Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 20, 1905, Page 4

WEEE o~ Christmas Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention Xmas Ties The Cream and Flower of Carter & Holmes most ex- clusive silks Quality-Satisfaction SCHNEIDER BROS. Clothing for all Mankind Miles’ Block. — Any g00d 5 exchanged or money cheerfully refanded before or after the holidays. Any article may be reserved for Xmas by making a small de- posit. Umbrellas & Canes engraved free Dollar-Value Handcrafted Holiday Cravats 50¢. A Christmas offer of unparallcd sig- nificance. No less than 50 weaves and upward of two hundred patterns in Austrian Cords Cinrosse Warps Borthers. Swivels, Grosgrains Moirees, ed from Reps Superlative Effects Loom- private designs. NECKWEAR OF “CLASS” IN EVERY SHAPE AND SHADE [but mainly 4-in-hand] and in a showing that copes with the strong- est $1.00 grade ever crafted, R A e T B = == S B S, | 50¢ AN AGED MAN DIES IN JAIL John Kennedy Expires After Spending Day in the City Jail. John Kennedy, aged 55, died suddenly at the city jail last night at 5:30 o’clock, the cause of death being heart failure. Kennedy had been cenfined to the jail for just a day, having bean placed there by the police. He fell on the sidewalk Monday eyening and dislocated his shoulder and asked aid of Chief Bailey and Patrolman Cline, They took him to police head- quarters, where his wounds were dressed, and afterwards took him to the city jail to recov- er from '.he effects of his in- juries. He became ill yesterday after- noon, however, and in a short time expired in the presence of Chief Bailey, Patrolman Cline and Dr, F. A. Blakeslee. He has no known relatives and the remains were this afternoon interred in the county cemetery. | BIG POW WOW AT WALKER Indians From Red Lake Re- servation Pass Through City On Wav = Dance A big Indian pow wow is to be held at Walker in the near fu- ture and a large aumber of Red Lake brayes, together with their squaws and papooses passed through the city yesterday and, today enroute to the scene of the meeting. The dance will be held on the reservation near Walker and will be participated in by hundreds of Indians from all the reservations throughout the state. The purpose of the meet- ing is unknown. CANAL BILL AGREED ON. House and Senate Conferees Restore Bond Provision, Washington, Dec. 20.—Conferees on the part of the senate and' house on the Panama canal emergency appro- priation bill agreed to restore to the bill the provision relating to the issu- ance of bonds for camnal construction. ‘The senate struck out the house pro- vislon concerning the bonds and passed as a separate measurc a bill agreed upon by the senate finance committee, This measure was incor- porated in the csnal bill as section 1, taking the place:of the bond provision adopted by th¢ house. This has the effect of placing the canal bonds, amounting to $130,000,000, on a par with the existing 2 per cent consols as regards their use as a basis for national bank circulation. LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS. Eastern Automobilists Snowbound in Arizona. Flagstaff, Ariz, Dee. 20.—A trans- continental automobile, carrying Percy F. Megargee of New York and David F. Fassett of Lansing, Mich,, is lost in the deep snow in the mountains west of here and the automobilists have not been heard from since Friday, when ! they left Williams for Flagstafl, A relief expedition with food, blanketa and shovels started out in lhu midst of a blinding snow storm. Other parties are bunting for two other ‘Wen lost in the mountains. e s | the directors in New York Tuesday Hand Crushed By Car. Oscar Swenson, a sectionman employed by the Great North- ern, this morning sustained a crushed hand while assisting in repairing the damage done by the derailing of four freight cars a% an early hour this morning. Swanson was working on a jack screw placed under the car and the screw slipped, the car com- ing down upon his- hand: - No bones were troken and it was not necessary to amputate any of the flngers of the injured member. Elect Officers Tomorrow. The annual election of officers of the local Modern Samaritans beneficent degree will be held tomorrow evening at Odd Fel- lows hall. All members, who have not paid the 1lth assess- ment are requested to do so be- fore the meeting, as the bocks will be goue through for the year. F. A. TANZER, Deputy Imperial Good Samaritan Enjoyable Party Last Night. Miss Ida McConkey was last night agreeably surprised at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McConkey, by the members of the Christian En- deavor Society and by the teachers in the public schools. Numerous games were played, after which refreshments were served acd Miss McConkey was presented with a beautiful pres- ent in the shape of a silver spoon tray and a set of silver spoons. Dutch Convey Ambushed. The Hague, Dec. 20.