Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 23, 1904, Page 1

_reliable quarters A Pioneer WANT AD :: Will Do TIr. midji Daily Pio 1 i MINNESOTA SOCIETY. HISTORICAL neer The Pioneer Prints MORE NEWS than any other new: er between Duluth Crookston, St- Paul and the North Pole. VOLUME 2. NUMBER 107. BLMIDJI MINNESOTA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1904. TEN CENTS PER WEEK JAPANESE REINFORCED Besiegers at Port Arthur Are In-: ereased by New Force of Thirty Thousand Men. Cruiser Novik Attacked by Japan- ese Vessels and Runs Ashore In Sinking Condition. Chefoo, asserted in that —It is at Port Arthur Aug. the Japanese have receivgd reinforce: ments of 20,000 men from the novth. The steamer Victoria, which arrived { here during the even8z from New- | chwang, reports hearing spasmodicall heavy fiving at Louisa and Pigeon | bays, respectively northwest and west of Port Arthur, between 10 o'cloc Sunday night and 1 in the morning. | She chlights playing freely and g at i Monday worning. The ship far away (o hear or see anything fur- ther. RUSSIAN GRUISER IS SUHK JAPANESE WARSHIPS OVERTAKE AND DESTROY THE NOVIK AFTER HARD FIGHT. Tokio, Aug. 23.—After a severe en- gagement with the protected cruisers Chitose and Tsusbima, the greyhounds of the Japanese navy, the fleet Rus- sian cruiser Novik bas been van- quished. After the fight the Novik, in a sinking condition, was run asho:o in Korsakovsk harbor, off the coast of Siberia, 550 miles northeast of Viadi- vostok. The details of the fight are not is evident thal the ight up known here Clitose and Tsushima c; tke Novik and that a runn A shell from the Novik with the Tsushima in a bunker. Temporary repairs, however, rendered the Japai- ese cruiser seawo The J © suficred no casualtic The fate of th s not known, but it is thou v abandoned their vessel and landed al Korsakovsk. The Novik was one of the flect | which steamed out of Port Arthur on the morning of Aug. 10 to force its way through the Japanese lines. She entered Tsingtau the night of Aug. i1, but got away from there the night of Aug. 12, having remained less than twenty-four hours. St. Petershure. Aue 23 —The officinl | reports of the destruction of the Novik that the gallant ship, which was in the havbor of Korsakovsk, sighting the two Japapnese ships, steamed out to meet them and, upon finding her- self unable to sustain the unequal com- bat, ran back to the harbor and was hed. Full details of the casual- re not ascertainable, except that one officer was killed. JAPANESE FALL BACK. Believed They Plan General Engage- ment Near Mukden. —The belief is in- sing here llldl the Japanese do not | intend 1o make a general attack on General Kuropatkin's position at Liao- yang. The movements of the Japanese and other information indicate that they will try rather to force an en- | gagement in the vicinity of Mukden. The rains have not damaged the rail- W but have destroyed a number of { bridges. { A small fight occurred on Aug. 19 on the Motien pass road, seven miles but its results were t of Linoyang, unimportant. As the rains have rendered the lower grounds impassable the main Japane army has fallen back to the hills. CONSIDERABLE DmAGE DONE. | Jap Warships Bombard Korsakovsk, Isiand of Sakhalin. St. Petersburg, Aug. 23.—The em- peror has received a report, dated Sunday, from the Russian comman- dant at Korsakovsk, island of sakha- lin, as follow “Since 7 o'clock this morning the enemy has bombarded Korsakovsk. The government houses have be siroyed. One of the enem appeared on the horizon about in the morning, approached to within about five miles of the shore and bo: 1 de- barded Korsakovsk until when the vessel turned and disappearc The damage done to the town w. quite considerable. There were ua casnaltie WILL NOT FACE THE JAPS. i et | Russian Warships at Shanghai to Da Disarmed. St. Petersburg, Aug. : that energetic been faken by the at \'I‘(lu;.,lmi o p spat had American warship e. The protected oru ! Kold and the torpedo boat feation Grozovoi wiil be disarmed. The a - mirally reali that it would be foiiy | to send the ships out to face the Jan- " anese squadron in the offing and, annonnced in the dispatches last wee'k | bad_already decided that the shall he disarmed. TOLD BY CHINESE REFUGEES. Reports of Recent Fighting Near Port | | Arthur. Chefoo, Aug. 23.—The Chinese just arrived, Who bring the latest informa- tion from Port Arthur, were employed by the Russian authoritics . carrying the dead off the field and also ammuni- tion, which they say is plentiful. They confirm the statement that the a0ti promontory was not assaulled the reason that it was impie.na- 2B i ol P 5 fi.