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i THE WEATHER TODAY: J * For the State. * ♦ Fair; Warmer. | Volume LVI. No. 71. Leads ail North Carolina 'Bailies in News and emulation JUDGE SWAVNE IN OWN DEFENSE Submits Long Statement of Career. ESPECIALLY AS JUDGE Defended His Course in Hoskins Case and Denies That He Saw Any thing to Indicate Conspiracy to Break up Hoskin's Business. (By the Associated Press.) Washington. Nov. 28. —Mrs. Susan Downs, was the first witness heard today by the House Judiciary Com mittee, which is investigating the Judge Swayne case. She keeps a hoarding house at Waco, Texas, where Judge Swayne stopped three times when he held court in that city. She charged Judge Swayne at the rate of S4O per month for himself and S6B per month when he was accompanied hy Mrs. Swayne. The cross-examination of Kobert J. Boone, of Florida, was then resumed. Attorney Bidden, for the prosecution endeavoring to connect Boone with John M. Calhoun in the bankruptcy proceedings against Hoskings. While Attorney Higgins was con ducting a re-direct examination of concerning the Hoskins’ bankruptcy Mr. Palmer, of the sub-committee, ob jected to his fine of questions and the answers. “There seems to be a disposition on the part of this witness,” he said, “to blacken the character of this okl man lioskins with every answer he makes.” A little later Boone testified that he filed a claim of John M. Calhoun against Hoskins, after the case had been going some time. "That was when you needed more i claims to keen your petition going,” observed Mr. Clayton, of the sub-com mi’tse. Boone denied that aoy conspiracy or arrangement between himself and Calhoun existed against Hoskins. He also said he could not remember whether he had suggested Calhoun as a receiver for the Hoskins’ prop erty, but thought not. He said the reason he refused to settle when checks were offered to pay some of the claims against Hoskins was that no offer was made to pay the costs. Boone asserted that it was never brought to the at on ion of he eour that Hoskins was willing to settle in fuM with ids creditors. During the examination of Boone he explained the indictment against himself alluded to last Saturday. He said lie was charged with the embez zlement of s•“>'*. and said the charge was the result of a disputed claim over insurance with a travail in" agent of tlie company, which he (Boone) represented as local agent. Mr. Palmer subjected Boone to a search ing inquiry concerning the letter sign et! hy a rubber stamp with Boone's name which urged the prosecution of <l*. Hoskins for contempt in order ■'(•i break down ohl man, Hoskins.’ tj,. tv a* a.«k* 1 v ho could have written the letter M' not himself. The wit ness replied that he did not know un less it might have been a son of Judge Biddon, who was around the ofiiee a great dea'. Asked as to the moive any person other than himself could have had in writing the letter, he said that it would have been to con nect Judge Swayne with the case by making testimony before this commit tee. that if the letter remained un contradicted it would show a con spiracy. or, lit added, not that ex notly, but a connection between him self, Tuniso'i and, Calhoun with the '• Hoskins’ case. The letter, he said. I must have been fotged after proceed- . mgs were started against Skayne. Mr. Palmer asked him if he did not make an affidavit that Hoskins was about to dispose of his property and Boone replied in the affirmative. “And on that affidavit,” said Mr. Palmer, ”udge Swayne issued an or- j tier attaching Hoskins’ property and j depriving him of the use of it and j stopping his business?” "Yes,” replied the witness. “of I course his business could not go on ; after the attachment was made.” j Attorney Higgins said that he de sired to ask Mr. Bidden, the atatorney f<*r the prosecution, some questions on cross-examination. “Have you ever been informed against for receiving an illegal fee in a pension case?" Biddon answered in the affirmative, and it was brought out that he had I received one-third of the amount col- j loet<‘d. something over $2,000* He had j made a contract with the pensioner ! for such a fee. wwhieh fee was paid j hack after the information had been lodged. Mr. Biddon then made a statement concerning the matter. It was, he said, his first and last pension case and happened thirty years, tl had not affected his standing in Flor nla. Since then he had been elected I ehi"f justice of the Supremem court j <>f 1 lord da and