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VOLUME III—NO i ABERDEEN, SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1905 -aa-a. Jj= ONE DOLLAR A YEAR

a Great Army Torn to Fragments

Flying in Disasterous Rout r

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Japanese Operations Handicap­ped by Large Number of

Prisoners

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*-Official report states Japanese I army captured 20,000 prisoners on the I 11th."

Another official report reads: "Russian losses over 155,000; 40,000

prisoners; 26,500 dead on the field and •bout 90,000 other casualties." •

ADVANCING VERY SLOWLY.

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The Russian general staff reports that "the main body has already com­pleted its retreat and the rearguard southward are falling back slowly." What either the "main body" or the ^rear guard" consists of has not been (definitely fixed, but from the dis­patches from the Associated Press correspondents with the Japanese and 'Russians, the two combined must be [but a small portion of the army which

' 'General Kuropatkin had gathered along the bank of the Shakjie and Hun.

, rivers. And yet those who have 'reached Tie pass, worn out from days •f fighting and retreating, are not but

•, 'of danger, the Japanese, it is reported, , having already started another turn-ling movement which will force the

1 iRusslans on to the plains north of Tie ipass, where in their disorganized state they would be easy prey for the vic-itory-flushed soldiers of the mikado. 'The men who escaped are strengthen­ing the fortifications in Tie pass, but jit is hardly possible that the pass can Ike held in the face of the overwhelm-teg forces opposed to the Russians and lit is not likely that Oyama will rest ^satisfied with his victory at Mukden as he did after Liaoyang.

There will be no uneasiness as to [the food supply as long as communi-jcattons are maintained to the north-iirard, as large bands of cattle roam the plains under Cossack herders And every station on the railway is a 'fcuge commissariat' department. The Russian soldier is always well fed. the

tjwup kitchens on wheels always keep-• * 'lug in touch with the men. ^

More Than Half His Army Gene.

As to the losses, General Kuropatkin tew admits that 50,000. wounded were carried off the field. This, with the 86,600 dead left on the field, the 40,000

"prisoners and the wounded left in the tiospitols, comes somewhat nearer the latest Japanese estimate that the total 'Russian losses were 155,000. At thiB irate Kuropatkin cannot have more than 100,000 effective fighting men with him. The army of General Line-

" Titch seems to have made the best re-- treat, but this no doubt was due to the J stubborn fight .made by General Ren-

,^ ;»enkampff on bis extreme left, and the eqaally fierce resistance of General

Russians Fear Japs Are Making Wide Turning Movement.

Tie Pass, March 15.—As after the battle ot TJaoyang, the advance of the Japanese army against the new posi­tions of the Russians at Tie pass is very slow. The leading columns are eight or t*n miles southward in touch with the Russian van posts, but the operations at present are not serious. Field Marshal Oyama shows slight in­tentions of pressing his advantage in an immediate attack on Tie pass. It is probable, however," that a wide turn­ing movement, of which reports are current., is in progress. In such opera­tions the Japanese have the immense advantage of several bases and lines of supply to which is now added the Sinmintin road, while the Russian army necessarily is dependent upon one base and one line of communica­tion and therefore may easily be out­flanked.

NEWS CONDENSATIONS

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.'\AVKaulbars on the right, the latter gen­eral losing 26,000 men.

Neither the army of Kaulbars nor || Rennenkampff has yet been accounted

^sSffor by the dispatches. After his de-jg1/ teat around the Western tombs, Kaul-

bars, finding his retreat directly north-wart cut off, made a detour to the

>, \ ''s!;'^«i**«tward, where he was .still fighting J|at last accounts. Rennenkampff must *§p also still be in the hills to the. east-

'X ifiward. The Japanese report the cap-ig ture of 24 more guns, 65 In all, a rath-

small number considering the de-

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elslve defeat and the number ot men captured.. The Japanese losses have 'fceen > remarkably light in view of the length and severity of the fighting.

The'Associated Press correspondent with General Kuroki's army tells how the battle of Mukden was won. The Russian general was' deceived as to

: where' the blow was to be struck, and . '»fter massing his forces,- on the Japa-- ineso right found, when too late, that tils right waft the objective "of the Japa-

' 'SMt. ' In all the speculation as to peace,

the one point that is coming to the front Is that Russia would prefer to settle directly with Japan without the aid ef any third nationipw

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LOSS IS VERY HEAVY I ^

psiysfii. Saturday, March 11 *AMrsf Nancy Kelly, the oldest" witite woman in Maryland, tis. df ad at the age of 107 years.

