Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 28, 1905, Page 1

I The Bemidji BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1905. b VOLUME 3. NUMBER 134. Ladies’ Coats 1 M sses’ Coats Fur Lined Coats to Cloth Coats. New Styles,$8.50 to $25 Fur coats $27.50 to EFFORT TO LOCATE SYNDICATE 3 i [ New York, Sept slon of the PROFITS OF THE EQUITA- BLE LIFE COMPANY, es- insurance in- vestigation developed = ral mass of technical testimony to the syndi- cate profits of the Kquitable i.ife As- surance society. The witness who was questioned on this subject was Henry Rogers Winthrop, assistant secretary and financial manager of the society. He told of many participatious of the Equitable in syndicate transactions and detailed the profits a ruing o the society fherefrom, but he was un- able to tell to what account ou the society’s books these profits were credited. xpert accountants are now at work on the Equitable’s books to discover whether these profits actuall, went into the society’s treasury. Mr. Winthrop testified that in one of the Equitable's syndicate opera- tions Senator Depew was a partici- pant to the amount of $100,000. Sen- ator Depew and Senator Dryden of New. Jersey have been requested to appear before the committee. Senator Dryden, who' is president of the Pru- dential [nsurance company of Amer- ica, is not a resident of this state and therefore not subject to subpoena by the legislative committee, but he ha~ expressed willi to testity. leg 3 FRA&EE IS SATISFIED. Anglo-Japanese Treaty Widely Dis. cussed at Paris. Paris, Sept. 28.—The Anglo-Japanese treaty is widely commented upon here. The official view is that the treaty is conformable to French interests. It is pointed ourt particularly that France does not seek territorial expansion in Asia and therefore the status quo pro- visions of the treaty carry out French policies. The officials are equally hopeful that the treaty will prove sat- isfactory to R , but there appears to remain some doubl as to Russla’s eomplete acquiescence, although the explanations rend to remove Russian ¥ GOES VIA CAYADIAN. PACIFIC. B aron Komura Leaves New York for Vancouver. New York, Sept. 28.—The return to Japan of Baron Komura, the Japanese peace plenipotentiary, began during the day when he left New York for Montreal. In the party also were Baron Kaneko and Aimar Sato, secre- iary to the peace envoy. The Japa- nese left over the New York Central road in the private car of Sir Willlam Van Horne, president of the Canadian Pacific railroad, over which line they will be transported from Montreal to Vancouver. With Baron Komura went Pritchard. who has attended the pleni- potentiary during the attack of ty- phoid fever which recently prevented him from leaving for Japan on the date set for his retnrn. The physician may go as faw as Vancouver. GQUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, /Sept. 27.— Wheat— Sept., 8235c; Dec., 83% @83%c; May, 861 c. On track—No. 1 hard, 86%c; No. 1 Northern. §5%ec: No. 2 North- ern. 8215¢c MARKET $t. Paul Union Steck Yards. St. Paul, Sept. 27.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $4.50@5.50; common to : 5; zood to choice cows ; veals, $2.00@ $4.90@'% Sheep—Year- Ung wethers, $4.50@5.25; good to choice native lambs, $5.00@5.50. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, Sept. 27.—Cattle—Beeves, $3.60@6.10; stockers and feeders, $2.- 40@4.25; cows and heifers, $1.40@ $3.10@4.75. Hogs— Western, heavy, 70; rough heavy, $ @5.20: 10@5.60. Sheep, $3.50 @4.90: @7.60. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Sept. 27.—Wheat—To arrive —No. 1 Northern, 844¢; No. 2 North- ern, 813c. On track—No. 1 North- ern, ¥4Y%c. No. 2 Northern, 81%c; Sept. (old). 84c; Sept. (new), 81%ec; Dec., 79%c: May, 82%c. Flax—To arrive, $1.01%; on track and Sept., $1.02; Oct.. 31.01%: Dec., $1.01%: May, $1.05. opposition. ; Chicago Grain and Provisions. CLOSEG BY COMPTROLLER. | Chicago, Sept. 27.—Wheat—Sept., e 85%c: Dec., 86c; May, 87%c. Corn First Wational, Bank of Orrville, 0. | —Sept., 51%@52¢c;: Oct, 51%c; Dec. Suspends Business. | 45c; May, 44%c. Oats—Sept., 27%ec: 983 ¢: May 2 Washingtoe:l, Sept. 28.—The First Dec, '8““', May, 30%@30%c. Pork National bank of Orrville, O., has| o Sept- $15.40; Oct, $14.90; Jan, e _ S 2 $12.46. Flax—Cash, Northwestern, closed its doors by order of the comp- o > 3 5 5 { $1.02 Southwestern, 96c. Btter— troller of the currency om account of 8 " i s & doitt Sbdat rin bupon:: the' . bank Creameries, 17@19¢; dairies, 161.