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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.