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CZAR'S ARMY RESTS
CONSTANT SKIRMISHING OCCURS
BETWEEN ARMIES.
Natives Report That Japanese Are
Leaving Only a Small Force in
Front of Russians —Transferring
Bulk of Their Army to Vladivostok
Linevitch Is a Favorite.
Gunshu Pass, 18 Miles North of Tie
Pass, April 3. —General Mistchenko
has moved forward into close touch
with the Japanese and keeps up con
stant skirmishing. Elsewhere every
thing is quiet.
General Mistchenko, when he learn
ed of the beginning of the panic dur
ing the retreat from Mukden, though
an unhealed wound forbade his walk
ing, drove in a carriage to his force
and assumed command, which he has
since retained, though he is unable to
ride over the deeply mired roads,
which are beginning to dry.
Native reports, which may be taken
for what they are worth, state that
the Japanese are leaving before the
Russian front only a screen, capable,
with the help of the Mukden and Tie
pass fortifications and garrisons, of
holding in check General Linevitch,
and are transferring the bulk of their
five armies to Vladivostok by means
of a wide movement, through Mon
golia, to Tsitihar. Considering the
great distance involved, the plan ap
pears too bold and almost impractica
ble; but Japanese intoxication from
continued success, bold initiative and
determined perseverance, must be re
garded. The situation affords an op
portunity for Russian cavalry, which
thus far has played an insignificant
role, to distinguish itself by ascertain
ing the Japanese intentions.
General Linevitch has ordered the
resumption of drills, keeping the sol
diers occupied in the day time and
music in the bivouacks at night. An
energetic regime is being instituted.
The soldiers are much attached to the
new commander on account of his sim
ple. soldiery style of living.
Reports that beriberi has been prev
alent among the Russian troops at any
time are unfounded. No case has been
reported. The army has been resup
plied with equipment for the summer,
which the officers especially need,
several regiments during the retreat
throwing away all the officers' bag
gage.
Jap Scouts Busy.
Tokio, April 3. —The following of
ficial advices have been received %from
army headquarters in Manchuria:
"Our scouts advanced toward Hail
ung and collided with 300 of the en
emy's cavalry at Shauciengtzu, 30
miles northwest of Seilung, on the
morning of March 28. The enemy,
4000 men strong, retreated to Hail
ung. There are large stores of cereals
at various points between Yienge
cheng and Sanchengtzu. Yienge
cheng is 35 miles north of Hieng
cheng.
'The situation is unchanged in the
Changchun and Kirin directions."
The Earl of Orford Travels.
London.—The Earl of Orford, who
is moving from Mannington hall, his
principal Norfolk seat, to Walterton
hall, a smaller place in the same coun
ty, is one of the most traveled of Eng
lish peers. He has visited Japan, Cey
lon. the West Indies and almost every
part of North America, and Lady Or
ford (born Miss Louise Corbin of New
York) is as lond of journeyings as
her husband. Lord and Lady Orford,
among other things, have gone in for
tarpon fishing in Florida, and two
huge specimens of the fish, each one
weighing well over 100 pounds, are
preserved at Mannington.
Russell Sage Retires.
Russell Sage has at last decided to
Quit the battle of business life. Upon
the verge of the grave, he will now
take a holiday, and "the street" will
know him no more, save as a memory.
The old family country house is being
Put in readiness at Lawrence, on the
Long Island shore, for it has been de
termined by Mrs. Sage to take her
husband there in a few days to remain
through the summer, in the hope of
fighting off "the last call" a few years
at least. Within the past month the
a ged financier has been close to death
several times.
Sherman Bell Retired.
Governor McDonald has appointed
Captain Bulkley Wells adjutant gen
er al of the Colorado National Guard,
*° succeed General Sherman M. Bell.
Captain Wells was military comman
der in Telluride while martial law was
iu force under Governor Peabody's ad
ministration.
The emperor and Dowager Empress
China decorated Minister Conger
at his farewell reception.
TAKE LIQUID SUNSHINE.
Mysterious Solution for Dr. Rainey
Harper.
