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The San Francisco call., 1903-12-18
JAPANESE LEADERS WHO
FAVOR FIRMER ATTITUDE
TOWARD ST. PETERSBURG.
Mikado Will Send
an Army Into
Korea.

LONDON, Dec. ia cable dispatch
from Toxic says the dispatch of troops
TO Korea is imminent, and that the
elder statesmen have been summoned
10 meet the Emperor on Friday.
The Daily Mails Kobe correspondent
learns that at the conference of the
elder statesmen Of Japan Endorsement
was given 10 the Governments deter
mination not to recede from the de-
mands on Russia concerning the Far
East formulated on June %, 1903. This
indicates. says the correspondent, the
repection Of Russia's reply. How
ever, IL does not necessarily mean that
the negotiations have reached a hope
less stage, according TO the correspond
ent.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph says that according to
local mandarins the Peking Govern
ment has again warned the provincial
authorities TO prepare for immediate
hostilities owing 70 the offensive action
taken by Russia and her allies regard
ing Far Eastern affairs.
o. SITUATION Is GRAVE.
TOXIC, Dec. 1.-THE conference ot
the elder statesmen Of Japan, including
he Marquis Ito and the Cabinet Min
listers, yesterday resulted. according to
a semi-oficial statement, in d deter
mination to present a strong front to
Russia in view Of the latter's unsatis-
factory reply 10 the japanese proposals.
Another report says it is understood
that although the Russian reply was
considered highly unsatisfactory the
conference decided TO make another
and probably last attempt to arrive at
a friendly settlement
The situation is considered grave.
Even the most sober section of the
japanese press declares it is lign tire
for action.
In addition TO the Marquis ito, Field
Marshal Yamagata, senior field mar
shsl Of the japanese army, and former
Premier Count Matsukato. one of the
greatest financiers Of modern Japan,
and twice Premier Of Japan. Count
Inouye. former japanese ambassador
to Korea, and at one time finance
Minister Of Japan, and the Marquis
Oyama, field marshal. who distin-
guished himself IN the war between
Japan and China, were among those
who took part in the conference with
Premier Katsura. the War Minister
and the Marine Minister.
IGNORES KOREAN ISSUE.
ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 1.-THE
retfcence of the Foreign Office here has
increased since the dispatch of the re-
ply Of Russia to Japan, and the Off
cials decline TO confirm or deny reports
Of the character of the reply printed
abroad. The feeling in diplomatic cir
cles is not quite so optimistic as it has
been. II is believed the unfavorabIe
impression apparently creayed on the
japanese Government by the reply is
due to Russia's unwillingness TO place
the settlement Of the Korean and Man
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-18
SHOOTING STAR FALLS
NEAR TERRORIZED MEN
Redhot Missile From the Central
Azure Strikes the Earth Very
Close TO Oregon Ranchers.

FOSSIL, Ore, Dec. 17.-On Wednes-
day night Robert Wilson and Oscar
Fritz, two ranchers living near here,
were startled nearly out OF their senses
by shooting star which. instead of
fading away. grew larger and larger.
The frightened men saw that it was
actually descending upon them, but
before they could seek safety in fight
the aerolite passed over their heads
and struck the. earth less than a hun
dred yards from where they stood
The strange missile was redhot and
the spot where it struck was easily
found by Wilson and Fritz, although
the night was dark. Next morning the
mass had cooled off and was found to
be of porous stone and to weigh
twenty-three pounds.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-18
Many shlps Lost i'm BLACK Sea.

ODESSA. Dec. 17.-A violent storm
is raging in the Roston and Tanga-
rog regions. More than 100 small
craft have not been accounted for.
1t is feared there was considerable
loss Of life
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-18
Squadron win Go to Philippines.

HONOLULU. Dec 17.-Rear Admiral
Evans received orders to-day to have
the Asiatic squadron. which arrived
here yesterday. in readiness to san for
Cavite after Christmas. Gazing has
begun
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-18
THE wEATHEE.

Forecast made ct San Fran
ciEoo for thirty hours ending
midnight. December ls:
/. San Francisco and vicinity
Fair Friday, becoming cloudy by
night and possibly showers;
light west winds. Changing to
southerly. A. O.. dcADIE,
District Fo-ecaster.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-18
rEE rznArHzs.

