2 CAMiiIiUN COUNTY FMSSt H. H. MULLIN, Editor. Published Every Thursday* TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. for *2 <* If paid In advance 1 •>" ADVERTISING RATES: Advertisements are published at the rate o{ trie dol.ar i>er (square forone insertion ami finy cents ] ei square for each subsequent inner tiO'. Rates t>y the year, or for six or three montiia, are low a:id uniform, and will be furnished oii application. Legal and Omclal Advertising per sq.iare, three times or less, each aubscijuent laser lio i . 0 cents per square. Local notices lit cents per line for onettiser •ertion: 5 cents per line lor each subsequent consecutive Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines. 10 cents per lice. Simple announcements of births, mar riage* and deaths will be inserted free. Business cards, five lines or less, 45 per year', over live lines, at the regular rates of adver tising . _ ( No local Inserted for less than 75 cents pei issue. ! JOB PRINTING. g The .lob department of the Pit Ess lscomplpu ar.d affords facilities for doing the b» st class o M Wrorl(. I'ArtTH UI.AK ATTKN-I'ION PAIDTU I.AV j PKINTINO. No paper will b« discontinued until artear I urs are paid, except ».t the option of the pub B Usher. I'apers sent out of the county must be pa ] lor in advance. Phonographic reports of Emperor William's voice, on metal matrices, will ho the first deposits made in the phonetic archives that are to be kept at Harvard university, and in the con gressional library and the national mu seum at Washington. At the annual meeting of Lloyd's hank, limited, in Birmingham, the chairman, in reviewing the year, re marked that the English municipalities now owed the enormous sum of $1,750,- 900,000. Much of this had been wast ed. Their extravagance had been ft) ureat that the money market was now 'practically closed to them." During January and February 400 jtcres of high-grade cotton will be planted in Antigua. There are now 4,000 acres under cotton cultivation in the smaller islands of the West In dies. During the summer a sample of Sea island cotton was received at Liverpool from Barbados, and it was declared to be the best cotton ever seen in England. The total coal production for the United States up to December 31, 1902, is estimated at 4,600,000,000 short tons. That means that a pyramid built of this material as high as Pike's peak (14,108 feet), would have for its base a rectangle 1.14 mile square. If the coal were spread out over the states of Rhode Island and Connecticut it ivould cover both of them a foot deep. An interesting addition to Wyomi ng's exhibit at St. l>ouis will he fur nished by Netta Green, principal of the public schools of Meeteetse, Wyo. It s a relief map of the state, 12 feet square, made from all the newspapers of Wyoming. The paper is reduced to t pulp, and while still moist is molded. The map is almost completed, and lo cates every mountain and stream in the state. In spite of the reduction of trans portation charges of 10 cents per ton, the receipts from the traffic of the Suez canal for the year 1903 are only a little loss than those of the previous year, so that a further considerable in crease of traffic can be stated. The receipts were $20,700,000 or $20,000 less than in 1902. If the tolls had not been reduced the traffic would have yielded a revenue of $21,800,000. Several years ago mongooses wore Imported into Cuba to kill rats on the sugar estates. They have now become so numerous and aie destroying so much poultry that the government is offering 25 cents for each of the ani mals dead or alive. The experience of Cuba with this animal is the same as that of Jamaica, where it is such a pest that means of getting rid of it has been a serious question for a long time. Six hundred and sixty men. women and boys employed in the woolen fac tory of T. K. Taylor, at Batley, Eng., received $5 each from Mr. Taylor as a reward for abstaining from tobacco for the last 12 months. One hundred and forty-one men and boys and 519 women had kept the pledge which they were invited to take a year ago. As a result of the year's experiment. 40 of the men have decided to give up tobac co altogether. On the East Side, New York, and at the North End, in Boston, the schools in the poorer districts are kept open at night to give the children of the crowd ed tenements a clean and comfortable pl£ee to study their morrow's les sons, with some one to help them on difficult points. The children resort to these evening study rooms in sur prising numbers, and the teachers help them patiently and encourage thern to further effort toward a fair education. Each crew of a naval vessel consists of seven men besides the captain of th© turret, who has general charge. There are two guns in eaeh turret, so that when in action there are in a tur ret 15 men. At each gun there is a pointer, a trainer, a sight setter, a rammer man, a hoist man, a breech lock man and a loader. Each