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Vol. XVI. No. 45.
CORVALUS, OREGON JANUARY 9, 1904.
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ON THE VERGE OF WAR
JAPAN READY TO LAND SOL
Dl ERS IN CORE A.
Russia Orders RegimenU Forward
Reserves Are Being Moved
Japan Will Send an' Army ,j
of Thirty-five Thous
and Troops to Corea : '
Japan's Strong ;
Army.
Paris, Jan. 6.
-The" Cnefoo cor-
.reppnndebt of th Paris edition of
' the New York Herald cables as
follows
active army are the Imperial Guard
of I4.H0 officers and men, the For-
mosan garrison, of 16,387 officers
and m?n, and the gendarmie, 2,664
offictrs and men. Students and
other brancht-s brought - the , full
complement of the active army op
to 8,046 officra and 158,214 men,
mating a total complement of 167,-
629. With the reserve forees the
total strength of the Japanese army
three years ago was 632, 200 officers
and men; it is more now. .
Conscription obtains In Japan,
all male subjects bet wet n the ages
of 17 and 40 being liable to milita
ry service. There are epecial ex
ceptions from conscription,, but they
only apply to rare cases, so the
whole nation knows the game of
war. And it is anxious to fight.
-Vancouver, B. C, Jan. 5.,
"Eieht thousand Japanese troops "We will fight Jipan and China
are about to land at Masampbo,
and their landing will probably
mean war.
"A regiment of Cossacks is ex
pected at Port Arthur. Reserves
are ' being removed from Blagove
scbensk, tbe capital of the Amur
provime in Eastern Siberia to
Tbitschiar, in Manchuria.
"The position of the troops in
Manchuria is being rearranged, but
their location is kept secret."
London, Jan. 5. The Diily Tel
egraph's ;Tokio correspondent says:
"The- inn look is very .warlike.
The p-ojjle are commenting on the
absence cf Baron Dj Rosen, the
Russian minister to Japan, from
public functions for the list few
together." According to tbe latest
advices from the Far East this was
the declaration in Port Arthur by
tbe. Russians who had been ordered
to fall back 00 that port from the
interior. Formerly it was only war
with Japan they talked of, now it
is both countries the Russians aim
at defeating, and so secure the su
preme power bctops tne racinc. t
Details have aho been received
hero of the Ruwian attack on Hsin
mlntam, the terminus of the North
China railway. They took posses
sion of the sub prefectural citv ar
ter sharp fighting with tbe Chinese
mounted troops. Tbe latter had to
retire on account ot the superior
number of the enemy. It is ttated
that the Russian force was at first
defeated and driven with a loss to
They .fell
SEVERE GOLD WEATHER
EASTERN STATES EXPERIEN
CE A HARD FREEZE-UP.
New York Reports 20 to 30 Blow
Zero Massachusetts Sees Ther-
mometers B reak When Fif
ty Dfgrees Below Is
Reached.
KoooQgoeooDooaocooooaeesQoioog
davs
. Continuing the cirreepdndent in- aC'JoBiderable distance,
timates that weDarations are being into an ambush set by the Chinese,
made "far the removal of the W Next day the Russians, having been
of povernment and the headauar-l reinforced, returned. -They avoided
ters of the army and navy to Jliro-1 anotner amouen ana compeiiea me
sbimsfin the event of hostilities, as Chinese defenders of the city to re-
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The Daily Mail's Tokio corres
pondent reports tbe suspension of
the steamer service from Kobe to
Corea, owing to the apprehension
that Qcstilities will soon break out.
The correppicdent saya tne ru
that Russia has landed troops at
Mokpho proves to be lnorrect
The
treat precipitately .. It is declared
that the czar's troops plundered the
town and outraged the inhabitants,
London, Jan. 7. Some of the
papers, apparently doubting, from
tbe recoid of tha . present goyero-
sreot, Usability, to deal with such
a difficult situation, urge that a
plain indication of Great Britain's
Shanghai correspondent of intention would be most tfftcli ve in
ths Daily Mail learns that General
Yuan Szi Kai, the commander-in-chief
of tbe Chinese army and navy,
has ordered tbe cruisers now in tbe
Woosing river to be prepared for
war.
