The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 13, 1905, Page 2

ARE NOW CONVINCED SHE WAS MURDERED Jordan Says That Suicide; Theory Is O.utrageous. —_— T o STHIONNE S e The theory de Pro: Pre Continued from Page 1, column 4. and the Star to th ford residence on California as announced in yes- a pu other than ng of Ah Wing to a severe questioning. It has been learned that two key experts accompanied the party to the house and carefully examined all the lccks on the of the interior. I t the real purpose of the lock- su exumination was is a secret 1iths’ that Captain of Detectives Burnett and r members of the party will not 3 IS Higt WAIT FOR CABLE M SAGE. i ly is & cu Up to an early hour this morning the i s € police authorities had not receive I ong looked for cable message from a h ctive Reynolds in Honolulu. Why Kins r A & not reported to his chief as he t stress I am short | v a instructed to as socn as he had satisfied himself that Mrs. death was due to poison is a Although the press dispatches Honolulu early last night posi- stated that all the officials in Honolulu and the friends of the late Stanford who are now there, and have conferred at length with De- ives Reynolds and Callundan, sent r to thoroughly investigate the h, are now agreed that Mrs. Stan- ford was poisoned with strychnine, Captain Burnett s not yet been so advised by his representative and is impatiently wondering why the detec- tive ¢ not enlighten him as to the cor on of affairs there. The silence in Honolulu arouses .the suspicion in the mind of Captain Bur- nett that Reynolds and gathering together important facts that they will not reveal until they feel safe in sending them over a cable. S SR ALAMEDA WILL BRING REMAINS. B Detectives Callundan and Reynolds Are Studying Inquest Recor HONOLULU, March i2.—The room of the steamer Alameda, in were placed the remains of mail- which United s with Mr. | Siates Judge Morris M. Estee, when his | body was taken to San Francisco, has 3, { mind while|been draped for the reception of the S )t despond- | body of Mrs. Jane L. Stanford. The € N € e felt san-| Steamer will leave for an Francisco e T stery w next Wednesday at 9 o'clock. thé vovage wag g ok all meals. but te @ She seemed cheerful cussing at terrible af-{ ancisce as wholly incapacitated | when we arrived at I was Mrs. Stanford's m the time we land- | Mrs if satis-| United States District Judge Dole and 3 from San Fran- | four members of the Stanford Alumni, s she to the East and | as follows: Representative Carl Smith, ter t | Charles Dole, A. Lewis and D. L. Van- er lopkins had inter- | dine. The alumni and Californians in . and May Hunt| Honolulu will form part of the funeral he to em t Young Hotel away | procession. i t he s f the tragedy. This| President Jordan said to-day that he r said. from motives of | siill has hope that developments will h eventually show that Mrs. Stanford position of the two wom- | was not poisoned. Neither he nor Mr. € he sai 1 can imagine| Hopkins and the detectives regard the b ssed they must be living in| Honolulu verdict as conclusive. Mr. t same 1 s where Mre. Stanford | Hopkins said that the talk of suicide d X was both cruel and silly. He knew Mre ford’s trunks Irs. Stanford too well, he said, to be in T Young Hot ioubt on this point. The poisoning theory Mr. Hopkins | theory he regarded as absolutely de- outrageous. I have ford family for forty that such a theory| N AN /e N\ | | A NIGHTMARE | ives point to the fact that excessive or | Fular eating disturbs the digestion. Nightmare or night hag has its day time | correspondence in the undue fullness | after eating. with the belchi, San Francisco on the steamer Alameda | - m,,fmgm,w?"):g; on;:}.”fl““' | ehe Wil mot. be wntler Bolics: oterea 100 hasty or 100 hearty eating. | thon. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery | To-morrow Detectives Reynolds and | cures dyspepsia or bad stomaeh. When | Callundan will question the autopgy the weak stomach i strengthened and | Physiclans, Dr. Humphris, who \at- invigorated the whole body shares in the | tended Mre. Stanford, the chemists and | increased strength derived from food | other witnesses In the case. r:&%'fl! digesied and perfectly assimi- —— I was a victim of sk treme nervousness indu gestion and [ felt heavy. continually.” writes Miss Mary Smith, of No Wabfatch Street. Colorad Eprings. Pa r. Pierce's Goiden Medical Discovery was the oniy medicine which relieved me. Withe in woek after 1 began using it that hoary | oppressed feeling after mesls had left me, | #0d 1 found that I was able to sleep better | | { | lessness and br’ chronic indl- and