Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 17, 1904, Page 1

H | [ 3 & } e s i e 1 ) o ¥ The Daily Pmnee_l: VOLUME NUMBER 279. BEMIDJI, \II I\Ul\ THURSDAY, MARCH 17. 1904 TEN CENTS PER WEEK. MISPLACED MINE oI 00,000 men, WItn a 8econd [me ot 200,000 to guard the lines of communi Russian Torpedo Boat Destroyer fiws Blown Up With Great Loss | = ne :AROUSE EIT:I'ER RESENTMENT. of Life Yesterday Reports That Russia Intends Abandon- ing Port Arthur. St. Petersburg, i story as a stock jobbing scheme. paver remarks: STRUCK FLOATING MINE AT ENTRANCE | tacs it Vi Risan o 52 TO PORT ARTHUR HARBOR. should not allow {ing the authoritics !the pecple to be disturbed by falsehoods. The official telegrams are believed and trusted by everyone. | The goverament i§ building some armored trains for use on the Manchu- ‘ rian railroad after the model of those Only Four Eseape Alive Out of men, you \\'illflhc nhlc‘in the l‘lm st fi?fg by e, ’f)‘c"g;,:‘])ltl;(f,“;‘é“mfl‘f’l"u‘:‘ i -..0bstructions 0 see how Russia observes humane gecount of fear that the Japanese may Entire Crew---Obstructions b 4uq corvect condnct during war | cut the road as for their moral effect Harbor's Entrance Held in| The Grand Duke Cyril, who has ar- Ee . | rived at Port Arthur, will serve as become emboldened by the wa Measure Responsible for Accx-; first officer of the battleship Petro-| A military expert in the Russky In- valid contends that the Japanesc ac- aviovsk, dent. Polgts =t tion in covering their forces at Pins- WILL BECOME AGGRESSIVE. |yang, Korea, and at their bases, Che- mulpo, Chinhampho and Seoul, means that detachmemds have moved out along the Vellimkang, which may bo s from| compared to a mintatire Tugela river. | A number of these dotachments, added, have crossed the Velliking Panctien, eight miles from Anju. KOREAN EMPEROR TO MOVE. Rumored Junction of Vladivostok and Port Arthur Fleets. Shanghai, March 17.—Ad Nagasaki say that a rumor is in cil lation there to the effect that Adm i Makaroff’s fieet, which was stationed | in the outer harbor at Port Arthur, has | Chefoo, March 17.-~\While cutering the harbor of Port Arthur yesterday the Russian torpedo boat destroyer “‘Skorri’ struck a misplaced mine and was blown up. Ouly four of the entire crew of 100 men escaped with- t out injury. The harbor at Port | broken through the Japanese cordon, SR = A A probably under coveriof darkness, and | i Arthur is thoroughly mined. All the | Bl MU COVEE (o adivos. | Will Leave Town Palace for the Out: i skirts of Seoul. Seoul, March 17.—The emperor in: tends to leave his town palace and re- mines are carefully-anchored, but the one responsible for the accident be tok ileet. This move has been expected ever since Admiral decided came misplaced in some way. The Siice Admiral Makaroft decided to| fends o leave his town palace an ¥ structions @ 3 o eniranee | K€D the fidet under steam in the outer | turn to Yuubek, his palace in the out- obsbructiongfatiilic HIEOUGHIITES b v ovs | skirts of the city. It was here that wero held responsible for the acci-| "I ft supposed that the ficot made a| the queen was assa and from' here that the emperor to the Russian legation in 1896. dash through the Korean straits and found the Vladivostok cruisers along the Korean coast. present residence is situated in t > It will be in keeping with Makaroff’s | midst of the foreign Iogu!i_n]ns, so that £t. Petersburg, March 17.