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The Western news., 1904-09-14
JAPS LOOT AND ROB AT LAO
YANG.
Attempt to Steal from Red Cross CON-
pound,

Attempt to Steal from Red Cross Com
pound.
Liaoyang.-The Japanese officers
were unable to restrain their soldiers
after six days of desperate fighting,
and looting became general.
The soldiers in attempting to rob
the missionary and Red Cross COM
pound, stabbed DR.. A. M. Westwater,
we'll known medical missionary, in
the neck and hand. This is said to be
the first instance where Japanese
soldiers have been known to have been
uncomfortable.
The Japanese were welcomed by the
Chinese, but they abused the good
name which they established in the
Chino-Japanese war. Chinese refu-
gees are still arriving from the battle
field, where native fortune seekers are
securing the field for treasure. Most
OF the dead have been buried, but
broken accoutrements are scattered all
over the ground. The Japanese oper-
ate the railway frequently with coolie
power. Japanese reinforcements are
en- route north by all roads. Prince
Kai Yen, brother of the emperor of
Japan, commanding the second brig
ade of cavalry, has passed Haicheng.
The Red Cross officers fear an cpl
demic of disease will break out in
both armies, the torrents of rain that
fell after the 10 days battle at Lao
yang having compelled the wornout
and hungry troops to sleep without
shelter in mire by the roadsides. In
any case it is believed to be certain
that the hardships endured by the SOL
diers will result in great increase in
sickness.
The Western news., 1904-09-14
IDAHO SQUIBBS.

rlerce forest fires are blazing on
the mountains along the greater part
OF the south shore of Spirit Lake.
"A report has reached Lewiston that
the work of financing the proposed
Waha irrigation project in Chicago is
progressing favorably.
Genesee has received the hose carts
ana nose recently purchased for fire
protection. One cart will carry 500
feet and the other 800 feet of hose.
A disastrous conflagration, waited by
a strong south wind. destroyed a mum.
Der of frame buildings on ark ave.
nue., the principal street of Idaho Falls,
The secretary of the interior has in
structed the commissioner of the gen.
eral land office to take preliminary
steps toward surveying the Occur q
Alene Indian reservation.
IN a rearend collision of freight
trains in the yards at Standpoint. John
Leonard, night operator at Clarks Fork
lost both legs and was otherwise in
lured. He died on his way to a hos
pital.
A. M. Reed and c. w. Davis, both of
Hope, were held up recently. The mail
sack was robbed some time during the
same night. 1t is believed that the
thief is the same person who commit
ted the highway robbery that even.
ing.
"A drowning accident occurred in
Clarks Fork river Sunday morning. AS
j. w. Eddy was rowing his wife and
three children across the river to
church the boat capsized, precipitating
the occupants into the icy waters.
They were all saved except his son
Glen
The Moscow Commission company's
store was burglarized last week. False
keys were used to unlock both front
and office doors. The two cash draw
ers were smashed and few dollars
IN small change left in the drawers
were taken. The safe was not mo.
Tested.
1t is said the Potlatch Lumber COM
pany is completing one of the largest
timber and mill deals at Moscow with
William Codd of Colfax, Wash, ever
made in that part of the country. Mr..
Codd sold his entire holdings on the
Palouse river, in Idaho, and his saw
mill at Colfax to the Potlatch people.
1t is, rumored the consideration was
about $2O0,00O However, the exact
amount can not be learned at this
time.
Charles Braham, a Wardner baker,
has been given the celebrated Ward
ner piano, the noise of which was
heard throughout the country. During
the months the contest for the instru-
ment was being waged it was on ex-
hibition at the bakery. When the mer
chants could not agree upon the per-
son to whom the award should be
made the piano was allowed to remain
at the bakery. Several months ago
this establishment was visited by fire,
and the piano was somewhat dam
aged. Many curio seekers visited the
bakery and removed the keys to keep
as souvenirs. This left the instru-
ment in bad shape, but it can still be
played.
The Western news., 1904-09-14
OREGON ITEMS.

