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Show DAILY UTAH STATE JOURNAL VIII. NUMBER VOLUME 107. OG-DEN- UTAH , FRIDAY, BETWEEN UTAH. : Fight Follows Sortie by Russian Ships Attorney Critchlow Gives errific History of the Thatcher Case Republicans Op- Arthur-He- avy Losses on Both Sides. CHE MARCH 11- -A REPORTS THAT FOO DISPATCH another BATTLE IS IN progress AT PORT ARTHUR TODAY. DESTROYERS RUSSIAN THE MADE A BOAT8 AND TORPEDO AND HARBOR THE FROM SORTIE LONDON, i : : : JAPANESE THE TERRIFIC ENCOUNTER it followed in which is re- DEported THAT A RUSSIAN STROYER AND A JAPANESE TORPEDO BOAT WERE SUNK WITH ALL ON BOARD. FROM TIEN-TSIA DISPATCH CHINESE REFUSTATES THAT N HAVE ARRIVED REPORT THAT THEY SAW THE RUSSAND IAN ARMY RETREATING BURNING VILLAGES AS IT FALLS GEES WHO ! BACK. posed Smoot Candidacy WASHINGTON, March 11. Resuming his statement begun yesterday afternoon before the senate committee which has charge of the Smoot cnae, witness K. 11. Critchlow of Salt Lake said that in the campuign which Apostle Moses Thatcher made as a candidate for the United Stales senate in 1896 he Issued an appeal to the young voters of Utah asking them to unite with him to relieve the people from tlie political domination of the Mormon church. The appeal was Issued just after Thatcher was deposed from the apostleship and In It he admitted the right to depose him from church office, hut protested against any attempt to control his political views or the exercise of the franchise hy the citizens of Utah. Evans Discussing the bill introduced In the legislature of Utah in 1901, the purpose of which wan to limit prosecutions for certain classes of offenses, witness Urltclilow said that five or six of the apostles had given interviews In favor of Its passage, including President Snow and Apostle Joseph F. Smith, now president of the church. Apostle Srnoot merely said that he proposed to leave the matter of enacting the law to the good sense of the legislature. The measure attracted general atand tention aroused indignation throughout the country because it was taken to be in the Interest of polygamists. Th bill passed the house and senate, but the governor, himself a Mormon, vetoed it. After the veto the bill failed of passage despite the urging of the Deseret News, the recognised organ of the church. Coming to the candidacy of Apostle Smoot, which was announced early in 1902, the witness spoke of there being considerable opposition among Republican Mormons and to his candidacy and frequent expression of opinion were made as to the impropriety of sending an apostle to the United States senate. The Ministerial association of Salt Lake had issued a statement calling attention to an interview by Smoot in which he professed not to know that certain apostles of the church were still living in polygamous cohabitation and proposing to furnish him with names and dates to prove that his associates were still violating the law that way. A wrangle between counsel ensued over the admission of the Smoot interview. It wns finally develoied that Smoot positively denied having given the Interview and it was agreed to strike out reference to the matter. An adjournment of the committee was taken until 2 oclock. anti-polyga- my ed PETERSBURG, MARCH 11. THAT TODAYS IT IS REPORTED TORPEDO BOAT SORTIE IS THE RESULT OF THE NEW POLICY OF WHO HAS ADMIRAL MAKAROFF, OF COMMAND ASSUMED JUST HE THE PORT ARTHUR FLEET. ALSO ORDERED THE REMOVAL OF THE BATTLESHIP RETVIZAN, STRANDED AT THE MOUTH OF THE HARBOR, TO ALLOW FREE 8T. BATTLESHIPS. PASSAGE OF RUSSIAN TROOPS WILL BE DETAINED AT HARBIN March 11. It ia officially that in consequence of the ibeence of definite knowledge of the whereabouts of the Japanese troops, the Russian army corps which Just arrived at Harbin will be detained there. This will entail great hardships on the troops as the accommodations at MUKDEN', mounted llukden are meager. : Despatching men, horses and gmm. across the wide plains of Manchuria, the Russians are confronted by frequent physical dlfflculllca A typical snag of this character is seen in the