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Show he goae Iher Uew0 FIVE HUNDRED DEAD PEACE REIGNS AGAIN closed down last Monday after the CUBA SWEPT BY HURRICANE. explosion at Independence by which Dead and Forty-fivmore than twenty miners village Destroyed, Scores Missing. were killed and injured are working Advices from Santiago de Cuba, unThe Portland mine, today. which continued working until last Thurs- der date cf June 16, state that the day, when it was closed by military worst storm of a decade began Friday order, has m t yet been reopened and and culminated Monday night in fourthe compny has not announced its teen inches A rain, which fell in five plans. This is the only iarge mine in hours, accompanied by a hurricane. The lower village of Ei Cobre has the district in which union miners Forty-fivpersons have be n employed during the ten been destroyed. months strike. It has been conduct- a:e known to be dead, and scores are Bodies are floating in the ed on the open shop plan and near- iiiisring ly half the force of 400 men laid off cebre river. Twenty bodies have been when General Sherman M. Bel or- recovered by boats patro.ling the bay. All tiie bridges on the Cobre raildered the mint's shut down were General Bell declares that way pie out and many bridges have no member of the Western Federation been lost on the Cuban railway. A train which lett Havana Saturday of Miners will be permited to remain in the camp and that the Portland is held between washouts, forty miles company consequently will be forced inland. A lelief train bringing mail to fall in line with the policy of the and passengers was wrecked at Moother mine owners who organized to ron. The fireman and mail agent were killed and two of the employees were fight the miners federation. Injured. The passengers are safe. ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE GALLOWS. The mines at DAquiri are crippled and six emp.oyes have been drowned. Condemned Men In Ohio Penitentiary The pier has been damaged. The city's Make Desperate Attempt to Escape. property loss is enormous. An attempt was made by four of THOUSAND LIVES L08T. the nine condemned men at the Ohio state penitentiary to escape by over- Vladivostok Sunk Two Squadron powering the guard. The guard was Japanese Transports. badly beaten, but two guards from All doubts as to the sinking of the the hall came to his assistance and transports Hitachi and Sado by the the prisoners were forced back into Russians has been removed, according their cells and locked up. to advices received from Tokio. Three Guard Richards of Williams coun- hundred and ninety-sevesurvivors of ty was in charge of the prisoners. He the Hitachi arrived at Moji and 153 was unarmed, no weapons being alsurvivors of the Sado have arrived lowed in the annex. The prisoners at Kokura, beat him down with their fists and seDetails of the destruction of the two cured the key to the cage in the an- transports and the full exetent of the nex, but failed to find the key to the casualties are not obtainable. outer door. Guard Richards made Details obtained from the survivors such an outcry that two guards in an 'of the Japanese transports adjoining hall were attracted and show that the Hitachi and the Sado came to his rescue. The prisoners met three Russian warships near Iki were overpowered and locked up in island at 10 oclock Wednesday morntheir cells. ing. The Russians fired on the Japanese ships and stopped them and FIGHTS AT OUTPOSTS. soon afterward they torpedoed and Encounters In Which a Man or Two Is sank the helpless transports. The Killed Each Day. transport Sado and several men were Over one hundred men esAccording to Information from Gen- captured. caped in the boats and landed at Koeral Kurokis headquarters In the kura. It is reported that the transfield, the only hostilities now occur- ports Hitachi and Sado carried cnly ring at the front are daily encounters 1,400 men. If this is true, the loss in between outposts, resulting in the lives probab.y is less than 1,000. death of a man or two every day. A BANDITS HOLD UP TRAIN. few Russian prisoners are being Kill Engineer and Dynamite Express brought into Japanese headquarters, Car Near Bearmouth, Mont. but no Japanese are bemg captured. A special, from Butte, Mont conThis is taken to show that the Japanese are getting the best of the encoun- tains the information that the North ters. Coast limited, the finest train on the Chinese are giving trouble by cut- Northern Pacific, was held ting the telegraph wires nightly; they up one mile east of Bearmouth, the scene of last year's hold-uprobably are in the pay of the Ru cf the same slans. train, when Engineer ONeill was The work of keeping General Kur- killed. Three explosions of dynamite okis army in supplies of ail kinds on the express car completely demolcontinues to be performed with ex- ished the car as far as reports are obcellent results, and is beyond criti- tainable. The engineer was killed in cism. The conduct of the Japanese the with the robbers. The rear soldiers is irreproachable and theis end fight brakeman was sent back to Bearspirits are high. mouth conveying word of the hold-up- . The plunder of the robbers is believed RUSSIANS MYSTIFIED. to have been large. The bandits, two in number, have escaped and are hidJapanese May Be Feinting or May Be ing in the mountains. e ItAWDOJQ A WHOM, PioprleMn. TEEMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Om Teir, in kItam. 