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The daily Alaskan., 1904-10-11

Mai. W. P. Richardson has been in the city since yesterday.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-10-11

Wm. Britt, Special Agent.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-10-11

William Ogilvie, ex-governor of Yu- kon territory, and his. sons, W. NJ. and J R. Ogilvie, arrived on the train lat night and will leave for the south on the Princess May this evening.
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JAP LOSSES HEAVY.
Rumor that Turning Point is Fail
ure-Port Arthur Under Heavy
Japanese Fire.

Mukden, Dec. 6.-There is persistent
rumor that the force of Japanese sent
TO turn Gen. Rennenkampf's flank has
been repulsed with great loss. The
story is not yet officially confirmed,
out details are given with great cir
cumstantiality. 1t is stated that Gen.
Rennenkampf, who knew the move
ment was maturing, awaited the Jap
anese at the mouth of one of the passes,
and that the japanese turning force
threw itself unsuspectingly into the
amouscade, where, after the fight, the
Russians collected 500 Japanese corpses.
1t is added that there are 1000 more
Japanese which it had been impossible
to collect, owing to the fire of the Jap
anese. This does not include the Jap
anese loss in wounded The Russian
loss, according to this account, is only
30 or 40 men.
London, Dec. GA dispatch from
Cheefoo on Dec. to the Daily TelG-
graph says:
Heavy firing continues at Port Ar
thur today. The Japanese are maxi
ing most determined and persistent
efforts to capture the northern forts, !"
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SHOOTS CONVICT.
Unruly Prisoner Tries to Club Official
of Penitentiary and is Shot,
Causing Death.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Dec 6.-While
making an assault on Deputy Warden
Cooley, of the Sioux Falls penitentiary,
Robert White, a prisoner, was fatally
shot and died half-hour later. He
was the most unruly prisoner in the
penitentiary, and the dungeon, solitary
confinement, and other modes of pun
ishment failed to break his spirit. He
frequently had threatened the lives of
his fellow prisoners and members of
the prison force. For some time past
he had been confined to his cell, where
his meals were served to him.
White became unusually ugly and
the deputy warden found it necessary
to enter his cell, accompanied by four
guards, for the purpose of Handwriting
him. White had torn his table to
pieces, and armed with a club made
from it, and steel bar which he had
secured in some mysterious manner
from the blacksmith shop, he made a
vicious spring for the deputy warden,
with the evident intention of killing
him. Guard Frank Hogan drew a re-
volver and shot White in the thigh.
The wounded man fought like q
maniac, but finally was overpowered.
He steadily grew weaker until he died.
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AN INVITING PROSPECT.

Will Canada in the next quarter or q
century take the place of the United
States as the great wheat exporting
section Of the western hemisphere
Everything points that way. In the
opinion of experts the United States has
reached high water mark as a wheat
exporting country. The increasing
population over there has reached the
point when home consumption is be-
coming annually greater In proportion
than the increase in wheat production.
AS matter of fact wheat production
Is decreasing over there as the land be-
comes more valuable and by reason OF
the demand for other forms of produce
for home consumption. 1t Is said that
the wheat crop this year is not more
than 70 per cent. of the crop of 1901
and much below the crops of 1902 and
1903. 1t Is estimated that this year
the United States surplus for export will
not be over 100,000,000, which is less
than any year since 1878 with two ex.
ceptions. Not only Is this the case, but
a considerable quantity Of the best Cam
adam wheat Is being imported into Min
nesota and also Chicago.
All this tends to keep the price OF
wheat near the dollar mark, and dol
lar wheat" is the Ioadstone that will at
tract farmers to the Canadian North
west, where land is cheap and can be
farmed on 3 wholesale basis, particulars
Of which may be had from any agent
Of the Canadian Government The re-
duction of American exports will have
the double influence Of increasing Cam
adian production and keeping up the
price. 1t constitutes a roseate prospect
for this country, and needs no exercise
of optimistic enthusiasm to foresee the
near expansion of the Dominion into
the actual position Of the "granary OF
the empire"
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CONGRESS cONVENES.
The Session Was Very Short and
Both Houses Adjourn-Senate
Pays Tribute to Dead.