—The em- policy to launch his whole strength his removal to Yunbok wil doubtlc peror, mmmn:me German attaches,| 8eainst the Japanese Port Arthur fleet | be more satisfactory to the Japanesc ‘llane(usteln Sndi Tettan lwho, ar6 to’ and such action is looked for, provid-| government. Teveifior i ront Mercntin aata)| o o DumOTSTaIc e, REFUSE T[l LEAVE KOREA| among other things: DESCENDING FROM VLADIVOSTOK “Gentlemen, all Burope now realizes = that Russia tried to avoid war and to obtain a peaceful settlement. Many of the powers strove also to attain this end, but Japan forced the war, in- fringing all international law. Gentle- dent in a large measre. Russian Army Corps Moving Towards Korea. Paris, March 17.—The Temps corve spondent at St. Petersburg asserts that a Russiap army corps is descending from Vladiostok-toward Korea. He adds that Port Arthur has a garrison of 30,000 men and is provisioned for a year. The Russian ministry of marine, the Temps correspondent further asserts, claims that Japan’s losses since the opening of the war are four cruisers’| and five torpedo hoat destroyers and | the machinery of a 12,000-ton battle- ship seriously injured. The correspondent concludes his' dis- patch with asserting that the concen- tration of Russian troops at Mukden and Harbin is considered as terminat-{ ing the danger from a Japancse land- ing in the northern part of the bay of Korea. THREE HUNDRED CASUALTIES. 8aid Russians Lost Heavily /in Port Arthur Attack. London, March 17.-~The Telegraph’s correspondent at Yinkow cables that most of the shells/fired into Port Ar-{ thur during .another bombardment on March 12 were part of the ammunition found on hoard the captured Rast AMERICAN MISSIONARIES PAY NO ATTENTION TO STATE: DE- PARTMENT ADVICE. ‘Washington, March States Minister Allen cables the te cinnati has arrived at Chemulpo with twenty-three Americans from nampho. The minister announced that i the missicnarles in the neighborhood of Pingyang had refused to send their women and children aboard the Cin- cinnati where they could be taken to a place of safety. The attitude of the mis one familiar to the state dej in connection with Oriental Wonderful Increase in business at this store this week demon- strates that the troubles. Last naval vessels to induce th place of safety, but often in vain as in this ca The department h it clear to the missionary resenta- tives in this country that in the caso of actual war like this if. cannot un- service has been summarily courtmar- tialed and suot for acting as a v the pay of the Japanese. When arre on suspicion of eipmna docume found in I left NO SIGN OF THE ENEMY. teous treatment, Is Quiet. s . doubt of the harges th place this store § b usa ions veen rev milita secrets to the Japanese. The tragic story became pubiic through a simple announcement in the army organ that Ivkov had been excluded from the Bervica. CANNOT BE GIVEN ANY HELP. Port Arthur Must Be Held With Pres- ent Garrison. Newchwang, March 17.—General Ku- = g ropatkin has telegraphed General = _ Ardmore. L T, March 17—W Stoessel that he mustgold Port Arthur 8. Stan overnor of Ka with the present garrison. confirmed the report that he |~ Kuropatkin states that he is forming Signed as a member of I his firgt line of defense with gp army | Comuissioa, effective April 12. at the head. O’LEARY & BOWSER s troops are sho a l in surmounting the di ips of the mar the frozen tracts of East M Resigns From Dawes Commission ‘PRESIDENT HILL DECLINES TO TALK to prevent the Chinese | March 17.—The re- ports of the abandonment of Port Ar-| | thur continue to arouse the bitterest resentment, the papers denouncing the | Ono | 1-115 the day. an blood is flow- | such | on the Chinese robber bands, who may | it is | L 17. — Unlted | department from Seoul that the Cin- Chin- It has used every effort by counsel and | advice and by extending the use of | ¢ zealous | people to temporarily repalir to some made dertake to employ the United States ‘} | PASSED WITHO Report From Port Arthur Asserts All anchu- the Dawes s GERMAN COLONY == MASSACRED - i L = SAID PLANS TO RETURN STOCKS TO ORIGINAL HOLDERS ARE | DISCUSSED. sroe meev sowame onv Details of Awful Massaere in German Southwest Africa Received at Berlin. | Smooth ‘Letter Box Thief Caught In Chicago. Chicago, March 17.