Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-05-05
Russians Claim the Victory This
Time and Estimate the Losses of
the Enemy at 10000 Men-..Forty
Japanese Wdrships Steaminq North
From Wei Hal Wei.

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Central News from St. Petersburg say
the rumor is current there that a sec
ond battle has been fought at Kiu Lial
Cheng in which the Russian loss wa!
1000 and Japanese loss 10000 men, re
sulting in the Japanese being driver
back in disorder. The dispatch adds
that no confirmation of this report is
obtainable.
Japanese Warships Steamine North
| ward.
Che Foo, May 5-Chinese junks
which have arrived here, report fleet
| Of 40 Japanese warships and transports
off Wei Hal Wei on Tuesday, steaming
northwest.
Seven Damaged Vessels in Port Ar.
thur Harbor.
Che Foo, May 5-A native Sikh of
British India, who left Port Arthur a
week ago, has arrived here. He says
the inner harbor there contains seven
damaged Russian warships including
the Retvizan, the Czarevitch and the
Pobieda. Civilians at Port Arthur are
now experiencing difficulty in obtain
ing food. A former officer of the Chin
ese army who has returned from Man
churia, is authority for the statement
that there are less than $4,000 Russian
troops, including the garrison at PolN
Arthur and the men on the Yalu south
of Harbin and that the Russians now
or o1x fnrtiEnI y,ncitiOt, he
tween Ku Lien Cheng and Feng Wang
Cheng.
Guarding Forces Increased.
New York, May 5-Dispatches from
guarding the Siberian Railroad have
been doubled at each station and the
bridge and that companies of mounted
guards make daily excursions on either
side of the railroad for distance of
fifteen miles. The object of these ex-
cursions is to clear, the neighborhood
of Manchurian bandits, collisions with
whom are of increasing frequency
Naval Engagement Suspected.
St. Petersburg, May 5--There are
persistent rumors here of a naval en-
between the Vladivostoclz
squadron and Vice Admiral Kamimu-
ra's squadron, but no confirmation was
received up to l o'clock this afternoon.
No further news has been received
from Port Arthur.
Japanese Bombarded the Fort at Port !
Arthur. |
London, May "a Toxic dispatch to
he general news states that after a |
steamer had been sunk at the en-
rance of Port Arthur harbor. the Jap
anese fleet bombarded the forts and
he town on May 8. The bombardment
was continued on the morning of May
fth.
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,e said that this pamphlet form of ad
7ertising by the Bureau of immigration
s accomplishing wonders in calling at
ention to the advantages of New Mex
co for settlers and inducing an ener-
,etic class of people to cast their lot
n this balmy cline. Colonel Max.
Frost is the secretary of the bureau.
70 his energy, determination and in
,istence may be credited most OF the
successful work of this avenue of publi-
,ity. For years and years he has pre-
pared and reviewed the interesting
contents of the various publications, is
sued by the bureau. His mind is per-
'ect encyclopedia and storehouse OF
pertaining to the history
and progress of the Territory since its
No industry has been
no enterprise discussed, no
arrivals or departures recorded, no
or doings of note in the pro-
sress of this commonwealth. but have
come to the notice of Colonel Frost in
MS long career as editor of the Santa
Fe New Mexican and the other papers
Under his control.
Although for the past two or three
years Colonel Frost has had to contend
with great physical disadvantages, he
has lost not a particle of his ambition
and energy, and we find him today
with undiminished deter
minatiOn to retain the leadership in
all things beginning and ending with
the up-building morally. politically and :
of the coming state of New
Mexico.
Freed of the restrictions created by
the limited amount of money at the
of the bureau, there would
be no easy way of estimating the addi-
tional benefits that would accrue to the
Territory by this class of advertising
in the manner in which 1t is conducted
by Colonel Frost.