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Show THE WEEKLY SENTINEL mat JAKBMAK, FIGHT ANOTHER DUEL VTAI TOCETOK In NORTHWEST NOTES. Willis George Emetson, the father of Grand Encampment, Wyo, has decided to go to Jos Angeles as manager of a big irrigation enterprise. A severe windstorm struck Ptoche, Nevada on the loth, a one story house being blown down and the front of another building blown out 8enator Warrens bill appropriating $100,000 for a public building to be used for a court house and at Sheridan Wyo . has passed the senate. The committee appointed by the Denver city council to Investigate charges of padding registration rolls has made its report in which prominent politicians are accused of fraud. Among the passengers who arrived at New York City on the 12th on the steamer Trinidad from Bermuda was Senator W. A. Clark of Montana, who is convalescent from a recent operation for mastoiditis After a heated discussion the Porthas association land Ministerial which in the a resolution adopted ministers refuse to marry any person divorced on any grounds save those of desertion and adultery. All cases against the Cripple Creek, Colo., union miners charged with different train derailings, the Vindicator mine disaster and other offenses, have been nolled on the request of District before Judge Attorney Trowbridge, Lewis. Last week the California Utah Oil companys rig near Green River was sold by Constable Fullmer to W. F. Reeder of that place for $80, on account of delinquent taxes, which amounted, together with costs, to about $20. B. D. Field, connected with a prominent family In New York, and a nephew of Cyrus W. Field, who laid the Atlantic cable, committed suicide at Pueblo, Colo , by drinking poison. Despondency over 111 health it assigned as the cause In the superior court at Seattle the state law providing for regulating the business of plumbing was declared to was The la be unconstitutional. 1901 of and the legislature passed by requires plumbers to pass an examlna- can follow their trade in the large cities. Three hundred and fifty union miners working In the Midget and Modoc mines and on various leased properties In the Cripple Creek, Colo., district, went on stride on the 12th The strike was ordered because of shipments of ore to mills and smelters that have been declared unfair" for .failure to grant an eight hour day H. W. Holland and A C. Cox are dead and six others Injured as the result of a snowsllde at the Queen of the West mine, sixty miles from Baker City, Orp. The elide caught the bunk house and swept It into the of bottom of the canyon hundiod-feet below, t e dead and injured being recovered with great difficulty from the debris A terrific dynamite explosion at Seattle resulted in the instant death of A Terence Scott, a 9 year-olboy. was the of explosive large quantity placed in a kettle to thaw and left near an open fire Five minutes after ward. Just as young Scott drew near the fire, the explosion came The boys mangled body was hurled thirty feet through the air Forty American nurses in charge of Dr Anita Newcomb McGee, president of the Spanlsh-AmericSwar nurses sailed from Seattle last week on the lvo Maru for Japan Upon arrival In Japan they expect to he assigned to duty with one of the divisions of the Japanese army. Traveling men who have been mak Ing Colorado towns all report that business In that state Is In a bad condition. The labor troubles which have been rampant have Kept everything quiet In trade and business, although they have made enough noise in other ways The supreme court of Coloradohas handed down a derision In which the revenue law, passed by an extra ses sion of the legislature In 1902, is deIn the case in clared constitutional which the decision was rendered the special license required for the sale of liquor was attacked. Jack Clifford of Butte and Perry Queenan of Seattle have agreed to light twenty rounds to a decision he fore the Salt Lake Athletic club The exact date Is not settled, but probably The men have will be March 26 fought two twenty round bouts each resulting In a draw A petition for' divorce filed in the district court of Big Horn county Wyo., January 9th last, by Colonel William F. Cody (Buffalo BID has just been made public The complaint on charges ctuelty, and alleges that atCody December 26, 19IHI. Mrs tempted to poison the plaintiff d n , Horribls RUSSIANS AND JAPS STILL SPARRING AT PORT ARTHUR. PtUtakm Engagement the Russian Cruiser Diana is Baly Damaged Report That Port Arthur Had Fallen Proves to be Erroneous. The report that Port Arthur bad fallen is now conceded lo have been It doubtless arose over premature the fact that the Japanese and Russian fleets had another engagement off Port Arthur on Sunday The