— | who has been arrested, od | to stealing hundreds of letters from | mail boxes in Hyde Park in the last { three months. He that, ;\ru'r' intor. | forsing iudorsements on chocks and o monoy orders, he cashed them, chietly | in department stores. rlin, who is thirty years of age, was released from the Joliet penitens tiary last October, at the expiration of a three-year sentence for rohbing mail box: He claims to bhe a univer graduate and says his parents wealthy residents of Woodlawn. Jdward Kerlin, W5 con New York, March 17.—A number of Northern Securities officials, includir President Hill, Vice President Clong and Directors. George F. HBaker and John S. Kennedy, held a long ence at the company’s officos dur It was said that plans (o di solve the company and retur road stocks to the original hc were discussed, but thi: confirmed, Inasmuch as Mr. clined to make any statement MURDER AND RAPINE EXCITE SOL- DIERY TO POINT OF DESPERATION. Il de: He did | are and he War Department Refuses to Relinquish | 1. Controi of Stream. say, however, that the general situa 1 L > Y _ tion was unchanged. He reinse) ..,‘“"{'-m‘_-;l;.[{;; Lo D dis any of the reported ““"“““\"‘ with a real estate firm In Woodlawn, > ¥ e T plansaiii st e | but the constant_survelllance of gove| BT MR Lt T ver Blood Curdling Description of ernment detectiv who learned-of-his { man_Southwest Africa ha 1 L = o e (1 WILL HOLD RED RIVER. [“,“ \bouts, annoyed his omployers | here glving details of 1 Awful Treatment of German “““ reatment of German s¢ ! wis |1l~4|“w 4 1 he dechded to resume eriminal A bent pin attached to a eaTara ilsalonti sl ot Lot Colonists by Blacksin theSouth- to death In the i oporations tict of Okalnija west Distriet of Okahundja. Washington, March 17.—The war de-| picce of wire or a small sticl with | alone, Women outrage partment will not relinauish its control | adhicsive lMguid was the only D] poed and with ploc of the Réd Rivor of the MNorth, Dris| ment used Ly Kerlin Following after | poea "0 e de adier Qeneral MacKenzle has made| the letter carrier he quickly sccureaf Gtilatan 1801t 5 an report on Conziessinan | all the mail not at once remioved from | G000 5 i) au S Spalding’s bill to declare thut riv v a| the hoxes by persons to whom it was | NEHe HEQUER L, SPECU 5 soldiors {1 themselves and taviaable St trom a point| sddtessed. Lelters not coutuiming [ didonary colufin omig e MR ICe twelve miles north of Farso (o its| chocks weve destrayed of a farmers house, would mel Leu mselt comes in for headwaters | “For three montlis I have averaged (b of its former occupants fastened | GO, i e i In considering the bill offic of| not less than $50 a day,” he 1d. ta the voot, GOMGlonL M mbbEs of troopaiinkthe /exs the war department have taken a lou These shts appear to b excited posed distriets and was misled by the look into the future and state that the) DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE ILL. |the s of the soldios lott tempier of the natives, having. fre- time may come when the United States = for reyen quently at his own table chlefs who are now in reboliion and who are wear- Cousin of Queen Victoria in a Critical | (it ion North may need the Red River of the on Wi to Lransport troops and supplics in the Condition. KU averyihing cbiagkes cou | Ing docorations knd swords of-honor, event of a war with Great Britain for| ygyqon, March 17.