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A Pioneer :: WANT A{DC:: Will Do Tt . VOLUME 2. NUMBER 34 BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, ERIDAY, MAY 27 The Pioneer Prints MORENEWS than, any other news- vaper between Duluth and Crookston, St. Paul and the North Pole. 1904, RUSSIANS. |ssmsse vio acrorooe THIRTEEN Russians Deny Use of Floating Mines thority at the admi correspondent of tho “It s false (0. assel that tie Rus Such niines are readily d Capture of Kinchou Would In-|4 light and are dangerous only at sees night.~ The threesmile limit is an ab- : Two Esc. £ volve Lonfl and Difficult surdity, as a W] hlldn.\\l torpedo can Board 0n¥) .T“o Latape Operations. - travel four miles.” Uninjured. —This authority, while not coiumitting himself absolutely, strongly intimated that the Japanese bhaltlestip Hatsuse vas destroyed by a torpedo fired from | T.outsville, M 8t. Petersbure, May 27—While no | oS des y Lonlsville, May Er=tiay & submarine boat. ons W Sie Rl mewe has been received trom L ten- It 1s now ocstablished (hat a sub ant General Stoessel, commander of ine beat of the Drzewiecke type at Port Arthur, the [ was at Port Arthur before the out war office is inclined-to-believe- that | break of the war. severe fighling is in progréss in the southern Part of the Liaotung penin- sula, above the narrowest point of peninsula, but no credence is alta to the reporis of the Japanese having enteied the Kwanglulig peninsula, exjeff nas decided not to allow any |and left Pitt south of aud connected with the Liao- [ more forelen newspaper correspond- | pav : tung peninsuia, This is consiiered fents to join the Manchurian wimy, ai | porocy e impossible betore the capture of hin- | least for the present. None of tho: bound | chou, which it s belicved-here—woula fat-Mukden have yel been allowed (o Reason Why Kuropatkin Is Holding | bers of the crew. Back Correspondents. Thae Wilson was the proper St. Petersburg, Ma Friday witl boats aid tions, and when permission is granted it is | UP when the explosion occunred The general staff denies the rumors | probable that some sort of ple of the final evacuation of Newchwang | be exacted which will require and says the heavy guns wele not |'to remain there until the end, of hi taken back when the town was reoc- | year’s campaign, on the cupied in force, if they depart at will th ground that | eident happened. Henry Sykes, positions of General Kuroki ov General | sian dispositions, equipment, guns and | Engineer Walker were -tho-onty Kuropatkin are reported. transportation facilities. which would-on the boat who escaped injuny. v bepublistred—beyond the jurisdiction | man Shively, second engineer. ¢ CONFIRMATION IS LACKING. of the Russian military censors and [ blown through the side of the hoat — might prove of value {0 the enemy. _Rumored Bombardment of Port Ar- e e ninghawm was one of the fi St. Petersburg, May 27.—Viceroy Al- i exieif telographs that a report is cur- |Detachment Is Reported Annihilated rent that Port Arthur was bombarded Near Kinchou. May 24, but says he has not received St. Petersburg, May 27.—The - ) iy any official confirmation of the rumor. |sian troops e Gtoerai e i anpblafics It is reported that Gencral Rennen- |the Japs a hard blow at Kinchou, | corps ot mhasicia kampfi's Cossacks, who are operating fwhere they lured a detachment into a | g pz‘ ) ““f.."f _on the line of Geueral Kuroki's com~|narrow defile commanded by aitllcey | peart. of (i, munications, have made an important {as well as infantry, The Russian fir S capture of some of the enemy’s guns, takouniogheiesiio which were Dbeing taken forward to [short time. Fenghuancheng., No othor-details are | “The Russians lost a captain and 140 given. This report comes from mem-|men. The Japancse loss i bers of the emperor’s suite. to have been much heavies were dying. The police and hos and nur 5 four-mil provided for at the city b ‘Whallen's house, which i: aged Ly the explosion, but none of S 8B QLEARY = HOWSER : BEMIDJI. MINNESOTA. FOUR DAY OF SPECIAL BARGAINS. o ‘nvolve long and diificult sicge opoia- [ go to Liaoyang, much less to the front, | doWn the river and was about o Li The cause of the accident Is not' knowu. hein | The boat had just put about te back a tow iuto a landing place wheu the ac- livst the hief s would take | mate, could give no explanation of No' changes of importance in the |away information concerning the Rus- | cause of the accident. ie and € @@@@@@@@@@ : Off Port Arthur. X wreckage, St. Petersburg, May A high au- | 1 | The Wilson was built eighteen years Do Not Belieye That Japanese |57 use foating mines. Hhoy are | pyplosion of Boilers Causes Des: FUMES KILL TEN MEN. . = ice. The Japanese used them con- ot ' == ‘ A Stormed and Captured S e teucuon of: TowboatBol Peculiar Fatality in Pennsylvania Min- the City. bers afloat near the entrance, All the Louisville, Ky. ing Tunnel. 