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Show - RUSSIAN THE WEEKLY SENTINEL SHIP SUNK FREQUENT SKIRMISHES. Main CRAY TOCITOK. JAKBMAig 600 AND MAKAROFF MEN MEET DEATH, GENERAL PwbUefce trrta Russian Squadron Had Gone Out to - Meet Japanese Fleet When Battleship Strikes Mine and Sinka NORTHWEST NOTES. Body Army Near Wiju. The Japanese authorities at Seoul say there have been frequent skirmishes between Sakju and Wlju. The main body of the first Japanese army is in the nelghborhod of Wlju. About 600 flat ;bested, sandal-shoKorean infantrymen left Seoul Mon- day for the northern part of Ham Hiung Do province, on the frontier of Klrwln district of Manchuria, to keep in ordei the bandits who are constantly embroiled with the Chi- settlers In the Tumen region, has resulted in diplomatic rep- resentatlons on the subject of China, It is considered doubtful whether these troops will reach their destination, as fears are being expressed that they will desert. The Japanese minister to Korea,1 M. Hayashl, has requested the Korean government to facilitate the plans of General Haraguchi, the commander of the Japanese forces at Seoul, for the thorough sanitation of .Seoul and the other large towns of Korea, so as not to expose the Japanese troops to the ravages of cholera and other dis- eases. .ARMED MEN IN THE FIELD ING FOR NEGROES. f f LOOK- - Murd" ,of Leadi"3 p,anter b Waf Llai, Reau,t N B- - d Howell Williams, aged 20, working a ranch near Lima, Mont., has been convicted of forging a check for 73 on his employes. Mac Roberts is in jail at Rawlins, charged with shooting M. Wilson, with whom be had quarreled. Wilson is seriously injured. In Butte the anti-truand labor partlea combined and elected live al derinen, the Socialists elected one and the Democrats two. n Joseph Graham, a highly respected citizen of Ontario, Oregon, dropped 'dead at his home from, heart failure. He was 83, and a pioneer of this sec- dt tion. In Anaconda, Mont., the election of four Democrats and two Republicans for aldermen and the utter defeat of the Socialists was the result of the election. v That the United States should annex the entire isthmus of Panama is the startling suggestion made by- - Senator John T. Morgan in a letter to Captain William W. Bates of Denver. The mall stage running between Holt and Big Fork, Mont., was held up by a lone bandit The stage driver was alone and was compelled to give up the mall sack and other valuables In bis possession. Counterfeit half and quarter dollars are being manufactured in China and hipped through Seattle into the United States. The imitation is very nearly perfect The coin is of the standard degree of fineness. Charles Hurst, who has been agent for the Paclflc Express company at Dillon, Mont., for the past six months, has been arrested on g charge of embezzlement Ills peculations will amount to between 8700 and 8900. Election day passed oft very quietly throughout Montana, there being no great amount of Interest shown, as in most of the towns only aldermen were to be elected, and party lines were not strictly drawn In many instances. 8enator Clark of Wyoming has offered an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill for the establishment of a fish culture station on Blurbs Fork of Green river, in Wyo-- that purpose. While going out to meet the Japanese fleet off Port Arthur, says a cable from St. Petersburg, the Petropav-lovs- k struck a mine in the outer roadstead, heeled over, turned turtle and sank. Practically the whole of her crew were lost. Only four officers were saved, among them being the Grand Duke Cyril. The Petropavlovsk was flying the flag of1 Vice Admiral Maks-rofThe result of the naval battle, which, according to the most reliable atuhority, was In progress, according to the last reports, has not been received. It Is cfficlally announced that Vice Admiral Makaroff was drowned at the time of the sinking of the battle-zhlPetropavlovsk. The awful disaster to the battleship Petropavlovsk at Port Arthur, with the loss of almost her entire crew of over CO men and the death of Vice Admiral Makaroff, has been a terrible fallen less heavblew. It would-hav- e commander-ln-chle- f If and the the ship ily of the fleet had been lost in battle, but to be the result of another accident following upon the heels of a succession of tragedies, of which the Port Arthur fleet has been the Uke victim, has created something consternation. of the Paris The correspondent Matin at St. Petersburg telegraphs the following: court has A high personage at given the details received by the cm peror, according to which Vice Admiral Makaroff went out on the