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TUK MORNING ASTOltlAN WEDNESDAY Al'Gl'SI' 8, .UOO.' " BT0n3 CLOSES AT T P. ' M. except saturdat. ...TODAY... LADIES' VESTS Worth 12J cents. They are white, line libbed low neck and sleeveless, or with white wing sleeves Jv CQ Headquarters for Dry Oood. CONGER CABLES OF HIS DANGER (Continual from pase on.) Chinese right, Wert of the river In flank. Other forces. Russian. French, about 4.000 strong on the opposite aide, be tween the river and railroad. The Chi nese position Is apparently strong. Ar nry reported 30,000 between Pe Bang nd Tang Tsun, or crossing of road to Pel Ho. Tang Tsung Is the objective. Our force. 2,000 and battery. Cone-maug-h arrived with the Sixth cavalry which has been left at Tien Tsln for the guard of the city and are awaiting mounts. Ministers were safe on the 2Sth of July. CHAFFEE." NEW TORK, Aug. 7. A dispatch to the Journal and Advertiser from Shanghai says: Colonfl Meade, of the Marine corps, has received by native courier a mes sage wrapped in a pigskin, signed by Minister Conger, as follows: "Help at once If at all. Besieged In British legation. No government Pe kln except military chiefs who are de termined on destruction of foreigners." The Shanghai correspondent also says that In the papers of the viceroy at Tien Tsln was found a receipt for one hundred taels paid to the Boxers for the liead of Major Waller, of the United States marines, who was killed at the first battle at Tien Tsin. The Rev. Dr. Evans, an English missionary, searched the Yamen- of the Tien Tsln viceroy and found In his private papers full ac counts of the doings of the foreign for ces during the siege, with lists of their killed and wounded. He also found promises of pensions to the families of all slain Boxers. He found receipts for arms and ammunition from each vil lage. This Is proof of the official na ture of the Boxer movement and also of the treachery of some In the ranks of the allies. The Chinese left five million taels In treasure In Tien Tsln. From a trust worthy native source It is learned that General Ma was murdered by a Boxer. There are 50,000 troops at Tang Tsun, under General Sung, 40,000 . at Pel Tsang under General Tung Full Slang, 40,000 at Pekln already and more arriv ing dally, and 60,000 In camp twenty miles west of Tien Tsin. NEW TORK, Aug. 7. A dispatch to the Tribune frtoro London says: The correspondent of the Express at Tien Tsln believes that the advance of the allied troops on the capital will be strongly resisted, the time consumed In international conferences having enab led the Chinese to concentrate an enor mous opposition. The Shanghai correspondent of the Daily Mall reports that there has been great friction among the allies as to the appointment of a commander In chief. General MacArthur has. it is stated, been put forward for the place by the Americans, while an unofficial Paris telegram says that General Voy ron, the commander of the French ex peditionary corps, has actually been ap pointed. NEW TORK, Aug. 7.-A dispatch to the Tribune from London says: There is the usual jumble of menaces and surmises from China with no of ficial bulletins about the battle of Pi Tsang Sunday, and no apparent change In the situation. The Chinese camarilla, with the em press dowager at Its head. Is doing ev erything In Its power to prevent an ad vance of the allied army on Pekln. Heads are falling In order to convince the powers that the legations have no friends and are at the mercy of the em press dowager and of Prince Tuan. Troops are massed between Tlc-n Tsln and the capital and are strongly in trenched. In order to warn the foreign commander that they will be forced to fight their way Into the city. , The communications of the ministers with the governments are closed be cause the empress dovagf-r prefers to leftve the civilized world utterly in the dark. Such reports as are allowed to pass to the coast are menaces, like the rumor that Tung Fu Slang has stopped the further entrance of supplies Into the British legation, or confessions of terrorism, like the story that Prince .. Tur-n has put to death Tuan Shin Kai and other viceroys, or