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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1904-11-25, Page 2.t AN IR ILL LE .1'a. I QUN SJIIN. 'Conditions at the Front Similar to Those Before the Last Battle. Kouropatkin's Men Hustling and Have Great Hopes of Second Pacific Fleet. Port Arthur Still Stands, but All Reported Quiet in Vicinity of Besieged Fortress. London cable: - The continued for- quent artillery fire on the Sha sliver is occasioning reports that another great battle is beginning, although it is stated +that neither side tens begun to advance. The circutnstanees the said to resemble precisely the oenditione prevailing on rbhe ,eve of the last battle. Aeeording to a despata:h received in Paris from Mukden, +.somewhat pea eimisrtic view of the future prevails there. It seems ,there is anxiety regard- ing the possibility of maintaining a. winter campaign. The local supplies of food. fuel and forage are inadequate. and it is seri- ously feared that the railway. which was taxed. to the utmost during the summerwill be found incapable of victualling the immense army through the mow, to say nothing ofsupplying fuel and forage. It was •doubtless to meet thee, diffi- culties that Pussies began a manta ago to consider the advi,ability of doubling the track. The comnni„inn to which the arrangements for this work were con- fided has only now decided favorably. and it is announced that ehe track will be doubled forthwith "where necessaa•r.” The Irkutsk correspondent of the Tel- egraph declares than more. than 80,000 wounded, most of them belonginto Si- berian regiments, are slow in the -dm -mite aals between 11!aikal and Mukden. These hospitals are terribly oretarowded. The ambulance trains ,ruing to Russia do not suffice to relieve .the congestion. It is eaetim+ated, however, that more :than half of the wounded anldiers will be able to rejoin their regiments in 'Lwo smionthee Theis emends alma quickly, The amen are hardy and healthy. Cnn- ztdnunal reinfora:'menes drawn from the Trans -Baikal diel•rict:; maintain the Si- berian regiments at the front at their full strength, notwithstanding their fearful losses. BEGINNING TO WAICE UP. But All Hopes Are Placed on the "Mad Fleet." Gen. Kouropatkin's Headquarters, by way of Mukden, cable: Frequent fights between the opposing patrol, oc- curred tto=day. The Ruseiaais with heavy howitzers and six-inch batteries &hell the Japanese trenches and give the working parties little respite. Large numbers of Russian officers are arriving at the front to replace those who have fallen. The Ilius ian army is realizing more fully day by day the enormous task involved in driving haele the Japan- ese. Great hope;, however, aro placed on the i'.us.'iatt second Pacific squadron. The troops are now better fed than at any previo-us period, and the ro•ad.5 are in gaol eonditian, enabling reinforce- ments to leave the trains higher up the line and nr.a•rch to Mukden, thus relier- eng the pressure on the railroad. STILL STANDS. At Least .There is no Definite Word That Port Arthur Has Fallen. London cable: A correspondent the Telegraph says that a steamer on which he was travelling from Chingwan- to to Chefoo on Saturday was stopped and detained by the Japanese for nine hours off the tliaotao Islands. He was informed that the Japanese blockade of Port Arthur had been extended and that all shipping must now keep thirty in- stead of twenty miles from the port. Disobedience will entail serious conee- qutences rfdw ao frf oam nib o quenees. A Japanese officer said that the fort- ress was ready to fall. The Russians apparently have no more trines. Their warships are too badly damaged to et. tempt t - tempt another sortie. On the other hand, the Japanese of- ficials at Chefoo are not sanguine that the place will be captured before Christmas. There have been no further bombard- ments of Port Arthur since Wednesday, Nov. 0. such action, and declare that this was never coneedt'd and never would be. German Defends Baltic Fleet. Berlin cable: Vice -admiral Kaoline of the naval reserve, lee uring u:t Lu- beck, defended Admiral ltojestnensky, 111 commander of the Russian Baltic sea fleet. for attacking the 'lull trawlers, in view of the many warning, of intend- ed ,Tepalnese attacks on the fleet acid the ease with which. trawlerm ro any otter vessel, could be fitted With torpedo tubes or employed to lay mines. Cermnns. he said. ought not to for- get that the seer would :Wide Ger- many's future at Kieoehau, and for this reason the voyage of the Baltic fleet erns of the utmost interest to them. TO THE BITTER END. Count Cassini's Statement on Behalf of Russia. Weshington despatch: `Russia 1vi11 pursue the war in the far east to the bitter cud --that is mail Russia has conquered." 