Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 20, 1904, Page 1

A Pioneer : WANT AD Will Do Tt. 2, Sory, 5 S e Bemidji Daily Pia B cisnsimtics oo b 4 oneer The Pioneer Prints MORE NEWS than any other news- nlger between Duluth and Crookston, St- Paul and the North Pole. VOLUME 2. NUMBER Ocigy 0 105. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1904. TEN CENTS PER WEEK Ipo = RUSSIA CALLS OUT Mobilization of Al Throughout the RESERVES I the Reserve Troops Empire is Ordered--- Japanese Army Forces Russian Troops Still Farther on Tokio, Aug.,20—The Japanese Russians retreating novthward tows St. etersburgh, 20—The to colors all the reserve of officers th of reserve troops in many districts that the cmer, out of all the re: Tokio, Ang. 20.—A Russian of the Otvajni type sfruck a minc sank off Laoti promontory. the ¢ treme southern point of the K tung peninsula, on which Port Arth is situated, at 8 o'clock on Thursd; night ement, one 9-inch n and ten quick firi She has two torpedo tubes, b a speed of 15 knots aud carries a cre of 142 men. gn guns. IN PORT ARTHUR HARGO: CRUISER PALLADA AND FIVE BA’ TLESHIPS RETURNED AFTER FIGHT OF AUG. 10. St. Petershur; miralty has rec tion that Vice Admiral Prince Ou tomsky's five battleships and the pr tected cruiser Pallada are at Port thur. The tel am received he from the Russian consul at Chefs does not say whether the vessels a damaged and makes no reference the report from Tokio that a gur of the type of the Otvajni had Db sunk off the Liaoti promontory owit to having collided with a mine, REPAIRS WiLL BE SLOW. Cruisers Rossia and Gromoboi Go Into Dry Dock. 20 Mu St. report Petersburg, Aug of the injuries claile ined 1 The Otvaini is an armored gunboat ' launched Ar-|at 11 o’clock Thu the Road to Mukden. , yesterday, occupied Anshanshan, the wed Mukden. Emperor has issued a ukase summoning woughout the empire. The mobilization 15 also been ordered and it is belicved ency in which the empive finds itself will necessitate the calling [ the cruisers Gromoboi and Rossia nal twrally are withheld, but no doubt "ex- ists that they are serious cnough Lo recuire docking. So far known there is only one dock at Viadivostok and it is now occupied by the Bogat) uently (his will make the pair work slow. ‘The cherished plan of the & of uniting the two Russian ern squadrons to await the coming of ox- ur ay n. | the altic fleet now seems aimost 1g | hop s, as the fighting strength of as Port squadron has been Arthu satl there is no long: aid from the V Nevertheless tie struction. But the whereahouts of the battieship division and the protected . | cruisers Diana and Pallada are nc B | considered here to be absolutely cs- 1tablished. Weight of opinion contin- ues Lo correspond with the foreign re ports that the battleships are back at Port Arthur, but some of the officic lat the admir: they have escaped. Chefoo, Ang. 20.—Chinese who em- 0- | barked from Liaotienshan promonto: ay morning repo: of " heavy fighting. v the Japanese have occupied ve | the continuance 0 [ Thoy i i¢ | Pigeon bay and are within striking Lol distance of the Liaotienshan forts, which, however, are still occupied by i the Ru £ | 1g to the Chinese the Rus at Port Arthur are making their stand, - arrivals declare that the Jap- a position at Palungehang, from st which they poured a heavy fire into Port Arthur and the inner forts, has .1 been retaken, the Japanese retiring to \ Shushiyen. B 50 o o ofi 5% 50 ol o B P 2B B 3P 3 B 3B o P 3 B 2B B THE "FAULTLESS" ~STUMP World’s WES WRIGHT, g q S et g Most Simple and Durable Stump Puller on the Market. g L] PULLER... I I PG g Fair Prize. - Local Agen,twg OO N O RO OO WO RO admiralty s thal the buttleship:, fi il they returned to Port Arthur, to sully forth again, even to certain Ge- | ty cling to the hope that i STRIKERS SECIJRE MEAT. Round Up a Number of Steers Escaped From Stock Yards. Chicago, Aug. ployes and bungry strikers vied with each other in a steer hunt that ex- tended throughout the night, following the riot precipitated by the appear- ance of eleven runaway beeves from Morris & Co.s piant, in the district west of the st yards. The car- casses of four are accounted for. Lit- tle beyond the hoofs and horns re- mained to tell the story and there was an ample beef supply in many a home to which such a luxury has long been a stranger. The fate of five of the remainder is still in doubt, as only two have been rounded up and driven back to the yards. Scouting parties repre- senting both the big packing firm and the hungry throng that baltled with the police scoured the prairies south and west of the yards all night and when the latter located its prey the creature was