Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 22, 1906, Page 1

= VOLUME 4. NUMBER 29 BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA: ' TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1906. TEN CENTS PER WEEK GREATLY EXAGGERATED TOTAL LOSS IN MICHIGAN AND WISCONSIN FOREST FIRES ABOUT $200,0C0. NUMBER OF HOMELESS NOT LARGE SETTLERS BURNED OUT NOW ES- TIMATED AT LESS THAN TWO HUNDRED. Marinette, Wis.,, May 22.—All dan- ger from forest fires s 1t is raining and the wind has died out. The loss everywhere is believed to have been greatly exaggerated. The A, Stephenson company at Wells, Mich., was the heaviest loser and its losses will not be more than $40,000. Most of the buildings de- stroyed were of frame construction. The saw mills destroyed were all small ones, worth not more than from $5,000 to $15000. The total loss in the burned area will not be more than $200,000. The number of setilers burned out has also been greatly ex- aggerated. Some papers have placed it as high as 2,000. Considering way in which the northern country settled it is certain that not 500 have been burned out and it is prob: that the actual number who lost their homes Is not more than 200 and it may not reach that amount. The most damage is at Quinnesec, Mich,, a large town which was de- stroyed, but the fire there was not due to a forest fire but to a bonfire in the rear of a livery stable. There are no woods around Quinnesec, KILLS WIFE | THEN SELF Farmer Murders Woman As She Lies In Bed . With Child. Blows Off Top of His Own Head Immediately Afterwards. New Salem, N. D., May 22.—A terrible tragedy occurred fifteen | miles northeast of here on Thurs- |day when Henry A. Bradt, a prosperous farmer, shot and in- stantly killed his wife and then blew off the top of his own head. i There is no known motive for the double crime. Bradt had lived in the county about four years, having come here from Minnesota. He had been married five or six years, and so far as known his married life had been happy. Mrs Bradt, four days prior to the murder, had given birth toa child and was being cared for by a neighboring woman and a young girl, ‘Read the Daily Pioneer. | American I Gentlemenl Is one of the best market. Ithas an Phone 30. making it one of the most comfortable shoes to be had. We carry them in all leathers and widths, Wear one pair and b2 convinced of their value. LADIES’ AND CHILDR’N’S SHOES We carry the following well known lines: Hamilton Brown, Drew Selby, Shaft Pierce and Portsmouth. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. E.H. WINTER & CO SHOES! $3.50 shoes-on the invisible cork sole . Bemidji. _.—.—J DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN DAKOTA TOWN MOSTLY INSURANCE MONEY NEW YORK STATE SENATORSHIP WORTH ANYWHERE FROM $50,000 TO $100.000. Washington, May 22.—Some addi- tional inside light was thrown on in- surance methods in New York by Representative James A. Goulden of that state before the house committee on judiciary considering the Ames bill for the regulation of insurance in the District of Columbia. Mr. Goulden is general agent of the Pennsylvania Mutual Life Insurance company in New York. “Why,” he said, “it was a well con- ceded fact that to be a senator at Al- bany was worth anywhere from $50,- 000 to $100,000 a year and that the money came largely from insurance companies. This is no secret. Every New York man knows it. I know it I know it well.” Touching on the subject of cam- paign contributions Mr. Goulden said that his company had been coerced into giving $10,000 to a national cam- paign committee in 1896. He did not say which campaign committee re- ceived the money, but remarked that the same thing was tried in 1900 and 1904 but without success. AMENDS CURRENCY ACT. House Passes Bii! Affecting Bank Circulation, ‘Washington, May 22.