Washington, Dec. 6.-The last ses-
sion of the Fifty-eighth congress was
called to order at aeon yesterday. The
opening was under the usual interest
ing conditions, and amid those scenes
that for years have made the reassemb-
ling of congress among the notable
events of the country. Hundreds of
sightseers early thronged the corri-
doris and crowded into the galleries to
witness the formal proceedings. From
one end of the capitol building to the
other, the tread of statesmen and the
lutter of femininity distinguished the
occasion from any other in the official
or social calendar of the year. From
the lethargy which has characterized
Washington since early in the spring,
the city awakened to a new era and
heralded with apparent joy the day
which opens both the official and social
seasons.
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FEARFUL WASTE OF ENERGY
Loss of Power in Coal During Trans
mutton Into Electric
Light.

Ninety-nine per cent of the sun-poweP
or energy stored up in ton of coal is
lost on it's way to the electric-light bulb.
Thus we get only hundredth part Of
the possible light contained in ton Of
coal. The other SO parts are lost on the
way, dissipated in heat, and used up in
friction in the engine or the electric ap-
paratus, and never become light. To
discover some way to prevent this fear
full waste of energy is one of the great
problems confronting scientists to-day,
writes Orison SWEET Marden, in Success.
Just as fearful a waste of energy goes
on in mans use of his own powers. In
stead of 100 per cent. of his energy ap-
pearing in results that are worth while,
often not more than one per cent. Of it
gets into his real work, the rest being
thrown away, dissipated in scores Of
ways.
A young man starts out in life with
large amount of force and vitality stored
up in his brain, nerves and muscles. He
feels an almost limitless supply of ener-
gy yelling up within him, fullness and
buoyancy which knows no repression.
He believes he will do wonders with this
energy, and that he will transmute
practically all Of it into light-achieve-
ment. In the pride of his youth and
strength, he seems to think that there is
practically no end to his power to throw
off energy, and so he often filings it out
on every side with reckless prodigality.
He burns it up here in cigarette or a
pipe, there in whisky or wine; here he
drains it off in heavy suppers and late
hours, there in vicious living, idleness.
shiftlessness, and botched work, until
he finally comes to himself with a
shock and asks: "Where is the electric
light l meant to produce with all my
energy? Is this Pickering candle flame
all that can generator" He is appalled,
to find that, with all his superabundant
vitality he has scarcely produced light
enough to illumine his own way, and has
nothing left for the world. He who had
boosted of his strength and felt conf
dent of shedding light that would daz-
zle the world stumbles along himself in
semi-darkness. The energy which
should have been transmitted into
achievement has been lost on the way.
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MEDICAL MENTION.

In the latest form of hospital con-
struction there are no corners or angles
in the wall which may catch dust.
A correspondent, writing to an ex-
change on insomnia few weeks ago,
advised the use of a hot water bag
filed with ice water and applied to the
base Of the brain.
The number of medical journals in
Germany is extraordinarily large and
still on the increase. At the end Of 1908
there were 230, and ten more were add
ed in the nine months following.
A French physician, DR.. Foucault,
has found that in II ,048 deaths investi-
gated by him, 1853, or seven per cent,
resulted from cancer. He could not find
that heredity was factor In the cause
of the disease.
Dr. Edward Smallwood strongly ad-
vocates motoring as positive cure for
sleeplessness, and also as excellent for
phthisis. for neurasthenia, and for all
complaints of consumptive nature.
1t is a splendid thing for asthma, and q
better cure than any yet devised for that
widespread disease, business worry.
The British Medical Journal states
that the legacy of $125.OOO left by the
late Prof Puschmann, Of Vienna, to
the University of Leipsic is to be ap-
piled to the study Of the history OF
medicine. 1t is proposed to found a
historical museum of medicine, and
special seminary for training persons
in medico-historica research and In
Autobiography.
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INTERIOR OF THE EARTH.
Calculations of Scientific Nature Up
on the Inner Center of
the Globe.

