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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1904-07-08

Water Routes.
San ANCISCO-PORTLAND RAFYTr
steamer sails from Portland D. ID. everr z
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-02-29
|C0RBfTT
SULLIVAN
|Pugi|ists Will Meet at
Frisco Tonight.
BETTING ODDS FAVOR CORBtII
Both Men Are in Good Condition, but
Sullivan Is Believed to Be
Outclassed.
BETTING ODDS FAVOR CORBtTT

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Feb. 20
Though overshadowed in a measure
by the coming Britt-Corbett fight the
contest tonight between the feather
weight champion and Dave Sullivan
is attracting keen attention in sport
ing circles. The result means a great
deal to Young Corbett" Not only
is his championship title at stake but
in the event of defeat his contest with
Britt will be called off and in addi-
has posted for the match
Competent ring critics, however, do
not anticipate any such result as the
defeat of the champion. With no dis
position to underrate Sullivan's fight
ing qualities, there is none among
close followers of the game who pre-
dict a victory for him. The betting
odds are overwhelmingly in favor Of
Young Corbett" Sullivan at best, is
held as a eeccnd-rater. and about the
cafes and other resorts where sport
ing men congregate today the specula-
ton is wholly as to the number OF
rounds the eastern lad viii be able to
stay against the CHAMPION
In SalWan's camp. however. there
apneare to be a feeling of confidence,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-02-29
WAR IN PHILIPPINES
IS NOT YET ENDED
A Division of General Woods Army
Has a Hard Battle With
Savage Mo~os.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 29.-General
Wade. commanding the division of the
Philippines. cables this morning:
General Wood reports an engage
ment at Joio on the 14th inst between
Major Scott with the third squadron
of the Fourteenth cavalry and a single
gun of the Eighteenth battery field ar
tillery against a remnant of Hassan's
Moros. Scott attacked the enemy's
colta and took it after lively fighting.
FIRING was twice stopped to give the
Moros a chance to surrender but they
declined. All the Moro leaders are
dead or captured, but Hassan, who is
not yet located. Frequently dattos as
sisted the American troops The
cable has not been working and this
accounts for the delay of the news.
The American loss is: Wounded
Lieutenant West. in the thigh. serious;
Hulburt, Troop 1, right side; Hinder
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SACRAMENTO. Feb. 29.-The Sac
ramento is falling. The water from
Edwards break is receding steadily
The greatest height was attained dur
ing last night A message from
COurtland at noon says that Grant and
Merritt islands are all right and per-
fectly safe. The Lisbon district on the
Yola side is safe and the river is fall
ing there. The back water in 4olu
county is falling slowly. The water at
Riovista is reported an inch higher
than during the flood of 1902 but the
town is safe. The levee could not
stand a high wind, however. without
danger There is no fear however,
whatever of the city's levees and with
more than six feet of margin all are
sound Several levees up the river
on the Sutter side are broken. The
Ievee back of Walnut Grove broke at
2 this morning. A large area is flood
ed. Southern Pacific trains are run
ming slowly across the track in Yulo
basn but the water is receding from
the track and all is safe again.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-02-29
Prouty May Succeed Hull.

DES MONIES, Ia. Feb. 29.-With
800 armed citizens standing on guard
at the voting places the seventh dis
trict republican primary election
opened this morning. Judge Prouty
is cOntesting with Representative Hull
for the congressional nomination.
Repeating and fraud charges are plen-
tiful and it is feared there will be a
physical clash before night. Prouty
apparently controls the party machin-
between the two factions and are
sworn in as specials.
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ST. PETERSBURG. Feb. PA tel
egram from Port Arthur reports that
General StOeSSel commanding today,
has issued an order directing the at
tention of the troops and the inhabl-
tants to the fact that the japanese m
tend to land at Port Arthur and seize
the fortress. He calls on everybody
to fight to the death as none can save
themselves without fighting. The gen
eral declares that he never will give
an order to surrender. The newspa-
per Sviet today expresses the belief
that China is secret ally of Japan.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-02-29
American Leaving Korea.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 29.-Ministel
Allen at Seoul cables the state de-
partment that in pursuance of ar
rangement With the Japanese minister
returning Japanese transport will
bring Americans from Ping Yang. The
Americans at Seoul and vicinity have
already been sent to the Philippines
Minister Allen says that Russian
scouts on reaching Ping Yang Sunday
troops.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-02-29
NEGRO DFSPERADOfS
HOLD UP A TRAIN
Two Postal Clerks Are Shot by a
Highwayman Who Is After
wards Captured.

