A PITCHED BATTLE
Two Batalllons of Japan««« Ambushed
on Peng Wang Cheng Road.
A Pew Simple Roles Which Would Help
Our Highways.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
of the Import,
tho Past Week,
Ram i a has called oat more resreves.
Many deported anion miners are ar
riving at Denver.
The Russian forces at Ping, south of
N ia Cbwang have been forced to evacu
ate.
Russia w ill not heed the protest of
Britain against declaring foodstuffs con
traband.
An attempt has been made to kidnap
the Italian consul at Tangier, Moiocco,
by bandits.
A ll Russian warships at Port Arthur
are expected to be ready for service
within a fortnight.
The tenth semiannual reunion of
Scottish R ite Masons of Oregon is in
session at Portland.
Congressman Metcalf, of California,
is slated to succeed Cortelyou as secre
tary of commerce and labor.
The national heads of the Rathbone
Sisters and Pythian Sisters, at a con
lerence, have prepared a plan for the
consolidation of the two oiders.
A cloudburst on the tableland adja
cent to Sterling, Colorado, caused a
sheet of water 10 to 18 inches deep to
cover the lower portion of the town
Much damage was done to growing
crops in that section.
The land offi-e at Oregon City may
be moved to Protland.
Abner M cKinley, brother of the late
President M cKinley, is dead.
The Colorado train robbers have
again eluded the posse and are further
into the hills.
,
The man who attempted to k ill the
Spanish premier has been sent to pris
on for 17 years.
The wife of Mayor Ballinger, of Seat
tle, has been warned of a plot against
her husband’s life.
V
Chinese report that a battle was
fought June 9 within seven miles of
the inner forts of Port Arthur.
The Panama commissioners are sure
a currency system acceptable to the
United States w ill be adopted by Fans
ma.
Mors union miners are being deport
ed from Colorado and the work w ill be
kept up until all are taken out of the
- state.
The Japanese are constructing a rail
road from Feng Wang Cheng to Shak-
dedsi, 30 miles to the southeast, near
the mouth of the Yalu river.
Roosevelt desires Ambassador Choate
to succeed Knox as attorney general.
John W . Minto has been apointed
postmaster at Portland, to take charge
July 1.
Perdicaris, the American held by
Moroccan bandits, w ill soon be re
leased.
The Japanese have dislodged Russian
forces in a number of towns along the
Liao Yang.
A waterspout in Oklahoma was the
cause ol three deaths and washed away
many houses.
Kansas objects to being made the
dumping ground for the objectionable
Colorado unionists.
Many union miners, are being de
ported from the Victor, Colorado,
mining district every day.
Among the elements and forces of
nature there are several enemies of
good roads, but the greatest of them is
water. I t washes away the material
of the road. I t soaks into the road and
softens it so that the wagon wheels cut
into the surface making ruts and holes.
I t permeates and softens the foundation
so that the surface of the road sinks or
breaks up. In the winter the water
that is in the road freezes, expands,
and loosens and disintegrates the road
material.
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The most important thing in the
building of roads is to lessen or prevent
the ravages ot water; yet no feature of
the work is so neglected as this. Many
local road supervisors seem to give no
consideration to the question of drain
age, and the result is a regular mud
blockage during several weeks or
months of the year.
The following are a few simple rules
the observance of which would go far
toward bettering the roads of this coun
try:
First. The road should be so located
and constructed as to avoid steep
grades down which the water rushes
during heavy rains tearing up and
washing away the road material.
Second. The foundation of the road
should be thoroughly drained by open
side ditches which w ill carry off the
water, and where necessary tile drains
should be laid in the foundation itself.
Third.
The surface of the road
should be hard and smooth and have
sufficient elope toward the sides to shed
the surface water.
Fourth. Ruts and holes on the sur
face of the finished road should be filled
as fast as made so that no water can lie
on the surface to be worked up into
mud.
These rules are simple and easy to
follow, and any one who gives any seri
ous thought to the matter can see the
wisdom of following them. S till they
are almost universally ignored ah the
condition of our roads abundantly
proves.
What this country needs is a radical
change, a new era in road building.
