Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 30, 1904, Page 1

A Pioneer : WANT AD Will Do It. The Ber.iid N ji Daily Pioneer MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. _ The Pioneer Prints MORENEWS than any other news- paper between Duluth and Crookston, St. Paul and the North Pole. b = VOLUME 2. NUMBER 113 I;EMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1904. TEN CENTS PER WEEK B B B B B B A O B P 3B 30 3 3B 2 3w <o 3 2 3B 2B 0 . THE"FAULTLESS"” {..STUMP PULLER... % Most Simple and Durable Stump Puller on the Market. G W World’s Fair Prize. WES WRIGHT, - Local Agen,twg I N A S g g g g S g g W I R g T g G Subsgribe for the Daily PiOneqr; HENRY BUENTHER Naturalist and Taxidermist Postoffice Box No. 686 208 Second St. BEMIDJI, MINN. BIRDS, WHOLE ANIMALS, FISH, FUR RUGS AND ROGES and GAME BEADS mounted to order and for sale. | carry at all time; sortment of INDIAN RELICS and CURIUS, FUR GARM S made to order, repuired and remodeled FURS in season bought. I guarantee my work mothproof and the most lifelike of any in the state MY WORK IS EQUALLED BY FEW, EXCELLED BY NONE A Deposit Required on All Work YOUR TRADE SOLICITED here at five oclock this merning and the artillery Tremendous Engagement Started By Japanese at Five This Morning. BATTLEIN PROGRESS LiaoYang--What will probably be the decisive hattle of thecampaign began still continues. The combined armes Generals Kuroki Oku, and Nodzu exceeding the hundred thousand men eng- aged from five this morning until ten. Incessant shower shrapnel fell among TRussion troops, Japs searching whole conntry with their fire. At ten oclock f ackened, but infantry eadily pushing forward. Tiaoyang, Aug. 30.—The Japanese artillery resumed the battle at 6 a. m,, | the point of pressure again being (hel Russian south front. At 8 a. m. the Japanese infantry ad- vanced to attack, the regiments de- . ployed in open order. The Russian army has effected its | | retirement with transport and artil-! !lery on Liaoyang and is in position | { awaiting the advancing Japanese. The | | passage of the latter had been rapid! {and determined, sparing of no sacri- | fice. In the attack on the Siaolindzy | | position one Japanese battalion lost all | | its officers. | The retirement of the Russian trans- port corps ss the plain while the artillery and troops in the rear held { off the Japanese afforded a magnificent | spectacle. All along lhe eslended ilines there was a roar of batteries, the Russians working their guns with ' | reat coolness and not retiring until i the transport was in safety. General Routkovsky was among the Killed. i The Japanese have transferred their activity to the Rus southern frouts. A is proceeding. . im- provel and the fYoads are dry 5 vents therefore are likely to be pre- cipltated. GENERAL ENGAGEMENT NOW WHOLE RUSSIAN ARMY CONCEN- TRATED IN THE VICINITY OF LIAOYANG. St. Petersburg, Aug. 30.—The opera- tions around Liacyang have under- gone a complete change. Owing to the delay in the concentration of Gen- erai Kuropatkin's army as a result of the terrible condition of the roads the Japanese seized the opportuniy to attack the slow moving corps and se- vere fighting occurred Aug. 27 and 28, in which the Russians lost another thousand men, and they now probably will have to accept a general e = ment. General Kuropatkin him: scribes the latest phase of the hos- tilities in a long dispatch to the en- peror from a point on the railroad Bemidji, - quality there will SWEATERS In the picture opposite we show one of this season’s novelties—dozens of other styles suitable for any sport or use you may wish to wear them are in our immense assortment just received fromthe “R& W Knitting Mills. All the popular college and athletic club colorings for Men, Women, Boys and Misses will be found in our knit goods department. 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St. Petersburg, Aug. 30.—Tt is re- ported from a reliable source that Lieu- tenant General Stoessel, commander of the Russian military forces at Port Arthur, has telegraphed to the em- peror thanking him for the recent message of encouragement sent to the garrison © at Port Arthur, saying that the defenders of the for- tress are ready and willing to lay down their lives, but adding that the garrison has already suffered severely and intimating that it is hardly pos- sible to hold out for more than a month or six weeks. ' The first contingent of the First army corps has arrived at Harbin. This corps was destined for Vladivos- tok, but upon the urgent request of General Kuropatkin it will be divert- ed to Mukden. From an excellent source it is stated that the ill starred Russian battleship Orel, which already has suffered two accidents, will not be able to join the Baltic squadron. According to reports when her engine trials began it was discovered that the engines had been practically wrecked by workmen in- troducing iron filings into the valves and cylinders. It will probably require man months to repair the damage. This is the seeret of the failure of the Orel to go out on a trial tvip with the other ships last week. JAPANESE RENEW ASSAULT SEVERE FIGHTING RESUMED AT PORT ARTHUR ON SAT- URDAY LAST. Chefoo, Aug. 30.