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About Lane County leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1903-1905 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1904)
TRADE OP THE PHILIPPINES. LANE COUNTY LEADER A. CUR Otti» OAOE. bilNr A PA. ARMIES ARE ABOUT EQUAL. Russia Has All Confidence Kuropat kin V III Be V ictoriou s. St. Petersburg, Sept. 1.— The great battle of Liao Yang, which began early e l e c t r ic ROAD IN UMATILLA. Tuesday morning, raged throughout the day with increasing intensity, but Built I f Portage up to this hour no further official de Bureau o f F orestry Has Matter Constructed. 4ci- Consideration. tails beyond two brief telegrams given el tW Los Imperiasi kst Not Le» Pendleton— In the event of the con of Salem— The United States bureau tota» of tht Put Week—lis- out in tbe afternoon, have been receiver! struction of tbe portage tailway between Isrtcai. Haussai. NJJotil. Penaaai. bby the war office. Every confidence forestry has under consideration the es Celilo and The Dalles, which now seems is expressed in General Kuropatkin’i tablishment of a testing station at the assured, an electric railroad may be A terry bout in Poland capsized, ability to meet the Japanese assault on University of Oregon at Eugene, and it built between Pendleton and some drowning 70 pereuru. ground of bis own choosing, but the ia learned from a reliable source that point on the Columbia river. This A haii atorm at Prineville, Oregon, city is hungrily awaiting further news the officials who have the matter in rumor is current on the streets, and it charge are very favorably impressed is believed that something tangible lies amaahed moat of the windowa in the of the progress of tbe fight. behind it. It is understood that the with the need of such a station here. town. The Japanese forces engager! in this The work of such a station would be promoters of this scheme are piominent Bide on the Grand Ronde, Oregon, battle can only be estimated here, but to make careful and accurate tests of residents of Umatilla county and .»at Indan landa are found to be over twice they are believed to number about the strength, durability, elasticity, they will carry the project to a success the minimum flxd by law. 200,000 men. etc., of all kinds of building and con ful termination, provided the portage General Kuropatkin is known to The Japanese are believed tc have struction material, such as lumber, road is built, seems certain. have six army corps, besides 147 squad cut the Kueaian line of comunicaticn The promoters will not talk for pub stone, brick, cement. Such a station rons of cavalry, in which great confi between Liao Yang and Mukden. would require an initial investment of lication, refusing to give any informa dence is reposed, bringing tbe Russian Japanese m ilitaiy experts declare total up to about the same number that $5,000 for machinery with which to tion at all concerning the project. “ It The custom of the is too soon to announce our intentions, that General Kuropatkin is cornered so the Japantse have. How the armies make the tests. government has been to require the said one of the interested persons, “ for effectively that escape is impossible. compare with regard to artillery is not state to furnish the testing laboratory, the portage road has not been built Chcago employers, now that the pack definitely known, though throughout while the government employes the ex yet.” er* appetr sure of winning thi it strike, the war the Japanese have shown great pert to taae charge of the work. After It is understood that two objective are consideiing a general campaign preference for this arm and great skill the laboiatory has been provided thert points are now under consideration, the in its use. against unionism. would lie no further expense to the one being Umatilla and the other \Yal- Reports from the front credit the lula. The latter point will probably Senator Clark, of Montana, was Japanese with having about 200 guns state. The advantage to the state in the es be choeen, as a road between that junc threatened by a maniac who ran after and many mountain batteries, and it is the senator declaring that he bad known that they recently shipped 24 tablishment of a government testing tion and this city would open up un station would be in the advertising limited traffic out of Pendelton. Wheat broken the state game laws heavy guns to Yinkow. Four of these Oregon material would get as a result raisers are anxious that the road be The fighting at Port Arthur contnues guns already have been mentioned in of the tests. A report of all tests built, as the saving in grain freight to be of the most desperate chaiacter. these dispatches as being in action. would be published in government bul rates will be enormous. General