Petropavlovsk to aseeitaln the position of the Japanese fleet. After he had been out for an hour he saw several vessels, which retired. Shortly afterward he perceived the Japanese squadron of tnlrty vessels, and, not being strong enough to attack, ho returned to Pori Arthur. When two miles outBlde the entrance an explosion literally hurled the battleship out .of the water, completely overturning her. Grand Duke Cyril, five other officers and a couple of score of men alone managed to swim to land. "Vice Admiral Makaroffs plan of campaign was lost with him. "Grand Duke Cyril Is suffering only from slight contusions. ..he n- or to a Japanese 'submarine vessel. The Japanese certainly witnessed the f. p - Secretary Wilson has decided to extend assistance to the cattle Interests catastrophe." In Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota in the extermination of cattle Itch or scab. Aproxlmately fifty experts will be in the field shortly, mak-inpractical demonstrations of the methods of dipping cattle to stamp out the disease. Eighteen indictments have been returned by the grand Jury, at Pueblo, Colo., which has been in session several weeks. Charles Walker, alderman, is charged with bribery In one count, John L. Kirtland, street commissioner, Is indicted on four counts, And Clerk W. L. Smith has thirteen charges preferred against him. g ex-Cit- y The Works at Grand Encampment. Wyo., are again to be started up full force. The concentrator is to be started at once, and as soon as there la enough material on hand the smelting processes will be placed In operation and ore will be going to the railroad for shipment in a very short time. There are now about 250 men on the payroll. Axel D. Galbraith, formerly manager of the Topeka mine. In Russell gulch, Gilpin county, Colorado, in Jail in Denver on the charge of misappropriating the company's funds, confessed to having murdered his wife and little son In his cabin In Russell gulch on March 9. TWENTY-NIN- MEN KILLED. Missouri Explosion on Battleship Plays Havoc With Crew. A special from Pensacola, K!a says: By the explosion of 2.0(h) pounds of powder In the after turret and the handling room of the battleship Missouri. Captain William 8. Cowles commanding, twenty-ninmen were instantly killed and five Injured, of whom two will die. The Missouri was on the target range with the Texas and Brooklyn at prartiee about noon Wednesday, when a charge of powder in the twelve-incgun Ignited from gases, exploded, and, dropping below, Ignited four charges of powder In the handling room and all exploded. Only one man of the entire turret and handling crew survived. But for the prompt and efficient action of Captain Cowles In finodlng the handling room and magazine with water, one of the mag azlnes would have exploded and the ship would have been destroved. h e lert-han- d MOB GOT WRONG GAMBLERS diana - 8. D. Waycaster, a bm her of Denver, shot and killed bis w Ye and then attempted suicide, bnt has even chances for recovery. Tb t couple had quarreled and separated. Waycaster returned and asked his wife for money, saying he was starving. She refused and the shooting followed. Ia the city election at Helena Mont, the Democrats elected R. R. Purcell mayor, J. J. Grogan police magistrate and one alderman. The Republicans elected T. B. Klrkendall city treasurer, and seven aldermen. The fight was made on the mayoralty on purely local Issues. ; re' George Goss, who was with Plnck-- I ney, says he thinks the negroes mistook the dead man for him. Over' 100 armed whites are In the field after the negroes.- The dead man was one - ploy. The murdered man was an old miser and was quite wealthy. Watkins was Indebted to him at the time of his death. George Levy was not a relative of the murdered man. He Is a Frenchman who rented property the of leading planters ana stockmeD from the old man for Immoral pur of this section. poses. - NOTHIN DOIN NEARLY NAKED. Indians Finish Exciting Gambling Tournament. A dispatch from Tacoma, Wash, says: After a weeks exciting sport the first big gamble that the Indian tribes of this locality have had for years came to a close Tuesday. The tribes participating were the Nis- quallys, Puyallups, the Mud Bays, the WAR-TIM- I SCENE IN TOKIO. E BELL DEFIES THE LAW. 5net In winning the game the Nlsqualhl 1 by Judge of District Court. have come Into much propesty of tbll other tribes, and Alexander Puigli! t, District Judge Theron Stevens cf a NIsqually buck, who came In from I Ouray, Cclo., has declared the camp, says that many of the General Sherman Bell and Adjutant Captain losers had sarre!y enough blanl ets left to keep them warm. They