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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-03
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association, scientific collectors of bad
debts. Top floor Commercial block,
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-03
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We collect bad debts. Merchants
Protective Assn, top floor Commercial
block. Scientific collectors of bad debts,
Francis @. Luke, General Manager
Some people don't like u.s."
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-03
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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-03
INDOOR BALL GAME.
Company II. Defeated Troop Last Night
Nv 81 TOLL

tional Guard Indoor Baseball league,
played a snappy game at the Armory last
evening despite the big score OF the for
mer aggregation, Company ii made a
score OF "a as against the Troops score
OF II. The teams lined up In the follow
ing order;
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-03
FACTS ABOUT THE SIBERIAN RAILWAY.

ST. Petersburg to Vadvosok- 800 miles
Hardin o VladivOstock-ioD miles.
Hardin Port Arthur-55o miles
Cost SOoOc0WO
Built by the Russian
Present Nicholas H. first earth Vladvosok
1891.
Gauge-5 feet
Rails 81 pounds Standard America pounds
Single track throughout
RouteMoscow rkuk capital Of Siberia
Sereensh
boat the Amur river to Khabroys and by rail Kadaoyo thence
Chinese railway arbn Vadyostok
south via Mukden. o Arthur and Dalny.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-03
Minnesota Challenges Columbia.

New York, March IA challenge has
been received by the Columbia univer.
city basketball team from the Ave OF
The University Of Minnesota for series
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-03
REAR ADMIRAL WALKER, RETIRED HEAD OF THE NEW
PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION

Walker retired head of the Panama
by President Roosevelt undertake the construction
waterway peculiarly fitted for which he
the
problems connected with canal
Walker while the navy noted for his regard for the
disregard precedent He
to he nay 1850.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-26
14CCTDENT IN CHUR0H.
Ten chiidren ssriousiy Burned amd
 Others Faithfully Injured.

Cincinnati. Feb. 25.--Afl accident at the Richmond street Christian church here tonight resulted in ten children being seriously burned and others pain fully injured. Seven of those burned are in the city hospital and it is thought that many others may have been hurt.
 The Sunday school room was crowded for an entertainment given by the pas tor, Rev. Vernon stauffer. The evening had been set apart for the small boys, and quite a crowd of girls gathered on the outside. The pastor was telling fairy stories, and in order to make them realistic he provided kettle, with salt in the bottom of it, saturated with alco- hol. This was set afire to furnish weird lights for the fairy stories. Suddenly a drast struck the stream of alcohol and an explosion followed. All of those seated around the fire were burned. Be- sides the seven taken to the hospital three were taken home badly burned and others not seriously injured were bandaged up and taken home. The blame for the draft is charged to the little girls who had been excluded and were opening doors to look in.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-26
FIGHT OYER NATAL BILE.
House Continues Dlseus.,on-Fishs by
 No meaus Over.

Washington. Feb. 25.-The building programme of the navy. as contained in the pending naval bill. occupied the at tention of the House throughout the day, and the fight is by no means over. The minority members of the naval committee, who under the leadership of Mir. Meyer of Louisiana first gave their endorsement to the measure. are. cam paigning for reduction in the number of ships to be authorized. The amend ment to strike out the one battieship made yesterday by Mir. Burton of Ohio, was defeated. The cruisers then were put to the test and enough friends for them were found for their retention. Construction of the ships in government yards proved to be a fruitful topic for discussion, and an amendment by MT. Bell of California, requiring one collier to be built in a government yard was adopted.
 A proposition for preferential of four per cent. in favor of bids from the Pacific coast was defated after MT. McDermott of New Jersey had delivered a humorous speech in which the ship building trust and the state of New Jersey were put forward for the char itablei consideration of the House.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-26

was ooked upon as partly wiping out the score against the enemy. The off, eial bulletins were given out too late for editorial comment. but the news was prominently displayed.
 The ezar has telegraphed warm con- gratulations to Viceroy Alexieff and the entire Russian squadron at Port Arthur on the able manner in which they re- pulsed the attempt of the Japanese.
 The battleships Retvizan and Czare- witch will be temporarily employed at Port Arthur as guardships in which capacity it has been decided their for midable guns can be utilized to good advantage. It has been found that the necessary repairs to these ships can only be fully made in tn dock at Vladi- vostok. so the vessels will be tempo rarily patched up and remain at Port Arthur until circumstances shall per- init of their being sent to Vladiyostok.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-26
No Taspede Boat Iniursd.