Experiments to be tried in the Wash
ington monument by officers of the ge-
illogical survey to try to determine the
comprehensiveness of the earth's mass,
has awakened widespread interest in
scientific circles, says Washington let
ter. Coming as it does on the heels of a
project preached by Charles Algernon
Parsons, of England, to bore hole II
miles into the earth, the scientific world
has much food for speculation.
Prof. Parsons estimates that to sink
a shaft II miles deep would cost $751;
100000, and that it would REQUIRE SIS
years to accomplish it. This shaft. cut
down into the earth, would represent the
equivalent of hole one foot deep in a
mass 500 feet thick. 1t would solve
many questions that the scientific
knowledge of the world has left unan-
swered, yet it would investigate only the
crust and leave thousands of miles of
the interior mass still untouched.
No man has gone down into the
earth's interior beyond the distance of
one mile and lived to tell the story.
The deepest boring in the "crust" of the
planet is 5000 feet-less than one four
thousandths of the distance to the GEN.
ter of the globe.
The earth's interior is a vast I'M
known, beside which, in the realm Of
mystery the heavens are IN open book.
The most daring explore seeking new
fields of heroism in unraveling the mys-
teries of nature has halted even before
he could plan to surmount the obstacles
that lie in the pathway of the secrets
of the earth's mass.
The amount of compression at the
globes center should, to- some extent at
least, define the character of the mass
Of which it is formed.
Within the Washington monument,
which is $50 feet high, is to be stretched
a wire 500 feet long, on the free end of
which will be hung heavy weights. Sur
vey experts, who will conduct the ex-
periments, hope by this means to gain
a knowledge of the force of gravity at
equal distance toward the center of the
earth.
It is argued that the great mass OF
the interior of the earth is solid.
Against the contention that the planet,
under a crust 25 miles thick, is a mass
Of fiery liquid is arrayed the fact
Of the known density of the globe.
That density in the earth's entirety is
about 5.5 times the density of the water
that covers three-quarters of the sur
face
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THE WEEKS NEWS
Happenings of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and PO-
liticaI Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
RUsso-JAPANEsE WAR.

An armistice of six hours was de-
clared at Port Arthur in order that the
dead and wounded might be cared for.
It is limited in ST. Petersburg that the
emperor may direct Gen. Stoessel to
surrender Port Arthur.
Russia gives up hope for Port Ar
thur and military officials admiJ
the loss Of the fortress is certain if
Nogi can mount guns on 203-Metre hill.
The fleet is out of service and probably
will be sunk.
The capture of 2O3-metre hill and as
sault on Ehrlung and Keekwan forts
are said to have cost the Japanese
Is, 600 men.
Russia is unwilling to join the powers
in a second peace conference at The
Hague until her war with Japan is
ended
The Japanese have captured and hold
2O3-metr hill at Port Arthur after a
desperate battle on the summit.
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Say Turfman Is Insane.

William Neumeister, the former
well-known turfman, who twice at
tempted suicide recently, was declared
Insane. Mr.. Neumeister was at one
time wealthy. He was prominent
member of the council and of its COM
mittees. AS a protector and owner Of
one of the largest and most finely
equipped race tracks in the United
States he gained his widest reputation.
One hundred thousand dollars was in
vested by him on his magnificent farm
near La Crosse to start his enterprise.
When the opening dag came the gates
closed on the costliest aggregation OF
horses ever brought together.
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Killed While He Slept.

Bert Nowship, a former Appleton
man, was murdered in his cabin, near
Waucedah, Mich, his body being found
in bed. The discovery was made by a
neighbor, whose suspicion was aroused
by the mysterious disappearance OF
Nowship. The murderer committed the
crime from outside the cabin. The
shot was fired through window and
took effect in the victims head. Sew
eral shots were fred all but one going
wild. Nowship lived alone in his cab
in. No theory for the murder has been
advanced
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-08
TYNER is DEAD.
Former Postmaster General and As
sistant Attorney General Dies
in Washington.

Washington, Dec. 6-Former Post
master General James N. Tyner died
at 9:35 o'clock yesterday morning.
Mr.. Tyner was postmaster general
during President Grants administra-
ton. His last official duty was as as
sistant attorney general for the post
office department, from which office he
was re moved last year, and afterwards
indicted, with his nephew, Harrison j.
Barrett, on charge of conspiracy in
connection with the use of the mails by
certain alleged ''get rich quick con-
Germs On this charge he was aqquit-
ted by jury.
He has been in Ill health for a num-
Der of years He was born in Indiana
in 1926.
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Sues for Twenty Years Wages.

