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WAR iNTERTST FLAGGING Contributions Hos ilities in Balkans. Boel 4 brothel who di' Five a family BURTON GUILTY Jaji ’Taff Yok J ese stq near li to tbe Maru i to mail H to Red Cross Funds in Russia Growing Less The Czar Cuts Down Houstold Expenses. Once H. If Millionaire Brought in th: Verdict this Morning. > St. Petersburg, March 28.—The Czar, folio ■■■tug th* example of Rus sian workmen, most of whom contrib ute seven per cent, of their wages to tbe war fund, has ordered his bouse-1 hold expen». - cut down al least forty loubles dei.y, proceeds to go to tbe Red Cross. He has denied himself liquor and side dishes, such ae cav iare sardines, which are moie expen sive than m nt in Russia, and bas curtailed hi» dr.ily supply nf cigars. Fruit is served only on state occa sions. The newspaper Novosti, how ever, comf h.ius that public interest in tbe war is flagging, particularly noticeable i" 'Hminished contribu tions to the it 1 • loss funds. Convicted of Illegally :pting Fees from a St. ouis Company While Senator. l’ore«t the W dolph assisti shoot i Renzi SI Constantinople, March 28. —Orders have been issu «d for the immediate mobilization iu Syria of light classes of reserves. Their destination is not known. This revives tbe rumors of im minent outbreak uf hostilities iu tbe Balkans. .ouis, March 28.—Tbe jury ÍN S* le of United States Senator , on trial in the U. S. district - nr illegally accepting retaining m the Rialto Grain and Secur- 'ompauy of St. Louis, came urt Ht 12-30 touay with a vei- “guilty.” »tor Burton got into trouble i eavoring to use his influence Jeuator at Washington to have Ylto Company restored to use of liilb, from sbicb it bad been led on account or alleged swind- lactiees.—Editor Guard.) Suicided St. Louis, March 28. — Attorney Louis Meyer, aged 68, once worth half a million,untitled the police by letter this morning that be intended sui cide. Tbe officers found Meyer am his wife dead at home, °lso the pe eat, all killei 1 y cyanide. Colorado .Mining Trouble. Trinidad, Colo., March 28.—F ther deportations ot strike leaders from tbe National district, it is un derstood, will be made tonight. House to house laids ior fl rear ms coutinue in the small towns of Las Animas county. At one house where tbe troops weio refused admittance be cause a child lay dying of diphtheria, the doors were broken down. The ne'vs censorship continues strict. One member of the Telluride union who was deported, returned last night. He was arrested. Three other exiles have returned, but thus far have beeu able to elude tho military. Rome, March 28.—The Agdenzia Libera reports General Kourapatkiu’s arrival at Liao Yang, Manchuria. Germ?ny Denies Report. Berlin, March 28.—The Foreign office has ls.-ued u denial of tho re port tbat Germany is preparing for a hostile demonstration in Venezuela i Port Arthur Blocked Again. Hea Tokio, Mali i 2-:. According to Jap-j anese accounts Togo was successful, in an attempt to bott,e up Port. Ar thur Sunday. E'our steamships were sunk across t'ie mouth of the harbor Later in the day the Japanese , dang battleships tecan a bombardment. !seaso . oatur Jews Must Move. iu ad London, March 28.— The Central I recti News, of Vienna, quotes a Klshienetf storm dispatch, stating that Prince Usuroff, raged governor of Bessarabia, has declined trees a petition of the Jews that he post count pone until after tbe passover the in age w troduction of au expulsive law. Al ! Jews within a radius of fifty versts from frontier must remove to the water interior, thus addiug_^to the conges dicte levee tion within the pale. is tea morr Laio R ver’s M uth Mined. Washington, March 28.—A St. Pe- tersburg report that New Cbwang hae been declared within the zone of war is interprets 1 by tbe state department in connection with news received by it some days ago in which it was said the Russians had served notice on i consuls that the mouth of tbe Laio river was to be mined. Immense DucK at Port Arthur ’ St. Petersburg, March 28.—Orders are about to be given workshops at Sormovo for the construction of an immense dock at Port Arthur, to be completed in four months. Port Arthur dispatch this morning states the bombardment damaged one tor pedo boat, the Silni. in steering gear. A Japanese named Skeds bas been arrested taking photographs of tbe town of Cbata, near the Manchurian frontier. Compromising papers were found. The Transsfberinn railway is not the complete piece of equipment tt»»irh It is popularly supposed to be. It is not even actually continuous. for at l.n«e Baikal passengers and goods must be transshipped across the lake, in winter this, of course, has to be done on the ice The illustration shows two offlt ■ is being hurried across Lake Baikal on the way to the east. As soon as it becan evident that war was inevitable the ossians put an enormous force of men at work laying tracks across the la’’ The thousands of men have labeled night and day. and it is now officii». :»nu••unod that this link will be ready for service in a very short time. If tais <;ional prow* to be true, it will greatly facilitate the transportation of men, horses and supplies from Russia to the scene of vontiict. CHICAGO Convicted Senator’s Successor Topeka, March 28.