&z&&u.flu&a&;&;&u&fiflu&‘&& «+ THE"FEULTLESS” Most 2l e B P B 2B e B B WES WRIGHT, STUMP PULLER imple and Durable Stump Puller on the Market. World’s Fair Prize. f ] 1 b ] - Local Agent. vvvvvvvvwvwvwwwwvv | | public bie Lom lue seaside and the japanese are unable to move on it from the north. The Japanese main attack has heen the heaviest against the Russian cen- ter and right, particularly against the center, fronting which the Japanese have taken up a strong position at Shushiyen. geon bay had heen the scene of fighting several days before the final assault had begun, the Japanese never being able to hold for long any terri- tory they gain. Their attacks were made mostly at night, during foggy days and misty mornings, The Japanese believe that their su- perior physical condition will win the battle for them by the wearing of the Russian garvison, which constituted of less hardened material, down to the poini of exhaustion by the persistency of their attack and their refusal to ac- cept a repulse. The temperament of the Russian garrison is dogged and deterg¥ned. The hospitals and Chinese louses at Port thur are full of Russian wound- ed. The narrators say the dead, until ready for burial, are stored in ware- houses and are then buried on the outskirts of the town, quicklime being used freely for the prevention of in- fection. ADMIRAL STIRLING EXPLAINS. American Torpedo Boat Did Not Inter- fere With Japs. Shanghai, Aug. 23.—Rear Admiral Stirling says that the trip of the Amer- ican torpedo boat destroyer Chauncey, from Woosung to Shanghai, was to carry dispatches, Her movements had no connection with the arrival of the Japancse torpedo hoat destroyer. A dispatch from Shanghai, dated Sunday, says that city was thrown into a fever of excitement during the aft- ernoon by the arrival of a Japanese torpedo boat, which was sighted com- ing in [rom the south at 4 o'clock. She passed Woosung at full speed and started up the river Ju for Shanghai. The United States torpedo boat de- stroyer Chauncey slipped her cable and followed the Japanese destroyer. The Japanese b was cleared for ac- tion. She anchored off the Cosmopoli- tan doc where the Russian cruiser Aslold is undergoing repairs. The Chauncey came to anchor practically between the dock and the Japanese Washington, Aug. 23.—It is asserted sitively at the navy department | that the American fleet at Shanghai is not charged with the protection of Chinese neutrality by structions. The nnmal vinced that the Japane: ve no in- ' tention of violating (! I\lu('\(* neutrality and, furthermore, that they would not Jeopardize the immensely valuable for- eign infere: the harbor a naval ))11(](‘\'!!\\11]\] No instructions have been sent to Admiral Stirling to interfere with the action of Japane els. STORMING OF PORT ARTHUR. Russians Praise Stubborn Resistance of Defenders. St. Petersburg, Aug. The storm- ing of Port Artbur, which the foreign dispatches say is progressing, is riv ing all attention. The brave and stub- born resistance which General Stoes- sel is making is evoking high praise and the war office ofiicials and the are hoping almost against hope that he will be able to hold out in spite of the heayy odds against him. The latest news that the Japanese are unable to establish a foothold at Lou- isa bay, and at the most westerly fort of the inner defenses, is considered encouraging. An official dispatch [lom Rear Ad- miral Prince Ouktomsky, at Port Ar- thur, by way of Chefoo, says that only two officers were killed on hoard the ships which returned to the harbor after the fight of Aug. 10. The loss of the gallant Novik in a fight against two Japanese cruisers at Korsakovsk, island of Sakhalin, is not yet known here, as the authorities are awaiting the report of Vice Admiral Skrycloff hefore making the news pub- lic. The cruiser by her exploits had endeared herself to the whole coun- try and her loss will create a more sentimental effect than that of any ship in the fieet. -...0 Leary & Bowser.. Bemidji, Mxnnesota. =.FALLSHOES.: 3 3 We are now showing Fall Stylesin % % Ladies’ Pingree-Made Shoes. COMPOSITS in turn and welts, kid and patent lmther, puce - - $3.00 GLORIA turns and welts in all the new leathers Price $3.50 VOGUE the finestshoe made they’ll fit your feet. Price $5.00 - M | TTLE GIANT Shoes for {quses and Children. Kid, box calf, patent kid and velour calf; light or heavy soles, prices from - R R Illllllllllll $1.25 to $2.50 TORNADO VICTIMS Score of People Killed Aad Many Injured in Various Parts Of Northwest. Hundreds of Business Houses And Thousands of Resi- dences Damaged. VICTIMS OF TORNADO. Place. Dead. Injured. SEHPaulsi i .3 43 Minneapolis . o | 14 Waconia, Minn. . . 4 20 St. Louis Park, Minn. ... 3 25 Glencoe, Minn. <4 . Bryant, S. D. A 10 Brownton, Minn. . .3 10 Dallas, Wis. .1 . St. Paul, Aug. 23.