wag- j Bulkley Wells, who are in command ered ponies, dogs, blankets, weap"g of the troops at Tellurlde, to be in apparel, roon skins, flieamis and gewcontempt of court for not complying gaws of all at rts. Thp gambling was with the writ cf habeas corpus which In a large shack on the NIsquaMy river, about four miles above the required them to bring before the court Charles H. Moyer, president of Northern Pacific bridge on the Olympia branch. the Western Federation of Miners, whom they are holding in confinement SURPRISED BY RUSSIANS. at Tellurlde. The court ordered Japanese Scouts Get the Worst of it Sheriff Corbett to proceed to Tellu-rid- e and arrest the two military officers In Encounter With Enemy. On the night of April 9 four s crossed the Yalu to Yenampo (Yongampho) and made toward a Russian village, where they found a squadron of Japanese cavalry. They remained there twelve hours, when they were betrayed by Koreans and found themselves obliged to swim the river, their boat having struck on a sand bank. One soldier lost his life The Japanese pursued the Russians in a boat, but were In turn attacked by a Russian boat, which had come to the rescue of the swimmers. The Japanese were all killed and their boat sunk. m svr- - Rus-8lan,- L Wants Bryan Ousted. Counsel for Mrs. Grace Imogene Bennett appeared before Probate Judge Cleaveland at New Haven, Conn., with a petition that William J. Bryan be removed as executor pf the estate of the late Philo 8. Bennett, the chief allegation being that he is the funds of the estate In his legal actions in attempting to secure the probating of the "sealed letter a part of the will. The "sealed letter gives Mr. Bryan 850.00(k The court will set a date for a hearing. Wash-lngtc.n- - Tucker Pinckney, a brother of Con-nes- e gressman J. M. Pinckney of the Hous-whic- h j ton district g it appears that Pinckney and a companion were riding by a negro church when they Were fired upon. While the dead mans body lay In front of Ttbe church, a negro with a shotgun an(1 'cformed the crowd that rode j J,he dd the shooting, after which he This negro had a finger j disappeared. ghot off. which Indicates that Plnck- ... comPanlon returned the y a d ! Board of Pardons Commutes Sentence of Idahoan Convicted of Murder. The state board of pardons at Boise, Idaho, on Monday commuted the sentence of George Levy to life He was to have been Imprisonment hanged on Friday for the murder of Davis Levy In October, 1901. The feature of the application for clemency was a showing indicating that another man may have committed the deed. Soon after Levy was murdered the public administer-to- r received through the mall what purported to be a 'will left by him. The principal beneficiary uner this will was Harry Watkins, a furniture dealer. It Is claimed an investigation has demonstrated that the document was written on a typewriter in the possession of Watkins, also that he bad Levys signature on a slip ot paper In his desk. The latter fact was testified to before the board by men who had been in Watkins em tt Spread of Plague In South America. The bubonic plague is spreading In an alarming fashion along the west coast of South America. The state department has received the follow-In- g cablegram from United States Minister Wilson at Santiago de Chill: "Extensive epidemic of bubonic at Anofagasta. This is one of the most important shipping ports on the west coast north of Valparaiso. The public health and marinehospital service will be advised so'tbat suitable precautions may be taken at quarantine. e Walter county, sixty News from fmHea north of Houston, Texas, indl-th- e iateI that race feeling is Tory high, .owing to the murder near Hempstead Negro Arrested for Murder Committed In Kansas. Joe Godley. the negro who was arrested In Oakland, Cal., for the killing of Police Officer Hinkle at Pittsburg, Kan., on Christmas night, 1902, has admitted that he is the man wanted. He says that on the night In question he and other negroes were drinking, and about 2 oclock in the morning started to a colored ball. They were stopped at the foot of the stairs, and words passed, when the officer drew his club. Godley says he warded off the blow aud knocked the officer down. At that Instant he (Oodley) received a bulelt wound In the face and started to run. and as he did so he heard another shot fired, which he supposed killed the officer. He went to his home at West City, twelve miles away. The mob, he says, finding he had escaped, took his brother Mof-fafrom the Jail hnd lynched him, although he had been locked up for drunkenness eight hours before the fatal affray. Itlcs on April 