—Fending affirmation of Senator Burton’s con Louis, March 28.— The senator viction it is not probable Governor Bailey will take any action by either md nuilty on six counts. KourapatiJa in Manchuria. CRGSSIN3 LAKE BAIKAL, ON THE TRANSSIBERIAN RAILWAY. THE GUARD • WEATHER PROPHECY At the risk of being again discredit ed as a weather prophet we pttdic warmer and better weather—it could Republican n’t be worse. Our reason? Nearly all National winter till tbe last day or two the Sub-Committee Asks Coturg hills facing us have been cov ered with snow, sometimes quite low $15,000 Deposit. down, but never completely bare till now. With that snow, of course, went, great quantities ot tbe article Hotel Men Excited at Chance of throughout the mountains, giving a Losing $50,000 Already Con more equable climate so tho warmer ocean clouds will not be emptied of tributed—-The Money their Btored-up moisture through Promised. coming iu ennta t with’ colder cut rents of air Chicago, Mari.h 28. —The sub-coni- mitlee of the National Republican coni mittee met today to discuss the ultimatum delivered by local party men tbat Chicago must deposit 815,- Pleasant Hill, March 23, 1904. — Far 000 or lose the convention. Hergeant- mers are |getting anxious to see bet at-arms Stone served this notice, It ter weather, particularly those who is declared by local people tbat the still have plowing to do. The grav money will be forthcoming, although elled roads, which last winter were it is denied that any promise of tbat good, are badly damaged by tbe con kind had been made up to this after tinuous rainfall, and side roads are noon. Au execuitve session will be nearly impassable. Fall grain looks held. Hotel men are aroused, as they well in spite of tbe bad weather. stand a chance of losing tbe 850,000 The telephone line from Dexter to already contributed. Goshen via Pleasant Hill is comple ted. Side lines reach to Edenvale ami ASHLAND’S Enterprise. Mr. Salther, our merchant, will LIQUOR TROUBLtS move to Eastern Oregon tho first of June,wbere3he has property and other interests. If he does not sell his i Ashland, Oregon, is a prohibition store before that time he will ship town—that is so far as law is con his goods. This will leave a good cerued. Liquor is sold in deba nee of opening for some one. tbe law, tbe off enders being caugat Wrn. Drury, who has been in Wash occasionally, The Tiding' of Satur ington for the past vear, returned day has this about a “blind pig’’ last week in response to a letter an prosecution: nouncing the dangerous illness of his in the liquor case tried Tburbday sister with scarlet fever. The child, wherein the city of Ashland was however, is improving, a* well as the plaintiff and Joe DeGuirrc defendant, the latter was found guilty ot con two other cases in the family. ducting a “blind ■ ig. ” The jury was The mother of Loran Scrivener, who out hut twenty minutes. has been very sick at bis home, is con Iu some respects tbe trial was the moat interesting of tbe series, tbe at valescent and will soon be able to re torneys enlivening things up consid turn to her home in Boise Citv,Idaho. erably by indulging iu personalities. Mrs. Lucetfa Baughman has been City Attorney Phipps threatened to spending several weeks at the home “paste” Attorney E. D. Briggs, who then extended h more or less cordial 1 of hei son Carl, below Eugene. invitation tfo Phipps to “eome on, ” , Eph Matthews, of Goshen, has mov adding lot e advice to tbe telligereut ed to the Edenvale ueighbrrbood to prosecutor to “act. like a lawyer. 'I This brought au apology from P.dpp- J work In the MooretiouseLaird saw to tbe jury for “allowi..g such a man mill. as Briggs to disturb him.” ¡Spectators were also entertained by | Mrs. Pearl Hadley, of Jasper, visit eome rather picturesque ousting of i ed sevearl days in the forepart ot the both defendant aud prrscenting wit- i month with her grandparents, Mr. nese Roberts by Attorneys Ptdp,s and and Mrs. Robert Callison. Briggs respectively. Neitbet attor ney, however, was half severe enough I The few farmers who hace hay to in their condemnation. sell are asking 115 and 816 per ton, DeGuirre was flue'i 875 and cost fori loose hay in the mow. bis offense. Just why tbe maximum ( The Grange held their regular meet fine of 8100 was not imposed does not appear. This c I hbs of offenders, so' Ing last Saturday and besides having hard (o catch, should lie given the ex- . a “feast,” with all’ its accompani treme penalty; there is no such thing as mit¡eating circumstances in this ments, they made definite arrange merits to purchase a library, a move c r.i ectlop. | in tbe right direction. We understand there will be a new schoolhousa built in the Edenvale district the coming summer. Pleasant Hill Itpmc. i SHI KAI, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF CHINA’S ARMY AND NAVY. Hvuuy china lias massed nearly IW.noo men on tbe Manchurian frontier /pl any effort which Russia may make to further assail the integrity of A Sa sc empire. Most military men incline to the belief that If Japan M meet w ill ft series of serious reverses on ! nd (.’liliin will couie to her Bitting her hordes in charge of the alert and v.c.l trained Japanese officers. 