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VOLUME LVIII. RUMORS OF MEDIATION Visitof Italian Premier Cioletti to Count Von Bulow Had Nothing to Do With Far Eastern War. Stories Recently Appearing Pro nounced Untrue by Semi . Official Papers. EACE HIGHLY IMPROBABLE KiimmIu HHIevM She Can Win; ami lu)uu loo Not Want to ll I'iIvmI of Fruit of VI toi l'. Berlin, Sept. 2H.8fiior Olulcttl, the Italian premier, left Hamburg today fr huihomiki. lift"!1 vlHlt " riuincelor von Kulow, which, at this Juncture of International iiffolr nat urally has given rise to conjectures that the conference concerned the question of mediatory offers In the fur eastern war. These conjecture, however brought nut positive denials ffom the government orgutis, the Nntlonul Zel tung, Hi mi evidently Inspired para graph, Mtytltm the report that the con ferem e dealt with the iniesllon of Newell. In hia confession, stated that he mediation n "absurd fahrlctttlons." Nolwita one of Ithimdns' n complices. At trustworthy stiitement regarding the purport of the conference given out. has been MEDIATION 18 IMPO'SSIBIE. Neither Russia Nor Japan Could Be Induoed to Aocept It Home, Kept. 21 Although i portion of the Italian press Inalsta that the n . ting of I'reinler (Jlolettl nnd Count von Mnlnw. the (lermaii olmncelor. at Hamburg Is connected with the sub ject of locdiulloii bi'lweetl llussln nnd Japan, the CapHale, the aentl-offlclal organ, gives voice to this contrary view: "Not only the Italian but all other Kuropean governments consider media tion Impossible when Itusslu fully trusta In her ability to turn the tide of battle In her favor, ami while Japan does not wish to lose the fruits of her victories." The Avnntl inserts that the presence of I'rlnce Charles of Hohenaollern nt Toklo has connection with the nlleged plans for mediation. The foreign olllce em phut li ally de nies tlmt Italy la concerned In any such movement. According to aeml-offlclul statements, the only reason of the visit of Ololettl to Hamburg win that he Vnd von Bulow desired persoiuilly to discuss different International ques tions nffectlng the two countries. . EXTREMELY FUNNY JOKE. Man Giva Powder to Boy, Who Nearly Dies at Result. Grants Pass, Ore., Sept. 28. Hutless, contleaa and shoeless, and with the re mainder of his clothing badly torn, shivering In the chill morning air, a boy of 1 years knocked at the door of William Lettlcut In Grants Pass and asked If he might come In and get warm. The boy woa ravenously munch, lng a raw ear of corn and seemed to be In a famished condition. Taking compassion on his forlorn condition, Mrs. Lettlcut admitted him Into the house, but when he had been there but a few minutes he was seUed with such a fit of nervous tremor that the lady hastened to call. In her neigh- YALE GETS MONEY MURDER s New Haven, Conn., 8ept 28.-Yal university has received 117,000 from the British gbvernment to be placed to the credit of the Yale for sign mission located at Chang Chal, China. The money represents the mount paid by the Chinese government for the murder of two English missionaries at Hunan two years ago. The missionary society to which the missionaries belonged refused, as matter of principle, to aocept a oash gift In payment for the murder. iMirN, fearing the by might ! ' the hulls. It wim evident tlmt he was (n a state of mental bewilderment, but In answer to persistent questioning he said tlmt while In IriintH Pass th ilny previous ho hud been persuaded ' tvr men to accompany thi-m to th Tnkllnm smell er In order to get work. The party will out of town iilmiit two mile mid camped nt it deserted hullilliiK ii"r n farm house. 1 1 In cniiipnnloiiii sent him to the house to buy mime provisions, but first, on the plwi (hut he win l-k, they gave him dose of "medli In," ft whit pow der, the hoy avers. As h turned to go. he heard one of them laughingly say; "Now you'll see him go right up In the ulr In a min ute." Before he renrhed the house he be mine erased, threw off his font and hut mid ran Into the wood, where he wnn dered nbout ull nlKht. The cms was put Into the hands of the Josephine rounty sheriff, who mude u diligent effort to locale lh perpe trutom of the outrage, but without sue cess. The boy knew hi" companions only by night mid wait unable to give 11 description by which they might be apprehended, lie gave his nuine iim J. Willing nnd mild hi home win In Al bany, to wh.li h pliire he returned 'yes terday. LONG TERM FOR ROBOER. Asa Newel Given Twenty Year by an Idaho Judge. .......... ma UI....I.. nt ' . . , 1 Craiiitevllle. Idaho, today aeiitenred Ami Newell to aerve 30 yenra In the penitentiary. Newell la 20 years old. mid c-onfeMHed to being one of the two men who held up Merchant Keutcr nl Iienver. Idaho, several inont'ns ago. 