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    MAKINCATREATY
DE MARTENS AND DENNISON BE
GIN WORK ON DOCUMENT.
I NO MEETING HELD ON TUESDAY
Said to Be Disappointment on the Part
of Both Nations.—Russian War
Party Thinks Witte Could Have
Made Better Terms.
PORTSMOUTH. N. H—Mr. Denni
son and M. de Martens worked until
8 o’clock Wednesday night on the
draft of the treaty. They completed
** the wording of the preamble and three
articles and were discussing the ar
ticles relating to the cession of the
Chinese Eastern railway when they
adjourned. Up to 1 o’clock Wednes
day night neither the Japanese em
peror or the Russian emperor had re
sponded to the appeals sent by their
respective plenipotentiaries asking for
the conclusion of an armistice.
Actual work of drafting the “treaty
of Portsmouth” began Wednesday. It
was done by M. de Martens and Mr.
Dennison, acting as legal advisers for
the respective sides. While the “bases”
of peace have been accepted by the
plenipotentiaries, considerable detail
remains to be worked out in the ela
boration of the articles of the treaty.
>This is especially true in regard to
the articles dealing with the Chinese
Eastern railway and tbe surrender of
the leases of the Liaotung peninsula
. and Port Arthur and Talienwan
f (Dalny). Mr. Pokotiloff, the Russian
minister to Peking, who was formerly
manager of the Russo-Chinese bank at
Peking and who has intimate knowl
edge of all the details relating to those
matters, is assisting M. de Martens.
A very anomalous situation exists
as to the impression created by the
conclusion of peace. While the outside
world applauds, in Japan there is evi
dently great disappointment in the
terms, and in Russia, where it would
seem that there should be universal
rejoicing over the great diplomatic
victory M. Witte has won. the govern
ment seems to have received it cold
ly. With the people it will make M.
Witte a great and popular figure and
add to his laurels, but at court evi
dently the very victory that M. Witte
has achieved makes it all the more
bitterly resented. It is an open secret
that when the emperor appointed M.
Witte chief plenipotentiary the “mili
tary party” expected him to fail. They
did not want peace and it was freely
predicted in St Petersburg when M.
Witte left that he had been given an
impossible mission. They expected him
to fall in the negotiations or to “make
a bad peace,” and either would have
spelled political ruin. Instead, upon
the very terms upon which the em
peror told Mr. Meyer he would make
peace and upon which the military
party did not believe it possible for
peace to be negotiated. M. Witte suc
IA reeded in securing a treaty honorable
jp and under the circumstances favor
able to Russia. This has evidently
p only exasperated his enemies the more
and intrigue is again at work to dis
credit him. Since Japan was in a con
ciliatory mood they say he made a
\ mistake in surrendering half of Sak
halin. Yet he did so by the czar’s or
ders and himself insists that person
ally he would have stuck to the end
jL to his original declaration not to cede
0 territory or give indemnity.
TWO JAPANESE OFFICIALS
MAKE LIBERAL GIFT
PORTSMOUTH N. H—Baron Ko
mura and Mr. Takahira. who last
week attended a garden party at
York, Maine, having subsequently as
certained that the party was organ
ized partly for the benefit of the
York hospital, gave $1,000 to the fund.
The management of the hospital has
requested the Associated Press to
make public the fact of this “munifi
cent and unexpected gift” and to an
nounce that it has been decided to
perpetuate it by endowing two beds
in the hospital and placing over them
tablets inscribed with the names of
the donors.
THE CZAR’S ORDERS
WERE CARRIED OUT
ST. PETERS BURG—'The fallowing
is the text of M. Witte’s cablegram
to Emperor Nicholas announping
peace:
“I have the honor to report to your
majesty that Japan has agreed to
your demands concerning the condi
tions of peace and that consequently
peace will be established, thanks to
your wise and firm decision and in
strict conformity with the instruc
tions of yonr majesty.
“Russia will remain in the far east
tho great power which she hitherto
has been and will be forever.
“We have applied to the execution
of your orders all our intelligence and
our Russian hearts. We beg your
majesty mercifully to forgive that we
have been unable to do more.”
8incere Joy at Odessa.
ODESSA—News of the conclusion
of peace was received by all classes
here with sincere joy and immense
relief, and especially as the promulga
tion of a ukase for the mobilization
of troops on the previous day clearly
indicated the possibility of a contin
uance of the war. The peace terms are
considered a great victory for M.
