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UNITED STATES TORPTDO BOAT
HEADS OFF JAPANESE.
Shanghai Gets Excited—Japs Were Af
ter Russian Cruiser Askold Under
going Repairs—Russian Consul Gen-
eral Refuses to Disarm Askold or to
Leave Harbor—She Is Docked.
Shanghai, Aug. 22.—Shanghai was
thrown into a fever of excitement this
afternoon by the arrival of a Japanese
torpedo boat, which was sighted com
ing in from the south at 4:30 o'clock.
She passed Woosung at full speed and
started up the river for Shanghai. The
United States torpedo boat destroyer
Chauncey slipped her cable and fol
lowed the destroyer.
The Japanese boat was cleared for
action. She anchored off the Cosmo
politan dock, where the Russian cruis
er Askold is undergoing repairs. The
Chauncey came to anchor practically
between the dock and the Japanese
destroyer.
A foreign pilot ship reports having
seen a Japanese battleship and two
cruisers cruising 60 miles outside Woo
sung. There are at present no Chinese
men of war in this port, but the tao
tai has telegraphed that a Chinese
cruiser be sent immediately. The Rus
»ian consul general here flatly refuses
to disarm the Askoid and the Rus
sian torpedo boat destroyer, or to or
der them to leave the harbor.
The taotai has netified American
Consul Goodnow, who Is dean of the
consular body, that China can not pro
tect the foreign settlements. He con
tends that Russia ignores the orders
issued by China, and that China has
no means of making her obey them.
Consul Goodnow has called a meet
ing of the consular body for 10 o'clock
tomorrow to take joint action for the
protection of foreign interests. Tho
Askoid is docked adjacent to the ware
houses here of the Standard Oil com
pany, which are valued at over $1,000,
--000. The Standard Oil company has
demanded protection for its property
from Consul Goodnow.
The dock where the Askoid lies is
owned by British interests. "On one
side of this dock is German and Dutch
property, and on the other side Ameri
can property.
There are eight American, one Ger
man, two British and four French war
snips here.
PRIZES WON BY KNIGHTS.
Girard, Kan., Company Takes the Big
Purse.
Louisville, Ky.—The biennial en
campment of the Knights of Pythias
closed with the announcement of the
awards in the prize drill. The prizes
are as follows:
Class A, free to all companies—
First prize, $1000, won by Mystic, No.
12, Girard, Kan.; second, $900, Geor
gia, No. 1, Savannah; third, $700, Ko
komo, No. 6, Kokomo, Ind.
Class B for companies that have
never won at a supreme encampment
—First, Battle Creek, No. 12, Battle
Creek, Mich.; second, Pasadena, No.
32, Pasadena, Cal.; third, Custer, No.
56, Greenville, Pa.
Class C, all companies organized
since 1902—First prize, Ivy, No. 35,
Rushville, Ind.
Cavalry prize won by Burns Huz
zars, St. Joseph, Mo.
Artillery prize won by battery A,
No. 32, Wheeling, W. Va.
New Albany, Ind., won the $300
prize for the largest company in the
encampment, Nashville second.
The Seattle company won the prize,
showing the greatest mileage, with
Pasadena second.
NEEDED INSTITUTION.
Spokane to Have a Useful Enter
prise.
Work has started on furnishing the
new women's hotel at Sprague avenue
and Madison street, where girls and
women may get noonday lunch, or
may live at moderate cost.
The hotel will be formally opened
September 1. The plans are to ac
commodate 45 girls and women with
botu rooms and board, and from 185
to 250 can be given meals at cheap
rates. The permanent guests will pay
from $3 to $4.50 per week, while mem
bership cards at 25 cents per month
will entitle a girl to a cup of tea and
bread and butter each day. Other
dishes will be priced at 5 cents each,
so that one may get a good lunch for
15 cents.
Girls who come to the city witn
good credentials in search of work
will be cared for without charge for a
week or so until they are able to find
work.
Assassin Reported Dead.
St. Petersburg.—lt is rumored here
that the assassin of M. Yon Plehve,
minister of the interior, died a few
days ago.
Peculiarities govern.
WASHINGTON NCWS
Mrs. M. K. Gray has been appointed
postmaster at Pasco.
Ueorge M. Wilson is manager of the
second annual Wunur' fair.
The fall term of the Waitsburg pub
lic schools will open on August 29.
Dissatisfaction is expressed at St.
John because of the poor mail service.
It is said that Spokane stands sec
ond only to Los Angeles as a bicycle
town.
The hay harvest in Kittitas valley
is practically over and the balers are
at work in all directions.
