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The Omaha Daily Bee. For RELIABLE War News Read THE DEE. The Bee prints more Paid Want Ads because ' BEE WANT ADS BRIKG BEST RETURNS, j OMAHA, WEDNESDAY MOIJNINO, MAY 11. 1004 TEN FAGES. ESTAItLLSHElJ JUNE 19, 1871. SINGLE COl'Y Till! EE CENTS. WARNS LAXDSEEKERS Caop of Ewindlan Eaid to E Yiotiviiing Prospective 6tt'er. on L ni CLAIM TO HAVE INSIDE INFORI ' Operating Largely in District to B . Under Irrigation. C ' REAP RICH HARVEST FROM UN Z Lands in Quetin Ab;olutly Wr.hdra from Eoulassnti NO WAY OF GETTING AN ACRE AT PRESENT Coat of Water and rondltlona of En. ry Will Kot Be Knows I'ntll tha Irrigation Wnrki Are Completed. (From , Staff Correspondent.) WA81MNI1TON, May lO.-(Spoclal) An organ lied band of iwlndlera la actively at work In several western states, notably Utah, North Dakota and South Dakota, and also ope! a ting to a lesser extent In the east. These sharpers have selected aa easy victims prospective homeseekers who are greatly Interested In the various reclamation projects undertaken by the government. By means of advertisements cleverly worded, In which they claim to have secured Inalde Information regnrdlng the plana of the engineers, and by the display of alleged copies of government maps and surveys, they have been Hucce?sful In duping many unwary homeseekers. For a consideration of from IM to t0 these swindlers guarantee to locale settlers upon the beet Irrigable lands under the govern ment works. Notwithstanding that the government aoma time ago Issued a circular warning the people against being taken In by just such frauds, the swindling goea rltilit along and the sharks are reaping a rich harvest. It should be clearly understood that these harpers hava no Inside Information. Their maps are mere township plats or rough drafts such as can ba obtained from the land office. The swindlers hava no data other than any Intending settler can ob tain upon request of the department. Settlers Mar Ma Fooled. The land under these government projects are withdrawn 'from all entry excepting homestead before any actual work of con struction la ordered and the secretary Is by law required to outline the else and location of each farm. Until the plans are completed for construction and the con tract has been let 'for the works It Is Im possible to state with any degree of ac curacy what the cost of the water will be or what lands will be Irrigated. Settlers who make filings based on tha Information received from these swindlers will not only lose the money paid out, but are liable later to find the lands are not In cluded In the government's proposed sys tem, and thus will have exhausted their homestead entry upon worthless - land. Wen,iai. proper, .time cornea for throwing open to' nornestoad entry the lands under these great Irrigation projects the secre tary of tha interior will give due notice through the public press. Until such an nouncement It will not be safe for settlers to locate upon these lan da. Departmental Notes. Under the annual readjustment these changes In salaries of postmasters occur In Iowa: Increased Charter Oak, Exlra, ll.JOO to 91,3(0; Cherokee. (2.200 to $2,300; Elkader, 11,400 to $1,600; Garner, $1,600 to 11, W0. Decreased Bonaparte, $1,800 to $1,200; Buffalo Center. $1,200 to $1,100; Carroll, Estherville, $2,200 to $2,100; Elma, $1,300 to $1,100. An additional rural free delivery route la ordered established June 1 at Decor ah, Wlnnishlek county, la. Tha route em bracts an area of thirty square miles, con taining a population of 626. Rural carriers appointed: Nebraska Lindsay, regular. Silas P. Rankin; sub stitute, Harry Rankin. Pierce, regular, Elmer O. Davis; substitute, Simon L. Btlnemates. Iown Elma, regular, Edwin C. Bayers and August F. Rohde; substi tutes, Anna Bayers and Ed Bayers. Liver more, regular, Perry Davis; substitute, Ollla Davis. Red Oak, regular, J. Shearer; substitute, J. C. Williams. Vtncennej, regu lar, Norman Cruse; substitute, Q. Mott. The applications of F. 8. Strohbeln. T. Y. Long. H. O. Barkel. W. Q. McDonald and J. E. Eggera to organise the First National bank of Wagner, a. D., with $28,000 capital, waa approved by the comp troller of the currency. BOMB NEW IRRIGATION PROJECTS Approvals Which Blark Close of the Preliminary Stave. WASHINGTON, May 10. Apropos to the formal approval by the secretary of the interior of new Irrigation projects under the reclamation law In California, Oregon, North Dakota and South Dakota, tlie In terior department today Issued a statement covering the disposition of the reclamation fund. Ti e situation In each state and ter ritory L s follows: Arlsona Salt river project under consid eration ut estimated cost of about $3.0u0,000. California Yuma, project approved con struction by secretary at cust of about fl.nirt.QOi. Colorado Uneompaghre project Involving an expenditure of U.ooo.OiO. Maliu Minidoka project for which about $1'.Hiii.(M) has been provisionally allotted. Montana Milk river project, general al lotment of $2.5oO.0uU. Nebraska Reclamation of lands along North tiaite river, for which $l,uu,00u has been set aside. Nevada Truckee-Csrson project under construction at n cost of ahout W.'Xm.OnO. New Mexico Hondo project at a cost of approximately $?i'. ueO. North Dakota t-'url Buford project, tak ing water from Yellowstone river In Mull tuna at a coat of about tl.3un.0u0. Oregon Malheur project, coating about SJ.tKl.VUU. B.iuth Dakota Bella Fourche project, costing ahout $2.10M.0ii0. I'lah Conservation of water In Suit Lake river at a coat of about f l.MW.uuO. Washington Reclamation of land near Pasco at a cost of Il.