AIcazar-,'The Girl Left Bs-
hind Me-
Caltfornta-"Foxy Grandpa"
Central-aaThe SCOUTS Revenge"
Co1umbia-''Do11y Warden"
Fischer's-"I. .. u"
Grand - "The Bonnie Br1sr
Bush"
Orpheum-Vaudevi5Ie.
The Chutes-Vaudevi1le.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-04

EtE .pl tGNWW4
but no cars were furnished to them.
They Sent word &! another railroad,
and one morning when cars were ready
a dozen teams went to work hauling
wheat from the elevator to the cars.
The shipments were made, and after
that they had all the cars needed. The
extent to which this plan of co-opera-
ton. is growing over the west Is re
markable, and it is thus that a large
portion Of the wheat will oon be ham
died. tits probably the most signif-
cant feature in the wheat growing of
the plains region.
Many of the western states are max
ing their wi Irvine, a considerable
item in the harvest. All the bundles
are bound with 1t, and a vast sum is
spent for this one portion Of the har-
vest machinery. The c~onvicts Of the
state prisons are put at the work Of
making the material.
The harvest has gone OF through
the long hot days. At night lanterns
have been hung on the harness of the
horses, and the reaping has continued
It Is the rich season Of the year for
the prairie dweller. Little wonder that
he enters on it so enthusiastically.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-04
CHINA WANTS OUR MEN.

Its Army Omcials Offering Commis-
sions to Soldiers In Philippines.
The reduction of the army in the
Philippines will be welcome news In
the Chinese empire, says a. Washington
special to the New York World. 1t will
enable the military men in China to
get what they are looking fora lot
OF good drillmasters. They have
learned there are many men in the
army in the Philippines who feel that
they will never see any more active
service If they remain under the stars
and stripes.
Chinese officials have been sending
agents into the archipelago offering
subalterns commissions in the vice
regal and imperial armies. They have
been offering s%ergeants' commissions
Their offers have been accepted by, it
is estimated, several dozen youngsters
who would rather continue the free
and easy life Of the orient than return
to the United States and settle down to
the humdrum of civil life. These
Americans are wanted chiefly for the
purpose of drilling the Cinnamon under
enlistment In the various armies.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-04
A Novel Industry.

"Song spotting" is a new industry
described by T. A. T.. the new English
penny magazine-journal The 'song
-spotter'' Is the accredited and RESPONSE
BILE agent of the big London music
publishing f1rms-or some of them, at
all events. His business Is to go from
one seaside resort to another all the
summer round. spending a week or so
at each and ''spotting"- which ditties
Ego" and which do not. He knows
that some among the songs whose
choruses are hummed upon the sands
this summer will be the favorites dur
ing the dark winter evenings. So he
reports each evening to his principals
In London. These latter have, Of
course, other 'song spoilers" working
on similar lines in other districts. and
should the reports coincide regarding
any particular ballad negotiations are
at once opened with the composer for
the acquisition Of the copyright.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-04
THREW AWAY HIS NOTES.
Scholar Destroyed Manuscript ON
Goethe to Issue Simple Edition.

Scholar Destroyed Manuscript ON
Goethe to Issue Simple Edition.
Eight years of labor spent in collec-
ton of manuscripts and thousands of
pages Of notes written during his re-
searches were thrown away when Pro
fessor James Taft Hatfield of Evans
ton. ILL.,, recently consigned to the
wastebasket his voluminous manu-
script work on Goethe's "Egmont."
After the accumulation Of this vast
amount Of erudition with a view to
publishing a new edition of the works
Of Goethe the Evanston professor
threw aside the results Of his labors
and. using only the simplest notes, pre-
pared a book which will be issued late
in September.
..This is the most remarkable in
stance l know Of" said a Chicago pro-
lessor. '3of a scholars being willing to
fprego the tangible results Of his study
in order to present a clear and simple
edition for students. This work OF
Professor Hatield's will rival the Wei
mar edition."
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-04
DYING CHILD's KINDNESS.

Summoned Playmates to Bedside and
Divided Her Toys Among Them.
Swathed in bandages and dying from
terrible burns, little Johanna johnson.
twelve years old. recently gathered her
playmates about her bedside In the
South Chicago hospital and distributed
her toys among them-"Just to remem-
Der me BY" she said. She gave to the
little group all her possessions, while
her mother. heartbroken, chung to her
hand and wept, says the New York
Press.
Her playmates had gone to the hos
pital not %suspecting that she was dy-
ing. The child seemed pleased when
they entered. Then, al she lay talking
to her little friends, the last terrible
agony that preceded death seized her.
ASK them to sing" whispered the
child and fell back on her pillow dead.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-04
science and the Mosquito.

