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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-22

tinued favorable weather conditions they
should sell some lower, but weather con-
ditions alone are poor thing to specu-
late on and we doubt if the fiuctuation
from the present price will be- sufficient
to warrant tying money up in them.
PROVISIONS-Th advance in prOvis-
ions has been checked temporarily, MAIN
" due to the lack of public interest in
them; also fairly liberal hog receipts
which have sold at slightly lower prices.
While today's closing prices on the full
list are lower than those week ago.
there is very strong undertone to the
market. which is the packers hands and
he is not through with it by any means.
The aggregate stocks of provisions owned
by the large packers are quite large and
as to market them at present prices would
show him a heavy loss, you can depend
on it that when the proper time comes
he will fix his own prices which viii be
considerably higher than those which pre-
vail at present and we still strongly rec
ommend the purchase of July ribs and
pork.
CHRISTIE GRAIN & STOCK co.
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Chicago Live stoc< Market.

Chicago. April 22.-CATTLE-R Receipts to-
day, 200 head. Market steady. Good to
prime steers, S6O0Q6.75; poor to medium,
$45005.70; steckers and feeders, $2.70d5.00;
cows, S2.50Q560: heifers, $3O0Q5.90; Gamers,
81 6eQ2.9o; bulls, $250Q4.75; calves, 5000
HOGs-Receipts today. 5000 head; esti-
mated Monday, 10000 head. Market open
ed strong to higher. Mixed and butchers i,
S.. 95Q5.55; good to choice heavy. $500
go; rough heavy, $535d5.45; light, IS. 400
$50 bulk OF sales, $540q5.50.
SHEEP-Receipts today, $500 head.
Sheep and lambs steady. Good to choice
wethers, (shorn), S. 25G550; fair to choice
S4.0Gd540; native lambs (shoTn), $450d6 50;
western lambs, $450d160
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Kansas CITY Prodnoe Market

Kansas City, April 2.-close-wHEAT-
Receipts today, 12S cars. Quotations
July, 769z 0767sc; Sept, 727sc. Cash: No.
hard, 92c@sl.O0; No. hard. S5G97c; No.
hard, 65G97c: No. 2 red. 90cq$100; No.
red, S5d96c; No. red, 65Q90c.
CORN-Market lower. May, 1850; Ju-
". 1850; Sept, 1894 1870. Cash: No
mixed, 421aG45c; No. 8 mixed, 4454d441zc;
No. white, 45lkc: No 8 white, 441zc
OATS Market Teak. No. 2 white, $50
SIC; No. mixed. Sic.
RYE Market lower NO 2. 65d7Oc.
HAY-Aarket higher. Choice timothy
$9.50d10.00; choice prairie. 7.7568. 90.
BUTTER-Market steady. Creamery, "a
Q28c; packing. 19c.
EGGs-M Market steady. Fresh. 14sEc.
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POLICE J0TTINGS.
Well known JOintist Asks Chief
for Protection.
Sylvan Kline Complains of the
"ROugh Necks.
TRIED TO RUN HIM OUT
Would Have an Officer to Look
After Him.
Fruitless Effort to Kill Chicken
Thief.
TRIED TO RUN HIM OUT

The village has been wide open for
about three weeks now, and the joint
lists have conceived the idea that they
are entitled to police protection. The
officers were almost tickled to death
last night by a call from Mr.. Sylvan
Kline, proprietor of the chop-house
down in the slums. Mr.. Kline blew in
and explosiveIy announced that he
wanted protection from the rough
necks." He said he was running a
decent place, but the said rough-necks.
came in frequently and tried to run
MIN out of his own dump He further
stated that he thought citizens. such
as himself, should De made deputy
sheriffs so that they could protect
themselves and their business When
Chief Goodwin recovered from an acute
attack Of mirth he investigated and
found that little disturbance had ia
ken place down at the chop-house. A
person had called there for a lunch and
a cold one, and entered into a cOntrO-
Versy with the proprietor In the argu-
ment which followed, it seems, Mr..
Kline smote the belligerent on the coco
with six shooter and cast him cut.
A few minutes of peace and quiet has
tened by, and then the unbidden guest
blew into the honl1-a-tonk with a gun
of his own, and proceeded to clean
house. Hence the complaint of Mr..
Kline
The matter will be laid before the
mayor. and he will be earnestly re
quested to station policeman in every
one of the sixty joints, with instructions
to arrest, after clubbing TO sleep, every
guest who dares to insult the proprie-
tor. Rough neeks MUST not be per-
mitted to insult booze sellers.
Mr. John Forbes and Mr. William
Callahan rick-a-shayed into town last
evening from the grading camp down
the river, and proceeded to lap up
quantity of red nqU2r. They SOt into
an argument, presumably over the
strength of the fire water they had alb
sorbed, and handed each other a few
hot ones right off the griddle. And
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He WILL TESTIFY.
Eisenberg's Story Looks Good to Nan
Patterson's- Lawyer.

