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VOL. XLIV. NO. 13,777.
PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1905.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
PLAN OF REFORM
Committee Proposes
Great Changes,
HOLD DOWN MINISTERS
Would Increase Power of
Senate Over Them.
NEW COURTS ALSO NEEDED
No Provision for a Parliament in Pro-
gramme Offered Disorder Ends In
Warsaw, but Breaks Out in
New Points.
Order appears to havo been qui to sou
rally restored In Russia, the exception
being in Toland. Even in "Warsaw,
however, there has boon a return to
conditions approximating the normal.
A committee of Ministers, elttlng at
St, Petersburg, has formulated, and the
Emperor sanctioned, a Senate upon a
basis of closer connection with the
throne, doing awaj with the administra
tive orders suspending certain laws and
In other -ways checking the evils that
have arisen through the arbitrary acts
of Ministers or officials.
The report that Maxim Gorky baa been
released is difficult to verify.
LONDON", Feb. 2. A dispatch to a news
agency from St. Petersburg says the re
port of the committee of Ministers ap
pointed to devise the best means of giv
ing effect to the Emperor's reform ukase
.of December 23 makes many Important
recommendations, especially In regard to
increasing the powers of the Senate over
the Ministers and safeguarding its inde
pendence. It urges that the right al
ready belonging to tho Senate of legisla
tive initiative should be enlarged and
favors the establishment of lower admin
istrative tribunals connected with the
Senate.
- The committee of Ministers distin
guished three fundamental points as
bases for defense of the laws:
First, prevention of violation of laws.
Second, investigation of the powers and
methods of action of those responsible
for the administration of the Taws.
Third, responsibility of officials.
As regards the first point, the commit
tee decided that it was necessary to pre
vent Ministers exceeding their legal pow
ers by means of Imperial ordinances and
that correctly all exceptions to the ordi
nary course of law must be forbidden,
and that in exceptional cases, where the
Emperor has ordered Ministers to delib
erate concerning changes, the decision
of the committee must be submitted to
the Senate.
The committee decided to ask the con
sent of the Emperor for the issue of an
interpretation of the existing laws. Tho
committee also agreed upon the neces
sity of Independence of the Senate as
opposed to all Ministers and the internal
reorganization of the Senate,
In order to accelerate the course of
justico In administration of affairs, it
was decided to be advisable to facilitate
access to the Senate by persons who
have suffered from the arbitrary acts
of administrative bodies, and also to af
ford the right of direct relations between
the Senate and the Emperor, and the ex
tension of the Senate's existing right of
J legislative Initiative. .
The committee decided that it was ex
pedient to establish local courts of jus
tice connected with the Senate, and the
institution in the Senate of the post of
first president with the right of personal
relations with the Emperor.
A number of other changes clarifying
tho rights of plaintiffs under the civil
code and in the general way of securing
a broader Interpretation and construction
of the laws were decided on by the com
mittee and all the proposals were sanc
tion by tho Emperor on January 29.
GORKY STILL IN PRISON.
False Report of His Release Not Al
lowed to Read or Write.
SPECIAL CABLE.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 3, via Eiede
kuhnen, Feb. 3. Late Thursday after
noon the report spread like wildfire
through the Russian capital that Maxim
Gorky, the author and revolutionist
had not been released and that the re
port of his liberation was given out
by the authorities In order to forestall
the circulation and presentation of pe
titions drawn up In foreign countries
in his behalf. Gorky's Imprisonment
has more than anything else embittered
the peace-loving citizens against the
government, and the indignation en
gendered by the manner of his arrest
at the bedside of his sick wife at Riga
can only be likened to the anger and
resentment demonstrated at the time
of Count Tolstoi's banishment.
Inquiries in official quarters Thurs
day afternoon elicited only a reitera
tion of the earlier statements that
Gorky had been released and would not
be tried. The report, however, that he
is still in prison was repeated with
such positiveness by the author's
friends that a British correspondent,
who knows Gorky well, called at his
house. There he met Koplatnitzky, one
of Gorky's intimates, and also a writer.
