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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1905-01-06
stole tho Court House.

The crowd of men who went from
Selby to Bangor, 8. D., Tuesday night
and carried of BY force the county
records in the court house, and then
left word that they would return for
the court house itself, kept their prom
Use. The building has been torn down
and piled on wagons and is being
hauled to Selby in sections and rebuilt
Although the action Of the Selby men
has aroused much bitter feeling. the
Bangor residents made no resistance
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1905-01-06
JAPs CAPTURE FORT.
Rihlung Falls Into Their Hands, After
Months of Fighting.


After months of fighting, sapping
and mining, the Japanese forces fin
ally occupied Rihlung mountain De-
cember %.
A report received in Toxic from
headquarters of the Third Japanese
army before Port Arthur, says:
ION Wednesday, December %, at 10
O'Clock in the morning, the left center
column of our army, following some
heavy explosions on the frontal para
pet of Rihlung mountain, charged and
occupied the parapet under cover or
fire from heavy guns and constructed
defense works despite the enemy's
fierce fire.
at o'clock in the afternoon, when
our occupation was practically com
plete, we cf lrged and occupied the in
ner lines of heavy gun positions, sub
sequently dislodging remnant of the
enemy's force stubbornly holding the
gorge fort, which we occupied, and
captured the entire works."
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1905-01-06
Russians on Coast of Madagascar.

Vice Admiral Rojestvensky's divis-
ion of the Russian second Pacific
squadron, consisting OF five battle
ships, three cruisers, the transports
Kamtchatka and Anadyr and the hos
pital ship Orel, anchored in the road
stead of Saint Marie, Madagascar,
Monday. The dispatch boat Libau
afterwards visited Tamatave to file
The Libau reports that
the Russian warships are in excellent
despite the severe storms
they have encountered.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1905-01-06
GUARDS KILLED convIcrs.
Desperate Attempt Of Prisoners to Es-
cape From California Prison
Frustrated.

A number of prisoners at the state
penitentiary at Folsom, Cal, made a
desperate attempt to escape on Thurs
day afternoon, and as result seven
OF nine convicts, who had planned to
get away. were almost riddled with
bullets. Three are dead and three In
critical condition.
Captain R. j. Murphy is wounded by
shot In the leg and received. two
slight knife wounds.
The break was similar in plan to
the big emeute of last July, but the
fact that it was within range OF the
guns Of seven reliable guards, all dead
shots, and one of these within fifty
feet, makes-it more bold and desperate
The convicts who engaged in the
break were all employed in the rock !
crusher, where 1926 of the most desper
ate prisoners were at work. Captain
Murphy was acting as general over
seer about the rock erusher and four
other prison attaches, L. DAILY, III. Ho-
gan, Charles Taylor and Charles Jolly,
were employed as "pushers" to kesp~-
the men at work
q large sledge hammer was thrown
into the crusher, causing the ponder
GUS machine to come to standstill-
This attracted Captain Murphy, Chas.
Jolly and Taylor to the place imme-
diately. Thereupon the convicts rushed
to seize Murphy, Jolly and Taylor
They succeeded only in catching the
Two first mentioned. rhe others en-
1eayored to take the etther free men,
Who managed to escape them.
During this time the scene of trouble
vas under cover and the guards on
he outside could not see the strug-
fling men. The conyiets with their
aptiyes made their way toward a
mall post commanded by Guard VIII
Harris, who was armed with q rifle
i've of the gang surrounded Captain
durphy and two of them had Jolly.
The cohyicts had knives in pol.ition$
or immediate use, but had no sooner
topped into the open than the seven
yards began firing, and within twenty
econds seven of the convicts were on
ne ground helpless.
The convicts approached Guard Har--
Is, who stood ready to act according
} the standing orders to shoot re-
ardless of consequences. When with
] forty feet of the outside guards, one
the convicts gave the command,
Hand out your gun, or we will stab
[urphy to the heart"
Instead of handing out the rife, Har-
s sent bullet into the fellows body,
nd he fell to the ground In quick sue
sssion Harris fired at each of the re-
aiming convicts, who were trying to-
held themselves behind Murphy and
lilly.
At the time the first shot was fired,
arden Yell was in his office. Grab
ng his revolver, he rushed to the
enc. He signaled the guards to con-
nue. shooting, and he put his revolver
to operation also. at the same time
wing orders to the remaining con-
cts, who were crouching behind
cks and in other safe places, to line
and march in. This they did i'm
lick order, going on the run.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1905-01-06
BOAT BLEW UP.
Ten Men Rescued Out of Crew of
Twenty-eight.

