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The Ké&jsey party g a large quantity'ef dynamite and nd last night the people ley were treated to a sight witnessed —_———— burned about the Y Ic fireworks in the seldom This would be a pleasant old world it men would pay their dejpts, as cheer- we Are Specialists inthe We do not advertise the lowest prices, but we give you the best work at the following prices: BEAUTIFUL E’or TEETH $5.00 | ac Gold Crowns (! Bridge Work Bil ver NO ETUDENTS. DR. BOWERS and, DR. SMITH UNIVERSITY DENTISTS. :m. A8 p. m.: Bundays, 10 PHONE RED 1116. Attendant. 10 Kearny St. S. F. est and Best Office in City. il 2 Lady If he survives the | took | MORNFLL DAY AT LITCHFIELD Holiday Is Spent by Citizens in Giving Sucecor to Vie- tims of Wreck of Flier el IR | | LITCHFIELD, Iil, July 4.—In place | of the usual celebration, accompanied | with expioding firecrackers and the | 8lare of a typical Fourth of July night, Litchfield has been converted into a hospital. All day relatives and friends | have sought to relieve the suffering of the injured in the wreck of the Wabash Flier from Chicago. Accord- i to unofficial reporty eighteen per- sons were killed and more than fifty were less seriously hurt. | Revised lists of the victims follow The dead—Mrs. Florence Smith, Chi Perkins, Chicago; Chicago; Harry M. | Dietrich, Chi ago; M C. F. Luther, Milwaukee; Isaac Mills, Decatur; W. | St. Pierre, Montreal, Canada; Jacon | Barber, Park River, - R (o Eistat, Chicago; James nford, en- gineer; Rev. ) M. Mills, Bridgeton, Charle: Ward, Chicago; H. s, train dispatcher, Decatur; W. F. Smith, fireman, Decatur; Richie Noack, aged 8, Arlington Heights, I1.; | Willilam Cambalis, Maywood, IlL.; two | unidentifiea men. eriously injured — Willlam J. ader, Chicago; Henry M. Gassaway, | St. Louis, arm broken, injured inter- {nally; Will Knocht, Chicago, legs |crushed and hips injured; William | Balis, Chicago, badly crushed; Wil- {lMlam Archibald, Honeye Falls, N. | broken hip; George Archibald, Honeye | Falls, N. Y., broken leg; Lena Noecke, Arlington Heights, Chicago, bagly | burned; Miss Fannie Tipton, Chicago, !internal injuries; W. B. Thorp, Chi- Y | cago, leg broken; Henry Rink, Cincin- | | nati, fatally; Mr. and Mrs. Alois Geh- rig, Chicago; James B. Roberts, Cat- | ¥ou, Milwaukee, internal injuries; S. | A. Asquirth, Waterloo, Iowa, internal |injuries; Mrs. S. L. Smith, Chicago, H. Rose of Riverside, Cal, escaped | with bruises; Mrs. Enna Kenyon, Kingston, N! Y., leg mashed and face | injured. It is expected the inquest, which be- | ®an to-day, will last several days. In | tonnection with the Coroner's inquest the State authorities are conducting a |rigid investigation into the cause of | the adcident. Many persons believe that the wreck | was the work of vandals, as the open | switch which caused the passenger burned and internal injuries; Mrs. E. ! SEASON ST. PETERSBURG, July 4—The lat- | est dispatches from the theater of war |are to the effect that General Kuro- | patkin is still at Tatchekiao, and that | the Japanese forces are stationary at | Senuchen and along the roads from | Siuyen to Halcheng, Tatchekiao and | Kaichou, but they are maintaining | their advance fromi Fengwangcheng over the direct main roads to Liaoyang, where the effect of the rains is less. appreciable. ! There are only twelve miles between General Count Keller's force and the Japanese army, and a collision between them is regarded as not unlikely. The Japanese are hoping, in case of suc- ! cess, to compel Kuropatkin, with Gen- eral’ Stackeiberg’'s corps, to fall back from Tatchekiao on Liaoyang and thus | force an evacuation of Newchwang. The Admiralty here has no news of the sea fight off Port Arthur on Mon- day last, reported by Admiral Togo, 'and is not inclined to believe it. The understanding is that the Russian war- ships are sti!l at Port Arthur. i JAPANESE ARE INACTIVE. | TATCHEKIAO, July 4—All is quiet !at the outposts. General Kuropatkin is here engaged in the peaceful task | of opening a permanent hospital of 200 | beds, founded