NEWBERG .GRAPHIC
CANADA MAY COME.
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MORGUE BLUNDER
of $50^00 far Lewis sad
B. N. WOODWARD.
J^Qrtland,iloJu^^22^£aiUida Jhay
N EVB E R G .
conclude to take an active part in the
Lewis and Clark exposition. W hile
that government hgé ip _ th«. ps|it
seemed disinclined to participate, .a
change bas been wrought in the
Alevebth Hour. A b ilT m ak h if an ap
T5T
propriation of $50,000 is to he intro
duced at once in the Canadian parlia
ment.
Telergapbic communication to this
effect was received at le w i f and Clark
** The Vladivostok squadron has re headquarters yesterday morning. The
ta in ed to Port.
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telegram was received from Colonèl H.
•Japanese artillery 1* using lyddte E . Doech, commissioner générait who
recently went to Ottawa to interest.th®
. shells extensively^ / !
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Canadian officials in the fair. Ifc. was
f v Rusais bel teres Japan is tiring of the addressed to Director GeneiUl Goode,
j mar and would welcome mediation.
bqf, as Mr. Goode bas been out of the
The coroner’s inquiry into the wrack cify for a week past, the message was
of the General Slocum has commenced. received bÿ Secretary Henry Bééd.
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i»j • t . i-v:r-?r xr.rj - Tbe message is as follows: ’ " - ,j:
, , The release,of captives Perdicaris and 4; j “ After many eonsultations and inter
' T a rle y bas again been delayed for a views, outlook for CanAba’g participa
week.
tion is favorable. Ministers w ill ' ask
vu
•i*- According to Russian adrices the parliament for $50,000.*^ •
This news was a pleasant surprise to
Standard O il company has absorbed
fair officials, who had a ll but given up
the Russian pfl trust.
hbpe of getting the Canadian govern
n x - The Russian army U Mukden is pow
ment interested. A ll eomftnmlcations
able to take a much needed rest as the
sent to Ottawa and to Canadian officials
A Japanese advance Has stopped.
had been courteously replied to ,, bat
The Portland mine, in Cripple Creek; ' ‘the tone ôf the .replies was not encour
‘ the former stronghold of unionism, aging ' There seemed to be a' disposi
rwrill heresfter employ nonunion help.
tion on the part of tbe Canadian people
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IDENTlFIci^ONjbF J h lE
CORPSES DESTROYED.
of
EVENTS OF THE DAY
.f t:•The Connecticut court has- ruled
th at W . J. Bryan must turn oyer to fine exhibit at the fair * in Belgium,
Mrs. P h ilo Bennett all thé money from which takes place next year, almost
simultaneously with the Lewie and
!I the éstate of her late husband. ‘
Clark exposition.
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The Transcontinental Passenger as-
In the évent parliament makes the.
' sociation t is In session at St. Paul. appropriation asked for, it is thought
• The; rjaept important matter to come be the province o f British Columbia can
fóte thé meeting for consideration w ill be brought into line. I t is known that
be rates to thé Lewis and Clark expo British Columbia has been holding back
sition.
to see what reception thé exposition
A big battle is imminent in Southern w ill get from the general government
before taking any action.
Favorable
Mancharía.
action from the general government
Ths British battleship Prince of w ill, therefore, it ia believed, insure
Wales is at Tangier,
t.
the participation of British Columbia
A ll the Russian ships at Port Arthur as a province.
are repaired and ready for sea.
RAID STILL ON.
Representativa Tpjriiey i.s sure the :M’-v ■.r.tzwmjHiae*.***?
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wt
- , Lew is and Clark fair w ill be a success
Russian Vladivostok Squadron la Again
in every wày.
Sighted Off Japan.
The city of New York w ill raise the
Tokio', June 22.—^The Russian Sibe
wreck of the General Slocum to make
rian squadron from Vladivoetok was
sure it contains no bodies.
sighted again at noon, yesterday off
The fourth of the transports which
Main island in the sea of Japan, bat
met with the Russian Vladivostok
was apparently following oat s prear
< squadron is now known, to have been
ranged plan, as the vessels steamed st
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S- . , ;
T about H knots’ speed slowly toward
* . Fanatical Mongols are being urged to 'th e northwest, paying no attentioia to
revolt by alleged apostles of the god •the shores.