New York, April 22-Abraham Levy,
counsel for Nan Patterson, telegraphed
today to Chicago lawyer to secure in
detail the story OF Samuel Einsenberg,
self. Mr. Levy was informed in reply that
E1nSenbeTg told a convincing story and
was willing to come to New York to tes-
that made by Witness Hazleton of Oneon-
to, who testified for the defense in Nan
PattersOns last trial.
The man does not speak English said
Mr.. Levy, and l do not know how he
nation, but his story iTnpresses me"
Eisenberg VIII Go.
Chicago, April 22-Samuel Eisenberr
the Russian Jewish coat maker, who has
told of seeing a man kill himself while in
West Broadway, n. Y, expressed will
ingness today to go to New York and tes-
tify on the witness stand in the case of
THE cab in which Young and Nan Pat
terson sat passed within five feet of me, -
said Eisenberg today. THE man appear
ed drunk and he appeared to be fighting
with the woman. She was clinging tight
Iy to his hands. The cab was moving
thing to the driver as If to tell him to go
faster. He cracked his whip and the
Suddenly the man got his hands free
and pulled revolver from his pocket.
the shot rang out The man fell forward,
the revolver fell from his hand and he
fell over on the Womans lap. The woman
seemed to faint. because her head fell on
his shoulder"
Sisters in Same Cell.
New York, April 22-Nan Patterson will
hereafter occupy a cell with her sister,
Mrs. J. Morgan Smith. This arrangement
was made by Warden Flynn of the
Tombs. The cell is in the new hospital
ward in the woman's section. The two
women will occupy this cell as long as
no illness breaks out among the women
inmates of the prison.
Yesterday being Good Friday, they at
tended service in the Presbyterian chapel.
After services Miss Patterson's counsel
and her father called.
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has utilized the same as a lawn. A
survey shows this to belong to a piece
Of property recently sold by RoIlin
Nichols to the Planning Mill company
who intend to occupy it with their mill
building. A meeting of the directors Of
the church was held this morning to
devise a method to reclaim this tract
planning mill in location so undesirable
to the church Mr.. Myers has agreed
to sell the property but the church is
not in shape to purchase, having been
one of the churches to suffer by the
floods.
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Kansas City, Mo-, April 22.-CATTLE-
Receipts today, 200 head. Market IN
changed. Native steers, $4-50d650: south
ern steers, $4.o005S5; southern cows, $3.50
40; native cows and heifers, 2.5Od5. IS;
stockers and feeders. s.. O06515; bulls, 81 IS
Q4.75; calves, $300d6.z5; western fed
steers, $5.000625; western fed cows $500
HOGS-Receipts today, 5000 head Mar
ket SC higher. Bulk of sales, s5.35d5. As;
heavy, $545d5.5O; packers, IS. 40d5.471a;
pigs and lights, $450d5.40.
SHEEP-Market nominally steady. Nut
tons, $4.50Q5.90; lambs, S5.75dl4O; range
Wethers. &5ooG6.e0: fed ewes. $450a5.50.
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5000 IN ONE DAY.
Arrivals of Immigrants Reach q
Figure Unprecedented.

New York, April 22-Four transat-
lantics steamers arrived at the port Friday
carrying 9687 steerage passengers, the
largest number ever passed in quaran-
tine in one day It was impossible to
handle the great throng in one day and
at least 4. 600 would be citizens had to
remain over night aboard the ships on
which they arrived, as 5000 is the limit
of Ellis Island clearing capacity Until
last night 62,791 immigrants had been
landed this month compared with a.
447 to the same date on the April last
year
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NOT so HOPEFUL.
Joseph JeRerson's Chances seem to-
Be Against Him.

West Palm Beach, Fla, April 22.-Joseph
Jefferson was uneasy from 3 to 5 O'clock
TINS morning and the chances are again
a little against him. However. there are
no critical symptoms. Today there is no
perceptIble change in Mr.. Jefferson's con
dltlon- but the physicians and nurses are
not SO hopeful as yesterday
Dr. Potter VIII issue a bulletin soon.
AT noon Dr. Potter reports a slight
Improvement in Mr. Jefferson's conei-
ton His fever is lower and the pa-
tent little stronger.
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Springfield, O., April 22.-William T.
Bryan. who arrived here Friday. drove
to a farm near by and for $500 bought
a Polled Jersey heifer. He visited me
big harvester shops and the Masonic
Pythian and Odd Fellows state homes
General Keifer headed the committee
which met him.
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81. Louis Liz stock.