Koplatnitzky stated that, so far as he
knew. Gorky had not been released
"I have not been permitted to see
Gorky since the first day of his im
prisonment in St. Petersburg," said
Koplatnitzky, "but from the treatment
which was accorded him then I think
It unlikely that the authorities have
suddenly become lenient toward him.
He was in solitary confinement in a
small, poorly-heated room, and his Jail
ers refused him every comfort. Ho
asked for books and writing material,
but his requests were not granted. Al
together, he was treated like an ordi
nary criminal and not like one of Rus
sia's famous writers'."
The friends of Gorky, who place faith
in the report that he is still in prison,
do not know whether he will bo de
ported by administrative order or
whether he will have to stand trial.
They think the former more likely.
.Meanwhile the authorities Insist that
the author has been given his freedom.
WARSAW GOING TO WORK.
But Children Refuse to Study Unless
Taught Polish Language.
"WARSAW, Feb. .2 Owing to elaborate
precautions, the disturbances that were
anticipated here today did not occur. The
authorities declare that the strike is
practically ended.
The smaller factories will reopen to
morrow and the larger ones on Monday.
The bakers and printers have definitely
decided to resume work tomorrow. The
streets are still in the hands of the mili
tia. The shops have not yet reopened,
and the city is quiet and almost desorted.
There are rumors of disturbances In tho
suburbs, which it is Impossible to vorlfy,
because tho military authorities have
seized the telephone service.
Tho pupils of many public and private
schools met today and decided to demand
the introduction of the Polish language,
or otherwise they will not return to
school. This is significant as indicating
tho Introduction of the nationallat move
ment into the economic agitation.
POLES REND CZAR'S PORTRAITS
Their Ancient Capital Scene of Riot
ous Demonstration and Bloodshed.
VIENNA, Feb. 2. Serious disturbances
are reported at Cracow.. Tonight thou
sands of workmen gathered at the monu
ment of the poet Wiczlewlcz, where Dep
uty Doszinski, the leader of the Gallclan
Socialists, made a speech denouncing the
Emperor of Russia, whose portrait was
torn amid shouts of vengeance.
The police dispersed the demonstration.
Fifteen persons were seriously wounded
and many were arrested.
Cracow was founded In tho oighth cen
tury and was the capital of the ancient
kingdom of Poland, but ia now in th
Austrian province of Galicla. For some
time after the partition of Poland It was
an Independent republic.
POLICE HOLD UP CITIZENS.
How the Graft Is Worked in Troubled
Times In Wamw.
LONDON. Feb. 2. Wholesame black
mail by tho' polica jot "Warsaw is reported
by the correspondent In that city of the
Daily Mail, which assorts that citizens
are stopped in thp streets at night and
arrested unless they give the officers
money. It is also charged that the police
have been brutally whipping prisoners
and then liberating them on the payment
of $5 to the police sergeant.
Tho correspondent adds that the condi
tion of the prisoners In Warsaw Is scan
dalous, the prisoners being herded in
small calls devoid of all sanitary appli
ances. STRIKERS LACK MONEY.
Cause of Collapse of Polish Strike
Cunning of Police.
LONDON, Feb. 3. The correspondent at
Warsaw of the Times says: The strike is
falling through lack of money behind the
organizers. For days "before the demon
stration reached Its climax bodies of the
worst type of malcontents concentrated In
Warsaw and the lethargy of the police
gave the appearance that the authorities
were encouraging the gatherings for the
purpose of utilizing drastic measures of
suppression.
Strike Breaks Out In New Place.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 2. A strike
began today In the Sosnovlce district. The
strikers are parading the streets, but the
police have been tactful and public or
der has not been disturbed. The compos
itors' strike at Samara has ended, the em
ployers conceding an Increase of pay and'
a reduction of hours.
CHARLES H.