—A Dutch con- Yoy has been ambuscaded in the P n- sangan district of Achin, Island of Sumatra. Twelve men were killed and elght were wounded. The Achinese lost six men )(lllod IRIEF BITS OF NEWS. F. Chadsey, a prominent Brook'yn lawyer and orator, has been senten :d to one year's imprisonment for at- tempted grand larceny. Three trainmen were killed by the explosion of a boiler of a freight en- gine on the Reading railroad between Birdsboro and Joanna, Pa. Direct shipments of currency by New York banks to Chicago Tuesday aggregated $1,500,000, making a total of about $3,000,000 for the week. Luther Fillmore, formerly superin- tendent of the South Pacific Coast rallroad, is dead at Oakland, Cal., aged seventy-nine years. Mr. Fillmore was a ploneer In railroading in the United States. Major Montgomery M. McComb, U. 8. A, who was attached to the Rus sfan army throughout the war with Japan, has arrived at New York on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. Secretary Taft has submitted to congress an additional estimate calling for an appropriation of $250,000 for the construction of seacoast defenses for the naval station at Guantaname bay, Cuba. Important changes in the organiza- tlon of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company were made at a meeting of and John W. Gates now heads the ex- ecutive committee, The Chicago city council has re fused to confirm the nomination of John F. Finerty to succeed John Min- ‘wegan on the board of local improve ments. Minwegen is a Democrat and Finerty a Republi Kills Wife 1f. Chicago, Dec. 20.—Augustus Ruchna- wicz, a bricklayer, shot and instantly killed his wife and then fired a bullet into his right side, inflicting a fatal wound. The couple separated two onm-mandthnnmmcf)(fl. Ruchpewicz to return to her husband brought about the tragedy. ADMIT PAYING COMMISSION. Railroads Reply to Government’s Com. plaint in Rebate Case. Milwaukee, Dec. 20.—The Erie rail- way and Chicago and Erie, in their voluminous answer to the govern- ment’s complaint in the rebate case, admit an ironclad agreement with the Milwaukee Refrigerator Transit com- pany whereby the latter was to re- ceive the commission of 12, per cent on the net amount of business given to the railroads for tramsportation, but denies that the commissions were given in anything but good faith or with any intention on the part of the rallroads to violate the law. The roads declare that they have no knowl- edge that the payments were used to glve the Pabst Brewing company an unlawful preference or discrimination. The serious charges in the govern- ment’s complaint are denied. Inmates Escape Safely. ‘Washington, Dec. 20.—The boys’ re- form school of the District of Colum- bia, located some distance outside of Washington, caught fire at 3 o'clock in the morning and the main building, in which were housed 300 boys, was to- tally destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $50,000. No lives were lost. Mlnneapollu. Dec, 19 .—Wheat—Dec., 8214 c; May, 86%c; July, 861.@86%¢c. On track—No, 1 hard, 84%c; No. 1 Northern, 84%c; No. 2 Northern, 83%ec. BEMIDJI A pivision/d This City Will Probably Be Division Point for the M &L SWITCH ENGINE ADDED TO HAN- DLE INCREASING BUSINESS. Many Other Improyements Being Made and Others Are Comtemplated. That Bemidji will be a division point for the Minnesota & Inter- national railway is almost cer- tain. Located as it is 91 miles from Brainerd and about 100 {miles from Koochiching, which will in all prebability be the terminus _ of the road next year, it hardly possible that the divi- sion point can be placed else- where. The increasing business at this station has made it necessary for ‘hhe company to increase its