is said to have drawna knife and cut a piece a haif-inththick and four inches long out mi the

|old mahogany table. The police sawthe act, but as foreign diplomatistsan- immune from arrest they did not

Iact.Th? tab'.e is being repaired, but it

no longer Is the same table In Its en-tirety. All of the Presidents str.ce Bu-

;chanan have kissed tfee bible which\u25a0 on the ..1-i bu of mahogany

!furniture.New F.\ll Claims the Attention of thePastors' fnlon of an

Ohio City.TOLEDO. Ohio, March 15.

—Th?

Pastors' Union here is planning: acampaign against the display of worn- |en's stuffed hosiery in shun windows.classing it^is an evil no less than the !objectionable posters of burlesque ac-tresses. This proposed action on thepart of the clergymen has caused achange in the window plans of someof the shopkeepers, who wore mak-ing.T*ady for the spring exhibit oftheir wares.

"Iguess." said one tradesman, "thatwomen will have to buy their stock-ings in photograph galleries now

—select them in a dark room."

"We might drar>e them in chintz. |as they do furniture," said another.Continued on Pace 2. Column 4.

PRICE FIVE CENTS.SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1905.

TIEPASS IS CAPTURED BY TIE VICTORIOUS ARMIES OE FIELD MARSHAL OYAMAVOLUME XCVII—NO. 107.

THE WEATHER. • .

Forecast made at San Francisco forthirty hours ending midnight, March

16. 1005:

San Francisco and vicinity—

Thursday, fresh south wind.

a. O. McAi>ne,

District Forecaster.

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of cm vincenn««."CjftlFOßXiA—"Moris. Beiiiealre.'.'COLUMBIA— Grand Opera. .CENTRAL--''Faust."—

Vaudeville. Matinee. '\u0084FISCHER" S—Vaudeville. ITatlna*GRAND—"L O. C"OKrHEUM—Vaudeville. Miatlne* to-

day.

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Comic Opera.

The San Francisco Call.

Has Huge Wiiucs and Tail of Canvas,-ami Its'Engine Will Be of

Aluminum.;MIDDLETOVVN,N. Y. March*ls.—A"flyingmachine*- is beinjj made by L. •

D. Ackerman of Central Valley,whichis"patterned after a bird, having huge

wings and a long:*tail made of*can-vas.*'Ackerman plans to equip Itwitha five horsepower ialuminum gasolineengine v weighing seventy-five pounds.The airship will have a carrying ca-pacity of- two' persons and itVis ex-pected that the trial trip will be madeon May 1 when 'Ackerman Ihopes tofly from Central Valley* to,Highland

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ON lINi.S OK A BIRD