The Chefoo correspondent of the
Morning post says that in the event
of war Wei Hai Wei will be aband
oned as useless, as it is not fortifi
ed. The correspondent hears that
great precautions are being taken
by vessels entering Port Arthur,
and it is feared that some attempt
avoiding war,
The Morning Poslfttks: "What
has the government done by way of
preparatiou for a war on a great
scale in 1904?"
- The Daily, Mail wants Russia
notified that "under no circumstan
ces will Great Britain permit the
Russian Black Sea fleet to pass t,he
Dardanelles and urges the admiral
ty to see that the navy is quite
ready fotemergency."
. Orders have been iesced to the
officials of the Siberian railway that
New -York, Jan. 5. Dispatches
from' every section of the state-tell
of record-breaking cold weather. At
a number of points within 12 miles
of this city the thermometers mark
ed from 20 to 30 degrees below zero
at dawn today.' Tbe coldest weath
er , in many years was reported
throughout the Adirondack region
last night. ' At Saraoac Lake it
was 40 below, and Lake Placid 44
below. For tbe past four nights
the thermometer has registered not
less than I2 below anywhere and
as low as 44 below at 6ome points
in Northern New York.- An aver
age teenDerature ot oU below zero
prevailed throughout the -central
and western part of the state. 'J
' At several points, north of Utica
last night tbe mercury went to 5o be
low. The intense cold interfered with
all outdoor occupations, and delay
ed all regular and suburban trains
from a few minutes to several hours, j
The effects of the heavy snow had
been overcome, but it was difficult
to keep up steam, and many local
trains had to be abandoned on ac
count of disabled engines.
Trams on land and water was in
serious trouble. Trans-Atlantic
liners arrived looking like spectre
snips. Both the East and North
river were birely navigable, while
the Hirleni river, for the first time
in eight year?, was impassible a
bove Maccomb's'Dam bridge. Fer
ry boats and tugs were swept out
of their course by the drift ice, and
every ounce of power in them was
required to reach their slip!). The
boats which land at the Bittery
bad to turn battering rams to pait
th ice in their slipa.
Mails from the West and East
were from six to ten hours late.
Snow was not to blame for this, so
much as the inability of the loco
motives to keep cp steam nnder the
I great outside cold pressure. -
The severe weather, too, was the
cause ot an unusual numcer 01
fires. Between 2:3o and 8-30 A.M.
13 alarms-were sent in. Ail were
small fires.
in tbe air and landed on the roof of '
the first chair car. The . second v
chair car Ulee coped into this. The ;
engines were completely driven in
to each other:
The single word "carelessness'
will sum up the reasons for th
tragedy. Instructed to meet a spe
cial freight train at Willard, the en v -gineer
and conductor of the ill-fated
passenger, noting that a freight '
train stool on the sidetrack at Wu- -
lard, rushed through, thinking th -cars
they had seen, were the ons
which they had been instructed to
pass. Failure to scrutinize tbe '
number of tbe engine was directly- - A
responsible for the wreck. Had tbe .
engineer compared tbe number of
the train at Willard with his orders -the
catastrophe would have been
prevented .
Upon seeing at Willard a freight
train on the siding, Engineer Ben-
jamin threw open the throttle and
under the impetus of full steam the, .
passenger train leaped out intolie r-r-','
darkness and crashed along at a ijv
rate which the passengers declare - v
to have been fully G5 miles an hour.