St. Louis, No, April 22.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts today, 5000 head. Market steady.
Beef steers, 81. 006I650; stockers and feed
ers. s.. 1894 50; cows and heifers, 81. 2594. IS;
Texas steers, S3.5OQ5.75; Texas COWS and
heifers, 81. 006I4 40
Receipts today, 500 head. Mar
ket strong. Pigs and lights, $40005. 40;
packers, $5.30Q5.55 butchers and best
heavy, S. 1905. 60.
SHEEP-Market nominauy steady. Ma
tives. SS.5Od5.50 lambs, S5.00177.0O; Texans,
$3O0Q5.00; spring lambs, $1,000
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ton at Portland, Ore. the mayor
would like to see you. Topeka doesn't
feel that she can afford to send dele
gate and assume all the burden of the
expense attending. But if some one
can be secured who is intending to go
Mayor Davis will confer upon him all
the emoIuments and privileges attend
ing upon a delegate representing the
capital city.
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Topeka Market

,,-.-.-,-, 60, Topeka, April %.
MIXED AND BUTCHERS s5o5a5121z
HEAVY 1900. ...-.--.-.....-.... 510Q5.15
- Colin FED CATTLE. zsoa9'o
FURNISHED by Charles Violin PACKING Co
STEERS 800. ......................'4 Ois95 ~
HEIFERS .-...... .................. s.00d4-Ss
TE Ell CALVES .. ss 9S
EXTRA VEAL CALVES. -. 16og5 a
Furnished by J.. B. BILLIARD. centrs.
Mills, 5S4 4, North Kansas Ave.l
SO z 49, .-.-...--.......-........... see
NO. WHEAT ..--.....-..................i
so GRADE WHEAT .............' .sosssss.
CORN -. '...............-........... 40
~ 'F ri AND VEcif f5f nc; 800
FURNISHED by S. E; Lux. 80 Kansss. Ava 7
FRUITS. ~-'S.1
ORANG ES-Navels, s. 65d3 % ner -
.EMONS-California 81. 656t2 e r,er r.
BANANAS-S2.O09300 per bunch SA'
PILES LEs. y a Gy- $50 per Dbl.
TEXAS STRAWBERRIES-Pe crate
sS'0' VEGETABLES.
SWEET P0TAT0Es-s1. 90 per bI.
ONIONS-$l.25 per bu. a.
CRANNIB3EEIR3R I5 ,ss per Dbl.
RADISHE S-Per doz- punches ooeoz
BEETS--Per doz bunches3 45c
SPIN ACt-ESE y Du. basket
PIEPLANT-Per h., &c.
ASPARAG US-Per doz punches q N
FLORIDA TOAiATOES-6-ba sIsef ~ ~
GREEN oNIoNs-Per dozz h,,uo,
TOMATO PLANTs-S2 rs per Loo
CABBAGE PLANTS-S2.75 per I M
SWEET POTATO PLANTs-iaz1. 5Oa2 n.
FULL CREAM CT4EEsE
KANSAS Y. A.-15c per ID
NEW YORK STATE Whfteo -
IL
BRIcK-151zc per ID.
TIMBURGE R-151zc per ID
BLOCK SWISS-I51kc per Ii
BUTTER EGGS. POULTRY
(Jobbers' Pricesl
FURNISHED by Cope & Co IA r.
POULTRY-Hens. 10c h.; spripess
&c b.; broilers, 121sc lb.; turkeys ojtei5Lses
I2c ID: hens, 15c 10. SDislss
FCzG@Freshs 141zc
COUNTRY BUTIER-1s920c per III
FURNISHED by City Hay Market. 81 o,,,-
cy street, - Suin-
PRAIRIE-Loose, per TON. e oo17z "a
PRAl61E-6aLed 1900 .-.....-... 7501 g0S
ALFALFA-LOose 49,. ......... Q fsl5s7 2 ~
1iMOTHX -. .............-....... g M q "a
=sANE -. .----...-.-.--...-........ 800 e0o
eTRAW-Fer ton ----..-.s---...... 45O6 SES
Topeka Hide Market
Topeka, April q
Prices paid in Topeka this week. based
on Boston guotations:1
GREEN SALT CURED ..-..-......... a.
no 1A41OW ............................ "a
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Here's a Chance for an once,

Here IS an honor that is going beg
ging. Do you want to represent To-
peka as a delegate to the national
conference of the Association of Chart
ties and Corrections at Portland July
5-21 and pay your own way2 If you
are going to the Lewis-Clark exposi-
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Chicago Produce Marker.

