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PRICE" TWO CENTS.
A LONG DEFENSE
OF HIS RECORD
Former State Auditor and Present
Candidate for Governor
Speaks at Last.
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EXPLANATIONS BY
CANDIDATE DUNN
WAEM ROAST FOR VAN
SANT AND JOHNSON
Admits that His Clerks Got Valu
able Mineral LeasesThe
Timber Depredations.
R. C. Dunn has given out his reply
to the charges implied the recent re
ports of Public Examiner S. T. John
son.
Practically all the reply is given over
to the timber permit matters. The
facts in the report as to mineral leases
are admitted, and ignoring the law
which prohibits officials from having
any interest in contracts with whicn
they have an official connection, Mr.
Dunn claims that his action was per
octlv legal and justifiable. The leases
to which his employees secured title he
maintains were properly issued.
The statements in the timber permit
report are replied to in detail, in a
statement prepared by Mr. Dunn's
former employees, and certified by
State Auditor Iverson, who was Mr.
Dunn's deputy. This statement un
dertakes to show in each case, either
that the state did not lose anything, or
else that the loss was no fault of the
auditor.
Space does not permit a full analysis
of the reply today. Generally speak
ing, however, it is evident that in the
cases where Mr. Johnson is corrected,
it is owing to the incompleteness of the
auditor's records, from which he made
the report. For instance, in the first
case mentioned, there was a settlement
of $17,304 made by the efforts of the
pine land investigating committee.
There Is no record of this payment in
the stumpage book, which is the legal
record, and is supposed to contain all
estimates and settlements in the proper
place, under the page given to each
tract of state land.
As to the second case, the public ex
aminer made the criticism that, the per
mit-holder having become bankrupt,
some attempt should have been made to
collect from the bondsmen. His inves
tigation showed that they were respon
sible. The answer dismisses the mat
ter with the mere statement that these
"bondsmen were not financially respon
sible. If so, this was negligence on tlfe
part of the auditor, for the permit had
been running only tow^mon^hs when Mr.
Dunn went into office, and it was his
duty to see that all outstanding permits
were covered with valid bonds. At
anv rate, it would have been easy.to get
a judgment and test the financial re
sponsibilitv of the bondsman. But no
attempt was made.
State Always Loser.
One fact* is noted in many of the
cases. When timber was burned over,
the state did not collect for it. Tt
should not have been a loss to the
state, for when the permit was issued
the buyer became responsible for all
the timber on the land, whether cut
or not, and gave bond to secure the
state. The state did not have to de
liver the timber to the purchaser. It
was held at his risk. But the auditor
did not enforce the permits. A pri
vate individual or corporation that had
sold timber would expect the "buyer to
a for it, or failing that, his sureties,
these cases, as handled by Mr.
Dunn, the loss fell on the state, and
never on the buyer. The law provides
that only such timber shall be sold as is
liable to waste bv fire or wind. The in
tention is to get this timber cut, and to
relieve the state of the risk of loss.
The buyer assumes responsibility, and is
bound under surety to pay the state
for all of it. "Under Mr. Dunn's man
agement, when the timber was burned
or stolen, the state, and not the buyer,
stood the loss.
Public Evaminer Johnson was seen
this morning in regard to Mr. Dunn's
reply. He said he had not had time to
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ALL BANKING ON
THE 'SILENT VOTE'
A Great Factor in the Primary
Election Which Comes To
morrow.
Polls Will Be Open from 6 a.m.
to 9 p.m.Saloons to
Close.
For full list of
places see page five.
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VOTERS' LEAGUE RECOMMENDATIONS
DemocraticVote for Young.
SECOND WARD.'
Alderman.
Republican-Vote for Satterlee.
County Commissioner.
RepublicanVote for McMullen
or Hamilton.
Democratic!Vote for Young.
FOURTH WARD.
Alderman.
RepublicanVote for Stark
weather.
County Commissioner.
(All east of Hennepin avenue.)