slain and disappes as though by magic. The herd w: ued at upwards of $1,000. Recording Secretary Shanahan of the Packinghouse Teamsters’ union declared Auring the day that in his opinion it would be necessary to call out on strike ad teamsters connected with deli ies to or from retail mar- kets in Chicago. He said he believed i e to be done to win the e. C. Mwry of the government bureau of agriculture, who is gather- ing statiztics at the yards, disposed of the story of Secretary Metcalf’s pres- ence in Chicago as an indication of federal intervention by declaring that Mi. Metcalf simply passed through Chicago without visiting the yards or any other point save the two pa: ger stations necessitated by his DOING IMMENSE DAMAGE. Forest Fires Raging Along the North Pacific Coast. Vancouver, B. C., Aug. 20.—Owing to the long continued dry weather forest fires are spreading throughout the interior and along the coast of h Columbia. Practically every in the province which is wood- s fire and great tra :ts of val- uable timber are ablaze. Millions of feet of standing timber have already been destroyed. ‘Wellington, B. C., Aug. 20.—The ter- minus of the FEsquimault and North- 1 ern railway is in great danger of being wiped out by fires which surround it. Already mnch property, including the city schoolhouse of eight rooms, has gone. Portland, Ore., Aug. 20.—Fires are still raging in the great fovests of ‘Washington, doing incalculable dam- age. The situation is so serious that a detachment of troops from Vancouver Barracks has been sent to the scene. BOY CARRIED HIGH IN THE AIR. is Lifted Two Hundred Feet, Head Down, and Escapes Injury. Sparta, Wis.,, Aug. 20.—A boy car- ried by the heels 200 feet into the air by an ascending balloon was the clos- ing incident of the day at the Sparta fair. Oscar Frederick, fourteen years old, watching the filling of the big gas bailoon, became entangled in the ropes of the bag. When the balloon was cut loose the boy was carriéd up with it feet fi e boy was wriggling and screaming for help Aeronaut Henry was smiling and bowing to the crowd. Women and girls fainted. Some tried to shout to the aeronaut, but they could not make him understand. At last he heard the boy and looking up he ordered the little fellow to turn his face up and not to look at the ground. After the parachute had risen 200 feet into the air Henry opened the valves of the balloon and came gently to the earth. ' San Franci; Aug. 20.—The Pacific Mail st ner Siberia, just arrived from the Orient, brought a most valu- able cargo. A lot of raw silk, valued at $102,000, was listed on her manifest, while in her treasury tank was Jap- anese gold aggregating $950,000. This coin comes from Japan for the pur- chase of supplies for the army, P U U P 1 U 1 1 O 2..0’Leary & Bowser... Bemidji, Minnesota. FALLSHOES. 3 3 We are now showing Fall Stylesin % % Pingree-Made Shoes. COMPOSITS in turn and welts, kid and patent leather; price, - - $3.00 Ladies’ GLORIA turns and welts in all the new leathers Price -~ $3.50 VOGUE they’ll fit your feet. Price $5.00 LITTLE GIANT Kid, box calf, patent kid and velour calf; light or heavy soles; prices from Shoes for Misses and Children. $1.25 to $2.50 the finestshoe made * Packinghouse em- | INCIDENT BY JAPANESE OFFICERS. Immense Bodies of Chinese Troops Being Drilled. REPE ATED San Francisco, Aug. 20—William Martin, United States consul at Nan- Japanese Destroyers Again Enter Chefoo and Capture a Steamer. Evident That Japan Intends To Ignore the Former Rus- sian Protest. ‘Washington, Aug. 20.—The state de- partment has received a cablegram from Chefoo, the substance of which is as follows: “Seven Japanese destroyers entered the harbor during the morning and met an unknown Steamer entering, which they captured. Two Japanese cruisers are ontside the harbor.” The dispa#ch is so worded as to leave in doubt one of the most impor- tant points connected with the seiz- ure, namely, the exact spot at which it took place and whether without or within the three-mile limit. Naval officers familiar with the harbor of Chefoo state that there are two en- trances from opposite directions and it is inferred from the above dispatch that the Japanese squadron ap- proached through one of these en- trances to find the unknown steamer referred to coming through the other entrance. The impression here is that consequently the seizure took place within the Chinese territerial waters. The incident is regarded as an evi- dence of the determination of the Jap- anese naval ofacers to disregard nice- ties in dealing witht this question of Chinese neutrality. Coupled with the reported refusal of the government to release the Ryeshitelni, also seized in it is thought that the seizure indicates that while the Jap- anese Imnay not assert the right of seiz- ure in the international court at Shang- hai they will not hesitate to attack and cut out any Russian ships that lie in Chefoo harbor, provided they are not dismantled to the absolute. satis- faction of the Japanese naval officers. CRUSHING BLOW TO NAVY PAMAGE TO VLADIVOSTOK SQUAD- RON MOST DEPRESSING " TO RUSSIANS. St. Petersburg, Aug. 20.