'the trial of Ilhoades, Newell Sam in confession was not true in to Rhoades, but that he gave Rhoades' name to en able his real partner to leave the coun try. When the Judge demanded to know the name of his partner, Newell refused lo give It. The sentence today was the heaviest ever Imposed In the slate for the offense of highway robbery. The Judge stated that were Newell not a young man he would give him a life sentence. Newell Is n well known Idaho county cowboy. WILL CONTE8T HER WILL. Lawyers to Set Up That Miss Oolbeer Was Unsound of Mind. New York, Sept. 28. Unvyers from Pan Kranclsco are reported to be now In this ctty preparing for a fight In the courts agnlnst the will of the late Miss Ilertha M. Dolbeer of California, who leaped from a window on the ninth floor of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. She left most of her estate, valued "t $2,000,000, to her traveling companion. Miss Etta M. Warren. A special commission will come here from Sun Francisco within the next few days. It Is stated, to take testimony, Willi a view to proving that Miss Pol- beer was of unsound mind .when she mode her wlfl. The captain, purser, steward nnd deckhands of the Deutsch lund, on which Miss Dolbeer traveled here from Europe., already have been Interviewed by a man claiming to rep resent the heirs. FIRST SESSION OF LAWYERS. Chief Justioe Brewer and Ex-Secretary Foster the Speakers. St. Louis, Sept. 28. The first uni versal congress of lawyers and Jurists held under the auspices of the Ameri can Bar Association was convened to- Lday In Festival hall at the conclusion of the American Bar Association con vention. The president of the con gress, Dnvld J. Brewer, associate Jus tice of the supreme court of the United States, and ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster were the speukers. The con- ventlon adjourned until tomorrow. PAID FOR OF MISSIONARIES ASTORIA, OREGON, BEVERIDGE SPEAKS ON THE ISSUES Briefly Summarizes Attitude of Republican Party Upon Que! tions of Foremost Impor tance This Year. Says Tariff Revision Can Not Be Successfully Accomplished by Democrats. THE TRUSTS AND THEIR CAUSE Tariff Not to lllu'iiie, for Krcortl Show It To Maintain Gold KtaiHlanl, I'Avvt ItooM." vi-lt, He Sayi. Indianapolis, Ind.. Kept. 28. The first republican meeting of the campaign I" Indlunupolls wan held tonight In Tom liuson hull. An Illuminated procession escorted Senulor Albert J. Ucvcrldge and Congressman Ovcrstreet to the hall. whlrh wan well filled. Overstreet pre sided mid In a brief address Introduced the Finator, who Hpoke In pnit ua fol. lows: "Whut Is the campaign ubout? Whirl business mini but wishes that no elec tion were necessary this year? The administration's policies are success- Yul nt home and abroad. The beHt thut the opposition's ablest mun, Crover Cleveland, can s.y for It Is that It shows signs of returning sunlty.' Yet this political convaluscent demands control of the government, declaring that It could not now undo much that the republican party hus done If It would, and would not now undo much that the republican party has done If It could. The Tariff Proposition. "The first result of Parker's election would .be a tariff agitation w ithout re sult, since Mr. Parker himself tells us that n republican senate would prevent legislation. Such agitation spells bus iness uncertainty, and uncertainty spells business dlsuster. "Even If the opposition controlled house, senate and president they them selves could not tell what kind of tar iff luws they would pass. For some of them, life Mr. Bryan, are free traders; some, like Mr. Gorman, are protection ists. Think of an engineer trying to run his engine backward nnd forward at the same time! What would hap pen to that engine I" what would hap pen to the country with the opposition In power. "Men talk of tariff revision as though It were u simple thing an easy task. No problem Is more Intricate. What is the tariff? It Is not an artificial structure to be taken apart and put together like the trick box of a Jug gler. It Is the development of a theory of statesmanship. -It Is a growth and not a creation. Thoee who prepared the soli of this nutlon planted In thut soil the seed of the American in dustrial Independence which men call protection. If here and there a branch now needs pruning, those who planted the tree and have guarded Its growth should do it. not those who. resisted its pluntlng In the first pluee nnd who for 100 years have sought to lay the ax to Its roots. Even the changing of a single schedule Is no work for the nreiudlced or Ignorant. For other schedules are related to it; and to all these is adjusted the vast business of the greatest of business nations. Re publican revision of any schedule means the thoughtful consideration of every other schedule." The Trust Question. As to the trust question Senator Rev erldge suld: "The organizations of Industry should neither be persecuted nor favored. They should have simple Justioe like every body