NEWBERG
GRAPHIC
OMtmaiicwcrcd, He Must Abandon
U m Yang.
I . N. WOODWARD.
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OREGON
NEWBERG..................
WEEK’S DOINGS
General Review of Important Happen-
pc nigs Presented In a Brief and
Condensed Eorm.
Anxiety is felt for a number of ves
sels about doe off the Japanese coast.
In a 14-boar battle the Russians met
a severe defeat east of Ta Tcbe Kiao.
Kansas C ity packers claim to contin
ue to get nonunion help and to turn out
a greater product.
The K night Commander, sunk by
the Russian Vladivostok squadron, had
a cargo of iron and steel.
— Malheur, Oregon farmers have tw o
months in which to accept the govern
ment irrigation project.
Ex-Senator H . G. Davis, Democratic
nominee for vice president, is reported
to be engaged to be married.
A Big Four engine at Indianapolis
struck an electric car, killing two per
sons and injuring a number of others.
Thirty-seven cotton mills have shot
down at Fall River, Mass. Tbe strike
is on accodbt of a reduciton in wages.
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KUROPATKIN H A Y RETREAT.
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London, JuJjr^ 27.— Specials to tM
London morning papers confirm the
news of active operations at the seat
of war. The Telegraphs Chefoo cor
respondent. under date of July 23,
aays:'
" A junk from Dalny reports that
last night a Japanese fleet of 20 war
ships and 20 torpedo boats bombarded
Hwangsbin for three hours, and the
forts replied.”
The same correspondent learns that
the Japanese first army is being largely
reinforced by veterans from the re
serves. The correspondent of tbe Stan
dard with the Japanese army, under
date of July 24 says :
“ I t is difficult to understand the in
tentions of the Russians. Knropatkin
ia evidently bent on a retreat nortb-
waid, yet be Ungerà in the south, at
traeteti apparently by Port Arthur.”
The correspondent of the Chronicle,
in a dispatch dated at Mo Tien Pass,
July 23, regards General Knropatkin
aa
outmaneuvered and anxious to
abandon Liao Yang without fighting,
bat alao reluctant to retire while Port
Artbnr remains nncaptnred.
The Chronicle1! Yinkow correspond
ent reports that there was heavy fight
ing Saturday and Sunday in the neigh
borhood of Ta Tche K iao with General
8takelberg’ s force, consisting of 20 bat
talions of infantry, a brigade of artil
lery and a division of Cossacks.
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The resignation of Superintendent
RAIDS TO CEASE.
Potter, of Chemawa Indian school, has
been accepted.' ’ His successor has not
Protests o f Britain and Germany
been named.
Heeded by Russia.
Corean agitation against Japanese
St. Petersburg, July 27.— Grand
land grants is becoming serious.
Duke Alexis presided at yesterday’s
Parker has fixed August 10 aB the council, which Count Lamsdorf, the
date of his notification o f acceptance.
toreign secretary, and Vice Admiral
The Russian Vladivostok squadron Avellan, chief of the admiralty depart
has been sighted 70 miles from Yoko ment, and other high naval officials at
hama.
tended.
A ll employes o f the packing plants
The result of the conference removes
have gone out. About 85,000 men are all doubts concerning the present atti
affected.
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tude of Russia with regard to the vol
A battle has been fought near Ta unteer fleet. The validity of the view
Tche Kiao, and it is believed losses expressed in tbe British note regarding
w ill be large.
the irregularity of tbe position of the
Thugs at Bonesteel, 8. D., resisted vessels was so far admitted that the
eviction, and two of them, as many of council agreed to waive the right of
search.
ficers and a civilian were shot.
After a long discussion, in which
Russia has stirred up the ire of
Count
Lamsdorff took a leading part,
Germany by seizing a steamer in the
it was decided that the present status
Red sea dying the kaiser’s flag.
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of the volunteer fleet was not sufficient
Britain, informed o f the seizure of
two more ships, is determined to have ly well defined according to interna
the war status o f the Russian volun tional law to render further searches
and seizures advisable and that there
teer fleet fixed.
fore Russia, in the interests of friendly
It is alleged that great dissatisfac
tion exists among the members of the relations with the powers should with
meat packer’s unions because of the draw the author it] given the volunteer
second* strike order, and that a revolt fleet in this respect.
against President Donnelly’s order
w ill occur.
