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CABBY EQUIPMENT
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Soldiers Bear All Luggage Made
Into Small Parcels on
Backs.
Space Economized in Manner
That Commands Admiration
i of Experts.
Equipment of Mikado's Warriors
Described in Letter From
Jack London.
Speoial to The Journal.
San Francisco, April 8.Jack Lon
don writes from Seoul to the Exam
iner as follows:
The Japanese soldiery and equip
ment seem to command universal ad
miration. Not one dissenting voice
is to be heard among: the European
and American residents in Korea. On
the contrary, favorable comparison is
made with our own troops and the
troops of Europe.
Dr. Wunsch, a German resident of
Seoul and a man of military experi
ence, was unmeasured in his praise of
the "little brown men," the "dwarfs,"
as the Koreans have called them from
old time.
What Dr. Wunsch especially re
marked was the lack of noise in the
issuing of orders on the part of the
officers. As he put it, there were
practically no sounds at all.
The Japanese soldiers executed ma
neuvers apparently without command.
At least there was none of the bellow
ing of commands such as he had been
accustomed to in his own experience.
American and British array officers,
pleased tho they are with the conduct
of the men, are especially concerned
With the equipment and commissariat.
Confessing that their own soldiers
would not be so quiet and orderly,
they go on to enlarge upon the equip
ment of the men and upon the whole
system of transporting them, provi
sioning them and getting them to the
front.
Luggage in Packages.
In the first place, food, luggage and
everything in the way of baggage
which must be carried with an army
are done up in packages which can
easily be handled by individuals un
aided, and which, if needs be, can be
Carried on the backs of men.
So there, are no army wagons nor
army mules. Pack horses and coolies
do the work: and, tho many Korean
bullock carts have been put Into serv
ice, there is no necessity for them.
The rice, which Is the staple food,
Is done up in sixty-pound sacks. One
coolie can carry a sack all day over
the most rugged country. Two sacks
go to make the load of a Korean pony,
tind from three to four sacks the load
tit a Japanese pony.
Meat is put up in half-pound tins,
eighty of which tins are incased In
a box. One horse under three of these
boxes carries one meat ration for a
company. Four horses carry a meat
ration for a battalion.
A sheet-Iron cylinder, carried in sec
tions, constitutes a camp stove. This
etove is 27 inches high and 80 inches
in diameter. In this the fire Is built
and Into It is fitted a sheet-iron kettle.
Into this, in turn, is fitted a per
forated kettle in which the rice is
cookedand cooked without scorch
ing. One kettle will cook rice for 100
men. Eight or nine such kettles will
Suffice for a battalion.
Men Carry Disinfectant.
Sodium sulphate In tins is part of
the soldier's outfit. It is to be doubt
id, in a country so fearfully unsani
tary as Korea, if a drop of healthy
drinking water can be found.
So the sodium sulphate, in little
flannel sacks, is placed in boiling wa
ter to precipitate the impurities, and
the "little brown -man" is thus given
a larger opportunity of dying on the
battlefield.
In small ootton bags, weighing lit
tle and occupying less space, are
emergency rations. This ration is
made of rice, boiled and then dried
In the sun till each grain has shrunk
to the size of a pinhead.
Each soldier carries six of these ra-
{heys
ion in his knapsack. On a pinch
would suffice him for days and
always it must be remembered that
rice is to the Japanese what bread
is to us, and butter and meat to boot.
The soldier's kit Is light and com
plete. Including 120 rounds of am
munition, it weighs 42% pounds. The
kit of the American soldier weighs 55
pounds. I may quote General Allen
as saying that the Japanese infantry
Is as well equipped as any In the
world.
The soldier's mess pan Is after the
German pattern aluminum and
blackened on the outside. It will hold
two rice rations, which, cooked in the
morning, he may carry with him for
the day. The water bottle, likewise
of aluminum, holds a full pint.
There are two methods of carrying
the kit. First, is the European knap
sack on the back second, and proba
bly the better, is the American bande
rolethe blankets rolled and twisted
over the shoulder and about the body.
Method of Carrying lilt.
Invconnection
with this is a sort of
narrow bag, open at both ends, six
Inches wide and four feet long, made
of blue cotton drill, which likewise
crosses the shoulder and winds about
the body.
A battalion varies in strength be
tween eight and nine hundred men.
Each battalion has a pack train of 180
ponies. This constitutes its camp
transport and immediate provisions for
a few days.
