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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, IfARCH 10,1905.. SHUTS OUT RIVALS Japanese must have sustained ther heavi est losses. The Russians believe they surely will reach SO.C00. In addition to the Eastern Chinese Rail way and the Mandarin road. It turns out that the Russians have a narrow-guage. railroad connecting Mukden with Tie Pass, over which to effect their with drawal from their positions. Backache, "The Bluest, Both. Symptoms of Organic Derangement in . Women Thousands of Sufferers Find Relief. TIE PASS IN MANCHURIA Standard's Deal With flail roads Betrayed. RATES PUT BEYOND REACH Oil Monopoly Paid Railroads for Forcing AH Kansas OH Through Its Pipe Lines No Frl vate Tank Cars. TOPEKA. Kan.. March 8. In the hear ing of the rebate suit against the Santa Fe, ex-Attorney-General Monett, of Ohio. Introduced a letter purporting to come from a former employe .of the Standard Crtl Company at Joplln, Mo. The missive aCeges that upon the completion of the Standard Oil Company's pipe lines an acreement was entered Into between the Standard and the Santa Fe, the Missouri Pacific, the M. K. & T. Railway, and pos sibly others, whereby the tariff for the transportation of oil over these railway lines should be placed at an exorbitant and prohibitive figure. The raliways were to profit from this transaction through distribution among the railways of 10 cents on every barrel of oil run through the Standard's pipe lines. This made it impossible for the inde pendent companies to ship crude oil and had the effect of eliminating competition with the Standard Oil Company. The theory is that the Standard made the producer stand this expense by reducing the price of crude petroleum a corre sponding amount. Evidence was brought out today in the testimony of W. J. Healy, auditor of freight receipts vof the Santa Fe Railroad, which indicates one form of discrimina tion which the railroads Impose upomcom petltors of the Standard Oil Company. The following paragraph from a cir cular letter of the trans-Missouri freight bureau, containing rules reg ulating freight traffic on the lines within the Jurisdiction of that bureau, explains the discrimination: 'Hereafter the shipments of petro leum and the products of petroleum In tank cars will only be received -when destined to consignees who have stor age tanks or facilities for the prompt releasing and unloading of the tank cars." "Can you toll me why the rule pro hibiting the acceptance of oil con signed to the parties who have no stor age tanks was adopted?" asked Mr. Monett of Mr. Healy. "To provide against the detention of the tank car as a storage tank at its destination." "Would prlate tank cars owned by "Webster's refinery, at Humboldt, or any important refiner, be accepted for ship ment, if consigned to a destination where there was no storage tank to receive the load?" "Hoi the consignee must have ca pacity to take care of the load, in or der not to detain the equipment." During the course of the examina tion it was brought out that the rail roads refused to accept demurrage charges on tank cars which are not unloaded within a specified time. It was also brought out that demurrage charges were collected on cars con taining other commodities which were not unloaded by any consignee at any point. RUINS KANSAS OIL OPERATORS Effect of Standard Edict Against Low-Grade Oil. CHAN DTE, Kan., March S. The order of the Prairie Oil & Gas Company to run no mora oil below 30 degrees, which practically means a renewal of the boy cott of the Kansas field, will. It Is be lieved, result disastrously to those indi viduals and companies which, figuring on a return of full buying and better opera tlonsi have resumed operations. K. C Martin, one of the largest pro ducers in the field, said: "It is another act of defiance. It Is another effort to crowd the Kansas producer to the wall. It will bring Independent refineries here and make a market for fuel oil." W. E. Connelly, member of the advisory board of the Kansas Oilproducers' Asso ciation, said the order was only a move ment on tho Dart of the Standard to phow its contempt for the Kansas oper ators. John O'Brien, assistant manager of the Prairie Company, in a statement said that it was Impossible to comply with the laws passed by the Kansas Legislature. GARFIELD BEGINS INQUIRY. Gets