Sues for Twenty Years Wages.
Mrs. L. K. Stanley seeks $5,09S.33 from
J. H. Lanphier, of GAINESVILLE, for serv-
Ices rendered between February, 1881,
and October, 1900 Mrs. Stanley says she
was married at Is, and deserted by her
husband when their son was five years
Did. In February, 1881, she says, she en-
tered defendants employ as housekeep-
er, under an agreement that he would
support herself and her child in return
for services as housekeeper, paying her
what the services were reasonably
worth. The little boy died the following
year and plaintiff remained in defend
ants family until 1900. She demanded
accrued wages at the rate of five dollars
week for 20 years, and says she only
received SIS.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

The cruiser Tennessee, the most pow
erfuI in the world was launched in
Philadelphia.
A Waterman was killed and four
nurses injured in a fire in a nurses
home adjoining a st. Louis hospital
A Missouri Pacific train was
wrecked by broken rail near Holden,
Mo, and As passengers were injured,
ten of them seriously.
In a quarrel at Princeton, Ind, with
Carl and John Wilson, coal miners,
Clayton Weist was struck with brick
and instantly killed. The Wilson's were
arrested.
A wife's jealousy caused the suicide
of Dr. James H. Tucker, a well-known
Des Moines, Ia, Physician, and Anna
Clark, former domestic at the Tuck
er home.
Seth Godfrey, Leith Godfrey and
Grover E. Els were drowned at Mus
catine, Ia, while attempting to cross
the Mississippi river. Ice floats stove
in their boat.
In a fire which destroyed their
home in Pittsburg, Pa, Mrs. Rock Per-
ry and two of her children were
burned to death.
Three persons were burned to death
in a fire that destroyed a rooming
house in DenisOn, Tex.
A steady rain broke the longest
drought in central Kentucky in half a
century
A movement has been started in
London to erect an international
Shakespeare memorial.
The famine in Ireland grows worse
as a result of the failure of the potato
crop, and suffering is great.
Grain to the amount of $4,000, 900
bushels, sold to fasteners, will leave
the north Pacific states in the next so
days.
The National w. c. T. U. convention
adopted a resolution protesting
against agitation for repeal of the an
ticanteen law.
The annual report of Secretary of the
Navy Morton favors big battleships.
constructed by private contract and es-
adjustment of a government gun fac
tory.
Representative James Tawney, OF
Minnesota, presented to President
Roosevelt a fine rapier of the fifteenth
century.
In an opinion from the appellate di-
vision of the New York supreme court
the CLOSED shop" was declared illegal
and opposed to public policy.
The car is reported as willing to en-
ter into an offensive and defensive al
lance with Japan.
The planning mill and lumber plant OF
the A. d. Parr Lumber company was
burned to the ground at Clarksburg
w. Va, The total loss will reach
$4,000,
A certificate of election has been given
to Bennett, republican, who was op.
posed to Kehoe, democrat, in the Ninth
Kentucky district
A dispatch from Kieff, Russia, an.
nounces that 20 persons have lost their
lives there through drinking poisoned
brandy.
The shortage n the accounts Of A. P
Nispagel, former cashier Of the ST
Charles, no, savings bank, is S7S,163.
France has conferred upon Speaker
Cannon the rank of chevallier of the
Legion of Honor, but it is understood
that his office precludes the acceptance
of the title.
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walk at all, and every malxeshift tried
and all the medicine took had not the
slightest effect. My back continued to
grow weaker until 1 began taking
Doan's Kidney Pills, and must say
was more than surprised and gratifed
to notice the back ache disappearing
gradually until it finally stopped"
Doans Kidney Pills sold by all
dealers or mailed on receipt of price,
so cents per box. FosterMilburn Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
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Whera He Gould See

A waitress in a restaurant in north
ern town is known to the members of the
establishment for her ready wit. An oc-
casional customer went in the other day
for dinner. After receiving his order the
waitress handed him a newspaper to
while away the time that would elapse
before dinner was served. He looked up
after a few minutes and said:
II say, miss, have you nothing comic
to look at?"
"Well. SIR" replied the waitress, with
out smile, there's a looking-glass
straight in front of you, sir,"-Comic
Cuts.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-08
Four Plans for New Capitol.

