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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-07

(By the Associated Press. }

Tsinkhetchen. Manchuria, Feb. q
delayed in ransmission) A recon
noissance in force was undertaken
February 1st, by the Russian ad-
vanced posts towards DZiantchan,
fourteen miles southeast of Tsinket-
chen. The troops started at early
morn and by noon drove the japanese
outposts to Santziache, then moving
round Vantze Pass, the Russians
fianked the position from the east
and compelled the Japanese to fall
back to Chap Pass. The Russians
stormed and occupied portion OF
Vantze Pass at $3.50 p. M, but ine
Japanese being reinforced by 5000
men. the position of the Russians was
untenable Having carried out the
mission of feeling the enemy S
strength. the Russians then withdrew
fighting and capturing a few japanese.
Children take PisO'S Cure. it is a
sovereign remedy for little folks colds.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-07
Special Rates to New Orleans via Sea-
board Air Line Railway, Account
of MaP6li GraS Celebration

rate of one fare plus IS cents from all
points on its lines to New Orleans, ac-
count of the Mardi Gras. Celebration
at that point. Tickets are to be sold
March 1st to 9Th, inclusive. final limit
to leave New Orleans March 18th, ex-
cept on payment of the fee of so cents
and an extension of the return limit
can be obtained to March 25th.
The Seaboard offers a double daily
service with only one change of cars
which is made in Atlanta, trains con-
sisting of vestibuled day coaches, Pull
man sleeping cars and Cafe Dining
cars.
CHAS. II. CATTIS,
travelling Passenger Agent.
Raleigh N g.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-07
IMPRISONED IN ICE.
Thirty Oystermen Rescued by the Ice
Boat Annapolis.
CIV the Associated Press

IBy the ASSOclated PTess.J
Princess Anne, Nd, Feb. 4.-Thirty
oystermen who had been imprisoned
in the ice in Tangier Sound were
rescued today by the ice boat Annap-
oils. The steamer left Annapolis yes
terday morning to relieve the impris
oned men but ran aground in the shall
low waters of the sound. The steamer
Howard left Annapolis this morning 70
succor the ice bound men. but the
Annapolis having been iioated today
succeeded in reaching them. Beside
the fourteen men who were found in
the marshes off Deals Island sixteen
others We're discovered nearby in Kegs
Straits where they had been ice bound
since January 4. The Annapolis took
the men who are said to live in Somer-
set county, Md, to Deals Island
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-07
Insurance Agent Catliu Drowned
(By the Associated Press. }

Georgetown, 5. c.. Feb. Alt has
just been learned that w. G.. Catlin,
special agent of an insurance COM
pany. while out shooting ducks on
Black River, near Georgetown, was
drowned Thursday, together with the
negro boatman. Zeb Barron. 1t is
not known just how the accident hap
pened.
The rowboat in which they went out
was found today half filled with water
with the loaded gun in the bottom.
The body of Barron has been recov-
cred. Search is being made for the
body of the young man, whose father,
James 4. Catiin, cashier OF the Citi-
zen's Bank of Danvile, Va, has been
tele9raphed for.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-07
TO Meet Fourteen Wives.

New York, Feb. 4.-Extradition
papers for Johann Hoch, who is
wanted in Chicago on a charge of
bigamy. had not arrived today, and
the prisoner was lagain remanded to
police headquarters. Detective Lotus,
of Chicago who came here to get
Hoch, said today that superintendent
of Detectives Shippy will have four
teen women at the depot in Chicago
when Hoch arrives there, who will at
tempt to identify the man as their
husband.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-07
Debate on Statehood Bill.
fBy the Associated Press.)

Washington, Feb. 6.-The long
drawn out general debate on the bill
creating two States out of the terri
tories of Oklahoma and Indian Terri-
tory and New Mexico, and Arizona
was concluded today with a speech
by Mr.. Beveridge, which consumed
the greater part of the days session.
He reviewed the principal argu-
ments i'm opposition to the bill giving
especial attention to the proposition
to unite Arizona and New Mexico.
He spoke for almost three hours and
closed amid a cordial burst of ap-
plauSe from the galleries.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-07

sequent pleadings they shall deem
necessary.
Acting under instructions of the
Republican caucus the House Com
mittee on Rules today agreed on a
rule which was subsequently adopted
by the House to govern the consid-
Grafton of the railroad rate bill. The
rule provides for general debate on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
the vote to be taken at three o'clock
on the latter day. The joint session
of the two Houses to count the cleo
toral vote on Wednesday is to come
out OF this time. The time of the
debate is TO be equally divided be-
tween the two sides and controlled
by Mr. Hepburn Uowa) and Mr..
Davey (La.). During the considera-
ton of the bill the House viii meet
at IL O'Clock.
The House adjourned until tomor-
row.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-07
River and HarbOr Bill.
(By the Associated Press. ]

