Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 24, 1905, Page 1

> 5 The Bemidji VOLUME 3. NUMBER 106 BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, TI MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SQCIETY. AUGUST 24, MAY RAISE THE “DEADHEADS” Probable That Government Will Clear Channel of the Mississippi. The Mississippi river from Minneapolis to the head is lined with sunken logs, known along | the river as “deadheads.” That threse have no small influence on the capacity of the channel to carry off the water is generally conceded and the engineers ap- pointed to investigate the upper river troubles will probably recommend that the government confiscate these logs and raise They would then probab- them, and the proceeds applied to the cost of raising them. The government snagging ierews haye raised some of the logs in their work of keeping the channel open for navigation and in one place removed 300 logs i feet long. At one point near Waldeck two- thirds of the channel is said to be obstructed with ‘‘deadheads.” i P S : 'THOUSANDS ' HUNT CHICKENS %Commission Wages | paign Against ‘‘Soomers” | —Several Convietions. Officials of the state game and in a space not more than as many Cam- | ly be sold to the highest bladerlfish commission estimate thablcml_o TELLS not less than 10,000 Minnesota | shoot ducks and chickens by Sept. 1, when the season opens. Apphca,tmns for licenses are re- ceived at the capitol at the rate; | of several hundred a day. This is the first season that a Minnesota hunter has been obliged to take out a license to hunt small game in any portion of the state, except the counties !in which the hunter resides. The Jaw was passed at the last ses I sion of the legislature, and under |16 the state gets 90 cents of the i$1 fee, and the county auditor issuing the license the remaining 10 cents- i i) James Britt and “Battling” Nelson | bave signed articles to fight twenty- " five rounds at San Francisco for a| purse of $20,000. ’ 1905. TEN CENTS PER WEEK OF BRUTAL CRIME. hunters will take out licenses to Says Her Molher and a Sawmill Man | “Killed Her Father. Knoxvilie, Tenn., Aug. 24—The lit- tle daughter of Mrs. John Lea, lately !a widow by the supposed suicide of her husbénd, a sawmill man, who re- sided near Cleveland, Tenn., has confessed to her grandmother at Murray, Ga., where she had been seni | on a visit, that her mother and James Hix, also a sawmill man, who boarded at the home of the Leas, killed her father. The story is one ‘of the most revolting in the eriminal annals of Tennessee. Lea was found hang- ing by a rope which was attached to one of the beams of the sawmill, his neck broken. A coroner’s jury pro- nounced him a suicide. Then Hix and Mrs. Lea disappeared. The lit- tle girl deciares Hix hald her futher while her mother broke his neck with a Wweapon, Hix telling her where to | strike. They threatened to kill the child if she told, according to the lit- tle one. Hix has been arrested at Spring Place, Ga., and officers are looking for Mrs. Lea at Sherman Heights, Tenn., where she is visiting. New Idea for September 5c¢c only day and Saturday, L lot of ladies’ walsts, wc 81.50 - each, pru e Gce to grey and red. 2000 y fancy onti fall p.mcm\ worth Te. vards of and green and white. the up to 75e, choice at 39¢. Home Glass measures, a handy MAGAZINES your choice at, Prints! Ginghams! Outings! 1000 yards standard prints, regular 7e. colors. blue. black, 500 yards of apron check gingham, blue and whiie, black and white. Friday and Saturday your choice of 3 lots at & eents a vard. Bargains in articles needed in every Ladies’ few of each kind left . each 98 Cents orth up to a0e 1 lot men’s and dark colors, suits. now only, 1 lot of men ng flannels all colors. ms. pat Men’s Furnishing Goods. A lot of men’snegligee shirts. lots where there is only two or- three of a kind, worth from $1.00 to §1.50. cheice for 79 cents each 1 lot of men’s 50c summer under- the kitchen, 10c each. wear, at 39¢ a garment. 10c box of Shinola for 7 cents. 