- The Duke of [ Some papors to ut 1 on thom by the governor in possession of Canada, | Gambitdgo, consii of e Inte Ouoen | to - talcgrapli. histiueio ) Colouel Jf the emperor. The Tageblatt Mr. Spalding 1 very much disap:| vietorin, §8 in a critical condition. Re: | Lentwein, the govermor of Guimau ¢ thot Colonel Leutweln will pointed regarding “his DL The peo-| cane pulleting rogarding the duke’s | Southwest Atvien. that T order the allod. ple of the prosperons towns along e heayh have heen of a reassuring na e S s b of the North want to build Tesecsccceccsan Red Rive ture, but during the morning his voyal : , who bas been 11 f0F a 10ng | evenmig, Amons tnase artosten wn 1 Croc WD Sl B hemorthage of the o and an of Kb e iing cities and towns (o 1 ficinl bulletin I8suc Fadmits that ormer. Allorma TAT N thir products. but tho bl declatfi | graye anxicty iy Tl tha ot i e L o CAMBRIDGE \e river non-navigable, thus takivg » of the atfack, i e \ Fomethostontiol: GLethe Evar aoDario et ot 2 ;:““‘[“:"-l “'\'\‘ gl ““,““'_“ 4 DEAD ment, cannot pass. | : Sulions Willeate L 5 | congplritey (o defraud Jihe -county INSTRUCTED FOR ROOSEVELT. Frank Himmelsteln, deputy tax com London 17, “I'he duke of ner, consphacy —_—— minsic | | Delawarz Unmrl\ nnep;mn:ana Elecw Warrnts are also Jssned for Super-| Cuam) . cousin of Queen Vie- onvention spelcuntes, | HAVE SMALL GROUNDS FOR COM- | visor G anEOrmor, SUIET i wa unll lonmerlv o Eammanderen Dover, Del,, March 17—The Union| visor Joseph Schunok i i e el thi PLAINTS OF REVOLUTIONS IN SAN DOMINGO. Republican state convention was held during the d The platform adopted| favors the present tarift and advocates | a repeal of the civil service law. morning, LIFE AND DEATH STRUGGLE. SHARP DECLINE IN COTTON. in New York! Strikes and Lockouts On behalf of the resclutions commit d : - tee Mr. Addicks read n resolution| g o 19 —The wanl] Building Trades Imminent. Prices Drop About Seventy Points at commending President Koosevell and| 5% : o New York, March 17 imployors New York. his administration, instructing the del | 4aily revolution fs reported from San o 5y, op 5y g irades | Now York, March | 17.—Starting ecates to the Chicago convention to, Domingo by Minister Powell In a ea- yo. g6 pieparin to tho weal, at a decling of-16 to 22 polnts vote for his renomination and use all blegram dated March 14, He records | Henatd, or o I (i ot (b ol Crp Moty A% & reRilot honorable means to bring about (hat, trouble at Sanchez he question of Uhe disappointing cablos cotton mar- result, The resolution was adopted. | It is admitted at the prabably ipitate U ket durfng the day continued to de- Though no formal action was taken' ment (hat some repre Ly declaration on I of the cline, with the local 1 gaining with reference to dropping the Word | Luon made in a foreible way by theemplosors for the apon stop policy confidence ently, ag the list was “union” from the party name, it was it and fudividuals having | and_ the destruction of the building forced dow Trading seemed to virtually dropped, as it did nol appear £ an Domingo that they | tmm- uniony. be mostly for local account anid was in the platform. | 0 oan oom e disustron here Iost sime only moderately active so far as vol Pelegates (o the Chicago convention small ground for complaint of | n.‘, hich ca o8 amiounting | ume of transactions went, were then clected. | revolutionary disturbances affectnid g’ o millions, ended i agreements elines be pronoun their interests unfavorably so long a8 {4, prhitrate future Gonbles, but uo's market bo aily excited and ENDS CONTEST OF TWO YEARS.| they them s arc In the habit off that-the bricklayers' laborers have the middle afternoon showed T furiishing arms, ammunition and| gone on n strike, followed by the bricie et declines of 68 to 72 paints Favorable Report on Bill to Repeal 0,0y to both sides engaged fn this vesulting in the fdlene 10, old crap, with March seliing Timber and Stone Act. ERTicE n and tying up-of wok allover May at 15,60 and hington, March 17.