The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 26, 1904, Page 1

a) 2 * “ . 5 “* Fair this after; light to fresh east winds. frost tonightneon, tonight and Sund NIGHT EDITION Is Now at Tacoma. (Special to The Star) PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. March 26.—The American steamer Pleiades, the only American ship which wes in the harbor of Port Arthur during the Japanese bombardments of February 8 and 9, ar rived here at 12:30 o'clock this morning after an uneventful trip from Kobe, Moji, Cheefoo and Port Japan. She came from Yokohama, Arthur in the order named. She arrived at Port Arthur on February 7 from Puget sound ports with a cargo ef flour for the Russians. She proceeded to discharge her carge, little dreaming that war was so near at hand or that she would be in the center of a rain of shot and shell within twenty four hours. At this time the Russian warships were stationed outside the harbor at anchor in the open roads. No one in the city dreamed of hostilities and there were no preparations for an attack and little watch for an enemy was kept. The torpedo attack which marked the beginning of hostilities be gan at 11 o'clock on the night of February 8 The populace was first warned by the heavy firing of the Russian fleet on the outside, en- deavoring to repel the advance of the Japanese fleet. Meantime the Japanese torpedo boats had sneaked into the harbor and damaged three of the Russian warships so that they had to be rum ashore to keep them from sinking. The Russian squadron then retired to the inner harbor, but at this time there was no general firing by the J No further hostilities ccourred until about 11 o'clock the next day, when the bombardment of the land batteries was opened in earnest by the whele fleet of battleships and crulsers and continued for forty-five terrific and minutes, The cannonading w to the crew of the Pleiades, unaccustomed to the di f every vo ley would rend the heavens. The very air quivered and shook and the Chinese coolies whe were discharging the cargo were in a wild panic of tri ight. Considerable damage was done by the bombardment. The Rus- sians de a good stand, but could not get into effective range and they did little harm to the Japanese fieet. The shells from the Japs dropped all over the city and wounded many non-combatants, who began to flee from their homes in utter confusion and disorder when the first shell went screaming over the city. Houses were blown to atoms and the authorities had great dif- fioulty in preserving order Finally the Chinese on board the Pleiades grew that they ran away and did not return and every one afraid that a stray shell would sink the ship at any moment, But she escaped, most of the shells being overshot, though many of them fell dangerously close to the Pleiades. One shell burst almost di- rectly overhead and thousands of fragments on the deck, and be- fore the officers could prevent it some members of her crew began picking up the pieces and throwing them into the sea. A few fragments were secured by Chief Engineer Ostrander and he gave the other e a sample. Th no further attack on the city or the Russian fleet by the Japa after this time and un- til the departure of the Pleiades for Cheefoo, where finished dis charging her cargo. 1 left on February 13, but did not sneak out by night, as was reported in the dispatches. She applied to the authorities for per- mission to go to Cheefoo and it was granted. When she reached the Japanese port the inhabitants were ig- norant of the happenings and they swarmed about her, eager to learn we, as the military officials kept all their plans and actions secret. Chief Engineer Ostrander had drawn a map of Port Arthur showing the position of all-the ships engaged in the battle. He re- fused to sell it, saying that he has prepared an article for a m where he will use the map to iflust hie story of the batth The story of the battle as told above is corrobor by Captain Purington, Chief Officer Armstrong and Purser F The officers and crew of the Pleiades kept close to their vessel during the bombardment and while she remained at Port Arthur, as the authori- ties were suspicious and might have caused trouble had they at tempted to land. bi The Pleiades lay at her wharf back of the town and she could not sce the fleet in action, but could see the results of the bombard- ment from where she lay. Order was pretty well r left that port. Her officers learned that twenty-three were wounded during the bombardment. This was in addition to the n-combatants whe were wounded by flying shells. None of the lat ter were killed, according to the information they received. The distance of the Japanese fleet from the forts at the time of the bombardment varied from four to eight m There was slight firing for three nights after the main attack, but mo damage was 20 frightened on board was tored at Port Arthur when the Pleiades