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The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29
Domestic.

Mrs. William Jennings Bryan and
Miss Bryan sailed for Europe on the
steamer Vaderland.
John D. Rockefeller, ST., and family
have arrived at Forest Hill, their sum.
mer residence near Cleveland.
George Gardner knocked out Billy
Stiff in the fifth round of a rather un.
interesting fight at Ogden, Utah.
Decaying debris left by the food Of
last week is seriously menacing health
on the west side of Grand Rapids,
Mich.
Announcement Is made that the
Standard Oil company will raise the
boycott in Kansas and relay the pipe
line to the heavy oil district.
Pascal P. Pratt. millionaire mer
chant and banker, died at Buffalo, N.
Y. He had undergone an operation
and never rallied from the shock.
Chinese throughout the country are
drilling daily in anticipation of great
civil war. Two magnificent compa-
nies are rapidly nearing perfection in
Philadelphia.
Alice Lotus, aged 25, while enter.
tanning guests at her birthday party in
Cincinnati, fell back from a piano
stool and died in few minutes of
heart disease.
f. l.. Mulcaster, the father of cours
ing in America and former wealthy
Fox Lake (Wis.) citizen, was found
dead in Henners Union coursing park
in San Francisco.
What physicians say is the tiniest
baby in all the world is living in an in.
fant incubator in Cleveland. She
weighs just one pound and seven ounc.
es. The baby is two days old.
The compilation of the last reports
Of the state banks Of Iowa show that
the deposits have increased over $16,.
100000 in the last four months and
about $30,OO0,OO0 in the last year.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance
company will erect on the site of DIR.
Parkhurst's church the tallest build.
ing in the world. 1t will be $50 feet,
five feet higher than the Washington
monument.
The engagement is announced OF
Miss Frederick Vanderbilt Webb, only
daughter Of DR.. and Mrs. William
Seward Webb of New York, to Ralph
Pulitzer. Oldest son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Pulitzer.
A stab wound sustained by young
Italian. which had Penetrated the wall
of the heart and penetrated the right
auricle. has been sewed up by sur.
geons at the Harlem hospital in New
York. The operation IL dificult and
rare. but the patient Is still alive and
hopes are entertained that he will re.
cover
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29
STRENGTHEN vLAo,vos1ok.
Whole District penuded to Provide
.t Provisions,

London, June q. - The japanese
correspondent Of the Daily Telegraph
at Moji, Japan. represents the Rus.
slams as making strenuous efforts to
improve tie defenses of Vladivostok,
and says that the whole of the Ussuri
district has been denuded to the point
Of famine to provide the fortress with
adequate food supplies. The cores.
pondent adds that Gen. I-inevitch has
issued strict orders to non-commis.
stoned officers and men to refrain from
the use of alcoholic liquors, threaten.
ing severe penalties for violations 81
these orders.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29
From other Lands.

