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VOL. 1. NO. 108.

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KUROKI MAKES TERRIFIC ASSAULTWHICH US H113,000 SOLDIERS

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The Tacoma Times.T • "\u25a0

TACOMA, WASH., SATURDAY! EVENING, AIOINT 0, 1004.

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SPINS ON TACOMA TILANDS TAKEN UP TODAY

Russians Slowly Retreat, But Mow Down EnemyWith Heavy Guns-Battle Fought

Near Liao Yang

(BULLETIN.)ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. «.—A

telegram from Liao Yang Mates thatthe Japanese have lost 13,000 killedand wounded hi an attack on the Rus-sian central position.

ACCOUNTS OP BATTLENOW IN PROGRESS

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 6.—ln-formation comes to the Bourse Ga-zette in a dispatch which says thatanother great battle is being foughtIn the neighborhood of Houtsaize, onthe railroad, 14 miles west of LiaoYang.

The Japanese made a fierce attackon the Russian position at Houtsaieewith 54 battalions, 36 of which wereregular troops.

Ranks Mowed Down.General Kuroki employed his re-

serve men in the attack, while theregulars carried out feints. Theranks of the reserves were decimatedby the Russian fire, but the vacancieswere quickly filled with fresh men.

The Russians ultimately slowly re-

1 treated to a suitable position, whencethey inflicted great losses on the Jap-anese by their heavy artillery fire.

Kuropatkin Reports.ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 6. —A

dispatch from General Kuropatkinthis afternoon reports an advance ofthe Japanese army and an engage-ment fought on the banks of the Tai-tsite river, but gives no details. Itsays:

"The enemy on August 4 advanced15 versts north of Haicheng. Theenemy is advancing on our east frontalso and has concentrated at Hullingin considerable force.

"At Gutz Yantse and Siheyan theenemy crossed to the right bank ofthe Taitsit.e river, but was drivenback."

CZAR URGES KUROPTKINTO MAINTAIN MAO YANG

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 6.—It isreported that the czar has stronglyurged General Kuropatkin to exhaustevery means at his command to main-tain his position at Liao Yang. An-other report, however, says the Rus-sian forces are so exhausted aftertheir continual fighting during the

past seven days that any rapid move-ments such as would be necessary to Isuccessfully evacuate Liao Yang areimpossible.

The Japanese are reported to beconverging on Liao Yang from three)sides and already are driving in theRussian outposts.

It is known here that official re-ports are constantly being receivedfrom Kuropatkin. and the fact thatthey are not published adds to the janxiety of the people.

RUMORED FALL OF PORTARTHUR IS DISCREDITED

LONDON, Aug. 6.—A dispatchfrom Nagasaki states that a reporthas reached there that Port Arthurhas fallen. The report is given littlecredence here, as it is generallythought to be another wild rumor!such as have been going the rounds jfor a week past.

COURT DECIDES AGAINSTEADOR UNIONS

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 6.—Thesuperior court this morning ordereda final decree in the injunction pro-ceedings against the Stablemen'sanion, forbidding it from maintaininga boycott against the Nevada livery

stable. This is the most important,

decision affecting labor ever handeddown in the state.

It prevents a labor organizationfrom maintaining pickets or in anyway interfering with the- business ofan employer, and further declares thelegislative act permitting boycotts tobe unconstitutional.

BOYS CONFESSTO A ROBBERY

Edward Shafer and Wilford Rig-ney were arrested by Deputy SheriffsDoten and McCullough yesterday.The boys are charged with being theparties who broke into the cabin oftwo old wood cutters near Steilacoomand robbed them of $28 Wednesdaynight. -

The boys have confessed to therobbery, but claim that they securedonly $8.90, but the men say it was$20 more.

Rigney is an old offender. He

\u25a0was arrested last fall on the chargeof robbing some Japs, and again lastspring for the alleged robber} of aboatman. Both charges were after-ward withdrawn. Rigney says herobbed the old men because they hadthe money and he needed it.

