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AWnTHFB WAR
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Russia and England Will
Re Next. .
MOBILIZING TROOPS
tmia Steadily Sending Guns and
Troops to India to Pre Dare ,
for War. , f
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"UTARY trains are sent
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Tht Reorganisation of th Britlth In
Nl Army and Hr Influenc Over
t Turkey and Proposed Establishment
of Automy th Cause.
,Bt. leteriurg, Mrch 9 Ruwla la
ftei!!ljy rlaforclng her military force
"ith both rr-n and gum to aend In tht
r -41rrtlon of thn India frontUr. Hnu.
ifttonal nimora of the Ulnpntch of rein-
i i.
i froeuieiit to Runln Turkeatan two
ivthi ugu were denied at tht time,
out the Aaaoclaled !Tee la In a poal
Jin to fully arllrin their truth, Troopa,
iuna, ntunlilona of war have been
toying aouth for two montha. Fifty-
x military trnlna huve arrived at
afcnd, during which time the Aaao-
dated I'reaa Informant etatea that the
f greatet aecrecy waa obaerved.
All travelore In the dlatrlct were
r . (T'hllged to poeaoaa tecltU permlta and;
i Jcept under clone aurvelllance. Eng
V Jlahmen especially were tabooed. Mill
. ; pary offlcera being Inatructod to forbid
i; Ongllahmen traveling In Runalan
I JTurkeatan. It la believed that the
U'mntratlon waa made an object of
lmprealng Afgunbtan. The above
particular were given to the Akiw-
Minted Pre by a traveler who haa
Itiat returned from the fnrblddon dla
rlct. The Aaaoclaled Prcfie la unable to
ilitnln offlclnl Infornmtion. It la, how-
i ver niltnitted here that tinuiiual mili
ary activity la In prugrean. . A Rua-
, t ln In a hKh poiltlon. hov'r, Hated
I hat white RuhhIii haa no lelm on an
j nilla a conflict with her traditional
nemy la aura to come aooner or later
fVo'l "we "Blle our only path to vlc-
(tohy lie In the direction of India."
Irhe rtrltlKh acta In Thibet and Pernio,
lithe reorgwilantlon of the Hrltlao In
i'clan army and her Influence over Tur
j Jiey and pmpnued tHtabllahnnnt of
' utonomy over Arabia are the In
.ililent that rankle In the Rulan'
icnrtH.
STUDENT 8TABBED.
Sophomore Student in Ann Arbor Uni
I vertity,
J Ann Arbo,-, Mich., March . Harold
Jl. Tormm, of Birmingham, Mich., one
bt two Bophomore Btudenta atobbed
: curing a hnilng oplnode luat night, I
, In a critical condition. The knlf
penetrated the membrane "hen thing
j $4 . heart. L. A, arrcn, who wu
i tabbed In the bock, la alao In a crltl
; ' al condition. . One knife thruat pone
Nrated hla lung. No arreata have been
p iiode yet. ' , ' ,
EXTRA SESSION.
i lature After Normal Sohoola.
Portland, March ' 9. Nearly all of
the Multnomah county member of, the
legislature were Interviewed today and
t everyone expreead hlmaelf In favor of
folding a apeclal aeaalon of the Ore
I gon legislature to deal with th nor
I, wal achojJ leature of th gooeral ap
propriation blllViMoet of the member
Vree to aerve without pay. Benatot
alarky declared that in bli " Judg-
ent the governor should call a ape-
a) session of the legislature Inas
much as the legislature hod not taken
Skdvantag of Its opportunity to Beg.
tfresate the normal school Item from
I th general bill to comply with the
yflehe of the governor, and that H Is
sow ine uuty vi me memoera xo go 10
flulfirt :,nn! , correct th measure to
conform to the popular demand. J
Many of the member take thi ki
"lllort Unit It will l cheaper to cull
apodal session vf the leglnfature than
to cull a special lm Hon to vol on th
referendum petition, which l being
numerously signed throughout the
Ut mid, wlil be submitted to tb po
lit a spmial election to be held Ir.