RepublicanVote for Cook to
beat Nash.
FIFTH WARD.
County Commissioner.
RepublicanVote for Cook to
beat Nash.
SIXTH WARD.
County Commissioner.
RepublicanVote for Johnson.
SEVENTH WARD.
County Commissioner.
RepublicanVote for Johnson.
THE VOTERS
JOHN CROSBY, Chairman.
Minneapolis polling
What will be the vote cast at to
morrow's primary election?
This is today's great question in po
litical circles. There seems to prevail
an opinion that the people at large have
not taken a particularly keen interest
in this primary campaign that most of
them have remained away from political
meetings, and will vote independent of
the usual campaign influences. This
has made politicians believe there will
be a large silent vote'' cast, and all
the leading candidates are making great
claims as to the share of these ballots
each is to receive. Jones, Williamb
and Schlener
arthei
all
lisilents
Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 17, 1904.
The Voters' League, after a careful investigation of the rocords and
qualifications of the various candidates for the nomination for aldermen
and county commissioners, makes the following recommendations to the
voters of Minneapolis:
FIRST WARD,
Alderman.
No recommendations.
County Commissioner.
RepublicanVote for McMullen
or Hamilton.
EIGHTH WARD.
Alderman.
RepublicanVote for Walker.
DemocraticVote for Haynes.
County Commissioner.
RepublicanVote for Cook to
beat Nash.
NINTH WARD.
Alderman.
RepublicanVote for Lunquist.
DemocraticVote for Castner.
County Commissioner.
RepublicanVote for McMullen
or Hamilton.
DemocraticVote for Young.
ELEVENTH WARD.
Alderman.
RepublicanVote for Jacobson.
DemocraticVote for Professor
Wilhelm Petterson.
County Commissioner.
RepublicanVote for Johnson.
TWELFTH WARD
Alderman.
RepublicanVote for Adams.
DemocraticVote for Stockwell.
County Commissioner.
RepublicanVote for Johnson.
THIRTEENTH WARD.
Alderman.
RepublicanVote for Schoon
maker.
County Commissioner.
RepublicanVote- for Cook to
beat Nash.
LEAGUE,
By the Executive Committee,
W. Y. CHUTE, Secretary.
THE MINNEAPOLIS
tellingeofo silent vote'leaders figures men ar
receivewhich claims, if true, would
total up moM votes than probably will
be cast in Minneapolis ana St. Paul to
gether.
The same may be said of, existing
conditions with all the republican can
didates for nomination for congress.
Two years ago at the primaries, the
republican vote for mayor totaled 20,-
456 the democratic vote, 9,671. The
general opinion seems to be that this
year the republican vote will perhaps
reach 21,000 or 22,000, with the demo
cratic vote falling off to not more than
9,000 at the most. The increase in the
republican vote is looked for because
of the increased number of republicans
aspiring for nominations, all of them
hustling to get out the vote. And the
decrease in the democratic vote is be
ing charged to the same reason, on the
ground that many of the
have democratirepublican friends
who will vote the republican ticket at
the primaries.
It is generally expected that the vote
for mayor with each party will lead
in the number of ballots cast. Next,
doubtless, will come the vote for con
gressional aspirants.
Everv effort i to be
forth the
madetomorrowg
to brin
vote"
There is hardly a liverystable in the
city where every rig has not already
been engaged to be used in the inter
ests of some special candidate.
Some Dem Walkaways.
T.feere are some men seeking nomina
tions who have little -ca9e^^**ra*^
over the result of the
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4 battle of bal
lots." This is particularly true among
the democrats. Out of the forty-three
places on the ticket to be filled, there
are contests in but twelve. In most
of these places, where no contests ex
ist, the men running were induced to
do so by the democratic county com
mitteeand rumor says that most of
their expenses have been so far met
by the committee. George Douglas,
chairman, was anxious to have a dem
ocratic candidate for every office, even
tho in many cases the democratic nom
inee has no show it makes the ticket
"look" better for democracy as a
whole.