—Severe fighting was resumed at Port Arthur on Aug. 21, according to Chinese who left there on the evening of the 27th. Between Aug. 22 and 26 there was some fight- ing, but it was less severe than that on the 27th. One of the Chinese was arrested and compelled to carry the dead from the battlefield at Pali- chuang, which the Japanese attempted to capture on Aug. 26. Thirty carts were used to carry the dead, number- ing 40u, from the trenches aund out- skirts to the city. A policeman told the Chinese that the eiticient soldiers in the garrison at Port Arthur num- bered over 10,000. A Chinese who lived near Bihlung- shan declares that he saw tihe Rus- sians occupying this fort, from which previons reports stated that they had been driven. Probably both reports were correct at the time they were current, as semi-official advices state that many positions about the fortress change hands repeatedly. The fight- ing, which began on the 27th, soon be- came general. While the Chinese were at sea Aug. 28 the heavy firing was re- sumed. Two junks containing contra- band of war were sunk by a Japanese torpedo boat ten miles off Liaoti pro- montory. It is said that fort No. 5 has changed hands four times and is now unoccu- pied. The Jaj ese filled the moat in front of this with sand bags. GENERAL ROUTKOVSKY KILLED. Russian Officer Loses His Life in En- gagement. St. Petersburg, Aug. 30.—An official dispatch from Liaoyang to the general staff, reporting the continued Japan- ese advance on Sunday, confirms the report that Gieneral Routkovsky was killed during the rearguard engage- ments and adds that Colonel von Raa- ben was also killed. The total of the Russian losses on Sunday is not known, but 400 wound- ed have passed through the fivst aid stations. The losses of the Japanese were considerable. Lieutenant General Routkovsky for a number of years had been attached to the staff of the governor general of the Caucasus as chief of the engineer corps. He belonged to a prominent family of the Novgorod district. Colonel von Raaben was a well known character in St. Petersburg. He was a man of great wealth and was very popular socially. COMMUNICATIONS Telegraph Line Working Direct to Liaoyang. St. Petersburg, Aug. 30.—The de- partment of telegraphs informs the Associated Press that the lines are working direct to Liaoyang, thus re- futing definitely the repgrt that Gen- eral Kuroki had cut the railroad. INTACT. Russian Cruisers Overhauled. London, Aug. 30.—It is stated on good authority that the British cruisers sent to search for the Russian volun- teer fleet cruisers Smolensk and St. Petersburg have overhauled at least one of these vessels. The utmost reti- cence is maintained at the admiralty and no official confirmation of the statement has been given out. Affects Twelve Hundred Men. Pittsburg, Aug. 30.—Notices were posted at the Rankin plant of the American Steel and Wire company or- dering all employes to report for work to put the plant in shape for immedi- 'he resumption will ,20 FOUGHT FOR TEN MILES. Russian Army From Anping Reaches Liaoyang. Hsiaotun, Eleven Miles East of Liao- yang, Aug 30.—The Russjian army from Anping during the afternoon de- bouched on the Liaoyang plain after fighting a rearguard action for nearly ten miles from Anping, bringing its wounded and burying its dead on the way. Six guns are reported to have been lost, but a number of Japanese were captuted, showing signs of great fatigue and hardship. The enormous army, the last of which passed on the Lan valley at 5 p. m., seems to fill the entire plain from the foothills to the ancient walls and is disposed in an or- derly manner through the vast fields of Chinese corn, the soldiers singing as they went into camp despite their unbroken series of reverses, while the baggage and transport trains, caught in the muddy rivulets, attracted the chéery assistance of everybody. Noth- ing apparently affects the heartiness of the men in the ranks. The line of wounded men which reached the great east gate during the evening passed silently through the streets, as desert- ed as the aisles of the catacombs. The litter bearers, with their solitary lan- terns, presented an impressive spec- tacle. WITH FANATICAL BRAVERY JAPANESE REPEATEDLY ASSAULT RUSSIAN POSITION ON THE EXTREME LEFT. St. Petershurg, Aug. 30.