The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 11, 1905, Page 1

The Pioneer One Cent Paper of the Northwest THE CZAR MAY ASK FOR PEAC —— yrig RUMORED IN ST. PETERSBURG THAT THE EMPEROR | WILL CALL SPECIAL COUNCIL TO CONSIDER CONDITIONS TER DEFEAT oF PEACE—KUROPATKIN ADMITS HIS a rove sares ST. PETERSBURG, far. fie--A rumor is current that the czar is considering the summoning of a special council to consider condi- tions of peace. §T. PETERSBURG, MARCH THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOUSAND PRISONERS, AC- CORDING TO REPORTS IN THE MILITARY CLUB TODAY. —KUROPATKIN HAS LOST {iy Sertvns News Ass'n) URG, MARCH 11.—IN TWO LACONIC DIS- ECKIVED HERE LAST NIGHT, GENERAL KURO PATKIN ADMITS HiS CRUSHING DEFEAT AT THE HANDS OF {HE JAPANESE AND ALLOWS THE INFERENCE THAT HIS WHOLE ARMY WILL BE RCED TO BE ANNIHILATED OR FORCED TO UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER His FIRST MESSAGE, TO THE EMPERC FIRST ADMISSION THAT THE VANQUISH HAS MADE OF HIS DISASTER. WAS AS FOLLOWS “LAST NIGHT iAN THE RETREAT OF ALL OUR AR MIS. DURING THE NIGHT THERE WAS NO FIGHTING, BUT HEAVY CANNONADING THE SECOND DISPATCH TO THE WAR OFFICE HAS HROWN ALL ST. PETERSBURG INTO CONSTERNATION, IT | GONTAINED BUT THREE WORDS. “| AM SURROUNI THE MILITARY oF HIMSELF, THE COMMANDER ICLALS HERE ALL DECLARE THAT FATE OF KUROPATKIN DEPENDS UPON THE LOCATION KAWAMURA’S ARMY, WHICH HAS NOT YET BEEN LOCAT WASHIN SATURDAY, MARCH jgout EDITION SEATTLE, nnn eee fAiCH FOR THE VOTE FOR THE whOST POPULAR STREET VOL.-7. NO. 15. 25 CENTS PER MONTH CAR MEN IN SEATTLE IN THE STAR MONDAY by Waildon Fawcett.) DEFINITELY, ALTHOUGH SUPPOSED TO BE MOVING FROM THE EAST TOWARD KUROPATKIN'’S LINE OF RETREAT SHOULD HE REACH THE MILITARY ROAD, WHICH RUNS MIMOST IN A DIRECT LINE FROM FUSHUN TO TIE PA BE THE PASSAGE OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY, THE CIRCLE BE COMPLETE, AS NOGI'S GUNS ALREADY COMMAND CONTROL THE MANDARIN STANC SAST OF THE 1Y OF GE KAULBARS, WHICH ESSING BACK ACR( THE WESTERN PLAIN FIGHTING EVERY INCH OF GROUND, IS MOVING NORTH ‘WARD TO PROTECT THE LINE OQPRETREAT FROM THE ATTACKS FROM THE WHILE GENERAL BILDERLING IS PROTECTING REAR AGAINST GENERAL OKU AND NODZU. AND LINEVITCH [8 DO ING HIS BEST TO HOLD THE MILITARY ROAD AGAINST KI "EE NUMBERS AGAINST THEM, BUT HAVE T ODDS IN SIMILAR RETREATS BEFORE. THE EARANCE OF GENERAL KAWAMURA WOULD RENDER FUTILE ALL THEIR EFFORTS. GENERAL RENNEN RCE OF SOMEWHAT LE THAN 1 z HAS BEEN THE EXTREME LEFT. IS IN A PRE POSITION, BUT THE FORCE IS MOBILE AND THE OF "ERS THE MOUNTAIN WELL. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF LATTER FORCE, ALL THE RUSSIAN FORCES ARE NOW TED ON THE ROADS LEADING NORTHWARD RAILWAY AND SHOULD sr BROAD, WHICH IS BUT A SHORT eee ee eee eee eee eee ees j IT MAY TAKE ANOTHER 24 HOURS BEFORE THEIR FATE | DECIDED. } THE ARMY WHICH GENERAL GRIPF cRG TURNED | OVER TO GENERAL KAULBARS WHEN HE LEFT MANCHURIA, | AND A PORTION OF WHICH GENERAL BILDE NG COM- | MANDED, CONSISTING OF GREGGOFF’S CAVALRY GHENKO'S DIVISION AND THE FIFTH SIXTH SIGHTH, | TENTH AND SEVENTEENTH ARMY CORPS. EXTENDING FROM THE LIAO RIVER TO THE MANDARIN ROAD GENERAL LINEVITCH’S ARMY, WHICH PORTANT POSITIONS AT THE BEND OF THE THIRD AND FOURTH SIBERIAN CORPS RENNENKAMPFI AND SAMSONOFF'S CAVALRY. THE TROOPS WHICH | ARRIVED IN JANUARY AND F