iW VlcCook Tribune F M KIMMELL Publisher MCOOK NEBRASKA Brief Telegrams In Japan state socialism Is favored by the government and taught In tho colleges The Kaisers own band from Ger many will fill an engagement at the Worlds fair Morris K Jessup was re elected president of the New York chamber of commerce Holland has no patent system or trade mark laws Certificates of ori gin are not required there There are a few carpet factories in Smyrna but most of the carpets are made in the dwellings of the peas ants Four bandits convicted of murder were garrotted in the provincial jail at Santiago Cuba It was the first legal execution since the Spanish re gime Senator Beveridge of Indiana takes great interest in military affairs and while in the Philippines spent much time on the firing line with General Lawton A miniature house completely fur nished each piece carved with a pock etknife the work of a St Joseph Mo teamster will be exhibited at tho Worlds fair Forest fires are raging near Nadeau Nathan and Packard Menominee coun ty Michigan The farmers fear that unless rain falls soon they will lose their homes In the city of New York there were in 190 388 deaths traced by the coro ners to illuminating gas Of these RUSSIAN LOSSES OFFICIAL REPORT OF GENERAL KASHTALINSKY RECEIVED ore nnnj ji i iruc icijuiteu u uuiuuumtu uuu i jshed and th JMS BUIUIUUI The presidential election has result ed in a triumph for the union liberal party in all parts of the republic says a dispatch from La Pas Bolivia Ismal Montest was elected president Among distinguished users of to bacco there are few more prominent than J Pierpont Morgan He is a heavy cigar smoker and has them made for him especially in Havana Senator Mitchell of Oregon is the only man in all the history of the Senate whose service has included three distinct terms separated by peri ods of opjitical retirement Sir Henry Thompson the eminent English surgeon who died recently in his 84th year was in addition to his surgery especially distinguished for his study in matters of food and diet The members of the isthmian canal commission have returned to Wash ington from a tour of inspection of the recently acquired canal property on the isthmus and will meet there next week The penny-in-the-slot machine is not by any means a modern invention In the old Egyptian temples devices of this kind were employed for auto matically dispensing the purifying water Jere H Murray a democratc can didate for attorney general of Mssouri died at Columbia Mo of pneumonia contracted on a campaign trip aged 37 years He was prominent in Mis souri politcs Prince DArenberg president of the Suez Canal company has informed the French Academy of Medicine that Paludai fever popularly known as marsh fever has disappeared from the canal strip Forest fires are burning and spread ing rapidly in the section north of Tomahawk Wis and along the Soc railroad Homesteaders and farmers are suffering losses through the burn ing of buildings The plague has broken out among the Chinese collected at Kowloon for transportation to Transvaal mines The charters of steamers engaged to convey the coolies have consequently been cancelled Bids were opened by Comptroller Grout of New York City for 37000 000 of city bonds at 3 per cent for ten years and the balance for fifty years The issue was over subscribed about seven times Circuit Judge Gray has designated Judge Edward G Bradford of the United States district court of Dela ware to hear the Northern Securities case at Trenton in place of Judge Kirkpatrck deceased Dr William Barton Hopkins well known in medical circles died of cholera morbus at Philadelphia Dr Hopkins was the author of many val uable medical articles and his book on fractures is widely known The New York World quotes Sena tor Thomas G Piatt as saying In Washington the feeling among the republican leaders is that Senator Fairbanks is to be nominated for vice president It is practically settled The only man who has not agreed to it is Senator Fairbanks but he will accept and make a strong candidate Dr Giles S Mitchell a prominent physician died suddenly at his home in Avondale in Cincinnati from heart disease Frank von Lembach the famous his torical and portrait painter and presi dent of the Munich Artists Associa tion is dead The United States canal commission took formal oossession of the Panama canal rcate end of the property of the Panama Ciral Ccmpany Imme diately after re transfer the United States flag rl ci over the lega tion and av rZ2zl offices THE RUSSIANS LOSE 2000 MEH Ine News Has a Stunning Effect on the Authorities at St Petersburg