an attempt of a gang of negro desper-
ADDE'S to rob a postal car on Train
Two of the Alabama Great Southern
limited near Meridian. Miss. at this
morning J. T. Stockton. postal clerk
was shot and killed and Postal Clerk
A. ]. Bass was shot in the arm. Jim
Paris. colored did the shooting. He
secured the registered letters but in
jumping the train crushed his leg. He
dragged himself three miles. where he
was captured by the aid of blood
hounds.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-02-29
German Chancellor Helps Russia.

LONDON, Feb. 29.-The official ga
gette at St. Petersburg states that an
important conference occurred last
week between the cars confidential
the German chancellor. The latter
was urged to keep up the value of
financiers BuelOW acted promptly and
personally Influenced many leading
bankers with the result that Russian
bonds became steady.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-02-29
Break in Wheat Market.

CHICAGO. Feb. 29-There was a
big break in wheat this morning, May
selling from $1.OOA to 99A. Old July
973s to 9434. New July 964 and 94as
The crash pulled down other cereal
and provisions. Pork fell from SIG to
$1495 a barrel.
at 55A.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-02-29
CALIFORNIA FLOODS
ARE NOT ABATlNG
The Sacramento River and Its Tribu :
taries Are .on High Old
Rampage.

STOCKTON, Cal, Feb. 29.-The
east bank of the Sacramento river
broke 16 miles north of Newhope at
o'clock this morning and 10000 acres
If rich lands north of Mohe!umne river
we're inundated. The flood waters car
lied every Ievee before them anl
poured into Mokelumne river. rails
ing that stream until it burst its banks
on the south side, flooding 1000 acres
Of the NeWhope district. 1t is the most
disastrous flood to the northwestern
part of this county since 1851.
Stockton is absolutely safe.
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Seeks to Recover From NeeIv

NEW YORK. Feb. 29-The suit
brought by the United States against
Charles F. w. Neely was calleo rur
trial today before Judge Lacombe in
the United States district court: The
suit is to recover S45.375, which it is
alleged Nicely embezzled from the gov
arrment while in charge of the postal
funds of Cuba
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More Ships Sunk.

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 29.-An
uncOnfirmed rumOr is current here this
evening that two Russian battleships
and a torpedo boat have been sunk
by the japanese at Port Arthur in a
fresh attack.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-02-29
Epilepsy as Murderer's Defense.

CHICAGO, Feb. 29.-Epileptic eX-
perts gave evidence today in the car
that Nandine is afflicted with the dis
ease.
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Mountain Cossacks Invade Korea

CHEZ, FOO, Feb. ga Liao Yang
dispatch states that it is reported that
detachment of mounted COssacks
marching south, commanded by Cen
eral Mischtschenko, are expected to
arrive at Ishio Yang today and Korean
officials are fleeing. informing the
Japanese of the approat, :, of the Rus
slams. Snowstorms prevail.
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Two Jap Destroyers Destroyed.

ST PETERSBURG. Feb. ga
news agency prints a Port Arthur dis
patch confirming the report that one
Japanese destroyer was blown up ana
another sunk in the recent fighting.
The wreck of the latter was washed
ashore.
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Japanese Steamer Sails From EnqIand

LONDON. Feb. 29-The Japanese
merchant steamer SabO Maru sailed
for Japan last night after a delay of
several days ON account of the report
the English channel
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To Help Russian Wounded.