Kurokatkin, in addition to Poaitons arj repeatedly taken, lost and letins, and an official record would be retaken by the Japanese with a heavy his field batteries, has a number of very kept showing the merits of Oregon FARMERS ARE PANIC PROOf. heavy guns emplaced at important po building material. loss of men. sitions at Liao Yang, where the Rus The nearest government test station The* Russian vessels at Sharghai sians have been strongly fortifying for is at Berkeley, Cal., where the bureau Umatilla County Assured o f a Pros have been disarmed. perous Year. some time. The Japanese profess to of forestry maintains a station similar The rush incident to the opening o! have captured two field batteries dur Pendleton— Tbe financial depression to that proposed for Oregon. In addi- land near Lew iston, Idaho, ia setting ing t* past two days. Russian official tron to setting before the world reliable and the businss stagnation which usual accounts admit the loss of only six in early. information tegardiug the merits of ly precedes a presidential election has A cloudbuist in Montana caused con guns. construction material, these stations not and w ill not affect Umatilla county It is stated a Japanese battery was siderable damage to the Northern Pa afford an opportunity to ascertain or any other community in the North captured south of Anshanshan during whether materials being used in con west this tall. The immense crops and cific railroad. the preliminary fighting, and that sev the general prosperity have stimulated Snow has fallen near Duluth, Minn., eral Japanese guns have been destroyed struction work are of the character trades in all lines so much that there called for by contiacts or whether they and cropa have been damaged greatly since then. are suited to the purpose for which is no likeibood of such a period. A l by heavy frosts. Little of the strategic situation has used. though the deposits in the banks are no larger than is usual for this time of A Laramie, Wyo., mob took a negro, developed so far. Official news from the year, money is more plentiful. who attacked a white girl, from jail the front says there was desperate fight ing in the southern center, while from COMPANY M AY BUILD PORTAGE. Toward the middle of September, when and hanged him. information from other sources it ap farmers begin to get their money or Russia denies that she is discrimi pears the Japanese are endeavoring to Presum ed Object o f New Portland their cropa, the deposits will increase nating against British ships in search turn the Russian right from the neigh Contract Corporation. and outstanding papei will be paid off. ing for contraband of war. borhood of the junction of the Taitso As it ia, few have received the money Salem— The Portland Contract com General Btoesael has informed the and Sakhe rivers. The fighting on the pany, of Portland, filed articles of in for the wheat sold, and only a few are exar that the Port Arthur garrison can western flank appears to have ap corporation in the office of the secretary drawing more than enough to pay off not hold out over six weeks longer at proached within three miles of Liao of state last week with Daniel Kern, their help. Later they will draw their Yang. the most. Robert Wakefield and J. N. Teal as in money and the general prosperity of the corporators. The amount of the capital year w ill be fe’ t more generally. The city of Binang, on the island of W ILL TR Y TO SPREAD STRIKE. stock is 110,000. W hile it is not so Luzon, P.X., has been wiped out by OVER 10,000 ACRES IN WHEAT. stated in the articles, it is beileved fire. One hundred lives were lost and COTTAGE GROVE OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK 6,000 Large Increase In Im ports and crease In Exports. d i ALL EFFORTS Packers’ Sw Washington, Aug. 31.— According to End of Chicago a statement given out today at the bu Not in Sight ^ reau of insular affairs, the Philippine import trade advanced nearly $ 2 , 000 ,- ALDERMEN MAKE I'NSUCCESSfH T 000 in value during the nine months ended Match last, and a slight falling TW* Important Meeting, An h U off is shown in the export* as a result Uakmi. but They Are Frali of decreased shipments in copra and Maialala Their P mii I o *. sugar, although hemp and tobacco are exported in larger amounts than for Chicago, Aug. j j . _ the corresponding three-fourths of the nothing,” in Mayor Harrnlon',*1“ summarized the result of the previous year. Excluding gold and silver and United of the aldermanic committee n, •< 1 * 1*6 government purchases, the cus mediate if poteible in the tom-house returns, the total value of strike, after it had adjourned "5 merchandise imported for the nine The committee does not exp*« 1 ’ resident DonueU^ - mouths ended March, 1904, at $25.- again. 