EBRUARY, PROBABLY TWO THE IM HE RIVER, | CORPS, ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS LIST. PEACE IS NOW POSSIBLE. | EVEN SHOULD KUROPATKIN EXTRICATE HIMSELF, IT 18 | BELIEVED THAT PEACE SOON WILL FOLIA THIS LATES JAPANESE VICTORY. THE CALLING TO ST. PETERSEURG OF | M. ISWOLSKY, RUSSIAN MINISTER TO DENMARK. WHO FOR } MERLY WAS AT TOKIO, IS MOST SIGNIFICANT. NO TIME WILL BE LOST IN STARTING THE N JON AS RUS SIA INTIMATES HER WISH TO CL‘ THR SHOP APTER THE FALL OF PORT ARTHUR. A HIGH OFFICIAL OF THE JAPANESE FOREIGN OFFICE ARRIVED IN WITH AUTHORITY TO TAKE UP THE NEX IN AS RUSSIA DECLARED HER DESIRE FOF THE LOSSES IN THE OPERATIONS TLE AND THOSE IN THE BATTLE MUST HAVE REACHED ENORMOUS PROP‘ BUT UP TO THE PRES ENT NEITHE HAS ATTEMPTED AN ESTIMATE. THEY EXCEED THE SHAKHE LOSSES, IN WHICH THE RL SIANS ALONE LOST IN KILLED, WOUNDED AND MISSING, 67,- MEN. DING THE BAT- ——E ST. PETERSBURG, March 11.—It ts reported here that 900 of- fleers of the Manc jan army have signed a round robin and ad- it to General Kuropatkin, demanding the conclusion of hos Ulities, owing to the menace of famine. The troops are discouraged the result of the chronic failure of their efforts. al Kadaroft has been nominated by the war office as com- r guard of the Manchurian army y denies that it has any intention of recalling the fleet, as has been reported. 8T. PETERSBURG, March 11.—General Kuropatkin has reported the emperor Our retreat is being conducted with the enemy ing both flanks, The second army under Goneral Bilderling and prisoners. How many are surrounded is unknown, has suffered the heaviest in kiied” TOKIO, March 11.—The battie of Mukden will go down in his- &8 one of the bloodiest and most terrific military conflicts of SSelent or modern times. From most closely informed quarters It 1s that conservative estimates of Russian casualties exceed WM, while 50,000 Russians Were taken prisoners at the culmina of Field Marshal Oyama’s great flanking strategy. While no figures are obtainable here on the Japanese louses, there BO teazon to believe that they were much less than the casualties Sffered by the enemy, although, of course, no Japanese have been ther army has spared men in the supreme encounter, While CREE EER ee race for the be hinge all his own several others Mclean te #¢ Roland Cotterill hunting case st { { b * a young German ‘ t h me from her own t hi y to make her living in Amer- i t Mr. te ned back She does not yet speak perfect they sent baby aw nd | Then was Interesting, but there ts an in announces th . hey aay I can't get it back. I want] the ¢ b ‘ Shaken f ad to foot by her | ent odians of the child, “if it : . alaet a n her} does not squeal too much of nights, ent of thone r jo have too much colic, may take it rwu r that the as bet-! permanently, if they choose, while s new home, the little own natural All the friends o' ployes have FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD JUDGE GRIFFIN—BOY BREAKS DOWN WHEN HE HEARS RE 713 First avenue in The Star will be announ REE tribution of Genera bein court believes that the boy{ Surprise was expressed by believes another 10st without # inoners taken wh SECOND. | oYAMA 18 STILL FIGHTING TOKIO, Mar Marshal Oyama reports it is expected that Walla Walla th nm in heavily reinforcing his right in the neigh porhood of Mukden leads to