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Show OGDEN,UTAH VIII. NUMBER 304. VOLUME THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1904 T Says Squadron Fired On Ships Supposed to Have -Been Japanese Torpedo BoatsThought That Situation Will Be Cleared Up Shortly President Spends Greater Part of the Day In His Office Attendof Business With ing to Matters The Secretary Loeb. D. C.. Oct. 87. For fourth time President Roosevelt passed a birthday anniversary In White House. This was his forty-lixt- h birthday and hundreds of con- WASHINGTON, gw ftp, die BRITISH OFFICIALS gratulatory letters and telegrams ived to remind him of the day. Cabl-oroom and the president's private ojBee were filled with exquisite floral pent the offerings. The president in his office, of the day part pester and with Secretary Loeb attended to matters of business. At luncheon there tere several guests in addition to the members of the president's family, and s considerable number of invitations sere sent to intimate friends to attend a sort of an informal birthday dinner tonight The following is a list of the places at which the president spent various birthdays: at Harvard College: Twenty-fir- st in Europe; twenty-thir- d, twenty-secon- d, campaigning as nominee for memstate legislature; twenty-fourt- h, ber of New York legislature; twenty-fift- h, member of New York legislature; member of New York twenty-sixt- h, on ranch legislature; twenty-sevent- h, twenty-eight- h, North Dakota; hi working on his "Life of Gouverneur Morris; thirtieth, working on first volume of his Winning of the West; member national civil serthirty-firs- t, workvice commission; thirty-secon- d, ing on his "History of New York;" civil service commission; thirty-thircivil service commission; thirty-fourtcivil service commission; thirty-fiftcivil service commission; thirty-sixtpresident New York board of police commissioners; thirty-eight- h, president of New York board f police commissioners;, thirty-nint- h, distant secretary of the navy; fortieth, campaigning as candidate for governor of New York; forty-firs- t, governor of New York; forty-secon- d, president of the United States; forty-thir- d, president of the United States; president of the United 8tates; forty-fift- h, president of the United States; forty-sixt- h, president of the United States. arr- IN CONFERENCE et Cabinet Meeting Called to Consider Situation Growing Out oi the Bencken-dor- ff LONDON, Oct called at the home of Foreign Secreary Lansdowne early this morning with further dispatches. The nature of these was not disclosed. While Lansdowne and Embassador Benckendorff were In consultation this morning M. Cambon, French Ambassador, called at the foreign secretary's home. Count Benckendorff left the foreign secretary's home at noon and was followed shortly by M. Cambon. Lord Lansdowne then hurried to the foreign office. The cabinet will not meet until tomorrow noon in order to allow all members to reach London. On arrival at the foreign office Lord Lansdowne was met by Premier Balfour, Lord Lord Selboume, Salisbury, first lord admiral and Attorney-Gener- al Finley. The meeting lasted until I oclock. At 2:15 Count Benckendorff made a second visit to the Lansdowne house, presumably to obtain lnforma-27,-C- ount h, h, h, thirty-sevent- h, office. BALFOUR SUMMON8 CABINET MEETING LONDON, Oct. 27. Premier Balfour at midnight dispatched a summons for a meeting of the cabinet tomorrow. This act is the result of the failure of Russia to send a satisfactory reply to the British demands and is taken as a symptom of the Increasing gravity of the situation. forty-fourt- h, ENGINEER at the foreign SWIFT LEAVE8 FOR BILLINGS, MONT. WAD8WORTH, Nev., Oct 27. W. ENGLAND ASSURED OF E. Swift, who has had charge of part AMERICAN SYMPATHY iff the Truckee-Carso- n Irrigation pro- near this place, has been transferred to Billings, Mont., wherC he will have entire charge of the engineering work on the Crow reservation, which is to be irrigated. Engineer Swift is regarded as one of the strongest men that was ever sent out by the interior department ject DEADLOCK Central LONDON, Oct 27. The News asserts that the secretary of the American embassy, Henry White, has assured Lord Lansdowne of America's entire sympathy and moral support Henry White, secretary of the American embassy, denies the statement attributed to him that America will render England moral support PUNISHMENT ON OF RU8SIANS CONTINUES FUNERALS OF THE he Oct FISHERMEN ILL-FATE- D The deadlock on the punishment of the Russian officers responsible for the North Sea tragedy continues. Russia maintains that the demand for such punishment is against Russia's sovereignty rights and cannot LONDON, 27. FLEET TIME TO COAL FRENCH MINISTER WILL Spain has granted ACT AS MEDIATOR Permission to the Baltic fleet to take four hundred tons of coal each. The BIRMINGHAM, Eng.. Oct 27. The et will probably leave Vigo Post learns that French Foreign Minister Delcasse has offered his services as mediator between England and Rusfinancial interests sia should such service he needed. He ASSURED OF PEACE makes the offer as an ally of Russia and a friend of England. NEW VIGO, Oct 27. YORK, Oct 27. Jsst received by several Information of the largest international banking Interests of this city says peace between Britain nd Russia is assured. the czar has report OF ADMIRAL ROJESTVENSKY The St of the Central y Jews this morning wires: I am informed that the Csar has full Admiral RoJeatvenakys report.