had been unanimously I elected a delegate to the Democratic ! National Con ven tion. Judge Swayne then submitted a I long statement giving a history of his j career, particularly of that portion I when he was judge. He said that the ! prosecution of the election frauds of 18 88 created a hitter feeling against i him, and the Florida district was <li- ! vided, by a political act of a Demo- I ‘■ratio Congress, signed by a Demo cratic President. He then went into an extended argument to show that he was a resident of the northern dis trict of Florida. Judge Swayne also went over the contempt cases in iiis ! The News and Observer. ! court and defended his course, the J facts of which were nearly ail set J forth in the minority report in favor ! of Judge Swayne, and in previous tes | timony taken. Referring to the case of E. T. Davis and Simeon Belden he said that nothing was shown that would indicate malice on his part. Judge Swayne defended his course in the Hoskins’ case. No tender he said, was ever made by Hoskins in his coutr for settlement. He said he saw no grounds for suspicion that a conspir acy existed to break up joskins’ busi ness. He believed, and the testimony showed, that the books taken by young Hoskins, for whom a contempt war rant has been issued. Judge Swayne justified his actio nm sentencing W. C. O'Neal to sixty days in jail for contempt. He declared that he had never favored B. C. Tunison or been partial to him. He referred to at tempts by certain attorneys to defame him in Florida newspapers. He de nied a number of statements made by John Wurtz. He never made, he said, but one trip from Delaware to Folrida in a private car. He made one trip in the same car to the Pacific coast and paid for the provisions himself. He asserted that during his term as judge he never allowed anything to influence his acts outside or the law and facts. In answer to Mr. Palmer, Judge Swayne justified his use of the private car of the railroad company which was in the hands of a receiver. The committee decided to close the testimony and adjourned. f LIGHT PLANT BURNED. | Tar boro Suffers Loss by Fire—Dam aged Machinery to be replaced. (Special to News and Observer.) Tiirboro, N. Nov. 28.—Early Sunday morning at four o’clock the electric light building was discovered afire. All the wood part of this brick structure was destroyed. The boil ers are in good shape. The engines are probably in good condition. The dynamo will have to be overhauled. The town commissioners held a spe cial meeting today and wired for an electrician to come at once. The damaged machinery will be replaced at once. The residence on Main street, occu pied bv John B. Jenkins, came near being burned to the ground. Fire caught it is supposed from a bad flue. The roof of the kitchen was burned ofi. Mr. Jenkins damage was verv sMrht. CENTRAL HOTEL SOLD. C’liaHolle’s Principal Hostclcry Brings sl2o,ooo—Captain Ryder the Pii "chaser. (Special to News and Observer.) Charlotte, N. C., Nov. 28.—The Central Hotel property embracing the four story hotel building and one of j tiie most valuable lots in the heart i of the city was sold at public auc tion at the county court house today at noon 1o Captain \V. T 5. Ryder for $ I ‘O.OOO. The sale lasted only two minutes and Captain Ryder was the only bid der. r i here were a la’rge number of local capitalists present at the sale, j which has attracted a great deal of j interest, being the result of a friendly i suit between the heirs, Mrs. E'.a R. | Oats and others against Mrs. Mary t \\ listen and others to clear title. AI I WITH ATION Tl t E H Y. I _ | Riis'da Accepts Invitation to Conclude One With United States. <By the Associated Press.) St. Petersburg Nov. 28. Russia he.s accepted the imitation of ‘he Unite.• I States to conclude an arbitration treaty on the lines of the American | French treaty. Although it was known that the American government .was desirous of negotiating arbitration treaties with all the principal powers the fact that Russia had been approached with a direct proposition did not leak out un til Count Lamsdorff had accepted it. The approachment is expected to have a splendid effect on Russo-Amer ic-an relations, especially as it marks Russia’s first adherence to an arbitra tion treaty with a foreign power. New Georgia Road. (By the Associated Press.) Macon, Ga., Nov. 2 8. —A special to j the Telegraph from Atlanta says: “Secretary of State Cook to-day , granted an application for a charter } for the Savannah, Statesboro & North ern Railway Company. The company is to be capitalized at $3.000.DU0. di vided into shares of the value of SIOO each. Os this sum $1,800,000 is to be common stock, and $1,200,000 prefer j red stock. The general offices of the (Savannah. Statesboro & Northern j Railway Company are to he located in Savannah. The line will he 160 miles j long and will run through sections of ! Bullock. Emmanuel. Burke. Jefferson, Glascock, Warren. Wilkes. Oglethorpe, 'Clark and McDuffie counties in the State of Georgia. Eminent Physician Dead. (By the Associated Press.) | Houston, Tex., Nov. 28.