New York.—Dr. William Rainey
Harper, president of tjie Chicago uni
versity, will take his first liquid sun
shine treatment Monday. The mysteri
ous solution will be administered to
the famous educator in the office of
its discoverer, Dr. William James Mor
ton. The application of concentrated
X rays will be Administered by Dr.
Morton himself, the case being too im
portant to trust to the management of
any subordinate.
The distinguished patient will drink i
a quantity of the yellow
liquid known as 4 liquid sunshine," af
ter which he will lie on a couch in the
current of the X ray machine.
The treatment will be continued for
a period of 10 minutes, and the cur
rent will be gradually increased un
til the patient's body is aglow with a
strange yellow light generated by the
new force. It is this light which is
believed to contain certain properties
under which the cancer germ is de
stroyed. The treatment will be re
peated each day during Dr. Harper's
stay in New York, and if found to be
beneficial will be continued after his
return to Chicago.
The effect of the treatment on Dr.
Harper is being; watched with interest
by physicians in the United States.
The treatment of "liquid sunshine" is
yet in an experimental state. Dr. Wil
liam James Morton discovered it a
year ago.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Representatives of 42 libraries in the
state met in Tacoma Wednesday and
effected the organization of the Wash
ington Library association. The nexj
meeting of the associaiton will be help
in Portland the first week in July, at
which time the national association
meets there.
The body of Volney Martin, who was
killed by being run over by a loaded
wagon, was buried at Walla Walla on
Monday. Martin was hauling wheat.
While going down a steep hill the
horses became unmanageable, throw
ing Martin under the wheels and
crushing his head.
"When that light goes out, your life
goes with it." These were the words
uttered by Herman Fisher, a painter,
who shot and seriously wounded his
wife in her home at Spokane, shortly
after midnight bunday. Fisher threat
ened to kill his wife and commit sui
cide himself if she would not return
and live with him.
Sheep shearing commenced this
week at the Frank Jackson place on
the Pataha, near Dayton. Nineteen
thousand sheep will be sheared at the
camp—4ooo belonging to B. L. Dickin
son, 5000 to Frank Jackson, and 10,-
000 to Dick Jackson. Among Dick
Jackson's band are 400 Ramboullets,
10 of which carried off all prizes at the
St. Louis fair.
STEEL TRUST BLAMED.
Many Wrecks on Railroads Are Laid
at Their Door.
Chicago.—The greed of the steel
trust in turning out defective rails is
being assigned by railway engineer
ing and operating experts as a fruit
ful source of accidents on American
railways. The cause for increase in
defective rails is said to be the desire
of the steel manufacturers to secure
economical operation and enlarged
output. This desire has led to care
less, inefficient and less expensive
methods of manufacturing than for
merly.
With a view of compelling manu
facturers to provide safe and perfect
rails, and backed by magnates of big
systems, the American Railroad asso
ciation has decided to make a change
in standards of specifications for man
ufacturers of steel rails and to insist
upon the manufacturers living up to
specifications.
Coming Events.
Washington A. O. U. W. grand lodge,
Tacoma, April 12-14.
Order of Railway Conductors of
America, Portland, May 9-14.
Washington M. W. of A. state en
campment, Spokane, May 3.
Montana State Federation of Wom
en's clubs, Deer Lodge, June 6-8. j
Lewis and Clark Fair.
Lewis and Clark centennial exposi
tion, Portland, June 1 to October 15.
Events: National American Woman
Suffrage association, June 29-July 5;
American Medical association, July 11-
14; Transcontinental Passenger asso
ciation, June 5; United Commercial
Travelers, interstate convention, June,
9; Traveling Men's day, June 10; Na
tional Association State Dairy and
Food departments, June 20; Pacific j
Coast Electrical Transmission associ-j
ation, June 20-21; American Library
association, July 2-7; International
Anticigarette association, July 15-17;
Charities and Corrections association,
national conference, July 15-22; Ne
braska Lumber Dealers' association,
July 17-18; Gamma Eta Kappa frater
nity, national convention, July 20-22;
North Pacific sangerbund, July 21-23;
W. C. T. U., national conferences, June
27-28.