—The senate the city, the ¢ oyers declare thet pew crop position commilles on public lands, after a con-| - EXTRAORDINARY REQUEST. |they cannot afford to cnter fiito fur. poluts lower test extending over Lo years In which ies ther agreemoents with (e il seemed 1o he m an-atlempt wis made Lo repeal all off Condemned Man Asks That His Exe-|JL I8 asserled they are pre Uie prices Focove settle the matter (a it finish contlnyed very ir cution Be Not Postponed. | the general land laws of the couniry,| bas authorized a favorable report on| employers maintain that the open shop eral undectone ¢ Goyernor (e vl At v unsettlod. yany, N. Y., March 17 ‘Asiatic steamer Manchuria, which was | army and navy in expeditions in(o the | genator Quatles’ bill fo repeal the| St L | bound for Port Arthur with 7,000 tons | interior of & country which is—thel (imber and stone act. As reported (| BECIVET - oSt CXUWA0reie | 4o rhay “wigh to continue in Lusi P > peop le Kknow § o var matoriai The ku scenc of war. If the missionarizs re-| il has a provision aitho b o R TWO FILIPINOS PARDONED. greatly surprised at seeing their own | main after a proper warning thel gecretary of the intevior to sell at pub AU AL b el e, how - Sl h f- d shells bursting among them. Thirty srnment. cannot re- | Jje T D ‘IlAH‘ "r“ :” o2 \H;h'“ l"jnx_v";”\:“l:" Pla for arbitration we i Were CO:‘]W“;(‘]OIAW i“}lr::cv cf Na- wheretGéiin gen' casualties/ occurred in one large fort. | n must take their | timber on government lands. Tho billl 0¥ AHCle (0 BCEE o s, i sl | axlde by-the employers. Circulurs aro . ve Police Corporal. The total Russian casualties were over | chances with other civilians. was amended to provide that the mon Ae: W) L R i S - | being distributed broadeast warning | ~Washington, o pre: . O 800 killed and wounded. This is au- e evs derived from the sale of these lor, convicted n Booicyn OEEH B the men to prepare for a déturminod dent b two Fil- e ar amS- der of George 13 Townsend, the cap: i u 3 [l thentic/ Evidently not much damage GUNBOAT OF NO USE. rights should be converted into the re| o0tk send, the cab-| gy againgt the open shop [ Ipinos, ac Men- L was done to the Japanese ships, for — clamation fund for tion purposes| 0. of, hsow 9 "'I "V""‘K"“‘ " - | doza, who were convicted Lefore a andou[‘ l()w price i foris ade ihatiiiohle roply; British Ship at Newchwang Cannot| and is now identical with one inteo-| poos SU0% DEEE B0 R STRIKE MAY BE AVERTED. lmilitary comu iun of the n'qul-‘r of S e T S e d Teb. 8, b 0 : |8 native corporal of police. Echelar RUSSIA SECURES A LOAN. S 111;3,”1) g l?‘)”."vl.)‘ ot [’»“‘». SoAOr| tion was stayed by an appeal 10 el indications Are That Mincrs Accept| was s e hm the . | == TLondon, March 17.—In the house k"L‘,“"‘"”"" 1, chairman of the commil-{ ¢oypq of appeals, taken by, his atto Operators’ Offer. 1n< wing authority commuted the is not the only | Gompletes Arrangements for Money | commoxs during the day Farl Percy, (e = - 5 | without the consent of the con-| - QReraley B sentonce to. imprionment. for ten Berlin, March 17.—A dispatch from | COTAIMEC She S1ATCMED LI : | fosletleranays oI DE RN CO s IBM | o e e oo R I Y Mendoza was sentonced magn et that Et. Tetorsburg says that the Russian | LriUSh seation B bodt apietio will}| police Finally Disperse Crowd of Stu| the writer belicves himsolt descrviv l\,\‘,‘,f('""(',““\,' A rom 41 | onment for twenty yea B o e oo 1a flaning | be Withdrawn from 1 T E R of the death penalty, which he wants| ports they | ol trom B0 Gon ts granted on th draws but to 8 war loan of $200,000,000. Tnterna | djately after the e inftistadeeithoull posible Specd. P M SO o [ tion of the #li horities -/ “ | the vessel will be in \ 17.