2 Russian mines are auchored, but the Willinmstown, i 2% ~Ton r ection of the Japanese in dr ing for men were suffocated by gas and sul- them is ponsible if the; oL attoat. phur fumes from a small locomuoiive cernible ) gf the Seore or More People on | and five badly hart by an explosion of | Gorden boilers which totally-demplished the towboat Fred Wilson off River View = Park. The dead arc: Captain Joseph FEARS LEAK OF INFORMATION. | Price of Pittsburg, an unknown man o traveling as his guestand eleven mem of the Viceroy Al- | Monongahela Coal and Coke company six four or Louisville. She arrived about widnight, had procecded ) men e i and Landed Twenty-five Feet Away thur May: 24, JAPANESE IN A TRAF. on {op of a shanty boat. ' Father Cun- St 1o ar at the scene of the explosion and gave extreme unction to several men who pital and the automobiles of papers cattied 1o the from the ty. The injured were ) ! nce of Colonel Joln decimated (he Japanese force iu s | g, Whallen until they could he betrer reported | yargs from the river, was badly dam- the 5 7 5 A Russian officer who has arrived at. i v x <netoo, May 27.—<Lhere Is a rumor (y . S 7 8 s family w jured, i : e o yang from Yinchow says five bat- | ppa wilson was liter ¢ curtent here among he Chineso Ut | talions of Japanese foll into (16 A | picus wnd mar Ml Sonic n <lghicon tefi Dol eS |hush laid by General Fock and were Water. The heavy. pleces of (CHEG A0 ulterly destroyed. %5 s BRCGSGBFR BB BCRGRRBBBBB OB BEBEB T RET G rive a | BT DOTer Rore Lot abiiust Hor-yai from the bauni and her fiug floats from i the top of a tree near River View. Pai I wheve it blown with & precer of ago and was nstructeld in patt last year. She was valued at 325,000 Her length was 174 fect. in the workings of the Summit Branch Coal company here, The victims in- cluded Michael Golden, goneral inside foreman of the company, and nine miners and laborers. : The tunnel in which the ‘disaster oceurred, is one mile in length and is used by the coal company Lo convey the coal mined in the workings in the Bear valley to the breaker in the Will iams valleyr General luside For An and about fifty miners hoard ed a loaded train which was about to be hauled from Bear valley to Will famstown. When halt the journey ‘bad besn made some of {Lic men at tracted the attention of the cngincer. who stopped, and it wus found that nearly every man in the party on (he cars had been overcome by gas and sulphur from the stack of the lacomo tive. The engincer crowded on all steam and the unconscious men-were tailed. DIES IN INSANE ASYLUM. St. Paul Young Woman Victim of Sunworshipping Fast.” ago, May 27.—Miss Eloise Rous: i aul, here -while—undergoing the orc ol the so called “sunworshipping tast, is dead in the state hospital for the insane at Bigin. Dr. Prank 8. Whit man. supeintendent of the hospital, SRy that death was duc (o acute maunia, induced by starving. > During the which_is_said to have lasted forty-one days, d sed is said by the hospital antho y, have been subjested fo torture by means of needles and the application of lotus oil LOSS OVER $1,500,000. Martial Law. Yazoo Cily, Miss., May Y azoo City is under martial as o rtosul of Wednesday's conflagration. Se negroes who were caught in an al tempt to steal salvage haye been ar- rested. I'wo military companies patrol the burned district, The Joss is vari- ously estimated at berWert $1.600,000 and $2,000.000-and the insnrance prob: ably will approximate 50 per cent of the loss. i ‘The residence of Hon. John Sharp Williams, . the minority leader in (he Nouse of reprosentatives,” escaped {he flames. CUMBERLAND FOR UNION. General Assembly Votes for Merger of Church. Dallas, Tex., May Jomplote un- fon of the Cumberland Preshyterian church with the Presbytertan church Fire Swept Mississippi Town Under |8 are reporad- M pr hurried to- the Williamsiown end ol § lic the tunnel. Efforts to resuscitate them | fre 0 ca who became insune | ju sty Ve cof na W of the He AL Co to Sa ifl) '191' in the United States of America was | favored byiine goieialassombly o tholl first named church in a vote which | was closely contested and after a_heat i | ed debate of (wo *days and a ni The vote was 162 Tor and 74 agabi jori over the nec two-thirds. HEALTH OF AHMY'EXGELLENT VERY LITTLE SICKNESS AMONG BB EHOARBED WORKINGMEN’S SHlRTS One lot Men'’s Smtrlg flannel = irts . Wednesday mom- worth from 65¢ to 75He, and one lot Men's ing we will place on : - Black Sateen Shirts worth 75¢, ——Your choice 450 MEN'S STRAW HATS. We offer a layge line of Straw ITats at from 25¢. to $8 each' MEN’S CLOTHING. You should see our suits $10.00,-$15.00, and $20.00; and trousers at $3.00, $3.50, 8$5.00, $6.00 and $7.50. sale, one rack of La- \“\““\ ale, k of La \V‘Hv A dies tailor - m.l(le suits aud rain coats ~_worth up to...815.00. Your choicé $9.95 GEhesd dEsdesen | & LADIES FINE SHOES. 