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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1904)
1 l' rf TWO BIG ARMIES ! ( NOW LOCKED IN A DEATH STRUG GLE FOR SUPREMACY. THE SECOND DAV'S CONFLICT Nearly Half a Million Men d In i1 Battle That May Mean a C.'ur.h. " : ' ) , . . . Ing Defeat for One Side or the ' Other , - S'l' PETERSBUHO-Wllh the knowledge that the Russian and Jap 1 "nese armies about I.lao' Yang are I t locked In death struggle ] the tension In St Petersburg lEI' strained 10 the I utmOfit. It Is believed here that the I fight cannot stop short of the crushing . Ing defeat of one side or the othct' All reports so far arc favorable to thn Russians , though the suspension at nil news for many hours has been exceedingly trying ! and has given rise to several ! rumors , somewhat tempoI" 'ng ' , the earlier cnthuslaHm It II stated officially , however , that the report ' port that the railway and telegraph have been cut north oC Llao Yang Is 1. untrue A member of the general staff said ! to the Associated Press at midnight : f , "I I can assure you that up to this hour r" communication with Llao Yang has . not icon Intt'rruptetJ Genci'al Kuro , I patkin has taken particular precautions . . Ions t against any attempt 10 cut the . , . rallwR While it Is always possible ' " that. a ! mall raiding party might slip through the Russian patrol or that ; hired Chinese bandits might cut the wire , It Is a fair supposition that this has not been 110ne " The highest ] military authorities here consider that the most critical stage ot the battle has not "ct been reached , and they believe the fight , may continue for some time before nlther side acknowledges defeat. This ia an important consideration hr the light of which 10 interpret any im . . . . . . .r , mediate neWt It Is thought here ] that In view or the numbers engaged : , the desperateness of the assaults and the length oC the line ( about seven miles ) . I the losses In the two dl\rs' : fighting cannot fall short of 10,000 on each lilde Both sides arc straining every , nerve , realizing ] that the fortunes of WAr for a whole ] year are In the scale , and neither side Is In the mood 01' the . , position to spare men In the effort to achieve a final vlctorj' _ The battle of Llao Yang will probably . ably rank as one of the great sanguinary . ary battles of hlstol"Y It Is estimated bj' the general staff tint the Japan esn armies engaged number seventeen . ' teen divisions cf 15,000 men each , 01' allowing for Inefficlents , about . . 40,000 men Each division has thirty- , ' " six guns , and there are two independ , eat artillery \ brigad.s of 100 guns . each , making u total of about 800 guns , The estimates of Russian correspondents . spondcnts range at from 600 to 1,000 . , ' . ' t , guns per side ' 1 ; " . In the preliminary fighting on Monday - t. day the Russians captured 200 prisoners - : ; , ' : ' onel'S , who have already arrived at Harhln , and report persists that they . . . captured over forty Japanese suns 'es' terday General Kuropatldn's effective forces are variously estimated at from 170,000 to 200.000 men The Japanese Wednesday morning ' attacked three sides of the Russian po- Rltlon. One oC the Associated Pre ' , ' " . correspondents also mentions a Japanese , . -0 anese movement to the northeast oC - J' i'f' * Llao Yang , showing that the Japan ese were undoubtedly trying to work " around Kuropatkln's rcal' r , , , . . - - One ot the surprising phases oC the situation Is the endurance of the men They have been engaged desperately for two days , after : more or less severe "Pore fighting under unfavorable condl' tions every day sInce August 24. It would seem that human endurance f could not persist much longer ] without respite of some sort ! ' R _ / ' " . . A CLOSE CONGRESS. - Chairman Babcock Discusses the Political . IItical Outlook WASHINGTON-Chnlrman Joseph W. Babcock oC the republican congressional ' Alonal committee expressed the opinion . Ion that the present Is the closest ! congressional campaign ho has ex l1erlencell since 18f1S "What are thG conditions which make the campaign closer this year than It. has been since 1S98 ? " 1\11' Babcock was all.etl. : "Thoy differ ; 11 iOlllltles , " he 1'0' eponded "In some the conditions 1'0. suit from the character of the national : . I tlonal cl1npalgn In others the con- dltlons are almost entirely ] ocal. ] Then , In Home cases , the difficulty is over the kind of men for cqngress "In Nebraska ' six ! : ! , where there are members of the house to light for , the democrats lye ! aballlloncd the national campaign They have fused with the populists 011 the legislative tickets , but nol on presidential elec- ] tors We redeemed four of those districts two years ago , hilt they have been going one way or he I oilier by very narrow margins-not. hj' 