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VOL.. I I . N O . 37. C O L U M B IA F A L L S . M O N T A N A . M A R C H 18. 1905. Siatfc Coptes Ite. Subscription Price $2J$ per Yi AROUND THE WORLD SHORT TELEGRAPH NOTES FROM ALL POINTS OF HEMISPHERE. A Review of Happenlnge In Both Eaatern and Weatern Hemisphere* During the Paat Week—National, Hlatorlcal, Political and Personal Events Tersely Told. Advices to St. Petersburg from ar& say that anarchy Is reigning there. Secretary Hay and the minister from Uruguay have signed an extradition treaty between the two countries. The battle on the right flank and around Mukden appears to be the greatest of the war, except Port Ar thur. W. J. Clark of Independence, Kan., was found dead in bed at his rooms In San Francisco. Gas was Issuing from twc% burners. George W. Wakefield, Judge of the district court and ex-president of the Iowa State .Bar association, is dead, aged '66 years. Robbers entered the Bank of frow, Tlklahoma, recently, at an early hour, blew open the safe and escaped with $2700 In cash. All the diamond setters and polish ers In one of the trade centers In New Tork are on strike for a 10- per Increase and shorter hours. A magnificent living specimen of the California condor has been shipped to the Central Park too In New York. It measures 11 feet from tip to tip. Mrs. Nannie Nye Jackson, widow of Frederick _ Wolcott Jackson, formerly general superintendent of the Pennsyl vania railroad in New Jersey, is dead. Henry Norcross Munn, editor of The Scientific American, Is dead at his home In New York. He was a member of the firm which published that paper. Dowager Empress Margerla Feodo- rava; the crar's mother, will soon leave 8t. Petersburg for Denmark at the gent request of King Christian, her father/ Vice President Fairbanks has ap pointed as his private secretary Fred C Fairbanks, bis son. He was gradu ated from Princeton In the class of 1903. Santo Domingo's debts total the sum of $24,643,387, according to date com piled by Senator Morgan. The amount Is owed by the little republic in big lumps. Thomas J. Ryan has been-informed by the president that he Is to be con tinued as assistant secretary of the In terior. -Mr. Ryan has held the office nearly eight years. The British steamer Saxon Prince, bound for Vladlvostock with a cargo of steel rails, has been seized by the Japanese In the Tsu stralts and taken to Sasebo for trial. Count Tolstoi Is against the strikes in Russia. He says the people take the wrong course. Religious and moral perfection of the Individual Is the prop er course to pursue. It Is now announced that 20 lives have been lost as a result of the ex plosion which occurred recently In the Cambrian colliery at Clydachvale, In the Rhonda valley. Wales. O. E. Snyder, the Olin (Iowa) bank er, who assigned last December, has disappeared. A warrant for his arrest has been Issued. Snyder's liabilities amount to $145,000, mostly bank de posits. President William R. Harper of the University of Chicago has so far re covered from the effects of his recent surgical operation for cancer that he feels equal to taking a Journey to Eu rope. Ebenezer Buckingham Converse, a well known lawyer, practicing In New York, Is dead at his home In Engle wood. N. J. He was a son of the late Charles C. Converse, Judge of the su preme court of Ohio. Water from Minnehaha Falls will be used In christening tpe battleship Min nesota, announces Governor Johnson. Miss Rose Marie Schaller, the univer sity student. Is to christen the battle ship. Saturday Is payday at the Granby and the Montreal & Boston mines, at Phoenix, B. C., and the amount to be distributed being about $50,000, or with the amount al30 paid out at the com panies' respective smelters, about $76,- 000 . An explosion In the Yough mine near Ifwin, Pa., caused by a miner Igniting a'blast, started a fierce Are In the shaft and endangered the lives of 110 men who were at work. All escaped in jury. however. Efforts to smother the flames have been unsuccessful. The funeral services of William Bate of Tennessee were held In the senate chamber Saturday. The president, members of his cabinet, the chief Jus tice and associate Justices of the su preme court, the diplomatic corps, members of-the house of representa tives. who aré In the city, and repre sentatives of the army were present and occupied seats In the chamber. Washington, D. C.