- LONDON. Oct. 27. Peters-correspond- offl-H- re-w- ed Oct. 27. as a re-the report of the Slocum dlsas- President Roosevelt has Instructed Secretary Metcalf to order a search -investigation of the steamboat service in every department Jfor Admiral Kempff will investigate 2Bin atrlct whose headquarters are In Francisco. THIKES f OIL WAGON oct ' east-bouAURORA. Neb, Oct 27. An train Burlington passenger struck an oil wagon today. A hundred thrown over gallons of gasoline weresoon enveloped the engine, which was Parkinson was in flames. Engineer taken out dying. Fireman Lassler was cremated. nd CHANNEL FLEET IS AWAITING ORDERS At today's the congress p ll EDINBURGH, Oct. 27. The home Booth of Los Angeles, read a pa-- rr on the lies at anchor in Firth of Forth fleet West Responsibility of the the Nation." awaiting orders. Trans-Miaslsalp- 27. pi i n, 1,-2- 82 al 200,-000,0- an al twenty-secon- Nei-berg- er, forty-thre- Forty-secon- of ADDRESSES THE CONGRESS ST LOUIS, BY UNKNOWN BATTLESHIP Kuro-patkl- n. A Hundred Gallons of Gasoline Is E PRESIDENT Thrown Over Engine FireORDER8 A SEARCHING IMVBSTIGATION man Cremated. Washington, SWEDISH STEAMER FIREDAT Trans-Siberi- ed entertained. takings In History First Train Was Started By Mayor McClellan of New York. four-year-o- ld HULL, Eng., Oct. 27. The funerals of Captain Smith and Second Officer trawler Crane Leggott of the were held today. Immense crowds attended. Business was suspended and flags on all buildings were at half mast Hundreds of wreaths were received, including one from King Edward. IPAIN GRANT8 BALTIC , Under- NEW YORK, Oct. 27. The Rapid Transit railroad, he subway, as It la Benck-e- n LONDON, tut 27. Admiral RoJestvi. sky's report reached Count popularly known, and the most colossal dorff this morning and was quickly conveyed to the government It is un- FIGHTING RESUMED undertaking of its kind In the worlds opened today history, was formally derstood that the admiral states that hejnever had any intention of firing on ceremonies. with The exerImposing aa it Dogfleet were Russian noticed passed the which trawlers the by early SHAKHE cises took place under the Joint ausON THE I ger Bank. pices of the Interborough company and Among the trawlers the Russians not wed two steamers, moving at a high the board of aldermen. In City hall rate of apeed, which looked exactly llkej torpedo boats. Rojestvensky conjiark, where the great downtown terminal Is located and where the first the cluded that they were Japanese torpedo, boats, and adds the opinion that The Japanese Open the Fire But spndeful of earth was turned, the prin-cliceremonies of the day took place squadron fired against these two ships! Are Repulsed By Sakharoffs shortly before noon. The park and He denies that a Russian warship win left behind for six hours and city hall were lavishly decorated. Forces. never lowered a boat to assist the Injured. He says: Bishou Potter opened the ceremonies with prayer and was followed by an Russian officers were totally ignorant of the shots having struck the address by Alexander E. Orr, president trawlers." of the Rapid Transit commission, who dis27. A ST. PETERSBURG, Oct turned the subway over to the city. On behalf of himself and the officers and men of the fleet he regrets the from Mukden reports that fight- Mayor McClellan accepted the trust, patch firing on the trawlers and the fact that the fishermen Buffered. ing along the Shahke river was re- and then turned the road over to August Belmont, president of the InterOne of the foreign torpedo boats disappeared after the firing while the sumed at 10 o'clock last night borough company, who also made a General Sakharoff reports today: brief address. other remained until morning waiting for its companion. The admiral asks Archbishop Farley , what warship it was that was noticed hovering near the scene and declares Japanese opened fire on our forces closed the ceremonies. At 10 o'clock the first train was adRussians last the whereupon night were of fired both ships he unmistakably warship type. against started over the road, operated by vanced and repulsed them, subsequentMayor McClellan In person. Bands of It is the opinion of the Russian embassy that the situation will very ly returning to our positions." music were stationed at all the princiThe official messenger today prints pal stops along the route. Included shortly be cleared, now that Admiral Rojestvenakys report Is received. A among the passengers on the first train Imperial rescripts placing General pacific solution, it is said, may be reached at any moment were the city officials, officials of the In command chief of the The foreign office announces that no statement regarding the situation company, a large party of Interborough ofnrea