OYAMA, A GENERAL
JAPAN'S GREAT FIELD MARSHAL
IS A MILITARY GENIUS.
Weighs 300 Pounds and Is Six Feet
Tall—Has Tremendous Foresight—A
Practical Fighter—Has Been Mar
ried Twice —Second Wife Studied in
United States for Several Years.
Marshal Iwao Oyama has earned the
title of "the Napoleon of the Far
East." It is doubtful if a greater
military genius has yet come out of
that strange country.
Oyama comes of fighting stock, be
ing of the Stasuma clan and the de
scendant of centuries of Samurai. Tra
dition gave him the instincts of the
soldier, and his education developed
them. The Japanese army of today is
largely of his creation.
Unlike most Japanese, the Marquis
Oyama is a big man. He is six feet
tall, broad shouldered, deep chested
and weighs 300 pounds. He is, in his
official realtions, a man of few words,
but in society most genial.
He is a man of tremendous foresight
—always looking ahead and seeing
what will be necessary to do almost
as if he had prophetic vision. He is
61 years old, and was about 24 in
1868, when he took part in the war
for the restoration of the emperor.
After that war he rose steadily in mili
tary rank, and traveled a great deal in
foreign countries. While he was min
ister of war he organized the Japanese
army on a modern basis—organized as
it is today.
There are many great soldiers who
are splendid organizers, but not as ac
tual fighters much use. Marshal
Oyama is not one of these. He is a
fine, practical fighter, as his cam
paigns against China and Russia
show; a magnificent and daring strate
gist and a man of great personal brav
ery. He has the valuable facultv of
gathering about him men of high char
acter and ability, of inspiring them
and getting them to work together
withont friction. Oyama knows his
officers and knows how to place them
where they can do the most effective
work.
The career of Oyama has been an
active one, both in war and in politics.
His first active service in the field was
in 1868, when he joined his cousins,
the Counts Saigo, in leading the revo
lutionary movement which restored the
mikado to the throne of his anoestors.
He entered that war as a captain and
at its close was made major general.
When the Franco-Piussian war broke
out in 1870 he was sent by the emperor
to observe it.
Soon after his return his cousin,
Gonnt Saigo, rebelled. But Oyama
remained loyal to his emperor and
commanded a division of the army in
the long civil war which resulted in
the death of 20,000 men, inclnding
Saigo. In 1880 he became minister of
war, and he spent the next 10 years in
perfecting his army organization. In
1890 he was a full general, Count
Yamagata being the only other man
with that high rank. He and Yama
gata had joint command of the armies
that went to Manchuria to light the
Chinese, and when Yamagata was in
valided home Oyama. was left in su
preme command. After a brief but
memorable campaign he took Port
Arthur.
The glory of this campaign was due
to the percision of the tactics, the inti
mate knowledge of the enemy's country
and the perfection of the organization.
Had not the powers stepped in and
called a halt the victorious Oyama
would have swept on Peking. But the
war was stopped and the powers man
aged to despoil Japan of the fruits of
her victory.
The campaign was not lost, how
ever, for the knowledge gained in it
has proved invaluable to the generlas
who have directed the war against
Russia. Besides giving them a per
sonal knowledge of the country, it
proved "to them that the Japanese were
as good in the field as on paper, and it
also gave them the lessons in commis
sariat that can be learned only by ac
tual experience in warfare.
Oyama's reward for this campaign
was the coronet of a marquis and the
baton of a field marshal.
What his next reward will be it is
hard to say. He has risen now to the
very pinnacle of military rank.
If Marshal Oyama's military chra
acter is interesting, the domestic side
of his disposition is thoroughly delihgt
fuL Not only is he a fighter, but he is
a great patron of the fine arts and one
of the best amateur art experts in
Japan. His house, in a suburb of
Tofcio, is externally like a beautiful
American home, with a splendid gar
den laid out in thoroughly modern
style.
His Wife.