Information From Standard Of f Icials, Now Goes to Kansas. NEW YORK, March 9. The World will i?ay tomorrow that Commissioner Garfield, of the Bureau of Corporations, is here and has met the legal repre sentatives of the Standard Oil Com pany prior to beginning an Investiga tion of the company's methods with special regard to tho recent develop ments in Kansas. He was shown the records of the amount of investment of the Standard Company in Kansas, the cost of refineries, tanks and pipe lines and the prloe paid for oil from the first purchase to the latest sale. Mr. Garfield will go to Kansas from New Tork and will make an extended inves tigation, of the conditions there. HE WANTS A KENTUCKY WIFE Baker County Man Tries to Use Post master as Matrimonial Agent. HOPKINS VILJJE. Ky., March 7. Post master Breathitt has received the follow ing Interesting letter from a former resi dent of Kentucky, who for several years has resided in Orcgo... Mr. Breathitt was unable to comply with the request con tained in It, so he gave it to a local news paper for publication. The letter reads: "Erwin. Ore.. Feb. the 5, 1KB. Mr. Post Master: Will you plea hand this note to some old tobaco raiser. I want 5 dollars worth of home made tobaco from old K y. for chewing. I want as old tobaco at their is and as good. I want to pay what it is woth. Would like if it was twisted. Whoever gets this note an?cr at once. 1 use to live in K y.. in livings ton co., and if there is some good old maid or a widowed lady a Bout 35 or 40, tell thorn to write to me if they want to i-hange there name for a Better one. I was married once in K y. I got my lieons at smlthland. was married at love's chapel, close to caryviHe. I got a fine lady. 1 want a nothor one from old K y.. they are the people and most respected. Believe me. .yore friend, "A. J. BESS. "P S. Suy lady. If you do write send me yore picture. I am this -way. quick rales and good profits. My wife has Bin dead 7 years. I have no children. By By." Erwin is in Baker County. Breakers xtf Parole Captured. NIUCHWANG. March 8. Japanese roldiors last night surrounded the Euro pean Hotel hero and captured four Rus sians. One of them claims to be a Ger man, but it is suspected thai he is a role-brcaker irom Port Arthur. WHERE KiniOrATKEN" EXTECTS TRAP" IS CLQS1D (Continued from First Page.) most energetic attacks south or the Hun River. It is rumored that they have transferred thither some of their forces from the northwest in anticipation of a night attack. The Russian forces in the district of Tsuanvanche, north of the Mukden sta tion, rested under arms throughout the night. Shortly before dawn a large Jap anese .force approached the Setraltzer regiment. This regiment allowed the Jap anese to approach within 200 paces and Jhen discharged a -volley from Its rifles and opened on them with quick-fire guns, simply mowing down the Japanese, who were repulsed. Among the prisoners brought in on Wednesday were a number of privates in new uniforms who were from a recently organized Japanese reserve division. There is reason to believe that another division is being landed In the northern part of Corea for the purpose of making a demonstration against Vladivostok. On Wednesday there wore furious at tacks northwest of Mukden against the villages of Santaitx, Tangshlhtun and Ushuntun. These attacks were all re pulsed. The wind today attained hurricane force. The soldiers aro covered with mud and dirt, so that their faces are scarcely rec ognizable. General Kuropatkln and his staff are in little better plight. Civilians are streaming northward out, of Mukden. TENTH DAY OF GREAT BATTLE Struggle Becomes Test of Endurance Fanatic Phick of Japanese. MUKDEN, March 9 (4 A. M.). Mid night closed the tenth day of the titanic struggle for tho possession of Mukden and the mastery of a great empire; the tenth day of unceasing conflict under exploding shrapnel, the roar of. cannon and the whistling of bullets; the tenth day without sleep and with out food. The combat is fast reaching a point where it is a question not so much of turning columns, of tactics and of strategy as of whoso strengtn, energy and cartridges will last the longer. Gray-coated Russians, patient, un complaining, strong of soul, clung dog gedly to positions against an enemy whose attacks go to the very point of Insanity and desperation. For 4S hours the Japanese have