(m0.00. Wyoming The storage and diversion of Hhiwhone river near Cody, for which $2,260. (MJ ruts been set aside. All the projects outlined will coat $.'7. OOO.otiO, and will require for construction two or three years. They will reclaim In round numbers l.OOO.mo acres of land, ail of which will be susceptible of Intense cultlva tlon, and should be capable of supporting a population of bno.uuO or more persona. Louisiana, Contesting Delegation. NEW ORLEANS, May 10 J. Madison Vance, a colored lawyer, - and Joseph Fiihacher, a white contractor, luive hen rained Hooaevelt delegates by a state con vention Of the Cohen faction. They will contest the seating of the Lily Whit dele gation. General Sanborn t rliira:y 111. ST PAl'U Minn.. May 1J G noral John R Sanborn, brother of Judse W. U Han f.'irn of (he United States circuit court of eppnals. 'a riiilcally III. Gangrene of the f iot set in several days ag04 his chances ta favvYvrr awe. auaai HCOLEY CHARGED WITH FRAUD Notorious London Promoter Taken Into Custody on Warrant, Alleging; Conspiracy. LONDON, May in. Ernest Terah Hooley. whose meteoric career and company pro moting a few ycrirs ngo astonished the financial world, was arrested In London today on the char of conspiracy to de fraud. Bankruptcy proceedings arising 'mm Hooley's work wi re the sensation of Sd. Since then he has been connected 1th various promotions, Bomo of which r d to court proceedings. 5. lenry J. Lawsnn, another company pro ter, was alfo arrested today In Cun Hon with the Hooley charge. . receiving order In bankruptcy was Is sued against Ernest Terah Hooley June 8, 1S9S. Hooley at that time waa the biggest company promoter In Great Brit ain. He was Interested In bicycle, land and meat extraction concerns nnd was supposed to be a niultl-mlllionnlre. He reached the pinnacle of his prominence In 1S96, when he promoted a tire company, as the re sult of which he waa supposed to have cleared 112,500,000. At that time he was living a sort of Count of Monte Cristo existence, buying yachts and race horses and a number of historic country seats. The announcement of the bankruptcy proceeding" against Haoiey caused a great sensation in London, though in the best Informed quarters his failure had been exicted for some time, owing to his in ability to float a large Chinese loan. Eventually Hooley was formally adjudged a bankrupt. The capitalisation of the com. panics promoted by him up to 1696 aggre gated $,000,OUO to $5.0UO,000. On August 10 last application was made to a London maglstrato for a. warrant for the arrest of Hooley on the charge of fraudulently and by false pretenses ob taining signatures to checks and bills of exchange amounting to over $050,000. The magistrate reserved his decision. Pre viously, on August 8, the director of public prosecutions had been instructed to In vestigate some of the transactions of Hooley in connection with a sapphire mine sltuutcd In Canada. Hooley and Lawsnn were subsequently brought up at the Bow street police court. Counsel for the prosecution, which la undertaken by the public prosecutor, said the prisoners were charged with de frauding A. J. Porlne of $30,000 by selling him shares of Siberian gold mines and other worthless concerns. Further charges, counsel udded, would probably follow. The magistrate offered to accept ball in $00,000 each, but ball for Hooley waa finally fixed at $40,000, with two sureties, which waa Immediately given. Lawson's boll was fixed at $60,000, with three sureties, who have not yet been found. So Lawson remains In custody. BOSTON, May 10. Ernest Terah Itooley'i enterprises at one time extended to thia state. He established branch factories of his extensive English bicycle manufactur ing plants In Worcester county about a dozen years ago to supply the Amerlcun trade. When the bicycle buslneea was at Its best Hooley'B concerns were run night and day, but eventually they were In volved in the general collapse. KNOTTY PROBLEM FOR SOLUTION Status of Correspondence ,4a Neutral Ships Not Klxed by Law. LONDON. May 10. Answering a question In the House of Commons today In regard to the recent searching of the malls of the Peninsular Oriental steamer Osrls while on Its way from Brlndisl to Port Bald by the Russian warship Khrabry, tha post master general. Lord Stanley, aald ordinary postal letters were not contraband of war, but possibly dispatches between the gov ernment of a belligerent state and lta ac credited representatives may be so treated. No general rule of International law haa been established giving special Immunity to mall ships, but the right of search in the case of auch vessels should be so exer cised aa to minimise the Inconvenienoe. FTGHTISQ 19 GOIXG OX IS HAYTI German Cruisers Go to Republic Where Revolution la On. ST. THOMAS, D. W. I May 10. The German cruise, ra Vlneta, Gaxelle, Falke and Panther, which were to have sailed today tor Newport News, will leave instead for Port-au-PHnce, Haytl. It Is reported that a revolution has broken out there. Wlnans llelra Win. LONDON. May 10. The queetlon of the domicile of William Lewis Wlnana, formerly of Baltimore. Md., who died In London June 25, 1897, leaving a large for tune, was decided today by the House of Lords in favor of the family, who appealed from the decision of the lower courts that Mr. Wlnana was a British subject and, therefore, the revenue authorities were en titled to collect a death duty on his estate. The House of Lords, in giving Judgment, expressed doubt as to whether Mr. Wlnana Intended to abandon his American domi cile, but said the crown certainly had not made out a conclusive case. Estimates Hungary's Expense. Bl'DA VEST. Hungary, May 10 Finance Minister DeLukacs presented the budget for 19"4 In the Diet today. The expenditure la estimated at $238,018,924, or $21,580,000 above that of 10. The revenue Is estimated at $23S,1369. Cruiser New York at Honolulu. HONOLULU. May 10,-The United States cruiser New York, with Rear Admiral Henry Glass on board, and the gunboat Bennington have arrived here ' from Panama. ILLINOIS LEADERS GATHER Republican Aspirants Assemble to At tend the State Convention at Sprlnsdeld. SPRINGFIELD. 