Chicago, III, April 22.-BUTTER-Ma
ket firm. Creamery, 25631e; dairy, 800
EGGS Market easy. At mark, cases in
cluded, 51adI5szc.
CHEEsE-Market steady Daisies. lie;
Twins. 14c; Young Americas, 14c
LIVE POULTRY-Marlzet steady. Fur-
keys, .14Q15c; chickens, PIC.
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Mr. John Herrod. late of Oklahoma City,
to whence he is returning this afternoon,
was picked from the bosom of Santa Fe
No. last evening by request Tt seems
that Mr. Herrod let his nittS stick TO a
couple of saddles and the Officials of Ok
lahonna wanted him to come back and ex-
plain the incident After shaking him
from No. the officers incarcerated him
until this morning. when a sheriff and
requisition papers arrived.
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Last evening Mr.. Maurice Griffith of 900
Madison street heard a disturbance in his
fowl house and arose to inquire. Some
person was undoubtedly chasing one of the
family egg-produeers around the coop,
probably with the idea of soaring up few
eggs for Easter. Mr.. Griffith grabbed his
gatling and fred into the Silly night, and
the midnight bird hunter rose and grace
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while they so sported a copper took a
large stack of blue chips, and, inciden-
tally, Mr.. Forbes and Mr.. Callahan.
The court had on his war paint this
morning, as he had been pestered on
several occasions by the graders, and
handed them ten per.
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Furnished by J. z. Gail. ConmissionsI
Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office Ito West Sixth street. Telephone
486. Correspondent Cnristy Grain and
Stock Co.. Kansas City, Mol
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weekly Market Letter..

Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions.
Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks
Office TIC West Sixth street. Telephone
4s6. Correspondent Christy Grain and
Stock Co., Kansas City MOI
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FURNISHED by ] E Gall, Commissions,
Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office 10 West Sixth stIe Telephone
486. Correspondent Christy Grain an6
Stock Co. Kansas City. Mol
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st. Louis, Mo, April 22.-WOOI=Adarket
1ull. Territory anad western mediums.
22Q2Sc; fine medium, 17d1Sc; fine, 15dI7c.
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New York Rntfer


New York April 22-BUTTER-Mar
unchanged,
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Furnished by A. NJ McDermott Commis.
siOn Co., Stocks, Grains, Provisions and
Investment Securities. Room u Column
Ian building.1
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Chicago, .ADriI 2.
Open Eigh Low Close Ihrs
New York Money.

CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper. a ~
per cent; sterling exchange nominal, with
actual business in bankers bills at "a. $500
a. S61z for demand and at S4.S445I4. S412 for
so day bills; posted rates. S4.S5 and S4.S7;
commercial bills, s4sHsd4S4lz.
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fully SCARED away over the fence. Officer
Walker chased down to see what was 60
ing on, but did not get there in time for
the benedictioR. On the way down Mr.. Wal
ker stuck up a citizen whom ne found in
the alley and the n-grappler gained
about two miles by the diversion.
Frank Wilson and Con Downing, a pair
of human sponges. are now doing so each
for plain drunk. They came back the third
or fourth time in a week and the court
decided that it would be better for their
health to stay in without the short but
juicy intermissions Mr.. Wilson an
nounced that he was a skinner by trade
and Downing stated that he was a coal
miner by profession.
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Kansas City, April %.
Open High Low Close Thrs
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Grain receipts at Chicago: Wheat, Ii
cars; graded, 19. Corn, 323 cars; graded. q
81 Oats, $50 cars; graded, 81
Holiday at Liverpool
No session New York Stock Exchange
today
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Topeka Hide Market.
Topeka, April q.
terices paid in Topeka this week bssas
on Boston Guotations.1
GREEN SALT CURED .---.-..-...-..,....ss
NJ 4<@4AA<SN ..s'...'.+-..s-......-....
The Forrest City times., 1905-03-10
Colorado Cobbler.

Out in Colorado they still remember Gov. Elect Douglas, of Massachusetts, who, when young man, conducted a cobbler shop in Golden. His shop was in little wooden shack which stood about where the Crawford house is now located, and his fellow towns. men little dreamed that WHIP Doug. las would one day be among the lead. ing shoe manufacturers of the world, to say nothing of becoming chief ex. ecutiye of the old bay state.
The Forrest City times., 1905-03-10
Telephone Development.