Riguey'is 18 years old and Shafer16.

WILL SUPPORTTEXTILE STRIKE

WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. C—Amajority of the executive committeeof the American Federation of Laborhas voted to support the strike of thetextile workers.

FALL RIVER, Mass.. Aug. 6.—Contributions in support of the strikeof the textile workers are being so-licited by 33 men and women identi-fied with the labor movement.

BALLOTING FORCARNIVAL QUEEN

Much interest is being taken in thevoting for queen of the Labor daycarnival and exposition which willbe

held in Seattle August 27 to Sep-tember 10, inclusive. All labor unions

of the state will participate In thecarnival, and each city will support

one or more candidates for queen. .Miss Jennie Bonner of Tacoma has

been nominated by the local News-

boys' union, and she is promisedstrong support by that, association.Already three candidates have beennamed in Seattle.

Votes may be cast In Tacoma atthe following places: Malstrom'sdrug store, Olympia club, McDonald'sCigar store, Davidson's drug store.Eleventh and Tacoma avenue; Yuill& McKenzie's drug store, South Ta-coma; Hopkins Bros.,' drug store,Eleventh and X streets; Fred Meaer-all, cigar stand,. Old Tacoma; Cooksand Waiters' headquarters.

DEMOCRATSESOPUS, N. V., Aug. 6.— F.

Sheehan from New York announcedthis morning that the first meetingof the executive committee of theDemocratic national committee, ofwhich be is chairman, would be heldin the Hoffman house In New Yorkon Monday, at which time plans forheadquarters and the opening of thecampaign will be settled.

MINERS VOTE ONMCE REDUCTION

PITTSBURG, Kan., Aug. 6.Thir-ty thousand members of the Miners'unions in Missouri, Kansas, Texas,Arkansas and Indian Territory quitwork today to vote on the operators'proposition to accept a 5Vi per centreduction in wages.

It is believed the proposition willcarry.

SUCCESSOR TOM. YON PLEHVE

PARIS, Aug. 6.—A dispatch fromSt. Petersburg asserts that M. Waasit-c-liikow has been appointed ministerof the interior to succeed the lateYon Plehve.

WaUMichikOW is a prince by birth,but little is known of him. He was,at one time governor of the provinceof Moscow.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. «.— )

Acting on the request of the state de-partment, Secretary of the Navy Mor-ton today ordered Admiral Jewell,commanding the European squadron,to proceed with his fleet to Smyrna.This action, it is admitted in officialcircles, means that a naval demon-stration is to be made against Tur-key. The squadron in composed ofthe Olympia, the Baltimore and the

Fred S. Wright, member of the city'council from Ihe Fifth ward, refusedto deny or affirm the statement thathe had been offered a considerationfor his vote in the council in thetelephone fight.

The question was put to him: "Didrepresentatives of either the Sunset

All dispatches from the vicinity ofPort An bur lately have Indicated thatthe Russians were In a position to putup a long continued fight, and It Isknown that they were still In posses-sion three clays ago.

Will Sink No More Ships.ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 6.—The

government has issued a statementsaying that the Russian naval com-manders have been instructed not tosink neutral merchantmen) with con-traband on board In the future, ex-cept in cases of dire necessity, but Incases of emergency to haul prises intoneutral ports.

Options on 9 < acres of tide-flat

lands have been taken up and the

deeds are being signed today. The

property In question includes the

Allen C. Mason wharf and the wa-

terfront adjoining, belonging to AllenBRITISH SHIP A

LAWFUL PRIZE C. Mason.

