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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-02-22
RETALIATE ON u. S.
FRIENDSHIP OF AMERICANS FOR
JAPAN Anglers RUSSIA.
Said Reply to Hays Note Will Fol-
low Same Tactics ais Those En-.
plOyed in Manchurian Trouble
Which Terminated in War-COn.
suls May BE Barred.

Washington, Feb. 18.-It is said
that Secretary Hay has received de.
pendable, though unofficial, informa.
ton that Russia is preparing to retail.
ate against the Unietd States for what
is considered to be open friendship for
Japan. This may not 20 further than
commercial discrimination, but there
are indications that relations between
the United States and Russia may be-
come severely strained before the far
Eastern war is terminated.
Much irritation is felt at St. Peters.
burg, according to the information
said to have been received. The first
method in which it will be displayed,
if advices prove authentic, will be the
barring of the American consuls re-
Gently accredited to Dalny, Mukden
and Antung. These ports were recent.
ly proclaimed by China as open to
trade. When the consuls reach these
places exequaturs will be refused and
no recognition will be given them.
What action this government will take
in such an event has not yet been de.
termined.
The making of Win free port by
Korea, as announced yesterday by Min
lister Allen from Seoul, is believed to
have resulted from representations
made by Japan, and is expected to
still further irritate the Russian gov
eminent. It was apprehension that
Russia might not receive the consul at
Antung that Influenced Secretary Hay
to seek the opening of Win, which is
directly across the Yalu river from
Antung.
Consul Miller is looking after jap
anese interests at Newchwang. A
number of Japanese women are report
ed to have been outraged by Russians,
and the possibility of serious trouble
over this matter is admitted by the
state department. Mr.. Miller's in
structiOns are not to recognize Russian
authority at Newchwang as superior
to that of any other power. This has
led to considerable dissention in the
pasts and will prove more irritating in
the future, as Russia is suspposed to
have occupied the latter port.
Newchwang is recognized by the
United States as belonging to China.
The gunboat Vicksburg is at that port.
She carriess 175 bluejackets and 40
mariness, who can be landed TO pro.
tect Consul Miller if trouble arises.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-02-22
BOUNDARY MARKING.
Appropriation Made, hut Work viii
Not Be Pushed at Present,

Appropriation Made, hut Work Will
Not Be Pushed at Present.
Washington, Feb. 1.-THE admin.
istration wishes to do nothing that
would further exasperate the Cana.
dians on account of the Alaska boun.
Diary decision, and for that reason steps
looking to the definite marking of the
new boundary line may be deferred
until next year. The urgent deficiency
bill, as passed by the house and senate,
contains an appropriation Of $780, 900
to pay the expense Of making the nee
essary survey and erecting the neces-
sary monuments. 1t was expected that
the administration would ask for this
appropriation, and there was no oppo.
sition in congress.
The government will not hasten
matters, however, for it feels that a
substantial victory was won at London
and it is not disposed to push the
actual marking of the line on the heels
of this victory. A few weeks ago it
was given out that early steps would
be taken to secure the appointment of
joint American and Canadian survey
party to mark the line as described by
the deciison of the London tribunal.
Ex-Secretary of War Root, who was
member of the tribunal, said the other
day, however, that he believed nothing
would be done before 1905. He added
that the matter was now in the hands
OF the state department, and that he
had had no recent conference on the
subject, but it was his opinion there
was no occasion for haste.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-02-22
MAY WANT TO KNOW,

Hay Inclined to Demand Explana.
tiOns From Russia.
Washington, Feb. 19.-Secretary
Hay is disposed to sharply request an
explanation from Russia if the fact is
determined that Russia is OBTAINING
American vessels in Chinese ports and
preventing Consul Miller from protect.
ing Japanese interests in Newchwang
He is much dissatisfied with the indi.
cations Of irritation felt by the Rus.
sian government at the attitude of the
United States and the preparations be.
ing made for retaliation.
No instructions have been sent to
Admiral Evans, the intention being to
await report on the inquiry now un-
der way. If it is proven that Ameri-
can ships are being prevented from
leaving Manchurian ports Secretary
Hay will carry out his intention of ad-
dressing some pointed inquiries to the
St. Petersburg government.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-02-22
Cruisers Sent to North China.

