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ifiyt Jwwittw fepittati. Y nKEBttMinSBnTv VOL. XLni. NO. 13,539. , POKTLAND, OREGON, MOND.AT, MAY 2, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FARCE THE 111 Japanese Divisions on Right Bank. TURNENEMY'SFLANK Irresistible Charge of the Brown Men. FRONT IS FOUR MILES LONG Extensive Russian Defenses Are Made Valueless, RIVER CROSSED ON PONTOONS Gunboats Had Cleared the Banks and Islands, Aided by Heavy Ar tillery, Carefully Masked by Japanese Artillerymen. TOKIO, May 2, 7 A- M. A supplemental report from General Kurokl covering Sun day's fighting, says: "The Russians made two stands. The en emy's strength Included all of the Third Division, two regiments of Sixth Division, one cavalry brigade, about 40 quick-firing guns and eight machine guns. We have token 28 quick-firing guns, many rifles, much ammunition, more than 20 officers and many noncommissioned officers and men as prison ers. "X am Informed that Major-General Kash tallnsky, commander of the Third East Si beria 'Rifle Brigade, and IJeutenant-General Zossalitch, commander of the Second Sibe rian Army Corps, were wounded. "Our casualties number about 700, and the JU'lau loss Is more than 800 men." TOKIO, May 1, 2 P. M.-A.dvIces re ceived hero state that tho Twelfth Divi sion of tho Japanese army forced a cross ing of the Yalu River above Wlju just be fore dawn Saturday morning:. The second pontoon bridge across the river near Wlju was completed at 8 o'clock Satur day night and the Imperial Guards of the Second Division crossed during the night. Tho Russian left flank has been turned and a general attack began at dawn to day (Sunday) by all the Japanese batteries on the south side of the river and a flo tilla of gunboats co-operating with the army. The Japanese have the advantage of po sitions and numbers and are confident of routing the enemy. Skrydloff Prods Kuropatkln. ST. PETERSBURG. May 2, 2:25 A. M. 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PETERSBURG, May 1. The general staff has Issued the following account of the affairs on the Yalu River April 29 and 30: "From General Kuropatkln's telegrams, it appears that the Japanese, having crossed to the right bank of the Yalu near the village of Slndlagu, occupied the villages of Khussan and Lltzaven. Gen eral Sassulitch, with a view to reoccupying Litzaven and the heights near Khussan, ordered, April 29, a thorough reconnaissance of the posi tions which the Japanese occupied and therf sent a detachment commanded by Staff Lieutenant Colonel Llnd to attack the enemy. "The positions near Lltzaven and Khus san were defended by a Japanese force consisting of two battalions of the Fourth Regiment of tho guards with mountain guns and a small force of cavalry of the guard. "With the assistance of our ar tillery from Potielinsky our troops dis lodged the Japanese from their position, losing two sharpshooters killed and 13 wounded. Leave Dead and Wounded. "The Japanese left on the position they vacated 10 dead and 26 wounded. They also carried away a number of their wounded, and others scrambled down the cliffs to the Yalu. The enemy succeeded In removing their mountain guns. "After occupying the heights near Sln dlagu, where our troops came under a heavy fire from the Japanese battery posted north of "Wlju, two of our guns shelled a pontoon bridge and compelled the Japanese to dismantle it. "The Japanese troops at Litzaven and Khussan retreated to tho Yalu and partly northward. "Up to the present 10 carbines and many cartridges and maps have been found on the Japanese positions. Russian Outpost Driven Back. "Conspicuous gallantry was displayed by the light Infantry of the Tenth and Twelfth Regiments, under Lieutenant Yantchiss. "At 10 o'clock on the morning of April 29 a Japanese force of 1500 infantry -with 12 guns began to cross the river at Amblkhe and Sohogapoudzy. Near Am bikhe there was a small Russian detach ment under Lieutenant-Colonel Goussev, which was compelled to retire under the sustained fire of two Japanese batteries of six guns each. Four men were wound ed and Lieutenant-Colonel Goussev was bruised on the head and left arm. Our mountain guns were unable to return the fire on account of the .excessive range and reinforcements were fcent to tho de tachment, "with orders to drive the Jap anese beyond