—With Mukden his new base. Marshal Oyama has de termined to push northward In the direction of Harbin with a large part of his army, In the effort to follow up his recent vlctbry as rapidly as pos sible and accomplish his one great pur pose of administering a really crush ing defeat to General Kuropatkln. This Is from an authoritative sburce. and accurately sets forth the present pro gram of the Tokio war office. After receiving several cablegrams telling of the victories of the Japanese around Mukden, M. Takahlra, the Jap anese minister, although the host at a brilliant reception Friday night, was early visitor at the state depart ment. where he had half an hour's conversation with Secretary Hay. he was leaving the department, the minister was asked what effect. In his opinion, the battle of Mukden would have upon the ultimate Issue of the 'For us it Is but a chapter Iti the great conflict, though a most Important ' the minister replied. \It Is dif ficult for me to say how much the battle of Mukden will contribute to wards peace, for overtures of peace must necessarily come from the other side.” \Will your government suggest peace. In the light of Oyama's vic tory?\ the minister was asked as he entered his carriage. JAPS AT TIE PASS Newohwang, March 17.—The Japan ese occupied Tie pass Wednesday at midnight London, Maroh 17. — The Post’ Shanghai correspondent oables a report that the Japanese have already oc cupied Tie pass, the aggressiveness of the Japanese being too muob lor the battlev make the stand that was expected of them at the pass. The information is not given credence. Many of the- de feated Russians are trying to escape to Kirin. WILL NOT SUGGEST PEACE. Vancouver Barraoka, Wash , Maroh 17.—Smarting under the sting of Ms- disgrace and suffering from an incura ble disease, former Lieutenant Franois M. Boone, who was ordered discharged from the United 8tatea army yesterday the chargee of desertion, absenoe without leave, nonpayment of debts and oonduot unbecoming an officer to day made an deliberate suicidal in tent, it is reported, and before teoap- tore was shot and probably fatally in jured. Boone was being ooaduoted from the guardhouse to the garrison hospital, when, without warning he broke away and started to run. He was ordered to halt, but paid no atten tion to the command, and the guards opened fire. One bullet out of the five fixed at the prisoner took effect in the head, above the right ear, and passed under the aoalp to a point above the right eye. Missing Woman Returns. Tacoma, Wash., March 16.—Mrs Bertha Bowers, a Puyallulp authorees, who caused a sensation by mysteriously disappearing six months ago, leaving a note for her husband that she was 'floatinsg with the tide,\ as mysteri ously returned yesterday, and after a short oonfereuoe with her hnsband today applied for and was granted a divorce. Mrs. Bowers states that it was necessary for her to leave home on aocount of mental worry, and that family troubles were responsible; but she refuses to say where she baa been. Bowers says he consulted with a medium three days after hi* wife’s dla- ppearanoe and was informed that his w ife' would reappear some time this month in the manner she did. Portland Man Killed. Portland, Ore., Maroh 14.—Frank Johnson, an electrio and stationary engineer in the employ of the Portland General Eleotrio Company, was eleo- troouted tonight while directing a fellow workman in adjusting an arc light at Union avenue and Multnomah street. Three thousand volts passed through his body. Death was almost instantaneous. Johnson is survived by his wife and one child. 3hot Through the Lungs. Boise, Idaho, March 14.—Henry Clark was shot through the lungs today by G. F. Penoe. The shooting ooourred at Day meek, about 10 miles from here. Pence claims self defenoe, while Clprk stated it was without provoca tion? Both men are fanners. Penoe oame to town and gave himself up. Clark will recover. Senator Van de Vanter III. Seattle, Maroh 16.—State Senator A. T. Van de Vanter, who has been seriously ill for several weeks, wps very low last night. His physicians say^he may survive the day, but oan- not live muoh longer. NEW YORK’S BIG FIRE OVER A SCORE OF PEOPLE WERE BURNED TO DEATH. Lamp Explosion In the Basement of Five Story Tenement House Caused Gread Loss o f Life—Many Acts of Heroism Displayed by Firemen and Policemen—Woman Roasted Alive. New York. Maroh 18.