Among the republicans things are
somewhat different. Candidates filed
for every office without any pleading
being necessary. In fact, there were
many pleadings for late filers to stay
out of the race because of the number
alrfeady in certain fields.
Many G. O. P. Contests.
With the republicans there are but
seven places uncontested for. Hugh
Scott will walk into the nomination as
county auditor without worry. Karl
De Laittre and George T. D. Baxter
will secure nominations to the house
in the thirty-eighth district without
contest. On the aldermanic ticket, five
men among the republicans are in a like
position, with no contestsEllis in the
first ward, Mumm in the third ward,
Holmes in the fifth, Nelson in the sixth
and McLaskev in the seventh. There
are aldermanic contests among the
VOTERS' MINDS
ARE MADE UP
Extraordinary Lack of Curiosity
Shown in Campaign, Says
W.alter Wellman.
Veyr York Sun Special Service.
Chicago, Sept. 19.Walter Wellman
in a New York special to the Record
Herald says:
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Political
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campaign we have ever had.
he manage-s at the rival camps agree
that the predominant feature is a lack of
interest on the part of the people as a
whole. The people are not indifferent,
but they are not curious. There is
nothing they seem to be in doubt about.
Apparently they have made up their
minds, and need neither spellbinders nor
documentsf to enlighten them.
One the republican managers, a
man of long experience,
situation from his viewpoint.
ho says,
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HER HUNDREDTH TERM
AS TEACHER OPENS
New York Sun Special Service.
Wabash, Ind., Sept. 19.Mrs. Emma
Stuckman of Nappanee is believed to
hold the record for the state and per
haps for the United States as a school
teacher, she having just entered upon
her one hundredth term as a teacher,
covering a period of fifty-two years,
nearly all of the terms being consecu
tive.
She began teaching when she was 14
years old in a little log building 14x16
feet, near Milford, Ind. She went to
that place with her parents in 1845.
The woman, in addition to her school
duties, has raised her family of two
sons and a daughter. Many of her rel
atives have been her pupils. She will
teach this year in Elkhart county, and
expects to continue sehoolwork indef
initely.
CONGREGATIONALDENIAL
PAYS DEBT OF GHDRGH
New York Sun Speoial Service.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Sept. 19.The con
gregation of the Sherman Street Meth
odist church, which all week has been
abstaining from things to save money,
{ast
resente the money to the church at
evening's services, and it will be
used in paying off the mortgage. Some
of the women did their washing and
saved the cost of a washwoman. Men
did without tobacco and other lux
uries. Whole families abstained from
meat, butter, etc. Girls even did with
out candy. All calculated the amounts
thus saved, and gave the money to the
ahurchi
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MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1904.
THE POLITICAL DAN PATCH.
He Has Eaten Up His Free Silver and Free Trade Bedding and Is a Mighty Sick Animal.
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explain1896,e
th
4In
the country was suddenly con
fronted with a question'about which it
knew nothing and about which it
wanted to know everything. That was
the money question. The result was the
greatest educational campaign ev?r
seen in this country or^any other coun
try. The people were eager to listen
and to read. In 1900 there was another
new question. The Spanish-American
war had caused our country to drift
into over-sea expansion and colonialism.
Colonialism was a new thing and the
people wanted to know about it. They
were only to a degree less eager than
they had been in 1896.'
in 1904 there is no new ques
tion before the people. It can hardly
be said with truth there is any real
issue between the two parties. There is
nothing to be studied, nothing to be
inquired into, nothing the people care to
discuss. The people have not lost inter
est in public affairs, you may be sure,
but there is nothing that stirs them up
nothing that starts them to arguing.
What is there in the political campaign
that a group of men in the smoking
compartment could get up a discussion
about?"
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DEATH COMES TO
PRINCE BISMARCK
Son of the "Iron Chancellor"
Passes Away Peacefully at
Friedriihsruhe.
