Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 15, 1905, Page 4

——-T"w e RUSSIANS AND JAPS AGREE Come to Terms on Japanese Dem Agreement Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 15.— The Russo-Japanese conferance met shortly before 10 o’clock this morning and before the noon recess had agreed upon article four, covering the surrender of Article Four of the ands---Ancther Reached. the leases of Lidoftung peninsula and Blonde and Eltiott islands. Japan insists upon the tempor- ary occupation at least of Dalny and Port Arthur and these two points, although not covered in the article, were agreed upon. SHOCKED BY LIVE WIRE Walter Hartmon, Lineman at Warfield Plant, Was Near to Death. Walter Hartmon, employed at the Wartield Electric company’s plant, last night had a narrow escape from death by receiving a shock of electricity while cutting aliye wire, Hartmon was re. turning to his home south of the Great Northern tracks from the plant, where he had been work-| ing up to about 12 o’clock and had reached a point near his home when he noticed sparks coming from a wire which was lying on the ground. Hartmon went up to the wire and pulled a pair of nippers from his pocket and applied them to the wire He had no soomer done so than he was knocked to the ground unconscious. He regained con- sciousness after a time and reached home. Hartmon has fully recovered from the shock but still feels the effects of his experience. THREE HELD TO DISTRICT COURT Ben Nelson, Roy Emery And Mrs. Cleveland of Ten- stirke Bound Over. Ben Nelson, the alleged per- petrator of a crime near Ten- strike, and Mrs. Cleveland and| Roy Emery, colored, charged with being Nels(n's accomplices, were this afternoon held to the grand jury in Judge Pendergast’s court. Nelson’s hearing began this morning at 10 o’clock, County Attorney McDonald re- presenting the state and Charles W. Scrutchin appearing for the defendant. Witnesses were ex- amined up to 2:45 this afternoon, when the judge decided that Nelson must face the grand jury. No witnesses were examined in the cases against Emery and Mrs. Cleveland, the attorneys stipulating to allow the same evi- dence produced in the Nelson hearing to apply to the negroand the woman. The honds of each were fixed at 500, The Best (Bemidji made) PARK RAPIDS BLUFF CALLED Bemidji Firemen Agree to Race Eveleth Victors for State Championship. At the meeting of the Bemidji fire department last hight, it was decided to accept the challenge issued by the Park Rapids run- ning team to run a series of races for the state championship. Just where the races will be pulled off is yet undecided, but the local firemen will spare no effort to interest the business men in the matter and it is very probable that the races will take place in this city. A committee consisting of Earl Geil, Arthur Narveson, John Washburn, E. H. Cornwall and Chas. Swedback was selected to wait upon the Business Men’s club at its next meeting and attempt to interest the members of the club in the matter. The firemen are anxious that the tournament and the street carnival talked of by the business men be made a joint affair to take place about Sept. 12, INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION Bemidji Delegates Leave to Attend Fire Engineer’s Meet at Duluth. The annual convention of the International Association of Fire Engineers, which begins in Du- luth tomorrow and lasts four days, will be attended by dele- gates from Bemidji, two of whom left this afternoon for the Zenith city. The delegates from Be- midji are: Chief Earl Geil, Chas. Swedback, Messrs. Geil und Swedback left for Duluth this afternoon and Mr. Cornwall will follow this evening. The convention is by far the most notable affair of the kind ever held at the head of the lakes. The association is inter- national and its membership in- cludes firemen from every part of the globe, CONVENTION OF REBEKAHS District Meeting Will Be Held in Bemidji Tomorrow— Many Expected. The annual district meeting of Rebekahs will be held in Be- midji tomorrow afternoon and |evening at the I. O. O. F. hall and the local lodge has made arrange- ments for entertaining the vyisi- tors in royal fashion. Mrs. Ames and Mrs. Smith, two very promi- nent members of the order, will arrive in the city this evening to be presentat the meeting. Two | sessions will be held—one in the afternoon and another in the |evening—and important business matters will be discussed. Ttis expected that there will be about 50 visiting delegates present at the meeting. E. H. Cornwall | VOTEBONDS \SWAMPS AUGUST 29 Special Election Called by|Beltrami Council at Meeting Held Last Night. PURPOSE TO TAKE UP OUT- STANDING ORDERS. A:Number of Other Matters Con- sidered—Sprinkling Contract is Let. At a regular meeting of the city couucil last night it was de- cided to hold a special election on Aug. 29 at which it will be de- cided whether the bonds of the city shall be issued in the sum of $10,000 for the purpose of taking up the outstanding orders against the city. The members of the council have investigated theamount of the city’s indebt- edness and find that $10,000 will be sufficient to take up about all of the outstanding orders. Agent G. A. Walker of the M. & [, appeared before the council and asked that the company be allowed to build a side track ou the west side of the depot, on Bemidji avenue. A committee was appointed to investigate thé matter and action will be taken at a future meeting. The second sprinkling con- tract for this year was let to M. A.Soper. A. D.Cameron for- merly had a contract for sprink- ling all the streets of the city at a compensation of $60 per month. He was not placed under any bond and 4 few days ago he qait the job. Mr. Soper will receive $68.50 per month. DROWNED AT RED LAKE Abel Hallock, Aged 70, Lost His