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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-24
FOUND DIAMONDS IN FIELD.
Mixed With Guano and Scattered
Broadcast With the Fertilizer.

A dispatch from Raleigh N. c., says:
Attorney James H. Pou returned here
from Wilson, where he appeared in the
most singular suit ever brought in North
Carolina. In wreck at Lacama, due to
a collision between passenger and freight
trains. an express car and cars loaded with
guano were burned. Lafayette Lucas
bought the-gnano and ashes and began tc
distribute these upon his farm. Negroes
loading the stuff found a f1ve-cut diamond
Others were picked up, and so far twenty
eight others have been discovered, valued
at 81, 800.
The whole community is wildly excited
Search is being made in the field where
Lucas hauled the fertilizer. The question
is, Who owns the diamonds, Lucas or the
finders?
In the case in which Pou appeared, his
client. Henry Jones, colored found a
diamond worth over $500. A magistrate
gave judgment in Jones favor
The owner of the diamonds has not ap-
peared. 1t is evident they were being
struggled, as they were not upon the ex-
press manifest nor in the safe. Lucas en-
deavors to stop the search save by his
own agent are futile. The belief is that
many more diamonds are yet unbound.
Railway and express officials are taking
no part in the matter.
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SOUTHERN RAILWAY.


Trains leave from Pennsylvania Station.
1880 an. Daily. Local for Harrfsonburs War.
renton, Danv,lle and way stations.
1851 am. Daily. Washington and Florida Linz
to Jacksonville, Fla. Dining car service.
HIS am. Daily. United States Fast Mail
First class coaches and drawing room sleeper to
New Orleans. Dining service.
4:01 pm. Week Days. Local for Harrisonbure
and way stations Manassas branch.
4:40 pm. Daily. Local for Warrenton and Char
iottesville.
ITO pm. Daily. New York and Atlanta Ezr
press. First-class coach. sleeper to Columbus via
Atlanta. Sunset tourist, sleeper Washington to
San Francisco Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays.
$50 pm. Daily, Through sleepers and coaches
Washington to Columbia, Augusta, Aiken. Savan-
nah and Jacksonville. Dining ear service.
1910 pm. Daily. New York and Memphis Linn
Ing car to ROANOKE. Knoxville Chattanooga and
Memphis; sleeper to New Orleans. Dining car
service
l0l5 PIN. Daily. Washington and Southwestern
cars to Atlanta and Macon; sleepers to Nashville
TRAINS ON BLUEMoNT BRANCH
p Sos m SEES pm p5os p@
for Leesburg only Sunday trains leave Washington
0:10 am, S:25 m.
Through trains from the South arrive Washington
pm. 9:30 pm. and $3.50 pm. daily. Local trains
from Harrisonburg, II SO am. week days and 9:10
pm daily From Charlottesville S:25 and
$40 pm. daily.
Tickets sleeping car reservations and detailed In
formation can be had at ticket Offices, 705 18th
street. 511 Pennsylvania avenue and Pennsylvania
Station. Baggage checked through from hotels and
Phone 1910 P. r. R. Cab Service.
Q. II. ACKERT. General Manager.
s. Fl. HARDWICK, Pass Traf Mgr.
W. Fl. TAYLOE, General Passr Agent.
I, & AGAR
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India Plague pac.lli Lost.

dispatch from Chicago says: Several
thousand bacilli taken from plague sufferers
in India and inclosed in small tin case,
leather bound, have been lost somewhere
between ST. Paul and Chicago by w. W. H.
Hurlbut, MD, scientist from London,
England, who has arrived here. The bacilli
are as yet unnamed, though labeled. Some
In media prepared by DR.. Huribut. The
small and valuable objects, important in
their relations to the science had been col
lected after three years of travel and in
vestigation in India, and were destined fer
the use of learned men of England and
Germany In their researches regarding the
Asiatic plague, which DR.. hurlbut says up
results
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RESULT OF A RAID.
Western Union Men Summoned in Pool
Room Case.