dispatches contain few details of the en gagement According to the story of a refugee who reached Tien Tsln Mon day night, the Russian ships engaged a portion of Togos squadron, the Rus sian protected cruiser Diana being badly damaged About twenty shots from the heavy guns of the ships were exchanged According to a c rrespondent of the London Daily Mali at Newehwang, General Kuropatkin has wireJ Lieu tenant General Btoessel that he must hold Port Aithur with the present gar rison The Daily Express correspondent al Berlin gives an alleged official inti matlon from the Russian ambassador, that Vice Ad Count has mined all the rnlral Makaroff coast of the peninsula at Port Arthur, the situation of the mines extending three miles seaward A correspondent of the Daily Tele graph at Yinkow savs the Japanese again attacked Port Aithur March 12 as a challenge tor Vice Admiral Mak aroff to come out and fight During the heavy bombardment, the corre spondent savs tho Japanese were in a position of safety from the fortress The Russian casualties amounted to 300 killed and wounded Osten-Sacke- FROM HOME. MEN DRIVEN Citizens Alliance at Telluride, Goto., Deport Striking Miners. One hundied members of the Clti zens Alliance after a meeting at Colo, armed with Winchesters and revolvers scoured the town and took intotustody between seventy and eighty union men and sympathizers In some instances doors to dwelling houses were forced and broken open The men were heuled iu a vacant store room until 2am, and when all d those desired had they were marched to the depot and loaded Into two coacheJAs the special train departed the Citizens Alliance fired Tel-lurld- lApfe-fapUire- siyQis. , ln.thq .alr. DIABOLICAL Kuropatkin Rushing to tho FronL General Kuropatkin to expects reach Mukden Maieh 2Gth, and everything will be sidetracked in order to get him to the front on schedule time The general bears an autograph letter from the emperor to Viceroy Alexieff to whom he will report It is un lev stood that the viceroy will then turn over the entire direction of the hind operations to General Kuropatkin who will transmit his repoits to the but emperor through the viceroy practically this is the only point on which Viceioy Alexieff will maintain superiority DEEDS OF DEMONS. Treatment of German let-tier- AGAINST THE MERGER s by Africans. Letters from German South Africa have arrived in Berlin giving details of the ghastly treatment of Gerua.i settlers, 113 of whom were killed eut right or tortured to death in the fits trict of Okahandja alone Women ut raged and dismembered and with pieces of their bddies nailed to the doors of houses, and bodies mutilated and left to die slowly were frequent spectacles The expeditionary columns on coming in sight of a farmers house would see the heads of its occupants fastened to the roof These Bights appear to have excited the rage of the soldlprs The letters express longing for revenge and a determination, as one writer says, to kill everything black " REFORMS IN SUPREME FAVOR COURT DECIDES OF GOVERNMENT. IN Northern Security Railroad Merger Is Held to Be In Violation of the Anti-TruLaws of United States. st In the United States supreme court an opinion was delivered In the merger ease of the Northern Securities company vs. United States, in favor of the governments contention that the merger was illegal. The opinion of the court was handed down Monday MACEDONIA. Austria Threatens to Resort to Ex treme Measures. The Vienna correspondent of a Baris paper says that Count Golu chowskl, the Austrian minister of for eign affair s, has authorized the pub lieation of the followtng "declaration which he made officially to the Fiench, British and Italian ambassa dors- - The Austrian entente on the sub Jeot of Mac edonla is firmer than ever A perfect understanding exists on the subject of the modus vivendi in Mace donia and of Turkeys application of the refoims proposed by the two powers and accepted by the sultan. Rut sia and Austria are determined to l their influence, and even to resort to extreme. measures, to obtain the fulfillment of the suitans promises They insist that full powers shall be accorded the heads of the interna tional gt ndarmerie The rumors that Austria is is mobilizing troops wholly unfounded use-al- Russians Bound foe Korea. The Baris Temps coriespondent at St Betei shurg assorts that a Russian array corps is descending from Vladi vostok toward Korea He adds that Bort Arthur has a garrison of 30,000 men and is prov isloned for a year The Russian ministry of marine, the Temps em tespondenc further as serts, claims that Japan's losses since the opening of the war are four cruisers and five torpedo boat destroy els and the machinery of a 12,000-tobattleship seriously injured The