Seven Hundred Wounded and Forty Officers Killed ST PETERSBURG The Russian losses at the battle of Kiu Lien Cheng were 2 000 men and forty officers tar greater than previous reports in licated This is the official estimate of Ma- or General Kashtalinsky who direct ly commanded the division that suf fered the brunt of the attack and whose report was received Wednesday by the emperor Many are Inclined to place the Russian losses even higher 3eneral Krshtalinsky mentions also that more than 700 wounded had ar rived at Feng Wang Cheng and these may not be included in the casualties He made no attempt to estimate the lapanese losses merely stating that they must have been colossal The magnitude ot the Russian losses had an almost stunning effect on tJie authorities and aroused general grief mitigated only by satisfaction at the bravery displayed by the Russian troops Not for a moment was there any in tention to pay such a terrible price for delaying the enemys crossing of the Yalu river This fact was known hroughout the city and gave rise to renewed reports attributed to official sources that General Kuropatkin had officially censured Lieutenant General Zassalitch If this was so General Kuropatkins telegraphed criticism of Zassalitch was carefully cut out of the dispatches which have been pub- general impression now held is that he will remain in Manchuria General Kashtalinskys report estab lishes the fact that the Russians sus tained the greatest loss in order to save the two regiments which were occupying Antung The Eleventh regiment was given the post of honor at the rear with instructions to hold back the on-coming Japanese The Twelfth regiment and the Third batterys quick firing de tachment were directed to retire By the time the latter movement commenced the Japanese had almost surrounded the Russian position The Twelfth regiment was compelled to charge with the bayonet and succeed ed in breaking through the enemys line The Second batterys quick-firing detachment without horses could not move the guns and were compelled to abandon them The men of the Second battery put their shoulders to the wheels in an effort to push the guns up the mountain side but the Japanese lire was so hot that they re turned to the protection of the Elev enth regiment Nearer and nearer approached the Tapanese and a charge upon the Elev enth regiment and the Second battery was imminent so he guns wcreaban Joned Then a priest led the troops and hey began the terrible march across he valley SETTLE GRAIN RATE WAR Through Rates to Be No Greater Than the Sum of the Locals CHICAGO After many futile at tempts the western railroads on Thursday succeeded in completing a Qnal settlement in the grain rate war between Missouri river points and Chicago All have agreed to make proportion- nl rntnc fvnm oil Tinrniii a I and have decided that the throuch rates from Nebraska points to Chi cago shall not be lower than the com bined locals excepting from certain Nebraska points tributary to the Sioux City gateway the latter being a concession to the Chicago North western The rates on grain from Omaha and Council Bluffs will be the same as those from Kansas City Heretofore the rates from the former points was 2 cents per 100 pounds higher IMPORTANT MINING DECISION United States Supreme Court Decides Again Subsurface Tunnels WASHINGTON In the case of the St Louis Mining and Milling company against the Montana Mining company both operating in the state of Mon tana the United States supreme court on Monday decided that the owner of a lode mining claim cannot by means of a tunnel explore the subsurface of an adjoining claim even though the tunnel be run to tap a vein the apex of which is on the claim of the owner of the tunnel The court holds in effect that the vein itself may be followed but that in no other way can the adjoining territory of another mining property be explored Stock Growers Organize DENVER The Cattle Growers In terstate Executive committee was or ganized at a convention here and the following officers were elected Chair man William M Turney of Texas vice chairman William A Harris of Kansas secretary Fred H Johnson of Denver Denver was selected as the headquarters J J Dickinson representing the government in the beef trust invsetigations was present The gathering was called to form a permanent organisation of live stock men west of the Missouri ATTACK ON PORT ARTHUR Japanese Engage Ports and Wat ships Reports indicate that the battle on the Yalu was a complete defeat for tho Russians There is an unconfirmed report that the Japanese have captured New Chwang and that