The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-18
sILENcED BY COLD.
Guns No Longer Booming Along the
Entertainments.

Mukden. Nov. Il g p M, via Tien
Tsin. Nov. 17-Four days of sharp
cold has silenced the artillery and in
fantry fire between the opposing po-
sitionS. and has driven the soldiers IN
to their dugOuts along the entire en-
Jrenched line The apparent inability
Of either side TO eject the other from
their burrows, and the fact that in the
event one side succeeded in advancing
it could not dig the other out Of its en-
trenchments on account of the frost
seems TO promise a winter inactivity,
although the Japanese three days ago
made a small reconnaissance toward
the extreme east and pushed back the
Russian cavalry few miles as though
they were Investigating the possible
ties for a thanking movement. It seems
impossible that either side. in any
case. could more than occupy it's OPP
pOnent's winter quarters.
Wells along the lines are dry and
both sidessuse the Shakhe river where
the soldiers approach unaTmed and
geat water under recognized mutual
sanction not to fine on single soldier.
Here the noble art of war is confined
to fiaticuffs and swapping cigarettes.
iackniVes and food all Of which are
prizes Familiarities are inevitable
where long lines are in continuous con-
tact The armies have now been sta
tionary for so long that they are
drawing supplies OF fuel and horse
forage from the distant rear, all other
supplies being exhausted.
Chinese Celebration
The perfunctory ceremonies of in
PRODUCING the three days celebration
of the birthday OF the dowager en-
press of China began Nov. IS.
At the drum tower and also at the
bell tower. which are features of the
main streets Of all capitals, large
! shrines were erected. each enclosing
tablet inscribed with the word jan
SOU" which like 'Banzai." means
Ten thousand ages TO the dynasty.
Before the tablets are food offerings
and also incense. Last night a hun
+ dred ornamental fancy lanterns and
/ transparencies with congratulatOry IN
scriptions were displayed in the streets,
! but not single soul came Tor the
! purpose Of Witnessing the illumina-
tiOns
Today being the dowager's birthday,
! flags and streamers were Ia be seen
in all the streets. The Tartar general,
! TaihOchi. and the territorial officials,
( kowtOWed to the dOWager's tablet in
the deserted ancestral palace, and the
! period of ten days prayers in all the
| dynasty shrines about this "China's
second capital" continues The Tartar
general. with the officials of the five
boards. and also the native military
mandarin, dned with General KurO-
patkin at the Confucian temple out
side the west gate. with the native
guilds which bear the expenses of the
/ birthday celebration.
Lament Their Fate.
Though conscious that the profits Of
the retail trade are greatly I'm excess
of normal times, the guilds. neverthe-
less, on account of Mukden being no
longer a wholesale market and a way
station for the immense goods and
grain caravans, lament the deserted
highways and condone with the Off
Gals of the five boards. by which Man
churia like China proper, ia OTdinar
lily governed and VINO now await, year
TO year, the promised restoration of
their functions
Private advices from Pekin contain
warnings that the emperor is increas-
/ ingly inane sickly and Insignificant:
the dowager thinner and older, and
lacking in cordiality TO foreigners. al
though perfunctory in matters refer
ring 10 foreign relations, emitting for
mer courtesies while the most con-
spicuous reform" is said to be the
new corrupt board of war,