927,024, and the exports at $22,256,- butcher», Matthew Cart, Hi 189, a 7 per cent increase in import* and Joi n Fi'zpatrick nre’t th,“2 in Mayor Harrison’s office, and 2 per cent decrease in exports. The ricegiowing sections of the Blit ported that the packers rtfu, ish and French East Indies have en make any concessions. No evidence was offered as u, joyed most of the increase in trade, tbe latter territoiy sending three tions of health laws in h , , *1 fomths of the $ 10.000 000 worth of rice es at tire stockyards, Mr. DonntluJ ing lie had not yet prepared tie received. Except fer those countries from Tlie union leaders withdrew »od ' i which rice ia obtained the statement long afterward the commiitq says that for the first time since Amer journed. Two important meeting» , ican occupation, the United States leads in the amount of merchandise by labor unio s to light to d i « « , sent to (he islands and that the out packing house strike, hut noictiaJ ' going trade with the principal countries taken at either gathering The firBt meeting was held . shows a decline in tbe value of ship ments to the United States, more than packing house teamsters, who*, $700,000 of the loss being credited to on a sympathetic strike. The . was turbulent, hut the sentim-^ sugar exports and $600,000 to hemp. More than one-half of the imports strongly against returning t0 , consisted of food and animals, while Cornelius Shea, leader of the Mt, the exports were chiefly agricultural organization of teamsters, wu , products., hemp exports amounting to He asked the men to take a vote, $16,000,000 in round numbers. The question of whether they would \ figures on tbe carrying trade show an to work, but they refused to tike increase in volume of business done a vote. Several speakers who«dioj under the Amei ican flag, the amount the vote were shouted down. After the adjournment of th» i carried tc the islands being $1,535,027, while $2,237,806 of the exports left the aters’ meeting, the represent»!»« J islands under tbe American flag. The the allied trades employed in them yards, held a meeting. Nothing \ British vessels took $18,172,819. The sugar trade declined from $2,- settled at this gathering snd the j. 479,001 to $1,827,074, the entire out ing w ill he resumed in the morn, 4 ] The executive board of the Menu put being sent to Japan, Hong Kong and China, no portion being exported ters’ union and mem hers of the ill» to the United States. Americans made Ttades council conferred today, butti up more than one-half of the total ar peace proposition proposed weimcg rivals, the greater portion beingclassed plicated that their efforts cam* 1 naught. as professional men. CABLE TO ALASKA. M A Y BOTTLE KUROPATMK The All-Am erican Line to Far North German E xperts Believe Jipj W ifi Encircle Liao Ying. Is Working. Berlin, Aug. 31.— German milrir>| Seattle, Wash., Aug. 31.— Alaska was brought into communication with men are discussing the situatios d General Kuropatkin with the kroatl the rest of th* United Stales this after interest. They have information tin noon, amid the cheers of hundreds of the defenses of Liao Vang areol (itti l Americans, the tooting of steamboat ordinary strength. The fortifying e whistles and the crash of bands play the town was entrusted to Geneniifei-1 ishtko, who enjoys hete the rventetionI ing the “ Star Spangled Banner.” of being a master of military The cable between Seattle and Val ing. During the past two monthi I des was spliced at a point about ten has fortified all the strategic positisd miles north of Seattle at 4:40 o'clock around 1 iao Yang in a manner n| in the afternoon, though for several nigh impiegnable. hours before the final joining of the The German critics think laj two ends messages had been sent from Yang's defenses about eqnaliie theS Seattle men, guests on board the cable- ference in numbers between the ship Burnside, to Sitka and responses eians— estimated at 180.00«—end :a| had been received. Japanese, numbering 240,000. The steamship Queen carried 300 of The danger of General kurop»Ult| Seattle’s preminent sitizens out to meet situation is reognized as being bctttd the cable ship and witness the splicing up like Field Marshal Kazaine, ct| of the cable. The Burnside was met surrendered Metz to the German I about six miles north of the buoy wl ere in 1870. It is doubted by the ow the Seattle end rested. Cable was be if General Kuropatkin will lie able I ing laid at the rale of four miles per prevent tbe complete encircling of L houi, and the two ships proceeded to Yang, which would mean probably li the buoy, within easy hailing distance. eventual less of his army. The splicing of the cable took two hours and 20 minuteB. Finally the ASSAU LT ON ARTPUR RESUME«. work was completed and the sp'iced part was held aloft over the side of the Burnside while the bluejackets scam Report That Japanese Have Recci',-| ed R einforcem ents Confirmed. pered aloft and manned the yards. A band on the Queen, which lay about Chefoo, Aug. 31.