WHO HAS RESIGNED AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. Charles H. Darling, Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
today tendered his resignation to the President, abklnc that It take effect near the
expiration of his four years terms of sen-Ice, which expires In December, 1005. The
President stated, in a letter to Mr. Darling:, that whon his resignation took effect
it waa his purpose to appoint him Collector of the Port at Burlington. Vt.
TEMPER IS UGLY
Russian Army in No
Mood to Fight
HAVE HEARD OF RIOTS
Japanese Have Spread News
of Bloody Sunday.
KUROPATKIN ASKS ADVICE
General Tells Czar Result of Order to
Resume Advance Would Be
Disastrous Fearful Losses
on Hun River.
SPECIAL CABLE.
LONDON. Feb. 3. The St. Petersburg
correspondent of the Loudon Daily
Chronicle wires that General Kuropatkln
has sent a message to the Czar asking
him for advice and guidance. The Jap
anese, Kuropatkln reports, according to
tho correspondent, havo succeeded in dis
tributing among the Russian troops de
tailed accounts of the events of the
bloody Sunday at St. Petersburg and In
consequence the temper of the troops is
ugly In tho extreme.
For the present General Kuropatkln re
ported to the Czar, according to the cor
respondent, the troops may be relied upon
to stick to their posts, but It is difficult
to forecast their future actions. It would
be useless at any rate to command them
to resume the advance, as the results of
such an order may prove disastrous.
REGIMENTS ALMOST WIPED OUT
Oyama's Estimate of Russian Losses
in Latest Battle.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 2. The Japanese
Legation has received a report made by
Field Marshal Oyama, giving details of
the fierce fighting from January 23 to 29,
whon the Russians were driven from the
right of the Hun River.
The Marshal says that the enemy con
sisted of the First Siberian Army Corps,
ono mixed army corps, tho second and
fifth brigades pf the sharpshooters, part
of the Eighth Army Corps, the sixth and
first Siberian reserve divisions, some chas
seurs, etc., making a total of at least
seven divisions, one of which was a cav--
alry division. The Japanese casualties
were about 7000.
Prisoners state that four regiments of
Russian infantry were nearly annihilated.
Many of the companies of these regi
ments were reduced to from 20 to 30 men
each. The Field Marshal expressed the
opinion that the Russian casualties must
have totalled at least 10.000.
RUSSIANS CONTINUE SNIPING.
When Weather Moderates, Another
Battle Is Expected.
HEADQUARTERS OF GENERAL
OKU, Feb. 2. (Noon.) The Russian force
remains opposite the Japanese left, oc
casionally firing, but no serious attacks
are attempted.
Some movement of the Russians is no
ticeable along their entire front and the
bombardment of the Japanese lines is
continued at Intervals. The Japanese
seldom reply to the Russian fire.
It Is evident that both armies are pre
paring for a battle when the weather
moderates. The temperature was 13 de
grees below zero (Fahrenheit) last night.
It is believed ' that the present period of
cold weather will be the last of the
season.
TIGHT GRIP ON CANTON.
Germany Makes Sure of Some Plun
der After the War.
LONDON. Feb. 3. According to the
DARLING
Times correspondent, Germany Is seizing
every opportunity of tightening her grip
on Canton because apparently she real
izes that Russia's position Is hopeless and
that after the war opportunities for
nggression In China will be less favorable
than hitherto.
Japanese Prisoners of War.
ST. PETERSBURG. Feb. 2. Midnight.)
Vice-Consul Thomas Smith, of Mos
cow, by direction of the American Em
bassy, has, visited the Japanese prisoners
of war at Medved in pursuance of the
request of the Japanese government and
reports that he found them comfortably
housed and fed. but complaining of vari
ous restrictions, the most Important of
which related to transmission of their
mail. Professor Martens, the head of the
prison bureau, has promised to correct
this matter of complaint and to investi
gate the other complaints.