Witte. The conclusion of peace is im
Bportant to Odessa, whose commerce
and industry suffered severely during
the war.
Stockholders Vote Merger.
SAN FRANCISCO—The stockhold
ers of the Southern Pacific Railroad
company, represented mainly by prox
ies, at a meeting in this city have
voted their approval to the recent mer
ger of the Southern Pacific railway of
" California with the Southern Pacific
Railroad companies of Arizona and
New Mexico. Following this action
the stockholders voted to increase the
capital stock of the corporation to
$160,000 000 and to issue bonds for
that amount to meet requirements of
the roads.
CHIP GOES DOWN. >
Steamer Peconic Sinks Off Coast of
Florida.
FERNANDINA, Fla.—Twenty men.
constituting all but two of the officers
and crew of the American steanitliip
Peconic, Captain James, Philadelphia
to New Orleans with coal, were drown
ed by the sinking of that vessel off
the coast of Florida Monday. The
disaster was the result of a fierce gale
w'hich raged along the coast during
the night and early morning. Lash
ed by the storm an immense wave
struck the vessel with terrific force
about 12:50 o'clock this morning. The
impact, coming just as the vessel was
making a turn, caused a shift of the
cargo and the vessel leaned over and
sank immediately. The accident oc
curred so quickly that only two of
those aboard, an Italian and a Span
iard, were able to save themselves.
They succeeded in getting into a life
boat, reached Amelia Beach about
noon and on landing told the story
of the disaster.
About midnight of Sunday, accord
ing to their story, during the heaviest
part of the storm, which had raged
all day, the officer of the deck gave
i the order to put further out to sea,
fearing they were approaching the
coast too nearly. In the endeavor to
j turn the ship was struck with a heavy
I sea, the cargo shifted and it began
' sinking rapidly. In less than ten min
i utes after the alarm was sounded it
I had gone to the bottom. One of the
two survivors was at the wheel at the
I time the order was given, the other
w'as upon w’atch. As soon as the ship
began to careen these tw’o men rushed
for one of the small boats, which they
jumped into as the vessel began to go
down. With their knives they severed
the ropes as the water's level was
reached and the small boat was thrown
far out on the waves. They further
more say that they discovered through
the blackness and storm the figures
of part of the awakened crew, some of
whom managed to crowd into another
of the ship’s boats. This was. how
ever, caught in the trough of the sea,
thrown violently against the ventilat
ors and then w-edged fast. Their piti
ful cries for help could be heard as
the ship w-ent down in the sea, which
swallowred it up.
Alone through the balance of the
night, in the awful wash of waters,
with the storm raging and threatening
each moment to swamp their small
; boat, these two men were gradually
I borne ashore toward Amelia island,
I landing just at 11 a. m. Monday.
A RUNAWAY HUSBAND
BROUCHT TO NEBRASKA
SPRINGFIELD. III.—Governor De
neen heard the application for a war
rant on a requisition from Governor
Mickey of Nebraska for the return to
North Platte, Neb., of Henry D. Nor
ris of Anchor, who is wanted on the
charge of abandoning his wife and
child. Morris, through his attorney,
Mr. Sterling, fought the issuing of a
warrant on the ground that he had
made a contract to marry the com
plainant. and that there was a stipu
lation that after their child was born
he did not have to remain, and there
fore there w-as no abandonment. Gov
ernor Deneen issued the warrant for
his return.
SHOULD BLESS HEAVEN FOR IT
Russian Minister of Agriculture Is
Well Pleased.
ST. PETERSBURG—Among those
who are completely satisfied with the
results of the Portsmouth conference
are Charles von Schwanebach, minis
ter of agriculture, who said to the As
sociated Press:
“We should bless heaven for so
happy and honorable a settlement of
the war. Peace is highly desirable,
and we can now devote our attention
to the settlemenet of Russia’s inter
nal problems, which need careful and
undivided efforts without external
complications.
The minister expressed his belief
that the reforms will now take a sane
and natural course, but he declared
that to certain phases of the agitation,
a caustic must be applied firmly and
thoroughly, and the sore burned out
of the body politic. The result of the
peace negotiations, he said, was im
portant to the United States as well
as to Russia and Japan, since the
American republic emerges from the
negotiations with its prestige as the
arbiter of great world- questions firm
ly established.