=
Sir John Archibald Wilcox, 'proprie
tor Of the Liverpool Courier is dead.
Empress Augusta Victoria is indis'
posed and has been obliged to cancel
all public engagements.
Barren Nathaniel de Rothschild, who
died June 13, left $4,000,000 to be dis.
tributed for various charitable Dur.
poses.
The prince Of Wales has installed
the new service of the London county
council passenger steamboats, on the
Thames.
Col. Won Wissmann, former governor
Of German East Africa, accidentally
shot himself in the head while deer.
stalking dying instantly.
According to advices received at st.
Petersburg, Cossacks attacked the
populace at Vosneselk, a town in Kher
son, 38 are reported killed and many
wounded. -.
Jacques Lebaudy. self.styled EN-,
peror OF Sahara, who was examined
in court at Trieste, Austria for insan-
ity. has been released. His wife filed
the complaint.
News which tends to confirm earlier
reports to the effect that Hottentots
have captured Warmbad, Germany's
chief military depot in South Africa,
have reached Capetown.
Prince Guido Henckel Won Donners
mark has undertaken, with heads of
leading German banks, to raise by
private subscription $2,5O0,O0O for al
lowances Of deserving officers. 1~
A six-hour riot resulted from the ef-
forts of the police to evict tenants in
the Choldwigs Platz at Cologne for the
non-payment of rent. Reinforcements
were called and the crowds dispersed.
The Toxic correspondent of the
London Daily Mail says that 35 10
reans were examining torpedo, which
was washed ashore on thecoast when
it exploded and blew them all to
atoms.
During services in a church at Libau
ten men entered and fired at the pas
tor, who was dangerously wounded.
He was assailing the employment of
violence by the people against the gov.
ernnment.
The entire Spanish cabinet has re.
signed and it's resignation has been &C.
cepted by King Alfonso. The resigna.
tion followed the rejection Of vote of
confidence introduced in the chamber
of deputies.
The report is current at st. Peters
burg that the shipbuilding works will
be placed under the supervision of the
United States Steel corporation for a
period of 10 years, during which time
a Russian navy will be rebuilt.
Gov. Magoon has reported the fol.
lowing new cases of yellow fever at
Panama: Russell Viditor, American
non-employe, Panama; Felipee Cheer
evia, Colombian, non-employe, Colon
John r. Williams, American, clerk
Panama.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

The automobile has many sins to
answer for. New Jersey truckers are
complaining that their strawberry
patches have been ruined. with dust
raised in the nearby roads by the fly
ing autos.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29
TO PROBE ARMY SCANDAL.
Commission Is Named by British Gov.
ernment

Commission Is Named by British Gov.
ernment.
London. June q. The following
have been appointed members of a
commission to inquiry into South
African army stores scandal. as fol-
lows:
Justice Farwell of the high court Of
justice, chairman; Sir George Dash.
wood; Taubman Goldie, Of the privy
council; Field Marshal Sir George
White. governor of Gibraltar; Sir
Francis Mowatt, member of the sen.
ate of the University of London, and
Samuel H. Morley. former governor Of
the Bank of England.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

Castro in a message to the venezue-
Ian congress expresses friendly feel
ing toward the United States. This,
together with the fact that splendid
cherry crop is promised, ought to
make us all happy.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29
FORGERY I. CHARGED.

Clinton. aio.. June 27.-Thomas NJ.
Casey, cashier Of the Salmon bank,
was arrested yesterday on a charge Of
forging two notes aggregating $4,000,
preferred by w. M. Stevens.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29
CRUISER HITS a STEAMER.
German Liner Is Badly Damaged In
Collision.

Ferrol, Spain, June 27.-The British
cruiser Carnarven ran down the North
German line steamer Coblenz in a
dense fog at 4 o'clock yesterday morn
ing, off Cape Pror on the northwest
coast of Spain. The Coblenz was
badly damaged and sprang a leak.
The passengers were transferred to
the cruiser. which towed the liner
here. The injury to the cruiser was
trivial. but the Coblenz will have to 20
into dry dock.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29
Banker XIII HimsAlf. r

Paris, June 27.-George Rodriguez !
the banker, has committed suicide. I K
is stated that the financier lost heavily
in the recent sharp decline in rentes
The liabilities Of his bank are giver
out at $4,000, 900. ia Il
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

"A lie is essentially commercial"
says oBston clergyman. Does the
good man mean that commercialism is
an exchange of nothing for some.
thing?
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

Admiral Evans is we'll pleased with
Togo's signal. You are all expected to
do your utmost" only he thinks he
would have made the last word a bit
stronger.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

1t is a great relief to learn from
Castro's message to his congress that,
while he has the United States at his
mercy. he magnanimously intends to
let it live little longer.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

The baseball editor of the Baltimore
Sun got down at the paragrapher'
desk long enough 10 observe that mo
matter what pitcher the Russians put
in. the japanese promptly bat him out
IF the box
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

1t is about time to end this Edward
Atkinson talk about woman dressing
on $65 year. The proprieties and the
law require that she wear something
besides hat.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

Mrs. Chadwick's Cleveland home
has been sold at auction for $4,000.
And that was the palace which fig
nred in the reports concerning the
frenzied financial queens affairs!
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29
Thirty Portuuue.e Drowned.

