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Off » « M c*“ itoPíf‘ G eneral Stoessel tlve attendance at the annual conven tion of the Montana Society of Engi neer*. Chief Machlelle, head of the Flat- head Indians, Is dead, as the result of being pitched from his -wagon near REPORT A CO U N T E R MOVE OF JAPANE8E AG A IN S T RAIDER8. A Review' of Happening* In Both During the Past Week— National, Historical, Political and Personal Events Tersely Told. an ox team from Canton, M o, to Vir ginia City in ¿865. John Gersotlch, aged 19, living with his father In Walkervllle. Sunday e v e » lng probably fatally shot his cousin, Frank Lement, In what he claims was self defense and also to protect his father’s life from Lement and a gang of six or more others who were bent on attacking the Gersotlchs iii their own home. P. F. Walsh, a pioneer of Montana, died recently at his home In Anaconda, at the age of 70 years. The deceased came to Montana from Dubuque, Iowa, 20 years ago. Mr. Walsh was an en gineer by profession and he served during the civil war on the transports Cahoba and Herman Livingston of the Union. trunk containing an Infernal machine to the British steamer Umbria in New York In May, 1903. The prisoner, whose right name is not known, made these admissions In the office of Captain Donaghy of the Philadelphia detective bureau, after he had been Identified by persons brought here from New York and Washington for that purpose. He gives no reason for the attempted outrages The discussion which ensued show ed that the only alternatives were prompt surrender or spoedy annihila tion. Then ohampagne -glasses were gineering party which had been sent to repair the road, knd a fierce engage ment ensued. Wltu a long drawn out line the Japanese commander met the Russians, covering the operations of the engineers successfully, and when the work had finally been completed, the trains were rushed through a hall of shrapnel fire. Slxty-two Russians were killed and 11 wounded, the Japanese only losing 10 men killed and 12 wounded. Qeneral Mlstchenko withdrew his force to a considerable distance and then prepared for a counter attack. He was evidently Ignorant of the relieving party, for he suddenly chang ed his plans and made an attempt to retreat when he obtained accurate In formation. The correspondents add that the re treat will be cut off and that more re- The Town of Wallace will get free delivery mall service after February L Freeslng weather for a week has formed Ice several inches thick on the St. Joe river, ana It Is how closed to navigation. The low water in the Snake river Is commencing to have a demoralizing effect upon the river traffic. The Moscow public schools are now crowded and the school board is tax ed to find room for all the students. The fight between the Hope Lumber company at Hope, and the employes has settled down to a bitter, unrelent ing battle between capital and labor. Each side Is determined to fight to the last William Hooper, ex-assessor and tax collector of Shoshone county, whose term of office expired the first of the year, Is short In his accounts. The ex act amount Is not determined, bpt ac cording to a complaint^flled In the pro bate court «y the county commission ers, the shortage Is $ 711120 - . Hooper Is bonded for »16,90«. The supreme court holds that an or- United States Senator* Henry Ca bot Lodge and W. Murray Crane have been unanimously nominated to rep resent Massachusetts again. Another memorial day, January 29. which Is sacred to the memory of Wil liam McKinley, Is-an object of the Car nation League pf .¿merlon. • ■NJtice of former Governor Janies H. Peabody's'.contest .«gainst Gover- Japs Get Possession of Much Valuable Property. The following report from General Nogl, giving details of the Russian property at Port Arthur which has been received at Tokio: \Permanent forts and fortifications, 59; guns, large caliber 54, medium caliber 149, small. 343, total 646; shells, 82.670; torpedoe^ 60; explosives, 1588 pieces; powder, 30,000 bushels. \Rifles 35,252; pistols, 679; sworda 1891. “Ammunition for small arms, 2,266,- phin. amounting to U^OOXWO.' The vault of the county treasury at Wauseon, Fulton county. Ohio, Was blown up by four burglars recently. They secured a aam estimated-at from »5,000 to »10,000 and escaped. Berlin.—The death Is announced of Prince Karl Alexander of Llppe, the The fellow mlxup In the succession to the throne of Lippe-Detmold some months ago. The Indiana republican Joint cau cus nominated Senator Albert J. Bev eridge to succeed himself and Con gressman J. A. Hemenway to fill the unexplred term of C. W. Fairbanks. The president has sent to the sen ate the nomination of James D. Yeo mans of Iowa, to be Interstate com merce commissioner. He will fill in the time until Senator Cockrell takes office. The Nlchl Nlchl. a leading Japanese paper, authoritatively says that there is no \question as-to the rights of the Russians to blow up thqlr warships and damage their guns while negotiations were pending. Reading, Pa.