ALL MAHERS SEHLED
IN BENNER CASE
NEW HAVEN. Conn.—All litigation
over the estate of Philo S. Bennett, a
former merchant of New York City, of
which William J. Bryan was executor,
is believed to be ended by the filing
of a notice in probate court to the
effect that an appeal of Mrs. Grace
Imogene Bennett, the widow, and oth
er heirs, to the allowance of Mr. Bry
an’s accounts, win be withdrawn. The
notice of an appeal had been entered
for a hearing and this action by the
heirs was expected.
Russians Settling in Panama.
PANAMA—Fifty Russian families
left Panama for Chirique. Arrange
ments have been made by which the
same number of Russian families will
*
be settled every month in different
portions of the republic. The govern
ment gives each family $500 and
thirty acres of land.
Bubonic Planue on Isthmus.
WASHINGTON — Consul General
Lee at Panama cables the state depart
ment that there was one death from
piague at Panama on Saturday
Rojestvensky About Recovered.
TOKIO—Rear Admiral Rojestven
sky has so far recovered from the
effects of wounds received at the bat
tle of the sea of Japan that he will
be brought to Kioto early in Septem
ber.
Taft Party is at Olongapo.
MANILA—A dispatch received here
reported the arrival of the transport
Logan at Olongapo, with Secretary
Taft and party on board. The Logan
was scheduled to arrive at this port
> Monday morning and came in on tima
CHOLERA ABROAD
APPEARANCE OE THE PLAGUE IN
PRUSSIA CAUSES EXCITEMENT.
TWELVE FOCI IN FIVE DAYS
Thirty-Four Cases in Towns Scattered
Over Large Area—Hamburg Out of
Infected Cities—Strong Fight
Necessary to Keep It Within Con
trol.
BERLIN—The spread of cholera
from two localities on the Weichsel
river five days ago to thirty-four cases
in twelve localities, extending from
the Baltic to the Warthe river, 150
miles south, and its appearance in
Hamburg has given an unpleasant
thrill to the people of Germany, for
it may mean a long and steady fight,
as in 1892-93, to prevent the disease
from getting beyond control. In those
years it is estimated that 800.000 per
sons died in Russia from cholera.
The Prussian government is keenly
fc*are of the possibilities of the dan
ger. which so far is not regarded as
giving occasion for apprehension. A
committee of the cabinet consisting
of Dr. Studt, minister of medical af
fairs; Herr von Sudde. minister of
state and minister of public works;
Herr Moller, minister of commerce
and industry, and Dr. von Bethmann
Hollweg, minister of the interior, has
the direction of the preventative
measures.
Numerous bacteriologists have been
sent into the infected district to as
sist in the surveillance of the prison
ers who have contracted cholera. Cau
tionary notices are published in all
towns and villages in the affected
area.
RASTENBURG, East Prussia—
There has been one death, believed
to have been caused by cholera in the
village of Paris and one in the vil
lage of Warnikeim. and in both vil
lages the government commissioners
have discovered several suspicious
cases.
LANSBORG-ON - THE - WARTHE,
Prussia—Two deaths from cholera
have occurred among the river men
in a village at the intersection of the
Warthe and the Netze.
EINLACE. West Prussia—No boats
or craft nor any fishermen from Rus
sia will be allowed to pass the locks
here. All arrivals are detained under
Inspection in three divisions. The
first, for cholera cases, contains one
patient; the second, for suspects, also
has one; the third, for those exposed
to disease, has forty-seven river men.
LEMBERG. Austria—Two deaths
from cholera have occurred here and
several suspected cases are under ob
servation. The deaths occurred in the
family of a river boatman who has
been working in the Vistula district of
Prussia.
WANT PRESIDENT TO SAVE.
Deluged With Letters Bearing on
Preservation of Niagara.
WASHINGTON—President Roose
velt is being deluged by letters from
individuals in ail parts of the country
praying him to do whatever lies in his
power to prevent, further destruction
of the natural beauties of Niagara
Falls as an incident to the develop
ment of the great power plants on
both sides of the Niagara river. All
of these communications are being
filed with the state department, and
it is not improbable that they may
serve as a basis for some action by
the president in the direction of the
creating of an international commis
sion to deal with this subject.
BURGLARS GARRY AWAY
SAFE FROM RESIDENCE
STAMFORD. Conn.—A steel safe
of considerable eight, which is under
stood to have contained $T50 in cash
and jewelry valued at over $20,000
mysteriously disappeared from the
summer residence of Paul Bonner at
Nirvana on the Sound. The famliy
believe that burglars entered the
house through a window on the lower
floor and conveyed the safe to the
shore and placed it aboard a vessel.