worn out than for months previously. - ually restored. Benerel Syste wes v 3. mervousness became s thing of the past and ] bave now been in sbimdnfhhl!h for over nine months. ™ Bometimes a selfish dealer tempted the little more profit paid on the sale of less meritorious medicines will offer the | customer a substitute as being * just as good ™ as the * Discovery,” nit may be | better for 1 because it pays better, but ! »d for you, if you want the that bLas cured others, and ch you believe will cure you. medicine whi 1000-page Doctor Book sent free on receipt of 21 one - cent Starps to cover postage only; 8 stamps for cloth - bound oopy. Formeriy sold for §1.50 o extent of over 500,000 copies. Every family shouid possess & copy for resdy re erence in case of sudden il ness or accident. It is flius- trated with hundreds of wood-cuts and severs] colored Plaves Address Dr. RV Pjerce, Buffalo, N. ¥. the Kind You Have Always Bought o T Sigunature of [ | Deputy nal Central Union Church Inde- t at 8 o'clock. id Starr Jordan, president of the Stanford University, wiil not speak at the services. Right Rev. Henry Bond Restarick, Episcopal Bishop of Hawail, vill .read the service, and Rev. W. M. Ki ill deliver the address. The pailbearers will be David Starr Jordan, Timothy Hopkins, Governor Carter. pending on the presence of a much greater proportion of strychnine in the bicarbonate of soda that Mrs. Stanford took than was found in the remainder of the bottle that was analyzed, and also depending on the theory that strychnine crystals being larger than the grains of the bicarbonate of soda would gravitate to the bottom, or whether the strychnine was placed on top of the bicarbonate shortly before | Stanford partook of the drug. theory of High Sheriff Henry and Sheriff Rawling is that the strychnine was placed in the bottle in San Francisco, and that shaking brought the poison to the top, making the first half teaspoonful a fatal dose. Detective Harry Reynolds of San Francisco said to-day that Miss Ber- ner is not under any form of surveil- lance and that when she returns to The BISHOP NICHOI EULOGY. Eminent Divine Leads University Memorial Services Feelingly. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, March 12.—The great Memorial Church was again crowded with sorrowing stu- @ents and faculty this morning to lis- ten to the address of the Right Rev- erend Willlam F. Nichols, Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Northern California. Though the Bishop only said a few words about the life of Mrs. | | Stanford, yet the service was one in| the honor of her memoty. At the end of the service'the whole congregation se and sang me Unto Me and I Wil " and so moved were they that for several minu of the song had'.died away they stood silent, many with tears running down their faces. P This afternoon was given over to an organ recital by Dr. Blodgett. It was also memorial in character, the aged organist rendering many of the favor- ite hymns of Mrs. Stanford. Bishop Nichols also spoke of the work of Chaplain Gardner, who has been very low with typhoid fever for the last two weeks. The rest of the sermon dealt with the effect of the training of the modern university on the later life of the student. He said in part: “One cannot well stand in othis place without a foreword of ut- terance of the sense of somberness that prevades not only this university but the commonwealth in the death, so far away from all that was dear to her here, of Mrs. Stanford. The first voicing of it has already been worth- ily made by my friend who spoke from this pulpit last Sunday, the Rev- llundan are ! ces will be held at the.Cpugrer? that ancient hymn, | 1 Give You, tes after the last echo | ANOTHER HOCH IMan Accused of 'Trying to Kill Friend for Insurance Believed to Be Wife Slayer \WOMEN DIE STRANGELY | j‘l’olice Gather Circumstan- | tial Evidence Tending to Prove Guilt of the Prisoner bl s Ml Pl Special Dispatch to The Call. COTTAGE GROVE, March 12.