the Russians have been routed In another sea battle of Port Ar thur the Japanese lost a number of vessels Fireships were sent into the harbor but failed to accomplish the purpose intended From 3000 to 4000 Russians are re ported to have been killed In the bat tle on tho Yalu Another Japanese fleet is reported to have been sighted off Port Arthur PORT ARTHUR A Japanese squad ron appeared off Port Arthur after daybreak and engaged the forts and war ships The fight is still proceed ing Thirty Japanese prisoners have been captured At 1 oclock in the morning five Japanese torpedo boats were sighted The Russian land batteries the gun boat Giliak with the coast defense vessels Grimischi and Otvashni open ed fire and compelled them to retire Immediately afterwards other Japan ese ships were sighted on the horizon They were headed by a fireship which was sunk near the entrance of the harbor at 120 a m After an interval of twenty five minutes two more fire ships came on and were sent to the bottom At 2lj four more fireships ap proached Three of these blew up on our mines Two of these sank imme diately and the other two fireships were sunu by the batteries and war ships The protected cruiser Askoid partici pated in the firing Fifteen minutes later three more fireships arrived One of them blew up on a mine the second was wrecked on the shore and the third was sunk by the Russian sheels The crews of the Japanese fireships which were sunk while attempting to block the channel tried to save them selves in boats in which they put out to sea A majority of them were kill ed by the Russian machine guns and rifles Some of the survivors were picked up At daybreak a number of Japanese were seen clinging to the masts and funnels of the sunken vessels and these were rescued by the Russians Thirteen of the wounded Japanese have since died The Russians sup plied the survivors with food and clothing and the wounded were taken to the hospital ship Mongolia During the morning ten of the en emys torpedo boats remained in the offing and were fired on at long range At 530 oclock it was signalled that there was a Japanese fleet in the vi cinity and that two of the enemys launches had been run ashore The town is quiet Large crowds watched the mornings operations with great interest UNDER CLOUD OF CHARGES U S Attorney McComber of Nome District Resigns WASHINGTON Senator McComb er of North Dakota presented to the president the resignation of Melvin Grigsby United States attorney for the Nome district in Alaska The resignation has been accepted to take effect July 1 No intimation is given as to Grigsbys successor More than a year Attorney General Knox recommended to the president that Grigsby be dismissed for disobe dience of orders of the department in leaving his post without permission Subsequently charges were preferred L j auu11 livyi iJuinis against him in which it was alleged that he received 10000 from the Pioneer Mining company of Nome the allegation stating that the sum was to secure or the Pioneer Mining com pany immunity from United States prosecution Grigsby admitted the re ceipt of the money half of which was in cash and tho other half in stock in the Pioneer Mining company but said it was an attorneys fee The case has been pending until this time ROOSEVELT WILL NOT SPEAK Several Members of the Cabinet Will Go on the Stump WASHINGTON Questl ons relat ing to the Panama canal general pol itics and departmental matters were the subjects under consideration at the meeting of the cabinet Friday While the president himself does not expect to deliver political speeches during the approaching campaign it is said that several members of the cabinet will take an active part in the contest Secretaries Taft Shaw Moody Wilson and Attorney Genral Knox are all expected to deliver im portant speeches and some of them will soeak many times It is said also that Speaker Cannon will make an ex tensive tour of the country cam paigning wherever his services seem to be needed most Thinks United States is Wise LONDON The best military ex perts are disposed to await further in formation before attaching undue im portance to the result of the battle on the Yalu river Commenting on the Shanghai report that United States Consul Davidson is proceeding to his post at Antung the Globe says Thy triumph of the open door has begun and the United States has given once more a sign of its appreciation of real issies of war in the far east The Globe then invites the British foreignoGice to shoy similar activity TO BE EVACUATED RUSSIANS HAVE DECIDED TO DE PART FROM NEW CHWANG HEED MORE FORGE TO HOLD