—General Kuropatkin has been drawing in all his forces from his eastern and south- ern fronts toward Liaoyang. Anping, Tsegow, Liandiansian and Anshan- shan, constituting the main positions of the outer defense line of Liaoyang, have been abandoned. The heaviest fighting occurred on the extreme left, where the Japanese advanced to the assault again and again with bayonets. The positions at Tsegow and Anping were held by the Tenth European corps. The attacks were deliv with Tanatical bravery.. The Ru lost a large proportion of officers, ten guns and from 1,500 to 2,000 men, but the Russians had been generally suc- cessful in Dbeating off the assaults all along the long line and the Russians declare that the order to retire came as a surprise just when they were ex- pecting orders for a general advance. This is considered to be proof that General Kuropatkin, finding his main positions menaced on the flank and anticipating difiiculties in withdrawing owing to the condition of the roads, which have suddenly been tran med into mud bogs by the rain, considered that a retreat was imperative. The retirement from the east front was greatly impeded by the conversion of the Lan river into a raging torrent and this probably accounts for the failure of the Japanese to follow up the retiring Russians. May Cut Off Russian Retreat. The Japanese column moving up the Liao river and threatening General Kuropatkin from the west is regarded as being extemely dangerous and Gen- eral Kuroki's extreme right seems also to be working around General Her- schelmann’s position at Anping and to be moving toward Mukden. The strength of the enveloping Jap- anese armies may be judged from the fact that General Oku alone, who is coming up from the south, is officially reported to have 75,000 men. Whether General Kuropatkin intends to accept battle at Liaoyang may not be known positively for several days, but the belief several times indicated in these dispatches prev. here that he will withdraw -northward, having found that he is not strong enough to cope with the Japanese and realizing that Liaoyang is made no longer tenable on account of the Japanese threats at his west rear. His retirement un- doubtedly will cause keen public dis- appointment, as it was generally be- lieved that he at last had sufficient re- inforcements to accept a decisive en- gagement and by the military critics his retreat is interpreted to mean a great prolongation of the war. The Tokio report that General Ku- roki had succeeded in cutting the rail- road south of Mukden is not confirmed by the telegraph department, where it is said that no reports have been re- ceived of an interruption of communi- cations. Of course it is realized here that if the railroad north of Liaoyang is cut the position of the Russian army would be rendered serious, if not des- perate, as it probably would compel General Kuropatkin to accept an en- gagement against his will. GREATEST LOSS AT ANPING RUSSIAN CASUALTIES ON AUG. 25 AND 26 THREE THOUSAND KILLED OR WOUNDED. Harbin, Manchuria, Aug. 30.—The Russian losses in the fighting of Aug. 25 and 26, east and south of Liaoyang, were 3,000 killed or wounded. The great majority of the casualties were sustained at Anping. The withdrawal of the Russians from their front at Anshanshan and from their eastern position was made simultaneously for strategic reasons. In the fighting of Aug. 26 the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Saraisk regiment, with a battery, executed a particularly successful flanking move- ment on the Japanese extreme right. Yhe Russians, unperceived, got in the fear of the Japanese, whole columns of whom were mowed down before they Wwere able to extricate themselves. Eyewitnesses agree in admiring the fanatical bravery of the Japanese. Many of the wounded committed sui- cide rather than fall into the hands of the Russians. 2 An additional detachment of 600 Russian wounded was sent northward X REFUSED BY PACKERS STRIKING STOCK YARDS BUTCH: ERS ASK FOR CONFERENCE WITH EMPLOYERS. DESIRED TO BRING ABOUT SETTLEMENT ARMOUR AND HIS ASSOCIATES REFUSE, SAYING NO GOOD COULD RESULT. - Chicago, Aug. 30.