—A score of persons were burned to death, several were so badly hurt that they may die and 40 others are slightly hurt, fire that destroyed a five story tene- ent house in Allen street. The fire had gained great headway before it be came known to most of the tenants. Many were cut off before they could make an attempt to save tbemselve Thrilling resoues and daring leaps for life marked the fire. Many persons were carried from the blazing building. Firemen dimed the walls on their scaling ladders, braved the flames and reached the imperiled tenants. Crowded fire escapes in the rekr of the tenement house were largely re sponsible for so many deaths and in juries among is population, whioh ap proached 300 souls. The soenes about the building alter the fire was over and when the search for the dead was begun was heart rend ing. Nothing so pitiful of tuoh pro portions has been seen in New York oity since the Slocum disaster, in whioh a thousalid persons lost their lives. The fire proper started in the base ment ooo'upled by Isaac Davis,bis wife and three children. Davis saw * kerosene lamp In the rear explode. He awoke bia wife and both tried tc put out the flaming lamp, but without suooeas, and then gave all their atten tion to getting their children ont of the building. A policeman who heard the cry of alarm rushed to the scene and every effort was made to rouse the sleeping persons in the house. In the meantime the flames had spread with startling rapidity, and when the persona who had been asleep on the upper floors «wore, they ■ found themselves confronted by a wall of flames on every side. The panio strioken people fighting for their lives rushed to the fire escapes, only to find them littered with rubbish of all aorta and almost impassable. Down through these cluttered, narrow passageways flowed a stream of humanity. On some of the escapes the rubbish was olo» y packed that it became im possible to pass certain points, and nen and ohildren stood liter ally n a .ting to death as the flames roared through the windows around One of the escapes, which ended near the roof of a shed about 30 feet above the ground, had been manned by policeman John. J. Lwan, who had i a plank aoroea to the window of adjoining bnilding. Nearly a dozen persona had been oarried across this narrow bridge by the pelioemen, and then the flames began to sweep around the lower end of the fire escape. Rush ing in to* the fire a policeman seized a little child and started on the last re turn trip across to the place of safety. He had made only half the diatanoe when the plank, burned more than half throngh, broke where it rested on the fire escape, and the rescuer and the reaoued fell to the atone paved yard -30 feet below. The man struck fairly on his back, and one of hia shoulders was shattered by the force of the fall. The child was uninjured. In the meantime the firemen bad run up ladders at the other points around the building, and dozens of presonB were being taken from the crowded fire escapes and upper windows. By this time the building was a furnace, and the resoues were effected in many l j after the greatest show of bravery on the part of the firemen. Heroes developed at this time. Lieutenant Bonner, son of the former fire obief, ascended the red hot fire es cape five times. Four times he oame down with a woman or a child in his arms. The fifth time he was making tor the street with an unoonaoious woman when his strength gave way. He staggered and would have fallen to death had not a comrade come to his assistance. As Bonner reaohed a fourth story window on one o f bis aaoents and drag ged a little girl from a window where she stood surrounded by flames Bhe pleaded with him to leave her on the escape and go in after her little brother whom she had carried to the window. He had (alien nnoonaoious and was roasting, she said. Bonner Jumped through the window, and it seemed to those below as if he was going into a furnace. He found the little boy just inside the window and oarried him out Fireman Hannigan repeated Bon ner’s feat on the third floor,. rosouing Fannie Ginsberg. A woman, her night dress blaziDg, as seen to crawl out of a window and start down the fire escape from the top floor. The hot iron blistered her feet and burnt deep into her flesh, but she continued on. The eoallng lad dera were fun up olose to the escape and a fireman had almost reaohed her when a belob of flame ooverod her like a wave and bore her down. 8be fell back and died in sight of the horror- strioken orowd. The position of those