The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 14, 1904, Page 1

{ihe Star Is Only One Cent Everywhere BOASPETT SL enone eeeeete tal ate Tod Bile =e Lhe Seattle Sti southwest w NIGHT EDITION SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1904 RUSSIAN LOSSES WERE HEAVY IN THURSDAY'S BATTLE AT PORT ARTHUR Four Destroyers Were Sunk, Forts and /AE HOMES. OF MOE SMITHS Arsenals Terribly Damaged, and Many NT WIVES ARE WV A BUNCH Killed=-Dalny Nearly Destroyed == rrr: cons rower tus ve con uct over nweneer naan | ROME, March 14—A telegram from St. Petersburg this morning Jonly the bodies of a were found aboard, The remainder ans lost 97 seamen killed and 49 captured in the | of the crew are. believed to have states that the Rus: attack on Port Arthur by the Japs last Thursday. ) overbe | F aA Information from Tiensin from if an official wh was af eye witness LONDON, March 14-—Tt.ts ap of the bomb in of Port Arthur} . is to the effect that the Russians ty in tans suffered mv than the St. Pet 5 official reports in | had twenty-five killed on the batthe- j A Cheefoo dispatch, this morning, states that at lea wt Russian i Sevastopel, twenty on the Ret. | | Gestroyers were put ¢ action in the harbor and deserted by their | » and twenty in the town. | } crewn at two were sunk. Gr wan done to the forts and The Russians assert that their | } arsenals, where the powder magazin exploded Jamaged cruisers have been re- | e garrison was driven from the works « al Gunners are re- P j i ~ “ w ey | paired and are ready for sea The Ported Killed, while ® number of the heavy « we were dismounted tleship Caarevitch will be ready | | The docks and wharves were eet on fire and practically ruined. and | | paring for | . finding | Dale was also attacked, is almost destroyed. one report sa Advices from Newchwang state that much damage done, Thirty eight were killed and ove dred wounded twelve-ineh landing of shell landed Im the lower land fort, killing and wo: e officer and forty-two men. The Russian fleet, a ele Inside, took | no part in the fighting. was bit as she lay in the naval basin by three shells and eust a) casualties. After the action Captain F took a squadron of torpedoboat Gestroyers outside for seoutt 1 returned at midday In order to raise the ety two steamers In the Chinese Railway ny’s service, Hailar and Harbin, were brought around to Port Ar- thur from Datny. One was sunk on each side the battIeship. The q steamers were then pumped out and the Retvizan thus successfully moved into the naval basin. The dock is too small to hold ber, and go it will be | impossible to repair her at Port Arthur. General Storssel has been ordered to Yalu, and will be replaced at Port Arthur by General Smirnoff. The garrison consists of #000 men. Since the first naval fight a naval offcer has been posted at each land fort to direct the fire of the guns and prevent the Russians firing on thelr | own ships. The artillery in the garrison is unable somethmes to @iatin- gulsh their own, shipe from the encanys. It ls admitted that fighting sti |YOMN MH, JOHNSON, MATE OF || * continues around Port Arthur and Tallenwan. It is also admitted that th TEAM RA | town of Port Arthur ts deserted, as tt is impossible to live there. Grea’ STERNER Some, eee discontent existe among the officers and there are serious dieputes dally FIFTY DOLLARS between the military and naval elements, the former reproaching the lat- ter for coward tncompetenc Supplies of food and coal are plentiful. ‘The town is being provisioned aes 0 for six m¢ Scarcity of big gun ammunition is beginning to be felt Thee bent Jone The scare is so great that a chartered Norwegian steamer on entering the harbor with coal was fired on by the Russians and damaged before the mistake was discovered. | | Johneon, mate} of the steamship Dora, into insenst- | bility yesterday inorning and robbed | him of $@ in the lower part of the city. He was picked up by Patrot man Hushett bleeding and uncon scious and token to the police stn } tion, where he was attended by Dr. Snyder. Johnson says he left a Washington ATTACK ON PORT ARTHUR (88 2S him by the thugs. The police aay North Second West street No. 4—Mre. Edna L. 8m ond Went Street. &—Mre. Alice K. Smith, 127/ md Went » M3 North All hous are with five minutes’ the man was drinking and may have coe Daag Base Cneens WER er received his injuries by falling. | | Despite the fact that one wife lives TOKIO, March 14—A4miral Togo’s report of Thursday's attack on Eny wade He atieupt: te. tavestt- | in & one-story house, another In a] ® Fort Arthur by the Japanese is as follows hin story and @ half, and the rest in two- | “Our squadron attacked the enemy at Port Arthur on March 10. me - jatory he cong the Fa pr dod Our two torpedo flotillas reached the mouth of the harbor at 1 o'cock. | @B/EYED OVER A Crs banal Seite = Vad dinioe eminence eh an no pany and wpene until dawn, one flotilla engaged tn leiateran while tae Given, Seth oie én sinking special mines in the harbor entrance, ‘Notwithstanding the leeption of thelr own mother, they call agar Inne, cur fletilin eoneseded In staking the mines. ‘The other MURDERED HORSE | ssowspacor wororpeine Anw' fig aie dor the Ha. | "Auntie" fiotilia met the enemy's torpedo flotilla, © ting of six boats, in the munde-Tied at polygas Lao Thie channel south of Port Arthur, at 4:20 o'clock. A