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Show RUSSIAN THE WEEKLY SENTINEL UT a JAKBMAN, GENERAL nru Russlan Squadron Had Gone Out to Meet Japanese Fleet When Battleship Strikes Mine and Sinks. NORTHWEST NOTES. Howell Williams, aged 20, working on a ranch near Lima, Mont, has been convicted of forging a check for 973 on his employes. Mac Roberts is in Jail at Rawlins, charged with shooting M. Wilson, with whom he had quarreled. Wilson Is seriously injured. In Butte the anti-truand labor parties combined and elected five al dermen, the Socialists elected one and the Democrats two. Joseph Grsham, a highly respected citizen of Ontario, Oregon, dropped dead at his home from heart failure. He was 83, and a pioneer of this section. 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. That the United States should the entire isthmus of Panama is the startling suggestion made by Senator John T. Morgan In a letter to in-ne- x Captain William W. Bates of Denver. The mall stage running between Holt and Big Fork, Mout., was held np by a lone bandit. The stage driver was alone and was compelled to give np the mail sack and other valuables In his possession. Counterfeit half and quarter dollars are being manufactured in China and shipped through Seattle into the Unit ed States. p The imitation is very nearly perfect The coin Is of the standard degree of fineness. Charles Hurst, who has been agent for the Pacific Express company at Dillon, Mont, for the past six months, has been arrested on a charge of embezzlement His peculations will amount to between 9700 and 9900. Election day passed off 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. Senator Clark of Wyoming has offered an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill for the establishment of a fish culture station on Blacks Fork of Green river, in Wyo-- that purpose. Secretary Wilson has derided to extend assistance to the cattle Interests In Montana, North Dakota and 8outh Dakota In the extermination of cattle Itch or scab. Aproxlmately fifty experts will be In the field shortly, mak ing practical demonstrations of the methods of dipping cattle to stamp out tbs disease. Eighteen indictments have been by the grand Jury, at Pueblo, Colo which has been in session several weeks. Charles Walker, aljer-man-, is charged with bribery in one count, John L. Klrtland, street com' missloner, is Indicted on four counts, nd Clerk W. L. Smith has thirteen charges preferred against him. ex-CIt- y works FREQUENT SKIRMISHES. 600 MAKAROFF AND MEN MEET DEATH. hUblllf arociTORi 584- - SHIP SUNK at Grand Encampment, Wya, are again to be started up full force. The concentrator is to be started at once, and as soon as there Is enough materia 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 new about 250 men on the payroll. Axel D. Galbraith, formerly man- ager of the Topeka mine. In Russell gulch, Gilpin county, Colorado, in Jail in Denver on the charge of misap- propriating the companys funds, confessed to having murdered his wire and little son in his cabin in Russell gulch on March 9. The Republican state central committee met in Cheyeuie on the 6th, and selected Ieramle city and May 18th as the place and time of holding the Wyoming state convention to lect delegates to the national convention. Under an order of the county court an attachment was levied at Colorado Springs Isst week on the Nikola Tesla electrical experiment station. The attachment was levied to recover a deht of 9180 due to the Colorado Springs Electrical company for power fur- nished. Buckskin Jim, an Indian who lived on the Coeur dAlene reservation seven miles from Tekoa, Wash., was brutally murdered by his squaw three weeks ago. The squaw had decapitated the body ail was burning the remains when discovered by other In- dians. 8. IV Waycaster, a bai ber of Denver, shot and killed his wfe and then attempted suicide, bnt has even chances for recovery. The couple had quarreled and separated. Wayrastcr returned and asked his wife for money, saying he was starving. She refused and the shooting followed. In 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. Kirkendall city treasurer, and seven aldermen. The fight was made on the mayoralty on purely local Issues. While going out to meet the Japanese fleet off 1011 Arthur, says a cable the Pctropav-lovs- k from St. Petersburg, 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 of Vice Admiral Maka-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 officially announced that Vice Admiral Makaroff was drowned at the time of the sinking of the battleship Petropavlovsk. The awful disaster to the battleship Petropavlovsk at Port Arthur, with the loss of almost her entire crew of over GO men and the death of Vice Admiral Makaroff, has been a terrible blow. It would have fallen less heavily if the ship and the commander-ln-chie- f 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 like victim, has created something consternation. The correspondent of the Paris Matin at St. Petersburg