—A feeling almost akin to despair reigns in the much tried Russian admiralty. The official report of Vice Admiral Skryd- loff, coming on the heels of the known losses sustained by the Port Arthur squadron in its desperate sortie of Aug. 10 and the anxiety over the fate of the warships still unaccounted for, not only confirm the sinking of the Rurik, but showing that the injuries sustained by the Gromoboi and Rossia in the fight with Vice Admiral Kami- mura’s squadron were even greater than anticipated, completes the crush- ing nature of the blow to Russia’s ill starred naval forces in the Far East. So far as the immediate future is con- cerned the admiralty does not dis- guise the fact that the Vladivostok squadron is destroyed. The effect upon the public is also most depress- ing. The only conselation found is in the words of praise bestowed on the oflicers and men and the unequal char- acter of the fight, Russian naval ex- perts figuring that the inferiority of the Vladivostok squadron in armor and guns was 69 to 200. In some quarters of the navy there is also a disposition to censure Rear Admiral Jessen for abandoning the Rurik, even though standing by her would have meant that the Gromoboi and Rossia would have shared her fate. The chief mys- tery at the admiralty here is why Vice Admiral Kamimura drew off when Ad- miral Jessen’s ships were at his mercy. The only explanation is that his squad- ron must have suffered such frightful damage that it could not continue the battle. It is confirmed that the loss of. offi- cers and men on board the Rossia and Gromoboi were 50 per cent of the for- mer and 25 per cent of the latter, showing the dreadful havoc caused by the fire from the Japanese ships, even at a range exceeding three miles. Pri- vate reports say the decks of the Ros- sia were veritable shambles. . OUTPOSTS IN TOUCH. Big Battle Imminent in Vicinity of Liaoyang. Mukden, Aug. 20.—A battle is re- garded as being imminent, as the Jap- anese on the Russian east front are only twenly miles from Liaoyang. The advance posts are not more than four miles apart and small skirmishes are of daily occurrence. On the south the Japanese have re- tired to Haicheng. Liaoyang, Aug. 20.—The rains have now continued unceasingly for a week and the roads in many cases have been completely washed away. The Japanese are not making a move so far as known here. Lad Falls Seventy-five Feet. Minneapolis, Aug. 20.—Howard Con- don, the sixteen-year-old son of A. D. Condon, fell seventy-five feet to his death. He was employed upon the tank elevator the Minneapolis Linseed Oil company is erecting on Tenth aye- nue south.. He was carrying water for the carpenters and other work- men when the accident occurred. Hoar Shows Improvement. ‘Worcester, Mass., Aug. 20.—Senator Hoar’s condition shows a slight im- provement. He passed a comfortable night, according to his physicians, and kin, China, who has just arrived here from the Orient on the steamer Si- beria, is quoted in an interview in the Examiner to the effect that immense bodies of Chinese troops are now drilling in the central portion of the kingdom under the direction of Japan- ese officers well versed in the art of modern warfare. The soldiers have been supplied with the Mauser type of rifles and the most up to date ma- chine guns obtainable are now being Dburchased for their use. In the vicin- ity of Nankin alone there are about 6,000 soldiers drilling constantly. Dur- ing his absence from Nankin Mr. Mar- tin's post has been filled by Consul General Cheshire, whose station is at Mukden, but who has been obliged to withdraw because of the war, which is centering about that city. FEAR ASSASSINATION. Great Precautions Taken to Guard New Governor of Finland. Helsingtors, Finland, Aug. 20. police restrictions since the ar here Thursday of Prince Oublensky, the new governor general of Finland, have been increased and many addi- tional precautions have been taken to guard his life. All the basement en- trances of the senate chamber have been closed with cement and the buildings adjoining the governor gen- eral’s house have been searched to make sure that no secret entrances exist. Berlin, Aug. 20.