not eaten. They are starving and exhausted, but Field Mar shal Oyama himself has told them that the city will fall and the slaughter stop on Friday and their confidence In their leader Increased their strength tenfold. On Wednesday, when the Russians took Ushuntun, a few dozen Japanese, clung to the thick-walled temple and refused to surrender. Cannon were brought up and broached the walls, hat the daredevil courage of the defenders continued under the fire and finally, when defense was hopeless, they blew themselves skyward with the ruins f the temple. .One survivor, rather th'an surrender, threw nlmsolf into a stone rlmmeJ well and perished. iron Band Closes Tighter. The Inferior leaders are as unsparing of themselves as of tho men whom thoy led to death. Stern Oyama drives and drives his troops northward toward the city. With every fresh flanking move ment the iron band closes hearer the railroad and under this monace tho first and third armies wre forced lut night to ahandon the mighty fortitlea tlons on the Shaake River, give up the impregnable Putiloff Hill and retire to the line of the Hun River. Today the Japanese are pushing their columns north and northeast, bombard ing villages wwlch are keys of the de fense, and hurling men, some of thorn veterans of years' campaigning and others middle-aged reserves fresh from Japan, against Russian positions, bften TO MAKE HIS XEXT STAND AND WIIEKE HAVE SURROUNDED PART OF HIS ARMY. they are repulsed and some times they master the advanced line, but at enor mous cost. Individuals and small parties have reached the yallroad. cut tho telegraph wires and dislodged a few rails, but the damages were quickly repaired and the perpetrators usually killed or wounded. Around the village of Pachiatzu there ragged a fierce struggle. A veteran regi ment of the Imperial Rifles distinguished itself especially. Lieutenant-Colonel Sapotskl, a brilliant and beloved officer, one of the heroes of IJao Yang, was killed at Pachiatzu. Sits Amid Hail of Shells. Just behind Pachiatzu, under the shadow of a clump of pines, in the park of the Imperial Tombs, sits the commander of another division. Colonel Launltz, direct ing the attack on Santaitze and the de fense of "Ushuntun. With a swieh like that of the silken skirts of a well-dressed woman, shimoso shells hurtle past and occasional bullets whistle by. Every few minutes the boU of the telephone at his feet jingles and bo reports to the com mander of the army. Now a Cossack or derly gallops up and reports that the Russian troops are leaving Pachiatzu; that the Japanese have seized the village and with it the bodies of Sapolski "and half his regiment. Another of the dead is Prince Mackeff, commander of the same regiment. The Russians appear to be gaining ground, but In an instant of comparative stillness is heard the muffled thud and shuffle of the feet of Japanese reserves advancing on the Russians to restore the balance. Uneasily sleeps t Mukden to night. The cool night is full of the low rustle of movement. Near Che station in overfilled hospitals are heard low groans. The wounded arrive in a never-ceasing stream of carts. The eternal pines whis per above the tombs of the Chinese Em perors. In the fields watch fire 3 are burning. The sky is lighted with the glare of burning stores and evacuated villages. The forces are gathering for today's fight. CAN ONLY SAVE A REMNANT British Military Critics Say Russian Doom Is Sealed. LONDON, March 10. In the opinion of English military critics. General Kuro pat kin's forces are doomed to complete dis aster. Careful study of all the possible avenues of escape and the disposition of the victorious Japanese armies leads to the conclusion that the beat Kuropatkln can hope is to save a mere remnant of his army after devoting whole divisions to slaughter. Much Importance Is attached to General Kamamura's mysterious unlo catcd army, which Is momentarily expect ed to complete the closing in of the net around the defeated host by appearing somewhere in the extreme east, in the neighborhood of -Ylngfan, thus blocking the sole remaining Toute from Ylngfan to Tie Pass. The correspondent of the Bally Tele graph at Tokio says on official authority that fully 203.000 Russians are enveloped, and he hears that Russia's central army is almost annihilated. WHOLE LINE WAS EVACUATED Delayed Telegram Tells of Russian Flight From