—Dr. W. B. Coleman is dead at his residence here, i aged 71 years. Dr. Coleman, while eminent a« a general practitioner, was practically an authority on yellow fever, having served through several epidemics and won a Harvard medal, given in appre ciation of his services in connection with this disease. During the Spanish-American War he was sent by the United States gov ernment as an expert to make an examination of the yellow fever condi tions of Cuba. He was the author of a book on yellow fever, which is consid ered an authority among the medical profession. Georgia Debators Chosen. <By the Associated Press.) Athens, Ga., Nov. 28.—The debato.-s who are to represent the University of Georgia in the inter-collegiate de bate with Sewante next month in this city, have been chosen. They are George P. Whitman, of Atlanta and ! W. W. Patterson, of Columbus. Keep your temper if it is good, and 1 don’t Ipse it if it is bad. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 1905. VIRILE METHODISM MEETS WEDNESDAY North Carolina Confer ence at Henderson. A MAGNETIC BISHOP! Something of the Man Who Will Pre side Over the Deliberations of the Body. Methodists Strong and Progressive. Maintain Spirit of Circuit Riders. • A number of Methodist clergy passed through Raleigh yesterday as the advance guard of the North Car olina Conference, which convenes in Henderson on Wednesday morning. Methodism In the State dates back only one hundred and five years to the time when Robert Williams first rode his horse through the country , districts as the pioneer circuit rider. ; Since that time the converts of Robert . Williams have grown from a widely j scattered handful of plain people to a host of upwards of 14 3,000 earnest j From the Raleigh Christian Advocate. BISHOP \Y\RREN A. CANDLER. Who Will Pre.-Gde Over the North Carolina Conference, Which Meets at !!trtu!e:*soii To-Morrow j men, women and children which is representative of the most useful life i and highest aims of the common wealth. Joined tor the first three decades of their identity as a part of the Meth odist church to the Virginia confer | once, the North Carolina Methodist* grew in numbers and power until their organization as a body was made necessary in 1837; and. in )Bito, an other sub-division into the North Car olina and the Western North Carolina conferences was found to he the only feasible way in which the work of the church in the State could he admin i istered with the best results. The Conference i/eveiopment. The Methodist individuality has been through the years the striking thing about the denomination. Its pioneers were strong, aggressive, plain spoken and hard-lived me n whose im press has been sir tar indelible. The motif of Methodism has been ever bound up in the one word progress. Its aim has been towards the waste places; its roots have dug down to the sub-clay with tenacious persist ence. A Methodist community can not he uprooted. The principles, the convictions—even the prejudices of the sect —run in the blood of its fol lowers almost with the power of phy sical heredity. Your Methodist may change his church, but he at once tries to evangelize his proselvtizer. The spirit sticks with him. He is al- i ways open to conviction, but he had rather convict. In short the Meth odist is more than three parts mili tant: ho is never self-satisfied: there ! are no boundaries to his vision or limits to his ambition. He does not believe he is right; he knows it. \ml only the sublimity of ins faith will finally determine his success. Years ago the conference was a small gathering of leaders who wore within reach of the meeting place <>•' who could be sent, one from a large ; district, on the meagre savings of a poor people. JJut every Methodist was there in spirit and, as the tales j of liomer sang themselves through < Greece from mouth to mouth, so the proceedings traveled from sand-dune I t° mountain