by the Manchurian Rail+ | road empioves. The hospital is not | yey full. It contains 151 patients, The Japanese are evidently non- plused at General Kuropatkin's tac- tics, as proved by their alternate ad- vance on Liaoyvang from Fengwang- |cheng and subsequent retreat. The | Japanese are suffering greatly from ! lack of supplies, the country being de- | vastated. Two divisions are reported | to have fallen back upon Fengwang- | cheng. | The Japanese activity in the south jalso is suspended, General Kuroki be- {ing threatened by the Russian troops i from the north. - An early cessation of hostilities is expected and when they | are resumed the Russians will be able to take the offensive. Troops are ar- riving here daily. TWO ARMIES ARE BIVOUACKED. LIAOYANG, Sunday, July 3.—Seeing the impossibility of bringing about a {d(us!\-e battle, in consequence of the | | retirement of the Japanese and the | { heavy rains, General Kuropatkin, ac- companied by the military attaches, is | returning to Haicheng. Both com- | batante are avparently inactive. The Japanese have retired to the sandy part of the country.to await better weather. The Russians have reoccu- pried their old positions thirty miles | eastward of Liaoyang. The two armies | are now bivouacked on either side of Dalin Pass, which cannot be said to be an effective occupation for enhlr‘ army, as the deep mud renders impos- | sible the movements of transport wag- | ons and guns. No battle of any conse- | quence has been fought there since the Rusdians retired from Dalin Pass be- fore the Japanese advance, The Russian troops are displaying splendid spirit; in spite of terrible hardships. There is not a dry spot for them to camp on and the troops are often obliged to pass twelve hours in the rain before they can prepare soup with which to warm themselves, ow- ing to the difficulty experienced in kindling fires. The Russians are showing great con- sideration for the Chinese, fraterniz- ing with them and paying them good wages and high prices for goods sup- plied. I el OKU CHARGES BARBARISM. TOKIO, July 4.—General Oku has forwarded a detailed report to the im- perial headquarters, answering charges preferred by the Russian authorities ( that the Japanese troops were respon- sible for atrocities committed on the field during the engagement at Wu- fangtien, preceding the battle of Va- fangow (Telissu). He says the charges are totally unfounded, but, on the contrary, that he had proofs that the wounded Ruseian prisoners highly ap- preciated the humane treatment they {and their comrades had recelved from the Japanese. It is the Russians, he declared, that have cruelly mutilated | the Japanese who fell into their hands wounded. General Oku then makes the | following charges? ™ | That on June, 15 six Japanese scouts were overpowered by Russian troopers, | who ran bayonets into their mouths, through their heads and cut their heads and cut their breasts open; that on June 27 the Russians captured a | Japanese cavalryman, whom they bay- oneted and then cut open his abdo- men; that on May 15 the Russians be- headed a Japanese cavalryman whom they had captured. General Oku asserts that acts of cru- | elty upon the part of the Russian | troops are numerous and announces his purpose to report in the future every case which is brought to his no- ill(‘l‘, He says he feels that he is not fighting a civilized army. Press correspondents are unable to | Car train, while running at a high rate of | SUPPlY any facts in connection with speed, to collide with the stationary | Oku’s charges, because no neutral ob- | freight, had not, it is asserted by the | Servers were permitted to be present | Wabash agent at Litchfield, heen used | 0 the field at either of the engage- for twelve hours. | ENDS HIS LIFE WHEN i HONESTY 1S "QUESTIONED Japanese Broods Over a Jesting Re- mark and Finally Commits Suicide. LOS ANGELES, July 4.