hot engage- me ef se SALT LAKE CITY h. March 14. | prior t f President ment occurred at close range for 10 minutes. The enemy then took | To prevent him from killing him-|—The Beehive House was ortain Woodruff in 188. prominent Mormons B fight. self by reason of despondency over| built by Brigham Young fifty years | WhO Were wanted by the United St “Our fire greatly damaged the Russian ships, one of which was |the death of a favorite hore, City |ago and since that date ha» wre |marehalg Would skip the badly crippied by a shot through the boilers, and another was observed | Detective Adams ar Patrolman | official residence of the pre A eo Epo hot for ¢ 1o be on fire. So close were the flotilla to each other that our de- | Carr placed Ed Johnaon in the city|the Mormon ehurch. Adsa the | gaat Josey stroyers, the Asashio, Kasumi and Akatsuki, nearly touched the ene- | jail last evening. Several nights ago| offices of the church, where all the | Julie Buith Peecidett a. my’s ships and our crews could even hear the cries of agony of the | some scoundrel broke into the stable | meetings of the directors of the num-|iakep (hia his official residence, bit injured men om them. We sustained some damage and loss. The |of C. J. Erickson, in North Seattle, | erous companies owned ar ated | he in sapped te fm time tm. Akatsuki had @ steam pipe broken and four stokers were killed there- | and stabbed a valuable horse. j by the church are held. Here also the | nertinty between th five house by. Our lose was seven killed and eight wounded. Among the latter Johnson, who ts the sts bone, | emigration agent, W. C. Spence, has | rhis hohseds built of adobes and in a fs Chief Engineer Minimis Awa of the Katsumi was away at the time. He brooded | headquarters, and missionaries #0- | type ofitheearly architecture of Balt “Our other flotila, while leaving the harbor entrance, observed two |over the affair and was king | jae one oo gig Be go pet Lake Gity before the use of brick } Russian torped@ boats coming from seaward and immediately engaged | hard yesterday after He tod | ne wey turniemeé and | came géperal. Address, 33 West First them, the battle lasting one hour. After causing them severe damage, |several people he intended to kill |j@ «aid to contain a number : Ne ee stiles: ah matte, “enna Be one of them effected its excape, but our destroyer, the Basanami, cap- | himself and the police were notified. | passages and chambers, wherein, in| North. Demple at ie pie | ed the other boat, which proved to be the Stereguschtchi. Notwith- standing the iand batteries pouring a heavy fire on our flotilla, the = > \ D captured vessel was taken in tow. Owlng to th xh sea the towline = } s00n parted and the Sasanamt found it necessary to take the crew of | the Russian boat and abandened the Stereguschtchi, which finally IN GRAND COUNCIL | sank at 10:30 o'clock. | The enemy's cruisers, the Novik and the Bayan, steamed out of The third annual session of the the en nee of the harbor toward us, but observing the approach o' grend upotl of the Royal Arcanurr our cruiser squadron, retired to the harbor. Our flotilla suffered some of the State of Washingtor 1 be damage, but not heavy. The Easanami and the Akatsuki had two held here next Thurseday at Elk ailors killed and Sub-Lieutenant Shima of the Akatsuki and three sall- hall ors were wounded. a “Our main and cruiser squadrons arrived off Port Arthur at & o'clock and the cruisers imme tely advanced toward the harbor en MEE TING 1B tramme to protect the torpedo flotitia. The main squadron advanced nearly to Lao Thie Shan and of indirect cannonade against the inner harbor from 10 o'clock to 1:40 ck. According to the observa- TONIGHT No. yMe. Bi B. Smith, 107 | tion made by one of our cruisers making the entrance, the bombard- ment was remarkably effective, During our cannonade the enemy's ——e land batteries fired, but none of our ships suffered any damage. An- |* other cruiser squadron went to Tallen Wan and bombarded the enemy's om aaraunamat fortress on Samshantad, damaging #u0 Pulldings thereon. ** |STEAMER ARAMAY WRECKED OFF NEW ZEALAND COAST] rie proonovelt-Morride Club wit The cruisers Takasago and Chihaya reconnoitered the west const 4 ad wr neg ed Hd of the Port Arthur peninsula, but aid not find the enemy AND BUT FEW PASSENGERS SAVED Res siiciner mecting toniant. | The Russian torpedo hoat damaged in the third attack on Port ie the -sieaiiing selina AE tea ase ur was found to be the Wnushlerinuy, which had been complete city, More names will probably be | y sunk, the vessel being only just visible above the wat ‘ ‘ ded to the re tions to suppo: ndezvour ‘ BRISBANE, New Zealand, March and six small boats were put to sea that the re , of Admiral Togo in a supplementary report of Thursday's bomb 14,—It is fewred that 100 f ngers (Of there two containing 68 f n present 4 eting did ment at Port Arthur, says that the Japanese would have been abi on the steamer Aramay, from E gers are safe, & are sign the rol ument wae not res many more Russians from the foundering torpedo boats but for | bane, bound fér Cavins, which was|now searching for the other four,| becausé of friction or dixagreement the deadly fire from the shore batteries and the close approach of the | rreckea off the spit near here Sun-|but as yet obtained no news. | over the wording of the resolutions