Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 11, 1906, Page 4

HELD UP IN HIS SHACK Mose Curry Gives Up $30 at; the Point of a Glistening Revolver. WAKENED FROM SLELP BY BOLD BURGLAR. Hastens to Get Wad From Under Pillow Upon Command. A bold robbery was pulled off ina little tar covered shack on Minnesota avenue near First street last Wednesday morning. Mose Curry, who “batches” there with a friend, was awakened from his sleep by an unknown man with a gun and compelled to deliver up all his savings, amounting to $30. The hold up occurred about 5 o’clock in the morning while it was still dark enough for a man to be unrecognizable in a room with the curtains down, Curry’s roommate was sound asleep in another part of the room. Curry was awakened by a hand on his shoulder and looked up to catch the gleam of a re. volver barrel, “Throw up your hands and don’t make any fuss or you will get hurt,” was the command. Curry did as ordered. “Now get out your money and hand it over, and do it quick.” The victim had $30 secreted under his pillow and this sum he dug out without argument. The thief left after securing the money and Curry made haste in notifying the police. Curry was unable to get a good look into the man’s face on ac- count of the darkness and his fright, but he thinks he was robbed by some friend who knew of his having the saving in his shack, The victim is about 40 years old and is employed by “Bill the popcorn man,” who runs a stand near the Star theatre, Carbon paper at the Pioneer office. A great reduction sale on beautiful new silk waists at the Berman Emporium tomorrow and Monday. K. P. ELECTION POPULAR HERE Carrol S. Bartram and Fred E. Wheaton Favored by Bemidji Lodge. The members of the K. of P. lodges throughout the north half of the state are greatly pleased at the re-election of Carrol S. Bartram of St. Paul, as grand chancellor of the order. Mr. Bartram has visited every lodge in this vicinity during the past year, and last week he assisted the members of the Bemidjilodge in instituting the new lodge at Blackduck. He has made an enviable record as grand chancellor and endeared himself to his brethren when he resigned his position, in order that the grand vice-chancellor might attain the supreme lodge degree. Another act of the grand lodge which meets with approbation is the re election of Fred E. Wheaton as grand keeper of records and seals. I'red has been the life of many gatherings of the order, and understands the routine work as no other individual in Minnesota, and many believe him the superior of any similar offi- cer in the whole United States. New Launch Ordered. A. A. Carter and J. D, Lunn have ordered a new gasoline launch to be named the *‘North- land.” The boat is being built and it is expected that it will be finished in a few weeks. The launch will be one of the best on | the lake, sixteen feet in length and constructed to carry from eight to ten people with ease. Saturday and Monday a big discount sale.in muslin under- wear and hosiery will be held at the Berman Emporium. ‘Wanted All That Was In It. Father (whose wife has presented bhim with twins) — Tommy, you may stay home from school today and to- morrow tell the teacher that you have two new brothers. Tommy—Wouldn't it be better to say that I have only one new brother? Theu I can stay home a day next week for the other one.— Fliegende Blatter. Health Crazes. The pursuit of health, like the mor- phia labit or drunkenness, grows on people till it really becomes a vice. Continuous thought and anxiety about one's health Is extremely had for the constitu You DoNT REJSOLVED! THAT JoME PEOPLE DoNT KNOW| HoW To DRESS THEMSELVE.S, WHY] DONT THEY Go To A SHoP THAT MARES A SPECIALTY OF DRESS- ING PEOPLE. 2 WHEN YOUARE SICK DONT Do YoUR OWN LAW BUJINESS WHYNOT LET THOSE WHOKNOW 'How DRESS “You: DocTOR. YOURSELF: You BUSTER BROWN. - : YES, ABUSINES.S MAN Is JUST AS MUCH A ““PROFESSIONAL’” MAN AS 1S A LAWYER OR. A DOCTOR. THERE AR E GOOD LAWYERS AND DOCTOR.S AND BAD ONES. YoU Go To THE DOCTOR WHO HAS A YOU ARE CLOTHS-SICK WHY NoT COME To THE MERCHANT WHo K SCRIBE FOR YOU? OUR REPUTATION IS OUR DIPLOMA. ASK oUR OR NOoT WE HAVE GIVEN THEM CLOTHES THAT HAVE CURED THEM FROM LOOKING BAD AND MADE THEM FEEL GooD. ASK THEM IF WE HAVE OVERCHARGED YOURSELF; A SUIT FOR $15.00. OLD SUIT NEED.S JUST NECKTIE, COAT ALL OF OUR M ATTENTIO TO EVERY P RESPECTFULLY, COLLARS AND CUFFS, SHIRTS, HOSIERY AND UNDERWEAR, WE HAVE THAT Too. NoO ONE LIKE.S MEDICINE THAT TASTES BAD WHEN HE TAKE.S IT. WE TRY TO SUGAR- REPUTATION. WHEN NOW.S WHAT To PRE- PATRONS WHETHER THEM. JUDGE FOR IF* YoUR A ““LITTLE TONIC”’ —— EDICINE WITH POLITE ATRON. - |CROOKS e Excavation'(}auses Collapse of Brick Arches and Steel Ceiling. Last evening at 11 o’clock the main iron pier which supports the steel ceilings and the brick arches in the addition to the Polk county jail constructed last fall and which was to serve asa boiler and engine room from which the court house and jail proper were to be heated and ventilated, collapsed and