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TMF fugfneguard RUSSIAN BERKELY captured HEROES RETURN THE FIELD MEET BIG LAND BATTLE REPORTED Bests Washington by 36 Points This Afternoon—An Interest Berkely, Cal., April 30.—The Uni versity of California defeated the and Koreitz Disas- University of Washtntgon in a dna track meet here this afternoon by t score of 72 to 36. Beth teams aprear aster at St. ed in good form. Following is the re suit of the meet: Petersburg. 220-yard dash won by Pearson. Washington; time, 22 1-5 second-, breaking coast record held by Dunn. 880-yard run won by Edwards, Cal * * I if-irnia; time, 2 minutes 4 seconds. Japanese 'Fleet Seen Off Port High jump won by Cooley, Califc.r nia, and Grant, Washington, tieiug. Arthur Last Night and Two 6 feet 1-10. Cruisers and Six Torpedo 200-yard hurdle won by Meany, Cal itornla: time, 27 2-5 seconds. Boats Today. JIU-yo.u dash won by J«e Pearson; time, seconds. Exhibition 50-yard dash by Emile Si. Petersburg, April 29.—Six hun dred survivors of tLe Variag aud Ko- A Ba-lie, California, beating bis coast riatz disaster at Chemulpo arrived record 1-5 second. Pole vault won by Grant, Washing here this morning. Their reception was of a religious uature. with no i ton; height, 10 feet, 10 inches. speeches and no band. Grand Juke j 2 3-5 mile ielay waon by J.Pearson. Alexig was present and shj-.k hands | Wasbintgeu; tiuie, 3 minutes 36 sec wit r. the officer-as they left the train. onds. Pearson last quarter in 52 3 5 The men he welcomed with “Good secou-’s. Broad jn-i p won by Boynton, Cal day, bruthers. ” Gut-ide the *• at ion a large crowd gelbeied greeted fiornir; ..-,'aiice 21 feet, 1-3 inch. Cal >. wins, points 72, Wash- the heroes enthusiastically. nigtou, n points. St. Petersburg, April 29 —Vi 'eroy Alexieff reports the enemy’s fleet was C - ¿e Tank Expl<>d rl. seen six miles otf Port Arthur last St. Li is, 'pril 30—By the explo night, and this mornlug two Japanese sion of a ft V gallon tan of coffee in cruisers aud six torpedo boats were the “f'Ml.re I n,” on H. world’s fair observed in Uszurian gulf, near Port grounds thia aftemoo- , four persons Arthur. were ««-'•I'-n ly injured, Ci arles Good rich fatal'r. London, April 29.—The Central News Toklo correspondent states that reports there indicate that the bulk WORLD’S FAI k of the Russian supplies are being transported to Kengwang Cheng on OPENING the road to the Yalu by means of carts, occupying five days to cover ninety miles, from Russian head quarters. Gunboat Nashville Arrived at St. Fifteen Drowned. Louis-—Will Participate Sixteen Thousand Jap anese Attacked Russian Strong hold. Japanese Sharpshooters Kill Many Russian Officers—Russians Numbered 30,000 Men. St. Petersburg, April 30.—-A heavy engagement on the Yalu is reported. Sixteen thousand Japanese crossed the river Thursday and attacked thir ty thousand strongly fortified Rus sians. It is rumored that the Japan ese were reinforced and the battle still continues Japanese sharpshoot ers have killed many Russian office's. St. Petersburg, April 3O.--An offi cial dispatch today reports several Japanese columns matching from Yomgampbo toward Wiju, and a small farce of lapauese have crossed the Yalu. St Petersburg, April 30—It is offi cially stated this p m that the Japan- Meeting Held at Albany Yesterday Albany Democrat, April 29: Twen ty Ave or thirty of the representative millers of western Oregon met in the Hotel Revere this afternoon to o-gau- , ize in their own iuterest and for mu- I tual benefit. Frank Gibson, of Kickreal,l was elected chairman aud J. G. Graham, of Salem, secretary. Suggestions were called for and made by many present,showing the need of organiza tion for the prevention of cutting rates, the sack abuse, discrimination in buying wheat, etc. A committee consisting of D. L. Keyt, J. M Shelley, Aug. Fischer, D. I. Hanson and N. C. Christensen nil constitution and by-lawt was ap pointed and were in consultation at press time. The convention was composed of a fine body of men, representing the leading mills of the valley. They were: Frank Gibson, Rickreall. J. G. Graham, L. C. Pennell, C. A. Park, Salem. Sherman Swank, Aumsville. Geo. Spaniel, Stayton. S. K. Noel, Monitor. W. H. Welle, Rufus. D. L. Keys, Perrydale. E. W. Haines, J. A. Thombrough, Forest Grove. A. M. Lillery, Independence J. M. Grear, Hillsboro. M. Tnompson, Boston Mills. H. M. Thompson, Brownsville. B. A. Washburn, Springfield. J. M. Shelley aud C. S. Williams, Eugene. in Opening of Fair Tomorrow. St. Petersburg, April 29. —A party of boat builders were crossing the Volga at Muron, near Nischnlnovgo- rod today when the boat capsized. St. Louis, April 29.