Washington, Feb. 6.-The River
and Harbor Bill was today reported
to the House. Under the head Of
new legislation there is a provision
which strengthens the authority of
the engineering department in pre-
venting the dumping of refuse and
other material in harbors and navi-
gable channels. Provision for more
than one hundred surveys are con-
tanned liz the bill.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-07

Clarksburg, w. Va. Feb. 4.-The
main building of the Wesleyan Uni
versity at Buchanan was totally de-
stroyed by fire today. A panic re-
suited among the 400 students and
several were compelled to jump from
the third floor window into q net. Two
were slightly hurt. The fire orgi-
mated in the boiler room.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-07
TO MARRY WHITE GIRL.
Attempt by a MulattO That Got Him
Into Trouble.
Especial to News and OF

Danbury, Feb. ANDY Martin.
colored, was brought to Danbury last
while securing license to marry a
young white girl. Martin is white to
all appearance. but his mother is a
rnulatto. He was put under bond
of $500 for his appearance at the
next term of the Superior Court. His
mother stood his bond.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-07
Headaches and Neuralgia from Cold.

Laxative Bromo Quinie. the world
wide Cold and Grip remedy removes
the cause. Call for the full name and
look for signature of +. W. Grove. 25c.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-07

mar likes Ia be chased by q Wo-
man for q few hours: he viii chase
her many years.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-07
JUNIORS CONQUERED
SERIOUS OPERATIONS AVOIDED
Unqualified Success of Lydia Z. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound in the
Case OF MRS. Fannie .. Fox.

One of the greatest triumphs of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is
the conquering of woman's dread en-
envy, Tumor.
The growth of tumor is so sly that
frequently it's presence isnot suspected
until it is far advanced.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-07

A mother pretends to be proud of
her boys brains; what she secretly
prays for is that he shan be only
good.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-07
Regulation of Freight
Rates.

Continued from Page One.)
Evening star., 1905-09-08

compose. In Maine, lovely Maine. there
are pronunciations which an outlander en-
vies but can scarcely reproduce. Goat. =
'sboat," even state" "stet O. Maine" have
their interesting variations of sound.
"Surry," "cluset," "culerny," "Pucahunt-
as"-why should everybody pronounce like
everybody else?
The truth Is that no universal uniformity
prevails. The southerner, the westerner,
the middle slater, the inhabitant of each
several state, have their little peculiarities.
The country is full of local dialects. Many
of the peculiarities ascribed to the yam
kee" speech may be heard more or less
over much of the country. Certain noun
ited in their geographical distribution. but
the Yankee of parts Of Indiana and Of the
south will preserve the good old Yankee
speech even If it be true-Which we decline
to admit-that Hosea Biglow is ''as extinct
as the dodo." The other day we picked
some good words out of the dictionary OF
Terms Used in Forestry and Logging" I"
mere drops out of the great ocean of spe-
cial yet in the main essentially popular vo-
cabularies That strange and gifted speech,
Pennsylvania Dutch, is still too little
known. We see no reason why man
shouldn't be eager and proud to possess and
treasure every particle of his native dia-
lect be 1t Floridian, Oregonian, Kansan.
Even If he is not. II he loves that cheap
plated "cosmopolitansm which scorns the
vernacular of the soil, he may be guiltily
sure that his speech, and especially his
vowels, bewrays him. Keep your ears open
In a car, ferryboat or in the street and you
will catch many shades of provincial
and therefore thrice blessed-,ntonation and
pronunciation. Finally, even the snob will
Evening star., 1905-09-08
REBUILDING MANILA.
AmericanEnergy and Money Changing
Pest Hole Into "City Beautiful"