picture, where In transporting heavy artillery across a frozen lake, it requires all the skill of officers and men, and all the strength of their horses, to surmount the Impediments Nature, in her sweet winter mood, has placed In the iulh of their progress. RUSSIAN ACCOUNT OF FIRST PORT ARTHUR NAVAL BATTLE 1 ST. PETERSBURG, March 11. No-- 1 vokral, a Port Arthur newspaper, copies of which have Just arrived, the naval battle of February de-scri- RUSSIAN TROOPS RAPIDLY GOING TO THE FRONT 9th from the Russian standpoint It says that four battleships, five cruis- March 11. The Central one transport composed the News correspondent en route for Port ers and The battleships Ret-vizArthur telegraphs from Verksyhneu-flnsf- c, Russian fleet. and Czarevitch were too badly Siberia: T have seen little but troops bur- Injured by torpedoes the night prening to the front The soldiers are in excellent spirits and warmly clad. The Grand Duke Coun-HU- w Vladlmirovitch, Alexandrovsky, the chief delegate Red Cross, and two detach-m- nt of the sanitary corps crossed KILLING Lke Balknl by train yesterday. LONDON, an At 8 in the participate. cruisers rounded four morning Jap fast The Llaotshin promontory. cruiser Boyarin was sent to reconnol-te- r and returned repotring a large Japanese fleet sighted at 11 oclock, composed of twelve vessels, six battleships and six cruisers. The Japs opened fire at four miles. The Russians replied and their land batteries followed their fleet into action, Vice vious to roy Allexeif and staff observing the from one of the Japanese vessels and buttle from Golden hill. The enemy It is believed she sank. It was learnsteamed in about five thousand yards, ed later that six of the enemy's ships then headed south and dlsapeared in were damaged and a hundred men the mist Their fire was directed killed and wounded. The account says that the speed of chiefly against the Golden hill batter-rle- s, a perfect rain of shells falling. the Russian cruisers prevented the Only the Novik, Askold and Diana Japanese from getting range. sustained injuries. The cruiser Novik dial Inguf shed ItToward the end of the engagement self by attacking the battleship a column of steam and smoke poured STORM WROUGHT HAVOC JEWS anti-germa- AND POUTICS IN FLEETS. ATTACKED A FLEET. 11, 1904. is on RUSSIAN ARTILLERY ADVANCING ON THE ICE. CHURCH battle at Port MARCH DEATH B ALONG PACIFIC COAST HASTENED HANGMAN RIOTS n AT HUNGARIAN SAN FRANCISCO, CAPITAL Cal., March 11. less by the undermining of their foun- Dying Murderer Dunn Expiated Hebrew Paper Declares That Fresh With the restoration of telegraphic dations. ocean TKAGUE, storm of have No His Crime On the Scaffold disasters communication from Comthe reports reports Hungary, March 11. Outrages Have Been wreckto been the received are stricken section beyond pour yet beginning manifestations worked up Today. mitted at Kishiceff in. They are almost unanimous that ing of the schooner Mabel Gray at political leaders last night cul "insted In a big force of police anti-Germ- hr riot an A with difficulty German property. Protected PREPARE warm reception FOR THE JAPANESE CHE FOO, LONDON. March 11. The Jewish Morning World declares that the news from Kishlneff. via Bukovina. shows that fresh outrages against the Jews have taken place there. A mob paraded the streets, drove the Ghetto stores people Indoors and sacked the women and men and houses. Many were beaten and several were fatally hurt. It is believed that some were March 11. A Chinaman has just arrived from Korea re-P- rt hat fifteen thousand tons of l soaked with kerosene has been Jeed at the mouth of the Talu In Giness to be fired in the event of killed. Japanee attempting to land there. In The military finally succeeded B ayi that the Russians have made rioters. the dispersing Preparation to evacuate their The World hints that even worse dewdtion. tails of the outrages are forthcoming. 