It was learned tonight that one of Mr.
Bonner’s servants found a note in the
piace from which the safe was re
moved which read as follows:
"If we are deprived of our freedom
this place will be in ruins.”
New Star Discoveries.
CAMBRIDGE. Mass.—A new star
has been discovered by Mrs. W. P.
Fleming of the Harvard observatory
in the constellation of Aquilla, which
at •»' p. m. just now is about on the
meridian and half way from the south
e.m horizon to the zenith. The star
was first seen on August 10 was large
as 6.3 magnitude on August 18, or just
on the verge of visibility to the naked
eye; was 7.5 magnitude on August 21.
and on August 26 was of the tenth
magnitude, showing a rapid diminu
tion of itc light.
BOYCOTT DYING OUT.
Greatest Height Has Been Reached
Throughout China.
PEKING—The American boycott al
most overshadows the peace negotia
tions as a topic of interest in China.
Accounts reaching Peking from trad
ing centers indicate that the move
ment attained its greatest strength
early in August, and since then has
been decreasing. Nowhere except in
Shanghai has American business re
ceived a serious blow.
. Clash of Authority.
CAIRO, 111.—There is considerable
friction between the Illinois state
board of health officials and Sheriff
J. A. Roach. The former accuse the
sheriff of allowing prominent men to
enter Cairo without a permit. Cap
tain N. B. Thistlewood, formerly
; mayor of Cairo, was indicted and lat
er arrested for entering Cairo with
out a health department permit. Cap
tain Thistlewood denied the ri-ht of
the Illinois state board of health and
the city of Cairo tt> prevent him from
coming into Cairo.
TOLSTOI IS MUCH PLEASED.
But Fears That Other Wars Will
Come.
MOSCOW—Count Tolstoi received
information Tuesday that peace at
Portsmouth was practically assured,
according to an intimate friend of the
family. Commenting then upon peace
as an established fact, Count Tolstoi
said:
“I am indeed very happy to see the
end of this fearful butchery, but it is
a great certainty that this war will
not be the last. It cannot be the last
war. because nations will fight each
other so long as the social system re
mains unchanged, so long as opposi
tion and threat sare considered dog
mas of society.”
Tolstoi made no comment on the
conditions of peace, declaring them to
be quite unimportant in comparison
with the final results to be attained
through the conference.
CHINESE~WILL FICHT
ALONG BOYCOTT LINES
PORTLAND, Ore.—"The boycott
upon American goods in China will
never end until the Chinese people
are admitted freely Into the United
States, or until the same discrimina
tions are made against the inferior
classes of other nations as those
which we make against the coolies of
China.”
Thus the Cuinese boycott situation
was summed up by F. F. Tong, who
is at present in Portland on his way
to Washington, D. C., as a special en
voy from the emperor of China.
Continuing, Mr. Tong said: “The
American people have no true idea of
the extent of the present boycott. It
is confined to no one class—men. wo
men and children are united in it.”
Sells Road to China.
NEW YORK—As the result of the
conference between the president and
J. P. Morgan at Oyster Bay the Chi
nese Development company held a
meeting and ratified the sale of the
Hankow railroad back to China.
AN AMERICAN CITIZEN
COMMITS MURDER ABROAD
CONSTANTINOPLE — The police
and other officials here are making
inquiries into the mysterious death
by assassination, August 26, of Apik
TJndjian, a prominent Armenian, who
was shot in the Galata quarter of this
city by a man named Chirkis Vartan
ian, who claims to be a naturalized
citfzen of the United States. Accord
ing to the official version of the affair
Vartanian, who is a native of Khar
put, and resided for ten years in the
United States, says he was ordered to
kill Undjian, but refuses to say by
whom the order was issued. Undjian
was arrested as a revolutionist during
the massacres of 1896, but had since
discontinued his connection with the
revolutionary party.
For Tuberculosis Patients.
TOPEKA—Secretary s. J. Crum
bine of the state board of health says
the physicians of the state will use
their influencj to have the next legis
lature establish a hospital for the
treatment of tuberculosis. He says
one is badly needed and that it should
be located in western Kansas, where
the air is light.
Quarantines Against Memphis.