—Considering himself disgraced by an accusation of dishonesty made in jest by a white man of his acquaintance and sick with a painful disease of the stomach, G. Kurokaua, a Japasese employed at the Ramona saloon, 207 South Spring street, this city, to-day committed sui- cide in the approved Japanese method | by disemboweling himself with a ka- pattern. When Kurokaua's body was found in his room, the weapon lay be- side him. Kurokaua, who was 31 years old and unmarried, had been in this country several years and had waccumuiated considerable muney, tuma, a long-bladed knife of Japanese ] ments which took place at Wufangtien and Vafangow. Pl e A JAPAN'S COSTLY DELAY. ST. PETERSBURG, July 4—A war correspondent who has arrived from Mukden expresses the opinion that with the rainy ceason at hand the Jap- | anese have lost their opportunity of /dealing General Kuropatkin a crush- ing blow. He says that neither the world in genéral nor the Japanese knew how weak the Russian army was |in the earlier stages of the war and | | asserts that, practically, the Russian | army was then non-existent, but when ‘he left on June 18 Kuropatkin had 1125,000 men and reinforcements were {pouring in at the rate of 2000 a day. | The correspondent believes the Japan- |ese could have done anything they | { wished if they had pressed the cam- paign with vigor several months ago. During the three months' delay jn cutting off Port Arthur, the Russians xushed in munitions and provisions. June DALIN PASS DIVIDES WAR CAMPS DURING OF RAINFALL Bivouacs of Russian and Japanese Armies Are Separated by Only Twelve Miles. ‘ When the battle of the Yalu occurred, the correspondent continues, Kuropat- kin had all in readiness to retire to Kirin. He believes the vaunted Japan- ese secret service is very defective, be- cause it did not discover the situation and says it is now toolate, as at the end of the rainy season Kuropatkin will be strong enough to assume the offensive. A further mobilization order, affect- ing the reserve officers, is expected for the St. Petersburg, Novgorod, Pskoff and Baltic provinces. The order will also affect horses. LS el QUIET AT THE FRONT. ST. PETERSBURG, July 4.—The general staff has received the follow- ing dispatch, dated July 3, from Lieu- tenant General Sakharoff: “On July 2 the Senu- chen §s occupied by an infantry de- tachment. “According to our information the enemy has at least 50,000 troops con- centrated around Siuyen. ese are now occupying their original position at Dalin Pass. No movement beyond Dalin Pass toward Haicheng is observable.” STONEY M08 FACES MILITIA + Mayor Calls on Soldiers to! Men | From Gang of Strikers Protect Non - Union fu T SYDNEY, B. C., July works of the Dominion Iron and Steel Company to-day, forcibly preventing non-union men from going to work, the One hundred of the Sydney Field bat- tery were placed at the entran to the works and with loaded carbines and fixed bayonets held an angry mob at bay. 3 | As the troops were marching down | Charlotte street to the works to-night they encountered more than 1000 strik- ers armed with clubs and stones. The | mob gathered in front of the soldiers in | an attemnt to prevent the latter from escorting non-union men into the plant, . The soldiers charged the mob and with fixed bayvonets forced their through. —_—————— NTION OF LETTER CARRIERS IS CLO! way CONVE! NO, July 4.—The annual con- vention of the California State Letter Association closed a three days' session to-day. Carriers attend- ing represented Los Angeles, Stanis- laus, Fresno, Tulare, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Sacramento counties. The ngxt annual convention will be held at Santa Cruz July, 2, 3 and 4, | 1905. The officers elected were: President, C. H. Vodden, Los Gatos; vice presi- dent, F. A. Eckles, Tulare; secretary, John W. Haynes, San Jose; treasurer, W. B. Green, Fresno; executive com- mittee—J. P. Landrum, W. B. Green and Luther Gray, all of Fresno; dele- gates to the national convention at St. Louis—J. C. James of Ceres and W. L. Dowton of Campbell. Among the various resolutions passed was one disapproving of the action of Congress in taking away the privilege of rural carriers to earn money in side business ventures, with- out adequate recompense, in loss of such extra earnings by the $10 in- crease in salary. e DO R A COMPET, BRITISH VESSEL TO HOIST “OLD GLORY" DAWSON, July 4.