in the saddle bags of the clergy whose daily journeys over eoun ! By roads forged lighter and tighter I the chains of their nliuence on the I State. About these old preachers there is | a romantic charm, the mystery of long-stilled effort that, magnified through the years, has a potent influ ence on the present time. They were men who fought their way and were I not afraid to speak They followed! the straightest line. They did not hes itate to play upon the simple emotions of the people. They Knew their con gregations aRd they won them as best they could. In communities away from the centres, where all were plain, it j is not remarkable that they should j have exaggerated simplicity till it be | came that most powerful of all ap ] pbuls. the eloquence of the soil. And j today this strength is a heritage that j railroads and modern conveniences ; and Vouch w ith the world cannot en j tirely smooth away. Shut your eyes j at a conference sermon and listen to l the vibrant tones of the speaker and the note of the "circuit rider” creeps in through the years. The diction is in Sunday dress, perhaps, but it is distinct and distinctive. A Methodist preacher doesn’t have to carry a card, even though he wears a sack suit. ) The conference of today arrives on : the trains, but the difference is not essential. The personnel is funda mentally much the same. The preach ers are, as a rule, hard-working, de termined, not afraid of differences or of differing. Each man feels that he must carry his own point, but when beaten he acquiesces in the folly lof the crowd. Essentially they are ! jolly and full of the spirit of com- I radeship. Between meetings they joke and tell tales and swap—"experiences” —and eat. They are essentially of I the run of folks. They arrogate to : themselves no "airs.” though they are full of pride. No jman knows where 1 he is going to be sent for the year and each m; n knows where ho would like to go. Hence there is a deal of “politics”—which is wherever there is life. The Bishop is the man of the hour. The presiding elders are pow erful Senators. The pastor of Raleigh or Wilmington or Durham is a Wade Hampton who at any moment may “hit the trail” to the inlets of the far east; the humble missionary whose salary is partly paid in fish may be the Biyan to stampede the confer ence or the Tillman to upset all pre conceptions. For all of these reasons —more for the strong and diverse personalities of the delegates—a con ference is one of the most interesting of gatherings. But out of each one comes an undeniable measure of good, and after each the church settles it self from mthe annual shake up of its ministers to another twelve-month of larger growth and usefulness. The Big Man —The Bishop. Over this year’s conference, consist ing «.f one hundred and sixty-six heads of pastoral charges and over two hun dred and two clerical members, will be Bishop W. A. Chandler, of Atlanta, Georgia. The Bishop, who has once before presided over a North Carolina con ference, is a man in a hundred for the task, in the first place he is that best of ail combinations for a presiding officer, an Irishman born to rule. He is quick in his rulings and decisions, adamant when he has made them. Yet bo has the wit and humor to con trol without irritating. He rides the billows of debate with a clear head ami a steady hand at the rudder. Al ways he guides and directs and con structs. Nobody can hold a meeting of Methodists without question, and Bishop Chandler frequently arouses heat. When the blaze is at its height the Irish in him comes to the surface and the fire is quenched with a joke or a witticism that is sharp but sting j• v'/hen the laugh has died away the ship is sailing with a fair wind and the Bishop is smiling at the helm. (Continued on Page Six.) COLLEGES WIN IN WILL CASE End of Celebrated Fayer \ weather Suit. Bequest of $2,500,000 Involved Fought by Widow and Nieces of Deceased. Skilled by U. S. Supreme Court Today. (By the Associated Press.) ) Washington, Nova 28.