The people have been moving in ruts
in more senses than one, and if each
local community is left to work out the
road problem alone, they w ill continue
to move in the same ruts, and every
year millions of dollars w ill be thrown
into the mud, to say nothing of the
losses resulting from the use of bad
roads. Lectures on road improvement
seem to do very little good. Books and
bulletins on road building appear to
have very little effect.
What the local communities need is
practical object lessons and actual as
sistance, and these can come only from
the state governments and the federal
government. I t is for this reason that
road reformers everywhere are turning
toward state and national aid as the
only soluton of the road problem.
The bad roads of the United States
are a blight, a curse, a disgrace and all
patriotic, progressive citizens should
make a grand united effort to wipe
them out and put our nation on a level
with the advanced nations of Europe
in the matter of roads.
Pestilence In Siberia.
Paris, June 15. — Letters received
from correspondents who have investi
gated the conditions prevailing in Si
beria show that the natives are suffer
ing severely as a result of the war. An
epidemic has broken out among the
laborers who live around Lake Baikal,
and it is feared the disease, the exact
natme of which has not yet been as
certained, w ill affect the troops who
are passing through on the way to Man
churia. The unfortunates affected by
the disease usually die within forty-
eight hours aftfet being first attacked,
and bo far all known remedies 'have
proven useless.
anna Drove Back Train.
Cripple Creek alliance has dacided
Tokio, June 15— Rear Adm iral Togo
it w ill not try to break up the print reports that Tuesday a part of the fleet
ers’ union, fearing that the papers w ill bombarded the west coast of the Liao
suspend.
Tung peninsula, near Kaichau, and
drove
back a m ilitary train that ^ras
Four hundred school children were
approaching
southward.
No trains
thrown in a mass at 8an Jose, Cal., by
the breaking down of a platform in a have been seen since. The enemy was
theater. None were seriously injured. moving in troops and erecting works
evidently expecting a landing of the
The secretary of the Mineowners’ as Japanese at that point and making all
sociation says the desire to, make all preparations to prevent it. Small gun
join the union and not the eight hour boats sent in- close by Rear Admiral
day is the real issue in the Colorado Togo bombarded the Russians at
trouble.
work.
Postmaster Bancroft, of Portland,
Visits the Bandit’s Camp.
has resigned.
Tangier,
June 15.— J. W. S. Langer-
The American Medical association
man,
commissioner
of the Moroccan
w ill meet in Portland in 1905.
section at the St. Louis exposition, ar
The alleged leader in the Victor, rived here today from the campi of Rai-
Colorado, riots has been captured.
suli, the bandit. In an interview giv
en to the Associated Press, Mr. Laneer-
In a battle between Colorado ranch
man said: " I met Raisuli and his
ers and train robbers one of the latter
band fully armed and suspicious of the
was killed.
visit. For a few miutes the situation
Russia is not negotiating with Tur was critical, but all passed off well.
key for the passage of the Baltic fleet Ion Perdicaris is much better and in
good spirits over the prespect of his
through the Dradanellee.
speedy rel
General Kuroki’ s movements are a
Russian Prisoner« In Japan.
puzzle to the Russians and they do not
Tokio,
June 15.— The Russian pris
know what to expect next.
oners in the hospitals in Japan number
The mother of Lewis Etzel, the 546, including 19 officers. Of these 38
American correspondent killed by Chi men and 10 officers are weunded. while
nese, has filed a claim for $20,000 with the others are suffering from sickness
o f various softs.
China.
INFERNAL MACHINES DISCOVERED IN
ROYAL PALACE.
Machinery Was Working and Bxploelon
Would Have Occurred In a Short
Time—One to Dining Salon About to
Bo Entered by Imperial Family and
Another la Audience Chamber.
Haicheng, Manchuria, June 14.— A
flanking movement of the Japanese
around the Russian left from Feng
Wang Cheng, June 9, was repulsed
with a loss of two whole battalions.
A large Japanese force moved out in
the morning along the Feng Wang
Cheng and Haicheng road. The Rus
sians had a force strongly posted in a
ravine 30 miles southeast of Haicheng.
The Japanese were preceded by two
battalions, who walked into the Rus
sian ambuscade.
