Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 15, 1904, Page 1

-A Pioneer :: WANT AD = ‘Will Do Ir. The f-ht.n any other: news- “between Duluth ;n Czookswn. St Paul and the North Pole. VOLUME 2. NUMBER 178. o TEN .CENTS PER WEEK S gw FEDERATION OF “‘LABOH. FATAL FOOTBALL GAME.' Important Anouncement Ladies who up to the present time have not found just what they want in the late styles of Fine Footwear will be more than repaid if they will call and see our distinctive and exclusive models in Gun Metal and Patent Leather Walk- ing Boots. Nifty, Snappy, New Shapes. Another invoice just received of that popular O. K. last. Bring your repairing here; we have engaged an artist in this line. We have now in connection with the store & first cla: pair sbop and are prepared to do your work promptly give you conscientions :ernne d\]fl e\]mrt \\ork (,umom Work a s ccialty. @ 4 5 H [ piano | Straw’s Shoe‘Smre. Piano Tickets I Tic'kets 3 Swedback Block 403 Beltrami Ave Special Low Rates Southwest November 22 The Jowest round-trip homeseekers’ rates of the year will be in effect to Oklahoma, In- dian Teritory, Texas and New Mexico. In the growing and prosperous Southwest you can work outdoors almost the year round and the best of it is the land works with you. The growing season is longer, there are no long, cold winters to contend with, the num- ber and variety of erops is greater and profits correspondingly increased. Lot me give you details about these greatly wdueul rates and about our train service. Free ilistrated booklets on request. W. L. HATHAWAY, District Passenger Agent, 322 NICOLLET AVENUE, Minneapolis, Minn. Thru the Heart of the Most Productive Section of the United States runs the Northern Pa:ific Railway VEdsw -Minneapolis--Heleaa--Butte--Spokane--Puget Souud A few industries of this region: Farming Stock Raising Mining G. W. McCASKEY, Dis’t Passenger Agent, 4th and Broadway, - - - St. Paul, Minn. Send four cents for Lewis and Clark Bookle, to A. M. Cleland; General Passenger agent, St. Pau!, Minn. § For Emigration Pamphlets write to €}, W. Moit, General Emigration agent, St. 1‘:\\1}, Minn., S ecnai ale I‘or one week only, November 14 to November 21, we will have a special sale on Cut Glass and Hand-Painted Chinz in order to make room for our large line of Holiday Goods which we are daily receiving. Here is a chance to select suit- able and appropriate Xmas Gifts at a great re- duction in price. Call and see our line and you will easily be convinced of the facts. Waicl: repairing a “l.lld envla,vmg a specialty. George T. Baker @ Co. Located in City Drug Store. Lumbering fo e fode oo b b e o e o o e s o o oo e e e o e e i €. W. Hastings, President. A. P. White, Cashier, _;% F. P. Sheldon, Vice-F G. N. Millard Ass’t Cash. b . . : * First National Bank, i Bemidji, Minnesota. i General Banking Business. & : feog Tire Insurance. FEFLEFRER DR BEE BT ERPERE RS Savings Department in Connection, fi%&%%%%%@%% * Lo JAPS BEGOME ACTIVE INDICATIONS OF AN EARLY RE- SUMPTION OF OPERATICNS ON A LARGE SCALE. HEAVY. REiNFORCEMENTS FOR OYAMK LATTER APPARENTLY READY TO WAGE BATTLE FOR POSSES- SION OF MUKDEN. Mukden, Nov. 15.—Signs of a seri- ous engagement taking place within the next few days have been increas- ing. The Japanese are displaying | great: activity eastward. Fears are beginning to be expressed that the railroad will not be able to bring up sufficient supplies. . St. Petersburg, Nov. 15.—The latest indications from the front point to an early resumption of military opera- tions on a large scale. -Field Marshal Oyama has received heavy reinforce- ments from Newchwang and evidently is about ready to wake battle for the possession of Mukden. The Japanese are showing particular activity on their right flank, as if they were con- templating a turning movement from that direction. General Kuropatkin has fortified his positions alocng the Shakhe river and as he seemingly is prepared to accept a battle he doubt- less has made dispositions to block a flanking- operation. According to the { opiniou of the military authorities hene his left flank is secure. REPULSED WITH SMALL LOSS. Japancse Forces Attack the Village of “Vuchanin. Mukden, Nov. 15.