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CHILE The Bemid ji "NUMBER 11. OLUME BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1901 Jaily & ione TEN CENTS PER WEEK HAS A CHIP - ON HER SHOULDER May Attempt to Take Two Provinces from Peru by Force. (e MIISEEE 0L tae G0 0f Ul ] bad presented to the chamber of depu | ties a message asking for the annexa tion of Tacna and Arica. The- sessio of the chambir was secret, hut accord- Lima, Peru, May blegrams have been received here from Santiago de Chile saying that fthe Chilean government has instructed its minister at Washington, Senor Walker Martinez, to" inquire it the' United | ing o information of a reliable nature States will defend TPeru in case Chile| the plan of the minister was to estal; lish-in the two provinces the civil ad- ministrative methods of Chile and. to thus put_an end to the difliculties ing from the special system carried on estion shall proceed forcibly on the qu of annexing the provinces of and Arica. which, that country posed to do. 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Thompson, of the WORLD'S FAIR IS OPEN | | PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT PRESSES BUTTON AT WASHINGTON STARTING MACHINERY. | EXERGISES AT EXPOSITION GROUNDS S8PEECHES BY SECRETARY TAFT, PRESIDENT FRANCIS AND OTHER NOTABLES. St. Lonis, May 2—At 1:04 p. m., to the tolling of bells, amid the crash of bands, the sweeping chorus of the “Star Spangled Banner” sung by o thousand voices and the che of the greatest throng ever assemblod in the city of St. Louis, the Louisiana Pur chase exposition was formaily de clared open. President Roosevelt, at Washinzton, pressed- the gold key by which the clectric cirenit was broken releasing the gigantic power of the ex position. putting in motion the 40,000 horsepower machinery and the faivy like cascades on the exposition 1 grounds. The exercises incident to-the opgning occupied the entire morning. Exercises ‘at the Grounds. Promptly at 9 olclock (he officers and directors of the exposition members of the national comm and of the hoard of ludy man; were gathered the “Administr building, where, as rapldly as thiey were formed: into s processiou aud marclicd 1o the Plaza of St Louis, in"the center of the grounds, where the formal exercises of (e opening were conducted. As the column from the Adniinistration building _entereldd the-plaza a Tong line formed of repre sentatives ol = foreign governments, which had assembled in the Hall ot , came pouring into the from’ another avenue, At the head ot the line immediately behind the music were the members of (he exposition commiftce on forcign rela- tions, (hen came commissioners and representativos of foreign governments whicl have ambassadors accredited to the Uniled States. marching in the order of presentation-of credentials to the exposition, * Following these came representatives of governments having ministers accredifed o the United States government and then a great number of other representatives of for- eign governments and coloaies also fn the ovder of presciftation of their credentials to the exposition. Present Gay Appearance. This column presented by far the gayest appearance of the day, for the gners made a prodigal display of gold lace and bright colors, in glitter- ing contrast to the black silk hats and dark frock coats which awere 5o promi- nent among the officials and digni- tavies of the exposition, A third!col: umn came shortly afte rd formed by_represcntatives of the state and territorial governments in the Union. The participants in the exercises quickly-took-their—ptaces=at—the Hase