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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
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'.
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.
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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