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PRINCE HERBERT BISMARCK
Son of "Iron Chancellor," Who Died
Yesterday. i
Friedrichsruhe, Sept. 19.Prince
Herbert Bismarck died peacefully yes
terday.
Since he ceased to be foreign minister
on the retirement of his father, in 1890,
Prince Herbert Bismarck had taken
part in public affairs only as a member
of the reichstag. His attitude had been
that of a man not appreciated by his
sovereign and who was waiting in the
background for an opportunity to re
sume his career.
Prince Bismarck's father, the
chancellor," trained him for the chan
cellorship of the German, empire and he
advanced him rapidly in the diplomatic
service, until at the age of 40 he was
minister of foreign affairs, in which
position he took part in nearly every
important transaction.
An incident that nearly wrecked
Prince Herbert's career and that caused
the old chancellor great annoyance was
the prince's (then count) elopement
with Princess Carolithe Beuthen, the
wife of Prince Karl, the head of that
distinguished Silesian house. Count
Herbert lived with the princess in
southern Italy for a few weeks, and
then at the command of his father he
returned to Germany. The princess af
terwards was divorced and has since
died.
The title of Prince Bismarck and the
large fortune of the deceased will go
to the 7-year-old son Otto. The estate
now is said to be worth $4,000,000, ex
clusive of the lands.
Herbert Bismarck was born in 1849 and
he was the eldest son of the late Prince
Bismarck. He studied law in Berlin and
Bonne universities, entered the Prussian
army as a lieutenant of the reserves dur
ing the Franco-German war of 1870-71,
and was severely wounded at the battle
of Mars La Teur. In 1873 he became an
official of the department of foreign af
fairs and was assistant to his father,
then chancellor. He was attached to the
German legations at Berne and at Vienna
from 1874 to 1877. Later he became
councillor of the German embassy in
London and subsequently occupied the
same position at St. Petersburg. In 1884
he was appointed minister extraordinary
at The Hague and in 1885 he became un
der secretary of state in the department
of foreign affairs.
This posJL Herbert held until the dis
missal of his father from the chancellor
ship, when he left the service of the em
pire. From 1884 to 1887 he was a mem
ber of the German reichstag, and also
from 1893 to tha time of his death.
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BUTTE MYSTIFIED
BY GIRL'S DEATH
Miss Sauer, Aged 18, Found Dying
of Pistol Wounds in a
Friend's House.
Speoial to The Journal.
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Butte, Mont., Sept. 19.By shooting,
either accidentally or thru deliberate
intent, or possibly by a second person,
Miss Lizzie Sauer, aged 18, and highly
respected, lies dead at the undertaking
rooms of Sherwin & Reed, having been
found in a dying condition at the home
of Mrs. Edwin Wright about 5 o'clock
yesterday afternoon.
The sadness of the affair is only over
shadowed by the mystery surrounding
it. Young, pretty, intelligent and of a
refined nature, the girl's death has
caused a sensation.
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Wright
told her young friend that she was go
ing to take Mr. and Mrs. Sauer out for
a drive. Securing her carriage, she
drove to the Sauer home and took the
fn
irl's parents in the carriage with her.
speaking of it afterwards Mrs.
Wright said that she had .-just started to
leave the Sauer home with the girl's
parents, whom she intended to take for
a drive, when she experienced a sensa
tion of alarm and unrest. Something
seemed to tell her that all was not well
at her home.
Mrs. Wright determined to drive
home before starting for the drive. She
followed out her presentiment, and,
driving east on Plattium street to the
house, left the Sauers sitting in the
carriage and entered her home. As she
entered she heard the voice of
Sauer calling faintly
blacf
river, a
44Mother,"Lizzie and
stood aghast to see the young girl lying
on the floor between the front and back
rooms, dying.
Investigation showed that Miss Sauer
had been shot with a revolver of 32
caliber, a weapon that belonged in the
house. The bullet had entered her
chest, and, going entirely thru her body,
had passed, out under her right shoul
der, death occurring in a short time.
