V V v . G OOP EVENING. . ; . . 1 1600 THE CIRCULATION OF THE JOURNAL , YESTERDAY WAS .n xu Wutna ' Tonight and Sunday, fair; cooler . this afternoon and tonight: north westerly winds. VOL: III. NO. 132. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6 1904, PRICE FIVE CENTS. L r NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEETS IN NEW-YORK JOURNA EPIDEMIC Kiiropat kin May Not Be Able to - Flee Fash Enough to Escape.. TERRIFIC FIGHT IS OIS fifty-Four' Battalions Hurled Against Russian Position at Houtsaize . and TAre . Forcing , Kuro v patkln Back; , . i (Journal Special ferric.) Vladivostok. Aut. 6. (Bulletin.) The prlsa court haa adjudged tha steamer Kplght Commander to ba a lawful prise; Investigation showed that aha bad rail way material -aboard destined to ba sent through a Japanese . port to Chemulpo, Korea. - -, -, : (Josraal Special Service.) ' London. .Aug. . A Russian defeat at advance to right and left of Hal Chens, comprise the war newa of the day aa told in advlcaa from the front and from St. Petersburg-.. A Nagasaki dispatch' says that Port Arthur has fallen, but the re ' port flnda little credence here. The tenor of the reliable news from the front indlcatea that Kurokl's move ment to envelop Kuropatkln's army and compel his surrender or flight Is now nearly completed. ' Advices from 6f Pe tersburg seem to indicate that there la rami fear that lit anlta of Ala loni nrnc tics in rapid retreats Kuropatkln may not ba able to escape from Llao Yang; iwnm n jarajimiii n uMn mm .u. emtAm rifty-rou. Japanese. SatsaUona . Drive . ' . (Journal 'Special Service.) . ; . St Petersburg.. Aug. . Information cames to tha Bourse Gasette' in a dis patch which says that another great bat tle is being fought In tha neighborhood . ox Houisaize on ins rauroao. t mini west of Llao Tang. , The Japaneaa made a fierce attack on tha Russian position at Houtsais with posed of regular troops. . . General Kurokl employed tha reserve In the .attack while using the regulars to carry out feints. Tha reserves attacked with despera tion. Their ranks were decimated by Russian fire. . The Russians ultimately -retired Slowly to suitable positions whence they Indicted great losses on tha Japanese by heavy artillery fire. Jt telegram from Xiao Tang states that tha Japaneaa have lost 12.000 kUled and wounded In the attack on the Rus sian center. !. '. . A Second Battle. A dispatch from. General Kuropatkln this afternoon reports tha advance of the Japanese army and an engaganent on the banka of the Taltaste river, but gives no details. ' General Kuropatkln ays: ' "The enemy, August 4, advanced IS vents north of Hal Cheng. The enemy Is advancing on our east front also and haa concentrated at Molting in consider able foroe. The enemy at Gutsyahtse and Slheyan crossed to tha right bank of -w f .In.. K.i mmmm. rlvaa hf Ir Csar Fears Surrender. ,.'.'. Tit la reported ' that tha csar has Strongly urged General Kuropatkln to exhaust every "means at -his command to maintain his position at Llao Yang. Another report aays that the Russian forces are ao exhausted after continual fighting during the past seven days that any rapid movement , such as is necessary to tha successful evacuation of blao Tang la Impossible. The Japanese are reported to W con verging on Llao Tang from three aides and already are driving in the Russian outposts. .-.' ' ; ' ' 1 , it is Known tnat ornciai reports are constantly received from General Kuro patkln and' tha fact that they are not published adds to the anxiety of the people, . : . t; pobt abtkub rAx.lswr little Oredanoe Is Oiven tha Bepeated : Itunov. ' " V ' . , (JTnrnl Special Service.) Paris, Aug. 6. A dispatch from Nag asaki states that the report has reached there that Port Arthur haa fallen.' The report Is given little credence heret It is generally thought to ba a wild rumor uch aa haa been going tha rounds for a month past. All dispatches from the vicinity of Port Arthur lately Indicate that the Russians are In a position to put up a long continued fight, and It Is known that they were in possession Tf tha works three dayr ago. St. ' Petersburg, ' Aug. T.ltfle cre dence la placed in the Nagasaki report that Port Arthur has fallen. . - ' - " , ) mK3. niiLcy