—John | Branton, who was arrested for the at- | tempted murder of John Fletcher on | the morning of March 9, is believed to be another John Hoch. His three | wives all died under suspicious cir- cumstances, the first two bearing in- | surance, the third having refused -to have her life insured on account of the ugly rumors which circulated at the time of the death of Branton's former wives. Fletcher, who was found wounded on the trail to Branton's ranch, also had $2000 insurance payable to Branton. Branton has always been considered an honest man, but suspicion rested on Lim at the death of his third wife, who is supposed to have died of strych- nine. poisoning. A warrant for his ar- rest was issued at that time, but was | ncver served. It was not until a day or two after Fletcher had recovered sufficiently to say that he had attempted suicide as Branton had reported, that the various facts regarding Branton's history be- came general knowledge, but now all Linn County is aroused against him. A great deal of circumstantial evi- | dence has been gathered which points !to Branton as a seeker after dead men’'s shoes, and the peculiar circum- stances of his wives having been in- sured and having died under suspicious circumstances is held up against him now that he has been arrested for the | attempted murder of Fletcher for his insurance. The fact that ~Branton's brother was hanged for having mur- dered an old man in the Cascade Moun- tains is also being considered in this connection. —_———— |SUES FATHER-IN-LAW FOR ILOSS OF HUSBAND Mrs. George Henrici, Now of Los An- geles, Plaintiff in an Action for Damages, CHICAGO, March 12.—In an effort to get her boy husband, George Hen- rici, to return to her, the young man's wife, who was Miss Rosa Klaus, has' begun suit. for $25,000 damages again her father-in-law, Philip Hen- rici millignaire restaurant man, charging that he forced the young man to leave her and their baby under penalty of being disinherited if he re- fused. Mrs. George Henrici, who is ill at the home of her sister in Los Angeles, declares she does not care for the money, but wants her husband, and tcok that method of compelling his father to zxve,hlq up. 20 saer Kuropatkin Announces the Number of Men That Are Missing. ST. PETERSBURG, March 12.—A dispatch received here from General Kuropatkin, dated Saturday, says: “The night of March 10 (Friday) passed without fighting on the front of the Second army, which I am ac- companying. The rear guard of this army, under General Guerschelman. is holding the positions in the neighbor- hood of Chuchital station. Up to 7 { o'clock this morning no reports had been received from Third army. The positions of the First army were this morning twenty-five to thirty versts (about 17 to 20 miles) south-southwest of Tie Pass.” Telegraphing at 10:40 o’clock on Sat- urday night General Kuropatkin re- ported as follows: “To-day the enemy’s attack was con- fined to the rear guard of the Third Siberian corps. The TFirst army, echeloned in front of the other armies. continues to retreat toward .positions indicated for all the armies. Accord- ing to a report from the commander of the Third army, received to-day. his ,rear guard occupied a position on the Mandarin road sixteen and a half | miles from Tie Pags. Only a small de- tachment of the Japanese, malnly | cavalry, confronted this rear guard. | “From February 28 to March 11, in- clusive, 1190 officers and 46,391 men are | missing from roll call. The wounded | have been sent north.” y ASKS TO BE REIIEVED. Kuropatkin Pleads the Need of Physi- i cal and Mental Rest. | LONDON, March 13.—The St. Peters- burg correspondent of the Times says: “General Kuropatkin has asked the Emperor's gracious permission to turn ! over his command, alleging that he is in urgent need of physical and mental rest. v “I learn on the best authority that the Japanese twice have approached Russia, through informal channels, on the subject of peace negotiations, but that in each case the proposal failed because Japan demanded an indemnity and a pledge that Russia would not keep warships in the Pacific for twen- ty-five years. | “The Japanese insistence on indem- nity convinces the Russian Government that her pecuniary resources are ex- hausted and that, by continuing the | war only a few months longer, Russia will get better terms. “When Kuropatkin heard of the cap- ture of Kiousan on March 10 he real- ized that he had délayed retreat too long. One desperate chance remained, however. It was the sacrifice of his artillery by massing the batteries so as to paralyze the enemy's fire. Russian gunners did their duty and saved what is left of XKuropatkin's army.” f— !lo come. Beyond the simple prefa- tory reference to it, it is not my pur- pose to dwell upon it before proceed- |ing to my theme, selected some weeks since with your chaplain. And we do not forget the anxious hours caused by the bulletins from the sick room | the last week, and the hope and prayer to-day—encouraged by less un- favorable symptoms these more recent days—that he may be spared for many vears of his ministry. The very last conversation of any length I was priv- ileged to have with Mrs. Stanford, it so happens, was at the very Moana Hotel where she died, and it was mainly touching Mr. Gardner, whose effective work in his parish at Palo Alto had so appealed to her that she had set her heart on having him for the chaplainey. erend Mr. Dinsmore. morial service and the tribute are yet The stated me- | Grip remedy, oves cause. Call for narie und look for Signature E. W Grove, REPORTS RUSSIAN LOSSES. . The | ST. PETERSBURG, March 13, 2:30 a. m.