the belief that he planned to hold the line Hun river and attempted a desperate assault 0 cheek a flank attack drove a wedge through the line on the Hun river and then pressing northward, practically threw a giant cordon about Mukden This movement was completed yesterday. The fighting continued during the night break out of the trap and the Japanese making every effort to an pibilate them. Marshal Oyama {s determined to push northward with Mukden as a base and follow up the recentvictory as rapidly as possible for the purpose of administering a crushing defeat to Kuropatkin ed a possible rial he the Russians striving to ¢ himself with wagon and got to the scene In @ few minutes after the report been turned his hands t LOOTED WAREHOUSE headquarters of | thought that the burglars were cor- but when the on the scene the thieves had made An entrance was ef. fected by breaking one of the win Pedestrians from the lips f th u 0 Baker & Richard's storage plant on | Grant street bridge accidentally dis- | thelr escape. In his confusion and dismay the covered burgiars at work throwing backward slight their loot out of the windows of the warehouse shortly mingli { his foster mother and The funeral of the late R. McDon ald, of 411 Jefferson street, will be held from the par! ney-Watson after 9 o'clock Ap alarm was turned into police headquarters and City Detective Hubbard and Acting Jatl- jumped into the patrol morning at 10 o'clock, # of the Bon-‘ the grief of his foster Scene in Front of Capitol at President’s Inauguration Mother Forced to Fight for Her Own Child ANNA KRIN HAS TO RESORT TO THE COURTS TO GET POS- SESSION OF HER 20-DAY-OLD BABY. hersaies ane ’ been tricked and cheated ot : bbed of her ewn flesh and oe. © 6Fabin, who ie : A A « the matter, made a plea 1 - tf restoration of ‘ ine f , lly 1 been, ¥ hat paper w brought sdf hich, be hen as a matt Se ee pt 1 agony. Judge Gilliam » be brought into Friday mornin, at whigh f hon irgument will be heard as to ' ‘ birth best ent to its custody, b nd n 24| Mrs. Brown of the home was pres- k art, as was also Dr. J. Wy st | Jor who attended the mothef, 1 t Jord es that he was prege Home, t he t when the representatives of the t t fited the young moth 1 « 1 and sick an 4 t self to the payment of t ny w to keep th mor toward the support of } maid the th n the paper, pur- ll rights to the n signed. mes of the persons to whom let out on proba- in court. Ace & to Attorney Fabin the prese mother wants it, or no colic.” HOLP-UP GIVEN A LONG SENTENCE BY VICIDE epepeneaeaer | | WASHINGTON, March 11.— According to Count Cassini, the Russian ambassador, the #. Russian reverses will have no effect {mn hastening peace wf * ete ee te eee eee ee measures. He said this morning * “After Liao Yang there was & k of peace, but Russia's an- & swer was reinforcements. Like ® Liao Yang, Mukden is a scene CHARLES CORWIN SHOT HIM. | SELF THROUGH THE HEAD—/ DESPONDENCY THE CAUSE ors and attorneys =p rting ran attorneys p boy should have heavy a sentence Charles Corun, 66 years old, shot be generally agre t fea ® severe gh the right temple at another retreat and again *& - th “ rning in one of |* Russia’s answer will be large # the # f t if |* reinforcements; but of peace * P rminag cris bers pe: ; ie) * there is not a word.” * f the f th te. | an Corun has been * i KA ach hs