111., May 10.-AU of the candldatea for places on the republican state tic ket are here today and Incoming delegates are rapidly filling the hotels. The concensus of opinion Is that Yates, Lowden and Warner will try to control both organisation and nomination. There is, however, a wide difference of opinion aa to whether auch a combination will be able to name the nominee for governor, even though it may succeed In got ting control of the organisation. The central committee thia afternoon de cided to seat the Yates delegation from Sangamon county In the temporary or ganization. The vote Was M to . Thia Is taken to signify a Yetes-Lnwden combina tion and that thu Yates and Lowden dele, gatea will be seated In the temporary or ganisation from practically all of the con tested counties. The reported deal between Yutea and Eowden with reference to contests Is that Yatee shall have, In the temporary organ isation, all of the contested counties ex cept Clinton, Marion and Rock Island. Thia- w ill give Tatea seventy-three and Low- data, UUrty-fauc o Ike, fiCuUatcd, delegtua.J MASS OF RAILROAD FIGURES Reprtien'atirei of Road- Promt Argument to Stato Boifd of Eqaaliiation, OBJECT TO TAXATION OF FRANCHISES Alao Object to Stocks and Ronde Basis and Think Tangible Property of the Companies la Enough to Pay Taxea Ipon. (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN. May 10. (Special Telegram. I Tax Commissioner Scrlbner of the Union Pacific did most of the talking for the al lied railroads before the State Board of Equalisation today and at the con clusion of his talk W. O. Ure of Omaha offered an argument in re buttal. Mr. Crandon of the Northwestern, Mr. Pnlleys of the Chicago, St. Paul. Min neapolis & Omaha and Mr. Maher of the Rock Island talked, but the argument of fered by" Mr. Sctibner was so voluminous that It covered all that the others had to say. Mr. Scrlbner spoke at length against taxing franchises and against arriving nt the valuation of a rullroad by using the stocks and bonds as a basis. For several hours he explained to the board the details of the road's report, a great portion of which time he talked about the ties, how long they hnd been In UBe, and the steel, and how long It had been In use. Mr. Ure haa only a short time In which to present his argument, owing to the time consumed by Mr. Scrlbner, but he made good use of that short time. He said the only common sense way for common sense people to assess railroads is to value the roads at what they will sell for or upon the Income of the road. He told the board the only schedules necessary to have to get at the value of the roads were the stocks and bonds, receipts and expenditurea and the annual reports. The returns show ing the cost of the ties and the cost of building the road and how long the steel had been used, he said, made no difference except to make the task of the board more difficult. What Will It Sell Fort "The only question." he said, "is what will the road sell for?" The claim of the railroads that they pay fifteen and four tenths of the taxea, state, county and school, he aald, was untrue. He admitted that the railroads paid the bulk of the school tax in eome of the re mote western districts, but he said In Omaha the railroads did not pay $2,000 a year for the education and expensea of the pupils. Seven railroads, he aald, came into Omaha over the Union Pacific tracks and paid not a cent of tax. He talked for some time on the value of the bonds and stocka of the Union Pacific, using for a basis the com pilation offered to the board yesterday and published this morning In The Bee. He figured that the Union Pacific, capi talized at 6 per cent on its net eornlnga, would be worth $80,000 a mile. Mr. Weston aaked why he used 6 per cent In the cap italisation, and Mr. Ure asked what waa the Income on farms? Mr. Follmer volun teered tha Information that the Income from, farms waa per cent. Talka oat Uniformity. Mr. Bcrlbner of the Union Pacific opened hla remarks by citing an opinion in an I1U nola case, "that uniformity la the domi nating mandate of the constitution; It la the prime maxim In almost every system of taxation where Justice and fair play are Bought." This rule of uniformity be held must govern not only In the value of the property, but in the methods used In arriving at the value. "The elements of value to be considered In reaching a con clusion as to taxable value," he aald, "should be the same In the assessment of railroad property as are considered In find ing the taxable value of all other prop erty In the tate. Under the constitution the tax to be levied for general revenue purposes is strictly a property tax, and not an income tax. It would be unconstitution al to assess and levy, although done by Indirection, an Income tax against certain classes of taxpayera In the state when