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(7- A PUBLISHES FULL AMOOIATID PRISS RI PORT OOVIRt TMI MORNINCI FIELD ON TMI LOWER COLUMBIA t VOLUME LVIV. NO. 49. ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER .1, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS fill I FA Russians Resist a Flank ing Movement. MORE FORTS REDUCED Five Thousand Japs Reported Lost in Two Hours in Fight Before Port Arthur. MIKADO HAS OPENED DltT Japan Art Adjured to Maintain th Effort of th Government to Pre vld War Munition and Mi kado I Qlvn an Ovation. Toklo, De. 1. Untlmd.) Th Japan fore blaguring Part Ar thur hav captured, and are atlll hold ing 803-Mtr hill.. Thlt poltlri hat been hotly contested, and ha ot thousand of live. From It, If th Jap an an held It long enough to move oun to th fere. Port Arthur muit undoubtedly fall. BU Petersburg, Nov. 0. Official and private dispatches received In tola city today from the, various open tele- araith stations close to the scene of recent fighting. Indicate that the Jap anese forces are retiring from Stnmlt- In. where, for several days a flanking movement has been steadily, and It seems, successfully, opposed by th Russian forces. The reports state that th fighting, which lusted for four day, haa ceased after sever losse on both sides. though th Russians are hotly pursu lug th Japanese In their retreat. Th rat of march prevents th us of guns, and th Jup are not losing many men, and had no camp equlppage, their train having led the van of the retreat when It waa apparent th flanking movement waa unsuccessful. Russia' counsel at Chefoo tele graph that the Japanese hav cp lured two forts In th atormlng opera tion at Port Arthur on November 89, but this news Is lacking of confirma tion from other sources, though the pluc la so closely Invested, and the Japanese police Is so stringent with re gard to Issuing of Information except through Toklo that the consul' report may b correct. In hi report, which Is seml-ofTlclally Issued, th consul states there was an Immense Japanese loss, and In the escalade 6000 men per ished In two hours. Until confirmation of the reports re garding the Japanese reverse below Slnmltln Is received It I Impossible to say whether either movement has serious significance In a strategetlc way upon the main armies. Miksdo Address Dit. Toklo, Nov. SO, 11:80 p. m. The em peror formally opened the econd war diet today. He rode through the crowd ed streets in a state coach escorted by a troop of lancers, and accompanied by the crown prince, his staff, and some member of the imperial household, to the house of parliament, where both houses were assembled In the cham ber of representatives. The diplomatic corps and many prominent government officials were present. The emperor ascended the dla from which he read the following address: "W hereby perform the ceremony of opening the Imperial diet, and an nounce to the members of the house of peer and house of representatives, that, to our profound delight, our rela tion with all the neutral powers Is con tinually growing more amicable. "We have directed our minister of tat to submit to you a scheme for meeting the extraordinary expendl tuer necessitated by the war .together with the budget for the 88th year of "MelJI," beside other projects of law. "That our expeditionary forces have been victorious In every battle ha re peatedly shown fresh proof of their loyalty and bravery, to th progress of the war ha been constantly to our ad vantage: and w expect through the loyal devotion of our subject to at tain our ultlmal object, andv w call upon you to discharge your dutloa In harmonious co-operation, thereby promoting our wish and end."' LIVED TO DRINK WHISKEY. Vaneouvr Man Cemmltt Sulold, Leaving Widow and Eight Children. Vancouver, D. C Nov. 10. William Mortimer baa committed aulclda by outline hi throat from ear to ear with a raaor. He leave a widow and eight mall children. Recently Mortimer waa arretted on complaint of hi wife for refusing to provide for hla family. He wa wu forced to turn all hla money over to hla wife and thereupon complained that M he had no money left to buy whiskey he would commit suicide. He carried out bl threat thle morn ing. Peath waa practically inatantan eoua. To Save French Woman. Chicago, Nor. SO. Six week c ret aervlce work In Chicago by Im migration Inspector from New York, and local detect I vea, In an endeavor to break up a ring of Frenchmen, alleged to be Importing French women to the United Bute, baa resulted In th ar rest of Ave women and one man. Louis Poudr waa arrested on a warrant charging th Importation of women for Illegal purpose. Young Brigand Sntnod. Chicago, Nov. SO. Orln Cox, 17 year old, eon of respectable parenta In Kenalngton, a suburb, haa been sen tenced to life Imprisonment In Judge Chulln's court on a charge of rob bery. The sever penalty waa Inflict ed because Cox, when committing the crime, was armed with a loaded revol ver. Hatohrle Project Vancouver, II. C, Nov, 80. It la oflV dally announced Unlay that th do million government hs directed that