—Application was made to the packers by the stock yards strikers during the day for a conference, the purpose being to bring about peace in the industrial conflict waging at Packing Town. The con- ference was refused by the packers. The application came in the form of a communication from the allied trades council and was signed by Pres- ident Matthew Carr of the allied trades. The request was sent imme- diately after the close of a joint meet- ing of the national executive board of the Butcher Workmen’s union and the allied trades conference board and was addressed to J. Ogden Armour and his associates. Mr. Armour, upon receipt of the communication, at once called the heads of the other big packing plants into session. When the meeting of the packers ended a communication was addressed to President Donnelly and his associates declining the confer- ence the strikers had asked for. The reason given was that no good could come from such a conference. The following is the letter which President Donnelly sent to the pack- ers: “Gentlemen—Inasmuch as the exist- ing strike in the packing industry is causing much inconvenience to the general public, as well as creating much ill feeling and criticism, and be- ing desirous of doing eur full duty in this matter we respectfully request an early conference with you with the view to effecting any honorable ad- Jjustment of the controversy.” The packers’ reply was: “Your letter of Aug. 29 has been re- ceived and in reply thereto have to say that considering the present con- dition of our plants and the results of past conferences we can see no possible benefit that can follow any further conference. Therefore we re- spectfully decline your request.” Surrender Must Be Unconditional. “There is nothing left for the men but unconditional surrender,” said a packer. “The leaders should not hesi- tate in calling the strike off so that the men, who are anxious, could find work. Many of them will be rehired in Packing Town, but there are thou- sands who must look elsewhere for employment and they should be re- leased so they can begin their hunt for work outside the’ stock yards. It does not make any difference what peace proposal the strikers have to submit—we shall not deal with the un- ions. The only terms of surrender we shall consider will be the return of the men as individuals.” It is understood that the peace pact which the leaders have prepared pro- vides that the men shall be taken back as union men and the wage scale in eifect before the strike be recognized. The ‘eftort of the leaders is to devise some means of surrender that can -be construed as a “settlement.” There was no indication of the im- mediate realization of the break in the ranks of the strikers anticipated by the packers. Early trains arriving at the stock yards were thronged, about 13,000 men and women being taken in. The crowd, however, proved to be the usual throng of strike break- ers and there was no suggestion of disorder. Desertions from the ranks of the strikers were no greater than usual on Monday. They approximated about 100. The failure of the antici- pated stampede to materialize proved a disappointment to the packers. A development of the day was & walking out of 200 employes of a plant of the American Can company, they being ordered to quit because the com- pany was furnishing cans to the pack- ers. Investigations are maKing at the other Chicago factories of the com- pany and the leaders say if the com- pany is supplying cans to the packers in violation of their agreement to not do so during the continuance of the butchers’ strike the employes of the company all over the country will be called out. RED LAKE LAND SALE. Government Will Continue the Auction at Crookston in October. ‘Washington, Aug. 30.—Preparations are being made at the general land of- fice for the completion of the sale of land in the eleven townships of the Red Lake Indian reservation. The sale, which was inaugurated at Thief River Falls in the latter part of June, when these lands were offered at auction, was not completed and there are still remaining to-be sold 1,020 tracts of 160 acres each, or more than 160,000 acres. This second sale will take place at Crookston and will begin on Oct. 3 and continue until every quarter sec- tion has been offered The sale is a continuation of the first auction and the same rules will prevail.- Nothing less than $4 per acre will be consid- ered, one-fifth to be paid down and the - balance in four annual installments. The original area of the eleven town- ships offered for sale is 256,000 acres, so that more than half of it remains unsold. < Racing Auto Kills Two. St. Louis, Aug. 30.—An auto driven by Barney Oldfield of Cleveland crashed through the outer fence during the fifth race in the world’s fair con- test and killed two men. John Scott, a watchman, was instantly killed and Nathan Montgomery, a negro, died a few hours later from the injuries he received. Oldfield was painfully in-