The wownd could have been made by
the girl herself, but the revolver must
have been held in a somewhat forward
position to have been used so fatally.
The shooting must have been done in
the rear room, which was occupied by
the girl herself, and it is then believed
she dragged herself into the room where
she was found.
When Mrs. Wright left home Miss
Sauer was apparently in good spirits.
She was alone in the house then and
alone when, found dying. She was not
known to have any love affairs.
SIOUX CITY'S ROAD
SOON TO BE RAZED
Special to The Journal.
Sioux City, Iowa, Sept. 19.The ele
vated suburban railroad, advertised
far and wide in the boom days of Sioux
City ten to fifteen years ago as the
third to be built in the world, is
doomed. The Sioux City Traction com
pany, which has used it for its Morn
mgside suburban line, has begun tear
ing it down.
PERI8HED IN THE MOUNTAINS.
Avon, Idaho, Sept. 19.Guarded by his
faithful dog, Captain James S. Nesbet, a
veteran of the civil war and an early
Californian, was found dead in the moun
tains east of here, after a week's search.
He was old and feeble and had wandered
from his home.
JESSE H. FARWELL DEAD.
Detroit, Mich., Sept. 19.Jesse H. Far
well, a well-known capitalist of this city,
died of paralysis today at the Mount
Pleasant house, White Mountains, N. H.
Mr. Farwell was at one time one of the
largest owners of vessels on the lake.
TRAIN GOES TO MANILA BERTH.
San Francisco, Sept, 19.Rear Admiral
Charles J. Train, .U. S. N., has arrived
here en route to Manila. Upon his arrival
there he will assume command of the
Philippine squadron of the Asiatio fleet.
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FAIlt TOES^AY^^CEDED^tY SHOWERS TONIGHT COOLER.
HEA VY FIGHTINGJS
ON NEAR MUKDEN
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BLACKS BANDED
AGAINST WHITES
"Before Day" Clubs Organized in
Georgia and Alabama by
Negroes.
Lynchings and Race Conflicts
Mark Developments in
South.
How York Bun Special Service.
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 19.William
Mack, a negro from Statesboro, who
pleaded guilty to two charges of lar
ceny, .believes that all the
Day'' clubs thruout Georgia and in
some parts of Alabama were organized
by Statesboro negroes.
Birmingham, Savannah, Atlanta, Ma
con, Columbia. Selma and several other
places have#discovered^4
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Befor Day
clubs, and in Athena a posse was or
ganized last week to chase them out of
Clarke county.
Mack said, after being sentenced,
that he left Statesboro the day Reed
and Cato were burned at the stake be
cause he believed that the whites were
going to make a clean sweep of the
ks
Before Day Club at Work.
Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 19.At
Prattville,Beforte
jus across the Alabama
44 Day club composed
of negroes has been organized. The
first indication of its existence was the
stopping of a white planter on a road
by a party of armed negroes. He was
notified to move on and not stop again.
There is considerable excitement.
The body of Willie Boyd, a young
man of Shorters, was found under a bed
in the burning house of a negress. The
body was mutilated by knife and gun
shot wounds.
QUIT CHURCH TO LYNCH MAN
Negro Who Murdered Georgian for
Taking Him to Task Dies.
New York Sun Special Service.
Royston, Ga., Sept. 19.John Ware,
a negro, was taken from a sheriff's
posse near here yesterday afternoon,
strung to a timber and his body riddlea
with bullets.
Ware shot and killed C. Y. Daniels,
a prominent citizen of Danielsville.
The negro and Daniels had a few words
and Ware used his pistol, after declar
ing he would not let any white man run
over him. The negro fled and was cap
tured by the sheriff, who started to
Carnesville with him.
Daniels' friends formed a mob, many
of them leaving church services, over
took the sheriff and lynched the negro
near here.
DYNAMITED BY RIVAL
1.
Home of Negress Is Demolished by Ex-
plosionTwo Murderers Held.
