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The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
CONSIDERED Good S|CN--
is PEACEFUL CONFERENCE

Count Lamsdorif and some of the
other ministers were received in audi
ence by the emperor at Peterhoff, but
the anticipated statement was not
given out, and probably none will be.
The foreign office maintained COM
plete reserve regarding the proceed
ings at Portsmouth, and it is explain
ed that while Russia would be glad
to accord a great measure Of publicity
to the results of the deliberations, and
even desires to do so, Japan's atti-
tude on this point necessitates the
avoidance Of any statement or COM
ment regarding the negotiations.
To this end all the news relating
to the Portsmouth conference has
been conveyed to the Russian pub
lie through the medium of press dis
patches.
The idea is advanced at several of
the embassies that an outlet may
possibly be found in a compromise on
the two main points of the dispute, If
Japan is willing to give up Sakhalin
and receive from Russia not gen.
eral war indemnity, but payment for
any rights that may be acquired by
virtue of occupation by the Japanese
troops,
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
FISH TRUST FILES ANSWER.
Says Companies Are Not Restrained on
Business.

Columbus, Aug. II. - A. Booth DC
Co. of Chicago, corporation popu-
larly designated the fish trust"
against which a suit in custer was re-
Gently filed by the attorney general
on the ground that it was organized in
restraint of trade, today filed an
amended answer in the circuit court.
The answer admits that the differ
ent corporations incorporated under
the laws of Illinois with a capital
stock of S5,5O0O0O, and that it has
purchased "a fish companies. The an
swer denies that it is a trust in re-
straint of business and names sew
eral hundred fish companies still do
ing an important fish business. 1t
also names 393 corporations in Ohio,
among them the Standard Oil Com
pany, which are organized in the
same way and doing business with
out being molested. 1t says the COM
pany is properly incorporated under
the laws of Illinois and is entitled
to all the benefits therefrom.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
TROOPS WERE ORDERED OUT.
Neoro Prisoner TO be Given Protec'
ton From Mob.

jackson, Miss, Aug. 19.-Governor
Vardaman was informed by telegraph
this afternoon that negro named
Horn had been captured between Lum-
berton and Hattlesburg and that he
was in charge of Sheriff Moody and
a posse. The negro was charged with
completely in the killing of Convict
Guard Smith, near Hattiesburg last
week, for which two negroes were
lynched. Governor Vardaman was also
informed that a mob was being form
ed at Hattiesburg to lynch Horn. He
at once ordered Adjutant General
Fridge at Gulfport to take a detail OF
troops to take charge of Horn and
bring him to Jackson for safekeeping.
General Fridge at once started on a
special train to relieve Sheriff Moody
who was hiding the negro In the
woods.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
CONFERENCE WITH STOCKMEN--
WILL MODIFY the ORDER

the order which now limits the num-
Der of cattle in cars when they are
fed en- route.
GAS to feeding the cattle on the
cars" said Secretary Wilson, there
are not enough Of the right kind of
cars to make that general. The
stockmen represented today that the
recent order limiting the number Of
cattle in cars that are so arranged
that feeding is possible, was hard
ship, and argued to modify it,"
The railroads also contend that I'M
loading once every &c hours is often
enough. A committee of operating
and traffic men was appointed to join
with the cattle shippers in present
ing the matter to Secretary Wilson.
The government, at the instigation
of the secretary, has filed 1,20O suits
against railroads for violation of the
statute and the railroads are anxious
to have the whole matter settled on
condition that they live up to the new
law in the future.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25

Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 1.-THE
crisis in the peace negotiations upon
which the eyes of the world are fas-
tened was approaching rapidly and
the end of this week or the first of
next at the latest should witness the
deadlock and the end. If the confer
ence is to go to pieces. Two more
of the twelve articles, numbers four
and six. were disposed of. Article
four consists of mutual pledges to
observe the integrity of China and the
policy of the open door" for the COM
MERGE of all nations. and article six
covers the surrender Of the Russian
leases to the Lao Tung peninsula,
Port Arthur, Dalny and the Blonde
and Elliott islands.
All questions relating to Korea and
Manchuria, except the cession of the
Chinese Eastern railway and the main
Siberian line running through north.
ern Manchuria from the station Man.
churia on the Amur via Hardin to
Vlauivostok are settled in the five
articles already adopted. Some con-
fusion has arisen about those articles
and the following can be accepted
as absolutely accurate:
1. Recognition of Japan's "prepon'
derating influence" in Korea, etc.
2. Mutual obligation to evacuate
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25

Chicago, Aug. II. - Secretary OF
Agriculture Wilson held conference
with about fifty cattlemen at the
stock yards exchange on the subject
of livestock transportation. The cat
tlemen made it plain to the secretary
that they were opposed to the law
which requires shippers to feed and
rest cattle every "a hours on the
journey east. They wanted it extend
ed to &c hours.
The ranchmen argued that it dis
tresses cattle more and does them
more harm to take them from the
cars every "a hours, prodding. them
with poles and banging them against
the sides of doors and cattle pens
than it does to allow them to remain
in car for day and half.
Secretary Wilson told the stock
men, who were from Texas, Colorado
Idaho. Montana. Iowa and other cat
tie states, TINT he could not change
the law. but he agreed to modify
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
Forty.five Seconds to Feed.