telegraphs the following: "A hlrh personage at court has given the details received by the cm peror, according to which Vice Adk miral Makaroff went out on the to ascertain 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 Port Arthur. When two miles outside the entrance an explosion literally hurled the battleship out of the water, completely overturning her. Grand Duke Cyril, live other officers and a couple of score at men alone managed to swim to land. "Vice Admiral Maknroff's plan of campaign was lost with him. "Grand Duke Cyril is suffering only from slight contusions. f. Petro-pavlovs- t.kttLEy.Wlilhiff.thecn or to a Jinan esc submarine vessel The Japanese certainly witnessed the catastrophe. MEN TWENTY-NIN-E KILLED. Explosion on Battleship Missouri Plays Havoc With Crew, A special from Pensacola, Fla. says: By the explosion of 2,000 pounds of powder in the after turret and the handling room of the battleship Missouri. Captsin William 8. Cowles commanding, twenty-nin- e men were Instantly killed and five Injured, of whom two will die. The Missouri was on the target range with the Texas and Brooklyn at practice about noon Wednesday, when a charge of powder in the twelve-incd gun ignited from gases, explod ed, 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 flooding the handling room ar.d magazine with water, one of the magazines would have exploded and the hip would have been destroyed. 12-in- h left-han- The Lost Battleship. which had Petropavlovsk, twice previously been reported damaged by Japanese attacks on Ifort Ars thur. was a battleship of 10960 tons displacement, aud 14 213 horse-poweindicated She was 367t& feet long, had sixty-nin- e feet beam, her armored belt was of almut sixteen Inches of steel with ten inches of steel armor on her turets. Her armnme.t consisted cf four twelve flinch. thirty-fousmaller guns and six torpedo tubes. The romplemeot of the Petropavlovsk was fuly manned with 700 men. The first-clas- r of the First Japanese Army Near Wiju. The Japanese authorities at Seoul ay there have been frequent skirmishes between Sakju and WlJu. The main body of the first Japanese army la in the nelghborhod of WtJu. GOO flat bested, sandal-sho- d . About Korean infantrymen left Seoul Monday for the northern part of Ham Hiung Do province, on the frontier of Klrwln district of Manchuria, to keep in order the bandits who ara constantly embroiled with the Chi- settlers in the Tumen region, has resulted in diplomatic rep- mentations cm the subject of China, la considered doubtful whether these troops will reach their deatlna- tion, as fears are being expressed that they will desert The Japanese minister to Korea, M. Hayaehi, haa requested the Korean government to facilitate the plane of General Heraguchl, the commander of the Japanese forces at Seoul, for the thorough sanitation of Seoul and the large town, of Korea, so as not to expose the Japanese troops to the ravages of cholera and other diseases. Body MOB GOT WRONG MAN. Arrested for Murder Commit ted in Kansas. Joe Godley, the negro who was arrested In Oakland, Cal., for the killing of Polico 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 topped at the foot of the stairs, and words passed, when the officer drew his club. Godley says he warded off the blow and knocked the officer down. At that Instant he (Godley) received a bulelt wound In the face and started to run. and as he did so be 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-fa- tt from the Jail knd lynched him, although he had been locked up for drunkenness eight hours before the fatal affray. GAMBLERS Indians NEARLY Finish NAKED. Exciting Tournament A dispatch from Tacoma, Wash After a week's exciting sport the first big gamble that the Indian tribes of this locality have had for yeara came to a close Tuesday. The tribes participating were the Puyallups, the Mud Bays, the ganaxon llnnders. . the fikchomfo' In winning the game the NisqusIR have come into much property of tiiL other tribes, and Alexander Bcnghlrt? a Manually buck, who came in from the camp, says that many of the losers had srarcely enough blankets loft to keep them warm. They wagered ponies, dogs, blankets, wearing apparel, roan skins, firearms and gewgaws of all sects. The gambling was In a large shack on the Nlsqually river, atxmt four miles above the Northern Pacific bridge on the Olympia branch. says: s, SURPRISED BY RUSSIANS. Japanese Scouts Get the Worst of it In Encounter With Enemy. On the night of April 9 four Russians 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 and 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 were all killed and their boat Japanese sunk. j : ARMED MEN IN THE FIELD LOOK-- f ING FOR NEGROES. Murder of Lesding Planter by a Negro Liable to Result In War Be-tween Whites and Blacks. News from Walter county, miles north of Houston, Texas, sixty indl-th- s c10 thlt ce feeling is very high, owing to the murder near Hempstead of Tucker Pinckney, a brother of Con-nos- e grewnan J. M. Pinckney of the Houa-whlc- h j