The breach of promise suit of Miss
Birdie Mccarthy against James D.
Heryford, cattle king of central Ore
gon, has been compromised for $4,000.
Reliable persons just in from Eagle
and Minam creeks, the main trout
streams of that section, say they saw
every indication of those streams hav-
ing been dynamited.
Acting Secretary of the Interior Ry-
an has accepted bids for 16,31S acres
of the surplus lands of the Grande
Ronde Indian reservation, Oregon, for
which the government will receive
S66. 5S7.
George Lauth. who shot Mrs. Leo
nora Jones to death at Oregon City.
because of jealousy. was arraigned be-
of murder, and held to trial before the
circuit court
Ex-senator George Chandler. lead
ing stockman. had his pocket picked
of $3.50 as he was about to board the
train for Portland recently. The mon
ey was in wallet in his hip pocket
There is no clew to the thief.
Robbers effected an entrance to the
postoffice at Hillsboro last week and
succeeded in blowing open the safe
without attracting attention. They Sc
cured money, stamps and papers to the
value of $1,000. There is no clue.
According to information received
there from La Grande, scrippers and
timber land claimants are taking the
lead in filing on the land recently with.
drawn from the proposed Blue noun
The Western news., 1904-09-14
WALLED CITY OF LIAOYANG,
Is Two Miles North and South, Two
Miles East and West.

Miles East and West.
The city of Liaoyang is built four
squire 1t is surrounded by walls of
stone, topped by brick and crenelated
for archery or gun fire. The walls run
north and south and east and west.
There Is a main gate in the center OF
each wall-thus there is a north gate,
a south gate, an east gate and a west
gate. The north gate opens out on
the Taitze river. The west gate opens
on the railroad station, and the Rus
sian cavalry barracks close to the sta
tion. From the south gate the old i'm
perial road goes southward to New
chwang. From the east gate another
imperial road goes eastward to An
ping, and thence to the Yalu and 10
rea.
The city measures two and half
miles north and south, by two miles
east and west or rather, this is the
extent enclosed by the walls. But the
walled space, five miles square in area,
is far too large for the hundred thou
sand Chinese and Manchu inhabitants
and much of it is laid out in market
gardens.
The city itself resembles all Chinese
walled cities, except that it's streets
have. for the last five or six years,
been kept somewhat cleaner and light
ed at night, by order of the Russians
There is only one slight elevation in
side the walls, on which stands the
imperial treasury. The Buddhist tenn
pie to Kwan Yin, the goddess of mer-
cy, is the finest object architectural1y
while the mission stations are the
most interesting to westerners. These
had some 1900 converts five years ago,
but as Liaoyang was the center of the
Boxer movement in Manchuria many
were terrorized into relinquishing the
new faith. The missionaries relate
with pride how one of their number,
DR.. Westwater, prevented the Rus
SLAMS from storming the Boxer upris-
ing by armed force. Liaoyang used to
be the capital of southern Manchuria,
and is still important, it's chief indus
try being the distillinng af native
liquor from the hemp and millet of
the surrounding fields.
The Western news., 1904-09-14
THE MILWAUKEE LAUNCHED.
New Fighting Craft to Be Very
Speedy Vessel.

San Francisco.-The new cruiser
from the ways Of the Union Iron works
in this city.
The christening ceremony was per-
formed by Miss Janet Mitchell of Mil
waukee, daughter of the late United
States Senator Mitchell, who was sur
rounded by party of visitors from
Milwaukee.
Not hitch occurred in the proceed
ings, and the Milwaukee gracefully
moved down the ways and into the wa
ters of San Francisco bay, as the Gus
tomary bottle of champagne released
by Miss Mitchell broke upon her bow.
The keel of the Milwaukee, the last
of the warships lately resting on the
ways of the local shipbuilding works,
was laid on July 80, 1902. She is a
protected cruiser and with the excep-
tion of her two sister ships, the New
Charleston and the St. Louis, is the
largest vessel of her class in the Unit
ed States navy. Her length is 424
feet; extreme breadth &C feet; mean
draft 22.6 feet; displacement 900 ton.
She is designed to maintain a maxi
mum sea speed of % knots with 21, 1000
indicated horse power.
When completed she will carry
battery consisting of IA six inch and
Is three inch rapid fire guns; II three
FOUNDER semi-automatic guns; four
one FOUNDER automatics; eight one
FOUNDER rapid fire guns; four four inch
field pieces, and 10 3 caliber machine
guns, eight of which will be automatic.
She will carry 40 officers and 631 men.
The cost of the Milwaukee's hull
and machinery is $2,S25,OOO.
The Western news., 1904-09-14
Coming Events.

