Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1905-02-22

OF the day was the acceptance OF the
statue of Frances E. Willarl /, which
had been placed in statuary hall, by
the state of Illinois. The statute of
Miss willard is the first woman to
find a place in statuary hall.
One witness was heard today in the
SwayDe impeachment trial. The SEN
ate ended the controversy with the
house over the amendment, construe-
ing provision in the Dingley tariff
law, relative to the drawback on i'm
ported wheat by receding from the
amendment inserted in the agricultur-
al appropriation bill, as passed by the
senate.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, Feb. l.. -
Several attacks on Governor White
and Governor Elect Dawson, now sec
rotary of state, we're made today, by
senators on the floor of the state sen
ate and a resolution was passed order
ing an Investigation of verbal charges.
TOPEKA, Kans., Feb. 1.-THE
Kansas house of Representatives today,
without a dissenting vote, passed a
bill making oil pipe lines, common
carriers. This is the second of a ser
les of bills directed against the Stand
ard Oil company, aud was strongly
opposed by the Standard interests.
1t has already passed the senate and
will be signed by the governor. The
bill means that state oil can be piped
through the Standard lines, without
which the state refinery plan could
not have been carried out successfully.
Ell PASO, Feb. 17.-Snow is falling
all over this section and railroad
traffic is badly crippled. Roek Island
trains are delayed and are being di-
verted via Fort Worth.
ST. PETERSBURG. Feb IS, > :3O
a. m.-The assassination of Grand
Duke Sergius, undoubtedly, was the
work of fighting organization of the
soeialistic revolutionary party, which
condemned and executed Count Bob
rikoff, governor general of Finland,
and Sipiaguine and Won Piehve, min
listers of the interior.
1t is regarded as a direct challenge
from the terrorists to autocracy and a
revival of the famous duel between
the nihiIists and the government of
twenty five years ago. Opinions differ
as to the political effect of the TRACE
dy, some incIining to the view that
the killing of member of the imper-
ial family may cause Gar Nicholas to
revive from the period of inaction but
this is not generally shared.
The murder of the grand duke just
at the time when the forces of liberal
ism are again in the supremacy and
when the summoning of Zeemsky Ia
Dor is assured meets with universal
reprobation even by the extreme social
democrats, who denounce the crime
even as strongly as do the liberals and
conservatives.
According to a high authority a de-
cision has been already taken. offici-
ally, to proclaim Zeemsky Tabor on
February 22d. The news of the tragic
death of his uncle was brought to the
emperor while he was giving audience
to General Grippenberg and caused
him a very great shock.
By the emperor orders all members
of the imperial family present at Tsa1-
sL-oa CalO uara irnp,aJio foIr er,or,op
ed to the chapel where a requiem was
held. The funeral arrangements have
not yet been made.
The body will probably lie in state
for several days in the church in
KremIin where the emperor was crown
ed. Thence it will be brought to St.
Petersburg and placed in the Roman
off mausoleum in the cathedral of St
Peter and st. Paul, inside of the fort
ress.
MANCHURIA, General Oku's Head
quarters, Feb. IA Russian raiding
force of fifteen thousand cavalry, five
hundred infantry and twenty guns,
moved south on both banks of the
Lao river to Siaopeho on the Hun
river, directly west of Lao Yang on
Thursday and then began gradually
retreating northward. The force is
now twelve miles northwest of Siaupe-
no and three miles east of Lao. The
Japanese pursued and inflicted con-
siderable damage on the raiders. The
Russians on General Oku's front are
Inactive.
LODI, Feb. 1.-THE news of the as
sassination of Grand Duke Sergius at
Moscow has created a deep impression
on LODI. The air is filled with dis
turbing rumors. 1t is reported that
the locked ont men, will on February
Goth, call out the workers in the small