Company L, N. G. W., at Colfax, has
been mustered out of service because
of a lack of competent officers.
The most serious of the forest fires
in this part of the state appear to be
in the northern part of King county.
Sportsmen are having no trouble in
bagging plenty of birds this season
around Chelan, as they are plentiful.
Whitman county's yield of wheat is
enormous. Conservative men place to
tal at between 12,000,000 and 14,000,
--000.
The Whitman county fair will be
held at the association grounds just
west of Colfax from October 12 to 18,
inclusive.
R. C. McCroskey of Garfleld sold
30,000 bushels of club and red wheat
Saturday to Kerr Gifford & Co. for
66 cents.
Frederick William Round, Jr., a lo
comotive fireman, 22 years old, ended
his life with a pistol at Tacoma Sat
urday last.
T. J. Demereßt of Palouse has just
sold to W. J. Demerest of Salem, Ore.,
his patent right on a compressed air
water elevator.
The people of the Chelan country
tnink they have a real live volcano in
addition to many other interesting
natural features.
Saloon man Portz of Uniontown was
victim of masked thugs recently. They
secured $250 in cash, $54 in checks
and a gold watch.
The plans submitted for the county
bridge over the Okanogan river at
Riverside have been approved by the
secretary of war.
Twelve of the leading Knight Tem
plar commanderies of various eastern
cities will pass through Spokane on
their way to San Francisco.
Jesse Reeder was killed and fear
fully mangled in a threshing machine
accident recently near Texas lake, 15
miles southwest of St. John.
Work web begun this week exca
vating for the foundation and swim
ming tank for the new gymnasium for
Whitman college, at Waila Walla.
Twelve adults and 23 children are
homeless as result of what is thought
to be an incendiary fire which burned
over Fourth Plain, five miles east of
Vancouver.
George L. Woerheide, apparently of
cultured family in St. Louis, commit
ted suicide in Spokane because he
would not stoop to an inferior position
in the community.
Frederick Campbell, the 11 year old
son of Rufus Campbell, a farmer living
six miles west of Sprague, was drown
ed Saturday morning in Colville lake.
He had gone swimming.
Tommy Burns of Chicago defeated
"Cyclone" Kelley of San Francisco at
Taconaa recently in the fourth round
of what was to be a 20 round match
with a right to the heart.
A few days ago Fred Ripley of
Stehekin rowed a small boat from the
head to the foot of lake Chelan in a
little over 12 hours. The distance is
supposed to be about 60 miles.
Many fields of wheat that farmers
estimated would make 40 and 50 bush
els per acre before harvest show at
threshing time a crop of 30 to 40
bushels instead.
Fire broke out in the stockyards of
the Great Northern at Hillyard. Two
warehouses were burned. The buiTd
ings were filled with outfitters' tools,
and the loss is estimated at about
|6000. The cause of the fire is un
known.
The mystery surrounding the disap
pearance of William McKenzie of Bell
ingham, who was last seen two weeks
ago in company with Miss Kate Bast,
was cleared away today by the dis
covery of both the bodies floating in
the water of Lake Whatcom.
At present there are 7,240,760 acres
of forest reserve in Washington, and
it is proposed to increase it by with
drawing 2,782,000 acres more. It is
probable that 403,000 acres of the
Walla Walla reserve will be eliminat
ed, leaving a total ot 397,440 acres in
this reserve.
John A. Parker, E. F. Messinger and
Newton Peer of Tacoma have sold 23,
--000 acres of raw land in Douglas coun
ty to T. J. Bray and L. J. Fitzsimmons
of Grinnell, lowa, for about $70,000.
The land is in township 18 of ranges
24 and 25, and lies from six to 18 miles
east of the Columbia river, between
Gualquit rapids and Island rapids.
A. M. McCoy's planing mill and lum
ber yard was totally destroyed by fire
Sunday. It was one of the hottest fires
in the history of Waitsburg. The fire
department answered promptly and
did heroic work in saving the adjoin
ing buildings. The loss is $20,000; in
surance, $8300.
PATENT STEEL TEMPERING.
Blacksmiths of Republic Are Inventors
of the System.
Weston & Graham, a lilacksmithing I
firm of Republic, Wash., claim to have
developed a process for tempering
steel likely to surpass anything of the
kind ever before brought to light.
The process consists of the use of i
certain chemicals in water or oil in
the tempering vessel, but what those
chemicals are is the firms secret. It
is claimed that by their use any kind
of a tool from a blunt hammer head
to a keen edged razor can be tempered
to a perfection rifver before realized.
In a correspondent's presence Mr.