else. All men, all interests pro tected or punished by law according as they do right or wrong this Is republi canism In a sentence, Americanism in a phrase. "How would the opposition's remedy of free trade in trust-made articles hurt the Standard Oil Company? There Is no tariff on oil. Or the anthracite (Continued on Page t.) THt'RSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, OYAMA IS ADVANCING LEISURELY Impending Clash of Russian and Japanese Armies Has Not Yet Occurred in Vicinity of Mukden. Kouropatkin Is Keeping in Close Touch With Entire Front of Invaders' Army. PORT ARTHUR STILL IS SAFE Chinese Report That Attack lu II JCeNtiltPil In Great Lohm to .Japanese, Slavs' Los Ileitis Small. Outpost skirmishes constitute the sum total of the disclosed activities on the Llao and Taitze rivers In Manchu ria. Kuroptttktn Is reported to be keep ing In contact with the entire Japanese front. Russian scouts report that the muln Japanese force Is centered In the vicinity of the Yental mints. Fresh troops and convalescents are arriving ut Mukden In large numbers. The rail way north from Mukden is proving of much value to Kuropatkln, bringing supplies for his army, as well as rein forcements. Chinese arriving from Chefoo report that the Japanese attacks upon Port Arthur resulted In heavy looses to the assailing forces, while the Russians suffered comparatively little. NO IMPORTANT CLASHES. Outpi Skirmishes Constitute Extent of Activities al Mukden. St. Petersburg, Sept. 28. The move ments at the front, so far as disclosed In the meager dispatches received are confined almost to continuous outpost skirmishes, by means of which Kuro patkln Is keeping In close touch with the Japanese along the whole front. Oyama's advance appears, to be ex tremely deliberate. There are no Indi cations as yet that he has begun to overlap the Russian positions. Reinforcements are arriving at Muk den nnd many convalescents are re turning to duty. It Is reported Kuropatkln has made requisition upon the authorities for ad ditional oflleers to make up for the heavy losses In killed and wounded at the battle of Llao Yang. CZAR'S PICTURES MUTILATED. Vandals Tampered With Russian Ex hibit at World's Fair. St. Louis, Sept. 28. When the Rus slan exhibit nt the worlds fair was opened today it was discovered that several valuuoie on puimmgs ui em peror Nicholas had been torn from the wall and mutilated. snnthOT nnrtmlt of the emperor, a handsome and valuable panel, done in ; wregtung match between the Yale sopo colored silk, had been torn from Its! a freshmen was held tonight. support and subjected to the greatest indignity. The oil pointings were torn and marked, and the pictures had been stamped upon. The vandalism was reported to, the exposition authorities and an investi gation was ordered. Every effort will be made to discover the guilty persons. Senator Hoar Still Alive. Worcester, Sept. 28. Senator Hoar's condition continues to be most criti cal. He has not rallied from the sleep and stupor Into which he fell Tuesday afternoon and It Is feared he is now in his last sleep. He takes no nourish ment, being too weak to swallow. At tending physicians sold lute tonight that there was absolutely no hope, but they were unwilling to venture an opinion as to whether he would die during the night or live possibly for two or three days. Favors Another Peace Conference. Edinburg, Bcotlund. Sept. 28. The conference of the institute of Interna tional law was concluded today. Pres ident Roosevelt's announcement that he will call a second peace conference at The Hague was discussed. While the conference did not pass a further def inite resolution on the subject, it gave 1904. i I - , evidence of its undoubted aympHthyi with the effort to further the cause of arbitration. RATS SPREAD THE PLAGUE. Vessel Arriving at River Tyne Has Number of Cases Aboard. t London, Sept. 28. Bubonic plague Is officially announced to have broken out on board Xl.t steamship Bishop's Cute, which arrived in the River Tyne today from Hamburg. When the Bishop's Gate was discharging cargo from Ro- sarlo, Argentina, at Humburg recent ly, a number of rats that died of the plague were found on board. On the arrival of the steamer at Jarrow the boatswain was taken ill. The case proved to be undoubtedly one of bu bonic plague. OBJECT TO FUEL OIL. Passengers - Successfully Protest to . Coast Steamship Company. San Francisco. Sept. 28. Some time ago the officials of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company announced their Intention to convert their steamers Into oil burners and went so far in the matter as to have a plant installed on the steamer Coos Bay, which plies be tween this port and southern Califor nia ports. Now they have decided to abandon the scheme, it is said, prin cipally on account of the objections raised by passengers. MARINERS, TAKE HEED. Torpedo Lost From Pike Has Not Yet Been Recovered. San Francisco, Sept. 28. Two tor pedoes were lost Friday by the sub marine boat Pike In San Pablo bay. One has been recovered by Italian fish ermen. The other Is still at large and may be exploded by a passing vessel. It Is charged with 200pounds of gun cotton. A reward of $230 has been of fered for It. FOOTBALL SCORES. At New York Columbia, 8; Frank lin and Marshall. 