rtntKAL . HELD AT ARLINGTON JJirmtl Special Serrlea.) ' Washington, Aug. (.The body of Mrs. Nelson A. Miles was burled at Arlington . this - morning. Many dis tinguished persons and civil .officials at tended. . Floral offerings were received from the president," ' Mrs. Roosevelt, the aablnet officers and many friends. ' IN LINE Strikers in Chicago March In : Imposing Parade v Around Stockyards. BOYCOTT IS FORBIDDEN San Francisco Court Decides Against Stablemen's Union, Declaring U,ls : latlve Act Permitting Boycotts and Picketing Unconstitutional. , (Joonwl Special service.) , :. Chicago, Aug. . In tremendous pro test against tha refusal. of the packers to grant' their demands, striking em ployes of the local packing houses pa raded tha streets of Chicago today. It Is .estimated thac 20,000 persons were In line. A feature of tha parade was the large number of women and little children In Che linn. Most of the .women are wives of strikers,, and their poor, dresses and the little ragged toddlera clinging to their skints aroused many expressions of sympathy. The parade marched in divisions, each headed by a platoon of police and a band. Many members of the musicians' union donated their services in order that the strikers might-have music. The line of march lay In the vicinity of tha stock yards and ended in Oswald's grove. where the strikers held a picnic. Thousands-of people-crowded the line of march to watch the paraders. There was much shouting, but no disorder. Both tha packers and the leaders .of the men are resting on their oars, each waiting for soma -new, move, on the part of the other. - r , rjcroBTAirr sboisio zs mass. legislative Act permitting Boycotts) Se- t clared Unconstitutional. ' . (Jocroal Special Service.)-San-Francisco, Aug. C. The superior court this morning ordered a final de cree In the injunction against tha Stable men's union, forbidding It from main taining a boycott against the -Nevada livery stable. This is the most Impor tant decision affecting labor aver handed down in. this stats. It prevents labor organisations from maintaining pickets or In any way inter- ferlng with the business of the employer. It also declares tha legislative act per mitting boycotts .to be unconstitutional. QUIT WOBK TO TOTS. Thirty Thousand Miners WOl Ballot on Wags Bedootloa. ' (Joornal Special Serrlea, ) , Pittsburg, Kan., Aug. . Thirty thousand members of the miners' unlhn In Missouri, Kansas, .Arkansas snd the Indian Territory quit work today to vote on tha operatora' proposition to ac cept 14 per cent wage reduction. - It Is believed .that the proposition will carry. ;-...., t wxxa nuPOBT nzriLs-woixni Committee of Thlrty-Tlurea Will Solicit 'Contributions. (Journal Special Service.) ' Wsshtngton. Aug. 6. A majority ' of tha executive committee of tha Ameri can Federation of Labor haa voted to support the strike of the textile-workers at Fall River. Contributions will be so licited by S3 men and women identified with tha labor movement. TWO LABORERS MEET A TERRIBLE DEATH -(Special Pupate, to The Journal.) f , Vancouver, B. C, Augr . Two la borers at the B. C Electiio works, in this city, met wkth a terrible death this morning. - 1 ' - . They were working on a scaffolding, when In some unknown manner they fell, striking on a number of live wires di rectly beneath. . One of the men was Instantly killed, but his companion suffered- extreme agony, writhing and twisting ss ha hung In space for Several minutes befpre the current was turned off and his limp body dropped to she ground. . FATAL ACCIDENT AT RAILWAY CROSSING ' (Jnarnal Special 4rvlre.) " Kansas City. Aug. . J. ( Morris was Instantly 'killed ' snd eight others In jured In en accident at the Fifteenth street trolley car grade crossing today. Tha Santa Fe nnssenger train from Los Angeles to Chicago struck the trol ley car, completely wrecking It. : The ac cident waa due .to tha failure of the watchman to lower the gates that pro tect tha crossing. mmw Baza bxbctbi. ' (Jnerml Special Service.) -Paris, Aug. t. A dispatch this morn ing states that the accouchment of the cxarlna Is expected today. . m ., '. f SEBATOa TXST aUBXXBw. ' Sweet Springs.' Mo., Aug. 4. Senator Vest Is very low again today. . K m