two hatcheries, one to be located at Rivera Inlet and one at Skeena, be established. Th capacity of each will be 20,000 eggs yearly. BUI HE UK Count Cassinl Politely Refuses (i Secretary Hay'f Offer,. DAVIS SELECTED FOR INQUIRY Rear Admiral I Cholo of Paul Morton Beoaue of HI Knowledge of Maratim Law and of the Frenoh Language. Washington. Nov. 80. Through Codnt Cassinl, the Russian ambassa dor, haa today transmitted to Secre tary Hay the unwillingness of Rus sia to concur In a second peace confer ence at The Hague. The refusal was tentative, and while the country of the bear and defeat heartily welcomes American Interven tion to complete the mission of the first assembly, convened under the leadership of the Russian emperor, the count expressed, on Russia's part, that the present I not considered an op portune time for convening a peace conference that finds her In the throe of a war In which she must win or lose her eastern trade and her foreign pres tige. A formal acceptance of the In vitation was accordingly withheld. In the Dogger bank matter, th presl- dent today appointed Rear Admiral Charles Davis as a member of the court of Inqury. The rear admiral is a fluent speuker of the French language, and has an extensive knowledge of Interna tional and maratlme law, and It was on this account and upon the recom mendation of Secretary Paul Morton that the selection was made. Obituary. San Francisco, Nov. 80. Mrs. Clara H. Fleming, wife of Arthur H. Flem ing and a daughter of the late million aire Fowler of Detroit, died here to day. San Francisco, Nov. 80. Major M. O. Rltter, a veteran of the civil war, waa run down by a freight train on the Paclflo mall dock today and killed. ' " nni nisi ii Land Fraud Fraud Trial Is Drawing to Close. EVIDENCE OF A GIRL Marie Ware's Attorney Is Impli cated by Testimony Used Against McKinley. JUDGE HAS NOT YET DECIDED Celebrated Cas to Secure th Con' vlotion of Alleged Defrauders of th Government Will Soon Co to th Jury. Portland, Or., Nov. 80. Today was th most Important In point of develop ments of any In the great land fraud trial, now on before a jury In the fed eral court The earlier part of the testimony was to prove that George A. Howe Is a myth of the Invention of Horace a. McKinley, who Is regarded by the prosecution as the prime mover In the swindles that have attracted the at tention of the entire people of Oregon and of the United States land depart ment Through McKinley, the prosecution seeks to show the application of How waa made falsely, and that Howe, as a person Interested, does not exist The defense attempted to show that the evidence of the prosecution to prove the non-existence of How la Incom petent and the court took the mattet under advisement before passing on the merits of the contention that may, if sustained, save McKinley. On of the strangest parts of the chain of evidence that haa been linked together by the prosecution In the case la that of on Miss Ida McCoy, a stenographer for an abstract company, who haa testified that McKinley or dered the How abstract, and that de livery of It waa made to him. When th abstract cam In, C A. Hardy, who Is attorney for Marie Ware, cam in and had the name of McKinley, which wa Indorsed as th party ordering the abstract changed to Howe. Th detailed account of the earlier part of the work of th court for the day Is as follows: The most Incriminating testimony yet adduced In the land fraud trials waa that given at noon today by R. W. Montague, deputy county clerk of Linn county, at th time proofs of the George W. Howe lands were taken. The testimony of this witness directly connects Horace 0. McKinley with the Howe lands and establishes the claim of the government, announced several day ago, that Howe Is but one of the conspirators under another name. Montague's story directly connects McKinley with procuring final proofs on the seven claims which were trans ferred to Howe by seven of the bogus entrymen ,and details significant state ments alleged to have been made to the witness by McKinley with reference to lands In 11-7. The government this morning Intro duced an abstract of title to the Howe lands, on which the name of McKinley appears to have been erased and that of Howe written In Its place. More testimony was Introduced to day to show that such a man as Howe never appeared before the local land office, and that all attempts to find him proved unavailing. Who Is the prominent Oregon attor ney who gave to S. A. D. Puter th let ter of Introduction to United States senator John H. Mitchell, which caused the latter to present Puter to Blnger Hermann, then commissioner of the general land office at Washington? And why has Senator Mitchell refused to come to Portland and testify regarding this and assist the government in prov ing that Puter and Mrs, Watsort deliv ered their affidavits sent to Hermann with a letter dated March 80, 1902? The query haa also arisen as to why Senator Mitchell has thus far refused or failed to Inform the government's attorney In the land frsud trial who the mysterious attorney