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KUROPflTKIN IS IN i- 5y 1 1 I RUSSIAN GENERAL IS DIRECT- l. ING FORWARD MOV OF THE ARMY. CONCENTRATING ON BANK OF RIVER Engagement Believed to Have Oc curred—Mikado's Forces Reported 11 as Falling Back—Three Russian Ships Sunk. ii St. Petersburg, Oct. 11.—Gen. Kuro patkln is in the field, personally direct ing the forward movements of the army, "which, it is understood, is divided into two strong columns, moving on each side of the railroad, whence they will draw their supplies, their flanks being assured by no less than 150 squadrons of Cossacks. The Russians are operating along a front of between 40 and 45 miles, extending from Kaoutou pass to Bent Biaputze on the east and across the Hun river to the left bank of the Liao river on the west. They are taking every precaution against possible counter at tacks, throwing up entrenchments as they advance southward. Field Mar shal Oyama, however, has not yet shown a disposition to strongly hold his outer positions. The evacuation of Bensia putze left the flank of the Japanese po sition at the Yentai mines unprotected, and news of the abandonment of the mines is, therefore, hourly expected. The Japanese appear to be concentrat ing their forces in the fortifications for merly occupied by the Russians on the .. right bank of Taitse river, which are exceedingly strong, and they have an equally good defense north and south. 4 The Japanese retired from Bentsiaputze 5 almost without a struggle, fearing that $ Gen. Mistchenko's Cossacks would sur round the position and cut them off. Bentsiaputze is of the highest imper ii tance. commanding the roads from Mukden and Fushun to Liaoyang and Bensihu. Private advices from Mukden just re 5 ceived indicate that the artillery is al- Teady at work. An engagement is re ported to have occurred Sunday on the Russian right flank, 14 miles southwest 5 of Mukden. I- I Change in Situation. A dispatch to the Dourse Gazett« frcrm Mukden, dated Sunday, says: "The general situation at the seat of war has materially changed. The Japanese main army is retiring south ward. Its right wing has gone 30 miles southward, evacuating Sianshan, Sinangai, Saimatsze, Fenshui Pass and the neighborhood of Kwandiansian The Japanese are thus giving up not only the positions which they occu pied after the battle of Liaoyang, but places they had previously taken." Firing Heard. Mukden, Sunday, Oct. 9. (delayed in transmission).—The sound of a heavy cannonade is distinctly audible from the center of the Russian advance. Three Russian Ships Destroyed. i-f Tokio, Oct. 11.—It is reported her? that the Japanese recently centered a fire from the land positions and from the fleet blockading Port Arthur on the west harbor, with the object of de stroying the Russian fleet, and suc ceeded in sinking three vessels, the names and character of which are un known. The failure of the Port Ar thur fleet to make a sortie i3 creating the impression that the F.ussians in tend to destroy their ships just before the fall of the fortress in preference to taking the risk of a sortie. Scouts Ambushed by Japs. .1 Mukden, Oct. 11.—On the westerc front Sunday a party of Caucasian scouts, while reconnoitering, fell into an ambush of two companies of Japan* ese infantry, who fired a volley at the scouts. Before the latter could with draw they lost ten wounded, including a lieutenant, Kousoff, and one man killed. Mikado Hopes for Victory. London, Oct. 11.—A dispatch to a news agency from Tokio says: "At an audience Monday morning the emperor of Japan handed the premiei a message to the nation, as follows: 'Since the commencement of hos tilities our army and navy have dis played conspicuous loyalty and bravery, and, with the oflicials and peo •i pie with united minds complying with our instructions they have hitherto steadily advanced by progressive steps. Nevertheless, our prospects of final success are still distant. I earnestly ... hope that the sincerity at the national spirit will enable us to realize our final object.'" Cleveland to Speak. New York, Oct. 11.—The following was given out Monday at democratic national headquarters: "Chairman Taggart, of the democratic national committee, announced this morning .that he had received information to the effect that Former President Grover Cleveland will make one speech in New York city jn support of Park ier and Davis. The chairman was not able to .announce the date on which this speech will be made." Death of an Inventor. New York, Oct. 11.