Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 15, 1905, Page 1

A f [} VOLUME 2. NUMBER 245 llllllllllllllllll 'GREATEST -GLEARANCE :SALE OF THE SEASON S R S T T D o O o JE e O D e o Do I o will be continued wuntil Saturday, February 25 ]u order to give an opportm\ity to tlle people of the .smmumlmg country and llcl(‘ in Bemidji who have not I»een ‘lble to t.l.l\t‘ adv n.nt‘lge ut the mle we ln\ e rle- (‘i(led to extend sale as above mentioned. Our \\lmlc stn(‘l\ of new mul most (\\(’11 sive lines Dry Goods, Ready-to-Wear, Garments, at - extr un*dmm) bargain 1 ices. Shoes aml Ladlei F m'mshmgfl is offered Next Door to Post Office. | Berman Emporium.. JE o VR V0 S o P D P W O O O dt 90 ('locK a Wood flupp] Ghe L ast Chance ()ur ‘Mh, \nll close \VFD\' ESDAY Nwht Now is the time to lay in of Dry Goods, Clothing 'md Shoes. l‘he prices are very low; tho (roorlx are ()f t]m luoheqt quality. O’LEARY & BOWSER S T o o o I P P MARK’S The Great Cough Cure Manufacturer For the cure of all affections of the lung, throat and chest, such as and will prevent consumption when taken in time. Guaranteed! Price 25 and 50 cents. PREPARED ONLY BY PETER M. MARK of MARK’S CELEBRATED REMEDIES, FOSSTON, LUNG BALSAM MIN N. Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Croup, Whoop- ing Cough, Hoarseness, Etc,, Bronchitis, Lagrippe, ALL FACTORIES RESUME _ GREAT STRIKE OF ST. PETERS- BURG WORKMEN NOW AN AFFAIR OF THE PAST. CONFIDENGE IN MIXED COMMISSION MASTERS AND EMPLOYES TO FOR- MULATE NEW LAWS AND ADJUST DIFFERENCES. St. Petersburg, Feb. 15—The last visible vestige of the great St. Peters- burg strike disappeared during the day when the employes of the Putiloif fron works returned. In all the works ballots are being distributed for the election Sunday of representatives on the mixed commission of masters and workmen. The greatest confidence prevails that the measures taken will prove satisfactory to the workmen, as the latter will be heard regarding the formulation of new laws and the ad- Jjustment of existing differences. The political side of the agitation is con- sidered no longer a serious factor at present. Rumors that General Trepoff will be appointed minister of the interior are not confirmed in the hest informed circles, where it is believed the post of governor:-general will be continued for several months at least. UNDER FIFTY THOUSAND. Russians Killed in Battle During First Year of War. St. Petersburg, Feb. 15—The official returns for the first year of the war, not including tege Port Arthur statis- tics, show that 130,439 officers and men passed through the hospitals go- ing north, of which number 1,710 ofi- s. were wounded and 1,308 were 3,890 men were wounded and 72,581 were sick; 4,007 subsequently died in hospitals; 6,474 wounded and 11,248 were invalided; 9,292 returned to Russia; 21,554 are still in hospitals. Over 77,000, therefore, presumably re- turned to the ranks. These figures do not include the numbers of those killed on the field of battle, nor prob- ably (hose slightly injured who re- mained temporarily in field hospitals. The showing is considered remarkably good. The proportion dying in hos- pital is very low; total loss to the active army in wounded and. sick be ing a little over 50,000, of whom al- most half have still a chance of return- ing to the ranks. The other half will be invalided or returned to Russia. The killed in battle are estimated to have numbered between 40,000 and 50,000, i NEW VERSION OF Kuropatkin Said to Have Accused Gripenberg of Insubordination. 8t. Petérsburg, Feb. 15.—According to the latest gossip at the war office General Kuropatkin has charged Gen- eral Gripenberg, former commander of the Second army, with insubordina- tion in leaving his command without authority, but the story cannot be traced to a responsible source and perhaps represents simply a new ver- sicn of the incident. While definite information continues to be lacking it seems o be generally accepted that General Gripenberg, after the recent flanking operation, blamed -the com- mander-in-chief for his failure to sup- port him and after a stormy scene started for Russia to personally report to the emperor. INCIDENT. NEARLY HALF MILLION MEN. Russia Has Large Force on Manchu- rian Battlefield. ToKio, Feb. 15 —Reports from Liso- yang place the total Russian forces be- tween the Shakhe river and Harbin at 450,000, of which 280,000 are on.the fighting line. The condition of the prisoners and of the bodies of the dead indicate that the Russians are short of shoes and winter clothing. Some of the officers are wearing Chi- nese shoes. It is believed that ex- posure to the cold is greatly increas- ing sickness among the Russians. lLater estimates of the Russian sses at Heikoutai place the number ,000. ATTACK WAITAO MOUNTAIN. Russians Twice Repulsed by Japanese Forces. Tokio, Feb. 15.