Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-09-15

which E. II. Hartman, the wealthy
American railway man, was riding
with Ito. Ten Christian churches and
one mission school were burned, and
he Office of the government newspaper
organ, Kokumin Shimbun, was wreck
ed. Troops modified for the war were
called upon to put down the uprising.
and martial law was declared. This
together with inclement weather serv-
v-f-eck the -snanh- out laurrts---Sisp--
reported from other Japanese cities.
Nearly all of the newspapers speak of
the treaty as an insult to the japanese
people. Nowhere was there the slight
est disposition to celebrate the conclu-
sion of peace. 1t was freely predicted
that the Katsura government would
be compelled to resign as soon as the
diet met. A number of the opposition
statesmen met and urged Oyama to
continue the war while they prepared
to oppose the ratification Of the treaty
Chaos In the Caucasus.
An outbreak of an interracial war
fare between the Tartars and Arme.
mans In the southeastern section of
the Caucasus was reported from Baku,
the principal city of the oil district. In
the outlying oil fields from which the
crude oil comes everything above earth
mad been destroyed, and the great OIL
reservoirs We're rapidly burning. Over
LOU persons were reported to have
been killed la battle, and vast damage
TO property was incurred The terror
stricken inhabitants of Baku fed from
the city in great fear after the mobs |
had overcome the troops In the local |
garrison. The first fighting was In
Balakhan. The public buildings at Baiu |
were guarded by troops, and many of !
the foreign inhabitants boarded ships /
and went 10 sea to escape the danger.
Martial law was proclaimed. Thou.
sands of workingmen thrown out of
employment by the burning of facto-
ries Joined in the Irregularities. and
general revolution against existing au-
thority was feared. The Baku oil fields
are the largest In the world not con.
trolled by the Standard Oil company
The Treaty of Peace Signed.
III was almost p. IN. on Sept D when
a clerk rushed out Of the big brick gov
eminent storage house of the Ports
mouth navy yard and breathressly told
the group Of waiting correspondents
that the treaty had been signed. AT
the same time a soldier waved a red
nag 10 the battery fifty yards away.
ana the guns doomed out their salute
followed by the playing OF the band
the peallng of bells from the churches
Of Portsmouth and the footing of
steamship sirens and factory whistles.
The treaty thus greeted at the place.
OF Its conclusion and which IN n few
moments was transmitted TO the civ
ilized world by means of the telegraph
and extra editions of the papers had
been signed at exactly 3:47 u. m. by I
the four plenipotentiaries of Japan and
hussia-komura, Takahira. Witte and
hosen-and had brought 10 close the
greatest armed conflict In history. The {
Russian and japanese secretaries and {
attaches, az well as number of Amer. J
leans especially invited, were grouped |
about the ENJOYS at the long mahogany ]
able In the conference room. including !
Governor McLane OF New Hampshire. j
hear Admiral Mead. Assistant Score c
AIRY OF State Peirce and Mayor Marvin
u portsmouth. -Four copies OF the n
reaty were in the hands of the secre @
aries, two in English being placed be 4
ore komura and two In French being G