11110 polish socialists show hostility TO RUSSIA SENATE CONSIDERING WOOLEYS NOMINATION the rain was the heaviest the state has experienced in years. The havoc wrought by the water and wind was greater than at first supposed. The railroads are among the heaviest sufferers. The merchants of many cities lost much by the flooding of their stores. Quite a number of buildings were practically rendered worth THEIR WHITE the Trial of Chicagos Trio of Youthful Bandits March 11. Die Post re 11. Sena0'11 WASHINGTON. Maf-cSocialists are flood In th18 to relative "tem provinces of Russia tor Carmacks resolution -11 oolly, H. Smith of manifestos the appointment curse the esar. Japan' the Mormon bishop nominated as s fill us with at Boise. Ida., was taken up by CHICAGO, March 11. The case of exuberant de In executive session this the young car barn desperadoes. Van senate the Dine, Nledermeyer and Marx, which morning. GerMan TROOPS has been on trial for sixty-fodays, TO was given to the jury at 12:20 this RESPITE. GRANTED G,VE N0 QUARTEB COLLINS Tt BERUv Colafternoon. ' arth ST. LOUIS. March 11. George The German roon. The evidence Introduced at the trial at been to hanged was have "thwest Africa have been lins. who noT? not t0 Kve pardon and take Union, Mo., today, hns been granted was strong against all three. The Judge's charge was unfavorable 2Sth by GoverbUt 10 "h00t the rebel a respite until March to the defendants. Indiscriminately. nor Dockery. JEKLIX. h r anti-Russi- an as-say- er ur HerZT Redondo, near Los Angeles. The vessel was pounding on the beach when a ST. JOSEPH, Mo.. March 11. Miheavy line was thrown to it. This waB tied to two street cars and the schoo- chael Dunn, who murdered Alfred CRITCHLOW TELLS OF ner was beached. The crew came in Fenton, a farmer, at Rushvllle in MOSES THATCHER'S CASE July, on the rope. 1902, after a quarrel at a dance, was WASHINGTON. March ll. At the The heavy rains last night In southhanged this morning. session of the Smoot case executive ern California were of Incalculable Monday last Dunn escaped from jail certain proceedings from yesterday benefit and in his three days' flight wns atcase of Apostle Teaadale the divorce tacked and overcome by pneumonia. were put Into the records as evidence. Weakness from the disease was res The admissions made In that case sponsible for his capture on Wednes- were offered by the prosecution to day. That night, though almost bed combat the testimony of President Joridden, he escaped again but his libF. Smith that Teasdale was marAG seph erty was of short duration, capture ried to Lillian Shook for eternity only being effected next day. was not considered as Dunn had to be almost carried up and that she Teasdales when he contracted the wife the steps to the scaffold and the spec marriage. j of executing a man whose Illness Senate Committee Takes Up the,haa The records and testimony in the brought hJm t0 the verge of the case and the decree are unprintable. i of ChafgeS Against Dietrich grave had its terrifying aspect. At the afternoon session of the comThed ocors predicted that Dunn Nebraska. would have died a natural death by mittee Attorney Tayler for the prosecution called to the stand E. B. CritchSunday at the latest low, formerly United States district attorney in Utah. He is one of the WASHINGTON, March 11. The for- IDAHO CLOUDBUR8T Smoot. In mal Investigation of the charges that THREATENS DESTRUCTION Protestants against Senator IMS he was appointed assistant dis- Senator Dietrich of Nebraska used his trlct attorney and in 1890 again took BOISE. Ida., March 11. A cloud official position to his personal finana similar position at Salt Lake City. cial advantage In the appointment of burst occurred today on Little Camas He hns served as school trustee and the postmaster at Hastings. Neb., and prairie, seventy-fiv- e miles from here. In the legislature for one term. He the leasing of the building there for The water in the Boise river Is rising of the passage of the Edmunds spoke was commenced here and people on the lowlands have postofflee purpose act in 1882, the first law making po- of the sen- been warned. No lives have been re before the ate Judiciary committee this morning. ported lost. ( Continued on Page 5.) L FATE IN OF End of ns SNOW . I ' |