—The house has passed the bill amending section 6 of the currency act approved March 14, 1900. The bill gives to the secre- tary of the treasury authority to issue gold certificates in denominations of not less than $5 instead of not less than $20 as now provided by law and also gives to national banks the au- thority to place in circulation such portion of their circulating notes in the denomination of $5 as the secre- tary may from time to time authorize by regulation instead of being limited in their right to issue $56 notes to one- third of the circulation as now pro- vided by law, NO CONCLUSION REACHED. ~ | Conferees on Statehood Bill Hold An- other Meeting. ‘Washington, May 22. — Another meeting of the statehood conferees was held during the day without re- sult so far as reaching a conclusion is concerned. The conferees, however, are now consldering the main point of difference between the two houses. The senate conferees have submitted a basis of compromise, which is under- stood to be on what is generally known as the Foraker amendment, namely, to allow the people of New Mexico and Arizona to express them- selves on the statehood question at a special election for that purpose. HAY RATE CASE DECIDED, Interstate Commerce Commission De- feated on Appeal. ‘Washington, May 22.—The supreme court of the United States has affirmed by a divided court the decision of the circuit court for the Northern district of Ohio in the interstate commerce case known as the hay rate case. The case grew out of the change of hay from the sixth to the fifth class of freight Dy the leading railroads and the interstate commerce commission sought to prohibit the change through a writ of injunction. This the circuit court refused to grant and the su- preme court’s decision sustains that action. Leading Officials Subpoenaed. Philadelphia, May 22.—Subpoenaes have been issued by the interstate commerce commission for several im- portant officials of the Pennsylvania railroad. They will be asked to tes- Ufy concerning car distribution and gifts of coal companies’ stock when the commission resumes its hearings Wednesday. WEDS HIS MOTHER'S MAID. Son of Pittsburg Millionaire Will Be Disinherited. Pittsburg, May 22.—John Alston Moorhead, a son of John Moorhead, Jr, and a grandson of John Moor- head, who was one of the group of great Pittsburg steel magnates in his lifetime, left the family home a week ago.with his mother’s French maid and the pair were married in New ork city, The marriage has severed all rela- tions between the young man and his family. Friends of the Moorheads have been informed that he will be disinherited, which will mean the loss of a great fortune, for the head of the family is many times a millionaire. Friends of the family have been in- formed that after the marriage in New York young Moorhead and his bride went to the home of Horace Moorhead, the young man’s uncle, on Long Island. It is said that they ‘will stay there for a time in the hope that they may effect a reconciliation. The house committee on-library has authorized a favorable report on a bill authorizing the expenditure of $100,000 for the erection in ‘Washing ton of a suitable memorial to Chris- topher Columbus. £ CONVICTION AFFIRMED | UNITED STATES iUPREME COURT DECIDES AGAINST SENATOR BURTON OF KANSAS. ; LOSES HIS SEAT %l!l UPPER HOUSE | MUST SERVE A{TERM OF NINE MONTHS IN JAIL AND PAY A FINE OF $2,500. Washington, May 22.—The supreme court of the United States has ren- dered a decision in the case of United States Senator J. Ralph Burton of Kansas. The decision was ‘against Burton, affirming the decision of the federal circuit court for the Eastern district of Missourf; by which Burton was Sentenced to nine months’ impris- onment in the jail of Iron county, Mo., required to pay a fine of $2,500 and SENATOR J. B. BURTON OF KANSAS. deprived of the right to hereafter hold office under the government. The sentence of Senator Burton was mts of the indictment. wag-gix" riionths il jail and a fine ot $2,000 and the other three months in jall and $500 fine, aggregating nine months in jail and a fine of $2,500. The opinion was by Justice Harlan All of the points made in Burton's in- terest were overruled. Senator Burton was prosecuted on the charge of violating section 1782 of the Revised Statutes, which prohibits senators and representatives from re- ceiving compensation for services ren- dered before any of the government departments in any matter in which the government may be interested. He was specifically charged with accept- ing a fee of $500 per month for five months from the Rialto Grain and Securities company of St. Louis for services rendered that company in an effort to prevent the issuance of an order by the postoffice department pro- hibiting the use of the mails by the