The Alaska prospector., 1904-11-03
Cable News Of Tie Week.

taGle News Uf ile Week.
 Tokio. Oct. 30-A troop of Cos sacks surprised the Japanese forces stationed at Wumingtsun. and af. ter a brisk engagement defeated them and captured the town. Many of the houses were set aiire and tac entire town is now in hamcs. The Japanese escaped without heavy losses. but their bag gage trains were captured. ! Mukdeu, Oct. 30-Troops are be- ginning ;o move again and there is every prospect of renewal of hos tili,icS within few days. There is light fighting to the sou.hward and westward. and troop oi Cossacks Is raiding some oi the Japanese out posts.
 Fifty thousand rcenforcements for kdropatkin have arrived and many mere are curoute. As soon as the army has hecn recnforced so as to equal the Japanese in num- bcrs. Kuropatkin will again take the aggressive and attempt to re- trieve past defeats.
 Copcnharcn, Oct. 30 King Christian TX. of Denmark. declares that the Russians desire war with i England in order to secure Den mark and also Norway and Swed- en. He says an Anelo-Rtssian war would mean death to him and the end of Denmark as nation. Kansas City, Oct. 31-A disas- trous wreck occurred on the Mis- souri Pacific road at Tipton. east of here, yesterday evening. The west hound passenger struck freight train. Eleven were injured, and Miss Walker of Lewiston. and Mrs. Burke and John Bagdiey of Kan sas City. were killed.
 New York. Oct. 3l-Kogoro Talk ahira. the Japanese minister is sui fering from serious attack of ap- i pendicitis. He came to New York a few days ago on short business trip, and yesterday became so i'll that he was confined to his he'd. Fears are entertained that he will not recover.
 St. Louis, Nov. 1-The airsi,ip contest started here yesterday. There were great number of en- tries in this event from all parts of the world. and great importance has been attached to it as means of demonstrating the value of late inventions for navigating the air. Baldwin's model appears so far to be the most successful. It is per fectly dirigible and the ease and rapidity of its movements were SO great as to create great enthusiasm It is an unqualified success as a means of aerial navigation.
 Seattle, Nov. 1-There is consid- erahle excitement here over all legged false registration in the first ward. The matter is being investigated and arrests are expected to follow.
 New York. Nov. 1-The Sun and Harper's Weekly concede that Roosevelt will carry New York and will he elected unless a miracle in- tervenes.
 san Francisco, Nov. 1-The 20 round contest between feather weight champion Jimmy Britt and Joe Cans, the lightweight cham pion, which came off last night OIL ly lasted five rounds. Britt losing on foul in the fifth round. Britt says he will meet Young Corbett in December, notwithstanding los ing this fight.
 Mukden, Oct. 31-The Japanese army is being rapidly reenforced. Troops are being rushed to the front in great numbers and as fast as possible. Russian reenforce- ments are also arriving. but owing to the poor transportation facili- tes are not coming in as fast as could be desired.
 Tokio, Oct. 31-Both the Rus sian and Japanese armies are at high tension now, expecting mOmentari-