1'hese were the opening words of an emphatic statement made at the Rus- sian Embassy to -day by Count Cassini, the ltnseiaun .Anibnssador Several times recently the l.nrbas sa(lor, in the name or his Government, has categorically de- nied the possibility of any intervention in the war, but the renturrenee attic ru- more. that the powers contemplated mediation has caused the Ambassador to reiterate. on behalf of his govern- ment, its position regarding interven- tion or mediation of any kind. The statcmeat continues: "I deem it my duty to reiterate what I have so often said that Russia will not suspend in any case her military operations in the far east. All tumor; and reports regarding the possible sue- eess of the direct overtures for peace which da.pan is said to have trade to l;.usia incl regarding the mediation of the powers, in my opinion are started for the purpose of corvinein the peo- ple that the end of the war is close at hand. "In this way it is hoped that the public may be led to believe that .Ja- panese loans offer attractive invest- ments. "Russia can no more admit of inter- ference than Great Brittain could filthy Transvaal. or than eouicd the United States in her war with Spain,. Where the prestige of the country is at stake, all other considerations aro and 1(11.18 be put aside. Some powers may chink that financial cliffieulties will influencer Russia to end itostilitiee. Such an opinion Ls based on the false nsstunp- tion of Russia's. finaneitl i esourees. There is no doubt whatever that Itus- cia. whose annual income eneeeds one millard of. dollars. cannot be influenced int her attitude toward the outcome of the war by the amount of war expen- ditures. Is it not altogether nut of the question that Kussin, who did not ex- pect ever, should in the moment when she has embolized her army anti is sending corps after corps in fighting readiness to the far east, suddenly call a halt on hostilities, particularly after she has for nearly n year, with - of nut any difficulty or reeonrse to ex- traordinary measures, been able to carry the extra expenses? "it is not evithin my scope to com- ment upon the new Japanese loan. That is an affair for the hanker and for the public, who are able to decide what advantages or disndvantages the investment offers. But there can be no necessity for commenting upon Rus- sia's credit. Anyone acquainted with the Paris Exchange is able to convince himself of the solidity of Russia's finances." HITCH IN NORTH SEA .AFFAIR.. Russia Has Not Agreed to Officers. A London cable: The newspapers are devoting nnich space to an aliegcd hutch in the Anglo -Russian convention 'Which is reported from Paris. Nothing that is reliable in conformation of the report can be learned, but the difficulty is said to be due to Great Britain's in- sistence upon the punishment of the Rus- sian officers responsible for the tiring on the Hull trawlers. Despite Lord Lansdowne's and other British officials' statements that the by a splinter of n shell 'l ct he (lied et officers would be punished, the St. Pe- Liao -Yang on Oct, 4, melee confirmation tersburg newspapers hotly repudiate from any- solace :'iii "m'netion of the allegation that Russia agreed to the war despa tow, ec fo , neenths of Punish the WOUNDED AT PORT ARTHUR. Some Pitiable Stories Sent Out by Madame Stcessel. St. Petersburg cable: M. Perloff, the nnilioraire merchant of Moscow, lams received a pathetic letter from Mad- ame Stoess:'l. wife of Gen. Stcessel, dat- ed. Port, Arthur, Oct. 14, appealing to the rich eluscovites for money to a,s- sist the helpless wonnded defenders of the fortress, some of whoin have lost both arins, others either en arm or a leg, some of them being blind, and oth- ers suffering from wennd& in the spine and who will be cripples for life..Tbere are, she adds, very many such unfortun- ates. ABOUT T UIROKI. Report of His Injuries is Not Credited. The rumor that Gen. ieuroki. con- matider of the right wing of the Ja- panese army, was; a ren 'sly wounded -- September and October shows that there had been no serious fighting of ally .kind for several weeks prior to Oet. 4, and that St Petersburg despatches indicat- ed that the Russian scouts had been un- able even to find learolri's army; that liouropatlan" olid not order the Russian advance southward until Oct. 2, and that Itis armies did not move until Oct. 4; that there was no fighting until the Russian advance reached I3entsiaputze, on Oct. 0th, and no fighting with Kur oki's army until Oct. 71 h. WIDOW WINS HUSBAND. Mrs. Graves, of Nebraska, in Quest of a Better Half. . Children, Neb., Nov. 21. ---Mrs. A. Graves, who owns and manages a ranch in the heart of the cattle region of Nebraska, where many 110 011 and