Montana firemen's convention, Butte,
September 10.
Presbytey of Spokane, Reardan, Oc.
tober 4.
Synod of Washington, Davenport,
October 6.
Oregon w. C. T. U. state conven.
ton, Portland, October 1927.
Society of Montana Pioneers, Butte,
October Hip.
Eastern Washington w. C. T. u.
North Yakima, October lib.
Washington Congregational associa'
ton, Tacoma, October 4-6.
FAIRS. ETC.
Spokane Interstate fair, October
3-9.
Washington state fair, North Yak.
ina. September 26-October l.
Western Montana fair, Missoula,
September 27-30.
Southern Oregon Agricultural soci
ETY.. Eugene, September 2O-24.
Montana state fair, Helena, October
s-9.
Lewiston Interstate fair, October II
%.
The Western news., 1904-09-14

TAIN forest reserve by the secretary Of
the interior.
Inose who have visited the Chicago
and st. Louis expositions declare that
tne designs for the government build
ing at the Lewis and Clark exposition
lndlcate 1t will surpass in beauty any.
thing hitherto attempted by the gov
ernment and that the main exhibit
building will establish a precedent in
arcnltectural beauty for government
exhibit buildings.
The Western news., 1904-09-14
Rio Grande on a Rampage.

Alphine, Textile Rio Grande is
on the worst rampage in its --.story,
and great destruction of property has
already occurred at Presidio del Norte,
ments situated on both sides of the
river for distance of 800 miles along
its course. More than Ivv houses of
Preside del Norte, including the Unit
ed States customs house, were washed
away by the flood.
The Western news., 1904-09-14
IRRIGATION DEVICE.

Irrigation with a device that will
lift river water upon arid lands by the
force of the running stream, has been
the dream of the inventive genius for
decades and is about to be realized, if
the machine invented by John Roeh
of Spokane gives results as good as
the experiment with it in the Spokane
river gave recently The machine
stands in the river and for two hours
pumped an eight inch stream out of
the top of so foot pipe.
The Western news., 1904-09-14
Teamsters Return to Work.

Chicago.-All probability of compli-
cations at the stockyards was removed
Sunday when the packing house team
sters voted to return to work The
offer of the packers to take back now
as many teamsters as are needed and
to hire the others as necessity de-
mands was made known through a
committee that had visited the packers
and the proposition was accepted with.
out opposition.
The Western news., 1904-09-14
c. p. r. TRAIN is HELD UP.
Robbers Get $4,000 from the Express
Car Safe.

Vancouver, B. C.-The transconti-
mental express, due here at s O'Clock
in the evening, was held up about Is
miles east of this city.
When the train was seven miles
west of Mission, three masked men
crawled to the engine and forced the
engineer to uncouple the engine, which
they ran ahead. Then they proceeded
to the express car and forced the ex-
press messenger to give them the con-
tents of the safe, which was said to
nave contained about $1,000 in cash.
-.lis Is the first train robbery which
has ever taken place in British Co.
lumbia.
The Western news., 1904-09-14
RUSSIANS ATTACK JAP FORTS
SHEllED JAPS IN TRENCHES
NEAR PORT ARTHUR.
During One Attack of Japs Their
Shells Struck Hospital-On septem-
Der 6 Jap Troops Captured Some
Outpost Trenches, Near Corner
Mountain.

Shefoo, Sept. 12.-According to the
latest news received here from Port
Arthur the Russians, on September 4,
shelled the Japanese covered trenches
in front of Palichuang and destroyed
them. Everything was quiet along the
line during the night of August 80, but
in the morning it was seen that the
japanese outposts had crept closer
into the Russian lines.
One incident of the recent lombard
ing of Port Arthur was the STRIKING of
the roof of hospital by Japanese
shell. The Japanese fire was drawn
to the hospital by Japanese shell.
The Japanese fire was drawn to the
hospital by the placing near it by the
Russians of beacon signals.
One small Russian scouting party
succeeded in creeping close to the
mountain, but the barking of dogs gave
the alarm and prevented further ad-
vance. Japanese reserves poured into
the entertainments and opened fire on
the Russians, but shell from a rus
sian battery landed in the trench and
killed many of the Japanese soldiers
and the remainder retired. This en-
abled the Russians to occupy the
trench until dawn. The trench evil
dentiy was unimportant, for the jap
anese troops captured some outpost
trenches on a high hill which is not
far from Corner mountain, but the ap-
proach later of Russian detachment
caused them to evacuate this position
without fighting.
The Western news., 1904-09-14
AS oYAMA REPORTS TO TOXIC.
Russians Sent North by Train 10000
Killed and Wounded.

