The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 20, 1904, Page 1

ONE CENT onight and Saturday. Light North Winds N GWT EDITION Fair; Russians, 32,000 Strong, Repulsed a 7 Japanese Army of 20,000 and Drove ‘+a = Them Back to Feng Wang Cheng 8. PETERSBURG May 20.-A Mukden dispatch announces that & Russian detachment encountered a Japanese force marching west ward on the 18th, and succeeded in turning It. Another detachment mot a force of Japs twelve miles north of Feng Wang Cheng and, A after a hand-to-hand fight, the Japanese fled, panic-stricken, driven is by Russian bayonets The general staff denies the report that the Russian cruiser Bogatyr was wrecked at the entrance of Viadivostok harbor. NEWCHWANG, May 20.—On Monday last 20,000 Japanese troops encountered $2,000 Russians stxty miles west of Feng Wang Cheng The Japanese retreated without serious loss. The Japs retrea because they deemed it unwise to risk a bat tle, executing a strategic movement. The Cossacks harrassed the Japanese flanks, with considerable loas on both sidea. The main Dody of the Japanese soon joined the flanks, when the Russians stopped pursuit It te reported that G al Kuropatkin, commanding the Russian forces In person, « ed the Japanese advance toward Liao Yang, f the Rus the headquarters 0! THINGS WERE DOING TOKIO, May 20--Rear Admiral Togo Masamichi reports that a feet under his command, consisting of four cruisers, three gunboats and a torpedo flotilla, after successfully repelling an attack of the enemy's destroyers, which emerged from Port Arthur when the dis- gster to the Hatause occurred and, rescuing the battleships, he pro- eroded on the 15th instant to Pechili gulf. He reconnottered along the Kai Chow promontory on the 16th. The enemy were discover #0 shore and fled, after being fired upon. On the 17th the fleet gatered the gulf of Kin Chow and bombarded the enmy’s railway, edi- ) flees, bridges ane mnitary trains. RUSSIANS HELD RAILROAD jan army QHEEFOO, May 20.—Continuous heavy firing was heard here for Several hours in the direction of Port Arthur. More Dalny refugees Being the news that the Russians, after a sharp engagement with # division of the Japanese army, gained controlof the Manchurian fallroad and held it for one day, but Jost it again when the Japs ‘Were reinforced. |“THE HAND OF GOD"’ THE RUSSIANS SA §T. PETERSBURG, May 20.—-A message from Port Arthur via received here last evening, confirms the report that the lost two of their best warships in the bay at Port Arthur Sunday. The message followed the emperor to Koursk, where Was bidding farewell to troops bound for the Far East, and the contained in the dispatch was not made public until late last When it became known the greatest enthusiasm was manifésted, the people seem to regard the disaster as a divine interposition behalf of Russia, and the same vainglorious spirit of boasting has characterized the official utterances on every other pre nifest today. One high official remarked « to Russia upon the day of ascension and the and is a sign that God is with us. disaster to the enemy ‘® birthday The Russians have made t Tejoicing and thanksgiving pe « t but have an influence & matter of and believe that the loss of these on the future course of the gh there is no information to confirm it, the belief is also that the Japanese have lost more than the two warships, the Suse and the Yost this f being based on the information ght to Cheefoo that the battleships Shikishima and Fugit had nk at Port Arthur. The affair has infused new life in s, where it is belie that the tide has now turned. joteir Japanese |ows ff Port Arthur co ued all large crowds taking po m of principal streets and ng of the warships is now attributed to Russian tor , and not to floating mi ‘The Japanese minister has been advised of Taku east coast of May ing of a Japanese army at 20. n, on th Liao Tung p a short distance southwest of Antung BR; Ass'n.) OME, May The Agenzia Liberia has a dispatch from Har. Which says Admiral Skrydloff has arrived at Viadivostok from Petersburg, and later put to sea with five cruisers and three de