Had the first users of the telephone been able to foresee it's present develop ment, they would doubtless have expect ed that it would take work away from the messengers and errand boys to such an extent as to leave thousands of youngsters crying for employment, says Youths Companion. The latest census report shows that the telephone systems of the country are to-day paying $26,- 000,000 year in wages and salaries, and that the new construction in a single year has cost half as much more, most of which goes to pay labor. The tele- phone is work-making instead of a laborsaving device in its effects upon the thousands seeking employment This is the story of machinery the world over. One hundred messages go by wire to one that was sent by boy, and the greater number, by the easier way, make more work.
The Forrest City times., 1905-03-10
Oil Trust Strikes at Kansas.

Independence Kan. March 9.-The Prairie Oil and Gas company. the Kansas branch of the Standard Oil company. today issued an order to the effect that hereafter nc Kansas oil testing below 30 degrees gravity will be brought by the company. This affects nearly twothirds of tho Kan sas product.
 The order is characterized as the hardest blow yet given by the Prairie company to the Kansas oil producers. as it means that practically no oil will be taken by this concern in Kansas outside of the Bottom. Independence field. Neodesha. Tyre and Chatauqua country. This will. it is believed. not affect the district. where the state oil refinery is to be located The gravit of Kansas oil is % to 34 degrees Tho average is 2S.
The Forrest City times., 1905-03-10
Deadlock in Colorado.

Denver. Col, March 9.-Proceedings in the joint convention of the general assembly indicate 9 deadlock in the gubernatorial contest. Twenty-two republican members joined forces with the democrats in a test vote. and three republicans. it is reported. have agreed to stand together in favor of seating Lieutenant Governor Jesse Mcdonald as governor. There are for. ty-four other republican members that can be depended upon. it is said. to vote for James H. Peabody. the con testor. This is five less than a major ity. The democrat vote of thirty-one on joint ballot will be cast solidly for Governor Ava Adams.
The Forrest City times., 1905-03-10
Right Poise.

A writer in Harper's Bazar wisely says: The exclamation point, in con versation or in life, betrays emotiona lack of balance and waste of energy Poise reserves itself for the right occa zion, and emphasizes important things without the need of exclamation. IT other words, it saves it's owner from unnecessary words or acts. and pre-. pares her for necessary ones. Unless one has an aim in life, poise is never really attained. It is not mere repose IL is the collecting and balancing o. ones forces. A well-known modern doctor asserts that woman with { perfect bodily carriage is always noted for exceptional power. either mental ol physical. but generally both If this is true of bodily poise. what power must come from the right poise an( aim of the whole nature."
The Forrest City times., 1905-03-10
KUROPATKlN DEFEATED
Russians Have Retired From Position
 Occupied Yesterday.

St. Petersburg. March 9.-The bat tie of Mukden has resulted in Rus sian defeat.
 Field Marshal Oyama has once more proved himself one of the great est masters of offensive strategy since Napoleon, while Gen. Kuropatkin is now engaged in endeavoring to de- fend his title as master of success full retreat and bring off his army, with it's immense train, safely to Tie Pass. where g position was long ago prepared with this contingency in view.
 The problem before the Russian commander in chief is much more difficult than the one he met success fully at Liao Yang, since now he is threatened on both Hanks, his left wing being entangled in a mountain ous region far from the railroad. New ertheless. Russian military men here express fair degree of confidence in Gen. Kuropatkin's ability once more to extricate his army and avoid a Russian Sedan. Besides his skill in rear-guard action they base their hopes on the physical condition of the Japanese soldiers. While they are conceded to be the greatest march CTS in the world. they are we'll nigh exhausted by their strenuous endeav- DTS of the last fortnight.
 Mukden is still in the hands of the Russians. but withdrawal from the lines of the Shakhe river is in full | progress. The Japanese are making strong attack north of Mukden, where they occupy right-angled posi- tion. one side parallel with the rail- road and three and one-haH miles dis tant and the rear facing northward three miles north of the imperial tombs.
 The Russians have retired some what from the positions they occupied yesterday in the region of Tatchekiao. but are making strong stand.
 The battle is the bIoodiest of the war. Upon the ground that Gen. Oku alone gained lie 5000 Russian dead l The reports from the other armies are expected to triple these figures. It is expected that the Japanese have lost 50.000 making the joint slaught- CT far in excess of 100000 men dead and wounded.
 Details of the combat are lacking, but it is believed that the Japanese have cut the railway north of Muk- den, leaving only the roadways and a light railway from Fushan to Tie Pass as avenues for the retreat of the Russians. But army headquarters re frain from affirming or denying a re port to that effect