Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 8, 1904, Page 1

The Bemidji Dally VOLUME 1. NUMBER, 298 BEMID:. ll MINN h\()'lfi\ FI\ 1 [) \Y \llxll. 8, 1004, REDSM Maywood:Hl;-April-8:—Sixty- three Indians in a special car en- route to Washington to sce Pres- ident Roosevelt were run into by a mail train two_miles west of here today during a fog. Three of the Indians were instantly killed and twenty others were more or less seriously hurt. The Tndians who were not pinned in the wreck fled in a panic across the prairie. The trains which collided were the Oregon express and the fast mail on the Chicago & North- western railroad. The express train” was run into by the mail train. Both trains were east- bound. Physicians were promptly hur- ried to the scene. As soon as -possible the injured were taken to Maywood and Chicago. - All the victims of the wrecik were Indians:--The-c¢oach-containing. the Indians was a light day, car. It was completely wrecked. The rear end of the coach ahead was also damaged. After the collision the passen- gers in the other coaches of the two trains hurried to the rescue and aftera hard struggle pulled them from beneath the wreck- age. Chief White Horse; -in charge of the Indians on the train, was fatally injured. The bodies of the Indians who had been killed were laid on the prai- rie near the track, Chief White Horse being carried with them. He smoked a pipe quietly and showed no signs of the pain he must have been suffering. He said he knew that death wasnear and requested that he be placed near hls dead companions. The chief was propped up and sat stoically while the physicians worked over him, One by one the other injured Indians were slowly taken from the splintered car and placed ;near their dying chief and dead comrades. The physicians hurried from one to another of the m]mod, adminis- tering to the wants of alli- while arrangements were being made to take the redmen to the near- est hospital. Persons who ware on the train said that the collision unquestion- DEATH ON W. Chicago. Delegation of Nebraska Sioux in Collision on| Northwestern Railroad Near ably was the result of the dense fog which stretched from - Lake Michigan today many miles wo ward. In addition to the fog clouds of escaping steam envel | oped the wreek and added to the difticulty of rescue. A momentafrer the crash there was not a sound from the ill- fated coach. Then one by one those iving Lho crash regained in| -{ears were heard by the passengers, jumping from each side of the whead, fengers and many of the AlL the men pass women on board the trains hastened to Ithe “aid of the injured Indians, The fiiet that-one side of the roar car foll off with the impact un tdoubtedly saved the lives of many Indians who-were thrownout on the prairvice. The I[ndians reservition near Rushville, the Nob., woere from of wild )ol]q from L]\L, ln(lmnxw\ml their journey cast was prim LIFE ATTEMPTED Spanish Socialists Attempt Assas- sination of Young King of Spain. Madrid, April .—An efficial tele- gram from Barcelona states that as King Alfonso was leaving the exhibi- tion a ‘“petard”’ was exploded with the evident intention of assassinating him. Two peasants were seriouslyin- jured. One arrest was made and the attempt on the king’s life is laid at the door of prominent Barcelona socialists. Strawberries and vegetables every day at Peterson’s. 5 DULUTH MAN A SUICIDE Duluth, April 8.—Ebenezer Kilgour, an emy;loyu of the Panton & White Co., suicided shortly before 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon by cutting his throat with-a razor in the bath room at the Tecumseh hotel. Kilgour was thirty-six years old, came to Duluth only last Sunday. Mental depression which took the form of a fear that he was losing his mind is believed to have inspired the deed. unmarried and A number of the friends® of Will Ellickson gathered at his home last evening and helped to celebrate the ewhteenth anniver- sary of his birth. Housecleaning Suggests New Cérpets, Rugs, Gurtains, Shades, Ete........... We carry a large stock of such goods and can make prompt - delivery Ingrain Carpets at 65, 75 and 90c a Yard Velvet Carpets at $1a Axminster Yard Carpets at $1.25 a Yard Art Squares from $3.50 to $12 Each Rugs from 85¢ to $20 Each ; Matting from 25 to 75¢ a Yard Tinoleum: from -55 to 75¢ a Yard— Lace Curtaing from 50c to $15 a Pair Draperies from $2.50 to $14 a Pair Window- Shades from 25¢ to $2 Each Bissel’s Carpet Sweepers from $2.50 to $3.50 Each The accompanying cut is that of-the map published by the Du- luth Evening Herald Marclr 11, 1904... The Herald claimed in its article accompanying this map that Cass Lake was asking for all the townships in ranges lying north of the north line of Township 52. In that article