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Show DAEY UTAH STATE JOUENAI VOLUME VIII NUMBER TJTAI--I OGDEN, 98. 1 TUESDAY, MARCH 1904. 1, GUNS HAMMERING?: PORT ARTHUR RUSSIAN STRONGHOLD MAY FALL TODAY YinAW, March 1. The terrific bombardment of Port Arthur by the UNITED MINE WORKERS Japanese fleet continues today. It is believed that the Japanese will capture Port Arthur before the AND OPERATORS CLASH day is over. The reply of the Russian guns is not so vigorous or heavy as during yesterdays bombardment. Efforts to Arbitrate Their Differences Fail and ST. PETERSBURG, (via. Emden, Prussia), Harch 1 News has been Nearly Two Hundred Thousand Coal received here that the Japanese attacked Port Arthur today and were reMiners May Strike in April. pulsed with heavy losses. SMOOT HEARING TO JAPANESE OCCUPY A KOREAN TOWN BEGIN TOMORROW i Armies Are Massing In a Postponement Made Because of the al of Utah Witnesses Threatening Manner on the at National Capital. Manchurian Border. Chinese Non-Arriv- PETERSBURG, March 1. Word was received toIchio-yanday that the Japanese occupied the Korean town of north of Ping Yang, and are fortifying the town walls. ARussian detachment was reported in the neighborhood yesterday and it was expected that it would occupy the ST. g, place. Chinese Troops Massing at Manchurian that Is the desire of the committee meetings will be held daily and be made public. Former Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle and Taylor Washington, March l. Because of the absence of A. S. Worthington, principal counsel for the defense, and al of witnesses from Utah the Smoot the Investigation, which was to have begun this morning, was posttomorrow. poned until 10 o'clock Chairman Burrows of the senate committee on elections announced that it non-arriv- are representing the protest-antWalderman Van Cott of Salt Lake Is the only representative of Senator Smoot on hand. of Ohio s. Border. PEKIN, Mar. 1. The Chinese troops at Liachau on WORLD'S FAIR FLOODS CONTINUE reinfthe gulf of Pechili, are Port Arthur, being opposite orced. General Yunsliikai with ten thousand men is near HAS STRIKE OH 'DESTRUCTIVE WORK Yung Ping Fu, Pechili province, not far from the Manchurian border, while General Ma has fifteen thousand fresh troops now arriving in that province. WASHINGTON, March 1. Much of the time of the cabinet meeting this morning was spent in discussing Panama canal matters. It was decided not to send troops to the Isthmus and to depend entirely on the marines for guard duty there. Accordingly Secretary Tuft, after the meeting, withdrew the orders for the Third Infantry to prepare to go to Colon. . Thousand Laboring Men Refuse to Thousands of Acres Along the San Joaquin River in California Accept Reduction of Wages to Are Under Water. Summer Scale. say Road Across Lake Baikal Open. PETERSBURG, March 1. Irkutsk advices the first complete train of twenty-fiv- e cars crossed Lake Baikal on the ice railroad this morning superintended by 8T. LOIS. March 1. A thousand laPrince Khilkoff. on the worlds fair grounds borer A letter from Vladivostok dated February 17tli says struck this morning when Informed that five hundred Chinese brigands are terrorizing the dist- that the twenty cents an hour summer rict of Ninguta. The warships in the harbor then were scale had been restored. the Rossia, Gromoboi and Rurik and the a. The board of lady managers of the transport The port is frozen hard. fair, Mrs. Manning presiding, met toA Japanese barber shot a Russian officer dead and day and heard the report of the committee which appealed to congress for then announced himself as captain of the J apanese general a special appropriation of $100,090 and taffBand not used to taking insults. ST. Mos-hov- it The board will arrange various schemes for the advancement of the women's exhibit and club entertainments. got Harauders Cripple Manchurian Railway. 1. Port Arthur advices state that the Manchurian railway suffered considerably A large number of locomotives and cars have been disabled. hy the continued acts of marauders. 4 Chinese Papers Ordered to Desist. LONDON, March 1. The Central News correspondent n says that Chinese papers have been ordered by Chinese military authorities to cease publishing reports f Russian cruelties fearing to influence the popular mini Against the Russians. The Droprietors of the Pekin Times Tien-Tsi- ve refused to comply. Anti-Je- w Demonstrations in Russia. Russian dispatches today state press is stimulating the jmong people, accusing the Jews of purchasing horses forJapan. Widespread onslaughts are anti-Semetis- Jew-baiti- m ng Russian Cruiser Blocked in Suez Canal. lOIiT SAII), March 1. Five Russian torpedo boats have arrived from Suez, reporting the Russian cruiser arora blocked in the canal. Thousand Soldiers Permanently Disabled, Mar. 1. A Reuters Cologne dispatch says Usian officials confirm the report that a thousani Rn soldiers are permanently unfitted for service as tclan, result of being frost bitten. Pirate telegram this evening states that a Russian lnP as been f(1. sighted cruising off the Azores watching . contrabands. SAN JOSE, Cal., March 1. A big non known as Hannibal got loose this morning and killed a horse, devouring the animals liver and heart The lion Is now free In a car at the depot and has the railroad men terrorised. The car Is a frail cattle car and should the beast try It could break the door and escape. . HORSE THIEF BURN8 HI8 WAY FROM JAIL BERLIN, March 1. that the Russian tu FIERCE LION CAU8E8 A REIGN OF TERROR SACRAMENTO. Cal., March 1. W. the Jail at Grid-le- y, C. Sowell, confined In and charged with horse stealing burned his way out through the door last night with a lighted candle. He stood on a chair and burned the roof so It would not bum too fast. TOLEDO, O., March The Standa cut of 1. ard Oil company today made three cOnts a gallon in the east and west It Is understood, la that ments In the Kansas field the Ohio field must take The result is that high crude oil price of The reason. the developIndicate that a back seat prices are doomed. ERIE FLYER WRECKED; DICK IS CHOSEN HANNA'S SUCCE8SOR that ST. PETERSBURG, March Forces the Trust to Make ' a Reduction. Sending the Third Infantry to Colon. 