glittering prom ises like the assurance that the li ga tions are under the escort of a string force and are Journeying to the coast. All these rumors ore sins that the empress dowager Is determined to keep the allies out of Pekln. Her motive is plain. She Is convinced that If they once enter the capital some of them will not go out until provinces have been ceded to them In place of Indemnities. The situation Is so perplexing that It Is hot strange thaf several powers are hesitating to-sanctlon the advance of the relief column, but It Is evident that the empress dowager Is strengthened on the Lower Columbia. by every day of Inaction and delay. The legations narrowly escaped de struction when Vlee-Admlral Seymour hesitated and ordered the first relief column to retreat, and to them was fin ally accorded a respite In consequence ot the defeat of the Chinese army at Tien Tsln. The powers are now expos ing them through vacillation to a re new al of the attack when their ammu nition Is well-nigh exhausted, and they are dependent upon the empress dow ager for supplies of food, while the gen erals and admirals are holding confer ences and delaying an advance, and the fighting Is likely to be more desperate and the situation af the legations more critical In consequence of the long halt and the Intrigues which are apparently In progress. The only alternative for a march to the capital Is negotiation through LI Hung Chang for the delivery of all th foreigners at Tien Tsln and for the payment of Indemnities, and It Is doubt ful whether the legations will consent to abandon their position, or whether any Chinese general would conduct them in safety to the coast. Moreover, the delivery at TKmi Tsin could only be secured und?r a pledge that the powers would not subsequently snd an army tc the capital to effect their reinstate ment Ftiblie opinion nere strmgly favors an advance of the allied army with all possible despatch, after the empress has beer, warned that she and her ministers will be held responsible fir the safety of the legations. The foreign office re mains silent, but the measures adopted for strengthening the American contin gent and protecting British Interests Indicate clearly the government's re cognition of the grave danger of a re volt In middle China. There was no official confirmation here at midnight of the Washington report that a battle bad been fought on Sunday at Pel Tsang, in which the al lied troops had met with heavy losses, but had forced the Chinese to retreat from a strong position. Mr. Broderlck confessed that he had no Information respecting the advance of the allies, and at a late hour nothing was known in parliament about the battle. The press dispatches from Tien Tsln of an earlier date reported General Tung's troops In strength eight miles away and the country flooded through the opening of the canal 'bank. If there had been a battle the Chinese would probably have brought on the fighting, for the allies, according to the most trustworthy ,r?s correspon dents, were divided into two camps, and were unable to agree upon any plan of operations. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 7.-A story of Russian brutality in China is told by Mrs. E. B. Drew, wife of the Brit ish commissioner of customs at Tien Tsin, who arrived from the Orient on the transport Logan. She says: "During the bombardment we lived most of the time in our cellar. Our house was partially wrecked by hi? shells. Sleep was out of the ques tion most of the time, and so unstrung were we that but little food satisfied us. There was ever present the haunt ing fear of thr Chinese triumphing and slaughtering every foreigner and con vert ( "Some, probably all. of the womn were prepared to act In case the Chi nese effected an entrance. But, aside from that unpleasant recollection, it ap pears that the allied officers were pre pared to act. I did not know it at the time, but I understand that ten or twenty m?n had been detailed to kill all the torelgn women In case thej Chi nese were the victors." Mrs. Drew with much indignation then spoke of the atr oiltles of the Rus sian troops, saying: "They pillaged, looted, tortured