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i mm- ptM VOL. LVI1. ISTOIIIA, OREGON, FK I DAY, JAMJAR Y 29. 1901. NO. 9. RUSSIA IS MOVING TROOPS TO FRONTIER OF COREA WAR CLOUD HANGING LOW Reply of Russia to Japan's Last Koto Is Courteous but FirmContents Are LiKely to Cause Activity. If Russia Will Not Amend Latest Utterance Indications Are Jhat Japan Will Instruct Minister at St. Petersburg to Obtain Passports-Instructions of Russian Commander i; to Tartar General Ignored. , ( London, Jan. 29. A dispatch to the two word guaranteeing the Independ- T Standard from Toklo says that ac cording to Information from lure ource large bodlea of Russian troop are being moved "to the Corenn front ler from Fengnnng'XJheng and other polnte in the Interior , of Manchuria. A dispatch to the Duly Mall from Seoul reports the arrival of a, thousand Russian troop at Antung, The Pekln correspondent of, the Time cable that Tseng Chi, a Turtur general of Mukden. Una telegraphed) published this morning to show ihut ik. fr.r.iJ .t n..vin that th. the statement of the Duly Graphic is enre and Integrity of China, upon which Japan liiHlMtt-il in the hint note. It U probable, the Dally Urajhlc con tinue, that, when the note him been presented, Japan will notify Karon !, Rosen, the Russian minister at Toklo, that he has no alternative but to take up arms In defense of her Interests, and .that M. Kurlno will tie Instructed to demand his paHrl. There Is nothing In the dispatches Phoenicia-, which was sent out to Aalr sund with relief at the Instigation Of Kmperor William, Is enrrng for 4iO0O morn. Hlif hits 20' day's supply for this number, v ' Believe War Unavoidable. Heuttle, Jan, 28, "Not only Is war unavoidable In the orient, but It Will occur before the end of February," This la the onlnlon exnressed by II Hash I, a publisher who arrived in this city today after a year's stay in Japan while in Japan Mr, Hashl was brought Into close contact with gov. ernment officials who thoroughy under stand the situation. Change of Commanders. Washington, Jan. 2S. Jt Is probable that Rear Admiral Charles J. Harctoy, commander of the Puget sound navy yard, may succeed Rear Admiral II. Lnmberton, commander-in-chief of the South Atlantic squadron, who has been pronounced by the medical sur vey to oe unfit for service on account of his poor eyesight and Is on his way home. Russians demanded that he supply 600 carts for (mediate military serv ice. The board replied that, owing to China's decision of neutrality, Tseng Chi must decline to supply the carta The Dally Graphic says the Russian reply Is courteous, but refuses In un compromisng terms to permit reinser tion In the draft of the treaty of 'the anything more than "ntelllgeiit antic ipation." The Dally 'Mall and the Dally Tele graph both report In their Ht. Peters burg dispatches the possibility of fur ther negotiations, the Telegraph say tng that a culmination of the crisis Is not' expected bcofre the beginning of March. Hurled to Frightful Oesth, Wallace, Ida., Jan. 2. Klmer Hln clatr, an employ of the Htwmlurd Mill. was hurled to a frightful death today by being caught lit the belting which runs the Immense crushers. His head was crushed between the belt nd pul ley. NOTORIOUS FACT THAT RUDDER WAS IMPAIRED Seattle, Jan. 28. Borne of the sur viving passengers gave their' version of 'the Clallam disaster - during "the . course of the Investigation which was . . reumt tndsy before' United Ptnts Marine Inspectors Whitney and Tur ner, after an intermission of one week. The stories, though given more In de tail,' did not differ materially from the accounta given by the press Imme diately following the disaster. Several, witnesses recalled, notably Harry Jensen, who answered affirma tively Chief, Engineer Delaunay's questloi: "Was tt not a notorious fact among the crew that the Clallam's rudder was In bad flxT' marriage of May Rkkman, a prtty young white girl, and toule lAmx. a Chinaman, employed as cook In a Chi nese restnuraot here, took place Mon day. The affair has created consider able comment among people of (his section. - , For Fort Walla Walla. Washington, Jan. 2D. Henator Kos. ter today Introduced for Bcuator An keny an amendment to the army bill, appropriating 150,000 for bachelor Quarters, store house and other Im provements for l-ort Walla Walla. Marries Chines Cook. Miles City, Mont., Jan. 28. The DEFAULTING CASHIER MAKES KNOWN METHODS Cleveland, Jan. 21. Oeorge A. Rose, the alleged defaulting cashier of the Produce Exchange bunk, which closed Its doors January 22, made a confes sion' tonight to the county prosecutor, INVITED TO JOIN WITH REPUBLICANS Minority Asked to Name Head o Ticket but Refuse to Give Out the Information ' Desired. Western Returns for Roosevelt Will Be Simply Case of Census 1 Figures. GAY SPEECH IN THE HOUSE Members Are Richly KuterlaliifU by Williams, of Minnesota Who HiHTee! In First fcftbrt. , V 000 (W Firs, - i . 