IT Reported Wounding of Viceroy Alex ieff Before Departure for Port Ar thur Russians at New Chwang Hurriedly Leaving NEW CHWANG There is every in dication that the Russians have de cided to evacuate New Chwang The troops have been leaving here all day long Forts have been dismantled and all artillery has been placed on beard trains All the local transportation has been commandeered by the Rus sian authoritiees There is current here a native ru moro that Japanese troops are in Foo Chau bay on the Avest side of the Liao Tung peninsula and about sixty miles north of Port Arthur but this report lacks confirmation The fear is held here that if the Russians leave and the Japanese do not at once take possession of New Chwang the brigands who are now across the river near Yin Kow will pillage the place The foreign resi dents are prepared to resist the brig ands should they come over The British consul has requested that a gunboat be sent to New Chwang The Russians probably will destroy the gunboat Sivoutch before leaving The vessel is at New Chwang It is reported here that Viceroy Alexieff was slightly wounded before his departure from Port Arthur He barely escaped from there before the Japanese closed the lines of commu nication The Russian general staff has mov ed from Liao Yang to Mukden Russians here will not talk of the situation for fear that they may im part some information They do not consider that their forces here are suf ficient to hold this section of ie country It is probable that the Rus sian troops will withdraw to Harbin The Russian civilians at New Chwang are leaving hurriedly and many natives are fleeing from the city in fear that they will be subjected to maltreatment at the hands of the brigands STOESSEL ADDRESSES TROOPS Tells Them to Prepare for Worst and Hope for Best PORT ARTHUR Lieutenant Gen eral Stoessel has issued an order to the troops of his command as follows On April 30 and May 1 the enemy crossed the Yalu river in great force and our troops fall back to positions which had been previously selected Yesterday the enemy effected an important landing on the Liao Tung peninsula south of Pitsewo and in the vicinity of Kin Chou bay Now our work is beginning Naturally the enemy will destroy railway com munication and endeavor to drive our troops back to Port Arthur and be siege this fortress Russias bulwark in the far east We will defend it un til the arrival of troops which are coming to relieve us I consider it my duty to call upon you to display unceasing vigilance and caution and you must be ready at all times to demean yourselves toward your general with the dignity and order beseeming the glorious rec ord of Russia No matter what pens you must not lose your heads but remember that everything is pos sible in war and that we shall be able with Gods help to cope with the ardu ous task imposed upon us RUSSIAN BOSSES WERE IMMENSE Official Report Places the Number at Over Two Thousand ST PETERSBURG The emperor has received a dispatch from General Kouropatkin giving a report of Lieu tenant General Zassalitch of the Rus sian losses in the battle of Kiu Lien Cheng General Zassalitch confirms the reports of the enormous mortality among the artillery horses and con cludes his report as follows Our losses on April 30 and May 1 altogether amount to seventy superior and subaltern officers and 2324 Killed wounded or taken prisoners Of this total 1081 were left on the battlefield but it is not known whether they were killed or wounded In consequence of the heavy losses In men and battery horses and he difficulties encountered in the roadless country it was absolutely imposible to bring away the guns and machine gun 0e Jew Baiter Sentenced KISHINEFF The trial of the six men charged with an attempt to mur der two Jews during the April dis turbances has been concluded One of the men was sentenced to five years penal servitude and the others were acquitted When a small boy gets his finger caught in the pantry door it isnt the jam he is looking for Woman Leaps to Pavement CHICAGO 111 A woman giving the name of Mrs Maud Todd Satur day leaped to the pavement from a second story window in a hoted on the north at Dearborn avenue and Erie streets She sustained fatal in juries The jump from the window followed a quarrel with Albert C Todd whom the woman said was her husband Todd when arrested de nied that the woman was his wife and gave her name as Maud Scherm erhorn of Davenport la THE SEASON IS TARDY Quiet Conditions Noted In Marts of Business NEW YORK R G Dun Cos Weekly Review of Trade says Somewhat better retail distributions followed