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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-05-13
HOW HARBOR WAS CLOSED.
Official Report of Admiral Toga Re-
gardng Blocking of Port Arthur.

The official report of Admiral Toga
relative to the blocking of the Port
Arthur harbor entrance states that five
of the eight stone laden vessels which
were sent in were sunk side by side,
thus completely closing the channel,
except at one side, where there is a
space large enough to permit a tor
pedo boat 10 slip through.
The venture was very costly to the
forlorn hope, which undertook the
task of blocking the channel. A storm
was in progress at the time and the
sea was running high. Then, to this
was added the terrific bombardment
from the land forts. which was di-
rected at the escorting fleet of tor
pedo boats. This kept the latter at
distance and they were unable to
save but few Of the heroes who took
the steamers in, most of whom are
believed to have persisted.
So far as known there were 159 men
on the blockading detachment. OF
these but SO returned in safety and
half of this number were wounded
Fifteen are known to have been killed
and the rest are missing. 1t is be-
lieved from Russian reports that 80
may have reached shore and the rest
are undoubtedly drowned.
All of the known dead and missing
have been promoted and their families
pensioned. The gross tonnage of the
eight steamers sunk was 1918 and
their ages varied from Is to 25 years
Three small Russian steamers have
been captured on the Yalu, but shells
damaged the boilers of two of them be
fore they surrendered. The third is
now in the Japanese service.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-05-13
NEW RUSSIAN LOAN.
Cost of War Enormous-$25o,0o o, 900
to June I.

Cost of War Enormous-$25O,OO DOC, 900
to June I.
An authoritative statement has been
given to the Associated Press from
the highest government source con-
corning the details and circumstances
Of the new Russia loan. as follows:
The situation has been much chang
ed since our interview with M. NIECE
sias de Routkowsky, the Russian finan-
cial agent in London, April %. The
conditions today on which the loan
is based are as follows:
The cost of the war for the first
five months, up to June 1, including
S22, 500,0 900 for railroad equipment, is
$685. 100000 After June 1 the month
ly cost of the war will be $500, 900
for the navy and $15,000,000 for the
army. at the front, making the total
war expenses about $245, 100000 for
the year closing January l next.
The first part of the war was more
expensive than the latter, owing to the
cost of mobilization and the general
expenses incident to setting the ma
chinery of war in motion. Against
these expenses we may have certain
economies. namely, sS0,O0O,000 on the
ordinary budget; s27,5OO,00O on the
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-05-13
Corpse of E. L. wentz Found.

The body of e. L. Wentz, who dis
appeared October 4. 1903, has been
found near Kelly View, Virginia, with
in mile from the place where he was
last seen alive. The body, which was
lying on the ground in plain view, was
in a state of preservation sufficient
for Identification.
Young Wentz was the son of Phila-
delphia millionaire, and was in charge
of his fathers mines in Wise county.
Since his disappearance more than
$4,000 has been offered for any news
of him.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-05-13
LARGE CROWDS AT THE FAIR.
st. Louis Making a Better Showing
Than Did CHICAGO.

The statement issued on the number
of daily admissions at the worlds fair
during the hrst week. as compared
with the attendance at the Columbian
exposition year the same period,
shows:
Daily average at st. Louis (six days,
not including the opening day.. 22.952;
total for six days, IS7,70S.
Daily average at Chicago (six days,
not including opening day., 20,O97; to-
tai for six days, 120,479.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-05-13
Wholesale Feed Prices.

Bran, $40 ton; bran and shorts, 81
ton; oats, $120 cwt; wheat, s1.25 cwt
chopped corn, s1.4O cwt; whole corn
s1.30 cwt; timothy hay. $40 ton.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-05-13
Spokane Retail Market.