of the Louisiana monument; where a small stand had heen erecieil for the s ts provided for the listene: The smblage was called to order without delay by President D. R. Francis of the exposition, who re- ed the aud to rise while the Frank M. nsaulus of Chicago delivered the invocation. * President irancis, as the chief ex- ecutive of the exposition, then deliv- ered the opening address. At the conclugion of his address President Francis recognized William committee on grounds and buildings. who presented to President K 5. Taylor, the director of worl aylor de- livered to-President Francis the keys of the exposition and. presented diplo- mas-of merit (0 tho chiefs of his staff. After the rendition of the® march, “Jouisiana,’’ hy Sousa's band Presi- dent Francis transferred the exposi- tion buildings to Frederick J. V. Ski the director of exhibits. Mayor Welcomes Visitors. President Francis then introduced Mayor Rolla Wells of St. Louis, who spoke bric stending to the people of the United States and to the r dents_of count abroad—a—cordizl “welcome (o the city of Si. Louis when they sheuld visit the exposition Hon. Thomas HeCarter, president of the national commission, then spoke on behalf of the body of which he is the head. At the conclusion of Senator Carter’s alldress President Francis_introduced Senator {hnham of New Hamps I prevent the selling of the fickets i AL ON B0RD 4RE LoST FAST TRAIN DERAILED | AMERICAN SCHOONER EN ROUTE| TEN KILLED AND MANY INJURED TO HALIFAX WRECKED IN WRECK ON THE IRON ON A REEF. MOUNTAIN ROAD. Halifax, N Muy=2-=A me received hore statesthat the sclioone Onoro of Autapolis. hoimd from the * West Indies for Halifax with m A | is wrecked at Herring Cove and all| ENGINEER HAD INSTRUCTIONS TO on hoard are lost, The Onoro, which chooner commanded by uson. struck on Dunans far trom tils harbor, and was wix was . a s faptain At reof, ot Led. | | 2 1 TAKE SIDING AND SHOULD | HAVE SLOWED |/P. She i helieved here to have carried a | crew of Ol + H : 1 | Kimpiswick, Mo, May 2.7 fast B1G.PRIGE- FOR—PRIVIEEGE, & bv e i onthe St Loy slioh e Mountain uud Southorn * ailioad Figures in Wells:Fargo Deal With | Known s No. i8S, munnine asa worlt Southern Pacific. fair “special, was wiocked mile More hooks| R0 ahall from hero. The e o hecn i | Stuek anopen switeh and, with | ception of sthe last San Francisco, Miy 2 ot Wells, Farso & Co. spected and more of its oficials ey amined by e Toxas anthorities in-the | COACHES weres deriles suit brought by that state-to-put to | Were Killed a effect —tlio” now railroal commission | two fatally, ThoMpown dead ave Ty tari wducing the ratos of oxpress| gieer Builey and \Mastor Mochanic Companes Ot GEn 9 antt L0 IOICOnT: | AT JiNpToss EM oRNe eIl LT In the course of crossexdiin and Firor i 7 e : Wl o the fact: was developed- that Welis, | urod. 18iehi taidont ) Pargo & Co.in 1903 made owiih IR GG SRUND LI Hli5-S b e PG T TONT Ly IR s -t ken (Tomsthe wieel it ot a tenewal for Uitteon yoars of | THe e the exclusive oxpress privileges on the W85 8¢ Southern Pacific line: i ot G ahont thirty inju i Guimbert Wi e teain Ive ‘mate of 1ad been trouble with K oecarved whil o (Bt company stock, and agreed to give it 40 per cent of its annual gross | Ings. Orders were issued for ail northbound At ands Southboswd Gaihy o dse e ESi ; switel mt ihat poin steinl "o . Tho foxas officials are prolifue deap: | o el bl GeD fa mainline: Pive tains passed the sid Iy -into the company's statement of | SRR e U ifs exponses In Texas and also 00 Bt of e freant e s i the volime of it receipts it order 1o | giiil of Noi 18 B e i show that the company. can