GREAT BRITAIN PACIEIED.
Senator Got man has refused to take
the national Democratic chairmanship. Settlement o f Red Sea Seizures
Satisfactorily Arranged.
Colonel E. Butler, a prominent 8t.
Io u is politician, has been indicted for
St. Petersburg, July 27.— The Asso
bribery.
ciated Press is able to state on the
Pacific coast shippers have asked the highest authority that the Russian and
war department to state what goods are British governmentts have agreed on a
mutually satisfactory basis for a settle
contraband.
ment of the question of the status of
B rit!«h press w ill not believe danger Russian volunteer fleet steamers in the
avertAu until tbe greater question of Red sea and the seizures by them of
the Dardanelles is settled.
British ships.
A few minor points
still
remain
unsetl
led, but these w ill
, The Massachusetts state board of ar
probably
be
cleared
up tomorrow, and
bitration is trying to avert a strike at
it
is
not
expected
that
further compi-
cotton mills, with a prospect of success.
cations w ill arise.
Bonesteel, 8. D., gamblers have met
Great credit for the satisfactory term
the demand of citizens to make grafters ination of this incident is due Foreign
go, and the reign oi terror seems to be Secretary Lamsdorf, who, it is ad
at an end.
mitted, acted in the calm and concilia
The meatpackers strike bae been re tory spirit worthy of a great statesman.
newed in all the leading packing plants The attitude of Sir Charles Hardinge,
and tbe tie-up is complete. The trou the British ambassador, both 'dr mod
ble is alleged discrimination in rein- eration and dignity, also evokes praise.
staating employes.
Unless peace is
Sink Prize Ship.
made at once all allied unions are like
ly to go out in sympathy.
President
Yokohama, July 27.— The Vladivo
Donnelly, of the union, is said to have stok squadron yesterday sank the
demaanded that strikers be reinstated steamer Knight Commander, from
in 10 days instead of 45.
New York, off the province of Izu, af
The grand lodge of Elks has abolish ter transferring the crew of the Knight
Commander to the steamer Tsinan,
ed the grip and sign.
which arrived here this morning. The
A reign of terror attneds the land Vladivostok squadron also captured a
rush at Bonesteel, South Dakota.
German vessel believed to be the Ara
G. M. McKinney has retired as bead bia, with 300 tons ot flour, and an un
of the Harriman immigration bureau. known British steamer. The two ves
sels were sent to Vladivostok in charge
Ex-Senator Vest is seriously ill and of prize crews. The American Trading
little hope is entertained for his recov company is the agent for the Knight
ery.
Commander.
Correspondens at Mukden report an
Boys Turn Bandits.
engagement in which the Russians lost
heavily.
Chicago, July 27.— Emulators of the
Leading London papers contend that exploits of the carbarn bandits, four
tha wai status of the volunteer fleet is youths arrested yesterday, confessed to
killing one man in a saloon and bold
the paramount issue.
ing up and robbing a score of others at
Russia w ill release the British sihp* dilterent times. The murder was that
Malacca on assurance that she was not of John Lane, stage carpenter of the I l
linois theater, who was shot in an at
carrying contraband supplies.
tempt to hold up Gustav Riegel’ a sa
8t. Joseph, Mo., union packers as
loon on tbe morning of July 4. The
saulted many nonunion men because
proprietor also was shot. The prison
plants are not discharging them fast
ers are Peter Dulfer, James and W il
enough.
liam Farmby and David K elley.
A ll
Eleven m illion dollars has been al are leas than 20 years old.
lowed by the Russian government for
the immediate improvement of the Si 7 Let Supreme Court Arbitrate.
berian railway.
Panama, July 27 — The Star and
Heradl,
in an editorial article proposes
The government may reclaim a great
tract of land in Harney county,¡Oregon, that the differences pending between
and has made temporary withdrawals the Panama government and that of the
Panamaa canal zone be submitted for
to permit a full investigation.
decision to the supreme court of the
A warlike tone pervades the British United 8tates. The idea is well re
ceived in all circles bere.
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JA P
VICTORY
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Russian Army Driven from
Kiao Tung.
RESISTANCE
W AS
STUBBORN
Muscovites are Believed- to
Have
Lost 1,000 Men, While Victors
Lose Halt as Many.