—Manchurian head- quarters reports as follows: “The Russians shelled and twice at- tacked Waitao mountain on Sunday, Fel. 12, but were repulsed. “Small forces of Russian infantry attacked Tapatai and Hanshantai on Monday, Feb. 13, but were repulsed. “The Russians continue to construct entrenchments in the neighborhood Df Heikoutai.” ; Railroad Employes Strike. Kieft, Russia, Feb. 15.—The em- ployes of the Moscow, Kieff and Vo- ronezh railroad have struck, Official Notice Unnecessary. Washington, Feb. = 15.—Secretary Hay has not yet communicated to the esentatives. of the powers here, h whom he had negotiated arbitra- treatigs, the action of the senate Sgturday in amending those conven- tions and it is probable that he will no6t do so, permitting them to take no- tice for themselves of whm has v.lnred. cHARGES BIG CONSPI RACY. rand Jury Indicts Senator and Two .Gonyresstheit. Portand, Ofe., Feb. 15—The United States grand jury has returned an in- dictment charging United States Sen- ator Mitchell, Congressmen John N. Williamson .and Binger Hermann and created the Blue Mountain forest re- serve in Hastern Oregon, with the in- tent to defraud the government of public lands and also of"conspiring to obtain possession of more than 200,000 acres of public and school lands lo- cated in severdl states of the value of over $3,000,500. Indictments = also were returned against former United States Attor- ney John R. Hall, Private Detective H. P. Ford, former Major H. 1. Reese, ‘Deputy Sheriff. John Cordano, A. P. Caylor, local grain broker, and Fred Bimpson, a saloonkeeper, charging them with haying entered into a con- spiracy to Dblacken the character of United States District Attorney F. J. Heney by circulating reports which connected Mr. Heney’s name with that of Marie L. Ware. GOLDEST OF THE SEASON TENDED FROM THE ROCKIES TO THE ATLANTIC. ‘Washington, Feb. 15.—The weather bureau reports show that the cold wave which has swept the entire country east of the Rocky mountains reached its culminating point in the Atlantic coast states during the night and the temperature is now moderat- ing all along the line except in the Southern states. According to the weather officials the weather during the past twenty-four hours has heen the coldest of the season in most sec tions of the ‘country. Temperatares close to zero were experienced during the past twenty-four hours in Virginia, northward to Western New York, below zero. , SCORE - OF ‘LIVES LOST Cold Spell Results in Many Deaths in Southwest. Chicago, Feb. 15.—Although details are lacking it is estimated that about a score of people have lost their lives during the cold snap, the majority of the fatalities being in the Southwest. The lcss of caftle on the ranges, particularly ot tnose lying in the northern part of the'southern tier of states, will be heavy. W. E. Bolton, secretary of the Okla- homa Live Stock association, de- clares that the live stock losses in the present cold weather will be the great- est since the blizzard of 1836. He places the number of head lost on the ranges in Western Kansas, +| Western Oklahoma and the Panhandle of Texas at 50,000 head. TFarther north in Nebraska and the Dakotas and Montana the stockmen are better prepared to shelter their stock, their cattle are better inured to cold and it is not expected that their losses will be anything near as heavy as those on the ranges farther to the south. COLD IN SOUTH AND EAST. Temperature Recorded the Lowest in Several Years. Louisyille, Feb. 16.—The coldest weather of the winter and the coldest for several years was reported during the day in many places south of the Ohio. The low figure of 8 below is held by Fort Smith, Ark.; 6 below is the figure at Nashville; 5 below was the oflicial minimum for Louisville; at Chattanooga the record was 4 be- low ‘and zero was announced at Little Rock. Other minimum temperatures reported are: Atlanta, Ga., 2 above; Palestine, 7Tex., 6, and Montgomery and Vicksburg, 10. The minimum at Jacksonville was 26 degs., a-fall of 30. New York, Feb. 15—The Western cold wave reached here during the day, lowering the temperature to 5 degs. above zero, a drop of 30 degs. in eighteen hours. Reports from points up lhe state say the night was the coldest of the season. Nineteen degs. below zero was registered in sections of the state near New York city. ARRESTED AT LOS ANGELES. Missing Philadelphia Capitalist Fi- nally Located. Los Angeles, Cal, Feb. 15—Owen Kelly, wholesale grocer and capitalist of Philadelphia, who is wanted by the police of that city and who has been a fugitive from justice since Oct. 25, 1904, has been arrested here. Kelly admitted to the police that ke was the man wanted, admitting that the short- age in his accounts with the Continen- tal Trust company exceeded $20,000. ‘When taken into custody only $500 ‘was found on his person. Will Seek New Indictments. Chicago, Feb. 15—State's Attorney Realy definitely announced during the day that he will go before the Fen- ruary grand jury in an attempt to re- open prosecutions for the Iroquois the- ater disaster. New indictments, if any are returned, will be modeled after the indictments in the Slocum disaster. Ploneer Minnesota Jurist Dead. Minneapolis, Feb. 15.