afford: o f = = e I e o o Asrsiin have. 1S faviftradieed: ~aspTonnset pat o 1o : ! by the railroad commission. e o 2! cials of the tond cannol aceount (o PASSES FOR STOCKMEN. e faet “thad e i approachod e e siding at such u Bleh rafe Roads Will Probably Soom| Tl o = Restore Then: | pindoni Chicago May 2—Representatives | (ons of s of Western railroads me( «in Chicazo duringhe day (o consider the question of granting return passes (o live stock | shippers. Al the morning mecting it was agreed thas the lowa Mnes should { escaped” fnlfing hefore thie cupine. 1o comply with (ho law of that state by |18 seriansly injnred, however, and it granting . transportation within that expected to live. state, but not on interstate busin |l bag G was hrown neits Tater it was discovered that two or Iy 100 feet from the wreelk and.is ens three lines were pledgad to the lowa trely domo g Toturn ‘ The two ¢ | | I | Western e lailey A Lo Mo hi Fiding D (i chEie, was puly il Femi G pen - was great distance from the (hrown & 1 is now stated (hat the pass privi- thrown on Jts side and damagel. lege probably. will he rostored on all | = Hnes, but with restricfions that will | STRIKE IS PROBABLE. Grand Trunk Télegraphers Ready to Quit Work. llinois Constable Killed and Another | ave inies tatm 15 (e O] WHILE SERVING WARRANT. gl st i taken by the Order of R Officer Wounded} rond spaphers comployed on the Monnt Veriion, 111, May 2-——Albert i TBrnd ailway it may lead to Wood, constable, was Killed and | a ticup of the antire line from Chicago to Povtland. A request has been-i to e wiinisier of Inbor for the ap L pointrent i a concilintory commitice the Tditferences oxist voand the Curtis Grogory: another constable, serfously vrounded—in. a—fight i T rington township withtawo-men all to have beea Willinm and Robert [Tow- to inguire inte one of whinn the offfcors Ing hotween tie Lr0 8 banks for 10 per cent of N s (SERTE s heen de their holdings on account of she Pan by firi The eatimated loss s ama canal purchase 2 : 1000, Tho water supply almost Al was made on hanks having and the five hurned dtself ol sits of $100,000 or over at the time | Nearly, the whole of six blocks were of the last call. The payment is to be destroyed, including #ix hotels, 1y made on or hefore 10, ! 1o longes, Christ chureh and Sl Uy all the retail stores in town re were no casualt depositor Wife Given Life Sentence. Chicago, May 2. Edward serly of New York, and his abeth, convicted on their pl UNUSUAL FOR THIS SEASON. 15 of Travelers —Reach Duluth After Shoplifling, have— ey —senteneed—by Long | Judge Kersten. Travis will serve four Trip on Snowshoes. montng In Jail and Mo Travis w T Maly oy Sa = Loul sent 1 jail for one hour. Three indiet- | Ta arrived 'in this eity du se EXCESSIVE RATE OF SPEED THE CAUSE hive | For this privilege thie expross cony Nt on one ol (he fast (iagns pany paid the railr A Dotus of $5, 1 and i was necessary to abandon 4t o 000,000, inehiding $750.000 of oxpross { the: main. lines near Wickes Siding Wreck and | s directly in the rear | SNELLING GETS | A BIG SUM Many Improvements Will be Made at the Fort this Year. | CICAGY P ken from the gen- W | 00D will b in WS | ment of Fort I ¢ commis Iug fiscal yoar. Representitive Ste i and nondommissioned offic rs. $70.000; for roads and im: ont of grounds, $30,000. “ BIG BAFTLE IN PROGRESS General ‘Able to Resume Official Dutics. == [ fwashington, May 251 P General, Payne retnened 1o has been informed that in i tha anprandiation of PAYNE AT HIS DE Postmaster tma ool | JAPANESE ARMY ATTACKS RUS- at the. postofice dopartment, durhis s }(‘1‘“-. S R SIAN-FORCE