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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
CARRIES AMMUNITION
TRAIN LOADED WITH WAR MATE
RIAL GETS THROUGH TO
PORT ARTHUR.

st. Petersburg, May 12.-General
Kuropatkin has telegraphed to the
emperor that a train loaded with war
material from %Iiaoyang has arrived
at Port Arthur.
The text of General Kuropatkin's
dispatch follows:
Reconnaissance between Salts
zaipudZa and Fenghuancheng failed to
discover Japanese troops.
"a Japanese column of considerable
strength advanced from Fenghuan-
cheng May 8 in the direction OF Hal
cheng.
"Pulencheng station is occupied by
II frontier guards and the damage to
the railway by the Japanese as far as
Sanchilipu has been repaired. All the
work was carried out under the super
vision of Lieutenant Colonel Spirido-
noff of the Fourth railway battalion.
This gallant officer undertook to get
through to Port Arthur a train full of
ammunition which had arrived at
%I.iaoyang after the landing of the Japa-
nese at Pitsewo. Every preparation
was to blow up the train in case of
necessity in order to prevent its falling
into the hands OF the japanese.
"The task was carried out and the
salf-sacriice of the men of the Fourth
railway battalion was crowned with
complete success.
Shortly after 4 o'clock in the after
noon the train arrived at Jinshau sta
ton, forty miles from Port Arthur,
where it was handed over to General
Jakoff. who Immediately dispatched it
under proper protection to Port Ar
thur. Lieutenant Colonel Spiridonoff
returned on Il locomotive.
After landing at Pitsewo the Japa-
nese began marching toward Kinchow.
On the night of May 10 their forward
guard, consisting Of about two regi-
ments of infantry, passed the night or
the heights above Sanchilipu, on the
railroad about sixty miles from Port
Arthur.
about thirty japanese vessels are
lying north of Cape Terminal, on the
east coast of the Liaoyang peninsula
below Pi;scwo."
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13

Chefoo, May 1.-THE officers of
steamers arriving from Newchwang
discredit the story of the destruction
by the Russians of the fleet at Port
Arthur. When the officers passed
Port Arthur Wednesday night they
saw ~searchlights flashing from the
ships and forts. There were no signs
of the Japanese fleet in the vicinity.
The officers further stated that there
were not to exceed 1000 Russian SOL
.diers at Newchwang and vicinity.
There are only six light field guns in
the forts, all the big guns having been
taken to L~iaoyang. The opinion pre-
vailed at Newchwang that Russia in
tends restoring Newchwang, also the
district eastward to Tasichiao, the
junction of the railway, to China.
Colonel Muithe, military adviser to
Yuan Shat Kai, viceroy of the province
of Chill, is now at Newchwang ready
to take over the district. The Rus
rian troops. it is understood, will re-
main until the Chinese troops arrive
This is to prevent looting by brigands.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
DlETZ STILL AT LARGE.
Deputy Sheriffs. Unable to Capture
Wisconsin Man,

Hayward, Wis, May 12.-J. F. Dietz,
the settler on the lower Chippewa, who
is holding Sheriff Peterson and depu-
ties at bay. is still the master OF the
situation. The country about his
home is very rough and dense with
thick underbrush, making his capture
difficult and hazardous. Several depu-
ties with fresh stock of ammunition
were Sent out Wednesday. William
Elliott, reported to have been shot,
has returned to Hayward unframed.
He reports two men are shot by
Deitz, one being severely wounded,
the other with his arm shattered. The
wounded men are in an abandoned
camp. DR.. Story was sent out from
here to attend them, but his guide HIS
not yet been able to pilot him over
the trail for fear of DeitZ.
Deitz is wanted for resisting arrest
by Deputy Sheriff Elliott on Monday
on a warrant charging him with CON
tempt of court in violating an injunc-
ton issued by Judge Parrish restrain
ing him from interfering with the
Chippewa Lumber company's log
drive
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
MASTERS AND FILCTG CM cr,-e.
LAKES TuEn EcWa cr%..R
OF L.MPL0YG.aS.
DEMAND A uNiF0-..A e-:.E
EMPLOYEES CLAIM LAST WEARS
WAGE SCALE WAS FAR FRCM
SATISFACTORY.