Scarcely less interesting to American
eyes than the marshal is his wife, the
girl who was known at Vassar as Sute
matsu Yamakana. During the 12
years ghe spent in this country she
lived at the house of the Rev. Dr
Leonard Bacon ta New Haven and at
Vassar college. She came here when
12 years old and when she returned to
Japan was almost an American in her
ideas and ways as any of her school
mates. She was married to Oyama
soon after her return. She is a Chris
tian a:id speaks Russian, French, Ger
man and English with but little ac
cent.
Oyama, at the time she married
him, was a widower with three chil
dren, and two boys and a girl have
been born to them. The boys are
studying at naval schools abroad.
What with preparing comforts to
send to the soldiers and assisting in
the relief of work among the poor fam
ilies left behind, the marchioness finds
little time now even to sleep. Her
house in the suburbs of Tokio is turned
into a 'headquarters for relief work.
She has raised a fund amounting to
$26,000, which has been utilized in
sending comfort bags to the front.
With other women of rank in Japan,
she visits the hospitals at home.
The marchioness is fond of her home
and naturally is of a domestio nature.
But she is frequently seen in court and
is a favorite among her many Japanese
as well as her American friends.
McCarthy-Mellody Go.
"Honey" Mellody and Jerry Mc-
Carthy have agreed to a 20 round fight
before the Spokane Amateur Athletic
club on April 18.
Following the announcement of Mc-
Carthy on the day he returned to
Spokane from the Butte fignt with Mel
lody that he wanted another chance
at the latter, ic has been a foregone
conclusion that the two fighters would
again come together.
Eddie Quinn and Sol Mayer of the
committee on sports were chiefly in
strumental in planning for the mill.
The bout is to be pulled off in the
gymnasium of the club.
By agreement the men are to weigh
144 pounds at 3 o'clock on the day of
the bout. Marquis of Queensbury
rules are to govern. The conditions,
even to the number of rounds, that
governed the Butte mixup are to rule
in Spokane. At Butte McCarthy
lasted well as long as he kept the
crouching position in fighting tactics,
but whsn he came out of the crouch
Mellody put him to the bad, the count
being taken in the 15th round. Non
residents of Spokane can secure re
served seats for the fight by writing
TSddie Quinn, care the athletic club.
IDAHO SQUIBBB.
Thomas H. Davis of Pocatello has
been awarded a pension of $30 per
month and $900 back pension.
Ed Byrne, a Potlatch farmer, was
wounded while hunting. A bullet hit
him in the hip. He was found in an
almost insensible condition.
Fred Justice, a lineman for the elec
tric light company at Lewiston, was
killed instantly Saturday afternoon by
touching a high power line carrying
2200 volts.
Never before in the history of the
Clearwater district has the grain out
look been so good as at present. Wheat
buyers and farmers bring in from all
directions the most flattering reports
of crop conditions.
From the summit of Mount Hood
communication will be established
with the Lewis and Clark exposition
grounds. At eacn of these two points
detachments from the United States
signal corps service will be stationed,
and each day and night communica- j
tions will be exchanged by means of
heliographs, flash signals and other
methods known to the skilled signal
soldier.
That the state of Idaho now has the
best pure food law in the United
States is vouched for by Dr. H. W.
Wiley, head chemist in the department
of chemistry at Washington, D. C. Dr.
Wiley has written to State Pure Food
and Horticultural Commissioner A.
McPherson commending the Idaho
law.
The state land board has decided,
through the agency of the attorney
general, to investigate the alleged
fraudulent practice of land specula
tors in the purchase of state school
lands in the past, with the view, if
power exists under the statutes, to
cancel certificates and deeds to thou
sands of acres of valuable land ob
tained, it is contended, through fraud.
Sixty thousand acres of timber land,
valued at $10 per acre, are involved.
The Lewlston land office has re
ceived plats to township 33, range 3
west, and township 31, range 5 west.
The first is on Craig mountain and the
other on the upper Snake. The plats
will be filed about May 1 and will be
open for squatters. The state will
then have its 60 days prior right to
file before the land is open to the pub
lic.
Judge Joseph W. Huston died Sun-1
day at Boise, aged 72 years. He was:
a native of Michigan and served in
the war as a major in the Fourth
Michigan cavalry. In 1869 he was ap
pointed United States district attorney
for the territory of Idaho and held the
office nine years. In 1890 he was
elected a member of the Idaho su
preme court and served 10 years in
that position.