Twenty-eight.
The boilers of the big tow boat De
fender blew up in the Ohio river near
Huntington, w. Va, and Of a crew OF
twenty-eight only ten or twelve have
been rescued alive, and they are in
jured.
In a few minutes the big tow boat
was a mass of flames, the fire even
spreading to the twenty barges in tow.
The boat was in tow of Captain
James r. Woodruff of Pittsburg, who
was hurled into the river by the ex-
plosion, but was later picked up. not
seriously injured.
The only dead body yet recovered
and identified is that of Thomas DUFF
fly of Pittsburg, fireman from Corio-
polio, Pa, name unknown.
Robert Holland of Pittsburg and Jo-
seph Moore of Oakland, Pa, were
picked up by the rescuing parties and
are now in the city hospital. They
are horribly injured and can give no
details of the accident.
An engineers young son is said to
have been killed and one woman,
who was aboard. name unknown, Is
horribly injured. The steam tug
burned for more than an hour and
the smouldering hulk settled down
Just above the city wharfboat. The
Defender was owned by the Pittshurg
Towboat company.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1905-01-06

untirfng assaults OF the Japanese with
grim valor that won even the praise
OF their foe, and the lighting has been
waged with "reminiscences that often
refused truces to bury the dead and
collect the wounded. Over corpse-filled
trenches men have fought hand to
hand with cold steel and dubbed
guns, and at short range have hurled
at each other hand grenades filled
with high explosives.
What Port Arthur has cost in hui
man life and in money no estimate of
even approximate correctness can be
made. The losses have been appal-
| ling 1t has been reported that In
some engagements leading up to the
recent capture OF 203-Meter hill, the
attacking force lost as high as 40 per
cent OF the forces engaged, while the
garrisons' losses, OF which no word
has come, must have been frightful.
The defense Of the position which
fell to her as a heritage after the Chi
nese-Japanese war, has cost Russia
practically her entire feet In those
waters. Her ships lie from Port Ar
thurs inner basin to Chemulpo in
Korea, and along the Shantung PENN
sula, battered hulks OF once proud yes
sells. or ignominiously dismantled, are
interned in neutral Chinese ports.
Save the three or four cruisers and
some large craft that lie in the ice
bound refuge of Vladivostok, not
warship now flies the Russian cross
In the waters OF the northern Orient
And Japan, too, has had her losses in
the long-draw2-out operations. Mines
have struck from Admiral To
gas fleet list many fine ships and
smaller vessels since the morning of |
February 8, when he hurled his fleet |
1T the Russian ships in Port Arthur's
-oadstead.
The siege OF Port Arthur properly
lates from May 81, when, after en-
raging the first army landed by the
Japanese at Pitsewo, Stoessel was
orced back from the neck
II the Kwantung peninsula
rhe japanese landing was
,egun on May and the Russian COM
nander elected to give battle at his
lorthernmost line of defenses. The
was a severe one and
rove the Russians back to the first !
4 the main defenses of the position.
i few days later, on May 30, the jap
nese occupied Dalny, and on June
4-16 Genera Stakelberg. advancing
D the relief u the Port Arthur army,
ras defeated by General Oku at the
attles of Wafangkau and Telissu.
With Togo's ships lying like watch
ogs around Port Arthur's seawaro
de and Nogi advancing slowly but
slentlessly by land, the famous
was under siege, and from
len on until General Stoessel, on New
ears day, sought terms of capitula- 6
on, the operations have been marked d
!, almost ceaseles fighting, lombard v
ents by the fleet alternating with
,sperate attacks by land, or assaults I,
the combined naval and military 5
rces.
When Stoessel and the remnant OF
S devoted garrison march out of r
,rt Arthur the flag of the Rising
IN will once more float from the
mparts of the position Japan won
len she first sent her new fleet to fe
re battle and drove China from the ~
as -
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1905-01-06
COST OF pEAsoDYlsm.
Militia to Guard Miners Cost state
Enormous Sum.

State Treasurer Whitney Newton
OF Colorado, In his annual report to
the governor. gives the total amount
OF certificates OF Indebtedness issued
in rayment OF military expenses as
y776.s>t. and recommends. that the
Legislature authorize an issue OF $780,
600 Instruction bonds" payable In
twenty-five years and to draw not to
exceed ~ per cent interest annually.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1905-01-06
EXPLOSION AT SEA.
Eleven Of the Crew Of Vessel Were
Killed.