fa' y'A V t ' ' 11 - A MISS GERALDINB'FARHAR, THE BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN SINGER,' WITH . f : .r ' ' rr PRINCE FLEES PRETTY SINGER Curious Coincidence of many's Heir With Geraldine Farfar's Sail ing for "the - Kaisb's, Realm Berlin, Aug. f. Memories of a royal romance are revived . by. the announce ment that i Miss Geraldine Farrar,, The, American singer, la to return to the Berlin opera under an extended contract, and that the crown prince Is to take a year's trip around the world. It waa at 'the cloae of last year that the atory of Jhe reputed Infatuation of Crown Prince Frederick William for Mlsa Gera'ldine Farrar became publio All sorts of sensational Incidents follow. Miss Farrar's father, who was a famous baseball-player in his dav, trounoed a Berlin editor 'for -saying scandalous things about the alleged attachment, and It was even said that Farrar had writ ten to the kaiser demanding an Imperial denial of the stories. ' . In the midst of the turmoil Miss Far rar fell sick, and on her recovery left Berlin, so 'twas said, never ta return. The announcement that' the crown prince was to go upon a ' tear's trip around the world first appeared on Tues day last In a dispatch from Brunswick. Version of Trouble. ', Miss Farrar arrived In Paris in June, where she has been tha guest of Mrs. Bertram Webb, one of the leaders of the American and English set there. . The noted young singer's Version of the trouble over her contract, to sing In Berlin is as follows: "When I was first engaged to sing In the royal opera I was, only Just 1. years WKat clo You Want? wire and cable connection The 1 equaled for excellence in the t Oregon want the local news fresh on the day it happens, attractively displayed and well writ ten, you have to read The Journal. , ' ' .Is it amusement? The Sunday Journal provides that, too, in its magazine section, the contributors to which are writers known over the whole world. Here are just a few of the special features of tomorrow's newspaper : "Mystic Morality," by Maurice Maeterlinck, the famous playwright and author; "Russia's Weakness," by Baron von der Brueggen; "Modern Fairy Queen," Lady Henry Somerset's account of the wonderful child violinist, Florizel Reu ter ; "The World'a Most Wonderful Lace-Makers," by Frederic J. Haskln. . There are plenty of others. Mrs. Robert Osborn. creator of fashions, tells the ladies the latest the veryvlatest in dressmakers' creations, Ray C. Ewry, holder of the world'a record 1 for the standing high jump, continues The' Journal's course in athletics by telling boys how 1 to train. If you want to sell a play, a New York manager, tells you how. Belle Blitz tells another of her sparkling. fables, "The Fable-of the Managing Mamma." Cartoonists Oppex, Swinnerton, "Bunny" and others draw their funniest colored .pictures for the. children. If .1 L! J . . 1 " . " reading matter that you want, that you can't find anywhere else, be sure to get ' ' - ' V. e-4 . .! ";. IS 8AID.TO BE IN. LOVE. , ... ...... : : : : . the Departure of Ger old," said Miss Farrar. "Indeed, I was so young that when tha question of a contract was brought up it was agreed that there should be merely a verbal un derstanding with the directors. "My mother always went with me be hind the scenes, and that immediately became one of the sources of trouble. The other members of the company, all of them much older, than I was, began criticising me for bringing my mother to the. theatre. When I ignored this they retorted to gibes like this: " 'Ho you like your milk wsrmed, little oner and "Can you. walk yetr -. T did not permit this to worry ma, and then the women singers, all of them from SO to 40 years old, went to the di rectors of the theatre and demanded the right to bring their mothers behind the scenes. "In order to put a stop to this, one of the new .directors forbade -my mother going behind the Scenes. He wss so ob durate about it that I wrote to- Emperor William, asking his consent to continue to do as I .had been, doing about the matter. I said that If this could not -he done I must Insist on being released -from my contract, as one of my age could not go behind the scenes alone. "The emperor Immediately ordered the