Not a note cf warning ot ttie fearful
impending disaster ever made i'self
known to the suffererr. . . - j -
General Superiotendant Gruber, ;
of the Rock Island, makes this
statement to the Associated Press:
"The engineer of the passenger -train
bad orders to wait , at Willard N
lor the special stock train. Ha "t
pa?eed on, mistaking a freight train
on the siding at that station for tbe :
extra stock train. Nobody else is
to blame, so far as our information .
goes." '
may be made to sink them and so freight trains shall carry only coal
block the channel. I for Port Arthur. A strong squad
ron is moored in the harbor of Port
PartP. Jan. 5. A dispatch to the Arthur,
Havas agency from Ttkio today,
says
Topeka, Kan., Jan. 6. Rocklsl-
ii f .i . , and -passenger train No. 4 collided
. . . r .. . . . T I with a treiebt train twt
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most significant
patch from Tokio is the statement
that Japan is hastening final prep
arations for alar more extensive
dispatch of troops to Corea than at
first contemplated. 'The govern
ment has now decided to tend an
army of 35,600 men, organised as
two divisions, to Corea. This is
more than double the strength of
the expedition first contemplated,
and requires a large fleet of trans
ports and extensive arrangements,
which are proceeding rapidly to
wards completions The destination
of this army is expected to be
Southern Corea, particularly Fnsan
and Masampbo.
Ever since Japan scented trouble
with Russia, Japan had taken con
siderable pains not to let that na
tion know its military strength. At
the present moment none outside
the war department knows the act
ual strength of the Mikado's forces.
This much is certain, that it is con
siderable, more than it was three
years ago: moreover, the organiza
tion and general equipment will
bear favorable comparison with
.KPO-SeorrugNkUebioeB, new and second-hand. Second-hand Pianos ft
or eale and for tent. A few stoves and a few pices of Graniteware left. R
E. E. WILSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office in Zietolf Building, CorvalIe. Or
B. A. CATHEY, M. D
Physician and Surgeon.
Office, Room 14, First National Bank
Building, Corvallis, Or." Office Honrs,
10 to 12 -a. m 2 to 4 p. m.
two miles west
1 o'clock this
and fire
men were killed. Over a dozen pas
sengers were fatally hurt.
All the passenger coaches except
the last two Pullmans were piled
up in. a heap. ' Tbe two trains met
squarely in a bead-on collision.
' Wrecking' crews have been sent
to the scene of the wreck from Her
ri n ton and Horton.
Assistant General Superintenl
ent Sutherland said to the Associat
ed press: -
"We have no positive information
at this hour about the wreck other
than that both engineers and both
firemen are killed. There are also
Boston, Jan," 5. Reports from all
over New England indicated in
tense cold today. At Silem, Masq.,
tbe harbor was frozen over for the
first time in 15 years. From New
Hampshire, Keene reported 22 de
grees below zero, tbe lowest in . 15
years, while at otner places tbe mer
cury fell to 45 below. Woods Kiv
er Junction reported 4o below.
Thermometers in Orange, Mass.,
burst last night at 00 below - zero.
At Tolley, Miee., bulbs went down
to 44 below. William Patterson
was frozen to death in the snow at
North Webster last night.
. rortbebrst time lu ten years
the eastern and western passages of
Naragan3eat Bay are closed by ice.
The ice has choked up the wharves
along the water-front at Newport,
R. I., and soldiers walked today
from Fort Grable, on Dutch Island,
to the west ferry over tbe ice.
Thermometers in dmerent sec
tions of Rutland, Vt., registered
from 4o to 44 below zero today
Tbe Rutland public schools were
some-passengers killed and injured
but we do not know now many.' --fclosed owing to the cold weather.
"ine last report we got irom wil
lard was that many people were
under the wreckage and that all tbe
cars were wrecked but two."
Philadelphia, Jan. 5. Acting on
the preliminary; report of the com
mission of experts appointed to in
spect the theatres in the city, May
or Weaver today ordered .the Lyce
um Theatre, a vaudeville playhouse
Rinsed. The mavnr slrtn ordered tbe
Great Britain or the United States, balcony and gallery of the Kensing-
indeed, with any. nation, in the
world.