A riol and may cauaetbe Russians much
Judging by thsir position in the water,
* toa ble.
they are heavily laden and it is sup
Lieutenant General von W ahl, for- posed that before leaving Vladivostok
51 merly chief of police of St. Petersburg, on this last trip they filled a ll of their
is likely to be appointed governor 'gén reserve bunkers with. caSL, so that ih ey
can keep oat of port for not less than
éral of Finland.
three weeks.
The directors of the Portland mine
In spite of tbe menace to their trans
w ill dismiss the damage action begun port fleet the Japanese officials here de
by their superintendent against the clare that their oriignal plans w ill be
state of Co.orado for closing the mine. carried out, no matter what the doet.
I t is believed that the Japanese fleet They declare that there is no chance for
has met the Russian Vladivostok the Port Arthur squadron to make a
sortie to join Admiral Skrydlof^ as
squadron near Sasebo.
Admiral Togo has so disposed of • bis
The Teamsters’ union, of Chicago, ships about the barber month that any
" and thsir employers are expected to vessels putting oat w ill Be sunk before
* have tronbte, shortly.
» . ? they are even clear of the roadstead1.
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Many of the Japanese on the trans-
omnmitted 4L WORRYING,TUB JAPANESE...
suici de rathe» than be oaptsrad----------
600 LIVES ARE LOST
PB a R t o PAY b a n d it .
Minutara Object OMSg Hint
Until
dber* today. My. G # * e i*
of
Pouwd jRwrfril In Wheel Heuae.
.
New York, June 20.— Every hoar
adds td the horror o f the excursion
steamer disaster 4 when:: the General
Slocum was burned to the water’* edge
near North “ Brother island^ Divers
had explored' the wreck o f the steamer,
And reported that no m ot« bodies were
to h« found them, but today a diver
who Was at woirk on the sunken hall
found a large number of corpeeepacked
tightly inside ,pf pee of ths paddle
wheals. Just how many there,w ere
wai not known, but it was planned to
rsmdVe them as soon as Coroner O'Gor
man reached the s c e n e ,r - > h < . :
* The cproper had arranged to v is it the
wreck today for the purpose of ascer
taining, If ' pesr'ble. what evidence of
culpability ofa the part of the Knicker
bocker Steamship company m. of.,the
officials o f the boat, if any, could be se
cured to present to the coroner's in
quest. . Therefore, it- was determined
A t various'hospitals where the In
jured mss visited today it is said that
their condition is fair,. These are now
only $3^victirps.of the disaster in the
! Today it is said another horror has
been added to tbe terrible conditions
resulting from the disaster through the
over-officiusness of some person at the
morgue. As a result some of the
bodies probably never w ill be identified
and w ill go to a last resting place in the
humble p let furnished by the c ity ’ s
eharity. When the bodiee were taken
by hundreds from tbe water and laid
in lows on the grass at North Brother
island, each was tagged with a num
ber, That number was carefnlly re
corded, and: the papers, valuables and
trinkets which would have served to
possibly identify the bodies were re
moved and placed in separate packages,
each package, bearing a number corres
ponding to the number on the body
from which the articles were taken.
When the bodies were taken to the
morgue they were placed in numbered
boxes, but i n . many cases these num
bers did not correspond w ith the fig
ures the bodies previous had borne.
As a result, t t t plans were completely
upset and the numbered packages of
valuables became practically worthless
as a means of identification.
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WOULD SEAL FATE OF RUSSIANS.
yea Is Cassias Great Alarm.
St. Petersburg, June 20.— The popu
lar disappointment felt i a St. Peters
burg over the result o f Lieutenant Gen
era! Baron Stakelberg’ s fight, Which it
had been hope for the past 36 honrs
might turn ont to be a victory, is temp
ered somewhat bjr tike knowledge that
the Russian force was' overwhelmed by
numbers. General Stake!berg does not
attempt to conceal the seriousness of
his losses, but his report and, ths re
ports from all other Russian sources
agree that tbe retreat was in no sense a
root. The fierce character of ths fight
ia made evident by the fact that the
Russians were again forced to abandon
their guns, thus indicating, as in pre
vious encounters, ths superiority of the
Japanese artillery.
The Russian official reports of the
losses are awaited with tbe keenest in
terest. The war office decline* to ac
cept the Japanese figures unreservedly,
although the officials frankly admit
that they believe the Russian casual
ties were severe.