A dispatch to the Japanese legation
from Toxic, says:
Field Marshal Oyama reports from
the fighting of September and Sep
tember 5, our right occupied the Yen
tai colliery and Yumentse hill. The
enemy's main force is believed to be
retarded north of the Hun river.
Natives say the enemy sent by
train over 10000 killed and wounded.
We buried over 5000 Russians. The
enemy burned magazines near sta
tions before evacuation. We captured,
however, immense quantities of provi-
sions and ammunition"
The Western news., 1904-09-14
Northwestern Wheat.
Letter of Acceptance.

Oyster Bay. l.. l., Sept 12.-The let
ter of acceptance of President Roose-
welt accepting the nomination for
president by the republican national
convention, was given to the press for
publication Monday morning.
The Western news., 1904-09-14

The Washington State fair this year
promises to be full of interest to ev-
erybody. There will be larger num-
ber of features than heretofore and
there will be more contests for the big
prizes offered than ever before.
The Western news., 1904-09-14

At the closing session of the Hoo
Hoo annual meeting, held in the house
of Hoo Hoo at the worlds fair, Port
land, Ore, was selected for the next
annual meeting.
The Western news., 1904-09-14

Two German cities Cologne and
Dortmund- an apparatus for
the burning of garbage by electricity.
The Western news., 1904-09-14
Trade Report.

Dun's Weekly Review of Trade says:
Holiday influence is calculated to
check distribution of merchandise. but
the past week has brought more en-
couraging results in the business
world and from many points come re-
ports of steadily expanding trade,
while it is not exceptional to find COM
parisons with the corresponding week
last year favorable to 1904. Retail
trade in fall lines of dry goods, cloth
ing. millinery and nearly all wearing
apparel shows healthy growth and
for hardware, household utensils and
kindred lines there is a broader de-
mand.
Crop progress is better than aver
age and high prices promise large
profits to the farmers.
Failures numbered 200 in the Unit
ed States.
Northwestern Wheat.
Tacoma, Wash.-Unchanged; blue
stem. SEE; club, 77c.
Portland, Ore.-For export: Walla
Walla, TIC; bluestem. SEC; valley. S3c
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-05

again he may have eruptions, SWELL
ings and other blood humors, Which
ever It Is, the cause is the same-ef'
fete accumulations In the blood,
Nothing Is more certain within the
whole range of medical science than
that course of Peruna In early spring
time will perfectly and effectually pre-
vent or cure this almost universal af-
lection.
Everybody feels It in some degree.
A great majority are disturbed con-
siderably, while large per cent Of the
human family are made very misera-
BILE by this condition every spring.
Peruna will prevent 1t II taken in
time.
Peruna will cure 1t If taken as di.
rected.
Peruna is the ideal spring medicine
of the medical profession.
If you do not derive prompt and sat.
isfactory results from the use of Pc
runa, write at once to DR.. Hart
man, giving full statement Of your
case, and he will he pleased to give
you his valuable advice gratis.
Address Dr. Hartman, President OF
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-05
PURE BLOOD.
Blood Impurities OF Sprinstime--
Cause, Prevention
and Cure.

DR.. Hartman's medical lectures are
eagerly scanned by many thousand
readers.
One of the most timely and interest
ing lectures he ever delivered was mis-
recent lecture ON the blood impurities
of spring.
The doctor said in substance that
every spring the blood is loaded with
the effete accumulations Of winter, de-
ranging the digestion, producing slug
gishness of the liver, overtaxing the
kidneys, interfering with the action of
the bowels and the proper circulation
of the blood.
This condition of things produces
what is popularity known as spring
fever, spring malaria, nervous exhaus-
ton, that tired feeling, blood thicken-
ing and many other names
Sometimes the victim is bilious, dys-
peptlc and constipated; sometimes he
is weak, nervous and depressed; and
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-05
Habit to Be Avoided.

There is a story of little boy who
when he had learned his lesson re-
fused to repeat 1t to his teacher. But
you know your lesson; why will you
not say it to me?" pleaded the teach
or. Yes, know 1t all right" an
Swered the boy. 81 know 1t all right.
but what's the use Of any saying 1t
to you? You'll make me learn some
thing else; and don't want to get
into the habit Of learning lessons"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-05
Japanese NEWSPAPERS.