Byers. It is conjectured he will attempt to reach Port Arth 8 Ape'nd It is officially given out that a section of the of the Liao Tung forces reconnottered in the di of husan, and met two sections of Russian infantry Russians we yulved in thirty minutes. The Japanese casual Were one offices and four men killed, one officer and eight men inded; the Russians, one officer and from 40 to 60 men killed. DEMANDS a gang known as “The Growlers.” - | rests have been made. When | I m tomb was broken A BOULEVARD 1, bones of the deal 4 ruthlessly about in P | the arch for jewels Unmediate act Wetion of the government c at “oss was urged by Councilman ¥ and residents of those sub- the meeting of the street aftesnoon. oppored the (Gh the ground that the city A be obliged to pay for $16,000 COMPLAINT HEEDED Owing to frequent complaints from members of the city chain gang re- garding the quality and quantity of food served them Chief Delaney will lay @ recommendation for @ change in the meale before the ty condemned because | board of public works tomorrow. ot be collected from the prop- | The contract has not been formally under the law. It won| let, but R. Bartels, proprietor of that the street committee | the Seattle cafe on Yesier way, has go out and jook over the| been furnishing food to the prison- ers at the flat rate of 8 cents for —$<<$—$=$—$ $$ each meal. Charles Hansen reported to the police last night that he had been robbed of $20 while seeing the sighte in the restricted district, Kitty Dawson was later arrested and ied up in the city jail on the charge of taking the money, Han- aon was held as ® witnens. %. LONDON, May 2.—The Indian ALBANY, N. Y., May 20-—The| optice insues a report from Thibet nds of dollars’ worth of val- “~“tewelry stolen from the Liv- has r&| defeated with heavy | 4e| Britioh casualties amounted on wounded, BUT LOST IT AGAIN | | a re PPE TT LET SEY The Seattle Star TTL DAY, MAY a WASHINGTON, LABORERS SAY THERE IS LITTLE WORK AT SEWARD _ , seveeentacesestobote THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE : THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS ; e VOL NO ag CENTS PER MONTH 6 \THE PANIC STRICKEN JAPS FLED AT THE POINT OF RUSSIAN BAYONETS LIGHT PLANT INVOLVED IN A LEGAL TANGLE light car on inet) CITY AUTHORITIES DELAYED COMMENCEMENT be delivered in the etty from the ALSO DECLARE THAT WAGES ARE LOW, PROVISIONS SCARCE | one newepaper ity, 1 take] municipal plant until late next fall POLE LINE RIGHT OF WAY CONDEMNATION the Mberty of you, hop-| and most probably not until apr EE AND LIVING ACCOMMODATIONS POOR—DENOUNCE TAN- | ing t you eanpes-| City Business Thome wpe. PROCEEDINGS UNTIL LAST MINTH—NOW EV- - s ing the same ladm 4 th fact at ting ‘ . . = ANA CONSTRUCTION COMPANY FOR SENDING MEN TO | “These erroneous at ente are! Bn ERYTHING MUST AWAIT THE OUTCOME OF leading outside people to belie tenes “tos ase é = os neat NORTH UNDER A MISCONCEPTION OF FACTS that Seward te an Eldorado, when, | that the 4 a When. tMeks omit PENDING LITIGATION—ELECTRIC COMPANY'S in fast, It is the commonest kind of] be delivered depended entirely : — — n bogm town. I don't know where| the time consumed in condemning FINE HAND? Faced by a acarcity of work, poor/after his arrival, Work was scarce, | put’ pegePaber eats ite informallon. | the right-of-way for the pole Wages, lack of provisions and ex-| & sions wearcer and what there] /U\ go. OO Know that their false} The condemnation sult for orbitant prices for what food there} was to eat was sold at an exorbitant pont pe ieee fee tune oan] oe re eo of the strip of ie firet raliroad Is * who have been) Owens he denounces tn the moat bit ‘ mmon justice to tell/ to @ finish by the present ¢ a, | sole for 4 ra ray shipped to Seward, Alaska, on Res-| ter terme the bunko game that he| PCoble the truth. I will endeavor to/ tt was adiitted urrection bay cording to @ let-| says in being carried on. In a let-| “Ate some of the facts, as I know | counsel's office y ny See ter written home by Thomas Owens, ter written May § and received yeu Ree — Th | Sey Gould nee over 0 to have the acer ver ae o le