6LI Month IttfM Mokibi JOY OF EXCURSIONISTS TURNED INTO MOURNING. fl.tt 06 fcatortd M th Pont OfBce it Brigham City Moond elaw matter. Troop Have Been Ordered From Las ft Excursion Steamer Catches on Firs Animas County, While in Silverton Are Hundred Five and Passengers and Ouray Peace Reigns Suan Lost, Most of the Victims Being preme. Women and Children. HIKUH ITAVDIKQ, Editor. INSTRUCTIONS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Item of newt are noUclud from all paru of the eons try. me upon one aide of the paper only. Write proper names plaioly. la order to protect the publisher from Impositions from irresponsible persona, in full name of the author should be slgued to all The identity of correspondents will be withheld whenever desired. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. UTAH STATE NEWS. Alma Johnson of Manti was painfully injured by being thrown from a horse one day last week. The citizens of American Fork have decided to have a rousing Fourth of July celebration. The real estate men of Ogden are to have an association similar to that of the real estate men of Salt Lake. Edwin Frost, a pioneer blacksmith of Salt Lake City, dropped dead while shoeing a horse, death being due to apoplexy. - GOVERNOR PEABODY SAYS WAR IS NEARLY OVER. The regular summer school at the University of Utah opened Monday morning and continues for a period of six weeks. Arthur Millikin of West Jordan, has disappeared, as has also the sister of his wife, and it is said the couple have eloped. Fire destroyed the Rio Grande station at Green River, the loss being tabout 12,000. Nothing of value in the station or office was destroyed. James M. Shockley, sentenced to be shot on June 24, will not be executed on that date, his attorneys having taken an appeal to the supreme court. Ore and bullion stttlements in the Salt Lake market during the past week reached a total of $424,100, or ,100 more than during the week previous. Independence Six hundred men, women persons at a conservative estimate, met death on Wednesday by the burning, beaching and sinking oi excursion steamer the big General Siorum, which took fire in the East river near the entrance to Long Island sound, while on her way to a Sound resort with more than a thousand excursionists the Sunday school pupils of St. Marks German Lutheran church, their relatives and friends. Approximately 500 bodies have been recovered and are now being tagged at the morgues of Bellevue hospital and Harlem. Divers were still busy at a late hour taking bodies from the hold of the vessel, which they say la choked with the remains of human bodies, while the bodies of scores who leaped or were thrown into the river have not been recovered. It is variously estimated that there were between 1,500 and 2,500 persons on board the General Slocum when she left the pier at Third street, East the Knickerbocker river, though Steamship company, which owns the Slocum, officially states that the number of passengers was 837, that being MINES AGAIN WORKING. of the vessels capacity. only were there that It is thought, however, Men Being Employed In several hundred children in arms, for Creek Properties. Cripple are not usually charged whom fares on these trips, on board. Practically all the large mines in The scene on the decks of the the Cripple Creek district which steamer as she proceeded up the East river .was one of merrymaking, cusJAPANS FOREMOST SOLDIER. tomary on such occasions. The mass of flags fluttered in the June breezes, the bands were playing and the children were singing, dancing and waving handkerchiefs and flags in answer to the salutations of those on shore or from passing steamerB. At the extreme eastern end of Randall's island, at One Hundred and Thirty-flftstreet, there is a stretch of water known as the Sunken Meadows. At this point, just as the crowds were watching the Bteamer from the shore, the General Slocum took fire, and as the age of the vessel she was bulit In 1891 of had resulted in the the wood with which she was almost entirely built, she was soon a mass of and children three-decke- r non-unio- one-thir- Non-Unio- n day will be befittlng-lcelebrated In Manti, the city coun- flame. cil having appointed the committees The Are is said to have broken out who will make arrangements for a In the lunch room on the forward deck, through the overturning of a pot of good programme. The wind was high, and all The Kaysvilie city council has re- grease. efforts to subdue the fire were futile. fused the