ton district j; jt appears that Pinckney and a com-I-t j , nding by a negro church While ;Wben they were fired upon. the dead man's body lay in front of J the church, a negro with a shotgun i rod f ed the crowd th t 7 did the shooting, after which he j,1 disappeared. This negro had a finger ihot off, which indicates that Pinck-othe- r d bll compRnlon returned the Board of Pardons Commutes Sentence of Idahoan Convicted of Murder. The state board of pardona at Boise, Idaho, on Monday commuted the oentence 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 wae murdered the public administrator received through the mall what purported to be a will left by him. The principal beneficiary under this will waa 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 had Levy's signature on a slip o! paper in his desk. The latter fact was testified to before the board by men who had been In Watkins em ploy. The murdered man was an old mlaer and was quite wealthy. Wat kins was Indebted to him at the time of hla death. George Levy was not a relative of the murdered man. He Is a Frenchman who rented property from the old man for immoral pur poses. , 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 lias received the following cablegram from United States Minister Wilson at Santiago de Uhlli: "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 marine hospital service will be advised so that suitable precautions may be taken at quarantine. Wants Bryan Ousted. Counsel for Mrs. Grace Imogens Bennett appeared before Probate Judge Cleveland at New Haven. Conn., with a petition that William J. Bryan be removed as executor of the estate of the late Philo 8. Bennett, the chief allegation bring that be n dissipating the funds of the estate In hla legal actions in Bltri:itlnq to probating of tho "scaio-- fottor Part of the will. The "sealed letter" gives Mr. l.ryan I.'i'J.hiu, The court will set a date for a hearing. e i a-- - p reach A hurricane has caused consider-ableamaga to property at Montevideo, Uruguay. Several vessels were driven ashore In the harbor. In the Imperial Medical academy at 8L Petersburg, a short course of conversational Japanese has been Intro duced for tbe benefit of the Japkneee Ruaeo-Ameri-ca- n r E L 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. EL B. Hunter, wife of a prominent retired merchant of Memphis, Tenn., shot herself In the temple and died before help reached her. The foil text of the treaty has been published. One clause of tbe treaty pledges the French gov- ernmeut to communicate to Great Britain any agreement entered Into Anglo-Frenc- between France and Spain on h tbe sub- ject of Morocco. Judge 8 pear in the federal court at Savannah. Ga., sentenced Harry Olsen, a well known citizen, to five of 95,0410, the limit. He waa found guilty of kidnaping one of eight do Duel Results In Death. J. W. Hawklna. who wae shot In a street fight at Inwton, O. T., over pol Itics on April 4 by I.. T. Russell, for- o the-wlnt- kotbwix0-- o merly editor of the Uwton Democrat. Is dead. He was 37 years old and or imposing figure, being 6 feet 7 Inches tail. In the recent Oklahoma legis-latur- e he was sergeant-at-arm- s of the house. Previously he had been an officer cf tho Wells-PargExpress company. and was at one time in the employ of the Southern Pacific as special officer in California, Mall advices from tha new Alaska district of Tanana Indicate that will probably gold clean-u- wounded prisoner!. Tbe Moscow Gasette publishes a historical review of the relations, concluding: "Hence forth tbe Americans will be styled tbe ungrateful Yankees." A Washington dispatch says that former Secretary of War Ellhn Root haa been agreed upon aa - temporary chairman of the national Republics convention at Chicago. Louis Drolet of 8L Roche, Canada, Are. who waa knocked out In the sixteenth v round of hla bout with George War George Goss, who was with Pinckney, says he thinks the negroes ner, the champion soldier boxer, is took the dead man for him. Over 100 dead from his injuries. armed whites are in the field after Many Greek naval officers, belonr the negroes.1 The dead man was one ing to the aristocracy are applying of the leading planters ana stockmen for permission to Join the Russian of this section. forces in the far east, and Greek physicians are also volunteering for the same purpose. ' The cases of W. 8. Taylor, Jobs 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 Tnng gulf. the Japanese have They believe missed their opportunity, the Russian! being now too strong. In a feud fight In New York City, Sunday, three brothers, Thomas, William and Michael Gilbridge, were seri- ously, if not fatally slabbed, and Harry and John McShane, also brothers, were badly wounded. With hands playing "The Star Spangled Banner and "Dixie," and 80,000 people cheering Godspeed, the battleship Virginia was launched on the 5th at the yards of the Newport News Shlpbluldlng company. The cotton goods curtailment movement In Fall River, Mass., has extendWAR-TIM8CENE IN TOKIO. ed