They received a murderous rifle and
artillery fire at close range and were
wiped out, only one or two escaping.
The main Japanese 'orce, which was
greatly superior to the Russian force,
tried to outflank the Russians who
drew off without ’ losing a vpan. The
Japanese, closing in, found tlm .ravine
vacant, save for th^jr,awn dedd.
St. Petersburg, June 13.— Tw o in
fernal machines were found concealed
in tobacoo boxes in the Tsarskaye Selo
palace near this city, where the czar
and his fam ily reside. One of the
boxes was found in the dining saloon,
to which room the imperial fam ily
were shortly to enter for the evening
meal, and the other in the audience
chamber.
The machinery in both
RUSSIAN ARnV SWBLUNd.
boxes wag working, and would have
Exultation Over Victory on the Feng
exploded within half an hour.
Wang Cheng Road.
Had the machines not been found in
Liao
Yang,
June 14.— The army here
time it is probable that the entire pal-
is increasing rapidly, a fresh squadron
acq would have been wrecked, and all arriving daily.
its inmates killed.
There is no fresh news from Port
Arthur, nor has any confirmation of
W ar Paralyzes Trato.
serious events having occurred there
Odessa, June 13.— Reports from most been received. On the contrary, ac
of the manufacturing districts of Rus cording to the best information, every
thing is going well.
sia state that the output is mush lim it
The officers and men here are very
ed. Factories are struggling along on enthusiastic over the driving back of
half time, and the Lands are being the Japanese on the road between Feng
discharged for lack of orders. Trade Wang Cheng and Haicheng June 9.
Only a comparatively short distance
of the leading Black sea ports with the
separates the Japanese and Russian
Far East by sea has been temporarily armies and the soldiers are all anxious
abandoned altogether by the Russian for active operations to begin.
lines. So far as the trade w ith V lad i
KUROPATKIN RB5TS LITTLE.
vostok and Singapore is concerned, the
Russian volunteer fleet, the leading
subsidized shipping of Russia, is in a How Famous Russian Qeneral Directs
His Campaign.
still worse plight. The Ekaterinoslav,
of over 10,000 tons, has been captured
Liao Yang, June 14.— The entire Rus
by the Japanese. The Kzan is shut up sian plan of campaign is directed from
m Port Arthur, and no fewer than 12 a railway carriage here, in which Gen
more cruisers and transports, includ eral Kuropatkin works, eats andsleepe
ing ships of 12,000 tons and 20 knots The car is divided into a saloon, a
speed, are lying in Russian home ports, study and a bedroom. The commander
with scores of officers and hundreds of in chief passes the most of his time in
men waiting orders.
the study at work, surrounded by his
The Russian tea trade with the Far aides.
Although small of stature,
East was her only foreign shipping Kpropatkin is at once distinguishable
trade of any magnitude, and the pres among his entourage, however brilliant
ent paralysis is a severe blow to it.
may be their uniforms, by bis deter
mined gestures and sturdy figure.
He
has the reputation of being just and
RUSSIA RISKS NOT.
his word is law. H is officers repos3
Japanese Attack on St. Petersborg Do the fullest confidence in him and he is
the idol of the common soldiers, and
ing Ouarded Against.
the foreign attaches find him most
St. Petersburg, June 13.*—Remote as pleasant. He takes little or no rest ex
now appears the chance that the Japan* cept a half hour’s siesta after lunch,
ese fleet w ill ever be in a position to when the heat is excessive, and he oc
venture up the Baltic and make a dem casionally indulges in the distraction
of reading literary works. Dispatches
onstration against the Russian capital,
from the scene of operations are
or that a European power w ill be brought to him at any hour of the day
drawn into the war, Russia is evidently or night. The general eats well, ot
taking nothing for granted. The pos simple dishes, but he seldom remains
at the table more than a half hour.
sibility of the fall of Port Arthur or a
He drinks wine, smokes a cigar or two
disaster to the Baltic squadron after after breakfast and sets an example of
the later sails for the Far East have abstemiousness to his officers.