Graham, with an ax tempered by this
new process, cut several big gashes in
a cold bar of steel without dulling the
edge. Such a blow as was dealt at
the bar with any other kind of tern
pering would have broken a hip; gap
in the blade of the ax. if it did not
destroy it for all further use.
Mr. Graham says he thinks the pro
cess is as perfect as it ever can be.
John Nieber took a set of 31 drills
with him to the south half which had
been sharpened and tempered by the
process and used them 40 days in driv
ing the tunnel on the Waseo mine,
through the hardest kind of rock, with
out the need of resharpening.
AMERICA UNGRATEFUL.
Russia Tells of Her Past Devotion to
United States.
The Indiana members of congress
have received copies of a pamphlet
published in St. Petersburg, Russia,
entitled, "Services Rendered by Rus
sia to the American People During the
War of the Rebellion." The pamphlet
contains a recital of the attitude of
Russia toward the Union in the civil
war as contrasted with the attitude of
Great Britain.
It is charged that persons with let
ters of marque, issued by Jefferson
Davis, used English ports as a base
of operations, which ruined the mara
time commerce of the northern states.
"These souvenirs," says the pamph
let, "have not had time to fade away,
but we are already subjected to the
painful spectacle of what human in
consistency can do. While generous
blood is flowing far away in the de
fense of Port Arthur, this same people
that we remember having loved so re
cently is fraternizing with the Japan
ese and drifting into one of those
stampedes, which, 'n this age of emo
tion, one is almo. tempted to call
'political mob hyf.ftia,'."
IDAHO SQUIBS.
Hope is surrounded by fire.
The public schools of Orofino will
open Monday, September 5.
Tne constitutionality of the Idaho
game law has been sustained by Judge
Morgan of Harrison.
The Genesee bank has placed an
order with a Philadelphia house for
regulation band uniforms.
Ex-Senator Heitfeld is advocating
the building of a railroad connecting
northern and southern Idaho.
F. H. Holzeheimer, in a letter to
Chairman Jackson, has declined the
democratic nomination for congress.
Grain harvest is in full swing around
Genesee, and a number of teams are
already hauling wheat to the ware
houses.
Mrs. Mary E. Sweeney has been ap
pointed postmaster at Morrow, Nez
Perce county, vice Charles K. Davis,
resigned.
The Burke miners' union will dedi
cate its new hall by giving a grand
ball in the building on Labor l>ay,
Monday, September 5.
Sheriff Keane has returned to Mos
cow from a two days' search for the
parties who broke into the O. R. &
N. depot and cut open three mail
sacks.
Smoldering ruins mark the spot
where the thriving and prosperous vil
lage of Ho stood. Fire started in a
barber shop and wiped out the town
with the exception of the Ho Hard
ware company's building, in which is
located the Ho bank. All other buil-j
ness houses and dwellings were de
stroyed.
Senator Duboll has received advice
of the successful passage of his exam
ination for admittance to the naval
academy at Annapolis of Leslie C. Da
vis of Grangeville. Davis was appoint
ed midshipman by President Rr>osevelt
on the recommendation of Senator Du
bois.
The state hoard of equalization has
decided to make no changes in rail
road assessments. On merchandise
the board decided upon a decrease of
10 per cent in Ada county and 5 per
cent in Canyon, and an increase of 10 i
per cent in Custer, 20 per cent in |
Kootenai, 10 per cent in Latah, 6 per j
cent in Lemhi and 12 per cent in Sho- {
shone.
Swedish restaurant keepers of the
old fashioned sort charge less for a
woman's meal than a man's on the
theory that she is physically unable to
eat bo much. A married couple trav
eling together are debited at many ho
tels as one person and a half.
Spokane Markets.
Vegetables—Asparagus, 10c lb; now
potatoes, 2@2V&c 1°; turnips. 3@sc per
bunch; lettuce, 4@sc head; dry onions
4<Q)sc lb; cabbage, 4@6c lb; cucum
bers, 6@)Bc each; green onions, 10<9>
15c dbz; radishes. 5c bunch; rhubarb,
3<g>sc lb; green peas, s<o>Bc lb; new
beets, 3 bunches 10c; spinach, 2%@
3c lb; watercress, 6c bunch; string
jeans, B@loc lb; fresh carrots, 'J,
bunches sc; mint, 6c bunch; tomatoes,
B@l2c lb; parsnips, 2 bunches sc;
cmiU'loups, l^lOo each; cauliflower,
LOQlfo bunch; watermelons, 2f>@>4oc
each; summer squash, 10® 15c each;
crooked neck squash, 10@15c each.