HOUSTON, Tex.—State Health Of
ficer Tabor quarantined against Mem
phis. The restrictions affect only peo
ple from Memphis, passengers coming
through the Memphis gateway continu
ing to be admitted to Texas.
REFRIGERATORS ON ISTHMUS.
Shonts Looking to Preservation of
Food Supply.
WASHINGTON—Chairman Shonts
of the Isthmian canal commission has
returned after a trip to Oyster Bay
and New York, where he looked into
the details of establishing cold stor
age facilities on the isthmus. The
plan includes refrigerators on the
ships, a big cold storage warehouse
at Colon and ten refrigerator railway
cars, which are being built in Chi
cago. to transport food supplies to
Panama, stopping and delivering or
ders at any of the labor camps along
the way. Foodstuffs will be sent from
the United States In five days and de
livered on short notice without any
danger of spoiling.
Will Pay the Depositors.
NEW' YORK—A practical settle
ment of the affairs of the Merchants
Trust company, which failed a few
months aeo, was announced. The se
curities of the Hudson Valley Railway
^•omrany, which was owned by the
Kerch ants’ Trust company, or held by
It as collateral for loans, were sold
yesterday by the receivers to the Col
vin syndicate. The price received for
these properties was not made public,
but counsel for the receivers slated
thaf the proceeds of this would pay
depos'tcr^.
Trouble* of Twin Kingdom*.
KARLSTAD. Sweden—The first
meeting of the Swedish and Norwegian
delegates appointed to consider the
terms of the dissolution of the union
of Sweden and Norway was held here
Thursday. It was agreed that each
delegation should elect its own chair
man. Sweden selected Premier Chris
tian Lundeherg and the Norwegians.
Premier Michelsen. Each will pre
side on alternate days. It was decid
ed that the conference shall be secret.
The next meeting will take place Sep
tember 1.
Yellow Fever in Pensacola.
WASHINGTON—The surgeon gen
eral of the army received a telegram
from Barrancas stating that the
mayor Pensacola, Fla., has officially
announced that yellow fever has
broken out in Pensacola.
Prize for Roosevelt.
CARLSBAD—The Associated Press
has the highest authority for stating
that there is a strong probability that
President Roosevelt will receive the
Nobel Deace onze next vear
THE WAR IS OVER;
RUSSIA AND JAPAN SETTLE BY
DIPLOMACY.
AN ARMISTICE WILL BE SOUCHT
—_
In the Negotiations Japan Yields
Many Important Points—Russia
Payn No Indemnity and Gets Half
of Sakhalin.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H.—The Ions
and bloody war between Japan and
Russia is ended. The terms of peace
were settled by M. Witte and Baron
Komura at the session of the confer
ence Tuesday morning, and in the af
ternoon preliminary arrangements for
an armistice were concluded and the
actual work of framing the "treaty of
Portsmouth” was by mutual agreement
turned over to Mr. De Martens, Rus
ses great international lawyer, and
Mr. Dennison, who for twenty-five
years has acted as the legal adviser of
the Japanese foreign office. The treaty
is expected to be completed by the end
of the week.
This happy conclusion of the confer
ence, which a week ago would have
been shipwrecked had it not been for
the heroic intercession of President
Roosevelt, was sudden and dramatic.
For the sake of peace, Japan, with
the maguanimity of a victor, at the
last moment yielded everything still
in issue.
Russia refused to budge from the ul
timatum Emperor Nicholas had given
to President Roosevelt through Am
bassador Meyer. No indemnity under
any guise, but an agreement to divide
Sakhalin and reimburse Japan for the
maintenance of the Russian prisoners
were his last words. They had been
repeatedly reiterated in M. Witte’s in
structions and in the form of a writ
ten reply to the Japanese compromise
proposal of last Wednesday, they were
delivered to Baron Komura this morn
ing. M. "Witte went to the conference
declaring he was powerless to change
the dot of an "i” or the cross cf a
“t” in his instructions. Emperor
Nicholas’ word had been given not
only to him, but to President Roose
velt, the head of a foreign state. When
Baron Komura. therefore, first offered
the new basis of compromise outlined
in the Associated Press dispatches last
night (the complete renunciation of
indemnity coupled with a proposition
for the redemption of Sakhalin at a I
price to be fixed by a mixed tribunal
consisting of representatives of the
neutral powers, in fact, if not in
words, the solution offered by the
president), M. Witte again returned a
non possumus.