in the Far East. The Csar says will be issued tonight distinguished engineers and other inhe feels confident that Kuropatkin will vited guesta. Promptly at midnight A Paris correspondent learns on the highest authority that within twenty-f"Break the obstinacy of the enemy's tonight the road will be opened to the our hours Russia will give complete satisfaction, including an apology, forces, thereby assuring to Russia general public. That part of the road that will be operated for the. present peace in the Far East payment of indemnity, and a full investigation. includes the whole of the main line from city hall park to the Harlem river THE STEAMER 8I8HAN on the upper west side. It is expected HAS BEEN RELEA8ED to have the entire west side line opened to traffic within a month or so and Y7. Oct. The British also the east side branch to the Bronx. NAGASAKI, steamer Sishan, captured before Port The great subway opened today conArthur by the Japanese as an alleged sists of twenty-on- e miles of railroad carrier of contraband, has been re- under the streets. The city's, teeming ... leased,' a, . actual work of Construction ' has taken Just four years and the cost has JAPS ADVANCE ON exceeded $50,000,000. When the entire VILLAGE OF JERDAGAN LONDON, Oct. 27. Lloyds has a telegram from Gefle asserting that the system is completed it will enable one to travel from the limits of Swedish steamer Aldebaran has been fired at by a battleship in Skagerack, 27. The Japanese to the northernmost end of Brooklyn MUKDEN, Oct. Manhatto the north of Belt The shot did not take effect have advanced to the village of Jerda-ga- tan entirely underground. captured the palace after an ail A dassling array of facta and figures night fight. tell the story of the building of the mammoth underground road. For inTRANS-SIBERITRIES TO BURN AN 30,000 COLONISTS stance, more than 3,000,000 cubic yards GO TO CALIFORNIA of dirt and rock were blasted and dug from the streets of the crowded city. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27. The To tear away the rock 900,000 pounds CHILD'S TONGUE COMPLETES BRANCH Southern Pacific passenger department of dynamite were used. Eleven thousstates that the westbound colonist and men were employed in the work travel to California over its lines from and of this number several hundred September 15th to October 8th last lost their lives through accidents, premature explosions, cave-in- s amounted to 13,574 first class and and fallMother Pleads Guilty to Making second class, or a total of 14.865 ing rock.. The Circum-BaikRailway Is In people, as compared with 7,009 first It is estimated that the road will Effort to Thrust Poker in class and 1.923 second class, nr a total carry 115,000,000 passengers a year. Successful Son's Mouth. of 8,932 for the same period of last The fare is 5 cents. When the ex, tension to Brooklyn, under the East year. The colonist rate expired on October river, has been completed it is esti15th and the railroad people think that mated that the road will carry between October 8th and 15th at least passengers a year. 27 SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Oct SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 27. Jules 5.000 more people entered the state, or Express trains will run through the Convicted of having tried to burn out about 20,000 all told. About 10,000 subway at the rate of a mile a minute of the the tongue of her son, Clerfayt, general agent people entered the state over the for the benefit of the long haul from railroad here, has been off- Santa Fe line on the colonist rate. The the Bronx to the busiest Mrs. Mary Maggllo will be given the sections of heaviest sentence the law provides, icially notified by the Paris office of total by both lines for the period be- the city below Fourteenth street Lotween 15th and October cal trains will stop at all of the unand Justice Price, In so stating said that company and the International 15th Is,September 80,000 people therefore, derground stations, every half dosen of Car company Europe, he deeply regretted that the whipping- Sleeping blocks along the route. The tunnel on a which service that has that road, in was to not available order post Is ventilated by a system of electric give the punishment deserved. the branch line around Lake Baikal, HOMEOPATHIC fans and illuminated the entire route 80CIETY The story of the torture seems so known as the Circum-Baikrailway, MEETS IN SPRINGFIELD by Incandescent lights. incredible that almost any testimony A trip through the great tunnel Is all in has successful been operation since might have been doubted. had not the that is necessary to convince one of 27. 