From the Worlds Work.
When the Americans marched into Manila
on August 49, 1898, it was the filthiest place
in the orient; today 1t is one of the cleanest
east of Suez, and the tourists who visit II
pronounce It the most attractive spot in all
the east In six years 1t has been trans
formed from a medieval city. fallen into de-
cay into a center OF twentieth century ac-
tivty and enterprise.
The three things most needed in Manila
at present are modern water and sewer sys-
TENS. and modern and thoroughly equipped
hospitals for the poor, both in the city and
in the provinces. All three of these wants
are to be provided for. A committee has
made plans for civil hospital to cost more
than 81 100000. 1t will be built on the pavil-
ion plan. In the meantime Archbishop
Harty has taken upon himself the task of
providing hospital to meet present needs.
fine stone structure, built before the
American occupation, for the education of
the Filipino priesthood. is to be equipped as
a hospital Bishop Brent of the Protestant
Episcopal Church also has taken up the
cause of the INDECENT sick. Last April he
returned from America with money to
equip a hospital for needy Filipinos. The
alumni of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn
sylvania and Columbn universities contriub-
uted the necessary funds. and work upon
the new structure. which is to be known "a
Evening star., 1905-09-08
A Big Raisin Crop.
From the London Globe.

From the London Globe.
There will be no shortage of Christmas
pudding raisns this year, the Spanish crop
being early and abundant. AS many as D.
600 tons are reported to be available from
Denia shippers. AS a matter of fact. the
English markets dominate the raisin trade
of the world. The demand, sales and values
which rule here regulate shipments to for
eign raisn-importing countries. This fact
applies even to the United States. The fin
est raisins from Valencia generally COM
mand a uniform price. Last year they
made the same as they have done during
the past week, that is. from 50s. to 10s. a
hundredweight The Dehesa muscatels are
increasing in popularity, and at the present
time are quoted as high as 125s. hundred
weight first hand-over Is. a pound. Had
1t not been for an early crop this season,
there was every expectation of prices for
pudding raisins being forced up by an influ-
entail combine. The stocks In bond were
larger by 1000 tons in July. 1904, than they
were for the corresponding period this year.
The unusually early raisin harvest of Denia
will render such movement impossible.
Reports from all Spanish raisin-exporting
and packing centers show that the quality
of the fruit will be above the average
Evening star., 1905-09-08
University Hospital. has already been be-

gun.
The plans for harbor improvements in
volve an expenditure of about $4,O00.0OO
the work being In charge of Maj. c. McD.
Townsend, an engineer in the United States
army. But of all the Innovations the
street cars are the dearest to the hearts of
Americans. The Manila Street Railroad
and Electric Light Company Is spending
more than 100000 to supply the city with
transportation and light. The city will soon
have a new telephone system. too.
Every city has It's pet organization, and
in Manila the fire department holds this s.
tinction. The Filipino finds his nipa shack
in flames; he runs to the nearest telegraph
pole and pulls hook, and before he has
had time to take a fresh chew of betel nut
the engine Is at his door and the danger is
past. 1t is all very wonderful, more mar
velous, in fact, than the charm against
cholera which the priest sells him. and the
men In helmets and rubber boots are a sort
of demigods.
Nor has the beautifying of Manila been
neglected. Mr.. D. III. Burnham. the famous
architect and landscape gardener, has plan
ned an elaborate system of parks and boule-
wards. Manila will be the "city beautiful'
of the orient.
Evening star., 1905-09-08
MERGENTHALER SUED
LANSToN COMPANY CLAIMS TO
HAVE BEEN LIBELLED.