1 lot of men’s outing caps, worth - Large size bottle Jelly 10 cents. article for yeat box, regular O’LEARY & BOWSER BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA. 1 lot of Skirts, we thought them cheap at from $3.00 to $5.00 each, there are only a Friday or Saturday, for each, $2. Ladies Underskirts Ladies” $1.25 black sateen 1mdersk1rts, Fri- Men’s Clothing. s light weight suits, light $16.50 fancy mixed suits, fall styles, cheap at $15.00. Friday and Saturday at $11.00 a suit 1 lot men’s faney mixed suits, fall $6.50 Knives and Forks. 6 knives and 6 forks put up in a P Friday and Satu'rday, ARGAINS Skirts. so take your choice, 25 our regular $22.00 's double " breasted “3in I of Petroleum World’s Fair tooth picks, regular price $2.00. now cents each.. only $1.25 a set. *oil, price 10 cents; now & 1 lot of 15¢-tooth brnshes at 10 New Idsa ATTERNS 10c | 2YLION BRAND” TRADE MARK the 15¢ size, at 10c. cents a box. 'ENTIRE FAMILY DEAD DREN DROWNED IN RIVER NEAR MAYSVILLE, KY. HOUSEBOAT SUNK IN A GOLLISION ITS MOORINGS, CRASHING INTO TOWBOAT IN MIDSTREAM. BREAKS FROM Maysyille, Ky., Aug. 24—News reached here during the day of the between Maysville and Dover. Gates left here in a shanty boai, for the night at a point below Ripley, on the Kentucky side. The rising river caused the boat to break loose coming up with empties struck the shanty boat, demolishing it, and' the wholé family drowned, being asleep when the accident occurred. BAR ASSOCIATION MEETS. Prominent Jurists Assemble at Narra gansett Pier. Narragansett Pier, R. I, Aug. 24.— Prominent jurists from all sections of the United States gathered here dur- | ing the day to attend the opening sessions of the twentieth annual meet- ing of the American Bar association. ‘Included in the number were Justices White and Brown of the United States supreme court and many pro- fessors of the various law schools con- nected with the great American uni- versities. : As the first feature of the day’s ses- sion the president, Henry St. George Tucker. of Lexington, Va., delivered his address, paying especial attention to the most noteworthy changes in staiute law on points of general inter- est made by congress and in the vari- ous state legislatures during the past year. This address was followed by the nomination and election of mem- bers and the- presentation of depart- mental x'Lports SYNDICATE TO DIG CANAL. Plan Proposed Would Shorten Duluth. Chicago Route. Detroit, Mich.,, Aug. 24—Nelson Thomasson, a vesselman of Chicago, is authority for the statement thai a syndicate is to be formed to dig a canal irom Au Train on Lake Supe- rior to Gladstone or Escanaba on Lake WMichigan. By using Whitefish river it is de- clared only sixteen miles of the total distance of forty miles between Lake he dredged. fuch a capal would shorten the route between Duluth and Chicago by 265 miles and would save upwards of 200 miles on the direct route belween Duluth and Buffalo. Moreover, the dangerous St. Marys river would be avoided. SUGAR TRUST UNDER PROBE. Investigation of Standard Oil Ncarmg not been under the j light since the congr ional scandal several years ago, is undergoing an- other operation under the probe of the bureau of corporations. <ation of the sugar trust has begun with the utmost secrecy and it is stated on good authority that it has been in progress mnearly a month. Meantime the investigation of ihe Standard Oil company, which was be- gun last spring, is rapidly nearing completion, although it is doubtful that any public report will he made investigators’ 2ress opens. Five Hundred Out of Employment. Shamokin, Fa., Aug. 24—The big breaker of the Greenough Red Ash Coal company at Marion Heights, near here, was destroved during the day. The breaker was built five years ago at a cost of 387,006. men and boys are rhrov\n out of em- ployment. F|re on Big Ocean Lmer Liverpool, Aug. 24—Fire broke out dnring the afternoon in the steerage of the White Star line steamer Oceanic., but it was promptly extin- guished by the crew. The damage was trifing. The Oceanic sailed for New York lalel aci r’ordmg to schedule. Desu‘e Immediate Statehood Muskogee, I. T., Aug. 24.