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PUBLISH! FULL t60UTI0 RBPORT COVIPlt TMI MORNING FIELD ON THI LOWIR COLUMBIA volumk iviv. ijo:to.v XJJyv ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS JAPS Pb un Port Arthur Almost In the Mikado's Hands. LOSS OF LIFE IS GREAT Checfoo Correspondent Says IS 000 Perished in 24 Hours Fierce Fighting. RUSSIANS ARE STILL HOPEFUL St. Petersburg Discredit tht Report of tht Capture of 300 Meter Hill and Hep for Much From tht Appreaohing Squadron. London, Doe. J. The correspondent at Chefon for tho Dally Telegraph says the attack on 300-Mlr hill resulted In very heavy losses for tho flrat dl- vlalon of tho Japanese atormera. BlmultnnMiualy with tho aaaault on tho hill, tho correspondent say, the men of tho ninth and eleventh dlvlainna advanced and menaced Plhlung and Kekwan forts, and tho fighting waa heavy, with considerable Jap loaaea there by sun fire from tho fortf. According- to tho dispatch quoted, tho Inea to the Japanese In the last 14 houra hna been terrible, a total of 1V000 men having given up their Ikes In tho attempt on the hill. Attack have been ilnnned up to December 10, by which lime the Japanese fori hope to complete tho rapture of Tort Arthur. Ruwiant Hopeful. 81. reteraburg, Dec. 1. Tho war of fice here la not yet prepared to accept tho report that tho Japaneao before Port Arthur havo taken fOJ-Meter hill, but If It la officially confirmed, tho war office admit that It will bo a deeper- ate blow for tho gallant defendora of tho fortress. The position command tho harbor and. If tho Japaneao can mount alego gun on Ita aummlt they can force out tho Ruaalan aquadron or drutroy It at Ita anchorage. Thoae familiar with the aupportlng plana of tho forta think It la by no meana certain that even though Rus alalia are forced to retire from 103 Meter hill, tho Japaneao can place In position heavy gun agalnit tho fire which the other forta can bring to bear on It. Still, tho war office offlclala re luctantly agree that auch a breach In the chain render tho poaltlon extreme ily critical, and though the garrison might be able to hold out In tho Golden hill, Tiger hill and Lltio Tal forta for Home time. It may mark the beginning of the end. The war office la convinced that with the approach of the Russian aecond I'arlflf aqundron the Japaneao constd ered that the elimination of the Port Arthur aquadron aa a fighting factor waa absolutely vital, thus accounting for the reckless sacrifice of life In or der to secure a Poaltlon directly com mandlng the harbor. Japanese Cheered. Toklo Dec. 1. (noon) General Nogl'a telegram announcing the storming and capture of 20 S Meter hill waa re reived with cheera by the Japanese people. It revives tho hope of an early capture of Port Arthur proper. The people have never despaired of the success of tho besieger, but the fortitude of the defendert and the pro longation of tho siege which exceeds by months the moat liberal prelimi nary estimate of the time required to accomplish the reduction of this strong hold has been a source of deep regret, combined with the lose of life and disappointments over the fact that the siege hns occupied such a large force of men, decreasing Field MarshaJ Oytima'a strength at a time when he needed every available man. Contoript Leaving. Today was tho date eet under tho conscription act, when recruits, could Join the army. Cheered by tho news from General Nogl, thousands of ,r crulta throughout tho eTnpIre marched to barracks and donned uniforms for 'the flrat time, Following an honored custom the relatlvea of tho recruits, i now soldiers to their barrack. In Toklo today there huvo been scores of little processions escorting detach ment of popular conscrlpta. Tho number of men who havo joined tho colors today under tho con scription act baa not been made pub lic. NISSEN'S BODY II FOUND. Adventurer's Body Washed in With Hia Craft on Lake Shore. Btevenavlllo. Mich., Dec. 1. Peter Nlssen, who started across Lake Mich igan In his acquatla balloon Fool-killer No. I, and concerning whose fate there haa been much anxiety, waa found dead on tho beach three mllea west of this place today, probably having washed ashore during tho night The well named Fool-killer waa about 10 rods further down tho beach from where tho body laid, and waa badly wrecked. Nlswn'a hands and face woro frown, and tho featuroa reflect tho great suf fering ondurod by tho Inventor before death came to his relief. The clothing on tho body la much torn. It la thought Nlssen could not havo been long dead when found, and It Is practically certain ho reached shore alive lata last evening aa tho Fool- killer was aeon about 100 rods from shore slv mllea south of hero about o'clock, though a gale waa blowing and It may bo ho waa unable to make shore and tossed about In tho water all night. When tho Fool-klllod finally collapsed It Is likely Nlssen was so thoroughly chilled that he waa unable to save himself and waa drowned,. Later When tho wrecked acq ua tic balloon waa carefully examined one of Nlssen'a business card waa found pinned to tho back aaylng fti air hose upon which ho