Washington, Feb. 17.-Adimral Ev
ans, commanding the Asiatic station
has notified the navy department that
he has despatched three of the cruise,
squadron to North China ports, where
they will be held in readiness to serve
as dispatch boats or for the succor OF
refugees or for similar purposes during
the progress Of the war. The New Or.
leans has started from Cavite for Che
foo, the nearest neutral point to the
theater of war. The Raleigh and
Frolic have started from Cavite TO,
Shanghai.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-02-22
Starting I'm Smelter.

Everett, Feb. 18.-Manager Braden
of the Everett smelter announces that
the furnaces will be blown in in about
two weeks and at that time seventy
five men will be put to work. This
will be the first time that number Of
men has worked at the smelter for al
most year Other men are to be
added as the contemplated improve
ments are made.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-02-22
SEATTLE MARKET REPORT.
Purchasing Prices.

The following prices are being offer
ed to the producer by the local dealers
for delivery in round lots on the dock
or in the car at Seattle:
Grain-Oats, $22@23 per ton; bar
ley, $50 per ton: wheat. chicken feed
$26 per ton; bran, $18 per ton; shorts,
$19 per ton.
Hay-Eastern Washington. new. $21
per ton; Puget sound. $13@15 per ton;
alfalfa, $3.50 per ton.
Eggs-Strictly fresh ranch, 200 soc.
Poultry-Live hens, 13c per lib; old
roosters, &c per lb: ducks. 14@15<
per lib; geese, 121a@13c per lib; tur
keys, 10000 per Id.
Live Stock-Choice beef cattle
cows. 3@3hc per Id; steers. 4@4hc
per lb; sheep, SA@4c per lb; hogs,
6@6kc per lb; calves, 5@7c rer Id;
lambs, $2@2.5O per head.
Hides, Pelts and Wool-Heavy and
sailed steers, over GO lbs. TIC per lib;
medium, sound, &c per lb; light, sound
under 60 lbs. &c per Id: cows. sound
all weights, &C per ib; stays. bulls and
oxen, 41ac per lb. Eastern Washing
ton wool, 1000 per lb: Western Wash
ington wool 12@14c per Id: dirty OF
timber stained. 10@11 per lib; tallow
4@5c per Id; grease, 1h@2c per ID
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-02-22
Russia Seizes NewchWang.

New York, Feb. ia dispatch te
the Herald from Tientsin, dated Mon
day, Feb. 10, asserts that Russia has
siezed Newchwang, the Chinese treaty
port. Fifteen hundred infantry, the
correspondent adds, entered the native
city with bands playing and banners
flying.
Panic and confusion prevailed among
the native population.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-02-22
Dartmouth Hall Burned,

Hanover, N. H., Feb. 2O.-Dart.
mouth Hail. the Oldest building at
Dartmouth college, and one of the old
est college buildings in the country
has burned to the ground. The loss is
$4,000. Dartmouth hall was built
about 10 years ago. As the fire broke
out during chapel exercises there were
few persons in the hall at the time.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-02-22
Will Defy the United States.

London, Feb. 19.-The belief is gen.
eral in British diplomatic circles that
Russia is about to defy the United
States in almost a similar manner to
that in which it involved itself with
Japan. The note of Secretary Hay, by
which it was designed to guarantee
the integrity of China, has caused a
profound sensation in St. Petersburg,
and the charge is openly made there
that for commercial purposes the Uni.
ted States is planning to become domi-
nant in China.
That Russia realizes this and that
she will follow out her oldtime dlplo-
matte methods, is shown by the init
nation that she will soon send a reply
to the United States note to the effect
that with certain "inconsequential'
limitations, she accepts the position
taken by the government at Washing
ton. Thus she did to Japan in the
Manchurian and Korean negotiations
that terminated in the present war,
claiming to have made concessions,
while at the same time she had made
none So she will do with the United
States and hope to hoodwink that gov
eminent.
Russia will accept no line of proceed
ure that can in any way be construed
as asserting to the proposition that the
Chinese government has any sovereign
ty over Manchuria. She will balk at
the Hay plan, and, if necessary, will
break with the United States before
she will permit that nation to outline
her policy in the far East. Russia ex-
poets to defeat Japan in the present
war. She knows it will take long
time, but she believes that the weight
of numbers will finally tell and then
she intends to retain Korea and Man
churia, and, if the powers do not in
terfere, substantial slice Of Japan,
for her trouble. That will be her rea-
son for refusing to give in to the Uni.
ted States, and her reply to that coun-
try is awaited anxiously by European
diplomats.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-02-22

