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IIOULTON, COLUMBIA COUNTT, OIIEQON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1904.
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BIA
WEEIiDOINGS
Newsy Items (Gathered from All
Parts of the World.
Or INTEREST TO OUR READERS
General Review of Important Happen.
k pcnlgs Presented In Brief and
Condensed Corm.
Hallway telegrapher! on Tezas roads
aie on a itrike.
The government statement for July
ahowa a lagre deficit.
Largn receipts of livestock are being
received and handled at the Chicago
tockyards.
Special effoita will be made at Ban
Francisco by the government in the
land fraud caaea.
The battleship Ohio fell below the
Tequlred ipeed in the first trial trip in
(Santa Barbara channel.
The New York Building Tradee alll
nee haa caused work to cease on a
number of large bulldlnge.
The "Diamond Special" on the Illi
nois Central waa held up near Chicago
by four maksod men who went through
the coaches ami aecured $10,000 In
booty and escapvd.
Genreal Count Keller wax killed by
a Japaense shell July 20 while realst
ing the preliminary attack of General
Kuroki'a army. He la the tlrut high
Russian olllcer to bo killed in the Man
churian campaign.
A cloudburst in Nevdaa flooded sev
eral towns,
The assassin of Von Plehve atill re
fuses to talk.
Packres and atrikrea both claim vic
tories at Chicago.
Relations between France and the
Vatican have been broken off.
The Japanese are said to have made
great yarns around Port Arthur.
Count Ignatieff will aucceed to the
Russian ministry of the interior.
The Pntaa Fe tracks were washed out
for 12 miles by a flood In Arlotnm can
yon. Thirteen passengers on a Rochester,
N. Y., trolley road were Injured in- a
-collisiion.
Clash between Russians and Japan
ese armies ia Boon expected. The Japs
have 120,000 men and 100 guna and
the Russians 100,000 men and 120
.ana.
The steamer Arabia and her cargo
may yet be confiscated. Much of the
flour aboard waa unconaigned. The
Russian government baa no official
notice of her release.
Fackere lay they can now afford to
Ignore the strikers.
A rupture between France and the
-Vatican seems inevitable.
A Japanese cruiser and a gunboat
-were lost off Port Arthur by striking
mines.
President Golden, of the packing
teamsters' union, haa been arrested for
jacketing.
Russia haa filed a nrotest with Great
Britain on shipping of contraband of
-war to Japan.
Russia will asBlst the United States
in the protection of aeala at the Kom-
mander islanda.
Peace nromotes from Iowa failed in
their effort to settle the Chicago atrike
nd nave revurned borne.
The Portland & Asiatic steamer Ara
bia has been released at Vladivostok.
All contraband cargo waa removed.
The principal in the assassination of
Von Plehve waa a Little Russian, but
the instigators of the'deed have not yet
been identified.
Leaders in the BenBon-Hyde-Dimond
land ring will probably escape punish
tnent. United States Judge Lacombe
haa declared the indictments Invalid
as the crimes were against states and
cot the government. . -
A general attack is believed to have
began on Port Arthur.
A Spanish war veteran drew the first
homestead in the Rosebud agency In
South Dakota. ..
The question of payment for Port'
land flour seized by . Russian vessels
'Will probably go before a prize court. '
The steamer Korea, frcm San Fran'
clsco, has dodged the Russian fleet and
arrived uafely at Tokio.
Other attempts at assassination are
expected in Russian official circles.
Russian officials had been warned of
the plot by which Minister von Plehve
was alain. The aseassin, believed to
be a Finn, was perhaps fatally injured.
The German steamer Arabia, from
Portland with a cargo of flo ir, has ar
rived in Vladivostok in charge of i
prize crew. ,
The state depatment's note on the
seizure of the Arabia's cargo is couched
in courteous language and no rash do
mands will be made.
HOLD-UP THAT TAILS.
Roch Island Is Boarded by Seven
Masked Men.