0. At New Haven New Haven, 22; Weslyn, 0. , At Philadelphia Pennsylvania, 6; Swartmore, 4. At Ithaca Cornell, 10; Colgate, 0. At Princeton Princeton. 12; Dickin son, 0. At New Haven Yale, 22: Wesley an, 0. Blows Off His Head. Big Timber, Mont., Sept. 28. B. Nev- In, a prominent cattleman and pioneer of eastern Montana, committed suicide near Melville today by blowing off his head with a shotgun. No motive for the act is known. Nevin came west 45 years ago with the Hudson's Bay Com pany. Episcopal Clergymen in Session. Philadelphia, Sept. 28. High digni taries and laymen of the Protestant Episcopal church from this and other countries are in this city to attend the 10th nnminl ron ventlon of the Brother- ! hoQi Qf gt Andrew, which begins to morrow. Freshmen Win Wrestling Contest. vew Haven. Sept. 28. The annual j Fo(. the flrst tlme ln jo yeftrs the ; freshman ctt88 Was victorious ln the ' majority of the matches. Funston Reaches Chicago. Chicago, Sept. 2S. General Funston arrived In Chicago today and succeeded General Grant as commander of the de parment of the lakes. General Funston came from Vancouver, ash. Today's Weather. Portland, Sept. 28. Western Oregon Thursday, partly cloudy, slightly warmer In north portion. Western Washington Partly cloudy. Eastern Oregon and eastern Washington Fair. NEW YORK CITY THREATENED WITH EPIDEMIC OF TYPHOID 4 New York, Sept. 28v New Y rk' city ia threatened with what may become the severest epidemic of typhoid fever in its history. Not only is he number of typhoid fs er cases reported for th first three weeks of September greater than f at for any month of last year, but since the beginning of the summer, h death rata has been much higher than formerly. The health depart- ant of th city la bending every ef -fort to effectually control the dif ate. 4 NUMBER 307. LETTER WAS STUPID ACT OF FORGERS President Donnelly Disclaims Ever Having Received Communi cation Said to Have Been Written to Him. Union Leader Pronounces It Noth ing More Than Piece of Political Work. JUDGE PARKER IN NEW YORK SpenflM Day Talking With Poll' ticiaofi of ote Fairbanks and Dolliver Speak at Helena- Washington, Sept. 28, Secretary to the President Loeb today made, public the dispatch received front United States Attorney Bethea of Chicago re garding the letter purporting to have been addressed by President Roosevelt to Michael Donnelly, president of the butchers' union. The dispatch quotes Donnelly as saying that he never re ceived any such letter. (Donnelly was seen at Chicago to day by a representative of the Aso ciated Press, and stated that he had" never received er.y such letter from the presndent He pronounced It a piece of stupid political work.) PARKER HAS MANY CALLERS. Politicians Keep Dsmooratio Candidate Busy at New York. . New York. Sept 28. At no, other time since Judge Parker waa nomin ated he' has met so many members of the party who occupy high positions politically and commercially as on nis present visit to New York. The candi date's rooms at the Hotel Seville, which were well filled yesterday, were over run with visitors today. Many came to suggest questions of Interest in cam paign work, and others to congratulate the Judge on his letter of acceptance and his campaign generally. Apparent settlement for the present of the question of the establishment of western democratis headquarters was announced at the national committee rooms today. Members of the execu tive committee said that no such head quarters would be established. FAIRBANKS AT HELENA. With Dolliver, He Addressed Two Big Meetings Last Night. Helena, Sept 28. There was less speaking by Senator Fairbanks today than usual. At the Eoston & Montana smelter at Great Falls a few remarks were made to an assembly of workmen, and there was also a short stop at Cas cade, where the senator spoke briefly to a number of school children. Two meetings were held at Helena tonight. one at the Auditorium and the other at the Helena theater. Senators Fairbanks and Dolliver spoke at both meetings, Fairbanks opening at the Auditorium and closing at the theater, while Dolli ver reversed the order.. Anxious for Arbitration Treaty. Manchester, Sept. 28. The Associa tion of Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom,. at a meeting today, passed a resolution urging the govern ment to conclude an arbitration treaty with the United States. Fought Six-Round Draw. Philadelphia, Sept. 28. The Hughey McGovern-Murphy fight tonight result ed In a six-round draw.