In addition to this, there is the
regimental train, variable in size and
composed of coolies, bulls, ponies,
carts and anything that can move and
carry weight.
Behind all this Is the etappe serv
ice, or relay stations, the func
I tlon of which is to keep food
and munitions moving in a con
stant stream to the front from the
base of supplies. This service is of
the most vital importance. When it
fails the soldiers at the front must
break ground and fall back.
Everything depends on the firing
line, but the firing line depends on
the etappe service.
The Japanese army rifle is a trifle
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Kentucky "Boys'* Build Pen of
Logs Around Victim and Set
It Afire.
New York Bun Special Service.
Owingsville, Ky., April 8.The ex
treme of cruelty has been reached in
Breathitt county by Tom Ben Combs
and his brother, Will, who are alleged
to have built a pen of logs around
the sleeping form of young Sam Jones,
set the logs afire and then left
their victim to his fate.
The killing took place Monday
night, but it was not known that
Jones was murdered until yesterday.
The Combs boys and Jones had been
to Jackson and left for their homes
on Troublesome creek. The next
morning the charred remains of
Jones were found. Only his face was
unmarked by the fire. The Combses
had disappeared.
A hunter fired at an object in the
underbrush on Troublesome creek and
Tom Ben Combs ran out begging for
his life. It is said that he then con
fessed that he and his brother Will
had burned Jones.
No arrest has yet been made.
Jones was a son of John Jones, who
was elisor of the court during the
Jett-White trials last June.
SPANISH DOWAGER
ON HER DEATHBED
Former Queen Isabella Asks to
See Her Grandson, King
Alfonso.
Paris, April 8.The condition of
former Queen Isabella of Spain is ex
ceedingly serious and causes appre
hension, owing to her advanced age
and the complications.
Her three daughters, the Infantas
Isabella, Eulalle and Marie, are now
at her bedside here.
It is said, but the report Is not con
firmed, that Queen Isabella has asked
to see her grandson, King Alfonso,
and a telegram to that effeot may be
sent to him.
GIRL AND FATHER
SLAIN BY SUITOR
Posse Pursues Murderer and He
Will Be Lynched if Cap
tured.
New York Sun Special Service,
Watervalley, Miss., April 8. A
double tragedy was enacted near here
yesterday, J. L. Kimsey and his daugh
ter, Miss Fannie, being killed by Miss
Fannle's sweetheart, Edward Gam
mons.
Gammons had been paying atten
tion to Miss Kimsey for some time,
and when her father, Sunday, ordered
him to cease his visits, he threatened
to wipe out the Kimsey family. Yester
day, he fatally Bhot the father and
daughter.
Gammons has for some time past
been employed on the Illinois Cen
tral railroad, and has borne a fairly
good reputation. He escaped after
the shooting, but a large posse is in
pursuit, and, if captured, he will prob
ably be lynched, as intense excitement
prevails.
$5,000,000 FOR
JAMES BAY R. R.
Mackenzie & Mann Ask Ontario
Legislature to Guarantee
Construction Bonds.
Speoial to The Journal.
Toronto, Ont, April 8.Legislation
to aid the James Bay railway, one
of the Mackenzie & Mann enterprises,
which may become a part of the Cana
dian Northern system, will be intro
duced in the Ontario legislature at
an early date.
Aid will take the form of a guar
antee of bonds to the extent of $20,-
000 a mile. It is estimated the road
will cost $30,000 a mile, and if the
government guarantees the bonds
mentioned the new railway between
Toronto and Sudbury will be estab
lished within a short time.
The distance is 265 miles, so that
the total amount of the bonds to be
guaranteed will be about $5,000,000.
SIX I E SUFFER
W TH KATY FLYER
The South-Bound Train Strikes
Spreading Rails and Coaches
Pile in Heaps.
Kansas City, Mo., April 8.Mis-
souri, Kansas & Texas flyer, No. 5,
which left St. Louis last night for
the south, was wrecked to-day near
Fort Scott, Kan.
The accident was caused by the
rails spreading. The engine left the
track first. Following it, the baggage
and the mail and express cars piled
up. The smoker and chair cars were
overturned and badly damaged.
Sixteen persons were injured, but
no one was killed. Two physicians
left Fort Scott on a hand car, arid
following them closely a wrecking
tra!n, borrowed from the Frisco rail
way, started for the wreck.