A dispatch from New York says: Sub
poenas were issued and served by the dis
trict attorneys Office today on Superintend-
ent Dealy of the racing department of the
Western Union Telegraph Company. and
Assistant Superintendent Mitchell to APP
pear in John Doe proceedings tomorrow.
The proceedings are based on the raid at
an alleged pool room in East 42d street
last week.
Because neither the police nor the district
attorneys Office was ready with evidence
in the West Side court today, Magistrate
Mayo. In spite of the protests of Assistant
District Attorney Lord. discharged from
custody the ten prisoners made in the raid
of the alleged pool room information bu-
reau in the New York Theater building last
Friday. This was to have been the first of
the trials of those arrested In more than
twenty raids of alleged pool rooms last
week.
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RAILROADS.
Chesapeake 6 Ohio Ry.

Schedule Effective March 16. 1904
Trains leave Pennsylvania Station.
$50 PM. Daily-CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS spE.
CIAL. Solid vestibule, electriclighted Dinina
Car train to Cincinnati. Reaches Cincinnat Il
$500 am, Louisville IL 100 am, st. Louis q: as
Pm, Chicago $50 pm. Pullman Sleepers to
Louisville, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and ST.
Louis Parlor Car to Virginia Hot Springs week
days, arriving 1920 pm. central time. Parlor
Car Cincinnati to Chicago Dining Car from
Washington meals la carte.
lilo PM. Daily-F. F. v. LIMITED. Solid yea.
tibue, electric-lighted Dining Car train to Gin.
cinuati. Pullman Sleepers to Cincinnati, Lex.
ington and Louisville, without change Com
partment Sleeper to Virginia Hot Springs daily
except Sunday. Seepers Cincinnati to CHICAGO
and st. Louis Diuing Car serving meals Ia
carte.
Reservation and tickets at Chesa peake and Ohio
office, b13 Pennsylvania avenue; 900 Fourteenth
street. near F. and at the station. Telephone call
1910 for Pennsylvania r. R. Cab Service
II. w. FULLER,
Telepbo 70 Main 1O66 General Passenger gent
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Folks Duty to the State.

dispatch from ST. Louis says: Joseph
w. Folk was asked whether he was In
sym pathy with Mayor Johnson's propo-
sition to secure the Endorsement Of Ohio for
Folk Sor President He said:
II ara under solemn obligation to the
people of Missouri: this obligation Is go
definite that I cannot 1onorably consider
for one moment the nomination, or even
the suggestion of the nomination, for any
Office other than that Of governor sf the
state.
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commenced at Poplar Spring. on the hos
pital grounds.
An old folks concert was held last even
ing in Allan's Methodist Episcopal Chapel,
in Garfield, Rev. r. T. Queen. pastor Will
lam H. Green acted as general manager.
with George Anderson as stage manager.
The church recently concluded a financial
rally, from which a satisfactory sum was
presented to the pastor.
Mrs. NJ. z. Golden of Maple avenue. Ana
costa, who has been very i'll at her home,
Is now eonvalescipg
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1900 am. Sleepers.
Atlantic City. t7:co. 1900. lilo am, t1:Oo.
300 pm.
EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUR
TO BALTIMORE WITH PULLMAN SERVICE.
Week days: 300. 500, $50. 1900. 1920. S:00,
S:35, 300, $3.50, 1000. Hoo am, 1900 noon,
1905. 100 200. 300, AGO. 4:45. $500. $685. $50.
Sundays: 800 700, T20. S:35. 900. IL 90 M,
loo. 1918, $780, $3.50. $500. $780, $3.50. 500, 1000,
1l:30, IL ;35 pm.
WESTWARD.
LEAVE STATION, New Jersey and ST
CHICAGO and NORTHWEST. Ill go am, 'I:30
pm.
'1o:05 am, '4.o5 pm, '12:45 night.
PfTTSBURG and CLEVELAND, S11:0 am,
'e;lS , pm I1,9;,a and ,l2;fo aight.
WHEELING. .f0:e5 am, 1870 pm.
WINCHESTER. 1855 M, t4:05, $500 pm.
uoQn, AGO. 600 pm. Sundays, s:35 am, $50
FREDERICK. 1885. to:16 tloos. tI1:oo am.
t1:15. taos, 1870 pm.
HAGERSTowN, f10:O5 am. and 1900 pm.
boyd and way points 1885, to:15 am, this,
$500. t5:30. t10:1b. i'll 80 pm.
GATTHERSBURG and way points, 1885, 1918
am, t12:50. t1:i5 1890, f5:o0, '5:05, 1880.
t6:50, 1896 t1o:15 I'll 80 pm.
t9:15 am, t1:1a $500. 1890 pm.
sDaily. Except Sunday. tSunday only.
Baggage called for and checked from hotels and
residences by Union Transfer Co. on orders left
at ticket Offices. $40 Pennsylvania ave. NV, New
York ave. and 18th St, and at station.
s. B. HEGE. District Passenger Agent.
d. B. MARTIN. Manager Passenger Traffic.
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SEABOARD AIR Lime RY,