improvement in temperature but it came too late to recover and realize part of the tardy seasons in jury to spring trade Quiet condi tions are noted in practically all lines of wearing apparel with the exception of specialties such as tan shoes that cannot be delivered with sufficient ra pidity Operations for future re- tion and this disposition to avoid ex cessive commitments will do much to reduce the number of failures Some Improvements in collections particu larly at the south and west will also strengthen weak concerns The per centage of idle factories has increas ed especially in textiles and foot wear and a change in style has ren dered unavailable much silk machin ery Structural work is increasing but dealers had accumulated large supplies of building materials and prices lack seasonable firmness Com modity prices declined slightly during April Railway earnings in April were 58 per cent less than last year Recovery in the iron and steel in dustry is again retarded by the un expected dissolution of the ore asso ciation Prior to that event there was increasing confidence in the sta bility ot quotations the railways were at last seeking rails in moderate quantities and fair activity prevailed in tin plate sheet pipe and wire pro ducts Fuel conditions are unchang ed anthracite continuing active while coke and bituminous coal are dull and weak After last weeks exceptionally heavy transactions it was natural that the western hide markets should be come inactive Prices remain firm howeve Commercial failures this week in the United States are 20G against 202 last week 241 the preceding week and 145 the corresponding week last year Failures in Canada number 27 against 1G last week 12 tho preceding week and 22 last year DECIDES IN FAVOR OF BANK Ruling of Judge in Phillips Case a Blow to Small Creditors CHICAGO The suit brought by the trustee of the George Phillips com pany to recover from the Bank of Montreal 200 000 which the mem bers of the firm had deposited shortly before the collapse of tho corn corner in 1902 came to an abrupt ending in the United States circuit court today Judge Seaman took the case from the jury and announced a decision in fa vor of the bank The court held that a bank was not in the same class as other creditors of a bankrupt The decision practic ally means that the small creditors of the Phillips company will receive but a slight percentage on claims while the banking institution comes out al most entirely whole Get Ready for the Rush BONESTEEL The people of this place are making strenous efforts to be ready for the greater influx of pros pective homesteaders July 1 when the Indian Rosebud reservation land is to be thrown open They have what the Germans would call earth hun ger Scores of people seeking claims already have set their tents to be in on the ground floor It is apparent a tremendous number will he here ready to grab onto the 2G00 quarter sections which this tract of excellent land con tains This is splendid soil and a very rapid settlement is anticipated as a result of this opening Trainloads of Wounded MUKDEN The spirits of the troops here are not depressed because of the fighting on the Yalu and the in vestment of Port Arthur and they are oaagerly awaiting an opportunity to meet the invaders Wounded from the Yalu are passing through Mukden on every train on the way to Harbin The last passenger train from Port Arthur before the line was cut arrived Saturday The woodwork of the coaches was marked with bullets which struck as the train dashed at full speed past a critical point German Prince at Seat of War TIEN TSIN Prince Adelbert third son of Emperor Willian of Ger many who is traveling on board the German cruiser Hertha left here for Peking An audience between the prince and the emperor of China has been arranged for May 17 The prince will come back to Tien Tsin on the 18th and on the 19th he will return on board the Hertha Prince Adelbert was in Corea last week He landed at Chemulpo and has proceeded to Seoul where he visited the German minister to Corea Marconi Sails for New York LIVERPOOL William Marconi was a passenger on the Cunard line steamer Campania which sailed from here for New York Sundav Defendant in an Invalid Chair WASHINGTON Both of the de fendants were in court when the em paneling of a jury proceeded for the trial of James N Tyner and Harrison J Barrett on indictments charging conspiracy to defraud the government General Tyner as en yesterday wan brought into court in an invalids chair and surrounded with furs to protect him from tho drafts of the room Le s than half an hour was necessary