the Yalu. "General Mlstchenko xeports that Jap anese warships at the mouth of the Yalu on April 29 opened fire on our troops, the cannonade lasting for 20 minutes. No damage was done. "All is Quiet at Ylnkow. Retreat Before Superior Force. "April SO, from 10 o'clock in the morn ing until 6 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese shelled our position at Turon chen from their batteries on the left bank, where they had posted 24 feld guns and 12 siege guns, which -were cltverly mount ed in masked earthworks. They fired a minimum of 2000 projectiles. Our troops stuck stubbornly to the pontoon at Turen chen. "On the morning of April 30 the Jap- (Concluded on Page Three.) IN BOTTLES If erer in Balk. Trial six S3 cent Medium six ...... ..DO oents Largs Ue $1.00 Japanese Mattings Are cool, clean, attractive and cheap. They are very desirable for Summer use. EXCIXSIVE CARPET HOUSE J. Q. MACK & CO. 86-88 THIRD STREET Opposite Chamber of Commerce Bl GUNS BELCH Russians Retreat Before Japanese Advance. ' RIVER GROSSING COVERED Effort to Hold the Right Bank of the Yalu Disclaimed. SKIRMISHERS ONLY HARASS Kuropatkln Said to Have Arranged to Check Advance in the Mount ain Passes in the Llao Tung Peninsula Still Fighting. ST. PETERSBURG, May L The general staff account of the operations on the Yalu River today is as follows: "At i o'clock this morning Japanese field batteries and 47 guns opened a ter rific Are on our position at Turenchen and our troops near Potientensky. "The overwhelming superiority of tho Japanese in artillery and the heavy losses their fire inflicted on our troops occupying these positions made it clear to General Sassulitch that it was impossible to hold Turenchen. Consequently the troops "were ordered to retire from Turenchen -while still holding the Potientensky road. "When General Sassulitch dispatched his telegram the Russian troops were re tiring in good order from Turenchen and Schakhedzky to their second position, and the battle -was continuing at Potientensky and Tchingu." FALL BACK BEFORE NUMBERS Few Troops Oppose the Passage of the Yalu. ST. PETERSBURG, -April 2.-3:58 A. M. The first Japanese army, under General Kurokl, consisting of the Guards and the Second and Twelfth Divisions, according to official and private advices from the front, crossed the Yalu yesterday about 30 miles above the mouth of the river, near Klulientz, -where the river bends abruptly to the eastward. - -" For three days less than 5000 Russians, 'under Generals Zas3alitch, Mlstchenko and Kashtalinsky, have been strung along the Manchurlan side of the river and have been harassing and impeding the cross ing of the Japanese very successfully despite their hopeless inferiority in men and guns. Friday the Japanese, who had occupied the heights near Titzaven and Khussan, above Antung, were dislodged and driven back to the river with considerable loss. They were compelled to dismantle their pontoon bridge In order to save it from destruction. Gunboats Clear the Banks. Saturday a gunboat flotilla at the mouth of the river and all the field guns posted on the Corean bank opened "a bombard ment and scattered tho Russian's posi tion on the Manchurlan side. The bom bardment was maintained Intermittently for seven hours, 24 field guns and. 12 4.7 guns participating and over 2000 shells be ing fired. The Russian reports pay trib ute to the fine masked positions of the guns. In two days' fighting the Russians lost two officers and five men killed and six officers and 36 men wounded. On the morning of May 1 it became apparent that the bombardment of Saturday was a pre liminary to the crossing on Sunday, when the Japanese opened again with their bat teries, pouring an intense fire into the Russian lines, which caused great losses. Retreats in Good Order. The Russians had no Intention of try ing to prevent the Japanese crossing, their sole object being to retain and em barrass as much as possible the crossing. "With a comparatively Insignificant force this having been accomplished. General Zas3alltch, menaced by the overwhelm ing force of the Japanese, retired in per fect order to his second position, a short distance away, which the Japanese Im mediately attacked and where fighting is now in progress. The report from Tokio stating that the Russians were contesting the passage of the river with a