who had taken refuge in the rubbish ohoked Are es- oape became more and more desperate every minute. They feared to jump and they oonld not wait until the scal ing ladders reached them, so intense was the heat Now and then o would jump to the ground with acres m. A baby was flung into the arms of a policeman below by .its fear crazed mother. Just as the policeman caught the ohild the mothei dived to the ground.' Her body struck the police man sad he fell unconscious. The woman escaped injury by the fall, but she had been badly burned. The baby —as uninjured. FANNY CROSBY. There still, lives at Bridgeport, Con- neotiout, at a ripe age, a lady who has brought joy into hundreds of homes throughout the English-speaking world. All classes of people sing Miss Croaby’i secular and sacred songs. The ohildren in th» pnblio schools use “ There’s Music in the A ir;” their parents know and love \Hazel D ell,\ “ Rosalie, the Prairie Flower,” and others, whioh immensely popular twenty-five years ago. But Fanny Croflhgr is best known by her hymns, such as “ Bet ti}« Perishing,\ \ I am Thine, I^rd,” \Nearer the Cross,” “ Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour,\ “ Blessed Assurance” and \Someday the Silver Chord will Break. ” The first of her hynms was written in 1864, and since that date she has composed over eight housund, under various noma The gifted singer has been blind since she was six [years old. but through marvellous difficulties has oveioome great obstaoles. For twenty- three years she was a pupil and teaoher in the New York Institution for the Blind. There she met and knew HenTy Clay, General 8cott, James K. Polk, Governor Seward, and ex-Preaident Cleveland, who haa been her firm friend for .fifty years. Mias Crosby has known many of the greatest musical and literary men and women, including all the famous composers ol *J music . Recently she has writ; up the entire story of her life into autobiorgaphy, whioh promises to be widely read when it 1* published. Miss Crosby ha&* wonderful mem ory. She compos*« an entire hymn be fore having any of it written down on paper. Onoe she wrote forty songs be fore having any of them recorded; and at the end she oonld recall_every one of them. On Maroh 26 the churches of Amerioa propose to build Miss Crosby a monument of gratitude, whioh will be more enduring than any marble shaft They propose to honor her life- work -while she still lives and is able to appreciate the kind thought of those who sing and love her songs. Hund reds of church* s are preparing speoial programs of song to use for that pur pose; and a unique feature of the d U d ia a large gift of honor as a testim inial to Miss Crosby’s pnblio servioel They thus hope to recognize in a fitting manner her eighty-fifth birthday. A RUMOR OF PEACE Washington, March 14.—When the ozar calls his war oounoil today, he will be able to inform them that Japan will weloome peace on reasonable terms and will promptly name her con ditions providing she receives trust- wortthy assuranoe that they will be seriously considered. This the emperor has learned from several chancellories in Europe. These, it is said, include the reten tion by Japan of Port Arthur, a Japan ese proteotorate over Korea, and an in demnity. From a high offioila it is reported that Russia has recalled her second Pacific squadron. An attache of the Rnssian embassy in Europe is quoted expressing the be lief that Kuropatkin’s recent defeat will force Russia to ask for pence. Briefly, these were the reports current in the diplomatio corps here, and as a result of this important information official Washington believes that Russia and Japan are on the verge of peasce. If it be trne that the second Pacifio squadron has been recalled even the most optimistic of Russia’s friends ad mit that this is a strong indication that Oyatna’ablow has made for peaoe. New York, Maroh. 16.—A splendid diamond broooh valued at $ 16 , 000 , whioh was lost by Mrs.T.Edwin Ward, as she was leaving a theater with her husband, has been returned bv the find-, er, who rroeived a reward of $1000 in aosh. Tbs man’s identity was no£ made known, but he appeared to be in proo circumstances. He returned the jewels in reply to an advortisemenL From 8pokane to 8 t Paul. Miles. By proposed Corbin road and C. P. 1476 By Great Northern .......... .....1489 By Northern Pacific . . . . . . . . . . . 