RIOTS IN WARSAW
TROOPS FIRED INTO CROWD OF
SOCIALISTS-FOUR KILLED. '
Forty Persons Wounded, Two of
Whom Were Women—More Than a
Thousand Jews Carried Red Flags
on Parade—Other Disturbances Re
ported.
Warsaw, April 3. —A serious conflict
occurred at 7:30 o'clock Sunday even
ing in Dzika street, where a Jewish
socialist society, known as the Bund,
had organized a demonstration. The
troops which came to dispense the
gathering fired into the crowd, kill
ing four men and wounding 40 persons,
two of whom were women.
The trouble in Dzika street began
when, under the pretext of holding a
memorial meeting for a late Jewish
socialist leader, a crowd of more than
1000, mostly Jews, carrying red flags,
marched into Dzika street arfd was
met by a mixed police and military
patrol of 20 men. The police declare
the socialists fired revolvers at them,
the leaders inciting the mob to attack
the patrol, which thereupon fired sev
eral volleys into the crowd. The
crowd removed all except nine of the
wounded. These were taken to the
hospital. It is expected that two or
more of the wounded will die. The
dead and wounded were all Jews. The
police made many arrests.
Other disturbances are reported to
have occurred. The streets have been
patrolled throughout the day, the au
thorities having anticipated trouble.
Conditions here are causing much
uneasiness and nervousness. Hand
printed proclamations have been dis
tributed in the streets warning the
populace against walking near govern
ment buildings and c ther buildings, as
bombs will be thrown in these pre
cincts. Several parents whose chil
dren are attending school in defiance
of the school strike have been warned
by letter to withdraw their children,
as the school buildings would be
blown up.
Representatives of the party of vio
lence (it is not quite clear whether
they are revolutionaries or socialists)
are visiting private persons and levy
ing contributions for "ammunition."
They produce lists of names with the
amounts to be collected from each,
and require the contributor to sign his
name opposite these assessments,
which range from $2.50 to $50.
Owns the Pearl.
The supreme court at Hamburg has
rendered a decision in the case of a
pearl, valued at over $750, found in
her mouth by a woman, who, accom
panied by a male escort, was eating
Oysters in a restaurant. The woman
claimed the pearl, and her escort sup
ported her claim, but the proprietor of
the restaurant sued to recover the
pearl on the ground tha£t shells, like
chicken bones, were by tradition left
by customers, and were a source of
profit to the proprietor. The court
decided that the pearl did not belong
to the woman who found it nor to the
proprietor, but to the man who paid
for the oysters.
Told Her to Stab; She Did.
Lancaster, Pa., April 3. —Ralph W.
Kline, aged 26 years, an artist, was fa
tally stabbed Sunday afternoon by
Jennie Good, aged 18.
Kline and Miss Good were members
of a fishing party near Long Park.
Kline and the girl had a quarrel, dur
ing which Miss Good threatened to
cut out his heart. Kline threw out his
chest and told her to stab. She did,
plunging a knife into his breast. He
is at a hospital unconscious. The girl
fled and has not yet been arrested.
Committee Fixes Fair Rates.
Secretary Henry E. Reed of the
Lewis and Clark exposition has an
nounced that the executive committee
of the corporation has fixed the follow
ing rates of admission to the exposi
tion:
Commutation tickets containing 137
entrance cards, $20. Commutation
books of 50 tickets, $12.50. General
admission tickets, 50 cents each.
The commutation tickets will con
tain a photograph of the purchaser and
will be nontransferable.
Uncle Sam's March Business.
The treasury statement of the gov
ernment recei-pts and expenditures
shows that for me month of March,
1905, the receipts were $46,267,755, and
the expenditures $45,195,126, leaving a
surplus for the month of $972,630. The
disbursements on account of the war
department show an increase of $1,-
317,400, and on account of the navy an
increase of $900,000. For the nine
months of the present fiscal year the
expenditures have exceeded the re
ceipts by $24,778,138.