The keenest interest ia now manifest
ed in the reported advance of two Jap
anese divisions from Siuyen with the
intention of taking General Btakelberg
in the rear. It is realised that if this
report should prove true the Russian
commander may be unable to extricate
himself, and if he ahonld be cat off
from General Kuropatkin’ a main army
the fate of the detachment would be
sealed.
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v ^Thn - nusgber q ! vessels in the Port SkrydlofTs Sqaadroa’s Work Appreci-
R tlY R Ala 9X* r R M T R D lirj•
Arthur harbor at present is '15, inclnd-
- ing merchantmen and warships.
St. Petersburg, June 22.— Vice A d
Authorities at Cripple Creek claim miral Skrydloff’ s message to the em
to have the man in ja il Who blew np peror from Valdivnstok, in which he
detais the operations of tbe squadron,
the Independnce depot platform .
indicates'that he has accounted for at
Gieat Britain and Russia are said to
least three of the Japanese transports
be on the eve of reaching an under
besides a suspected collier.
The mes
standing regarding tbs yellow peril.
sage does not indicate the present
The big break in the Sacramento riv whereabouts of the squadron. The fact
er near Stockton has been closed end that the collier was sent to Vladivostok
the flow of wster checked. The loss to under a prise crew might indicate that
termers, however, w ill be extensive.
the news of the operations of tbe squad
The train robbers who held up the ron was brought there by her and that
Northern Pacific train in Montana se the cruisers are still st sea.
The destruction of an aggregate of
cured $55,000. K id Cutry, the former
16.000
tons of shipping besides troops
Montana bandit is leading a posse in
and
crews
and a valuable cargo of sup
pursuit.
plies is considered here as being a good
Cuba has been swept by s hurricane showing for the raid made by tbe cruis
which caused many deaths and great ers. I t is thought that it w ill have a
damage.
moral effect and w ill besides necessarily
The sultan of Morocco has alarmed divert a considerable section of Vice
Further Demands Will Be Oraated.
Tangier by sending troops of the worst Admiral Togo’s fleet.
-• Washington, June 20.— The state de
< type there.
partment has received the following
Strategy la Criticised.
from Mr. Gnmmere, American consul
The Porttland mine w iil sue the state
Liao Yang, June 22.— For the first general at Tangier: “ As reported yes
of Colorado for $100,000 on account of
time since the beginning of the war, terday, Raisuli has increased his de
being cloeed by the military.
General Kuropstkin has taken pergonal mands. I am informed today by the
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The Vladivoetok squadron is now direction of the operations, and in con ministei of foreign affairs that one of
known to have sunk two Japanese sequence of his having assumed the the ihieks and two of his brothers,
transports, which carried about 1,000 offensive results different from those whose apprehension were demanded by
following recent events are anticipated. Raisoli, have been arrested; also that
t men down with them.
The tactics of the Japanese are admired a courier has been dispatched this
(. Gneeral Stalselberg, badly beaten at here, bat their strategy is criticised, es morning to Raisuli to say that his
Vafangow, w ay yet save his army by pecially with regard to the battle of further demands w ill probably be
retreating. Two batteries of artillery Vafandien. Daring the battle the in granted by the Moroccan government.”
have been literallyc at to pieces by the fantry extended over the field farther
Japanese and of thsir 16 guns, 18 were than the eye could reach, one division
so badly damaged ss to be rendered covering six miles.
Bt. Petersburg. Jane 20.— An official
utterly worthless sna were abandoned.
denial is publish^ of the rumor that
Linar Australia Wracked.
the Russian ambassador at Washing
T w o masked men held up the North
Melbourne, June 22.— The Peninsula ton, Count Cassini has protested against
Const Lim ited Northern Pacific passen 4 Oriental liner Australia, inward the reported Intention of the govern
ger train near Bear mouth, Montana. bound, struck on the rocks at Point ment of tbe United States to dispatsh
The safe in te express car was blows Nepean today, and it is feared she w ill
squadron of warships to Turkish
open and the contents taken. I t is not be a total loss.
The passengers and waters with ths view of bringing pres
known how much was secured, but it is crew were landed safely. She was of sure to bear on ths porta to secure ths
‘twlivued the sum was large.
payment of Amsrieaa claims.