The Danish steamer Gallia, from
Hamburg. Dec. s. for Savannah. has
arrived at I-4milton. Bermuda. with
the survivors OF the crew OF the Nor
wegian bark Marpesia. Captain Jen-
sen. from New York. Dec. 3. fer Cette.
The Marpesia was blown up at sea
by the explosionIof her cargo OF nap
tina. and eleven of her crew were
killed. Seven of the crew. who were
saved. landed at Hamilton.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1905-01-06
PRAISE sroEssEL.
British Soldiers Enthusiastic Over
His Defense of Port Arthur.

General Stoessel's defense OF Port
Arthur has excited the admiration of
Earl Roberts. commander-in-chief OF
the British forces.
1T has been a magnificent defense"
said the veteran fighter enthusiasts
cally. What splendid fellow he is.
to be sure. How all the world must
admire him."
Field Marshal viscount Wolseley
and Major General Baden.Powell also
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-10
from the anarchy that partisan ant

from the anarchy that partisan anu
sectional hate sought to impose.
The Meridian, Miss, Star, one Oh
the progressive smaller dailies OF the
south. has frequently adverted to the
striking evidences Of growth tnat cur
rent statistics from time to time re-
veal: but enc of the most encouraging
is found in the facts cOllated from
the statistics of exports, issued oy
the United States government, lor
the fiscal wear ending June 3, as fol
lows:
New Orleans leads with exports as-
ereeating sl5O,936,947. Then follow
Galveston with total of $126,lS2,-
o53: Baltimore, with $91.215,o5S; !;
Savannah with $62,244,s37; Mobile
with s1s,O74,556; Wilmington with
s17,481, $50; Newport News with $lo'-
773.353: Pensacola with $15.342 ,265,
and Brunswick, Ga, with S9,44s,ooo4'
Corpus Christi, Paso del Norte and
Saluria, Tex, Pearl River, MISS;
Tampa and Fernandina, Fla, and also
Norfolk, Va, each has record OF
more than $1,OOO,OOO of exports. The
4south's experts of cotton and cotton
products amounted to $45O.O0O,oo
Other exports were timber and lum,
ber, $70,o00,o 900; tobacco, $2o,0oo,ooo;
petroleum, s27,0oO,oOO; cotton goods,
25,OOO, 900; provisions. $16,OO0,ooo;
grain. $4,000 900; coal, s14,ooO,o0o;
cattle $14,Oo0.00O; fruits, $3,OOo,ooo;
In addition to iron, steel, wood, manu-
factures etc., amounted to about $10,-
600 900, which brings the total exports
up to $614,OOO.OO0 or Al per cent OF
the total exports of the United States.
Nor is this all. Within the past
four years, the south has added one
billion dollars to it's permanent wealth
and if the rate of progress now pre-
yailing is maintained, in another dec
ade, northern enterprises will be
looking to the south for money to fl
nance its undertakings.
Verify, southwark the star of the
empire has taken it's way, and the
young men of Arkansas today have
a wealth of opportunity never before
vouchsafed to any generation in the
history of the country.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-10
OLD TIME SCHOOL DISCIPLINE

There were some things about the
old time sehoolhouses and methoti.
eliminated ny educational proere IS.
that memory leyerts to with some
'hlns AKIN te regret that they have
heen LOST forever TO our children. that
the present and coming generations
!nust be denif d n + beneficeof infu-
ence and their after years robbed of
the rieh recollectious that gathered
about the schooldays that erC more
precious as they recede into a remoter
past. The modern method is doubt
less better than that of the ancient,
hence as the methods improve. those
winch at present prevail are
superior to those which pre-
vailed thirty and forty years
ago. Children learn more quickly. and
acquire greater variety of knowl-
edge; the plan is more eomprehen-
sive and effective and, en- the Whole,
is great Improvement on he old :;
but for all that the ways OF the old
schoolmastef produced pretty fair sam
PIES of men and women, who if less
learned in the "oloeies." were at least
taught manners and BEHAVIOR" in
those days. regarded as essentials in
The education of boys and girls.
The 4 sciplne of the "old field" was
rigid and crude, measured by modern
standards, and was as various as the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-10
CITY PARK NEEDED.