The new Norwegian cabinet has been approved by the regent, Crown Prince Gustaf. " - *

Vice President Fairbanks has 'ap­pointed as his private secretary his son, Fred C. Fairbanks. Cp:

Proceedings for disbarment ifave been entered in the circuit court at Marianna, Fla., against J. S. Liddon, former chief justice of the state of Florida.

Oliver Hopkinson; head of one of the oldest and. most distinguished fam­ilies in Philadelphia, is dead, .aged ninety-three years. Mr. Hopkingon was not only the oldest living member of the Philadelphia bar, but was also the oldest living graduate of the Uni­versity^©!; Pennsylvania.

s-i; "feil^Monday, March • 13. • The famous hospice, of 'St. Gothard

in Switzerland has been destroyed by fire. •.

Henry Norcross Munn, editor of the Scientific American, is dead at hlB heme in New York city.

Judge George W. Wakefield of the district court, ex-presi^ent ;of. the Iowa State Bar assoclation.is deadat Sioux City. Kte was sixty-flyis years of age.

General William R. Walker, a Civil war i veteran . and for twenty years proxninent in Rhode Island military

. affairs; is dead at Pawtucket.A<aged seventy-five years.;•

Thomas J. Ryan htus beeninformed by the president that he is to be con* tinued as assistant secretary of the interior. Mr. Ryan h4scheld the office nearly eight years.

• Oneworkman^was killed and three othersmore or less badly injured -by

. Washington, March lS.-Mlaister the collapse of a floor In the tw^stery { OriskSflift )aui cabled the state depart, .tbe Cleveland | iwiwit trim MkteiM f©U«w»; ^ """ "* " * " l

MORE THAN A THIRD OF RU88IAN

ARMY KILLED, WOUNDED

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March l^.—^The "overwhelm­ing character of the Japanese victory,

lis now unfolding itself. The total Russian losses - number 150,000 and the battle is still raging. One fact, almost unprecedented in warfare, is that the Japaneseirave captured a vast amount of bullion;<and this-in itself in­dicate, that the confusion is so great that the Russians are now trying only Ho save themselves.

| v- Thursday, March 9. Senator Bate of , Tennessee is dead

at Washington. The deaths from the plague in India

last week numbered 34,000. Jack ("Twin") Sullivan of Boston

an3 Tommy Burns of Chicago fought twenty-five rounds to a draw at Ta-coma. Wash.

The National Republican Editorial association met in Washington Wednesdayi William S. Cappeller of Mansfield, O., was elected president for the ensuing year.

Dr. Ivan C. , Amllon of Chicago, thirty-three years old, committed sui­cide as a result of excessive brooding over difficulties in the management of a life insurance company.

The resignation of W. W. Rockhill as director of the bureau of American republics has been, accepted and Mr. Rockhill, who has Jseen nominated to succeed Mr. Conger as minister to China, will probably leave for his new post some time in April.

Friday, March The Chicago socialistic city conven­

tion has nominated John Collins for mayor.

Sir Henry Irving has signed a con­tract for an. American tour beginning in October.

Three hundred and eighty^ight West Indian contract laborers have arrived at Panama to work on the canal.

Seven valuable horses died from suffocation at a supposed incendiary fire Thursday night in the stable of John Ward in Milwaukee.

The condition of Russell Sage, who has been ill for several days, is re­ported as much better. He has been suffering from a heavy cold. ®

John Cavins, one of the best knowia men in Indiana, is dead at Indianap­olis. He was five times elected mayor of Indianapolis and was a pioneer in the development of the coal mining Industry of Western Indiana.

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, Tbe:cry, IV'iych George Rhoilea Harris, a leading

Boston banker, is dead at his home in Brookline, Mass.

The British'army estimates for 1905-6 total $149,0G5,000, an increase of $4,-915,000 over the last estimates.

Charles E. Dunwoody, former presi­dent of the Commercial Exchange and one of the best known grain mer­chants in Philadelphia, is dead.^-1^

Jeremiah. Barber, a policeman wlio has served New York city four years, has, it is reported, fallen heir to two fortunes aggregating nearly $300,000.

The Porto Rican legislature has ad­journed after a satisfactory session. One hundred and ninety-eight bills were introduced iq both houses, of which forty have become laws.

Daniel J. Sullivan and Edward Had-ley of the failed firm of cotton brokers of D. J. Sully & Co. have received dis­charges in bankruptcy from Judge Adams in the United States district court. , -> .. _ /

Wednesday, March 15. The severe storm along the'coast of

California has abated. Enormous loss of property is reported.'^ f , *

John Howard, an aged veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars,, is dead at Milwaukee, aged eighty years. ^

Nelson Wellington Hodge, the first school teach'er of Frances Willard, is dead at Harland, Wis., aged ninety-one years.