— The British steamboat Tyrrel tock a Fourth of July excursion up the Yukon River to- day. The committee and other Ameri- cans forced the captain to raise the United States flag on the middle flag staff before sailing. A complaint was laid with Collector of Customs Busby, who, on the return of the Tyrrel, sum- moned Captain Ritchie and asked him to glve a written explanation of the affalr. The captain sald he was foreed by the clamor to raise the United States flag. A report went around that the steamboat had been fined $2500 and that the captain had lost his papers. A representative of the American com- mittee waited upon Collector Busby to plead for the captain. The collector | was obdurate and will report to Otta- wa for a decision. Busby is the Canadian officer who, while at Skagway, flew the Canadian customs flag by written order from his superiors. The flag was cut down by an Ameri- can lawyer. A mob swarmed-around his office and forced him to raise the | American “flag above the Canadian. Busby refused, but referred the matter to Ottawa, and this ultimately led to the lowering of American customs flags throughout Canada. \ Late Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVED. Monday, July 4. Stmr Bee, Wehman. 40 hours from Redondo. DOMESTIC PORTS. GRAYS HARBOR—Salled July 4—Schr Defl ance. for San Pedro; schr A J West, for Re dondo: schr Mary Russ, for San Francisco: schr W J Patterson, for San Francisco; stmr Chehalis, for San 3 PORT GAMBLE—Sailed July 4—Nor bark ‘Theodore, for Algoa Bay. A‘fiflv\:d July 4—Schr Ludlow, from Port Hadlock. 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Hen cannoading rd seaward. | | "An officer who came in declares that ! from a hill top near the coast he saw the vessels engaged in a fight, but he was too far off to distinguish them. | , LIAOYANG, July 4.—A correspondent | who has just returned from General E noff’s headquarters gives details of a fight that he witnessed at Senu- chen, as part of the operations of June 29. General Samsonoff, with the object | or ha ing the Japanese,” advanced | toward Senuchen at 2 a. m. The column reached within rifle shot of the railroad | station at 8 o'clock and two companies cks opened fire, driving in lh«" aced to a semaphore ion on a hill near , th railway which they occupied, and signaled the | Russian column of the disposition of , the Japanese. Throwing themselves on ! their horses, they again galloped to| join their comrades, with whom they | ' occupied the railway station, which the Japanese evacuated, fleeing hurriedly. There was little loss to the Russians, ut the Japanese left nine wounded at station. General Samsonoff sent word not to {attempt to hold the station and the Russians retired while .the Japanese | ~\\'(~re in full retreat. Subgeguently the | | i Japanese reoccupied the '€tation with seven quick-firing guns. The most gerious loss to the Russians in the day's operations were Captain Treiatkoff and Captain Vertoff, who | were carrying dispatches. They got | into a Japanese ambuscade near a vil- ! lage and both were shot. Captain Ver- | toff managed to regain his horse and | subsequently regained his men. Cap- | tain Treaitkoff has not returned and + whether he was killed or wounded or is Ta prisoner is not known. | A Red Cross train came up to the scene of the fight and though warned | of its presence the Japanese infantry { and artillery fired on it and riddled it. | No one was killed. | TOKIO, July 5, noon.—General Ku- | roki has occupied Maotien Pass with- | out resistance. The Russians have | abandoned Tsinshanowan, destroying their supplies. PREEaRT g FINAL ATTACK ) NEARING. Scene of War’s Interest Again Shifts to Port Arthur. LONDON, July 5—The Standard’s Tientsin correspondent, under date of | July 4, says that since June 27 the | Japanese main squadron has been en- gaged in landing men at Dalny pre- paratory to a final attack on Port Ar- /thur. He adds that the Japanese land operations in the rear of Port Arthur probably will bring matters to a final issue within the next few days. ST. PETERSBURG, July 4.