It was what M. Witte termed in his
interview with the Associated Press
the “psychological moment.” M. Witte
did not flinch. He expected a rupture
and, as he expressed it afterward, he
wras stunned by what happened. Baron
Komura gave way on all the disputed
points. With the prescience that has
enabled the Japanese to gauge the
mental processes of their adversaries
on the field of battle and upon the
sea. they had realized in advance that
peace could be obtained in no other
way. They had warned their govern
ment. President Roosevelt had ad
vised Japan that it meet the Russian
position rather than take the responsi
bility of continuing the war for the
purpose of collecting tribute. The
mikado, at the session of the cabinet
and elder statesmen yesterday, had
sanctioned the final concession. When
Baron Komura yielded the rest was
mere child’s play.
Articles X and XI (interned war
ships and the limitation of Russia’s
sea power in the far east), were with- i
drawn. Japan agreed that only that '
portion of the Chinese Eastern rail
road south of Quanchontzi, the posi- j
! tion occupied by Ovama, should be
ceded to Japan. Both sides, once the
deadlock was broken, w'anted a “just
and lasting” peace, and in that spirit
it was decided to practically neutral
ize Sakhalin.
President Approves Sentence.
WASHINGTON—The president has
approved the sentence in the court
martial case of First Lieutenant G. S.
Richards Twenty-third infantry, who
was convicted of duplicating pay ac
counts and was sentenced to dismissal
from the service and to one year at
hard labor.
THE PRESIDENT'S PRAISE
OF JAPANESE PEOPLE
OYSTER BAY, L. I.—In a letter to
Baron Komura, the peace envoy of
Japan to the Washington peace con
ference. the president extended his
congratulations thus:
“Oyster Bay, N. Y.—My Dear Baron
Komura: I have received your let
ter of August 29. May I ask you to
convey to his majesty, the emperor
of Japan, my earnest congratulations
upon the wisdom and magnanimity he
and the Japanese people have dis
played. I am sure that all civilized
mankind share this feeling with me.
Sincerely yours.
• “THEODORE ROOSEVELT.”
Greatest Man In His Time.
BALTIMORE, Md.—In response to
the request for a statement relative
to President Roosevelt’s part in the
conclusion of peace between Japan
8nd Russia Cardinal Gibbons Baid:
“President Roosevelt is a great man,
the greatest in his time. He is first
in peace and first in the hearts of his
oountrymen. He is the biggest man
in this century, because he has been
the means of bringing to an end a ter
rible war. I admire him for hiB great
work and the nations will bless him.”
Last Ennagement of the War.
ST. PETERSBURG—A dispatch
from Lidziapudze contains the details
of what will probably be the last en
gagement of the war. This encoun
ter took place on August 28 and re
sulted in an advantage to the Rus
sians, who took 130 prisoners. A
number of Japanese were killed. The
Russian losses were eight killed. The
remnant of the Japanese retired, bear
ing their wounded. The declaration
of an armistice will probable mean no
cessation In the activity of the Chi
nese bandits.
WHAT THE NATIONS YIELD.
Summary of What Russia and Japan
Get in the Settlement.
Japan’s terms are accepted by Rus
sia on the following points:
Russia's recognition of Japan’s ‘‘pre
ponderant influence” In Korea, with
her right t© preserve order in the civil
administration, give military and finan
cial advice to the emperor of Korea,
Japan binding herself to observe the
territorial integrity of Korea and it is
believed the policy of the “open door.”
Mutual obligation to evacuate Man
churia.
Japanese obligations to restore in
Manchuria Chinese sovereignty and
civil administration.
Mutual obligation to respect in the
future “the territorial integrity and ad
ministrative entity” of China in Man
churia and to maintain the principle of
equal opportunity for the industry and
commerce of all nations (open door).
The surrender to Japan of the Rus
sian leases of the Liao Tung peninsula,
including Port Arthur, Dalny and the
Blond and Elliott islands.
The surrender to China by arrange
ment with Japan of the branch of the
Chinese Eastern railroad, running
south from Chutefu to Port Arthur and
New Chwang, together with the retro
cession of all the privileges obtained
under the concession of 1898.
The limitation of the Chinese con
cession obtained by M. Rothstein and
Prince IThktomsky In 1896. under
which the “cut off” through Northern
Manchuria was built to connect the
trans-Siberian and the Usurri railroads
so as to provide for the retention of
the ownership and operation of the
line by the Chinese, but with provi
sion for the eventual substitution of
Chinese imperial police for Russian
"railroad guards.”