—FEleven dead, 104 injured and a property loss of over $2,000,000 is a verified record of the damage inflieted by the cyclone which passed over St. Paul and vicinity Sat urday night, leaving in its path a scene of desolation and a calamity stricken people. In this city 3 persons are dead and 43 injured; in Minneapolis 1 man is dead and 14 persons injured; in Waco- nia 4 are dead and 20 injured, and in St. Louis Park 3 are dead and 25 in- Jured. The list of victims is as fol- lows St. Paul—George Keaton, aged sev- enteen; Lourien' S. Johanson, aged twenty-two; Viola Robertson, aged twelve. AMinneapolis—Alfred W. operator at Minneapolis struck by lightning. Waconia—August Moy, forty years old; Mrs. August Moy, thirty-eight years old; Baby Moy, one year old; Robert Lohman, thirty-nine years old. St. Louis Park——Albert Ohde, saloon- keeper; John Hedger, six years old; Anna Hodge. The damage to property is estimated at over $z 000,000 ivided as follows: Su. Faul, $1,000, Uuu, Minneapolis, $300,- V00; St Lows Park, $75,000; Wacouia, $75,u00; Stillwater, $100,000; outside districts, $500,000. High Bridge Partially Destroyed. The greatest single property loss at St. Paul was the destruction of two spaus of the high bridge, a burdeun ‘Wwhich will tall upon the city at large. Tbe other damage is distributed among thousands of residences and hundreds of business house: The_storm confined its area mainly to the localilies where fatalities are reported, although Stillwater reports a loss of $100,000. In both St. Paul and Minneapolis the business districts suffered severely, several wholesale houses being unroofed and hundreds of plate glass windows being blown in, causing immense damage to stocks In the residence district of St. Paul, principally in Lower Town and A lington Hills, many houses are com- blete wrecks and others are seriously damaged. In Minneapolis, considering the in- tensity of the storm, the residence dis- tricts of the city escaped with com- paratively slight damage. Although a few structures were unroofed and the contents of the buildings drenched with water as a rule the people of these districts suffered no great loss. At Waconia, of the 100 houses, resi- dences and stores, seventy are more or less demolished and in the country for a strip one-half mile in width ex- tending four miles along the Minne- apolis and St. Louis tracks east and ;west there is scarcely a building stand- ng. At St. Louis Park nearly all of the large manufacturing establishments ‘were more or less wrecked and houses were razed to the ground. The heaviest loser is T. B. Walker, the Minneapolis capitalist, who owns most of the twen- ty houses which were overturned and some of the manufacturing buildings. Storm Divides at St. Paul. The scene of wreck and ruin in St. Paul extends from the Minnesota transfer through to the eastern limits of the city and no locality escaped without some damage. The storm, be- lieved tc have been a genuine cyclone &s it approached Fort Smelling from the southwest, divided at the fort and, rushing onward in two main sections, made a clean sweep of the city. The section which ®aused the greatest wreck followed down the Mississippi close to the south bank, wrecking two 100-foot spans of the high bridge, leav- ing a trail of ruined trees and huild- ings on heautiful Harriet island, veer- ing across to the north end of the ‘Wabasha street bridge and destroying the Tivoli theater like a cardhouse, killing two, thence taking a course due northeast through the heart of the wholesale district and on through Lower Town and out across Arlington Hills fo the city limits, where it veered again and twenty minutes later caused tremendous 10ss of property in Stillwater. The second portion of the tornado cloud followed the Minnesota river for a short distance, then swept down on the Minnesota transfer, leveling two huge grain elevators to the ground. From that point the clouds seem to have distributed themselves and taken a more easterly course over the Mer- rlam Park and St. Anthony Hill dis wricts, covering a tremendous area and inflicting almost equal damage every- Where. Children’s Dormitory Demolished. At th» House of the Good Shepherd, north of University avenue, a dormi- tory in which fifty young girls were sleeping was crushed like an eggshell, yet the children in the little white cots escaped, except for one, The crushed and bleeding form of Viola Robinson, twelve years of age,- W Hilgedick, Junction, recovered by a squad ot fitemen with- in an hour On Summit avenue, more than a mile due south, the storm at the same instant swept the finest resi- dence street in America. demolishing trees that are the work of a half cen- tury, tearing up beautiful lawns and causing damage which it will take months to repair. The tornado, during its course throngh the city, was marked by pro- nounced cyclonic characteristics. There was a tremendous suction in the wake of the winds. which caved in walls, broke every sheet of glass in dozens of buildings and carried away the roofs of many more. There was the same crashing impact of the tornado cloud, | followed by a brief lull, and a second impact, which was even more violent than the first. There was the same crashing rush, over within a few mo- ments, revealing a work of ruin little short of marvelous, considering the time within which the destruction was wrought. STORM IN WISCONSIN. Lightning and Wind Causes Consider- | able Damage. Hammond, Wis.,, Aug. 23.