—Judge* Austin H. Young, one of the pioneer judges of Hennepin. county, passed away at his home in this'city after an iliness of about one B! _Others” with having conspired to have | RECENT LOW. TEMPERATURE EX. where the mercury sank to 8 degs. 3 Gregory $25 towards the purchase of THE DEATH 'WARRANT IS WITHDRAWN \Gov Pennypacker Withdraws Death Warrant Imposed Upon Mrs Kate Edwards. Harrisburg, Pa., Feb 15.—On the reccmmendation of the board of par. dons, Gov. Pennypacker withdrew the death warrant in the case against Mrs Kate Edwards, the white woman, and Sam Greason, a negro, sentenced to hang at Reading tomorrow for the murder of Mrs. Edwards’ husband, This action will grant Mrs. Edwards a respite for a month at least. GHIGAGO HOTEL BLAZE BREVOORT HOUSE PARTIALLY DE- STROYED, BUT GUESTS MAN- AGE TC ESCAPE. ALY LOST IN SMOKE FILLED HALLS HEROIC WORK OF TWO MILWAU- KEE MEN INSTRUMENTAL IN SAVING LIFE. Chicago, Feb. —Fire partly de- #stroved the Brevoort House early in the day, causing a loss of $160,000 to the building and hotel furniskings and forcing 150 guests to make a hurricad departure. Three firemen were in- jured, one seriously. None of the guests were hurt. The fire, which started from crossed electric light wires about 2:30 o'clock, was discovered by a bellboy, who was almost overcome by smoke in arousing guesis and employes of the hotel. When the firemen reached the scene the flames had eaten their way through the third-fleer-and-had made consider- able progress upward through the walls. The smoke, which was dense, hampered the liremen in their work, while the guests were scampering by every avenue of escape to reach a Dblace of safety and the hotel employes Wwere busy in avousing them by teie phones iu the-rooms. The three fire: men were injured by the collapse of the ceiling in the barroom. The fire was mostly confined to the rear of Lie building, which was gutted from the Lusement to the roof. The hotel. which is eight stories high, i: one of the oldest in the city. Neavis all of the guests were from Western states. Many of them escaped from the place by a rear fire escape. Guests Do Heroic Work. John C. Spirra, a guest whose home is in Milwaukee, nearly lost his life in an attempt to carry women gues from the third fleor. 8. T. Winslow, another Milwaukee guest at the hotel, ‘also was instro- mental in saving several women from the smoke filled corridors. Concern- ing the fire_Mr. Spirra said: “The halis were filled with smoke and women were screaming and at- tempting to grope their way to the elevator. 1 carried several women down the stairways to a place of safe- ty, making several trips back to the third fioor, where women were seem- ingly unable to leave the corridors without assistance.” Professor Edward C. Roedder, Uni- versity of Wisconsin, was one of the persons who narrowly escaped death at the fire. Professor Roedder and wife occupied a room on the fourth 1 floor. He was awakened shortly after the fire started by loud knocking at his door. Awakening his wife Profes- sor Roedder hastily dressed and, tak- ing what clothing he could, Ted his wife down stairs. At the third floor he lost his way in the smoke and be- fore he again found the stairway his wife had lost consciousness. He picked her up in his arms and fled from the building. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. James U. Sammis, internal revenue collector for the Northern district of Towa, has been requested to resign. A Dbill giving women the right to vote for presidential electors was killed by the Kansas senate by a vote of 60 fo 29. : Colored men are taking the places of foreign white laborers in the steel plants and other big factories in and around South Chicago. President Roosevelt has sent Lady Irish pictures for the gallery of mod- ern art it is proposed to-establish in Dublin. The house; committee on appropria- tions has completed and reported the sundry civil appropriation bill. The bill appropriates §$65,558,880, which is an increase of $7,518,669 over the ap- propriations for the current year., The condition of Bishop W. E. Mc- Laren