Secretary Hay is confined to his homt by a recurrence "of his old bron­chial trouble, which make it difficult and painful for him to speak.

Fire at Kharkoff, Russia, supposed to be of incendiary origin, destroyed shops to the value of $500,000. Nine persons were severely injured. - M

Quoen Alexandra, Princess Victoria and Prince and Princess Charles of Denmark have started from London for Lisbon to visit the king and aueen •f Portugal.

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VERDICT OF GUILTY

MRS. CAS8IE L. CHADWICK CON­

VICTED IN FEDERAL COURT

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Cleveland, March 11.—Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick tonight was found guilty of conspiring to defraud the United States by conspiring to procure the certification of checks on a national bank when there were no funds in the bank to her credit.

She was found guilty on all seven counts on which the jury was at lib­erty to judge her.

The original indictment contained sixteen counts. Two of these counts were ruled out during the trial by Judge Tayler and of the remaining fourteen one-half charged her with se­curing the certification of checks with­out having the proper entries made on the books of the bank. Judge Tayler in his charge directed the jury to dis­regard these counts and consider only the remaining seven, which related to the certification with no funds on de­posit. __ -f""'

Unde>r the law she clin be fined each count not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than two years on each count.

J. P. Dawley, her senior counsel, said the verdict was not according to £he terms , of the indictment and the case, would be taken to the court of appeals at Cincinnati as soon as pos sib

WITH DEADLY EFFECT

CO,)v machine tynlfe

DENVER TEAMSTER USES RIFLE

ON SUPP08ED ENEMIES AND

. ON POLICE OFFICERS.

Wagner Wants Enlarged Stock

Yards—Chamberlain Gamb |j| lers Heavily Fined r

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Denver, March 13.—Three -persons dead, one missing, four others in a critical condition and one house in ashes sums up briefly the result of a fierce combat during the day in which George Schistler, a teamster, played the leading part.: Maddened because of bis defeat in a law suit, which Kent Fill, the man whom he pronounced his bitterest eneiby, had been victorious and swearing, vengeance against him and his family, Schistler farmed him­self with a rifle and started out to do murder. As a result Mr. and Mrs Fill and George Schistler-are dead, a child of the Fills is missing V (believed to have been burned to death), Dr. Frank Dulin,. police surgeon, Captain William Bohanna, acting chief of po­lice, and Mike Kelly, policeinan, are seriously wounded; and the wife of Schistler is prostrated aver the affair and may die from the sfiock.

Boys Under 16 Must Keep Gut Menno Pool Rooms—Butte ®

County Cattlemen After :

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One of the most unique and original wolf fighting organizations in the West has been formed by the stockmen liv­ing, in what is known as the Cave Hills region, in the extreme north­western part of South Dakota. The association was formed for the pur­pose of annihilating the big gray wolves, which for some time have been a terror to cattle and horses in that portion of the great cattle range. Each member is to receive 25 cents from each of the other members for each coyote and 50 cents for each gr^y wolf scalp turned in. As the association has a large number of members the bounty for wolves and coyotes will be the largest paid in the West. Boun­ties will be paid only to members of tbe association

& ' S-iS Ban on Pool and Bowling^: ?

One of the most stringent anti-bowling and anti-pool ordinances in the state has been adopted by the town council of Menno, Hutchinson county. The ordinance prohibits boys under sixteen years of age from enter­ing any pool hall or bowling alley un­less accompanied by their parents and all persons between sixteen and twen-ty-bne years of age must have a writ­ten permit from their parents before they can indulge in pool playing and bofwling. These permits must be filed with the town clerk. Boys under twen­ty one years of age are prohibited by the ordinance from setting up pins in bowling alleys even though they may have a permit from their parents.

Plums for South Dakota The congressional delegations from

North and South Dakota want more patronage and they have communi­cated their wish to the president. These two states have been clamoring for recognition for some years. North Dakota probably will have to be con­tent with what it has, but the indica­tions are that South Dakota v.ill land at least two or three consulates. South Dakota has one consular position, that at Beirut, held by G. Ravendahl. The state delegation wants three consular places and it is understood that it will receive at least two, although no official information on the subject can be obtained.