I. Notwithstanding Assistant Attorney General Francis, Heney' has been In telegraphic correspondence with Sen ator Mitchell sine November 20, he I yet without the senator's consent to testify In the trial, and haa failed to learn th name of the attorney who gav th letter of Introduction which led the Senator to take Puter and Mr. Watson before the commissioner and urge expedition of the issuance of patents to their land. It haa been two day since th last telegram wa sent to Washington, asking for the attor ney" name, and there haa been received no answer. ' In hie dispatches Senator Mitchell says It will be Impossible for him to return to Oregon to testify, al though ' he would swear, If he were here, that Puter and Mr. Watson came to him with a letter of Introduction of a prominent Oregon attorney. Russian List Increasing. Washington, Dec, 1. More than 1.- 000,000 name are on the pension roll, the largest number since the civil war. All a veteran now haa to do to get a pension Is upon reaching the age of (2 years to make affidavit of this fact and a pension is Immediately granted. Commissioner Ward will leave the office on December 15, but having two weeks' leave of absence will not actu ally retire until January 1. Captain F. M. Kelly of Illinois, the second deputy commissioner, haa the indorse ment of Senators Cullom and Hop Una and the entire Illinois delegation In congress for the place, and his friends believe he haa a good chance of receiving the appointment Rar Books Sold, New York, Nov. SO. Two of the rar est books In the collection of "Amerl cans" made by the late Bishop jonn Hurst have just been sold at auction. On was a copy of the Mohawk prayer book.' printed In this city by William Bradford , in 1715. It brought 11300 The othr was "a copy of the second edition of Eliot Indian bible, and It sold for 8410. These two volumes are quite rare. They are printed by an agent for an unknown collector. 11H1H Balloon Not Reported Anywhere on Lake Michigan Shore. Aeronaut's Brother States Balloon Was In Good Condition, But Other Think th Supply of Air Waa "' Insufficient for Trip. Chlcago.Nov. 80. Peter Nlssen Is be lieved either to be smothered or frosen to death In his balloon "Fool Killer" In which he started on a trip across Lake Michigan yesterday. The opinion that Nlssen Is lost became general this afternoon when It was found, after 24 hours that absolutely no word was received from the Inventor, who some years ago shot the whirlpool rapids of Niagara In a barrel. He has not been sighted by any vessel. The possibility of Nlssen's smoth ering 1 considered more probable since it Is learned that only a poor supply of air was pumped Into the "Fool Killer" befor the craft was launched. Nls sen's brothers, however, say the navi gator computed the air and figured It would last him a great number of hours. At the weather bureau It Is said that even If Nlssen reached the shore he would suffer from the ketense cold, as a snowstorm Is blowfatg near the Michi gan shore, and as Mb boat has no means of heating and permitting no air the navigator would suffer severely. The wind toward midnight has In creased to a 60-mile rate. Many Immigrants Coming New York, Nov. SO. Nearly. 6000 Immigrants crowded Ellis island to its full capacity yesterday, the number having accumulated on account of the Thanksgiving holiday. The normal capacity of the Island Is about 8000. For that reason 1700 others who ar rived on the White Star line Baltic were held on board ship until room was made for them. More embarrassment Is expected to day, for In addition to the Immigrants who will be left over for examination, three more steamships are due within the next 12 hours, and there are many steerage passengers on each of them. RESD Hospital Fire at Pueblo Is Serious. LOSS WILL BE $25,000 Full Fire Department and All the Hospital Attendants Worked Heroically to Save Sick. STRETCHER. LINE WAS USED Number of Patient Whose Cassa Were Critical, Will Die From the Fright and Exposure Caused by Rough Handling in Taking Out Pueblo, Col, Nov. 80. A hospital fire that brought a large part of the clty"a population to the scene, and seriously menaced the lives of scores of patients at St Mary's hospital broke out this afternon in the sani tarium section of the institution. Th fire was not serious at first but it soon got beyond the control of the attendants, and a general alarm was turned in for all the apparatus In the oltjt,--.