@ o “|18%c. Eges—15% @17%c. Poultry- George T. Cutts, national bank exam- iner. has been appointeg receiver. Turkeys, 15@16c; chickens, 10%c; springs, 3c. Dr. ! PACKER WILL TESTIFY MAX SULZBERGER WITNESS FOR THE GOVERNMENT IN CASES AGAINST ARMOUR ET AL. COMPANY'S OFFICERS = SUBPOENAED RECENTLY PLEADED GUILTY TO CONSPIRACY CHARGE TO ES- CAPE IMPRISONMENT. i Chicago, Sept. 28.—Max Sulzberger of Chicago, vice president of the Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Packing company, and E. B. Fish, who is one/| of the traffic officials of the company it is announced, have been subpoenaed by the government as witnesses in the beef trust cases to testify against Ar mour & Co. and the other defendants. Two other employes of the Schwarzs child & Sulzberger company also have been subpoenaed by the government Officers of the Schwarzschild & $Bulzberger company pleaded guilty re cently to charges of conspiracy to il legally obtain railway rebates. offenders, through pleading guilty, es: caped imprisonment, being sentenced to fines aggregating $25,000. Trafic Manager E. B. Fish, whe has been subpoenaed, is the witness whom, it was charged in an indict ment, Attorney Joseph Weissenbach and three other mén spirited away tu Canada. Government secret service men worked on the case for a long time and finally reported that Sulz- berger and the other three attaches of the company are in possession of g a meeting of pack- d within the past y p 1 the time of the grand jury investigation. is declared, that a representative ot the Schwar: pany was secated at the table about which the packers gathered. The de- hoped by the prosecution, be exposed before the jury which tries the pack- ers. Attorney Weissenbach, however, sirenuously denied that the Sciiwzill child & Sulzberger company ig turning state’s evidence in order to “get even” with the other packing com- panies. He declared that the wit- nesses will go on the stand under protest. SCARED BY LAND FRAUDS OREGON ABANDON TWENTY THOUSAND ACRES. Portland, Cre., Sept. 28.—A dispatch to the Oregonian from Salem, Ore., says that as a result of the vigorous | prosecutions of land fraud cases in { this state about 20,000 acres of school | land situated in the Blue Mountain forest reserve in Eastern Oregon have 1 been abandoned by locaters, who for- feited in the neighborhood of $10,000. It is assumed that in most of these instances the land had been located by ‘“dummies” and that the persons who provided the money became :irightened and quietly abandoned all the claims at the same time, making no effort to recover the money in- vested. OIL AND SALT WASHED AWAY. New Orleans Experiences Worst Rain- { fall in Weeks. l New Orleans, Sept. 28.—The heav- | iest rainfall that New Orleans has had for many weeks began beforé day- i light. It rained steadily for more than two hours, completely flushing the gut- | ters. How much damage was done to Icistern screens it is difficult to say, ““but all the oil and a good deal of the i salt in the gutters was washed awey. | Nevertheless the fever fight is now | considered to be so well in hand that | even the creation of fresh breeding places for mosquitoes causes little alarm. | Unless there is an unexpected change the present week promises to show plainly the results of the cam- paign against the fever with a mate- rial reduction in the number of cases, i both new and under treatment. Reports from the country show, a i‘steady improvement in the situation {in almost every direction, the fever out the state in the past twenty-four | hours. Wisconsin Girl Blows Out Gas. ence Needham of Mazomanie, Wis., | died during the day from the effects | of blowing out the gas at the Ogden | hotel. A young man came to the ho- i tel with her. The! 1t was learned, it} child & Sulzberger com-j tails of this alleged meeting will, it ig! ik DUMMY LOCATERS OF LAND N Madison, Wis., Sept. 28.—Miss Flor-: FIVE CHILOREN PERISH SHREMATED IN DESTRUCTION OF THEIR HOME BY FIRE AT FORT DODGE, IA. BASOLINE EXPLOSION THE CAUSE FATHER AT WORK AT THE TIME AND MOTHER WAS VISIT- ING A NEIGHBOR. Fort Dodge, Ia., Sept. 28.—Five chil- I dren were burned and asphyxiated in| 2 fire which destroyed the home of Frederick Adamson. The dead are: Edna, aged ten; Irmas, aged eight; Clarence, aged six; Ernst, aged three, children of Adamson, and Ray- mond, the threeyear-old son of David ecore, & laborer. . The father had gone to work and the mother was visiting a_neighbor, leaving the gasoline stove bnrmng. 'L‘ye five children were upstairs play- iag when the stove exploded. A num- ber of persons discovered the fire, but cculd do nothing and it was with great difficulty that the mother was restrained from throwing herself in the flames. ' The children made no ef- fort to leave, covering their heads with their bed clothes. Firemen were unable to enter until they had flooded the house with water. When they reached the five children they were dead. MANIFESTO: TO THE NATION. Hungarian Leaders Reply to Emper- or’s Contentions. .Rudapes[, Hungary, Sept. 28.