8,700 tons net.
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«10 .^EXCURSION STEAMER TAKES
FIRE OFF NEW YORK.
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received at the state department from
Consul General Gnmmere at Tangier,
in confirming th e press report that ths
saltan has djgreed to .all of Raianli’ s
the money ransom, $55,000, be paid
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UaSer Foot, Many
grave doubts as to the advisability of
making this payment before Perdicaris
Others Leap to B m
and Varley ware actually Released,
and safely returned to Tangier.
>1» htwuebfegnrt* the eeusul general rto New. York, June 17.— One o f »the
states that, R aisp li;* ¿wgotiatpr. rt- mpat appalling, .disasters 4a the history
turned to Tangier last night and re-
Y q ^ tragic in its immensity,
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ported that the teihls had W n ac-
diamatic in its episodes, and deeply
cepted and the money as w ell as the
prisoners released by the «ultanr today pathetic in the tender age of moet of
must be immediately turned over to its victims, took place today in the
Raisuli a t Tavadauti wbere h e ia n o w East river, a t the entrance to Long Is
located, and the captives w ill be re land Squad, within, a ghort distança o f
leased. ^
?n-
'■ Mr. Gammers and the British minis the New Y o r k shore ?.and w ith in s ig h t
ter both objected to this, plan, on the
ground that they placed everything in
RaisnlPfe hands and they had no assur
ance th at be would carry out h is agree
ment after he got hold of the money.
Therefore they sent a special, courier to
Raisuli, suggesting that the exchange
be effected' through the shSritt of Waaeu,
who bad * powerful, influence over
Raisuli. The answer. 1§.expected to
morrow............
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Based on past experience, it is feared
Raisuli is not to be depended, upon,
and once he has the money ip band
and etill controls the prisonefs/he'rvill
rh$kq fresh demands. However^ hbth
ing more can be done at thiistage,i ac
cording to Mr. Gnmmerjg, and’ the state
department w ill await the conclusion
of tbUblast attempt to free/ the prison
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CURRENCY FOR PANAMA.
Com loskm Makes the Dollar of tbe
. . t United States tbe Standard.
Washington, June 21.— Ih e . com
mission charged with the preparation
of a currency system for Panama today
reached an agreement, which estab
lishes a coin equivalent in fineness and
weight to the dollar of the United
States as the standard, and which also
makes the United States dollar legal
tender in Panama.
Under the terms o f the agreement,
the Panama government w ill recoin or
convert the Colombian silver into coins
of the use of a silver dollar. The
amount of this silver in Psnama is now
estimated a t $1,600,006.
: A t the request ef Secretary Taft, it
was Agreed to coin more silver until a
total of $6,000,000 is reached. In or
der to retain a parity with gold, there
w ill be deposited in some reputable
bank in N ew York 16 per cent of the
amount coined, and, in addition, there
w ill be deposited ail the seignorage
which Panama w ill make in the coin
age to meet the American government’ s
lequirements. The agreement provides
for s joint arrangement between the
government of Panama and the renal
commission, under which, by selling
drafts snd drawing on the funds ex
change can be kept down to a reason
able figure, not above 2 per cent and
thus avoid large fluctuations of the
rate.
UNABLE TO BLOCK HARBOR.
Desperate At-
at Fort Afther
Liao Tang, June 21.'— According to
trustworthy news from Port Arthur,
the Japanese, before June 14, made a
fourth unsuccessful attempt to block
the entrance to the harbor, using fonr
fire abipa, two of which were immedi
ately sunk by shots from the batteries,
the other two withdrawing. Tbe Rus
sian fleet, according to these advices, is
intact, and tbe spirits of the garrison
and inhabitants are excellent.
The soldiers are eager to fight and
are confident of the impossibility of
the taking of Port Arthur by the Jap
anese. Most of the inhabitants have
enlisted in the volunteers and 600
women have offered their servbee.
Perfect order is maintained and trade
and industry are carried on as usual.
Provisions áre plentiful, there being
a sufficient supply to last six months
on full rations snd s year at reduced
rations. The Japanese outposts are 18
miles from Port Arthur.
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Forces Now More Fven.
