Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 1, 1905, Page 1

1] i . ‘MINNESOT’A HISTORICAL VOLUME 3. NUMBER 86. SOUVENIRSS. Souvenirs Engraved While You Wait On Spoons, Trays, Napkin Rings. Grip Tags, Blotters, Mirrors, Book Marks, Cups and Rings. In China With Bemidji Lake Scene Plates, Cups and Saucers, Trays, Berry Dishes, Mugs, Vases, Sugar, Cream’s, Etc.. Rockford Silver Plate has always assured—not only artistic work—excellent and double fin- est, but acceptability and salableness. The articles bearing this trade mark represent the development and idealization of popular taste. ‘We are displaying anunprecedented variety of temptingly beauti- ful designs in both Hollow and Plate Ware. Agents Rockford Silver Geo. T. Baker @ Co. Located in City Drug Store. N 0 I 03033550 56758 B T X 3 5 5 S 3 S 0 130 DO O 5 313 B 56154 Track Trains ‘Time will be found satisfactory, if between St. Paul, Minne- apolis, Duluth, Butte, Helena, Missoula, Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma and Portland, you use the Northern Pacific Ry. For rates and information write Harry W. Sweet, Dist. Pass. Agt., Fourth. and Broadway Sts., St. Paul, Minn. Send six cents for WONDERLAND 1905, four cents for Lewis and Clark booklet, four cents for Minnesota:Lakes booklet, to A. M. Cle- land, General Passenger Agent, St. Paul. I 3 R R PR 3R L ] S [EORERN XN (3] 0 R T (R TRTRTR R TR T R T A L LA UTC Health Education Worship Pleasure Visit Y ellowstone Park All thru tickets good for stopover at the park Very Low Rates VIA Minnesota & International AND Northern Pacific For further information, write to or call upon G.JA. Walker, Agent, Bemidji, Minn. Send six cents' for Wonderland, 1905, four cents for Lewis and Clarke booklet,2two cents for Yellowstone Park folder, fifty cents for Wild Flowers from the Yellowstoue, and thirty-five cents for Panoramic Park Picture, to {W. M. Downie, Auditor, Brainerd, Minn. Painting Paper Hanging ¢ Kalsomining Shop in rear of Swedback Block. R EK] | Vegetable, liver pills. That is what they are. They cure Want your moustache or beard abeautiful brown or rich black? Use constipation, biliousness, sick-headache. LAV RSS: BUCKINGHAM'S DYE TUTY (T8, OF DRUGGISTS OB B ¥. EALL 00.. MASEUA. ;. 8. | 8gTeement will be had. — IS NEARLY COMPLETED RAPID PROGRESS BEING MADE ON NEW ANGLO-JAPANESE . TREATY OF ALLIANCE. e SOME DETAILS NOT FULLY SETTLED| TERMS SAID TO BE MORE COM-I 4 the new company Nathan Allen stated PREHENSIVE THAN EXIST- i ING CONVENTION. London, Aug. 1.—Considerable prog- ress is being made with the new An- glo-Japanese treaty of alliance, which the foreign office hopes will be con- cluded at an early date. Some of the details have not been fully settled, but it can definitely be stated that the terms will be decidedly more compre- hensive than those governing the present alliance. The treaty will be promulgated as soon as completed, there being a desire on the part of the British government to make its pub- lication dependent on the conclusion of peace. As to the suggestions that Great Britain should advise Japan. to be lenient the Associated Press learns that the British government's pre- sumption is that its advice will be asked by Japan in the course of the peace negotiations and that it will then gladiy ofter at counsel may seem to it best calcuiated to assure a permanent jeace. HAVE NOTHING TO SAY. | dap Enveys Refuse to Discuss M. Witte’s Interview. New York, Aug. 1.—The reported interview with M. Witte, the Russian peace plenipotentiary, on board the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, published here during the day, was read at the headquarters of the Japanese peace commission, but no comment or state- ment was made. Mr. Sato of the com- mission, who has met all inquiries for statements during the visit of the com- mission, “said that he did nat care to discuss the matter. He said, however, that he thought M. Witte was vested with power equal to that of Baron Ko- mura in the matter of negotiating a treaty of peace. Mr. Sato did not understand what was meant by M. Witte when he said that it would have been much better had a common basis been agreed on by Japan and Russia before appoint- ing peace plenipotentiaries. He said that no request was presented by Rus- sia, but that had she asked such a thing Japan would probably have en- tertained the question. ROJESTVENSKY ABLE TO SIT UP. Russian Naval Commander 8atisfactory Progress. Tokio, Aug. 1.—Admiral Rojestven- sky’s condition has made satisfactory Making ECURED BY LEATHER TRUST. i BT Controls La gest Independent Tannery 2 in the World. Kenosha, Wis., Aug. 1.