depended for renewing tho supply of air broke and ho felt himself doomed to die of suffocation. DERELICT IS ASHORE Barkentine "Quickstep" Comes In at Yaquina Head Yesterday. WAS A MENACE TO SHIPPING Heavy Boa May Break Up tho Hull and Render tho Efforts of Salvage Hunter Futile Cargo la Lum ber of Considerable Value. Newport, Ore., Dec. 1. Tho derelict burkentlno Quickstep, out of Mukllteo for Ban . Francisco, and which was abandoned In a terrific storm off Grays harbor on tho evening of November 24, drifted ashore at Taqulna head, four miles north of Newport today. The seas were running heavily, and the derelict struck the reef with a crash and her foremaat waa carried overboard. Great rollers continued to sweep across the reef, and, upon one of them, tho barkentine cleared the rocks and was carried toward the beach. Her approach had been seen, and by the time the vessel cleared the rocks a crowd had assembled to witness the landing of tho boat which has been floating a serious menace to coastwise traffic for a week. The Quickstep belled her name as ahe sluggishly rode In on the combers, but seemed to come to life when her keel struck the sand, and her main mast went overboard with a crash. Later the heavy surf removed the deck load of lumber, and carried away the deckhouse and part of the cabin, the debris of which, with the figurehead and most of the keel of the coaster Is strewn along the beach. The next flood tide, It Is expected. will carry the hull high enough on the beach so that she may be boarded and a part of the cargo saved, though there is considerable danger that she may go to pieces In the meantime. The salvage from the barkentine 1b considerable, and an effort will be made to secure as much of It as pos sible. Boise's Majority. Boise. Idaho, Dec. 1. The official count for Idaho in the presidential election gives: Roosevelt 47.78S: Par He 18,480, .Debs 4949 Swallow 1011, Watson 353. HI OF St. Louis En Masse On the Celebrated Pike. SCENE ONE OF BEAUTY Death of the Festivities Tolled at Midnight and the Lights Went Out SPEECHES BY CELEBRITIES Piko Was Crowded by a Groat Throng of Revellers Who Waited Until Midnight Darkened tho Last of Elootrlo Illuminations. St. Louis Dec. 1. The Louisiana purchaso exposition passed Into his tory today with tho closing exercises which were held at tho fqpt of tho Louisiana purchase monument, where seven months ago the exercises were observed that formally opened the gates to the world. Tho man most prominent In the lm menso labor that haa attended the con ceptlon, birth and life of the great fair Is undoubtedly President Francis of the board of managers, and the spirit that has characterised the work of all the managers Is well depicted In hia ob solvation today that: "This exposition haa been the work of my life. It haa been a pleasure to me." and Mr. Fran cla' efforts havo been tho basis of the pleasure that haa attended tho millions of visitors who havo threaded their way through tho gates. Tho exhibits now closed probably comprised tho most comprehensive col lection of tho works of art and Indus try ever seen In tho' world's history, while tho gathering of tribes, with their manners and customs haa never been equalled In tho history of tho "two and seventy jarring sects." Tho principal apeeches at the observ an?e of the close were by Governor Dockery of Missouri and President Francis of tho board of managers. May or Wells also spoke briefly. Promptly at 4 o'clock the doors of all tho great hall were closed, and visitors were excluded, but aa night drew on, throngs congregated on the broad avenues to view, for tho last time, the magnlflcant electric Illumi nations. On tho pike, however, all waa revel ry, and passing tides of happy human ity awept from end to end, and, despite tho feeling of sadness that the great show waa passing away there haa been no Itvlier acene during the fair than that on the great cosmopolite pleasure ground. Over on Agricultural knoll the great floral clock ticked off the moments of the remaining life of tho pageant until at midnight rang the massive tones of a great bell. Instantly a hush awept over the as sembled thousands, and, appropriate ly, the glowing bulbs of tho myriad electric lights slowly dimmed, dimin ishing until but a spark of the life of the great fair remained, and the Louisi ana purchase exposition faded into chronicles. VENEZUELA DISTURBED. Citixons Are Being Imprlsonsd for Politioal Offenses as Uusual. Washington, Dec. 1. Reports reach ing the state department Indicate a dangerous unsettled condition In Vene zuela, and the department officers are watlchlng the situation with closest at tention. " Many citizens of the principal cities have been imprisoned, and much alarm Is felt among the foreign element lest some of the outrages that have char acterised previous revolutions may be repeated. 