Fruits— lemons, 25@;H0c dot; cher
ries, s@Sc lb; blackberries, 8@
10c box; raspberries. 80100 pint;
red curarnts, 8010 c box; plums, 6c lb;
apricots, 7@Be lb; peaches. sfa)Bc lb;
new apples, 4c lb; grapes, 10c lb.
Poultry—Dressed chickens, young
chickens, 18c lb; hens, 18c lb; old
roosters, 14@16c lb; spring duckH, 60
0750 each; goslings, 20c lb; spring
chickens, 40@50c each.
Eggs—New laid eggs, 25®30c doz;
eastern eggs, 20@25c doz.
Dairy Products —Butter, best cream
ery, 25@30c lb; common creamery, 20
@25c lb; best country, 20c lb; com
mon country, 12ȣtfi)15c lb; imported
Swiss cheese, 40c lb; American Swiss
cheese, 25c lb; cream brick cheese, 20
lb; New York cheese, 20c lb;
Wisconsin cheese, 15c lb.
Flour —Eastern fancy patents, $1.65
@1.75 sack; local patents, $1.30 Back;
standard, $1.20 sack; lowest, $1.10 sk;
Washington wheat, $4.40@4.75 bbl;
buckwheat, 40@[>\)c 10 lb sack.
Grain and Feed —Timothy, 85@90c
cwt; alfalfa, 85®90c cwt; oats, $1.45
cwt; corn, $1.50 cwt; chopped corn,
$1.60 cwt; bran, 1)0@95c cwt; bran ano
shorts, $1@1.05 cwt; shorts, $1.25 cwt;
wheat, $1.40 cwt; chopped barley, $1.30
@1.35 cwt; oil meal, 2MjC lb; seed
oats, $1.50 cwt.
City hay market —Local timothy has
$15; oat hay, $13® 14; wheat hay, $15.
Wholesale Produce Prices.
New potatoes, $1.75 cwt; summer
squash, $1 box; blackberries, $1.50@2
per crate; peaches, 50®80c box; to
matoes, $1.50 crate; sweet cherries,
60@75c box; sour cherries, 4c lb; apri
cots, 75@S0c box; cucumbers, 75c box
of 20 lbs; cabbage, 2c pound.
Wholesale Feed Prices.
Bran, $17 ton; bran and shorts, $18
ton; oats, $1.35 cwt; wheat, $1.20 cwt;
chopped corn, $1.55 cwt; whole corn,
$1.45 cwt; timothy hay, $16 ton; al
falfa hay, $13.
Prices Paid to Producers.
Vegetables and Fruits —Peas, 4c 1b;
carrots and beets, 20c doz bunches;
string beans, 5c lb.
Poultry and Eggs—Chickens, roost
ers, 10c lb; hens, 12@13c live weight;
young chickens, $3@4.60 doz; turkeys,
dressed, 18@20e lb; geese and ducks,
12@14c lb; eggs, $5.50@6 case,
Live Stock —Steers, $3 cwt; wethers,
$3 cwt; hogs, $5@5.30 cwt; veal, $5@
6 cwt.
Creamery Products, f. o. b. Spokane
—First grade creamery butter fat, per
lb, 21% c.
Hay—Timothy, $15 ton; alfalfa, 13
ton; oats, $1.10@1.20 cwt.
Mrs, Maybrick
Arrives Home
New York.—After an absence of 15
: years, 10 of which were spent in an
English prison, Mrs.Florence Maybrick
has caught the first glimpse of her na
tive land. Accompanied by S. V. Hay
■ den of Washington, D. C, Mrs. May
| brick will go at once to the lodge of
I Dr. Kmmett Densmore, near Ellenville,
in the Catskill mountains. Dr. Dens
more and his wife have been interested
in Mrs. Maybrick for many years and
' while with them she will undergo
treatment for her eyes, which are weak
ened by the sudden light after her long
stay in the English prison. Her mother
will join her nt Elleuville in a short
time.
Mr. Haydeu, her attorney,will make
preparations for pressing the suit
against D.\V. Armstrong of Richmond,
Va., who, Mrs. Maybrick and her
■ mother allege, defrauded them out of h
! fortune in mineral IhikU.
Firemen Overcome by Gas.
Chicago.— The fire, as a result of
: lightning, caused a loss of $60,000 to
the plant of the Nubian Paint & Var
nish company. Fifty-first avenue and
I Moffatt street. Explosions of tanks of
| oil and varnish endangered the lives
iof firemen, five of them and a volun
teer being overcome by the gas and
smoke.
Tornado Kills Four People.