Independent Telephone At One Hundred and Thirty-fourtcompany a franchise in that town un- street there are several lumber yards til they agree to certain conditions and oil tanks, and as Captain Wiliiam Van Schaick, in command of the GenStipulated by the council. eral Slocum, started to turn his vessel Miss Ethele Seely of Mt. Pleasant, toward the shore there, he was warned who has been attending the Chicago that it would set fire to the lumber Musical college the past season, re- and oil, so he changed his course for North Brother's island, one of the ceived the gold medal for her pro- twin islands near the entrance to the ficiency in a class of 200 pupils. where the boat, partially sound, Mrs. W. L. Stoddard, a waitress in burned, was beached. She sank near place at 12:25 p. m two hours an Ogden restaurant, last week re- this twenty-fivminutes after the fire and ceived the information that she had was first discovered. won the $10,000 cash prize recently In the meantime the passengers had and those who offered by the San Francisco Week- become were not caught up by the flames ly Examiner. rushed to the rear of the vessel and Ogden wants the next encampment hundreds jumped overboard into the Guard. A petl- - swiftly running waters. . of the Utah National The life preservers were too securetlon is now in circulation among the to their holdings to be business men and has been freely ly fastened available, and stories are told of fransigned, asking the Guard to come to tic efforts made by strong men to cut them loose, but even if they could Ogden this summer. have been torn down they were too s The report of contagious and up for the children to reach. It diseases to' the state board of high la also alleged that no attempt was health for the mpnth of May received made to get out the fire apparatus at local health officers the first cry of "fire," though Captain from seventy-livsays that he immediately in twenty counties, shows 540 cases Van Schaick bells for getting out the apthe rang and seventy-ondeaths. paratus. According to several stateEarl Gardner, a Salt Lake youth, ments, no attempt was made to lower last week saved a man from drowning boats or life rafts. The race to North Cape Brother In Jordan river. The man jumped in, was horribly dramatic. It was made evidently with suicidal intent, when while the flames, which had been the young man promptly plunged in fanned into a fury by the strong bead after him and fished him out. wind, were consuming hundreds of perThe scene was The preliminary hearing of Harry sons, old and young. with women and of panic, pne frightful - - Moss charged with voluntary man children jumping overboard and being slaughter in the killing of William E. lashed by the channel whirlpools Women , Stone, in Ogden canyon, was held against the vessels sides. last week and resulted in Moss being and children were crowded together on the hurricane deck, which soon bound over in bonds of $1,500. burned away and fell, and it is believed Peter Johnson, aged 23, a native of that most of those on this deck were Richfield, met death in a horrible burned. manner while working in the Chilian VICTORIOUS JAPANESE. mills at De Lamar, Nevada. While atfeed he fell into the to the tending Put Their Enemies to Flight and Capmill, his body being torn and mutiture Many Gun. manner. lated in a horrible A dispatch to the London Daily ExAlbert Doxey, the young man who press from Toklo, dated June 15, says attempted suicide near Willard, prob- news has been received there, but has said will recover. is that the It ably been officially published, of a trouble arose over a girl. Doxey had not yet near Fuchou, driven to the place to see the young great Japanese victory miles north of on the seventy railway, woman, but she declined to go out Port Arthur. The Russians, it Is addwith him. . lost a thousand Mack McCullow shipped two car- ed, were overwhelmed, men, left all their guns on the field and from horses of loads, sixty head, Lehl last week, to points east of the retreated in disorder. The Daily Chronicle correspondent Mississippi. The horses were paid Toklo cables the same news, addat for at the rate of $7 per head. They to the number were mavericks, wild from the Rush ing that the Russians, 7.000 men, are now in full Sight toof valley ranges. ward Tshl Chalao and Kal Chou. A dispatch from Berlin, under date GREAT JAPANESE ARMY. of June 17, says: In the second section of the Womens congress today university study for women was dis- One Hundred Thousand Men Will Attack Port Arthur. cussed. Mrs. Alice Horne of the Utah From a reliable source it has been legislature described the "Art Work of Women in Utah Schools." learned at Cheefoo that the Japanese Reese and Bass, who are now serv- had sixty thousand men on the Liao ing forty and thirty years respective- Tung peninsula ten days ago. It Is bely in the penitentiary for the murder lieved that it is their intention to use of Fred McCabe at Ogden, are mak- 100,000 men in the