—Articles of Incorporation were filed at Madison during the day for the N. R. Allen Sons | Tannery company of Kenosha. The apital stock is $800,000 and the in- corporators are Charles W. Allen, Na- than R. Allen, Jr., and Edward C. Thiers. It is generally believed that this is the first step in turning over the big Kenosha tannery, the largest independ- ent tannery in the world, to the allied Ileather interests. In speaking of the organization of ithat the stock in the company would ‘fer the present be held by C. W. Allen an@ himself, but that the Central Leather company would laterqhave an Interest in the company. He declined to state the nature of this interest. In qualifying his remarks Mr, Allen stated that the Central Leather com- pany, which is a new organization, now held more than 90 per cent of the stoek of the American Hide and Leather company and that within the last few weeks the company has pur- chased six plants which had formerly been independent. He did not give a list ‘of the plants purchased by the new company. It is generally believed here that the deal is a reorganization of the Amer- ican Hyde and Leather company by which the company will secure contro] 3 of all of the larger independent plants jin the country. LIGHTNING HITS BATHHOUSE. Five Persons Killed and Nine Seri- ously Injured. ¢ New York, Aug. 1.—During a thun- der storm of. terrific intensity which passed over New York five persons were struck by lightning and instantly killed and nine were seriously injured at the Parkway baths, Coney Island. At the same time one man was killed and three others prostrated at Graves- end Beach. The intense heat of the morning at- tracted a great multitude to the shore resorts and late in the afternoon when the storm blew up from the west the parkway beach was thronged with bathers and spectators. The rain de- scended in torrents and hundreds of ter under the big bathhouse, which is elevated above the sand on piles. A few minutes before 5 o’clock a bolt struck the flagstaff and grounded in the very thickest of the crowd. Near- ly fifty persons were prostrated and the rest, screaming with terror, rushed out into the storm. Ambulances were summoned from all the nearest hospitals and on their arrival five of the persons were found dead and nine unconscious under the bathhouse. The bodies of all were scorched by the electric fluid. The nire injured were removed to a hos- pital, where it was said that some probably would die. DEVLIN CREDITORS MEET. Hear Report of Receivers in Control of Property. Kansas City, Aug. 1.—A meeting of progress since the operation was per- | the creditors of Charles J. Devlin, the formed on his forehead. He is able to | former millionaire coal operator, was leave his bed and sit in a chair. Pains | held here during the day. There was in one foot, however, prevent his walk- | N0 action that the creditors could take ing freely, but no cause for uneasiness | €xcept to hear a report, in part, from exists. The admiral has expressed his | the receivers and to discuss possible sincere satisfaction at the treatment | methods of realizing rapidly on the accorded him. CONCESSIONS TO JAPAN. Korean Government Grants Free Navi- gation Privileges. Seoul, Korea, Aug. 1.—Japanese in- fluence has finally secured free coast and interlor navigation privileges in Korea. The concession was passed by the cabinet after several weeks’ con- sideration. Several cabinet ministers ‘who were unwilling to grant the con- cession resigned and thus shirked an unavoidable responsibility. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Legislative Investigation of the Equit- . able Life. Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 1.—Senator William W. Armstrong, head of the legislative committee which will probe into the conduct of life insurance busi- ness in New York state, left Rochester during the day for Albany to begin the investigation. Senator Armstrong officially said before leaving Roches- ter: "Governorr\Higgins, State Superin- tendent of Insurance Hendricks, At- torney General Mayer and District At- torney - Jerome all have written me that they will be glad to co-operate with the committee and will render any assistance in their power. The investigation will be as thorough as We can make it and the sessions of the committee will be open to the public.” Arguments in the Koch Case. Mankato, Minn., Aug. 1.—General Childs, for the state, closed his argu- ‘ment at 11:30 a. m. in'the Koch mur- der trial. property. About the time the receivers were appointed a call for this meeting was proposed by some of the men who were anxious to save the property from being scattered. All three of the receivers were present at the meet- ing. The three receivers have their appointments in such shape that the Kansas receivers are recognized in 1llinois and the Illinois receivers in Kansas, and, while appointed sep- arately, they really form one board of receivers. Most of those attending the meeting are lawyers, attorneys for banks, trust companies, brokers or others from whom Mr. Devlin borrowed money. SUITS AGAINST DIRECTORS. Effort to Recover Money for Equitable Policyholders. New York, Aug. 1.