Tokio, July 25.— General Knroki.
after a severe light, occupied K iao Tung
on July 19. The place had been forti
fied by the Rowians, who defended it
stoutly, in the fighting General Kuro-
k i’a troops drove the Russians from
their strongly fortified position on the
Chi river, which ia northwest of Mo
Ten Pass and east of An Pin, inflicting
upon the enemy more serious loesea
than they sustained themselves. Tbe
fight began on the 18th and ended on
the 19th. The Japanese lost 424 men
killed and wounded.
The Russian
losses are eat mated at 1,000.
General Knroki began hia advance
early in tbe morning of tbe 18th.
The fighting continued until dark,
when tbe Japanese forces bivouacked.
Tbe Russians made two counter at
tacks, but were repulsed in each-case.
The Japanese renewed the attack at
midnight, posting their artillery in
tbe valley below and on the high
ground to the south of the Russian po
sition. The main Japanese body was
assigned to attack the Russian centei,
a small detachment sent toward the
right flank and another to watch the
enemy’s left flank.
After these positions had been taken
the fighting ceased for a time, but it
was resumed at dgwp. The Russians
had 32 guns in action, and they vigor
ously Bbelled the Japanese. To this
fire the Japanese replied, and the bom
bardment lasted for four hours. Dur
ing this time tbe Japanese infantry
moved forward and the flankers bad
succeeded in scaling tbe heights on the
Russian right by 3 o’clock in the after
noon, at which hour the main force
was ordered to storm the Russian cen
ter. The Japanese artillery protected
this movement splendidly, but the in-
laiitry met with a severe fire and lost
heavily in earning the heights.
The final successful charge was deliv
ered a t 5:3Q. Jn the afternoon. The
Japanese succeeded in partially cutting
off the Russian retreat, and this soon
beame a rout. The enemy retired in
two directions, to the northward and
to the eastward. The Russian forces
engaged included, in addition to the
artillery, seven battalions of infantry
and a regiment of Coesacks.
TARMEOS TO AID.
Eastern
Oregon Lands
Be Irrigated.
Washington, July 26. — It now ap
pears that the Malheur Irrigation proj
ect In Eastern Oregon will become a
reality, and not have to be abandoned,
as was feared. Advices were received
by Chief Engineer Newell, of the re
clamation service, today to the effect
that the farmers living along Malheur
river have aroused themselves and in
tend to submit to the government
their written promise to co-operate
with the government in constructing
this lrrigalon work. Mr. N ew ell’s crit
icism o f these farmers, expressed
through these dispatches a short time
ago, and hia threat to remove hia en
gineers from Malheur ebuntry unless
the farmers acted on his suggestion,
has had the desired effect, and the lo
cal engineers are now convinced that
before long the farmers along the Mal-
heaur river w ill comply with the gov
ernment’s requirements.
I f farmers
co-operate, they w ill have to pay but
|3 per acre per year for 40 years, in
order to get water from the govern
ment reservoirs onto their lands, and
at the end o f that time the entire works
w ill be turned over to the users of
the water. The government w ill mere
ly retain control o f the work o f con
struction until the cost has been re
paid by settlers who are benefltted.
W ork along the Malheur river is in
such shape that as soon as the farm
ers owning lands within the proposed
irrigation area pledge themselves to
pay the required amount, the govern
ment w ill be ready to make final sur
veys and plans preparatory to letting
contracts. In the eyes o f the engin
eers this project Is no longer ques
tionable, but one that* promises com
plete success.
It remains with the farmers to say
when work shall commence. It is ex
plained in this connection that the
government will not accept a' partial
promise o f cooperation, or promises
from only a part o f the farmers within
the irrigation district. E very man
who w ill be benefltted by this work
must pledge himself to contribute his
share o f the cost before the govern
ment w ill adopt the project.
The government today advertised
for bids for 14,000 barrels of Portland
cement to be used on the Minodoka
Irrigation project in Southern Idaho.
Bids w ill be received by Engineer D.
W. Ross, at, Boise, uptil August 25.
LARGE SHIPS TAKING
NO RISKS.
Japanese Holding Them Back for
the Pinal Blow at Port A rthur.