A dispatch from New York says: On
account of letter to President Roose-
welt. written and sent by the Mergenthaler
Linotype Company, through the company $
president. Philip T. Dodge, and containing
sundry statements defamatory of the Lam
ston Monotype Machine Company, the
Lanston company has sued the Mergen-
thaler company and It's president for libel.
and demands damages in the sum or
$3.50 OOO
The Lanston company. II will be remem-
bered, sold to the government by contract
with the public printer, Mr.. Frank w.
Palmer. seventy-two of the Lanston type
casting and composing machines after sew
eral months test of the Lanston machines
In competition with machines of the Mer-
genthaler manufacture at the government
printing Office in Washington. The seventy
two machines were to cost upward or
1921, coo.
In an effort to cause the revocation OF
this contract the Mergenthaler company
addressed to President Roosevelt the letter
which forms the basis of this suit, and
which the complaint characteriZes as
malicious scandalous and defamatory libel,
intended to injure the Lanston company in
It's good name. fame and reputation and Its
esteem and credit in its business. The let
ter bore date June "a. 1905. and aside from
requesting the President to cause the with
drawal of the contract, asked him to direct
an investigation of the facts attending the
giving of the contract for the machines
"and as to its prOpriety and legality"
Some Charges.
In support of It's petition the Mergen-
thaler company asserted in It's letter that
the order or contract for the Lanston ma
chimes was made corruptly clandestinely
and in violation of the law" and that sew
eral of the public printers immediate as
sistants held a stock interest in the Lam
ston company. contrary to law. Various
other accusations were made in the letter,
which also said:
Your petitioner further alleges that he
believes the order for the purchase OF said
seventy-two Lanston machines to be bad
administration extravagant and scanda-
lous.
Your petitioner also represents that it is
unwise that an expenditure of so large
sum should now be made under an order
privately and secretly given, at time
when the public printer was scaiming
any intention to purchase additional type
setting or typecasting machines without no
tice to or without the knowledge of those
owning and daily marketing a machine
more efficient in operation and capable of
performing a greater variety and better
style of work at saving to the govern
ment of not less than twenty-five per cent
t2o per cent? as compared with the Lanston
machine"
In the complaint in its action for libel the
Lanston company denies categorically the
various charges made against 1t and
against the Lanston machines in the letter
to President Roosevelt pronouncing them
unqualihedly false. False is the assertion
that the contract was made corruptly and
In violation of law, say the plaintiffs: un-
true and without any foundation in fact the
statement that assistants of the public
printer held a stock interest In the Lanston
company.
Evening star., 1905-09-08
AMERICANS AT MANEUVERS.
Gen. Chaffee and Others Witness
French Evolutions.

A cable from Chateau Brienne. France,
last might says: Lieut.. Gen. Adna X. Chat
fee, Brig. Gen. J. Franklin Bell and Brig.
Gen. William Crozier and their aids-de-
camp, wearing service khaki uniforms and
mounted on horses furnished by Gen. Bru-
gere, today witnessed the evolutions of
division of cavalry under Gen. Dessirier.
The operations in other branches of the
maneuvers have been suspended until the
opening of the second period tomorrow.
Gen. Crozler intercepted an infantry pa
troll and examined the French bayonets,
which have a triangular blade. One of the
American officers caused amusement by
eating a piece of bread given him by a
trooper as means of testing the service
rations. The Americans also closely In
spected the sentinel system. Later they
were the guests at dinner which Gen. Bru-
gere gave to the foreign officers
Gems. Chaffee. Bell and Crozier and the
other American officers made preliminary
tour of the field of operations, which en-
brace some two hundred square miles, in
cluding many villages, the scheme of the
maneuvers being a repetition of the battle
of Fothiere in 1914, in which Napoleon and
Blucher were engaged. During the tour ar
tillery thundered from a range of hills and
a division of cavalry occupied the town.
representing the advance of Napoeons line.
The American officers followed the opera.
uons by means of a map.
Evening star., 1905-09-08
ELEVEN CENTS FOR COTTON:
Minimum Price Fixed by the South
ern Association

A dispatch from Asheville, N. c., last
night says: The Southern Cotton Associa-
ton, in convention here tonight, established
a minimum price of IL cents for the incom-
ing cotton crop. This action was reached
after a four-hour struggle in the minimum
price committees room this afternoon. and
q joint secret conference of that committee
and the general committee tonight. 1t was
a contest in which growers, spinners, manu-
facturers, and brokers were involved, and
one in which the combined influence of all
these elements was brought into play in and
out of the meetings, which preceded the
nights work
After the announcement of the estimate OF
the crop yield OF 1906 and 1906, the fight
narrowed down to two factions-one hold
ing out for 1O1z cents, the other for IL cents,
notwithstanding the fact that an outside
element clamored for II cents. Some of the
growers this afternoon were inclined to the
opinion that the Unexpectedly short yield
crop report would have a tendency to push
the maximum to u cents. but II was known
tina: these predictions would not be fulfilled
when the price committee emerged from its
caucus at 6:45 tonight.
The summary of the cotton crop of 1906
06, reported by the statistical committee
today. is as follows:
Production. 9.5SS, l33 bales; percentage OF
col dition as compared with last year 73 g.
and as compared with the governments es-
timate, TIL. The yield is regarded as ex-
ceedingly small. as from ten to ten and a
half million bales were expected.
Evening star., 1905-09-08
MIKADo'S MIND MADE UP.
Baron Komura Says Rioting Will Not
Change His Views.