Mr. L. R. Manning, of the real es-tate firm of L. R. Manning & Co.,

which has had the negotiations in

charge, malting the following state-

ment: '

VLADIVOSTOK, | Aug. 6.—Theprize court has adjudged the steamerKnight Commander! to be a lawfulprize. The Investigation showed thatthe railway material; aboard was des-tined through a Japanese port to Che-mulpo, Korea. "The first of the options secured

THE JUDGE IS FOISD OF PETS

AMERICAN BATTLESHIPS SENT TOBRING THE SULTAN TO TERMS

Cleveland, and Is now at Nice.This action was taken by direction

of the president, after a consultationwith the cabinet officers, and Is aresult of Turkey's dilatory tactics Inhandling several Important matterspresented by Minister Lelshman.

Time to Enforce Demands.The state department considers the

recent evasions of promises by theporte as almost tantamount to aninsult. For a year Irishman lias;sought an Interview with the sultan

COUNCILMAN WRIGHT IS SILENT ONQUESTION OF BRIBERY CHARGES

Telephone company or the Inde-pendent people offer you a considera-tion for your vote on the question ofgranting \u25a0 franchise to the Inde-pendent Tolephonc company?"

"1 willnot make a statement," hereplied. "I will neither affirm nordeny the rumor." ' 7-

in order to present the matters re-ferred to, and obtained it only a weekago, to be again put off. The staledepartment now thinks the time hascome to demonstrate to the suitthe Importance of paying attention tothis country's requests.

TROUBLE FEAREDIN COLOMBIA

WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 6.—-In official circles here authentic newsfrom Bogota is awaited with keen in-terest, as private Information re-ceived lately indicates that the af-

fairs of that republic may reach •critical stage within the net few days.Tomorrow is the date sot for the

inaugural of General Rafael Reyesas president of Colombia. Affairs arein such shape, however, that the newpresident may not be allowed to takeoffice without grave trouble ensuing.

Deeds Are Signed for Transfer of91 Acres to J. T. Woodward of

the Chicago, Milwaukee &St. Paul Railroad

some time ago on property on the

tide-flats has been taken up and paid

for today. The tract purchased lies

east of the Puyallup river, Is about

one and one-fourth miles long and

averages about 1,000 feel wide, com-prising 91 acres, and was the prop-erty of Allen C. Mason. The titlefor this property was held under con-tracts from the state, which have

been duly assigned, and the deed willbe Issued to the new owners and re-corded as soon as signed by the gov-

ernor. We have options on a largo

amount of property on the flats whichexpire during this month, a large por-

tion of which will be taken up.

"Until recently 1 had been given tounderstand that my clients hud theseoptions secured for the purpose ofestablishing a largo manufacturingplant here, but I now.know that itwill not be used for that purpose.

"While I am not at his time at lib-erty to say definitely for what pur-

pose it Is Intended, I can state thatit is a traiisacion of far greater im-portance to this city than anything

that has been consummated since the

Northern Pacific decided to make Ta-

coma Its principal terminal on theBound."

The deeds wore made out to ,T. T.Woodward, a representative of theChicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail-

road.

Although the name of the railroad

company is not mentioned In thedeed, Mr. Woodward's connection

with the railroad company is known

and there is not the slightest doubtbut that the purchase was made for

railroad terminal*. This means no-thing less than that the dream of Ta-coma citizens for another transcon-tinental railroad is about to be real-ized and the exclusive railroad news

stories published in The Times arefully corroborated.

Frank Ross, than whom there is

STRIKECHICAGO, Aug. B.—Striking em-

ployes of the stockyards district andtheir sympathizers, estimated tonumber 30,000, paraded this morn-ing over a route in the vicinity of theyards, ending at Oswald's grove,where a picnic w;, ; , held.

A platoon of police and a band of40 pieces headed the processionwhich was subdivided Into divisions,each with a band and a police escort.

Thousands of people jammed thestreets along the line of march.

A feature of the parade was thevast Dumber of women and childrenIn line.

