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War Threatens China An
London, March, 6 ? It is the fixed belief of the war of
fice that another Japanese-Chinese war is inevitable. Japan
is assembling her war vessels and building more with intent
to engage China and not the United States. This is eccept*
ed by the officials who are closest to the heart of things in
ohe orient.
China has been making ready to meet what she long
ago saw was ahead of her, training and equipping a great
army.
The cause of the war, as seen here, is the old cause |
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from a different standpoint ? Manchuria. Japan has deter
mined to make Manchuria her ow^i. China will resist and
has already called the situation to the attention of the
powers and especially to that of the United States.
At the time of the boxer uprising John Hay, then sec
retary of state, wrote a note to the powers declaring for the
integrity of China and the open door iu Manchuria, and to
this the powers assented though uo treaty was signed up.
However, Japan, one of the powers so assenting, is now
planning the occupation of Manchuria. And it is of this
. China complains. That she is preparing to resist the occu
pation with arms is said to be certain while it is equally
certain that Japan is preparing to meet her ? and not to
retreat.
It has always been assumed here that there was more
than mere practice intended in the transfer of the Ameri
can fleet from the Atlantic to the Pacific and it is now
believed that it was the knowledge of the impending diffi
culty and the intentiou of the United States to require the
fulfillment of the pledge given to secretary Hay that in
duced the great vryage ? that the fleet might be in position
to exarcise an influence for a peaceful assent to the de
mands of China which are the demands of the world.
The war office however is convinced that a conflict
betweet China and Japan is inevitable.
(By United PrMC.)
Fairbanks, March 6? The operators
of the Tanana have decided upon a
scile of wdj.es which they are offeriae
the men now being: brought io'o the
country to take the p'ace of the strik
ing miners. The day is to be ten
hours ? against which the minora |
struck? and five dollars. Strike bre?k
ers are being laaded here by the seoi e
and seem to be willlo? to accept the j
terms.
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(United Press Telegraph-Cable Service.)
Ch icago, Mar. 6 ? The state and city is to begin a
campaign for the riddance of the commonwealth of all
anarchists who are not citizens of the United States. The
federal law is to be invoked in the matter and a test case is
to be brought with Emma Goldman, the famous agitator, as
the defendant. She will employ lawyers and make a
strong fight.
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A dispatch from Denver says- Tlirough the efforts of the
Chief of Police Michael Delaney, it is believed at least 3^
anarchists in various parts of the country will be placed
under arrest within a few days. In speaking of the school of
anarchists of whose movements the Denver police have
gained knowledge, Chief Delaney said:
"We have traced Alio and his band from stone
quaries in Southern Italy to America and have located
most of the towns where they are living. The men are all
stoneworkers, and were driven put of Italy two jears ago.
Forty went to Barcelona, Spain. Here, too, they worked
as stone-cutters, all the while teaching the diabolical doc
trines of anarchy. They were discovered in Spain and
were driven to Buenos Ayres. They remained there as
long as they could, and then decided to come to the "United
States. They settled, all of them, in Paterson and after a
few day spread over the country."
(By United Press.)
Sitka, March 6.? The revenue
cutrer Thetis arrived here today,
having on boar J eleven Japanese sailors
taken from the wrecked Japanese fisher
Satsuma Maru, which was wrecked
near Yakutat, Nov. 4. The Satsuma
Maru was on the beach, broken to
pieces, at the time the Thetis came by,
wholly beyond saving. Tne Thetis is
carrying the Jap sailors to Seattle,
where they will be sent back to Japan.
The Satsuma Maru, a fishing schooner
was wrecked near Yakutat, aft-jr fight
iog a pale for 72 hours. The crow of 19
were cast ashore on Malaspina glacier
and the greater number have camped
there ever since at the foot of the gla
cier. Theu nine of them escaped in
their sampan to Yakutat, where the
ship Jetnie was hailed. TheJe.inlo
went to the glacier and with seven
sailors the JapanosQsamDiin, which was
tolv> d to the g acier by the Jennie, put
off toward the beach to rricue their
comrades, The Jeaniu's big: lifeboat
followed in the wake of the sampan, but
did not approach the surf.
The sampan had hard); entered the
surf when it was rolled over repeatedly.
Pour of t^e men were picked up unoon
scious by the lifeboat and taken back
to the ship a mile away. The Jeanie
stood off for two hours, but the sea was
running so high that no boat could live
to pass the surf. The revenue cutter
Thetis, upon' her report, sailed to the
glacier to rescuo the other men.
Captain Fujtt, of the Satsuma Miiru,
one of the rescued party, reports that
the bodies of the four Japs were washed
a?hore from the overturned sampan.
Thoy were dead when taken from the
water.
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Omaha, Neb., March 6 ? The atate
democratic convention has elected del
egates to the Denver convention which
are instructed for Bryan.
ADJOURNED OUT
OF RESPECT
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(By United Preaa.)
Washington, Maach, 6? The funeral
of former aeaator Redfield Proctor will
be held tomorrow. The houae today
adjourned oat of respect.
GOLDFIELD IS AT WORK AGAIN
(By United Press.)
Gold field, March 6. ? The strike has
been declared off. The Western Fed
eration of miners have agreed to return
to work if the old scale in force before
the recent strike should be renewed.
The operators have assented to th-s and
the strike was accordingly todav de
clared off.
The men went on strike last Decem
ber, when the camp was forced to re
sort to the clearing house certificates
employed as money in all other parts ef
1 the country, and which the men refused
to accept. They bare been idle
ever since. Strike-breakers were
brought in, tbo federal troops were
called out and have bean camped here
ever since, a special session of the legis
lature was called and a new system of
policing the state inaugurated by law.
The cost of all this has run into mil
lions, to say nothing of the lots to the
men and the whole commuaity through
a suspension of operation). Now the
men return to work on exactly the
same terms in vogue before all this was
begun.
HIIED 1 Ml H FLOE
(United Press Telegraph-Cable Service.)
St Michael Mar. 0- A white man and five natives are
marooned on an >e floe that is moving northward before a
strong gale. Tl oy art; a. mile out to sea and can be seen
help. The ice broke away
from the shore while they were traveling with a sledge
from Nome to this point. The weather has been warm and
weakened the shore ice but a blizzard has set in and unles
the direction of the wind changes they are almost certain to
be lost as it is impossible to go to their assistance. The^
blizzard is reported over the" whole region with which the
wires bring us into communication. Messages have been
sent to Nome and along the coast. Much excitement prer
vails but no means of rescue unless, the wind changes, is at
hand. * 4
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