Martinsburg, W. Va., Sept. 19.As
the result oi the jealousy of a rival
lover, John Harris, a well-known negro,
is dead Jennie Smith of Pittsburg, Pa.,
is badly injured and will die Julia
White is so seriously cut that she may
not recover a house on East Race
street, back of the Baltimore & Ohio
railway shops, is blown up, and Ernest
Hollins and John Thompson are in jail
charged with murder, the result of a
Saturday night dance at the home of
Julia White.
Hollins and Harris were rivals for
the hand of the Smith woman.
LYNCHING IN LOUISIANA
Murderer of a Conductor Is Killed by a
i Train Crew.
New York ftun Speoial Service.
Alexandria, La., Sept. 19.Conductor
Wadden Baldwin of the Iron Mountain
railroad was killed yesterday morning
at McGeehe's station, La., by John Al
lison, foreman of an extra gang. Alli
son was caught and lynched by the train
crew of which Baldwin was the con
ductor.
SIX KILLED AT CRAP GAME
Three Whites and Three Negroes Slain
in Fight.
Cairo, 111., Sept. 19.A negro who
works for N. B. Thistlewood of this city
at Bryan's Landing, four miles below
here, came here last night and reported
to Thistlewood that in a quarrel over
a crap game, six men were killed, three
whites and three negroes. A white man
who had lost his money in the game
went off and got a party of friends, and
went to where the negroes were playing
and demanded the money back. They
were armed with Winchesters. The
fight followed.
ITALIAN STRIKERS
WAVE BED FLAG
Violence Shown at Palermo and
GenoaConditions in Borne
Improve.
Rome, Sept. 19.The strike situation
is improving. Premier Giojptti left to
day for Racconigi, TJiedmont, to per
form his official duty as crown notary
of registering the birth of the crown
prince.
The workmen, it became known after
noon, have decided to abandon the
strike and the city has resumed its
normal aspect.
The board of workmen has published
a manifesto saying it has planned a
parade of all the Roman proletariat
forces as a victorious demonstration.
At Palermo, however, the strikers and
police have been in collision today and
the former have displayed a red flag.
Disturbances have occurred today at
Genoa. Anarchists violently partici
pated. They burned a number of
street cars and destroyed a flag hoisted
in honor of the birth of the crown
prince. Lack of bread led to the out
break aft Genoa.
Paris, Sept. 19.The Journal's Genoa
correspondent reports that Porto Novo
crowds of people stopped the railway
trains, many children lying down before
the engines.
The woops were powerless. One per
son was killed and several persons were
injured in a collision with soldiers at
Genoa, where strikers have hindered the
departure of trains. The tracks have
been torn up at Rivera. All was quiet I
at Milan en Sunday night*
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COSSACKS DRIVE -4
JAPANESE BACK
flE
Conflicts Marked by Many Casual
ties Follow Russ Recon- i
naissances.
CZAR FORMS NJ3W
MANCHURIAN ARMY
No Quarter Given by Either Beli
ligerent in.Port Arthur
Battles.
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St. Petersburg, Sept. 19.A dispatch
from General Kuropatkin announces
that Generals Rennenkampff and Sam
sonoff are conducting important recon
naissances which have resulted in rather
heavy fighting with many casualties.
From General Kuropatkin's tele
gram, which was despatched at 8
o'clock yesterday evening, it appears
that General Eennenkampff has re
covered from his wound and has re
sumed his command. The recon
naissance disclosed a further increase in
the Japanese forces at Yen-tai and
Pen-tsia-pu-tze. The Russians have oc
cupied several villages nearer the Jap
anese lines.
General Kuropatkin yesterday re
viewed the thirty-seventh division of
the first' army corps.
Japs Driven Back.
London, Sept. 19.A dispatch to a
news agency from St. Petersburg to
day says the reconnaissances were
toward the Japanese front and right
flank, resulting in the Japanese being
driven back. The Russian losses, ac
cording to this version, are said to be
slight and it is not clear whether the
many casualties referred to by General
Kuropatkin were inflicted or received.