WILL WAIT TILL HIS DEATH-
College of Journalism to Be Estab
lished by Pulitzer:
NEW YORK. Feb. 2. The Tribune will
tomorrow say that the actual establish
ment of the school of journalism at Co
lumbia University, which Joseph Pulitzer
endowed, will be deferred until the donor's
death. The Tribune publishes a letter
from a correspondent, asking If the ru
mor is true that the president of Columbia
could not agree with the donor as to the
advisory board suggested by Mr. Pulitzer,
which comprised such men as President
Eliot, Whitelaw Reid, Andrew D. White
and John Hay, and that in consequence
the project had been delayed .by the bene
factor. The Tribune will quoto Bradford Mer
rill, financial manager of the World, as
saying that there arose some differences
of opinion with President Butler, of Co
lumbia, as to the founder's right to con
stitute the advisory board, but that differ
ence docs not now exist, and Mr. Pulit
zer is alone responsible for the present
delay.
He says that Mr. Pulitzer intends 'that
the College of Journalism shall not bo
established until after his death. One rea
son is his precarious health; another, the
desire that it be free from prejudice, per
sonal or professional: another, that time
may bring the discovery of the Ideal edi
tor as head of the editorial and news
branches.
Mr. Merrill says the endowment is ir
revocable, the lirst $1,000,000 being'in pos
session o'f Columbia, the second 51.000.000
is legally provided for, as well as a still
further voluntary sum not mentioned in
any agreement. Even the nomination of
the advisory board is made in an instru
ment that will Jake effect Instantaneously
at Pulitzer's death.
No Mercy for Ladrones.
MANILA, Feb. 2. Governor-General
Wright, accompanied by the native mem
bers of the Philippine Commission, today
visited Cavite. capital of the Province of
Cavite, and held a conference with all
the presldontcs of the province. After the
conference the Governor-General an
nounced that the Federal troops would
remain in the disturbed area until all the
bandit ladrones had been captured.
Gift of $1,100,000 to School.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2. Announcement of
tVo gift of q.lCO.OOO tc - tin UnldlT-Theo-loglcal
Seminary was made public by Dr.
Charles Cuthbert Hall, president of the
faculty, who declined to reveal the name
of the donor.
C0UTENTS OF TODAY'S PAPEB
The Weather.
TODAT'S Cloudy, with occasional light rain,
possibly part snow; southeasterly winds.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature. 35
dec.: minimum, 31. Precipitation, trace.
War In tho Far East.
Newa of riots In Russia causes disaffection In
Kuropatkln's army, and he fears to order
attack. Pace 1.
Awxtn losses In battle of Hun River. Page 1.
Japanese wounded found frozen to death.
Pate 1.
The Trouble in Russia.
Committee of Ministers announces proposed re
forms, but docs not propose parliament.
Pago 1.
Release of Gorky denied, and report attributed
to government. Pago 1.
Strike ends In Warsaw, but breaks out In new
places. Pace 1.
Riots at Cracow and Lemberg In Austrian Po
land. Page 1.
Foreign.
Riilan naval officers testify regarding North
Sea Incident. Page 9.
Prussian government considers purchase of all
coal mines. Page 9.
Great volcanic eruption in Nicaragua endan
gers large city. Page 1.
Domestic
New York Chamber of Commerce asks Legis
lature to spend $100,000 on Lewis and Clark
Fair. Pace S.
General Miles tells why he shackled Jefferson
Davis. Page 3.
Coldest weather of the year In Eartana and.
Middle States. Page 1.
Hoch accused of murder, but sets up an alibi.
Page 3.
4 Pacific Coast.
Malheur Irrigation bill will very probably be
made a law. Page 4.
Provision in Washington Railroad Commission
bill would drive branch roads out of bust-
ness. Page 1.
Capital removal fight results In passage of bill
In 'Washington Senate. Page 5.
Commercial and Marine.
Metal markets quiet, but with strong under
tone. Page 13.
Heading la feature of stock-market trading.
Page 13.
San Francisco apple market glutted. Page 13.
Storm affecta grain trade at Chicago. Page 13.
Steamer Forest Brook may load contraband at
Portland for Vladivostok. "Page 12.
Expert testimony take In Geo. "W. Elder In
vestigation. Page 12.