interesting types of sten and women are to be met with and where society is neither so complex nor so conyentioual as it is in some other parts of the country, se- cured a husband for herself by simply mounting a cayuse. riding over the prairies and proposing to her eligible male neighbors till she found a man who would take her for better, for worse. Jfrs.r Graves has "busted bronchos," ridden and conquered "outlaws," roped and hog-tied big, wild-eyed steers, round- ed up the herd, cut out steers and done many other diffieult things, and she applied to the task of finding a husband the same direct. practical methods she had employed in her work on the range. It required more than one proposal, how- ever, to aceompii'lt her purpose. The first man she prnposetl to was proof against blandishments. The second like- wise discouraged her snit. But two re- fusals did not diseonragcor daunt lier. Nay, she went to the third ratan, the fourth, the fifth --and the fifth capitu- lated. His name is Phinneas Neilson. Had Been a Widow Twice. Mrs. (.raves haul already been married twice. Her first husband died, and site was granted a c:ecree of divorce from the second. The deoree left her alone in possession of the ranch her first hus- band had bequeathed to her. She had no children, and found life on the far western ranch lonely. So when a rea- sonable time clap -ear after the divorce she made up her mind to make another matrimonial venture. It is mach easier to get n husband. than a wife in the western cattle region, for men are morn abundant there than are women. But Mrs. Craves was par- ticular. Slie did not wish to take a man who did not meet her ideas for a hus- band. She wished for the best man in the region, and if he were not avail- able then the next hest one might do. She saddled her t'ayuse and rode across the prairie to ilte ranch of her richest and, as it happened. her handsomest un- married male neighbor, and without any apologies, excuse, or mincing of words told 11301 8110 wanta',l n husband and asked hitn to permit her to take bins to her own. "I want ca than of some ateount, aim," she said, "and you will fill the hill.- Come, now. what's the use of our living alone out here on these prairies when for the payment of a few dollars to a justice of the peace or a preacher we can get spliced and live happily to- gether?" But Ile said, "No. 1 think I shall continuo to go it alone, Matilda," whereupon ehc remounted her cayuse and rode away. Tries a Second Man. Returning in her l:onne she took a few days to look around and then again saddled her eaynse and rode across the prairies to the raneh of her next richest unmarried male neighbor. She found him at 11oi0e, and with the sane directness that had characterized her first pro- poeal told him what she had come for. Iie owned that it was all so sudden he scarce knew what to say. "Why, say yes, of course," she said, "Why not? l'en not au old decrepit women. I'm not a day older than you are, if I'm as old. I'rn not bad looking. 1 have pro- perty. I know how to manage it. And I know how to keep house. 'That's what I want to do. You let me marry you and you may run the ranch and I'll run the house. You will have better grub than you have now, I'll warrant you, and be a heap happier. You may think I don't love you. 'lVell, maybe I don't, but I can learn to. You must be on the square with me, old man, and 1'11 be on the level with you." She had said not a, word about love in her first pro- posal. but thinlcing doubtless that it would forward her fortunes, she played the tender passion up pretty strong in the second one. lint it was a hopeless case, and after exha.nsting all her argu- ments she gave it up and departel. "If you should change your mind before to- morrow morning let me know," she called back as she was riding away. "But you needn't do it after that. I'm after a husband, and I propose to get one before the week is out. I can't waste time on any one man." Not at all Discouraged. Two downright refusals would have discouraged the average woman, even the average woman of the western cat- tle region. But Mrs. Graves is not an average evonnate She had set her heart on a husband and she no more thought of giving up the quest, of one than she would have thought of abandoning the quest of a bunch of cattle she had set her heart on. Receiving no favorable word from her neighbor by the next morning, she rode over to the ranch of the third man on on her list of eligibles. He turned down her proposal without hearing her through what site had to say, IIe was an elderly man, from whom the spirit of chivalry had departed or in whom it never had existed. She left him, but not before she had given hire a tongue lashing that left sears he will carry to the