correspondent concludes jiis n dlspjichwitjssejrUngaliat, the centration of Russian troops at J- - Mukts ter- den and Harbin is considered minating the danger from a Japanese landing in the northern part of the hay of Korea In Cavalry the Russians Have Greatly the better or the Japanese Forces. ANOTHER COLORADO Masked Men Beat Mine OUTRAGE. Workers' Risked Life for a Small Sum. special from San Bernardino, Cal , A E Wilson, a young man saysfrom Ogden Utah, this afternoon leaped from the top of a fifty foot polo at Needles for a wager of $3 60, and, plunging through the canvas net held for him by twelve citizens, landed on his feet and shattered both his hip, besides sustaining serious internal inWilson had just readied juries Needles from Ogden and, to turn some easy money, collected a crowd of citizens about the pole, saying ho would make the leap to the ground He then passed his hat, securing a small sum Twelve men volunteered to hold the canvas net On reaching the top of the pole he hesitated a minute and then leaped off. As his body shot through tho net and struck tbs ground, a cry of horror arose from 20C people who witnessed the mishap Wilson wajt unconscious when picked up. His bones were protruding throuth the flesh, making a sickening sight The lower part of his spine was alsc injured, making It almost impossible for him to recover. A Of- ficial With A special from Trinidad, Colo, says Chris Evans was beaten by three Monmasked men with day on board the Colorado fc Southern pasbpnger train bound for Pueblo, and was taken off the train at Walsenburg in a critical condition with five bad scalp wounds The masked merilioard-ethe train at the Santa Fe crossing, a mile east of Trinidad, and, after beating Evans, jumped from the train Evans is financial manager of the United Mine Workers of America, and was sent to Colorado by President Jyhn MttchelJ. Michael 'Calatirace, a striker, was killed by guards Monday at Pryor. Caiabrace is said to have fired four shots at a negro and then barricaded himself in his house The guards e burst open the front door, and as ran out the back way they shot d Timber and Stone Act to ba Repealed. him The senate committee on public lands after a contest extending over two years in which an attempt was made- - to re poll all of the general land laws of the rounirv, has authorized a favorable i on Senator Quarles hill to r- pea! the tim'er and stone act Ar report i el the lull has a provision authonuiu the se rotary of the interior to hell at public sale or othSlayer of Editor Gonzales to Run for erwise the- - light to cut timber on govCongress. f ernment lands The hill was amendEx Lieutenant Governor James 11 ed to provide that the moneys derived Tilinran, recently acquitted of murder from the- - sale- - ot these" rights should for the Killing of Editor N G Gonzales be i ov into the ree lamatiqn fund of Columbia, S C, has announced his for irrigate n purposes and Is now candidacy for congress in an inter idcntPil with one Introduced two view in the Augusta Chronicle He months aro hv S- natoi Hansbrough, will stand for the seat made vacant by chaitman of the committee... the death of Congressman O W. Croit of South Carolina The dead con Pardon for Ftlipmoari great-mawas at one time the law The piosiPent has granted pardons Official Map of Harbor of Vladivostok, partner of Mr Tillman and was hi to two In Filipinos, Arturo E Chealer counsel the murder trial leading and Elias Mendoza convicted before French and English at Outs. Senate Fortifications Bill. a military tial of the murler is feared between the Trouble The senate passed the fortification of a name re rporal of police The French and English garrisons at Shan on the recotnmen-dat- i appiopriation bill Tuesiav. after a pardon is gtaiit of the two The Kwan soldiers Hai n of tin- l h mo tivil three hours discussion of the amend authorities, nations stationed In that fortified city ment authorizing the purchase of an the judge advocate general of the are constantly on the veige of a seriof war Xperimental torpedo boat and the aitm and the ous conflict Insults continuously are tie Offense ,,11 a out of the provision for the purchase of sites bandied between the men and per and would have- - been defense winks in the Hawanai assaults are frequent The sonal in the islands The Hawaiian provision piesidents amnts-Sikhs, who constitute the greater part which had been eliminated by the pioe hi' itio-- ot Job 4 nm except of the British force, ate drilled five hours every day and all the British was restored and the sum for the tut tint the as.