—The case known as the Fayerweather Will Case was decided by the Supreme Court of j the United States to-dav in favor of I the colleges. The case involves a be | quest of about $2,500,000 made to j twenty different colleges by the late Daniel G. Fayerweather, a leather | merchant, of New York, who died in | 1890. The will was attacked by Mr. | Fayerweather’s widow and two nieces, j fraud being alleged. The gntse has | been pending in the courts for many j years and has been before the Su | preme Court on several occasions. The I last decision in it was rendered hy the 1 Circuit Court for the Southern district of New York and was favorable to the colleges. The heirs then appealed to the Supreme Court, but to-day’s opinion affirmed the finding of the Cir cuit Court. The opinion of the court was delivered by Justice Brewer and held that the case had been previous ly adjudicated The beneficiary colleges are: Bow doin. Dartmouth. Williams, Amherst, I Wesleyan, Yale, Columbia, Union Theological. Hamilton. Rochester. Cor- Inell, Lafayette, Lincoln. Virgina. I Hampton. Maryville. Marietta, Adel ! bert, Wabash and Park. SNARL FROM VARDAMAN. Answer lo Roosevelt's Admiration for Mississippi Building at World's Fair. (By the Associated Press.) Jackson, Mies.. Nov. 28.--Governor Vardamani today received a telegram from President Francis, of the World’s Fair, stating that President Roosevelt had visited and greatly admired the Mississippi building while at the Fair ] Saturday. The governor wired a re | ply containing the following: "It is ol course, gratifying to the j people of Mississippi to know that | they have done one tiling that the i present President of the Uni lew Stales approves. Doubtless the President’s admiration of 'h< Mississippi building is due to his admiration of Jefferson Davis, of whose last home it is a rt plica.” BURGLAR CAPTURED. | Made Desperate and Murderous As sault on ilis Captors. ■ I (Special to News and Observer.) Bumborton. N. C., Nov. 28. Henry Duncan, 'adored, of Rutherfordton. was captured here early this morning wh !e burglarizing ilie store of B. H. Caldwell, and three pistols, several watches, rings and other articles were found on his person. fie made a desperate fight, firing five shots a! the officers one of which parsed through the coat of Elmer Mc- Neill. the others giving Policeman Reynolds a close call. He was tried this morning before Justice Skipper and bound over to court on a $1,200 bond, i His accomplice/ named William.;.' ; escaped. HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS. j Question of Booking Into Needs of Wilmington, N. C. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Nov. J ’2S.—The House J Committee on Rivers and Harbors met today and decided to prepare a river and harbor appropriation bill to be presented early in the coming .session of Congress. The committee also discussed the question of going to Wilmington, X. C., to look into the proposed improvements there, a promise to that effect having been made sometime ago. The commit tee will meat again tomorrow. BAR BOR i MPROVEM ENT. An Allotment of $20,000 Made by Secretary of War for Norfolk. (By the Associated Press.) Washington, Nov. 2 B.—On the rec ommendation of Brigadier General McKenzie, chief of engineers, the Acting Secretary of War has made an allotment of $30,000 from the river and harbor act of April last lor the restoration o fthe channel at SewaH j Point, harbor o ? Not folk. This al lotment is an addition to an unex • pended balance of $20,000 from the river and harbor act of 1902. COURT OF INQUIRY. ( cited Slate ; Asked to Appoint a High Naval Officer. ( By the Associated Press,) .'Washington. Nov. 28.—Count (’assi-l ( i. the Russian Ambassador and Sir! Mortimer Durand, the British Ambas sador, called separately at the State Department today to present, on be half of their respective governments, an invitation for the United States to appoint a “high ranking naval officer" as a member of the Court of Inquiry} which will investigate the facts in the Dogger Bank incident. Government Sustained. (By the Associated Press.) Washington. Nov. 28. —The case of . the United States vs. F. G. Evans, owner of the British steamship Black health, was decided today by the Su preme Court of the United States today, in support of the contentions of the government, thus reversing the decision of the District court for the southern district of Alabama. The proceedings against the Blackhealth was instituted to collect damages on account of the destruction of a beacon light in Mobile harbor. The question involved was that of the jurisdiction of the court sitting as an admiralty court, which the court sustained. AWAITS NEW TRIAL. Nan Patterson (Joes Back to Tombs for Another Week. (By the Associated Press.) New York. Nov. 28.