faci- ities for handling the business .by adding a switch engine, which was put on here yester- day and will assist in handling Ithe local freight traffic,”which has increased considerably since the extention to Ripple was com- pleted. Another improvement made at scale. which will be used in weighing out cars shipped from this city. This scale has a capac ity for weighing 100 tons. Other improvements are con- jtemplated by the company and providing the division is placed here it will be necessary to en- large the local yards and other- wise increa e the facilities of the company for handling its busi- ness. BRIEF BIfS. OF NEWS. Rev. Dr. James B. Simmons, a trus tee of Brown uniyersity and formerly | mecretary of Baptist home missions, is dead at New, York, aged seventy-eight, Representgfive Prince of Illinois has introduced #¥ bill ‘appropriating - $200, 000 for appropriately marking the 30, 762 Confederate graves in the North, The exchanges of communications going on between the powers indicate that Madrid wijll generally be accept: able as the place for the Moroccan envtarence the Bemidji station is a track) 20"!» 20% DISCOUNT 20"|0 ENGRAVED ON EVERY PIECE- We can not givela Special Price on Libbey Cut Glass' a8 the Profit is too Small. other goods. want here. E are overstocked and must have rcom for Dainty Crystals for the table. piece has its intinsic and artistic value that will appeal to the discriminating taste of our patrons. Those that possibly can please call in the fore- noon to avoid the rush, customers the time and attention in the rush for Bargains that comes in the afternoons. Geo.T. Baker@Co. Located in the City Drug Store. On all Makes, Grades and Cuts of Cut Glass —Except— LIBBEY THURSDAY and FRIDAY OF THIS WEEK. You will find what you Each as we can not give our @>NFESSES TO CRIME. Reporter Tells of Murder and Robbery of Aged Jeweler. Helena, Mont,, Dec. 20.—James Bherman, the newspaper man arrested In connection with the murder of Sam- uel Studzinski, an aged jeweler and fur man who was killed in his place of business at Lewiston last August; for the purpose of robbery, has made & full confession, disciosed the hiding place of the plunder and implicated several prominent citizens in the af- fair, as well as several other recent robberies, including that of the post- office. In addition a plot to polson County , Attorney Roy Avers has been discov- ered and it is supposed it was the purpose to get him out of the way be- cause of his alertness in the case. Fatally Hurt by an Explosion, Casey, Iil, Dec. 20.—Joshua Bailey and Warren Kendall were fatally in- Jured while preparing nitroglycerin to shoot an cil well in the Stoltz farm, three -miles north of here. The men were hurled high in the air and ter- ribly mangled and the derrick was de- stroyed. v Funeral Thursday. The remains of Oscar Berg- man, 16 years old of age, who was killed at Moval Lake on Dec. 10 by the explosion of a shot gun, which he carried, were buried at the Moval lake cemetery last Tnursday; the services being conducted by Rev. E. M. Peter- son of this city. The young man was bornin Sveden. A father, mot her, one brother and two sisters who live on a claim near Moval lake, survive him. THE NEW STORE HAS JUST RECEIVED a fresh consignment of the celebrated “RECEPTION” and “SIMON PURE” canned goods, the best on the market Fancy choice naval Oranges, per doz., 50¢, 40¢, 35¢ Best hand picked apples in the market. Bestcream cheese Christmas candies, nuts, and other good things. ROE & MRRKUSEN Telephone Number 207, -Bemidji, Minn. Mens One in a box. Christmas Handkerchiefs in great variety ‘Women's full sheer handk’rchief with embroidered & plain edge. Kid Gloves and Mittens Golf Gloves, Belts Suspenders 6/e Bazaar Store only a few days before Christmas You know how hurried everybody is the last days before Christmas, why not buy today and in comfort ? Silk Garments for Christmas Gifts Silk Petticoats Silk Handkerchiefs with or without initials Opera Faney Men’s Neckwear Fancy Hose put up 3 pairin a box Fancy Ribbons, Per-| fumes, Purses, Dolls, Toilet Sets, Faney. Hose Supporters Ladies’ Neckwear in dainty turnovers & stocks Ladies’ Secarfs and RUGS, 5. Lace Curtain, Bed Spreads, Fancy Towels, Fancy Dishes, Statlonary = Wraps ’Illllllllillll-lllIllll-n-lll-ll-llll