—The immediate answer of the Rus- | slan Government to the defeat at Muk- W“" is the announcement that a new {army will be raised and the forces .in the Far East reorganized; that Vice Admiral Rojestvensky will be ordered to sail on and try conclusions with Togo, and that the war will be prose- cuted to the bitter end. This is the present temper of Emper- or Nicholas and his dominant advisers, voiced in a firm official announcement that ‘the position of Russia is un- change§ and that the initiative for peace can only come from Japan. Should the island empire choose to tender moderate terms and recognize its adversary as the dominant power ‘in the Far East, peace could be easily arranged; but the voice of her diplo- mats in various parts of the world in- dicate that she is not ready to do this| and the Russian Government, with the full magnitude of the disaster at Muk- den still undetermined, but with the 1905 campaign seemingly already hope- lessly compromised, retreat to Harbin inevitable and Vladivostok practically lost, declares that the time has not yet come when Russia can be forced to humble herself. It is reported that the dispatch of two new army corps, including the Fourteenth from Poland, and several smaller. units has already been de- termined upon and that plans for fur- ther mobilization are under discus- sion. MUCH TALK OF PEACE. But while this is the official attitude, nothing but peace talk is heard in St. Petersburg. The difficulties of another mobilization on a large scale will be | enormous; in fact, it is stated in some quarters that it will be impossible. Nevertheless, it might be accomplished. The real hope, however, for anything {like a successful termination of the | war is admitted to rest upon the pros- !pects of the financial exhaustion of Japan. Russian resources, it is figured, can stand the drain better than those of Japan, and a protracted campaign, it is hoped, will bring about Japan's | financial ruin. Finance Minister Ko- | kovsoff, at the conclusion of a confer- ence of the national finances a few days ago, is said to have tapped the table before him and exclaimed: “We can win the war at this desk.” The Russian capital {s still in ignorance of the nature and extent of the reverses in Manchuria. The only, information of its magnitude is that which has been derived from the 'fi Tokio telegrams that have been ' lowed to be published here. To % censor at Tie Pass the word “prisoner’ does not exist and not the slightest intimation of what, if any, units and organizations have been cut off and captured has reached this city. either in General Kuropatkin's official di patches or in reports from corre: pondents at the front. ‘LOOKING FOR ANOTHER CHIEF. | Aside from the reports given out by | the War Office there is practically no | further information of the progress of ! events, the mewspaper dispatches re- ceived yesterday being principally those filed before the retreat began and transported to Tie Pass among the papers of the telegraph office. It is declared that the moment that General Kuroki's wedge, alded by the dust storm and taking advantage of the faflure of several Russian organizations to occupy appointed positions, drove itself deep into the Russian flank it disarranged all the plans of General Kuropatkin, who was on the point of launching a momentous counter £troke; but where or how it was to be accomplished is not stated. | _General Kuropatkin telegraphed to | Emperor Nicholas, assuming himself all [the regponsibility for his defeat, mak- [ ing no excuses except that the strength of the Japanese was miscalculated, and refusing to place any of the blame upon the council of generals, upon whose advice he determined to give battle. This manly course and the general’'s personal exertions in direct- ing the retreat will, however, hardly save him. His reputation as an offen- sive strategist is gone, and though the Emperor’s military advisers know net where to look for a better general, his resignation will be accepted. KUROPATKIN’'S SUCCESSOR. It will be difficult to find a capable successor, but it is sald now that it probably will be General Grodekoff, Governor of Amur, although in casting about for another commander {in chief some military officials are | turning to General Dragomiroff, who |is considered to be Russia's greatest | strategist; but he is a feeble old man, | suffering with a heart affection, and it {8 highly improbable that he would be able even to make the long trip to Manchuria. In losing General Kuropatkin the army will lose the idol of the private soldiers—an officer who, in spite of the intrigues of his generals and his faflure to win a battle, has won their confidence and affection. . gy CAPTURE OF KANKYACHIEN. Successful Attack That Turned Rus- sian Positions at Mukden. GENERAL OKU'S HEADQUAR- TERS, Monday, March ‘6.