111, Oct SPRINGFIELD, The month. of is 25th the miles It last 1(1 Its entire security. prisoner pleaded guilty and confessed White enameled to all the particulars of the cruelty, long and is now a part . of the main Central Illinois Homeopathic Medical bricks wall up the sides to the bricked Its hold d annual arch overhead. proved against her by other wltnesaea line of the road between Russia and society In Everything else Is of Springfield today, the ses- stone and Involved with the mother of the boy Vladivostok and Dalny and Port Ar- meeting steel, and heavy plate glass sions ' held in the court being supreme is a Mra Bartioratti, who lives with thur. of the state capital. The meet- at the stations to let the light in from the Magglioa The new piece of road takes the roomwas It would seem devoted entirely to the bureau the etreet overhead. ing The two women were talking when place of the ferry system across Lake of !e for a disaster to occur Imposed of which Dr. W. E. medicine, e little Jack Maggllo asked for some Baikal, a distance of miles. where eery thing Is as new and perfect, of is chairman. Bloomington, to food. Hu mother is said have struck Heretofore entire trains have been opnrently, as It is within the power him In the face, and, echoing probably carried across the lake on large ferry The treatment of tuberculosis was one ol man to contrive. The of pneumatic the matters discussed. principal words he had heard all too often, he steamers Last winter, when Russia block system is pronounced by exretaliated with an epithet in Spanish. was rushing troops to General pert to be the most wonderful thing In Manchuria, a track was laid If my child called me that, I would of ! kind In the world and it is calburn out bis tongue, said the Bartio- on the solid Ice of the lake and trains I. culi1 ted to make collisions Impossible. M. PEERY run across As the Ice grew thin with ratti woman. The cars have steel bottoms, copper Then a poker was heated and Mrs. the approach of spring thousands of sheathed sides, and there Is very little screamheld the Bartioratti. it is said, soldiers tramped across on the Ice. wood In their construction. The lighting child while his mother attempted The new piece of road has been a difing system Is entirely separate from to place the poker In his mouth. ficult and costly undertaking and on the power plant that will move the The child struggled against the tor- that account would not have been built trains by means of the third rail. ture and grasped the red hot iron with for a number of years but for the war. The route of the main line Is up his hands. The hands are badly burnThe railroad continues to be crowdFourth avenue to d street, ed. The mother persisted In her en- ed with troops and supply trains so then up Broadway until One Hundred deavor, and little Jack will carry to that a regular freight and passenger Man Charged With Burning Chic- and Fourth street is reached. There it his grave the marks of the terrible service for the public Is suspended branches Iijto two sections. The first burns that reach from the corner of and will continue so indeflitely. ago Locomotive Works Will continues straight out Broadway to his mouth well under one of his ears. Kingsbrldge, a distance of more than Answer Charges. The scar la as wide as a man's two BABY LOCOMOTIVE TO fourteen miles from Battery Park. hollowed one a SUPPLANT COOLIE has LABOR fingers, at point, The second section runs east, cutting outlook that would indicate that the off a solid rock corner of Central Park, iron almost penetrated the Infants SAN FRANCISCO,' Oct 27. There then north through Lenox avenue and cheek. There are also marks about is being sent from Philadelphia, by CHICAGO, Oct 27. Attorneys for L on to the borough of the Bronx. the left eye, one Just beneath It and way of this port to Japan, for use N. Perry, until The first train waa started this aftoday president of the another Just under the eyebrow. along the Japanese coast as a substi- Bank of North America, announced at ternoon by Mayor McClellan with a tute for coolie labor, a tiny locomosilver who went through the PARKER TO SPEAK tive. It only weighs 6,500 pounds, has noon that Perry has decided to sur- tunnel controller, with specially Invited guests. TO DEMOCRATS TOMORROW a tank of fifty gallons of water and render himself and answer any charges Simultaneously trains started from Is built to burn soft coal. made against him. This action, to- various statlona NEW TORK. Oct 27. Judge Parker The diameter of the drivers la but Signals were flashed all over the left for Esopua at 10 o'clock this morn- twenty inches. Four and a half inches gether with the sale of the bank this whistles were . blown and bells morning to the Continental National city, ing and arrived st Rosemount at 12:10. is the diameter of the cylinder. rung. Fifty thousand people who reHe will spend the remainder of the The little engine is owned by the comes as a climax to the sensational ceived free rode up and day preparing a speech which he will Ataml Light railway. The track upon charges connecting the name of Per- down the transportation subway during the afterdeliver tomorrow to a delegation of which it will run is two feet wide and ry with the felonious burning of the noon. The road. will be thrown open Democrats fro Orange county, at the the rails used weigh from eight . to works of the Chicago Car and Locomo- to the public at 7 o'clock tomorrow home of Governor Odell. ten pounds to the yard. tive company. night . ference i CoHossal m! North Sea Tragedy. d, One of the Most . - ; - . 00 |