[Dr. Charles w. Stiles Of Washington
has issued a bulletin froA the hygienic
laboratory Of the Public Health and Ma
r4ne hospital service, In which he de-
scribes the discovery Of a parasite which
destroys mosquitoes n to which he mas
given the term of agamomermis.1
Now they've found a little microbe that
they'll presently let loose
To harry the mosquito and extract his
.svitaa Juice:
They have found-a parasite
That obtains a weird delight
In putting the mosquito to a single. selfish
use.
When the 1.-THE agamomermis gets to
working as he can.
VIII there come a sweet c~ontentment and
a grateful rest for MANI?
May we loll at ease with ne'er
A mosquito boring where
The blood we cherish surges meath the
freckles and the tan?
Or shall we, sadly harried. go complaining
day and night
OF the laundering Of science and bewai
our sorry plight?
Just as like as not we'll then
Have to go to work again
To md some other microbe that will bite
the parasite.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-04

There is a good profit in wheat grow
ing. Recently the Kansas board Of ag-
riculture made exhaustive inquiries of
the farmers Of the west as to the ex-
pense of putting In a crop and harvest
ing it. These are the figures: Flowing,
81; narrowing % cents; seed and seed
ing, 95 cents; harvesting, $1.48; thrash
ing, $1.61; of tools, 81 cents;
rental or land interest, $2.O5; total,
$7.65. Thirteen bushels per acre at 60
cents will pay t~his-averages Of thirty
bushels are common. With 100000
acres Of wheat produced on this basis,
seSiing for about 60 cents, even in the
more remote sections, 1t Is little Won
der that the state has $90,OOO,OOO in its
banks.
The selling Of the western wheat is
being revolutionized by the combina.
lions of farmers who work in co-opera-
ton to thrash and market their grain.
In order to evade the thrashers'
charges they form companies and buy
complete outfits-engines, %separators,
grain weighers, wind stackers and self
feeders-and SO do all their work at ac-
tual cost. Then, to avoid the profits Of
the elevators, they IN forming cooper
alive companies for the handling and
marketing of grain. They invest only
500 each, and the profits are divided
among all the members. They pay
within 4 cents Of the city prices and
get the lowest rates on the railroads
possible. One company working with
a railway corporation tried to freeze
OUT one of the farmers. companies.
The farmers had wheat ready to ship,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-04
INDIANS TO HUNT BUFFALO
Novel Contest to Be Held ON an
Oklahoma Ranch.

Oklahoma Ranch.
Perhaps the very last big hunt which
the Indians of the territories will ever
have will be held on the famous "1O1"
ranch near Bliss. Okla, next fall. says
the Kansas City. Journal. The plan is
to secure a number Of buffaloes, give
them a mile start of at least fifty In
dams, who. armed with bows and ar
rows and stripped the same as they
were in the days when they roamed
the plains. will hunt the buffaloes. The
Indian bringing in the first buffalo
tongue is to get a big prize, and it is
being SO arranged that the contest will
be one possible to be witnessed by
thousands of visitors.
Already the animals have been Sc
cured and are being prepared for the
race. And invitations have been sent
to the Poncas. Cheyennes. Otoes, kaws
and other tribes.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-04
MAN WITH HOE WINNING

Wrestling Fertile Texas Lands From
Cowboys, says . Cattleman.
''The man with the hoe is slowly but
surely conquerjng Texas, and the acre
age held by the cattlemen is steadily
growing less,'' recently said r. II. Lo
gan, a cattleman from Abilene, Tex, to
a reporter Of the Kansas City Star at
the Coates House.
Mr.. Logan. who left Missouri when
he was a boy, says the farmers Of Tex.
as are beginning to raise a variety Of
crops, and cotton no longer u king.
Under the varied crop system the farm.
ers are getting rich.
cotton Is late in Texas this season."
said MI. Logan, but there will be a
big crop. The most serious question
that confronts the cotton raisers OF
Texas is the boil weevil, a small insect
that attacks and destroys the cotton
blooms. Nothing has yet been discov-
weevils or check their rayages. They
came into Texas from the south, and 1t
Is said they travel northward at the
rate Of about seventy miles q year.
They constitute q serious menace to
cotton growing in Texas, but 1t has re
suited that their presence Is not mn I'M
mixed evil. The Texans had planted
cotton year after year, and they strug-
gled along to make both ends meet.
When their cotton crops began to be
destroyed they were compelled to turn
to other crops, and they began planting
corn, various cereals and to go into
truck farming. Now they raise water
melons, tomatoes and SO on. They are
getting rich. Texas farmers were new.
err so well off as now-many are really
getting rich"
Mr.. Logan says that the "glory" OF
the old time Texas Is all gone. 'The
picturesque cowboy, with his sombrero,
his buckskin leggings, his six shooters
has practically disappeared. The cow
boys no longer 60 to town to Shoot II
| up Texans don't even go armed. Prob
ably" continued Mr.. Logan, many Of
the citizens of this town go armed, but
in Texas we have dropped oil that-o1
most Of II, anyway"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-04
REPRODUCING BIRD SONGS.

