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BRIDGE GIVES HAY HUNDRED8 OF PEOPLE PRECIPI- TATED INTO THE RIVER AT PORTLAND, OR. THREE DROWNED, MAN INJURED WHILE WATCHING- AN ARMLESS MAN SWIM THE WILLAM- ETTE RIVER. BRIDGE WAS OL AN ROTTEN HAD BEEN CONSIDERED UNSAFE ALTHOUGH IT WAS NOT CONDEMNED. Portland, Or., Aug. 2.While hun dreds of people stood on the Morrison street bridge yesterday to see Clarence Lutz, an armless man, swim across the Willamette river, a section of the bridge collapsed, precipitating more than 100 people forty feet into the river. Minnie Raymond Lottie B. Cameron and Edward Shark were drowned, five persons are missing and eighty persons were injured. Many fell on two house boats moored to a pier immediately under the spot where it gave way. Several persons were injured by striking on house boats, while others were hit by falling timbers. Many fell from the roofs of the house boats into the water, where dozens of small boats and launches picked them up As Lutz was finishing his swim the rowd rushed to the south edge of the bridge in order to get a good view. A section of the Footwalk Gave Way. Some struck on the house boats moored under the bridge, while oth ers fell directly into the river, which Is about fifteen feet deep at that point. Many fell between the house boats, forming a pile ten feet high of strug gling men, women and children. Dozens of boats at the scene soon picked up those struggling in the water, while the injured, who were clinging to the house boats, were taken into the club house of the Port land Rowing club and medical aid summoned. Every ambulance in the city, sev eral fire companies, and a large force cf police arrived within a few minutes, and victims with broken arms and legs were hurried to the hospitals. The bridge is an old wooden struc ture, having been built sixteen years ago, and has been considered unsafe for some time, although it was not condemned. TRY TO GET GOV. TAYLOR. Attempt Will Be made to Have Him Returned to Kentucky. New York, Aug. 2.-Col. T. C. Camp bell, who has had charge of the pros ecution of Goebel's alleged assassins and who for three years lived in the Kentucky mountains preparing the evidence against the conspirators, left New York yesterday for Frankfort, Ky., to obtain from Gov. Beckham a request to Gov. Durbin to deliver Tay lor to Kentucky. In case tl .s demand is refused a mandamus will be sought before the supreme court of the United Elates. Should one be granted and disobeyed, contempt proceedings will be begun. Mr. Campbell will also di rect the prosecution of Caleb Powers, formerly secretary of state, whose trial will be commenced Monday. LOYALISTS DISLIKE IT. Proposed Honor to the Immortal George Brings a Protest. Toronto, Ont., Aug. 2.An agitation started by the national societies of the city is developing to influence the British government to prevent the erection of a statue of Gen. George Washington in St. Paul's cathedral. The United Empire Loyalists, whose forefathers left the states and settled in Canada at the time of the War of Independence are most active in the movement, and an effort will be made to have the Canadian government urge the home authorities not to permit the statue to be placed in St. Paul's. AUTO BREAKS DOWN. Congressman Goes Over the Dash board and Falls Unconscious. Springfield, Mass., Aug. 2. Con gressman Frederick H. Gillett narrow ly escaped fatal injury while making a trip in his automobile with H. R. Dal ton, from this city to Boston. While riding down Stony Hill road in Wilbra ham the forward axle of the machine broke and the left rear wheel buckled. The occupants were thrown over the dashboard, Gillett striking on his head and being made unconscious. He will recover, although severely shaken and bruised. Dal ton escaped with slight injuries. Disappointed in Love. Mobile, Ala,, Aug. 2. Edmund T. Sykes, a bookkeeper and well connect ed, committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart. Despond ency over a love affair is rumored as the cause of the deed. Injured in Railroad Accident. BJJBZII, Ind., Aug. 2.John H. Sulli van, a brakeman, and fourteen rail way employes were injured yesterday In the derailment of a work train on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois rail road- 1 TRAIN RIDDLED WITH tULLCTS- Mob of 200 Men Makes Unsuccessful Attempt to Capture Negro Prisoners. Huntington, W. Va Aug. 2. A Chesapeake & Ohio express train was Ireld up by a mob of 200 men near Clifton Forve late last night and a dtes perate effort was made to take two negro prisoners from the train. Over a hundred shots were fired by the mob, and when the train reached Hunting ton, twenty bullets were burled In the' woodwork