such a tax ia not authorised or attempted to be assessed against the owners of all classes of property." Mr. Bcrlbner held that while the law saya that earnings of railroads shall be taken into consideration In arriving at tha value of the road, the earnings must not be taken as the standard of value. In the matter of taking the In come of a railroad into consideration, Mr. Bcrlbner aald the board should consider thia Just aa much aa any county assessor considers the Income In arriving at the value of any other class of property. Mr. Bcrlbner recited to the board a de tailed statement of the value of the tangi ble property of the road, amounting to a total of $19,778,552. To show the value of the road, he recited further the teatlmony of the chief engineer of the road, given at a hearing In the maximum freight rate case, which was to the effect that the en tire road in Nebraska could be rebuilt, In cluding damages the company would likely have to pay adjoining property owners, new buildings, new rolling stork and the right of way to be purchased, amounting In all to $).8f3.057. This statement, he said. Included not only all tho property subject to taxntlon by local assessors, but the tele graph lines that are returned by the West ern Union Telegraph company. These Items amount to, he said, upon the basis of the engineer's estimate, about $2,200,000. which, taken from the first amount, leaves $28, RJ3.067 aa the cost of reproduction of the entire property subject to assessment by the board. Ir. Wisconsin, Mr. Scrlbner stated, the taxing authorities had required the roads to return the cost of reproduction and ac cording to the testimony of the expert em ployed by tha authorities the value of the two largest systems In the state waa about 75 per cent of the cost of reproduction. The testimony of snother chief engineer of the road waa recited as told in the maxi mum freight rate case that the cost of the reproduction of the Union Pacific main line In Nebraska to be $17,470,932. or $37,003 per mile, average value, not Including roll ing stork and a few Items of machinery. To this he sold should be added about $5,000 per mile for rolling stock, making, according to his testimony, about $t2,0i0 per mile valuation. This statement Mr. Scrlbner held, also Included much property not subject to aiiw-ssment by l.ie board. Deducting the value of such prop erty would leave the prorerty asseealjle by the bosrd at about gX.flQO a mile for the main line. In the schedule of property returned by the road this year, the value per mile for the main line vai ahout M2.0iA which Mr. Scrlbner raid corresponded olc"'.y with the rates In Wlacunsin. He said: . The as'esxmentH heretofore m ide kgalnst tbe main line and hmncl'en i,f the t'nlon I'ndtlo railroad In this tst have hereto fore amounted to one-fourth of the cost iCosllnued on Second Fagt-J SIR HENRY M. STANLEY DEAD Famous Explorer Kxplrea from Pneu monia at HI Home ta Enaland. LONDON. May 10. Sir Henry M. Stan ley, the African explorer, whose death was announced In theee dlppatchee early this morning, passed away peacefully shortly after 6 o'clock. He was quite conscious to the last and able to recog nize hU wife. Before he died Sir Henry expressed a wish to be burled at his country sent, Furxehill, rirbright, Surrey. The question, however, is being discussed of burying him belde Livingston in West minster Abbey. Henry M. Stanley was a newspaper re porter In Omaha during the late 60s, when he got his famous telegram from James Gordon Bennett, "Find Uvlngstone." He had previously been enKSRed by the New York Herald as a western correspondent, and was sending accounts of frontier life from Omaha. Many aneodotes are re called of his lifo here by those who knew him at that time. He wasn't noted for his activity in any particular direction, but waa always attending to business. He revisited Omaha In le90, after his mar riage with Miss Dorothy Tonnant, which ceremony was celebrated at Westminster Abbey in London on July 12, 190. Stanley was born near Denbigh, Wales, January 28, 1841, and nt the age of 3 years, was placed In the poorhouse where he re mained until he was ten years old. When 15 he sailed as cnbin boy on a vessel bound for New Orleans. There he was adopted by a merchant named Stanley, whose name he assumed, his original name having been John Rowlands. Stanley's patron died without leaving a will, and the young man was thrown on his own re sources Just at the breaking out of the war. He enlisted In the confederate army, waa captured and afterward Joined the federal navy, serving aa acting ensign of the Tl coiideroga. After the war he entered the service of the Now York Herald, going first to Turkey, then to Abywinla, and finally coming to Omaha, from whence he waa started on his trip to Africa. He sailed fiom Bombay in October, 1870, reached Zan zibar In January, 1871, and in November of that year came to Livingstone In the cen ttal part of Africa. For the next year they were together, exploring the unknown heart of the "Dark Continent," and finally Liv ingstone died and Stanley made his way b.'.ck to England. Subsequent expeditions to Africa for the purpoees of exploration under patronage of newspapers and various governments were undertaken by Mr. Stan ley, his last having been for the relief of Emln Pasha, In 1887. Many honors were showered on the explorer by universities and governments, and his last few years have been spent in honorable retirement in England, where he had established his citi zenship and made a short expedition Into politics. CAPTAIN ALLEN ENDS LIFE Prominent Figure at the St. Louis Fair Enda Ilia Sufferings with a Bullet. ST. LOUIS, May 10.