Novel Plan For Securing Graphic
phone Records Of Their Notes.
Based. on experiments conducted by
Professor Sylvester D. Judd a project
Ii mooted among scientific men to Sc
cure graphophone records Of the songs
OF birds, the roars and cries of man.
mails and all available animal notes
for the purpose primarily Of assisting
nature study in American schools, says
the Saturday Evening Post. Or. Judd
inaugurated the work by securing the
songs of several species of birds. Meet
ing with some difficulty In obtaining
the recording cylinder necessary for
his purpose, he succeeded in manufac-
turing one himself and then patiently
taught a captive brown thrasher to
sing into the horn. At first the sound
Of the revolving apparatus ~disconcert-
ed the thrasher. Removing the record
ing style, the scientist let the cylinder
revolve indefinitely until the bird be-
came accustomed to the whir. After
a little the thrasher, known also as the
brown thrush, resumed it's singing, and
then the graphophone vas adjusted to
secure a record. From a nea by hiding
place the ornithologist controlled the
revolutions Of the cylinder by means
Of a wire, shutting of the current the
moment the thrasher's song became
weak or faltering. In this way was Sc
cured a perfect record of the birds
exquisite melody. Its volume and tim
bre were pronounced faultless by the
American Ornithologists' union, before
whose session the gr%aphophone record
was produced.
With equal success DR.. Judd has
been experimenting with other birds,
and his achievements are attracting
attention In the scientific world. The
educational possibilities Of the under
taking are generally conceded. Nature
| study in schools just is receiving
more attention than yer before In
history, particularly along lines of d.
rect economic interest. Now that many
species Of valuable birds are threat
ened with determination it is regarded
as especially important that the grow
ing generation be made conversant
with American bird life. Students
taught from childhood the sounds of
birds faithfully reproduced by graphic
phones In the schoolroom would be
able instantly to recognize various spe-
cies singing in the woods and fields.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-04
IA Neu rxpe or Collier.

The value Of Golfers to accompany
11eets in time Of war was thoroughly
demonstrated during the Spanish war.
Germany at the recent maneuvers
along the Spanish coast experimental
with coaling at sea, and 10 the Brit
fish admiralty is considering plans for
an entirely new type Of collier. The
proposed vessel is $50 feet long, 66 feet
wide, with a draft of q feet when car
rying 10000 tons of coal. The most in
.teresting fact about it Is that the plans
call for a speed of eighteen knots. or as
high as that of the latest battle ships.
The estimated cost Of these ships Is ST.
100000. which will include patent APP
paratus for unloading them at sea-.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-04
A New KIND Of crooke. Tube.

A New Kind OF TUBE.
DR.. ]. Mount Bleyer Of New York
writes to the Medical Record to de-
scribe a form Of Crookes tube with
which he Is experimenting for thera-
peutic purposes. He seeks to obtain
from this object the violet and ultra
violet radiance ordinarily obtained
with a powerful arc light. The out
ward form Of DR.. Bleyer's bulb is the
same as that Of any other x ray tube.
and it may be excited by either a static
machine or an induction coil. The
only novelties in the construction re-
late to the degree of cuu and the
placing of the poles or terminals in
side. The color of the light given off
differs from that of an ordinary Ront-
gen tube in being dark purple instead
OF. green.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-04
DO YOU
KNOW
The Gazette
Job Department

Turns out a better class of
work than any other printing
establishment in the Yellow.
stone valley.
We are prepared to do any
class of printing on short
notice.
We employ only frst-class
workmen, and consequently
can guarantee
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-04
Farm L.borer. Organize.

