The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 12, 1904, Page 1

ides seer “. re ‘ (% he Star Is Only One Cent Everywhere _oNecENT =" The Seattle Star © [=== == | tonight brisk southeast to southwest winds NIGHT EDITION SEA’ R MONTH THE STAR'S NEXT GREAT FICTION OFFERING, «THE SORCERESS OF THE STRAND,” WILL BEGIN MONDAY TOWN OF WIJU BURNED BY THE RUSSIANS | a WHO FLEE BEFORE THE ADVANCING JAPS q | — } The Rapid Advance of the Japanese Army Toward the North Has Thrown the Russian Army Into Confusion. | SEOUL, March 12.--It is reported here that the! ussians have set fire to the town of Wiju on the MAKAROFF orean side of the river Yalu and totally destroyed it, A FIGHTER nd that the whole Russian population together With jossas vice somma joi NOT ACT LIKE HIG FELLOW) ussian army have retreated across the river into orncens " : | Thursday's fight at Port arthur i«! A complete Russian evacuation of the surrounding ;\" territory is proceeding due to the rapid advance of te in a 80 a ATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1904 VOL. 6. NO, 18 25 CENTS P LE, WASHINGTON, i | the Cinet time torpe ats have ens os the squade Japanese land force toward the north. sia made a er dah combat, sinking a Japan 5 Stowe J his staff who were watching the battle were sprinkled | | with the splinters of flying shells, but were not injured. | CPD the Stereguachtecht. | A Japanese ironclad wa uck by @ Russian shell and was ween | The gailant action of Vice Admiral] to draw slowly out of rang is thought she was crippled. Matas? in transferring his flag t the orulser Novik and mailing out In| ‘ nn e tage of the enemy ir | 3 OL SS dE eT REO: a ae ; at Teague, recelves unatinted praise MUKDE r 5 « stamping him at the outset of bis Meet, gives the following report of the engagement at Port Arthu command as a man of force and ae-| | tion Whe Insists on being in the van! on Thursday | iatieaclniciommeaage of the fighting } The femoval of the battleship Ret “ “Six t » boats, which went to sea on the night of March 10, By Beripns News Agen) viaam from the mouth of the inner - | SRS NOTE ARE Tort arinur correspondent of the Centra; | Yisaiifrom the mouth of the 1 ri cnenemaines hn eneeners followed by cruisers. A bi News agency. wirtng last Japanese squadron die-. | NOT8GH Which marked the assump - appeared after the bombard: @ torpedo fight of the tenth and had | 10M Of command of Ad pine. The Kussian squadron proceeded slowly to sea, returning In the afternoon without sighting the enemy a torpedo and sank one of the ene my’s boats, On the way back the Tes action ensued in which the torped at destroyer Viastini discharged| not yet returned yeeterday m Tort Vi pe mit cve fr | ne | thur reports state that during the bombardm ‘ “ viral Maka | hea ¢y Beno ed ships. It was thought Dp "4 y sa nt on | that the reason why the Russian | burst about §© yards from the house of Colonel | *hips had not made a sortie before pay, i Baron Frank, injuring his wife and decapitating his daughter, both was apprehension of meeting with a - } o'clock in the morning of whom were in the house. superior force, but it t* w clear that the ships were unable to leave five of our torpedo-boat destroyers had returned. With the channel open it is expected torpedo-boat destroyer Bterepusch tch! sustained damages, her engine | TUF being disabled and she began to f that Admiral Makaroff will make the sqdadron an aggressive force. | ES ‘ “ ic Appreciating the misfortune of the} : hoisted my flag on the cruiser Novik and went w Novik and thi aeiinieGa-iet ends Ge wee Terence tt, a Syear-old boy, who first arrived after the explosion eee erulser Boyarin to rescue. But as five of the « y's cruisers sur- it te vatieved that Admiral Makaroff! was instantly killed and houses for] (ne house of N Ba ml will attempt to unite his force by . : = | ounded our destroyer their battleship squadron was approach- | SMC Tne: Vuaivesteh equadron| tecke sround. wore. Served tote Jistance from the scene, was rounded our destroyer and as oo 7” ” QBy Scripps News Ass'n) hee i astaee , } r atiee several feet in the air from “When the critical position of th bled boat became evident I proner =Amold — te the boy's body and the Bonney-Watsen such great finds are not expected t last, {t Is predicted that the camgy t when the explos his arrest for man my's torpedo boats to retire. ‘With the commencement of the bomt ent at dawn the gs was not pre “The crews of all the ships en gaged gave proof of remarkable slaughter was ordered after a con be a succe ott family 1 “a ‘ coolness tn action. Below decks the work of the day followed its or- sultation between Prosecuting Attor y live The Revenue Mining Company ha inary course, in spite of the shells falling between the vessels and cov- So , a ney Scott and Coroner Hoye S nity of Seo.