4 by L. T. Russell, formerly editor of the I.awton Democrat, is dead. He was 37 years old and of Imposing figure, being 6 feet 7 Inches taM. In the recent Oklahoma legislature he was sergeant-at-arm- s of the house. Previously he had been an officer cf the Wells-FargExpress company, and was at one time la the employ of the Southern Paclflc as special officer In California, first-clas- f MAN. The Lott Battleship. which had Petropavlovsk, twice previously been reported damaged by Japanese attacks on Port Ars thur. was a battleship of 10960 tons displacement, and 14 213 Indicated horse lower. She was 307V4 ' feet long, had sixty-ninfeet beam, her armored belt was or about sixteen The Republican state central com- inches of steel with ten inches of steel mittee met In CheyeLne on the 6th, armor on her tnrets. Her armame.t twehe and selected Laramie City and May consisted cf four thirty four smaller guns and six 18th as the place and time of holding torpedo tubes. The of the the Wyoming state convention to se- Petropavlovsk was complement fuly manned with lect delegates to the national conven- 700 men. tion. Makaroff Widely Known. Under an order of the county court The news of the death of Admiral an attachment Waj levied at Colorado Makaroff caused a profound sensation week on the Nikola Tesla Springs last , electrical experiment station. The at- In naxal and military circles lu for he was probably- better tachment was levied to recover a debt of 8180 due to the Colorado Springs known than ahv other Russian naval Electrical company for power fur- officer. This was because of the fact that he had visited the I'nted States nished. In 1806-9and also Buckskin Jim, an Indian who lived Russian north Pacificcommanded the squadron, which on the Coeur dAlene reservation brought him Into frequent contact even miles from Tekoa, Wash., was with American naval officers in those brutally murdered by his squaw three waters, and sometimes Into American weeks ago. The squaw had decapi- ports on the west coast. The general tated the body ai was burning the opinion is that Makaroff was an ofremains when discovered by other In- ficer of singular ability. The . NEWS SUMMARY. LEVY WILL NOT HANG. 'RACE WAR IN TEXAS the Firet Jepaneee of I Mall advices from tha new Alaska district of Tanana indicate that tie- will probably winter gold clean-ureach 8LOOO.OOO. JK hurricane has caused consider-ableamage to property at Montevideo. Uruguay. Several vessela were driven ashore In the harbor. In the Imperial Medical aeademy at SL Petersburg, a short course of conversational Japanese has been introduced for the benefit of the JapAneee wounded prisoners. The Moscow Gazette publlshea a historical review of the "Hence relations concluding: forth the Americans will be styled the ungrateful Yankees." A Washington dispatch says that former Secretary of War Ellhn Root has been agreed upon as temporary chairman of the national Republican convention at Chicago. Louis Drolet of SL Roche, Canada, who was knocked out In the sixteenth round of his bout with George War ner, the champion soldier boxer, ta dead from his Injuries. Many Greek naval officers, belonging to the aristocracy! are applying for permission to Join the Russian forces In the far east, and Greek physicians are also volunteering for the same purpose. The cases of W. S. Taylor, Johs Powers and Charles Finley, charged with complicity In the murder of William Goebel, were called In the circuit court at Frankfort. Ky last week aad passed to the next term. The best informed military circles no longer anticipate a Japanese landing at the head of the Liao Tung gulf. the Japanese have They believe missed their opportunity, the Russians being now too strong. In a feud fight in New York City, Sunday, three brothers. Thomas, William and Michael Gilbrldge, were seriously, if not fatally stabbed, and Harry and John McShane, also brothers, were badly wounded. With bands playing "The Star Spangled Banner and "Dixie," and 30,000 people cheering Godspeed, the battleship Virginia was launched on the 5th at the yards of the Newport News Shipbluldlng company. The cotton goods curtailment movement In Fall River, Mass., has extended and 15.000 operatives are Idle. The total number of spindles stopped Is more than half of the number of the Fall River cotton mills The census bureau has Issued a bul,CJn wbJrb gives the estimated peps latlon cf the United States for lOS, exclusive cf Alaska and the Insular possessions, at 79.90o 389. This is an increase cf 2,659.014 since the censn of 1900. A cable from Manila says the drafting of the proposed measures to secure Internal revenue have been