The injured were taken to VQT%\
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HEARST'S GRIP ON
PARTY RELAXES
Lines of Conservative Democracy
Beginning to Concentrate
Around Parker.
Democrats Expected to Seek Run
ning Mate for Judge in
Western. States.
Radicals Will Be Granted Nothing
Either in Platform or
Ticket.
From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building,,
Washington.
Washington, April 8.The lines of
conservative democracy are beginning
to concentrate around Judge Parker.
Cleveland is out in an interview in
dorsing his candidacy, and Gorman
has informed his friends in Washing
ton that Parker is the man who must
be nominated.
Representative southern democrats
in both houses of congress have come
out for him, and the movement is now
so well defined that it is past dispute
that the contest in the St. Louis con
vention will be between Hearst, rep
resenting the radical democracy and
the remnants of the Bryan following,
and Parker, representing the conserva
tives.
New York state, it is expected, will
instruct for Parker, and after its state
convention, to be held this month,
there probably will be a landslide to
Parker from the south and east. The
battleground will be in the west the
only section where Hearst is making
any headway worthy of serious con
sideration.
There is a feeling that Hearst may
be able to bringr about a long contest
in the convention. That he will have,
perhaps, a third of the delegates, is
one of the probabilities, and with it
the party managers must reckon.
Hearst Men Must Yield.
Chairman Jones maintains that no
democratic candidate having a major
ity of a national convention ever failed
eventually in securing the two-thirds
necessary to a nomination, and so he
believes in this case that, if Parker
goes to the convention with a major
ity, the Hearst minority must in the
end yield. Before it does so, however,
there is likely to be a very pretty fight.
Hearst will not be able to control
the platform. That will be written by
the conservatives, and a majority vote
will adopt it. On this important point,
therefore, the conservatives will be in
easy control.
Judge Parker's friends are already
making plans for his resignation from
the bench, and the newspapers, tak
ing it for granted that he will be nom
inated, are speculating as to his suc
cessor and making guesses as to what
he will say as soon as resignation un
seals his lips.
The first thing Parker will do after
nomination will be to resign from the
bench. This resignation will be fol
lowed by his formal statement The
outlines of this statement have already
been prepared.
Running Mate from West.
Should Parker be nominated, it is
said that the party will go to the west
for his running mate. If John Lind
of Minnesota were an American by
birth, he could have this place. Quite
an active boom for him was put un
der way recently, and those who were
back of it were disappointed to learn
on investigation that he was not eli
gible. The nominee for the vice pres-
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FRIDAY EVENING, .APRIL 8, 1904.
VUtcn for i he Jo real's War Map" irt Colors in To-MorrOw's Edition!
ROOTw RETAINED
IN MERGER SUIT
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Hill Secures Services of Former
Secretary in Fight With
Harriman.
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New York, April 8.Announcement
has been made of the engagement of
Elihu Root to represent the Northern
Securities company in its fight to pre
vent -E. H. Harriman from obtaining
control of the* Northern Pacific rail
road, as the result of a distribution
of the Northern Securities assets.
Mr. Root will be the second for
mer member of the cabinet to rep
resent the Northern Securities com
pany as special counsel, in co-opera
tion with the regularly employed at
torneys of the corporation.
When the government case was
first argued, John W. Griggs, attorney
general in the first McKinley cabinet,
represented the Northern Pacific road
merger as special coamseJ, With Jphn
G. Johnson ,of Phila'dftipijila, he also
represented the cqrpoi*t^oii bef orethe
United States suprisihevcourt. v!
The case in which Mr. Root will
appear is, to be argued before the
United States circuit court in St. Paul
next Tuesday. _.^
BEHEADED BY HIS SQDAW
WIFE OP BUCKSKIN JIM WAS
BURNING HIS REMAINS WHEN
APPREHENDED. Tekoa, Wash., April 8.A report is
current here that Buckskin Jim, an
aged Indian who lived on the Coeur
d'Alene reservation, seven miles from
Tekoa, has been brutally murdered by
his squaw.
The report says the squaw decapi
tated the body and was, burning the
remains when discovered by other
Indians. The squaw was allowed to
go to her home, and the Indians have
been concealing the tragedy.
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STILL HUNGRY.
The little Jap has finished one dish and is ready for the next.
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HOOKING. D.P- A
NEW 'TRANSCONF
Rockefeller Said to Have Secured
Control of Wisconsin Cen
tral Railroad.