and 15,000 operatives are Idle. Tbe total number of spindles stopped Is BELL DEFIE8 THE LAW. and bring them before the court. more than half of the numJudge Stevens severely criticised the ber of the Fall River cotton mills Cdlrmv fiincim riMii course Ct Governor JamOs H.' The censns bureau has issued a bub by Judge of District Court. and the military authorities, saying letin which gives tho estimated peps-latio- n District Juge Theron Stevens of they appeared to he in insurrection of the United States for 1903, Ouray, Colo has declared Adjutant against the courts. exclusive cf Alaska and the insular General Sherman Bell and Captain General Bell Is quoted as saying: Bulkley Wells, who are In command "If Sheriff Corbett takes us to Ouray possessions, at 79.900,389. This is an of the troops at Telluride, to be in it will have to be over the dead bodies increase of 2,059,014 since tbe censns contempt of court for not complying of all the soldlors under my command of 1900. with the writ cf habeas corpus which in this A cable from Manila says the. droncounty. He has not got men required them to bring before the enough to do that The situation de- ing of the proposed measures to secourt Charles H. Moyer, president of mands that we stay in Telluride. cure Internal revenue have been comthe Western Federation of Miners, "Mr. Moyer will never be produced pleted and published. The measures whom they are holding in confinement In court until Governor are opposed weakly by the distilling orat Telluride. The court ordered ders me to do so, unless Peabody ha escapes and tobacco growing Interests In the Sheriff Corbett to proceed to Tellu- and goes over tha range on snow Islands. ride and arrest the two military officers shoes. Pdm wealthy Chinese boys sent to Vancouver, B. C from China to be MAKAROFF. educated under the auspices of the yeara Imprisonment and to pay a fins Chinese reform association, have been drowned on Burrard inlet Thv went out In a small boat on a pleasure 1 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 1 ake I anao, where the sultan lived. The American casualties won-twmen killed, three men seriously wounded and three slightly wounded. A number of the enemys forts were destroyed. Makaroff Widely Known. The news of tlie death at Admiral Makaroff rnuced a profound sensation in naval and military circles in Washington, for he was probably, better known than any other Russian naval officer. This was because of the fact that he had visited the Unted States In 1806-9and also commanded the Russian north Pacific squadron, which brought him Into frequent contact with American naval officers in those waters, and sometimes Into American ports on the west coast. The general opinion is that Makaroff was an officer of singular ability. NEWS SUMMARY. LEVY WILL NOT HANG. RACE WAIt IN TEXAS Vice Admiral Makaroff, whose conduct of affairs at Port Arthur is winning him golden opinions in Russia. Is famous as the Inventor of used in. Russian naval ports. He was born in 1849. and made his first isit to this country in 18C3, coming with the Pacific fleet to San Francis co. In the Turkl'h war he distinguished himself In some notable torpedoing exploits. Five years ago Admiral Makaroff was In Chicago, and at that time made a trip to Mackinaw City, where he Inspected the lc crushers used la the Straits. JAPS LAND IN KOREA. Postmasters Son Goes Wrong. Edward Griffith, eon of the postmaster at Great Bend, Kan., has been arrested at Nevada, Mo., charged with stealing a registered package of 85.000 which was sent by the Traders bank at Kansas City to a banking b rinse at Great Bend on February pth. Griffith was once an employee oi the Great Bend postnlllre. and he had access to the registered packages After taking the 85.000 he fled to El Paso. Tex. Griffith has confessed to the crime. First Army 8afely Landed and Second Ready to 8tart advices received by the French government confirm tho press dispatches that Japan's first army, consisting of four army corps, la now completely landed In Korea and the second army, consisting of a similar number of corns. Is about to start. The of the second points of Briny re not known. Official Frees deported from Savannah on tho Russian bark Alice Bristol. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says the lighting in Tibet has revived irritation 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 capital Tha 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 bring organized for Finland, where a targe force of reserves is cantoned. Minister Conger at Pekin cables the department that Mr. Miller, the United States con uni at New Chuang, haa been notified by the Russian authorities that miles nave been placed rlTr ,hat neutral ships wtiii! conducted in and out in safety. Lre Spangler, a prosperous grocer of York. Pa., who styles himself The Last Prophet," and who for twelve years has been predicting the end or the world in 1908. announces that rJ!?1 w.r"e,Te mnnth" an Europe will fighting, and the United States, too. bl |