—The Japanese ou the night of Nov. 12 attacked the vil- lage of Vuchanin simultaneously ot three sides, but were driven oif wiri litde loss. Saturday passcd quietly. There was occasional a ory firing along the line and especially on the i forts. The forced issue of paper roubles has not lowered the purchasing power of Russian woney. 7The Japaunese are paying for supplies wita vouchers which the natives receive with ‘sus- picion. There have been some dis- turbances at Yinkow among the Chi- nese, who prefer Russian money and who have sent a proiest 10 Peking both on this account and: because uf Japanese interference with the wori- ing of the railway. REPORTED DEAD. Correspondent Says Jap Commander Has Been Killed. Moscow, Nov. 15—In a - dispatch from Mukden one of the Russian cor- respondents of the Associated Press says the reports that General Kuroki |_.of the Japanese army has been killed in battle are confirmed. A splinter of a shell struck General Kuroki, tearing out a_portion of his breast and abdomen. He died on Oct. 4 at Liaoyang, but his body was sent to Japan. A rumor is persistently circulated that a kinsman of the mikado's, Siao- sanai. literally the “little third prince,” has been appointed to succeed General Kuroki, but the actual command “of the army has been entrusted to Gea- eral Nodzu, - “ WILL CONTINUE STRUGGLE. KUROKI Czar Sends More of His Best Troops to the Front. { London, Nov. 15.—The Daily Tele- graph’s correspondent at St. Peters- burg asserts that the emperor has de- | cided to send out the Second division of infantry of the guards as soon as dhe troops already called out shall have beenr ' dispatched to Manchulia. ‘The guards usually are sent to the front when there is a monarch or a grand duke in command, The dis- patch of these troops, the correspond- ent adds, shows the determination oi the emperor to struggle to the bitter end. WORK WILL BE RUSHED. Czar Approves Plan to Double Track Siberian Railroad. St. Petersburg, Noy. 15.—The official announcement that the emperor has approved the plan for double tracking the Siberian railroad and that $5,000, 000 has been assigned tor the begin- ning of the project is greeted with the heartiest approval by the press of this {city. The hope is expressed that the work will be begun immediately and pushed to a rapid conclusion as one of the surest means of ending the war. DUCK : HUNTERS DROWNED. Boat Capsized and Two Are Thrown into Water. O’Neill, Neb., Nov. 16.—William Bal- four and Iver Johnson, both of Omaha, were drowned in Goose lake while { hunting ducks. The men were in a { boat which was too heavily loaded and when it dipped slightly the men were 'ovex balanced and thrown into the wa- | ter. The bodies wete recovered. Jobn: gon was traveling salesman for a Miu- { meapolis flour mill. Monument to Maine Soldiers. Andersonyille, .Ga;, Nov. 15.—A mon- ument to Maine soldiers who died. at Andersonville prison was. unveiled here during the day. The monument is of Maine granite and adds another 1 %0 the collection’ of several handsome shafts dedicated by different Northern states to soldiers of their states who died in Andersonville prison, Workman Mistaken for Deer. 0 ‘Winnipeg, = Man, Nov. 15—Joseph Beaudro, a Canadian Northern section man; was mistaken for a deer by & pmty of. hunters who were shooting near Fort Frances and received a bul- let in tnefia.bdomen. “He is in q Twenty-fourth Annual Cc ivention - at San '‘Francisco, San Francisco, Nov. t5.—Four. hun- GREAT ST MGG i Bouth Chicago Boy Will Die of Inju: ries: Recelved. Chicago, Noy. 15.—George Curley, dred and eighty delegales;, represent- ATLANTlc coAs‘r AND EASTERN! ln;neteen years old, was perhaps fatal- ing 3,400,000 membe:a of iabor unions, met during the day iu Lysic hall in the twenty-fourth annual ¢snventfon of the American Federation ol Labor. Present at the beginning ¢f the pro- ceedings were Samuel Gompers, press ident of the American Iedciation of Labor; John Mitchell, piesiuent of the United Mne Workers "0f Ametica; John R. O'Bifen, presideut oi the Re- tail Clerks’ Iuternational association; Max. Morris, general and treasurer; W, D. Mahon, p:esicent of the Amalgamated -AJ ation of Street Railway Employes; . M. Gue- rin, first vice president. he United Brotherhood of Carpe and Joiners of Ameyica; J. O. Walsi, piesident of the San Francisco labot. council, and Mrs. Emma Lamphere, general organ- izer of the Retail Clerks International union. v The convention was called to order by J. 0. Walsh and addpesses