—The cummitiee of the coalitionists has is- sued ‘a manifesto to the nation in re- ply to the programme submitted to its } leaders by the ecmperor-king. The manjfesto declares that some points of his’ majesty’s programme are not in conformity with the constitution, re- ferrit'ig especially to his contention .!bj\g‘.fi\_e‘,questmn of the.langyage of conminand - in the Hungarfan army must. be entirely eliminated from dis- cussion. It is asserted that this is equivalent to the abolition of the na- tion’s right to control its own affairs, for which there is no legal authority. JACOB LITT PASSES AWAY RICAL MANAGER OCCURS AT | YONKERS, N. Y. Milwaukee, Septi. 28.—Jacob Litt, the well known theatrical manager and owner of theaters in New York, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, died during the day at Yonkers, N. Y. Mr. Litt had been suffering from a nervous ailment for a long time past and his friends have feared for the, worst for some time. Mr. Litt’s theatrical experience be- gan in Milwaukee about twenty-five years ago when he started as an usher in one of Milwaukee’s big theaters. Later he was advanced to a position iin the box office. He later. became proprietor of a dime museum and from this venture embarked in the managership of theaters, of which he formed a circuit in the Northwest. Still later he became proprietor of big theaters in Chicago and New York. He was known as one of the most successful theatrical managers in the country. TO DISCUSS “YELLOW PERlL-’\{ Real Object of M. Witte's Visit to the! German -Emperors ... New York, - Sept.. 28.—While ihe visit of M. Wi to.the German em- eror is sta . be in connection with the co ‘peace conference at The Hague the real object of the Rus- I sian statesman’s - interviews with Prince von Buelow, Baron Richthofen and Emperor William is to arrange,l declares a Herald dispatch from Ber-! lin, some joint policy to stem the dan- ger christened the “yellow peril” in the Far East. ! According to a Times dispatch from Berlin the Tageblatt asserts that the purpose of the recent visit of the}” ; manifestly being on the wane at all | Japanese minister to Chancellor von| captain dead from yellow fever and the points where it has been severe. | Buelow was to request an explana-| wo.thirds of her crew incapacitated There were only three deaths through- | tion of Emperor William’s reported re-! from the same disease the British marks regarding the “yellow peril” to‘ | the visiting American congressmexn. It is stated’ that the Japanese minister went away satisfied. The honorary degree of docfor of laws has been conferred by Columbia uniyersity on Baron Komura and Ser- gius Witte, the senior peace plenipo- tentiaries of Japan and Russia. P MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SQOIETY. oneer Souvenir TEN CENTS PER WEEK Enve lopes OF £3 . Bemidji on sale at Pioneer Office Opposite Post Office | also at City Drug Store » JAP MEDICAL METHODS. Valuable Paper Read at Convention of Military Surgeons. Detroit, Sept. 28.—Surgeon General B. Suzuki of the imperial Japanese navy, in his address before the four- teenth annual convention of military surgeons of the United States, made what was declared by Medical Direc- tor J. S. Wise of the United States havy to be the most valuable contri- bution of modern times to naval surgery. = He described in detail and at length the surgical methods used ! in the Japanese fleet; told how sur- geons before every engagemeni care- tully inspected the eyes of all gun- ners on the warships; how the ears of every man in the fleet were plugged with cotton before the firing began, and how Admiral Togo fought his fleet from the compass bridge of the Mi- kasa instead of the conning tower. “Much of our success in the treat- meht of wounds,” said Dr. Suzuki, “J ascribe to the fact that before every engagement I ordered each. member of the crew to bathe and put on per- HAectly clean underclotking. In & greai| many shot wounds fragments of cloth- ing are carried into the body and our insistence upon clean underclothing prevented many cases of blood poi- soning.” EARTHOUAKE IN SWEDEN. Fissures a Foot Wide Opened in Many Places. Sweden, ' Sept. Gothenburg, 28.