dlrectora, to permit mother to accom pany me on the stage at all perform ances. His. majesty requested me to (Continued on Page Three.) Journal haa facilities for presenting a telegraphic service un- northwest. Evervbodv knows Uoernal Special Service.) ' . , Esopua, N. Y., Aug. WII- e Ham y. Sheehan -arrived from,) New Yorl thia. morning and an- nounced that the first meeting of tha national executive commit- e tee, of .which he Is chairman, ' will be held : In the Hoffman house 'In New York u Monday. at which plans for headquarters , and the opening of the campaign will ba settled. . . As a result' of hla conference with Charlrs T. Murphy In New York the otter "'day Charles W. Goodyear of Buffalo, la credited with4 being Tammany's real candidate for governor. Curing the days when Cleve land waa governor at Albany Mr. Goodyear was a frequent visitor at the executive chamber. On these occasions ha met Alton B. Parker. - His acquaintance with Judge. Parker haa been re newed from time to time Mr, Goodyear has a reputation as a public speaker. His friends say that if he should be nomin ated for governor the voters of York would hsve some old-fashioned campaigning that would arouse great enthusiasm. WHOM GERMANY'S CROWN PRINCE ' ' V : " '.'.'',' SHIPS OF WAR ARE SENT TO TURKEY Naval Demonstration In View of the Armenian Massacres Is Admitted V bjrthe State Department. '. (Jomal Special Service.) . Washington, O. C, Aug. (.Acting on a request of the state department, the secretary of the navy today ordered Admiral Jewel), commanding the Euro pean squadron, to proceed with his fleet to Smyrna. This action, it la admitted In official circles, means that a naval demonstration la to be made agatnat Turkey. Tha squadron Is composed .of tha Olympla, ' Baltimore and th Cleye- land, now at Nice. While no official statement has been given out. It Is thought by those who have been keeping In touch with the eastern question, ss It relstea to the constantly recurring massacres of Ar menians by Turkish soldiers, that this step Is being taken with a view of In fluencing th sultan to put a atop to tha outrages. A few days agd It waa rumored, after tha receipt of news that mora than MOO Armenians had been massacred in the districts of Mush and Sassoun, that the -representatives of various mission ary societies in Europe would petition the powers of Europe and America to Intervene. ' While no definite Information can be gained. It Is believed by many that some such action has been taken, Snd . that th sending of the European squadron to Smyrna 1a. In sn indirect way, the result of this action. . (Continued on Page Two.) Is it the news? You will find it all in The Sunday Journal and nowhere else. By -special leased bv this time that ' if von in , . - day Ji 1! unaav i ourna IS FOUND Missing Volume of County Records Is Discovered " This Morniiig. DUDLEY EVANS HAD IT Had Been Culling Needed ' Data From it For Weeks and -Never, Knew , It Had Been Considered . , ' Lost Joy Now. While City Detective Kerrigan and a member of PlnkertonV Natlonak Detec tive agency were emulating "Old Sleuth" in an effort to locate the miss ing Journal No. I of the county commis sioners; while deputies and clerks st the courthouse were . assiduously at work In the various, musty corners of rooms little used In that structure, hoping to discover its , whereabouts; while cor ferences between countjromcIals "and lawyers were a matter of dally occur rence, tul; while mechanics were sur veying thestel vault st County Clerk Fields' ofllce, preparatory to removing all the steel compartments to find out If the early records of the county had been shoved down behind them Dudley Evens, the county health otlicer, serenely unconscious of the hubbub go ing on beneath the surface, sat In his otllce and pored over the very book, thu disappearance of which haa caused all the excitement and anxiety; After being out of the vault Juat five weeks to a day. the Journal was returned to Its accustomed place on .the shelves today. -'County .'Judge, Webster, and County Clerk Fields' were delighted to find that the book bad been in ssfe hands. AU the officials and deputies have received "a fright, however, the effects of which will, not wear away for some time In consequence of the affair heavy lock Is to be placed on the vault. snd It Is probable that hereafter attor neys snd others will be permitted to take a book from there .only on signing a slip of paper, so that if it is not re turned In due time the person respons ible wUl be known. BtatlsUea Ar Obtained. 