Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 20, 1905, Page 1

MINNESOTA STORICAL VOLUME 3. NUMBER 25 SIMPLY OBEYING LAW Cetis Sy ADMINISTRATION’S DECISION TO PURCHASE CANAL SUPPLIES IN CHEAPEST MARKET. RESTRICTIVE LEGISLATION PROBABLE OFFICIALS, HOWEVER, DO NOT IN- TEND TO BUY BEYOND IM- MEDIATE NECESSITY. ‘Washington, May 20.—Secretary ‘Taft has decided not to buy any for- elgn built ships at present nor to pur- chase abroad any material for the Panama canal construction beyond that needed for immediate nse. 'This decision does hot mean that the presi- dent and Secretary Taft have in eny degree changed the policy recently #n- nounced to govern purchases for the canal work, it beinzy explained that they do not intend to ta of the presex tion by up heavily in ships d material in anticipation of restrictive legislation by congress at its next session. It is stated on authority that the| president and Secretary Taft would | gladly receive any instruc from congress and execute them i in the spirit in which the leg i ceived. Eut as the material must be Bought in the Che: in the view of the pi Taft and Chairman £} discovered that cong tically held this Philippine tran i 1902, Secretary Root wrote a the house committee milita fai “warmly approving” a re authorizing a prefer law s ending ilippine | made dilli trade providing the char: cceed the prices reign vessels more This measure wa; | cent. - ported by the house commitice on military affairs, but was defcated on the floor of the house. Some represenfations have been iade o the oxd cution of the new wo that if the exo. olicy is d until congress reassembles dir legislation. will be had immediately thereafter. So the decicion was reached to make no abnormal purchas material, while as to the needed s ping the canal commission will pro- ceed to charter such foreign ships as may be nece 3 struction material to the isthmus. LESS THAN A YEAR OLD. National Bank at Cornwall, N. Y., Receiver's Hands. ‘Washington, May 20.—T] tional bank of Cornw been closed by direction o in he comp- troller of the currency on the ground of insolvency and National Bank Ex- aminer Charles E. Van Brocklin has been appointed receiver. According to a s by the comptroller of the currency the bank was organized in July, 1994, and had never been a successiul institution. Albert C. Wilcox of the firm of Wilcox & Co., New York city, was its presi- dent. The comptroller ascribes the faflure of the bank as having becn precipitated by the recent failure of i & C 1905 by David Adler & Sons Clothing Co. QYourSpringSuit H of Adler make will fi give you double sat- Ji H isfaction. No need J i to have clothes made | 1to order and pay a good price for the tailor’s label. 0’Leary & Bowser LOCAL AGENTS | “BELTRAMI, COUNTY, MINN, COUNCILMEN CALLED THIEVES. Great Disorder Follows Vote on Gas Question at Philadelphia. Philadelphia, May 20.—Amid scenes of disorder unprecedemted in the an- nals of Philadelphia’s legislative body the city council voted to lease the city’s gas works to the United Gas Improverient company for a term of seventy-five years for the total sum of 325,000,000, the money to be paid in various amounts before the end of 1907, ; When the vote was announced from all over Lhe gallery came hisses and cries of “Thieves!” In clearing ‘the gallery there were several clashes be- tween the police and some of the spectators. The agitation against the passage of the.bill resulted in the commeon coun- cil amending the measure so as to provide for a slight reduction in the price of gas. The amendment as adopt- ed provides that the price of gas from the date of the lease until Jan. 1, 1911, shall be $1 per thousand cubic feet, the same as the pres¢nt price; from 1911 to 1921, 95 cents; from 1921 to 1936, 90 cents; from 1926 to 1956, 85 cents, and thereafter until the expira- tion of the'lease in 1980, 80 cents. Mayor Weaver has announced him- self as unalterably oprosed to the lease and in favor of a postponement of the whole question until 1907, when the first ten years of the present thirty years' lease to the United Gas com- pany will expire. At that time the city has the right to take back the ‘works on payment to the gas company of the amount of money expended in improvements. Mayor Weaver is expected to veto the biil and in that event both cham- bers will probably pass it over his veto. There is talk among the citizens who fought the lease of taking the matter to the courts. HOGH CONDEMNED TO DEATH ‘JURV CONVICTS CHICAGO BLUE- BEARD OF MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE. Chicago, May 20.