-.. .. Only the prompt action of all con cerned, including the fire department prevented a holacaust that would have been without parallel In the annals of the city. As soon .as It was seen that the Ore could not be controlled by the chemical apparatus and the small hose on reels in the wards and corri dors of the sanitarium, a stretcher line was established and the helpless pa tients started for the door. The firemen made herculean efforts to subdue the flames which were pour ing from roofs and windows, and their efforts and those of the attendants from the office of the institution resulted In conflntng the fire to the fifth story of the huge structure, and th whole thing waa over within 45 minutes of the first alarm. --. The patients, most of whom had been removed by the time th fire waa ex tlngulshed. were returned to the rooms undamaged by fire and water, except a few who were removed to quarters In the vicinity. ' No one was seriously Injured by the fire, but the physicians despair of the recovery of a large number of patients whose case was critical and whose shock from fright and exposure will result fatally. , ' The monetary loss to the hospital, which la one of the largest of its kind In the country, la about $25,000, cov ered by insurance. GIRL'S LUNG IN STOMACH. Hr Heart on Right Side Other Or gan Displaced. Atlantic City, N. J.. Nov. 29. One of the most Interesting cases ever brought to the attention of medical men in this city Is that of Amy Pine, 12 years old. who is dead at her home here. The child had been a sufferer for years, and, although she was treated by the most able physicians and specialists, the nature of her ailments was so pe cular that she obtained no relief. A consultation of many of the local phy sicians was held a short time ago re garding this little girl, and the state ment Is made that the position of the various organs of the body In this case was contrary to nature and startling to the medical world. The doctors declared that little Amy's heart was on the right side, In stead of the left, and that one lung was In the stomach, while the position of the Intestines where this lung rest ed was changed to another part of her body. Not only this, tk physicians declared, but the ponitioa of other In ternal organs waa completely changed. After the little girl died physicians who had attended her requested that they be permitted to hold an autopsy, but the request waa denied. They said the result of an autopsy, they felt sure, would be of the greatest Interest and Importance to the medical world. They say they ar unable to account for the fact that the girl lived 12 years with her heart on her right side, one luna te the stomach and with her Internal organ placed In various parts of her body, th entire arrangement being contrary to ail laws of nature. Voted far Bryan. Indianapolis, Nov. 20. A a result of an investigation undertaken by leading democrat of this city It has been ascertained that thousand of free silver democrats voted for Bryan at the recent election, and that the votes were cast not with the expec tation of having them counted, but for the purpose of registering protest against Judge Parker, In Tipton county there were three hundred straight democratic ticket that were mutilated by writing the name of Bryan Just above the party emblem. In one precinct in Monroe county there were rejected, because of the distinguishing marks on them. From the counties heard from it is estimated that the number of ballots thus mutilated exceeded ten thousand. Two States Celebrate. Butte, Mont, Nov. 80. A Weiser, Idaho, special to the Miner says: "The big ateel bridge across the Snake river at this point connecting the states of Idaho and Oregon, waa completed to day, and a celebration of the import ant event will be held Monday. Gov ernors Chamberlain of Oregon and Morrison of Idaho will be present . Expensive Live Wire, New York, Nov.. 30. A verdict of $400,000 damages has been awarded in the supreme court to Mrs. Ada More head, wfe of a Btaten Island physician who was killed a year ago in the cellar of his home by an electric shock. When the doctor touched an incandescent bulb to turn on the current he re ceived a shock from 2400 volts result ing in his death. The City Treasurer of Hoquiam . Short in His Accounts. INVESTIGATION SHOWS DEFICIT City Treasurer Frd Tilly Make an Assignment and Property Is Suf-r ficient to Cover About All. . Hi Shortage. Hoquiam, Wash, Nov. SO. An $8000 shortage In the account of th city of Hoquiam, first detected through the vigilance of Councilman A. H. Kuhn, Is said to have been revealed by an Investigation. As a result an assign ment has been made by City Treasurer Fred Tilly, who is accused of being responsible for the alleged shortage. Examination of Mr. Tilly's books Is said to have shown a diversion of funds ex tending over three years, during each of which Mr. Tilly has been re-elected and no annual settlement made. It is thought Mr. Tilly's property, aa comprised In the assignment, will cover the shortage. He is In the furniture business, and his stock, building and residence are said to be worth about $10,000. He has furniture contracts amounting to about $5000. He recent ly borrowed $2500 from the Lumber men s utiiiK ui nuqumm, uui as uib note was Indorsed by Beardsley Eros, of this city, the bank will lose nothing. MARKETS Chicago, 111, Nov. JO. December wheat, $1.06 1-2 $1 06 3-4; closed $1.07 7-8; barley, 4251c; flax, $1.11; northwestern, $1.19. San Francisco, Nov. 30 Cash wheat $1.50. Portland, Nov. 30. Wheat, export. Walla Walla, 80c; bluestem, 8c; mil ling, Walla Walla, 83c; bluestem, 88c; valley, 87c; eastern market basis. Walla Walla, 85c; bluestem, 80c. IB tiWH