w known in Bal i, a| terday by Mra, Owens, b oaye mae Facts are as f ne here | suit ed bef next fa and by in by ountains and ie imminent and riots may The weather ts fine ore ce, ot De ntines | those who are qua to mpenk f them 1,200 feet high. result. but there 1 oth and cabins erected and two bulld-| with bority it ts state t there t and costly for His report of the deplorable con-| town te de 1 os ' ngs tn of erectior ot &lis no hope of having the suit ended & route over the dition existing at Seward are sup-| rotten, We are talking nee = agreed — within a year from w. In th nd his associates also plemented by the state ta of here on the next boat bap aichg say 7 town 1 Rd neant! City Er t Barnesen and sev- others who have listened to the/be a strike here soon, I a ee he eeeny bias tied we The » way | of valuable timber glowing e of the ra ad| if they don't ne wages number of clair * at it is hich the en can ib land they have @ builders ymeent agente and Flour is $2 per sack. There ts poe Ea up Ke cited ‘ee te h them the town mers and who now find) no ofl, and not a poun suge Soquenrs. his fn the lat rie pla os large them > have been deceived. toot che tank te fork ~ The mats of ¢ yment| ters refuse uncilma im alt past, ers have filed alfor it. 1 haven't 4 with the Tanana Constructt Deulton at yesterda which they own is with City I for a week, and don't see any work hpany. They are now em what hie plans were 1 Dau to the whole upper t, who sent in sieht aw yet jabout 200 men on the ton it waa none of his or the pu r river ard. They returned the steanvr Then on May 13 Owens writes wal construction. T He'a business. Daulton, on being ne would take @& Banta Ana, and as soon as they! that he has secured temporary @ pested in their ¢ told that everything depended u quarter of a mile arrived in the ctty they called at the | ploy in a logwing car but] 25 sents ae pow | et es t 4| the condemnation suit ked w urse of the river, city’s tree employment office and| does not know how long it will last joe and ts conte , ted that . take away. fram stated that there was not the w Continuing, he says | . =, en ra . won said he did not . sociates the only tools to work with, no rovisions w . ° nT r e are now at ie ap-| pom or in what way the i drag on for eek. rn ower plant. into steamers and Dollar ie in. There are no po-| 7% S48 easily understand what new/ Dault t agineer how he| John G. Barnes, one of the twelve tle value. He eward. tatoes, no sugar, no butter, no salt | tyals can expect over the difficulty if f the suit, has already | nd cheaply, but Notwithstanding this the Tanana|nor flour, #0 you see it is o] , aa aye lived here of et the sult, and Thomson | filed a de r to th tor ppointed. At any Construction Company continues to| picking, and about 80 more men| of March. 1904, and am ve ed to answer the question uker 5 d to be @ long, fend men north. Today there ts an| came on this boat, This ts the|'® Bertake of ¢ r manner in which this # 4 pos-|hard f r tter. And order on the booke of the city free| biggest swindie I ever veen, | Of But Bo far bi been n oult has been har wh e will be wr thas “Why aid employment bureau for men to go to and that article tr newapaperg| Uecever it. I asm not I r to the belief thi « I b not th jals forsee thin Aif- Seward, and the bureau has been about the ros nd the building that | ° bes oom bod ay an ore more fixed in nt of the city to | fleulty and begin authorized by Secretary John E.| te xolr is all a ile pend carpenter; hav that the Republican a a # instead of malsins Of thin struction com-| “There is no work here, only for|*DOUt One-half of the ti is retarding the *| waiting until the eleventh hour to pany, to make attractive offers to|the company, and it ought to be a the mur plant into a start the ball rolling? mer ing for employment. ped. The true at ft atiaire) oes’ it wo Regan bit we of th attle Ele delay | Nobody but City Engineer Thom- The bureau is authorised to send | should be made publi OG aan trie company R52 for} son and a few councilmen, who re- applicants to Mr. Bailaine’s office.