—The jury in the trial of Johann Hoch found him guilty of wife murder and sentenced him to death. The jury reached its verdict after brief deliberation. The final instructions of the court i as well as the final argument of Assist- JOHANN HOCH. ant State’s Attorney Clson were Iis- tened to by a crowd that filled the courtroom to the doors. Hoch occu- pied his usual seat close to the law- yer's table. He appeared indifferent and frequently rested his chin on his hand as he closed his cyes. RIVER PIRATES CAPTURED. New York Harbor Folice Successful in Pistol Fight. New York, May 20.—A battle with plstols beiween a squad of harbor po- lice and a band of river pirates has resulted in the cap of the latter and the recovery of five bags of concha beans valued at £1.000. The fight was a thriller while it lasted. In an T to an alarm from a raiiroad pier on the North river six officers hurried there in a launch. Just as they approached an open beat fitted with an engine shot out of the darkness and head at full speed across the river. The police cailed & halt but the two pirates crowded on power and dropped into the bottom of their craft the chase the police opened fire, whic drew an instant respon The thi were 1ot good marksmen, W boat was struck nearly every after a short chase they surrendered. No one was wounded, although scores of shots were exchanged. QUARREL OVER A CHILD. Two Persons Kilted and a tally Wounded. Natchez, Miss, May 20.—Peter Matheson, a book agent, shot and killed A. Z. Bidwall and Stephen Jones, fishermen; fatally wounded Mrs. Sue Pruette, pue shot at Ida Rossin, a fourteen-year- old girl. without effect. The trouble nccnrred about Matheson's child, whom Third Fa- he claimed had been abducted from his | home by ils grandparents. is in fail. Matheson Three Asphyxiated by. Gas. Newark, N. J.,, May 20.—Mrs. Mar- garet C. Orr and her two grandchil- dren, Margaret Smith, aged eleven, and Annie Smith,'aged nine, were as- phyxiated by illuminating gas in their “ome during the night. his mother-in-law, and fired. | SAY STRIKE WILL EN MAYOR DUNNE AND SHERIFF BAR RETT PREDICT EARLY SET- TLEMENT AT CHICAGO. 4 NEITHER SIDE TO GLAIM VICTORY DESIRABLE MEN WHO HAVE NOT VIOLATED THE LAW TO BE GIVEN OLD POSITIONS. Chicago, May 20. end within twenty-fov'~hours. There will be no claim of or defeat by either side. - 'Pif> employers will take back the teamsters who aré wor- thy and desirable men and who had not violated the law.” This declaration was made by Sher- iff Thomas E. Barrett and was con- firmed from several sources. Sheriif Barrett began to call in the extra dep ties engazed in guarding w: s the Employers’ Teaming company and discontinued the apreinting of new deputies. Mayor E. I. Dunne asserted that he had information from a source in which he has implicit confidence that the strike will come to an end within twenty-four hours or within forty-eight hours at the latest. There will be no formal declaration of'a calling off of the boycoti, he said. Men who are re- employed wil! quietly go back to work and the ban will be lifted without dem- onstration of any sort. Tresident Shea of the Teamsters’ unicn, when told of the declarations of Mayor Dunne and Sheriff Barrett, said: “There is no man in this world that has power to call this strike off or make any such settlement. The Team- sters’ Joint Council alone has that power. The council has not consid- ered any such proposition.” The Employ ociation has 2, 100 teams at work, the largest number since the strike began. There was lit- tle interference. MAY AGREE TO ARBITRATE. “The strike will Teamoters-Deslara, However, It Is Nao Sign of Weakness. Chicago, May 20.