Th5fty F6rsu9uete Df6Whed.
Vigo, Spain, June 27.-Advices re
ceived here from the Mimic river
which empties into the Atlantic neal.
CaminAa, say that thirty persons were
drowned recently through the capsiz
ing of a boat which had arrived in the
river from Portugal. 4. i
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

A Brooklyn magazine writer has re-
duced his weight from 210 pounds to
l75 pounds in forty-six days by eating
nothing and drinking large quantities
Of hot lemonade. Other weighty peo-
pie Who are not hungry and who like
hot lemonade may like to try his plan.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29
Old sundax LaW Enforcad.

OIU 0UuOay sCoW Gnt0tcoo. .;I
Austin, Tex. June 27,-An old Sun
day law was enforced vigorously here
yesterday and saloons and even sod,
fountains were closed from midnirh!
Saturday night until midnight h.s,
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29
Jumped to Her Death.

Danbury, Conn.,, June 27.-An elec!'
trio car on South street ran over sew
eral torpedoes placed on the track by
boys last night. The loud explosions
that followed created panic among
the women passengers, and Mrs. Mary
Davis, sixty years old, jumped to hel
death.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29
Five Persons injured. /.

Detroit, Mich. June 27.'- Five per.
sons we're injured yesterday BY the ex.
plosion Of an. overloaded dynamite
cane In the hands Of ten-yser-old An.
drew fallgsynSki.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

The news that the New Jersey
huckleberry crop has been badly dam
aged by unreasonable weather will
doubtless trouble people who like
rienty of seeds in theirs.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

Nan Patterson has quit the stage
tlisgusted at the public's lack of en-.
thusiasm. May we venture to hope
now that Nan will go home and con.
sent to settle down?
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

Will your widow dress as we'll as
your. wife does?" is one Of the adver-
.isements of an insurance company.
1t depends upon what luck she has in
picking out No. 2.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

A Minnesota train robber has been
sentenced to fifty years in the peni-
tentiary. Once in while the blind
goddess of justice gropes her way to
righteous decision.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

An Eastern paper says the English
spauow is a useful bird. as it "eats
mosquitoes and other noxious in
sects.' Pish. Also tush, Cannon,
and go to!
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

If the seventeen year locust could
be grated on the mosquito there
might be sixteen consecutive years
worth living. anyway.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

Dr Parkhurst declares that "Phila.
delphia is rotten" It's all right to
root for the Giants; but be fair, doc.
'or, be fair.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

A Germantown. Pa. young lady
learned to box from her brother pur-
posely 10 polish off an intrusive adj
mirer, and in time mashed the
masher. Doesn't take much to do
that, generally.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

Those coarse Chicago police seized
$4,000 love letters in one matrimonial
agency. Probably read some of the
-enIer effusionS. too.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

Count De La Vaulx says airships
are safer than automobiles. Perhaps
he means safer for the innocent by.
Stander.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

How much of that $4,000 left by
King Alfonso to be distributed among
the poor of Paris was contributed by
the poor of Spain?
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

Harry Furniss says that You can
tell by looking at a woman's face
whether she has pretty foot or not;
IL the face is pretty. the foot isn't.
But, why this circumlocution? II the
footsis pretty, everybody has plenty Of
ODportuhities to see 1t.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29
RUSS SINKS sRlrls HeoAr.

Steamer lkhona Sunk by 4 Russian
Cruiser.
Singaport, June q. - The British
India Steam Navigation company's
steamer 1khona was sunk by the Rus
sian cruiser Terek June S, $50 miles
north of Hongkonk. The crew was
landed here last night by, the Dutch
steamer Perlak, which the Terek met
June 19. The Ikhona was carrying
mails and rice from Rangoon to Yoke.
hama.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

Edward rather rubbed it in when he
took Alfonso to Portsmouth and made
him review England's invincible ar.
NADIA.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

The bomb.throwers in Europe do not
appear to have qualified as pitchers
on even a thirtl-rate baseball team.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29
OVER 10000 SHEEP SOLD.

