Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-03-08

million dollars is bequeathed t.
Charles Gardner Lathrop, brother o
deceased; $751; to Bertha Berner
secretary of deceased; $1,000 each tt
six of the servants who have served
Mrs. Stanford for many years; SO, 0O(
to the Protestant orphan asylum al
Albany, n. Y.
Numerous other relatives than thoss
above mentioned are also provided foI
il the 8, 600, 0O0 trust fund.
California women's hospital, $40, COO
Sisters of the Holy Family, San Fran
cisco, $40, 600; Hebrew Home for the
aged of San Francisco, $4,000; Home
Benevolence, San Jose, $1,000; Shell
tering Arms society, San Jose, $1,000;
College of Notre Dame, San Jose, s., =
| 90; San Jose Sanitarium, -, 0C0; San
Francisco Protestant orphan asylum,
$1,000; Catholic Orphan asylum San
Francisco, 50, 600. Her personal prop
erty, the wardrobes of her husband,
her son and her own are given to her
bothers; works of art, paintings, rare
furniture and other furnishings of her
home are given to the trustees of the
Stanford university. The executors
named are Charles Gardner Lathrop,
Russell Wilson, Timothy Hopkins,
Joseph Grant, Whitelaw Reid and G.
I. Cro.hers.
SAN FRANCISCO, March $50
far the police department of this city
is concerned matters are at an abso-
lutte standstill in the investigation of
the mysterious death of Mrs. Stanford.
General Kurokis' Headquarters in
the Field, via Fusang, March 1.-THE
japanese have gained a signal victory
beyond the Hun river defeating, in
detail, two divisions of the Russian
sixteenth corps which recently arrived
from Europe with the greatest slaugh-
ter and capturing huge quantity of
ammunition.
The Russians are still holding their
main line of defenses. They are fight
ing stubbornly and between midnight
and dawn made four attacks in heavy
force against a contingent japanese,
which gained their first line in front
of Waitao mountain on Thursday
night.
Ths japanese repulsed these attcks,
infiicting very heavy losses to the
Russians. The Japanese held the
ground two nights and day in wealth
er below freezing. The morale of the
japanese troops is splendid.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 4.-Mail
advices just arrived here give details
of student riots at Tomsk, Siberia on
February %. They represent that the
riots were horrible affairs in which
the students we're herded, shot and
slashed by the infantry, guards, Cos
sacks and police. Nine were killed
and twenty eight seriously injured.
NEW CHWANG, March 4.-Accord-
ing to latest reports received here the
Russians are burning Mukden station
and their stores preparatory to a re-
treat.
There are persistent reports that the
Russian left had been successful but
the right is panic stricken. One hun
dred Japanese cavalry arrived from the
north this afternoon. They exchanged
shots with Russia scouts in the out
skirts of the town. Two hundred Cos
sacks are three miles east and are
moving north. The japanese are
securing the country side.
WASHINGTON, March "A feat
ure of the senate session today was the
induction into office of Vice President |
Fairbanks and the swearing in of the
following senators elect: Buckley, of |
Connecticut; Burkett, of Nebraska; |
Carter, Of Montana; Dick, of Ohio;
Flint, of California; Hemenway, of In
diana; Nixon, of Nevada; Piles, of !
Sutherland, of Utah;
RayneI, of Maryland. Others sworn
in we're old senators reelected.
Gen. Rennenkampf's Headquarters,
March 3 via Mukden, March 6.-The
road to the northward is crowded a.
FAR as the eye can reach by continu-
BUS stream of two wheeled Chinese
carts, full of Russian wounded. Each
art bears from three to five wounded
men, whose exhaustion is almost too
liter for them to feel any pain
a gIoan or a cry is heard.
lot even the means of the dying only
he small creak of the rude wheels
nd the thud of the ponies hoofs be-
ng audible.
The valley in front of the Russian {
POSITION has become valley of death. :
Iorpses strew debatable ground, from 5
which neither side can remove its
lead. Again and again the japanese
ave charged down the stones and nm '