RUSSIANS IN THE DARK
Japanese Operations Screened Behind
Line of Outposts.
Berlin, Sept. 19.-5:40 p.m.A dis
patch to the Lokal Anzeiger from Muk
den saysJapanese
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pletely screened behind a line of out
posts and it is almost impossible to ob
tain information from behind this veil.
The Russians cannot tell which of the
four routes the Japanese advance will
follow. Three Japanese companies are
patrolling the Hun river in junks. It
is reported that Liao-yang is occupied
by only one company* and the heights
northward ot.it by.J^.000 men, the air
in'the vicinity of Liao-yang being poi
soned fyy the thousands of unburied
bodies. Marshal Oyama's headquarters
are4 a short distance of Liao-yang.an Th expenditurenorth of ammunitio
4
Liao-yang was enormous, the Russian
artillery, Aug. 30, firing more than 100,-
000 shots."
CZAR TO FORM NEW ARMY
Second Manchurian Force to Be Sent to
Aid Kuropakin.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 19.1:57 p.m.
Acting upon the advice of his military'
advisers, Emperor Nicholas has decided
to form a second Manchurian army. It
Will be formed of the corps which are
being sent to the far east and Lieuten
ant General Linevitch probably will be
given the command of the second army.
General Kuropatkin will become chief
of both armies, but probably without
the title of commander-in-chief.
It is this impending reorganization
which seems to have led to the count
less rumors and reports afloat Here of
Kuropatkin's supercession of Viceroy
Alexieff, as commander-in-chief of the
army, the latter's resignation, etc., but
the Associated Press' investigations in
dicate that the above is the real situa
tion. The Associated Press is informed
that Alexieff will continue to be viceroy
and that as such he could not be sub
ordinated in title to the commanding
general, which would happen if Kuro
patkin was given the title of command
er-in-chief.
Nevertheless, the Associated Press is
informed, Kuropatkin will virtually be
in complete, untrammelled command.
As has been heretofore stated* on
authority, the stories of Alexieff
terference with Kuropatkin are entirely
without foundation. On the contrarv
Alexieff has always shown the utmost
appreciation of the peculiar delicacy of
his Dosition as Kuropatkin's superior,
studiously avoiding even the semblance
of interference with the operations of
the Manchurian army.
Wiren in Command.
The Associated Press is authorized
again to deny absolutely the story that
Rear Admiral Prince Ouktomsky has
been courtmartialed. It is positively
stated that he has never been under ar
rest at Port Arthur and that there has
never been a question of his trial by
court-martial. He has simply been su
perseded by Rear Admiral Wiren in the
temporary command of the Port Arthur
squadron, which Ouktomsky took over
when the late Rear Admiral Withoft
fell. This does not necessarily mean
that the admiralty is satisfied with
Rear Admiral Ouktomsky. On the con
trary, his shortcomings are recognized*
leading to the decision to place Rear
Admiral Wiren in command.
There is no truth in the report cabled
to the Express of London from Tokio,
that a battle is progressing at Mukden.
There is nothing yet to show that Field
Marshal Oyama has begun to move in
force. The reported fighting between
the Japanese and Major General
Mistchenko's Cossacks probably refers
to the sharp skirmish southeast of Muk
den, news of which has already been
cabled to the Associated Press.
J?
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NO QUARTER AT FORTS $*
Russians and Japanese Battle to tnt
Death at Port Arthur.
Chi-fu, Sept. 19.According to Lieu
tenant Prince Radzivil of the Russian
army, who reached here today from
Port Arthur, bearing dispatches from
Lieutenant General Stoessel, the com
mander-in-chief, of the forces of rae
Russian stronghold, to General Kuro
patkin, the temper of the belligerents
at Port Arthur has reached an abso
lutely merciless stage.
Prince Radzivil served with Jjie Brit
ish in the Boer war and he says that
until he became aware of the state of
affairs at Port Arthur he had no idea
Th tracks have that war could be so horrible.
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