In 1863 the first Japanese newspa-
per, with some news translated from
the Dutch, was published. Now ia
pan has 1900 daily newspapers, but
there are no evening newspapers
among them. One of the Toxic papers,
the Japan Times, is printed in Eng.
fish, but Is produced by japanese ex-
clusively.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-05
Odd Verdlcta.

r An English newspaper tells a stoaU
Of u rural coroner's jury, which. upon
being told by q medical witness that
the case under consideration was one
Of felo de Sc, brought in a verdict of
"Found drowned" But in Virginia
City, Neb., some years ago, when a
popular citizen shot Chinaman
through the middle Of the back with
Henry rife. and killed him. the
coroner's jury brought in verdict
Of Suicide"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-05
Childish Idea of PLAY.

A little girl the other day illustrat-
cd two things-the difficulty of select
ing the right noun Of multitude and
the Unborn cruelty OF childhood. She
wanted a game--a game Of her own
invention. What is the gamer"
asked her nurse. The innocent eyes
frightened as the answer came: "You
be a poor little blind lame lamb and
I'll be flock OF tigers"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-05
Revised Version.

well, WE'LL" exclaimed the minis.
ter, as he threw aside the local pa.
per. IF that isn't enough to try the
patience of Job"
"Why, what in the world 's the
matter, dear?" asked his wife.
Last Sunday" explaiend the good
man, Il preached from the text, BE
ye therefore steadfast," but the print.
er makes it read. BE ye there for
breakfast"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-05
A Correction,

"I want to thank you" said the lady
visitor, for your review of my His
tory of Female Suffrage But, by the
way, you had one queer typographical
error"
What was that?" inquired the pc
litical editor TO whom she had beer
referred by mistake.
"You spoke Of me as a new HIS
t-e-r-i-c.a-l writer"
That's so. 'Hysterical' is spelled
with ""
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-05
GEORGIA Mules.

de Georgy mule" said Brother
Dickey, "is de one creetur' in a thou.
san dat don't enjoy de springtime.
De furrer look eZ long ter him ez de
time betwixt meals, en- de high price
er cotton gives him dat tired feelin'-
kaze he we'll know he got mo- er 1t
ter plow!"-Atlanta Constitution.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-05
Ol|l5 s!"':: E &
A Question Of Etlauette.

II am just a little puzzled" she
said.
What's the matter?" asked her
dearest friend.
why, Of course If you become en-.
gagged to young man at the seashore
1t doesn't count the following winter,
but does 1t count for anything If you
happen to meet him at the seashore
again the next summer"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-05
The Rival Cities.

"Well," said the New Yorker, taunt-
ingly, you don't see any grass grow
ing In our streets" That's So" re-
piled the Philadelphia, "clever
scheme of yours" What's that?'
ITO keep tearing your streets up so
the grass can't grow."-Philadelphia
Press.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-05
A Walsh Pisa.

In Wales there exists the falling
tower" Of Caerphilly Castle, which is
n feet in height and inclines no less
than II feet out of the perpendicular
In proportion this is greater than the
Tower of Pisa, which is $50 feet and
leans Is feet.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-05
He Makes Talk.

McJigger-There isn't a man In
town who can keep the conversational
ball rolling like our friend Gayrake.
Observation-Disclosures! He never
says anything worth listening to.
McJigger-No, but he does a lot OF
things worth talking about.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-05

II you don't get the biggest and
best it's your own fault. Defiance
Starch is for sale everywhere and
there is positively nothing to equal
II in quality or quantity.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-05
Il Draws ltaeIf.

eyes," said the artist, 81 drew this
sketch Of the scene Of the accident in
less than an hour"
mot all the details, surely" ex.
claimed his admirer. "All that crowd,
for instance"
20, it's easy to draw a crowd when
you start NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Press.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-05
SeIf.Flatterv,

Most Of us, when thinking about
Diogenes looking for the honest man,
can almost feel the binding flash Of
the lantern in our faces and hear his
shout OF discovery.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-05

Lewis Single Binder straight SC cigar.
No other brand of cigars is so popular with
the smoker He has learned to tely upor
its uniform high quality. Lewist Factory
Peoria, Ill.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-05
The Famine View.

Mamma" asked small Floramay
was the earth created before mann"
Certainly, my DEAR" replied her
mother.
why was it," continued the little
lnquisitor.
ut was probably known" explained
the wise woman, that it would be
the first thing he'd want after his ar.
rival"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1904-05-05

Miss Hampton 26l6 Third York City, writes
"Peruna a fine medicine to take of the year.
Taken In the spring tones the system and acts tonic
Strengthening than In the fall winter
found that colds Catarh and also find that
Invaluable keep the bowels regular acting gentle Snu
liant the system. In fact consider whole medicine
chest-Aiiss MarOry Hampton.