On Board the Mikasa, Admiral
T ogo’s flagship, off Port Arthur, July
20, via F’usan, Corea, July 26.— In re
ply to addresses made to him by the
newspaper correspondents who are on
board the steamer Manchuria, Admir
al Togo said, modestly, that he felt
complimented to learn that the world
was interested in his victories, and it
was his desire, through the press, to
send his thanks to those persons who
admire him.
The Japanese naval policy ds to hold
their larger warships in reserve until
the time comes to deliver a crushing
blow at Port Arthur. In the mean
time, torpedoboats are to make con
stant and harassing attacks. Every
NO MORE RAIDS.
night the Japanese lay mines at the
harbor entrance. The entrance to the
Russia Will Release Malacca and port is now clear.
The steamer Manchuria is making a
Put End to Red Sea Incident.
tour of the theatre of war with mem
St. Petersburg, July 25.— The steam bers of the Japanese Diet, foreign at
er Malacca is at Suda Bay, Island of taches and newspaper correspondents
on board.
Crete, where, under an agreement
reached by Great Britain and Russia,
OPPICERS ARE DEFIED.
she w ill he perfunctorily inspeted joint
ly by the Consuls of the two countries Bonesteel, South Dakota, Has Reign
of Te rror With Land Rush.
and released unless palpable contra
band of war intended for the Japanese
shall be found, hi which case the contra
band only will be held.
British gov
ernment stores aboard the vessel w ill
not beexamind.
The Russian reply to the Brittish
protest was handed to Ambassador
Hardinge in the afternoon.
Russia
agrees that the Malacca shall not bo
brought before a prize court, and un
dertakes that no incident similar to
this w ill occur in the future.
A claim for damages as a result of
delaying the steamer w ill be presented
in due course of time through the Brit
ish embassy.
The captain of the 8t. Petersburg, in
his report, gives as his reaeon for sum
marily making a prize of the Malacca
the fact that the British master of the
Malacca declined to produce the mani
fests of his cargo.
W ill Trust to Diplomacy.
Washington, July 25.— The Peruvi
an Legation here has received a cable
gram from Lima confirming the pub-
dished reports of the signing of the
treaty between Brazil at R io de Janeiro
and establishing a mod is vivenda be
tween Peru and Brazil for the govern
ment of the region at the headwaters
of the rivers Yurua and Purusa, other
wise known as the Acre territory. It
is understood that both sides w ill w ith
draw their troopa from the disputed
territory, trusting to diplomacy to set
tle the question of title permanently.
Panama Now Gold Standard.
Washington, July 25.— Tbe Panama
canal commission today received infor
mation from the government of Pana
ma of the ratification of the money
system of the new government in ac
cordance with the agreement reached
by the joint commission.
Panama is
now a gold-standard country.
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Bonesteel, 8. D., July 25.— Excite
ment is ruuning high in Bonesteel to
night, brought about by the rescue of
an arrested gambler, who was taken
from the bands of the police by a dozen
or 15 of bis friends and rushed down
the main street of the town and se
creted. The gambler was ariested and
was be:ng escorted to tbe police station
when, suddenly, at tbe word of a
leader, a crowd of cappeis and friends
of the prisoner made a dash for the po
liceman having him in charge
Seiz
ing grasp of the officer, who drew his
revolver and struck one of the attack
ing party a blow in the face, cutting
him quite severly, and then fired two
shots into the air, hoping to bring the
rescuing party to a halt, Abe attacking
party surrounded tbe prisoner and suc
ceeded in getting him away.
The city authorities immediately oe-
gpn swearing in extra« policemen and
have expressed the determination to
enforce the law at any cost.
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FAVORS-FORCE
May ' Yet
Probable Action of Russia.
Russian A d s In Red Sea Arouse
Ire o f British People.
rORCION MINISTER IN DILEMMA
%
Realizes That the Policy Postered
by the King Will Be Repudiated
—Press Is With the Public.
London, July 22.— The Associated
Press tonight intetviewed many promi
nent persons connected and in close
touch with the government relative to
the seizure of British vessels by
steamers of the Russian volunteer fleet
in the Red sea. As a result of these
inquiries, there is shown to be a hos
tile feeling against Russia, of a strength
and bitterness almost without prece
dent.
The most conservative men,
who have been in the service of the
government for many years, and who
openly deplored the haste with which
they thought Great Britain bad plunged
into the Transvaal war, tonight frank
ly declared for a policy of reprisal
against what is regarded as Russia’s v i-
o'ations of treaty and her piratital at
tack on British commerce.