-- htdg-.commltiee, troops in North China are asserted to increased front $2"0 non as fixed by to final trial be resting under maiching orders the house, to $.2 ion Claims Protection of Great Britain Star Chamber Session of House to InThree Killed by Toy Pistol Caps. Mis Stewait Fe bis, wife of tho vestigate Charges Made by Bristow. r iwc. of them being secrctarv tica-meThree person-of the Telluride The special committee of the house (t'e-l) hues were kilted ,tnd eight other em Miners ut ion. who wa- deindk-men- t to investigate the postoffice bv were the in ployes injured Cnicago Tups ported (linens alliance has of eon of members congress daV by an xphis.ou nt t v pistol caps taken up the matter of hei husband g behind closed work tinued doors its i nt banishn-which completely ehmoishcl the two with H V Bea-rvice for three hours on Monday, and then story brick manufacturing plant of consul of Hit- British consulate at took a recess The committee is mak She ud Mr Bea.ee the Chicago Toy Novelty company Denver ui to ing a detailed studv of each case In The wrecked building caught fire m guarantee to Mr It will first determine the report nun to Telluride, she will those cases in which there appears on mediately after the explosion and the upon his an indication of wrong won- - so badly bodies of the apptalMo the- - Bntish ambassa hu at the surface on the part of members, if theie doing burned anil mangled that it was ini K c is a Bntish subt Washington are any such efore taking the testipossible to reeoenip them except bv ject mony of w itnessos lemnants of clothing Colombian Legation Closed. Miles Admits He is a Candidate. At Work on Statehood Bills. The Colombian legal i i .n Was. n N David McCaiomnt of Franklin The statehood piphh-has been has been close-e- l and Dr Tomas chai-ma- n of the Venango countv Pa . raken up by the sub committee of the Herran, who for a long time has been Prohibition con mittee, is in house- committee on territories reieipt oi re acting as charge d affaire-- - will have a letter from General Nelson A Mi i to d. aft statehood eently appointed for his former home in k In which the general announces him litiis foi Aruoia and Nh w Mcvro and tin ( e communications self indirecth as a candidate for the lombtan st-Oklahoma anil the Indian Territory lev government and nine time The bill making a date of,, the first partn.ept will he eo.uli.e ie U tlnon b nomination Ur president n Consul Gtnual itireago Mr Metalmont wrote to General two tame! is pint to clly completed New , ik The c s i ui ,, Miles atmouBc ing that he woull "The .difficult v of adjusting the taxatie n is the- - direct i uh tin- - ei a delega'e to the Prohibition natxinl tion anel ether epie-- i ns wetei regaid prilling in the i'n.ama, convention, and asked if he con id not to the aelmi s on or Oklahoma and th and the-- - negotiatt is at the pi esc it have the peasure of suppoitlrkg b,.u Intlan TeJiiteiv as a state jtre next Panama canal tre uv for the nomination. to be e - e c s e Ko-l-- es pint-(tur- I de-a- d - 1 - s b- The Utah Construction company of Ogden has secured another big railroad contract, involving $5Wi,noo, on the Ban Pedro read The contract In dudes fifty miles "of grade from the present terminus of the road west. by Justice Harlan, and ft upheld the decree of the circuit court for the district of Minnesota in every particular. Four of the Justices dissented from the five constituting the majority. The division In the court was due to a difference of opinion as to the right of federal control of state corporations The majority opinion proceeded on the theory that congress has a right under the constitution to control interstate commerce, no matter by whom conducted, while the minority, or dissenting opinion, was based on the theory that in the present case the effort to regulate the ownership is not interstate traffic. - i s tajkfntjjt bs Shovvirg Location of Batteries and Forts. Moro Camp Raided. The following comes from Manila Major General Leonard Wood n ports an atjack upon a reconoiterlng force east of Cuttabao by a strong party ol Moros made hostile by the passage of the anti slav erv law- Thi Moros' position was shelled and the Morns Maul od and the outworks taken Tiny wete strong and well constructed Cannon captured, twenty one old also Spanish, thirty thiee Lanlakas laige quantitv of amumtion and supplies No casualties on our side Korea Shall Be Russian. in the course of his conversation in the train while traveling from Mos (ow, according to a Paris correspon dent, General Kuropatkin repeated his desire that peace should be signed i nly in Tokio The general said that France, Germany and Austria have agreed w.th Russia to prevent Great Britain intervening with another lier lin treaty, adding We will never pi rmit Great Britain to interfere- for the purpose of depriving us of the fruits of a clearly bought victory Korea shall be Russit " - Troubles of a Judge. in