of wel- come by him and Harry Knox, presi- dent of the state Federation of Lajor, and H. H. McCarthy, president of the state and local Building Tz ¢s Coun- cil. A reply to these was delivered by President Samuel Gompers, The questions ~which seemed to mokuy interest the délegates - before the calling of the convention ‘to order ‘Wwere those of soclalism and labor-and trade autonomy. ‘These will be thor- oughly threshed out on the fioor. The undercurrent of inferest rg‘a- tive to socialism seems to be AL keen, and two factions hold wideiy fs divergent views as to theladvisability of allowing politics in any form to e ter the labor question. It is expcc that the session will continue 1o+ 70 weeks. > DIRECTIONS DISOBEYED. 8ewing Women Not Reinstated at the Philadelphia Arsenzl. Washinglon, Nov. 15—t from deveiopnients inat Pres:uedt Roosevelt’s direciions regaciing the employment of SCWiDE WoLien at e Schuylxill arsenal in- Khiiadeiphia hayve not been carried into eicci. Mi- chael Doyle of Philadelphiz, represent- ing the sewing women, cancu on ths president during the day aliu inIormea him tkat his orders had ndt been hsed- ed; that only a part of the vork had been restared:to the: wmqen iie point- ed out taat the mzking. of trousers, which a:nounts ‘to ‘about $500,000 a year, hau been witheld t_fom the wom- en in diizct contravention of the pres- ident’s order. After Lvaring Mr. Doyle’s the president sent.a nofe t department asking for a reg: matter and calling attenti fact that he had directed | work-be given to the womcn. | dicated his intentien of ascertaining ‘who had violated his instructions and why they had been yiolated. RESULTS IN FAILURE. Attempt of Fall River Manufacturers to Open Mills. Fall River, Mass., Nov. 15.—An at- tempt by the manufacturers.to open the cotton mills in this city which have been closed for ‘meary foar months by the strike of the operatives agalfist a 12% per cent reduction in wages resulted in failure. The largest number of operatives to report at any one mill for work was forty at tne King-Phillipp mill. At the other places from eight®to twenty were on hand. The machinery was started in ali the'| mills controlled by the Manufacturers’ association promptly at 6:30 o’clock and it is- understood that it wiil be' kept in operation for two or . three days, after which, unless the strikers return to work in latge numbers, it wiil be stopped again." No disorder of eny kind occurred. RUSH IN IRON DISTRICTS. Ore Carriers. Expect |Next Season to Break Record. Duluth, Nov. 15.—Thirty million tons of ore is what the big lake vessel own- ers predict will be the shipping record from Lake Superior in 1906. 'W'bis will break the record of 1902 by 2,500,000 tons, and the prospective record for the present year by 10,000,000 toms. The immensity of ihe tonnage is not easily comprehended. It means (tre: mendous activity in the underground all the coming winter to produce stock piles against the opening of navigation, as well as unusual activity at all the big open pit mines during the coming summer. UNDER CIVIL SERVIGE RULES. Order. Aflectlnq Employel of Isthmian Canal: Commission.. Washington, Nov. 15.—President Roosevelt will shortly sign an order extending the civil service regulations over the employes of the Isthmian canal .commission. The order . em- braces all employes except those .ap- pointed by the president and laborers. Besides about thirty places are excep. ed, such as the secretary to the com- ‘mission, the secretary to the goyernor general of the zone, the customs col- lector for the zone, etc. HEMENWAV FOR:' SENATOR. Congressman Endorsed by Some indi ana Legislators. - Evansyille, Ind., Nov. 15.—Members: of the legislature recently elected from the First district met here during the day and unanimously indorsed James A. Homenway, chairman of the appro- priations committee in the - onal house of representatives, for the sen- ate to succeed Vice President-clect Fairbanks. " Mr. Hemenway said hec ould open headqumers in Indianan- is at once. NECEATIV/IE DANE LAKE REGION SWEPT BY. FIERCE GALES. SOME_LOSS OF LIFE IS REPORVED SLEET AND SNOW PROSTRATES WIRES AND PARALYZES - BUSINESS, [~ Cleveland, Nov. 15. — The flerce °| storm that ‘prevailed over Lake Trig and Northern Ohio throughout the night resulted in the death of at least one person and the serious injury of