June unless & special session of tht
legislature Ir called. It In generally
bllevd that th 'governor will call
special session within he next JO day.
NIW RAILWAY.
QiffiouKioo Bftwatn China and Ru
aia.
New York, March The construe
tlon of the Pekln-Knlgan i!wa?w.!l
be commenced Immediately under the
supervision of a Chine chief tnfinoei
nja a. Herald dispatch from Tleotaln,
A charter w not granted, owing to
the (Uiano-Chiueae agreement that un
la CTilitu m ployed Cblne engineer
Jid Chlneae money, Hutmla alone
might fonatruct the line.
Th new railway will bo financed by
the I'rkln-Hhiuighal Kwan Railway
Cumpany, which la bonded to Bngllah
mm. KAlgan la the railway key to all
the nortbweett'rn aectinn.
MARQUIS Of ANGELSY
la Reported to Be in Dying Condition
at Monte Carlo.
New York, March . The MarquU
of AngeUy, la according to an Amerl
run dlnpitih from Monte Carlo, dying
there from coneumptlon. Hla condl
tioa took a auddea turn for the worat
Wedneaday and It waa reported that
he could live but a ahort time.
The Marquta, who waa born in 1I7S,
attracted much attention after suc
ceeding to hla title through hla lavish
expenditure on Jewela and theatrical
Not long ago he waa thrown Into bank
ruptity, with llabllltlee aggregating
nearly f3.OAO.ooo.
MPLETED
Washington Legislature Has Com
pleted Labors.
ONLY ONE BILL IS VETOED
On Hundred and Fifty Billa War
Paned, Including Many Important
Measure, Being Railroad Commie
aion Bill and Fixing Boundary,
Olyinpla, Matcli H.- The tenth aea
alon of the legislature of Washington
adjourned sine die luto tonight. Thi
cloning hour were Interrupted by hl-
lurity, and acting on amended bills and
vonference committee repotta. The
real bunlnens of the session ended
shortly after noon. The general ap.
proprlntlon bill currying mnlntnlimnce
approprlutlona fur the various state
departments and Institutions of high
er education pnssed with a number of
smaller appropriation bills, making an
aggregate appropriation for the laal
nay of about lt.600,000 on all funds.
The legislature was 'In session 60 days
and cost the state S100.000.
About 110,000 of this, however, went
to furnishing the committee rooms and
legislative hall In the new capltol
annex, which can be' utilised again.
One hundred and fifty bills were panned
only one of which has so far been ve
toed, and that the capital removal
bill. The most Important legislation
was the creation of the railway com
mission, tax commission bill, a bill t
enable the government to proceed with
Us reclamation of seml-arld lands and
provisions for a fund to take the mat.',
ter of the boundary , Hue dlsput be
tween Oregon and Washington on th
lower Columbia .to the supreme court
. Grant Requisition.
Beattle, March 9. Governor Mead
has honored the requisition papers of
Sheriff T. B. Mlddloton, who la here
from 8t. George county. Maryland for
Ed Galloway, wanted there for tnur
der, and under arrest here. . The sheriff
and his party will start east with their
prisoner today.
WORK IS CO
NT B
uiiuUiiii
Status of Strike Situation
In New York.
STRIKERS CONFIDENT
Companies Claim Applications for
Positions are Daily In
creasing. ARBITRATION NOW DOUBTFUL
Effort to be Mad to Cau a Sympa
thetic Strike Among the Engineer
at the Power House Which If Sue
oeaaful Will Ti Up th System.