-Capt Walter Allen of Bt. Louis, connected with the World's Fair Jfferaon GuurC, and a brother of "Private" John H." Alien, national World's fair commissioner from Mississippi, com mitted suicide late today by ah oo ting him self through the heart In a room in the dormitory of the Washington university, now utilised by the exposition. He left a note stating that ill health had driven htm to commit the act. His wife and two chil dren survive him. Captain Allen had suffered severely from rheumatism, and had occasionally told friends of the agony he endured. Today he dropped Into the office of Major Edwin Pritchett, secretary of the Jefferson Guards. He woe cheerful and wrote a brief note, which he placed In hla pocket, lie then told Prlchett he waa going over to tha Liggett dormitory and took Prlchett'a office boy with him on some pretext. Reaching, the room, he handed the boy the note and told him to return with It to Prlchett. When Prlchett opened the note he waa horrified to find that It aald Allen had decided to take his life, and that hla body would be found In the dormitory. Capt. C. H. Conrad of the Jefferson Guards hurried to the dormitory and found the dead body of Captain Allen with a bullet hole through the heart. The de ceased man's wife waa not notified until tonight. Captain Allen, who was 48 years old, waa appointed during the second administra tion of President Cleveland as manager of the mint at Denver. While there he mar ried and went to New Orleans and engaged In the cotton commission business with his brother, J. II. Allen. They returned to Bt. Louis, and when the Spanish-American war broke out he served as a volunteer, and during service contracted rheumatism. NEW SANTA FE CONSTRUCTION Tunnel One Thousand Feet Long; Will Be Drilled In California Mountain. BAN FRANCISCO, May 10. The Santa Fe haa commenced the construction work on lta line to Eureka, In Humboldt county. Men have been put at work boring a- tunnel 1,000 feet long In Humboldt county, near the southern end of the Eureka and Eel river road. The entire route southward from this tunnel has not yet been definitely decided upon, but will be In the very near future. The company Is to build lta Eureka road under the name of the San Francisco & Northwestern Railroad company. By the ownership of. the Eureka & Eel River line the Santa Fe has valuable fran chises In the city of Eureka and a stra tegic position In the valley rf the Eel river. People who are heavy stock and bond holders in the Santa Fe have bought up thousands of acres of redwood forest. From these holdings the Santa Fe road will get a large and permanent amount of traf fic In addition to shipments It will get from other parties. ROB NEW YORK SLOT MACHINES Man Who Geta Fourteen Thouaand Copper Cents Falls to Carry Plunder Away. NEW YORK, May 10. Enterprising burg Isra, who looted a penny slot machine con cert hall In Broadway, failed to eerapa with their plunder because one of their number broke down under the burden of H.Onn copper cents. The party, consisting of three or four men, went through the machines in full view of the street, but were supposed to be employee. After placing the coins In a bag they made off, but a policeman gave chase. The bag carrier broke down after a short run through, a cross atreet and dropped the money, which waa recovered IntacU Nona ot the JUM JfcAe. caVuad, RURORI A FINE STRATEGIST OutBaneTmri the Bmiiai Commander in Fighting oa tb Tain, MUSCOVITE LEFT FLANK UNGUARDED Japanese Speedily Tnke Advantaae of the Oversight and Crush Russian Line by Attack from All Direct loan. (Copyright by New York Herald Co.. 1904.) W1JU, May 10-(New York Herald Cable gramSpecial Telegram to The Bee.) Gen eral Kurokt has completed his crossing of the Y'alu this morning after two hours of sharp fighting, during which the Russians received a terrific pounding from the ar tillery posted on tha Islands In front of WIJu. The prediction In my yesterday's dls pach is exactly outborne. The Russian commander, realising he waa completely outflanked, withdrew his guns during the night, leaving a strong force to cover his retirement. At the same time the Japanese pushed their work with the greatest rapidity. Inouye's division, which made the flang ing movement yesterday, swept westward along the right bank of the Yalu, occupy ing a position west of the At river, behind Tiger hill. From WIJu, a division tindet General Hasegana followed, taking a position below Tiger hill on the south shore of Chlng Ping Island, next to the Manchurlan side, which the Russians abandoned on April 29. Mean time, a division under General Dishl crossed from Wlnetito, the Island below WIJu. to Chlng Ping, using pontoons, but unbrldg lng. Thua dawn found the entire three divi sions of the first army facing the Russian position, with the right thrown out cover ing the enemy's left flank. Inouye's field guns, brought forward to where he could shell the hills along the left of the Rus sian position, having an enfilading fire from behind Tiger hill. Four batteries of heavy howltzera were ferried across the middle of tho stream and took a position along the south shore at Chin Ping, facing the Russian center. Nlshl'a division formed the Japanese left. Advance on Center. Boon after 6 the advance began directly upon the Russian center, while the bat teries of both wings heavily shelled the hills along the Russian left. The absolute alienee