killed and fifty ‘The Ple left here for Tacoma at 7:20 o'clock this morning. DUPLEX THEN: PILES’ CHOICE SINGLE NOW | woot wovia nave been @ clove ana i minal bitter fight for the Republican nom- Mrs. Maggie Rainey, the operator| imation for representative from the fn charge of the Pacific Postal Tele | F third district was nipped in the graph company's office at Ballard, | t Jast night when the Roosevelt- ree from her hus-| Piles club of the Second ward, at a > © telegraph | meeting in Ben Hur hall operator 6 v4ge Taliman| Mr. Piles whould name his own this morning. Mrs, Rainoy alleg Mr. Piles did no, choosing Frank honsupport and was grant the 4 hell, his county en man on that ground. She was giver Me len’ endorser was mow ustody of her » ’ interest of Second ward years old. | harmony. Phone Your Wants---See Page 6. WASHINGTON, ATTLE, EXPECTS BATTLE AT NEWCHWANG iT 18 BELIEVED THAT RUSSIAN TROOPS ON THE VALU WILL | BE USED JUST TO WORRY THE JAPS ST, PETERSBURG, March 26—It is believed here that General Kuropatkin will not attempt to hold any piace in Korea, but will mere ly use his try to harass the Japanese advance This means that th esian cavalry at the Yalu river will be the flest tine of defer actih! fighting im that section Ruslan reing now being sent to the front are for the major part destined for Newehwang, indicating that Russia expects a hard-fou battle in that vicinity. The monasteries Mount Athos have offered the government a recruited from the | ranks of the younger monks. Com at Port Arthur h © Unwilling to 5 |RUSSIANS HAVE LAUNCHED A NEW TYPE OF SUBMARINE WAR VESSE compiled & cx et a ee ode My fo) | LONDON.—A few weeks aso, aj tion#, which enables launched at Cronstadt a new ¢ f | tion over the Siberian r submarine boat named the Petr) She ts TT feet long, 14 fect bean | Kochka tons displacement, carries erew ¢ | She was bullt from designs drawn | driven on surface t Lieut. Kolbasstef and Engineer | #ibmerged by ele koft, officers tn the Ajaccumulators, Armament is two navy whit 1 torpeo arried fore and The tris) tripe of venset it In| aft, outeide understood, satisfied the experts.| The Japs claim they have no sub- | ‘Three or four more of the same type} marine «, but strange craft much | are im various stages of construction. | resembling have been seen in | ‘The Petr Kochka is built In nine sec- | Japancee harb } | j RELIC OF THE | Kadiak and forwarded to Sitka, The | point where it wax found ts 700 mites from the supposed @cene of the foundering. DISCOVERY | ‘The Pacific Packing and Navi (Special to The Star) tion Company's ship St. Paul was towed to the coal bunkers Thurs- PORT TOWNSEND, March Alday from Eagle harbor, where she |grim reminder of the fate of the| has been tied up for the winter. The | wrecked steamer Discovery was re 1 will be ready to sail for the eived here this morning by Captain | nerth about April 15, After leaving Hastings of the owners of the| this port #he wilt proceed to Patr | vessel, It came in the shape of alhaven, whe she will take on a frayed and tattered life preserver|cargo of cannery supplies for the | with nearly all the cork gone. It] different canneries of the company wae picked up by the natives near jn the north, ——— SATURDAY, MARCH 26, She Was Right in the Midst of the Flying Shot and Shell and Had a Narrow Escape From Destruction by Bursting Fragments. She ‘SHE MUST CLOSE IT | thinly @iewuised street, te to be at 113% put out of bu neas” by the police, accordi a story in ciréulation about head- quartet today similing .resert on First avenue op- posite the postoffice, and for awhile was hot molested. When at last the police weke up she moved to her 4 this morr knew of the resort Mins Belmont 1 understood Bullivan ng what he conducted by wan that the woman was conducting a lodging house in the upper part of the city,” he said, but I have no information that her place t# anything more than a lode ing house. I will have the matter Inventigated She wow notified by the court that she could not conduct a disor derly house'in that part of the city land whe will mot be allowed to do KATE DAVENPORT AFELY FLOATED The bark Kate Davenport, which ran aground on the sand spit at the en tra of Sbilsholé bay late Thursday night, haa been flokted and towed to the plant of the & Shipyards compatty; where she will receive a gen eral otethauting The vensel sum 4 no damage | the remult of ashore, owing the feet that she is of the fintbot- tomed Bhe was being towed Into the ship- yard when he struck LECTURES APRIL 12 Commander Booth Tucker of t vation Army and a party of ase! will arrive in Seattle April 12, will hold a big public meeting iy Grand opera b that day, Comm: will deliver a lecture “Dramatic Scenes of row Love NEARLY THERE 8 Ase’) Of Scripps HARBIN, March — 26,—General Kouropatkin is expected here to- row to take charge of the mitt erations in the far east ET NEW TRIAL CHICAGO, TL, March The