—Officials of the Team: union, while admitting that the arbitration proposal of the team owners would probably be accepied by the Teamsters’ Joint council, denied that this was to be taken as showing any weakness on the part of the strike against strikebound houses. “To be sure this is arbitration of a principle rather than a -condition,” said 4. J. Reed, secretary of the Furni- ture Drivers' union. “Itis a bad thing to arbitrate, for it sets a bad prece- dent. However, in this case it jaay be the equitable thing to arbitrate it so that a general tieup of the teaming in- dustry may be avoided. If the prin- ciple of delivery to strikebound houses by union drivers is tration in this c: it will only be for this one case and then solely to pre- vent a general spread of the strike to all the teaming interests in the city.” T. J. Cavanaugh, cne of the prom- inent team owners, said there was no doubt in his mind that the teamsters would agree to arbitrate the delivery question, principle or no principle. Victor W. Sincere, assistant secre- tary of the Employers’ association, said the Fmployers' Teaming com- pany had reduced teaming work to a system. The company has 2,100 wag- ons waking deliveries and has in em- ployment 2,300 drivers. This is ex- clusive of 500 drivers employed by the express companis Members of the aldermanic strike commitiee made individual appeals during the day to employers to end the strike. Some of the employers were asked to make concessions to the it was said the employers th could not break away from their association. SAYS SHEA MADE THREATS. Testimony of Witness in Strike vestigation. 20.—President Shea of the Tcamsters' union declared to the Liverymen's n:sociation that “he had | more power then the mayor of Chicago and enough men to go up State street and clean out the district to the lake,” according to the testimony of Franz Amberg before Master in Chancery Sherman. ‘Amberg is president of the West Side Liverymen’s association. “The last time I saw Shea,” said the witness, “was at the Briges Iouse Tuesday at a conierence. When we asked him if he would allow us to de- liver passengers to the boycotted stores he said he could not possibly allow it. gHe said if we attempted to do it he would put fifteen of his best men along State street and take the names of all who delivered people to the stores and he would get them where he wanted them.” { - Then the witness told of Shea’s threat to “clean out” part of the city. I told Shea he ought to have been Mn out of town leng ago. I thought i myself that’it would be better to hang him to alamp post.” In- Chicago, Schoolboy Commits Suicide. Milwaukee, May 20.—Charles-Abram, - .aged fourteen years, committed suicide at his home here by taking carbolic 'acid. The youthful suicide was™ to have graduated as the valedictorian of his class next month and it is thought " his act was due to the results follow~ ng close application to study. FEAfiS JAPANESE INVASION. French Deputy From Indo-China Sub- mits_Remarkable Report. __ Paris, May 20.—M. Francois Delon- cle (Republican), deputy for Indo- China, has submitted to the special parliamentary committee on naval af- fairs a remarkable report on the urgent necessity for strengthening the de- fenses of Indo-China against the peril of a Japanese invasion. “Indo-China,” he says, “has only two enemies t& fear, namely, Japan alone or China .encouraged and sup- ported by Japan. The former consti- tutes a real danger, for Japan has much to gain and little to risk and her isolated position makes her almost in- vulnerable to us. Shecould in a few weeks . throw 100,000 men into Indo- China and easily reinforce this first landing party. The first phase of such a struggle would consist of Japan’s efforts to secure mastery of the sea in order to reinforce her troops. Ow- ing to Japan’s great superiority in naval forces in.@ar Eastern waters our feeble division would not risk a de- cisive battle but would fall back upon our only nayal base, Saigon. There it] would be blockaded? as the Russians ‘were blockaded within Port Arthur. With our division thus bottled up Japan céuld oppose the junctionof the blockaded warships with the relief squadron and having secured the mastery of the sea Japanese trans- ports would be free to land invading forces. She has two admirgble an- chorages ready for her trans;orts at Kamranh bay and Port Dayol. She probably would take the first ag nearer to Saigon. Japan would thus be es- tablished upon the sea route' donnect- ing Tonquin and Cochin-Chh"xa and Wwho could prevent it? In the present condition of our defenses could we re- sist such an attack? Evidently not and within a brief time Indo-China would be the prey of the invasion.” The report concludes with asserting that it would be puerile to disregard the gravity of the situation. There- fore, it is necessary to make large sacrifices to place Indo-China in readi- ness to meet the shock. MORO BAND WIPED OUT. Americans Lose Nine Men Killed and Twenty-one Wounded. Manila, May 20.