New York, March 9. Interest In the
strike of subway and elevated rallwa)
employes now center In the proposed
effort to caus a sympathetic walkout
of engineers and firemen at all toe
power houaea In this city so as to
paralyse all th traffic. Leader of the
strike against th Interborough com
any hav prvlouly made no effort
to shut off .th power on those lines.
believing they could win without such
steps. ,
The movement waa st In motion at
the meeting of the building trades sec
tlon of the Central Federated untoi
whn the members of ' tbe"iwcM(n
unanimously endorsed the strike and
named a. committee to confer with Wil
liam U Jencks to make plana for
reaching the engineers and firemen,
strong appeal wo made to the meeting
by John F. Hefferman, secretary of the
Amalgamated Association. He said
that If the firemen and englneera In
the various power houses could be In
duceJ to go out It would soon bring
the Interborough company to term
Such a move, be said, would cut off
every bit of power In the city. It
would mean the Instant paralysis ol
surface lines and throw the entire
rndlc burden upon the Interborough
street lino, provided the men In the
nterborough power house refused to
Join th strike. .
The committee "apiiolnted ; is com
posed of John Carroll, president of the
Eccentric Firemen's Union, and Wll
Ham Hand, secretary to the stanJara
nd Eccentric Engineers' ' union.
These men ar to confer with Lead
er Jemks nnd Immediately thereaftei
their effort to start the other strike
will be instituted.
Ilefterman made a strong appeal for
Id and said he felt sure that If the
engineers and firemen Joined the strike
he electric switch operators employed
In the big power houses would follow
them. He sold that Timothy Haley
nd C. L. Schamp, president and secre
tary respectively of the Illinois Broth
erhood of Firemen, were In the city
nd would aid In Inducing the m-n to
strike, i ,
The Interborough Company's power
house- at Nlriety-flfth street and Kiev
enth avenue nnd Seventy-flfth street
nd East river are being closely guard
ed. AH approaches are patrolled, and
every man penetrating within a block
of th district la scrutlntced by the po
lice. On these power houses depends
the operation of the elevated and the
subway syslBms. If It were possible
to get the men employed there to quit
work, not a train could be moved.
There are about 800 men employed
In those houses and nearly all ,nre
members of the Engineers' and Fire
men' unions. j , 4 f . r. ,
Soon ' after th strike commenced all
the employes at the power houses were
Informed that they' Would be expected
to remain at their posts day and night.
Sleeping quarters were arranged and
two cooks were detailed to each power
house, with a staff of assistants. Thus
th men who hold th key to the en
tire situation are being kept beyond
the Influence of the strikers.
Among the other protective meas
ures Is a guard of three policemen
over a "Manhole" at Tenth avenue and
Fifty-ninth stree. Within this hole
run the feed wires from the west siJe
power station and he smallest ex
plosive dropped ' down there r.n.l
orraa connections and cause a com
plot tie up. Among the petty disturb
antes reported In various sections of
the city was an attack early today on
two college youlhs at One Hundred and
Forty-flfth street and Lexington ave
nue. The stuleids bad been acting as
strike breakers In the subway. When
they emerged fiom th station a crowd
set upon them. They were being se
verely pummeled when two girls
pleaded with the crowd and succeeded
in securing their relaae..aftr they
a! promised" liol (o return to work.
THE ISTHMUS CANAL.
Question of Sa Levsl to Form an Im
portant Part.
Washington, March 9. The que
tlon as to whether the Isthmian canal
can be maJe a sea level waterway ot
constructed on the lock system need
not be definitely determined for several
years to come as the preliminary work
for either system will be the same. If
It be a sea level system, larger appro
priation win te required than ha
been set aside for canal purposes. Per
haps fiv years may elapse before tht
question will have to be decided, thu
ample time will be given for a most ex
haustlve Investigation and consldera
tlon. At the present time balance fa
vor Is for sea level.
Jury Disagreed.
Cripple Creek. March 9. The Jury
In the case of James M. WarfoM
deputy sheriff who shot and killed
Christopher MUer and Isaac Lea boa at
th polls In Ooldfleld on November 9
last, were discharged today, having
failed to agree on a verdict after1 de
liberating 79 hours.
You Can Bet Now.
Jefferson City, March 9. The sen
ate passed the bill repealing the breed
ers law today, whch' permitted bet-
Hh .ft - . 1 -
SCRAP
Supreme Court of the State Ap
pealed To.