| The letter from which the above| ‘hat ¥h one Anybody knows that one of the fuse to discuss the matter, know. ‘There the laborers hear « ntory of | was taken wae written by Owens to) 7° * Serres the opportunities at Seward that) his wife and without any thought on | eee m! - | trom th m-| differs materially from those told) his part that it would be published |"*mwetfully yours. pany fi by Owens and others who have gone| Mra. Owens raid this morning, how (aitegned) ¥.? } saan on to the boom town. ever, that if it would keep other A ~ oe apr os seneniel Owen's case is & sample. He list-| men from being sent up there as her o, 0. MUAERE. 7 Ber nonaye hei "Saget ened to the stories of bin wages and | husband w © would like to wee it z =. ROwS. | | cial council cor ted to plenty of work at Seward. With tn print Tabor Commissioner Grout this} pesmi sia: Regd just enough in his own pocket to| The following letter from five| Ming sald he had went quite a few days to take matter. It pay his tranape tion he left his workmen at Heward regard to the | Sw@her ef men to the offices of the | had ¢ t x for wife and six children with only §25/ conditions there has been received | THAD Construction Company, and | han at their little ein Ballard. Melby The Star, It ts dated Seward, | Knew ¢. eng viens p being sent} | a | = : thought he would get work Immedi-| May 18 | now hen the thirteen me wal | ] | @y Scripps News Ass'n.) ately upon his arrival in Alaska 7 e Editor of The Btar: Iam] Complaint to him he eaid he | . r SrERcae stars es the dent | | TOKIO, May 20.—An official report and would be able to send money|a citizen of the above named city | lot the tk ft Kai Chow by th back home. | Being desirous of correcting mis — Claimed the mer were “nat-| pe al so rs ss ea the Brut the dream was dispelled soon | staterm ti printed and bt ab sral-morn kichers that they 1 he ety ee See pee cee J eee oc ng lave’ YY | could have worked well | MANY DROWNED ABOARD ILL. | BIG WARSHIPS ceives 2 2x tne totar cascattion —= <= = op Rig erp ee | FATED VESSEL BOUND FROM! seme | of the Russians were 300. The place b- a a ak ae eae £ SIONEY TO MONTREAL stan — | was defended by the Fifth, Four- ™ Haine © ec | 1 ee d si HON cotipany. The latter | WASHINGTON, D. C. ¥ km nth and Sixteenth sharpshooters sid Ot Understand it lr consul serail at gier| Bfantry regiments, with eight wete (00ls and work | € en the state department that| Wick-firers. The Russians left dead ould ge to gO up there | HAI IFAX, N.8., May 20.—The dicaris and his son-in-law have| 8 the field thirty officers and men. This statement, however, steamer Turret Bay struck St into the mountains, err ea pparesareeca.so materially en the letters Paul's island today and then backed pursuit is almost impossible. D/ AFT, fown from Sewar . - ,loff. She sank in twenty min have yet been received R - “sale . °°? | Many were drowned fror gands. The Moorish au- . ‘ : A later report states that the/they can. War vessels will be of ce ee eens note merk tor {steamer struck near the Southwest asaistance—the larger the a es ‘i thei there. There wae perhaps a|lisht at 8:30 thie morning ar » impressive. | a week or more when the men did|® dense fog and heavy sea iaeneeranti Captain David Ruse, who at one t Fa City Chemist Smith this afternoon In this efty wh ll with typhoid | not have rails to iny that there was |teen men were brought ashore, five time was first officer of the ois of Ge bee ee © “ ted that) no work, he sald, but now the rails |Of whom died of expos died from the completed his analysis ¢ his patient contracted the disense| wore there more. were t of the crew were lot. | t ae apree in @ samples of water taken from vari- | by drinking water f he Woo0d- | sent up on ¢ boat ¢ wee ' ened an | shnc ~lummer stre nd First 19 wells and springs ir - 1 park weil, 4 analysis} As to provisions being scar he |the Black Diamond line. | } th late last night. He Se qcataeiadien. “ae (08 sofirme his suspicions said there must be some mistake _ | } out of work for a week. he sample of the water taken fre reds of visitors the ae there was a comr Aepart- | | c Mving with him in the ton