LEAVE PENNA r. R. STATION.
For Petersburg, Raleigh, Wilmington. Columbia,
Savannah, Jacksonville, Tampa, Tallahassee, At
lanta, Birmingham. Mobile. Pensacola and New
Orleans.
10:46 AM Daily-SEABOARD MAn.-Through
Pullman Sleepers to Jacksonville, Fla, connect
ing at Hamlet with Pullman Sleeper to Atlanta
Cafe Dining Car to Hamlet.
90 Pm. Daily.-SEABOARD EXPRESS.-Solid
train to Jackson Vile and Tampa, with Pullman
sleepers and cafe dinitg car. Through sleepers
to Atlanta.
Ticket Office: 1921 Penna ave.
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The cheapest, quickest and
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formation to the citizens of any
community is by the use of the
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RAILROADS.
Atlantic Coast Lime.

Effective April 10, 1904
4:3O am. daily-Sleeping Cars New York to
Jacksonville, Fla
3;45 pm. daily-Sleeping New York TO Port
Tampa Fla, via Jacksonville; New York to Au-
glsta, Ca; New York to Charleston. $. c.; Wash
ington, d. c., to Wilmington N. C. Connects at
Petersburg for Norfolk, via n. & W. PULLMAN
DINING CAR SERVICE on this train.
For tickets and all information apply at the Of
FICE OF THE LINE, col PENNSYLVANIA AVE.
NUE. NORTHWEST, and PENNSYLVANIA RAIL
ROAD STATION.
A. L. REED,
District Passenger Agent, Washington D. @.
w. J. CRAIG, Ii. NJ. EMERSON,
Cen Pass. ACT. Traffic Manager,
Wilmington. N c. Wilmington n c.
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Summer Course SINGING msn9EI Pi s5S Violin En1n,
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with pupils. Address PROFESSOR, Star office
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EDUCATIONAL.
IN WASHINGTON.

IN WASHINGTON.
FRENCH LANGUAGE SCHOOL
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Baltimore and Ohio r. r

TRAINS EVERY OTHER HOUR ON THE ODD
HOUR" To
PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK.
1900 a. Diner Pullman Sleeper.
TOGO a. Buffet. Parlor. IIr Train.
TOGO a m. Diner and Parior Car.
I'll 90 a. m. Diner and Parlor Car.
Il 90 pm. Diner and Parlor Car.
1900 pm. Royal Limited" All Pullman.
1900 pm. Coaches Philadelphia.
$500 pm. Diner and Pullman Sleeper.
$500 pm. Coaches to Philadelphia.
al 80 pm Sleepers.
800 am. Sleepers.
ATLANTIC CITY. f7:oO. 1000. I'll 90 In. II 100.
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lighting, etc.-heated by
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General Manager. Pass'r Traffic Manager
GEO. W. BOYD.
General Passenger Agent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-17
FERoCIoUs FIGHTING.
Manchuria Has Been Forgotten iT
 Pride of Russians.

Mukden, Oct. 16.-(Evening. )-The firing to the southwest is less violent The men are tired out and food has been insufficient. Every available gun and man are being used.
 The troops have behaved most gal Iantly. hurling themselves repeatedly against impregnable positions. The heavy storm of October 14 added to the misery of the troops. There Is great depression, but stolid tenacity among the men. There has been great sacri- fee of officers.
 The plain occupied by the retiring Russians is covered with burst shrapnel. The gunners shoveled shells into the brooches of the guns as stok- CTS shovel coal into furnaces. Howlt- gers are used by the eastern army The Russian guns have superior range and burst shrapnel at six thousand yards.
 Two divisional commanders have lost their chief stan officers and many commanders met death heroically lead .. ing their regiments.
 Shrapnel fell near General Kuropat- kin. He showed desperate energy and even in the darkest hour remained hopeful. The Japanese must feel the strain. There was a cessation of hos tiIities Saturday. Neither side can stand many such contests the ferocity of which was frightful. The Russians gre now fighting as a matter of pride; Msnnhuria is forgottsn. They feel that
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-17
WEATHER TODAY. Washington, D. C., October ls---Fere- cast for Monday and Tuesday' Ala eama-Partly cloudy Monday and Tues- day, fresh northeast winds.

