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unittt 42 VOL. XXIIL NO. 42. PORTLAIND, OEEGON, SUNDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 16, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. psgesVtos STILL IT GAINS Japanese Army Press ing Slavs Hard. NOWINFULLMTREAT Oyama Continues to In flict Awful Damage. RUSSIAN LOSSES 30,000 Kuropatkin Fighting Hard to Avert Utter Raut MORE GUNS ARE LEFT BEHIND Official Reports to Toklo Show the Mikado's Men Have Triumphed Over Superior Forces In Every Direction. TOKIO, Oct. 1G (1 P. JI.) Field Mar shal Oyama estimates the Russian dead oa tie Sele, Including the fightiag of October 15, at over 10,000. TOKIO, Oct- 16, (9:30 A. M.) General Kuropatkln's southern advance has been beaten back, and bis army Is in retreat He Is, however, still doggedly fighting so as to spare) the Russian array from an utter rout. Field Marshal Oyama's triumphant troops have driven the Russians north to a line along the Shakhe River. They are vigorously pressing the pursuit; and -will probably inflict still more se vere damage on Kuropatkln's forces. This information Is- contained in dis patches received fram the field, and which were given out late last night. The fighting continued all along the line yesterday and the end Is not near. The xeport from' field -headquarters goes on to say: "from October 10- to October 14 the result of the continuous fighting has been favorable in every direction, -while the enemy's strength -was always supe rior. Not only was the enemy defeat ed, but he was vigorously pursued by our forces pressing him against the left bank of the Hun River and Inflict ing on him heavy loss. 'The guns captured number over 30 and the prisoners" taken number sev eral hundred. Thus the object of the enemy has been completely frustrated and his offensive movement has ended in final failure. "The corpses left by the enemy at different points are too numerous to be counted easily. The enemy's losses can not be easily ascertained owing to con tinuance of the fighting, but they must exceed 30,000. "The trophies, besides the guns, in clude an enormous quantity of ammuni tion, wagons and rifles. These are still uncounted. "The Russian corpses left on the field between October' 10 and October 13 and burled by us exceed 2000 in number. Our casualties October 11 and 12were 15 officers killed, 46 wounded and 1250 men killed and wounded. The enemy defeated by the Sien Chuang garrison October 10, appears to have halted at Pintienshan. According to prisoners captured, the Russian force formerly stationed at Lutaohotzu lost 60 killed and wounded.-The Japanese loss was throe officers and a few men wounded." Succeeding reports increase the ex tent of the Russian slaughter in the desperate battle that has raged for the past week. General Kuroki has re ported that his army alone has burled 4500 Russian dead. The reports of Gen erals Nodzu and Oku are Incomplete, but everything indicates that Field Marshal Oyama's estimate of the Rus flan loss at 30,000 men will fall far below the actual mark. A report deal ing with the Russian losses, received during the night from the Japanese field headquarters, says: "The loss sustained by the enemy opposing our right army so far as as certalned are as follows: "Bodies left near Benslhu on the left bank of the Taltz River. 350; in front of our Benslhu detachment, 1500; at Tallen. 300; near Tumentsu, 200; before the right column. 200; near Xouinkok and north of Tumentsu, 1200; near Chientao. 300; north of Panlassan and near Wumlngsu, 150; before the left column near Shaotakou and northward. 300; total, 4500. "The number left in other places has not been counted yet, but it is large. "The enemy's loss in this direction must exceed 20,000. Among the trophies reported captured are 200 shells, six ammunition wagons and much uncount ed munitions. The enemy's losses in the direction of the center and left armies Is under investigation." RUSSIA IS MUCH DOWNCAST. Her Chief Hope. Is That Kuropatkin Can Avert an Utter Rout. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct 16 (2 A. M-) The latest report from the front brings the story of the great battle up to Sat urday morning, when the fighting at Shakhe was renewed with unabated vigor. The Russians,-are holding their positions at Shakhe, and apparently neither they nor the Japanese are able to advance. All accounts agree that the battle of Llao Tang is already being over shadowed in fierceness and the number of casualties. It is now the sixth day of desperate fighting, and the issue is still In the balance. The feeling In St. Petersburg is one of extreme gloom and depression. The lack of official news, the undoubted retrogres sion from General Kuropatkln's aggres sive move, and the enormous Russian losses in men and guns, compared with the optimistic reports from Toklo, all combine to prepare the public for any thing short of a total rout of the Rus sians. Nevertheless, the reports of the newspaper correspondents at the front, while admitting the. heavy losses of the Russian troops and their retreat beyond Shakhe, describe the soldiers as fighting with undiminished ardor. One dispatch hints at extremely encouraging news from the eastern flank, but counsels patience and official confirmation before accepting it as true. There is a noteworthy absence of bit terness against General Kuropatkin, and the belief is prevalent that he was com pelled to assume the offensive. A -ma jority of the people are inclined to re gard him as a victim of circumstances and all admire the skillful manner in which he again removed bis forces as soon as he realized the danger of pressing the advance. The report that he per sonally assumed command of three di visions In order to cover the retreat finds widespread credence. There is a report current that the: Jap anese turning movement westward, which the general staff had repeatedly declined to consider dangerous, Is developing force and strength enough to be a real threat against the Rus lan communications in the rear. It Is Impossible to ' trace the story to a responsible source. The general staff pronounces it to be wild, attributing It to the general feeling of panic. "Set the members of the staff reluctantly admit that they can offer no official news to contradict it The officials of the "War Office themselves seem to share in the general pessimism. The Emperor, they say, has Kuropatkln's reports, but has not yet translated them. The extent of the Russian losses is partially Indicated by the correspondent of the Russo Slovo, who telegraphs that General Bilderling's corps, holding the center of the right, lost almost an entire brigade of the Third Division, including a third of Its artillery brigade, 48 guns, the neighboring corps being too hard pressed to offer assistance. General Zaroubaleffs corps suffered ter ribly before its retreat, October 10, his brigade of reserves arriving too late Zaroubaieff himself narrowly escaped, a shell bursting inside a hut from whence the General had just emerged. General Mistchenko. on the left, also suffered heavily. The fighting was at .Buchv ctos-ran go that his - gunners were mofvea oawii' ay bo vajwncBr-inuiairy fire. The Japanese positions, which the (Concluded on Page Thre.) A VICTORIOUS JAPANESE GENERAL 81 ? Jje BARON KUROKI. Baron -Kuroki, commanding the First Japanese Army, Is renowned as as organizer, and as a fighter, qualities which he proved in the victory of Kin-lien-Chens', on May Day, and In the masterly movements by which he has Iso lated Port Arthur and rendered General Kuropatkln's position In Manchuria one of extreme difficulty. Kuroki saw sen-Ice during the Chlno-Japanese War In 1694. At first he superintended the mobilization; he then Vent to the front and was present at the stormlng"of Wel-Hal-Wel. The Japanese soldiers are devoted to their commander-in-chief, who. although 62, has all the energy of a young mas. MORE IN FRAU Oregon Land Deals Promise Sensation. LEADING MEN ARE INVOLVED Batch of Indictments Can Be Expected Soon. EVIDENCE SAID TO BE-STRONG individuals Supected Are Declared to Have Aided Both the McKlnley Puter and the San Fran cisco Rings. OREGONIANEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Oct. 15. It is whispered around the. Interior Department that soon after election Federal grand' Juries in Portland and this city will bring In a new lot of land-fraud indictments, involving men far more prominent than any who have yet figured in these cases. Secretary Hitchcock has been conferring with As sistant Attorney Pugh, who was instru mental in working up the McKinley-Ware-Puter cases and the case against the Benson-Hyde ring, and has been as sured by him that the Government has an abundance . of evidence on which to ask for the indictment of