The active force of the standing
army at the time the last figures.,
were published was 124,ooo men
and 4951 officers." This in ad a a to
tal of 128,955. It is safe to assume
that it is nearer 2ao,ooo than loo,
000 now. This force is divided in
to 12 divisions, and is the principal
fighting power of tbe active army.
Other sections of what is called tbe
ton Theatre, and the balcony of the
Grand Opera house closed on ac
count ofnnadequacy of the exits.
The may or has signified bis intention
to take immediate action upon the
suggestion of the commission with
regard td other theatres. . T
Lost -About
Christmas, -from Winegar's sta
bles a dark colored sborttailed shepard
dog. Suitable reward. L. N. Edwards.
Bellfouotain.
Topeka, Kan. June 6. In -the
Torjeka train wreck fourteen pas
sengers were killed and twenty peo
ple were seriously injured. .None
on board tne. train escaped injury,
- A relief train has arrived" here
with 20 of the most seriously iniur-
A and twn nf tha ftnrnaAQ A'J'ar
wv " " - - " y ... "
ond train is coming with the : dead
and other injured. Another report
says tnat A) were killed.
Tbe passenger tram was 43 min
utes late and was running 40 miles
an hour when it ran by Willard
Tha engineers and firemen of both
trains jumped and are unhurt. Tbe
locomotives and first cars telescop
ed. .- ' f .
Of the 20 dead only eight have
been identified. There are six un
identified children and six uniden
ti6ed women.
ine iorce ot tne collision was bo
great that the smoker jumped high
Milwaukee Sentinell: It appears .
that the limit in the erection of
high buildings has not been reach
ed, and there Is no telling when it
will be. It is reported from New
York that contracts will soon be let
for tbe construction on lower Broad
way of the "tallest building on
earth," with five stories below the
street level and 4o ' stories above
ground, with" a 60 foot tower sur
mounting the roof. Tbe increasing -value
of ground space and the grow
ing business of a congested popula
tion forces the projectors of modern -
ttructures to build in botn direc
tions. The office building of the -future
will be a combination of rear
ing tower . and sunken shaft one
part a sky scraper, and tbe . otner
resting somewhere near the brink ,
of the infernal regions. When tbe
limit both ways is reached it ispo3- '.
sible the beat, from the interior of ,
the earth will be utilized to replace
steam boilers in winter, while ar
hole in the roof will admit air front
the frozen altitudes to cool the low
er regions in summer.
The proposed new Broadway
structure will tower 615 feet above'
the surface, making it 65 feet high
er than the Washington monument .
wbioh at one time was considered
the eighth wonder of the world.
The question naturally arises, hew
high can modern steel methods of
construction be carried? When a
tall building in New Yoik was torn
down a few years ago an ex&mina- -tion
was made for the purpose of
determining the effect of corrosion -and
so afford a means of estimating -
the period ot time steel constructed
buildines could etand in safety. .
Tbe building had been erected only
a few years before, but the corrod
ing process had been so slight as to i
convince architects there was little
danger to be feared from that
pource. It would seem, therefore,
that the problem simply is how
high steel may be raised and the
structure maintain its perpendicu
larity. That problem hasn't reach
ed a solution yet, and it may re
quire an awful accident to bring it
about. In the mean time there is
a chance to speculate as to whether'
if the people of remote centuries 01
the past, possessed the art of steel -construction,
there wouldn't have
been another story to tell about the
tower of Babel. '
London, Jan 6 A. dispatch to "
Reutert's Telegram Company from
lokio says: .
All of the Russian warships re
cently at Vladivostok are reported
to have sailed, probably for Port
Arthur. Russia's reply has not
been received yet by Japan. There
is a strong, widespread tendency to
doubt the reports of the alleged con
ciliatory Character of the reply.
New York, Jan. 6. A report that
actual hostilities . bad . broken out
between Russia and Japan was said
on the etock exchange to . have
come over the tcific cable,irom
Manilla to San Francisco. '
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