Billings, Mont, Company Makes a BIG
Purchase.
Billings. Mont. June 27.-The larg.
est sheep deal ever made at one time
in Eastern Montana was consummated
in the sale Of the entire outfit Of Oscar
Stephens, consisting of over forty
thousand range sheep. to the Custer
Sheep company Of this city.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29

1t has come to pass that French,
men are cheered in the streets of Ber.
lin. Let us have more peace.
The Wahpeton times., 1905-06-29
We know individuals who are Ga
painfully good that they'd be lots bet
ter il they weren't.

A bride in New York SO years old
seeks a divorce. If she will wait
bit death will do the Job.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-03-13
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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-03-13

PORT ARTHUR, Jan. 20.-Its
longish trip from the United States
TO Port Arthur The time required to
make the trip is 369 days and Is
hours. At least, that is the time it
took me. To be sure, there was
hitch in my transportation and |
missed connections in Toxic which
delayed me nearly six months, and
then 1 took roundabout way and
rode $50 miles north of the historic
fortress. But l finally reached here
and today, as member of personal
ly-conducted excursion party, arrang
ed by Field Marshal Oyama, l rode
triumphantly into the town.
Fer two or three days after Port
Arthur surrendered, the life of Field
Marshal Oyama was not a happy one.
He probably regretted that the place
had ever fallen. 1t is not often that
a man has to listen to such a clamor
as was raised among the military at
taches and correspondents attached to
the Japanese armies in the north. We
wanted to see Port Arthur and we
told the field marshal so. Each one
of us told him and each one repeated
the story daily until he finally was
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-03-13
Shells Terrible Work.

The old town of Port Arthur is
very badly shot to pieces. Scarcely
a building remains whole The build
ing of the Rusio-Chinese bank, the
great financial institution on which
Russia depended so much in her at
tempts to seize Manchuria, was fired
by shell and only its walls remain
Business houses and stores are
wrecks and the debris has not vet
been removed from the streets. Some
of the holes in the buildings are seven
or eight feet in diameter, some of
them have been hit by dozens of
shells.
The new town is almost as bad a
wreck as the old. There is scarcely
a building that has not been struck
by at least one shell One apartment
house has a ten foot hole clean
through it, and another has the entire
corner taken of. Here as in the old
town, many buildings are in use as
hospitals The big government hotel
which was never opened, is used as
a hospital and so is the naval acad-
envy and a score of other buildings.
half a hundred buildings are I'M
finished. the staging still around them
as IT was when the siege stopped all
work.
Both the old and the new towns
are filled with Russian soldiers, each
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-03-13

/ Arthur was a jewellers or florists.
The clubs and restaurants made
speciality of their wine cellars. Cir
cuses and opera companies travel
ed all the way from Russia for a
short season in Port Arthur. Off
GERS quarters were sumptuously
furnished and the town was filled
with fast horses and fine carriages
But the forts were not impregnable
ant of their duties.
When the fatal howitzer shell al
most put an end to the general staff
in Port Arthur the siege was ended.
In a bomb-proof' were gathered E<on-
drachenko, the chief engineer of the
staff, a man of unusual ability, and
fifteen other officers.
I'VE are in place here" said Kon-
drachenko, where they can't reach
us" The words were scarcely out
of his mouth when a great 11-inch
shell burst through the roof. Kon-
drachenko and five others were in
stantly killed; nine were wounded,
sumo u tiltIIl al
and only one escaped, a young officer
who was standing near the door and
was blown out suffering only few
bruises.
ndrachenko;s successor Was
I'ock, an old man, whose only achieve
ment in the war had been the loss
of the battle of Nan-shan. No one
had any confidence in him; no one had
any confidence in Stoessel, and, worst
of all, the men had no confidence in
their immediate officers. The soldiers
began to grumble and throw away
their ammunition. The few able
officers in the garrison were unable
to control them or to fight the fight
alone. Surrender was inevitable.
And so Russia lost her great fort
ress and the port she has schemed
so long to gain. And so she lost her
prestiege in the East at least. All
her troubles. both in the Far East
and those at home resulting from the
long series of defeats at the hands
of the once despised Japanese, can
be traced to wine and women, and
through them to ignorance, incompet-
ence and graft"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-03-13

