Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 3, 1906, Page 1

— Vfl . VOLUME 3. NUMBER 242 BEMIDJI, MINNESOT_A.' SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1906, MAY POSTPONE THEIR ACTION Life Insurance Convention Not Ready to Report on the Uniform Legislation. WILL AWAIT RESULT OF INQUIRY Caicago, ‘he national econ- vention ¢ der proposed re- forms in the supervision of life insur- ance compaunies during the day turned its attention to the subject of uniform legislation. A committee of fifteen was appoint- ed to decide upon a report, which was to be submitted to the convention later in the day. In addition to the fifteen active members of the committee all the governors and members of the conference of commissioners on uni- form legislation were designated as members of an advisory committee. The governors present when the convention opened were Johnson of Minnesota, Elrod of South Dakota, Beckham of Kentucky, Davidson of ‘Wisconsin, Cummins of Iowa and Sarles of North Dakota. Prior to the retirement of the com- mittee for consultation Governor Beck- ham addressed the convention briefly, assuring the delegates of his support and that of the legislature of Ken-_ tucky as far as he could give it, of such me of protection for the ; policyholders as shall be recommend- ed by the convention. A recess was then taken by the convention until the <ommittee of fifteen declared itsell ready to report. Committee May, Postpone Action. A heated debate in the committee | room developed a diversity of opinion among the members of the committee regarding the proper mission of the committee. The manifest impossibil- ity of drafting iegislation to be acted upon by the present convention was generally acknowledged. A suggestion by A. M. Eaton of Rhode Island, president of the national committee on uniform legislation, strongly supported by Commissioner, Preuitt of Kentucky, that the commit- tee adjourn to meet subsequent to the presentation of the report of the Arm- strong committee seemed to meet with general favor. The arguments urged in favor of this line of proce- dure were that the report of the Arm- strong committee will contain many valuable suggestions relative to in- surance reform and with these before them the members of the committee could approve such portions as they considered valuable and then, if such a step should seem advisable, could employ an insurance expert to prepare a uniform bill to be submitted to the various legislatures. In deference to the committee on: resolutions, the report of which had not yet been pre of fifteen took a recess pending the reading of the report of the commit- tee on resolutions, intending to resume the discussion later in the day. HISSED BY NEGRO AUDIENCE. Tillman, Vardaman and Others Men- tioned at Mass Meeting. New York, Feb. 3.—Hoots and hisses greeted the mention of United States Senator Tillman, Governor Vardaman of Mississippi, Thomas Dixon, Jr., and F. Hopkinson Smith at the mass meet- ing held by the Constitution league in Cooper Union. Called to protest against disfranchisement of the negro in the South the meeting resolved it- self into a general denunciation of conditions south of Mason and Dixon’s line. At least four-fifths of the crowd of 3,000 were negroes. The indignation meeting did not break up until mornfng. A set of res- olutions for the reduction of represen- tation from the South in congress was |. passed. A. B. Humphrey, the secretary of the league, announced that other meet- ings will be held in Philadelphia, Balti- more, Washington and Chicago. FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. Four Men Killed in a- West Virginia Sawmill, Hamlin, W. Va., Feb. 3.—Three men were killed instantly and a fourth was s0 serfously injured that he died later by the explosion of a boiler in a saw-, mill plant at Twelve Mile Creek, about forty miles south of here. It is thought the explosion was due to in- sufficient water iz the boiler. ; nted, the committee ! (Article VIIL. of the agreement between | tives of foreign states, INCIDENT IS EXPLAINED. Japanese Merely Acted in Accordance With Treaty Provisions. Tokio, Feb. 3.