Minister to Panama Resigns.
Washington, Feb. 2O.-The state de-
partment has accepted the resignation
of w. E. Buchanan, American minis
ter to Panama. No successor has yet
been named.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-02-22
Tacoma Quotations.

Wheat-Bluestem, Sic; club, 76c.
Cattle-Steers, 4@4hc per cwt.
cows, 3@3Ac.
Sheep-4kc.
Hogs-4hc.
Poultry-Turkeys dressed, 20@21c;
chickens, dressed, spring. 17kc;
ducks, dressed, Ice; geese, dressed
15c Live-Chickens, lac; ducks, lie;
geese, lie; turkeys, 18c.
Butter-Washington creamery, Csc;
ranch, 14@1Sc; Eastern tub, 24@26c
Eggs-Fresh ranch, 27@29c; East
ern, 23@24c
Oats-$25@26; rolled oats, $26@27.
Hays, Alfalfa. etc.-Wheat hay
$16.50@175 timothy, $21@22; blue
grass, SIG; clover, .$16.50@17.50; al
falfa, $13@14.
Feed-Cora, 500; wheat. $27@2s:
barley, whole grain, $20.50; rolled,
$2250; brain, $50; shorts. $21.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-02-22
Railroads Refuse Shipments.

St. Paul, Mimi, Feb. 1S.-Northern
transcontinental lines have issued an
embargo against freight shipments to
Korea and Siberian points.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-02-22

The fOrtlcfiatlOn bill has passed the
house.
Minister Bowen reports Venezuela
again getting on its feet
Over $500 copper miners are on
strike at Houghton, Mich.
It is limited that Santo Domingo is
trying to force itself upon the United
States.
The second trial of prisoners con-
nected with the Kishinef massacres be-
gan Monday.
The Lathrop Publishing Company
has assigned. Liabilities are estimat-
ed at $15O,OOO.
Belgian miners are being urged to
immigrate to Canada to work in Brit
ish Columbia mines.
The special committee of the coal
operators and miners which met at
Indianapolis has issued call for a
national joint convention, to be held
there on Feb. 20.
~ Low XOCO1U AOI OOAOW AOAO WcoVACA
has been made in Chicago. For the
seventeenth time this season the mer-
curry went under the cipher, record
for frequent and severe frigidity un-
precedented.
The Wyoming anti gambling law of
1901 has been sustained by decision
announced by the supreme court Of
that state. The law was attacked on
the ground of irregularities in the
house proceedings and the legality of
all the acts Of the Sixth legislature
was involved in the case.
The strike of stablemen at the Chi
cago stockyards has been settled, all
the old employees returning to work at
their former wages. The Union stock
yards and the four companies agreed
to give the men alternate Saturdays
and Sundays off. Non.union men en-
ployed during the strike were dis
charged.
Mr.. Snyder, the United States charge
at Bogota, has cabled the state depart
ment under date of February Is as fol-
lows: Complete quiet prevails every.
where. Election passed off quietly
but no one knows whether Reyes OF
Valdez has been elected president
Talk of Panama seems to have com.
pletely subsidized.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-02-22

London, Feb.1 1.-THE Kobe cores
pondent of the St. James Gazette as
serts that in Sundays attack on Port
Arthur the Japanese fleet succeeded in
torpedoing warship in the harbor and
also one lying outside.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-02-22
NEWS OF THE DAY
ITEMS FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE WORLD

Outside the State Of Washington.
Resume Of the Less Important,
but Not Less Interesting, Hap
penings of the Past Week in .
Condensed Form.
The Washington times., 1904-07-19
INDIANA IS DOUBTFUL,
SAYS FAIRBANKS ORGAN
indianapolis News" Says Gold Demo
Gratis Will Get Back Into Line
in the State.