—At 9 o'clock Saturday evening a severe wind storm, accompanied by rain and hail, swept over this village. Buildings were unroofed, store fronts blown in, outhouses demolished and trees twist- ed off. Cumberland, Wis., Aug. 23.—This section of Wisconsin was visi terrific wind, rain and electrical storm Saturday night and Sunday morning. All the electric light and telephone wires in this city were put out of busi- | ne: leaving the city in darkness and without telephone service. Consider- able damage was done to crops in | shock and stack and farm buildings were demolished in many localities. | Many farmhouses in the vicinity of | North Wisconsin Junction were swept | away, the storm assuming the propor- | tions of a tornado in that district. J FOUR DEAD AT GLENCOE, WIINN.l Tornado Did Great Damage to Grain and Property. Glencoe, Minn., Aug. 23.—A tornado struck the township of Rich Valley and Bergen Saturday night about 8 o'clock, killing four people, Mary Q’'Donnell, 2zed thirteen, daughter of fifi@fi@@fifif&fi@@fi@fi@‘}@fifi@n'I:I-fi @@@@@@@@ @& “It is what you Save, not what you Earn, that makes Wealth.” Patrick O’Doniell; the seven-year-old | daughter of Anthony O’Donnell, Fred- erick Gross and his mother. Thousands of acres of grain and many barns, houses and sheds were destroyed. The most complete wrecks were the houses, b 5, granaries and grain stacks of William Bayland, An- thony O’Dounell and Herman Tekur. Many others sustained heavy losses. The greatest damage was confined to a section ten miles long and a mile wide. The wind storm was followed by hail and a terrific rain lasting an hour or more. Large groves of heavy timber were leveled to the ground. Corn was completely stripped and beaten into the ground. SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED. Tornado Does Immense Damage Ne::u‘I Brownton, Minn. Brownton, Minn.,, Aug. 23.—At 7 o’clock Saturday night the people about four miles north of here experienced one of the most severe storms of wind, hail and rain that ever visited this part of the country. Grain stacking was just finished and now there is not a stack to be seen The grain is scat- tered for miles across the fields and piled against fences, which are also badly demolished. Houses, barns and outbuildings are completely demol- ished, several people were killed and many red, and dead horses. cattle and hogs mark the path of the storm. Telephone wires and poles are down. MANY BUILDINGS WRECKED. Tornado Kills One and Injures Several at Bryant, S. D. Sioux Falls, S. D, Aug. 23.—A tor- nado has visited Bryant, S. D., and vicinity. Many buildings were wrecked. Mrs. H. S. Hilling was killed, her daughter, Nellie, injured, probably fa- tally. A number of others were seri- ously injured. Loss of crops is heavy. It is reported that Willow Lakes was entively destroyed, but the raport is unconfirmed. Philippine Certificates Sold. ‘Washinglon, Aug. 23.—Bids were opencd during the day in the office of Colonel Edwards, chlef of the bureau of insular affairs, for §3,000,000 in tem- orary Philippine certificates of in- echtedness. The entire lot was sold to M. L. Turner of Oklahoma City at a premium of $101,410. MARKET FEVERISH Wheat Prices Cover AWide Range as Result of Oppos- ing Influences. Traders Regard The Previous Advance Sufficient to Cover Damage. Chicago, Aug. 23.—Wheat prices cavorted over a range of 4% cents during the day as a result of opposing influences—low temperatures in the Northwest and strong claims that the Canadian crop was safe. September sold at $1.12 and broke to $1.08%; December bounded to $1.14 soon after the opening and sold at $1.09% dur- ing the session. Temperatures at various places in the Northwest were low enough to make fear of frost a factor in the early operations, but alarm over the ravages of rust was less acute and still higher prices on its account did not seem to be confi- dently expected. There was more dis- position to regard the previous ad- vance as sufficiently representing the damage done. Wires were working badly to Minneapolis and that may have been the reason the trade was not s0 completely submerged as for the past week. At any rate traders ap- beared more willing to take cognizance of optimistic news and a disposition Wwas apparent to refuse to follow prices higher until confronted with smaller receipts and decreasing stocks. The close showed a net loss of five-eights for September delivery, at $1.09%. December closed at $1.11, a decline of 1% cents from the previous final fig- ure. & & Open a Savings Bank Account! Get a ‘Home Bank Free! No Charge for the Little Bank It is loaned to you Free. The first dollar you 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. © fl@@@@@@@@fe&@@ CHGLGBBBLATH IR IDEB BB ERETEY Savings Department FIRST NATIONAL BANK Bemidji, Minn. Capital and Surplus, $30,000 C. W. Hastings, Pres. F. P. Sheldon, Vice-Pres. . P. White, Cashier. 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