FAVOR THE LIEUT. GOVERNOR
Joint Lsgialativ Convention Want an
Opinion aa to Its Power to Declare
Office of Governor Vacant and Seat
th Lieutenant Governor.
Denver, March 9. The Joint legla
lative convention has sought an opln
ion irom me siaie supreme crnrt on
the question whether it has the power
to declare the olllce of governor vacant
and what effect such action would hav
on the present contest. A decision in
the Peabody-Adams gubernatorial con
test will be deferred until un opinion
Is received from the supreme court.
This action is taken with a view of
deciding against the claims of both
Penbody and Adams and seating Lieu
tenant Governor McDonald as gover
nor. In the meantime the allegations
of Senator Morgan In regard to brib
ery will be held In abeyance. The
committee on Investigation held a brief
session this afternoon, after which
Senator Arthur W. Cornforth. its
halrnian, announced that nt the re
quest of the attorneys for both sides,
an adjournment had been taken sub.
ect to the call of the chairman, or
practically until the governorship
tangle had been straightened out.
ALASKA TELEGRAPH.
Wireless System .Completed Fifteen
Hundred Miles.
Washington, March 9. General
Greely has received a report of the op
erations of the Alaska Telegraph sys.
tern during January. The wireless
work runs uninterruptedly 107 miles
across Norton sound and the land lines
are 160 miles In length. Various in
terruptions from snow and severe
storms averages, however, less than
three' hours per station, which Is but
one sixth ot the Interruptions In Janu-
ry, 1904.' ,
COLORADO'S
iiiiinrii rui o
inucni riuo
Report Japanese Capture
WARSAW IS JUBILANT
No Confirmation of Report Re
ceived at St. Petersburg
Tonight.
WILL HAVE TO SURRENDER
Japans Attaeka Go to th Very Point
of Intanity and Desperation and th
Soldiers Hav Not Eaten Anything
for Forty-Eight Hour.
Warsaw, March 9, 12:15 a. m. A re
port has reached Warsaw tonight that
Mukden ha fallen and the' news-was
The newspaper wished to publish the
report, but were promptly forbidden
to do so by the censor, which gives
credit to th report. It was ,qulckly
Irculated, however, and was the sub
Jet-t of almost unanimous Jubllent
comment
St. Petersburg, March 9. St Peters
burg this morning knows little more
of the outcome of the battle at Muk
den than It knew Wednesday night.
The moet Important news received
was from Russian sources In the As
sociated Press information that the
Japanese had already reached Hun
river, Tie Pass, only 12 miles east of
Mukden, and well westward of Gen
eral Llnevltch's line of retreat Wheth
er extreme Russian left has alread)
succeeded In retiring behind Hun riv
er and moving down north on the bank
of the stream to Join hands with Gen
eral Kuropatkln's main force is not
stated.
Mukden, March 9, 4"a. m. Midnight
closed the tenth day of the struggle
for the possession of Mukden and the
mastery1, of thl great empire. Tht
tenth day was one of unceasing con
flict under exploding shrapnel, roar of
cannon, whistling bullets, In which
none of the troops have had any sleep
and have been without food. The
combat Is fast reaching the point
where it is a question not so much of
turning columns of tactics and strat.
egy as of strength energy, cartridges
will lost the longer. Gray coated Rus
sians,, patient, uncomplaining, strong of
soul, clung closely and doggedly to
positions against an enemy whose at
tacks go to the very point of Insanity
and desperation.
For forty-eight hours the Japanese
have not eaten. They are starving and
exhausted, but Field Marshal Oyama
himself has told them that the city
would fall and the slaughter stop oa
Friday, and their confidence In their
leader Increases their strength ten
fold. With every fresh flanking move
ment, the Iron band closes nearer te
the railroad and under the menace, the
first and third Russian armies were
forced last night to abandon the
mighty fortifications on Shakhe river,
giving up the Impregnable Poutlloff
hill and retire to the line of the Hun
river.