three others in this city, while the property loss is considerable. Captain Dell Minney of Buffalo lost his life by the foundering of the tug Gregory at the mouth of the river during ths height of the storm. His body hag not.bpen recovered. An unknown man, supposed to have been temporarily ‘blinded oy flying dust and cinders, “was struck by an Eric passenger train and his. skull fractured. He will pro| .ably die. Jacob Mushowick was thrown- against a fence and severely cut and bruised. John Slutikash, watchman at the new Rockefelier building, was struck by a flying board. He was internally injured and suifer- ed a broken leg. No vessels arrived duiing the night. The steamer City of Brie, from Buffalo, came in an hour late and reported the heaviest sea of the year running in' Lake Erie. Great damage was wrought to tele- phone and telegraph wires in-all di- rections. Many poles were = blown down or prostrated by falling trees. WORST IN MANY YEARS: Storm Paralyzes Business in York City. New York, Nov. 15.—A terribie storm accompanied by rain and snow swept the Atlantic coast Suncay. ‘[he storm started up from Kioriua Sauu:: day night. Early Sunday moining :a:.n began talling in New York. Soon inis turned to snow and the hurricane in- creased in violence. Telegraph wires are down in ail di- rections, brief messages being - sent: put - with great diniculty. Railroad “traflic along the coast is seriousiy hin- dered. Many: boats ‘caught in the fury of the Btorm are reported to bein distress, ‘with little chance of aiding them: 3 _ In New York city the stieets are de- serted ana business is paralyzed. Telegraph service is tied up more effectually than at any time since the terrible biizzard of 1888, - Three prisoners from among of sev- New eral hundred confined on an island in | {male passengers are reported to be the East river for petty offenses are thought to have lost their lives in Sun-i day’s storm. “They were “Lrusties” and had rowed a party of visitors back to the city. ‘In the face of the sform the men started back to the island, but; their boat was caught in the higi seas which: swept them out of sight. ‘Watchers along the shore saw them at- | tempt repeatedly to gain shelter, bul | without success, and it is thought they ‘were swept into Long Island sound. ALL WIRES PROSTRATED. 8torm Very Severe in the Vicinity of Baltimore. Baltimore, Nov: 15.—It is apparent from the meager and fragmentary re- ports obtainable by the local weather bureau that the two storms—one from Florida, the other from the - Greai Lakes and Canada—meét a few iniles south of Washington. Rain, wind, snow and sleet continued until a late hour at nigat, causing an almost com- plete prostration of telegraph and. tel- ephone wires out of Baltimore. In Baltimore city rain, snow: and sleet have fallen, causing the demoli- tion ‘of all electric wires outside tae digtrict in the central portion of ‘the city where an underground systein was recently instafied.” - A number of actidents were caused by the failing of wires upon pedesul- ans and hoises, in one case causing a runaway of horses attached ‘to car- riages in a funeral cortege. No one was, however, seriously injured. - Tae fir e alarm wires in the city also sul-if fered from the heavy snowfall SEVERE IN NEW ENGLAND. ‘Wind Reachés Velocity of Seventy-five Miles an Hour. Boston, Noy. 15.—Hew Enzland vag the center Sunday of the storm whick, since ‘Saturday morning, has beei sweeping up the Atlantic seaboacd. ‘When moining dawned Sunday the _immediate storm center was off Cape Hatteras, ‘but in the afternoon it had moved. Lo the vicinity. of Nantucket island. Whe‘ blew with hi¥firicane yelocity. city tho maximum velocity was forty- five miles.at 5:20 in (he afterncon. At Block Island, R: I, theie was a gev- “enty-six mile gale and at Nantucke: this state, a velocity of sixty miles was _recorded. ‘The storm passed east and ‘was severe in Maine and the maritinie ‘provinces. ‘The coast storm was ac: “ompanied. by s ow alee . A - Steamers Seek Skelten -at~its height the wind I In this |- injured in a football game. “When taken from beneath a dozen men who had jumped on him to secure the ball ke wag unconscious and had a severe cut over his right ear. The police am- bulance was summoned and the injur- ed man was removed to his home. Curley went to the South Side with a team to