Glencoe, Minn. —A tornado struck
i the towns of Rich Valley and Bergen,
I killing four persons, Mary O'Donnell,
i aged 13, daughter of Patrick O'Don-
I nell, and the 7 year old son of Anthony
I O'Donnell, and Frederick Cross and
his mother, and destroying thousands
of acres of grain and many barns.
Appendcitis has caused the death of
| a chimpanzee at the Pasteur institute
in Paris, says the Petit Journal.
Four thousand pigeons in the heart
of London have become a nuisance.
CRUISER NOVIK WAS BEACHED
AFTER SEVERE ENGAGEMENT
SHE WAS SENT ASHORE.
Japanese Greyhounds Caught up t«
Novik After Her Escape—Shell of
Novik Sunk the Tsushima—Jap«
Suffered No Casualties—Fate of
Novik's Crew Unknown.
Tokio, Aug. 22.—After a severe en
gagement with the protected cruiaera
Chitose and Tsushima, the meyhoundg
of the Japanese navy, the fleet Rus
sian cruiser Novik haH been vanquish
ed. The fight occurred today. Alter
it, the Novik, In a sinking condition,
was run ashore in Korsakovsk harbor,
on the island of Sakhalien.
The details of this Hea fight are not
known here, but it is evident that the
ChitoHe and Tsushima taught up with
the Novik and that a running fight
ensued.
Captain Sukcichirn Takahashi, who
is in command of the Chitose, reports
the engagement in a brief telegram.
He says he first attacked the Russia*
cruiser Saturday afternoon, and that
on Sunday morning he Inflicted heavy
damage upon her. The Novik nearly
sank, but she was beached at Korsak
ovsk.
A shell from the Novik struck the
Tsushima in a bunker. Temporary re
pairs, however, rendered the Japanese
cruiser seaworthy and she continued
to light.
The Japanese suffered no casualties.
The imperial prince, Yorihito of the
house of Higashi Kushima, is second
in command on hoard the Chitose. Cap
tain Bento commanded the Tsushima.
Korksakovsk is a port, on tho south
ern roast of Sakhalien, off the coast
of Siberia, and about 550 miles north
east of Vladivostok.
Fate of Crew Not Known.
The fate of the crew of the Novik
is not known, hut it is thought they
abandoned their vessel and landed at
Korsakovsk.
The news of the destruction of the
Novik has been received in a curious
manner by the Japanese public. From
a practical standpoint it is highly sat
isfactory, for the Novik could have
been most, dangerous as a commerce
destroyer; but, considering the matter
from a sentimental standpoint, mucb
regret is expressed at the loss. The
Novik has been splendidly handled
and bravely fought throughout the
war, and the Japanese naval officers
and the public generally have fre
quently expressed admiration for the
cruiser, her commander and her crew.
Flight of the Novik.
The Novik was one of the Russian
Meet that steamed out from Port Ar
thur on the morning of August 10 to
force its way through the Japanese
lines.
Fort After Fort
Taken by Japs
Cbefoo, Aug. 25. — A junk which
left Liaotai promontory the night of
August 21 has arrived here. She re
ports that the Japanese have succeeded
in occupying the Antshan forts as well
as another fort, probably Etseshan,
about a mile southwest of Antshan.
They have driven the Russians from
the parade ground, which lies about
two miles north of the harhor. They
have destroyed two forts at Chacchan
ko, which is within the eastern fortifi
cation, and they have advanced to a
point near Chaochanko. This newa
confirms information previously re
ceived The junk heard firing about
midnight of Augut 22. Scarcefily a
building in Port Arthur remains un
damaged. The town hull, which was
used as a magazine, has been destroy
ed. Four large warships, unable to
tight, are at Port Arthur. OaJy
ship, a vessel with two masts an«l 4 two
tunnels, has guns on board.
The fire of the forts not captured by
the Japanese, together with the effect
of the land mines, is given as thej rea
■oll why the Japanese have not yet con
quered the Kussian stronghold.
Admiral Katato reports tnat as the
RusHian battleship Sevastopol [wait
emerging from Port Arthur she skuck
a mine, after which she was seen to be
listing to starboard. >She wais towe4
back into harbor.
Salt Lake Suicide.
Halt Lake, Utah, Aug. 24.— W. 8.
Vcrmilliou, a druggist, of this city,
committed suioide by shooting shooting
himself. The peculiar circumstances
at first led to the theory that a murder
11ad been committed.
Another Resignation.
Boise, Idaho, Aug. 23.— W. A. Stuf
fiebeam of Black foot has notified Chair
man Jackson of the democratic state
committee of his withdrawal as the
party nominee for state auditor. H«
assign** buaineiM reasons as the cause.
Mont danger lints are hidden.