—Kankya- | chien was captured this afternocon. | From a small hill two miles to the | west the advance and attack was plainly visible. Kankyachien is a small village in an angle two miles north and four miles west of the railway. # | At 3 o'clock General Oku left his shelter tent and, mounted on his horse, | took his place on the summit of the | hill with his big fleld glasses. A few | minutes later the infantry attack be- gan. The lead had been given to a famous division rmmwll‘:grtt):em.gvn:;; The attack began he {of a dozen men from Hankyach, the ! village to the north, who rushed sev- eral hundred yards across the plain and | dropped behind a cover. They were followed by another small section and then by another. When about a com- pany had been assembled the advance | was continued in the same manner. | The Russians threw hundreds of shells at the advancing men, cutting them up badly, but not stopping the | advance. Scores of men dropped and remained where they fell, while others advanced, r which some painfully returned to the starting point, braving the Russfan shells again. One party | of five started to return, but only one of them arrived at the shelter. At the same time an advance began from the western village, men going , forward in the same manner. From an old railway embankment a long column straggled forward at wide intervals to reinforce the western village. The | Russians shelled all the advancing men unmercifully, killing or wo MONDAY, MARCH 1. DEFEAT DISPELS HOPE OF PEACE Czar Orders Baltic Fleet to Give Togo Battle. ‘1 tured. H :{ River to occupy the positions marked scores, but the advance never stopped. A rifle fire from the village cut wide gaps in the advance, but still the Jap- | anese did not halt. The last third of the distance the men could advance only in short rushes. Finally after the last rush came the men disappeared | into the village. A few moments later | the telephone operator on the hill re- ported that the village had been cap- | The Russians heavily bombarded Kankyachien and a heavy fire was de- livered on several places, but with- | out succeeding in dislodging the Jap- | anese, who continued the attack on other villages. At nightfall, because of the taking of this and néarby villages, Mukden was as good as captured. e REORGANIZING THE ARMY. Difficult Task Confronts Raussian Of- ficers at Tie Pass. TIE PASS, March 13, noon.—The | JapaneSe, it is reported, have.ceased their pursuit, at least temporarily. Some of the Japanese are twenty-five miles below Tie Pass. A resumption of their advance is expected. Rumors | are in circulation that the Japanese | are already attempting’ another turn- ing movement to drive the Russians from Tie Pass. Theé" Russian troops here have been arriving with hopelessly mixed units in consequence of the change in the front. The troops are being sorted out and organizations reformed and as- signed to places to defend new posi- tions, but whether Tie Pass will be held or abandoned probably will not be decided for several days. It is still too early to tell the extent of the Russian defeat, because not all | parts of the army have been assem- bled and the losses during the retreat are no small proportion of the casual- ties. Up to the time of the beginning of the retreat, it is probable the Jap- anese losses were heavier than those of the Russians, and at the time the Japanese broke through Fu Pass the Russians appeared to be holding their Oown and even gaining a little. Prepar- | ations were then being made to launch a counter stroke. The Japan- | ese success was largely aided by the weather conditions, - which enabled | them to approach unobserved, but it /s chiefly due to the failure of some of the organizations of the left flank | in, the retirement from the Shakhe | dut for them. The Japanese quickly discovered the intervals, scouting | columns having followed the retreat closely. | A heavy column which had been held in reserve for this eventuality wag quickly directed into the breach | and burst asunder the Russian line, | rendering retreat inoperative. The | wonder is