Farm laborers in Illinois have formed
q union and will demand a minimum
wage Of $50 a month and board. Eligt-
BILE to the union are t%hrashers. corn
huskers, plowmen, binders, stock labor
ers and, in fact, all men employed about
farms.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-04
Railways Plant Trees.

A number Of western railways have
found that the growing of trees along
the right of way is profitable, both for
ties and snow breaks. and are setting
out millions of cuttings.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-12
SHY On PONIOONS
Representative Calderhead Ad-
dresses War Department
SECRETARY ROOT REPLIES
Fort LeavenWorth Commader
Will Give AL! Possible Aid
SECRETARY ROOT REPLIES

Washington. D. c., June 1L-Represen-
tative CaIderhead of Kansas. sent the
following telegram to the war depart
ment from Mary sville, Kan:
Hon. Z. Root, Washington: Can yoI
lend US pontoons to bridge the Kaw river
at Manhattan? There is no bridge from
Junction City TO Wamego and people
south OF the river need relief. If Gen
eral Bates has not the pontoons in his
department can you send them from some
other department? This case is urgent
The Rock Island runs trains in now.-W.
A. Calderhead.
Acting Secretary Sanger replied as fol-
lows:
W A Calderhead, Marysville, Kan:
Replying TO your telegram to the secre-
tary of war relative TO pontoons TO bridge
the Kaw river at Manhattan L have to
say that We have no pontoons besides
those at Fort Leavenworth excepting
few in Washington, which ii would
hardly seem advisable to send out.
The commanding general. department
of the missouri has been given instruc-
tions to give all the assistance possible
with those at Fort Leavenworth--Sange
Acting Secretary of War.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-12
CITY IN BRIEF.

Miss Sidney Clapp is visiting friends in
Iowa.
The NJ. S. girls gave picnic at Payne's
park last night
Mr.. w. E. Flood, of Enid. o. T., was
in the city yesterday.
Mr.. d E. Dunn has returned from a
trip to Pratt and Liberal
Mrs 7. H Monley. of Wellington, is
visiting friends in the city.
Police Judge Stanley was able to pre-
side over the police court yesterday.
DR.. Longnecker of Spivey. Kan. trans
acted business in the city yesterday.
/. NJ. Cox and Gus Saurs are on a
fishing trip at the club house at Neal.
John Noble is erecting three new cot
taees on Indiana avenue for renting pur-
poses.
Mrs. c. A. Matson has returned from
Harper, where she has been visiting
friends.
Mrs. ]. Otis Huff OF Kansas City great
contralto. will sing at the First NJ. +.
church tonight.
Mrs A NJ. Bronson and granddaughter
of Colorado are visiting with Mr.. j. j.
Bronson and family.
On account of extra work Mr.. NJ. S.
Riley, service clerk of the Santa Ee. is
to have an assistant.
Rev. Pollard will speak at the Union
Gospel Mission this evening at o'clock
Come and hear him.
w. b. Buck of the Rorabaugh store
has returned home from an eastern bust
ness trip for his firm.
Harry Titus. travelling livestock agent.
for the Santa Fe, has returned from a
trip through the Panhandle
Sam Miller says his name has not ap-
peared in the list of subscribers to the
Topeka sufferers. He gave sl.00.
Harry Atkinson, messenger boy at the
Santa Re freight office has been pro-
NOTED TO the position of operator at SAT-
ior6eville.
A. o. Rorabaugh OF Emporia, president
Of the Rorabaugh Dry Goods company,
is spending few days in Wichita visiting
their main store.
IL NJ. GRAFTON sofa 10 Earl W. AliSloi
a lot at the corner of Eighteenth and
Main streets for $500 and the owner will
build a nice cottage.
Mrs. Lewis Petticord stated yesterday
that her son was not hopping the train
when his foot was crushed, from the in
Jury Of which he died Wednesday.
The body of Mrs. Peter Martin of
South Santa Fe avenue. who died Tues
day. June .. was placed in the receiving
vault of Maple Grove cemetery after the
funeral services he'd Sunday. There
were only three children present at the
services, held by Rev. Dubber. Other
children arrived on Sunday and Wednes-
day. On Wednesday the family went 70
the cemetery and placed her body in its
last resting place. The singing at the
service was most affecting and the fam
lily were grateful for IT.