Shakhe. MUKDEN, March S. (Noon, delayed In transmission.) An artillery demonstra tion south of Mukden began at 10 o'clock Tuesday night, and the evacuation of the entire Shakhe-Machuntan position occur red at' midnight. General Rennenkaxnpff on the east, who had been attackeHfight consecutive days and who had been holding his own with other commanders, desired to be per mitted to remain in the position. The Japanese are advancing to the Hun. where the Russians will have no difficulty in making a stand. The telegraph is now at all times threatened and this morning It was re ported to have been broken. NORTH FRONT IS ATTACKED Russians Invent New Name for Van guard of Retreat. ST. PETERSBURG, March 5. The .gen Skotchcd From a Photo. THE JAPANESE ARE SAID TO eral staff has received the following dis patch from General Sakharoff. General Kuropatkln' s chief of staff, dated today: "Several fierce attacks on our north front were mado during the night. They were all repulsed. In other directions me night was quiet." (General Sakharoffs reference to the Russian "north front" would seem to In dicate that a Japanese force is between Mukden and Tie Pass. Though the Jap anese may have cut the telegraph lines along the railroad. It Is possible that field telegraph lines have been run between Fushun. where Kuropatkln may have his headquarters, and Tic Pass, thus account ing for the seeming conflict- in the ad vices from Tokio and St. Petersburg re cording tho severance of the Russian line of communications.) DESTROY RAILROAD TO NORTH Japanese Close In on Enemy's Line of Retreat. TOKIOT March 9 (4 P. M.). The headquarters of the Japanese armies in the field reported today as follows: "In the Sinking (Yenden) direction, our force, after defeating the enemy at Maghuntan, is still pursuing him in tho Shakha River direction. East of the railroad, the enemy showing signs of retreat, our whole line opened a general attack from midnight March 7, and dislodged the enemy from his positions, pressing bis force toward the Hun River. The whole district west of the rail road and south of the Hun River is in our hands. On' tho right bank of the Hun River the operations continue. Tho enemy in the neighborhood of Yangshihtun and Llkuanpao still makes a stubborn resistance. The en emy made several counter-attacks, but were repulsed, and we Inflicted heavy loss. Our force is now pressing the enemy toward Mukden. "In the district north of Mukden, de spite the enemy's obstinate resistance, we have occupied Siaochitun, five miles northwest of Mukden; Pachiatzu. two miles northeast of Siaochitun, and Snataitse, five miles north of Mukden. Our force destroyed tho railroad north of Mukden." A second dispatch received from headquarters says: "Since yesterday tho enemy has fre quently and fiercely shelled our killed and wounded, who were being re moved on stretchers and in carriages west of Ninkuantun, near Yangshih tun." KUROPATKIN'S MANY FRONTS He Says Japanese Are Attacking Each of Them. ST. PETERSBURG, March 3. A dis patch from General Kuropatkln. dated March S, says: "On the right bank of the Hun River, the enemy has assumed the offensive toward Mukden from the northwest and the north. "The cnter and left flank of our armies have fallen back without fighting on the entrenched positions on the right bank of the Hun River. "Today tho enemy attacked us, on the north front, driving small detachments of outposts from the village of Pudlasla. about two miles northwest of the village of Trentsan. "During the tight Colonel Sapoloskla, knight of the Order of St- George, was killed. He had distinguished himself by his gallantry. "The attacks of the enemy on one of the Russian positions in North Muk den have been repulsed with heavy Japanese losses. "On the west front the enemy at tacked our positions near the ilage of Niusltsan. but were driven back. "In the attack on .our center we captured a large number of prisoners. There was no fighting elsewhere dur ing the day." HURRYING TO UNITE WITH NOGI Kuroki's Flying Column Moving West Towards Railroad. ST. PETERSBURG. March 3 (6:40 P. M-) The roost Important known develop ment of the day Is the report that a flying Japanese column has appeared northeast? of Mukden and is heading rapidly west. This probably is part of General Kuroki's army, which is making a detour by forced marches, and swinging around to effect a