1612- ARMY REORGANIZES JAPS HAVE STOPPEDJHEIR PUR SUIT OF KUROPATKIN. After Thslr Battle Line It Formulated and Men Retted Up an Attack Is Ex pected on Raseian’e Position's! Tie Pace—Weather Conditions Aided Japanese In Battle Before Mukden. Tie Pass, March 14.—The Japanese, It Is reported, have ceased their pur suit, at least temporarily. Some of the Japanese are 25 miles below Tie Pass. A resumption of their advance Is expected. Rumors are In circulation that the Japanese are already attempt ing another turning movement ’1 troops are being sorted out and ganlzatlons reformed and assigned places to defend the new positions, but whether Tie Pass will be held or i doned probably will not be decided for several days. It is 8till too early to tell the extent of the Russian defeat, because not all the parts of the army have been as sembled,‘and the losses during the re- trpat are no small portion of the cas ualties. Up to the time of the begin ning of the retreat It la probable the Japanese losses were heavier than tnose of the Russians, and at the time the Japanese broke through Fu pass the Russians appeared' to be holding their own and even gaining a little. Preparations were then being made to launch a counter stroke. The Jap abese success was largely aided by the weather conditions, whlcn enabled them to approach unobserved, but It was chiefly due to the failure of some of the organizations of the left flai ' e retirement from the Sbakhe river occupy the positions marked out for them. The Japanese quickly discover ed the Intervals, scouting columns hav ing followed the retreat closely. FRANCE TURNED RUSSIA DOWN. Refused to Make More War Loans for the Present. Paris, Maroh 14.—Inquiry today at roe banka Inter sated in the proposed new Russian loan brought the reeponse that it had been decided to postpone the issue. A representative of one bank said the postponement was for an definite period. The postponement attributed to the uncertainties cf the war situation. The Temps'says: \I t wrs quite natural that the Paris bankers should refuse to sign a con tract in view of the conditions in Man churia and the ignorance of the finan ciera concerning the leal Intentions of Russia. ” The paper declare« the postponement will continue until Russia's intentions are known. The Journal dea Debata, in its finan cial article, says: “ Many people oonsider the adjourn- ent to be evidence that Russia haa reaohed the end of her resources.'' i Revue, an important Paris monthly, .tomorrow will publish an artiole appealing to French investor* o make farther advances to Rus sia, declaring that the war reverses may bring on a depression in Russian seourieties whioh might prove a great- blow to Franoe investors than the bursting of tbe first Panama bubble. DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN SEATTLE. Jewish Peddler Killed His Wife and Sent a Bullet into His Head. Seattle, Wash., Maroh 16. — Labia Goldstein or Lewis Goldstein as he is better known, a Russian Jew fruit, peddler, murdered bis wife, Jennie Goldstein, at their home, 710 Lane street, and then sent a ballet crashing through hia own brain. Goldstein can live but a short time. The cause of the double tragedy is it positively known, bnt it resulted from a quarrel. Tbe couple was mar ried only two weeks .ago. One week ago they bought furniture on the in stallment plan and went to housekeep ing. Mrs Goldstein, who it said to have been at one time an inmate of the Midway, a disorderly bouse was bet ter known as Jennie Goode or Jennie Cohen. The woman expressed a desire to leave the life tbe was leading and married Goldstein. At an early hour in the morning the woman told a neighbor that she and hea husband had quarreled because he had requested her to take up her old life and help him make a living. This she said, she agreed to do, but she de clared she would not give her husand a oent of the money she earned. She said ahe was going back to her house to pack her trunk and return to the re stricted district. It ia now definitely stated that Em peror Nloholas has approved the decis ion of the oounoil of war to send Grand Duke Nicholas Nioholaievitch to re place General Kuropakin as the best means of patting s stop to the intrigues and jealousies among generals of the army, both at 8L Petersburg and at tbe front General Sonkhomlinoff will be obief of staff. RUMOR OF A JAPANESE DEFEAT Nogl's Army Said to Have Bstn Cut In Two. Santopu, Maroh 17,—A sanguinary oombat occurred on March 14 ou the center advauoed