Washington, Aug. 16. - Secretary
Wilson and DR.. D. E. Salmon, chief OF
the bureau of animal industry of the
department of agriculture, left for
Chicago to attend a conference with
the traffic managers of railroads enter
ing Chicago and representatives OF
the National Live Stock Association,
The conference relates to rules recent.
ly made by DR.. Salmon as to stable
cars" in connection with recent legis-
lation to protect cattle in transit. 1t
is said the railway and shipping Off
Gals want the rules changed to allow
forty-five seconds instead of five min
utes for feeding carload of stock en-
route
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
THE END is NEAR.
ARE SLOWLY AGREEING

Manchuria, Russia to retrocede to
China all special privileges, etc.
8. Japanese obligation to restore
the sovereignty and administration of
China in Manchurla.
4. Mutual obligations to respect
the territorial and administrative in
tegrity of China and the policy of the
"open door,"
6. The surrender of the Russian
leases to the Lao .Tung peninsula in
Guiding Port Arthur, Dalny and the
Blonde and Elliott islands.
The remaining seven articles (not
given in numerical order) are:
The cession of Sakhalin; reim-
bursement for the cost Of the war; the
cession to China of the Chinese East
ern railroad; the article relating to
that proportion of the main line OF the
Siberian railroad running through
northern Manchuria. which includes
provision for policing of the road by
China and not by Russia; fishing
rights on the Siberian coast north
of Vladivostok to the Behring sea-
the article affecting Russia's naval
power in the Far East. and that pro-
viding for the surrender of the Rus
sian warships interned in Far East
ern waters. To all of these Russia
has more or less objection.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
ENJOYS Agree on Three Of The Twelve
Conditions
PROSPECTS FOR SETTLEMENT
Manchuria to Be Evacuated and re-
turned to China Japan Retains
Controlling Interest in Korea-China
to Have Railroad West.

Portsmouth, Aug 16. - Although
very rapid progress was made with
the peace negotiations, three of the
twelve articles which constitute the
Japanese conditions of peace having
been agreed to by Mr.. WHITE and
Baron Rosen on behalf of Russia,
neither of the two articles to which
Mr.. White in his reply returned an abb
'solute negative was reached. The
crisis, therefore, is still to come. The
cession of Sakhalin comes fifth in the
list. The three ARTICLES" as they are
officially designated in the brief COM
munications cuthorized to be given to
the press which were disposed of. are
: In substance as follows:
First-Russia's recognition of jap
ans "preponderating influence" and
special position in Korea which
Russia henceforth agrees is outside
her sphere of influence.
Second-Mutual obligation to evacu-
ate Manchuria each to surrender all
special privileges in that province,
mutual obligation to respect the terri
torial integrity of China and to main
tain the principle Of equal opportun-
ity (open door,.
Third-The cession to China of the
Chinese Eastern railroad from Har-
bin southwark. There was never any
question about the acceptance by Mr..
White of these articles, the first two
covering in more emphatic form the
contention of Japan in the diplomatic
struggle which preceded the HOSTILE
ties.
The ordinary course of proceedings
the first great stumbling block to a
treaty of peace-should be reached, as
after Port Arthur and the leases of
Lao Tung, which are included in ar
ticle v, and in which Mr.. White is I'M
doubtedly prepared with slight modi-
fication to accept, comes article VI
the cession of Sakhalin.
But it is by means certain that when
this obstacle is reached it will not be
postponed until all the articles upon
which agreement is possible are dis
posed of.
1t is significant that M. Sato while
specifically stating that he did not
J speak officially, gave it as his opinion
that each power had now bound it.
self to the articles agreed to. A Jap
anese authority said to the Associat-
ed Press:
"The integrity of China is assured
If the treaty of Washington is sign
ed, as Japan has insisted that this
point be set forth in language that can
neither be evaded nor misunder-
stood"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
WOULD CREATE PRECEDENT.
Should Russia Pay an indemnify TO
Japan.