force of 30.000 strongly leads the authorities here to believe that it was put out for the purpose of acclaim ing the crossing a great Japanese vic tory, where it cannot possibly warrant such a claim. The Russians believe that It will require another week to get Gen eral Kuroki's army completely across and ready to advance on the Pekln road. Stand Is Made at Passes. The fact that the Russians have re treated to positions back of Turenchen, where there is more fighting shows, thnt they have built entrenchments, which the Japanese are under the necessity of tak ing before they can push on, consequently continuous fighting and skirmishing will occur, the plan of the Russians being to hang on tho flanks of the enemy and an noy and worry them to the uttermost. Nothing really decisive, however, is ex pected until the Japanese advance shall encounter the Russian position in the mountain passes. It is even considered that the Japanese may be able to turn the Russian position there, but all this is provided for In General Kuropatkin's plans. Russians Must Retreat. TOKIO, May 1. The Japanese today captured Chlu Tien Cheng, 10 miles north nf Antung. which is regarded as the key to the Russian position on the right bank of the Yalu River. It Is expected that the Russians will retreat to Feng Huan Cheng, which Is on the road to Llao Yang. GIVES GREAT-PRESTIGE. London Papers Comment on the Pass age of the-Yalu. LONDON, May 2. The Important ac counts of the fighting on the Yalu River have reached London and various opin ions nTe expressed this morning regarding the importance of the Japanese victory. It is considered in some quarters that It was never the intention of the Russians to hold the right bank of the Yalu ex cept for tactical purposes and that the real struggle has not yet been reached. All the papers, however, recognize that the success of the Japanese -will greatly en hance their prestige. The Dallr Telegraph lri an editorial takes the rather extreme view of com paring the capture of Klulien Cheng to that of "Waterloo and Plevna, and says that the present misfortune is even more serious because the Russians have been driven from a fortified position in spite of every advantage conferred on Its defense by modern weapons. "The fight," the editorial says, "must modify and forever the destinies of Eu rope and Asia." The Dally Mail's Niu Chwang corres pondent hears that the Russians are ac cumulating great quantities of stores at Tiding. 40 miles north of Mukden, as their principal base of supplies. The news of the very serious losses suffered by both sides arrived too late to be printed in the London morning papers and these losses are not yet mentioned in dispatches from Russian sources. A dispatch from Mukden says that Gen eral Kuropatkln arrived there yesterday (Sunday) morning and left In the after noon. The destination is not stated. The Times' military correspondent, pre suming that other important Japanese operations will coincide with the Klulien Cheng affair, points out that the -world Is completely In the dark regarding the sec ond and third Japanese armies. The second army left Japan in the latter part of March under General Oku, the corres pondent says, and so far no one has been able to locate it. "It has vanished into space," while the correspondent points out the third army embarked quite recently. ANTUNG BURNEDAND DESERTED Japanese in Control of Estuary of the Yalu. TOKIO, May 2, 11 A. M. The Russians were forced to abandon Antung yester day. They burned the town and retreat ed to Fenghuan Cheng. The Japanese now control the estuary of the Yalu. Skrydloff Is Hurrying. SBVASTOPOLt May 1. Vice-Admlral Skrydloff Is hastening his departure. He will leave for the Far East May 5 Instead of May 8, as he Intended. NEEDS OF STATE Washington's Claimsfor Government Aid. THREE ARE MOST PRESSING Senator Foster Reviews Work of the Delegation. ANKENY ACCOMPLISHED MUCH Outlook for Appropriations for Rivers and Harbors, Irrigation and Pub lic Buildings at. the Next Session of Congress. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, April 30." Senator Foster, in an interview, said today: "Of the many needs of Washington State three or four items are of very great im portance. For example: "We need river and harbor appropria tions. We have our plans perfected to get them. "Several millions v of dollars should be' expended where our lands can be improved and reclaimed by Irrigation. We have the money in sight and plans are now under way to give us the benefit of the most important irrigation projects this coun try has ever known. "While we should protect our forest we must not hamper our chief industry, that of lumbering. From a broad, theoretical standpoint forest reserves are a good, thing, but the administration of a forest reserve policy to give satisfaction to a sovereign state where lumbering is the chief industry must, necessarily, be prac tical. In this, I have the positive assur ance of co-operation on a practical basis, of the departmental officials In charge. "Besides practical co-operation in forest reserve matters, the 5Sth Congress will pass to its credit a law giving citizens the right to settle upon forest reserves for bona fide homestead purposes when such lands are agricultural in their nature. Public Buildings Needed. "Public buildings are needed in our state. We have the Seattle building under THE WATER CURE TO DATE contract, the total expense for site and building being $300,000. For Spokane and Tacoma we have $500,000 appropriated for each, but we need as much more in each instance, and while we have been already allowed an increase of a couple of hundred thousand dollars we feel, on account of the steadily growing business that, in building for the future, we are warranted in insisting upon a round minion dollars for both Tacoma and Spokane, the same as we asked for Seattle. In my opinion the appropriation for Seattle will be found to be too small. A half dozen other cities of the state are In need of and soon will have suitable public buildings. . "Still, In keeping down appropriations during the extra and second sessions of the present Congressit has been out of the question to secure immediate recogni tion in many new and increased appro priations, all of which will be taken up during the session of Congress opening in December. "In all of tho important matters "enu merated above, we are commanding more and more recognition and consideration, both from Congress and the Government through the departments. "No state with corresponding commerce and postal business has been cut off from public buildings a3 we have been. "We have Immense irrigable tracts but we have no means of financing- gigantic Irrigation projects such as the Govern ment, under recent authority of Congress, is now preparing to give us. Caught in Reserve Net. "A great forest reserve blanket was thrown indiscriminately and without pre liminary examination over thousands of acres of our agricultural and timber lands and thereby threatened to snuff out not only homesteaders b7 depriving them of road and school district facilities and the like, but whole towns which were caught and kept inside the forest reserve net. "Beginning with Clallam County, where 300,000 acres of land were cut out of the forest reserve and thereby averting possi ble bankruptcy to the county by depriving It of taxable property, important elimina tions have recently been secured In Jeffer son and other counties. "To this can now be added the further concession, which has just been made, in volving large tracts in Whatcom, Skagit and other counties of the state. To the al ready extensive forest reserve areas was recently added, through temporary re serves, several millions of acres. Practical lumbermen and settlers protested vigor ously and a public mass meeting, at which I presided, was held In Tacoma. All sections of the state covered by forest re serves, were represented and as a result of the agitation, thus begun, practically all that was demanded by Skagit, What com, and other deeply-Interested localities, has been conceded. Settlers Safe' In Their Rights. "WTiile further forest reserve areas may possibly be set apart in Washington State, the jrlght of settUrs,and lumber men will not be Interfered with, and neither will lieu land selections, whereby (Concluded on Page Fire.) MEET AT II CULL Important Conference at White House. SUBJECT IS NOT DIVULGED President in Session With Leaders in Congress, ALDRICH COMES FROM HOME Planks ,for Platform ef the Repub lican Party to Be Adopted at Na tional Convention May Have Been Under Consideration. WASHINGTON, May l.r-An important conference was held by President