He
been considered, and no precaution rises at 7 o’clock and retires at mid
w ill be omitted to protect 8t. Peters night.
burg against attack. The fortifications
SQUADRON WILL BB READY.
of Riga, in the southern part of the
gulf of Riga, and Reval, at the entrance Amelie« Cun Send More Ships to Tan
gier II Emergency Arises.
of the gulf of Finland, have been
Paris, June 14.— Information has
strengthened. Some new guns of the
been
received from Lisbon concerning
latest patterns have been mounted in
the plans of the American battleship
the fortress of Cronstadt. and a chain of
squadron. Rear Admiral Barker ex
water batteries, tunning out on either
pects to leave Lisbon June 16 fo r Gib
side of the shores of the gulf of Finland,
raltar, where the squadron w ill remain
w ill guard the entrance to the mouth
until the Moroecan incident is settled.
of the Neva.
On the arrival there of the Illin ois and
This system of fortifications was
Missouri, the squadron w ill consist of
sufficient to discourage the attack
six of the most modern battleships, be
planned by the British fleet during the
sides the two squadrons of cruisers and
Crimean war. In addition, however,
gunboats now at Tangier. Although
shore batteries bav$ been constructed Admiral Barker does not expect that
near Cranjenbaum, on the gulf of Cron
the necessity w ill arise of taking the
stadt, 19 miles from St. Petersburg,
battleships to Tangier, yet he w ill re
and Sestroryetsk, on the Sestra river,
main at Gibraltar for the purpose of
and 17 miles from St. Petersburg,
meeting any possible contingency.
probably as a precaution against land
When the American squadron leaves
ings, as the forts are able to stop the Gibraltar it w ill not go to Villefranche,
advance of a hostile fleet. The ap as at first intended, but w ill go to Pie-
proaches to Cronstadt are also being raus and cruise through the Grecian
mined, and merchant ships are being archipelago. Later, the squadron w ill
forbidden to enter port without a pildt go to Corfu and Treste.
to conduct them through the mine
fields.
Of a rest Strategical Importance.
Turkey Will Be Neutral.
St. Poterbsurg, June 13.— The Asso
ciated Press is informed officially that
no negotiations are taking place be
tween Russia and Turkey concerning
the passage of the Black sea fleet
through the Dardanelles. The Turkish
government has affirmed positively its
intention to maintain neutrality and to
observe strictly the obligations of the
Berlin treaty. W hile diplomatic cir
cles do not believe in the existence of
danger in the Balkans, yet it is thought
Russia w ill not oonsider a reduction of
the Black sea fleet at this time.
China Will laveatlgate His Death.
Tien Tsin, June 18.— Viceroy Yuan
Shai Kai baa sent the Taotai Liu to
Niu Cbwang to investigate the death of
Lewis Etsel. correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Telegraph, who was recently
shot by Chinese imperial soldiers. I t
is now reported that he was foully dealt
with.
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MINERS AND MILITIA OF COLORADO
IN DESPERATE FIQHT.
Union Man Killed—Assailants Now
la Ball P«a—Oonaral Bell Qocs to
DunnvlU« and Captures Laborers ob
Hearing They Wars Coming to Vic
tor Boat on Violane«.
Victor, Colo., June 10.— A pitched
battle between the m ilitary and union
miners was fought at. Dunnvllle, the
netf mining camp, 13 miles out o f
Victor, shortly after 3 o’clock this af
ternoon. John Car ley, a union miner,
was killed. The troops returned to
Victor at 8 o’clock tonight, bringing
with them ¿4 captives. Intense ex
citement again reigns here.
I t was reported before a special
train left for Victor at 2 o’clock bear
ing the force under General Bell that
the miners In the hills about Dumn-
ville numbered. 250 men, and that it
was their intention to march Into Vio-
tor tonight In a body and make an at
tempt to liberate, by force, the In
mates of the temporary bullpen in
Victor. That the force actually con
sisted o f but 21 men Is the statement
o f one of the number that was taken
captive.,
The train proceeded to the Immedi
ate vlcliilty of Dunnvllle without un-
ueual incident. When about a quar
ter of a mile distant from the Dunnr
vllle temporary station, the officers
could see the camp o f the miners. It
included one cabin and six or seven
tents. The officers left the train a t
the command o f General Bell, and
prepared to advance upon the camp o f
the unionists In regular skirmish or
der.