Portsmouth, Aug. 19.-Mr. DeMar-
! tens, one of the Russian delegates and
recognized as one of the great authori-
ties on international law, not only In
Russia, but throughout the whole
world, in speaking to correspondent
of the Associated Press about the
principle of the war indemnity, said
that there was no precedent in his
tory where q country whose terri
tory was not occupied in whole or in
part by the enemy had paid war trib-
ute upon the conclusion Of peace.
Russia, Mr.. DeMartens said, was not
crushed. She was. not on her knees
begging for peace. She wanted peace,
but she could go on fighting for years.
She had not even reached the true
frontier.
at would be her political death to
pay indemnity. The powers would
understand that she accepted Presi-
dent Roosevelt because she was not
DESTROYS of an honorable peace, but
because her power had been annlnl-
lated and she recognized that it was
impossible for her to continue the
war.
1t would mean a public confession
that Russia is at Portsmouth help
lessly kneeling before Japan, implor-
ing peace and ready to accept any
terms imposed No one will serious,
ly contend that the Muscovite empire
is in any such position
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
Must Care For Employees.

New York, Aug. 16.-The care of
10000 employees to work upon the
Panama canal was declared by Chair
man Shonts, of the Panama canal COM
mission to be of first importance and
to have precedence over the actual
work of digging. Chairman Shonts
was accompanied on his return by
Colonel Oswald H. Ernst, also of the
canal commission.
Mr.. Shonts said that there was in
reality no yellow fever scare to speak
of at the isthmus. and that the total
number of cases in Panama during
August up to the time of his sailing
was only thirty.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
JAPS ANXIOUS TO CONTINUE.
Officials do Not Think Russia Will
Concede Terms.

London, Aug. 1.-THE Times CORE
spondent with General Nogi's head
quarters in the field sends the follow
ing dispatch, dated August IL, by way
of Fusan:
"The Japanese army is anxious to
continue operations. The higher off,
GERS do not believe that the military
progress has been sufficient to justify
the expectation that Russia will con-
cede the terms necessarily required
by Japan. If the war continues the
nature of the country and the condi-
lions points to the likelihood that fu-
ture operations will be restricted to
the neighborhood of the railway.
While turning movements as sug.
gested in the European press are
not likely to be used in the cam
paign, it is possible that any great
military result will not ensue this
year."
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
Must Use Airbrakes.

Washington, Aug. 16. - The inter-
state commerce commission is about
to take steps to require all railroads
engaged in interstate commerce to
increase the minimum percentage of
airbrakes used on freight trains to as
great an extent as conditions of equip
ment will permit.
The commission has become i'm
pressed with the danger attending the
operation of freight trains on which
an insufficient number of cars are
equipped with airbrakes, operated by
the engineer.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
Travelled With Victoria.

Wichita, Kan, Aug. 16.-Mrs. Mary
A. Brown, who was travelling com
panion of Queen Victoria and an init
mate friend of prelates and digni.
taries of Ireland, celebrates her 104th
birthday anniversary today. The
birthdays of Grandma" Brown are
occasions of much moment to her. All
the Catholic clergy of the city call up
on her, as well as other friends, to pay
their respects, and she keeps open
house
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
The Highest Mountain.

San Francisco, Aug. 16.-A party of
United States geological survey level
men. under Photographer R. A. Farm
err. which has been running line of
levels to the summit of Mount Whit
ney, have completed their work and
found the true height of the mountain
to be 1882 feet.
While this shows Mount Whitney
to be the highest measured mountain
in the United States. it makes the true
height twenty feet less than the figure
that has generally been accepted.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
American Yachts Ahead.

Charlotte, N. Y, Aug. 16.-The
yacht race for the Canada cup, be-
tween the Canadian challenger Tenn
eraire and Iroquois, the American de-
fender, started in a strong breeze and
rough sea. The Iroquois went over
the line three seconds ahead of the
challenger. The course was four
miles to windward and return twice
around, with a time limit Of five and
one-half hours.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
A Tremendous Landslide.

Winnipeg. Man.. Aug. ia ire
mehdous landslide came down about
half a mile west Of Spence's bridge,
near Ashcroft, British Columbia,
sweeping the waters Of the Thompson
river over the entire Indian village,
leaving nothing but wreck in its path,
The landslide caused a wave from
ten to fifteen feet high up the river,
carrying ferry and all small boats be-
fore II. Fifteen Indians are reported
killed and twelve injured.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
Pay Employees Cash.

Philadelphia, Aug. 1G. = The Penn
sylvania Railroad Company is per-
fecting arrangements for the paying
of it's employees in cash instead of by
the use of checks. On some Of the d.
visions the new system has been
tried and found to work admirably.
There are employed on the lines of
the Pennsylvania railroad nearly
10000 persons. For the last So years
the employees have been paid by
checks.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
To Compel Reasonable Rate..