Cleveland, O., May IA vote was
taken last night by the different har-
bors along the Great Lakes ON the
proposition submitted to the masters
and pilots for this years terms Of en-
ployment. Nineteen out of twe.Aty-six
harbors whose reports have been re-
ceived, show an overwhelming vote in
favor Of rejecting the proposition o.
the vessel men, the vote in mCst in
stances being unanimous.
The result OF a vote indicates &
struggle between two great lake IT,
terests. which may mean the laying
idle OF other classes ashore INK Cl the
water, to h number OF 100 900.
The Lake Carriers association has
offered to pa LAST years wages. This
is not satisfactory to the masters AM!
pilots because CT the alleged difference
in wages that resulted from those
terms. 1t is claimed hal sim.la;
boats have paid their captains as
much as from 5000 to $500 more thai
others. The masters and pilots Wait
a uniform scale.
The Lake Carriers association will
go ahead and try to work the boats
without the union men.
The Cleveland harbor, one of thG
biggest on the lakes, and in which
great interest was manifested because
of the Importance OF this city al &
lake center, voted unanimously to re
ject the Lake Carriers proposition.
The harbors voting are stationed at
the important lake ports and extend
from Ogdensburg, N. Y, to Duluth.
MINI.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
HELD A GOOD POSITION.
Russians Should Have RepuIsed the
Japs on the Yalu.

JdPS Ou Lie ta'N'
London, May 12.-The Daily Malrs
| correspondent at the Japanese head
quarters, in describing the battle on
the Yalu. testifies that the Russian po-
sition there, if properly held, ought
to have been impregnable, even with
the sacrifice of 10000 men. The cor
respondent avs that the battlsheid
afterward pr scented a sickening spec
tacle, but that the wounded bore their
sufferings with the most heroic stoi.
eism.
Judging from their ~disheveled ap-
pearance the correspondent infers that
the Russians must have been in the
trenches for several days. He con
tinues:
"The Japanese are showing the
greatest kindness to the wounded
prisoners, and the captured Russian
officers are being treated by the high
est among the Japanese as respected
guests. In the hour of victory the
Japanese soldiers show admirable re-
straint and sobriety of demeanor.
They express open admiration for the
courage and determination of the
Russians, whom they have found to
be utterly unlike the Chinese and who
are, they say, opponents worthy of
their steel.
"The censorship is becoming very
v l am forbidden to transmit the
names of divisions and units, or to
reveal where our headquarters are es-
tablished.
"a painful incident of the Yalu bat
tie was the robbery of the Russian
dead and wounded. After the action
man roamed the battlefield, stripping
the Russians. General Kuroki is great
ly grieved and is establishing a sys-
TEN of patrols to check a repetition OF
the occurrence ara threatens severe
punishment"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
OF MUCH IMPORTANCE
EVENTS OF MAGNITUDE WILL
PROBABLY OCCUR IN MAN.
CHURlA SOON.

st. Petersburg, May 12.-Impending
events of great Importance to the
military situation in Manchuria are
foreshadowed in official dispatches
given out late last night by the war
commission.
On May 8 the Japanese forces eau
tiously moved from Fenghuancheng
toward Haicheng, which is thirty-two
miles east by north of Newchwang,
and it is the opinion of the general
staff that they should certainly reach
their destination within two days. If
the Japanese occupy Haicheng. with
Port Arthur effectively cut off, New
chwang. which the Russians have al
ready dismantled, would pass into
their hands. The entire Liaotung
peninsula, in fact, save Port Arthur
and perhaps Kaiping, would be COM
manded by them.
The satisfaction felt at the re.
establishment of communication with
Port Arthur is increased by the knowl-
edge that a train load of ammunition
has been safely delivered to the fort
ress. This was done in the presence
of the enemy's army which landed at
Pitsewo and which is apparently on
the v of being reinforced by another
division on board thirty transports
now lying off Port Adams.
Not a Third Army Force.
The troops sent by General Kuroki
to the southwest of Fenghuancheng,
which it is established do not belong
to a third army, O having landed at
Takushan, crossed the Tayang river
May Z and should by this time be
operating in the Liaotung peninsula,
provided they continue, as is regard
ed probable, the plan being to COM
pletc the mastery of Southern Man
churia-
Besides acting energetically in
Southern Manchuria and moving on
Haicheng, Kuroki kept in mind the
necessity Of o%utllanking General Kuro-
patkin at Liaoyang, as is shown in
the fact that On the morning of May
10 he started a formidable force, con
sisting OF a division of infantry and
forty guns and fifteen hundred cavalry
toward Saimadza. In view of General
kuropatkin's statement that an ex-
animation May 10 of the line between
Saimadza and Fenghuancheng failed
to show the presence of Japanese, the
authorities are puzzled as to where
the Japanese force came from.
A Japanese detachment is reported
officially to have occupied Kwantein-
sien May 6, but it is believed likely to
be a small scouting party belonging to
General Kuroki's army.
The authorities are looking with
considerable philosophy on the divis'
ion by General Kuroki of his army into
three separate commands, for they ex-
pect General Kuropatkin promptly to
take advantage of the numerical in.
feriority of the enemy.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
CAUSES SOME COMMENT.
Sending Of an Ammunition Train to
Port Arthur.