El Paso, Aug. S. The Rock Island
passenger train, which left El Paso
Saturday morning, north-bound, waa
ield up Katurday night at 11 o clock at
Logan, N. M., a station SO miles north
of Tucumcari and 99 miles north of
Banta Rosa, the division point. Seven
masked robber boat ded the train just
as it was leaving Logan, uncoupled the
baggage and express cars and went on
with the engine.
Conductor John York resisted and
waa shot in the leg. The engine waa
run ahead a short distance, w hen it was
stopped and dynamite applied. The
small safe was placed on top of the
arge one and then the charge was
fired, but the only effect waa to blow
the small safe through the roof of the
car, the larger one not being injured.
1 lie smaller sale was replaced and
the second charge of dynamite put be
tween the two safea with the same re
sult, except that the small safe this
time was blown through the side of the
car. The robbers then mounted their
horses and rode away in the darkness.
IHIlcera were advised this mornint of
the hold-up and are on the trail of the
men who are believed to be the "Evans
Rang."
The passengers were not molested
hy the roblwrs, ami many did not know
the robbery was in progress, as most
of them were asleep. Owing to the re
moteness of Logan, the details of the
iold-up were not obtained until to
night, when a south-bound Rock Island
passenger train arrived here.
The Wells Fargo officials say there
waa only (7 in the aafe when it left
here.
TO BRING MINERS BACK.
Western federation Is Working for
Cripple Creek Deportees.
Denver, Aug. 3. Attorneya II. N.
Hawkins and John II. Murphy, coun
sel for the Western Federation of Min
ers, are devising ways and means to
enable the deported Clippie Creek
miners" to return to their homes. Pa
pers are being drawn and application
will be made to some court, possibly
the federal court, for an injunction re
straining the Citizens' alliance and
Mineowners association from interfer
ing with any deportees who return to
the Cripple Creek district.
The Western Federation officials are
also making arrangements to reopen
the nnion stores in Cripple Creek and
V ictor that were raided and looted by
mobs June 6 and 7.
Sheriff Edward Bell, of Teller1 coun
ty, has advised against, the reopening
of the stores or the return of deportees,
fearing that such action will lead to
violence.
NEW YORK SUBWAY STRIKE.
Effort to Patch Up Quarrel of the
Rival Unions.
New York, Aug. 3. It ia said here
today that if the members of the union
who are held responsible for the strike
in the subway do not adjust matters
promptly, a general lockout may be
ordered by the Building Trades Em
overs' association to be followed by
an attempt to establish an open shop.
At the meeting of the Central Federal
union a more conciliatory attitude was
adopted. At the close of the secret ses
sion it was announced that a committee
had been appointed to bring about an
amalgamation of the two painters'
unions the Brotherhood of Painters
and the Amalgamated Painters' society,
whose fight, one against the other, led
to the subway atrike.
THREE DESTROYERS CRIPPLED.
Japanese flotilla Makes Safe Get
away In the Bay.
Tokio, Aug. 3. -The Japanese naval
department asserts that in the attack
made by the Jupanete torpedoboat flo
tilla on the Rusisan Port Arthur de
fense squadron, July 24, wntch was
previously reported without details,
resulted in the crippling of three Rus
sian destroyers so badly as to render
them useless for any future fighting.
The attack took place in Eaat Haiend
heng bay and the Japanese destroy eis
discharged three fish-model propeller
torpedoes and then made their escape
in the fog without waiting to see if
the machines reached their mart;. '
Outposts are Engaged.
With the Japanese army- in Man
churia, at the headquarters of General
Kuioki, July 29, via Antung and Se-
oul, Aug. 1. The conditions 'on the
right remain practically unchanged,
although numerous engagements be'
tween the outposts of the two armies are
of constant occurrence. There has been
severe fighting in the center, although
no details have as yet reached here,
The Russians are strongly entrenching
their secondary position five miles west
of Liao Yang and are expected to make
a stand there.
Philadelphia Tire Loss.
Philadelphia, Aug. 3 The group of
four buildings of the ornamental Terra
Cotta works at Wissackon avenue and
Bristol streets was entirely destroyed
by fire tonight. Loss, f 150.Q00.
FULL RETREAT
The Russian Army Is Hurry,
Ing to Harbin.