Want Stock Yards Enlarged. r

Owing to the growing importance of Wagner as a stock shipping point the business men of that place are en­deavoring to secure an enlargement of the stock yards of the Milwaukee company. It is believed they will suc­ceed in having the yards materially enlarged without the necessity of call­ing upon the railroad commissioners for aid. A committee of Wagner busi­ness meix recently visited the officials of the Milwaukee road in Chicago and were promised that the matter would be given consideration and if condi­tions warranted it. the yards will be greatly enlarged.

Northwestern railway between Chad-ron and Deadwood, has been sentenced to seven months at the Sioux Falls penitentiary for stealing cigars and other merchandise from the freight shipped between the. two places. He pleaded guilty at Deadwood and was sentenced by Judge Rice.

Fatal Shooting Affray. Richard Galvin, a mining man of

Deadwood, was fatally shot by E. P. Farnham, formerly postmaster at Cen­tral City, now general manager of the Queen of the Hills Mining company. Undue intimacy with Farnham's wife by Galvin is alleged by Farahapi to be the cause of the shooting, which was in self-defense.

Corn Acreage to Be Big. Reports which have been received

from various parts of the state indi­cate that the corn acreage for this year will be fully as large, if not larger, than the acreage devoted to this crop last season.

JAPS OCCUPY MUKDEN

CAPTURE THOUSANDS OF PRIS-

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troops occupied Mukden at 10 a. m. The Russians are panic stricken. Thousands of prisoners and enormous quantities of stores and guns have been captured.

Fushun has also been occupied by the Japanese. The fighting continues on the heights north of Fushun.

IP -fv aft®! ONE SIGN OF PEACE. ^

•aid Rojestveneky's Squadron Has Been Ordered Home.

Washington, March 13.—The Asso­ciated Press has high authority for the statement that the Russian Second Pa­cific squadron has been recalled by the Russian government. While not re­garded as a sure sign of peace the re­call of Admiral Rojestvensky, in the •pinion of European chancellories, Is regarded as a hopeful sign that peace I* at hand.

WILL SUCCEED KUROPATKIN*

GriirWl Dukfc Nicholas Nieholavieviteh • Going to Manchuria.

Paris, March 15.—The correspond­ent at St. Petersburg of the Petit Parisien says that General Kuropat-kin's resignation has been accepted and that Grand Duke Nicholas Nieho­lavieviteh has consented to take chief command in Manchuria.

TERRORIST IS KILLED

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Appropriations Held Down. The total appropriations provided

for by the last legislative session out-Bide of the general bill, as included in the special and continuing appropria­tions, amount to $365,044.56, which is but a little over half the special ap­propriations provided for two years ago. The general appropriations bill for the session of this year exceeded that of two years ago by a little oyer $200,000, but the total combined ap-propriatiops of both classes were $210,-804,45 less this year than two years ago.

Chamberlain Gamblers Fined. In the circuit court in session at

Chamberlain the trial of eight gam­blers resulted in the closing of their houses and the imposition of fines! For the past three years gambling houses have been running wide open at 'that point. Clyde Kenney. Avery McMillen, Harman Kirsch and Teddy Gilbert were fined $300 each. Frank Simons, Joe Colter, J. C. Arnes and J. F. Rodgers were fined $100 each, k

Lawrence County Pays Big Taxes The taxpayers of Lawrence county

bav© paid the sum of $177,169.78 for taxes for^the year of 1904 and $184,-166.59 for the 1904 taxes and taxes prior to that year. These are the larg­est sums ever paid the treasurer of Lawrence county for taxes. Very few of the taxpayers have asked for an extension of the payment of their dues.

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Sent Up for Looting Cars. : D, L. Ellis* #., brak^man on the

Petersburg, March 11.—The ex­plosion of a bomb at the Hotel Bristol here just before daylight blew to atoms the owner of the bomb, a man wttb. an English passport and giving the naine of Alfred Henry McCullough, and wrecked the adjoining rooms, killing the wife of an offiaer and injuring several other lodgers. The explosion was heard blocks away and created a tremendous sensation. There is not the slightest doubt that the man Idlled was connected with terrorist plots. The bomb was of the same power as those <which killed the late Minister of the Interior von Plehve and Grand Duke Sergius, creating the same havoc as did the explosion at the Hotel Du Nord last spring.: The preliminary in­vestigation of the police leads them to believe that McCullough was en­gaged either in packing his effects, as the Hotel Bristol was to be vacated, or in preparing for some desperate enterprise y;hen the bomb fell and ex­ploded. The police -immediately sur­rounded the hotel with mounted gen­darmes, allowing no one . to within fifty .paces. •

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TWO NEGROES LYNCHED.