—An elucidation of lhe interpellation of the minister of war, General Terauchi, at a meeting of the budget committee of ihe diet Wednesday, shows that M. Oishi, lead- er of the Progressive party, interpel- lated the war minister as to the ex- tent of the expansion of the Japanese srmy, which would be necessitated by rn enforcement of the provisions of the Anglo-Jagpanese alllance. In so doing M. Oishi remarked that the British army was not undergoing a de- velopment equal to that of the British navy and he agked if the British army did not require improvement in order to avoid a one-sided responsibility. General Terauchi replied in the af- firmative, evidently mindful, it is ex- plained, of the provisions contained in Great Britain and Japan, which was signed on Aug. 12, last, and which provides that the naval and military authorities of the contracting parties will from time to time consult one an- other fully and freely cn all questions of mutual interest. ORGANIZATION COMPLETED. Officers of National Live Stock Aseo: ciation Named. Denver, Feb. 3.—Organization of the National Livestock association was eompleted by the election of the fo}- lowing officers named sy the executive committee: Secretary, T. W. Tomlinson, Den-| ver; treasurer, W. E. Hughes, Denver; attorney, Sam H. Cowan, Fort Worth, Tex, After adopting several resolutions, including one endorsing the Hepburn rate bill-and another pledging the as- sociation’s support to President Roose- velt in his forestry reserve plan and listening to speeches on railroad rate legislation, the convention adjourned. FUNERAL OF KING CHRISTIAN. WIIl Take Place on Either Feb. 14 or Feb. 15. Copenhagen, Feb. 3.—It is now said that the funeral of King Christian will take place Feb. 14 or Feb. 15. All the rooms in the hotels have already been reserved for innumerable representa- tourists and relatives. The last farewell took place at noon, after which the coffin was closed. TELLER OBJECTS. 8tatelhood Bill Forced to Go Over in the Senate. ‘Wa: hington, Feb. 3.—The routine; morninz business being disposed .of the calendar was taken up at a much | earlier moment than usual in the sen- ate and the first bill on the calendar being the statehood bill the redding clerk began to read it. He had pre- ceded but a few moments when Mr: Teller, who opposes the bill, became interested. “How was that bill reached?” he asked. ‘When informed he suggested that the bill should go over. “The senator certainly does not ob- ject to the reading of the bill,” re- marked Mr. Beveridge, in chnx-ge of the measure. “I certainly do,” replied the Colorado senator, sententiously. Accordingly the turther present consideration of the bill was postponad MR. LONFER WITH ROOSEVELT. 8erfators Dolliver and.‘Clapp Advised on Rate Legisiation, ‘Washington, Feb. 3.—Senators Dol» liver and Clapp, authors of one of the several bills for the regulation of rail- road rates now pending in the senate, conferred ‘with President Roosevelt during the day on the general subject of rate legislation” and the prospects for fayorable action on an administra- | tion measure. The president took the [TO END GRAFT position that there Should be no com- promise with the opponents of such legislation and urged the senators to “stand 'pat” for-a 'bill that contains the chief proyisions of the Hepburn. house bill or their bul now before the Benate.. committee ‘on.interstate com: nerce.: N IN. THE ARMY. Legislation to Prevent Padding of Mileage Accounts. ‘Washington, Feb. 3.—The house committee on military affairs, of which Representative Hull of Iowa is chairman, has determined to put an end to graft in the army. If congress enacts legislation in ac- cordance to its recommendations mile- age accounts can no longer be padded, nor can army transports be used for excursions by officials, congress or any one else. The com- mittee is searching for other leaks in the laws which permit diversion of money into the pockets of interested |- parties. “We estimate that $50,000 has been pald out in mileage,” said Representa- tive Hull, “to which the recipients ‘were not entitled. They got hold of the money by evading the law which congress has enacted for the express purpose of introducing economy in transportation. The intention of con- gress was to