Fleet of steam coasters sails. Page 12.
National.
House passes Klamath irrigation bill. Page 2.
Senator Foster wants Marshal Hopkins' scalp.
Page 2.
Baker denounces Parker and Southern Demo
crats In the House. Page 9.
Senate discusses free distribution of seeds.
Page 9.
Bishop Hare tells how Catholic schools got
Indian trust funds. Page 9.
Secretary Shaw explains Republican policy on
tariff and drawbacks. Page u.
Scrtary Taft's plea for free trade with Phil
ippines. Page 3.
SaaUu Fc road may be prosecuted for "giving
rebates. Page 9. ,
Portland and Vicinity. -Woman
burned to death In her home.
Page 9.
Federal grand Jury Investigates alleged con-
pplracy to damage reputation of Francis J.
Heney. Page 4.
R. H. Baldwin, wanted here for swindling,
arrested In Los Angeles. Page 10.
No change In condition of strike at Exposition
grounds. Page 8.
Philip T. Eastwlck dies in Panama. Page S.
Bridge committee reports that Morrison-street
structure could have been built for J2V.0OO
less money. Page 12.
Colonel Dosch returns from California trip and
cays China will participate In Exposition.
Page T. r . , -'
JOKER I NTH t BILL
Joint Rates Would Kill
Branch Roads.
PORTLAND 18 INTERESTED
Many Points in Her Territory
Would Be Affected.
RESULTS WOULD BE SERIOUS
Sub-Committee on Railroad Commis
sion Measure Is Finding Great Dif
ficulty'in Framing Law That
Will Suit the Radicals.
OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 2.-(SpeciaL)
There will bo no report tomorrow from
the subcommittees wrestling with the
railroad commission hill, and as an early
adjournment will be taken tomorrow
there will be little or nothing doing be
fore next week. There has been no for
mal meeting of the committee today, but,
in the language of one of the members,
they "have met each other and chewed
the rag in every corner of tho Capitol
and on every street corner in Olympla,"
From all that can be learned of the
report it will not make much difference
whether it Is presented this week or
next, as It promises to be so indefinite
in its suggestions that the details will
all have to be threshed out on the floor
after it reached the Legislature.
Discussions were held today, but little
progress was made beyond that fore
casted yesterday. Despite tho efforts of
some of the more radical commission
men, it will be impossible to pass a bill
giving to the commission power to fix
rates, and this Is the rock on which tho
rabid and the reasonable elements of the
commission party split.
Clause of Interest to Portland.
There is another clause In the bill on
which no decision has been reached, but
which is of special Interest to Portland
and the O. R. & N. Co. That is a pro
vision empowering the commission to
make joint rates on a pro rata, mileage
asIp,--tso that cars loaded on one road
can bo turned over to a rival road and
tho company loading the cars receive no
remuneration in excess of their pro
rata of the mileage over which the car
was hauled on their iine.
The effect of this wolud be very serious
at a number of points In Portland terri
tory, and if the bill were to become a
law with this proviso upheld. It would
force some of the branch roads out of
business. Under such a provision a
Puget Sound buyer could go to Kaholo
tus, on the "Washtucna branch of the O.
R. & N., and buy wheat for shipment to
Tacoma, and all that the O. R. & N.
would get out of It would be a 20-mile
haul to Connell. on the Northern Pacific,
but their cars would be in use without
additional remuneration from the time
they were loaded at Kaholotus until they
were returned to Connell.
A majority of the committee Is , re
ported to bo opposed to this Joint rate
Injustice, but a minority report com
mending It will probably be presented.
Commission Forces Lack Cohesion.
The commission forces, taking the
sincere with the insincere, are probably
stronger numerically than they were two
years ago, but they lack the cohesive
strength that they presented then. Mc
Brlde, the former patron saint of the
GOVERNOR-GENERAL
i - GENEKAIr TRErOFF. . .