Assailants of Professor H^rtiy ,£aught • andHa.nged.w4*

Selma, Ala,, March 15.—Ed and Will Ptomey, negroes, who Monday shot and fatally wounded Professor: Claude Hardy, were captyred during- the day by a posse ot citizens. They were Im­mediately taken to a near-by swamp and hanged.' nv ~

Kerosene Lamp Set Five Story Tenement House on

Fire

Nineteen Lives Lost and Many, Injured as Result of Crim-

inal Negligence

New York; March 15.—Nineteen sons dead, two score injured, - some so seriously that they may die, and nearly 200 persons temporarily homeless is in brief the story of New York's latest Are horror. The victims of the day's disaster Were typical East Side people, the scene a typical East Side tenement at 15 Allen street, and the Incidents at­tending it were in many wa#s peculiar to that cosmopolitan; quarter. To ap­parently reckless displays of heroism shown by firemen, policemen ,and vol­unteers alone is due the fact that tbe list of dead is sot greater.

Two hundred persons-herded in the big five-story double decker tonomept bouse were sleeping, when flames from aa overturned or exploded. kerosene lamp In the basement spread: through the structure and wrapped the entire ' building in flames almost before an alarm had been sounded. Even when the sleepers awoke at the first cry It, was almost too late, but hardly more than a moment was necessary to show them that their troubles had scarcely begun.

The long narrow iron fire escaped which ran down the building on each •f Its exposed sides had been made receptacles for rubbish of all descrip­tions and in many cases they > were lit­tle better, than useless. It was found, also, that, every fire escape platform on the building had la it a "bUnd'.Vor a square piece 6f board which fits Into the opening through which th* ladder passes In the grated floor. Tb» 'result of these obstructed escapes was evident whpn it was found Out nearly ' aU -of the dead belonged . on the top floor of the . building, and were roaBted • before . (hey were able to reach the ground., Another case of negligence whleh •was responsible for tbe loss of some lives was an immovable skylight at the head of a ladder leading te the roof. Battened securely and partially covered with ice, this skylight resisted all efforts to force it and a pile of the bodies of the dead lay underwhen tfce horror was over. ^ •

' It was oh the ilame-swept lire es­capes that the finest displays ef hero-tun-were shown. Soores'of.men, wo­men and children driven Jrom the rooms by the flames, whloh swept up through hallways and light shafts, towered high in the atr'om the hot Iron ladders and platforms, the flameB swirling around them as they waited for help. Through this flameB and smoke, time after time, the firemen rushed up to their assistance and every trip meant a life saved. From the fire escape, too, the men plunged through windows belching flames to come forth a moment later bringing an unconscious form to some place of safety. Many of the firemen and 4>th«r, rescuers suffered. severely1 but they

..continued at the work until it was fin­ished.

^ DURING GOOD" SERVICE.^ m -—

"Present Federal Officeholders WlllrBe Retained. March 10.—^A: general w

policy as to federal appointments: determined upon by the president and . his- cabinet at their semi-weekly meet- -lng. At the conclusion of the meeting it was anounced that, for the present at least, the uniform' policy would be to retain incumbents in office during satisfactory service. This policy will hold, it was stated further, entires •£$ irrespective of the length, of service JIM of *the incumbent. The -policy ,a|i-' nounced Is to apply generally -to all departments of the government.

SEVEN MINERS KILLED.. |

Hurled to Bottom of Shaft by Breaklno of Rope on Hoisting Carriage. •

Wilkesbarre, Pa., March 10.—Whue" " seven men were being hoisted in the carriage in the Clear Springs colliery:^ at "West Pitson the rope broke and tHe:

men were hurled to the bottom, a dis­tance of 250. feet. All were kUie<}?';'

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WEL8H MINE DI8A8TER. •

Twenty-six Men Perish as -Result;«f Explosion.

Cardiff, Wales, March 11.—It it uqir announced that twenty-six lives were lost as a result of the explosion which occurred in the Cambrian colliery at Ciydach Vale, in the Rhonda n

ADVER8E TO WiLllTAM J. BRYAN.

Decision of Connecticut Court InvBefe ^ ^, nett Will Case.i^^M^^^i

Hartftfrd, Conn., March" l10.—fn^l decision handed dowja. by the supreme court the superior court is upheld in declaring that the sealed letter In the, -Rhilo S. Bennett, will captaining a be- > fluest, <rf,$50,00(f William JkPiyan 'h Is jjiot a part of th^ .Bennett w^|. Tbe

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