attack on Port Aring a vigorous search, by advertise- thur. Possibly it will he a fortnight ments, for two witnesses, who, they before they are ready to make the exsay, can prove their Innocence. pected attack. A heavily loaded gravel car on the Salt Lake street railway got away Russian Squadron Said to Be Threatening Mercantile Ships. from the crew and crashed into another street car, causing the serious It is officially reported at Seoul that injury of Mrs. Mary E. Chlpman, a the Russian Vladivostok squadron is widow. All the other passengers and the crew jumped in time to save cruising between Tsu island. In Korea themselves from injury. ,, trait, and the coast of Japan, and seriUtahs fruit exhibit to be made at ously threatening mercantile ships to the Worlds fair on Utah day, Octo- and from Korea. At Chemulpo there ber 10, will include about a ton of are several Japanese officers whose fruits from Dixie, such , to Nagasaki is delayed because as figs, grapes, pomegranates and al- the steamer on which they purpose to monds, and a large quantity of ap- travel is awaiting news of the position ples, peaches and plums from other of the Russian vessels before centur-lnportions of the state. to sea. y "I think the war is nearly over," said Governor Peabody of Colorado, In an Interview on Monday. I have pews from General Bell that the Cripple Creek mines are open and running today and there is comparatively little disaffection among the men. There is no news of aDy further trouble or any likelihood of any. "I dont know how many more men will be deported, or whether any will be. I have heard nothing on that point. I learn from Captain Burkeley Wells of Telluride that the union men there concede that their cause is lost and that those of them who are acceptable to the mine owners are already at work again. One hundred and fifty capable men, whether nnion or have been invited to go to work, and the Invitation will be speedily accepted. In Silverton and Ouray peace reigns. The troops have all been ordered from Las Animas county and only Major Hill remains to look after the closing up of .the details of the campaign. h panic-stricke- n lnfec-,tiou- e non-unio- n e n east-bcun- p A- -- GK ITTf.MTPCm Gen. Itel Kuroki, commander in chief of the Japanese army in Manchuria, is a veteran of four wars. He is credited with being an administrator of the first class. He was a member of the war council in Toklo before taking the field, and from his previous campaigns he has gained an intimate knowledge of the topography of Korea and northern China, which is giving him an Immense advantage in his movements against the Russians. He is 61 years old, but looks much younger, and is as light on his feet as a man of 30. His first campaigning was in the war for the restoration of tha mikado in 1868. He took the side of the mikado against his own clan of the Samurais, and many stories are told in Japan of his achievements in combats. Ten years later he helped suppress the insurrection. hand-to-han- Earnest. The Japanese advance of columns north and south of Feng Wang Cheng is causing considerable mystification to the Russians. The of military opinions still inclines to the belief that the movements in both directions are feints, although the opinion that General Kuroki has begun a serious advance by both flanks against Liao Tang does not lack supporters. Renewed skirmishing Is reported in the neighIn borhood of Siu Yen. e re-tur- List of Dead Grows and May Now Exceed 700. With unceasing effort, search is going on for the bodies of those who perished on the General Slocum, says a New York dispatch. What the list of victims will total scarce any one dares venture a guess, but whatever the number may be, there is hardly a parallel in the history of disasters where death came to so many in so brief a period of time. Police and health department officials have placed the number at a figure as high as 1,000 and mere, but it would seem that the maximum fatality will not largely exceed 700. Marked for Exile. One hundred and forty-fou- r union miners and their sympathizers have been deported from the Cripple Creek district 6ince Monday, June 6, and about three score more are booked for exiling. There remain as prisoners in the bull pens and Jails at Cripple Creek and Victor seventy-twmen, the majority of whom will probably be ordered out cf camp within the next These figures are official fortnight. and were complied by Secretary Gael S. Hoag of the Victor Citizens Alliance. o - semi-tropic- SLOCUM HORROR GROWS. Moyer Doesnt Know. President Moyer was asked whe er jresent conditions throughout the strike districts of the state would not make it advisable fer the Western Federation of Miners to call off the strike. I have no opinion to express The map shows the present fighting flags marked by the Russian cross in- upon that or any other question conlines of the Japanese and Rusalan pendicate the Muscovite forts that He be- cerning the Colorado strike and