—The Oswobosn- denje, organ of the Russian liberals or reformists published at Stuttgart, says it has information from St. Pe- tersburg that Prince Obelensky, the new governor general of Finland, has persuaded Emperor Nicholas to accept a milder policy towards Finland. ESCAPES ON TECHNICALITY. Banker Who Has Served Larger Por- tion of Sentence. 3 Chicago, Aug. 20.—Charles W. Spald- ing, the former bank president who was convicted and sentenced to ten years’ _imprisonment. for embezzle- LR R R R R R Open a Savings Bank Account! ment, has “been discharged from the penitentiary by Judge Dunne. The or- der of the court discharging the ex- banker from custody was based upon a technicality in the original indict- ment Mrs. Spalding, wife of the prisoner, was in court when the order was read and an affecting scene ensued. Spald- ing had already served seven years. Spalding will now proceed with a contest of his father's will, by the terms of which he was cut off without a penny. Solomon Spalding, the father, died at Nashua, N. H., and was worth between $300,000 and $400,000. MURDERED IN BOX CAR. Remains of Unknown Man Found Near St. Cloud. St. Cloud, Minn., Aug. 20.—The dead body of an unknown man was found beside the Northern Pacific track about a mile east of the station on the outskirts of the city and within the limits of Sherburne county. He had been shot in the corner of the left eye with a bullet of large caliber and the position of the body when found secnied to indicate that he had been shot and thrown from a box car on an early morning freight train, as the (body was not rigid when found at § { o’clock. Totally empty pockets, save a mem- orandum book, indicated that he had i been robbed. The book contained no jname, but entries or figures seemed to indicate that the man was a paving I block cutter. Drug Clerk Held Responsible. St. Louis, Aug. 20.—The coroner’s jury which has been investigating the death of Mrs. Jennie Helms of New York, who died in a hotel here after taking a dose of what she supposed was cream of tartar, returned a ver- dict of manslaughter against Charles M. Farthing, the drug clerk who sold the preparation to Mrs. Helms' hus- band. Half a Dozen Prisoners Escape. Camden, N. J., Aug. 20.—In an at- tempted jail delivery in the Camden county jail six prisoners escaped from the institution and are still at large. The bars in the front window were filed oft and all-the prisoners would have made their escape had it mnot been for a “trnsty;” who gave tho alarm. <o BOWEN ACTING American Minister to Venezuela Demands Return of As- phalt Property. Lake Seized by Castro’s Govern- ment Belongs to an Amer- ican Concern. Port of Spain, Island of Trinidad, Aug. 20.—Advices were received dur- | ing the day from Caracas saying that the American minister, Mr. Bowen, in the name of the United States, has requested Venezuela to remove Mr. Carnock, the receiver appointed to take chatge of the property of the New York and Bermudez Asphalt company, and to return the asphalt lake to the ‘American company. ‘Washington, Aug. 20.—It is learned at the state department that there have been no recent instructions to Mr. Bowen relative to the asphalt matter, but several weeks ago he was instructed to represent to President Castro that this government had been informed that the property of the New York and Bermudez company had ap- parently been seized illegally; that it had been seized without notification to the company; that it had been seized without due process of law; that this government requested Presi- dent Castro to suspend Receiver Car- nock from the discharge of his func- tion and to restore the asphalt prop- erty to the company, pending the final action of the Venezuelan court. In other words, this government desired to secure a return to'the status before the seizure. Nothing has since been heard from Mr. Bowen, save a mail report already referred to, telling of the actions Jeading up to the seizure. flcRoR cReRe R R Rolk- ReoR-Roltc ol Rol-e Rk R R - X - JF-Y “Itis what you Save, not what you Earn, that makes Wealth.” : Get a Home Bank Ereel No Charge for the Little Bank It is loaned to you Free. The first dollar jou deposit is held as a guarantee that you will return the little Bank. How- ever, this dollar belongs to you, draws interest and can be with drawn by you any time you re- turn the little Bank. BEBEBVIREOBPBOED > Savings Department FIRST NATIONAL BANK Bemidji, Minn. Capital and Surplus, $30,000 C. W. Hastings, Pres. F. P. Sheldon, Vice-Pres. A. P. White, Cashier. cRoRcReRoReRoR R o e ool R ol Rl - ok Koo o R-RoR-RoR- X R LoRCR-RoR R R R R R R E KRR ) War Business Animals Romance Nature Letters . 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