the Herald mis- represented the® situation, as Cass Lake had_not asked for any land 1n those two ranges, but in making its representation, the Herald has called attention to those —tworanges, and its own map plainly shows that they our'ht to be included in Ci 23 | main Lake’s request for attachment of | additional territory toits district. From the south end of those two ranges the settlers, in goihgt to Duluth, zo by way of the Great Northern to Swan River on the line, thence east. on main line U2 miles-to-Duluth. the | Northome, IfiLake to Duluth, for show purposés York. It was @ pitinble sight to see the Indians lying on—the ground clad in their native garments with red blankets dyed deeper by the blgod of their friends. The men were men of splendid physique and the exhibition of calm nevve on the part of White Horse @ good-example of ~that of the other the Indian party. The dead K. Hisan, skall crushed, Puiie - IkoN - Moy body terushed. TroMAS crushed. The-injured: horse, body and broken, will die. Luther Stand- ing Bear, crushed about body was members of Coni bast, body crushed legs and head, will die. Mrs. Thomas LAND OFFICE TERR[TORY IN CONSROVERSY their boundaries and the con necting line reaching to Swan River. the two ranges, travel to-Du- From in_these luth northern townships wholly 4hrough and- Cass from the almost Bemidji while is they could go west to the Iun<l{nnrth central portion of this strip office at Cass Lake their travel would be 15 miles shorter than to Duluth, as Cass Lake1s only | Co. 74 miles west of Swan River. The Great Northern railway runs | while north and south, and east and west, through'the south ¢nd of these two tiers of townships, hav- ing almm sther 15 t]nnx within bassador here, s: patch from Berlin, to the effect that China is on the of |5 throwing in her lot with Japan. verge New York, April 7.—Reports|will, it is are said to have reached an am-|for a forward sa Herald dis- | part_of |J serted, be the movement on the the Ce ial empi apan, the correspondent ad shows no anxiety for help, re: izing that China’s_intervention | may cause more nnb’\rum:nn-m E 1';11'11 The first defeat-on land-of Russia*than profit:— the w(l]‘ favorite route of travel by s is via the Itasca Lumber railway to -Deer— River, thenc st 126 miles to Duluth, ss Lake is only west of Deer River, a d so that from any standpoint, the Herald’s map itse lr shows tlu..u lllod from Poisonous Gass St. Petersburg, April. 7 respondent of the Vostchny Vest- ik states that many of the slight. l\ wounded in the first bombard< ment of Port Arthur have-died jas aTesult nf’h«-lmmmons gases ac ) miles pre two-ranges should berattached to the Cass Lake district, and while its - muap was published-only—for the purposc of. misrdpresenting the bound it is the request of Cass Lake, to do good work for the General Land oftice 10oks inte settlers if the Comamissioner ul;[ v its merits as above stated. The gratuitous assistance of the vening Horald in this mat- ter ought to be, and is, much ap- inted by the settlers in the, of 87 miles in favor of Cass Lake, f.an:h is.on the lvening Herald. It will probably think twice be- fore !mxrihh g any.r e CHINA WILL AID JAPA emanating from the Japanese shells. M@ notes that many of ef Big Chief White ! Come Last, wife of one of killed, cut about head and shoulders. Thomas Come Last, six year old son of the dead man, head - bumped ard believed to have been made temporaly insane, Abraham Goodinow, cut about head. Blind Eagle, cut about heady— Head Chief High Ball, at the head of the delegation of Sioux, severely -crushed about the body. William Sitting’ Bull, Chief Sitting Bull, ser- iously injured. After the bodies of the dead had ~ been removed from the »;\\'n'n-k and placed in a rowon the | prairic beside the tracks, an in- cident, probably unparalleled in railroad records, ¢ took place. The uninjured among the Indians gathored about and led by Chief [ron Tail, solemnly chanted the Indian death song. FEAR A FLOOD Rapid Rise of Red River Gives Rise to Grave Alarm at Fargo. son of L April River occasions the most Red been Hy for the past twenty-four The rapid rise of throughout the The river has ud is out of its banks in many A heavy snow has been fall- noon yesterday and’ will, re- aultdn w general delay of farm work "l uivonghiout the vall 'Da.nly P:oneer AT Tflf'flE Bazaar 1000 Pairs of MEN'S - WOMEN'S CHlLDREN’S . SHOES ON SALE Commencing Tomorrow Saturdax To continue till the entire line of the fire stock is sold NN .|| Everything marked crence | two ranges reforred to, and the inplainted figu is Fire Sale Prices, Come before the BEST are picked out. : the my's projectiles fall in or near the hospital adds that it has been dets m;nod to evacuate the city hospi ta and