9 Sin Kai. the commander in chief of ('him. s airny and navy, succeeded mg Chang as governor of I’echill province and lor some time enjoyed distinction of having under him the only well trained body of iu l kina. It was that fact that induced the dowager empress some A. me ago to elevate him to his present exalted position. Yuan Shi Kai is we.1 F. V Underwood, of Kalamazoo, ■ known as an ardent opponent of Russian aggression and a warm sympathizer Mich., were remained at noon today with Japan's attitude in the present conflict in the east. by Deputy County Clerk Mormon,tbe elder son of President Smith. The ^ral having been dismissead during appointing bis successor or'convening parties were married m Mexico a t|je trial, A motion for a new trial tbe legislature in special sessionjto The conviction year ago. as they believed. Under- U __ __________ immediately ____ filed. The senator fill tbe vacancy. wood explained yesterday that tbe ^pent a sleepless night at bis hotel, makes Burton an impossibility to suc translated certificate and permit was Nervously twirling his mustache, he ceed himself, hence there is now talk issued by the priest for one year only. apppal.ej jn coort when notified of ed of to take the seat in tbe Senate ---------------------------------------------------- an agreement by the jury. Upon an Congressman Bowersoos, Curtis and nouncement of the verdict he trem I Caldrehead, ex Governor Stanley, bled slightly, epoke to bis attorney in Fourth Assistant Postmaster General a whisper, then sank back into tbe Bristow and Cyrus Leland. There la chair, burying bis face in his bands. j much excitement throughout tbe state. Tbe maximum penalty for Senator Burton’s often1 e is a fine of ten thousand dollar» and two year’s with imprisoument ner petual disqualifi cation from boldiugpublic office. The sentence will befixed by Judge Adams tomorrow Mrs. SAN FRANCISCO Embezzlement Arrest. New York, March 28.—Edward T. Masterson, wanted at San Francisco to answer charges of embezzlement ofl 8100,000 prerfered by the Contlnenta Building and Loan Association, ar- rived from Germany this morning OU tbe steamer Von Moltke. He was ar- rested at Kiel some time ago. Sacramento Labor Troubles. Sacramento, March 28.— Prospects are good for a fair settlement of the labor troubles within a few days The Citizens' Alliance has withdrawn from action iu tbe matter and have requested tbe Builders' Association and Contractors' Association to coo ler with the building traces and coon RUSSIAN CAVA'., r Aï DALiy i cil in reference to au adjustment of Joat . . - de of 1'aii.j. It'!»-..-! to aaki to I ■ • ! .»rge bo<lj tt,. <ti«fut«. Ail parties profess their airy, a br neb of tbe military serv.,. ■ ■ Ii ,.aces great r*fiauce. willingness to meet in conference and Tbe nius-r tion ebows a body of tl.»—** tr<»'|>» «muting back of the city on show a spirit th«» rat»»» bop* of an receipt of ui.;or that the Japanese- ..< <>!>» w re advancing in au attempt to tarly eettle:n*r t Surprise th. ;u from tbe rear. GREATLY EXCITED Bodkin Case Causes Men and .Women to Stand in Line at Court Door for Hours. San Francisco, March 28.- Inteiest tn tbe Mrs. Botkin poisoning ca-e is increasing as the trial proceeds. early as six o’clocc this morning great crowds of men and women filled the corridor 'eading to tbe courtroom. Mauy stood in line over four hours before the doors were opened. The most important witness this morning, except the police, was John Seymour. He testified that be search ed the rooms vacated by the prisoner soon after suspicion attached to her. in au effort to find arsenic or other incriminating evidence, but failed. When it was pointed out to him tbat after th* search the seal belonging to tbe candy box sent from Dover had been found under the lounge, he ad mitted that he did not look under UM ¡Ou ' HEADACHE “My father had b**n n «offerer from tick headache I 9l - V S ll..j 11 A I mi U 1 • t ... ■ ■ - . nt; » »I nr« .. A W years A* W». — Mid .. *1 never — -- » * * fom. - -- 1 1 a< / - for relief niitil ho I. ¿,.ri taking your Cairarets. Bln 9 be has b» ¿an taking (J bm < arefca h»- han never had th-) Leadacb't. They have entirely ct.i-4 h.m. Cat'-areta do what yon r< omzneu'l them to dn. ( Will give you tho privilege of using hi* name.** Dickson, 1)20 Reainerbt., W. Indianapolis, I l 1« K Be'T For The bowels CAM DY CATRAMTIC [*ORK WHILE PlftftKant. P«!st«ble Po»*ni Taate Good Do Good, Sick n, weaaan or Gripe. He. Be.Sk-:. Never Sold In b'l k The trenniae tablet ktampaú CCQ. Ouarantead to pure or yonr money back. "t r’i' ' P artly Co., Chicago or N.Y. 598 ANNUALS. C, XILUOII BOXES Won the Shoes. the prize drawing at. Dunn's i opening Saturday afternoon. J. F. Sterner won the Indies , J. H. Harris the men's »bo*«, J. W. Stormeut the cbiidri u'» A Nfw Departure. A. Wilhelm A Sons have innovated a new departure by placirg their No. 1, Gold Medal^bard wheat flour on •ale in Eugene. For sale nt.‘sJI grocers at a 81.25 a •ack.