JAPANESE ARE VERY ACTIVE
Empty Cars Being Rushed South
Liao Yang Troops to Be Re
moved as fast as Possible.
Tokio, Aug. 3. After two days'
fighting, General Kuroki haa defeated
the Russian forces in two separate ac
tions fought at Yushulikza and the
Yangso Pass.
fit. Petersburg, Aug. 3. A report
from an apparently reliable source late
ast night waa to the effect that General
Kuropatkin'a main force had beea rap
dly moving north for several days.
According to this report no troops
proceeding to the front from Russia bad
gone past Harbin in the past three
days. They will be detained there and
every available piece of rolling stock
will ho rushed south empty for the re
moving of troops to Liao Yang and
other points to the northward, leaving
skeleton force to contest the Japan
ese advance on vital positions.'
If it Is true, as pointed out in the
foregoing, it leaves the Russian forces
n an exceeding serious position!
Lacking definite information, and if
the Russian information hsa not been
broken by the capture of Simoucbeng,
the authorities here say that if Kuro
patkln accepta a general engagement.
they believe it will occur near Anscban-
shan, half way between Haicheng and
Liao Yang, In which case the Haicheng
force will fall back on the Simoucbeng
force under General Mitschensko, on
the northward road to Yanzalin, which
a already fortified, with a view to such
a contingency.
lanzalin would then become the
advanced position for Anscbantschan,
the natural strength of which is shown
by the fact that it was the only posi
tion the Chinese successfully defended
against the Japanese. It is possible
that if Simoucbeng ia evacuated it may
be in pursuance of the above plan and
it is also possible in this case that
General Stakelbeig may get away
north, but in any case his retreat with
General Oka hanging to bis rear must
be a difficult operation, even with the
railway to help him.
KUROPATKIN'S ARMY CRIPPLED.
Losses Have Been Heavy During
the Past Pew Days.
Tokio, Aug. 3. It is reported at the
war office that the result of the fight
ing which has been in progress in the
vicinity of Haicheng since last Wednes
day will be a sweeping victory. While
a number of official communications
from the commanding officers have
been received, their contents are care
fully guardbd for the present.
It is believed, however that the re
lief columns have been divided by i
successful outflanking movement on the
part of. General Kuroki's army, which
turned the Russian nank. Tnis move
ment is believed to have resulted in
the isolation of Lieutenant General
Stakelberg'a divisions and they are now
believed to be practically surrounded
by the victorious Japanese.
General Kuropatkin is understood to
be endeavoring to withdraw the rem
nants of hia scattered army toward
Mukden and Japanese officers, who
should know exactly what the condit
ions are in Manchuria, declare that
both Liao Yang and Mukden must fall
wihin a very short time.
Tho Russians' losses within the past
five days have been such as effectively
weaken General Kuropatkin'a army so
that the Japanese combined forces are
now much more than a match for the
crippled Russians opposed to them.
At last accounts fierce fighting was still
In progress with everything pointing
to ultimate and complete Japanese suc
cess. Search to Proceed. ,
St. Petersburg Aug. 3. The govern
ment has Issued an official announce
ment of the release of the steamer Ma
lacca, which was seized in the Red sea
by the Russian volunteer fleet oruisers.
It state's that the liberation of tbe ves
sels was due to the declaration by the
British government that the cargo was
the property of the state, but Bays it
must not be deducted from this fact
that the imperial government abandons
its intention of sending out isolated
cruisers as well aa warships generally
to search for contraband ol war.
Arabia's Trial In Progress.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 3. The Asso
ciated Press Ib informed at the foreign
office that the trial of tho Arabia is
now progressing at Vladivostok and
that it will have to be completed be
fore the Question of her release can be
determined upon. ' .
WATERS OP THE ANA.
May
Be Used for Irrigation
In
Southern Oregon.
