Tol. XVII. No. 11.
CORVAIXIS, OREGON, MAY 11. 1901.
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EASTERN WAR NEWS.
JAPAN HAS QUARTER OF
MILLION MEN IN THE ,
FIELD.
Port Arthur, Blocked by Land and
. Sea, Mast Fall to Japanese
Russians Put to Flight in
' Second Battle and Japs
Capture Feng
: ' ' Wang Cheng.
Seoul, May 7. A dispatch from
Antnng eays that the Japanese cap
lured Feng. Wang Cheng, May 4,
after fierce fighting, and that the
losses on both sides - were very
heavy.
London, May 7. Despatches
from the far east today indicate the
most startling advances in Japan's
sensational land campaign.
She has captured Feng Wang
Cheng. '
She has again put the Russian
forces to flight.
She landed troops at Takuahan,
40' miles west of tne mouth of the
Yalu. : -
She has completely blockaded
Port Arthur. Admiral Togo re
ports wonderful heroism on the
part of his men ' that manned ' the
fire ships and blocked the harbor.
Japanese troops have already
thrown up fortifications across the
Liao Tone peninsula and have
mounted suns. 1
Japan now has across (he Yalu
river and into Manchuria almost
2oo,ooo men.
bhebas more than loo.ooo men
within loo miles of Mukden.
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St. Petersburg," May 7. Feng
Huang Cheng was captured by the
Japanese troops Wednesday. v
rhe losses on both sides are re
psrted to have been heavy
I be Kussians officially confirm :
retreat, declaring that the Japanese
pressed the retreating troops, though
with few losses to either side. The
Japanese have destroyed the rail
way at rort Adams, blowing up
the briuges. . .
The ominous silence of General
Kuropatkio since the battle of the
Yalu is causing uoeasinees and fill
ins the air with wild rumors, one
of which is that General Kuropat
kin 8 army, in a rapid movement
on Feng Huang Cheng, met the
Japanese in a disastrous engage
ment, Kouropatkm beingwounded
Reports from the palace declare
that the rzar is greatly depressed
over the recent reverses at the front.
The emptor has telegraphed to
General iuropatkin and Viceroy
Alexitff demanding in their reports
the absolute truth of the conditions
at the front, under pain- of severe
punishment if tney continue to de
ceive him. The result of this warn
ing is that the emperor has receiv
ed to distressing reports.
The palaca version of General
Kuropatkin's report is to the effect
that the officers defending the Yalu
positions permitted themstlves . to
be Furprised, not saving a single
g iu, uorse or transport wagon; that
te flight to Feng Huang Cheng
degenerated into a rout, and that
General Kuropatkin informed the
czar that he believes it is impossible
to hold the Liao Tung peninsula
and Manchuria.
AlexiefTs report is declared to be
equally depressing.
headquarters in Port Arthur.
While this was going pa the Jap
anese transports had run close to
the beach at Pitsewo, and prepara
tions were made for the landing of
troops. . The cruisers which had ac
companied . the fleet shelled the
beach, most of the sheila being aim
ed at the small settlement There
was but a small settlement at this
point. They had but few gunB,
and these were but of small calibre.
Recognizing therefore, that , it was
hopeless to attempt to oppose tne
Japanese, and also that an extend
ed stay y'ight me&n the capture of
the entire fore?, the .Russian com
mandant gave the order to retire.
Following the departure ot the
Russian garrison, a veritable panic
took place among the inhabitants
of the town, and within an hour
they had fled alongfthe road to the
northward. do precipitous was
their flight that they left behind
them their worldly possessions.
The Japanese landed boat after
boat, each crowded to the gunwales
with men, and by nightfall a force
of 10,000 men had been disembark
ed with their accoutrements. This
was excellent work on the part of
the enemy, as the boats could not'
ran close to the beach, and the men
were compelled to tump into water
uy to their waists and wade ashore
A small band or Kussian Cossacks
held their position on the hills near
the abandoned town nntu the Jap
anese began their advance, and in
this way a complete report of the
operations has been placed at th
disposal of the Russian officials.
When the railroad was reached
the train bearing the viceroy and
his party was in sight, the Japan
ese made an attempt to capture it
but failed. They fared several vol
leva afteftil, but the range was too
great and the shots went wild.
In the meantime, another Japan
ese column had been eent toward
the southwest, and by marching
the better part of the night they
were enable to secure the roads lead
ing eouthward.
The Japanese army which has
undertaken, the investment of Port
Arthur numbers fully 30,000 men
and all of tbem were landed by last
night. They intend to march south
ward before the end of the week
and plant siege guns to bombard
the town.
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SLADDEN, FORMER EUGENE
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St. Petersburg, May 7. It was
officially announced tonight that
the Japanese have succeeded in
gaining a foothold on the Liao Tung,
peninsula, landing forces at Pitse
wo and at Cape Terminal, 15 miles
distant, and have cut the line of
communication with Port Arthur.