of the smoking car and all the window glass had been shot out. Not a passenger on the train was inj jured. Engineer Peck, during the fir ing, had sat in his cab covered by re volvers. At last, when the main body of the mob had almost exhausted their supply of bullete, those who had been guarding the engineer teft, going to ward the smoking car, leaving Peck unguarded. As his former guards turned and ran toward the smoking car Peck pulled the throttle wide open and the train began to move. The i mob, seeing the turn things were tak ing, and fearing that they might be outdone iuthefr efforts to get the pris oners, climbed on the p.latfocrn of the cars and attempted to stop the train by turning the angle cock t& the afr hose, therc?)y applying the brakes, Not understanding the working of the brakes, however, they were unsuccess- i ful, and as the train was under head way, thfy jumped from the moving cars and fired several farewell shots into the windows. The train did not i stop until covington was reached, where the n.groes were placed in jail The negroes are from Lynchburg, Va., and are bei.dved to he the men who seriously shot a white lraketnarr Ed ward Hi'te a few days ago while on an excursion *rain. MOB INFLICTS DREAD PENALTY. on ton, a negro hackmart wlio was caught by two policemen while assaulting Annie Grooves, who is fourteen years old, was the victim, of a mob in this city last night. Houston, was being taken in a arriaKe tronxthe police sta tion to the county jail when the car riage ww surrounded by a mob. The negro Wdt, [jut. inlo another carriage and driven to the gun cluo grounds, a lonely .spor. fust outside the city limits, where lie was bound and submitted to a nameless surgical operation, per formed hy a leading member of the j. mob said to be a physician. The mob left the negro there, and some one re ported his whereabouts to the noliee, who conveyed him to the colored hos pital, where he was given surgical at- i tention to prevent his bleeding bo death. The polieo have evidence that. Houston had been enticing the little girl to his room for several months, She Is --.alf-witted. The negroes are consideruoly worked up over the affiir and are congregating in their section of the city but no serious trouble is atv. prehended. i MINERS' UNION IMPLICATED. camp. Nameless Operation Performed Neyro Ravisher. rr, r-ii A rr I. being nine and five inches respective* Tampa, Fla., Aug. t.George Efaus- ,.,_ Mai Damaging Evidence Found' on Charged. With Dynamiting. Denver, Aug. 2.-Evidence that the Idaho Springs Miners' union was im plicated in the Idaho Springs dyna mite plot has been found on the per son of H. E. Gregory of. the George town union, now under arrest for threats to blow up the Sun and Moon mines power plant. Among his papers was a letter from Chandler, financial secretary of the Idaho Springs union, offering union funds and aid for the dynamiting of the plant. Other evi dences incriminating the union officers and many members has been obtained by sweating Gregory and Bate, ex president of the body, now in jail. Leading citizens of Idaho Springs have taken up slouthing and are constantly developing damaging evidence against the miners' union. As a consequence members are constantly being ordered WEARY OF FRUITLESS SEARCH. the desperados who escaped from tha Folsom penitential/ are still at large and developments indicate that the pursuing officers have become weary of their fruitless search. Following false clews through a rough country under a hot sun has exhausted both civilians and militia. Late yesterday Gov. Pardee issued an order with drawing the Placerville company of the national guard from the cnase, and reports have been received that many members of the sheriff's posses are re tujjiing to their homes. All traces of the outlaws appear lo have been lost and the prospect of their capture is more remote than ever. Outlook Not Good. White Earth, Minn., Aug. 2. The outlook for grain and hay is not very encouraging, the long continued dry spell having a tendency to cut down the yield far below the average. Sardines Killed Them. Burwell, Neb., Aug. 2.The entire family of D. W. Ward, a merchant of Pallagh, were poisoned by eating sar dines. Mr. Ward and two children are dead and a third child is dying. Mrs. Ward will recover. Three Tramps Killed. Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 2. The Santa Fe limited and an east-bound passenger train collided head-on yes terday near The Needles, Cal., killing three tramp3 and injuring several trainmen... o7t^rtown7and"aYftrains and vehicles I meat, and in about a month a new hat arriving are closely watched to see & no longer fit to wear Grease is that evicted men do not return and to about the only thing that wont come prevent officers of the Western Fed-1 out of a derby, and I will be thehat- eratiou of Miners from entering the ter's best customer until the weather grows warm and I will be able to go bareheaded." No Desperadoes Stih at Large and Prospect of Their Capture. Placerville, Cal.. Aug. 2.Twelve of the world's supply of nitrate of soda, STATISTICS OF NIGHT HE"R0N* They Are Sought by the Smithsonian institution. Eight hundred night herons are wan dering tree a.,oi:t the Lv.ited States, i each wearing on one leg an aluminum band inscribed "Smithsonian Institu tion" and a number, if any person shoots one at these birds he should write to Paul E&rtgfh, biologist of the Smithsonian, telling where it was and how large was the bird. The night I heron is one of ".he rr^st beautiful of the aquatic birds of America, but scientists know less about it than they are satisfied with. Last year Mr. Bartsea .discovered several breeding I places of these btirds on the Potomac I itt the District of Columfaa. Recently tfe^ visited, the place- with several asr.,! sistants in the night and the 800! aluminum bands were fastened' to the legs of as many young herons. Science is anxious to know bi&w long the night heron lives, where if spends the1 win- ters and how much of the country it covers in its wanderings, ft iff be- lieved that byr the time a fm of the numbered aluminum bands have been reported some of these facts will have been established to the satisfaction ot the ornithologists. Cleveland. CO Plain Dealer. YHE RAINFALL IN ENGLAND. Cyclonic Disturbances Had Little Ma terial Effect. Fortunately for' the sooth of Eng ]an the cyc i oni disturbances, which this year have been more than usually numerous1,., have kept fairly regularly to their normal track, says the Eon don Chronicle. This course has tak en them across Ireland and' Scotland, and as a result ther rainfall account in these two countries is now much ahead of the average. Scotland north has had an excess of nearly ten inches i the surplusage in the west and east ly. Ireland has beaten the average b between five and six inches. The south of England has-- had but a trifle more than its usual allowance the eastern counties, on the other, hand, being nearly an inch short. Advancement of Women At a meeting of the English Worn en's Liberal association a letter was.! read in which the daughter of George Meredith, the novelist, said' "My father, George Meredith, wishes me to say that it heartens him to see women banded together in union. What na~ ture originally decreed men are but. beginning ta^eethat they are fitted for most of the avenues ooenr to en ergy, and by their entering upon ac tive life they will no longer be open to the accusation men so frequently bring against them of their being nar- i row and craven* Much more he could say, but he has short time at his coin- mand." A Good Place to Stop. He really ought not to have gone into the Latin class that day He was called up first, and read as far as he i had prepared. Then he skirmished on i a little farther. This is the way it went: "I, Ulysses, saw her (Dido's) heavenly, form advancing like. a god I dess in the sunlight. I sprang to ward her, and she welcomed me Her hair fell down upon her shoulders like the sunbeams an Olympus. Her eyes shone' like two jewels of the sea. II threw my armsmy armsabout i about herher neckneckandand that's as far as I gat, professor." I Philadelphia Ledger. The Butcher and His Hat. "I always thought it paid to be po lite until I got into this business," re marked a prosperous retail butcher,, "but I find that it costs me about $25. a year. My trade is with nice people, and when fashionable women come into the shop I have to tip my hat to them. A 'butcher's fingers are always more or less greasy from handling the Production of Nitrate of Sda. The annual report of the Nitrate Association of Chile, which controls shows the production lit 1902 to have been 2,982,522.80 pounds from sev enty-eight works. Th nitrate beds are near t- 8 surface) asai are worked as stone quarries. It is anticipated that the immense amount of nitrate the United States now gets from. Chile for use in fertilizers will. ulti-. mately be supplied by factories mak ing it by electrical process from. th air, as is being done at Niagara FaJHs. Etiquette of the Feud, "There's just one thing, sahx** ob serbed Col. Gore of Kentucky* "in which we are away behind Turkey." "What's that?" Col. Bullet asked, quickly. "Well, sah, after a general killin' tha porte always sends a polite note of apology to the survivors of the massacre. If we could only end our feuds in that way, sah" "But we can't, sah," exclaimed Col. Bullet, excitedly, "for