Washington, Aug. 2. The reclama
tion engineers have turned up another
promising irrigation project in Oregon,
tins time in central Lake county, on
the north shore of Hummer lake. A
tract of about 125,000 acres Las been
withdrawn from all save restricted
homestead entry, pending further in
vestigation to determine whether or
not it will be practicable to irrigate a
portion or ail of the area with the
waters of the Ana river, a small stream
which feeds Bummer lake. It is
thought the Ana river is an outlet of
Silver lake, wkicb liea a few miles
northwest.
Tnis project will be under examina
tion the remainder of the summer, to
determine whether practicable means
can be found of applying water to the
land in such quantities and at auch
cent as will iuctify undertaking the
project. The lands withdrawn for the
Ana river project are included in town
ship 29, ranges 17 and 18; township
30, ranges 10, 17 and 18; and township
31, range 17, all south and east.
A new project baa also been found
in Washington, known .as the Priest
Rapids project. Nine townships lying
along the Cloumhia river in Yakima.
Douglas and Kittitas' counties have
been withdrawn tendine final deter
mination of the feasibility of remov
ing water from the Columbia river at
I'rii-Ht Rapida and bringing it down
upon the Columbia valley lands lying
below the rapids, on either bank of the
river. The lands withdrawn are:
Townships 13, 14 and 15, ran?e 23,
and townships 13 and 14, rangea 24, 25
and 26, all north and east.
This project, while adjoining the Big
Bend project, is separate and distinct
and will be made the subject of special
atudy this summer. Its success de
pends largely upon the ability to get
water upon the land at reasonable cost.
A considerable portion of these lands
are now under cultivation and the con
currence of farmers must be had before
this work can be undertaken.
DimCULTIES WITH WIRES.
The Long Circuit Through Siberia
Is Affected by fire and Storm.
fit. Petersburg, Aug. 2. M. Durno-
vo, the minister of telegraphs, who is
in temporary chaige of the department
o(he interior; will place the depart
ment of posts and telegraph in the
normal as well as virtual control of
Under Secretary Sevastianoff, under
whose administration the postal and
telegraph systems of the empire have
made great strides.
The greatest difficulties are due to
the operation of 10,000 miles of over
head wires in the Far East. Thunder
storms are of daily occurrence through
out this vast stretcn of wires and the
forest regions are subject in summer
time to continual fires. These facta
are sufficient to explain why the dis
patches from the front are sometimes
delayed a couple of days.
The telegraph department makes a
practice of holding up ordinary mes
sages at Harbin and forwarding them
by post, but in the meantime they are
blocking the Siberian wires. It must
do noted that official dispatches in
cipher are not abreviated and have to
be repeated, and these take precedence
over all other telegrams.
REMOVING THE MINES.
Japanese Search for Deathtraps at
Niu Chwang.
- Niu Chwang, Aug. 2. -The Japanese
have just removed two large electric
mines from the mouth of the Liao
river, and tbey are searching for 16
other such mines known to be there.
Tbe people who left Niu Chwang be
fore the Japanese came in are now re
turning, and confidence has been re
stored. Tbe Japanese Specie bank will
open next week.
General Oku has written a special
letter from Ta Tche Kiao, thanking
United States Consul General Miller
for having maintained order and pro
tected public property here.
It is reported here that the Russian
gunboat Sivoutch has been destroyed
at a point 30 miles up the Liao river.
Major K. Yokura has been appointed
military administrator of Niu Chwang.
Martial law regulations are being
framed.
Continuous and heavy firing is heard
from the direction of Hai Cheng.
Troops Will Go to Bonesteel.
BoneBteel, 8. D., Aug. 2. Troops
have been, requested by Sheriff Taylor,
and Governor Herreid . has agreed to
Bend them. From August 8 until Sep
tember 10, the filing period, this place
will be under martial law. Tbe
militia will be 'on hand when the fil
ing begins. The guards are considered
necessary to protect $300,000 which
will be brought ' to town each day.
Plana to "meet every train have been
made. Every passenger will be topped
at toe town gates ana made to prove
that his business is legitimate.
Raiders Going Home.
Tokio, Aug. 2. The Vladivostok
-quadron passed Tsugar straits, on the
wav to Vladivostok, at 1 o'clock this
afternoon. .