—The jury in the Patterson murder trial was dis charged to-day and at the same time District Attorney Jerome served notice on Miss Patterson's counsel that a new jury would be selected and a re-trial begun at the term of court which opens one week from to-day. The illness of Edward Dressier, a juror who was stricken with apoplexy last week, was the cause of to-day’s action. When the juror’s illness was reported at the opening of court last Saturday Justice Davis ordered an ad journment until to-day. hoping that Dressier would recover sufficiently to allow a continuance of the trial. The report of his physicians which was made at the opening of court to-day that he was in no condition to return to his duties, left Justice Davis no alternative but to discharge the jury. Durin gthe forenoon when it became almost certain that this action would be taken, a report went around the court building that Miss Patterson s counsel probably would make a strong effort to have the defendant released on bail. Their acceptance of the no tice served by the prosecution, how ever, seemed to dispose of that story. Miss Patterson appeared very much dejected as she was led back to the Tombs to await the beginning of the new trial. LAWLESSNESS IN THE LAND. Judge Emory Speers Says Conferences Should he Held to Unhold the Law. (By the Associated Press.) Savannah. Ga.. Nov. 28.—Judge Emory Speer, of the United States District Court in charging the grand jury of that body to-day referred at gi€>at length to what he characterized as the lawlessness existing in all sec tions of the country. He spoke par ticularly of the recent outrages at Statesboro, vhieh is in his jurisdic tion and suggested that the better class of blacks and whites in the South should hold conferences looking to the enforcement of law and the punishment of the guilty. He severely criticised the Georgia law. which pre vents the judge who hears a case from expressing an opinion as to the facts brought out. As to the prevalence of crime Judge | Speer compared the large cities of I this country with those in Europe, to the detriment of the former. Cartoonist Seriously II!. (By tiie Associated Press.) Macon. Ga.. Nov. 28.-—Charles Nee la n, the New York cartoonist, who is desperately ill at Cave Spring. Ga., continues to grow worse daily and it seems that the end is a question of only a short time. He is not now resting as well as formerly. A Catho lic priest from Atlanta visited him j yesterday. Goi era! Barnes Dead. ( B ythe Ausoc'ated* Press.) i New York, Nov. 28. —General Al- I (red Cutler Barnes, aged sixty-two, , resident >f ihe As tor Place Bank, cied of pneumonia m hit* iome in Brooklyn today. Mr. Barnes was vice- I resident and director of the Ameri can Book Company and trustee of Cor nell University. Dr. Rankin Dead. (By the Associated Press.) Cleveland. 0., Nov. 28.—Dr. J. E. Burikin, formerly president of How ard University, Washington, D. C.. d-ed here today. NEW CORPORATION. j Creviin-Vun Dyck Company Organ ised to Take Over (doing Concern. The Secretary of State yesterday is sued a charter to the Crevling-Van Dyck Company, of Wilmington, to conduct a wook working, machine shop, manufacturing and ship build ing business. The incorporators are Messrs. J. L. Crevelin and W. V. B. Van Dyck, of Wilmington; Joseph P. Crevelin. of Auburn, and Francis C. Van Dyck, of New Brunswick, New York. i he authorized capital stock of the corporation is $25,000 and it starts business with $21,000 stock paid in. The corporation was formed prin primarily to take over the going busi ness of the firm of Crevelin & Van Dyck, of Wilmington. MANAGES TWO STATUS. Mr. R B. Hull G.vch Charge of State of Tennessee. It. B. Hall, manager for North Carolina for the Germania Life In surance Company, has just had his tci ritory extended to (-over the State of Tennessee in addition to North Carolina. Mr. Hall ha;- offices already installed at Memphis and will estab lish branch offices at Knoxville. Nash ville and Chattanooga as soon as* he can find capable managers to be sent fc those points. The business of the Germania has grown to such an extent in North Carolina that it. Is now looked upon as one of the most popular companies doing business in the State. Mr. Hall will continue in charge of the State ot North Carolina for the Germania and his headquarters will rema-’n in Raleigh, though he will give much of his time to getting business in Tennessee on the same progressive Basis ns it is in North Carolina. If she is young ami pretty, a lone widow is seldom alone. ♦ttt ff?f I THE WEATHER TODAY* i Far the City, T Fair; Warmer. | Price Five Cents. RUSSIANS ARE 111 GOOD TRIM Forces Now Number 300,- 000 