ase ne time mod dee, BMRB BBBBBBOBOR RO EC RR y is inspeaking , er, 8a pondency supposed to have been Rosina Grover this morning fileq r ¢ the t t her answer to the interrogatories of ned \ ley of pri 11 o'clock Corun was |t ‘endant, Mayor Zook, of Bal- ; & attorne pc l A eaage place, and it is|lard, ordered by Judge Alberteon to y 7 Mt 4 = . went to one of t be answered before the procedure f h A after. About 12:30/ of her breach of promise suit : « = ssed him and, thi ne declares that the defendant lh xample — gont to some 8 well aware that she had con- : 1 " . arched the | sumption before he engaged himself ry a : young « to marry her and that he had lent oe | x & to find him/her books to inform herself on the : t o \ in one of the t of tuberculosis; also that de- ‘ ugly hole in the never gave as his excuse right temple e revolver lay be » contention set up in court be- fg tera ** eRRRHEH) cide him on the bed. Corun had | fore the institution of the suit; also 7 > > * evidently gone to the room and,|that defendant knew that plaintiff eslok aanele The Weather % | after removing his hat and coat, laid |had tubercuiosis before she herself 4 Jot down and shot himself. j did oe * Spotter Sl Tee dead man bas been ta the| Senator Van Go Veaters centile - ® | city for many years and was well |tion is still most precarous. At 1 was broucht| #9 ¥ MRM EEE EHH) Known. He was p of the} o'clock this afternoon Dr. Carroll, | the attending physician, stated that at 10 D there has been no real change for an) © Forecast—Tonigh } r Weather Forecast—Tonight and the better since the sick man’s re- fe exp t on. i ied Sunday occasional ra sagen, and: thet. the Sarat We Mle , th | Watch this hand—It moves and burning away his vitality. After tentia ‘ tell temperature at 2:30 today midnight last night the patient rest- ed quietly, but his fever still ré- be entree the mained at 104 and 105 and his mind the 10-year plenic idea, you is again wandering today. atti summer dream R ST. PETERSBURG, March 11— ere and get The explosion of a bomb in the Fifth Avenue he his beardle vared for room of an Englishman by the and his hal nice : @y Geripps News Ass'n) name of McCullock, at the Brostol | antenna aa CLEVELAND, March 11.—Attor-| hotel, last night Beery tae ka a boyish pink ar all the | ney Dawley began his opening argu-| fo; inmates of the hotel. ‘The - “ his pocket to brust : }ment in the defense of Mrs, Chad-| jice pelleve that McCullock was a oneta’ Gh r_winte wick at the trial this morning. Mrs. | reyolutionist and was planning to vhf the bomb while filling it. ean his charge to 2:4) B. W. Sh Chadwick sat with her son at her | agsassinate some of the officials of Ni side and was moved by the emotion-| the empire. He probably dropped J wood was appointed re- Ly fy closed his argument at] ceiver for the Everett Evening Rec- seat he brok wear ¢ pring | 11 District Attorney Sullivan] ord last night by Judge Frater, of at be in |then addressed the jury for the] the King county superior court. Ho- He a nday state r Peters, a creditor, asked that father, to!we can go on the fishing During Dawley’s peroration Mrs. the receiver be appointed. The pa- was an equal picnic party that we had pl Chadwick wept violently. per will continue publication until for tomorrow. The iury retired at 3:30 o'clock, other arrangements are made,