along the Russian line revealed the removal of their guns, Nishl and Laae gawa threw forward long skirmish lines, with strong supports. Inouye, holding the right, had to cross a wide, flat sand Island entirely without cover. Advancing vary rapidly he soon came within range of the trenches creating rldgea along the north bank. The dark uniforms made the men of both aides distinctly visible from the hills above WIJu, the Japanese giving a perfect target against the yellow sand. As the advance approached the channel next to the north bank the roll of rifles announced the Russian intention to con test the crossing. Meantime the batteries were steadily de livering a tremendous fire upon the hill crests, scattering shrapnel over tha Rus sians In the trenches. The day became fair, but' tha bursting sheila aoon left a hfesy smoke- cloud over the Russian line. By 7 the Japanese lines were extended westward along the sandy Cheng Ping nearly opposite Chlu Tien Cheng. With remarkable confidence their batteries continued shelling over the men's heads, throwing both shrapnel and common shell Into the trenches along the foothills east of Chlu Tien Cheng and Into the principal Russian trench, which crested tha ridge running northeast from Chlu Tien Cheng. While the shelling waa proceeding heavily squads of Russians were observed crossing Ball Knob bank at Chlu Tien Cheng and entering this trench. The Jap anese Immediately turned howltxers and field guns there and covered the knob with a perfect hall of sheila, the howltzera using the common shell with terrible ef fect. The field guns up the river used shrapnel, which, burning high In the air, threw a storm of bullets among; the Rus sians. Russians Are Stubborn. Despite the awful fire the Russians con tinued pushing across the knob until the trench was manned, when a heavy rifle fire opened upon the Japanese lines on Cheng Ping. The Japanese, lying flat, returned the fire hotly. It was a difficult range, one firing up the hill, the other down, but both sides suffered severely. Meantime the Jap anese batteries pounded the Russian trenches, delivering an extraordinarily rapid and accurate fire. The Russians showed something of their old fighting spirit, holding the trenches obstinately de spite the deadly fire. Hasegawa now sent forward part of his line and succeeded In fording a channel next to the mainland. He quickly swung downstream and climbing Into the hills en veloping the left of the Russian trenches. At the same time Nishl, farther down, found a ford, throwing a strong force over, which climbed the hills, threatening the right of the Russian trench. Leading each line was a large Japanese flag, showing the batteries the position of their men. The Japanese advanced through the hills with Incredible rapidity and soon began climbing the ridge next to that held by the Russians. As the Japanese advanced the batteries' Are slackened, but two shells fell short, causing some loss to Nishl. Forced to Retreat. Notwithstanding the heavy Russian rifle fire the Japanese infantrymen swiftly ad vanced. The Russians held the trench man fully until the Japanese threatened to crumple both ends, when they retreated rapidly, apparently taking the Peking road toward Feng Wang Cheng. It waa Just 8:66 when the first Japanese entered this trench, carrying a large flag. The crowd along the WIJu wall gave three "bansals" for the Yalu victory. The Japanese evi dently suspected the Russians of having another line west of Chan Tien Cheng and continued shelling the hills In that direc tion. The comparative ease with which General Kuroki took the strong Russian position excites a suspicion that the Russians don't Intend to dispute the Yalu crossing stub bornly. It is hardly conceivable that any commander meaning to make a determined resistance in such a position would leave hla entire left completely unguarded, which the Russians did, but whatever tha Rus sians' Intentions were the battle gave Kur oki an opportunity to ahow his fine stra tegic ability, although this morning's fight dlsplanted the old Japanese fondness for direct frontal attacks against a vary strong position. Through the two daya' action the accu racy of the Japanese artillery was remark, able. The way In which the ranges, once found, were maintained, showed an extra ordinary even quality. Their new explosive and their entire artillery work and (Ire was CoHtlDUtl B ftocoud Page, NEBRASKA WEATHER FORECAST Showera In East Portion) Pair and Colder In Meat Portion Thumria). Fair. Hour. Dec. R a. ni 47 t a. m 411 T a. m r N a. m B4 a. in AH Ht a. m 4U 11 a. n tts 12 nt Ht Hour. 1 p. m it p. m , '! p. m . p. m . ft p. m , :i p. m . 7 p. m . H p. III. f p. m . Hen. . . "2 . . 71 . . 7 1 . . 7U . . 7H ! . . 7.1 . . 74 . . 