200 01' 300 or 400 , bill in some Instances hy twelve 01' fifteen 01' twenty \'otes Now , the congressional committee has to go In there without the usual support from the national ] commit- tee " 'fhm'l : II nor much Interest In Campaign . lalrn literature , " continued Nr. Bab- . cocle. "We are sending out speeches on the tariff and Rome matter relating . ing 10 the Panama canal ; ; also 1\ few democratic speeches , like that of Bourke Cochran , on the tariff nut We have not had 1\ real campaign or e since 1896 I have never sent out RI many documents In any one year as then , "We expect to have a good deal of speaking There are about a dom of the leading republican members or the house on whom we are reylng ] Chief among them , of course , Is Speaker Cannon , who Is a splendid vote getter on the slump , lie Is going to start out soon by special train and will he accompanied on a part of his I trip bj' Representative Watson of In- liana and on the rest oC his trip by Representative Adam Dede or lh1l1c. sota. " CONTENDING FOR SUPREMACY. - - The Two Great Armies Now In Deadly , Conrli , : t. LONDON-.A dispatch from Line Yang to' n news agency says : "The Japanese artillery fire only ceased at 8 o'clock this enmlng The casualties have not been : lSC , rttined. : ? "The Third Russian corps ) repulsed a hot Japanese assault , the Japanese being hurled back by bayonet charges , first by the Twentr.tbjl'd , and then hy the Twer.tj'fonrth regiment , which repulsed the enemy 110 less than six times "Two Tapanese companies which succeeded In occupying a Russian position . sltlon were mistaken for Russians and annihilated by Japanese artillery fire. "At 4 o'clock In the afternoon the , Japanese concentrated their fire un n Russian southern detachment and also tried to outflank the detachment from the right under the protection of the hatteries "One company after another was noticed - ticed running swiftly to the westward In an attempt to outflank the positions . tions , but a Russian regiment and n battery were ordered to advance and succeeded III forcing tin enemy to retreat In dl801'dedl' , evacuating positions - tlons they previously had gahwd "There has been an Immense expenditure pendlture oC ammunition throughout the dar , especially on the southern front against the Russlan-'hlrd corps. A "It is believed that the Russian losses so Car have not been very heavy , except to the regiments which sus tamed bayonet charge& & All the ; men serving one Russian gun except one were killed by shuvnel. . \ NEBRASKA STATE NEWS I' - . , THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA . . The peach crop about HUl11bolc1t. IN being harvested and Is very fine A party Of twenty 1i'I'c11101tle1'H left l 'l'omont I to attend the conclave of Knights Templar at San Ji'ranclsco gl'vln Corey , the youngest Ron of A. Corey , It prominent fal'merI'ln \ , north of Sutton , dropped lend < < while playing In the j'1H'd Announcement was mode 11 , the populist state central committee that Pr'csldentlnl Candidate Watson had been secured to make four speeches ! In the state during the camll\lgn Miss Annetta Sprung , who taught German In the high school at Platts- p10uth Ins year , haH resigned to ac. cept a similar position In the schools of Lincoln No one has yet been selected . lected to flll the \lClmcj' Reuben Newton and Bill Bennett broke jail at Butte , undoubtedly aH' alsted , as the window bars w'reJrok. \ . en from the outside and the locks on the steel cages where the men were confined were taken off and are mila lng' Considerable damage was done to the Jail , John Wiggin . for thirty years 1\ resident oC ColumhuH , IA lying 1 ! at his home In critical condition a8 the result or a stroke of IlI\1'alj'slR His Ilhj'slclans say that Iw has practically no chance to l'eCO\I' dir. Wiggins 18 liii ' old and for ' i years , many years was engaged In the live stock busl- ness at Columbus The farmers organized a branch or 'Farmers' exchange at nee , Seward county , last week , with toO subscrib ers The president Is 0 E. Redford ; secretary , Jo' E Bek ; trustees , , I. E. Ioravlc , 0 E Bedford and U. .1. Batetlelder This Is the fifth branch or the company to bo orrranlzcd In Nehraska Other hranchcs are In Richardson and Otoe counties Two boys named Smith and . Icy ! , whose homes arc near COl'tland , Jeft ] home about It week ago , taking a team belonging to a relative of one of lIlem They told their parents that they were going to the Blue river on a fishing trip and nothing has been heard of them since their disappear- ! ance Sheriff rrrude has been requested quested to join In thc search for them The dedication of the new M E church at Dorchester took llnce ] lust sundaj' HeG , W. Abbott oC Geneva . nO\'Il , Neh" , preached the dedicatory bel'mon , At tine close of the sermon thc pastor , He v , rl' , A. Hull , stated the cost of the building to he 'fjOOO To this the audience responded cheerfully , fully , and In just eight mlnuleR over $0400 was raised and ' ' ' ' , everybody joined In singing the doxologr John L Pope , the engineer at the Harris brick yard just south or Fremont - mont , was caught in the fir wheel of i his engine and ao badly Injured that he died In a few minutes A boy bj' the name oC Stout , who was lu the engine room at the time , Rayn that Pope turned on the steam a little and then took hold of tire spokes 01' rim of the fly wheel ] to start . it. lIe slipped . pCII and his left arm went under the belt , drawing his body \1P against the wheel and breaking his ncck There are 163 cases ! to go on thc nupreme court docket for the Septem- her term. This Is twenty-threc more than the number of cases on the docket for thc September term last year , and proves ! ' conclusively that the litigation In the supreme court , instead . stead of failing ort , Is Increasing at u. famous rate. With this great increase - crease in the number oC cases which must be disposed of , there Is a prospect - pect or another glut such as that which existed three years ago when Il took the average litigant from two to three rears to have his case determined - mined In the supreme court ' ) . ARGUE FOR ASSESSMENT RAISE , Attorney General Attempts to Defeat the Church Howe Injunction. A UBU fiN-Tho case ! wherein IIou Church 110"0 obtained a t01l11101'r ' ' clerk Injuncllln restraining the county front extending ou the tax rolls the Ii per cent increase made by the Stat © Board of Equalization dune on fOI' hearing on tIle motion thou . hy tha attorney general and county attorney to dissolve the temporary order ho fore , .ludgeV. ' , II , ellignl' or the d18 = trlct. court. Attorney General Proul and his deputy Norris ! : Brown together el' with County Attorney Quac1ten. hush , argued the case In support 01 time motion , and Edgar I.'erneau alit ? n A. Lambert represented the plain ] tiff. The first contention or the attorneys - neY8 for the defense was lint tits court had no jurisdiction of thin case : that the hoard acted judicially , and Its action waH final and coUld not he ro\'lewetl by 1\ court of equity This contention was overruled hr the court which annonnced that In a proper case It court of equity would grant roller The case waR hen I argued on the clllofliiou whether ! the petition stated a cause for action fHIII a'lteth- ' there ' ' ' In the bill eJ' was mummy equity , and on this 1luIHO Iho court tonic the . case under advisement and will ron , clor sin early IleclHlon ' One of the con tentionmm of the 1'll\ln. . tiff ' : If ! that the authorities cannot lax . 1\ man on IL valuation 01' his JH'OPOI'I for more than the I.ruo'alue thereof , and that any law tint permits It , 01' any attempt 10 do HO is illegal and In violation of I hl constitution The motion to dissolve ! II' In the na ' hire of a demlll'I'CI' , and the attorney general announce < < l his intention stand on his motion , should Il ho O\'CI'o ruled and alto the case 10 the supreme 11'fme court , where he hopes / to get R speedY hearing Alleged Forger Arrested YORK , Neh-On August 2:1 : n tuna stopped at ho t 'sliIUr hotel and reg IRtered as E. II , Seaman and 'WIfe lIe remained one day and when he called for his hill lll'csented check upon a leading lumber ] firm of Davenport , la . and payable at the CItizen ! : National bank of that city. The draft waR protested ] and the hunk notified herO that It was a fOl'gcry 1\11' Miller at once began the search for dine man who al.rt1ed : his name E. H , Seaman. lie was traced frolll here to HastlngR/ Sutton and Fall'l11ont , where he took the train for 1"alrhlll'Y Tine sheriff of Jefferson county was notified and on his arrival at. that place he was arrested and llll1ceel In Jail , FlaQman Has a Close Call. KIM HNI Y-Gcorge Smith , n Union Pacific Jlagnu\11 I1t the Central aver rote crossing , met with a pulnful accident , cldent , and at the same time land an exceedingly narrow escape from he Ing crushed beneath th wheels of A locomotl\'e He attempted 10 step upon the pilot of I1n approal'h 10 comotl\'e nail missed his footle g. Ills foot was caught beneath the pilot and while he held on ho WaR dragged for some distance , his foot hein _ turned and the side and tOll oC It ground Into the gravel beneath th { : pilot. Wreck 8)1118 : Wheat GHAl"TON-As a freight train from the west was slowing ; lip ) for this station a car of stone destined here for street crossings , broke down Four cars followlllg were demolished and the contents. wheat and corn , scattered about. The front trucks were torn from another car of wheat I I which remained on the . track. Pas' I senger train No 12 , coming just at. terms the " "reclbacked to Sutton and , went around by way of Lushton