and murdered right and left. There were many infants and children killed by bayonet thrusts, and many were tossed from bayonet points only to be caught again and tossed tim? and again. There Is ample evidence o? these un speakable occurrences. "And about Chinese women. They were mistreated and murdered In house after house. It seems as If nothing could stay the mad frenzy of these Russians. "Out from Tien Tsln. along the Pel Ho and Yellow rivers, are numerous little villages. Th- Russians swept through ths villages, destroying life and property. In these placc-g they also tensed infants and other children in the air from bayonets. And every lime this child-tossing tragedy was Indulged in the dead body of a mo'.her, father, or both would be hard by. The Rus sians also drove the women and chil dren into the Pel Ho and i'ellow rivers, where they were drowned. "After shooting ani murdering to their hearts' content, . the Russians would pillage, loot and burn every house that caught their eyes. There was no attempt at concealing all of this remarkably barbarous conduct. I do not pretend to say how many wom en and children wcr butchered by the Russians. I never heard the number es timated, save that a great many had been bayoneted and some shot. "In view of what they had rii guilty of In n around Ti n Tsln, none of ua was surprised to hear of a bar barous act by the Russians at Taku. It Is generally aco-pl-l a true at Tien Tsln that th Chines.' commander of the Taku fortj wss nU'derd by the Russians when he was In the act of sur rendering hH sw-.r I." ' Many of tl rfi's from Tien Tsln escaped only With the clothing on their backs. Among iho who lost every thing are Henry Smith and wife, an English couple. Smith was a broker at Tien Tsln. and had a fine home In the British concession. Prof. O. P. Clifford, of the Imperial 1'nlverslty of Tien Tsln, who was one of the last to leave the city, says: "Looting by the allied forces began as soon as they got the upper hand. The Russians led In this and went to ex tremes. They are naturally cruel, and. expecting no mercy, they showed none. I was an eye witness to eight cold blooded murders by them. The victim were old and Infirm Chinese. The Rus sians stole everything In sight, looting the houses In the settlement as the Chinese would have done. Rev. Horace W. Houldlng, a mlssltHi ary whose labors were In South Chi LI province between Honan and Shan Tung, escaped with seventy-five others from Pel Tal Ho, the seaside resort north of Taku. on the British warship Humber. Mrs. H. H. Montelle. whose husband Is a turfman at Tien Tsln. with Mrs. Frank F. Davis, of Philadelphia, passed through a trying experience during the bombardment and fighting at Tien Tsln and took advantage of the first op portunity to leave the place. Among the refugees from China who returned on the Logan were the wife of Prof. C. D. Tenney. of the Imperial University at Tien Tsln, with her chil dren. They were among those who look refuge In Gordon hall during the bombardment and escaped uninjured. Sl.e an 1 her husband had been together in China for eighteen years. Prof. Ten ney Is now accompanying the allied forces as an interpreter. Prof. O. D. Clifford and his wife also came home. They bring with them a baby girl who was born In Tien Tsin on May 13. Mrs. Clifford la the daugh ter of Dr. Robert Coltman, who came home on the Coptic last week. Prof. Clifford was connected with the Imper ial University. Miss Llllle M. Tahr. of Lincoln City, Ind., who spent two years In Tien Tsln. had three narrow escapes from the savage Boxers. She found safety with many others In Gordon Hall dur ing the siege, and venturing out one day was struck by a fragment of a three-Inch shell. On two other occas ions she was shot at by riflemen, but was not hit The two children of United States Consul Ragsdale. who have returned to their home in this state, tell stories of exciting experiences, similar to those of others who lived through the peril ous time at Tien Tsln. The reports of Russian brutality are confirmed by Rev. Frank Haynes. a missionary. He thinks the present troubles will be ended within a year. SUMMER RESORTS. 