—There Will be n o In vestigation, for thè present at! least, of the charges preferred b y Dr. L N. W. Irvine against.Bishop Ethelbjert Talbot o f the cahtiS-Pennsylvanla di ocese of tfidiW iC »% l church. Joseph L. Bristow, fourth' assistant postmaster general, has tendered his resignation to the president to take effect January '3Ò. I»resldep.t'Roose velt has designated M r.Bdstow as a special commissioner to make an In vestigation Into the present trade con ditions and freight rates between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Crazed by Jealousy, Harry Slater, ex- puglllst, subbed Ellen Marston, a res- in consequence of the neglect of any other employes thereof, or by the mis management of any other employe or employee thereof, and in consequence of any wilful wrongs, whether o f com mission or omission, of any othei em ploye or employes thereof, when such neglect, mismanagement or wrongs are in any mannner Connected with the Use and operation of any railroad on or about whioh they shall be employed, and no oontract which restricts suoh liability shall be legal or binding. \A number o f entrenching tools, four battleships, not Including the Sevas topol; two cruisers, 14 gunboats and torpedo boat destroyers, ten steamers, eight launches, 12 miscellaneous craft and also private steamers. The above were sunk or otherwise destroyed. “ Besides these there are 76 small steamers which will be serviceable af ter slight repairs.” The Japanese achievement at Port Arthur Is more remarkable In the light of further Investigation. The original Russian strength Is now estimated to have been almost 65,000 men. It Is an- nounhed at the army headquarters that in addition to the prisoners already reported about 13,000 wounded com- batanU will eventually be brought to Japan. A L L Other 8toekmen Herd With the New Association. The National Live Stock association was rent In twain recently by the adop tion of a new constitution, which ad mitted the packers 'to membership, and provided an open door, through which the railroads of the country might at any .time become factors In the oon- ' Russian Headquarters, Hnanshan, 1 Manohuria, Jan. 18.—The activity of ' Japanese Is increasing along the whole 1 front. They are attacking villages between linos and open artillery fire at 1 night The fires Japanese reinforce- ' ments from the army whioh was be- ' seiglng Port Arthur began arriving at - Llaoyang January 11. 1 A telegrar. from SiakhoUn to 8t 1 Petersburg state* that General Mist- ' ohenenko’s raiding force, learning that five Japanese battalions had appeared • near Tashikow, returned; northward James Archibald and his occupation as a woodchopper and lumber Jack. The man found dead In the road near Blaln, six miles southeast of Mos cow, Saturday night proved to be Det rick Nelson instead of Knud Nelson. Sheriff Robbins and Coroner Jamison returned today and are o f the opinion Nelson came to his death from Injuries received in a runaway accident. At the annual meeting of the share holders o f the Lewiston National bank held recently the capital of the bank was Increased from »50,000 to »100,- 000 and the surplus increased from »50,000 to »100,000. Following the shareholders' meeting the directors' declared the semiannual dividend of 15 per cent. T. B. Hooper, who has a wide repu tation as a hunter of bear, has set a new pace In cougar hunting. George Frazer and Thomas Whelan accompa nied Hooper on a hunt last week on Granite creek, Idaho. Near where the stream empties Into Lake Pend'd' Oreille the men killed three large cou gars one day and a fourth the next The cattlemen, horse juid swine own ers, together with representatives of some of the affiliated. Industries, re fused to agree to the new constitution and withdrew when they considered its adoption probable, and formed a new organization under the name of the whose aim it will be to. wield a domi nating Influence In the Interest of the cattle growers. Roughly speaking, the sheep grow ers, commission men and the stock- yards interests remained with the Na- bezsling »18,74» o f city funds. It is said that Tilly, who has rbeen In the office for three years, has been embez zling city funds since he entered the office. He was detected sometime ago by a member of the oity oounoil and a trap laid for him. He was confronted with the orime and confessed to being $8100 short. The books were then ex ported and the above shortage was dis covered. berg he declared his intention of kill ing himself, saying he was short In his accounts, and would “take Brant with him.” . ,.y ident of the restricted district at Van couver, and then cut his own throat from-ear to ear. Slater Is dead, but the woman Is not fatally hurt Brodle L. Duke, thp rich tobacco manufacturer who recently married Alice Webb of Chicago, which reault- General Nogl'* and General Stoessel’s Bravery. , Berlin.—Emperor Wiliam received the Russian ambassador recently in a formal audience. His majesty express ed admiration of General Stoessel's defense of Port Arthur and Informed the ambassador that the emperor of Russia had given his consent that Gen eral Stoessel should receive the Prus sian order of Pons le Mérité, as Em peror Wiliam's recognition of his dis tinguished bravery. Then Emperor William received the Japanese minister in audience and complimented him on the courage, ten acity and capacity of General Nogl and 1 ¿formed him that the emperor of Japan had consented that General No gl receive the same order. Pour le Mér ité, the bestowal of which was aa- nounced yesterday. Libel Law Repealed. Olympia, Wash., Jan. 19.—The senate printing oommittee agreed nnan- monsly tonight to make a favorable report In the morning on the Tucker bin repealing the present libel law. The bill will probably oome before the found lying in the bay at Olympia. The heaviest snowfall in years cov- polnted to taqdJre 1 It Is reporte» tha gan, one o f the ktroi Protestant Episcopi United 8tates,' fias o ahslst era to settle weekly because whole- sfslty at solero have cut credits down, loan of - An election will be held In Fairfield February 7 for the purpose:: of voting ussla for upon the Incorporation of. t ie town, estlmat- Spokane high School debaters won Ijtrfordl- from Davenport recently StC the high [•he ordi- school auditorium, at »968,- Funeral services over the remains of y expen- DaVld C. Sparks of Tekoa was held last week. ; , A free employment office has been attract opened In Spokane. Washington by » 1 , 000 , 000 . J. P. Morgan Buys Bonds. Vancouver, B. C.—Confirmation has been received from Winnipeg of the report recently published on the coast that J. P. Morgan & Co. have purchased »5,000,000 of the bonds of the Canadian Northern Railway. Too much knowledge saps courage.