8EVEN TRAINMEN HURT SCRANTON, Pa., March 1. The COLUMBUS, Ohio, March "L Conwas Erie wrecked in a head-o- n flyer STOCKTON, Cal., March 1. The degressman Charles Dick whs today collision with a "pusher" engine two flood from the Sacramento river which clared the choice of the senate by a miles north of Carbondale this mornyesterday swept south across a wide vote of twenty-fiv- e to four to succeed ing. Reven of the crew were injured reclaimed strip of country to the Make-lumSenator Hanna. There was no enthuhut no passengers. river Is now flowing west to the siasm. t FARMERS TO ORGANIZE San Joaquin river breaking all levees In the house Mr. Buchtel, in presentBIG ELEVATOR COMPANY in Its path. Today It flooded the Brack ing Congressman Dick's name, uredic.t-e- d tract of 6,000 acres, the Staten Island that he would be president 1. The OMAHA. March Neb., tract of 10,000 acres and the Sargent Fanners National met Exchange today tract of 6,000 acres. The flood now se- TRYING TO GET A and to for proposed capitalise fifty riously threatens Bouldln Island. A P08TAL INVESTIGATION millions and take the grain produce been large number of cattle have elevator business into Its own hanfis. drowned and the surviving animals March 1. RepreWASHINGTON, Stock subscriptions will be limited to are being removed by steamers from sentative Cowherd of Misouri today three hundred shares to one member. tops of levees. introduced & resolution In the house TRUCK DRIVERS STRIKE. calling for an investigation of the adSCHOONER WRECKED; KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 1. Over ministration of the poatofflee departPART OF CREW 8AVED ment A committee of five is 300 union truck drivers went on strike provided. this morning to enforce the closed shop NORFOLK, Va., March 1. The Dia- ALLEGED DISCRIMINATION principle. Seventy policemen hired by mond Shoals lightship brought In six association AGAINST WESTERN SHIPPERS the Employers are on schooof the crew of the dlty. ner Davis of Bath, derelict. Captain ' WA SHINGTON.March 1. Mr. CowOPERATION WA8 A SUCCESS. Erwin and three others of the crew herd (Dem.) of Missouri today Introwere picked up at sea. The Davis was duced a resolution In the house diCHICAGO, March 1. President Harof the University of Chicago was rammed by an unknown schooner in per recting the committee on commerce to the dead of night successfully operated on this morning Investigate the charges by shippers of for appendicltic. live stock that they are not fairly FARMER BLOWN TO treated by the railways of the west FORMER WAR MINISTER DEAD. PIECE8 BY DYNAMITE ST. PETERSBURG, March 1. For-m- er SNOW STALLS TRAINS Minister of War Annovskl died SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 1. AIN NEW YORK STATE last night. lbert Mattmlller, while driving leisurely along with a box of dynamite, 1. NEW YORK. March The severest SHOE SHINER IN TROUBLE. caps and fuse on the seat beside him snowstorm of the season Is prevailing in the buggy, was blown to atoms, and has stalled all trains between with the horse and vehicle. He Utica and Onlelda, where the fall' Is Oscar McKennon Under Arrest on had bought the dynamite to blast from three to five feet deep. Charge of Assault and stones on hla farm. ne four-mast- ed er CAYS BULGARIA JAPAN REPLIES TO RUSSIAS CHARGES WASHINGTON, March 1. The Jap-ane- mencing military operations before a mlnlater received thia afternoon formal declaration of war. The docufrom the foreign offlee at Toklo the Im- ment la being translated and will be made public In full thla evening. perial proclamation netting forth the reIn addition to denying the charges ply of the Japanese government to the the proclamation asserts that Russia charges recently made by Russia that herself acted In bad faith, not only by Japan acted treacherously and in vlo-Int- lo continuing the occupation of Manchuof the new law of nation in com ria but by threatening Korea. 8HOULD BE RU8SIA'8 FRIEND SOFIA, March 1. Prince Ferdinand quoted aa having intimated In private conversation that Bulgaria should be the ally of Russia as she was Bulgaria's liberator. , la ae SAN FRANCISCO HAS THE 8HAKES SAN FRANCISCO. March 1. An earthquake shock was felt In all parts of the city this morning, but did no There were two distinct damage. oscillation. Battery. Oscar McKennon, the colored shoe shiner at Davenport' saloon on Twenty-fifth street. Is under arrest on complaint of E. Stahl, who chargea him with assault. The shoeblack claims that he made a contract with Stahl to shine his shoes for 25 cents. He raised the price on him because It really was an undertaking that should be contracted for. The shine over the other shine began. Stahl wanted to pay 15 cent only; he ronnldered that sufficient. McKennon wouldn't ntand for It and handed Stahl a knock out. Explanation will be made tonight |