'To the mountains our people In In creasing numbers yearly look for those days of relaxation and recreation nec essnrv to maintain the human ma chine in fair working conlltlon. The languorous sloth of the seashore proves very seductive while it lasts, but many have decided that the an nual outing should provide not only radical change of air and surround ings, but als such stimulation of flagging energies as will provide brawn and vigor for the return to labor. For this they urge the mountain climb and ramble, the balsam of the mountain pines, and the clear, unadulterated mountain air. "In this direction the Shasta Route affords a wealth of attractions. The entire line of road from Ashland to Redding is studded with charming on,i nrwasible hotels and camps, where are cheer and comfort and healing at reasonable cost, and where you can hunt. fish. ride. loaf, or play with equal facility- "Or if you look for healing waters, none better can be found, hot or cold, than the springs of Ashland, Colestln. Anderson. Bartlett. Byron and Paso Robles. . - "Before visiting Europe, the people of the Northwest should see the glories of Yosemite valley, and the wondrous groves of Mariposa and Calaveras, the Parisians are likely to make in quires concerning these attractive re- SSend to Mr. C. H. Markham. general passenger agent. Portland, for new booklets on Castle Crag, fehasta Springs, McCloud river. Yosemite. and excursion rates thereto. TO CARRY EXHIBITS FREE. Southern Pacific's Generous Offer to State Fair. The Southern Pacific Company set a mark for liberality on progressive lines when It offered to carry all exhibits to and from the state fair free. This ac tion of the company places every county on Its line In easy reach of the state fair this year, and will nable the South ern portion of the state to exhibit her famous fruits, vegetables and grains at ..,n ovnco The follow nar letter a biiio.1i - ,j- . , . . Is so plain and to the point that It needs no further comment other than to say It is up to the people now to ensure a successful fair: Portland, July 26. Mr. M. D. Wisdom, Secretary State Board of Agriculture, Portland, Or. Dear Sir: In order to encourage exhibitors and attendance at the state fair this company will trans port exhibit originating at points on its lines within the confines of the state to Salem and return to point of origin free 'it charge. Exhibitors will toe re quired to pay the charges on shipments to Salem, which charges will be refund ed when goods are delivered to the company's agent tor rshlrnent to point of origin. Your truly, C. II. MARKHAM. General Freight and Passenger Agent. A NEW TRAIN. The Chicago, Milwaukee A St Paul Railway Co. will place In sen-lee April :h a New Train between St. Faul and St. Louts, called the "Flying Dutch, man." The train will have through sleeping cars and be first-class throughout. Ask any ticket agent for particulars or address C. J. EDDY. General Agent Portland, Orrgon. THE CHICAGO NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY On June 17th opened up for traffic their new line from Belle Plalne, la., to Mason City: also their new Fox Luke branch. The length of thl. new line Is 15 miles, which added to their mileage, gives them a total of S.462.S5 miles, the lurgest mileage of any rail road In the world. IMPROVED SERVICE AND EQUIP MENT. The new schedule of the O. R. N. which went Into effect April !2nd, shortened the time to Chicago IS hours, and gives a double dally service be tween Portland and Chicago. Train No. I. leaving Portland at 8: IS a. m. Is known as the "Chicago-Portland Special." Its equipment Is new throughout, making It fully the equal of any train now In service from the racific coast to the East. The "Overland Express' leaves Tort land at 4:20 p. m. and furnishes com plete service both via Huntington and Spokane to the East, together with the best of service to all local points on flie O. H. & N. llr PERSONALLY CONDUCTED WEEK LY EXCURSION'S. An experienced excursion conductor whose dittos are t" look alter tue wants and welfare of passengers will be In charge of Tourist sleeping car to Chicago via Union Pacific. This car leaves Portland on "The Portland-Chicago Special" at 9:15 a. m., making close connections at Chicago with similar service to Boston and New York. El derly oeoplo RI1j ladles traveling alone or with children will find this service very convenient and satisfactory. For tickets, berth reservations and full Information, call on G. W. LOl'N'srtERRY. General Agent. O. R. & N. Co. Or Astoria, Oregon. X H. LOTHROP. General Agent. 