old ROSTERS, 14@16c lb; geese. 1Sc.
Dairy Products-Butter, best cream
cry, 35c; common creamery, 25@30c;
best country, 20@30c; common coun.
try, 10000; imported Swiss cheese,
Zoe; American Swiss cheese, Csc;
cream brick cheese, 20@25c; New
York cheese. zoe.
Eggs-New laid eggs, 25@30c doz.
Meats-Beef, porterhouse steak, Is
@20c Id; sirloin steak, 15@1Sc ID;
round steak, 1212c Id; shoulder steak,
10c ID; hamburger steak, 9@12hc lb;
prime roast, 15@1Sc lb; common roast,
l0@12c Id.
Fish-Royal salmon, 1919 @15c lb;
halibut, 1914 @15c lb; founders, 121ac
ID; whitefish, 18c Id; smelts, 121ac lb.
Oysters and Clams-Eastern oysters
$4,000 qt; Olympia oysters, 75c qt;
bulk CLANS &C lb; Toke Points, S5c
doz in shell.
Flour-Eastern fancy patents, $1.65
OILS sack; local patents. $1.30 sack;
standard, $1.z0 sack; lowest, s1.10
sack; Washington wheat, $4.40@4.75
bbl buckwheat, 40@50c 10 Id sack.
Grain O. Feed-1Imothy, s1.05@1.10
getables-Potatoes, s1@1.25 per
sack; carrots, 2@9c Id; onions. 4@5
Id; cabbage, 2@3c lb; celery, 15C
stalk; norseradish, 10000; tomatoes
15@25c Id; green onions, 2 punches
&C; radishes, sc bunch.
Fruits-Oranges, 15@50c doz; lem
ons, 15@25c doz; cranberries, 15c Id;
apples, extra fancy Wagners, $2@2.5(
box; Northern Spy, Rome Beauty and
fancy Baldwins, $1.50@1.75 box; New
Town Pippin, 1925 box.
Poultry-Dressed chickens, yount
chickens, 10000; hens, 15@18c lbi
cwt; alfalfa, $4,000 cwt; grain hay
$4,000 cwt; oats, $1.35@1.4O; bran
90@95c cwt; bran shorts, $1.05 cwt
shorts, $1.10 cwt; wheat, s1.40 chop
ped barley, s1.20Q1.25; feed carrots
soc sack.
Seed-Red clover, $3.50 cwt; aisik'
clover. SIG cwt; alfalfa, SIS cwt; tim
othy, Sc cwt; best redtop, s12 cwt
Kentucky bluegrass, SIS cwt; orchard
grass, SIS cwt; bromegrass, SO cwt.
City hay market-Loose timothy ha,
S1S; wheat hay, s17@lS; oat hay, 81
gle.
Wholesale Feed Prices.
Bran, $40 ton; bran and shorts, 81
ton; oats. 81 20 cwt; wheat, $1.25 cwt
chopped corn, s1.40 cwt; whole corn
S1.S0 cwt; timothy hay, $40 ton.
Prices Paid to Producers.
Vegetables and Fruits-Potatoes z
@S0c cwt; onions, 81 cwt; cabbage
S1.45@1.65 cwt; root vegetables, SOS
cwt; Spitzenberg apples, $3.50 box
yellow Newton apples, $150 box.
Poultry and Eggs-Chickens, roosi
ers, 10c; hens, 12@15c live weight
young chickens, 11@14c lb; turkeys
dressed, 10000; geese and ducks,
@14c; eggs. $3.50.
Hay-Timothy, s16@19 ton; a
faIfa, s14; grain hay, s15, oats. s10S@
LIS cwt.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-05-13

The passage through the Suez canal
in January was made by 334 vessels,
against 206 in January. 1903, and the
dues collected in that month amounted
to 9,1S0,0O0 francs, against S,1S0,000
francs.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-05-13
counterfeiters Captured.

Progresso, Yucatan.-In a house in
this city raided by the police two
Americans named Ford and Williams,
who were manufacturing counterfeit
money, were captured and a large
quantity of counterfeiting material
confiscated.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-05-13