1 slon tonight to the county prosecutor, MextrT'lt.J-T:. Je, W to.', of using the bank'. lef inrt of ,Yut;n Progreso, the chief nrt of ,Tut;ntan business square of business houses and public bulldltiKs, Including the market. Loss 82,000,000. Destitute People Cared For. Berlin, Jan. 28. Official Information has been given out that the needs of the 13,000 Inhabitants of the town of Aalesund, Norway, destroyed by fire January , 24, have been provided for ., A.. adequately. Seven thousand of the people of Aalesund have gone to neigh boring towns and villages, and the Hamburg-American liner steamer PERCENT REDUI6N .A- On Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Hats, Shoes, Etc. ; ' ' : "' Excepting only Dojilap Hate, E. & W. C(llars, Oil , and Rubber Goods and Denta Gloves. , ,. i ' ". ; " ' THIS MEANS A GREAT SACRIFICE as our $oods are sold on very close mariflns. SALE COMMENCES Monday January 4, 1904. money, of which he s said to have lost 2U7.000. Rose said that he was alone In his alleged speculation and that his use of the bank's money be. gan six years ago. He said that about three years ago, when the loss had reached only20,000, an auditing com mittee was appointed to go over the bunk's books. Rose had hoped that bis shortage would be discovered then, but at the end of a week or so the committee reported everything satis factory and he continued speculating to make good the twenty thousand shortage, rft.a . Held For Trlsl. Hlllsboro, Or., Jan. 28, John M. J3eat, of Qtieton, was yesterday held id the circuit court by Justice Ragley on a charge or preuaing me gmss m mm defacing a bulldln owned by William Menefee at Oast on. -i Mentfee, who Is a druggist at that place, alleges that on Monday night Real's wife came to his house and sought refuge frAm Wer husband who was Intoxicated. Bhe retired at tho Menefee home, and ? about midnight. peal visited the place armed with a Lwinehester repeating shotgun, and when he was Informed by Menefee that Mrs. nml did not wish to return home, Real, it Is said, fired several shots through the windows of the house, one In the room occupied by his wife and one In the room occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Menefee". It was a miracle that Menefee escaped without Injury. Beal wnlved examination and his bonds vere fixed at $500, In default ho was committed to Jail, Washington, Jan. 2S. The house for. an hour today was entertained by a speech of J. Adam Bede, republican member from Minnesota, who made his maiden effort and won tils spurs.. IDs remarks were replete with wit and humor, as well as serious thought. (lorl-nulured colloquies resulted from his thrusts at the democratic party, Itede apealed to the demo- ratlc party to dlrfmnd and extended theiiym liivitntii.n to join the repub lican ranks and muke the election of Roosevelt unanimous, When Invited by a member of tile minority to Join the democratic ranks he Inquired who their candidate would be, but no name was forthcoming, The only opiioslilon to Roosuvelt, he declared, came from little "biyu-h of populists" down In Wall stret.' The election returns from the west, he said, would simply be supplemented by the census figures. There also was, a discussion today of tlnance by JUU, repiddlcan, from ARMED MEN GUARD LINE OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC J Fresno, Cal., Jan. 28. For the last two weeks Fresno has been flooded with Plnkerton and railroad detectives, who are looking for an anonymous let ter writer who declares thait unless the Southern Taclflo pays him 810,000, he will wreck every train from Stockton to Los Angeles. Two letters addressed to the manager of the Southern Pacific Company were mailed in this elty, con taining the above threat. The time in which the wreck would occur waa placed at from the' 14th to the 2j)th tnst., and later continued to the 27th. The railroad company has Its track patrolled with armed men between Stockton and Tehachapi . Connecticut, nd Willuuiisr democrat,' from Mississippi, besides references to the Panama canal and the race problem In the south. SHOULD PRESIDENT SUPPLY? Democrats Argus Yes, But Republi cans Hold Other Views. Washington. Jan. 28. The senate today was devoted to debate rather than to set speeches on the atfttude of the United States toward the Pan ama revolution. There was variation, however, In that the discussion also hnd reference to the right of the presi dent to withhold Information called for by the senate. The foundation of the controversy waa the democratic caucuil resolution calling on the president to state whether be has yet supplied all the papers, In the archives bearing on the Panama affair, , ' The debate wa opehd by Culberson and was participated In by Gorman and liacoh n the democratic side of the chamber and by Cullom. Spoomtt and Lodge, of the republican tfde. The democrats contended for the 'right of the senate to demand Information In possession of the executive bearing on the treaties before the senate, while the republicans spoke In defense of the discretion of the president to withhold Information. . , , ( Penams Approves Messure.' Colon, Jan. 28. The sonstltutlonal convention today approved the measure that provides for the payment of 10,-, 000,000 , by the United States to the republic of Panama, for the right to use the canal sone. Of this sum $8,000,000 will remain untouched for the future benefit of -the new republic. the most prominent Is that a Hult'tn