100 pair Ladies fine shoes, odd sizes. ROl R R R worth from $2.50 to § LITTLE GIRLS’ OVERALLS. Your choice $l 79 a pair. Made from plain madras, 25¢ a pair. Ld DOUGLAS SHOES. # We have a full line of Douglas shoes for Men. from 5 $3.00 0 §5 G apair. # GREAT BARAINS IN NOT- ki I0NS. 9 inch shears. recular & & price 25¢ cach. now 9e a pair @ Armour’s Fine Art Toilet Soap. box of 3 Silver Plated Salts and Peppers: our & cakes for 19¢ rogular price, 25¢ eachi: now 2 for 25¢ a Carter’s Writing Fluid. 1-2-pt hottles [9¢ & 3 r g e & & & 5 A T T @%@@ SDLDIERS IN KUROPAT- KIN'S COMMAND. I Muy 27.—The gen- era] stafl has re I the fellowing | telegram from- Surgeon Vreden, chic! sanitary officer of the Manchurian ft. Petershurg, “The sanitary condition of the army i8 most satisfactory. Th h been a single case of plague. B sive of the wounded and-those s ng from ordin: sicknesses i ihe camps (here arve in the hospitals al this date six soldiers suffering from dysentery, seventcen cascs of (yphoid and typhus, one ¢ of stmallpox, one of scurvy, onc of Siberian fever and one-of erysipelas—i total of - twi seven cases in General Kuropatic army of 150,900, which is exclusive of the troops-at Port Arthur and Viadi vostok. “The number of sick is not greater than in time of peace.” JAPS DELAY MAIN ATTACK. | & col {.} 34} & Ly ; 10000000003000000000000000000000 Only Minor Operations Occupy Atten- tion of the Army. Shimonoseki, May 27.-Only minor | operations are-at presentin progre: on the Liaotung peninzula. The main attack will probably be postponed for | some time. The present dispositions of the Japanese army the Liaotung | the visions has al on-the-m i ! sula. h 1th o divi sions are nuw on Lh it i The onsist of | Ninth ana enth divisions one brigade of artilicry, which has yet left Japan. NO TRIP TO POLAND. or Will Remain at Pe. Sumrmer The imp Russian Empe terhof for but the smallor | this summer. | Four hundred a | Ccars in Eurc | for war purpu Wt of the ‘ '® e e ' i st of ‘A Large Line of Canvas Shoes, low cut and 'GORMAN IS Platform Criticises the lmperiali e Policy of Republican | 1 Bt O LIS Larty, | © Retail Liquor Dealers’ Convention Baltimore, May 27 The Denocratic | Afternoon. and Evening Performances gtate convention of Maryland met in ) this elty during the day and selocied | 4 | delegntes o the St Lonis convention The delegates at Turse are: — United | : ] : : States Senator A PGorman, Sta It will be vemembered that this great 3-ring’ circus I Treasuver Murtny Vandiver. Gen g & 0N o 3 . 5 il e e R was heve July 4. 19050 It is now bigger and better delegation ds solidly in fnvor of the nomination of Senator Gorman loe the cated by the fathers of the | lic: advocatos tarit rovisions i | cises (he “impoerial” policy of (he 1t | publicans aud demands indepon looco | for 1ilipinos, denonnees departmental | and and corruption at \Washingio Panana negotiations and his dieia | torial Course townrds congross. | Thongh (he delegation was not in- | Lindsbors. The Union Pacific depot | Washington, Mage 27 Uit S country have passcd off b an order mnner and that all (he e the government were clected. R KRR *WARMER DAYS ARE COMING: THE CHOICE aryland:Democrats Send Unin- | structed Delegation to St. Louis. —has-heen engaged at o big expense to show at— vonpar JUNE 13 will be wiven. No instructions were given. hut i than ever and the grand parade just before the show is commentedupon by the press throughout the United P Statess the-finestever aiven, . Wateh for the large S *E bills with full imnouneements later. HENRY BUENTHER Naturalist and Taxidermist 208 Second St, Postotfice Box No. 686 BEMIDJI, MINN. esidency. Theplatform: denounees—thie-Reph AN Pl Tor its dangstons o m the cazdinal principle 1 tional refronchment; ¢ S RoosevelUs miethods | ueted for Senator Govman the con | ntion adoptedsa resolution stongly mmending his course in congress BIRDS, WHOLE ANIMALS SH, FUR RUGS AND ROBES and GAME HEADS mounted to order and for sale. | carry at all times a good assortment of INDIAN- RELICS and CURIOS, FUR OARMENTS made to order, repaired and remodeled PURS In season bought, Mgl hiersori, Kan,, May do formed north of her iking | | | A o | | | s completely demolished, a number small buildings were unroofod a loval armory | wi N mllw' una wilerspout Jmage (0 crops, I guarantge my work mothprml and the most lifelike of any in the state at ) tadad it MY WORK FEW, EQUALLED BY INCELLED BY NON A Deposit Required on All Work "YOUR TRADE SBOLICITED Santo Dordingo Elections. nsut General Maswell hus vopor(ed | the stafe department by cablo fron: | | n Domingo that the efettions ui th Miidatcs Ul SR otk R ORI R R R R RN E R R0 8 R F G : A Gold Watch Free! 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