The grant to citizens of Japan of the
right to fish in waters of the Russian
littoral from Vladivostok north to the
Bering sea.
Pay for the maintenance of Russian
prisoners in the custody of the Japan
ese.
What Japan Yields.
Japan yields the following demands:
Remuneration for the cost of the
war.
The surrender of the Russian war
ships interned in neutral far eastern
waters.
The limitation of Russia’s naval pow
er on Pacific waters.
As to the island of Sahkalin it has
been agreed that Russia shall take
the northern half and Japan the south
ern half.
Roosevelt the Main Factor.
PARIS—The unwavering conviction
of France that President Roosevelt’s
notable initiative would culminate m j
peace has received its reward. The
news of the successful termination of
the conference at Portsmouth which
was first made kno-wn through the As
sociated Press bulletin, produced a pro
found impression when it wras commu
nicated to the members of the diplo
matic corps and the high officials of
the government, who unanimously ex- j
pressed the keenest satisfaction that
the heavy strain and anxiety had been
removed, and President Roosevelt’s
unrelenting persistency was generally
considered to have been the main far- i
tor in bringing about the happy results.
PRECIPITOUS HILLS
AND ALKALI FLATS
SALT LAKE CITY—Many prospec- j
five settlers on government lands in
the Uintah reservation are reported co
be returning, having become discour
aged by the scarcity of good lands
available. William S. Gray of Le
high, Utahns one of these. Mr. Gray
drew No. 13 in the allotment and ex
pected to secure a good farm. After
looking carefully over the land he has
returned, determined not to file upon
any land. Mr. Gray says all that is
left for settlement after the Indians
have taken their allotment is precipi
tous hills and alkali flats. He reports
that men with low numbers who went
out to get farms are returning by
hundreds.
AVAILABLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN.
Omaha in List of Increases with 55,000
Bushels.
NEW YORK—Special cable and tel
egraphic communications received by
Bradstreet's show the following
changes in available supplies as com
pared with last reports:
Wheat—United States and Canada,
east of the Rocky mountains, decreas
ed 303,000 bushels; afloat for and in
Europe, increased 1,600,000 bushels;
total supply, increased 1,497,000 bush
els.
Corn—United States and Canada,
east of the Rocky mountain, increased
463.000 bushels.
Oats—United States and Canada,
east of the Rocky mountains, increased
1.246.000 bushels.
The leading increases reported this
week are 375,000 bushels at Manitoba,
241.000 bushels at Chicago private ele
vators, 56:000 bushels at Omaha and
55.000 bushels at SL Joseph. Stocks
held at Depot Harbor decreased 128,
000 bushels.
Dr. Garey Dead.
BALTIMORE, O.—Dr. Henry F.
Garey, the eye specialist, died tonight
of Bright’s disease. Dr. Garey in
vented the opthalmo oscillator in 1899,
which marked a new era in scientific
eye surgery.
Japan Orders Ships.
GLASGOW—The Nippon Yesen
Kaisha (Japanese Steamship com
pany), through the Japanese consul
here, is placing contracts for eighteen
liners with Clyde shipbuilding firms.
Rest is Valuable.
The only way to rest is lie down in
a darkened room with closed eyes
and think of nothing. Even five
minutes of such rest is valuable; the
muscles of the face relax, and one
3oes not get a hard, set look, which
adds many years to the appearance.
' Buckwheat.
Buckwheat is a corruption of
’beechwheat.” The corn is so called
from the similarity of the shape of its
grains to the mast, or nuts, of the
aeech.
THE ADS THE BEST RE/% ING.
Japanese Admiration for Information
They Conveyed.
Commodore Edward Dunham R«>
bie, who tailed on Perry's flagship in
the historic American expedition w»
Japan fifty-two years ago. talked m
New York the other day about the
Japanese.
"What impressed me most at that
time.” he said, “was their incredible
bravery. There we were, a strong
fleet, with modern equipment, and
when we approached their port iney
sect their greatest battleship—*a junk
—to turn us back. They defied us,
and pointed to the line we must not
cross.