OF THIRTY dav.l ! settamit <0 e Gor [oril Wy le cattiing-as-aetims ost THOUSAND. master general AlY, Payne received many congros ———— Lonal visitors and had a1l e with ME AWvnne and F fnasder (o 1l have come confey th A Manchuria, May 2— of the war is persis- to have occeurred o Sixteen thousand - Thursday o sistant | Over malt fng his abs anese oo the Stream KRUGER EXTREMELY WEAK. |und attacked Juuuo Russians, who stidnalye fosfitiod, U IS Tumored | Former Fresident of the Transvaal | Requires Constant Care. 2w Japanese were reinforcod and © coutinies. The Jap: Nooters Killed many Rus. whose uniforms were [ Moo ando Pt ds diienit o | state of he b f-forfei e [ s stinel on oo authoriee st sy (N FORCE NEAR ANTUNG. | toms ot a covebral alf@ction are ap parent and Consultition ol | Russians i Vicinity Number Thirty [ physicians Mas Bon leld e I Thousand: RO 15 NOW extremiye Wort il 6on- | Shantia deivin— Xty ~Reports ol | atnng e bs peerssoy e ht e T ali Tiyor haye \ Duen -giyven dlie substantation GUEST OF ADMIRAL EVANS. {ntorgatd i in by four who have just ar- | osio King of taly Visits the \Battieship B oo N WG 1 - Kentucky. N Wiien thioae missioniis—fef—tm— Nitplen, My 2 --flug VIO, B | tun ten days sea tie Russiaogin that mitnitel visited e AdmivalBvans | YICIRILY gt 00 men: and ocs on Ui . States Ueship Kyn | Cupied stiongly tortitied positions be- Licky it (e dags Temainiug hog fEvoen Antung and the ALrlver which B hoite. . GapresRiTe i lensite. ar CpHES. antn. tho! Yalu rivers about I e il Ameroin wieship: prosent [t TGS TROANEIST 0L _AntULg. [t e maval roview Beltay i saying | D also’ were snatl Russan | of Aot | 20 RSy i Fenshdaigoieng, where many siavions (i state comm ion to grant passes, to stockmen:on-all * Chicago | of the hag s e owere dluo. over | friends Dasen BT icerag shed. A business and a sccond mecting was | turned and badly wrecked. The slecp: Hw‘«’ fwo ars pectively, held [ ing car in thie cear of the conches: was Eentertains German Visitors. lizv-m' ity dive and forty-five miles o v 1o Waslibngton. May WERE Ol AT MDE and AMs. Roosevelt Tupcheon o 1 Sl THINK IT_QUITE PROBABLE. i e 4 1l OF the ity No Official Information of Important Engagement. presented to tho president by :; asador — Sternburg Ihoy 1 London, May “¢—The * Japanese | mafnad—with liine I his office at th satiin up o prosent has re- execulive building only @ briet time ed no coniirmationof tie reported it L fthe Japanese and IR s tun Jorces on thes Yl river, but KUROPATKIN REPORTS. the—oftrents UK 0 quits probable. Rese army o the moun: the Yalu a . with the tan [OrCes e The mudn body of the Bmys Japanese Are Concentrating 0n | s bolicved Lo have trave the ‘Yalu. : Lain [anncs i Crosse May. 2. -Fhe Jap’| bund wales frony thi se taking the—He St 1 el ard. hrothe oy i 5 ; 2 i ! ancse troaps e sl conecntrating in | object o SOURLL Lo 4 fest o1 i 8 v ant, Etatis sl OIS yolgiitiontion ot (" Yala Hvaes | o ol of in the Totent Howard 15 said (o have mado. it decnes o eeerehse B pow | i monhine of-pasticilie moment las | e thon Is of U opinion threuts againet co\@it Bersons In (s ers it Is haritly possthle-thut=Coubict Thos far hoat ropirted. it e © Gperationsar) the county and 4 peitee wirrant was pro-, can be averted. The telegraphers de TR eC TG ,.