—The ps declares he docs not want a new trial, | Jeet of accep the Judge ad of the 2 L (s the names of WhOM | gor in event of hostilities, while her Emperor Francis Joseph and-the Atch| i he hes a violent temper which he | of the op i seald) ol or e e 5 are (eph sehxet'hnc u!ilee\l to ad-| presence there “would afford no ef-| duchess Clothilde, at Budapest, were! jg' upable to control and probably | I8 accepted < e Aot SRl i"\_";_l_w_ Eether with /@ @ yence the money to Russia, to be re- | FIERI jertion for either life or| stoned by a mob during the evening, would commit other crim Returns from Ce A o been fncluded in / paid “l?en the war ends. The loan | property. | resulting in the windows being broken, The governor will take no action fn | show 3 to 1 axainsi i "n,‘(. prosi BRI B Wil take the form of consolidated | PUNEIE L ot o to say that| becanse the builihgs were not deco the matter st L T Shebraaly Laliaier lal‘ge sto Ck A Of M stock. The money will be given to the | ;5 jteq States and British consy in honor of - ! ) DESTOE SRRIAC B Russian government when the present | o - : BT *| that the cas tone to final ) Temourcos bacome: eshausted. - T | B0 TCMICEted that the women and chil olution of 1 MISSOURI SENATOR ON TRIAL. ‘ ) B funds Russia has at hand will last a | Newchwang anil doubticss dhudents —and ! = ! | st Paul Municipal Primaries. resn mercinan- co‘;‘sf,,emb?“f‘“;’ S e give similar advice to all | demonstration in front of Charged With Soliciting Bribe to In- o e e / ‘Almrnzm citizens and Brith, subjects| of the poet, Petof FRarele "-[jl' fluence Legislation. Y the primary tix <thls. city 45 d' d “ COURTMAHTIALED AND SHOT. ‘fl circumstan rendere] it advisable, | and, noticing that the palace tv. March 17.—Jesse D - that Colonel P. Wright is 1S, moger == | His majest nrient had already | Bot d T or o ’ senator — from ~Kansas the Republic \ee for mayor = / e R Ce s Convlc tedtul Sy ing S Lo tecnel s i S, ¢ht to trial in the crim and Robert A, Smith, the present in- Shopplng faclll. for the Japs. , nts “"‘”N”"‘ em ""d b & TL aumbor ot the day upon a © of | cvmbent, heads the Demoeratic ticket > St. Petersburg, March 17.—Captain | L i T i ALY ATTCSTS e woulil prob- | fOF the > office. The respective . / Ivkov of the Manchurian commissariat | "7 © & made o foxt week | candidates for comptroller are Colonel ties and cour- | o Gt Kiefer, Republican, and Louis Bei, Democrat. Otto Bremer, Democrat, mpany ve flelil. nee ODUT DISCUSSION, | and John Hedman, Republican, secured INTENSE PAIN. ‘,nw nominations for treasurer. to influc SUFFERED Resolution to Secure Review of Seal iaute, Ind., Ben Springs, been found guilty of the se- Case and sentenced d July 1. I v _bis clat ulations. Crow, attorr 2 - and hiy assistant,* Postmaster General Payne Very Wcak BRIEF OF NEWS. L Erom Gaus St Wal former gov: et ,:.1},‘» e Marohelae b ernor of E ‘is dead. He el e is much weaker Saehorh bk ualine pouras ally believed and it is ke T it ot whlch have e iri L pemap! polis, has elected ot are pending at Jeferson City. s te of Luverne department = | atout the knees and both f ORE ARRESTS IN MILWAUKEE. ‘k,,n | has been Grand Jury Indicts City and Ex-City | git WD fforts to Officials. with his secret and to see ot March 17—Several ar-| Who have had occasion to Green, America’s richest 111 opposition to th made during the - on | He-ds now confiped to his | , has jo ¢ indictments re-| G- L. Magruder, his ending ony in New York city by purchasing confirmation of = General Leonard Wood. ts vering -1 ; by ‘\“h«: L',l“ahd !a home on Upper Eifth avenue. | turned jury Tuesday