—The gunboat Fifteen were drowned. Nashville arrived this morning to participate in the opening of the fair. The weather forecaster says^there is a king strong probability of rain tomorrow. Peabody and staff, of’ Col WAS POISONED Governor orado, reached the city today. As to the mining situation in hie state, be said the strike was practically over, King’s Secretary and Aide III, nearly all the men returning to work at the old hours and old wage scale With King, Were Treated for T larlos Poison. Fast Airship. Lisbon, April 30.—The recent ill ness of King Carlos is now believed to have been due to an attempt to as sassinate him by placing poison in his food. The king’s secretary and aide, ill at the same time, are known to have been given an anti-poison treatment. Death Before Disgrace. Toledo, Ohio, April 29.—Captain W. Martin, for twelve years tap-keep er at the waterworks, confronted by the evidence of the shortage of three thousand dollars, did not come to the office this morning. Later the bodies of Martin and bis wife were found in their bedroom. The gas tips had been removed He was a Civil War veteran. Strange Religous Sect. Seattle, Wash., April 29.—D. H. Mauborn has sued his wife Lydia for divorce because she belongs to a relig ious sect which forbids married mem bers to continue their marriags rela tions. The husband also alleges that when I e upbraided his wife she I grabbed a club and unmercifully beat | him over the head. The couple has been married since 18G8, aDd it is said that not until Mrs. Manhorn associ ated herself with the peculiar relig ion has there ever been any trouble between them. COAL MINE DISASTER (London, April 29.—Renter’s Madrid correspondent wires an official state ment regarding the coal gas expío- ( slon in the Reunion mine near Se- ville. He gives the number of dead I as fltfy-three and injured thirty-six. j The Gen‘ral News says the list, is too ¡ small,that sixty-three lives were lost, j Ash and Named. Washington, irrll 28 —Represents- vr n ecdav J-T“* D. Moo e. of Astland, -r'dehipman Vsral tcade^y. j .. x._ - * appointed alternate. _ PROF. JOSEPH ORGANIZE to Form An Association. ing Contest. Suvivors of the Variag OREGON MILLERS ’ St. Petersburg, April 30—An air ship constructed by Captain Keuten- ski was fairly successfully tried at Vlostbgbovi today, traveling sixty miles an hour. FATAL OPENING SHAFER SPEAKS On the Subject, “Some OF WORLD’S FAIR Early Phases of the Oregon Ques tion” at Assembly. At At the university assembly this morning Professor Joseph Shafer de livered an address on "Some Eerly Phases of the Oregon Question.” Some months after the sale of As tor's fort, on the Columbia, in 1813, the United States made a t-eaty with Great Britain,in which both agreed to return all territory taken during the war. Iu July, 1815, the United States declared its Intention to re occupy Astoria, and in 1817 Captain Biddle was dispatc’-'-A to the Columbia to occupy that j lacs The British min ister at Wasiiinvfnu protested,and hie protest mar'ra i > formal opening of the controversy over the Oregon ter ritory. L.ater, in 1818, the United Stetes received formal possession of Astoria from the British agents. A treaty to fix the boundary was now undet discussion. The United State« suggested the 49th parallel through to the Pacific, but the Eng lish declined, and suggested the 49th parallel from the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia, and down tha river of the sea. This offer cf the 'Juited States weakened very much the claim to the territory as high up as 55 de grees. The Oregon question was left open by a treaty of "joint occupa tion.” When this provision wbb adopted both Spain and Russia assert ed rights to portions of the northwest coast, but in 1819 Spain ceded to the United States all her rights north of 42 degrees, and a treaty of 54 degrees 40 minutes was made with Russia in 1824. Professor Shafer took up in some detail the agitation of the Oregon question in congress, the gradual change of the seutiment of the coun try, and the diplomatic negotiations between the two countries which finally resulted in the 49th parallel as the boundary line. 12:15 Vast o’clock the Enterprise Was Set in