Milwaukee. Aug. 16.-At a meeting
in Chicago Of the executive commit
tee of the Interstate commerce law
committee 1t was decided to call con-
vention in October for the purpose
of getting the public sentiment that
is calling for an amendment to the
interstate commerce law. which VIII
give the commission power to com.
Del reasonable rates.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
WATCHED BY PHYSICIANS.
Waterford, Ind, Thought TO Have Case
Of Yellow Fever.

Laporte, Ind, Aug. 17.-Though she
is not i'll, the condition of Mrs. Frank
Shreve, of waterford, this county, Is
being closely watched by physicians.
Mrs. Shreve returned a few days
ago from Morrillton, Mo-, where her
two sisters died of disease pro-
nounced by the attending physicians
to be swamp fever. Since her return
Mrs. Shreve has received word that
her mother has died at Morrillton OF
the same disease. Physicians here
fear the disease at Morrillton may be
yellow fever and that Mrs. Shreve
may be infected. The Shreve home
has been quarantined.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
Orange Men Riot.

Londonderry, Ireland, Aug. 16. =
Fierce Orange riots, the worst in
many years. occurred here, on the oc-
casion of the celebration Of the re-
lief of Derry (which was unsuccess-
fully besieged in 1859 by James ID.
A great number of persons were in
jured. but no deaths have been re-
ported. Twenty houses were wreck
ed by Orangemen. who also attacked
nationalists and stoned the police.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
Bread Grains Abundant.

Washington, Aug. 16.-The foreign
crop reports to the department of
agriculture announces that in the
countries of largest production the
crops of the principal bread grains
can not be called abundant, but on a
general survey of the field it seems
probable that the harvest of 1905 will
not on the whole be a bad one"
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
Lone Survivor Returns.

st. Petersburg. Aug. 16.-The Rus
sian transport Anadyr. which escaped
capture by the Japanese after the bat
tie of the Sea of Japan. has passed
The Great Belt-one of the straits of
the Baltic sea-on its home voyage
to Libau. This is the only vessel of
Admiral Rojestvensky's feet that has
returned.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
Must Pay Their Debts.

Washington, Aug. 16.-Postmaster
General Cortelyou, before his depar-
ture upon his vacation, said his de-
partment would not be converted into
a collection agency, following the ac-
ton of Secretary Bonaparte. He says
he will not allow anyone to seek to
avoid his creditors If he contracted
the debt on the strength of his Off
cial position and then fails without
good excuse to pay it.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
Gladys Roosevelt Hurt.

Sayvile, L. l., Aug. 16.-Gladys and
Eugene Roosevelt, cousins of Presi-
dent Roosevelt. we're injured in a
runaway here. Gladys probably was
wounded fatally. The girls are
daughters of John E. Roosevelt, an
uncle of the president, Gladys being
16 years old and Eugene Is.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
EQUIP Engines With Wireless.

Chicago, Aug. 16.-The experiments
made with wireless telegraphy on en-
gines running ovr tracks of the Chi
cago and Alton have proved so sue
cessful that the management of the
road has taken steps to equip all the
engines of the company with the new
annarafuS
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
Norway Votes Dissolution.

Christiania, Norway. Aug. 16.-The
returns from the national referendum
on the dissolution of the union show
that out of 1858 votes cast. only
161 are against dissolution. The
storthing has been summoned to meet
august 81 to take the next step to-
wards the repeal Of the act Of union
in agreement with Sweden.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
Cuba Grants Amnesty.

Havana, Aug. 16.-The senate has
passed the house bill granting am
nesty to ex-ofhcials Of the government
who were guilty of misconduet prior
to the establishment Of the repub.
lie.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
To Build erazos Valley Road.

Cleburne, Tex, Aug. 16. - General
Manager Sweeney, of the Trinity &
Brazos Valley road, states that he had
just closed the contract for steel for
the $50 miles of new road south of
Mexia to Houston, and that the con-
struction work on the new line would
begin right away.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25
sun Raising Vessels.

Victoria. B. c.. Aug. 16.-At Port
Arthur over 20 vessels. including the
battleships Pereviet. Poltava, Ratzi-
van, Pobieda and Pallada and the
cruiser Bayan hive been raised. and
the work of salving the merchant
steamers sunk at the harbor mouth
for blocking purposes has been let to
Japanese nrmB.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25

They Sold Liquor. - Out Of the
1900 persons confined in the United
States jail at Leavenworth, Kansas.
400 are from the Indian Territory and
were sent there on the charge of in
troduclD- liquor into that country.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1905-08-25

Falling rock in Truesdale colliery
at wnkesbarre Pa. killed John NJ.
Lovett, Matthew Akales and Anthony
Haharoskin. Thomas Walters was
fatally h-rt