—The Moro’ outlaws against whom General Leonard Wood has been = campaigning have Dheen killed in action, together with all the principals. The outlaws were support: ers and followers of the sultan of Sulu The large chiefs' of the island of Jolo were not involved. The outbreak was purely an aggregation of piratical out- laws and disorderly characters of Sulu and the other islands stretching down to Borneo. The position selected by the outlaws for défense was in almost impenetrable jungles and exceedingly strong, prohibiting the use of artillery and necessitating close contact and an assault in two instances. General Wood’s forces sustained a loss of nine killed_and twenty-one wounded. The constabulary had two killed. General Wood has returned to Zam- boanga with the troops. RAILWAY RATE MEASURE. Bill Passes Wisconsin Senate. Madison, Wis., May 20.—By a unan- imous vote and without amending it in any particular the senate passed the comnittee’s substitute for the original La Folleite railway rate com- mission bill. The bill was first or- dered to engrossment by a unanimous vote and then, upon motion of Senator Kreutzer, the rules of the senate were suspended and the bill was put uper its final passage. After debating on the all day the senate orde reading the bill as rep committee on railroads an appointive commissit e members at $5,600 a year, with power to adjust rates when found extortion ate or unreasonable. La Follette ESCAPE WITH BIG BOOTY. Thieves Rob Show Window of Chicago Jeweiry Concern. Chicago, May 20 —After crtting ephone wires leading to the jewelry store of Louis An.wine in North ave- nue three young robbers fastened the front and rear doors of the place wiih iron bars, then smashed in a large plate glass window in the {ront and escaped with Ciamond cs-and g watches valved at $2,500. Thae theil was committed in esactly the same manner as the robbery of the jewelry store of T. D./Lance in West Madison street last Tdesday night and the po- lice are convinced the same men were engaged in this robbe: aid o~ curred while the street was lighted brilliantly and while scores of persons were passing. OPPOSE SYMPAT! New York Teamsters will Rozkmen and Excavatori. Not Aid New York, May 20.—The Erother: kood of Teamsters has decided not to strike against the Contractors’ Pro- tective association in sympathy with the rockmen and excavators, thus averting a repetition in New York ot the Chicago disturbances. At the time the Rockmen and Ix- cavators’ union ordered the prezent surike they were confident of the cb- operation of the teamsters, whose ac- tionyprobably will prevent a strike of | the 26,000 members of the Excavators® union. 2 Appeal for “Tainted” Money. .'Toronto, Kan., May 20.—Thé women | ,of the Baptist church here have wri ten to John. D. Rockefeller asking for financial assistance to rebuild their ' | church, which was destroyed by & tor- |nado. i JA6S READY TO FIGHT LAND FORCES SHOW EVERY EVI DENCE OF l‘NTENTION TO AS- SUME OFFENSIVE. OUTPOSTS EXCHANSE SHOTS LAILY ATTEMPT OF RUSSIAN SCOUTS TC DISCOVER ENEMY’'S PLANS UNSUCCESSFUL. | Gunshu Pass, Manchuria, May 20.— The weather has cleared and the roa ‘Washed out by the recent rains are im- passable quagmires, but they will soon dry. The present truce is expected to be broken by the Japanese. They aré showing every evidence of prepara tion to assume the offensive, constant "1y shifsing positions and pressing the Russian left, where the cavalry forces are daily exchanging shots. The demn onstration on the Russian left, how: ever, is probably only a feint to cover the real stroke of the right. This’ the meore probable because of the care [with which the Japanese are screem: ing the movements on their left, using ~Chinese’ bandits freely for this pur ose. The attempts -of the Russian Scouts to pierce the curtain have not been successful. Profiting by past ex- | periences a new system for the trans- portation of wounded men from the battlefield by means of pack horses has Dbeen