that the retreat did not de- generate into a panicky flight. In con- sequence of the rapid change of front necessitated by the western attack, the units of the army had become inextri- cably confused. Battalions were not in their, proper regiments; regiments were not in their own divisions and | divisions were not in the corps to| which they properly belonged. It Is easily to be comprehended that. the forced retirement became disor- dered to an extent by the sudden and urexpected fire of a small detachment of Japanese, probably not more than two squadrons of a mountain battery, which had slipped far inside the Rus- sian lines and opened on the retreat- ing transport, causing a temporary panic. The panic, however, was chief- ly confined to the drivers and some artillerymen, whose nerves had been weakened by the strain of the twelve days’ battle and who cut the traces and abandoned their wagons and guns. A further detachment of the army, hcwever, came up and a portion of the wagons and guns were saved. In the retreat of the first army, Gen- eral Rennenkampff, upon whose corps fell the brunt of the fighting in the Teinkhetchen operations, displayed brilliant generalship, causing consider- able loss to the pursuing Japanese. The decision of General Kuropatkin to offer battle on the Shakhe River was taken against his own best judg- ment. He had been constantly blamed, both In army circles and at home, for operating without decision and the de- mand that he take the initiative and abandon the policy of retirement was vciced on all sides. It appears that General Kuropatkin yielded to this opinfon, which was that of many of his principal generals, and decided to give battle, thereby losing the opportunity for a more successful retreat before the Japanese forces, which largely out- numbered the Russian army. PR S L OKU ENTERS MUKDEN. General Takes Possession of the Late Slav Stronghold. ' GENERAL OKU'S HEADQUAR- TERS, Saturday, March 11.—General Oku and staff entered Mukden this afternoon. The Japanese armies con- tinue to hotly pursue the retreating Russians. Ten thousand prisoners have been captured. General Oku's army has only 800 wounded. Three hundred Japanese wounded have been found In the Russian hospitals. Quantities of stores and many horses and wagons have been captured. The Chinese set fire to the hospitals and other buildings when the Russian re- treat began. ADVERTISEMENTS. POMMERY GHAMPAGNE THINK BRANTON 'RUSSIA IS TO RAISE NEW ARMY BELIEVE PROFITS NORMOUS Kansas City Expert States That Packers Reap Golden Harvest Instead of Small Sum Reported by Garfield IPANESE CONTINUING THE CHAS Continued From Page 1, Column 3. 4 advancing. - The Japanese are already in touch with Tie Pass. The Russian forces evidently are con- | fused and exhausted and are possibly | short of food and ammunition. and it | is believed here that they will be un-| able to resist a strong attack. TPPLIES ITEMS TO PROVE POINT idieliiige Editor Powell Figures That Trust Makes Forty-Three | Per Cent on Its Present E Heavily Watered Capital Succeed- | ing reports from the field increase the extent of the Russian disaster. and it is believed that it will require months | to resupply and reorganize the Russian armies. It is estimated that the Russian cas- ualties and captives will reach 40 per cent. of the number engaged in the re- cent fighting. Their artillery losses es- peclally are heavy. The numerous stores and munitions of war captured are valued at millions of dollars. The Russian loss materially adds to the crippling of their armies. The Japanese people are receiving the details of their victory with calm- ness. Tokio and other citles are ex- ceedingly quiet. A recent admonition to refrain from spending money in celebrations and devote it to savings Special Dispatch to The Caill. KANSAS CITY, Mo., March l_l— Cuthbert Powell, the commercial editor | of the Kansas City Journal for more | than & quarter of a century, in close } touch with the packing-house and live- |'stock interests of the West. has pre- | pared an extended article based on ac- curate figures, showing that Commis- | Each Report Adds to the Number of | The Standard of Quality and war charitles is being generally followed. NO PEACE TERMS TO OFFER. The press and leading men, di-cuu-} sing the possible effect of the recent | victory upon peace, declare that Japan | will continue a vigorous prosecution of | the war and that she has no sugges- | tion to make to Russia, either directly | or ‘ndirectly. In the general elation over success, | the Japanese find a speclal source of | satisfaction in the celerity in flankln!i operations. the quick