— Severe figbtii 300 feet away, swung into the “ Star was resumed at Poit Arthur on Aogt#| Spangled banner,” and the cable struck 27, according to Chinese who left the water with a mighty splash. It on the evening of that day. One «fj sunk into about 300 feet of water. the Chinese was arrested andcompeMI The cable line is 800 miles long and to carry the dead from the oattlefie.doil cost $1,000 per mile. Colonel Allen I'a L i Chuang, which the Japanese*t-J is one of the oldest cable experts in the tempted to capture on August United States. He helped to lay the Thirty carts were used to carry cable to Vancouver island 20 years ago. dead, numbering 400, from thetn The Burnside w ill be overhauled and outskirts to the city. A 1 here and in about six weeks the work man told the Chinese that the effif« of laying the line to Valdes will be soldiers in the garrison at Port ArtW taken up. numbered over 10 , 000 . Unlon W ill A ttem p t to Call Out Ev- around tbe capitol that this is the cor poration which will undertake tbe con W. J. Furnish Has Land Rented to c r y A ffilia te d Trade. struction of the portage railway be 29 Tenants. Chicago, Sept. 1.— A strong effort is tween The Dalles and Celilo. Pendleton— W. J. Furnish, probably to be made by the leaders of the unions Tbe expressed purpose of the com the laigest land owner of Umatilla now on strike at the stockyards to pany is to take contracts for and to county, has over 10,000 acres of wheat spiead the Bcope of the strike so that it construct buildings, railroads, canals, land rented on shares this season. will include every trade which is affil- bridges, etc., and to 'd e a l in lumbei The land is situated north and north The battleship Nebraska w ill be iated in even a temote degree with the and logs, and transact other business west of Pendleton, in the wheat belt packing industry. The first step in such as construction companies often launched at Beattie October 7. that extends from Pendleton to the Co this direction was taken tonight, when engage in. The incorporators named lumbia river. This acreage is appor The Russians lost about 2,600 men the stockhandlers now employed at the are authorized to open stock books and tioned out to some 29 renters, from in the recent battles in the Liao valley. yards voted to go on strike at 10 o’clock receive subscriptions to the capita! whom Mr. Furnish is to receive one Cloudbursts in Southern Caliiornia in the morning. There are about 1,- stock. fourth of the crop on the better land have washed out much railroad tracks 000 of these men, and their duties are and on third from the light yielding to look after ami feed the cattle in the Genrals Kuroki and Oku have com Building fo r Medical College. lands. So vast are his holdings that it bined their armies to cut the Russian pens between the time of their arrival Salem— There is a movemnt on foot is with difficulty that he can figure up and the the time of killing. Their line near Anashan. to secure for the Willamette university the number of acres in wheat this sea action tonight, therefore, w ill make it The Japanese have captured more incumbent upon the packers to provide an exclusive building for the use of the son. Mr. Furnish does not attempt to medical college of that institution. It faun any himself, and hesaid, “ Id o n ’ t forts at Port Arthur and are now with other men to take their places. was announced by Dean W. H. Byid, even own a plow, but let other people in the very city at one point. President Donnelly, of the Butchers’ of the medical college of the university, do the farming.” union, declared tonight he would also General Funston has notified the war that Hon. A. Bush hail started the sub department that he will relinquish the lie able to call out all the switchmen scription lift toward the realization of Salem Mill Uses Oil fo r Fuel. employed on the railroads which do command of the department of the Co Salem — The Salem lYoolen mills the $17,000 required for the building, business at the stockyards, anil possib lumbia on October 1. with a donation of $2,600. and that a have commenced the use of fuel oil in ly to extend the strixe to other depart Investigations of the navy depart ments of the railroads. A mass meet subscription of $ 1,000 had been added the place of wood, believing it to be a ment have shown that our watships ing of the strikers is to be he'd tomor thereto by the faculty of the universi cheaper material for generating steam. must dock oftener than once a year to row afternoon at Watita hall, near the ty. Dr. Byrd says that a vigorous The state authorities have been consid campaign w ill