Toklo, March 10, 11 a. m. Reports
from Manchuria army headquarters
say that the Japanese have captured
Tleta. with all the Russian stores and
supplies. The Russians vigorously
defended their fortifications north of
Hun river. Dust storm Is Interfering
with the battle.
Mukden, March 9. At noon yster
lay still occupied by the Russians. Fu
Pass, 12 miles eastward and' on Hun
river, a vital point for General Kuro
patkin In the retreat of his easten,
wing, was bombarfied by the Japanese
early In the day. The outcome at this
point seems to be In doubt A wind
storm of hurricane fury was In pro
gress during the day. No reports have
been received from the commander-
in-chief later than Wednesday at St.
Petersburg. The Associated Press dls
PUi.rs iiuin tukden indicate consid
erable Japanese - force well . north i of
the city of Mukden and that the rail
road upon which depends the supplle
for the "Russian1 army, Is "seriously
threatened. If indeed, it Is not already
cut.
HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.
Lord Roseburx 8paks Befor London
Liberal Club. , ,
London, March 9. The question of
home rule for Ireland was the princi
pal feature of a speech by Lord Rom-
burry before th city of London Lib
eral Club tonight H lordship aaid
that while the liberal part ympa
thlsed with Ireland and was willing 4
proceed along the lines of reform, ther
was one thing to which no wis states
man ever will expose the ' country,
namely, the curse of dual government'
We hav had sufficient warning In
th example of Norway and Sweeden
and Austria and Hungary to avoid the
peril of having the vulture gnawing
at our Tltala. ;
BRYAN LOSES CA8E.
8uprm Court Decides Will Cas
Against Him.
Hartford, March 9. A decision was
handed down today by the supreme
court which upholds the decision of
th superior court In declaring that
the sealed letter In the Phikj & Ben
nett will, containing a bequest to Wil
liam Jennings Bryan of 150,000 1 not
a part of Bennett' correct will.
Sttamar Disabled. '
Washington, March 9. The navy de
partment is endeavoring to Intercept
th collier Brutus, which left Singa
pore several day ago for the United
State by way of the Sues canal, with
a view to sending her to the relief or
th chartered collier Maine, reported
to be disabled at Durban, Natal The
Main carried 9000 tons of coal from
th American porta destined to th
naval station at Cavite. ' ,
RUSSIAN FAMILIES
Were Landed at the Wrong Port
of Destination.
IN IMPOVERISHED CONDITION
Embarked from Russia for Los Ange
les and War Landed at Buenos
Ayr Without any Visible Meant of
Support in Impoverished Condition.
Los Angeles, March 9. It Is report
ed that a party of 20 Russian emi
grants on their way from Russia to
Los Angeles have been landed from a
steamer at Buenos Ayres, Argentine
republic, by mistake. Among the num
ber are said to be several families, the
agents of which preceded them to Los
Angeles, arriving some weeks ago and
are now awaiting the arrival of the
women and children. The mistake was
made. It Is said, by the emigration
agent in Russia, who booked the party
for the wrong port. The condition of
the unfortunate Russians, who are ot
the lower classes of the Interior ot
Russia Is said to be pitiable. They ar
wholly unfamiliar with the country In
which, th.ey have landed, unable to
speak any language but Russian and
are practically without funds.
The local Russian colony Is much
exercised over the state' of affairs and
have taken steps to have the emigrants
re-embarked and brought to this city.
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
BONDS SECURED.
Road from Spokane to Canadian
Boundary. . '
Spokane. March 9. D. C. Corbln of
Spokane, who financeered and built
several northwestern railroads, an
nounced today, on returning from New
York and England, that the entire
bond Issue of $4,000,000 for building
the Spokane International to a con
nection with the Canadian Pacific at
the boundary line, had been sub
scribed. Mr. Corbln and five asso
ciates subscribed 1500,000 each. It Is
expected that th road will be com
pleted during the summer of 1909.