which may prove to be the salvation of our country's existence, but we regret both the slaughter of our sol diers and the terrible slaughter which our forces have inflicted on the cne- my. We regret the necessity which forced us to engage In this war"
 A member of the diplomatic corps in an interview with the correspon- dent of the Associated Press said:
 T believe the world wil recoiI from the sickening slaughter of this battle Every interest of humanity demands the adjustment of the differences be- tween the two nations and the procla- nation of peace.
 The situation between the two bel ligrents is a delicate one but what . splendid triumph for diplomacy 1t will. be If peace could be arranged. IL seems to be that the question of honor is no longer involved. If Russia feels that such question is involved. sure ly the heroic and successful defense of Port Arthur and valor shown by Russian soldiers on the fields of Man churia should forever determine the quality of Russian courage. Russia should remember that the distance dividing her strength, and the limita- tions of her railway arc historical fae- tors in this war. Those factors arc generally known. They are apprecia. ted by everybody and are not looked on as faults.'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-17
BATTLE OF sHAKHE RIVER.
Field Marshal Oyansa Names Tremen-
 dous EnRagement.

Field Marshal 0yansa Names Tremen-
 dous EnEagement.
 Tokio, Oct. 16.-(S D. m.)--A tefe- gram received from the Manchurian headquarters late today reports that the fighting has ceosed on the front of the right and the center armies, but that it continues before the left army The report Is as follows:
 The front of the right and center armies has become quiet. but on the front of the left army fierce cannon ading continues.
 enemy is inactive.
 Our force under General Yamada captured one gun and two ammunition wagons during the attacks on tho heights of Santackangtszu on the night of October 18th"
 Dispatches from Field Marshal oyama officially designate the engage emnt since October 10. as the hereto fore unnamed Battle of the Shakhe river" Fragmentary reports of the losses of the Japanese forces continue to arrive. The center column of the left army lost five officers killed and twenty wounded since October 12. On October 12. it lost 250 men,.
 The losses in men by this column are under investigation. The right col- umn of the left army lost one officer killed and fifteen wounded and 500 men killed and wounded on October 14. The left column of the left army lost seven officers killed and twenty wound ed and Tb0 men killed or wounded on October 14.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-17
KUROPATKIN TO EMPEROR St. Petersburg Hears the
 Bad News. FIGHTING NEAR SHAKHE Russian Commander Still Buoyant With Hope. Regiments without Sleep for Three Days, But Hang on to Firing
 Line-Casualties Were
 Enormous.
FIGHTING NEAR sHAKHE

St. Petersburg, Oct. 16.-Under date of October Is, General Kuropatkin sent the following telegram to the emperor:
 "On the night of October IA. large forces of Japanese attacked the corps drawn up in line at Shakhe, on the great Mandarin road. Several attacks were repulsed but the last succeeded and the corps was broken.
 "At that moment fighting began on the right flank. The possibility was that with the rupture of our center. our whole formation would be threat ened and that the neighboring troops might force a retreat.
 Tn order to support the troops on the great Mandarin road several bat talions were rapidly pushed forward. The troops were thus enabled to take the offensive and succeeded in retak- ing the village of Shakhe, reoccupyinG the first positions.
 Reinforced by reserves, the Japa- nese dislodged us again from the vii- lage of Shakhe. Then the advance reserves and troops. defending the po- eition, resumed the offensive and after a stubborn fight we succeeded in re- occupying shakhe, repulsing the Jap anese and driving them back two kil- ometres from that place.
 "On our right wing the position was for some time alarming. The troops were attacked in the front and by a turning movement on their right flank. The chief of detachment ad- vanced the troops set apart for a last rally. they having attacked the Jap anese from flank in their turn. Several villages were retaken by us. The right wing maintained its posi- tions on the line of Shakhe positions. The troops on our center were notice- ably advanced in comparison with other troops in the general position of line One position on our right and partially fortified. Cur troops retired from these positions after a stubborn fight.
 'The troops have been fighting for four days and many regiments have not slept for three night. Neverthe- less, I have full hope of their capa- biiity to continue the struggle. The Japanese loss must be very consider able.
 'The night of October 14 passed quietly. Befc-e 9 o'clock this morn Ing a rather marked movement of the enemy was noticed in the direction of our positions on the great Mandar- In road Our batteries opened fire on them.
 "I have received a report from the commander of the left wing that the enemy had been strongly reinforced there. As was the case at Liaoyang the quantity of heavy firing caused d storm to burst forth followed by a torrential rain. The roads are in very bad condition and the level of the riv- CTS has risen. The general order fol all the troops remains the same as before to offer most resolute resisN tance.
 T have just received report that a considerable Japanese force has cross ed the railroad line from west to east"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-17
APPEAL FOR PEACE.
Japauene Diplomats Consider Battle
 Valuable Lesson.