of the Protestant Episcopal dio- cese of Chicago, who has beeh ‘il in ‘New York city for some time, J5 con- DEFECTIVE PACE ASKED.TO SEE PRESIDENT. Unwelccme Visitor Calls at Roose: velt’s Stopping Place. L New York, Feb. 15—The first at- tempt of an unwelcome visitor to call | upon President Roosevelt since his ar- rival 1 New York occurred early in the day .when William Waldorf Jack- | son, Jr., of Lowell, Mass., called at the home of Douglass Robinson, 422 Mad- ison avenue, where the president stopped for the night, and asked to have his card sent to the president. Becret service men and policemen on guard about the entrance informed the man that the president had not yet arisen and asked him to call again. He was not arrested, but went to a hotel, saying he would return later to the Robinson home. In answer to questions as to his identity and why he wanted to see the president Jackson said he wished to confer with the ‘president as to re- forms In government and hat he was & selfnominated candidate for the presidency in 1896, 1900 and 1904. Jackson, who is an old man, returned to the Robinson home a second time in about an hour. He went to a base- ment door and addressed a detective who was stationed inside the twisted iron door. “Are you the president?’ he asked. “Yes, sir; good morning to you,” teplied the detective. “Well, do you know, I am William Waldorf Jackson, Jr., and 1 am very anxious to speak with you?” After telling the old man that he was very busy and that he would pre- fer to have him call some other time the detective bade his visitor “good- bye” and turned inside the door. Jackson returned to the sidewallk and after expressing his disappoint- ment to those standing near he walked slowly away. BRITISH PARLIAMENT - MEETS. King's Speech From the Throne a Commonplace Document. London, Feb. 15.—The sixth session of the first parliament of his reign was opened during the afternoon by King Edward with all the historic pageantry which has marked the ceremony since his accession. The sovereign himself read the speech from the throne to the assembled lords and commons in the upper chamber. The document was commonplace. The only reference to the Russo- Japanese war, which the Kking said “unhappily continues,” was to an- nounce that “my government has heen careful Lo observe in the strictest man- Ter the obligations incumbent upon a neutral power.” The lengthiest uamgraph devated to the Balkans, says the situation con- tinues to give cause for anxiety. The measures adopted at the instance of the Austro-Russian governments have been instrumental in bringing about some amelioration in the state of the disturbed districts, but “these meas- ures have still to be supplemented by radical reforms, especially of the finan- cial system, before any permanent im- provements can be effected in the ad- ministration of these provinces of the Turkish empire.” ~ OPPOSE HOUSE RATES BILL. Holders of Railway Securities Object to Legislation. Washington, Feb. 15—When the hearing on railroad rates before the senate committee on interstate com- merce was resumed Daniel Daven- port of Bridgeport, Conn., speaking on behalf of an organization of holders of railway securities, confined his discus- sion to the Esch-Townsend bill. The concentration of his remarks on the bill before the committee was by di- rection of Senator Foster of Louisiana, who said he understood that this meas- ure was passed by the house in re- sponse to the president’s last message on rate legislation. Mr. Davenport said there were con- stitutional obstacles in. the way of carryiug out the views of the president as expressed in his message and he read from supreme court decisions in support of his contention that judicial powers cannot be conferred on the interstate commerce commission. FIGHT STANDARD OIL COMPANY. Kansas. Producers’ Association Appeals to the People. Chanote, Kan., Feb. 15.—The ad- visory committee of the Kansas Oil Producers’ association has given out a statement in which the Standard Oil company is denounced and an appeal is made to the people to fight that con- cern. The pmdurers assert the company has not kept its promise made at the time of its entrance into the Kansas oil fields. The producers ‘assert that the promise was made to them by rep- resentatives of the Standard Oil com- pany that before the end of 1904 oil would be selling for $2 a barrel., In- stead, they say, the Standard has cut the price several times and that it is aow less than §1 a barrel. British Fleet to Visit America. London, Feh. 15—The date of the visit to American waters of the squad- ron of British warships commanded by Rear Admiral Prince Louis of Bat- tenberg has been definitely fixed for October. It will comprise a short stay at Newport, New York and Annapolis. The prince’s visit to Washington will Le, it is understood, of an official char- acter. Train Stalled in Snowdrift. Monroe, Wis,, Feb. 15.