1 A letter was received by Mr. Evana about three months sgo from Director 8. A. D. north of the bureau of the census, asking htm for information rela tlve to benevolent institutions. In an endeavor to comply with the request he found lt necessary to consult tha com misalonera' iournal No. 1. Oolnar into the county clerk's office he procured the book from a deputy June 2a and took it Into his own office, near the western end of th main corridor at th court house. . Bine that date he has been era ploying all hla spar time in scanning its faded pages, and had Just read and made notes from page 447 when he learned of the undercurrent of excite ment due to a belief that the book had been stolen. It is quit probable that the book tght have remained In hla possession for a ' month longer had not Attorney W. D. Freeman desired it to secure some information relative to a suit brought by Multnomah county against his clients. J. C Stanley snd Q. W. Laa- don, for th poasesslon of to seres of land on th Baa Line road. That Mr. Evans learned 'nothing of the search for th book la easily explained. Hu was th last office in which anybody expectad to find It, and the strictest secrecy prevailed. The officials realised that the loss not a doubt that the book had been stolen entered their minds was of the most serious nature, and they naturally felt reluctant to have the. facts become publio property until every resource had been exhausted In the effort to recover Its possession. Search Xs Aotlv. . During the whole nerlod that an ac tive search for the ,'Volum has been In progress, covering the last two weeks, the county health officer has had the book on his desk almost every day, gleaning statistics for the census bureau from Ita pages. The officials esy that only the secrecy maintained as re gards the supposed loss rah account for Its not being discovered In Ms room. Even then It appears, almost Incredible that clerks could have entered there every day and not have seen th book, though it was kept locked In a desk when not In use. " An official entered th county health office today on a matter of business and Incidentally- remarked that, the disap pearance of th commissioners' Journal waa a atrange affair. What Journal la thatf. queried Evans, suddenly becoming Interested. "Why, th first volume of th com missioners' records. Didn't you read the story of Its disappearance In The Journal last evening?" Th health officer made no reply. He Jumped out of hla chair and ran to a table on which lay several -papers. Throwing them here and there he se lected last evening's Journal.. It Was the first story that ranght his eye. He aat down and began to read. As he got sn Idea of the excitement and trouble following th supposed loss of the book his breath came quickly and hla yea 1" had""" 1 through'when h c. Irly bulged with excitement. e article only half could stand the pres sure no longer. . Stwu Is Startled. "Why, I'v got that book." he shonted. snd fishing a key from his' pocket pro ceeded to unlock a desk with a folding cover standing in one corner of the room. Producing the volume wanted, he hurried to Judge I Webster's office and lay It before that official. (Continued on i'aga Two.) OF CRIME One Holdup and -Three Burglaries Are Last 's Record " NO ARRESTS YET MADE Streetcar Bandits Fire With Murderous Intent But Miss "Ladder" ' Burglar Reaps Rich Reward For His Labors. ' v One atreetcar held up and the coW- ductoc and tnotorman robbed of S th residence of W. T. Perry entered and Sl& taken, the meat mprket of J. Ku rath burglarised and plundered for 12, and the Haffenden grocery store broken' Into and 6 cents removed from the till. " - . . . ... v ,i. i VB ..aim jmi night. Car 204 of the Portland helrht. Una. saryig-evraIpaBengers. and "In-- cnarge or conductor Harrison and Mo torman Bingham, waa held by two masked bandits at Twentieth and Carter streets at 11:15. -The