Liao Yang, June 21.— The retirement
of the Russians before s superior force
from Vafancow and the advance of the
Japaneee east and north makes im m i
nent a still more important engagement
in the southern region. The Japaneee
have now arrived at a point where the
forcea are more eqnal, and where they
mast fight on more even terms. The
loos of 2,000 men by the Russian divis
ions at Vafangow shows the courage
and ability of the officers and troopa to
retain their position andar a percent
age of loos almost unprecedented.
of thousands of -persons, the m a j^ ity
of whom were powerless to minimise
the extant of the catastrophé.
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By the burning to the water’ s edge
of thé Slocum,'à three-decked excunticfh
steamer, one o f thé largeat hi these
watfirs, mèiS th tn 600 persons, fhe
majority of whom were women .and
children, <were burned:'to death or
drowned by jumpjpg,, overbpsrtf; qr by
being thrown, into the w h irlpool» j»y
,tiç panI qf tfce panic-jfcjpken jpa#«en- -
gere, r Four hundred s rii eighty-five
bodies bavé been recovered, and are
now being tagged a t tbe morguèS of
’ BelleVue ‘hospital and Harlemr.' ‘ ' '
Divers were still busy at s late hour-
taking bodies from tb e hold of tbe ves
sel, which, they soy, ia choked w ith
the remain» of human bodies, w h ile
the bodies of scores who leaped, 01
were thrown, into the river have not
been recovered.
I t is variously estimated that there
were between 1,500 and 2,500 persons
on board tbe General Slocum when she
left the pier at Third street, East
River,
though tbe Knickerbocker
Steamship company, which owns tb e
Slocum, officially states that the num
ber of passengers was 837, that being-
only one-third of the vessel’ s capacity.
I t is thought, however, that there were
several hundred children in arma, fo r
whom fares are not usually charged on
these trips.
The General Slocum left Third street,
East River, at 9:30 o'clock this morn
ing, having on board the 8unday school
excurison of 8t. Mark’s German Luth
eran church, located in Sixth street-
Her destination was Lpcust Grove, one
of the many resorts on Long Island
Sound.
The Slocum had reached a point near
tbe Sunkden Meadows, off 135th street,
Manhattan, which is at the extreme-
eastern end of Randall’s Island, when
the fire broke ont. The headway b f
tbe vessel snd ths high wind almost in
stantly fanned the insignificant flams
Into fury. Efforte were at ones di
rected to subduing the fire, but they
Wèra futile. The blasa spread aft with
Almost -lightning rapidity.
Captain
Vanacbaick then headed for shore.
Tbs great open decks, built for ex
cursionists, with little obstruction' from
bow to stern, offered s clear sweep fo r
the fire. As the Slocum dashed for
ward , the flames caught stanchion and
cabin woodwork, eating and tearing
their way across the vessel.
As the fire increased, the straggle to-
gain a point of vantage at the stern be
came frightful. Women and children
crowded against tbe aft rail until it
gave way and hundreds were pushed o ff
into the river. After this there was a
steady stream of persons who j moped
or were thrown into the wster. In the
wake of the Slocum as she hurried up
stream was a line of little black specks
marking the heads and bodies of those
who had sought to escape the roaring
furnace on tbe ship by throwing them
selves overboard.
Reinforcements for Knropetkla.
8t. Petersburg, June 17.— The ap
pointment of Lieutenant General Leon
idas Demboweki ss commander of tbe
Fifth East Siberian army corps is evi
dence that larger reinforcements are to
be placed at General Knropatkin’s dis
posal.
The fonr corps originally
formed of Siberian troops are mobilised
in Manchuria and other drafts have
been sent oat to the Far East. T b e
organisation of the new corps, inde
pendent of the Russian corps ordered
out from European Russia shows that
Kuropstkin now haa 200,000 troopa.
•f BaaSlt’a
London, Jane 21.— A dispatch to the
Central News from Tokio announces
that the total snbacriptions to the sec
ond issue of exchequer bonds ($50,-
000,000) amounted to $160,246,762.
The bonds are isaned at 92, bear 6 per
cent interest and are to run for seven
yean.
Tangier, Jane 17.— Two Sheika o f
Ben M. Soar have been imprisoned by
the governor of Tangier. This fulfills
another of Raisnli’s conditions for tb e
release of his captitea, Messrs. Perdi
cene snd Varley. Tbe sheiks Impris
oned ere two of those who oelped
treacherously to capture Ratonil some
time ago.