labor insular armlet. The left wing of tween the Mikados army and Port troubles, was his reply. "I have not the Japanese line (indicated by the Arthur. The decisive conflict Is ex- been in touch with the federation affairs since my detention here, and do flags with the central' sun) has swung pected to tako place at the outer fortification of tha stronghold, which the not know what the sentiment is among to the southeast and taken possession the membership. of Dalny, on Talien Wan Bay. The Japs are rapidly approaching. PLOT WAS DISCOVERED. Miscreant Destroy Attempts to Church, by Using Dynamite. An attempt by some unknown person was recently made to blow up with dynamite the church of SL Anthony, in St. Louis, which is in charge of Franciscans. The explosive, a stick of dynamite, was discovered under the altar attached to a fuse running to one of the candles. Inability of an attendant to light this particular candle led to the discovery of the fuse and dynamite. Army Officer Killed by Bolt of Lightning From a Clear Sky. Lieutenant Nathaniel E. Bower, engineer corps. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, was killed Monday afternoon near the target range. The officer was on his way to the range to 6hoot when a holt of lightning out of a compar- Confederate Veterans Parade. The remnants of the souths once great army on Thursday honored the people of Nashville, Tenn., and their thousands of guests by a parade through the principal streets. It was the feature of the closing day cf the fourteenth annual reunion of the Unitatively clear sky struck his rifle ed Gmfederate Veterans. A band of was carrying, which he passed the United States army led the through the arm into the right breast and several United States mailparade carand out through the left side. The riers were at points along the line of officer was to have been married In march dealing out Ice water to the July to a young lady residing in the thirsty veterans. west. Chinese Bandits Enlist With Russians Mexican Still a Winner. A detachment of the Japanese army Benny Yanger, the Tipton Slasher, tinder General Kuroki captured the who came to Butte with the reputatown of Siu Yen on Sunday after tion of never having been knocked and defeating a force of 300 routing out, took the count in the eighth Russians and 300 mounted Chinese round Monday night when Anreiio bandits. The enemy retired toward Herrera of Bakerfiold, Cal., landed his famous punch. It was one of the the Tao river, leaving behind them three dead and two wounded men greatest lightweight battles ever seen to the Fifteenth East Siberian in Butte, and on the results depended regiment The total of their losses the right to challenge to battle Britf is or Corbett for the lightweight ebam no not known. The Japanese sustained casualties. This is the first actual plonshlp of the world. Yangers of Chinese bandits fighting fighting was faster than any former report ith Russian troops. Herrera has met. Race Riot In Ohio. Clifford Boylan, the victim of Sunday's race riot at Canton, O., is still alive, but bis injuries are regarded as fatal. The night passed without disorder. Railroad men, who were in a threatening mood for several hours after the shooting, did not go near the Jail where the colored men were held. Officers of the railroad went among them at the roundhouse and other places where they congregated, eouneellng them to commit no violence and urging them to go borne This had a salutary effect. opponent GET YOUR OWN LiCENSF. to Please, but Darky Was Easy You Might Not Be. on a farm Uncle Joe is an old negro near Chesapeake City, a farm he was slave by the family "hose and lately years ago. He is a widower, Not long has spi uced up to a degree. men of the place since one of the young he was started for the city, when hailed by Uncle Joe. "Mistah George. he said, sheepishlou to town? ly, you done goin might do a favor foh me." was the reCerta.nly, Uncle, ' What is it? sponse a Well, you might you might git me. tor marriage license but The white man was amused; was offended, old the that seeing he said. I U get the license sure, off. Uncle, I get it, and rode After attending to his own affairs in the town, he suddenly remembered was nonplussed, but license, marriage for he had not asked the name of Uncle Joes fiancee. He happened to recollect that he had noticed Uncle Joe around the kitchen a good deal of late, and that Amanda, dusky, fat and 40, and the best cook in the counrety, always had a delectable morsel served for the old man; so, of course, it must be Amanda. Armed with the happy credentials, Mr. George galloped home and handed the paper to the old man, who took it and looked at it. The license was read to him. Mandy Jones! he cried, when the Why, brides name was pronounced. it aint her its Lize Allen down by de crick. Well, said Here was a dilemma. the white man, "there's only one thing to do: You must get another license. It is just $3 thrown away. Uncle Joe look the paper, folded it