—Henry A. Gouge, well known as an' inventor of ap paratus for heating railway coaches, is dead at his home in New Rcchelle, N. IT. He y%s a close friend of the late James G. Plain*?, whom he accom panied on many spgakjpg tours. English Author Dead, dcm, Oct. 11.—John Hollingshead, and journalist, is dead. He waa 1827. ORDER NO. 78 WblcU Judye Parker Will Not Have a Chance to Revoke. Nothing in the Democratic quiver of whereases against President Roosevelt has failed so utterly as that arraign ing his pension order, No. 78, making the proof of certain ages by old sol diers evidential facts of certain de grees of disability. If the order had been cunningly de vised to betray the great constitutional lawyers of the Democracy into mak ing more than the usual kinds of con tinental asses of themselves it could not have succeeded more completely and ludicrously. When the great "Parker Constitution club," of New York, started in to arraign Theodore Roosevelt for going through the con stitution as if it were a paper hoop in a circus ring, it attacked his issu ance of order No. T8 in these words: "We find that President Roosevelt deliberately disregarded article 1, sec tion 9, of the constitution, providing 'No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appro priations made by law.'" Now, what are the facts? Order No. 78 assumed that an old soldier who is G2 years of age is prob ably able to earn only one-lialf of the support the statute provides in case of total disability, at which stage he ar rives when lie is 70. and says he shall be entitled to the munificent sum of $6 per month as a pension and it finds that at (55 he is two-thirds disabled and entitled to $S. There can be no serious objection to the principle of the order, which is based on the experience of mankind as to the gradual decay of human powers. By reason of strength many men are as able to "earn a support" at 70 as at 30, but the vast majority at GO have passed the line where they are fully capable of doing so in "the perform ance of manual labor," and the evil days approach when "the grasshopper shall be a tuirden and desire shall fail." Order No. 7S merely recognizes the course of nature, but it draws no mon ey out of the treasury without authori ty of law. It was issued March H. 1904. to be effective April 13, 1004. Congress being in session it was re ported to that body with the request that .?1 ,."500.000 be appropriated to car ry it into effect. The sum was em bodied in the pending deficiency bill, after free discussion the money was voted, and in due order under the act of congress, the pensions began to is sue. and not till then. Every cent paid under order No. 78 was drawn from the treasury in consequence of "an appropriation made by law." Exit the Parker Constitution club, of New York, with its constitutional ears at half mast. Now, mark the sequel: On Sept. 10 last. $1,410,000 was covered back into the treasury as the unexpended bal ance of the appropriation of .$1,500,000, after paying $90,000 on 18,027 claims adjudicated in April, May and June to the end of the fiscal year. Of the certificates issued only 2,850 were for original pensions to veterans who had reached the age of 02 or upward, and 14.708 were increases allowed to claim ants who were receiving pensions for disability less than the amount to which they were entitled under the pension for age. Thus, it will be perceived, the dread of a heavy pension raid on the treas ury by reason of order No. 7S has gone glimmering along with the con stitutional hysterics of the Farker Constitution club, of New York. if. "Our foreign policy has been not only highly advantageous to the United States, but hardly less advantageous to the world as a whole. Peace and good will have followed in its footsteps." Roosevelt's Letter of Acceptance. Tom Watso* finds in the visit of ex-Senator Jones of Arkansas to Esopus occasion for this line burst of pity for the Democratic candidate: "Poor Park»r! His burdens were already heavy. Too much Cleveland, too much Hill, too much Belmont, too much Mc Carren, too many slights put on Tom Taggart, too much Gorman, too much juggling with the old English language, too much foxiness generally—but when Jones of Arkansas rolled up, we could almost see the same old pick and spade and shovel with which he dug the graves for the Democraticnntional can didate in the memorable campaigns of 1800 and 1900." In truth, it was hard that the judge should have to endure a visit from the first Democratic na tional grave digger' a month previous to his political decease. Boss Patrick H. McCarren has indi rectly conceded that Roosevelt