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IN FULL RETREAT WILL IGNORE LAW Russian Army to Make a Stand at Tie Pass. W estern Railroads Decide Upon Livestock Rates. JAPS MAY DRIVE THEM FURTHER WILL MAKE TEST CASE IN COURT and passed three supply bills, aggre CRASH HEAD-ON. gating an appropriation ol over $357,- 000,000, and at night took up a fourth Express and Freight Trains Meet on bill, carriyng over $07,000,000. The Curve in Montana. bills passed were the postoffice, pension Missoula, Mont., March 7. — Two and river and harbor bills. The sun dry civil bill was not completed at time men are dead and six people injured as of adjournment. A large number of the result of a collision of a freight minor measures were passed. train and the west-bound Twin Cities The house passed the general defi express on the Northern Pacific at ciency appropriation bill, the last of the Bearmouth this afternoon at 2:30. great supply measures to be acted upon during this congress. The total The express was 30 minutes behind amount carried is $31,224,079. The time and the freight had orders to wait j bills amending the homestead laws as at Bearmouth siding. Engineer Shee I to certain lands in South Dakota and han misunderstood his orders and pro Left and Center Beaten — Japanese Colorado were passed. To Obey Decision o f Interstate Com ceeded east. As the freight rounded Draw Near Mukden and Camp the curve east of Bearmouth it crashed merce Commission Would Mean Thursday. March 2. head on into the express. Followers Stampede. Heavy Loss To Roads. The senate today passed the sundry A high bank shut off the view of both civil appropriation bill, carrying about engineers, and no attempt had been $118,000,000. The general deficiency made to slow down. Both engines Chicago, March 2. — Executive ofti- were thrown from the track and the Tokio, March 4.— While a few offi bill, carrying $29,709,466, was passed. cial dispatches from the army before An agreement cannot be reached on the cjals of Western railroads today decid- mail and express cars telescoped, but bill for the governmnt of the canal zone ej ignore the order of the Interstate the passenger coaches came to a dead Mukden have been received, nothing and it is possible the present law will Commerce commission requiring them stop and remained on the track. has been given out officially. Other continue. j t() charge no higher rates for livestock The dead and injured were brought The house agreed to the conference than are charged for the transportation reportB state that the Japanese attack to this city on a relief train. The in against the Russian left and center has reports on the fortifications, agricul of the products of livestock. By the jured are being cared for in the com- tural and river and harbor appropri advice of general counsel the matter .1 been entirely successful. The right Traffic has been re- ation bills. The naval appropriation will be tested in the courts, as the rail pany hospital. Burned. wing of the Russians has held so far, bill was sent back to conference. roads have determined that it will be but it is believed that, on account of Both houses have decided to send impossible either to lower the livestock other reverses, it is only a question of committees to attend the opening of the rates or to increase the rates on pack FEAR RUSSIANS W ILL FLEE. I^wis and Clark fair, and $10,000 has ing house products. There is an in a few hourB until General Kuropatkin’ s been appropriatedd to defray tlfcir ex clination to do the latter, but the con Japanese Eager to Decide War with whole army will be in flight before the penses. tract which the Great Western road has Present Battle. victorious Japanese. with the packers for an 18-cent rate Friday, March 3. London, March 4.