play. against a stock yards eleven. The game was rough from the slart, the teams being evenly matched. The play had been in prog- ress twenty ‘minutes when Curley was injured. The game was not continued after the accident. = SEVERAL WILL DIE. Forty Perzons Injured in Wreck on Wabash Roard. St. Louis, Nov. 15—The Wabash Ohicago limited No. 10, loaded with 1,200 fair visitors, was wrecked on a sharp curve in North St. Louis, fatally injuring Engineer Joseph Hines and Fireman J. D. Llewellyn of Decatur and seriously injuring about forty pas- sengers. The train was going at a high rate of speed when it left the track. The engine and tender turned completely over. The baggage car, day coach and parlor car also left the tracks. Then followed & mad panic among :lhe passengers in wh!ch ‘many were urt. CRAZED BY HARDSHIPS. Dufuth Man Lost in the Woods of Northern Minnesota. Duluth, Nov. 15.—James Murphy, a Duluth man, got Iost in the woods thir- ty miles north of Duluth and was dis- covered by a party of hunters nearly dead from huzger and with his hands and fect so badly frost bitten that they may all have to be amputated. He was alen at once to a Duluth ‘bospital, but it was not sure that he will survive. His mind Fkas given away through terror and hardship. CANDIDATE HAS LOCKJAW. Congressman Landis’ Campaign Has Serious Result. * Logansport, Ind., Nov. 15.—Congress- man Frederick Landis, who has just been re-elected by an overwhelming ma_ority, has developed symptoms of lockjaw. He made a vigorous campaign for weeks before election, delivering sixty Speeches in less than a month, many in the open air. Rheumatism of the throut muscles has set in and he can- not open kis lips. "DEATH LIST INCREASES. Fourteen Persons Perished in Union Pacific Wreck. Salt Lake City, Nov. 15—Late re- turns from the scene of l.ne Cnion Pa- cific wreck near Granger; Wyo., place the number of dead st inurteen, of whom thitteen have been- recovered ‘and identified. The remains of an un- known woman passenger are still un- der the pile of wreckage. Three or four missing and may be buried under the debris. MUST QUIT VENEZUELA PROMINENT EDITOR EXPELLED FROM THAT COUNTRY BY CRDER OF CASTRO. e FRIEADLY TO AMERIGIN INTERESTS BELIEVED AT WASHINGTON THAT " EXILE IS A CITIZEN OF THE 'UNITED STATES. Washington, Nov. 15.—A. F. Jaurett editor of the Venezuclan Herald, has been ordered expelled from Venezuela by President Castro. - The news came to the state dcpast- ment in a cablegram from its legation, at Caracas. No details are given, but it'is stated that Mr. Jaurett has always defended American interestsin his pa- per and has taken the side of the as- phalt company in its recent trouble. It is thought here that he is an Amer- fcan citizea. FAMILY ESCAPES INJURY, Dynamiters Partially Wreck Home of Mayor of Virginia, Minn. Duluth, Nov. 15—An attempt tao blow up the dwelling of Captain Mar- cus L. Fay, mayor of Virzinia, with dynamite, was made at'l a. m. The tamity weie ail in bed and . asleep. The rear part of the awelliag was wrecked, but none of the inn:. was injured. Mayor ¥ay has made himself cig- liked by the strict entorcement of 1ua laws governing the e of liguor aid gambling. The soc . bzs been handled very sul The honmie of A ray is one of the finest on the Mesaba range, and Was completed a yeal 0. Mayor Iay—is a we: man and prominent in Democraiic con- gressional an.] state politic £259 DEATH FROM . CAMPAIGN. Ed Brown, Candidate at Ashland, Wis., Gets Preumonia. Ashland, Wis., Nov. i5.—HEd Brown; for twenty yecars a prominent logzer in Northein Wisconsin and late Deizo- cratic candidate for register of dceds, died during the morning affer a week’s illness from pneumenia incurred dur- Hing tic lato cempaizn. 1o was prom— inent in Mazonic cireles. Winnipeg, Maj Garnet of ihe el ic 1 Prince Alb was Llertm'u(ci tnu after turning on e ligh 2 evenr ing. He was found u;:xgm. helding to the conneiiions Lekhind the switchboard. Tle from his ha thrown open a: dropped to the liteless he Lody 1 lot Infants” Shoes, .worth this week only, per pair per psm' : FOOTWEAR ..BARGAINS.. 1 1ot Chlldren s viei kid, Goodyear welt, $2.00 Shoes; this week only, per pair 1 lot. Bfisses fine box calf Sho »s; Good_yea.i- ; welt; $2.50 vall\e; this week only, per pair Black Cat Hose for men, women and children up to THe: .00 $1.756 2.00 o 25¢, 3 uOl. and