extraordinary budget, and $4,000, 900
on previous budgets, making the total
economies $67,OOO,OOO.
Port Arthur Captured.
A Japanese army of 10000 to 10000
men has landed behind Port Arthur,
captured the railroad and is in fun
possession of all the roads. 1t is pre-
sumed it will proceed to besiege Port
Arthur, which is said to have a gar
rison of $4,000 men, provisioned for
Is months.
Japanese army is proceeding to-
ward Fengwancheng, northwest Of the
Yalu river, where the Russians are in
force. Russian plans are said to be
to defend this place, but there is a
possibility of abandoning it and pro-
ceeding northwara.
Russians Retreating.
Japanese army has entered Feng-
wancheng, the Russians fleeing with
out giving serious battle, according to
report sent to Toxic.
A Chefoo dispatch says the Rus
slams will blow up the battleships and
cruisers in Port Arthur harbor. will
destroy the Notifications and will spike
the guns, leaving only an empty shell
for the Japanese to capture.
Dalny, near Port Arthur, is to be the
scene of the next Japanese attack. as
the Japanese need a better harbor in
which to send stores for the army on
the peninsula.
The Russians are said to be planning
to retreat before the Japanese until
the Russian army is sufficiently large
to overwhelm the Japanese. Mean
while General Kouropatkin is to have
free hand.
Mondays War News.
A World special from Shanghai says
the Japanese have captured Dalny
Dispatches from Japanese sources say
the place has been invested.
1t is declared that the Russians have
begun to move their guns from New
chWang and that the place will be de-
serted, If it has not already been oc-
cupled by the Japanese. The foreign
inhabitants there are demanding that
gunboats be sent, as they fear the ban
dts will attack the town when the
Russian troops leave.
Stories of the battle of the Yalu tell
or the wonderful dashes of the Japa-
nese across a level plain in the face of
a whitening fire and the capture of
Russian heights.
Official dispatches to ST. Petersburg
tell of Russian losses of about 5000
men at the battle of Yalu river. Fear
full carnage was caused by the well di-
rected fire of the Japanese artillery.
There were desperate bayonet charges
when the combatants got into close
quarters.
General Kouropatkin's plans are
still unknown in st. Petersburg. Specu-
lation as to how far he will retreat be-
fore he makes determined stand are
widespread. 1t is admitted, however,
that the Japanese are in full posses
sion OF the lower end of the peninsula
} and of the mouths of the important
rivers.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-05-13
RUSSIANS OVERWHELMING
rISMANTLED FORTS AND PUT AR
TILLERY ON BOARD CARS.

Also Destroy Gunboat-Last Train out
of Port Arthur Was Fired on by
Japanese-Viceroy AIexIeH Slightly
Wounded While Making His Escape
Russian Troops Withdrawn.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-26
BIG BABBOON
Ran His Tongue Into Electric Light
Socket and Something Happened.

0oCkeG dIO SOlneIL1ug happened.
Kansas City Journal.
There is badly shocked baboon in
the window Of Seymour Rice's ''smok-
house, in West Ninth street. It is GER
tain that this red-haired simian will not
hereafter tamper with an electric light
socket, if it be true that he learns by
experience.
When this baboon was placed in the
window, he began at once to investigate
the electric lights which line the cor
ners of it. Mr.. Rice therefore took out
the lower ones, leaving the sockets
empty. The monkey paid no further
attention to them till night, when the
lights were turned on. Then, to his
simple mind, there was something
wrong with those empty sockets. He
.proded them. but could do nothing with
them. Finally he ran his long tongue
into one.
At once there was a howl of pain, a
flash of red-haired monkey in the air,
and the simian was curled up in the
corner Of the window bowling with the
sudden but not violent pain. His tongue
had formed "contact,',' being wet,
in the socket, and he had been shocked
good and plenty. He was terrified more
than he was hurt, however. He would
look at the socket-from safe dis
tance-and then running his long
tongue out would feel the end of it,
and grimace; then he would look at the
socket again, in an effort to connect
the two Evidently his mind didn Il
reason that far, but it taught him one
thing, and that was to let both lights
and sockets alone. ns
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-26
FRENCH SCIENTISTS
Kidding the Land of Rats by Feeding
Them Deadly Microbes.

Washington Cor; New York Times:
Consul General John K. Gowdy, in a
report from Paris to the state depart
ment, describes a new method Of exter-
minating rats and mice.
The process was devised by the Pas
teur Institute, and use is made Of mi
crobes. Scientists recently experimental
on a tract Of nearly 5000 acres, badly
infested with vermin. Four tons Of
bread and nine tons Of oaty were used
as bait. These had been treated to a
solution in which the microbes were cul-
tivated. and were placed near the holes
made by the rodents.
The scientists estimated that they
killed fully IS per cent Of the rats and
mice living in the tract treated. A field
of two and half acres was chosen,
and 12,494 1atholes were counted. These
were closed, and two days later it was
found that ! ,3O4 had been opened.
The bait was used, and eight days
later only thirty holes had been
opened. Fifteen and twenty rats were
frequently found dead in one hole. The
Chamber of Deputies has been asked to
pass a law requiring farmers to cooper.
ate to exterminate rats with microbes
The government will furnish the solu.
ton. The cost of the cultures is
three cents an acre.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-26
WAR COSTLY TO RUSSIA
Just $125, 100000 Spent During the
First Five Months.
Troy Press.