70 REPUBLICANS OF NEW JERSEY State Convention la In Session at Trenton to Select Drleaates to Chicago. TRENTON. N. J.. May 10 The republi can state convention met at noon today to elect delegates to the National con vention at Chicago. The convention was ca'.ed to order by Senator Stokes, who Introduced as temporary chairman f the convention United States Senator John Kean. Senator Kean said In part: Hnpplly we aro not compelled, like our Opponents, the democratic partv, to seek for an issue with a search light nnd for a candidate without a record or thn gift of political speech. We have a policy and our policy Is that which has always been the policy of the republican partv, the maintenance of our protection ssleni ami the honest and economical administration of the affairs of the government. When President Roosevelt was Informed there was any question as to the conduct of the affairs of tho post onVe department, he at once set to work to hae that de partment thoroughly Investigated and the guilty men brought to trial. They were brought to trial, found guilty and con victed and wherever wrong la practiced and It can be discovered ly our party, that party is ready to correct that wrong and punish those responsible for it. There has been somewhat of criticism upon the conduct of the president in re gard to the matter of the Panama canal. What he did has commended Itself since to the best Judgment of the American people. The canal after being a dream or a vision for more than four centuries Is about to be built by American enter prise and by American capital and It will be controlled by Americana. When Senator Kean had concluded the committee on permanent organization re ported In favor of the election of Benator Kean for permanent chairman. The resolutions were than presented and adopted. The platform endorses the administra tion of President Roosevelt. The nation's Cuban and Philippine policy Is praised, and it Is stated that under the adminis tration conflicts between capital and labor have been peaceably settled; that the Sherman anti-trust law has been enforced without warring upon corporations with honest purposes and that dishonest offi cials have been driven from public office. There is In the platform an Indirect endorsement of President Roosevelt at Chicago. A protective tariff la advocated aa a policy that haa brought the greatest prosperity to capital and labor. - After the adoption of resolutions the fol lowing delegates at large were selected: Governor Murphy, United States Senators Kean and Dryden and States Assessor David Balrd. TRAINMEN DIE IN A WRECK Engine of Federal Express on Hart forel BVoad Goes Over Em. .. fi .- vr- . beuakment. NEW YORK, May 10,-Two men were killed today when the Federal express on the New .York New Haven & Hartford railroad left the tracks while crossing the bridge at Port Chester. The locomotive and tender plunged down a seventy-seven-foot embankment. Nona of the cars went over, tha breaking of the coupling between the tender and the first car saving the train from being carried down Into the river. Lawrence Keegan of Dedhara, Mass., en gineer, John T. Howes of Boeton, fireman, were killed. One of the guards of the treasure care was hurt. Of the six cars three were totally wrecked, while the trucks of tha other three were ripped out. The train was running at a high rate of speed and ony suggested possible cause of the accident is that the engineer may have died at hla post. The wrecked train Is that on which spe cial armed guards were carried several weeka ago because of feara that an or ganized band of train wreckers had planned a wreck for the purpose of robbery. Much treasure Is carried on this special, and thia fact aroused the fears of the officials of the express company and led to the employment of special guards. On this train the cash from the government de positories In New England la usually car ried to Washington. Because of the valu able contents of the train detectives and armed railroad employes surrounded the wreck to prevent possible attempts to loot the cars, but there was nothing discovered to connect train wreckers with tho acci dent. MINE PROMOTER ON TRIAL California Stan Said to Have Used Malls for Fraudulent Pur poses. BAN FRANCIBCO, May 10 George W. Rumble, a mining promoter, is on trial before a Jury in the district court charged with the illegal use of the United States malls for the purpose of defrauding his correspondents by means of worthless mining schemes and by false representa tions. The Indictment accuses Rumble of having corresponded through the post office with Frank Terry, D. W. Smith and John Bull, Jr.. the latter of Elmlra, N. Y., representing to them that he was the owner, secretary and general manager of the Sunset Mining company, capitalized at lin.ono.OOO.onn, the stock being divided lnti shares at fl each. There were alleged to be twelve gild mines under his control and that the Sunset Mining company's stock was paying dividends at the rate of t per cent a month and had been paying at that rate for the last rlne years. JAPS TO VISIT RICT FIELDS Visitors at It. Louis Will Look Over Country In Western Louisiana. NEW ORLEANS, May 10. Probably th first direct development effect" to be made In tha Lou'slana territory as a result of the Louisiana Purchase exposition, Is the semi-official recognition given by the Jspanese commission to the lmmlgrh movement from Japan to the rice growing country in Louisiana and Texas. About June 1 a number of Japanese now In St. Louis will leave for Louisiana snd Taxaa for a trip through the rice country. About the same time a party of more than 100 Jspanese who are now en routs from Japan for San Francisco will reach Hous ton. The latter will settle in tho rice country and become rice farmers. Two members of thia party, It Is aald, are bring ing with them more than 1100,000 each with which to purchase rice lands and start Japanese colonies. FIRE AT HIGH ASCLE Japar.eso Aro Said to Ea Brmbr.rding Por Ar:hnr with Gnni Eltrattd. FIGHTING GOING ON AT IIAO YANG Reported Japan?: Hars Overtaken Kal ians and Foroed Battle. ' UNITED STATES CONSUL ENTERS PROTEST Ktmians Eafnu to Lt Him Escd ktanng to Mr. Oorger. COMMUNICATION IS AGAIN 0PENE0 Count rasslnl. Ambassador at Wash ington, Xotlfled that Railroad la Restored and Wlrra Are Ilelng Repaired, LONDON, May 10. The Tnklo corres pondent of the Morning Post, cabling undet date of May 10, says that a high angle bombardment of Tort Arthur la progress ing. Fighting at Llao Vans;. SHAN HAI KWAN. Majr 10.