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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1904
Page
2
Brief telegrams report Roosevelt instruction at Maryland state convention in Baltimore. Also noted are Taft’s Adirondack vacation, the Dorie gold from Japan, Peru mourning for Candamo, and Springfield riots court martial order.
May 10, the Russian fleet torpedoed and crippled an armored Japanese cruiser in Tallenwan bay during a night attack. The maneuver involved a small naptha launch with a young commander and three sailors, gliding from Port Arthur under cover of darkness.
President Roosevelt met with Secretary Taft and Secretary Hay and Attorney General Knox as final regulations for the Isthmian canal company were settled. The commission will operate under War Department supervision with the president’s law guiding its powers. General George W. Davis is named governor of the American zone. he may appoint one judge. The Dockery law assigns auditing to the examining offices of the auditors.
Reports from St. Petersburg state Viceroy Alexieff telegraphed to the czar that Russian docks and piers at Port Dalny on the Liao Tung peninsula were blown up to hinder a Japanese landing. Subsequent messages claim the port area was destroyed, aiming to thwart Japan's advance on the Pacific coast. Port Dalny was planned as a major eastern empire emporium with a 1899 edict backing its construction.
The Interior Department announced that after secretary approval, the preliminary stage of reclamation work is ending. Projects in California, Arizona, Oregon, North and South Dakota are outlined with funds allocated, contingent on water rights and land deals. Arizona focuses on the Salt River project. California on Yuma project.
A 1904 act authorizes entries under homestead laws west and north of a defined Nebraska line, capping at 640 acres per entry and allowing former homesteaders to add adjacent land with five years of residency required. Excludes lands suitable for irrigation and sets uniform fees, with adjustments for prior entries and preferential rights for ninety days.
A Russian submarine or torpedo attack pierces the defenses near Port Arthur, exploding a cruiser on its side. The cruiser burns fiercely before being extinguished as a sister ship retreats southeast. The daring mission boosts Russian morale and a young officer earns the Cross of St. George.
A large dry goods store sparked a blaze Friday night destroying the entire business section and many homes. Forty business buildings burned to the ground with an estimated loss of 100000 dollars and about 20000 in insurance.
A reflective line suggests joy in marriage is found beyond showy celebrations, noting true happiness may outshine ostentatious pomp and ceremony.
Mary Baker Eddy, head of the Church of Christ Scientist, reportedly enacts a constitutional amendment prohibiting sex segregation in church clubs. Since most members join clubs reflecting that rule, enforcement puzzles many. Masonic members appear exempt from the ruling.
The article outlines how the state department will not control the canal commission and that the commission reports to the secretary of war. It lists irrigation reclamation projects with allocations totaling 8.1 million dollars, including Yuma, Belle Fourche, Malheur, and Fort Buford, and notes a remaining reclamation fund of about 6 million from 27 million. It also describes Pacific coast harbor development at Tallen Wanbay with docks, warehouses, and rail links feeding 4,000 miles to St. Petersburg, plus numerous projects across states totaling 27 million and expected to reclaim about 1 million acres for a population of 500,000.
In St. Petersburg a batch of siege guns was sent Saturday to the Far East, part of military shipments described as a farm number of siege weapons bound for front line use.
In Ottawa the House of Commons heard a strong objection to using American engineers in Grand Trunk Pacific survey work. Sir William Laurier noted a letter from G T Grand Trunk manager C M Hays saying fewer than four percent of survey staff were neither Canadians nor British subjects.
In Chris tie's room an English auction sold a Holbein miniature of Frances Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, for 13750. Also auctioned was Lord Nelson's last complete letter to Lady Hamilton, four pages, fetching 5150.
London reports Sir Henry M Stanley has died on May 10 and will not be buried in Westminster Abbey despite prior speculation. The decision was confirmed by officials and follows customary royal and church protocols.
Captain Walter Allen of St. Louis a member of the World's Fair Jefferson Guards shot himself in a Washington university dormitory room. He left a brief note saying ill health drove the act. His wife and two children survive him.
Registration for Rosebud and surrounding county lands opens July 5 at 9 am in Chamberlain Yankton Bonesteel and Fairfax with a drawing July 28. Entries run to September 10 and later entries at Chamberlain. lands priced 1 to 259 per acre by time opened with later payments required.
President Roosevelt will split summer travels between Oyster Bay and Washington. He will start at Oyster Bay around July 1 after the Republican convention notification, then return to Washington for two to three weeks, then back to Oyster Bay until mid September. Visitors to Oyster Bay will be limited to official business or national committee matters. no delegations.
The Philadelphia from Southampton arrived Sunday carrying notable passengers including Dr. D Mayer United States consul at Buenos Ayres William Davis William Hill Aaron Watson Herbert Baker and Paul Ocker British journalists bound for St Louis for a journalist convention Peter Augustus Jay secretary of the United States legation at Constantinople Mrs Mayer wife of Consul Mayer died during the voyage from Buenos Aires to England
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