NEWS OF THE WEEK
i Russian cruiser Variag have been dis­
continued. It will l)e impossible to re-
I commence work before spring, by which
time the steel plates forming the hull
w ill be useless.
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
The Colorado canvassing board has
given certificates of election to two Re­
publican senators, whose places were
contested by Democrats. Democrats
regard it as highly probable that Gov­
ernor Peabody w ill be reseated by this
action.
HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS
A Resume o f the Less Important but
Not
Less
Interesting Events
o f the Past Week.
Prince Yildaroff has been reported
as among the killed in a recent list sent
to St. Petersburg.
The recent retirement of Rear Ad-
m ifal Silas Terry has resulted in the
promotion of Captain Joseph E. Craig
to be admiral.
An officer from an English steamer
Bitter cold marked the incoming oj just out from Vladivostok says no Rus­
the new year throughout the old world. sian torpedo boats have arrived there
A British steamer has just arrived at from Port Arthur.
Reports from points along the shore
New York with a cargo of 1,100 tons of
j of Lake Michigan indicate that the
European wheat.
1 damage resulting from the storm w lil
The Oklahoma statehood b ill w ill j aggregate $500,000.
come before the senate immediately
The president is presenting hiB ideas
after the holiday recess.
on railroad freight rates to congressmen
Several torpedo boats escaped from personally.
Port Arthur and took refuge at Shang­
An unknown
steamer has been
hai just prior to the surrender of the
stranded in H e ll’ s Hole, off Cape Hat-
fortress.
teras, as a result of the storm raging
Before surrendering Stoessel sunk along the Atlantic coast.
the damaged warships in Port Arthur
harbor. The Japanese severely criti­
Two Japanese cruisers have been
cise this.
sighted off Hong Kong. It is believed
Now that Port Arthur has fallen the they are scouting vessels from the fleet
bulk of the besieging army w ill be sent lin t after the Russian Baltic squadron.
north, but some of them w ill go home.
M. A. Meyerdorff, a special land
The army before Port Arthur is vari­
agent, on the way to Portland to help
ously stated as being between 70,000
in the land fraudj cases, attempted to
and 120,000 men.
commit suicide at Denver.
I f Senator Mitchell follows the inex­
Governor Pardee desires to have the
orable rule of seautorial etiquette, he
Mission type of architecture exempli­
w ill not appear on the floor of the sen­
fied in the construction of the Califor­
ate again until the courts have taken
nia state building at the Lewis and
final action in the matter of the indict­
Clark fair.
The work will start soon.
ment against him.
Chinese warships are keeping a close
The cotton m ill strike at Fall River,
watch on the Russian war vessels at
Mass., continues with both sides deter­
Shanghai to prevent their escape or of
mined not to give in.
the officers and men on them.
The grind of the Federal grand jury 1
Vice Adimral Lord Charles Beres-
goes on, and another report for the
ford w ill assume command of the Brit­
expectant public w ill soon be made.
ish Mediterranean squadron May 1.
Silver is growing scarce. The price
Several lives have been lost in Chi-
has rdvanced, and the market is such
that the consumer waits on the pro­ caog as a result of the severe storm.
ducer.
Chicago held memorial services De-
New Zion in Mexico.
ceml>er 30 in remembradle of the Iri-
Chicago, Jan. 4.— John Alexander
quois theater disaster, the occasion be­
Dowie, in addressing his followers in
ing the first anniversary.
Preparations are being made at Vlad­ Shiloh temple, Zion City, today, gave
ivostok for the reception in the dry defiinte confirmation of the report that
docks of any of the Baltic squadron he proposes to establish a second Zion
that may need docking when the fleet City. The new Zion City w ill be locat­
reaches that port.
ed in Mexico, Dowie told his followers,
The London city police have arrested and w ill <x:cupy a portion of a tract of
two members of an international gang 1,000,000 acres fronting on the Gulf of
which for two or three years is alleged I Mexico. He announced that he ex­
to have been conducting extensive forg­ pected to have the modern Zion City
in full operation before January 1,
eries in £5 Bank of England notes.