Sending Of an Ammunition Train to
Port Arthur.
st. Petersburg, May 12.-The fact
that it was considered necessary to
send a trainload of ammunition to
Port Arthur has aroused comment,
and 1t is accepted in certain quarters
as an indication that the Russians
have not sufficient supplies of war
material there. A member of the gen
eral staff said:
There are ample supplies of NUM-
tons of war at Port Arthur, but natur-
ally General Kuropatkin desired to
send as much as possible to the fort
ress. During the expected siege
great quantities of shells and explo-
sives will be fired, and we cannot af-
ford to permit the reproach of the de-
tenders that they could not hold Port
Arthur because of a lack of powder
and shell. But l assur you there are
enough supplies there for n year"
With such a large force of tho
enemy before Port Arthur it is well
understood here that it is a question
Of days, perhaps hours, before com
munication is again cut off. 1t is pre-
dicted that there will be another at
tempt 10 get ammunlIlOn lnlO POrt A.
thur.
One fact mentioned in the official
dispatches on which the authorities
lay stress is the action of the Chinese
in saving a Japanese detachment fro~'
a Cossack ambuscaGe. Such incido~'s
as these can only lead it is said. /:
General Kuropatkin's taking de+o
mined He cannot have "t
enemy within as we'll as outside TN
lines.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13

coroner's Jury Declares Millionaire
Was Not Murdered.

Bristol, Tenn, May 12.-"He came
to his death by the accidental dis
charge of his own pistol" is the va.-
dict of the coroner's jury. which for
nearly two days has been invest. gat-
ing the circumstances and conditians
surrounding the death of Edward l..
Wentz, the young millionaire, whose
body was discovered decayed and IN
buried on a spun Of Black Mountain
last Sunday afternoon. The va-dict
came as a surprise in every quarter,
as the great majority of the people
who heard the evidence and examined
conditions surrounding the body rs it
lay on the mountain believe the cause
to have been suicide, while the92 are
many others who say there is crime SO
deep and cunning as to make the af-
fair more mysterious than v
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
$500 REWARD.
(First Publication. May IL, 1904.-4f)
SHERiFF'S SALE.

G. F. Burla, plaintiff, VS.. j. H. Hahn,
ACCOMPLISHMENTS SALE.
l will sell at public auction at the
front door of the court house at Bill
ings, Yellowstone county, Montana, at
ten O'Clock a. m. OF June 3, 1904, the
following described real estate, to-
wit: Lot numbered eighteen in block
numbered two of the original townsite
of East Laurel in Yellowstone county,
Montana, according to the official plat
thereof on file and of record in the
Office of the county clerk Of said coun-
ty; together with all and singular the
tenements and appurtenances thereua-
to belonging.
Witness my hand at Billings, Mon
tana, May II, 1904.
GEO. W. HUBBARD, Sheriff.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
HEARST FORCES MAY BOLT.
Those in Indiana Will Probably Hold
a Rurnp Convention.

Indianapolis, May 12.-The delegates
to the Democratic convention eau
cused last evening, and selected dele
gates to the national convention. AID
mission to the caucus was by ticket
distributed by the district chairman.
AS a result OF this policy of the state
organization the Hearst people have
started a movement to bolt the con-
vention and hold a rump convention
that will send a complete set of
Hearst delegates to the convention.
Rump caucuses were held and at
some of the regular conventions riot
Gus scenes were enacted by effort of
the Hearst men TO obtain control. The
regulars favor Parker.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
Consider 7coort on Rules.