8CHOONER MISSING. Fats of the Seawitoh With Passsngers Aboard la In Doubt. , Everett, " Wash., Dec. 1. The schooner Seawitch, which left here November 25 for Seattle with a pleaa- FINISH FAIR ure party numbering seven aboard, has not been heard from up to a late hour tonight and grave fears are enter tained that she foundered during the big storm Saturday, Captain Ram well of the American Tug Company says ho saw tho schooner at Edmunds Tuesday, and there Is a rumor ahe was sighted at Ballard, but the craft la not there yet Those aboard were C. E. Prltchard, his wife, three daughters, and B. Starke, the owner of tho boat, and a man named Bplnk. BOGUS SILVER HALF DOLLARS. Lot of Thorn Made by Counterfeiter In Ohio. Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 2. An aban doned counterfeiter's office with com plete outfit for the making or spurious sliver half dollars has been discovered in a thicket of Bullitt park. In all, fifteen dies were secured, together with a quantity of supplies. Memoranda found with the tools show that ap proximately $4,000 were made before the camp was located, on which the counterfeiters figured to realize a profit of about 85 per cent Investiga tion proves that the operators dis guised themselves as women and so avoided suspicion. Civil 8rvic Extended. Washington, Dec. J. President Roosevelt has Issued an order amend ing the civil service rules so as to In clude within the classified service, the positions of deputy collectors of cus toms and the chief collector at each sub-port Future appointments must therefore be based upon competive ex amination. The order affect about 400 positions. ' Today' Woathar. Western Oregon and Washington Friday partly cloudy; eastern, Oregon and eastern Washington generally fair. CHINESE MONOPOLY Portland Firms Furnish Labor for Alaska Canneries. THEY MAKE GOOD WAGES Chinese Exelusion Act Mskos Chinese Wages Higher and a Demand for Labor. Chinese tabor In salmon canneries Is no longer to be classed aa cheap labor, according to the managers of largo plants. White labor can be em ployed at as low cost as Mongolian, these employers say, and the reason that Chinese labor Is used Is because the large firms having their headquar ters In Portland have the packing In dustry reduced to scientific handling and can be relied upon Implicitly to fulfill their obligations. San Francisco packers operating canneries In Bristol bay fisheries dis trict and In other ports of Alaska rely entirely upon Portland for their labor. The firms In this city are now making contracts with numbers of these, and It Is aid to be Impossible to secure this class of labor at the Bay city. "Rigid enforcement of the Chinese exclusion laws has been restored the balance between Chinese and white labor." said the manager of a Port land firm, "and many of the Chinese laborers who went out to take care of the Alaska pack this year earned $350 and $400 for the season of three or four months. The average earnings for the season were probably not be low $300. That Is as expensive as white labor, but the canneryman knows that he can rely upon the Chi nese to perform the work without hindrance, and it would be difficult to And trained white labor familiar with all of the details of putting up the fish. "There was a time when San Fran cisco packers could secure an abun dance of Chinese labor without leav ing home, but Portland now haa a monopoly on that business, and It is significant of the fact that this city is one of the greatest centers of the sal mon Industry of the world. Local la bor Is used for the fisheries of the Sa cramento river, which, however, repre sents only a small part of the Invest or California capital In the business. for, by far the larger part of that con trolled by Barf Francisco, Is the ' Al aska canneries," TOILS TIGHTEN Land Frauds Case Grow ing More Dramatic. OF AN EXPERT McKinley Is Accused of Forging Young Woman Stenographer's Handwriting in Papers. COURT RULES OUT EVIDENCE Miaa War ia Accused of Complicity With McKnilcy in Writing tho Papers Which Form Govern ment's Evidence. Portland, Dec L The trial of the land fraud cases that la tho result of the attempt to atop the acquirement of of the public domain by sharpers and non-bona fide settler, was resumed this morning In the federal court, and a large part of the morning waa given to tho testimony of Hand Writing Ex port J. P. Marshall. The witness said he was unable to state whether the signatures of Mattle S. Lowell and Marie Ware were written by the same hand, but he waa strongly of the opin ion that the body of the papers In the Lowell case were In the handwriting of Miss Ware. In tho Graham, Pettis and Potter cases, the expert gave it aa bis opin Ion that the papers In evidence were written by McKinley and MIsa Ware, and that tho work was a mere Imita tion of the handwriting of Misa McCoy, tho stenographer for the abstract com pany. ' Tho attorneys for the government at tempted to Introduce a specimen of Miss McCoy's handwriting,' whereupon a hot discussion ensued, which ended In a ruling by tho court excluding auch testimony. Marshall waa allowed to testify as to hia opinion that tho George A .Howe relinquishment which waa the bono of contention yesterday, waa written and signed by H. O. McKinley, but tho let ter from Puter to Edwin Hobson, tend ing to show a business intimacy be tween Puter and McKinley waa ruled out