—State’s Attorney General Mayer is said to have com- pleted his plans for suing the old di- rectors of the Equitable Life Assur- ance society and papers will be filed at once in forty-four cases. It is under- stood the complaint will demand that the defendants account to the state for their official conduct and their man- agement of the company; that all the directors be compelled to pay to the Equitable society any moneys which they acquired by connection with the society and moneys which under their management were lost or wasted, and that the moneys recovered in the suits shall be credited to the policyholders in equitable proportion. Killed i:y a Foul Tip. Ottumwa, Ia., Aug. 1.—Sixteen’year- Attorney- Brown, for the de-| 0ld Estel Payton, while catching at a fense, immediately began his argu- | baseball game between two amateur ment and at its conclusion the court|teams at Nasby Corners, was struck will present the case to the jury. The |over the heart by a foul tip. He threw impression prevails that another dis-['the ball back to the pitcher and dropped dead. 3 men, women and children sought ahel—_ ADMIT IT IS SERIOUS LITTLE CHANGE APPARENT IN YELLOW: FEVER SITUATION AT NEW ORLEANS. MUCH DISTRESS AMONG ITALIANS SUSPENSION OF FRUIT TRAFFIC CAUSES LOSS OF EMPLOY- MENT FOR MANY. — i e ] WEED 0UT CORRUPTION RIGID INQUIRY TO Bé 'MADE INTO ALL BRANCHES OF DEPART- | MENT OF AGRICULTURE. .} WILSON CONFERS WITH ROOSEVELT PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY DIS- CUSS SCANDALS ALREADY UNDER INVESTIGATION. New Orleans, Aug, 1.—Little change |’ & 1s apparent in the yellow fever sitna- tion here. A number of new cases were unofficially reported to the board of health. The campaign in the inter- est of cistern screening continues and hundreds of gallons of oil are being placed in gutters and water recep- tacles. The large majority of new cases and ‘deaths continues to be in the old infected areabelow Canal street, only four of the twenty-seven new cases being above Canal street. The health authorities, while freely admit- ting the situation to be serious, be- lieve that the disease can be con- trolled, the opportunities for new in- fection growing fewer as the area of screened cisterns increases. RESULT OF QUARANTINE. Much Distress Among Italian Resi- dents of New Orleans. New Orleans, Aug. 1.—Much = dis- tress is beginning to appear among the Italian population growing out of the practical expulsion of the fruit busi- ness from Louisiana on account of quarantines and relief work is oné of the tasks which the Italian societies and citizens’ committees will now have to address themselves to. While the six-day detention order of the board of health lasts it is expected that all the lines which have been operating fruit steamers into New Orleans will divert their ships to Mobile and this will have the effect of throwing sev- eral thousand laborers, many of them Italians, out. of employment. A meeting of Tepresentative Italians has been held and a permanernt organ- ization formed. A campaign of relief and of education into the hygienic re- quirements of the situation has been decided on. It was also resolved to follow the advice telegraphed by Am- bassador Mayor des Planches and to address all Italians in the city verbally and by circular asking them to pay ready obedience to the regulations im- posed by the health authorities. Oyster Bay, L. L., Aug. 1.—A confer- ence took place during the day at Sag- amore Hill concerning the scandals re- cently developed in tne departmeat of agriculture at Washington. President Roosevelt entertained at luncheon Secretary Wilson of the de- partment of agriculture, who had come to Oyster Bay by invitation of the pres- ident to discuss the recent develop- ments of the cotton report leak scan- dal and of the exploitation of nitro- culture which induced the resignation of Dr. George T. Moore. Both of these cases are now under investigation by the department of justice. By direc- tion of the president the inquiries will be made very thorough and if the facts disclosed should warrant it prosecu- tions against the offenders will be in- stituted by Attorney General Moody. Meantime a rigid inquiry will be made into all other bureaus of the de- partment of agriculture, it being the intention of both the president and Secretary Wilson to purge the depart- ment of any taint of corruption. With this general inquiry the president is not interfering in any way. Secretary Wilson is directing it and the presi- dent’s confidence in him is such that he is assured the investigation will de- velop all the facts. Secretary Wilson has no present idea of resigning and even if his resig- nation were tendered it is probable that the president would decline to accept it, 5 WILL VISIT 8OUTH Commission Sent Out to Investigats Alleged Frauds. ‘Washington, Aug. 1.