As they emerged from the cut in
which the train had come to a stop,
they were greeted with a volley o f
shots which came from the points o f
vantage In the surrounding bills. T ho
deputies returned the fire to the best
advantage possible, and promiscuous
shooting was engaged In fo r a period
o f 10 minutes. From the character o f
the shooting from the hills, Gener&f
Bell immediately recognized the fact
that the strength of the miners had /
been gTeatly overestimated, and that ’
he had sufficient force under his com
mand to mpke an Immediate round-up
and capture the opposing force. A c
cordingly, he divided the deputies and
soldiers into ’seven detachments, and
these detachments, in command o f
the officers named, set out to make a
complete clean-up o f all the surround
ing hills.
FIQHT WITH TOOO.
Russian« Claim to Have Sank Four Jap
anese Battleships.
St. Petersburg, June 10.— There 1*
great rejoicing in the Russian capital
this morning over the receipt of a dis
patch from Liao Yang which indicates
that Instead of being captured, as ru
mored yesterday, the Russian garri
son at Port Arthur has beaten off an
attack in force o f the Japanese, and
still retains possession o f the strong
hold. Not only that, but Admiral
Skrydloff has made his way out o f
Vladivostok with the Russian Siber
ian fleet, and has made a junction
with the Port Arthur squadron, *after
a desperate fight with the Japanese
fleet under Admiral Togo. The Joint
squadrons are now reported Inside o f
Port Arthur roadstead. The Japanese
lost four o f their best ships, while the
Russians escaped
practically
un
scathed.
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The news o f this Russian success
was brought to General Kuropatkin
by a number o f Chinese, and their
stories are so circumrtantial as to be
considered reliable. The fighting is
understood to have taken place on
Monday and to have continued on
Tuesday.
The account for St. Petersburg
may only be an amplification of the
rumors afloat at Chefoo and Shanghai
earlier In the week to the effect that
the Russian fleet at Port Arthur had
made a sortie and sunk several o f the
Japanese picket fleet which was
keeping watch of the harbor.
The report that the Vladivostok
Bquadron had reached Port Arthur is
hardly credible in view o f the fact
that Admiral Skrydloff has recently
stated that the squadron should not
be sent to sea, but should be retained
at Vladivostok until the Baltic fleet
Tokio, June 14.— The town of 8iu» arrived.
yen, now occupimi by the Japanese
A«k« Too Mach of America.
army, is of great strategical import
ane^ being situated about 40 miles
Washington, June 10.— The state
east by south of Kaiking and 45 miles denartment hag received unofficial In
southeast of Haicheng
It commands formation, through Mr. Gummere, who
perfectly the roadstead of both places. neard It from the British Consul at
Saimatsa is also an important point, as Frx, that the Sultan o f Morocco w ill
it controls the roads to Liao Yang and accede to all o f Rausull’s terms. T h e
bandit’s demand that the United States
Mukden. By following this route, the and Great Britain shall guarantee ex
Mao Tien Lin pass, a ttrongly fortified ecution o f the Sultan’s promises, how
and almost impregnable Russian strong ever, Is the sticking point, and this
hold w ill be avoided on the advance of probably can be gotten around only
the Japanese army north« ard.
by the acceptance of this obligation
by Great Britain or France or some
other country not so strongly bound
Russians Killed Number 700.
Tokio, June 14.— The m ilitary com as tae United, States by Its traditions
mission assigned to bury the Russian
Early Release Not Probable.
dead in the battle of Nanshan hill at
London, June 10.— The correspond
Kinchou May 26, presented its final re
port today. It was found that ten Rus ent o f the Tim es at Tangier says th e
sian officers and 664 men who fell in Sultan has not complied with all o f
Those unset
the battle, had been carefully buried, Rausulls' demands.
tled will necessitate considerable fu r
and 30 men were buried by the out
ther negotiations. There is uo like
posts, making the total number of killed lihood that the captives w ill be re
loft behind by the Russians 704.
leased speedily.