cuten g.at, Wer perk en drinking this water ment at Seward, wh men | last night to hear the was tt 4 dangerous, and de believing | coul dxet provisions they rar ing and gurgling of his should be | ~|short. He said tf this supply had Se ‘ ow, Kelly rang up the « at 4 at th | t ance ar did what he it ts of » ot tified th | REDFORD, Ind., May 2 7 af he dying man, but before indications ea fr | Schaffer x ler trial th ning |help came Ruse had passed away. at set tamina t en north | Garner, the nol The was ed to the Bon- the city hea {floor ; t scop testified that be es nding a %y« ' ' ined men | | found in the hand of the Ruse was a member of the Mags — = wh woman was approximately nd Pi Association of this mistake of expe na and tasters on some and it likely take charge re. We BOY WRECKERS WERE (hy Beripps News Ass'n) wf James M them such A r r @AN FRANCI "ae get beard r t, for we W. Ru panies Pr ee MD in the Us | TO SAIL FOR NOME “We are paying the wages we)” ig Tw e scheduled to leay have promised men here |x nee '¢ this fy for ome xt Tuesday, -_-__oo - peweeeg itera a FORGET iT May 26. One of the Vessels is the el te The ter) | the switch off and on, finally leaving | mot “sia « ie oad = ct p Bsr ee T May 20.—"We waalit open. Both boys stated that they WARSHIPS TO Rumble took in $355,000. F ae Pacific Navigation a Camnany ane just toolin’”—this i# the explana-| found the switch unlocked |s O'Connell agerts that Rum tieamser Bade. Seth ‘yeaa ae tion given by John and Elvin Hen Suspicion was first directed to the ble y up 8 or 1 BUFFALO, N. Y., May Dr.| take f lists of passenge as well nig. the two boys who have con-furchins because they went home| TAKE A H ND deal. The care will be appe: Hamitr 7 4 t ased to having thrown open the/ from school by way of the railroad j the mesatic oe ig oy ¢ nual es Great Northern switch at Monroe|track. Neither appear to be viciols, | hist liberty upon bond of $1 byterian ch % Monday evning and caused the train|and they are merely regarded as) sented a nr wreck In which Brakeman Marshall | mischievous and meddlesome. Their] ; perstons cast by ious and Fireman Downing were killed. | home surrounding» are not of the Gy Geripas Wawe Ace's.) | . | biies the Peesbivhactan thurs John Hennig i# 11 years old and his! best, and the boys will probably be LONhon, May 20.—Gibralt i] jin the United States. The motion brother is 8 Neither seem to real-|#ent to the reform school, as the : mae | is framed as a forerunner on the i ize the seriousn of what they | authorities are puazied as to the} Yiee# fay that the British torpedo) ELEC : ED union of the churches of the North 6 have done proprietoy of doing anything else) poat No, 88 haw salted for Tangiers. | and th. The motion passed al- gerd ge a ue 500 ee The two & were brought here} with them, The officers say that) | most unanimously, It is hoped that aie atenn b re rages we orning » deputy sheriff the youngsters escaped a severe| TWO American warships satled from ag we , tanga h avenue etyecen 5 an is morning i the Presbyterians of the South now lock this mornin he whole A 1 are bare-footed | beating at the hands of their father | t Canaries for Tangier to obtain ye 4 - ott = Sosst) neil “s | ; d. ied f fright|for th ing th witch nly | the release of Perdicaris and Var LOS ANGELES, May 20.—Dr. L, | ¥!l take such a . jon Will assist t of the building, which ts por srger For a time neither | through the interference of Superin- | Who were captured by Morrocan] B, Wilson of Baltimore, president sats salsa Nida é 7 ee ey ee ween oe weaagrg 4 3, . bandit re of the Anti-saloon league, was ntents, was consumed. The of the boys would confess to hav- | tendent Scott of the Great Northern Ps See : Sits ‘Sibrathe Ws | Viale ut $4,500, The bullding ing meddied with the awitch when| When the boys were questioned! me Agen wharf, at the t commits ee episcopacy recom | was owned by R. C. Strudwick ang qecetioned. youterd but finally |they erted bitterly and said that| qyiersity street, was 1 y ccalad SMa GREIEGaAY Gel lea boil the older one broke down and cried, | they did noe think what they were | terday, by