men who have been shadowed for many months, and whose records have been scanned more closely. Special Agent Greene, while here, also assured .Secretary Hitchcock that there Is ample evidence to secure the indictment of these same men. In fact, it was the open boast of Greene that several well-known men in Oregon would soon be under indictment, and it was his opinion they would be "convicted when brought to trial. The men suspected are said to have played a very prominent part not only in furthering the operations of the Mc-Klnley-Puter-Ware crowd, and others in Oregon, but also to have played into the . hands "of the big San Francisco ring as well. Names of-the persons, whose indlct jn exiVtf are .expctedx& most- carefully concealed. It Is not known how many reside in Oregon and how many are here. Only tho slightest knowledge has been obtained of the proceedings that have been going on, for Secretary Hitchcock is determined nothing shall leak oat and spoil his campaign. Six aortas ago similar rumors were currs about the Interior Department, andIt vas declared there would be further indictments fol lowing the indictment of Benson and Hyde, but nothing developed. It Is un derstood the persons then suspected are the ones now under surveillance. The only excuse for the delay Is that the grand juries adjourned before the Gov ernment's case was prepared, or the delay was purposely arranged for politi cal effect. SETTLERS WILL SOON GET DUES Government Complete Investigation of Eastern Oregon Case. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Oct 15. The Interior Department, acting under a special act passed at fha last session, has completed an. investiga tion of the cases of Sherman County settlers who have been dispossessed of lands lying within the limits of the grant to The Dalles Military Wage. Road Company, in Eastern Oregon. Tie xeport of the findings is confidential, and will be submitted to Congress early in December. The evidence collected will be sufficient to enable Congress to take final action, for the relief of these settlers. It will show tho terms on which the Eastern" Oregon Land Company, the successor to The Dalles Wagon Road Company, Is willing to relinquish its title to the disputed lands, and allow them to revert to the settlers. It will also show the' 'state of Improvements which the settlers made on these lands. while temporarily in: posses sion. Congress must decide whether an appropriation shall be made to buy from the company its title to these lands,, in order to restore them to the settlers, or whether It is better to reimburse the set tlers for the losses they sustained by rea son of being dlsporsesBecL The land company, It is said, is Inclined to deal fairly with the Government in this matter, and will waive its title to these lands provided the Government pays its price, ' Many years have elapsed since these dis puted lands were eventually awarded to the land company, and in that time a number of original settlers have disap peared. These, few cases cannot be re ported upon. All the facts obtainable have been collected, and Congress will be enabled to compensate settlers who Sus tained losses through no iault of their own, but rather through a faulty decision of the Land Office. CONTENTS OP TODATS PAPER Busfto-Japaaese War. Japanese continue to be victorious la battle ragtag near Mukden. Page 1. Kuropatkin Is fighting doggedly to prevent an utter root. Page 1. Russian losses are sow- placed at 20,000. Pae. 1. Whole columns of Russians withered under Japanese Are BtirSatthJw'RJwr. "Pafe'e . -Rnwiaar.-SVar Office 1 "etin itiESoldlng cfn clal advices. Paste. J. Torpedo-boats believed to have been built for Japan leave Newport News. Page Z. Domestic. Prominent Oregon men are llkly to be In dicted for land frauds. Pace 1. Seventeenth Infantry will come to Vancouver from Philippine Islands. Page 3. Massachusetts commissioner leaves for Port land to select site for '05. Fair building. Page 2. Political. Hill grows caustic In discussing race question at Huntington, TV. Va. Page 2. Odell arouses ire of Boss Murphy by his vigor ous war on Illegal voters. Page . Pittsburg men raise a pool of $100,000 to bet on Roosevelt at various odds. Page 1. Judge Parker declares pledge of freedom to Filipinos should be made at once. Page 1. Pacific Coast Football. Stanford University freshmen. 