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of Rigs sias naval power m the far east boder jap envoys hiat at a to compromise AGREE ON ARTICLE 12 portsmouth N H aug 18 the peace conference has ad joumei until tuesday at 3 p m at the afternoon session the peace plenipotentiaries were unable to agree upon article II 11 relating to the limitation 0 dussias Rus sias sea power and it was deferred article 12 providing for the grant of ashing rights on the russian alf toral was unanimously agreed upon i yort smooth N H aug IS the deadlock between the russian and plenipotentiaries over article 11 of the peace conditions the limitation of dussias Rus sias naval power which developed at yesterday atter r sitting of the conference bad not been broken when the envoys adjourned for luncheon at 1230 p m today the forenoon session was en given up to the consideration of the article and the official statement f issued attar adjournment said that the would be resumed this afternoon ter noon it Is difficult to fathom the japanese mind but as stated in the associated 1 press dispatches des patches there have been vague moves in the conference chamber which indicate that they are willing to consider the disputed points to agather en bloc and that is the basis of the main hope that they are ready to compromise when these points were thrown out mr watte did not tip his hand he watched like a hawk but he wanted his adversaries across the table to commit themselves they did not do so nevertheless sir sato reiterated to the associated press this morning j before he went to the conference chamber that the disputed articles would be reverted to later which means monday the russians inthe final test may yield one of the two points they will not do more it they will do so much if the japanese therefore do not yield at least one the conference wrecked is that can be regarded ascertain it the conference threatens at the last moment to go to pieces ahe japanese bint vaguely at an attempt at rescue by president roosevelt they offer no explanation ib y furnish no specifications where how in what way they do not say haps tomorrow or sunday an emissary might be sent to oyster bay to bound the president perhaps it they personally believe in yielding one of the main points and their govern anent still is obdurate they will ask president roosevelt to intercede to bring pressure to bear at boklo the president might be asked bously to urge both the russian and japanese emperors in the name ot humanity to make mutual concessions but old hands at diplomacy say the situation created would be so delicate as to preclude the possibility of president roosevelt stepping into the breach the russians for the third morning in succession had the start of the japanese for the navy yard today they left the hotel about a m mr witte and baron rosen appeared on anc veranda accompanied by several members of their missions including gen Yer maloff and sir berg baron komura and mr takahara lra on their way from the elevator to their automobile passed down an i aisle ot people whose greeting was acknowledged by both ti aries the morning bession of the peace conference came to an end at 1230 abb envoys repaired to the lunch room immediately the official statesmen wired after the morning session Is as follows in the sitting of this morning aug 18 the conference has continued the discussion of article 11 and the dis cassion has not been finished the discussion of the article will be resumed at 3 while article 11 was the subject of consideration as a matter ot fact the discussion was not limited to that article it was general and covered all the questions at issue it Is expected that article 11 and the last article no 13 fishing rights will be completed early this afternoon and the aries will then revert briefly to the articles that have been passed over this will be for the purpose of drawing up the final protocols to be presented next week the japanese continue to show great reserve inside tbt conference chambers and apparently have successfully mystified the russians aa to their ultimate tactics the adjournment at the conclusion of cession may be until tuesday the associated press is able to state that the telegrams received from st petersburg this morning by mr watte which were deciphered at the navy yard do not change the situation THROUGH PULLMAN SERVICE chicago aug IS the chicago northwestern railway announced today that the new route to los angeles cal and other southern california points via salt lake city and the salt lake los angeles san pedro road would la made tho route of through pullman sleeping car gervice from chicago dally pullman tourist sleeping cars will ba put in service via the northwestern tine union pacific and the salt lake route in a few days to take caro of the large colonist movement that Is anticipated in the fall connection has also been established with alie overland limited to angeles providing an additional route so far as the russian plenipotentiaries are concerned no imperial indications which acquiesce in yielding up either of the main issues have been received ROOSEVELT MAY AID IN PEACE portsmouth N H aug IS when the peace plenipotentiaries met today it was practically with the tacit understanding der that at the end of session they would adjourn until monday the prophets of evil as those who persist in believing that all a treaty is gone are called predicted that today would witness the final rupture and that at most there would be only one moro meeting not for a alnar effort to reach an accord but to exchange the diplomatic amenities and bid each other farewell this does not correctly represent the situation unless something entirely unforeseen on either side occurs today the final struggle will be postponed until monday to give both sides time to hear the last word of their governments no matter what the written full powers of plenipotentiaries extraordinary may be these modern days of the cable and the telegraph which keep envoys in instant communication with their home governments have made more or less of a of the full powers which in the olden days were given to envoys charged by their governments with negotiating and settling international issues diplomatic negotiations are now conducted by emperors and governments rather than by emissaries envoys propose and emperors empei ors dispose both sets of here are in continuous communication with their governments accounts of each days proceedings are cabled nightly to tokio and st petersburg and messages are constantly arriving from both capitals the reports of the japanese are much lon ger and more complete than those of the russians and the secretaries of both delegations work day and night preparing and deciphering messages just before mr eltta left for the conference chamber this morning he received ft long cipher cable it was too late to decipher it at the hotel and mr witto it into his portfolio and took it with him to the navy yard where his secretaries could translate it article II 11 the limitation upon rus sias naval power in the far east was pending when the plenipotentiary ies reassembled tho last article no 12 relating to fishing rights on the russian littoral may be yielded by the russians as