A dispatch from New York last night
says: Baron Komura said today that his
coming interview with Mr. Root, which he
expected would occur in New York city
either Friday or Saturday this week, would
be purely formal exchange of courtesies
and that their meeting had no other object.
The baron denied emphatically the rumor
that the Emperor Of Japan had not yet
given his approval to the peace treaty, or
that the powers of the Japanese penpoten-
tiaries were limited that there was at
this late hour still possibility that the en-
peror would fail to ratify the treaty.
THE present disturbances In Tokyo he
said cannot in the slightest degree influ-
ence the emperor's determination to ratify
the treaty when he receives an official copy
of IL"
Baron Komura reiterated his opinion that
the disturbances in Tokyo were directed
against the local branches of the govern
ment.
Are you and Baron Komura afraid to go
back to Tokyo?" was asked of Mr.. Sato,
spokesman OF the Japanese ENJOYS
His reply was worthy of the Samurai.
I'VE have lost 100000 men on the field Of
battle" he replied, seriously. "A few lives
laid down in the cause of peace would not
be much. No, we are not afraid.
I'VE have secured a permanent peace-a
lasting peace" he went on. 1T is good for
the country-it is essential to our develop
ment. But of course. there are hotheads
In every country"
At the Southern Pacific offices 1t was said
that no word had been received of Mr.
Hartman from Tokyo. His associates were
OF the opinion that the hostile demonstra-
mans visit to Japan. 1T was declared, was
entirely for recreation and pleasure.
Evening star., 1905-09-08
YANKEE ACCENT.
Hope the New England Provincialisms
Are Not Dying Out.

From the New York Sun.
We hate to believe our Green mountain
friend, the Burlington News, when 1t as
sures us that "the YanKe accent is dying
out" Even in that new England world of
French Canadians, Italians and other for
egn stocks we hope that "Haow air ye?"
still gladdens the ear. Yet the Burlington
ian Is sure that "even in remotest parts OF
Vermont the long drawn caow' and 'naow
and kindred words are rarely heard. So
much the worse. The kindly native tang,
the provincial stamp of speech, are wei
come to all but pedantic and priggish long
ears. The final IA sounded as 'f' in
pin" "Ameriky," "Africy," "Cuby;" "Eu-
ropean" with the accent on the antepenult-
innate, a pronunciation that even Mr.. Sew
ard Is said to have used; the sloughing of
of final ''g'' In Ing" the adding Of IN" to
height thus pronouncing 1t as Milton spell
ed it: the little ''vilgarisms'' like git
probably "reminiscences Of the speech of our
ancestors; they have their chain, especially
as one grows older and returns to his first
love.
If we may Judge by books, dialect never
fourished more than in these days of troll
leys and cheap travel and citif1ed country.
Mrs wilkins Freeman hears dialect enough
in New England. Probably Mr.. Kipling
detected strange intonattons and lingo in
Vermont, though nothing approaching the
unintellisibie hash In which he Il pleased to
Evening star., 1905-09-08
Makes Protest to Turkey.

A cablegram from Constantinople last
night says the American minister Mr..
Leishman, has lodged protest with the
porte against the departure from estab-
lished procedure in the trial OF Ghirkis
Vartanian. the assassin of Aplk UnIijian.
the authorities having prevented the Amer
lean consular officials from seeing Vartan-
ian for the purpose OF examining his claims
TO American citizenship and determining
whether he was entitled TO American pro-
lection.
The authorities hurried the trial through
and condemned the prisoner to death be-
fore the settlement OF this question.
Evening star., 1905-09-08
Mems Shirts at 18c

We shall tomorrow place sale hghgrade lot of Mems
fine White Madras Nege Shirts that have sold right through
the soc and 75c for only Is Sizes ~
III and IS These superior quality Shirts perfect the
day they made except for having been slightly @ 10
mussed by handling, but nothing and water will G)Oo
not remedy; gong tor ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Evening star., 1905-09-08
Warlike In Manchuria.

A cablegram from Lamatenz. Manchuria,
last night says: The result of the Ports
mouth conference was officially announced
to the Russian forces here today.
The army. however. IS still without official
orders from st. Petersburg TO cease its war
like activities and the situation Is intense.
The soldiers are waiting for an armistice
to be declared and they cannot understand
how Russia can talk peace while the Jap
anese continue reconnoisances in force and
outpost engagements. The fighting of Sep
tember in Korea cannot be understood
hare.