INDIANAPOLIS, July 1s.-The In
dianapolis News" owned in part by
Senator Fairbanks. and long known as
his personal organ, declares editorially
that Indiana is a doubtful State II
argues that the Democrats have more
than a fighting chance in the country
After referring to New York, New
Jersey, and Connecticut, as doubtful
States, it says:
but what of Indiana? That, TOO, has
usually gone with the three doubtful
States OF the East. VIII IL DO so this
year? Our judgment is that this state
is surer than any of the three others Tor
the Roosevelt ticket. Roosevelt has
made enemies in Indiana, but there Is
little of that determined opposition to
him among Republicans here that there
is in the East
And the nomination of Fairbanks VIII
undoubtedly strengthen the ticket AT
the same time. the State may be I'M
comfortably close for the Republicans
TIE Gold Democrat leaders have always
figured that there We're at least 5000 OF
their way Of thinking that voted for Nc
kinley OF Palmer In 1886, when the Re
publican plurality was only $1,000 -Four
years later that plurality rose 10 2o.OVo
Probably most Of the Gold Democfat'
will be back In line this fall. II Parker
gets the Gold Democratic vote and re-
tains all the Bryan vote the State VIII
be at least doubtful. and the result VIII
be determined by the new voters anu the
independent voters"
The Washington times., 1904-07-19
The American Artistic Sense.

1t has frequently been said that
beautiful, and no devotion of esthet-
les. This theory should be contra
dicted. There is proof to the con-
trary for anybody who will look for
it at this time of year.
1t is true, of course, that the eoun-
try roads are dishgured wherever one
wants to go. by huge boardings cover
ed with signs, and that the skyline
Of our cities looks a good deal like
that of a brush fence in a sawmill
region. 1t is true that the only mar
tistic things made in the Orient are
those designed for the American and
European market, and that the furni-
ture of the average middle class home
is covered with meaningless ginger
bread work. But We are artistic, all
the same. even to the point of spend
ing money on beauty rather than on
safety
When the public demanded. some
seven months ago, that theatergoers
should be protected against fire. there
were numerous protests TO the effect
that 1t would cost too much 10 obey
the law, TO say nothing Of remOdeling
houses to conform 20 any stricter law
But in this month of August nearly
every theater in the land Is closed for
the purpose Of redecorating. and in
several cases it is stated that while
the decorations are not shabby at
all, they are not up TO the require
ments Of the age in point of artistic
effect The money spent in this way
would go far to make the theaters
safe. but it is not spent that way
And what is true of theaters is true
Of hotels and railway cars.
Who says we are not an artistic
people?
The Washington times., 1904-07-19
Russia in the Red Sea.

Two distinct points are involved in
the presence Of Russian war vessels
in the Red Sea. One is the specific
question how the ships got there. and
the second is the general question,
How far have they a right TO go IN
searching and Selling neutral vessels
or the cargoes of neutral vessels?
The first question finds its answer
in the Interpretation of the Treaty Of
Paris, the second in that flexible and
vexious institution known as interna-
tional law.
The Treaty of Paris forbade the
passage of war vessels in or out Of
the Black Sea without the permits
sion of Turkey-or. at least, that was
supposed TO be its portent until Rus
sia,- under the stress of the present
war. made so bold as first to try the
temper of the nations by sending
forth vessels of her voluntary feet
and finally risking their wrath by dis
patching a sure-enough man-of-war
Of the gunboat type.
The Russian voluntary fleet is COM
posed Of ships which are carried on
the navy list. but which ia times of
peace engage in the merchant service.
The claim is made that they went
through the Dardenelles in their
The Washington times., 1904-07-19