neither article 10 the interned or 12 present insuperable difficulties everything now harks back to indemnity and lin there as from the arst Is the crux it they can be adjusted the remainder will be childs play contractor MISSING foul play at hands of union sluggers Is suggested chicago aug 12 R H davedson Dav ldson a building contractor is missing from his home and friends and relatives think he has met with foul play at the bands of union labor slugging gangs he was in the employ of frank V adams as superintendent of construction of a new building at rockwell and thirty seventh streets the construction st of the building has been marked by continuous labor troubles after ha bad discharged a number of bricklayers davidson received a call from a man who IB supposed to have been a union business agent that was several days ago the interview between the contractor and the stranger ended in a violent quarrel in which davidson knocked his caller down on the floor of the new build ing two days later davedson Dav ldson left his work as usual at 5 in the afternoon but did not reach his residence the next day an unknown person called W adams on the telephone and said you will find your man davidson in the river since that telephonic communication no word has been heard from davedson Dav ldson or about him deliberate misstatement Is the chai bc made against a railroad commissioner louisville ky aug 18 replying to the charges made by railroad commissioner burr at the deadwood convention ven tion second vice president walker D hile of the louisville nashville road said mr burra statement is simply a deliberate misrepresentation no one contends that it is proper to assess for taxation a very property at what it would cost to reproduce it we did claim and the bill so stated tor the purpose of testing the railroad commissions rates the cost of reproduction was the proper value the two values were necessarily on very different bases and there was no inconsistency between them ALLEGED polygamists ARRESTED five members of the mormon church to be prosecuted in arizona k phoenix ariz aug IS word was received here last night of the arrest at st johns in apsche county of five members of the mormon church tor violation of the edmunds act tho arrests followed indictments returned by the federal grand jury last month but ap to the present time have been kept a secret the best known of those la david D udall president of st johns church of the latter day sainta and a former member of tha territorial legislature other arrests ao far made were john W principal of the st johns high school andrew gibbons formerly chairman or the apache board of supervisors john burger proprietor of the valley milling company and jacob butler a lumber man upon their arrest they were taken before the united states court commissioner and released upon furnishing bond to for trial at prescott in november bond being fixed at in each case under the other indictments returned it Is the men wanted have made their way out of the country for the deputy making the arrests is returning to this city witnesses will be subpoenaed from points as far distant as salt lake city in all bamo bomo names having been put in by the prosecuting attorney an unusual course was followed in the prosecution of these cases charges were not made before any local official but before the department at washington that the alleged lets were to be prosecuted was not known hero until the arrival of the congressional of which united states senator dubols was a member that gentleman mado inquiry about the progress of the cases and expressed surprise that they bad not been heard of he intimated that he would stir up the department and not long after that the cases came before the united states grand jury at prescott WEALTHY MAN SUED portland ore aug D hume the millionaire rogue cann eryman ex member of the oregon legislature Is the defendant in damage sulta just filed in the circuit court at gold beach by E B burns and wife the amount sought to be recovered is mr burns alleges that for more than two years past amne has been trying to run him out of business and has committed many malicious acts against he and his wife in one suit against auroe burns sets forth as a cause of action that in october 1903 hume falsely and mall closely caused his arrest on a charge of anchoring the stem wheel steamer rogue river in the river bearing the same name and placing obstructions in ahe river fronting the tide banks owned by hume mrs nellie F hag sued hume tor because he caused her to bo forcibly elected from a building at gold beach in september 1903 she avers that she was violently and brutally treated the other suits filed bring the total of damages up to hume and burns aro business rivals AFTER MAYOR WEAVER philadelphia pa aug 18 the select branch of city councils passed a resolution yesterday calling tor the appointment of a committee of seven with full power to investigate the removal of all officers and employed emp loyes of the city during the last three months the resolution gives the committee full power to summon witnesses and employ counsel and such other assistance as may be deemed necessary the resolution was introduced by sua ton C work who explained that two directors of departments several bureau chiefs and several hundred other employed emp loyes have been dismissed from the service of the city without tho mayor giving any reason to the councils aa required by the laws governing the city chaa D LANE BLIND seattle wash aue 18 in a letter to a friend in this city received yesterday the wife of charles D lane writes that her husband one of the best known mining men in california and who as president of the wild goose mining company has done more than any one man towards the development of the nome region Is totally blind mrs lane will bring her husband out on tho next trip of the oregon mr lane last spring disposed of his interests la the wild goose company 0 san francisco interests and returned to nome tor the purpose of developing ve some of his individual properties he has been in falling health tor more than a year and complained beatly of his ayea when in this city n auneen route north mr lana is alst known on the pacific coast brough his development of the famous utoca mine which for years was one of the largest dividend payers in the west his undertakings in nome were of a colossal nature and almost always uniformly successful he had endeared himself to hundreds of miners and prospectors in the north by his many acts of generosity and it is said that no man in the territory ever appealed to him in vain for did to either get out of country or for assistance si in eking out existence inside AMERICAN YACHT WON charlotte N Y aug IS the american yacht won tho canada cup oday by winning from the Temer alre he bolh and deciding race iroquois two minutes and ac seconds ahead of her rival SUGAR RATE WAR TO CONTINUE new york that the sugar rat ewar between eastern western and gulf line railroads which was proceeding to a harmonious settlement last weak is to be continued pub lie here today thal names of the dissenting railroads sot learned but eastern lines are understood der stood to have cast many of tho legathe ballah bal lph |