now be made. ering for some time the question of us have their bottoms cleaned. stockyards, an addresses ate to be made ing oil for fuel at the state institutions by a number of labor leaders. France holds that powers like Amer and the experience of tbe woolen mill Eugene’ s Carnegie Library. After a conference with memherB of ica should act together to aveit incras- Eugene— At a recent meeting of the company will be watched with interest ing danger of Japan becoming the dom the executive committee of the strikers’ city council arrangements were made The substitution of oil for fuel in the national organization, President Don inant power in the Far East. nelly refused to divulge what had taken for the purchase of a lot on W illam large manufacturing establishments The general land office hss withdrawn place. He admitted that means of se ette street, between Tenth and Elev and in the state institutions will great 80,840 acres in the Durango land dis curing money for the strikers had been enth, for a site for the Carnegie libra ly relieve the scarcity of wood, of the trict, Colordo, on account of the Las discussed, but he refused to say what ry. The priee to be paid is $4,000. last three or four years. Ananias, N. M., reservoii site and irri else bad been talxed of at the confer A gift of $10,000 from Mr. Carnegie is T w ice as Much W heat Now. to be used in erecting a library build gation works. ence Echo— It is estimated that 300,000 ing and equipping the same with heat The Russians have repulsed the ing and lighting apparatus, fixtures, bushels of wheat w ill be hauled to Echo Jananeee at several points in the Russian A rm y Confident. etc., and under the ter ms of the gift and stored in the warehouses this fall. Liao valley. Berlin, Kept. 1.— A dispatch from the city is to maintain a free library at Heretofore only about half this amount has been hauled to this point. It is The Japanese are preparing for a Liao Yang to tbe I.okal Anzeigei, timed an annual expense of $ 1 , 000 . Confident o f Holding Out. Arabia A r r iv e s at Shanghai- not probable that the Henrietta flour great battle at Liao Yang and heavy 9:25 a. m. today, says: “ What ap Liao Vang, Aug, 13.— Numerous re pears to be the deciding l»t t le began at Shanghai, Ang. 31.— The Germ»» guns are on the way. ing mills w ill be operated this year, as H arvester Catches Fire. 4 a. m. The Japanese began the at they have not been for the past two liable reports which have reached here steamer Arabia, belonging to theH^ Pendleton — A combined harvester AH is quiet at Shanghai and the tack east of Liao Yang along the Taitze years. A company from Spokane has through a dispatch carrier and other bur-gAmerican line, has arrived Iwjj incident o f the disarmament of the river, but were repulsed. The firing on the ranch of John Richardson, in been trying to arrange fo the leasing of persons are to the effect that despite from Vladivostok. This is the re«» Russian ships is closed. is now spceially heavy south and south oouth Cold 8 pringe, burned up last them, but nothing definite has been the extreme Japanese measures of the that was captured by the Russian V v: I week as the result of a hot box on the given out. past fortnight to perfect a blockade of ivoetok squadron in July. Apriae^l Georgia militiamen declare the west of Liao Yang. One can no longer Port Aithur by means of sinking all waH put aboard her and she wafl taken I individual detonations. running gear. The harvest crew quick sherifT was in collusion with the mob distinguish the junks near that place, the Russians to Vladivostok. which lynched negroes. The Wyberg regiment, of which Em ly released the horses and then at Rich Specimen From Blue River. A ll the tempted toextingaish the flames. The outside Port Arthur ate considerably among her crew were well treated ! l The efforts of the Chicago alder peror W illiam I I is honorary chief, is machine and straw were so dry, how Eugene— Development work hss been underestimated, as is also the existing the RusHians. She was tried before* I manic onvmmlttee to end the packers’ deploying upon the batth field. The ever, that the combine was totally de very active in the Blue river district of power of the fortress, which is likely Russian army is full of confidence." prize court which condemned 20 , I strike has come to naughL stroyed in ten minutes. A small late and some excellent ore bodies are to hold out for two months snd possibly barrels of flour and 71 railroad f»r I being uncovered. A number of speci It Is stated that the Co ream govern amount of grain was damaged. The until January, even nnder such an R evival o f “ Boxcrlsm .” mens of very rich ore from the Cuba bodies. The remainder of tbe ment has agreed to engage Japanese loss is nearly $1,600 assau t as the Japanese are using. Shanghai, Sept. 1.