London, Feb. 25, 6:05 p. m.-The BSt- ish foreign office has received an off, cial dispatch saying that not one of the Japanese torpedo boats was injured in the attack on Port Arthur on Wednes- day, February 24.
 Yin Row. Feb. 25.-Native reports that the Japanese have landed at Pos operations against Hunchun and to- wards Kirin have received qualified confirmation from English missionary refugees who have arrived at New Chwang.
 These people say the Russo-C Chinese bank has removed from Kirin to Kwang-C Cheng-Tsi where commercial interests are seeking safety and de- sense.
 This reported advance has produced consternation among the European civ ilians residing in the line of march.
 It is reported also that the Russian government bureau at Vladivostok has withdrawn to Khavarivsk.
 Possiet Bayisn, Russian Manchuria, about seventy miles southwest of Vladi- vostok-Hunchun is on the left bank of the Tumen river, and about forty miles to the west of Possiet bay. Kirien is a big Manchurlan town and lies about 22C miles inland, and to the west of Possiet bay. Kwang Cheng Tsi is about eighty miles west of Kierin. Khaba- rovslzi is about 400 miles to the north of Vladivostok. with which the port is connected by a railroad.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-26
SUIT AGAINST BARTENDERs.
Waterbury Union sned in Behalf of J
 J Kiernan Estate.

r Waterbury, Feb, 25.-A suit for dam
 ages for $250 has been brought against
 the Waterbury Bartenders' union by
 Attorney James B. Peasley of this city
 in the interest of Samuel Hoyt of New
 Haven, administrator of the estate of
 John J. Kiernan, late of New Haven.
 Two years ago the Bartenders' union
 gave their first annual ball. Thomas F. Ryan of New Haven offered the union $50 for permission to issue a pro- grarlme for the affair. He aftefward went among the merchants of this city land collected for advertisements to be printed on the programme. The pro-
 granlnes were printed at Kiernans in New Haven and the bill amounted to s146.25. The suit is in consequence of this bill, which. it is alleged, was never paid.
 Papers have been served on all the banks in this city and the Colonial Trust company where the majority of | the funds of the union are kept The
 Bartenders' union have intimated that | they will fight the case as they had nothing to do with the printing bill The case is returnable to the court of common pleas in New Haven on the first Tuesday in April. 1904.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-26
SHIP ADRIRl IN THE SOUND
SCHOONER HARRIS HELPLEsS
 FOR SIXTEEN DAYS.

Caught In the Ice and Was Unable fo
 Get Freo-FIoRfed Up aud Down the
 sound with the Tfde-FInany rowsd
 Into New London by Railroad Tas.
 New London. Feb. 25.-After sixteen days of hopeless drifting about in a field of ice the schooner Calvin P. Har- rIs was brought into port this after- noon by the Central Railroad of New Jersey tug Nottingham. Captain Aaron s. Higgins, master of the schooner. says:
 s'The schooner sailed on February from Stonington, Me. with 610 tons of stone for Philadelphia. All went we'll until February 8 at noon, when about fifteen miles east of Execution light the schooner was caught in field of floating ice In spite of the efforts of the captain and crew the boat was frozen in so solidly that it was impos- sible to free her. New ice formed on the outside of the field in which the schooner was imprisoned, and she was carried to the Middleground, about thirty three miles to the eastward of the place where the ice was encoun- tered
 Tn attempting to hold the boat two anchors and sixty seven fathom of chain were lost, which left the schooner to the mercy of wind and tide. She then hoated back and forth with the tides in a helpless condition until Wed-| nesday afternoon, when the tug Not. tinghan, with three barges in tow, was sighted.
 A signal of distress was set and the tug came to the rescue, breaking up the ice, taking the schooner in tow and bringing her to New London" The schooner was well provisioned and the crew did not lack for food, but they were in constant peril of their lives. On three occasions it seemed sure that the ice would crush in the schooner's sides, and, with her load of stone, she would have gone down. Sd imminent was the danger that the boat was made ready each time and provis- ions packed with the hope that in the small craft the men might make a;fight for their lives.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-26
LA RECENT OF S1Oa, GOO.
Manager of Boston Branch of American
 s..resy Company Arrested.