grave. He told his neighborswhat she had said to him, when he was suf- ficiently recovered fom his wounds to „'amt, "There was not a vulgar or unladylike word in it,” he had to own, "hut it was as full of sting as the tail of a bumble bee." . Three proposals and no husband yet. T [ %.O -in SEA TRAG[ '. No Evidence at !amplest of Torpedtri Boats Among the Fishing Bouts. Mull, Eng., Nov. 2L—'The inquiry which Great Britain conducts on her own behalf into the North Sea incident open- ed to -day. Vice Admiral Bridge and But- ler Aspinall, an admiralty court lawyer, are conducting the inquiry and their re- port will for the basis of the British case before the International Commis- sion at Paris. The Board of Trade solicitors who have been preparing the case have found no evidence to suggest the presence of the torpedo boats among the fishing fleet. The inquiry will therefore merely be an amplification of evidence at the inquest and it will be adjourned to London, in the eourse of a few days, the proceedings here being confined to a narrative of shooting. The assessment of damages which will be dealt with in London, cannot be completed for seme time as many of the trawlers are still at sea. he finding of the court wi11, e• sent to the Board of Trade and will be• submitted to the International Commis- sion. It is not likely that they will :be published before the commission eem- menses its sessions. With the exception - of the amount of damages it can scarce- ly add to what is already know». A careful examination of all the witnesses in private having substantiated in all es- sential details the story the fisherntten originally told. The Russian Goverament was not represented at to -day's hearjng, which created even locally barely pny interest. Mr. Pickard, counsel for to Board of Trade, said there was mxa,tt fug connected with the trawling fleet witeeh could possibly account for the shooting. de R[C[P] iON Pry?RTS ; OUTil To the Ping and Queen of Portugal on Their Visit to King [dw• rd. Portsmouth, Eng., Nov. 21.—The King and Queen of Portugal reached Ports- mouth this morning from Cherbourg, and subsequently proceeded to Windsor to return the visit which King Edward paid to their Majesties at Lisbon last year. The visitors, who crossed the channel in King Edward's yacht, the Vic- toria and Albert, escorted by half a dozen British warships, had an impos- ing welcome at naval headquarters, where thirty to forty warships, elabor- ately dressed with bunting, had assent- • land batteries. bled in their Honor. No such naval pa- geant had been witnessed here since tem coronation review. As the royal yacht approached, the shipyards and sides were manned and the whole fleet joined wvith the land forts in saluting. The Prue of Wales in behalf of King Edward, wel- comed King Charles and Queen Amelia to England. The royal party disembarked, King Charles inspected the guard of honor and the King and Queen and the Prince of Wales entered the royal train and started for Windsor amidst the firing of another salute from the ships and The week would soon be out and Mrs. Graves must hustle if she was to make rood the promise she made to the se- cond man she had proposed to. She kept her cayuse saddled and bridled and on the jump most of the time during the next few days. The fourth man on her list of eligibles lived a long way off and it took a full day to ride to his ranch. And only disappointment await- ed her there, He listened to her pro- posal kindly and patiently, and said he was honored by it. It was a compliment to any man to be asked to become the husband of so handsome and thrifty a woman, but he had been a bachelor all his life, be was getting on in years; his habits had been firmly fixed and he thought it best, all things considered, to continue to travel life's pathway alone. She pressed her suit more stren- uously than she had in the previous cases, but he 'gerntle insisted that he could not seriously entertain her pro- posal and she rode away. Victory at Last, But victory perched upon her banner the next day. The fifth man she pro- posed to, jumped at the ebanee, and the week was not out yet either. Phinneas Neilson wanted a wife and a ranch, and he comprehended both without putting forth an effort or leaving his own home. It is true that he was not Mrs. Graves' first choice, nor hor second, nor her third, nor her fourth, but presumably he was her fifth, and Mrs. Graves' neigh - hors think he was lucky to be even that, for she has a snug fortune, knows how to manage a ranch and to preside over a home, is good looking, intelligent, by no means illiterate, warns -hearted, sym- pathetic, and will give 'the man who has taken her to his own, or whom she has taken to her own. a square Ileal if he