by the court on technical grounds. FRESHMEN ASSESSED. Dean Wright Takes a Fall Out of Roistering Students. New Haven, Conn., Dec 1. Dean Wright of the academic department of Tale university has ordered the mem bers of the freshman class to pay an assessment of 20 cents each to be used to pay the expenses Incurred by the city park commissioner in cleaning East park after the recent freshman celebration. Signs on the fences in the neighborhood weer disfigured, and the class signs and numerals painted on the face of a lofty cliff, disfiguring Its natural beauty. DIAZ INAUGURATED. Mexican President's Seventh Term Start with National Merrymaking. City of Mexico, Dec. 1. The Inaugu ration of General Porflrlo Diaz, as pres ident of the republic of Mexico for the seventh time, and Senor Don Ramon Corral, as first vice president, took place in the hall of the chamber of deputies under most auspicious circum stances. At sunrise today all the artillery strftioned In the federal district and also the infantry here and at barracks throughout the republic fired a presi dent salute, and flags were hoisted over all public buildings. The principal streets and edifices and residences were decorated profusely with arches and national flaga. freely Interspersed with the flags of foreign nations. One of the features of the street decorations wero two allegori cal arches over the Paso de la Refor ma, the principal street of tho capital, representing "peace" and "glory." There was a huge procession, made up of thousands of federal troops the re serves, bands, societies, political or- ganlzatlon and many prominent per sonages. Including tho governors of tho state comprised In the union. The procession marched to tho hall of congress, where, amid great en thusiasm, the president and vice pres ident wero formally notified of their election and took the oath of allegiance. After an exchange of felicitations be tween the president and the governors, the foreign diplomatic representatives and the prominent citizens who had re ceived Invitations, went to a review ing stand, wbero they witnessed the passing of the procession en route to the castle of Chapultepec, where it was disbanded. The day waa devoted to fbld sports and merry-making. Tonight there waa music on the various plazas by military bands and an inaugural ball, to which over 1000 persons were present CAPTAIN IS DROWNED. Mate Nearly Low His Life In an At tempt to Save tho Master. Aberdeen, Wash., Dec, 1. Captain Albert Johnson of the schooner Chas. H. Wilson, from San Francisco, was washed overboard and drowned off Grays Harbor yesterday. The sea was running very high, 'and, though a boat was launched and life preservers thrown the drowning man he could not be saved. When the boat tried to reach the place where the cap tain was last seen the boat swamped. and the mate nearly drowned before the crew waa rescued. Nswo Change Hands. The Evening News . announces a change of management Mr. Edgar W. Stahl and P. B. Sovey having ac quired an Interest In the publication. Both gentlemen are newspaper men of experience and will endeavor to make the News the leading evening paper of the city. There Is certainly room for a live, progressive evening daily, and the News will no daubt All this field. URDERER IS KILLED Author of Alvarado Horror Falls a Victim of Sheriff. FELL WHILE FIRING AT POSSE For Houra the Crazed Man Kept tho Poso at Bay by Sheltering Him self Behind His Daughter, . Who Escape Unhurt. Fort Worth, Ter., Dec. 1. The sequel to the tragedy that cost the lives of Steve McKlnney, his father and a hired man on their farm near Alva rado Tuesday came today. J. M. Wil liams, the trlpple murderer barricaded himself in his home and defied the of ficers. He sent word to hia daughter, the widowed bride of the man that he had murdered, that If she did not come to him he would kill her. She went fearfully to the house, where she found her father armed with a Winchester and In a frenzy of rage. The officers were afraid to fire Into the house for fear of killing some member of Wil liams' family, whom he held prisoners there to shield him. All night the of ficers watched from the McKlaney home, where the bodies of the men killed by Williams lay. . Finally the murderer seated himself by'a window, and fell asleep. The widowed bride stole from the house and fled to the home where the husbands body lay, and officers were watching for1 an op portunity to make the murderer a prisoner. , As soon aa the posse learned Wil liams waa alone they opened fire on the house. He was not slow In return ing it. Finally the crack of his rifle ceased 'and upon Investigation the sheriff found the murderer lying on the floor with a bullet through his brain. MARKETS Liverpool December wheat 7s 3-8d. New Tork Silver 59 S-8c; Union Pacific 115 1-4; preferred, -95 1-4. Chicago December wheat opened at $1.08 S-8tt; closed $1.08; barley 42H 50; flax $1.11; northwestern $1.19. San Francisco Cash wheat $1.50. Portland Export, Walla Walla,' 80; bluestem 85; milling, Walla Walla, 83: bluestem. IS; valley 87ft; eastern mar ket basis. Wallft Walla, - 85 r bluestem, ' 90.