— A dispatch from The Russian general's objective is to | The last day’ s [session of the house between Chicago and the Missouri reach Tie pass in the hope of establish before the final adjournment of the river makes such action impracticable. Tokio to the Daily Telegraph states A reduction in livestock rates in that the Japanese are endeavoring to ing another line of defense there. The 58th congress at noon tomorrow found elaborate and complete campaign that body almost through with its compliance with the decision of the force a decisive battle in Manchuria, commission would mean a minimum but it is fear« I General Kuropatkin planned by Marshal Oyama, if carried work. The conference reports on the Indian and poetoffice appropriation reduction of 3 % cents per 100 pounds will retreat, fighting a rear-guard ac out exactly as outlined, will make this bills were agreed to. At the evening and a maximum reduction of about 8 tion. Reports from the Shakhe river indi extremely difficult of fulfillment, how session the sundry civil, the river and cents, ami the reductions would affect ever. It is prolwble that Mukden must harbor ami general deficiency bills were fully 40 per cent of all the livestock cate, says the same correspondent, that be entirely abandoned by the Russians, agreed to as reported from conference. traffic west of Chicago. A compliance the Russian morale is seriously im The conference reports were agreed with the commission’s order by a re paired and that there are numerous or that they must face surrender event to by the senate on the same measures duction in the livestock rates would voluntary surrenders, not only of Poles ually. the house acted on. The present tem mean, it is now estimated, a loss to ! and Jews, but of recently arrived Euro From thé front have come reports of porary government for the Panama western railroads of at least $2,000,000 pean troops. They relate that the ru annually. They say that such a loss, mors are current in the army that continued heavy fighting last night. canal zone was continued. The statehood bill is dead and the in view of the contention of the rail General Kuropatkin has been recalled, The heavy cannonading could be plain house will resurrect it in the next con- road officials that the rates are even and knowledge of the internal troubles ly heard and the greatest confusion gress. now unremunerative, is not to be in Russia causes a deep impression in _________ the army. thought of. reigns in Mukden, according to the Saturday, March 4. Reports are current in Tokio, but not latest reports. Every means of trans confirmed officially, that the Japanese Both houses met at 10 o ’clock. Ac Estimates of Russian Strength. portation is being utilized by the peo cording to custom a resume of appropri Tokio, March 7.— According to esti have occupied Sakhalien. ple, who are hurrying away before the ations made during the present congress mates which have been prepared here, Japanese. was given. The total appropriations the forces under General Kuropatk n Cannon Roar on All Sides. Heavy artillery firing has been the were $697,048,104, while the estimates between the Shakhe river and Tie pass [ Mukden, March 4.—The thunder of feature of the fighting again, the Jap for the next fiscal year were $725,690,- total slightly over 400,000, composed artillery is heard from all positions. anese continuing to hide their move- 515. The customary resolutions were 0f 335,000 infantry, 33,000 cavalry Poutiloff and Novgorod hills are hidden ; adopted thanking Speaker Cannon and and 35,000 artillery, with 1,504 guns, by the smoke from the guns. The ments under the smoke of the large j President Pro Tern Frye. Speaker Can-1 These estimates do not include the Iminbardments were resumed after the guns. The attacks developed under j non was presented with a handsome Vladivostok and other garrisons, the repulse of an infantry attack by the this cover and during the night time loving cup by the members of the railroad guards or the civil employts. Japanese. A heavy bombardment is have been fierce and in most cases ef house. At 11:50 the senate, after The grand total of the Russian streng h also in progress in the neighborhood of swearing in the vice president and new east of Baikal is estimated at 700,000. the Shakhe liver, apparently in pre fective. senators, adjourned Bine die. The The Japanese strength is not given but paration for an attack in that quarter. house adjourned without day at 11:55. j believed to equal Kuropatkin’s. The weather continues fine and warm. Admit They are Beaten. The Chinese are preparing to sow grain. St. Petersburg, March 4.— It is now Dodging Military Service. generally admitted that after the long More Facts About Land Laws. Japanese Squadron Sighted. Vienna, March 7.