Rus#ian cru N ke. 1 day, hay been lost, When the | Bad weather prevails and heavy seas \but because of late hour at When the Japanese reached the sinking torpedo boat Steregoshtchi steamer struck she began to break! are running. which the meeting broke up. ’ THE POWERS PROMISE TO KER soles —_— ae Md ‘SUPREME COURT DECIDES IN FAVOR OF | GOVERNMENT IN FAMOUS MERGER CASE THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS CENTS PER MONTH 6. NO. 19 WASHINGTON, D. C. MARCH 14—THE SUPREME COURT DECISION IN THE NORTHERN SECURITIES CASE WAS HANDED DOWN THI8 MORNING. IT UPHOLDS THE CON TENTION OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND DE- CLARES THAT THE MERGER |S A VIOLATION OF THE ANTI- TRUST ACT. CHIEF JUSTICE HARLAN READ THE OPINION. “In our opinion,” says Chief Justice Harlan, in reading the de- cision, “the evidence fully sustains the charge that the defendants were properly acoused of monopolizing or attempting to monopolize trade between the states. The Northern Securities Company was or- ganized as a holding corporation, or as « custodian of more than nine- tenths of the stock of the Northern Pacific railway and three-quar- ters of the Great Northern, Both lines were held as if by one ownership. The holding com- pany dominated the roads for the exclusive benefit of the stockhold- ers. It became one powerful corporation so that competition be- tween constituent companies might close. The profite were to be distributed on a basis of stock held by the Northern Securities Com- pany. The combination is one in the shape of a trust. No scheme or device could be more thoroughly a combination in the form of a trust in the restraint of trade.” The court denied the sacredness of the doctrine of states’ righte was being trespassed on by the interstate law. “If # state should al- low the railroads to do these things which interfere with interstate commerce should congress be compelied to hold aloof on the ground that it would invade state rights if it interfered?” said the court, Con- tinuing, the court said Such a doctrine could not be given effect without destroying the power of the national government. No state can give any state train interstate or international law. The federal court cannot interfere with the Northern Securit Company from exercising interstate rights justly given it by the state, But it can prevent it from doing that which would destroy an act of con- grees. The affirmation of the decision below would only mean that No combination is stronger than law or can avail itself of the pretext that state rights are attacked in the enforcement of a lawful act of congress. No combination, be it ever so powerful, is beyond reach of the supreme court, if it undertakes to restrain commerce.” The decisions in the Joint Traffic Association - trans-Missourt eases and in the Addison Pipe Company and others are quoted to sustain the government's position The Securities decision was reached by a vote of 5 to 4, Justices Holmes, Peckham, White and Fuller dissenting. The decision is looked upon as a great victory for Attorney Gen- eral Knox, who gave personal attention to the government's side of the case after it was appealed to the supreme court of the United States by the Northern Securities Company. It is now believed that Knox will continue the further proseou- tlon of suite against other combinations in restraint of trade under the Sherman anti-trust law. The decision means that the Northern Securities Company will be dissolved, though there is little reason to believe that the decision will revolutionize the present system of management of the two big ailroads involved. The decision will have the most far-reaching effect on all future combinations of railroads, av weil n the industrial world. WHAT HLL SAIS ABOUT I corporation rights to r NEW YORK, March 14.—The decision In the merger case caused: no particular flurry in Wall street, as an adverse decision was an- ticipated, and consequently stocks fell off only slightly. Securities stocks which were directly affected, dropped off three points and no shock was felt. As to the decision, when President James J, Hill was seen he refused to discuss it in detail. He merely would say: “1 cannot enter into a discussion of the decision~until | have read it in full. | had heard rumors te the effect that the opinion would be in favor of the government, but did not care to anticipate the decision. | have no idea to what the full scope of it is. Our d railroad propert are still there and they gannot take them away P from us.” 4 This afternoon Hill was closeted with the other directors of the ag Northern Securities Company. 4. Pierpont Morgan declined to be eeen when an effort was made get an opinion from him. VAN SANT IS PLEASED = (By Scripps News Ass'n.) PAUL, March 14 ernor Van Sant of Minnesota, who began merger from the very moment It was organized and legal processes of the case were beyond his jurisdiction, s the fight against fought ft until th wan seen y and he was highly elated over the dectston. He sald Tt will an more to the je of this country than any other event since the ii war. I bave it all the time that the gov- ernment would win out, and I am especially gratified that the highest tribunal in the land should affirm the decision of the courts in this state.” —____oeoe— P AN BYR ON THE OPERATIC BIN TIS FAR BAST—News Itemg