“As remarkable as their bravery
was the brilliance of their minds—
minds at once powerful and naive. A
great samurai got hold of an American
newspaper, and had it all translated
to him. every word, from cover lo
cover. At the end he said to Perry
“ "1 have read this newspaper wilh
delight, especially the advertising sec
tion. WTithin that, singularly narrow
space the author has contrived io col
lect the most valuable information—
the bargains offered by the various
merchants, the humble marriages
which have taken place, the houses
for sale or to be let, many investments
and business opporeunities, and,
above all, the most valuable and
i precious medicines.’ ”
JUST WANTED TO KNOW.
Visitor’s Object Lesson in Loss of
Weight Attained.
Prof. D. P. Cropp, of the University
of Colorado, has invented a machine
that increases the height from one to
five inches anil the chest girth from
one to four inches.
"It is amazing.” said Prof. Cropp the
other day, ‘‘what an interest people
take in any change in their physique
—the gain of an inch around the chest
or forearm, the loss of an inch in the
neck or stomach.
' “I know a fat woman who spent
July at the seashore, taking an ocean
bath and a hot bath daily, so as to
reduce her weight.
“The day she was to leave for home,
she entered a butcher shop and told
the old man to cut her off twenty
pounds of pork.
“He cut and weighed this great
chunk of meat, and then said:
“‘W7here. madam, shall I send it?'
"But the woman, as she feasted her
eyes on the pork, replied:
" 'Oh, don’t send it anywhere. 1
don’t want to buy it. You see, I have
lost twenty pounds since I have been
down here, and I just wanted to see
how much it was. ”
Another Field for Philanthropy.
There are so many things suggested
for the multimillionaires to do that it
is not stran*e they halt and hesitate.
But nowhere among all the objects in
the vast range of American giving,
from marble medical colleges to or
chestral music, is the great cause of
the American theater to be found It
must be pretty low down to have
earned so singular an isolation. In all
the giving has anybody been known
to set aside anything for raising Un
common level of American cultivation
through the drama? And is not this
specially puzzling, considering how
immensely fond of the theater the
American people are and how much
money they spend in going to the
play? Perhaps Mr. Carnegie would
say that people must learn to read
before they can get the highest good
out of the drama, which embraceiTlit
erature and the fine arts; while, of
course, so moral a millionaire as Mr.
Rockefeller, who has probably never
entered a theater, would not wish to
promote or et^en countenance anything
, so manifestly tending to inimorality.—
Boston Transcript.
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The Light of Other Day*.
Oft in the stilly night,
Ere slumber's chain has bound me.
Fond Memory brings the light
Of other days around me:
The smiles, the tears,
Of boyhood's years.
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone.
Now dimmed and gone.
The cheerful hearts now broken!
Thus in the stilly night.
Ere slumber's chain has hound me
Sad memory brings the light
Of other days around me.
"When I remember all
The friends so linked together
I’ve seen around me fall.
Like leaves in wintry weather,
I feel like one
Who treads alone
Some banquet hall deserted.
Whose lights are fled,
W’hose garlands dead.
And all but he departed!
Thus in the stilly night,
Ere slumber’s chain has bound me
Sad Memory brings the .light
Of other days around me.
—Thomas Moore
Conductor Was Mistaken.
Senator Penrose tells of a lady who
objected to all familiarity by street
car conductors, such as touching her
or calling to her. or assuming that sho
needed help in getting on or off a car.
One day when the motorman was put
ting on brakes and slowing up the lady
arose, and the conductor shouted:
"Wait, leddy, until the car stops.”
"Don’t address me, sir, as lady,” ahe
indignantly replied.
"Beg your pardon. ma’am," replied
the conductor; "but all of us is liable
to make mistakes.”—Pittsburg *»to
patch.
London Fire Department.
Speaking of the work done by (J»e
London fire department in the lust
year, the chairman of the municipal
fire committee said recently that
whereas the fire department of Hew
York city, with a population of only
3,000,000, cost over $5,000,000 annutl
ly, the London department, with twice
as many ’lives To protect, cost h«s
than a quarter of that sum.
Probation for Autoists.
Through the efforts of the Automie
bile Club of California. Golden Gate
Park, in San Francisco, has h^en
opened to motorists, under certain re
strictions, for sixty days. If at ij»o
end of that time nothing unfavorable
shall have occurred, the automol d
tsts may be granted the permanent
use of the park roads.
Scotch "Battle.”
The general in command of the re
cent field operations in Scotland by
volunteers stopped a "battle” before
it was half over. But. ft was explained
afterward that he "had to catch »
train."