conductor, threw a glass tumbler at on of th criminals.' causing him to fir several shots. Pas- . sengers crouched on the floor for safety. No one waa hurt. This la the thlrif tr.t.aU h.M. ..win. w rrifc anu, tiae ina wcona one, which waa perpetrated Wedneaday night at Thirty-first and Thurman Btreeta. on the Portland Rllwav rnm. pany'a line, the bandits did not molest the passengers. i n roDoery last nigm occurred right R.K, 111. V..l.n. aln...tk..U.. E Ileebe, a member of the police committee' of the executive board. -Two of th rrlghtened passengers, finding ap oppor tunity in t .mm f f,.rM th.,.... .Liu bandits were busy with the ' employes, rsn t Mr. Iteebe's residence and sought shelter. .Mr. Be be telephoned to pojlce headquarters, and Acting Captain Car penter Immediately dlHpUtched Policemen Hill, Ogg, Kealng, glover and Price to the soene, but by the time they reached there the robbers had msde their, es cape. . Policeman Price -made a long search through the brush on th bill, near-the place, out found no trace. - Conductor Waa arervy. When hla car waa about to b held un. Conductor Harrison, who Is quit a young man, showed grim determination to siop in Danaua in meir wore lie said today: , "I saw th fellow waa going to get on the rear platform, and 1 slammed ray. glass tumbler at him. It struck him on the chin and he fell off. He waa greatly enraged snd fired two shots point-blank la th woodwork above tha car platform. I had a very narrow escape. ' II fired two more ahots. but they went very wild. While the robber was trying to get on again I was endeavoring to get hold of one of the Iron pins that bang from th platform, but was unable to secure It In time to do execution, or I would ha v laid the fellow cold, I think." rooks' lamia. Probably th coolest man In th atreet car that was held up waa C. C Brooks. a well-known young traveling man, who is a guest at the Portland hotel. Mr.' srooas was on ine car, in company witn his cousin Miss Bessie Jolly, formerly a Portland girl, who Is visiting friends In this city. They were taking a ride. around the loop and were sitting at th front end of th car On the rtaht aide. when suddenly a pistol shot rang out al most in their ears. "The car was moving slowly," said Mr. ' Brooks, "snd almost Immediately a man ' appeared on th rear platform, wearing white handkerchief tied across hla face, and carrying a revolver, which he pointed at the nassensers snd said in a loud voice: 'Now. you, all t hold np your hands or I'll shoot! Every body at one got . down between th . seats. But ss soon aa I heard the shot . fired i suspected there was a holdup on hand, find my cousin and I stood up. 'The robber was a young fellow, snd ' very nervous. When he told the pas- . sengers to 'hold up their hands my cousin and I sat down. She was ex tremely nervous ana mgntenea; ana i ... about 1 OA in my pocket, and she had some Jewels snd a watch, and naturally ' we sought to put these things where th robber would not look for them, H walked through th car. pointing th ' . revolver ahead, and as soon ss he got fey us we stepped. Into th aisle and moved toward the rear door or the car. When we were nearly there he looked around snd saw us. - He promptly cov ered us with his revolver and ordered ul to stop, and, of course, we stopped. Hs then turned his attention to m motorman, and they had some loud words. The car was still running slow ly. The motornmn grabbed his hands and ey scuffled a moment, and then th motormnn stoppea tne.cnr; wnu the robber's attention was on th mo torman my cousin snd I msde our es cape from th rear door snd ran up th hank, ffhe was shout to collapse and , I had troubl to Indue her to keep on running. As w went up the bank snd serosa the road a shot -was fired. We kept on snd ran down the oiher side of the bank andi cam to General Iieerte's house. I know th general very well. and we rang the belt and were admitted. Only Saw One Bobber. "IOnly saw one robber the fellow who came through the car. lie Aid iv.t attempt to molest the pnssenaT. t t only seemed lo fear that they v out of the car snd mske trouMc i , llred people sitting on thlr r the car passed, and While t wss going on. I hard wnm-' t VC'on.inuwl on 1 ' : j'.. V p