reduce the amount of money an officer should receive who was under orders to the Philippines. “The law states specifically that only actual expenses shall be paid be- tween the United States and its in- sular possessions, but we have found that officers have been ordered to Nagasaki, Japan, or Shanghai, or even down to Hongkong, and thence to Manila, traveling, with the exception of the last leg, on government trans- ports. They have recelved mileage when they should be reimbursed only for their actual expenses and the lat- ter amount to about $1 a day, while mileage for the trip amounts into the hundreds.” MUTINY FAR FROM CRUSHED. Outbreak at Vladivostok May Be Re- newed. St. Petersburg, Feb. 3.—The reason for the obstinate and mysterious si- lence in the dispatches from Vladivo-| supposed |- stok with regard to the termination of the mutiny, intimated in General Linevitch’s laconic / dis- patch of Jan. 28, “the city is quiet; the mutinous sailors have been dis- armed,” is explained in a-dispatch.to the Associated Press to.reveal the actual conditions in tha fortress on the Pacific. mutiny being crushed, the" restoration) of order was due to a tacit armed truce, conditioned upon the removal of the Cossacks from the city. Trouble is apt to flare out unless the emperor favorably answers the petitipn for amnesty to all the mutineers, if they voluntarily return to duty. The fu- nerals of those shot down by machine gun detachments guarding the' com- mandant’s house on Jan. 23 were made the occasion of a great revolutionary demonstration, with which General Mistchenko made no effort io inter- fere. OLD SWINDLE RECALLED. Final Dividend of Thirteen Cents. In the Franklin Syndicate. New York, Feb. 3.—At 2 meeting of the creditors of William F. Miller of the Franklin syndicate a final divi- dend of 13.2 cents on a dollar was de- clared. With the sending out of the checks and the final order of the court discharging the trustee in bankruptcy there will be a legal end of one of the greatest swindles of the last century. Of the principals, Miller, the orig- inator, is the only one at liberty. He is working in a shoe store in Brook- lyn; his partner, Edward Schlesinger, ig dead and Robert F. Ammon, who was a party to the swindle and who received a part of the money, is serv- ing a term of imprisonment in Sing Sing. There were 3,110 creditors, with claims aggregating $228.000. A former dividend of 15 per cent was declared, making the total dividend to creditors 28.2 cents on each dollar. COLDEST OF THE SEASON. Below Zero Weather in Middle and Eastern States. Pittsburg, Feb. 3.—The coldest weather of the winter is being ex- perienced in this city and vicinity, the government thermometer recording a fall of 22 degrees, touching 3 degrees above zero, while many other ther- mometers registered from 2 to 5 de- grees below. - 4 Cleveland' Feb. 3.—Ohio during the day experienced the coldest weather of ; the winter. “A cold ‘wave from the northwest spread over the state and the temperature registered: zero at many points. < Malone, N. Y., Feb. 3.—The tempera- ture during the day touched the low- est point reached in the Adirondacks this seasom. Meacham Lake. A ‘ i s Army Approprlatlon Bill Ready- i Washington, Feb. '3-~—The . house commitiee on-military affairs has con- cluded its consideratlon of the army Teport a measure cn.rrylng an m priation ‘of about "$70;000,000 eh in‘réund nuinbers 1s the atou )ndt approprln.tioh fi members . of | jto ‘his mother at Minneapolis she left .ond husband $59,999. from Vladivo- ; stok dated Jan. 30, tke first dlqpa.‘(‘ht 2, | All m ailorders Promptly and o Carefully filled Lo Instead of the! It was 29 helow zero.at | . = appropriation’ bill and ‘on Monday will | {6F CERTIFICATE IS FILED. Doubt as to Marriage of Mrs. Yerkes Has Set at Rest. ‘New York, Feb. 3.