Arthur can be summed up in two
words-wine and women.
l met civilian in the street today
a German who had been in Port Ar
thur throughout the siege. In con-
versation with him I said:
What do you think of the Rus
sian soldiers?'
Il have never seen Drawer men"
And the officers?"
He shrugged his shoulders, roll
ed up his eyes, threw out his hands
and replied:
Drunk! Drunk, Drunk
And that was all he would say.
Nor was this German civilian alone
in his opinion. Russian soldiers,
there are thousand of them in the
hospitals. said exactly the same thing.
I'VE got tired of fighting while
our officers were enjoying themselves
in the town" said one of them.
our officers sent us to assault
the japanese position, they did not
lead u.s." said another.
After kondrachenko died there
was nothing to do but surrender"
said every man l talked with.
Russian oficers Did not Fight.
If you will look at the lists of the
regiments that surrendered to the
Japanese you could not help but be
surprised. On of the regiments had
1900 men left and "a officers, another
surrendered about 500 men and SO
officers. When you realize that in
the Russian organization there are
about 60 officers to each 5000 men
you will at once notice the discrep-
ancy. The men fought, the officers
did not
1t is no reflection on Gen. Nogi
and the talented, devoted and brave
officers and men of his army to say
this. 1t is doubtful if the best SOL
dies in the world could have with
stood this siege, for much longer than
the Russians did, but it is hardly
likely that any other army in the
world would have celebrated their
own defeat by marching through the
streets, yelling and singing. as the
Russians did. Men who were in Port
Arthur the night of the surrender
tell me that the scene there was a
digrace. Men broke into shops and
warehouses. searching for drink and
it was necessary before the night was
over to use all the sober soldiers
there were left in town to corral and
quiet the drunken ones.
The men had had enough fighting
and they were glad to surrender.
They had done their part and they
didn't want any more of it. After
the death of Kondrachenko there was
not an officer left in whom they had
confidence. Gen. Stoessel has received
the plaudits of the world for his mar
velous defense of the fortress, but
If the stories told at Port Arthur are
true he is not entitled to them Meth
er the men nor the officers, the few
who are paying any attention to what
they were doing. had the slightest
confidence in Gen. Stoessel or in
Gen. Fock, who succeeded Kondra-
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of the big guns. But there was plen-
ty of vodka and there were scores
of women whose claims on the af-
fenctions of the defenders of Port
Arthur were at least not legal.
1t has been said that the defend
ers were short of rifle ammunition
in the town. Walk along the bund
and across the bridge over the lit
tie streams that empty in to the har-
Dor at low tide and you can see
thousands of rounds of rife ammu-
milton in the water where it was
thrown by men who had had all the
fighting they wanted.
1t was all the fault of the Rus
sian system and the Russian plan,
1t was announced that Port Arthur
was to be the Paris of the far east.
1t was. 1t was said that the fort
ress was impregnable. 1t was not.
The impregnable fortress gave way
to the Paris. Merchants in Port Ar
thur will tell you that the recognized
commission of Russian officers on
all work done for the government
was thirty per cent.
ut took me some time to discover
why I could not do business here"
said a foreign merchant to me, but
| finally found out. Then l employed
a Russian assistant and let him han
die that part. We soon got our share
of the business. When the Russian
officials ordered 100 barrels of -four
20 barrels were delivered and paid
for, but the receipts were made out
for the full 100 barrels. No one was
able to do business with the officials
unless he did it in that way. This
| is not an isolated case, or case Of one
or two officers. 1t was universal.
Thought More Of Pleasure.
AlraASt nl.ar1.atLar ShaIa In Port