133 Third St.. Portland. Oregon. TV.nnt PlW A Leavs 1 I Streets. f Arrive Overland Express Trains far Salem, Roseburg, Ash- la nH Karrtinrinrn 7:30 p.m) Ogden. San Fran- : ajn Cisco, Mojave. Los AnrfH h.l Pima . S-JO a.m New Orleans and l'7:00 n.m me i-ast At Wood burn (daily except Sun day), morning train connectrwith train for Mt. An gel, Silver ton. Brownsville. Springfield, and Natron, and even ing train for Mt Angel and Silver- Inn 7:30 a.m Corvallls passes- l:Mp.m ger. 4:&0 p.m Sheridan pasaen- !:Ua.m I ger Dally. Dally except Sunday. Rebate tickets on sale-between Part land, 8acramento and San Francisco. Net rates 117 first class and til second class, Including sleeper. Rates and tickets to Eastern points and Europe. Also Japan, China, Hono lulu and Australia. Can be obtained from J. B. Kirkland, Ticket Agent U4 Third street YAMHILL DIVISION. Passenger depot foot of Jefferson It Leave tor Oswego dally at 7: JO, i:44 a. m.; 12:30, 1:55, 3:25. 5:16, (:23. 8:05, 11:30 p. m.; and 9:00 a. m. on Sunday only. Arrive at Portland dally at H, 8:30, 10:50 a. m.; 1:35, J;15, 4:30, 1:20, 7:40. 10:00 p. m.: 12:40 a. m. dally ex cept Monday; 8:30 and 10:05 a. m. on Sundays only. Leave for Dalas dally, except Sua day, at 4:30 p. m. Arrive at Portland at 9:30 a. m. Passenger train leaves Dallas for Airlle Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri days at 2:45 p. m. Returns Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Except Sunday. R. KOEHLER, Manager. C. H. MARKHAM, Gen. Frt and Pass. Aft 1 T JLiUXURlOUS 1 RAVEL THE "Northwestern Limited" trains, electric lighted throughout, both Inside and out, and steam heated, are with out exception, the finest trains In ths world. They embody the latest newest and best Ideas for comfort, convenience and luxury ever offered the traveling public, and altogether are the most complete and splendid producton of the car builders' art. These Splendid Trains Connect With The Great Northern The Northern reciflc and The Canadian Pacific AT ST. PAUL FOR CHICAGO and the CAST. No extra charge for these superior accommodations and all classes of tick ets are available for passage on the famous "Northwestern Limited." All trains on this line are protected by the Interlocking Block, system. ... W. H; MEAD. ' H.' L.- SISLER, General Agent. Traveling Ag't Portland. Ore. SOUTH oUUcr UNJfl TAH 5CHHI11ILB5 PKI'AKT Iron, .oril.n.l, Annus t'hlxuf - Sitlt l.tkw. Imiv' Kl. ISmlatid Worth, lliiml.a. half . wolil tiy, k. L"M, li.la.ni I'hli'Kg i and 4 Uk. IMiver, M. At'alillfl V'tlli, On. aha. Kail- ... rlrr m niv. I.miu. -. rhli-Mmnl Km., 1 T V T. I. wistoii,: PlMtkall Hi.olnu.', M it: lti-H) Vli-r, h, hi. ul, luuuili, H:0 in. M. 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For rates, folders and full Informa tion regarding Eastern trip, call on or address, A. B. C. DENNISTON. City Pass, and Ticket Agent Portland. A FEW INTERESTING FACTS When people sre contemplating a trip, whether on business or pleasure, they naturally want the best service obtainable as far as speed, comfort and safety Is concerned. Employes of the WISCONSIN CENTRAL LINES are paid to nerve the public and our trains are operated so as to make close con nections with diverging lines at all Junction points. Pullman Palace Bleeping and Chair Cars on through trains. Dining car service unexcelled. Meals served a la carte. In order to obtain the first-class ser vice, ask the ticket agent to sell you a ticket over..... The Wisconsin Central Lines. and you will make direct connections at St Paul for Chicago, Milwaukee and all points East. For any further Information call on any ticket agent, or correspond with' JAS. C. POND, Gen. Pass. Agt, or JAS. A. CLOCK, Milwaukee, Wis. 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