the supreme court Mondav the gov nnnnt of the Untied States through Attorney General Knox, applied tor a writ of mandamus to compel Juogp i lanus .1 Wing of the United States district unit foi the northern district ot Ohu , to take- - what the department of maintains is legal iution . rr poet to certain Chinese c,( In sion'ia-e- s this is the fit at time in Hu Ins-oof the supreme eomt that t ne an eminent ha a wrt of moJUisinua federal Judges. ,h n a.anax NEWS SUMMARY. Thera was a slight earthquake la Guatemala City Thursday ef last week, but is caused no damage. A rear end collision between two trolley cars In Los Angeles resulted In the serious injury of seven passengers. King Alfonso has signed decrees ratifying the arbitration convention between Spain and Great Britain and Spain and France A St. Petersburg dispatch declares that the emperor will asRnme command of the troops In the far east after the first important engagement A shooting, the result of a political row, occurred at Kansas City, Martin Martin being fatally wounded by Cash Welch, a deputy sheriff and ward worker. Mrs Eliza Weische the wife ot Sarrnel Weische a Slavish miner, residing near Bradenvllle, Pa., last week gave birth to quadruplets They are all boys. According to a dispatch from SL Petersburg dated February 21, General Sakharoff had been appointed t act as mluBter of war in the absence of General Kuropatkin Serious rioting between 700 Germans and 200 Czaech students occurred in Vienna Forty students were wounded The police had difficulty in restoring order PreMdent Roosevelt has fixed the salaries of the is'hm an canal com misslotiers at $12 000 per year, and in addition thereto $15 per day while they are on the isthmus the lx Colonel Wiliam Griffith who last Septemmillionaire Ange'es ber shot Us wife in the eye, has been sentenced to two years In the penitentiary and to psy a fUc of $5 000 About seventy five prominent Iowa Democrats held a conference at Dew Moines last week and launched a boom for general NeBon A Miles for the Democratic nomination for president Mrs Rebecca Mavo aged 90 the last but one surviving widow of a revolut'oeary wai -- oldier, is dead at Npwbern Va Mrs Mavo was mar ried in 1833 to Captain Stephen Mayo, who was then 76 years old Shep Griffin, a negro, is in jail at Meridian, Miss, having been taken from certain persons In Kemper county, who, it is charged, held him in enforced servitude. Tbwe is much excitement over the case. A Japanese shipping agent who was arrested Monday on suspicion of supplying Russians with information, has committed suicide in the military prison at Tien Tsln It is said several other Japanese are under suspicion Rather than coutnenance in church membership a man engaged in the liquor business, the Rev Edwin M Martin, assistant pastor of the Lewis Avenue Congregational church in Brooklyn, has handid in his rettigna tlon The report comes from Germany that Colonel Lientvvin, governor of German southwest Africa has asked for reinforcements to the number ot 800 men and two mounted batteries He has found the Hereros to be more numerous and bettci armed than he supposed The second annual report of the United States Steel corporation, dated March 1st, show-- the net earnings for the year, after deducting expend! tures for maintenance and interest on bonds and fixed charges of subsidiary companies were $lo9 m 152, compared with $133,968 763 in 1902 By direction of the president the new military post under construction at Haines, Alaska will be known as Fort William H Seward, in memory Of the services of the secretary of state in negotiating the purchase of Alaska Abraham Newman, as old n4 wealthy money lender and diamond dealer, has been found dead in his office on the Bowery, New York City hut Robbery had been committed, whether or not it followed murder Is a question. Yielding to tht pressure of public opinion the commissioner of police has prohibited colored persons, including coolies from using the sideThe better walks of Johannesburg class of colored persons are exempted from this ruling A daring aud clever feat has been performed by a Japanese woman who escaped from Dalny, by means which are still shrouded in secrecy. It i said she secured official plans of the harbors of Dalny and Bort Arthur, taking them to Tokio As an example of tlje power of thw Shirarose powder, a corJapanese respondent of the London Standard at Tokio relates that a Russian sailor who was hurt in the naval fight off Chemulpo and taken to Matsuyama, Japan has 160 wounds The Presbyterian board of foreign missions has received by cable confirmation of the news of the murder of the Rev Benjamin W LaBarre, He was the son near Khoi, Persia of the Rev Dr Benjamin LaBarre, also a missionary in Persia 1 |