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forces, is so thoroughly discredited by
the commission men that he has but lit
tle influence with them, and among the
men advocating the strongest measures
there 13 discernible a motive which indi
cates more of a desire to harm tho rail
roads than to help the people. Some of
the members take no pains to conceal
such motives. A prominent member of
the Spokane delegation, in discussing tho
matter today, said:
"So far as the railroad commission is
concerned, we do not care much what
its effect will be, so long as it hurts the
railroads. They have Ignored the re
quests of Spokane and we are simply
striking back at them. "We are desperate
over the treatment we have received
from the railroads, and while tho com
mission bill may not help us, we will
have tho satisfaction of knowing that it
is hurting the railroads."
This is rather poor logic, but it is a
sample of the feeling that is shown by
many of the commission men. There is
another class whose constituents have
been led to believe that the passage of
tho commission bill will be followed by
the Immediate reduction in freight rates
to about one-half the present schedule.
The representatives of this class fear
the awakening from this dream of their
constituents and are accordingly doing
everything possible to make the bill as
drastic as possible.
Balance of Power Shows Indifference.
The remainder of the members, form
ing the class which will either pass or
kill the bill, are almost absolutely indif
ference to the clamor of the dyed-in-the-wool
commission men and are paying but
little attention to the matter. They will
vote for the bill if it is comparatively
harmless and will vote against it it it is
otherwise.
The original commission of 2S members
was scaled down to a subcommittee of
eight, and today the number was short
ened up to three for the consideration of
some of the principal features. One of the
members who had been discussing the
matter in and out of the committee-room
for the most of the day, frankly admitted
that tho only method by which they
could secure a unanimous report from
a subcommittee was to cut it down to
one man.
All of tho railroad men, with the ex
ception of W. "W. Cotton, have departed,
and Mr. Cotton will leave for Portland
tomorrow morning.
The members of the Lewis and Clark
Commission are going' to Portland to
morrow, and as a number of others will
leave cariy for .their over-Sunday holi
day, nothing more will be done before
next week. The commission men are
priming themselves, and unless some
kind of a gag rule Is adopted, the flood
gates of oratory will remain open for an
indefinite period after the commission re
port is received. B. W. W.
MAY OVERWHELM BIG CITY.
Volcano in Nicaragua in Eruption,
Spreads Wild Panic'
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 2. Tho steam
ahp City of Sydney, from Central Amer
ican ports, brings news of a violent erup
tion of the Momotombo volcano. Momo
tombo Is G150 feet high, and Its base
forms a promontory In Lake Nicaragua
Leon, a city of 50,000 inhabitants, Is only
eight miles from the volcano. Village
people near the mountain fled, and fears
were entertained for the safety of Leon.
Three years ago Momotombo's summit
began to steam. There was no eruption,
however and until the morning of Janu
ary 16 the volcano appeared to be sleep
ing. Early that morning thick vapors
were seen rising from the top of the
mountain. As the day wore on the vapor
increased, and by noon the volcano was
vomiting thick clouds of black and yellow
smoke. Suddenly flames buret forth, and
that night Momotombo's summit was a
blazing torch, lighting the land as far as
the coast and casting the glare of its fire
far out to sea.
Momotombo was in active eruption about
13 years ago. It is surrounded by many
valuable coffee plantations.
PILES FOR THE PANAMA CANAL
Puget Sound Company Gets Contract
for $200,000 Worth.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. The Isthmian
Canal Commission has awarded a con
tract for furnishing fir piles to the Amer
ican Mercantile Company of La Conner,
Wash., amounting to about 520O.00O.
OF ST. PETERSBURG
COLDEST DF DAYS
Weather Below Zero in
Half the Country,
CLENDIVE IS THE COLDEST
Thermometer Is 53 Below in
Montana Town.
BLIZZARD IN SOUTHWEST
Whole Country From Atlantic Coast
to Rocky Mountains Has Coldest
Day Great Ice Floes Drive
Steamers From Course.
A FEW SAMPLES OF WEATHER.
Deg. T"ahr.