6; University of California freshmen, S. Page 14. Oregon Agricultural College, 25; University of Washington, 6. Page 14. University of Oregon, 16; "Willamette Univer sity. 0. Pace 14. Sports. Multnomah junior football team plays tie with Portland Academy. Pace 14. Pacific Coast League scores: Oakland, 2; San Francisco, 0. Page 14. Dugdale resigns as manager of Portland base ball team. Page 16. Paciflo Coast. L. H. Buddemer, well-known In Portland, drops dead on Berkeley football field. Page 13. Oregon editors elect officers, pass resolutions and adjourn at Hood River. Page 6. Award of exhibits at Hood Klver fair. Page 6. Comparison of living expenses of Chinese and Japanese in Oregon. Page 7. Washington lumbermen will use legislative stick to force rate to Missouri river points. Page 6. . Portland and Vicinity. O. F. Pax ton buys Shaw's Island, presumably for railroad. Page 16. Half Interest In Booth-Kelly Lumber Company Is sold for $2,500,000. Page 10. Republican State Committee arranges schedule of speakers. Page 11. New York and Massachusetts will erect state buildings at Fair. Paxe 12. Detectives claim they have new clues in mur der cases. Page 24. No passengers seriously hurt in Cow-Creek railroad wreck. Page 11. Dr. H. W. Coe testifies that bis sanitarium Is not a nuisance. Page 16. Presbyterian syrod draws to a close. Page 10. Attorneys think remedy of divorce habit Is Im possible. Page 12. Hops are being bought for export. Page 11. Man's skull fracturd in street brawL Page 10. Commercial and Marine. Excitement In New -York stock market con tinues. Page 15. Favorable showing made by New York bank statement. Page 15. Chicago wheat market closes at as . advance. Page 15. San Francisco prune market better. Page 15. Portland & Asiatic charters steamship Ellerlc, Page 13. Features and Departments. Editorial. Page 4. Church announcements. Page 28. Classified advertisements. Pages 27-31. Colony of beaver discovered near Portland. Page 33. Who is America's foremost private citizen? Page 33. Jottings of Old Line Jucklln. Page 33. Frank G. Carpenter's' letter. Page 35. Peck's Bad Boy Abroad. Page 35. Paris paupers who have great wealth. Page 34. How Judge Horn laid aside the ermine. Page' 33. ; Why he put in a telephone. Page 42. Cupid, M. D. Page M. " - Lesson in manual'tralning.' Page 34. Social. Page20-21. - ... Cartoons. Fm439. "va " Dramatic 'PSSes .08-19. . VjJ- ' -Musical. P5e21. " -: ' - Household, 4 -fusions. Pages, 3S-S7.l - (Youths. Pag 40. i ji HELD THEIR DUE Parker Wouid Promise . Filipinos Freedom. HE DREADS IMPERIALISM National Interests Demand 1st ands Be Given Up..., RETENTION FOREBODES WAR Democratic Candidate Declares the Republicans Undoubtedly-Intend to Keep . the NatlvesMh Perpetual Bondage. ROSEMOUNT, Esopuo. N. T.. Oct. 15. Judge PaTker today addressed two visiting delegations on the Philippine Issue,, making his second speech of the campaign since .accepting - the Demo cratic nomination for the Presidency. In the two delegations there were about 120 men, a scoro representing the Parker Independent Club, and the other the Av.on Reach Regular Democratic Club of Long Island. The delegations arrived at 3;15 o'clock and marched to Rosemoaat. Judge Parker met them oa his veraaa and was greeted with handclappjag Colonel Charles B. Co dm an, of Boston and Professor Henry W. Harden, of New York, made extended speeches. Both speakers confined their remarks to the Philippine Islands question, and a discussion of the attitude of the Re publican Administration on- that ques tion. Judge Parker replied as follows: "Colonel Cod man, Professor Harden and Gentlemen T greatly , appreciate the compliment of your presence and the assurance of the support of your selves and those you represent The- lmportance of this issue to which yoa refer cannot be overestimated. It is attracting the attention of patriotic men all over the country. Permit -me to .call, your attention to the portion, of. the -Democratic- platform: relating to it 'No government has. the rlgfct' (o nik mn ot Mw-iw uw- cocpe ana sc-atnrrsai; Tset or laws; ansoiuw m their character, for those In the colonies. "Wherever there may ex ist a people Incapable of belnggoverned under THE DEFEATED RUSSIAN GENERAL KUROPATKIN. General Kuropatkin was formally appointed to the command of the Russian army Is the Far East on February 10. He is the most distinguished and ca pable soldier the Cxar possesses, - and owes his training to SkobelefC .He Is said to have much of that great General's power oyer men. and he possesses the Sko beleS eye. Before taking up his present appointment. General Kuropatkin had been head of the military administration since 183S- In a parting address to his General, the Czar recalled Kuropatkln's energy and assiduity in reorganiz ing and perfecting1 the army: . American laws. Is consonance with the Amer ican Constitution, the territory of that people ought not to be part of the American domain. 