Motion. President Roosevelt' Touched the Golden Key at Washington— Hundreds of Thousands of Visitors. St. Louis, April 30. —Uuiler fair skies, in tbe presence of an immense audience, containing lepreseutativea fr jn> all parta of the earth, tbe Louis iana Purchase Exposition opened for mally at twelve-fifteen o'clock today, when President Roosevelt at Washing ton touched the golden key that sent the throb of the movement through out tbe vast erp rise. It was an impressive sigh in menso throng, estl ed at one hun dred nd fifty tbous an p assed through tbe turnstiles early in the day. They gathered at tbe plaza of St. Louie, plaza St. Anthony, and pread out over tbe epaoious avenues from the palace of Liberal Arts to the Gran 1 Cascades. A b (lags waved, wa ter rushed from mryiad orifices through the terraces, and from a thousand fountains. Banda played, and people cheered hoarsely. Then they spread out to view the sights. Tbe exercises preceding the actual setting in motion of the machinery were very Impressive. Officers, di rectors of tbe exposition, board of lady managers, representatives of for eign governments, army, navy, state administrations assembled at tbe ad ministration building and marohed to the St. Louis Plaza lu shadow of the monument. St. Louie city officers Chicago Strike in Balance. and guests mounted the rostrum, and Chicago, April 29.—On the result President Francis introduced Dr. of a conference proceeding this after Gonsaslus, of Chicago, who offered noon depends a strike of one thous the Invocation. and truck drivers who demand a read justment of wages. Business Interests TWO PROHIBITION will be plunged in chaos if the men go out. They demand a dollar week MEETINGS ly advance. Tne Assassin. Berlin, April 29.—An attempt was Eugene, Lane County, Ore., made by the revolutionists today to April 28, 1904. assassinate the district governor of Estkhmjadaun, near Erlvan, in Cau Important notico to Prohibitionists: Dr. Tiffany, of New > ork, who is casus. The governor was twice speaking throughout the state of Ore wounded, once In the breast. gon in the interest of the prohibition Fatal Michigan Fire. party, will address the people of Eu Lansing, Mich., April 29.—Four gene and vicinity at tbe court house men were burned to death last night in EugeDe, Monday night, May 2, at in their rooms In the Bryan block. 8 o’clock, and the meetlug that was The upper three floors of tbe building called for Friday, 3 p. m., April 29, is postponed until Tuesday, May 3, were used for a hotel. at 10 a. m. Let all prohibitionists attend these meeting both Monday night and Tues day morning. By order of tbe county central com mittee. A. F. LINN, Sec’y. LOUBETS MISSOURI P. C. Han«on, Cottage Grove. A. W. Fischer, Corvallis. Mr. Auperly, Jefferson. J. E. Drunks, Lebanon. A. W. Bewersox and P. B. Marshal, Albany. 1 «o Peterson, Commercial Review, Washington, April 31'.—State de Iron Mountain Railway partment advices are of indefinite Portland. N. C. Christenson, Newburg. character, and while they give a ru Tnin in the mor of a Japanese victory on the Manchurian side of the Yalu, it is not Cottage Grove Items. confirms I. The text or source of the Ditch, department dispatch is refused. Manage- Woods of the O A 8 E ' railroad reports satisfactory progress J in the rock work on the line and Czar Compliments Alexieff. that track laying will begin next week. Large Number of Dead and In-1 Sheriff Fisk, candidate for same London, April 29. — The Central jured—Train Was Going j News correspond?nt at St. Petersburg office upon the Democratic ticket Forty-five Miles an states that A'exleff has issued a com- j spent a portion of Monday and Tues munication indicating that the czar, day in the city looking up his politl- Hour. instead of recalling the viceroy, has ! cal affaire. commended him for bis work. The Rev. Feese left on Tuesday to at Kimmswick, Mo., _April _30.