the Ariington Dock Com. | mended tat one sat itiimal ils | sake suet then told how he and his brother|doing, and that it was not theit pany from . the th American | two to soutl a Bot ig erika am 1 them ves throwing Transportation & Trading Japan and Korea | WILL BE DARK : - . | The report on the federation, 5 lent Gill rounded them up at the | which was adopted, provides for | —sscnannciitineetn last meeting and will probably rec- common catechism, order of wor ; . ommend the changes at the meeting ship and hymnal for the Methodist = After tomorrow night, when the of the counell Monday night church and the Methodist church Casino company plays ite last per- When the sub-committee consist- South. By Beripps News Ass'n.) formance oS“ eerey See stating that the British expedition | hours of heavy travel as a result of trom General] north of Gyantse, The enemy was | ried on during the present week by three | members of the committee have ing of* Bowen, Rude and Zbinden made ite first trip of inspection its members Claimed to have found conditions #0 satisfactory that they were prepared to ignore the protests f Madrona heights citizens, Then Mill made a red-hot speech to them and after making three more trips to the James street power house they have concluded that the Madrona} people were about right in demand~ “SWITCH Council Committee Ready to Order Better Car Service on Madrona Line Westiake avenue. ing a reform. Manager Grant has admitted that|t#* council establish permanent the company should furnixh cloned|#de# slong the new waction of peo: o Open cars will not be operate’ on| cat# during cold weather when peo- or Denny way, and arrange for the ple want them, and though he has not yet agreed to put on extra cars each evening, members of the com- mittee are confident that he will, the Madrona park car line until warm Weather really seta In and an extra car will be put on during the At a meeting of Local 120 of the a ‘Mormed a Thibetan porition | the investigation that has been car-| Retail Clerks’ Association last night |t? the use of trading stamps by mi * ‘The | the corporations committee. The| chants waa condemne A resolu. | « tion was adopted dbnouncing the 2 practice in ptrong terms, age. er ean& changed thelr minds wlace Presl- TO HASTEN qouttclimen Crichton and Burnett address the Westlake Impro it club this evening at ite hall, A itfon will be presented this week te“the board of works asking that ual grading of the thoroughfare + the earliest pos#tble moment, ——————_——— em Natlic Cohen thinks the devil “s merning her LEW DID IT service man came from Weshin majority McCluskey, who sent for Lew Dock stader. machine obtaine |, represent moving picture yesterday at the cap trated negro. SPRINKLER TO pa RSs $5,500 e Water Superintenden t Youn y YORK, May 20,--A secret ton this morning and saw Inspector After a conference the min- stre] man gave up the films for the ing the preatdent up-lifting a'pros- this morning received a telegram pio; .” the Seattle the- dark for several REDDING, Cal, May 20.—Incen® diaries set fire in three places to the main lumber yard of the Terry Lumber Company in this city at 12:45 tigs morning. Over 1,000,000 feet of lumber was burned and the loss ts eatimated at about $25,000. A terrific fire raged and for some time the north end of town was in great danger. Taken tn connection with the fire at the Chico mill yeaterday, the lumber men belleve that there is an organized plan to destroy all the lumber yards of Northern Call- fornia. Decreased wages and the consolidation of the lumber inters ests are believed to be the causes, company has been — Howe's theatet for weeks. The company salaried aggregation * that — played in this theater, and for a Joo Young taiked haa and Bids will be opend by Quarter- master Grant on Mongay morning, May 23, at 10 o’cuock, for coaling the transports that come to the Paget Sound ports, The bids aro for furnishing coal for the year be ginning June 30, 1904, and ending June $0, 1905, for preachin, police don’t ae hi ERG, thority on diseases of and Insanity, sulctded aed ci saith asc eset poe ee