Roose velt at the White House tonight with prominent members of both houses of Con gress. They Included Senators Aldrlch, Spooner, Hale, Piatt (Conn.), Lodge and Allison: Speaker Cannon and Chairman Hemenway, of the appropriations com mittee. Secretary Cortelyou of the De- partment of Co'mmerce and Labor was al so present." It was understood that the discussion covered a wide range, and It is not unlike ly that It embraced features of the plat form which will be presented for- the ratification for members of the National Convention when it assembles in Chicago in June. Those present declined to dis- cuss the nature of the conference except to say that there were no conclusions. Senator Aldrlch had left this city for his Rhode Island home, but it is understood came here especially for tonight's meet ing. It was after 11 o'clock before those present left the White House. 1 WORLD'S FATE GATES CLOSED. Special Party, Headed by Secretary Taft, Admitted to Grounds. ST. LOUIS, 'May 1. The first Sunday ot the World's Fair found the gates tightly closed to the hundreds of people who thronged Forest Paris, today: However, notwithstanding that the public was barred, there were a few more favored who were permitted to enjoy the Exposi tion grounds today. They were Secretary of War Taft, Governor Herrick, of Ohio, Exposition officials and the members of the Congressional delegation, who attend ed the opening, and members of the Pennsylvania' State Commission, who will tomorrow dedicate the Keystone State building. While work was generally suspended throughout the grounds, in the different exhibit buildings individual exhibitors were busily engaged today making- every effort to hasten the completion of exhibi tions. While no figures were given out as to the actual number of persons who paid admission to the World's Fair yesterday, it was officially stated tonight that the attendance was less than 200,000 but larger, according to President Francis, than that at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicagp or the Centennial at Philadelphia on opening day. Ice Plant Factory Destroyed. CHICAGO, May 1. The entire plant of the Wolfe Manufacturing Company, 139 to 145 Reese street, was destroyed by fire tonight. Loss $85,000. The company manu factures ice plants. CONTENTS 0FT0DAY5S PAPEB. Crossing- of the Tain. Twelfth Division of the Japanese, army de bouches on the right bank Saturday even ing. Page 1. Second Division crosses, during' Saturday night. Page 1. Russian position Is flanked, and sweeping charge puts the enemy In full retreat. Page 1. Japanese lose SOO and Russians 700. Page 1. Dash of the brown men across stream, in face of heavy Are. Page 2. National. Prominent Republican members of Congress called to conference at the White House. Page 1. legislation accomplished by the Oregon dele gation In Congress.. Page 3. Senator Foster makes statement regarding work of Washington delegation in Congress. Page 1. Political. Eugene V. Debs will head the ticket to ba named by Socialist National Convention this -week. Page 3. Pacific Coast. Mayor Schmltr Is expected to aid in settlement of carmen's strike at San Francisco. Page 9. Circus train is wrecked on the Southern Pa cific; tlgrere tries to kill owners. Page 4. Linn County prune crop damaged by frost. Page 4. Domestic. Boston bakers are out on strike; bosa bakers will not concede. Page 3. To keep wife In society, John A. Delaney com mits numerous forgeries. Page 8. Hurricane deck on St. Louis river steamer collapses; a. score of people Injured. Page 2. St. Louis World's Fair gates are closed. Page 2. Secretary Taft admitted with distinguished party. Page 2. Sports. Pacific Coast League games: Portland 7, Seat tle 6; Tacoma 9-7 Oakland 3-0; Loa Angeles 2. San Francisco 1. Page 5. Leatherworkers defeat All-Portland, 11-10. Page 5, CuIIlson wins Inman medal at trapshootlng. Page 5. , Pacific Northwest tennis clubs form an asso ciation. Page 5. Portland and Vicinity. C. H. Mclsaac tells how he got appropriations for the Fair in the Bast. Page 8. Plans for encampmsnt of Oregon National Guard with that of Washington and Idaho and the regulars. Page 8. Great outpouring of pleasure-seekers on May day. Page 8. American compares Russians and Japanese from practical experience. Pag 8. Yamhill County woman shoots to get rid ot persecutor. Page 14.