The warlike tone of such papers
like the Times, the Standard, the
Morning Post, and the Daily Tele
graph, which in national crises hither
to almost invariably have advised cau
tion, has bad its inevitable effect.
There has been stirred up a storm o f
indignation among all classes in the
Gnited Kingdom, tbe strength of which
the government itself can scarcely
gauge. Those who deplored the out
break of the war between Japan and
Russia and insisted publicly and pri
vately that Great Britain, crippled fi
nancially, after her South African ex
periences, must not, at all costs, be
drawn into the Far Eastern struggle,
are among the most outspoken cham
pions of a physical force that w ill pre
vent the repetition of the Malacca in
cident in the Red sea.
Those few officials at the foreign
office who are in full possession of a ll
details of Great Britain’ s desire to ar
rive at an entente with Russia are in
despair. They realize that the policy
so carefully fostered by K ing Edward
and Foreign Minister Landsdowne w ill
now be indignanty repudiated by all
parties in the house of commons, and
involve with the public the downfall o f
any ministry advocating it.
Every nerve w ill be strained, how
ever, by the foreign office to secure
from Russia an explanation that w ill
pacify the aggrieved feelinge of the
British public, and no step w ill be
taken officially that w ill tend to preju
dice subsequent diplomatic negotiation»
looking to the settlement of all im
portant questions now outstanding be
tween Russia and Great Britain.
BIG STRIKE ENDS.
Packers and Union Have Agreed to
Settle Trouble by Arbitration.
Chicago, July 22.— The strike of the
packing-house employes begun nine
days ago, and which has demoralized
the packing industry through the coun
try, was settled here tonight at a con
ference between representatives of the
packers, officials of the Meatcutters1,
union and representatives of all the
allied trades employed at the stock-
y&rds. The whole controversy w ill be
submitted to a board of arbitration,
both sides agreeing to abide by what
ever decision this hoard may raech.
Pending the decision of the arbitra
tion board, tbe men w ill be taken
back to worx as rapidly as possible by
the packers, and it is agreed by the
packers that all the old employes are
to be reinstated within 46 days from
the date work is resumed, i f any o f
the former employes are still unim-
ployed at the expirfttion of that time,
such persons are to have the privilege
of submitting their cases to the arbi
tration board for settlement.
The strikers w ill return to work as
soon as they can be notified of the
peaceable adjustment of the trouble,
and it ia expected that by tomoirow
morning everything w ill be in normal
shape at all the plants in the different
cities where the employes were on
strike.
Japs Retreat A fte r Hot fig h t.
St. Petresnurg, July 22.— The czar
has received the following dispatch
from General Kuropatkin, dated July
19: “ There has been no special change
in the situation since July 17. “ A t 5
o’clock in the afternoon of Jnly—18,
Japanese advance forces of considerable
strength were observed in the direc
tion of Sikseyaon, on the Liao Yang-
Saimatsza road, proving against a de
tachment of our troops. After tw o
days’ fighting, the latter force is re
treating toward the village of Houtsi-
atsze, east of Anping.”
St. Petersburg, July 26.— W hile not
admitting the illegality of the action
of the Russians in converting vessels
of the volunteer fleet Into warships af
ter they had reached the Red sea, it is
probable, in view -of the fact that neu
tral ships did not receive previous
notice, that Russia, in order to remove
the shadow o f a* cloud upon their
right to fly the war flag, w ill formally
notify the powers of their conversion
Into warships, thus putting all neu
trals upon their guards. In the mean
time, all the ships seized will be re May Intercept Am erican Steam ers.
leased.
Paris, July 22.— The Tempa, discuss
ing the passage of tbe Vladivostok
Steam ers Eqnipped as Crnisers.
squadron through the Straits of Tsur-
Hamburg, July 26.— It ia said that garu, says its purpose ia either to attack
the Nqrth German Lloyd steamer
tbe unprotected cities on the eastern
Kaiserin Marie Theresa and four
coast
of Japan, or to intercept Am eri
Hamburg-American
liners
recently
purchased by Russia have left Libau, can merchant steamers, which are sup
on the Baltic, under sealed orders, plying Japan with all xinds of provis
fully armed and equipped as cruisera. ions through the port of Yoko.