1906.
Boston’s submarine tunnel is open
for business. The tube is a mile and a
half long, and connects Boston and
New Navy for Russia.
East Boston, running under the harlsir.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 4.— W ith refer­
The cost was three million dollars.
ence to the report published in the
About three and one-half years was
consumed in constructing the tunnel, j I ’ nited States under a St. Petersburg
date that Emperor Nicholas has peti­
Owing to the crisis in Morocco, the
French navy yards show great activity. tioned the expenditure of $80,000,000
for rebuilding the navy, the fact is
England is again enveloped in a that Russia’s naval program has not
heavy fog and all ships are detained at yet been definitely decided or promul­
the mouth of the Thames, unable to gated. A ll that is positively known is
proceed.
that the plans cover a long period of
The absolute necessity of a sea
Admiral Kaxankoff has been recalled years.
as Russian commissioner in the North power is one of Russia’ s latest lessons
sea inquiry and will be replaced by of the present war.
Vice Admiral Douhasoff. Sickness is
given as the reason.
Bay City Is Shocked.
San Francisco, Jan. 4.— This city
The Montana agricultural exhibits at
St. Louis are being parked for ship­ experienced a number of earthquake
ment to Portland.
The mineral ex­ shocks today. At 3:20 o’clock a severe
hibit w ill leave Butte for the Lewis shock, which lasted for six seconds,
occurerd. A t 4 :25 o’clock and a few
and Clark fair shortly.
minutes before 8 o’ clock tonight other
Kumpatkin is absolutely certain that
shocks were felt.
The plate glass in a
he w ill ultimately win over the Japan­
few buildings was shattered. One of
ese, while tire vice governor of Japan’s
the small towers on the city hall was
national liank says Japan must win;
twister!.
Officials at the hall, how­
that no sacrifice is too great.
ever, say that the tower was • faultily
The Japanese attempts to raise the constructed.
FIND THE T R U T H .
IN HANDS OF JAPS
Denver Election Frauds to be Probed
to the Bottom.
Denver, Jan. 4.— Stretching its hands
so as to cast a shadow over every man
and woman in any way implicated in
election frauds in the city and county
of Denver, on, before or after Novem­
ber 8, tile supreme court has ordered
an investigation so sweeping in its
scope that every phase of the election
may be scrutinized and everything that
bears
upon it in any way may be made
Stoessel Confesses He Fouud Further
known by judicial inquiry.
Resistance Was Only a Useless
Alva Adams, Democratic candidate
Sacrifice o f Lives.
for governor, who appeared *rom the
returns to have been elected, but who
New York, Jan. 3.— Port Arthur, has declared that he does not want the
whose hills for months have run red j office tainted with fraud, asked the
with the blood of the bravest of two court to open every Denver ballot box,
warlike nations, lias at last succumbed but the order of the court goes beyond
to the fierce tenacity of the Japanese the mere examination of the ballots
attack. General Stoessel, most stub­ and provides for an investigation of the
born in carrying out the w ill of his i registration lists, the campaign expen-
sovereign, has seen the advance of the diturres, and, in brief, all election
besieging army gain in momentum and | matters. Samuel W . Bel ford, attorney
energy, until to hold out longer would j for Adams, and Henry J. Hersey, at­
have been a crime against humanity.
torney for the Republicans, asked the
The conditions of the surreneder are court to make its order of such breadth
not yet known, but in all quarters it is that the court need not stop at anything
anticipated that they ate such as an in the investigation. TlitS court said
honorable soldier may accept from a that was what it meant to do, and in­
brave and victorious enemy.
structed the lawyers to agree upon the
A t 9:45 o’clock last night the com­ wording of the order, and present it to
missioners completed signing of the I tlie court for arpoval.
capitulation agreement.