| *hected 8 sawmill with @ capacity of ering them with fragments. PAWIM, March 12—The &t. Peters The coroner announces his deter-| - miplaine’d 8,000 feet per ¢ besides a cens ' sed) trifugal pump on the beach with @ burg gorrespondent of the Ech de| mination to bring the gullty part ago is reported to have been seen arts ‘wends an interview with Gen.! whether employers or employes, or} Kouropatkin; who t# to have supreme : ; bie to} THE COST OF THE PROPOSED SEA WALL ALONG THE CITY oem alk they »-teeasns ro ba j both, to account in th “A bombardment at such a distance must be regarded as ineffect-| THEY POSITIVELY REFUSE TO PAY THEIR JUST SHARE OF rulser Taka to the city authorities several tin of the carelessness of Cc Brickson nd his men feet a day. pacity of 1,600 cubic | Stabbed in a Fight te to suffer serious damage, the extent, however . but the Japar court. An inquest will be held prob-| nanat ascertain at @ Gistance of five miles, Many shells were fired at arange| = PRONT AND IT WILL NOT BE BUILT forces'in the far east. Kourepathin iy b-| « dynamite and the board of of se and'a half miles. in quoted as saying | Monday morning to ascertain) junitc works ha amised to inves-| 7 March 12—7 : Atte eredhing the Japanese in Kou| the cause of the accident and to fiz| Huets the complaints Wine the| COLTON, March 12—Thursday, a@ = “ — ND rea and Manehuria we will take their esponsibility for the little la sbakiadine 4a o 3 | a sale six miles north of Colton ' . isiand, If I have anything to say in ful death. | Sencam, the powder who ia| PTank Fite was stabbed by some Because the two big railroad com- to it. The Improvement would have) the matter a treaty of peace will be| Beneath @ 15-foot embankment ted ae any ,'*| person in a general fight. A ward panies which monopolize Seattle's] Cost about $250,000. The at North~| signed in Tokio and nowhere else.” | joss than 50 yards from the property | ps Pigg Bic Mc gsi cn the] rant was sworn out for the arre waterfront will not pay their just] ¢rn and Northern Pacific would have} - cietaniaiianiipnagiin tue, Duneah bat, belie the Ss | oo fonday, was arrest-| ©? ene three Stark bo share of the expense of constructing | been obliged to pay about $285,000 of was Clean Wie rmiantt j ed ar to the police station! them with the crime. Fi the much talked of seawall it will| this amount city $38,000, and the} BADLY BUMPED about taledh be tech om ettiall i . | in the right shoulder. The ; not be built. Ever since,City En-| abutting property owners the re- m | of the explosive and went to put in way werk'wn th en wound {s not considered dangerous. “4 ST. PETERSBURG, March 12—Viceroy Alexieft has the following| Sineer Thomson announced that it) mainder. : pee | some biaste $00 feet away. He left] North Seattle and placed he snow went off with a heavy, : Message to the czar , | the improvement were made the ratl The @ of the railroad com-| Arthur Donald, a Northern Pacific! 15 sticks of dynamite in the kettle is cicarea’ aa’ rain and has washed the roads ei the fight between our torpedo t the Japanese ertusers, on | road companies owning rights-of-| panies will probably delay the con-| switchinan, was injured while! Marlier in the day he had told a : c ome " can ata Sepieeanie See oo March 10, Capt Matteussevitch, Ensign A drott and Mechan En-| way on Railroad avenue would be| struction the seawall several) throwing a switch near the King| number of amall boys to keep away| Coroner that he ¥ ake river down Steptoe canyom B Kinecr Blenoff received slight wour'ds and Ensign Zaeff was rely | obliged to pay 40 per cent of the cost | Years. street coo! bunkers last evening. He} from the fire, as they might gec| “'® ‘west _and was releane ll washed away th fe ‘ of the work, nobody at all far jar | . " leaned down from an engine cab to! hurt fo tier eee ; n nt at Port Arthaur reports the following details of the | with the methods of the railroads} BROOKFIELD, Mo, March 12 throw a ground switch and waa| After Duncan had gone th BANQUET OF EX-BUCKEYES wat ths torres ere om Maren” ‘An toon at the enemy | bau quem ‘ream “thatthe.” wall| Rapuriieana the Second sonaria-| hurd to the ground. "His injurioe| boy Passed the pot ene LECTURE ON OTHELLO|"cuaus, xo. mre 0mm 3 ne Sukie pecmeatery @e&epened fice on ips remained be | would be built. The