and put it in his pocket. Ill done ask Mandy to have me, he said; for I dont think dar's $3 tween dem ladies. n-- 11 diff-runc- e Capturing a Shark On a Coral Reef. A five and a half foot shark was captured yesterday inside the reef of East Niu ranch, affording a great deal of sport for those who took part in the capture. The water at this point is very shallow for nearly a mile and a half out from the shore. At low tide there is from 18 inches to two feet of water on it. For several days past the surf has been very high. Yesterday afternoon it seemed higher than ever, rolling up over the coral reef in great breakers. During the afternoon Emil A. Berndt, who with a party of friends was spending the day there, saw a splashing about 50 yards from the shore. Presently it became clear that it was a shark that had in some way worked its way for more than a mile over the reef. The party had been out shooting and had their rifles with them. They fired a number of shots at the creature, riddling it with bul lets as was afterward shown, but apThen the parently without effect. party went out and made a rope fast to the sharks tail. The great strength of the sea monster enabled it to haul the party around for quite a time, but finally it was brought to shore and r killed. Pacific Commercial (Honolulu). Adver-vertise- Homeward Bound. There Is no sorrow anywhere. Or care, or pain. The stinging hail Beats on our (aces like a flail. Green water curls above the rail. And all the storms high trumpets blare Whistles the wind, and roars the sea. And canvas bellows to be free. Spars whine, planks ereaK I only smile. For home our keel creeps mile on mile. 1 bend above the whirling wheel With hands benumbed, hut happy face. Past us the wild race. Leap up to seize each twanging brace. Or slip beneath our lifting keel. Dreaming, I see the scudding clouds. And ice make in the forward shrouds. And all the long waves topped with foam Tet heed them not; I'm going home. Nightly our Northern stars draw nigh The Southern constellations sink. Soon we shall see along the brink Of these cold seas ire Island blink Its welcome m the frosty sky. Beyond that light, beyond the glow Of our great city spread below. Thine eyes now wait to welcome me Back where my heart has longed to be. L. Frank Tooker. H Woman Had Her Wits With Her. Lawyers are so prone to demand answers to embarrassing and relevant questions that when a sharp witness can pay them back they get nothing Being a few of the more recent pul lications of the Knickerbocker Press. The worid-widreputation of G. P. Putnams Sons, New York, (the Kniek. erbocker Press) of itseif insures the ready sale of any book they undertake to publish, as they cater only to the highest classes. e American is Immortals, the record of men who, by their achievements in statecraft, war, science, literature, art, law and commerce have created the American Republic and whose names are inscribed in the Hall of Fame. This book is by George Cary Eggleston, and the Knickerbocker Press have really outdone themselves with the publication of this most excellent It is most handsomely illustrated full page with over thirty double-ton- e It is the purpose cf this pictures. book to present critical estimates of the men elected to the Universitys Hall of Fame, with so much of the biography in each case as is necessary to a due comprehension of the subjects. It has been the authors endeavor to give the reader an impartial and intelligent account of the character, achievements, and history of each men who have been of the twenty-nindeemed worthy of place in this pantheon, and also to make them the subjects of some essays which the public may wish to read. The subjects, at any rate, are attractively worthy. The occasion of their admission to the Hall of Fame gives an oportunlty to consider them anew. vol-um- e Frederick the Great is one of the interesting volumes of a series now being published by G. P. Putnams Sons, entitled, Heroes of the Na. It is a series of biographical tions. studies of the lives and work of a number of representative historical characters about whem have gathered the great traditions of the nations to which they belonged, and who have been accepted, in many instances, as types of the several national ideals. With the life of each typical character will be presented a picture of the national conditions surrounding him during his career. The narratives are the work of writers who are recognized authcrities on their several subjects, and. while thoroughly trustworthy as history, will present picturesque and dramatic stories" of the men and of the events connected with them. To the life of each Hero will be given one duodecimo volume, handsomely printed in large type, provided with maps and adequately illustrated according to the special requirements of the several subjects. Price $1.50. Slav or Saxon, a study of the growth and tendencies of Russian civilization, by William Dudley Fonike. The new chapters in Mr. Fotilkes