to complete the jurv NAVAL BATTLE ON ON EAST HEAVY CANNONADING COAST OF COREA t JAPANESE 0FFP0RT ARTHUR Beieved Admiral Uriu Has Closed with the Vladivostock Fleet Report that Zassalitch is Relieved Care for Russian Wounded t nxmnw A rlisnatch to the Ccn quirements are carried on with i tral NewSj dated at Seoul Tuesday Guns Enual Record British in 1902 says that heavy cannonading wuo heard off Gensan on the east cocst of Corea Monday and Tuesday morn ing It is supposed Admiral Urius fleet has succeeded In engaging the Russian Vladivostock squadron A rumor to the effect that the Jap anese had s cceeded in bringing the Russian Vladivostock squadron of four cruisers to battle off Vladivostock was circulated in Paris Monday but up to Tuesday morning no confirma tion had been obtained Evidently the above dispatch refers to the same rumo ST PETERSBURC3 There are per sistent rumors here of a naval engage ment between the Vladivostok and Vice Admiral Kamimuras squadrons but no confirmation of the reports had been received here up to 1 oclock Thursday afternoon The admiraky says no further news has been re ceived here from Port Arthur PARIS A dispatch to the Temps from St Petersburg confirms previous reports to the effect that the Japan ese fleet appeared off Port Arthur Thursday and that an engagement oc curred off Gensan Corea between a Japanese squadron and the Russian squadron form Vladivostok General Kouropatkin has gone to the front from Lia Yang to inspect the situation personally Troops ar being hurried forward from the Liao Yang and Mukden line to a position near Feng Wang Cheng All the Russians wounded have been sent back toward Liao Yang in order not to encumber the operations of the Russian army It appears evident that General Kouropatkin is preparing to give battle to General Kurokis army if circumstances warrant Private reports are to the effect that the fighting blood of the Russian soldiers is up and that they are thirst ing for an opportunity to revenge the slaughter on the Yalu but although the commander-in-chief is greatly chagrined at the miscarriage of his plans on the Yalu there is no idea here that he will act rashly on that account His decision as to the ex tended opposition he will make at Feng Wane Chenc denends unrm th location and success of the Japanese landings in Manchuria Descents or attempted landings are now momen tarily anticipated near New Chwang and the head of Corea bay Occupy ing an interior line and pursuing tho tactics of Napoleon Kouropatkins problem will be to prevent a yjunc ture of the enemys forces It is nec essary for him to await the develop ment of the Japanese plans and ascer tain the direction strength and whence the other column will come before deciding how to fight his ad versary in detail IOWA MAKES GREAT RECORD Old Made by WASHINGTON Remarkable rec ords were made by the Iowas guns in the annual record target practice just completed The Iowas guns made forty two shots and thirty four hits The best twelve inch gun made eleven shots and eleven hits The hits per gun per minute for the twelve inch guns were 075 This equals the record made by the British ship Ocean in 1902 when it broke the worlds record and in the case of the Iowa the record is all the more creditable because its guns are of an old type The Iowas eight inch guns made 120 hits the gun each minute the best gun making eight hits out of eight shots Irrigation Plans for Nebraska WASHINGTON The secretary of the interior has set aside provisional ly the sum of 1000000 for the con struction of the Pathfinder reservoir on the North Platte river in Wyom ing Construction will proceed con tingent upon favorable reports from engineers in the field as to various details still under consideration and particularly as to whether an ade quate area oi irrigable land can be round in western Nebraska The reservoir will be of sufficient capacity to supply all of the land under it in Wyoming National Treasury Balances WASHINGTON-To-days statement of the treasury balnces in the general fund exclusive of the 150000000 gold reserve m the division of to demption shows Available cash balance 21718934fi gold oco Attendance on Opening Day ST LOUIS The total attendance a the Louisiana Purchase exposition on the opening day April 30 1904 was officially announced as 1S7793 persons Of tw number 17S423 were recorded admll sions DETROIT Jame3 H Stone who on Monday vas selected for one of the assistant reading clerks of the repub bean national convention has been dead for a number of months Hp wo a prominent citizen of this city 1A i i m t 4 - if 4 A r r t 4r1 e r