gives her one. If he fails to give her a square deal, however, her neighbors will not answer for the consequences. • Mrs. Graves has learned out here in the bear of the cattle region of Nebras- ka, where many carious and intersting types of then and women are to be met with and where society is neither so complex nor so conventional as it is in some other parts of the cotnttry, to take care of herself. When her first husband fell sick a year or two before he died, she went out on the range and did his work. And slue learned to do it well. A woman who has busted bronchos, rid- den and conquered outlaws, robed and hog-tied big, wild-eyed steers, rounded up the herd and cut out steers, is likely to be able to manage a husband. SHOT HIS FATHER. The Jury's Verdict in Stewart Case is Justifiable Homicide. Winnipeg, Nov. 21.— At Rosthern, Sask., Assizes to -day Ilavard Stewart, an eleven -year-old boy, was acquitted of the charge ref murdering his father at Eagle Hills in dune last. Me defence averred that the father tried to kill his daughter with an axe. The wife inter- fered, and the husband turned upon her. The "boy ran into the )louse, secured a gun, and aimed it at his father's legs, with: the intention of wounding him only. The mother struck up the barrel to save Stewart, but. when it was at level with Stewart's neck the body pull- ed the trigger, death resulting. After being out fifteen minutes the jury returned a verdict of justifiable homieide;. and the prisener,was acquit- ted. - NOAH A MILLIONAIRE. Remarkable Discovery of an. Indianapolis Archaeologist. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 21.—K. V. Moilorr, who now resides in this city, has been for several years studying the archaeology of Egypt. 'I have discovered during tire Kist three years,' said Ivfr .Miller, 'lust where Noah lived, where the ark was built, and that Noah built the great pyramid of limns, known as the Pyramid of Gizeh. "Noah was the greatest king this wvcrld has ever seen. He was the greatest of tete Egyptian Pharaohs, not excepting Rameses the Great, "It is evident that he must have been a millionaire and a man of great authai Ile built the ark at his own expense, Bash a boat is those times would cost more than half a milblion dollars. He must have been in a position to farce vast multitudes to work for him, regardless of their interest in bin or in his work, or of their own per- sonal inclinations. "Noah built the great pyramid during the earlier part of the fourth Egyptian dynasty, and not more than twelve hundred ybara after God had expelled Adam and Eve Brom the Garden of Eden. If Noah's size and fn- tellectuaI powers were proportioned at nes age to hours, then in brain and brawn and stature, he, too, must have been a giants" MAGIC IN THE ZUNI TRIBE. Priest Apparently Lifted a Jug of Water With a Feather. "The most startling feat I ever sa ," said a guest at the Diller last nt"t, who has made a study of Indians 2n various parts of the United States for his own edification, "was performed 'jiy the priests of the Zuni tribe in Arizona,. or, as they are called, 'The Ancients of Creation.' They seat themselves in a circle on the clay floor, around a jar that will hold perhaps a gallon, an ancient and sacred earthen vessel, which is filled with water. The chief priest carries in his hand two ordinary eagle, feathers, which are tied together at the quill ends so that they make a fork. Behind the circle of the priests are other members of the tribe and the musicians. with their drums and gourds, who join in the chants with emotion. The incantations continue for several hours and when the participants and spectators are brought up to a proper pitch of excitement the priest dips the feather tips into the water, lifts the jar with them and holds it suspended for a minute or two at a height level with bis face or breast. Then he lowers it slowly to the ground. This feat is repeated several times during the performance.: Apparently there is nothing in the band of the priest but the feathers and they appear to be inserted into the mouth of the jar only two or three inches. Of course, there is some trick about it, bat I was never able to discover it."—Seattle Post -Intelligences. KING'S BIRTHDAY GIFT, Prince Eddie Gave Him a Book That Pleased Him Best. London, Nov. 21.—Among the numer- ous birbaday presents reeeived by King Edward none antorested ar &muterd him more 'than a. Tittle book from Prince PA - die of Wales, his future successor. It appears that fhe ring on a recent ocee,, sign Was unable to inform Eddie how the leopard got its spots, and in .tthis. book was a puzzle which explained all about at. • The Prince of Wales' second son pre- sented tisrandfather with a perfect mechanical torpedo boater