completed and published. The measures are opposed weakly by the distitllng and tobacco growing Interests in the p Russo-Amert-ca- n and bring them before the court. Judge Stevens severely criticised the course cr Governor James m. and the military authorities, saying they appeared to be In Insurrection against the courts. General Doll is quoted as saying: If Sheriff Corbett takes us to Ouray it will have to be ever the dead bodies of all the soldiers under my command In this county. He has not got men enough to do that. The situation demands that we stay In Telluride. Mr. Moyer will never be produced In court until Governor Peabody orders me to do so, unless he escapes and goes over the range on snow Islands. shoes. Four wealthy Chinese boys sent te Vancouver, B. C from China to be MAKAROFF. educated under the auspices or the years imprisonment and to pay a fin gw Chinese reform association, have been drowned on Burrard inlet Thy went out in a small boat on a pleasure trip. Standing In front of a mirror In the Grand hotel, with an Easter lily and a crucifix in one hand and a revolver In the other, Mrs. E. B. Hunter, wife of a prominent retired merchant of Memphis. Tenn, shot herself in the temple and died before help reached her. Sultan of Taraca Pacified. News has been received at Manila confirming Major General Leonard Woods official report of the result of his operations In Mindanao. With 1,500 men General Wood started a campaign to compelrecently the allegiance of the sultan of Taraca, In Mindanao. He has pacified the eastern side of I ake I anao, where the sultan lived. The American casualties were two men Killed, three men seriously wounded and three slightly wounded A number of the enemy's forts were destroyed. The full text of the Anglo-Frenctreaty has been published. One clause of the treaty pledges the French to communicate to Great Britain any agreement entered into between France and t Spain on the Bub-Jec- of Morocco. Duel Results In Death. J. W. Hawkins, who was shot In a street fight at I.awton, O. T., over pol Vice Admiral Makaroff, whose con- duct of affairs at Port Arthur Is wincing him golden opinions In Russia, is famous as the inventor of o used la. Russian naval ports. He was born in 1849, and made his first rlslt to this country in 1863, coming with the Pacific fleet to San Francis JAPS LAND IN KOREA. First Army 8afely Landed and Second Ready to Start. Official advices received by the Ftench government confirm the press dispatches that Japan's first army, i consisting of four army corps, is now completely landed In Korea and the second army, consisting of a similar number of corps, is about to start; The polnU of debarkation of the second artny re not known. co. Ip the Turkl-- h war be distinguished himself in some notable tor pedoing exploits. Five years ago Admiral Makaroff was In Chicago, and at that time made a trip to Mackinaw City, where he Inspected the used in the Straits. Postmasters Son Goes Wrong. Edward Griffith, son of the postmaster at Great Bend, Kan., has been arrested at Nevada, Mo, chargedwith stealing a registered package of 85.000 which was sent by the Traders bank at Kansas City to a banking house at Great Bend on February 9th. Griffith was once an employee ot the Great Bend postoffice, and he had access to the registered packages After taking the 86.000 he fled to El Paso, Tex. Ortfflth has confessed tp the crime. Judge Spear in the federal court at Savannah, Ga, sentenced Harry Olsen, a well known citizen, to five of 85,000, the limit. He was fonnd guilty of kidnaping one of eight no- groes deported from Savannah on tha Russian bark Alice Bristol. A dispatch from St Petersburg says the fighting in Tibet has revived irrl-- . tatlon throughout Russia The British expedition Is considered to be a hostile act against Russia, which cannot permit Great Britain to become mistress of the Tibetan capltaL The second Japanese army, according to the St. Petersburg correspondent of the Paris Temps, Is now landing in Korea. Extensive army maneuvers. the correspondent adds, are being organized for Finland, where a targe force of reserves Is cantoned. Minister Conger at Pekin cable the state department that Mr. Miller, the United States consnl at New Chuang, has been notified by the Russian authorities that mines nave been placed in the river, but that ships will be conducted In and neutral out in safety. Lss Spangler, a prosperous grocer of York, Pa, who styles himself "The Prophet," and who for twelve yeara has been predicting the end of the world in 1908, announcee that month itJ?1w.?We,Te will Europe h fighting, and the United State., too. tst - |