appellate eourt today granted a new trial to Alderman Brennan and Charles MeCar ted of vote buying and sentenced to a year in the county prison, Pw 1904 THE STORY OF THE ATTACK ON PORT ARTHUR AS SEEN BY THE AMERICAN STEAMER PLEIADES Columbia The Women formerly conducted al | have re and Sor-| LITTLE JAP HORNER Little Jap Horner Bat in a corner, TERRIBLE TION—EAT THEIR OWN HORSES (By Boripps News Ass'n.) | TOKIO, MARCH &—JAPANESE SCOUTS REPORT THAT T RUSSIANS IN KOREA ARE IN A MOST SERIOUS CONDITIC OWING TO THE TRANSPORT DIFFIC' Ibs WHICH PR RUSSIANS ARE WITHOUT CATTLE AND MANY OF THE COS SACKS ARE COMPELLED TO EAT THEIR OWN HOR ATTLE ON LAND VENT THE SOLDIERS FROM GETTING PROPER FOOD SUP- PLIES. ' THR FOOD IS SCARCE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. THE ST. PETERSBURG, March 26.—It 1s given out from official | sources today for the first time from Russian authority that a land battle may be expected at any moment in the region of the Yalu of both Japanese and Russians have been con river and an river, Large forces centrating for days on opposite banks of the me imminent General Linevitch. in command of the Russian for 8 report that over 80,000 Japanese, heavily hed Yang Dak, about eighteen reinforced w miles southeast h of attack along the north bank of the Yalu, has wired the war office that Cossack scouts artillery, Wiju THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE | THAT DARES TO PRINT THE Holding « Russian pie. Edith Metmont, formerly a women He made a big dip, of the Underworld, whe for the past Pulled out a huge ship, few montha, it im maid. has been And said, “For the others I'll try conducting @ house of ill-fame but SUFFERING RUSSIANS IN KOREA SAID TO BE IN A MOST SERIOUS CONDI. IS CLOSE AT HAND - The Japs in order to reach this position were forced to cross five difficult mountain passes between ensan and Yang Dak and are believed to have lost many men in the fatiguing march Linevitch has also informed the war office that as soon as he was informed of the presence of this large force of the enemy he ordered the commanders at Syong Chon and Soul Chon to dispatch a | division of Cogsacks immediately to oppose the advance. were the new officers installed. Rob- ert Hesketh, OFFICERS Pacific coast organizer NEWS i 25 CENTS PER MONTH WIL NOT INTERFERE / CIVIC UNION HAS NO DEFINITS. PLANS FOR COUNTY CAMs PAIGN , The board of trustees of the Civig | union meets this afternoon at 4 o'clock to talk over the present county came paign and discus various routine mat- ter It has been reported that thé union would take a more active part [in the county campaign than It di@ in the city campaign, but Judge Milo | A. Root, its president. yesterday said | that euch was not the Intention. | “Our Interest in the fight will prob- jably not extend beyond the se! of the two justices of the peac perhaps the prosecuting attorney, said “We will take part in legislative campaign organized for munic would be outside {ts tend its influence to county affairs, pt where the immediate interests elty are concerned. hen I say that I do not meant the unton will sink out of sight. tend to back up all city officers » try to do their duty. I think that new city officials, in the council wlarly, are an improvement on old. I also think that the agita- of our union contributed to that end, in that ft aroused business men and reputable citizens to’ take an ac- tive part in the campaign. "I am expecting an honest and en- prising city administration for the xt two years.” NEW STATES WASHINGTON, D. C., March 26. ve states of Oklahoma and Ari- zona are created in a bill just com- ¥ 4 by the Republican members of the sub-committee of the house committee on territories out of the territory composed of Oklahoma, Indian territory, Arizona and New Me 00. A burglar who entered the dence of R. T. Burt, at 1018 Main of the union, officiated, | Malhen pa wh | street, last night awoke a daughter | Gordon A. Rice made an address | of the owner of the house, The «itl L Jon “Organized Labor and Its Ob-luttered a “piercing scream that | ects and H. Pohte spoke on the/ ¢rightened the thief away. He took | ‘Labor Press.” Other speakers were | $5 trom a cape in the hall before he Con Russell of the Building Trades’! made his escape. a 3 ‘ Assembly, N. A, Hoffman, president( -}ire broke out on the roof of & | The local Cooks and Waiters'|of the Seattle Provist Trades | house at 608 Maynard avenue last | Union heid @ jollification last night, | Council, and Richard Powers of the] evening, The aparatus was called | the occasion being the semi-annual | Marine Cooks and Wait nion. |py an alarm from box 66 and soon Jinstallation of officers. Eugene | A literary pr w en, An] put out the fire. The damage was | Smith, president; W. W. Levt, busi-] orchestra composed of members of | # . A Japanese occupied the nes agent, and Al Reep, seoretary,| the union furnished the music, house.