book relate to the causes of the present war In the Far East, and the issues involved. He traces the diplomatic and military events which led to the present war; the struggle between China and Japan in 1894; the cession of the Liao-tunpeninsula to Japan; the requirement of Russia, France, and Germany, that the peninsula should be given back to China; the subsequent intrigues by which Russia acquired the territory herself. Then follows a statement of the recent negotiations between Japan and Russia, in which Japan claimed the same rights for herself in Korea, which Russia was asserting in Manchuria; and of Russia's refusals to admit this claim; her efforts to prolong negotiations, and the final outbreak of the war. Mr. Foulke considers it fortunate that a new power, like Japan, should have come to the front, possessing advantages of a geographical situation, an admirable equipment, and a spirit and determination which may enable her to stay, at least for a time, the progress of the Russian advance. He believes that even if Japan should succeed in reorganizing the vast populaYellow Peril, tion of China, the which some fear that this might involve, is far less dangerous than its Muscovite Peril,' alternative, the against which it furnishes the best and g surest portection. The Mystic erts of the Southwest, the Des- by Arthur J. e Burdick, with 54 illustrations, net, $2.25. This volume differs from earlier works dealing with the American deserts in that, while some of these treat but their deserts. A middle-agewoman once stood in of generalities only and others conor court as a minor witness. Among fine themselves to a single feature other trivial questions of no bearing on locality, Mr. Burdick covers the whole obthe case the counsel for the defendant subject.toThe deserts offer so many comare research stacles that they asked the witness to state her age. unknown even to the inhabSir, said she, I refuse to answer paratively itants of the regions bordering therethat question. on. In The Mystic the But you must, persisted the law- author has endeavored to bring to yer; why wont you tell the Court the public both a general knowledge of the deserts of the southwest and a your age? Well, replied the witness, my particular acquaintance by means of age I only know by hearsay, and hear- pen and camera wtih many of the say evidence is never taken in court. most unique features and interesting localities in California and adjacent desert regions. The author points out Know Road the Rules. Dogs that, instead of being utterly repeilant On the trail through Bonanza valas many beieve, the deserts offer one ley, in the Klondike, dogs are used as of the most interesting fields imaginpack animals, and dog trains are com- able for exploration and for nature monly met with by the traveler. The study. He who braves its perils and dogs make better time than donkeys. endures its hardships finds himself The Mystic They carry little canvas bags across amply repaid. is a faithful chronicle of both its their backs, filled with freight. Dogs used for packing are much larger, as pleasures and its terrors, its dangers and its delights, its mysteries and its a rule, than sled dogs. A miner will invariably step aside revelations. when he meets a dog on the trail. If A serOur European Neighbours. the man is going up, the dog will take the siding. The dogs appear to under- ies of books that picture with happistand the laws of the trail as well as ness of selection and of manner the the men do, and the miners respect every-dalife of foreign lands. Polithe rights of the dogs just as the ties, statistics, and the ologies are Turks respect the sacred dogs of Con- for the most part avoided. The aim is to portray life as it unfolds in regular stantinople. course, and as it affects the individuaL Illustrated. Each, net $1.20. Pensioner Commits Suicide. A Prussian railway official at Span-daTurkish Life in Town and Counwho was to be pensioned because of his poor eyesight, committed try, by Lucy M. J. Garnett. A porsuicide a few weeks ago by throw- trayal of Turkish domestic, Industrial, ing himself on the track as a train social and religious life and custom. was approaching. Early on the following morning his widow sought Belgian Life in Town and Coundeath in the same way; but she was 1, French rescued and taken back to her four try." Previously issued; Life; Russian German 2, 3, Life; Life; children. 4, Dutch Life; 5, Swiss Life; 6, Spanish Life; 7. Italian Life; 8, Danish Improving Rio Janeiro. Life. Life; 9, full-pag- d n y Austro-Hungaria- Improvements planned in Rio de Janeiro involve a street length of nine miles and the destruction of 1,656 buildings. Siberian Sables. The Siberian sable, unless protect-aby law, will soon be extinct. d n Great Teat of Diver Strength. Divers in the British navy, before being passed as proficient in', them craft, have to be able to wojrk in twelve fathoms of water for an bon and In twenty fathoms for a quarter of an hour. |