—A picked com- mission of government officers has been sent West by Secretary Hitch- cock to aid in exposing new lines of graft in three important branches of the government service. The investi- ‘gators will examine into certain al- leged frauds in the general land offices ‘While the feeling here is constantly ! of several states, in the forestry serv- growing more hopeful , there is ap- parently no abatemen® of the excite- ment and panicky feeling in the coun- try districts of Louisiana and Missis- sippi. Local business houses are be- ginning to feel the effects of the scare. Quarantines everywhere are being drawn tighter. Even gasoline is barred from Vicksburg. A number of the towns in Louisiana and Mississippi are cutting themselves off from the world and the shotgun quarantines are being extended. Guards and inspectors are multiplying and making travel increas- ingly difficult. FIRED ON BY GUARDS. Men Held in Fever Detention Camp Attempt to Escape. s ice and in the reclamation service. The commission will go first to Deadwood, S. D. It will spend two or three weeks in that state and will then move to other sections where allega- tions of irregularities have been made. The commission will inquire into cer- tain alleged frauds in connection with the irrigation service. It has been charged that advance information has been given to persons concerning areas to be irrigated by the government, thus enabling them to take out land claims within the region to be wa- tered. Many complaints have lately been made to Secretary Hitchcock regard- ing trespassing on government forest reserves. Bold thieves have invaded the federal forests and cut timber Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 1.—A spe-| therefrom. clal from Meridian, Miss., says it is The commission will also look into reported there that five men held at|the charge that frauds existing in the the detention camp at Lumberton at-| public land service in a number of tempted to escape and were fired on| states have been overlooked in the by the guards. It is said that two men | general investigation that has been were killed and three were waunded. | made of these matters in the past - Trains Not Allowed to Stop. Mobile, Ala., Aug. 1.—The city of | SPECIAL SESSION REQUESTE y Laurel, Miss., has notified the officials three years. of the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas | Supreme Council of Royal Arcanum to City railroad that it must send its trains through that place at the rate of thirty miles an hour owing to the g fear of yellow fever contagion. tiesburg, tickets must be sold to Hattiesburg at :any point. Hat- Case of Fever on Board. Santiago, Cuba, Aug. 1—Five of the crew of the steamer Athenia from Colon were brought ashore here and placed in the inspection hospital. One of the sailors has since developed quite positive symptoms of yellow fever. - Suspicious lllness on Bgprd. New York, Aug. '1.—Symptoms of fever, the nature of which has not been determined, were discovered on the steamer Proteus, direct from New Orleans. CHOLERA FOLLOWS FAMINE. Epidemic Among Refugees Arriving at Madras, India. Madras, British India, Aug. 1.—A serious epidemic of cholera prevails among the refugees from the famine stricken districts who haye - been .crowding into the city for weeks past. Numbers of vietims have been found dead or dying on the streets. The death rate is 80,7 Be Summoned. Rome, N. Y., Aug. 1.—Supreme Re- ent Howard C. Wiggins of Rome has announced that he has received a re- Miss., has sent word that no | quest from the constitutional number of supreme representatives requiring him to call a special session of the supreme council of the Royal Arca- num. The constitution requires that to call a special session a majority of all of the representatives of seven or more grand jurisdictions must unite and re- quest the supreme regent in writing to that effect. It is then the manda- tory duty of the supreme regent to act accordingly. There are seventy-seven representatives and requests have been received from thirty-nine, coming from ten grand jurisdictions. The time and place of holding such special session will be announced as soon as suitable arrangements can be made therefor. / Wealthy Wisconsin Pioneer Dead. Madison, Wis., Aug. 1.—0. B. Dahle, a wealthy pioneer, died at his home in Mount Horeb, aged eighty-two. He was born in Norway and was a Cali- fornia gold miner of ’49, crossing the plailg with oxen. father of former Congressman H. B. Dahle. e e Deceased was the g