Harriman to Have Eastern Outlet
if He Gets Northern
Pacific.
New Branch Will Make Route
Shortest Between Minneap
olis and Chicago.
Special to The Journal.
Chicago, April 8.John D. Rocke
feller is said to have succeeded in ob
taining control of the Wisconsin Cen
tral, and, in consequence, Important
changes in the management are
looked for.
The road, which at present is not
in the best physical condition, is to
be greatly improved. A survey has
just been completed for a cutoff, which
will make the Wisconsin Central the
shortest line between Minneapolis and
Chicago. The new line will branch
off at Marshfield, Wis., and run in a
bee-line to Milwaukee.
Owing to its line not being as direct
a route between Minneapolis and Chi
cago as the other roads, the Wiscon
sin Central has been laboring under
a great disadvantage, and it has been
accused of resorting to means that
were exceedingly objectionable to oth
er lines to secure a share of the busi
ness.
The competition of the Wisconsin
Central often has afforded the Great
Western a pretext for violation of
agreements with other roads. Under
the new ownership, it is said, the
Wisconsin Central will be run more
conservatively, and friction with its
competitors is to be avoided as much
as possible.
As the Rockefellers also are in con
trol of the Milwaukee & St. Paul,
there is some talk about an intention
to form a close traffic alliance be
tween the two roads, and it would
cause no great surprise if S Paul
were to assume the operation of the
Wisconsin Central.
The report is significant in view
of the present disagreement between
the dominant Interests in the North
ern Securities company. It is re
garded as meaning that Harriman will
have an outlet from the twin cities
to the east if he secures control of
the Northerg Paoifio,
DONOVAN DENIES
Was Not Summoned to St. Paul and
and Held No Conferences.
Special to The Journal.
Helena, Mont, April 8.Attorney
General James Donovan returned to
Helena last evening from St. Paul and
is emphatic in his denial of the story
published in that city that at the be
hest of the Great Northern officials he
intends to invoke the laws of Montana
to prevent the Harriman interests se
curing control of the Northern Pacific.
"I had no conference with the Great
Northern officials while in S Paul
about this matter," he said: "Nor
did I say anything to newspapermen
about it. In fact, the first I knew of it
was when I bought a Montana news
paper at Livingston yesterday. I was
not summoned to St. Paul by any one.
On the contrary, I came thru there on
my way home from WIshington city
and spent Tuesday there, remaining
from 7:30 in the morning until time
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MORMONS FLEE TO
ESCAPE THE AI
Parties of Recent Plural Mar
riages Surprised by Presi
dent Smith's Action.
Hew York Sun Special Service.
Salt Lake, Utah, April 8.The ac
tion of the general conference of the
Mormon church in declaring all who
may take plural wives will be liable to
excommunication and will not be pro
tected in any way, has given 'many
prominent Mormons visions of the
penitentiary.
The action of President Joseph F.
Smith in forcing this decision came as
an unpleasant surprise to those who
had recently entered into new plural
marriages.
There are some cases which the
senate committee already is preparing
to investigate and the principals are
frightened.
Subpoenas have been issued for An
gus M. Cannon and for Lillian Hamlin
Cannon. Mrs. Cannon is alleged
have been married polygamously to
three of Cannon's sons.
David and Abraham are dead, but
the third, now living, has left suddenly
for Canada and other prominent Mor
mons have disappeared.
Washington, April 8.By a vote of
eight to three the house committee
on irrigation to-day defeated the bill
to repeal the desert land laws.
Those voting against the bill were
Chairman Mondell of Wyoming and
Representatives Tirrill (Mass.),
Dwight (N. Y.), Marshall (N. D.),
Williamson (Oregon), Cooper (Pa.),
Hitchcpck (Neb.), and Bell (Cal.)
Those in favor of the repeal were
Representatives Reeder (Kan.), Van
duser (Nev.), and Underwood (Ala.)
SENATE RESENTS
BURTON'S ACTION
Attempt to Take Seat After Con-
T" viction May Lead to Prompt
Expulsion.
From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building,
Washington.
Washington, April 8.As the result
of the conviction of Senator Burton,
Senator Hansbrough, the republican
whip in the senate, is having a hard
time managing republican pairs.
Nobody* apparently wants to be
linked with Burton in an executive
pair and after trying for several days
to arrange the matter satisfactorily,
Mr. Hansbrough gave up in despair.