newspaper or-| sional district met in cenvention| were not serious, but painful, He] down the embankment while Jorate arrangements have been made | r. They ceased bombarding at 1:15 p.m. The enen 4 about n of the railroads today blandly|here today and selected delegates) was removed to the Seattle General) way to the Alcatraz asphalt plant for the ar ] banquet of the Ohio q tiles. from bat tery 1%, on rie cliff, dam- snounces what has been well un-|to represent the district at the na-} hospital where his father is employed. He A ture will t Associatic of Omaha, which takea BS seed & Jape * ere The res o mbardment were | derstood for months. tional convention at Chicago, Reso-| 4). y-o-—coneeational” Bund had just reached the fire, apparent-| evening in the crypt of ' place tonight at the Commercial Ineignt Bix soldiers were wo unded tants of the town As long as there was a ch ¢ of | lutions were adopted reaffirming the| 4.04) of Q lve pre ot “gna teagan 4 | ly, when the explosion occurred ish church, under the auspices and!Club. 7 principal address will q were killed and inly wounded. getting the seawall constructe Ith | principles of the party as proclatr visitors’ dav tomorrow afternoon frem | The dynamite exploded with a roar the benefit of the Men's Club of|be delivered by John L. Webster, @ af arin yardme nt, say e report this afternoon, | private individuals or the city pay-| in the last Republican national 112:90 o'elook until 1:30 o'clock. In ad-| Uke a broadside of cannon and the} Trinity Parish. ‘The leoturer will be} former Ohioan, whose name ts mén= : tent damage. A lawyer named Sidor- | ing the lion's share of the cost the] state platforms and the del ition to r interesting features, | body of the child was thrown 90 feet.| the Rev, H »wen, Who has|tioned in connection with the Res unknown, together with a Chinese | railroads were enthusiastic over the| were instructed to vote for the | Capt. M f the Saly n Army, | The little mangled corpse was found] chosen ct the Shakes.| publican vice presidential nominas or Chinese were wounded and General! plant. Now they will hardly liste =| nomi ation of Presidevt Roosevelt. will speak and sing a top of the embankment by those pe * teak not succeed in saving her. She foundered and part of the oie Wwiamien tee tints, “atenils 10: <oene. tail, aaeaadhnn oe: a Ton epairs on the battleship Retvisan | undat by n of dyna Mi ain mat Seal : e n tsoners an was Gro | Siberian railsvay reports that the line is in bad cond und that will b@ completed in a few weeks, Second a north Seoled, | Sax tbe : ” 3 Pag ag otk ge omega roomy attack one officer | track men are neglecting their duties. He says that heavy drifts of | but the battleshtp Czarevitch ts so ‘ zs of tripe de, trees pe was seriously wounded and three others . y wounded; two | snow are piling up on the tracks and that serious landslides are | badly damaged that It is not thought | Denny way late 5 20) ? = soldiers were killed and 18 wounded threatened at Tomakekita and Vercholloski and all intermediate vil- | that #Be can participate tr | where a gang of laborers under ( ot R. A. Nichot- a “At 9 o'clock 14 of the enemy's ships mbled before Port Arthur | ages on account of the stoppage of ordinary traffic in order w | the operations for a long tin ee acre 4 and a bornbardment was begun with the bh y guns of their battie. the traneportation of the Russian troops the front 2 tractor C. J. Erickson are making low when the cnet e Ship squadron at long range Food at these places has-reach ed prohibitive prices and terrible F De ould eee]. San This lasted untit 1 o'clock in the afternoon. It is estimated that | suffering is reported among the poorer classes , a deep cut in regrading the Pe te acne Grud ras} News of another gold strike ont the enemy fired 154 1 h shel The damage to our vessels was tn é ‘HO AIR The dynamite had been left to thaw Nindows in the hotei| Y#kataga beach reached Seattle yeod significant and they are again ready for battle. Our losses were one ‘ , gh a reap egagiaene sy | The beach is yielding officer slightly wounded, one soldier kille and four wounded ‘ ut tn & kettle ns water over a. pvindows in a dozen | greater returns than was expect ‘The illumination of the seat at night by the searchlights was most ‘ | : broken, and. the exple-| SLucseen emplores of Ts Raven satisfactory and several times shots from our batteries forced the ene- | | ar fire by Dur raged “w Po | Mining Company of Bt. Louis, tool “ KOUROPATKIN SAYS HE WILL) Erickson’s powder man. D pe ee out $2200 in 48 hours, and —whil