line of the Russian army, eight mile* south of Tie Pare. The Russians repulsed the attoak and even made a small advance through a thousand oorpaes of the Japanese, ad vancing along the right flank, whete General Mistohenko, |who has taken command of his detachment, la hold ing the Japanese in oheok. The Rus sian troops have regained their normal spirits and fought obeerfully. The Japanese, flushed with viotory, attempted to completely destroy the Russian army at Tie Paas and reck less ee*« took the plaoe of strategy, with the result that Kuropatcln haa been able to turn the tables, at least in part, -n his foes. General Nogi’s soldiers are reported have been ont in two, and one divi sion of his army at least is in danger of being totally destroyed. Three Jsp- anese attack« have proved unsuccess ful, while counter Ruasina attacks have resulted in the driving back of the enemy. It is now believed that Kuropatkln can hold his positions about Tie Pass until a new army oan be plaoed in the field. It is ramored that the Chinese killed 80 foreigners in Mukden after the Rus sian evacuation of that plaoe, includ ing. it is said. Correspondent Richard H. Little of the Cboiago Daily News. The fate of Nadeau, a French news paper correspondent, who lived with Little, is unknown. A message was sent to Field Marshall Oyama today •‘ king for information aa to the fate of the two correspondents. M. Nadeau ia reported to have been captured by the' Japanese. * The office of tbe censor has been re moved to Santoupu, eight miles ’north of Tie Pass, as existence at Tie Paas for civilians is almost impossible. Practically all the newspaper corres pondents have left for Harbin. For several nights the Associated Frees correspondent has slept without cover ing on tbe frosty ground and for two days he has had nothing to eat. MONTANA NOTES. Splendid progress has been made during the past month en the new compartment shaft being sunk on the greawCendall mine at Kendall. Conrad Kohluera of Deer Lodge and Paul McCormick of Billings, two well known business men of Montana, were recently In Washington, D. C-, on busi ness before the Indian office. The Helena lodge of Elks, at a re cent meeting, declared unanimously In favor of the election of Dr. W. H. Havi- land of Butte to the position of grsmd trustee of the order at the next grand lodge to be held at Buffalo. N. Y. Senator Piles of Washington las ap pointed Miles Taylor of Great Falls, as bis private secretary. Taylor was formerly private secretary of Senator Gibson of Montana, and baa had 12 years of secretarial experience with western senators. Through the failure of the late legis lature to make an appropriation for paying the salary and expenses of the milk and meat Inspectors of the state, the law which has been In operation very successfully for two years has been rendered inoperative. President Roosevelt has appointed as chairman of the Louisiana Pur chase Exposition John D. Waite of Lewlstown, senator from Fergus coun ty. and national committeeman of the republican organization for this state, take the place of United States Sen- jr Thomas H. Carter, who resigned the posltkra. Judge Hiram Knowles and Chief Chariot. Montana Flathead Indians, called at,the White House recently and spent half an hour with the \Great White Father” discussing Flathead af fairs. Tbe president expressed him self greatly pleased with the action of Chief Chariot In withdrawing objection against opening tbe Flathead reserva tion. . A suit *or $37.000,000 has been com menced by the Johnstown Mining com pany against the Boston A Montana Mlnlpg company in the courta of New York state to recover the value of cop ter tires alleged to have been taken by the latter company from lands on which the other claims are said to have had prior locations and patent. Tbe Jobnstown company operates the Rarua mine In Montana and the Penn sylvania claim of the Boston A Mon tana adjoins it. Tbe Johnstown la a Heinze property and tbe Boston A Montana an Amalgamated concern. Lieut. Jarvis Quits Service. Lieutenant D. H. Jarvis of the reve- le cutter service and by special act of congress collector of customs for the district of Alaska, has tendered to the president bis resognation aa col lector. to take effect at once. He will resign from the revenue cutler service some time during the con4pg summer. Fernie, B. C. March »17.—Fire baa destroyd the big tijpie at the Coal roeek colliery, five miles from hare.