the in- terior today presents a sorry ap- pearance. The collapse of the pier, was the result of excavating being done for the installation of a foundation for the new engine. It appears that the soil on the hill is of a very soapy character, and an excavation several feet deep for the foundation for the boiler was within a few feet of the foundation of the center iron pier. The immense weight rest- ing on the pier during the night was more than could be sup- ported by the slippery soil, and at 11 o’clock the collapse came. The damage is estimated at about $500. AGED CHIPPEWA 0-dub-e-naun-e-quah, Eighty Years 0ld, Succumbs at White Earth Agency. The queen of the Chippewas, O-dub-e-naun-e-quah, eighty years of age, died a few years ago at White Earth agency. As near as can be ascertained she was born just seven miles from Brainerd, in a birchbark tepee, surrounded by majestic oaks and pines. Her father was one of the Chippewa chiefs who was killed by the Sioux in the battle in Stillwater, where is now located the state prison. Like many an- ather Indian female of beauty, she was married when very young. FORTY DAYSIN JAIL FOR THREE Indians Sentenced for Drunk- enness—Murder Charges Later. Three of the Indians who took part in the drunken spree last Sunday which ended in the kill- ing of a sqauw, were given forty days in the county jail for drunkenness today by Judge Skinvik. - The cases against two of the others, Henry Martin and wife, were continued, and one of the women was too sick to be brought into court and will bhe giyven a hearing later, There were no murder charges lodged against-any. of the Indians today, that' feature of the case will be taken up later after County Attorney McDonald has tinished his investigation. -The sentences of forty days will give him ample time in which to look SCHNEIDER BROS. into all the evidence. ' The I[ndians who were sen- tenced are, Crazy Dog, Half Eagle or Av be-tak-ka ka-ke, and Crazy Dog’s wife, May-yo-ko- kebke. Marriage and Health, Murriage is an institution highly con- ducive to the health of both husband and wife, says American Medicine Statistics prove that among married men over twenty years of age and wo- men over forty the mortality rate is tar less than among those who remain single. Among the widowed and di- vorced the mortality is exceptionally great. Suicides among the unmarried are much more numerous than among the married. The matrimonial state promotes temperance in every form. Furthermore, the probable duration of life of a married man of thirty exceeds that of his unmarried brother by five years, and the wife may expect to live one year longer than a single woman of the same age. A Dungerous: Practice. A—Is dying the hair as dangerous as the doctors would make t appear? B.—Certainly! You take my word for it. Ouly last spring an uncle of mine dyed his hair, and In three weeks he was married to a widow with four children—Fliegende Blatter. TON JAIL |W ADDITION FALLS| QUEEN IS DEAD T URGES INAGE BILL| DRA Congresbman Steenerson’s Measure Up for Discus- sion in Committee, Washington, May 11.—Director Wolcott and Mr. Wilson of the geological survey, Representa- tive Steenerson and A. G, Ber- nard of Cass Lake, had a hearing before the house committee on public lands this morning on Congressman Steenerson’sdrain- age bill. Director Wolcott occupied most of the time and strongly urged that the committee en- dorse the measure. Though there was no action on the bill, questions asked by members of the committee indicated a desire to amend it, so as to include in its operation that part of North and South Dakota east of the 100th meridian. Tkis would embrace the val- leys of the Red River of the North in North Dakota and the lowlands of the Missouri river in South Dakota, Another hearing will be held next Wednesday. The conferees on the Indian appropriation bill have agreed on an appropriation of $15,000 for an investigation of drainage possibilities on the ceded portion of the Red Lake Indian reserva- tion, and the money will be avail- able when the bill becomes a law. THE DESERT MIRAGE. An Explanation of This Pecullar Freak of Nature. One-of nature's true wonders—one upon which much has been written, but which is yet not understood when Its varied phenomena are considered— Is the desert mirage. Travelers in the arid regions of the western and south- western United States tell wondrous tales concerning the spectral pictures which the desert mirage has presented for their inspection. Cool sheets of wa- ter and waving trees and grassy swards appear where all is known to be parched earth and burning sands. Oceasionally a mountain range will ap- pear on what is known to be a bound- less stretch of level plain, or a herd of deer, cattle or other animals will be seen apparently contentediy grazing on the glassy surface of the atmos. phere, Cities are occasionally seen hundreds of wiles from civilization, and phantom' ships have been kunown to loom up against the sky and appear as real vessels to persons who lived 80 far away