MOSCOW, Feb. pa large meet
ing of the nobility and government Of
ficials to devise methods for the as
sistance of the soldiers and the wound
ed was held here Sunday. A telegram
expressing loyalty to the emperor
brought a reply Of gratitude from his
majesty.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-02-29
Anarchist Turner's Case Advanced.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.-The
United States supreme court has
granted a motion to advance the case
Of Turner, the alleged British an
archist, whose deportation was order
ed by the secretary of commerce. The
case has been set for April The prIs-
oner is admitted to bail in the sum of
S50OO
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-02-29
Japs to Take Port Arthur at Any Cost

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. pa tel
egram from Tiao Yang, ManchUria,
states that foreigners living in YinkOW
assert that the japanese have been in
structed to storm Port Arthur ana
capture it at any cost on March l.
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Battle of Torpedo Boats.

TOXIC, Feb. ga report of an at
tack by four Japanese torpedo boats
on the Russian torpedo transport
Amur at Port Arthur has been re-
,eiVed here. The result of the action
IS unknown.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-02-29
Russian Students Are Riotinq.

BERLIN. Feb. 29.-Ta geblatt reports
riots among the students at the uni
horff as the result of different Opn-
ions on the war. Sanguinary conflicts
occurred with the pro-Japanese stu
dents. In larger number of cases the
authorities We're passive.
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A British Collier Captured.

LIVERPOOL. Feb. pa private
telegram this afternoon reports that
the Russians have captured the Brit
ish collier Oriel in the Red sea
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To Operate on President Harper

CHICAGO, Feb. 2g.-It was decided
at the Presbyterian hospital today to
operate on Dr.. Harper, president of
the university of Chicago for appen
dicitis tomorrow.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-02-29
Lord Aooe Married Auajn,

LONDON, Feb. 29.-LOrd Hope, the
divorced husband of May Yohe. was
married last Saturday to Olive Thomp-
son, daughter of a Melbourne banker
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Bio Fire at livinqston, Mont.

LIVINGSTON, Mont, Feb. 29.-Fire
is raging in the business section. The
postOtfice building has been destroyed.
The loss SO far is S150,000. The flames
are beyond control.
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King Edwards Reception Today.

LONDON, Feb. 29.-king Edwards
first levee of the year was held at ST.
James palace today and was largely
attended. Ambassador Choate and
staff We're present.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-02-29
Mills Burn Near Utica.

UTICA. n. Y, Feb. pa section of
the New York mills, four miles south
west of here, was burned this morn
ing. The loss is 100000
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-02-29
,jFFfR|fS
MUNR0t
neayyweights Matched
for 2O.Round 60.
PURSE TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND
Fioht VIII Take Place in Frisco in
Nav Under Auspices of Yosem-
ite Club.
PURSE TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND

NEW YORK, Feb. 29.-James Jef-
fries and Jack Mumoe were matched
today to meet in Il 20-round bout for
the heavyweight championship of the
world at san Francisco in the last
week of May.
The men will box for the Yosemite
club purse of $4,000 the winner to get
t. per cent, the loser 80. The referee
i, Graney. Soft bandages will be al
lowed. Harry Corbett will be stake
holder Each round will last three
minutes. Delaney Pollock and Ken
nedy have each posted $25eO and a
week before the fight each will post
another similar amount.
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Rt,DDING, Feb. 29.-The town OF
Adm. Modoc county is under water.
The Pitt river has broken over its
banks, and there is over foot of
water in the leading store Of the town
river was still rising. 1t is the highest
water ever known there.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-02-29
German Colonial Troops in Revolt.

BERLIN, Feb 29.-German West
Africa in advices state that native
troops in the Cros and Nasanag river
region have revolted. They have kill
ed four Germans and burned several
factories.
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U. S. Destroyers Leave Suez.

StEZ, Feb. 29.-The United States
destroyer tiotilla sailed for Manila
this morning
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Kaiser to Take a Cruise,

PLYMOUTH, Eng, Feb. 29-The
kaise1's yacht Hohenzollern sailed to-
day for Gibraltar, where the emperor
Will go aboard for cruise on the
Mediterranean
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commissioners. Admiral Walker is
chosen chairman; register of the land
Office at Roseburg, Or j. r. Bridges;
receiver of public monies at Roseburg,
j. H. Booth.
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er, Troop l, shoulder: White, battery
knee: Caltaway, Troop NJ. rignt arm;
Cox. battery, shoulder: Hanifan, Troop
K, thigh
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shin Yashima. which were damaged in
the last engagement at Port Arthur,
are being tOwed to Nagasaki.
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Fire in New Jersey Town.