L
The cost of the war, according to a
high Russian official, for the first FIVE
months, up to June L, including $22,-
100000 for railroad equipment, is $685.
After June 1, the monthly cost 81 the
war will be $3,500,000 for the navy and
$15,0O0,000 for the army at the front,
$254,000 ,000i for the year closing Jan.
l next.
The first part of the war was more ex-
pensive than later, owing to the cost Of
mobilization and the general expense in
cident to setting the machinery of war
fare in motion.
Against these extraordinary expenses
$30,000,000 on the ordinary budget, $27, >
100000 on the extraordinary budget
and $9,500,000 on previous budgets,
making the total economies $67 100000.
"When the war began the Russian
government had between $l?o, 100000
Bank of Russia, and with foreign banks.
According to the monetary. law of 1897,
which made gold the standard for Rus
STA, there was a stock of gold amount,
ing to $475,OOO.000 and note issue of
$500 100000, Therefore: Russia could could
5000 100000 to $3.50, 100000 in notes
Without impairing in the slightest the
cold law of 1897. However, by so do.
ing, the monetary situation after the
war might have BEEN less satisfactory
than at present.
Accordingly, for, the purpose. Of pro
tecting the internal monetary situation
the Russian government has lent fav.
orable ear to proposals made by French
bankers to negotiate the issue Of treas
ury bonds, running five years, at s pei
cent. These are going to be offered .tc
| customers Of the big French financial
houses at near to par. BY SO doing the
Russian government reserves the ri ght
after five years to make use of it's Inter
nal credit to convert or consolidate
these fve-year bonds into a funded debt
bearing lower rate Of interest: The
amount likely to be taken up at once
issue can 90 up to $3.50 100000.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-26
Prices stagger for a While and
Then Slide Off, Closing
I Very Weak.
An Increase in the Visible, Good
Receipts and Better Weather
in Sight.
statistically the Local Situation
Is Very Strengthens Of
the Day.

MINNEAPOLIS Chamber of Commerce, Sept. 26-
More wheat in than last year was the bear intiu-
ence at the opening Of the week In wheat. For
six days the run of wheat into Minneapolis mas
been larger than year ago, and the new week
began with TIT cars in, against 612. Duluth
has had about the same thing to show, and this
morning had 3O3 against 253 Prices were
off early by about 1ac and there was little sup
port. Some who had carried long wheat over
from Saturday let 1t go. and few sold short
on the view that the market having advanced
&c to 7c In about 10 days due for etback
anyway. 1t needed only the appearance OF Ar
Chicago pit to weaken that market and turn
off the other markets we'll Then with an In
crease of 1 193, 900 bu In the visible supply the
market became heavy and less responsive to new
buying. AS matter Of fact, this visible In
crease, altho it looked big, was not even Il
standoG with last year, when the increase was
1,812,OOO. AT that time Minneapolis had 2,3S2,-
600 Blu In store and today has 1,471 1881 bu.
Moreover, the permanent upturn was made last
year on Sept. TO-. Stocks had begun to increase,
and for the period corresponding to last week
showed gain Of Oil 900 bu, while this year the
decrease Is still on, the report for the one day
to figure in the coming week showing $4,000 bu
decrease. It Is true that last year the Mime
apols total was down to TIT 900 blu at time
and has not been SO low this year. but the in
dication is that 1t will go that low unless more
wheat comes in, for even with movement larger
than last year there Is not enough coming to per.
NIT Of accumula tion.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-26
MUMPS GERM
Is Isolated by Scientist and VIII Be
Developed.

New York Sun.
What is believed to be the germ Of
mumps has been discovered BY. Dr.:
Samuel Darling, resident pathologist Of
the city hospital. He has isolated the
ease thus far discovered, and it remains
to be shown whether it will produce a
case Of mumps. 9@ 81 ~, I tn ~:
The death of a patient from mumps
unmixed with any other disease is ex-
ceedingly rare, and for that reason
there have been few opportunities in
the history of medicine to perform an
autopsy in the search for the germ.
Such death did occur in this city not
long ago, and the parents of the child,
it is said, requested that an autopsy be
performed. The body was taken to the
city hospital under the direction OF DR.:
William Stokes, the professor of
pathology at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons
DR.. Darling then made cultures, using
germs germs appeared. It: It differed from the
bacillus Of typhoid fever in being short
! er. It occurs in pairs and is thicker
than the germ of tuberculosis, i.
/ The bacteriology Of mumps up to this
time has been regarded as ncertaln
Altho several attempts have been made
to isolate the germ, with Indifferent re-
suits, in 1895, Da Vrun and Ostrln
French Investigators, found a double
germ such as DR.. Darling has dis
! covered, but it was never identified
positively as the mumps germ.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-26
NEARLY BROKE THE BANK
Interruption Of Talk Probably Saved
Monte Carlo, -.m
New York Herald