Life in the Tama- rack River. TRIED TO SWIM ACROSS THE STREAM. Found Hanging to Log in the River—Drowning Was Accidental. Abel Hallock, aged 70, was drowned one day last week in the Tamarack river about a quarter of a quarter of a mile from the northeast shore of Red Lake, where his body was found by two neighbors named Rodes and Luckenbill, Hallock was a veteran of the Civil war and was staying on a claim with his sister, Mrs. Farr. He left his sister’s heme two weeks ago yesterday to visit a hay meadow on the Tamarack river which he owned. In order to reach the meadow it was nec- essary for him to swim across the stream. Itis believed that he took off his clothes and started to swim the river but was taken with cramps before reaching shore, as the aged man was a good swimmer. . His garments were found tied in a bundle to his neck. Rodes and Luckenbill were unable to identify the man but they reported the finding the body at Shotley and two sons of the old man who live in that vil- lage identified the remains,which were in a bad state of discomposi tion. Coroner Marcum was yes- terday notified of the drowning but he deemed an inquest unnec- essary. The remains of Hallock were buried at Shotley Saturday even- ing. : meat ‘Agmural Andrew E. K. 'Ben- ham, retired, is dead at Lake Maho- pao, N. Y. Admiral Benham wag & member of the Schley court of in< quiry, __ ALL HIGH County Swamp Lands May All Be Easily : Drained. SHOTLEY LANDS AS AN ILLUS- TRATION. Nothing Wanting But Drainage to Make Them Finest Farm- ing Country. . C. O, Espe of Shotley is in the city today on business matters. Mr. Espe is intensely interested in the drainage movement and declares that a yery little work and expenditure will make the Shotley country an ideal farming community, “Beltrami county lands may be drained much easier than thelands of the Red River Valley”’ said Mr. Espe, “for all the swamp land of this county are high lands, They are the sources of the numerous rivers which rise in Beltrami county, and drainage is simply a matter of affording a comparatively short outlet for the swamps. I venture to state that it will not cost one third as much to completely drain Bel- tfami county as it will to put in proper shape an equal territory further west. So much has been said about the value of drainage that it seems repetition to say any more, yet few of us I think realize the enormous benefit which the ex- penditure of a very small amount of money will give Beltrami county. HEvena partial system of drainage would immediately place the county among the im- portant agricultural counties of the state. At Shotley a few ditches will give us an enormous- ly rich farming territory that will attract the most substantial class of settlers atonce. Peter Derett Bound Over. Peter Derett of Nebish,accused of pergery committed while giv- ing testimony in a justice court case broughtagainst him by £. M. Moore of this city last spring, was yesterday afternoon bound over to the grand jury by Judge Pendergast. Derett’s bonds were placed at $300. \VIOLATED THE ~ COMMERCE ACT Interstate Commerce Commission Stafts Investigation of Railroads and Refrigerator Lines. Washington, Aug. 15.—The in- terstate commerce commission on its own initiatiye and as a re- sult of complaints against the private car lines, today unex- pectedly began an iuvestigationl of the relations existing between the railroads and the refriger- ator lines by which it'is charged that the act to regulate interstate commerce is being violated in several specified particulars. GIVES BEMIDJI A BAD KNOCK Clifton Johnson, Writer for “Outing’’ Says Life is Unsafe Here. “Outing” for June contains an article writen by Clifton Johnson of Hadley, Mass., which gives| Bemidji credit for being one of! the toughest cities in the United | States. Mr. Johnson states in the article that lfe is unsafe, that fights and shooting * scrapes are frequent and that all kinds of vice is tolerated. The magazine in which the story appeared has a wide circulation and the damage to Bemidji’s reputation cannot be over-estimated. Hdwara "Drouin, rorme.%y a wommoy and influential merchant of Philadel- phia, is dead at Peoria, Ill. -Drouin married the daughter of the late S. H. Thompson, a wealthy wholesale grocer of Peoria, and inherited the en- tire fortune, which has since been! The reason the robbers did BURNED OUT AT CASS LAKE Restaurant Operated by Philip Hays Destroyed by Fire Last Night. A building in which a restau- rant kept by Philip Hays, for- merly of Bemidji, was operated, was last night entirely destroyed by fire at Cass Lake, with con- tents, The blaze started from the exploding of a gasoline coffee urn. Following the explosion i the gasoline spread to all parts of the room and the building was soon a mass of flames, No insur. ance was carried by Mr. Hays. :rwo Drowned While Bathing. La Crosse, Wis., Aug. 15.—William H. Klawitter, aged fifty, and Albert Bergaus, aged fifty, were drowned in the Mississippi river while bathing. Six drownings have occurred here in the past few days. " “ROBBED!I” The City Drug Store was broken into sometime last night and a very valuable corn cob pipe stolen. not take more was for the fact that we have just received a large, new and up- to-date line of pipes and are obliged to keep them in the safe as they represent a large sum of money. E.N.FRENCH @ CO. CITY DRUG STORE. | Just Received A Full and Complete Line of Ladies, Children and Men’s Shoes in the Latest Fall Styles ‘We wish to call your attention to our fall for Gentlemen. you money, stop and see them, the prices book of samplestor Tailor Made (’othing We know we areright, A perfect it Guaranteed! 1&-SUMMER GOODS AT COST.-ex E. H. Winter & Co. refunded 7 Phone 30, Dept. store Satisfaction or money illlllllllllllilll-lilllll BEMIDJI, MIN'ESOTA can save i LA A