organized. Experiments have shown good results. BOMB THROWER STUMELES EXPLOSION AT WARSAW, RUS. SIAN POLAND, FATAL TO A NUMBER OF PERSONS. ‘Warsaw, Russian Poland, May 2! ;A workman who was trying to avoid the observation of two detectives on Miodowa street at noon stumbled on the curb of the sidewalk and a bomb which he.was carrying in his pocket exploded, killing the workman, both the detectives and some persons who ‘were passing by. It is believed the homb was intend- ed for Governor General Maximovitch, who was expected to pass the spot on his way to the cathedral to attend the service in honor of the czar's birth- day. The bodies of the victims were lit- erally blown to pieces. A cafe near the scene of the explosion was entire- ly demolished, all the windows in the neighborhood were smashed and a lamp post was torn out of the ground. When a correspondent of the Assc- ciated Press reached the scene the mutilated remains were still lying in the roadway, portions of them being on the sidewalk twenty vards distant. The roadway was covered with debris. ‘The authorities are convinced that the bomb was intended for the gov- ernor general. It now develops that he was attending the services at the cathedral, which is situated at the corner of Diuga and Miodowa streets, s~y ==%m the scene of the ex- odgtitred only-a min- d Three min- tmcgovernor general would sed the“spot. UNDER FRENCH GUARD. More Than Sixty Colliers Anchored in Territorial Waters. Saigon, French Cochin-China, May 20.—TForty-three colliers, mostly Kus- sian and German, are anchored off Nhabe under the supervision of the French gunboat Caronade. Twenty similar ships are off Cape St. James, near here, under the supervision of the French cruiser D’Assas. The Russian transport Kieff is stiil in the commercial port of Saigon. No more direct news of the Russian fleet is expected here™ beyond what might be received from refugees should fighting occur in the neighborhood of the Pescadore islands. REPORTED BY LINEVITCH. Russian Commander Tells of Japanese Repulses. St. Petershurg, May 20.—A dispatch from General Linevitch, dated May 18, says: “A small detachment of the enemy May 16 occupied Yaldi’ pass, on the iront of the armies. The Japanese also attempted to occupy Shahoise, but were repulsed and retired south- ward. The same day the Japanese approached Honukhu, about six miles south of Taul, but were forced to re- tire.” CRUISER DETROIT ASHORE. American Warship Grounds Off Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo. ‘Washington, May 20.—The navy de- partment has received a cablegram from Rear Admiral Bradford, com- manding the Carribean squadron, stat- I ing that the Detroit had gone aground at Puerto a 5 _peller: was totally dlsabled. = Admiral Bradford left Santo Demingo City for Ruerto Plata to investigate. - TEN CENTS PER WEEK GENERAL FIGHT . IS IMMINENT Preparations of Oyama ‘and Linevitch Indicate That Decisive Battle Is Near at Hand. left:and contracting his troops along « the center, but his base is opposite the Russian right. ' It is evident from Linevitch’s ' preparations - that * he means to accept a decisive battle. Gunsho Pass, May 20.—A general engagement is imminent. - Field Marshall Oyama is deploying heavy forces against General Linevitche’s Wine of Cardui has been so_helpful to me that I feel it my duty to advise sick and suffering ‘women to try this wonderful remedy. MISS MARTHA HUBER, 505 East 88th St., New York City. . 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OFFICE HOURS: 10 a.m. to Noon, and to 5:30 p. m. Office over Mrs. Thompson’s boardinghouse Minnesota Ave. Are Chiropractic Adjustments the same a.s Osteopath Treatments? No. The Chiropractic and the Osteopath both aim to put in place that which is out of place, to right that which is wrong; but the Path- ology Diagnosis, Prognosis and Movements are entirely different. One of my patients, Mr. W. A. Casler, has taken both Chiropractic and Osteopoth treatments. The Chiropractic is ten times more direct in the adjustments and the results getting health ten times more thor- ough in one tenth of the time than an Osteopath would. NEW YORK uses vastly more writing ma- chines than any other city on ‘earthand thelast censusshows 78% Remington. The voice of ex-} perience decides for the REMINGTON TYPEWRITER,