The Graphic has frequently called
attention to the great necessity for
citv mark. Soon there will be no rr-
improved sites suitable for a city
park. Pine Bluff is climbing steadily
toward the $4,000 mark. and the time
is not far in the future when the pop
u]ation will reach those figures. What
would city of $4,000 look like with
out a breathing place within the city
limits, and quickly and easily access
lille? Is it not time that some persls-
tent and organized effort be made to
secure this much needed addition to
the city's equipment? The ground
necessary can not be had in short
time. and the purchase of site ought
to be made before the advance in
real estate compels either an extrava-
giant price or small area for
park purposes. One thing is certain:
The city can not go on forever with
cut an adequate park. and the sooner
the city council takes held of this
problem the easier it will be found of
solution. 1t is an instance in which
delay is dearly bought.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-10
A GRATIFYING FEATURE.

A feature of current yellow fever
development that is full of encour-
agement lies in the fact that infec-
ton does not mean, as formally, an
epidemic Seven cases were reported
at Natchez ten days ago; perhaps
some half dozen more have been add
cd to the number; but nobody seems
TO fear an Epidemic in that city; in
Vicksburg two patients were discover
ed almost week ago with we'll devel-
oped yellow fever symptoms; only
two mere have been added to the
count. Nearly score of cases were
reported from Mississippi City; none
of them died and the disease disap-
peared until it broke out again among
some soldiers stationed at that point
the fever is entirely susceptible to
control, wherever its presence is
promptly recognized and announced;
and this removes more than half it's
quondam terrcrs. We no longer con-
elude that because a case of the pes
thence occurs in any community,
that that place is doomed; but the
presumption is, on the contrary, that
if health authorities do their duty,
there is no danger whatever of a
spread Of the infection, and citizens
generally may go about their usual
avocations with feeling of security
The battle that science is wagins
this year has, up to this date, been
most fruitful one; it has largely
conquered fear and eliminated panic;
but more than all, it has inspired the
hope that the way has been found
permanently, to rid the south of all
menace of this scourage, that has al
ways been serious drawback to the
development of this section.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-10
THE COTTON SITUATION.

A cotton famine is predicted by
some of the analysts Of Secretary
Hester's annual report on the cotton
situation. 1t is figured in this way:
The mills took, during the last COM
mercial year 1887. 900 bales of cot
ton. The worlds present visible sup
ply is 1,643O00. The outlook Ter tue
present crop does not promise, at the
maximum, more than 10,500000 bales.
and may be half million less. The
visible supply and the incoming crop,
at the maximum, will give a total of
12,140000 bales to supply the demand
of the mills. That will not be enough
measured by last years takincs; il
will be about quarter of million
short; but it is reasonably estimated
that the mills requirments will be
considerably larger than last year: it
is said that many of them are already
sold to sixteen and eighteen mcnths
ahead, and that the end of the war in
the east will greatly add to the Japan-
ese demand: more spindles will be at
work than ever before, and trade pros
perity throughout the world, will k. ep
them busy. 1t is reasonable to as
sumo, therefore, that the world will
need more cotton than it needed dur.
ing the commercial year just closed:
and if there is not enough TO supply
that demand, it looks very much like
bull market.
deficit of million bales is bv no
means improbable and it is said that
SINNERS with large contracts ahead
are growing apprehensive.
No one. of course. can tell anything
about what cotton is going to he
worth at any given time in the future:
that man who could do this would get
rich in twinkling; but Secretary
Hester's figures give wonderful en-
couragement to the bulls. and the
deeper they are studied the better
looks the rrosnect for higher prices
for the staple.
The crop is short. the visible sun
Fly less than was anticipated, and the
mill demand promises to be greater
than ever before
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-10

It is not the Office seeker who hOwls
the loudest about being the friend
of the honest farmer and the honest
wage Garner" that is the truest friend
of the farmer and the wage Garner.
It is always the cry of the demagogue.
though it is not always the case that
the candidate who makes that declar-
alton is a demagogue. The Office
seeker who is the friend of the trusts
is just as loud in his denunciation
of the trusts as the man who is at
heart against them. The demagogue
who is the tool of the combinations
abuses the combinations and talks
about his great interest in the "com
mon people," and he often fools
enough cf the common people, to
elect him to Office so that he may be
able to do the bidding of the combin
ations.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-10
SOUTHERN PROSPERITY