CAMDEN, n. j., Feb. 29.-Five
ed this morning. The loss is $4,000.
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Bridges and Booth Reappointed.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.-The pres
ident today sent to the senate the
nominations of seven Panama canal
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-02-29
japanese Ships Laid Up for Repairs

TIEN TSIN. Feb. pa newspaper
courier learns chat the Japanese cruis-
ars Asamo. Tokena and the battle
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WILL Fight TO THE DEATH
RUSSIANS AT PORT ARTHUR

Their Commandna General Says He Will Never Give an Order to Sur
render Rumoed That the Japanese Will Attack the Russian
Fleet and fortress and Capture the Port Any Cos'he
German Chancellor Said to Be Boosting
Russian Securities.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-16
CASSINl TELLS WHY
EXHIBIT is NOT MADE.

New York, March 15.-"An evening
in Russia" was the title of an enter
tainment, declared to be non-political
in significance, and including a pro-
gramme of Russian music, and adj
dresses by prominent Russians and
Americans, given tonight at the Wal
dorf-Astoria under the auspices of the
Cooperative Entertainment Club, of
which Mrs: Roswell D. Hitchcock Is
president.
A letter from Count Cassini to Mrs.
Hitchcock was read in which he says:
I'm your efforts to bring closer to-
gether your people and mine in that
broad sympathy of thought and ac-
ton. which is the strongest bond two
nations can have, you and your as
sociates are performing the highest
and noblest mission entrusted to
diplomat-the maintenance and culti-
walton of friendliness between his own
and the country to which he is ac-
credited.
Il am glad you have asked me the
reason for my governments decision
not to exhibit at the st. Louis Expo
sition, because it gives me the oppor-
tunity I have desired to contradict as
emphatically as l can the false report
that it was because of resentment
against the United States. My country
is now at war and the defense of the
flag is the foremost thought in the
minds of all my people. 1t was found
that it would be impossible to send to
ST. Louis at this time an exhibit which
would adequately represent the re-
sources and industries of the Russian
empire, and for this reason alone it
was thought best to abandon the elab-
crate governmental exhibit that had
been planned"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-16
OBITUARY..
It. f.. Merritt. Macon.

Macon, March 15.-Death claimed Mr..
T. e. Merritt, one of the best known
wholesale grocery merchants of Ma
con, director in the American Ma
ton Bank and steward in Mulberry
Methodist Church, yesterday morning
at 4 o'clock at the City Hospital, where
he was operated upon the night pre-
vious for appendicitis
Mr.. Merritt had long been a resident
Of this city, and the news of his death
was received throughout Macon with
much sorrow
Mr. Merritt is survived by several
brothers and sisters, who are: Mr.. S.
Il. Merritt of Macon, Mr.. George Mer-
rift of Williamsburg, Pa, Mr.. r. E.
Merritt of Macon, Mrs. ]. William
Johnson. Jr., of Macon, Mrs. Walter
Holt of Macon and Miss Mary Merritt
Of Cleveland, o. He is also survived
by two small children Edward, aged
years, and 4. e. Merritt, Jr., an in
FAINT. Mrs. Merritt succumbed very
suddenly about three months ago.
Relatives In Pennsylvania and Ohio
were notified yesterday and are ex-
pected to reach Macon to-day or to-
night The hour for the funeral has
not beer decided, but 1t win take place
from the family residence, 268 Spring
street, some time Wednesday.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-16
ONCE BED OF THE PACIFIC.
Coral Found Along the Great salt
Lake Proves Its Origin.