Portland. Or. .(minimum) .aiabova
Chicago W below
Kansas City 5 below
Omaha 24 below
Lincoln. N'eb 22 below
Sioux City 30 below
Glendivo. Mont. 53 below
Havre. Mont. 43 below
"Winnipeg ..34 below
Bismarck, X. J 2t below
Medicine Hat 28 beiow
Devil's Lake v 24 below
1a Crosse, "Wis . ... . .CO below
Remarks.
Portland East wind, light enow, turn
Ins to rain.
Chicago Calm.
Kansas City Blizzard blowing. .
Ia Crosse, "Wis. Outdoor work sus
pended. Hot Springs, Ark. Race track frozen;
races declared off.
Cincinnati Twenty persons fall and
break bones.
CHICAGO. Feb. 2. Tho entire North
west and Middle States will continue in
the grasp of tho present cold wave for
at least 24 hours longer, according to
Information given out by the United
States Weather Bureau tonight.
The coldest spot In the United States
today was Glendlve, Mont., where 53 de
grees below zero was reported. Other
low temperatures, reported during tba
day were Havre, Mont.. 43 degrees below;
"Winnipeg, 31 below; Medicine Hat, 26;
Bismarck, 20, and Devils Lake, 24.
The center of the cold wave is still
in North Dakota, but Is moving slowly
southward, and It is not expected that
Its full force will be spent In the Middle
"West for several days.
This was the coldest day of the year
In Chicago. Early in the morning the
official r,eport showed 14 degrees below
and a mean temperature of S degrees
below zero for the day was announced.
This Is 32 degrees below the normal tem
perature. At 9 o'clock tonight the
"Weather Bureau thermometer registered
8 degrees below and was steadily going
lower, with indications that 15 below
would 'be reached before morning.
Owing to the absence of wind, the cold
has not been felt as much as is usual In
Chicago. Among the poorer classes of
people there is a great deal of suffering.
SNOWSTORM IN NEBRASKA.
Extreme Cold Delays Trains and Stops
Omaha Street-Cars.
OMAHA, Feb. 2. Tho bitter cold which
has prevailed for 48 hours .over Nebraska
and "Western Iowa continued tonight, ac
companied in part of Nebraska by a
snowstorm. The minimum In Omaha wa3
24 degrees below zero; early in the day
at Lincoln It was 22, and at Sioux City
it reached 30 below.
Mall trains from the "West were from
four to six hours late. In Omaha the
street-car service was at a standstill for
24 hours on account of the cold.
Over the entire State of Nebraska the
cold weather has been the severest for
many years and Intense suffering of live
stock is reported from many places.
ICE BLOCKS NEWFOUNDLAND.
Great Floes Beyond Grand Banks
Drive Steamers Beyond Course.
ST. JOHNS N. F.. Feb. 2. Owing to
the ice blockade, the entire coast line,
except the southern seaboard, is now
closed against shipping. The whole ocean
beyond the Grand Banks is covered with
Immense Arctic Hoes and steamers are
compelled to go many miles south of
Cape Race In order to skirt its lower
edge, It being too heavy to penetrate.
Several large barges are reported in the
pack.
Blizzard at Kansas City.
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 2. At 11 o'clock
tonight the storm has become a blizzard.
The thermometer is 5 below zero and
snow is falling, driven by a bitter -wind.
- ALL AWAY BELOW ZERO.
Report From Many States All Tell of
Coldest Weather.
CINCINNATI, Feb". 2. More persons
sustained broken bone3 In the last 24
hours by falling on the street than on any
single day in years. Twenty such cases
are reported at one hospital, while the
other hospitals report a number of cases.
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 2. This is decidedly
the coldest of the "Winter. The Weather
Bureau reports 17 below zero. Reports
from other places throughout the state
show a temperature of 20 to 30 degrees
below zero.
BURLINGTON, la., Feb. 2. The ther
mometer registered 24 degrees below zero
here today. The weather Is the coldest
ever known In Burlington.
TOPEKA, Kan.. Feb. ,2. Kansas la
wrapped in a blanket of frost and ice to-
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