Tox,o Oct. 16.-(6 P. M.)-There Is A strong appeal for peace in the ap- palling tragedy which is now under enactment in Manchuria Both armies have fought ferociously for a week. and desperate fighting still contin- mes If is probable that the death roll will he largely increased before the final shot is fired
 The preliminary reports indicate that about sixty thousand men of both sidss have been either killed 0, I,onnded. the larger portion of them Russians. since the armies closed in combat.
 Even the Japanese to whom the great victory Is of paramount impor- lance seem to be shocked by the sIau9hter of their armies. The Japa~ nese neople are receiving the news sroro inc field of battle calmly. and there can be heard no shouts in the streets proclaiming the victory of their natlon Few flags are displayed. ProbabIy later on there will be a pro- cession with the consequent jOllifica- lion. but there are heard many ex- nressions of opinion that no demon: stratfon of any kind will be held. A nronntnent JapaneAe said to the Asso- eiated Press correspondent today:
 ssWa have won a sweeping victory
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-17
Tokio Figures That Enemy Lost 4O,0O0
 Men.

TOkiO Figures That Enemy Lost 4O,OOO
 Men.
 Tokio, Oct. 16.-t1l:30 a. m.)--In the reports of the great btatle which con- tinue to arrive from the front, the most striking feature Is the terrible number of Russian dead. Before the severe fighting on October 14, General oku's army alone recovered and buried 2,000, making the total number of Russians buried by the Japanese with Nodsu's army still to hear. $500. Applying the usual calculation and making reason able allowance for the fighting of the I4th and 18th, the Russian losses will exceed 10000.
 Fragmentary reports of Japanese casualties are coming in. General Oku up to and including october IA, lost $500 men. Estimates on the total Japanese loss are not possible, but they are small in comparison with the losses of the Russians.
 Reports dispatched late yesterday evening from the field are in the fol- lowing characteristical order:
 "The main force of the right army which had already occupied Chouchia- flu heights, reached line on the Shakhe River, but one division of the enemy continues to offer stubborn resistance. The center army has reached it's ob- jective and has been heavily engaged since the morning of October 15.
 "On the morning of October IS, the enemy in front of the left army con tinued holding its position north of Shahopo and Lumuntung and offered strong resistance. The center column Is engaged in taking Shahopo and the main body of the right column Is ad- vancing against Lumuntung and at tacking that position.
 "The enemy has six batteries be- tween Shahopo and Sugantai which are vigorously shelling the attacking col umn and our positions at Lienchiepo but the bombardment Is not strong enough to prevent our advance. On October II. the left column or the cen ter army lost 26l killed and wounded.
 "The casualties to ourselves and the Russians and the number of the troops captured by the left army follow:
 "During the five days from October 10 to October 14, inclusive, our losses were about 2.500 and wounded, officers included. During the four days from October 10 to October 15, the number of corpses left by the enemy and buried by us reached 2.000. The enemy's dead after the battle of October IA, were very numerous. The prisoners taken number eighty. The principal tropnles were thirty guns and many rlhes, uni forms and accoutrements. The latter are still uncounted.
 There are some forces of the enemy on the right bank of Shakhe River in front of the main strength of the right and center armies. but no battle on a great scale occurred. The forces Of the enemy at Shahopo and Lamuntun facing the left army have been offering stubborn resistance. but have been dis lodged and their positions have been captured. On the afternoon or octoper 1s force of the enemy appeared near santaokantszu and continued to offer resistance until sundown. portions of our center and left armies engaging them"