Not only that, but Viceroy AlexiefT,
Grand Duke Boris and many of the
higher Kussian officers in Manchu
ria narrowly escaped capture, or at
least being penned up in the be
leaguered town.
The news that the Japanese had
arrived near Pitsewo was transmit
ted to Port Arthur by a Russian
signal corps officer, who sighted the
Japanese transport fleet early on
Thursday. He immediately noti
tied the viceroy, and preparations
were at once made for the Quitting
of Port Arthur by Admiral AlexiefT,
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Office up stairs back of Graham & , " Broy
Wells' drue store. Residence nn the 8tafi and 'ln baggage car was
corner of Madison and Seventh. Tele-! placed all important docurrents of
phone at residence, 104. ithe Manchurian administration,
All calls attended promptly. which had beeav etored at army
G. R. FARSA.
Physician & Surgeon,
Washington, May 6. The state
department has- received a cable'
gram from United States Minister
Griecom, at Tokio, confirming the
press reports of the landing of the
Japanese on the Liao Tung penin
sula, about 40 miles above Port
Arthur. The location given in the
Japanese dispatches is Km Chau,
This is the narrowest point on th
peninsula, and consequently, the
minister says, the railroad is pract
cally closed, and the investment
Port Arthur has begun.
According to a telegram received
at Rome, May 6, from Chefoo, the
garrison at Port Arthur has been
reduced to 4,000 men, and all th
important documents, money and
field guns have been removed
Mukden.
Tokio, May 7. Further reports
of encounters between the Japs an
Russians since the general engage
ment of Saturday last have been re
ceived. The latest of tbese de
scribes a sharp engagement betwee
a force of Japanese cavalry an
Russian Cossacks. The Japanese
were making a reconnoissance and
met the Russian patrol at Fang
Shang Chong, twenty miles from
Kiu Len Cheng, where the battle of
last Sunday was fought, the Rus
sians retreated and Japs pursued,
following the Cossacks to the Ku
Cbeum river, ten miles from the
Russian position at Feng Wang
Cheng.
A bt. Petersburg correspondent
of the Echo de Paris sends the fal
lowing under date of May 6-
"ine general starl believes that
the Japanese landed at Pitsewo a
number not lesB than 40,000, and
says the bulk of General KurokiB
army this morning was about nine
miles from Feng Wane Cheng. The
army was advancing in three col
umns, the third column following
the coast, probably in order to com'
mumcate with the troops landed at
Pitsewo. All the reserve, provr
sions and ammunition were landed
on the Elliott Islands.
The correspondent repeats the re
port that the Japanese have occu
pied Fort Adams and says they are
advancing on Port Arthur. -
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Supposed to Have Murdered a Num
ber of Wives with Chloroform "
Married First in Salem
but Was Divorced .
Now in Jail in
Kentucky. ' x ' -i
Las Angeles, May 7. A start
ling story which may develop into
one of mystery, came t j light in
Los Angeles today. The chief fig
ure in it is Sidney S. Sladden, He
was once a resident of this city. He
is now a prisoner in the county jail
at Louisville, Ky., charged with
having swindled the Pacific Life
Insurance Company, of which he
was general agent in Kentucky.
Special- Policeman Charles L.
Foster, who for ten years has been
on Sladden's trail, is authority for
the statement that effort is being
made to prove that Sladden, once
the most dashing man about-town,
is guilty of wife murder. His first
wife, who is now living in Hiast Or
anee, N.: J., declares that before
she divorced Sladden he tried twice
to kill her with chloroform.
Dr. T. L. Magee, of San Diego,
certified that the second Mrs. Slad
den's death was due to natural
causes. Mrs. Sladden No. 1 is tos-
itive in her declaration that her
husband not only tried to poison
her, but that he did poison bis sec.
ond wife. Another one of Slad
den's wives, into whose sudden
death inquiry is now being made
was a young Chicago woman, who
at the time Sladden married her.
bad two children.
In addition to these three wives
Sladden has twice been the hue
band of a Miss Wilson, of Washing
ton, V. (J., and ot a young woman
who died suddenly in Louisville
two months before he married Miss
Wilson.
Sidney S. Sladden, at one time
in his career, was well known in
the Willamette Valley. He was in
business in Eugene, where, with his
father, he was engaged in the sro
eery business, and where his father
and mother still reside. While hv
ing in Eugene Sladden was consid
ered the beau of the valley. He
dressed better than most of the
young men in those days and was
in great demand in all the social
affairs, both at Eugene and at Sa
lem. V
Charley as he was called, during
one of the many social visits he
made ta Salem, met, fell in love
with and married a Miss Nellie Gil
bert, in the latter part of 1890. Miss
Gilbert was at the time one of Sa
lem's social leaders, and the mar
riage wae looked upon as a good
one. It was not long, however, be
fore the young' couple began to
quarrel. - Sladden and his wife liv
ed about a year together, when, to
the surprise of everjbody, Mrs.