—Doubt as to the marriage of Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes to Wilson Mizner was set at rest dur- Ing the day by the filing of the cer- tificate of the marriage with the bu- reau of vital statistics. In addition one newspaper quotes Mrs. Yerkes in confirmation. According to this paper Mrs. Yerkes said: “All I can say is that I am happily married.” The Rev. Andrew Gillies, who per- formed the marriage ceremony, said: “There is one phase of the marriage that I wish to enlighten the public about in view of the fact that it has been insinuated from certain quarters that the ceremony was the result of a plot. In the first place I have been a minister for more than ten years and my reputation assures my friends that I would not take part in any religious or civil ceremony that was not en- tirely regular. “It is absurd to say that either of the contracting parties was in no con- dition to know what was.transpiring. Mrs. Yerkes was entirely herself. She was self-possessed, entered with zest into the spirit of the occasion and enswered all questions without the slightest hesitation.” i SON CONTESTS WILL. Refused to Visit Mother and Is Cut O With $1. Sheboygan, Wis., Feb. 3.—Because Leeds Greene, Jr., aged twenty, pre- ferred to work in a factory for 90 cents a day rather than to pay a visit a will bequeathing him $1 and her sec- The son has started suit to contest the will. He objected to paying a visit to his mother because she was a divorced Woman who married again MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY TEN CENTS PER WEEK WILL TAKE VOTE FEBRUARY 16 Senate Committee Agrees On Date For ~ Action On the Railroad Rate Bill. DAILY SESSIONS DURING FINAL WEEK Washirigton, Feb. 3.—The senate committee on interstate commerce has reached an agreement to vote on the various railroad rate bills on Feb. 16. There are three measures being pressed for consideration, the Dolliver- Clapp bill, ‘the Elkins bill and the Foraker bill. The measure whieh re- ceives the largest number of votes will be reported to the senate as the major- ity measure. It is likely that both of | the other bills will be given to the senate in minority reports. It was agreed further that the com- mitfee shall meet on Feb. 9 and from then until the day fixed for -a vote meet every day with a view of deter- mining upon some bill. ' The Hepburn house bill is expected to be before the senate by that time and that will furnish the basis for the discussions in the committee. The authors of the senate bills will ‘use every effort to " @84%c; May, 441%@44%¢c; amend the house bill se as to include many of the provisions of their meas- ures. This is true particularly of Sea- ators Elkins and Foraker, the Dolliver- Clapp bill being drawn on lines sim- ilar to the measure pending in the house. Hepburn biil, It is thought likely that the with amendments to be made in the committee, will receive a majority report. This will not pre- vent the other bills from being report- ed by the minority. o, Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Feb. 2—Wfim—May, 8415 July, 83%@83%0 Corn— July, 44% @445%e. July, 29%ec. $14.46@ Oats—May, 30% @30%c; Pork—May, $14.35; July, 14.47%. Flax—Cash, Northwestern, $1.15; Southwestern, $1.09; May, $1.- 7%." Butter—Creameries, 18@25%c; dairies, 18@23c. —Turkeys, Bggs—I15c. 14%5e; chickens, springs, 1lc. @%@@@@@@@@@@ el R oo RoReoReRololololto o tolo R ol ool # Th & e ne 22 b shown, such as: Albatros Fancy Worsteds Chambray Silk Mull Panama Batiste Goisette = Fancy Swiss )} Fancy Suiting Criseline Specials For Thursday From 2 p.m. te 4 p. m. we place on sale 500 yards of bleached muslin, slightly damaged by water, the regular price was 10 cents, at this sale 5 cents per yard, 10 yards to a customer. Serges Mohairs Crepe de Chines Eolines b All majl orders Promptly and Carefully filled 'spring black and colored dress goods and wash fabrics are now being Remember the time. Thursday, 2 p. m. to 4 p. m. only @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@_@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ & & & fi. & ol \\/ Special for Thursday, Friday and Saturday We place on sale one lot of Pillow Tops, former price 50 cents. For the three days your choice for 25 cents NEW SPRING STYLES IN LA- DIES NECK-WEAR NOW ON DISPLAY. LADIES SILK SHIRT WAISTS FROM $2.50 TO $8.00 choice 98c. Gruxser Special in Men’s Dep'’t. 25 per cent discount on Men’s and Boys’ overcoats. 25 per %cent discount on Men’s and - Boys sweaters. ‘one lot 'worth to $l 5{1) Men’s shirts, your Men’s Viscolized shoes just received.. Poultry 113%c;