Surety Company Arrested.
 Boston, Feb. 25.--W Wallace H. Ham, manager of the Boston branch of the American Surety company of New York, treasurer of St. Luke's Home for Convaleseents, Roxbury, and until re- gently treasurer of St. Pauls Episcopal church in this city, was arrested to- day, charged with larceny of $104,0o0 from the American Surety company. He was arraigned in the municipal court before Judge Ely late this after noon and held in $50,O00 for a hearing on March 3. In court George N. Berry, counsel for the surety company, stated that, although the warrant alleged the appropriation of s1O4,OO0, he was ready to prove that as much as $175,O00 had been taken by Ham as manager of the surety company. Mir. Berry said that Ham also was responsible for a loss of from $40, 900 to $50,000 in the funds of St. Luke's home.
 After Hams arrest the American Surety company issued a statement in which 1t claimed that the accounts of St. Paul's Episcopal church were in- volved in the general deficit, but to what extent was not known.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-26
A. 0. U. ". LITIGATION.
Another Action Brought in the Courts
 of nIassachusetts.

Boston. Feb. 25.The supreme lodge, Ancient Order of United Worknen. to- day filed a supplemental bill in the United States circuit court, against the grand lodge of the order for the j1ris- diction of Massachusetts, bringing in the newly elected officers of the grand lodge as parties to the proceedings.
 The supreme lodge seeks to have the grand lodge restrained from taking steps to secede from it's plan of offilia- .ion with the supreme lodge and other jurisdictions of the order and the bill sets forth what the grand lodge did to- ward that end at yesterdays session which ended in virtual disruption of the state order.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-26
stsepleehaslMg and Insurance.

Boston, Mass, Feb. 25.-In decision handed down to-day the supreme court defined steeplechasing as voluntary exposure to unnecessary danger" and upheld the right of an insurance com pany to cancel an accident policy is- sued to Harry w. Smith of Grafton, a we'll known sportsman, upon learning that the latter engaged in steepiechase races. The case grew out of a suit brought in the lower court by MT. Smith to recover a policy which he claimed had been claimed had been surrendered without his knowledge by his clerk upon the demand of the insur- ance company. A finding for the com pany in the superior court was sus- tained
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-26
WHITNEY RAGING STABLE.
Many u be Sold --son wtli uetntn so me
 of the Anfmais

of the hmfmaiss
 E New York, Feb 25. The celebrated racing stable of the late William c. Whitney will soon be broken tip, larry; Papne Whitney executor of his ia thei., ss estate. having decided to sell off the greater part of the horses collected by his father, retaining about 100 of the 250. The horses to be retained are the eighty brood mares on the farm near Lexing- ton. Ky, and several of the stallions. including Hamburg. for which MT, Whitney paid s60,OOo, Meddler, Endur ance by Right. Yorkville Belle The Lioness. Maori, Infexible, Gunfire and others of the best stock, retained for breeding or sentiment
 The others. including the yearlings and two-year-olds at Aiken, $. C.. will be brought to New York and auctioned lin the course of a few months. The horses now in England will be sold there. It is expected that much of the aner stock will be bought in by nerfl- bers of the Whitney family. The horses entered prior to December II, 1902, in future events will be held until they have kept their engagements.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-26
WATERBURY, PERJURY CASES.
Those of Trolley strikers Brought to
 Attention of Court.

Waterbury, Feb. 25.-The cases of David Marsh and Willis vandemark, two of the trolley strikers who are now charged with perjury, were brought to the attention of the superior court to- day by State Attorney Kellogg, who asked that Judge Wheeler set an early date for the trial. Attorney Kennedy, counsel for the defense, said that he would not be ready to have the cases tried before March 22, and at that time he would ask that the cases be tried separately. He had come to this con- clusion, he said, after careful perusal of both cases. Attorney Kennedy also said that he might find it necessary to file pleadings before that time, which would necessitate postponement of the trial of the cases at the time pro- posed.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-26
NEUTRALITY OF BRITAIN.
STATEMENT MADE IN THE HOUSE
 OF COMMONS.
sslbOrns. Lord of she Adm,ral'y, Gates gOricaiIy Dsnie. Numerous stories Re- ceatIy Printed of British Partially to Japan as Against Russla-Under- hand Influence Being Exerted.