—Mili- tary experts believe that the center of | | gravity has again shifted to Port Ar- | thur, siege operations are expected to | | engage most of the attention ef the | Japanese until the conclusion of the | rainy season permits the resumption of the campaign in Southern Manchu- | ria. e i o Boris Proves Quarrelsome. ST. PETERSBURG, July 4.—The rumors that Grand Duke Boris is to be exiled to Archangel as the result of an altercation with General Kuropat- , watch over the interests of British sub- | for the smallest type of cavalry horse, | and that ships pass freely in and out —t- in are untrue, but it is understood he has been transferred to Harbin on account of an unpleasantness with a ¢olonel at Liaoyang. —o—o- i i G INBOAT FOR N 'CHWANG. British Government Orders the Es-| piegie to Russian Port. | LONDON, July 4.—In the House of | Commouns to-day Earl Percy, the Un- der Foreign Secretary, announced that | the British gunboat Espiegle had been ordered to return to Newchwang and Jects. The Secretary also said that as the owners of the British steamer Allan- ton, captured by thegRussian Viadive- stok squadron, were appealing to the Supreme Prize Court at St. Petersburg against the confiscation judgment of | the Vladivostok court, the British in- tended to await the decision of that tribunal before apprcaching the Rus- sian Government on the subject. BN S BUYING CAVALRY Places Order in America for Ten Thousand Animals. NEW YORK, July &—The Japanese | Government is said to have practically placed an order for 10,000 selected cav- alry horses with a New York firm | which supplied many cavalgy horses to Great Britain during the | Boer war. It is understood that the order calls HORSES. Japan of which a large supply is not readily obtainable. It is insisted by the Jap- anese that the horses shall be deliv- ered at the rate of 2000 a month to transports on the Pacific Coast. — e NOT READY TO YIELD. Report of Port Arthur’s Probable Surrender Unfounded. PARIS, July 4.—The Foreign Of- fice discredits the rumor from Tokio that Russia has proposed through France to surrender Port Arthur if the garrison be freed. Official advices indicate that the Russian military and naval position at Port_Arthur is considerably improved of the harbor. Large quantities of supplies have been received at the | fortress and thes Russian authorities | submarine boat Russian TAci»'rp»edo-'Boats Attack dapanés;wTra;spor:ts Off Coast of Liaotung Peninsula. man port on the Shantung Peninsula) was absolutely denied. No such ques- tion has been raised. German serving neutrality in accordan: her proclamation to this effect. o e SUBMARINE BOAT ARRIVES. Vessel Bought in America Has Been Conveyed to Kronstadt. PETERSBURG, July —The Protector is reported on excellent authority to be at Kron- stadt. ST. The Protector left New York on June 5 for Cork, Ireland, on board the Nor- wegian steamship Fortuna. It has been reported that the Protector will be shipped by rail to Viadivostok. — Reinforcements for Kuropatkin. MUKDEN, July 4.—The first de- tachments of the Seventeenth Army are pushing through Mukden. ade of Caucasian cavalry has arrived. —_——— Attempts at canning beef profitab in Germany have not- proved succes ful, chiefly because of the high cost the raw materi ADVERTISEMENTS. A RED HOT FOURTH will be hard on shirts, collars, cuffs and vests unless they are laundered at a first-class laundry like the United States. You will find that your linen will keep clean longer and in better are regaining confidence. * .- done-up here than at any other laun- WHERE IS PHANTOM SQUADRON? | dry in town. condition in hot weather when it is Differing Reports of Movements of Viadivostok Warships. ST. PETERSBURG, July 4.—The Vladivostok squadron is understood to have returned safely to port. VLADIVOSTOK, Sunday, July 3.— The return of the Viadivostok squad- | ron is anxiously awaited. 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