seizure of advan- tages and the speed in pursuit mani- i fested by thelr armies. After last | summer’'s campaign there was a gen- eral admission of the truth in the re- peated criticlsms that the Japanese troops failed in those respects, and there was a general avowal of a de- | termination to redeem during future operatfons. | Against the Russian left a portion of | the Fifth army marched forty miles in one day, greatly aiding in the achieve- ment of vigtory. | The captives taken in the recent bat- | W tle will make the total Russian pris- oners taken during the war 75,000, and the care of these prisoners is becoming | a large and expensive problem for the Japanese Government. Plans are be- | ing considered to establish military prisons on the islands of the inland sea | to remove all the prisoners to them. s RUSSIANS SURRENDERING. Prisoners Taken. TOKIO, March 12, noon.—A dis- | patch from Japanese military head- quarters announces the estimate of | prisoners captured up to and includ- ing Friday at 20,000. Since that time the number has been briskly increas- | °f ing and the total will exceed 30,000. | The dispatch continues: | “Reports from the chiefs of the | medical corps of all the armies have | been received from February 26 to| March 12. Our total casualties at | that time were 41,232 Field Marshal Oyama, reporting un- der date of Saturday night, says: | “All our - forces advanced to the right of the Hun River and vigorously pursued the enemy in all directions. | We reached a line thirteen miles north | of the Hun River on the afternoon of | March 10. On March 11 we continued | a vigorous pursuit. Our forces ad- vanced north from the vicinity of| the Pu River, and immediately after | its departure engaged with a large | column of the enemy retreating | north. After a hand-to-hand battle | we surrounded and captured the col- umn. In the vicinity of Mukden a remnant of the enemy continues a hopeless resistance or is surrendering. “‘Clearing operations are progress- ing. The enemy’s dead are massed | everywhere, and we have been unable to inter them as yet. The minute in- vestigation of the losses Inflicted at several vlaces has not yet been fin-| ished, but the enemy’s killed, wound- ed, prisoners and spolls are enor- mous. The spoils of clothing and pro- visions are in great piles, resembling hills. We have been unable to inves- tigate as yet.,” CHINA HOLDS TO NEUTRALITY. Will Close Railroad Whose Use Was Demanded by Japan. TIENTSIN,' March 12.—Owing to unforeseen difficuities the Chinese railway administration will suspend train service until further notice be- tween Koapantsze, Yinkow and Sin- mintin. It is stated that the suspen- sion is owing to the Japanese military insistence that the rallway carry mili- | tary stores. i gty SAXON PRINCE A PRIZE. TOKIO, March 13.—The British steamship Saxon Prince, bound for Vladivostok with a cargo of steel ralls, was seized on March 9 by the Japanese in the Tsu Straits and taken to Sasebo for trial, BT 2 Tientsin’s Estimate of Losses. TIENTSIN, March 11.—The well informed here roughly estimate the total Russian casualties at 150,000, and those of the Japanese at 60,000. Late estimates place the Russian dead left on the fleld at about 30,000. | | reported that the | Bloca these faults | | Bins | by the combined packing houses. | sioner Garfield was in error when he | packers made a profit of only 99 cents a head on cattle. Powell shows that the average net profit to the packers is $7 41 a head, or 15 per cent on the price of the cattle, and that this profit is turned every two to four weeks, twelve to twenty-four times a year. v “The following figures,” says Powell, ‘are based upon the year's killing of & big Western packing plant and repre- sent all grades coming to it during that time. The by-products are as follows: Value = By Products— Switches . Neatstoot Hoots Skull H i PR v R s S AR T g 8 $15.14 Powell figures that on each animal there remains a gross profit to the packer of $991 per head There is the general expense of the plant to be accounted for, and $1 50 per head on cattle must be allowed for this. There is still a net profit to the packer on his cattle of $8 41, but to be absolutely fair with the packers, a further allowance $1 per head for maintenance of plants and extraordinary expenses is made. Still there remains $7 41 per | head net profis to the packers. “Applying the average profit of 37 41 on cattle, 20 cents on hogs. 50 cents on sheep and 50 cents on calves to.the total number of head killed in a year " says Powell, “gives a total profit of 347,727.- 412. 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