London, Feb. 4.-Replying to Earl Spencer, the leader of the liberal party in the house of lords, this afternoon, the first lord of the admiralty. Lord Sel-
 borne. categorically denied the numer-
 our stories recently printed of British
 partiality to Japan as against Russia.
 He said he feared there was some influ- ence at work endeavoring to misrepre- sent the attitude of this country and to
 show that the British navy was not pre-
 serving the strict neutrality in regard
 to tthe war which was incumbent on it.
 London. Feb. 25.-Premier Balfour,
 who on his first appearance to-day in
 the house of commons since his illness.
 was greeted with warm cheers, replying
 to question. confirmed the statement made in these dispatches February 20 that there was no truth in the reports that Great Britain intended to seize cer- tain points on the Spanish coast in the
 even. of continental war. The pre-
 nlier added that there appeared to be no truth in the rumor that Spain was mob ilizing her forces, although she was strengthening some of her garrisons.
 Asked by what authority it was pro-
 posed to detain at Ceylon the 325 Rus
 sian sailors rescued after the fight off Chemulpo, Premier Balfour said the
 sailors had sought refuge on. a British warship. The government though it
 would best be filling the obligations of neutrality by interning the men in Brit ish territory until the close of the war. The Japanese government, however, was willing the sailors should return to
 Russia on giving their parols. The Brit ish government was now in correspon- dence with Russia. with the view of settling the question on this basis.
 Replying to a question the foreign under-secretary. Earl Percy said the government was not aware of any nego- tiations between Germany and Russia whereby, as announced in some news papers, in return for Germanys afford l ig Russia certain advantages during the war Russia would support Germany in regard to the Bagdad railroad question and general extension of German pre- dominance in Asia Minor.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-26
BRIAN AND HILL MEET.
The Former Dsctares There is No Poli-
 ties tn T..

New York, Feb. 25.--William J.
 Bryan, former Governor David B. Hill, Norman P. Mack, of Buffalo, James M. Head, of Tennessee. J. M. Guffey, of Pennsylvania dhe latter three members of the national democratic committed, and pr. John H. Girdner, of this city, met tonight in a room in the Hoffman house. After they came out MT. Mack said that the meeting was merely a coincidence, and MT. Bryan declared that there is no politics in this at all.''
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-26
RUSSIA CLAIMS A VICTORY
THELAsT ENGAGEMENEAT PORT
 ARTHUR.

AIexien's Chief of Staff Reports Another
 Bisht-Deciares Enemy Was Every
 where Repuised Attempt to Bloc k
 ade Channel Again Reported as
 FaiIure-Japaness Did Not Lose Tor pedo Boat-aIay Take viadivostok-
 Troops Landed Near There.
 Another attack on Port Arthur by the Japanese is reported in a dispatch from Viceroy Alexieff's chief of staff, receiv- ed to-day at St. Petersburg. The att tack was made between the hours of and o'clock this morning. and is re- ported to have been everywhere repuls- ed. The dispatch does not say wheth- CT this was an attack by the Japanese torpedo fleet, of the heavy fighting ves- sells, or whether any attempt was made by land forces.
 Further details of the latest adven- ture Of the Japanese at Port Arthur agree that what yesterdays dispatches called an attack on the fortress was really only an attempt to bottle up the Russian fleet in the harbor by plan similar to that of Hobson at Santiago; and that the Japanese, instead of hav- ing four battleshios or cruisers sunk, lost only the old transports or hulks of merchant steamers which it had been designed to sink in the channel of the hartor entrance.
 The reports agree in asserting that the Japanese failed to accomplish their design. and a Port Arthur dispatch of yesterdays date says that the Japanese toroedo boats were pursued by two Russian cruisers, and that a report pre- vails that one of the torpedo boats was sunk. An official dispatch to the Brit ish foreign office, received this evening, however. asserts that no Japanese tor pedo boat was injured.
 St. Petersburg advices this afternoon say that credence is given there to the report of an understanding between Russia and Germany, and speak again of suspicion of the motives of Great Britain. On account of the danger of European complications in case the war is prolonged, or in case Russia is driven to the wall. diplomats are suggesting the advisability of an attempt at media tion whenever Russia shall be in posi- ton. through a temporary success, to entertain such a suggestion.
 St Petersburg. Feb. 25-6:S2 p. nl. Major General P1ug, the chief of staff of Viceroy Alexieff, telegraphs as fol- lows under to-day's date:
 The enemy again attacked Port Ar thur from to 3 a. nl., and was every where repulsed. Details follow"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-26
Shipping News