will car ry New York by r0,C00 to CO,OCO. In discussing wkat should be the proper betting odds between Higgins and Her rick, candidates for governor of New York, he said, it was an even thing, and immediately thereafter in answer to another question claimed that Hig gins would run 60,000 or 00,000 behind Roosevelt. Putting two and two to gether would indicate that there is no doubt in the boss' mind how New York will go in the national elect'on. A vote for Judge Parker in the com ing election wil be a vote of censure on Theodore Roosevelt. It is incon ceivable bow any patriotic, fair tiinded American can take tlint posi tion toward a inan of President Roose velt's character and record. If there is a citizen of the United States anywhere who has too much business and too much employment, and longs for the stagnation that pre vnlV.'l from 1S93 to 1898, he can con tribute to that eu(J b^ voting the Dem ocratic ticket this year. (WORLD'S FAIR LIDES WITH TRAIN IN SPECIAL COL* A FREIGHT MISSOURI. MANY OTHERS INJURED, SOME OF THEM FATALLY The Collision Occurs at "Doad Man's tial Bend," Near Warrensburg Par- country in List o£ Dead—Conductor's E«* planation of Cause of Disaster.,,. Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 11.—Twenty seven persons were killed ana 30 injured, I some of them fatally, in a head-end col- |,^ lision Monday two miles and a halt ,....... east of Warrensburg, Mo., between aj Missouri Pacific passenger train and a j-fc heavy west-bound extra freight train. I The collision occurred in what is called "Dead Man's Bend." Both engineers and both firemen saw the danger and jumped. Travel to the world's fair has been so heavy that all roads recently have been sending out many of their trains in two or more sections. The ^00^ hy wrecked train was the second section Of No. 30, and was made up at Wichita Sunday night, and, as is the custom, it picked up additional coaches along the line. The last coach taken up was at Pleasant Hill, Mo. All of the co&chea were crowded. Partial List of Victims. The following is the list of known dead: Mrs. W. J. Darst and son Gilbert, aged 12, Dexter, Kan. W. H. Allen and two sons, Bird and Francis, Pittsburg, Kan. Dorothy Greer, Pennsboro, Mo. L. F. Bures, Bronaugh, Mo. Cal. Reed, Bronaugh, Mo. Gertrude Loud, Bron augh, Mo. Dick Ream, Bronaugh, Mo. Annie Kane, Pittsburg, Kan. G. A. Webber, Fountain, Pa. Clarence Her ring, Kan. Sidel, head brake- man of freight Nelhe and van, Cherry Vale, Kan. Hatty Kelfey, Oxford, Kan. M. Lindsay, Oxford,j Kan. Dosia Gregg, Bronaugh, Mo. Dr. H. L. Mcllheney, Springman, Kan. How Disaster Occurred. The freight train was an extra. Its crew had, according to the story of the conductor of this train, been instructed to take a siding and let the passenger train pass. The first section of the pas senger train had gone by when the freight pulled out. The passenger train The passenger train was made up of three coaches and a Pullman, with no erally cut the coach in two in the cen-' ter and never stopped until it had plowed right were so terribly injured that they died before they could be removed from the debris. Many of the dead were al most unrecognizable. Arms and legs were dismembered in several cases and, together with baggage and pieces of wreckage, were tumbled together into a confused mass of bleeding human forms. end of wfiich rears above it, the clothing Brakeman Sidel, escaped miraculously, the engineers and firemen sustaining only minor hurts. It was some time before word was sent back to Warrensburg and word of the wreck was spread. Relief trains carry- ing physicians were sent out as quickly, as possible from surrounding towns and everything possible was done to aid the injured. The injured were taken to Betialia and the dead to Warrensburg. Convicted of Manslaughter, yinita, I. T., Oct. 11.—Ed and Dai), Price, farmers, whp killed Tom Quails, q. noted desperado, were found guilty of manslaughter. The Prices aided officer* several years ago in apprehending Quails and he swore vengeance. Quails was re leased from the penitentiary recently. Then the Prices provoked a quarrel with the former desperado which resulted in his death. .„ Burlington, la., CelebrateB. Burlington, la., Oct. 11.