frow the waters {hat they had never taken the trouble to visit the seacoast and who had never .seen a real ship. The explanation of the mirage, as usually given, is as follows: The sand, being intensely hot, causes the layers of air which rest upon it to become greatly rarefied, and under cer- tain circumstances this layer is quite distinet from the denser stratum a few inches or feet above it—just if it were a sheet of w r upon which oil rested. It is this raretied stratum of air which acts as a reflector and pic- tures to the eye those curious inverted images. A WILDERNESS OF TREES. Inaccessible Forests That Abound In Guatemala. Nearly all of the northern and east- with mahogany, different kinds of cedar, chicle aud other hard woods, Along streams down which logs can be foat- ed much of the mabhogany bas been cut, but as yet very little of the other woods have been marketed. This is es- pecially true of the departments of Pe. ten, Alta Verapaz and Izabal. Most of the forests still belong to the government, and the usual method of securing the timber is by concession, by which a certain number oi trees arc cut at a given price per tree, or a stip ulated sum is paid for the timber on a given tract. It is not an e matter to get titles to lar land in Guatemala, as it i ed by the government. Thes 1S are not usually granted for : than five years. Sometimes it is stipu- lated that if a ain number of trees are cut during that time they must be renewed. The pine forests are limited, being in the mountainous country principally and Inaccessible. Most of the lumber used comes from the United States, principally from California, The for- ests of this country are generally so Inaccessible that the ilroad compa- nies import nearly all their ties mnd even import coal, because it Is difficult for them to get enough firewood.—New York Herald. Fulminate of Mercury. A peculiarvity of fulminate of mer- cury is that it produces a shock te which all other substances are sensi tive, and its supreme value as an ex plosive rests in this fact and in the known liahility of all explosives to be detonated hy more orv less distant ex- plosions. There is a current of sympa thetic influence in these terrible chom Ieal compositions that is as ange as It Is dangerous, What is required to produce explosion is the rapid genera tion of great hent along with large quantities of oxyzen. In gunpowder. for Instance. tbe nitrate of potas! (snitpeter). whieh is the chiaf ingre- dient, is practieally imprisoned oxyzea and when It is-decomposed along wilh cha; Lan immense heat Is developed. BAZAAR REDUCTION SALE! The most sensational sale in the history of Bemidji will commence Wednesday morning May 9 and close Saturday night May 12. Long experience has taught us that prices are a great salesman and prices in our store will be lit- terally slashed to pieces. Come prepared to find bar- gains. We promise that your expectation will be more than realized. WASH GOODS Our entire wash goods stock will be displayed on tables loaded down, NOT WITH OLD but all new and dainty patterns bbfight for the season of 1906. All fabrics and shades the best of the Manufacturers productions. 1000 yards beaver dam LIL sheeting, actually worth 8c, now it goes 5c at, per yard, 25 dozen linen huck towels, hemstitch- ed, plain and faney borders, size 19- 36, worth 35¢, this each,. Ladies’ Shirt Waists: Just received a line of shirt waist samples which will be on sale at remarkable low prices. Hosiery: Ladies’ fast black hose worth any place 30c. a pair, Children’s Hose: 1 ot good child’s hose, only a small quan- tity, at heavy 19¢ I Our Ladies’ Shoes: Don’t forget that the Bazaar Annex is always a Bargain Department. The 5¢ and 10¢ counters; of which we make a specialty, are always loaded down with useful articles for the kitchen and for the home in general. Ghe BAZAAR STORE GOODS The pride and pleasure of every woman who wears them will find strong, sharp and decided reduction. We are determined to please the ladies’ during our sale. Men’s Shoes: Good Men's shoes worth $1.75 to $2.00, goes daring sale, Men’s fine this sale PAIr . Men’s Hats: We have sent many a well hatted head out of our store in the last few days and can handle a few more Latest styles and best quality still in our hoxes. Boy’s Hats and Caps al- most given away. working 98¢ dress THIRD YET TO BE CHOSEN. [ Zion Factions Agree on Two Men to Manage Affairs. Chicago, May 11.—John Alexandér Dowie and Wilbur G. Voliva reached the court appoint the tnrd 1 committee, but this was not « to the Dowie party s went over for ceipt of reports an agreement in court during the day | Judge Wrisht that they had ced | from all parts of the s indicating a upon the proposition for mutual repre- | upon the proposition to allow the city | E€M€ral and in some sections a killing sentation in the management of finan- | to be controlled by a committee of | TOSE Small fruit and garden truck cial affaivs at Zion City. The Dowie | three. 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