—A | severe earthquake was felt at 1:30 p. m..at Lundby, Hisingen island. It cracked ihe walls of houses and fis- sured the surface of the ground. Sub- terranean rumblings were quickly fol- lowed by the violent rocking of houses and the splitting of inner and outer walls, driving the inmates to seek safety in the open air. In many places fissures a foot wide were opened up, while the level of the ground in the eastern part of the island sank appre- ciably. The disturbance lasted 2 minute. £ WILL SEEK RECOGNITION. { Norway's Next Step in Move for Inde- pendence. Paris, Sept. 28—M. Loevland, min- ister of foreign affairs of Norway, has given the Temps Christiamia corre- spondent an authorized statement. He said Norway would take steps to se- cure an early recognition by the pow- ‘ers. This recognition would cover Norway's independent sovereignty without reference to the question of the government’s status as a mon- archy or a republic, which would be Subsequently determined. ARRANGING FINAL DETAILS. Franco-German Agreement on Morocco Nearing Completion. Paris, Sept. 28.—M. Revoil, repre- senting the French government, and Dr. Rosen, the representative o Ger-| many, conferred at the foreign office during the day, arranging the final .details of the Morocean agreement. It | shar \v MILITARY POST DESTROYED RECENT TYPHOON IN THE PHIt. } IPPINES THE WORST STORM iN MANY YEARS, ‘Washington, Sept. 28.—The war de- partment has received the following cablegram from General Corbin, com- manding the Philippine division, re garding the typhoon at Manila: | *The worst-storm of vears obtained i ! here Tuesday, passing during the i night, Considerable damage was done by 'the. unroofing of buildings. The post at Malahi is reported totally de- stroyed. Further reports when facts are known.” s The following cablegram also ha: been received at the navy department from Admiral Reiter, commanding the Asiatic fleet: “The Leyte, which was out of com- o missiod, was Sunk in the ha‘.rboi ana o | lost in the burricane of Sept. 26. The' Leyie was a gunboat of 15¢ tons. She was one of the vessels be- longing to Spdin which were takep. possession of by the navy at the close } of the war. She was in bad condition ! and it is said at the navy department that she was practically worthless. { The post at Malahi, referred to by { General Corbin, is thirty-one miles from Manila, in La Guna province. The garrison consisted of four com- panies of the Sixteenth infantry, ac- cording to the last reports received ai the war department, There is also & wmilitary prison at Malahi, BOTH MEN MAY DIE. in Express Car on the Wabash Road. Decatur, 111, Sept. 28.—Jjohn E. Ryan of Chicago, Pacific Express com- pany messenger on Wabash train No. 13, and Ed Greene, also of Chicago, a former express messenger but of late employed by F. S. Betz & Co., Ham- mond, Ind., had a revolver duel in Ryan’s car all the way from Bemont to Decatur, twenly miles. Botk men were seriously ‘wounded. On arrival here Ryan.was taken to the Wabagh hospital and Greene to St. Mary’s hos- pital. Both men may die. Reports as to the cause of the en- counter are conflicting. Greene has a bullet in the breast and another in the right lung, while a third ball lodged in the abdomen. Ryan was shot in the left jaw, in the 5 | ear and in the shoulder. Fight Duel Wreck on the Rio Grande Near Glen- coe, Colo. Durango, Colo., Sept. 28.—The east- bound Rio Grande passenger triin was |'wrecked -at a - point-between-Deolores— —— - and Glencee, two miles west of the { latter- place. The train was taking a curyve when the baggage car i is expected that an official announce- | left the track, faking With 1t HOUR P =—mms| ment of the accord will be given out | senger coaches. The'entire train was i shortlv. PLAGUESTRICKEN SHIP. British Bark Reaches Port With Two- thirds of Crew Sick. Victoria, B. C., Sept. 28.—With her bark Leicester Castle, famous in mari- time history as a mutiny ship, is be- ing held in quarantine in the Royal roads down this harbor. ‘Within five hours after the Leices- ter Castle sailed for this port Cap- tain Crosby, her commander, was ai- tacked with yellow fever. The vessel still had the promontories of the har- bor in right when the captain died. }psnles. S AN overturned-and all of the passengers, i about thirty in number, were bruised ! and shaken up. Many of them are se- verely injured. . £ The injured were taken to Macos, i where. their wounds were carefully g dressed, and they were then brought 4 to Durango and sent to Mercy hos- '! wital. - 3 2 i INSURANCE AGENTS INDICTED. Accused of Violating the Ohio Anti- Trust Laws. , % Jefferson, O., Sept. 28.—The grand jury of Ashtabula county has returned indictments agalnst twenty-eight fire insurance agents of the county, repre- senting some sixty-three different fire insurance companies, and against Al- bert Ross of Columbus of the inspec- tlon bureay maintained by the com-