'We Insist we ought to do for the Filipinos what we bav done already tor tha Cubans and that It Is our duty to make that promise now, and upon suitable guarantees of protec tion to citizens of our own and other countries resident there at the time of our withdrawal, to- set the Filipino people upon their feet, free and Independent, to work out their own destiny. The Declaration of Independence, born is the brain, of the father of Democracy, says the same thing In effect, for It declares that gov ernments derive their "Just powers from the consent of the governed." Means Independence'In Fullest Sense. I have before said we may sot disregard the responsibility Imposed by possession of the Philippines and that "respessibility will be best subserved by preparing the Islanders as rapidly as possible for self-government and giv ing, to them the assurance that it will come as soon as they are reaaeaably prepared for it." This means isdependeaco for the Fili pinos in the fullest sense of the word. "When prepared, they may govern themselves, as the Cubaaa do. unassisted, unless asking help; un directed unless asking advice; ustrammeled by our politics, unencumbered by our poli ticians and uncontrolled by us. Secretary Taft has said: "A promise, to give ultimate Independence will be construed by tha more violent element, disposed to agitation, .to be a promise to grant- Independence is the near future and during the present genera tion. The success of the experiment we are making in tha Philippines depends oa having the Filipinos understand that we are there for their benefit, asd that we expect to stay there Indefinitely In working' out tha good we propose to do them." "Here we have- the issue clearly de fined. The Republican party stands for tha subjugation of defenseless' foreign peoples; Democracy stands for freedom'. We relieved Spain of this thorn In her flesh, the. Philippines, to plunge it into our own. "We paid, and are paying, enor mously for. the privilege of performing that operation. Spain' had been trying to conquer the islands since the early dec ade of the Sixteenth Century. She had never quite, succeeded. That is not sur prising. Every true American would de spise a man who would not flsht to the last gasp for the land of his fireside and the birthplace of his babes. Did not our Illustrious ancestors In the Revolution do so? For what do civilized men re vere the' memory of Washington? Are not the Irish still chafing under the Eng lish yoke? "Will the Boer sympathizer re fuse his sympathy to the Filipino patriot defending his hearthstone? Do we not honor every man who has sacrificed at freedom's holy altar? "When the battleships of our great Re public destroyed the Spanish war vessels, the Filipinos hoped the freedom for which they had struggled so long was finally approaching. Our history seemed to guarantee that our ambition would be to set them free, happy and prosperous. We perpetually point with pride to our love of liberty. The Republican platform as serts that 50 years ago the Republican party came , Into existence, dedicated asiong other purpose to- the great task of arrest tag the extension of human slav ery. Arresting the extension of human slavery! That sounds well, but it speaks iet.the vlrt.ua of aaothjsr jeratIon All tfie leaders of the Republicaa. party of that day have passed away. In" their' (Concluded on Second Page.) COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF FIGHT TWO FIRES Department Called in Early Morning. . PARIS HOUSE IN FLAMES Holmes Business CdJlege;Com- pletely Gutted. FIRE ENGINES- .ARE HACKING Several Narrow Escapes FronvSuffo cation Occur at Both Places--.. Not Enough Firemen to Go Around. .