Four plans are under consideration
by the capitol building commission for
a new capitol. The commission has
instructed Charles H. Mccarthy, legis-
lative reference librarian, to vacate his
rooms on the second floor that it might
be used to exhibit the plans. The plans
are large and are to be hung about the
walls of this room for the coming two
months.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-08
Ranchman Shot.

Bismark, N. D., Dec. Civilian
Head. a colored ranchman and farmer,
was shot and instantly killed, it is al
legged, by Albert Schribner, nineteen
vear-old boy, who was working for
him.
The shooting occurred at Mckenzie,
twenty miles from here, and the Off
Gals arrested Schribner, who is now in
Jail here.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-08
Test Scientific Farming.

Scientific farming is to have thor
ough test in Wisconsin, and the depart
ment of agriculture of the state un1Ver-
sity has taken possession of the large
farm of the estate of the late Daniel
Wells, in Kenosha county, and for the
next year it will be run on strictly sci
entific plans. The farm contains 6OO
acres and is considered the finest stock
farm in the state. The experiment will
be under the personal supervision OF
Prof. Henry, of the university.
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The News Condensed.

Robbed, beaten, and with both legs
broken by bullets, Nicholai Pulechlnskl,
laborer employed in logging camp
ten miles east of Hurley, was left alone
in the woods TO die
Rev. Father Bertram's silver jubilee
was celebrated in Hartford, and about
30 priests were in attendance.
William Likes, of Kenosha, has been
given verdict of $25, 900 in Chicago for
personal injuries received while work
ing as a lineman for the Milwaukee &
Chicago Electric Railway company.
The bursting of fues in one of the
boilers of the Mitchell & Lewis Wagon
company at Racine, caused considerable
damage. Peter Swenson and John Nc
Carthy, employees, narrowly escaped be-
Ing killed.
The Waukesha county bank, at Plain
field, has increasedits capital stock from
SIS 900 to $4,000.
There is no race suicide in Milwau-
kee, proudly declares Register OF DEEDS
Pierce. To prove his contention he has
compiled figures showing that for the
uTSC Ten uuOutuS VI IuAo JO|A O'0"] SNA S~~~
have been recorded in his office.
Barney Hines, aged about go, was
found dead with his neck broken and
cash in his head on the road five miles
east of Soldiers Grove.
The work of the winter term of the
dairy school of the University OF Wis
consin, which began early in November,
is progressing, and there are now some
125 students in attendance.
Owing to changed conditions, the
farmers institute for Prent1ss, Price
county, December 20 and Il, will be held
at Apollonia, Gates county, on the same
dates.
State Commissioner of Banking Bergh
has examined. and approved articles OF
incorporation for a new state bank at
Humbird, Clark county. The capital is
SIS 900. The incorporatOrs are John Bah
Ter, Rosina Babler and Charles H. Sand
ers.
Fred Owens, living near Waupaca,
former resident of Plainsfeld, commit
ted suicide by hanging. He was 81
years old.
The 15-months-old son of George Dun
lap, at Green Bay, set fire to his clothes
with matches. He died after three days
of suffering.
The most disastrous fire in the his
tory of Wittenberg occurred recently,
with loss of $4,000.
All of the Masonic bodies in Fond du
Lac have approved a proposition fof me
erection of Masonic temple.
The five miles of road that intervene
between Oshkosh and the Northern
state hospital for the insane at Winnie
bago will be lined with apple trees next
summer.
Mayor James German, of Kenosha,
who is the proprietor Of barber shop,
was arrested charged with violating the
state law in regard to the issuance of
licenses to BARRIERS.
The Sank county board Of supervisors
voted to build a fine new court house,
appropriating 100000.
Mrs. Edward c. Wall died suddenly
IN Milwaukee after a short illness.
Mrs. Wall was the wife of Edward @.
| Wall, well-known in business and po-
lltical circles throughout the country.
One OF the largest tobacco shipments
that has ever been made to foreign
port has been sent abroad from James
vile. 1t consisted of 5000 cases Of leaf
tobacco and was consigned to Antwerp.
The state conference of the Daugh-
tiers OF the American Revolution was
| held in Milwaukee.