peace capacity, and bloomed forth in
warlike armament afterward.
Exactly what the powers are going
TO do affords abundant speculation,
but with little assurance. The United
States is not interested except in the
part Of spectator. Great Britain
seems to be quite angry at Russian
temerity, but that is Great Brltain's
way. And, besides, she has Tibet on
her hands. France is not likely to
cause any undue anxiety for her great
and good friend; and probably Ger
many would not either had not the
commander of the Russian ship Smo-
lensk made the blunder of Selling on
board the Prinz Heinrich a bunch OF
German mail addressed to Japan.
In spite of England's somewhat
amusing indignation that her sea
traffic should have been interfered
with, the right of Russia to stop and
search vessels is not seriously ques-
toned. 1t is a right for which Eng
land herself has always been insist
ent, though the United States has
held that property On the sea was as
inviolate as property on the land.
Mails, however, have heretofore
been respected, and indeed Russia s
likelihood of getting any information
of real value from a miscellaneous lot
of private mail matter taken from a
German steamship seems to be equal
to the chances of the farmer who in
stitutes a search for a needle in his
hay NOV.
After hearing from Germany the
Russian government will probably
recognize this and offer the customary
diplomatic explanations, while the
captain Of the Smolensk viii be repri-
manded for poor judgment. This will
not settle the matter of egress from
the Black Sea, however, nor finally
determine whether Russia's consist
ent protests against being practically
imprisoned in this body of water are
at last to be internationally ac-
| knowledged as effective.
The Washington times., 1904-07-19
'PETTIGREN BOLTS
PARKER NOMINATION
Can't Indorse a Party That Would
Turn Down Bryan and
Follow Hill.

SIOUX FALLS. S. D.. July l9-t'ormer
Senator r. F. Pettigrew. OF this city.
who was chairman of the South Dakota
delegation to the st. Louis convention,
has given out an interview here IN
which he virtually bolts the nomination
OF Judge Parker. The interview relates
10 the details of the work OF the St
Louis convention, and concludes WIKI
these words:
intellectually and morally, Bryan
lowered so far above his opponents N
that remarkable discussion regarding
the adoption Of a gold standard plank
that they seemed but pygmies in COM
parison. Eloquent. honest. and fearless.
he stands forth today the grandest fg-
ure in American political life and is The
only person that came out Of the con-
vention with added honors and greater
luster 10 his name
"a political party that would discard
his leadership fer the leadership OF Bel
mont and Hin and the former slave
holders OF the South certainly has not
exercised that judgment and conscience
that forebode success"
The Washington times., 1904-07-19
RELIEVE THE LETTER CARRIER.

To the Editor of The Washington Times;
II seems to me tL-+ the few depart
ment clerks who complain Of the dis
continuance Of the midday trip of the
carriers are very selfish. They. who
have shorter hours. who are comfort
ably housed during the storms Of winter.
the scorching rays Of the summer sun.
and who have a half-holiday each week
during the months Of July. August, and
September, should not begrudge the let
ter carrier his short respite during a few
weeks In July and August.
The letter carriers duties require him
to be out in all kinds OF weather; he is
rot protected from storms or sun. He per-
forms his task with equal fidelity to his
trust. and appreciates the favor Of be
ing off on a trip as much as the de-
partment clerk does his half-hohday or
Saturday.
The clerks family, who is fortunate
enough 20 spend the heated term IN the
country, should know that many OF the
stores in Washington close at ! o'clock
on Saturday, thereby preventing pur-
chases after that hour If they are IN
nled Of some trifle article, why not let
their wants be known on Friday, and
give the head Of the family time to
make the purchase Friday evening, and
be- ready 10 take CT send il Saturday
afternoon when he gets his half holt
dag?
This. 1t seems 10 me. would be a bet
ter plan than to require the carrier 10
make the midday trip. after the clerk
has probably gone TO the countrv and
thus depriving the carrier of hts few
hours of rest during the heat Of the
l5i Tenth Street Southeast