Both armies
Chief Justice Gabbert
said that
had suspended hostilities five hours while the petition did not state facts
earlier. The city of Port Arthur w ill entitling the petitioner to such an in­
be occupied by the Japanese today.
vestigation as proposed, the court had
The authorities at St. Petersburg, in decided that an investigation might
tlie absence of direct official notice end in discovering the guilty persons
from General Stoessel that Port Arthur who were responsible for the commis­
has surrendered, have not permitted sion of the gross frauds that had been
the news to become public. Emperor revealed in the contempt proceedings.
Nicholas is in the south of Russia, and There must have been some persons be­
his ministers are for the time being in hind the election officers and others
tlie dark as to what dispatches have who committed frauds, the court be­
been sent to him from the front. Tokio lieved.
is the scene of rejoicing, people finding
in the outcome compensation for all
W H IP WIFE-BEATERS.
the sacrifice of life and money that was
entailed in the ten months’ siege.
To what extent the fall of Port A r­ Washington Grand Jury Adopts the
thur w ill make for a restoration) of
President’ s Suggestion.
peace is an open question.
There is
Washington, Jan. 3.— The local
an encouraging note in the expression
grand jury in making its final report
of Baron Havashi, Japanese minister
to London, of the ‘ ‘ hope that in some for the present term of the supreme
way it w ill facilitate final peace.” court of the District of Columbia today
Both in Paris and London it is be­ recommended the establishment of
lieved that the squadron under Vice whipping-posts in the district.
The
Admiral Rojestvensky, which started question lias been much agitated ever
from Libau for the Far East three since the president in his last annual
months ago, w ill have to retrace its way message recommended corporal punish­
home, as an adherence td the original ment for wife-beaters in the District of
plans would invite disaster without Columbia.
The recommendation of
probability of effecting a juncture with the jury was as follows;
the warships at present in the harbor
“ The efficacy of establishing the
of Vladivostok.
whipping-post as a means of punishing
wife-beaters and petty larceny offenses
has been investigated by this body, and
H ALL IS REMOVED.
the majority of the members are of the
opinion that it would prove very effect­
Summary Action by the President in ive in reducing the number of these
reprehensible crimes.”
Land Fraud Cases.
Port Arthur Gives Up After Fight­
ing Eleven Months.
CAUSES GREAT JOY IT TOKIO
j
Washington, Jan. 3. — President
Roosevelt has directed the absolute re­
Island Under Water.
moval of John H. Hall, I'nited States
Vancouver, B. C., Jan. 4.— The
district attorney for the district of Ore­
rich bottom land farms of Westham
gon. The action was taken at the re­
island, at the mouth of the Fraser
quest of Francis J. Heney, who was
river, are all under water. Much prop­
been conducting, as the nominal assist­
erty has been damaged, and many head
ant of Mr. Hall, the land fraud cases j
of livestock drowned.
Several breaks
in Oregon.
occurred in the dikes surrounding the
The announcement of this action was j
island last night, owing to the ex­
made by Attorney General Moody as he
tremely high tide, together with the
was leaving the White house after a
rough weather, and the water streamed
conference with the president.
Mr.
in on the farming lands all night and
Moody declined to say what the charges
now a great portion of the island is
against Mr. Hall were, if any, but did
covered to the depth of from three to
say that it was for the good of the serv­
four feet.
ice to dispense with him, particularly
in regard to the conduct of the land
Coal fo r Russian Fleet.
fraud cases now being investigated.
Bombay, Jan, 4.— Russian agents
here are endeavoring to purchase 100
T w o Cruisers Return.
tons of coal and to charter vessels to
8t. Petersburg, Jan. 4.— A report carry it. Up to the present no ship­
that the cruisers Orel and Iiumrud, of ments have been made, but it is be­
the second Pacific squadron, have been ! lieved that the British steamer Henry
ordered to return is current here, but Bolckow, of 639 tons net, owned by the
lacks official confirmation. I f the re­ Bombay A Persian steam naviagtion
port should prove true. Vice Admiral company, lim ited, of Bombay, ha
Rojestvensky may be obliged to await been sold to Russia.
She has sailed
reinforcements from the Third Pacific hence in ballast for Saigon, French
squadron.
Cochin China.