-, . At 3:10 'o'clock this morning the fire in the Paris House was under coritrql and part of the apparatus was ordered back. The engines from the. Holmes Business College fire had arrived, and by their added efforts the flames were quickly checked. The entire block was ruined by smoke and water, and the corner of the building at Third and Davis street practically gutted by the flames. At. 2:45 o'clock this morning the. fire men of the city were fighting two fires, one In the Holmes Business College and another in the Paris House, the largest and most spectacular of the North End cribhouscs. At the. Paris House the blaze was gaining- on the firemen and had eaten its way Into the clothing- store at tha corner' of "Third and Davis streets, occupied by S.' Brom berger. Here tho flames "Were" work ing downward and had broken through the. ceiling and the wall at the "back- of the store. Great volumes of water were pouring down on the stock of clothing, which "Will be almost a total loss. " Owing to the ..absence of many en gines, apparatus and men at the Holmes Collegfe fire, the flames were making headway- against all efforts.-. Tha Holmes Business.. Collegev.l"octed at lATestx Pari? -and Tirabfil streets; was' totally gutted by the Are which started at 1:40 o'clock; this morning, arid burned obstinately for more than an hour. The loss will amount td &60O. The origin of the flames. Is not definite ly known, although It Is supposed that it started from a gas jet. left burning In the basement. When the fire was . dis covered the entire east side of the build ing was- in flames. It was evident that the fire started on the first floor of the build ing, eating its way through to the second and ' third floors. I. Kalto, a Japanese janitor, was badly burned about the head and shoulders in escaping from his room on the third floor. Another Japanese, "Whose name was not learned, also had a narrow escape. A near-by building was endangered, by the flames, which had such a headway before the alarm was turned In that It was im possible for the progress of the fire to be checked. Chris Larson, proprietor of the Mount Hood saloon, was the first to see the fire. He broke in the front door of the build ing and aroused tho -head Janitor, who was almost overcome by smoke. Before a sin gle stream of water could be played on the flames, the entire structure was aflre, and the- flames were shooting skyward through the roof. People in rooming houses In the vicinity of the burning building were aroused and told to dress, as it was ap parent for a time that the firemen could not "cope with the flames, and near-by buildings were endangered. Before the flames were finally extinguished, the building was a total wreck, only the walls remaining. At 2:10 o'clock, while the department was fighting the fire in the, business .coir lege, an alarm from box 142 called the re mainder of the department to the building occupied by the Paris House, between Third and Fourth streets, on Davis. The flames started from a lamp over turned in one of the rooms occupied by a French girl who was so badly fright ened she went Into hysterics Before the firemen" could reach the scene the fire had spread to the clothing 'estab lishment of S. Bromberger, the smoke pouring into the rooms and rulhlng the, stock. " . The Spanish Restaurant, conducted by -'Tim Hoare, was sutted by the flames. The fire spread from the first floor, of the. Paris-House, filling the hallways and rooms with smoke and endangering the lives of scores of the inmates, many of whom were taken from the building partly overcome with smoke. Though repeated ' calls . were turned in for more apparatus it did not arrive and the flames obtained great headway. The building Is of such a peculiar structure that it lent great aid to the flames. The saloons on the Third street side of .the building were filled with smoke, the proprietors being obliged, to close their doors and make, whatever little attempt they could to get away with fheir valuables. ', The fire spread through Innumerable small halls to almost every comer' of the building; The smoke in the streets was so dense that the firemen worked with difficulty. The steady downpour of rain did not seem to stay "the prog ress of the flames. The loss in this Are will amount to many thousands of dollars, the cloth ing stock of Mr. Bromberger being mostly ruined by smoke and. .water. The damage to the building' 'is consid erable and the smaller establishments In the building.were all losers, some by fire and some by theft. The blaaa. at tracted numbers- of crooks" aai6 4ri pirates. ' " '