— As a result of in Washington, March 3. — Additional and heavy battle which has been wag Line Ion, March 7. — The German quiries which were commenced in De reports sent to congress today by the ing before Mukden, General Kuropat president from the public land commis cember last it has been discovered that steamer Numidia, according to the cor respondent of the Daily Mail at Hong kin has been forced to abandon at least sion include muqh material gathered in Upper Hungary there has been a a part of his most advanced position Kong, reports having sighteif two Ja; • by the special agents of the land office. I system of falsification of records, such under the fierce attack of the enemy. They relate to grazing on public land, I " ‘ he changing of names, false entries anese squadrons on Saturday, 100 miles The next stand will probably be made leases for grazing purposes, operations , of The first etc. by which many thou- southeast of Hong Kong. at Tie pass, and . . little . „ doubt . is expressed • . under the timber and stone act and ^ "d s of young Hungarians have a.-iuil- squadron, comprising nine battleships of he ab.l.ty of the RuM.au commander !underthe homeHtead >nd the d ed obligatory military serv.ce. These and cruisers, was seen at 2 o ’clock in tob n n g h.s forces safely from the , ,and ,>wg Thege „ were ------ ----------------------------------------------- practices have been in vogue in certain the morning, going at full speed with localities for the past 12 or 16 years, all lights out, and the second squad •c“ * 0 , ‘ h® pre?fnt confl,ct * n i flrmly made in time to secure any action at estabbsh himself in a new pos.t.on, | thi> but wiU furn^ h informa. and the authorities decal re that those ron, of 13 large warships, was sighted in the afternoon. tion upon which legislation can be guilty of the falsifications will he se verely punished. DOINGS IN CONGRESS. founded in the next congress. J Tuesday, February 28. PORTLAND MARKETS. The senate spent almost the entire day discussing amendments to the In- Wheat—-Walla Walla, 86c; bluesfem, dian appropriation bill. It was agreed that ' no funds should be used for 92c; valley, 87c per bushel. Oats — No. 1 white, $1.35® 1.40; church schools. An amendment was adopted appropriating $500,000 to gray, $1.40® 1.45 per cental. Hay— Timothy, $14®16 per ton; carry into effect an agreement entered clover, $11®12; grain, $11 ® 12; cheat, into ttith the Klamath Indians. The house today considered the gen $12® 13. eral deficieny appropriation bill, but | Eggs— Oregon ranch, 17®17>^c per reached no conclusion. The bill dozen. 30c. amending the homestead laws as to un-| Butter— Fancy creamery, 27 Potatoes— Oregon fancy, 85®90c; appropriated and unreserved lands in South Dakota and Colorado so as to • o nmon, 60®75c. Apples — 4-tier Raldwins, $1.25® allow selection of 640 acres instead of 160 acres waa also discussed. A num -1 1.50; Spitzenbergs, $1.75®2. Hops— 1904, 24®26c per pound. her of minor bills were passed. Wool— Valley, 19®20c per pound; Wednesday, March I. Eastern Oregon, 12®17c; mohair, 26® Dufing the day the senate considered 26c per pound for choice. Suspected Assassin Caught. 8t. Petersburg, MarchS.—The police at Tsarskoe-Selo, who since the assass ination of Grand Duke Sergius have redoubled the ordinary precautions foi the protection of the imperial family, have arrested a suspect, who claimed to be a nephew of General Fock, but whose papers are irregular, and who was found to bo armed with a loaded revolver. An investigation is on foot, j Warsaw Strikers Warlike. Warsaw, March 3.— Strikers today drove the officials and clerks from the offices of the gas company and then marched to the gas works, which are occupied by the military. The strikers merely jeered at the soldiers, shout ing? "Y ou will only stay there till Sunday; then we will clear you ou t." Knows Nothing of Arid Land Grabs. Washington, March 4.— Replying to a resolution of the house, the secretary of the interior today gave the informa tion that the general land office had no knowledge of the "surreptitinua" ac quisition of land set apart for irrigation uses, as alleged by resolutions of the I National Business League of Chicago. | Soldiers Keeping Lodz Quiet. Lodz, March 7.— The town is quiet. Strong military patrols guard the streets. There are 7,000 workmen from the Poxznanski cotton mills on strike. The outlook is not promising. The workmen are indignant liecause several mill owners are remaining abroad and threaten to cause trouble unless the latter return.