“ Fived a telograu | Bionth of e Yalu were merely in:the GUES S GatE ry-states=thutFmand i iy I wages, ead S| gron General Kuropgtidn as follows: | natire of @ teint S they. had arrested Robert Howard-and | ment of (he wworking days a cettain S e S e 2 had proceeded a shorl distance with | number of holidays and extra pay for| pooe of \'N” SEy »‘ W quieity | PRIVEN INTO. THE MOUNTAINS. him in theie custody when his hrother Sunday-work and overtime A e bV = attacked then. | : Off (s 1l sl o ther Nk, at-hi- | dapanese_Ships Shell- Smalt Force of | LOSS HMALF A MILLION. | mouth of which steamers g ariisi Russians. FOR PANAMA "PAYMENT. o S On April 28, at abont 2 fu the after | Tokie, May 2 Admiral* Hosoy 7 : ernie, B. C., Practically Wiped Out{ noon, Japincice colimus were seen go-| commanding the third squadion, Secretary Shaw Makes Another Call by Fire. | tng fromg Yoruaimpho towirds Wi | ports that on the morning of Apeil-29 on Depository Banks. [ Vencouvers . €, May 2 SNine | 8nd a party of sapane coufs wad | gunboats—fired on the enemy at the Washington, May 2. Sacretary | tentlis of Pernic, 44 € a town of ¢ {'8een on a monniain Lo the sonthward hoof the Yalu river, but the Rus- Shaw has made an additional call i the: lymesl sortement in (he Crows | of Sindiaju 8 il -not teply: 1 of small%hips, armed opened five on 150 of the enciy ut ndoroto and the latter re- treatéd to the mountains, leaying many wounded. - The Japanese had no cas- ualties nat yer under Later a flof with cannon The Japanese hay taken aiy active oje ations. CONFIRMED OFFICIALLY. Japanese Troops Oceupy Several Man churian Towns. { No Attack on Vladivostok. Toldo, May -2 - lieutenint 8t Potorst May The ab- Baron teles pence of telvgrams from Rear Admiral Salaichin, i 1 Yeszen is e «ded at the admiralty Manchutian towns b as proof that the Japanese have not armys e also ant altempted to bombard Viadivostok. of e ent tantry and tw MARKET QUOTATIONS. al ch St Paul Union Stock Yaras. \pril Cattle—Good to common to i to choice Paitul W@ 5.00 probability hi who- spoke on behalf_of the senior house of congress ollowWing the s ker for t branch of congress came Tawney of Minnesota, who spol the national hot 3 For Ha o foreign oner (Gen R, Nuncio of Mexico, who was ioner eral of a lion ) ere avilion on SAMUEL PARKS DYING. Cannot Phvsician _Says He Live but a Few Hours. Ny 1ays mo- | | the murder of | Doon, Ia., Ju | ments still remain againet the two. | e (he day s AR = for this of year, having marehed | IOWA MAN WILL HANG. thirtytwo miles on Lake Superior S from their home at Brole, AV Charles Rocker—-Convicted—of Killing sn¢ U Th 1y the ice thout Wife's Former Hushand. two feel thicl d honeyeomhbed for ek oA frves etahe it inche Never ve ha hnl‘:"'l'l‘:\‘hlv?‘”l.“!»;] r“ |’.\. i & L’M’.\ 1 .} K( v1 there o) » much dce in Lal Supe ; AR i rior at time of year | roeder at A fixed Ui | THIRTEEN OF CREW DROWNED. | pen Rocker farm. | Schroed Spanish Steamer Sunk in Collision Off the ot WAGCN FACTORY BURNS. ) and Many Employes Be ldle from RELAND. EMIGRATION Four Million Pe try land : M i ¢ wl st years had resided in New | emigrated, of W O od States received 33,00 s ; veals, T | The Japane $LA0@ 475, Sheep— across the Ya vearling wethers, $4.75@ and 1 s (0 choice lambs. 35.10@5.65. Mulden r Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth,—Apr tore OHIO Ml and to orrive No. Eight Theusand Men Affected by Fail- | ! Northern, g : ss1 e Sept, ure of Conferenc St S 51% In store! to arrive and Ma July, $1.09; Sept. and 0ct 20.—Cattle—Good to ST POOE (0 me- and feed- 50@4.35; 2350@ . 3180@ light, o choice Western sheep, native lambs, lambs, clipped. wooled, $6.00@ T—30.- ol prik, c; Sept. 3 2; July, $11.97%; Flax—Cash, Northwest- filled - wit wnds of people frem $1.0813; ~ Southwestern, _$1.015 the surrounding country. Several {May. $1.01; - July, - $1.04.. Butter= addresses wrre presented to his maj- | Creameries, 14@23c; dairies, 1393 oty, P the day The