Sladden began proceedings for a
divorce, charging her husband with
cruel and inhuman treatment.
Sladden did not contest the proceed
ing and a divorce was granted.
Soon after this' Sladden went east
a ad hiB Eugene friends heard later
that he was located in Chicago.
The next heard of him was that he
bad gone to St. . Louis.- Through
friends it was learned that he had
again married and that his second
wife had died of tuberculosis. It
was not long after this that Sladden
gave his Oregon friends another
surprise by enlisting for service in
the Philippines in one ot the Cali
fornia regiments. This was in 1899.
He served about a year, secured his
discharge and returned toSanFran
cisco. On his return to this coun
try he visited his mother and fath
er at Eugene, but he did not. stay
long, and the next thing heard of
him was that he was local manager
of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance
company, with offices at Louisville,
Ky. . .
Less than a year ago he had any
ing vieiit to Portland, on business,
but was called back before the trip
was over. While living in Ken
tacky he made several visits to
Washington, D. C, to see bis
daughter, who was attending one of
the convent schools at the capital.
His third marriage took place a
couple oi months ago, ' it was a
sudden affair,, and Sladden and his
to eat bride took a trip to Europe. He
had no sooner sailed than it was
discovered that his accounts with -
the insuranoe company were not :
traight. - The Louisville papers '
printed stories of his shortage in
his accounts, whioh, it was said, a- -"'
mounted t3 several thousands of i
dollars. ? ' v - a - x
Whether there was an attempt oa
the part of the insurance company
fo have Sladden arrested while he '
was in Europe having a good time
is not known, bat a number of A- .
tnerican newspapers-printed a cable v
ispatch from Germany stating that
Sidney bladden had been arrested
on the charge of raising a draft and '
forging the signature "ot Secretary
of State John Hay. How . he got -
out of this scrape ts not known, bat
he reached Jsoston twoj weeks ago
There he gave out an" interview stat
ing that the charges against him
were all false and that he was going
to sue the newspapers for libel. ;
Sladden's being charged with
murder comes as a shocking sur
prise to the friends of his father
and mother and those who have
known him. It is generally dis
credited, for it was known . that he
was very fond of his second wife,
and during her illness he was very
devoted. .:
Walla Walla 'Wash., May 6.. :
Zenon Champaux, the First Wash- :
ington murderer to bs executed on- ;
der state supervision, died a death 1
at the state penitentiary this morn- :
ing that astonished onlookers for n
its composure. Champaux slept
all night, declined any stimulant,
dressed himself and actually forged
ahead of his two guards as be walk -ed
up the scaffold stairs. He made
no statement, but with the words,
God Bless you all, nodded his
head for Warden Dryden to press
the lever. His neck was broken instantly.
Champaux s pulse beat the nor-. .
mal 63 as he ascended the gallows.
Religions emotion is given as the
cause of the unusual display of self- -
possession, the condemned French .
Canadian having implicit faith in .
his hereafter. '
'I ehall eat breakfast with moth- .
er this morning be wrote his
orotner in tne province ot ueoec. -
His father wrote him from Quebec
a eouple days ago saying he had ,
spent all the money be bad and
had exhausted every resource to
save his son. ;
Zenon Champaux killed Lottie
Brace, a variety theatre performer,
in Riley's Arcade Theatre, Seattle, '
in the early 1 part of November, v
1902. He had met the woman in
Alaska previously and became in
fatuated with her. : He spent most
of his monev on her. Finally she
threw him aside. He went to the
theatre where shejwaa employed
with the intention of killing her.
He stabbed bqr in the brain with a
hunting knife as she. was leaving
the theatre and she died the next
day from the wound.
His first trial was dramatic. He
feigned insanity, fought his jailors
and acted in every way like a mad
man, but a jury declared him sane.
His case was appealed to every pos-.
sible court but the convicted man's
attorney gave up all hope of stay
ing the execution.
Champaux stated before leaving
foi the state prison that he wished
to die and cursed his attorney for
trying to save his neck. Cham
paux's wealthy relatives in Eastern
Canada, however, made a hard
fight to save him from the scaffold.
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Belgrade, May 7. A letter from
Queen Natalie, the widow of King
Milan of Servia, declares that the
disasters Russia has met with in
the War with the Japanese are the
just punishment of Heaven.
bhe says that the czar was re
sponsible for the tragic end of her
son, King Alexander, she says al
so that the czar's mother will now
be spared the sorrows that were in
flicted noon the mother of the mur
dered king of Servia.
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One bay mare with roached foretop.
Star in forehead. About 1000 pounds.
Came to my place about 10 days ago.
, W. F. Whitby.
Wall paper at Blactledge's store.