—An Illinois. Central passenger train has been stalled in a snowdrift three miles from here for twenty-four hours. A double header was sent from Freeport to as- sist in releasing the stalled train. This also got stuck, but later-was released. TEN CENTS PER WEEK DRAWBAGK ON WHEAT SENATE DISCUSSES PLAN TO IN VALIDATE ATTORNEY GEN- ERAL’S DECISION. HANSBROUGH THE PRINCIPAL SPEAKER DECLARES RULING WILL LOWER THE PRICE OF THE AMERI- CAN PRODUCT. ‘Washington, Feb. 15.—Immediately after the senate convened the agricul- tural appropriation bill was taken up, the Hansbrough amendmeant, intended to be a legislative interpretation of Dportions of the Dingley law relating to the duty on wheat, being first consid- ered. It declares that paragraph. 234 of that act, which imposes a specific duty on wheat, shall not be held to be affected by the provisions of section 30 of the same act, which provides for a drawback on imported articles used in domestic manufacture. - Mr Hansbrough spoke in support of the amendment, going minutely into the legislation and the decision of the attorney general, which, in his view, made necessary the amendment. Mr. Hansbrough contended that the decision allowing a drawback on im- ported wheat was wrong, because the portion of flour made from such wheat could not be distinguished from that made of the domestic product, as, he argued, was necessary under the draw- back provisions. He sald the opinion would be farreaching, extending to all articles used in manufacture. Makes Revision Unnecessary. “We hear much about the tarift re- vision,” Mr. Hansbrough remarked, “but, if the practice of the treasury de- partment in accordance with this de- cision is to go on such revision will be unnecessary because the treasury department will make its own re- vision.” Coming to the specific matter in question he said’ that the price paid for imported wheat would fix the price of the entire wheat product of the United States. Mr: Hansbrough said that the fact that the wheat grown in the United States was protscted had the effect ot making the price of wheat in this coun- try worth from 17 fo 20 cents per bushel more than Canadian wheat and he predicted that the practice in con- formity with the recent decision would have the effect of lowering the price of American wheat while it increased. the price of the Canadian article. Mr. McCumber (N. D.) supported the Hansbrough amendment, saying the effect of the decision is to estab- lish free trade and to bring the price of American wheat to the Canadian level. EXPLAINS HEARST CHARGE REPRESENTATIVE SULLIVAN RE- PLIES TO ACCUSATION OF } NEW YORK EDITOR. ‘Washington, Feb. 15.—The Sullivan- Hearst episode had another airing in the house during the day-when Mr. Sullivan, again rising to a question of personal privilege, declared that Mr. Hearst had ignored his offer to make a statement concerning his connection with the homicide to which Mr. Hearst alluded. Mr. Sullivan admitted it to be true that on Nov. 24, 1885, his father, Eu- gene J. Sullivan,” and himself were convicted of manslaughter in the su- perior court of Middlesex - county, Mass. Mr. Sullivan explained that while his father was conducting a licensed hotel in Boston he was attacked by a drunken man. He (Sullivan), then seventcen years old, went to the res- cue of his father. The man was knocked down and struck his head against the curbstone, became uncon- scious and never recovered. His father Wwas sentenced to three years’ impris- onment. Sullivan was held to be only: technically guilty and was neither im- prisoned nor fined. His father was pardoned after serving a year and & half. - Mr. Sullivan declared that the most that could ever be alleged against him was that he was technically guilty of the offense charged, the district attor- ney having admitted that he was not even morally guilty. Mr. Sullivan received loud applause from both sides of the chamber when he declared that he walked out of court a free man and had not beem imprisoned a day nor fined a cent. The- applause broke out afresh when he de- clared that under similar circum- stances if his father were alive he would go to his defense. He took his seat amid renewad applause, several members going to his seat and shak- ing hands with him. ‘When Mr. Sullivan concluded his Re- publican colleague, Mr. Gardner; feel. ingly spoke of his!intimate associn- tion with Mr. Sullivan in the Massa- chusetts senate and testified Sullivan’s worth as a man. Moscow, Feb. 15.— The. dfstrln' ‘Femstvo has uuomad lnn