may have the benefit of the unlimited wood and lumber supply of this section It Is reported that a steel railroad bridge will be put across the Willam ette at Salum and that the bridge Is now tiuder construction, i Vietims Number' 106. .J'lttsburg, Jan.. ,28. When the work of recovering bodies temporarily ceased at midnight, 10$ vctlms of Monday's explosion had been brought to the sur face. Fifty-six have been Identified. To Report en' Dreyfus. Paris, Jan, 2$. The president of the court oc cassation has appointed Coun seller Boyer to report on the demand of Dreyfus for a revision of his trial. Neither M. Boyer nor Attorney deneral liaudoln took part In the first revls Ion of the case. STEAMERS PROPOSED FOR , VANCOUVER N.Z. LINE Vancouver, It. C, Jan. 28,-rAnother attempt Is to be made to Induce the Canadian Pacific railroad company to ut on n line of steamers between Van- uver, Auckland. N. Z., and Sydney. N. H. W. Several times within the last decade the matter has been men Honed to the heads of the Canadian ASHES ONLY MARK PARK SI SCHOOL Fine Public Institution for Educa tion at Portland Destroyed ' by Furious . Fire Last Evening. Building an Unusually Large Ont and It and Annex Are Laid , Lovt by Flames. ORIGIN IS NOT NOW KNOWN Kxblblt JJclnjr rrejmred by th ruplUfor HU Iuls Fair Only Partial Saved . by Firemen, Portland, Jan. 28. The Park street public school, the second most lmport- ant public institution of learning ia Invariably been, "show us where the trafflo and the cargo la to come from." The pmiiosals Is that vessels of the type of the Kmpress should be put on the run. A London dispatch concern ing the matter says: Negotiations are on foot establish- ng n direct steamship service between New Zealand and Vancouver. The new tariff of New Zealand with Its prefer uce fur goods made In the British Em pire. Is expected to prove a deterrent to United States trade wlh that quar tor of the Antipodes. The premier of New Zealand, Mr. Sheddon, moreover, Is understood to be determined to put an end to the subsidy now given by his government to Messrs. SpreTkles' vessels running between New Zealand nd San Francisco.. On the other hand the Canadian Pacific railway Is assured fof a subsidy ftom Haw Zealand if It will put on between that colony and British, Columbia, a service of vessels of the type of the Empress, now run ning Vancouver and Japan and Chlivi" There Is more posslbllty of the scheme being carried out within the not distant future no that New Zea land has passed ts preference tariff. The Canadian Pacific Railway Com pany has always had In view the rord ng of the time when It would place Its Kmprcsg steamers on the Austral asian route. I Portland, was destroyed by fire to night. About 700 children are enrolled at the school, and they will have to be cared for In the other schools of the city pending belter provisions for their accommodation. The school building was an unusual ly large one, built In the form of a "T." the main building being Uie stem, which was in reality an annex to th older portion of the building, built In 1880. The original structure was about 100 feet sqquare, surmount ed by a cupola. It was In this cupola that flames were first noticed,' The fire spread with remarkable rapidity. In a short time the annex, which was a structure some 200 feet In length by. SO In width, was a mass of flames. An alarm sounded. The entire fire depart r flrcnit lng as much of the school property as possible, the chief endeavor of the fire department being to'save an ex hibit which the school children wera preparing for the exhibit of the school children ot Oregon for the St. Louis exposition. Drawings and other fea tures of the exhibit were mostly store4 Jn. the older portion f the building, and but Httle wavea . So far as tttuld lw teamed tonight (Continued on page eight) partmenl of tfe city responded. T cnAsiiot-.t" their attention to - sWiJ fa sfc ifyi in THE BIG Clearance Sale 8)ay Are Nearly-Over. Only 2 more days left to secure those Matchless l'arpains we have been giving. To miss this sale will be equal to loosing money from your purse. You can save your money here by spending it The A. Dunbar Co, 56G Commercial Street. SALE CLOSES SATURDAY, JANUARY 30 AT 9 P. M. Survsyors Exeits Curiosity. Dallas, Or., Jan., 28. People of Pal las Hre puzzled, and the reason for their quandary Is the fact that a party of railroad surveyors has appeared at the roundhouse of the Dallas & Falls City rond, and began surveying toward Salem with far. Coovert, the . Falls City construction engineer, In charge. All efforts to gnln information rs to WhoHe Interests are represented by the par have so far been of no avail The Falls Ci,ty road officials stoutly declare that they have no Interest In the survey, and that they do not know from what source tt 1 financed. All kinds of rumors are In the air, the most prominent that a Salem electric road combination has begun operations, with the determnatlon of LATEST fl ARCH TWOSTEP Social Whirl" 4 J. N. GRIFFIN. 'si- Groceries, Hardware; Ship Chandle ry, Paints, Oil and Glass Hardwood Lumber Boat Supplies etc. j& f & . AT FISHER BROTHERS Cor. Bond and 12th Sts. Astoria, Oregon V Ml 1 5