— A revival of and Oriental mines have just been and the vessel were released. advisors and borrow money to carry “ Boxeristn" is reported from Taming- out much needed reforms. brought down. The specimens were Electric Road Is Assured. Close fo the New Town. fu, in the southwestern part of Pechili obtained from near the surface Said to Be Damaged. Placards are being scattered In J Ia Grande— W. E. Itavidson, piesi- bristle with gold which can be and London, Ang. 31 — The Tientsin cor Tslnanfu Province, China, urging the province, 216 miles from Tien Tsin. St. Petersburg, Aug. 31.— i'roB 10 | seen lent of the Eastern Oregon Develop with the naked eye. respondent of the Standard, cabling excellent source it if said that tbe * I massacre o f the "foreign devils.” Over 20 American missionaries, includ ing women and children, have been ment company, in speaking of the pro Saturday afternoon, says: Confirma stalled Russian battleship Orel. * „ The native Christians are fleeing. posed electric railway for Union coun Indiana and Japs for Bectflelds. obliged to evacuate Tanringfu owing to tory details just arrived represent the already has suffered two accident». *' The Japanese war office has con I a Grande— A large number of Uma Japanese as having leached a point an intended massacre on the part of ty, says that the road will not only not be able to join the Bsltic sqo* ^ eluded that Port Arthur cannot be connect all the towns in the county, p 1.’2®0 yar<i" fr°n> 'he new town According to reports, when her e»IP I taken by direct assault and has order the Boxers, who call themselves “ Tsai- but w ill connect Wallowa eonnty with tilla Indians and Japanese imported from near Portland w ill arrive in the at Port Arthur on the west side and as ed that no attacks be made which ynn.” The local telegraph company trials liegan it was discovered *®r I refused to transmit a message from the Union county, and it is though it w ill city this week to work in the vast beet being Within a mile of the east dock had introduced iron filings in*® would entail heavy loss. I ultimately be extended to Lewiston, fields this fall, pulling and hauling basin on the east side. Strong rein missionaries to Minister Conger. The Russians really command three and thus establish a railroad between them for tbe sugar factory in La forcements, it as said are hnrriyng ap valves and cylinders. It probably require many months to r®P*‘t . forts o f any Importance at Port Ar- the H ill and Harriman line*. Grande. There w ill be over 20 000 from Dalny and Pitzwo, leaving 1 P May Search fo r British Ships. damage. This is the second fat are I thur. ton* ground this fall, more than any serves at both places. Madrid, Sept. 1.— The Russian aux the Orel to go out on a trial trip- previous season. W heat Market. A big battle is raging nsar Liao iliary cruiser Don has left Vogo with Paraguay Revolutionists A ctive. out waiting for her bill of health. which the Japanese are at Portland— Walla Walla, 79c; blue- Yang in Brush Fire Burns Good Timber. Boer T reasure Found. Buenos Ayres, Ang. 31.— Paraguay Her commander was in receipt of a tel stem, 82c; valley, 83c. tacking. Sumpter— A brush fire a few days Johannesburg, Aug. 31.—Mr- -evo^tionazy vessel, are extremely zc egram from the Rursian government Tacoma— Blnestem, 83c; club, 78c. ago communicated with a large lot of a cousin of General Kemp, tbe The two last assaults o f the Japan which presumably ordered him tc re Albany— 75c. sawlogs belonging to the Oregon Lum znd zrm.h7 *"* men, horses commander, hae discovered . ese on Port Arthur are reported to in me the search for British collietiee »net arms snd are searching all PM. Salem— 80c. ber company and before the flsniee Spelonken, in the Northern have cost them 13,000 men. Colfax— Club, 66 c; blnestem, 70c. destined for Japan. It ia stated here were checked 600,000 feet of good saw v e s n T w t A“ ArS*n,ine warship the treasure removed from Pr«*® _ ^ Pendleton— Club, 68 M e; blnestem, timber were destroyed. The fire oc yesteiaay threatened to fire on the rev fere the entry of Field Marshal The O. R A N. steamers between that ten other Ruasian cruisers are en- "Km-lron if 1 , intercepted t | value * —* ® Ru »roojm re i® ^ V !. curred st the logging camp near W hit Portland and San Francisco are to be gaged in this work on the roasts of 72c. The of tbe treasure La^Grande— Club, 2c; blnestem, 68c. ney. Spain, Portugal, France and Africa. run Independent of the railroad. ». of which tbe govern m *»1 250,000, . ¿ S ic T1“ * t 0 t th* receive half. people are homeless, St. Petersburg deems a crisis at hand in the Liao valley unless Kuropatkin can retreat. Continued rains, it is feared, will greatly impede the move ment of heavy ordnance, which may have to be abandoned.