ASSAULT IS ON
Japanese Commence General
Attack on Port Arthur.
RUMOR OP TALL Or THE CITY
Ammunition Growing Scarce and
the Big Guns In Beleaguered
forts are Not fired Often.
Chefoo, Aug. 1. Refugees who have
just arrived from Port Arthur confirm
previoua reports that a general assault
has been begun by the Japanese on that
fortress, and they declare that the Rus
sians are sanguine that the Japanese
could not aucceed in capturing the
place, even though they had twice aa
many troops..
' The Russians, according to the refu
gees' stories, are atill hoping for succor
from General Kuropatkin. Thev are
unwilling to believe the reports of his
defeat at Ta Tche Kiao. Tbe refugees
further confirm the reports that the
Russian fleet is in a state of repair, but
they say that tbe fleet is unwilling to
attack that of Admiral Togo, on ac
count of the mines which the Japanese
place nightly at the entrance to the
harbor.
It was believed at Port Arthur that
if either the Vladivostok squadron or
reinforcen nta from General Kuropat
kin should arrive, the Russian fleet
would take the risk of going out.
Ammunition ia said to be growing
scarce, and large fort guns are not often
discharged. Attempt to manufacture
ammunition in Port Arthur are re
ported to have been failures.
All of the public buildings are being
used for hospitals. Tbe sick and
wounded are being well cared for by
lolunteer nurses. Tbe wounds made
by.the Japanese rifles are dangerous
only when vital spots are reached.
Hundreds of badly wounded have
quickly recovered from their wounds.
An American named Holt reports
that Lieutenant Newton A. McCully,
the American naval attache, now at
Port Arthur, ia well.
LAWS NEEDED fOR ZONE.
Panama Domain Not fully a Part of
the United States.
r -
.Washington, Ang. 1. Controller of
the Treasury Tracewell, in an opinion
today defining the authority of the
Panama Canal commission regarding
disbursements and the relation ofathe
canal zone to tbe United States, holds
that, while the "general spirit and
purpose " of the constitution is appli
cable to the zone, that domain is not a
part of the United States within the
"full meaning of the constitution and
the laws of the country."
He said that until congress by ex
press, legislation shall have prescribed
the form of government of the zone,
the will and sound discretion of the
president and his commission will con
trol, Bubject only to the general spirit
and purpose of the constitution, and
tho local revenuea of the zone shall be
handled in accordance with such rules
as they may authorize.
ADVISED TO STAY AWAY.
NO
Protection for Men Not Wanted
at Cripple Creek.
Cripple Creek, Colo., Aug. 1. Sher
iff Edward Bell will notyguarantee pro
tection to any person who has been
driven from this district because of his
alliance or sympathy with the Western
Federation of Miners. He made this
plain today when be received a message
from Patrick Carvel, one of the hun
dreds deported after the Independence
depot dynamite outrage.
Catvel is now at Colorado City and
notified Sheriff Bell that he wished to
return to the district and resume his
residence heie, and would do so if tbe
authorities would guarantee to protect
him from violence.
Sheriff Bell not only informed Car
vel that he would not guarantee to pro
tect him from harm, but strongly ad'
vised him nevei to return to the dis
trict.
Mineworkers Threaten Strike.
Philadelpnia, Aug. 1. There is grave
fear that the executive board of Dip
trict No. 1, United Mineworkers, will
order a strike involving approximately
75,000 men, when it meeta in special
session here Monday, to consider tl e
question of the refusal of tha coal con
panics to deduct check weighmen s
wages. If the strike is ordered, it will
probably affect the whole anthracite
region, as the companies seemed to be
combined in resisting the demand,
claiming it is tantamount to a recogni
tion of the, union.
Sultan Takes the field.
Tangier, Aug. 1, The British cruis
er Hermione arrived tonight. Accord'
ing to news from Fes tbe sultan ia col
lectimj a big army outside Fez. The
imperial tent has already been pitched
outside the walls otFez, which is taken
to indicate that the sultan will person
ally lead his forces against the pretend
er, who is active in the districts of Ta
za and Ujda,
INVESTMENT Of POST ARTHUR.