New York, Feb. 25.-Arriyed: Steamers Prinzess Irene, Genoa and Naples Sieis Han Prince, Genoa and Naples; Armenian, Liverpool Sailed: Steamers La Tou- raine, Havre; Iahn. Bremen; Prinz .0skas Naples and Genoa.
 London, Feb. 25.Saied: Steamer Menomr. inee, New York.
 Queenstown, Feb. 25.-Sailed Steamer Westernland, from Liverpool, for Philadel- Dhia.
 Genoa. Feb o4-Arrived: Steamer Peru gia. New York via Naples and Marseilles.
 Queenstown, Feb 25.xsailed: Steamer
 Glasgow, Feb. 24.---Arrived: Steamer An
 Naples. Feb. Arrived: Steamer Hos henzollern, New York tand sailed for
 Naples Naples, Feb. 24.- Sailed: Steamer Aura nia, New York.
 Liverpool. Feb. 25--Arrived: Steamer Celtic New York via Queenstown.
 New York. Feb. 25Arriyed: Steamer Majestic, Liverpool and Queenstown.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-26
GROWN FAILED TO APPEAR.
Case of National Cash Register Agent Charged With Embexzicmenf.

Waterbury, Feb. 25.-Josephs B. Cro- min, an agent for the National Cash Register company, who was arrested some three months ago, charged with embezzlennent, failed to appear in the superior court to-day to answer to the indictment against him. Attorney Hol- den, counsel for the defendant, asked the court to delay the trial until Il o'clock, as he expected his client on the Bridgeport train which arrives at that time. The delay was granted, but Cro- min failed to appear within a specified time. Judge Wheeler declared forfeited the bond of s1,500, which was furnished by Wallace G. Camp, of this city.
 State Attorney Kellogg requested that a bench warrant be issued for Cronin, which was done.
 The company for which Cronin work ed claims that the shortages still amount to about $3,3O0 There are for ty counts in the indictment.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-26
RUSSIA AND GERMANY
A Gro wing Belief That an Understand-
 ing Exists.

St. Petersburg, Feb 25.-There is a growing belief here that an understand ing exists between Russia and Germany relative to the developments from the war, and the diplomatists are giving
 more attention to the likelihood of oth- CT powers becoming involved. Frances enormous financial investments in Rus sian funds and enterprises are estimat- ed at close to $2,000, O00, and it is feared that in case of Russian reverses which might threaten the empire, France may be compelled to go to the support of her ally. There are sus- picions of the motives of Great Britain here of character to cause complica- tiors in that direction. It is strongly intimated that the return of the Rus- sian ambassador to Great Britain, Count Benckendorff, to St. Petersburg was not solely to bid farewell to his son previous to the latter's departure for the Far East with his regiment, but that it was also to consult with the Russian foreign office relative to the British expedition to Thibet.
 The Russian government is angry at the language used by Foreign Minister Lansdowne as printed in the recent British blue book on the subject of Thi- bet, and Ambassador Benckendorff
 may receive instructions to reply in kind if exchanges on the subject con tinue.
 The conditions in the Balkans are considered extremely critical, and alto
 gether the diplomats feel that if the danger of a general confagration is to be avoided every energy should be di- rected not only to limiting the sphere of operations, but toward an attempt
 at mediation. They are discussing the
 subject with great seriousness. It is not believed that Russia will be dis posed, while smarting under the pub lication of defeat, to accept interven- tion, but once a decisive victory is achieved the diplomats are inclined to believe that owing to the czar's sincere
 aversion to war he will welcome good offices.
 The Novoe vremya declares Great
 Britain's failure to protest against the (Continued on Third Page.)