From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
A dispatch from Salt Lake City,
Utah. states that Mrs. B. F. House, a
former Cicinnati woman, has made a
discovery which proves conclusively
to scientists. according to the dispatch
that Salt Lake was once a part of the
Pacific ocean. For years biologists and
learned scientists, including experts
from the Smithsonian Institution, have
made vain efforts to discover some
convincing proof that the inland sea
was once a part of the great Pacific.
Parties of scientists have lived on and
travelled the shores of the big lake,
but none of their discoveries were ever
accepted as positive proof. The dis
covery made by Mrs. House which is
accepted by many as proof positive is
piece of spongelike coral, but con-
tains salt sea periwinkles, which a
number of scientists claim are only
found in ocean coral. Diligent search
was made for other specimens, but the
big coral rock yellow with age, was
all that could be found. Prof. Hen
shaw, geologist, at the Walnut Hills
School, said that while the discovery
was a great one, and while ii was the
most convincing proof yet established,
he would not accept it as positive, al
though he had never heard of any like
specimens being found except in the
ocean. o. w. Martin, professor of ge-
ology at Hughes High School, said:
THE discovery is indeed the most inn
-portant one ever made in that region,
and will undoubtedly interest scien-
lists and biologists all over the world.
Many efforts have been made to es-
tabiish some positive proof that Salt
Lake was once part of the Pacific, but
they have all failed. While the discov-
cry, as reported, would, afford the most
positive proof we have ever had, l
could not accept it as conclusive proof.
The question of whether Salt Lake
was once a part of the ocean has been
agitating scientists and biologists for
many years and this recent discovery
will no doubt be of great interest to
all of them" Mrs. House is the wife
of the chief engineer of the Western
Pacific surveying corps.
NJ. F. Guyer, the professor of geol-
ogy at Cincinnati University, when
asked his opinion Of Mrs. Houses dis
covery, said: While it is very strong
evidence and probably the most i'm
portant discovery to that end that has
ever been made, do not think 1t will
be generally accepted as positive proof
that the inland sea was once part Of
the Pacific ocean. One thing is GER
tain-it is the first piece of coral ever
discovered in an inland body of wa
ter that contained periwinkles, and it
is almost conclusive evidence that
Great Salt Lake was once part of
the Pacific ocean"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-16
The Athletic Jnpnnese.

T. Philip Terry in March outing.
In a japanese town one cannot walk
far without being confronted by ath-
letics in one form or another. In the
streets you can rarely escape the paint
ed and guadily dressed tots, who turn
baby handsprings, execute somersaults
and do other infantile stunts in a
wheedling effort to secure the hairy
foreigners" wealth. A Japanese mat
surf were not the fair it purports
without the bespangled tight-rope per-
former, the bamboo ladder climbing
youngsters, the wrestlers, tumblers,
spearsmen or fencers.
SO deeply rooted Is the native love
for the strenuous life that the national
sports of other lands have been tried
In Japan. The Mikado, with many OF
the imperial family, attends the an
nual spring races In Yokohama; but
nothing In the line Of imported sports
so appeals 10 the Japanese as cycling
and baseball. Cycling clubs are scat
tered all over the empire, thousands OF
American bicycles spin across the is
land and the foreigners experience Diff
hculty IN keeping even a few OF the
records and trophies out Of native
hands.
The Toxic baseball team In an eAi-
cient Organization, and u frequently
drubs the teams from other ports and
cities. A. the Yokohama cricket
grounds excellent and sharply-eontest-
"a games may be- witnessed occasion
ally between the Toxic native team
ana the Yokohama foreign organlza-
ti0u.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-16

Told How He Had Tried to Reassure
EIihu Root,

New York, March 15.-Gov. Odell
was present at dinner given tonight
in honor of Tax Commissioner Strass-
bourger by the Republican captains of
the Thirty-firstt assembly district.
Gov. Odell said he had just come
from the Republican Club, where he
had listened to magnificent address
by Elihu Root, and continuing said:
He feels that the factional feeling
that he has read about is going to
cause the defeat of the Republican
party in the state at the coming cleo
ton. 1 told him his surmise belied
the facts when he believed what was
in the newspapers. l told him that
the Republican party was a party of
leaders, and they possess such mag
nificent qualities as should be a guar
antee to the people for the continuance
of the party in power. L told him also
that every Republican, no matter how
they may differ, will be found stand
ing shoulder to shoulder fighting for
that fearless statesman, Theodore
Roosevelt"