the simple reason, sah, that when one of our feuds ends no body's left, sah, to apologize to!" The World's Rarest Bird. To find the rarest bird in existence you must go to the mountains between Anam and Loas, where there is a cer tain kind of pheasant. For many years its existence was known only by the fact that its longest and most splendid plume was in much request by mandarins for their headgear. A single skin is worth $500. and the bird living would be priceless, for it toon dies in captivity. Hi* Momentary Lapse of Deference2 Cost Him High Position. It does not pay to laugh at kings, at- lease in their presence. On several occasions where men have been given to levity before monarch* it has been amply DToved that this awkward1 is so. It was for the confidential adviser off the czar of Russia, not long ago, that he was unable to control his im pillse to smile. On the occasion in question the czar was tired and in an unpleasant frame of mind,. His foot slipped on a wolf-skin mat. There was something so funny about It that the confidential adviser lost control of his features. That laugh at the wrong time cost him his high position and a salary o many thousands of dol lars a-year. WASTE PUBLIC MONEY. Example of the Incompetence of Brit ish. Officials. A somewhat curious waste ot public money has just been brought to- light by the report ot the British Committee of Public Accounts. Recently the war department built a store for the am munition of the navy at Gibraltar, costing 42,000, to be charged a navy votes. The store was found too* damp to keep ammunition in so it was I converted into a cold, meat storehouse for both army and. navy. This was done at the-, expense of 47,000, In cluding thej cost ot freezing machin- ery, etc., making a total expense of 89,000, of which the army pays only 23,000, although each department re ceives the same accommodation as the other. Stamping. Out Use of Opium-. When the Japanese took possession of Formosa they found there a. popu lation more or. less addicted ta the use of opium.. It was decided ta abol ish the practice by degrees. Only those who have suffered from its ef fects to ther extent that it occasions intense pain to deprive them at their pipe are now permitted, by a. special warrant which they are obliged to procure, to. continue the use thereof. To newly commence opium smoking is strictly forbidden, or even continue it unless it can be shown that absten tion is impossible. A government monopoly of. the article was expressly established to facilitate the final, ex tinction of the habit of using it In. the Wrong Places A well known and popular physi cian, whose belief in the fiiture '&:. cords with that of the late Col. Inger soll, had occasion recently to perform a surgical operation upon man not select in his- language. After etheriz ing his patient the operation was suc cessfully performed. Whun the effect of the ether had passed off, the sub ject, looking wildly around the room exclaimed: nfhere am I?:" The doc tor replied,. "Oat you arfi all right." "But," said, the man, "h may he all right, but where am I?" The doctor answered: jocularly, "In Heaven." The patient responded: "If .that's so^. I'd like to know what in, you are doing here!" Recklessness of the Motorist That, the motorist can not help reckless driving was maintained by a French savant in av recent meeting of scientists in Paris:. The furore steals on them. In. setting ont they intend to go at a moderate paee, but as they warm to tha- work they must rush on faster and faster. The flying landscape through: which they tear I forward produces the, kind ofgiddi-.l n.esa which Arabs say takes hold of.' them in the fantseria. In this state motorists would run down those] nearest and dearest to them as un hesitatingly as though they were, spo' many animals.. Is Richest Woman in World*. Mrs. Mary Lauise B. Owen of New. York has become the richest woman., in the world through a decision of, the California cpuxts awarding her^ the title to 40,000: acres of. land in Mexico valued at $50,000,000.. Her husband, Col. A. K4. Owen, secured a. grant ojt the land from the Mexican government in 1872. This grant has recently been affirmed Yny the Mexican, courts*, while a dispute between Mrs.. Owejo and rival cj&imauts. in this, country has just been settled by the California tup reuse court in. Mrs. Owejtls favor. The. Hungry Uow-.. A. little boy was being shown a pic ture depicting, a: Rqmaa. arena, in which there were a number of Chris tian martyrs.. A pack 0$ lions were in the act of. springing upon their vic tims. "It isn't fair," said the little fellow, exjdtedly. ''No, my son,"- agreed hisj mother **i]t isn't fair alt those big, hungry liyn&" "But," iifc