FIRE THREATENSBIG POWER PLANT

The new power plant of the Puget.Sound Electric company at Electron,which was recently completed, Ik indanger of being destroyed by forestfires. All day Thursday ami Fridaylarge gangs of men were kept at

no man In Tacoma better qualified

to judge, expresses the opinion that

the transaction means the extension

of the Tacoma Eastern south and

"The land secured from Allen C.Mason," he said, "embraces aboutKilt acres extending along deep ; wa-ter for about 1,000 feet and back toRons avenue, a distance of over amile, the length of the old Masonwharf. . . . :-V;O,;V. ;-.

"This tract is about, the same asthat secured by the V. ,P. . from; Mr.Mason and his associates when thatline was being extended from Port-land toward Tacoma in 1889, and laadmirably situated for .'- terminalgrounds. If desired, a slip could bedredged through the tract;from deepwater to Eleventh ; street, giving amile of wharfage besides the frontageon deep water.

"Commercial avenue, which Is 200feet wide, could "be used for; tracks.Besides that, then Is room on thistract for a 350-fOOt slip, a warehouse160 feel wide, another 200-foot strip

for tracks and a. 150-foot .ship lorlocal warehouses, which would abuton Sltkum avenue. \'r.

"The storage yard could be put.be*'(ween Eleventh street and Rossave-'nue, the entire tract being free fromstreets, except Eleventh street, whichwould cross the yards overhead '..'Thaistorage yards could be connected withthe Tacoma Eastern by the line Whichwaa surveyed for me ill 1890 by Wal-ter It. Boswort.h, The grade alongthis line from the flat to the. top ofthe hill is much easier than the gradeof the Northern Pacific to South Ta-coma. c '':'{,

"It would be an easy matter to ex--tend the Tacoma Eastern from N'ls-qually river to the Big; Bottom! orCowlitz river and up the Cispus to apoint about eight miles northeast ofMount Adams. A tunnel could piercethe mountains from here, coming outon the south side at the head of theKlickitat river. The line would thenprobably extend to Walla Walla andSnake river, crossing at the mouth ofthe Salmon. It would then follow theSalmon to the Rocky mountains,keeping along the base of the moun-tains through the rip of countrylying to the south of Yellowstonepark and Jackson's Hole. From therethe line could easily, be extended toa connection with the Chicago, Mil-waukee & St.. Paul at Chamberlain,South Dakota, f'-r*Jt»&JteM<ißßJg*i«

"From Goldendule the TacomaEastern could build a line.south toconnect with the O, R. & N.. An ex«tension from this junction to theSacramento valley is practical andcould easily connect with the South-ern Pacific. This route would be 90miles shorter than the present North-ern Pacific route by way of Portland.

"Those extensions would give theTacoma Eastern the key to the situa-tion and make it the most scenicroute in the West. it would open upa section of country, in which thereare now no railroads, to connectionswith the Milwaukee and the SouthernPacific. v^/:

"The section of mountainous coun-try is rich in coal, minerals and tim-ber, and beyond Is a great agricul-tural country. •>

"The advertising Tacoma; wouldget from the name Tacoma-Easternwhile constructing through Washing-ton, Idaho, Wyoming and South Da-kota would in. the means of bringingmillions of dollars and thousands ofpeople to Tacoma." ;v..

work fighting the fire and trying toi.e. It from reaching the plant andthe flumes. The main flume, builtof planks, is eight feet square andruns for 14 miles through the dense-ly timbered lands where the fire ianow raging.

The plant, which was built by theColumbia Improvement company,cost In the neighborhood of three anda half million dollars, and is no yetfully completed. :

The representatives of the im-provement company are greatlyalarmed over the situation.

TRAINMAN METTERRIBLE DEATH

Deputy Coroner Melllnger returnedto town this afternoon with the body.of Martin Spanic, who wis killed y«e>terday at Wllkeson. Spanic was anemploye at the Northern Pacific; yardsat Wilkeson, and at the time of theaccident was trying io set a brake onone of the cars. in some way be fellupon the track in front of the movingcar and the wheels' passed over, him,'nearly cutting his bod) in two.'* ": t

The remains were brought to thiacity and willbe aeut to Enumclaw forburial. '"SatMßl