has his station, and the seven men practically become part of the gun, working to gether like a machine. Where is New Yorker who will not say that be knows a good thing when he sees it? Well, there were a few who fell far short of this estj*.nato 4he other day, when a man stood on the sidewalk in front of the Hoffman house offering to sell a twenty-dollar gold piece for a dollar. Tne experi ment is an old one, but despite the peddler-like importunities of the money merchant, he didn't n. a!;" a sale, and he was twice threatened jvith Arrest in the bargain. JAPANESE INFANTRY SCOUTING IN NORTHERN KOREA. _ if INCIDENTS offHE WAR™"™™"""™] II , JUyTWKIjX RUSSIA AND JAPAN j London. March 22. — A number of rumors are printed in the newspa pers here this morning, lint they must be accepted with great reserve. The Daily Telegraph's Tokio cor respondent cables a newspaper report of the Japanese occupation of Port Arthur after a combined land and sea attack Saturday and Sunday. It is asserted that a division of Japanese landed on the l.iao Tung peninsula Saturday and engaged the Russians near I'ort Arthur while the fleet bom barded from Saturday evening until Sunday morning. The same correspondent reports a sharp encounter at Chyong Syong, (on the Yalu river, about :») miles northeast of Wiji) in which the Rus sians lost 600 in killed or wounded. The Daily Chronicle's Shanghai cor respondent hears from New Chwang that the Japanese crossed Tatting Pass, to miles from llai Cheng, ami that collisions occurred with the Russians. St. Petersburg. March 22. — In gov ernment circles there exists a strong belief that the question as to whether < hina will observe her neutrality un dertakings will depend largely on the result of the first heavy land fighting. A big victory by the Russian army, it is believed, will insure the quiescence of the Celestial Empire, but there are grave fears as to what might happen in the event of a signal Japanese suc cess in the early stages of the land operations. Irkutsk, Siberia, March 22.---Eigh teen trains bearing goods of the Red Cross Society have been held up to allow military trains togo through. It is estimated that 4,000 men are reaching Manchuria daily. ANOTHER NAVAL BATTLE St. Petersburg. March 2:i.—The etn peoror has received the following telegram from Viceroy Alexietf: "Lieut. (Sen. Stoessel reports that at midnight of March 21, Japanese tor pedo boats were discovered by our searchlights. Our guardships and fort batteries opened tire on them, the fire lasting for 20 minutes. At I o'clock in the morning tlie attack was renewed. "At 6:30 o'clock in the morning four of the enemy's ships appeared front the south, followed by the whole squadron of It ships and eight torpedo boats. Our squadron left the roadstead to meet the enemy. "At it o'clock the enemy's battle ships opened fire on Liaotishin, after which they took up a position behind Die rocky eminence of Liaotishin and bombarded Port Arthur." A latter dispatch from the viceroy to the emperor says: "According to a supplementary re port from Lieut. (Jen. Stoessel, the enemy's fleet consisted of six battle ships and 12 cruisers. About i) o'clock in the morning the fleet di vided, ihe battleships and torpedo boats taking up a jposition between Liaotishin and Golubinaia bay (Pigeon bay), while the cruisers formed tip in two divisions to the south and southwest of Port Arthur. "At 9:20 the battleship Retvizan opened tire over Ihe crest of Liaoti shin against the enemy's battleships, which replied by firing on the town. Meanwhile our fleet formed up in line in the outer roadstead. "About 11 o'clock in the morning the cannonade slackened and, the Japanese fleet reuniting, drew oft slowly to the southeast, and at 12:30 had disappeared. "During the bombardment five sol diers were killed and nine were wounded. One soldier on the shore was bruised." London, March 23. —A correspon dent of the Times at Tokio under yesterday's date cables that it is ru mored that the Japanese have suc ceeded in blockading the entrance t,> Port Arthur. THE JAPSTN KOREA. London, March 24.—The stringent Japanese censorship is likely to be (•eorxlii iCc|]iit>Hcaiun Convened. Atlanta, Ga.. March 24. After a turbulent session which lasted far in to Ihe night the Georgia republican convention adjourned after passing resolutions calling on congress to punish the states which have passed laws resulting in the disfranchise ment of the negro, and sidetracking a resolution for the nomination of a state ticket. The administration was endorsed and a personal eulogy paid to President Roosevelt. The courts who have convicted parties of peon age were congratulated. Four dele gates to the republican national con vention were selected. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1904. relaxed early in April, says the well informed Daily Telegraph's Seoul | correspondent. This coincides with numerous indications of the iiu | mitience of laud operations. in the meantime the veil has not j lifted and not a word has yet issued ] concerning the last bombardment of 1 Port \rthur. The rumored naval bat- I tie of March is is also totally uneon i firmed. A scries of messages dated between j March 111 and March IT sent by a cor respondent of the Daily Mail at : Chinanipho, Korea, describes the pcr -1 feet organization and arrangements |of the Japanese in Korea. Klaborate ! preparations have been made for I landing troops and advancing them through the country, and pontoon bridges and stables are built wlter ' ever they arc necessary. The great est difficulty facing the Japanese is I the commissariat, as owing to 1 e ! poor food supplies of Korea it is on'y | possible at present to maintain »it,- l 000 men. The Japanese hold two enormous y 1 strong positions, at Ping Yang and |on the Mioako-San range, between Ilwang-Ju and Seoul. The latler. the I correspondent says, is probably im pregnable and secures Seoul from 1 land attacks from the northwest. In the event of defeat it is intended j to hold the passes at Kazan. 1 litis pro jecting the Ping Yang valley. The j Japanese troops are suffering from j dysentery and pneumonia and many I of the cavalry horses, which the cor j respondent says are poor, have died, ! but the army is full of spirit. The Russians intended to make j Anju their base, but owing to the de i lay in the arrival of reinforcements, I they were afraid they would be ctit lolT and so retired. Meanwhile the Japanese advanced to Ping Vang by | forced marches, the troops being al- I most without equipment. Seoul, March 24. -The Tong links j are giving trouble in the northwest- I ern part of Korea and are making overtures to Russians. A detachment of Japanese from Gensun engaged a body of Tong links near Satnung with the result that 24 Tong links were killed or wounded j und 35 were captured. St. Petersburg, March 24.--The | correspondent of the Novi-Krai, of | Port Arthur, who is proceeding to | the Yalu river, writes that he saw crowds of Chinese coolies throwing up earthworks on the impregnable | heights at Kin Chou, (north of Port j Dalny). This shows that the Rus ' sinns are determined to resist the Japanese attempt to land on the neck of the Lino-Tung peninsula. PORT ARTHUR"BOTTLED UP London, March 25.—The Daily Tele graph publishes n dispatch from its Tokio correspondent tinder yester day's dnte which says: "On the night of March 22 the Jap | anese fleet renewed the attempt to | bottle iip Port Arthur. Sixteen wor ships escorted seven merchant stenm | ers to the mouth of the harbor and I under cover of the bombardment the steamers ran in und were sunk in de sired positions. Three thousand Jap anese officers and blue jackets volun teered for this duty." St. Petersburg. March The war • office is in receipt of persistent re ports that the Japanese are preparing to land on neutral Chinese territory, on the west coast of the Gulf of Lino-Tung, either at Tien-Kian-Cheitg, lin Kin-Chnu Bay, or at Slian-Hai j Kwan. Although .slow to believe that Japan deliberately contemplates vio lation of her pledge to respect neu tral Chinese territory, the reports re ceived at the ministry of war are so specific that they compel considera i tion. The presence of disguised Jap anese soldiers acting as spies along the Shan-liai-Kwan road has been es tablished, and Russian agents report that there is every indication of an intended landing on the west coast of I.ecdN Will ICcMign. Pittsburg. March 25.—An important change in the official life of the un derlying companies of the Cnited States Steel Corporation is the resig nation of First Vice President \Y. M. j Leeds, of the American Sheet and j Tin Plate Co., effective April 1. | Charles \Y. Bray, the present chief en ! gineer of the company, who is one of I the leading mechanical engineers of ' the tin plate industry, is to succeed i Leeds. Ti.e change 's said to be due j to the desire of Mr. Leeds to retire I from business on account of ill | health. the Gulf of Lino-Tung. The informa tion conveyed by these agents seems to coincide with other information indicating a complete change in the Japanese plan of campaign, or of its entrance into a second stage prac tically involving flic of further heavy landing of troops in Korea. According to advices received by the government there are only about 70,000 Japanese troops in the Hermit Kingdom at present. It is considered possible that the Japanese reckoned on a complete mobilization there much sooner, but that tiie difficulties met with in transporting troops from Japan ami over the roads in Korea proved more serious than expected anil the Japanese found themselves unable to deliver a frontal attack in Manchuria before the Russian troops arrived in sufficient force to check t hem. At any rate the latest advices indi cate that the Japanese will not send many more soldiers into Korea. 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