BY the Neutrality-suspicious. Line
port yesterday from Cherbourg, ar
rived a young New York woman who
no longer has faith in that old adage
about silence being golden. On the, con-
Monte Carlo would have been shattered
if the flow Of talk in which she was en-
gagged had not been interrupted. ~.
She is Miss Carrie Wolfsbruck Of 454
Lexington avenue, this city, and had
been one of large party Of tourists
who sailed on the Auguste Victoria on
terranean. The vessel stopped at Nice,
and many of the tourists went to Monte
Carlo, Miss Wolfsbruck among them.
II knew nothing whatever about the
game,' she explained, Except that 1T
was one they called roulette; [ laid
a 1o-frane piece j. on the tai. table1Ii j, It
party of friends from the steamship
came bustling in and we began to talk.
They had had some : full experiences
and, while listening, | forgot all about
the game and the little piece of money
had staked. Then one commenced
was listening entranced when gentle,
man who had been standing near tapped
me on the shoulder aid said: Pardon
me, madam, but that wheel has run
| in the second dozen about as long as
it is likely to, and I would advise you
to take in your Winnings
II looked to the. table, and he
pointed to heap of gold piled beside
my little lO-franc piece. It seemed
that I had placed the coin where if any
one of twelve numbers came up it would
win two times over, and I don't know
how many times it had wen. l took it
away, and when I found time to- count
it there was n,eariy $$;59Qe IN at: aaaa,d
refectively, that there had been more
bonnets to talk about, and that horrid
man had kept quiet. believe I would
have broken the bank-and with a 10
franc piece!'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-26
THE GYPSIES
Something Of the History of the Rowing
~ Tribes. 7..-

asp
New York Times.
The. word. Gypsy, Of curious and in
teresting origin, is at once illustrative
Of the tenacity Of a corruption and sug-
gestive that the propensity OF children
trait ira ' The Gypsie asn On their first ap.
pearance in England about the begin
ming ofathes sixteenth ntury.were= mis-
taken for Egyptians, and SO called by
men Of education, but the common peo-
pie, finding some difficulty in mastering
the name, rendered it "Gypsies,' and Sc
the wandering people have ever since
During the reign of Henry VIII, in
1891, a statute was enacted expelline
the Gypsies from the country under pen
atty Of imprisonment and forfeiture Of
property. According to the Grey Friars
Chronicle, the. statute recited that
"Iaany outlandish people, calling. them
fscf rssctice of S merchandse , have ave-
come into this realm and gone from
shire to s!.ire and place. to place il
great company, and used great subtle
ond crafty means to deceive the people
bearing them in hand that they by
palnlistry could tell men s and women =
and subtlety, have deceived the people
of their money, and also have committed
many and heinous felonies and rob
berics' Six years later Cromwell, in {
letter to the president Of Che Marches 0:
Wales, accuses "the Gipcians,' as h
calls them, Of "falsehoods, felonies ant
treascns,'' and orders the execution O.
such as fail to leave at command. 49,.
The Gypsies had spread over the con
tinert of Europe several centuries be
fore their appearance in England, an
an Austrian monk, writing Of them il
progeny of the son of Hagar, or Ish
mae,ites. Modern historians, however
| have, by the peculiarities of their Ian
guage, traced their origin to India
'I'hrlout the Orient and Continental Eu
rope they were known as metal work
them the introduction Of metallurgy, es
pcciaIly Of bronze, into Europe.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-26
A POINT TO BE EXPLAINED.

Chicago Evening Post.
she spends $4,000 year on dresa
should rise up and explain how sha
happens to buy six dozen pairs of stock
ings and only eight dozen pairs Of
gloves. Very likely she will say that
she uses her feet more than she uses
her hands, which is quite possible. Lett
us pity the sorrows of the poor society,"
lady whose hats, according to her own
calculation, cost a mere trife of 500
each, and whose stockings average an
expenditure of $40 a pair. Somebody
is being held up, and we suspect it Isl
not the gentlemen in trade. -. :,