terrupted the young hopeful, "therms, one poor Hon that hasn't get ay, Christian." W Be Credit to America. Eugene H. Lehman, the young Col- oraido college student, the first Amer ican to be awarded a Rhodes scholar ship at Oxford, worked hfe way through Yale, where he got employ ment as a tutor at $1 a day andi wheeled an invalid in her chair for 25 cents an hour. His credentials showed a higher percentage than those submitted by twenty other stu dents. Morgan's Gold Dinner Service. Pierpont Morgan has a gold dinner service, said to be worth $80,000, which was presented to him by Will lam H. Vanderbilt when he (Morgan) made an extensive sale of New York Central stock in Europe. It is a re production of a service in the British royal family, but the Morgans are not fond of display and seldom use it Subscribe for The Pioneer, REED ny^si WINTER IN EXTREME SOUTH Frightfut Gold Experienced in the:Ant artic Circle. A sailor on the ar.tarctic ship Dis covery, whose commander, Capfc.Sctitt, has approached nearer the south pole than any other explorer, writes as fol lows of his winter experiences: "We had 223 days without the suflr, and 104 day's complete darkness. We went through it all gay. Lowest tempera ture registered, 58 degrees below zere. You do cot feei the coloE very mush wtthout tne wind then, with wind, look out! First your nase, then ears, then fingers go. WB never go out atone on account of the heavy bliz zards. Your companion will turn round and say: 'Your nose is gone** It turns as white as this paper. You turn away from the wind and pull your mittens off to bring your nose around by that time your fingers are gone, so it's no pleasure going out in a slight breeze. The blizzards are fear ful. Mr. Bernacchi and the engineer went to a hut fifty yards away, and, though roped from hut to ship, were lost in a blizzard for two and three quarter hours." HAIRY AINOS OF JAPAN. Peculiar People Whose Characters Be* He Their Looks. A traveler in Japan thus describes the hairy Ainoa of :at counirv* '"Tfce REED & KNUTS0N Blacksmith and Wago Makers BENIDJ'I, MINNESOTA & KNUTSON have opened a blacksmith and wagron shop one door south of The- Pioneer, and are prepared to handle any and all work in their line and guarantee satisfaction to all comers-. Mr. Reed: make* a specialty of horseshoeing and' general blacksmith work, and his work is fiyo well known to need any introduction to the people of this vicinity. Mr. Knutso* has been in the employ of the St. Hilaire Lumber company- for four years, and comes well recommended by that company. Give the nw firm a chance to show yon what they, (an do, and you will not 8e disappointed REED & KNUTS0N Second door south of postoffice, BEMIIKtf, MIM. C. D. Steece The Sign Mai\ Is here to stay, and is prepared to do all kinds of tm-to-date Painting, Paperhang ing, Free Hand Relief Work, Kalsomin ing, Etc. i ML WOR IS GUARANTEED DON'T FORGET TO SEE HIM BEFORE LETTING YOUR JOB. HE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY. LEAVE ORDERS AT bEAUDETTE'S TAILOR SHOP. C. D. STEECE THE SIGN MAN BEMIDJI, MINN. 'fV Elrst Class Sample Room- Choicest Brands. Mac's Mint Geo. MeTaggart Prop. Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Beltrami Avenue. Bemidji, Minn. Subscribe for tlie Daily and Weekly Pioneer The two best papers printed between Crookston and Duluth :AJ men are about the middle- height-, broad chested, broad shouldered thick set, very strongly built, the. arms and." feet large. The bodies andr especially the limbs of many are covered with short,, bristly hair. I bav seen two boys whose backs are covered with fur as- fine and soft as that of a- cat. We were ferried over a riv.er by an Aino completely covered wtch hair which on his shoulders was wavy like that of a retriever and rendered' clothing quite needless, either for covering or for warmth. A wavy black beard rippled nearly to his waist over his furry chest, and with his black locks hang ing in masses over his shoulders he would have looked a thorough savage had it not been for the exceeding sweetness of his smile and eyes." new idea in Physiology. It is possible that the school child may be quite as readily fatigued by inspiring the waste products of his fe& lows as by his own, and that the busi ness man is more liable than the agri cultural laborer to become run down, not so much because he works harder or more monotonously and therefore personally manufactures more waste products, but because his tissues are more liable to become saturated with the waste products of himself and oth ers derived from the confined atmos phere in which he works. Excessive fatigue from a railway Journey Is like ly to be noticed if the cars are. crqwded or ttl ventilate