Los Angeles, Cal, May 12.-Practi-
cally no business wastransacted by the
Methodist general conference Wednes-
day. The early morning session was
devoted entirely to a consideration CT
the report of the committee on rules,
and the afternoon was taken up by
long ~a6dresSes.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
Grain Diverted From Lakes.

Chicago, May 12.-Chicago members
of the Masters and Pilots association
in this city voted almost unanimously
for a strike. Provisional charters for
the shipment of more than 1900, 900
bushels of grain from this port were
cancelled as soon as the result of the
vote was known. All Of the grain WEI
be carried to the Atlantic seaboard
by rail.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
Locomotive Engineers Meet.

Los Angeles, Cal, May 12.-The
sixth biennial meeting Ct the Interna-
tional brotherhood o. Locomotive
Engineers assembled il this city
Wednesday with between GOO and 100
delegates in attendance at Turner
hall. At the same time the lady's
auxiliary o. the order assembled in
Blanchard hall.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
TO CUT OFF VLADlVOSTCK.
Japs Credited With That Purpose G
Onrcio%

Po1siet.
Possiet, Siberia. May ia Japa-
nese torpedo boat made it's appearance
in the roadstead Monday and sus'
picious lights have since been seen.
Everything is quiet here, but all is
in readiness to meet any landing of
the enemy. whose probable purpose Is
the cutting off of Vladivostok.
Vladivostok, May 12.-All is quiet
here. The enemy has not been sight
ed. The commander of the defenses
has left Vlodivistok after carefully 'e
viewing the troops and inspecting thu
Notifications.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
ANOTHER VESSEL SUNK.
Russian Boat Bumped Into a Mine and
Was Wrecked,

London, May PA telegram from
st. Petersburg to the Morning Post
makes known the fact that still an
other Russian war vessel has been de-
stroyed by Russian mines. The gen
eral staff issued today a list of twenty
names of officers and men who were
killed on board the torpedo boat trans
port Amur April 25. The issuance of
this list discloses that the Amur was
laying mines in the roadstead at Port
Arthur. of Liaotishan. that day. She
struck a mine and was sunk.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
Russians Building Forts.

London, May 12.-The Morning
Posts Shanghai correspondent says
the Russians are building forts at Mo-
tien pass and extensive %entrench-
ments outside Liaoyang.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13

st. Petersburg, May 12.-Six thou
sand Russians, commanded by Cen
eral Jakoff, assisted by troops unde,
General Stoessel, repulsed a japanese
force which vas trying to cut the rail.
way twelve miles east of Port Adams.
Further attacks on Port Arthur by
land are anticipated when the Japa'
nese are reinforced.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
Att.rpts Murder ard Suieide.

Steubenville, o., May 12.-sam
Davis Wednesday shot Mrs. Nun
Charel three tines and then killed
himeelf. The couple have been living
as ma aSG VIE.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
NIHlLIsTs ACTIVE IN RUSSIA,
Plan to Blow Up Fortresses and Xii
the Gar.

Vienna. May 12.-Extraordinary &C
tivity is being shown throughout Rus
STA by the revolutionary party. aided.
it is claimed, by the Japanese. A
French nihilist plot has just been dis
covered which had for it's end the
blowing up of a group of f%ortresses
and a~rsenals and the murder of the
car,
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
Testimony in the Ames {

Minneapolis, May 12.-Testir.cny in
the Ames case is all in, and today will
be taken up by arguments of attorneys
and the case may go to the jury today.
The sensation which the defense
promised failed to materialize. No at.
tempt was made to pillory Thomas T
Brown. Jr., and no evidence was intro
duced to show the disposition OF the
graft" into hands higher than those
of the mayor.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
MERELY THE PRELUDE TO AN AD-
VANCE UPON THE RUSSIANS
At NEWcHWANG.
GREAT EVENTS IMPENDING
jAPS GETTING THE LIAOTUNG
PENINSULA COMPLETELY
UNDER CONTROL.

Shanghai, May PIT is reported
from Picking, that the Japanese on
Monday occupied Kaiping, sixteen
miles below Tashichao, and that they
expected to occupy Newchwang on
Friday.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
HOT BATTLE AT ANU.
Force of cossacks Attacks Japanese
Garrison Occupying the Town.