- P. m. II Is reported that tha First Japanese army corps, having followed the Russians re treating from the Yalu river, overtook them twenty miles south of Llao Yang yesterday and a severe engagement ensued. The Jap. anese dragged their guns up hills believed to bo unsurmountable. The Russians there, upon continued to retreat north. A division of tha First corps Is spproach Ing New Chwang. which Is now garrisoned by a handful of Russians. Japanese scoutt have been six miles from New Chwang. Nineteen women were the last civilian to leave New Chwang for Chan Hal Kwan. They arrived here tonight nnd c nflrmed the reports of thu evacuation of ' Chwang. Communication Is Restored. WASHINGTON. May 10.-Count Casslnl. the Russian ambassador, haa received a dispatch from St Petersburg saying that Viceroy AlexiefT telegraphed the emperor that railroad communication with Port Ar thur was restored during the night of May t and 10 and that the telegraph line la being repaired. MAY GIVE NEW CHWiltd TO CHI5A Russians at Treaty Port Refuse to Let American Consul Send Meaaagre. NEW CHWANO, Monday, Kay . (De layed In Transmission.) Of the five Rus sian reglmenta which were In garrison here four have left and tha other received ordera to go today, but this order waa canceled an hour later. The Russians are strongly entrenched at An Ping, where the guna from the New Chwang forts have been sent. There Is an unconfirmed native report that the Russians are attempting to In duce the Chinese gutlda to take over the local government here In case of the com plete evacuation of the town. If this ia Cone the foreign- consul will protest. Colonel Muenthe, the military adviser of Viceroy Yuan Shi Kal, commander-in-chief of the Chinese forces, arrived here thia afternoon. It Is believed he came to confer with the Russians regarding the proposal to turn New Chwang over to the Chinese The Russians are known to be communi cating with the Chinese brigands and to le stirring up a state of terror among na tives. United States Consul Miller waa prevented from telegraphing to Minister Conger a statement of the altuatlon here. Mr. Miller's mossage waa released after ha hud nuide a strong protest on the subject. Many Japanese spies are In this vicinity, disguised as beggars. They have cut the wires to the mines at tha mouth of the Llao river. Unrest la increasing hare. VICKSBIHG BUFHED TO TAKE MEM This la the Story Told in Ofllelal Re port of Ruaalan Mlalater. ST. PETERSBURG, May 10. The final word regarding the combat at Chemulpo, Corea, baa been pronounced by M. Pavloff, the Russian minister to Corca, whose offi cial report Is gazetted In tha official mes senger this morning. M. Pavloff aaya: The commander of the Vlcksburg sent a boat with a surgeon to offer medical help to the, wounded on the cruisers Varlag ana Korlelz, but the officer in charge Biated, in the. name of his commander, that It win impossible for him to take any Russians on board hla ship. The commander of the Vnrlug thereupon declined assistance. The commander of the Vlcksburg offered to receive the imperial mission If It waa compelled to leave Corea, but I declined the offer, stating that I would go on a French cruiser. Twenty-one Russians who were on tha French cruiser Pascal were aulTering from gangrene and, fearing thai the disease would bo rommunlcuted to the other wounded, the commander of the Pascal signalled to the Vlcksburg and asked if It would receive these men, but the Amer ican commander positively refused to do so. TYPHIS AMD SMALLPOX EPIDESU43 Disease Adda Ha Terrors to tho Dancers of Eastern War. ST. PETERSBURG. May 10. Tho follow. Ing statement was made to the Associated Press today regarding the reported epidem ics at Mukden: There are some cases of dysentery and smallpox and several cases of typhus In the Mukden hospitals, but there has been no application for more surgeons nor for spe ciiil remedies or xeruni, and It Is entirely misleading to say that epidemics exist. Smallpox and typhus are epidemic In Man cliurla, and dysentery Is Inevitable where larse bodies of men are crowded together. Tlu'io Ik nothing alarming In thu situation. Price of Rice Is High. SEOUL, Corea, May . 4:S0 p. m. (Da layed In Transmission. ) Owing to the heavy purchases of rice by the Japanese army the prio of that commodity in the vicinity cf the American minea at Unsnn haa doubled and Is now quoted at 3 yen per twenty-five pounds. The forces of Cored n coolies In military employ are not affected by this advance In prices on ac count of the extraordinnry wages they re- ! celve, but th nine laborers are hard hit, 1 and it has been necessary to send some Junk loads of rl'e north to prevsnt threatened distress. American Attaches Arrive. PT P:;TBllSirRO, May 10. Captain T. Rentley Volt, the military attache of tha Ciil'.cd bi-atcH et.tbassy at Paris, and Major Macomb, i'nlted f ta'es army, have arrived here T i" former will remain In this city a; n.ll'ti ry attache of the embassy during the Tog of the war. Major Macomb will pr-x-eed to the front. Both officers have been lnlted to ride with the suit of tl. enperor In the big May review, wh' I" to take place tomororw. Japanese Utramrra Resume Work. SEATTLE. Wash., May 10 -The luca agency of the Nippon Yueen Kaishl, Jspan'a big steamxhlp company, haa received notice from Toklo that service on Ave. Una of