—Resolu- tions declaring for immediate state- hood for Oklahoma 'and Indian Terri- tory as one state were adopted Tues- day by the statehood and constifu- tional convention of the Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes. ! HUSBAND, WIFE AND FIVE €HIL-| drowning of 2 man named Gates and : his wife and five children in the river intending going south, and tied up! and float to midstream. A towboat: Superior aud Michigan would have to] Completion. Washington, Aug. 24—The “sugar | trust,” the operations of which have The investi- ! by Commissioner Garfield before con- | Five hundred | APPEALS TO THE GZAR ! PRESIDENT SENDS AMBASSADbR MEYER TO RUSSIAN RULER IN INTEREST OF PEACE. ;600D RESULTS EXPECTED TO FOLLOW AMERICAN EXECUTIVE DOING EV- ERYTHING IN HIS POWER TO END HOSTILITIES. St. Petersburg, Aug. 24—Mr. Meyer, the American amfl)assador, went to Peterhof during the afternoon, where he was received in audience by the emperor. The audience concerns the possible conclusion of peace. Portsmouth, N. H. Aug. 24.—The Associated Press cable from St. Pe- tersburg announcing that Mr. Meyer, the American ambassador to Russia, had had an audience with the em- peror at Peterhof, is considered here one of the most hopeful signs which has thus far developed in connection with the president’s' efforts to brmz the belligerents to a compromise. That the president should have asked Mr. Meyer to make a personal appeal to the emperor in his name, for it could be little less than that, shows how terribly in earnest the president is. And by those who understand the situation at St. Petersburg the possi- ble good results of such a direct ap- peal are fully appreciated. It was at such a personal andience with Mr. Meyer that the empéror gaye his con- sent to send plenipotentiaries to the present conference. SUGGESTED. COMPROMISE ! President Proposes Russia Repurchase Island of Sakhalin. Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 24—The new peace proposition of President Roosevelt, in brief, is that Russia re- purchase possession -of ecither all or half of the island of Sakhalin, now in the military occupation of Japan; for a sum the amount of which, if the two countries cannot agree, shall be decided by some method of arbitra- tion hereafter to be determined. The purchase money, together with the sum Japan would obtain from- the cession of he Chinese Eastern rail- road and ihe maintenance of the Rus- sian prisoners in Japan, would, it is estimated, about equal the amount claimed by Japan as her bill for the cost of the war. ossibly, therefore, the solution oifered by the president involves recession by Japan upon art- icle 5 (the cession of Sakhalin) and recession by Russia upon article 9 ] (indemnity). It seems practically certain, though this cannot be afiirmed positively, that the ‘president was able to give M. ‘Witte substantial assurance that Ja- pan would be willing to accept such a compromise. This is apparently sup- ported by the authoritative Japanese | statement made to the Associated Press in reply to a question as to whether Japan had not decided to make substantial concessions. ? I | DISPUTE OVER PROTOCOL. i ! Peace Conference Awaits Action or Secrstaries. Portsmouth, N. H Aug. 24.—TPhe mecting of the pe: conference dur- ing the morning was in reality not a meeting of the plenipotentiar at all. 1 The secretaries of the respective mis- sions were still in dispute over the text of the protocol and the plenipo- tentiaries' gave up \the conference jToom to them to adjust their giffer- ences. The plenipotentiaries remained in their respective private quarters while the secretaries were \)mg to. straighien out their differences. It was claimed that certain corrections ;m which both sides had agreed had 'not been placed in the text. , At 12:15 this work had not been completed by the secretaries and it was decided to take a recess until 1Z 30. At that time the plenipoten- {tiaries went into formal session ani {took up ‘the protocol in full, deciding ‘.uu disputed quesnons as lhey arose. CONFDDENCE RESTORED . Change of Sentiment in French Finan- cial Circles. o asia ! . Paris, Aug. 24.—Reports from Poris- "mouth, indicating prospects of mutual ! eoncessions, restored the” feeling of ' confidence in official and financial cir- cles. The bourse showed notable im- provement from. the sudden slump of the previous day. Russian securities were in active demand from ihe start, fours showing an advance of 40 cen- times. The appearance of the Russian bank statement also favorably influ- enced this situation. This shows that the debit balance of the government to the bank has been replaced by, a government eredit of $14,520,000 as }tlu result of the last interior lese.