The progress and prosperity Ct the
south, today is an unfaiing theme
of comment with northern newspa-
Fers that cannot repress their won
derinS admiration. They are fond of
calling it the manifestation of the
New South in vindication of their
mistaken estimate of the old, and to
explain things that confound all their
preconceiNed theories and prejudiccs
The south has come t. the front ia
stay and to take its ancient place
OF precedence in the union of states.
where the best in American life and
manners found expression and COM
PEELED respect. il is not the New
South, however. that is making this
manifestations; it is the "Old South -
restored. reinstated and rehahilateG
THIS commercial and indus ria |
growth is the product of the same
splendid manliness that fought the
battles of the war between the states
and won the greater battles of re-
construction and rescued their land
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-10
Even in "bleeding Kansas" thew or

Even in "bleeding Kansas" they OBJ
ject to mixing white and negro pupils
ir the public schools. Social equality
of the races is nothing more than a
"bugaboo' used by northern and east
ern politicians to stir up strife and
to control politics. However, many
of the more intelligent element of
the negroes have learned that those
whites which would encourage social
equality are not the real friends of
the negro
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-10
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1905.

Mr.. H. B. Pryor, manager OF clrcu.
iat1cn of the Graphic, makes the city
articulation his special charge. Sub
aeribers failing to receive their papers
eorperly, will confer favor upon this
department by reporting carelessness
m failure to deliver at once. Phone
pld Sc; new 124.
ADAMS PRINTING COMPANY
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-10

l. it poeci} le that the Cotton Belt
IS soine to call mon the legislature to
help ii break contract. II seems to
he getting along we'll enough without
legislative assistance.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-10

An Indiana man has brought suit
q recover 81 600 for the loss Ct two
Il eth. Down in this neck o the
W2ods' yon give no dollar every
time you loose a tooth.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-10

They tell of a Kansas girl who got
in front of mirror and practiced
and practiced until she had acquired
a sweet, pathetic look in her eyes.
Then one day her mother saw the look
and took her to a doctor and he gave
her calomel.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-10
.O+O-

Pine Bluff is furnishing the Iron
Mountain railroad with free ground
for depot purposes. Perhaps if the
city would erect handsome denot
fhereon the Iron Mountain would cen
sent to use it.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-10

IT the leeislatnr can set aside con-
tracks between parties we air ,oin'
TO have bill passed to release us
rom payment of that old account e.
cur "patent insiders. ."-Bclivar Bugle.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-10

disposition of the master; there were
not many mistresses, for lady teach
ers were few in those days; but all
had rules relating to the scholars
demeanor, and politeness was strictly
incnlcated.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-10

EDiTORlALETTES.
BY J. w. A.
+ + = + + + + *+< +

Mr.. BRYAN is about to leave for his
trip abroad. Farewell, Mr.. Bryan,
farewell!
Arkansas needs a class of labor
that is not too coed or too lazy to
pick cotton.
ANYHOW the outcome of the Ports
mouth peace conference will save
I.ineyitch his regulations; also his ba.
con.
The peace treaty having been sign
ed. is it not now about time for EN-
peror Bill to step in and tell us how
he did it?
"The two-legged hog will always
have the best of the laws until the
fonr-legged hogs are permitted to do
the legislatin'," suggests an exchange.
Some of the papers are suggesting
that perhaps Depew has been Inferred.
IT is probably not so bad as that; it is
likely that he has just been Intern
ed"
In the case of Japan and Russia, Mr..
Roosevelt's big Stick has turned
out to be an olive branch. Long may
it wave over the land of the free and
the home of the brave
It will be observed that the Rus
sian generals are doing a lot of talk
ing now that there are no battles to
he fought. However, we hear nothing
from Kuropatkin or Rojestvensky.
The Russians not only escaped pay
, ing lone kopec of tribute but also
several good whippings. At the same
time we congratulate the Japanese
, on being spared the trouble of doing
| the job.
The Atlanta Constitution asserts
that seventy-five per cent of the
teachers of the United States belong
i to the feminine gender, but this is not
surprising in view OF the low salaries
paid.
A new religion has made it's appear
ance in Maine Members are allowed
sect may increase the attendance of
men at church; also make business
| for the DOCTORS
NJ. Witte, like many another great
man, has seriously impaired his rep
utation by talking too much. That
Eoastful interview Of his just after
the Japanese yielded their right to
indemnity for the sake of peace and
humanity, was untimely, ungenerous
compromise and magnanimity display
ed by the Japanese The Russian is
nothing if not ill-mannered and
boastful
4, 4 4 l. L = L L 4 L = l. = L L
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-09-10

Perhaps Ionesboro had best sub
m'ts its tronbles-the town COW and
blind tieer-to The Hague peace trib-
unal