Toxic, May 12.-DetalIS OF inc at
tack by Russian Cossacks at Anju,
Korea, have been received here. The
Russian cavalry numbered 200 men
and their attack was spirited. The
japanese garrison resisted stoutly and
succeeded in driving off the enemy.
Later Japanese reinforcements arrived
from Pingyang.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-05-13
DESTROY THE SHIPS
RUSSIANS SAID TO HAVE SUNK
THEIR WAR VESSELS AT
PORT ARTHUR.

Chefoo. May IAN official Japa-
nese dispatch has been received here
to the effect that the Russians have
destroyed their fleet in Port Arthur.
Arizona republican., 1904-08-14
logical analysis of the sulphur-mul-

logical analysis of the sulphur-mul- berry duck and write his conclusions.
 Mir. Mackaye has tame squirrels and rabbits and has experimented some what with them. It was difficult to get them to drink sulphur water, and of course they would not bathe. By keeping them shut up in their inclOs- ures they were forced to drink the su!- phur water, but they little and never seemed to relish it. He summed up his conclusions as follows:
 T do not believe that rabbits and squirrels can be Improved much by diet though my experiments in that direction have not been extensive. do know, however, that ducks fed upon mulberries and drinking and bathing constantly in sulphur water acquire flavor that would delight the most eXacting epicure. And this point wish to emphasizes: Ducks so raised never become tough, never get stringy. and grow more flesh on the breast. Re member, these experiments are pleas Ure to me, and not made with any commercial intentions. The sulphur water on my place has been used by the Mexicans for more than a century for various ills, and it was a happy thought of mine to raise 'nedicated ducks Later on I can tell exactly what effect the berries and the water will have upon the ringdcves and any one wishing to start a duck or dove ranch can get all the information he desires from me."-Lesiie's Weekly
Arizona republican., 1904-08-14
"MEDICATED DUCKS.
On California Ranch They Eat Only Mulberries and Drink Sulphur Water.

An experiment is being made in Southern California to raise mulberry ducks on a ranch where the fowls are allowed to bathe in and drink only sul- phur water. The ducks are fed almost exclusively on mulberries. and the flesh when cooked is tender and free from the rank game taste. But the most interesting fact is that these fowls, from he time they are matched, are per mitted to drink nothing but strong sul- phur water and swim in it daily Ar thur l.. Mackaye, son of the late brill- iant playwright, Steele Mackaye. is an epicure, and for his own satisfaction is raising what he terms "medieated mulberry ducks" on a ranch with an unlimited supply of strong sulphur wa ter. Ths ranch is not far from Los Angeles, in the San Fernando valley on the Fl Camino real, the road estab- lished by the Spanish padres more than century ago. There are many large mulberry trees growing near a deep sulphur water well, and the big pictur- esque windmill pumps so many moro | gallons than are necessary that a large l pool has been formed
 NIT. Ma kaye discovered that ducks | pigeons, and chickens that bathed in | the water and drank it and ate the mulberries had a different flavor, anl this induced him to experiment. He l discovered that fowls with dark meat were more affected and improved in | taste than those with white meat. Ducks and ringdoves, he said. were i'm i proved ln flavor and tenderness at lea st 90 per cent He has many doves and IS giving them the same treatment as the ducks, and with marked su,cess
 Old ducks brought to the ranch will not use the sulphur water at first, but they soon acquire the taste, and seem tn prefer the strong odor to clear non- medicated spring water. They take at once to the juicy mulberries and never | seem to get enough. In coniunct;on
 with the berries a small patch of aI- Ialfa IS planted, where the fowls can eat green stuff at any time. Not q trace of the sulphur can be tasted in
 the flesh of the ducks, and vet Nr
 Mackaye Is of the opinion that the
 mineral water has much to do with
 eliminating the rank and gross flavor especially characteristic of old ducks
 lie claims that the mulberries fatten
 them quickly and keep the flesh tender
 no matter how old the fowls may he
 The writer and D. c. Bailee, the Scotch
 hydfopathlc savant, ate some roasrad
 mulberry duck and came to the conclu-
 sion that Lucullus could not have found
 anything more seductive and nleasing
 The saVant is going to make a patho.