If it should prove true that Burton
is now on his way to Washington for
the purpose of taking his seat in con
gress, there probably will be some
thing doing here.
The feeling is quite general that
he ought not be permitted to enter
the senate, and if he insists on doing
so he will precipitate a crisis and
cause the senate to take prompt action
on his case.
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DEFEATS DESERT
LAND LAW REPEAL
House Committee, by Vote
Eight to Three, Decides
Against Bill.
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TORNADO KILLS
THREE IN TEXAS
Storm Injures Nine Other Per
sons and Damages Houses
and Crops.
Houston, Texas, April 8.A tornado
which passed near the town of Mexia
killed^three persons and injured nine
others, three, it is feared, fatally.
The dead are Mr. and Mrs. John
Ballard and their 4-year-old child.
They were killed outright. Many
houses were demolished and much
damage done growing cropa
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RUSSIANl MOYE A Sl
MENACE TO PEACE
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Europe Scents International Com*
plications in Step Taken
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Feverish Activity in Black Sea
and Naval Mobilization *&
Arouses Suspicion.
Interpreted as Defiance of Pow
ers in Passage of Darda-
nelles.
Now York Sun Speoial Service.
London, April 8.The feverish ac
tivity of Russia in the Black sea and
the calling out of all the naval re*
serves, with Sebastopol as the mobiliz
ing center, attracts wide attention.
All the papers here this morning
comment on it and make It quite a
startling feature. In the chancellories
of Europe, this move of Russia's is
considered a menace to continental
peace.
It is largely construed as meaning
a threat against Turkey and Bulgaria.
By others, it is thought to be a prepa
ration for a coup d'etat, the forcings
of the Dardanelles in defiance of all
the powers.
If Russia should go to such an ex
treme without warning, it would cer
tainly mean war in Europe, for, de
spite the overwhelming force she
would show Turkey, the sultan would
be promptly backed up by England
and, peradventure, the entire triplet
alliance.
Berlin and Parte papers, like thoser
of London, make this, Russia's latest
move, the feature of the war news
this morning.
JAPANESE CROSS YALTJ
Front Extends for Sixty Miles on Man*
churian Side of River.
New York Sun Speoial Bervioe.
London, April 8.The Japanese*
now appear to have crossed the Yalu
and to hold the left bank of,the rivet}
from its mouth.
Their left flank is at Yongampho,
on the estuary, and, as they hold
Unsan, their right flank may be at
Pyokdong, sixty miles up the stream*
or even farther. The Japanese force
apparently is composed of the guards,
the second and the twelfth divisions.
Two more divisions, the first and
third, are reported to be-in trans-!
ports near yongampho. These may
be intended txTland on either bank of
the river, according to events and to
the nature of the operations of the
next fow days.
Some days probably must be al
lowed for the movement of the Japa
nese troops to concentrate behind the
screen formed by the Yalu, and to
reconnoiter the strength and positions)
of the enemy in their front.
MOVEMENTS MYSTERIOUS
Russian and Japanese Warships Cruis
ing in Same Waters.
New York Sun Speoial Service.
Wei-hai-wei, April 8.The move
ments of warships in the straits be
tween here and Port Arthur during
the last two or three days have been
most mysterious.
Yesterday morning the Rusisan
cruiser Bayan came within thirty
miles of Wei-hai-wei, chased and
overhauled the press dispatch boat
Haimun. Later, the presence of an
other Russian cruiser in the straits
was made known and still later a
number of Japanese warships were
sighted.
These reports have given rise to
rumors of a naval engagement at sea,
but of this there is no confirmation.
UPRISING IN KOREA
Native Soldiers Join Tongnanks in
Movement Against Japanese.
New York Son Speoial Sorvioe.
London, April 8.The Telegraph's
correspondent at Seoul wires:
A sudden uprising of Tongfranks
has taken place in the neighborhood
of Pieng Yang. The rebels believe
the ultimate result of the war will be
detrimental to the Koreans and that
therefore it Is expedient now to or
ganize bands for the purpose of loot
ing districts.
Of the 1,000 Korean soldiers form
ing the garrison of Pieng Yang, 600
have deserted before the outbreak of
the war and 400 have deserted since,
leaving 100 men in the barracks.
It is believed that the deserters ar
in leagu.e. wit.h. th.e. Tongnanks.,........
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