Men. WAREHOUSES FULL v ——- M. Ravoir Gives a Graphic Pen Picture of the Armies in the Far East. Gen. Kuropatkin Posses a “Red Devil” to Race up and Down Line of Battle (By the Associated Press.) Chefoo. Nov. 2S. —General Kuropat kin is the possessor of a new twenty horse power automobile with whfch he is able to rush at high speed from one part to another of the line twenty five miles long, according to M. Ra voir, who reached here today from Mukden. M. Ravoir spent three weeks with Kuropatkin, who wished to se cure twenty automobiles specially con structed to carry ammunition speedi ly in emergencies. He will only use them in winter when the Manchurian roads are in excellent condition. On his first trip in the new automobile. General Kuropatkin’s only comment was: “I have the advantage of General Shafter.” The Chinese now regard Kuropat kin and his machine with superstilu ous awe believing the latter to be an atrociously powerful specimen of the i “foreign devil.” I M. Ravoir said: “The two armies lie facing each other, each having three fortified lines. The soldiers of both armies live mostly in caves, behind their trenches, which, when covered with snow, have the appearance of a great host of polar bears waiting to spring at each other. The caves are warm even without fire. The Russian trbops are in the best of spirits and have un limited confidence jEn their leaders. They expect General Kuropatkin to click during the winter. The Russian forces now number 300.000 men. The cavalrymen from the Don district are superior to their Siberian comrades. The for emrare intelligent, brave and active and have fine powerful horses. “There are only a few hundred wounded at Mukden and thirty thou | sand wounded at Harbin. ! “I came out on the Siberian rail road which seemed to be doing its * tremendous work smoothly. The ware i houses along the railroad between I Mukden and Harbin are full of sup i plies, which are almost untouched, as up to the present the army lias sub sisted chiefly nii the country. “The handling of tiff Russian artil lery is improving while the Japanese artillery fire seem* less effective. Giigii ailv 'Lie Russians did not con ceal their artillery which the Japan ese quickly disabled. Now the Rus sians handle "arid conceal their guns • with periect science. “The belief is general at Mukden that Port Arthur will hold out till relieved, no matter how long the much expected Russian second Pa cific squadron may take to reaching th< Far East. “General Kuropatkin is not talka tive. Ilin only reference to the war was; ' “ ‘lhe war is progressing as l Wish.’ ” “He still fives ir ids railroad car am! the light m bis cilice is burning night and day. It is lorrmonly statee! that the general nexer sleeps. His t « Dicers art not surprised at being called to a conference at any hour of the night. The generael’s only re lation is at ulnar time when the offi cers. who are his guests number scores. Wine is plentiful, but Kuro patkin drinks mineral water. Every Russion officer seems to have an un limited supply of money, the govern ment being lavish in its expenditures. “It is my opinion that General Ktm opatkin wiil never retreat from Mukden tin’ess detent'-1 decisively, and I think the next battle will be a I Russian victory.” JAPANESE FAIL. Assault on Bold Arthur Repulsed Willi Heavy Loss. (By the Asnciatfcd Press.) St.. Petersburg, Nov. 28.—7:25 p >n. The War Office has teceied inforvma tlon from Chefoo that the Japanese e.ssault on Port Arthur Saturday veas repulsed with enormous lb»s^_ Snow Stops Fight. (By the Associated Press.) St. Petersburg. Nov. .28. —Gene ra! Sukharoff today telegraphs as fol|e»v.s: “Tiie Japanese i tttack on Tsinkhet chen was checked by our artillery lire, and the fighting ceased at 6 o’clock in the evening of November 27. At no print did the ineray advance nearer than within six hundred paces e*f our positions. In the midst of the battle a blinding snow storm caused a sus -1 enson of hostilities, and when the weather cleared at 3 o’clock In the af ternoon a turning movement against our right Hank was observed.” Indecisive Fighting. * (By the Associated Press.) St. Petersburg, Nov. 28.-*—General Kuropatkin under yesterday’s date re ports that the Japunese offensive movement which began November 2t near ihe village of Tsinkhetchtn on tiie front of the left flank, was of an indecisive character tip to 4 p. m., No vember 26, and was checked by the (Continued on Fifth Pago.)
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