junction with General NogL If the maneuver succeeds the net will be closed. It is said here that General Kuropatkln. with his headquarters, is now at Fankia tung Station on the railroad, ten miles below Tie Pass. The general staff admits that the carnage in the battle will prdb ably exceed anything in modem warfare, although'' the staff officers insist that the WHOLE ARMY IS SURROUNDED Nogi and Oku Combine to Trap Eighty Thousand Russians. NIUCHWANG. March S. via Tien tsin. The Russians have not been rein forced, from tho direction of Harbin sinco March 1. General Nogt's army made a forced march of 25 miles daily, and. acting in conjunction with General Oku's army, surrounded SO.OOO Russians in the di rection of Tie Pass and cut off their supplies. The hurrying Japanese armies passed a division of Russians without giving It any attention until the enveloping movement was completed, when they crushlngly attacked the Russians on all sides. JAPANESE HARASS RETREAT. Fierce Fight North of Hun River Confusion Among Russians. WITH THE JAPANESE LEFT ARMY, Wednesday, March 8. noon, via Fusan. March 9. The left armies have cut and destroyed the railroad between Mukden and Tic Pass. Details are not obtainable at present. The Russians are In retreat over the northern roads. Tho left col umn of these armies is at IJkampu, seven miles north of the Hun River and five miles west of the railroad, and has had a fierce fight with a Russian force thrice its number. Tho Russian casualties num ber 10.000. The Russian center is retreating- in great confusion. HAVE INVESTED TIE PASS. Japanese Talk of Forcing Kuropatkln to Surrender in a Veek. NIUCHWANG. March 9. via Tientsin. It is-reported here that Tie Pass has been invested by the Japanese and that General Kuropatkln. having no alter native, will probably be forced to sur render within a week. Hills Stormed In Silence. GEN. RENNENKAMPFF-S HEAD QUARTERS. Madydanl. Manchuria, Tues day, March 7 (morning). In pursuance to orders to retake at any cost the posi tions at Oubenepusa. lost at nightfall, the Russians at midnight stormed and re captured the hills in the center. A weird review preceded the attack as the regi ments selected for this service filed past General Ronnenkampff. in dead silence, with pale, set faces Illuminated by the rays of the moon. As the last set of fours passed the General turned his horse and departed, saying. "Send mo word when you succeed." His confidence was justified, for without a shout or firing a shot the storming col umn swept like a tidal wave over tho successive lines of Japaneso covering the hills. Among the Russian and Japanese dead on the hills was a Japanese Gen eral (n full uniform. Have Been, Fleeing Since Monday. NIUCHWANG, Wednesday, March 8. (Midnight.) -Chinese refugees report that a general Russian retreat towards Tie Pass began Monday, the Russians fighting a rear-guard action. North west of Mukden, the whole front is said to be honeycombed with mines, and this fact is expected to hasten the march of the Japanese. The Russians on the right attempted a counter-attack, but it was repulsed. -The Japanese have a large force at Tawa, on the main road, 15 miles north of Pinglupa. and another large forco to the northwest on both sides of the railroad. Early this morning the Japanese cap tured Chinese couriers carrying rouble notes and beheaded them at Laoplen. Russians Again Driven Back. MUKDEN, March 9. No news was re ceived today from the Eastern army. Throughout yesterday the Japanese at tacked from the west and northeast. The Russian division on tho extreme right was hard pressed, and during the night the pressure of the Japanese, who were reinforced and who placed an additional battery in position, became so great that tho division had to retire. The adjoining division on its left also retired. The night did not pass quietly. There was heavy rifle fire, and the Japanese during the night blew up the huts in that part of the village of Ushuntun occu pied by them at nightfall. They then re tired. This morning matters generally were quiet in that quarter. Threaten to Seize Railroad. TIENTSIN. March 8 2 P. M.). The Japanese have requested the transpor tation of 450 tons of rice to Slnmintln. Unless the request is complied- with the Japanese threaten to seize the railroad. It is believed to be a test case. 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