Japanese Conduct a Slow Engineer
Ing Advance.
Liao Yang, July SO. A Russian cor
respondent of the Associated Freas, who
baa just arrived here after two months'
stay at Port Arthur, gives an import
ant and interesting narrative of the situ
ation at the beleagured ft rtresa when ho
left there, July 14. which shows that
the Japanese operations until then bad
not advanced ao far aa supposed. Sev
eral Russian snccetses are chronicled,
but the report of a Japanese reverse,
with a loss of 30,000 men, is definitely
disposed of, not beiag even mentioned
by the correspondent, who says:
"When I put to sea in a junk the
land position on the Russian right flank,
surrounding Green and Semaphore
hills, which the Russians bad lost, had
been recaptured by assault. The
heights of Huinain, which the Japanese
defended desperately, alone remained
in their hands. But I am convinced
that this position also has since been
retaken. The very morn'ng of my de
parture, July 14. the position was be
ing bombarded by six-inch Howitzers
and shells were falling repeatedly into
the Japanese works, causing great dis
order. "To sum up, by the fighting of July
3, 4 and 5, when evidently the Russian
forces were acting on the offensive, the
Russians regained on the land side tbe
positions they had held in front of the
fortress previous to the battle of Kai
Chon.
"The main forces of the beseigera
are on the average at a distance of 20
miles from the perimeter of the fortress
on the Russian right, but the Japanese
have approached to within 12 miles on
the Russian left. As far as Inchente
station, 14 miles from Port Arthur, '
tbe railroad ia working. Between 40,
000 and 50,000 men are operating be
fore Port Arthur. The troops maintain
a constant exchange of skirmishing fire,
but the field or other guns are usually
silent. The Japanese are apparently
conducting a slow, engineering advance.
"Often in the morning the Russians
discover fresh trenches. The Japanese
ae compelled to abandon this work in
the daytime, as the Russians regularly
open fire on them as soon, as ' fiaylit
Gcl0fH'! the 101 kP f
AID TO STRIKERS.
frcighthandlers May Take a Hand
in Chicago Trtftible.
Chicago, July 30. After issuing a
general order that would have involved
all the Chicago railroads in the stock-.
yards strike, Lawrence J. Curran, pres
ident of the Freighthandlera' union.
tonight reconsidered his action and is
w holding his order in abeyance
pending a conference tomorrow morn
ing with leaders of the Allied Trades
lions, whose members are on strike.
It is said, however, that if President
Donnelly, of the Butchers' union, and
the other strike leaders express a desire
to have the order enforced it will be
put into effect at once. The executive
committee of the freighthandles was in
eession until late tonight and it is said
that preparations have been made to
put the strike order in force if it be
deemed necessary.
President Curran 'a orders, if lived
up to by the freight handlers, would
work a severe hardship on the packers
as it explicitly directs that union men
sLall handle no freight for the blit
packing companies, either outgoing or
incoming. President Oman's order to
the men follows:
"At a meeting with the business
agents of the local Freighthandlera'
union today it was decided that all
men under the jurisdiction of our or
ganization in the various rairoada in
Chicago be ordered not to receive or de
liver any freight of the packers, wheth
er this ireignt is delivered at the
freighthouses by teams or in cars."
Duplicity of the Russians.
London, July 30. Thomas Gibton
Bowles, Conservative, will ask Premier
Balfour in the house of commons if the
government is aware that the Russian
armored cruiser Demitri Donskoi, after
haviag been allowed to take 500 tons
of coal at Port Said, and after her cap
tain had given his word of honor that
be would proceed at once and by d.rect
route to Cadiz, remained off Port Said
and stopped and examined six vessels,
which were about to enter the canal.
and a few days later repeated the stop
page on Aleaxndria.
rriction at Panama.
Panama, July 30. The establish-'
ment of a port at Ancon under the con
trol of tbe anthoiities of the canal
zone has created considerable friction
between the steamship companies and
the government at Panama, tbe latter
asserting that the companies should
get their clearance papers from the
Panaman authorities.