—The Ger man day celebration here Monday waa the. biggest in years. Ten thousand Etrangers were in the city. The weath er was fine. Gov. Cummins and Gen. P. J. Osterhaus, of St. Louis, were the guests of honor. The allegorical anl Jtuluatrial parade WM a nile lout. North Dakota a Desert? •Ml* In a page article in a: recent edition of the Minneapolis Journ al North Dakota is set forth in such a manner that must be pleasing to her residents. Speaking of the settling up of the state the Journal says: "From being- 'mapped' as a desert and waste land, North Dakota advanded during the last decade and a half to the position at the lowest point they were running ,, ,, at a terrific rate. extent of coal North Dakota of the foremost wheat growing iafcj0I1 t^heS^ender.t^The°freight'tr^n1 was*a tortanrte neighboring heavy one. when the trains met th* for years, probably centuries to heavy freight train pushed the passen ger engine back into the first coach. The tender of the passenger engine llt- itself half way through the car and its passengers, killing tsose in the forward ""e end instantly, and mangling all within reach in a most horrible manner. Ha »»w"o'wfr The next two coaches were also badly damaged, seats being torn up and win- dows smashed, but in these cars the passengers fared better, all except a few 11°"' escaping with slight injuries. The Pull- man remained upright and none of its occupants were hurt beyond sustaining a severe shaking up. So tightly were the tender of the pas Eenger engine and the first coach wedged together that it will take unusual efforts to separate them. Monday the engine stood backed into the coach, the" front 1 of some of the victims clinging to its xt -\t^ jagged ends and blood spattered over it, Dak. No one will be allowed a ghastly monument to the dead. to write on subject out of their The train crew, with the exception of the world has a popu- 0f over 320,000 and ail ag- gregate wealth of over $400,000, 000 or ar average for every man more than woman and child of Far from being a- desert' as was Formerly' called, the state S farm products for one year alone have amounted to $94, 000,000, an average for the head °f ea°h family of ijl,400. On this showing it may be easily under- it is a state of 'no poor-houses,' for there is ample employment and support for all -ypitliirx the state's boundaries. The history of North Dakota, which does not extend over 35 years, is a remarkable one. In 1870 there was not afoot of rail road or a farm in the territory and but a few scattering settlers Since that time, and largely within the last fifteen years, it come to be the foremost grain raising state in the Union, and is rapidly going to the lead in stock .raising. Today there are oyer DonySuHi-j 05 000 farms and 3.330 miles of railway. Within these thirty years every settler in the state who has farmed in an intelligent manner has become rich." The reference to NorthDakota's woor man's fuel" is also made in the following terms: bore no signal of second section to come,! ~. he asserts and he had no reason to be- 7ast deposits of lignite coal, but lieve that another train was due. The it is surprising how little the im scene of the wreck was on the down-: merise value of these deposits is grade, on either side of which there was -vr a steep rise. Both trains had put on appreciated. New finds are con extra steam to carry them up the oppo tinually extending the area, anc site hill, and when they met at the curve still "Something is known of the there is undoubtedly a vast alone has, without doubt, enough COal to supply herself and her come Qur newest industry which is its infancy receives the following honorable mention an-nual meeting of the National Creamery Buttermak er's Association, held in Milwau ffife'd Oct. 20-24,1902, North Dakota had twelve enteries in the butter exhibit. The average score was 90.08 or a higher average than Iowa, Ohio and Michigan. At the state fair in 1903 North Dako ta butter received a score of 94, and at the state dairy convention 95^ por the March scoring in educational contest, eleven out of 317 entries scored 96 or better and a North Dakota creamery was one of the eleven Teachers' Examination. An examination for teachers' certificates occurs Friday Oct. 28, and will be held at Sherbrooke, regular order. First grade sub- jects come on Friday. I PROGKAM. I A. M. Friday, Oct. 28,1904. Rules and Regulations 9:00 to 9:10. Preliminary 9:10 to 9:30. Arithmetic 9:30 to 11:00. Civics 11:00 to 12:00. P. M. U. S. History 1:15 to 2:35. Geography 2:35 to 4:00. Theory and Practice 4:00 5:00. The II AU Work Guaranteed strictly First-class. to A. M. Saturday. Language and Grammar 9:00 to 10:15. Physiology and Hygene 10:15 to 11:15. Reading 11:15 to 12:15. Orthography 12:15 to l:00p. m. Dated at Sherbrooke, N. Dak,, this 8th day of Oct. 1904. T. A. HASSELQUIST. Supt. of schools. A. M. 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