—The order says: *’l am happy to receive tend the Missionary Conference In Iron Mountain express train, No 18, at Mukden a dispatch from the empe Sant Francicso anil will he present at Hot Springs to St. Louie, was ditched ror stating tbaUnla’majesty is watch ‘General Conference In Los Angeles. near here this mornlog, six coaches ing attentively BtbeJrcontentratiou of He expects to be absent about three being overturned. Nine bodies have treops In the far East, and notes with weeks. been recovered from the wreck. social pleasure the splendid success Walter M. Keene, of Denver, Colos, There are a total of fifty dead and in attained in this respect.” arrived in Cottage Grove Tuesday jured. and departed for Bohemia Wednesday The train wee running forty-five t morning,where be baa been engaged Order of Red Men miles an hour when it bit a switch 1 by Mi. F. J. Hard to take charge of too hard. Five men killed outright 1 the assay office at the Vesuvius prop- aud ten fatally hurt. Fifteen sue- I G. 8. Street, organizer for the Im 1erty. Re<ntren XTen. . Js is In in the j.»st Sunday morning Roht. Blair tained minor injuries. Among th-1 proved O rd er jrf“ KetC _____ of ____ ___ ___ ____ _ Grove _____ dead are: Engineer Bailey, Master1 cifyj'rganizTnfTi 1 tribe that _____ order. _ ' left Springfield foi Cottage a spirited livery team. • At the .....___ . ' " " Mechanic Taber and a mall clerk, A 1 Fie expectsjto c'ompleFe’tha**crganlza“ with city Is a deep ’m,,d mud weeks. Tag Tne nZr fi-M ' eastern “*'’,terD pa-t of the tbe c, .ty ^•J*** relief train carrying physicians was tion'in about , - two - - |e aDC c _ _ b0 hole and | while croaaing crossing it the tongne hurried to the scene of the wreck j Men ls„a popular order and bag over - pulled from the carriage and 400,WA) members íñ""t be Lulled ¿¿aies' from St. Louie, 28 miles distant. ”” I the horses got away. A telephone I The Iron Mountain officials state It pays sick and accident benefits and I pole separated them and they passed that eight are dead at Kimmswick its social standing is excellent. Hon. tbrougD town at a lively gait with Amoug them are Edward Reiebartb, 1 G. M. Ui>on, ot Poriletiu, a member i parta of the whiffletrees flying at the Mister Mechanic Tabor, Fireman of the last ix-aou legislatura, Will fi>i of the tugs. The horses were Grnmport, Engineer Bailey and Mee- 1 arrive here Sun-lay f.o agaisr Mr found uninjured some distance west Street In organizing. , senger Grorst. of the city—Nugget. i WRECK ese have been crossing the Yalu since the 23d under Russian Ore. The Jap anese lessee were heavy. The Russian forces continue to occupy the posi tions on the right hank. VISIT TO VICTOR Sheriff Fred Fisk. Sheriff Fred Fisk, Democratic can didate for sheriff of Lane county, Sixty Wa, ships Maneu the present incumbent, was burn in Fisk, Adair county, Iowa, December 10,1873, being thirty-one years of age. vers.. Bfore the Sheriff Fisk attended the public schools of his native state till at tbe age of fifteen. In 18H8, the fHinily re Allied Rulers. moved to Eugene, lie st once enter ed the high school gradiiatlig lliere- fiom i.i MM. lie <’nt,<-r'd the State Univeuity, graduating therefrom President Loubet of the Opinion with high honors,[being the success ful repreeeutatlve of the university That tiie Ugly Tempered in the state oratorical contest, also Ships Mean Peace. the inter-state oratorical content,open to tbe states of Oregon, Idaho and Naples, April 29. -"I can never Washington, graduating the same forget this eight; it seems war but I year. In 1898 be was appointed deputy the inner meaning is profound peace” remarked President Loubet of France sheriff by Sheriff W. W. Wilbers, ano to King Victor of Italy this morning on the terrible murder of that official as they stood watching the maneuvers February 7, 1903, was appointed of sixty warships in tbe harbor on sheriff by tbe county coniailsaiotier*’ court to fill out ¡the vacant, term. tbe visit of the French president. Sheriff Fisk has frilly demonstrated The day magnificent, tbe bay at ita greatest beauty, tbe arowda immense. that tbe appointing power made no Tbe battleship Regina Margherita mistake in the appointment. Ot carried the king ar-l president, their broad education he is practical iu tL-t royal suites and he princes. The management of this important office, gunboat Eurldlce had tbe diplomatic prompt, courteous and efficient. corps aboard. Tbe battleship passed Married. twice between tl.e Hoes, then Loubet went aboard the French cruiser Mar seilles and was saluted by twenty-one guns from each Italian warship as tbe Alfred F. Wright and Mies Mary French squadron left the bay for B. Royce were married at the M. f. I Marseilit - I Parsonage April ^8, litO4, Iley B. K Rowland officiating. The harpy Con Rnikin D'*d. 8> l’> . -l-oo, A; I’ ’.V» Irow nie left Immedlat'dy on a noi ymoo.i Botkin, ** Hvnrce I hi * ' if Cor trip to Kansas to visit ths groom', relatives. Th" Hi 1 U^tl"- I mgh’er d . ’ ' - ase.