company. Burton Won His First Appeal. This was Senator Burton’s second appeal to the supreme court. In the first case the circuit court found him guilty and imposed the same penalty that was imposed in the present case, but the supreme court reversed the decision in the first instance because it was made to appear that the money was paid in Washington and not in St. Louls, where the case was tried. It was contended on behall of Sen- ator Burton that the fee was paid on account of a criminal proceeding against one of the members of the Rialto company and not because of services rendered in the government prosecution of the company. The law under which.he was prosecuted was also attacked as unconstitutional on the ground that the senate was the sole judge of the qualification of its members, but this doctrine was not upheld by Justice Harlan’s opinion. The statute was upheld in all respects and held to be fully applicable to Bur- ton’s case. Justices Brewer, White and Peck- ham united in a dissenting opinion de- livered by Justice Brewer. Their opinion was based upon the theory that the United States was not legally interested in the case against the Rialto company, in which Burton was employed as counsel. Immediately after promulgating its decision the supreme court granted a motion to give sixty days to Senator Burton in which to prepare a petition for a rehearing. The action will have the effect of taking the case over un- ¢l the next term of court beginning in October, as the present term will ex- pire next Monday. UNLESS HE RESIGNS AT ONCE. Senate Will Take Action to Unseat Burton. Washington, May 22—If Senator Burton does not resign “at once,” as a prominent senator puts it, a resolution will be introduced to declare his seat vacant. Oldest Woman in lowa Dead. Leon, Ia., May 22—Mrs. Mary Ann Perigo, aged 108, and the oldest white person in Iowa, died here from blood eat, wlich she was petting. volsoning caused by the scratch of 8 ; churches which suffered from the San | e WD WD gED 0 WY AL 25U S A M STABS WOMAN IN SIGHT OF CROWD RUSSIAN LOWER HOUSE IGNORES ASSASSINATED IN RUSSIA AMERICAN CONSUL AT BATOUM, A BRITISH SUBJECT, SHOT AND KILLED. Batoum, Russia, May 22—W. H. Btuart, the American vice consul, was ghot and killed at his country place. The assassin escaped. Mr. Stuart was a British subject and one of the largest ship brokers and exporters of Batoum. During the revolutionary troubles of last fall his life was many times threatened by longshoremen and at Christmas a deputation visited Mr. Stuart’s office and practically compelled him to give them $1,500 under the guise of a holi- day gratuity for dock laborers. ‘Washington, May 22.—Vice Consul Stuart, who was killed at Batoum, was an Englishman, forty-nine years old and had filled the position for about two years. At the time of his death he was acting consul. RESERVOIR BREAKS. One - Hundred Thousand Gallons of 3 Water Let Loose. Stillwater, Minn., May 22.—A spring water reservoir of the water company burst ana the roar that followed sounded like thunder. It held 100,000 gallons of water and was overflowing. Many timbers fourteen inches squars were broken off and many others splintered and shattered for a block all around. The tank was cireled by eighteen steel bands six inches wide and half of them were broken. The water flooded gardens and lots in the immediate vicinity and debriz, includ- ing heavy foundation stones, was scat- tered about. GIVEN THREE YEARS IN PRISON. Cleveland Business Man Pleads Guilty to Bigamy. Norwalk, 0., May 22.—Harry J. Reynolds, until recently prominently connected with a well known Cleve- land -iron ore and shipping concern, walved trial, during the-day, pleaded guflty to the charge of bigamy and was sentenced to three years’ im- prisonment. Reynolds was charged with marrying Miss Mae Smith of this city while he had a wife living In Cleveland. He maintained he married Miss Smith while temporarily de- ranged, PROMINENT GREEKS EXPELLED. Radical Action Taken by Rouranian Government. Bucharest, Rouiiinia, May -22.—As a reprisal for the ménssacre of a party of Wallachians by three Greek bands near Grabena on May 13 the govern- ment has ordered the expulsion of twenty-three prominent Greek di S, merchants, ete, who are alleged to have been connected with the bands responsible for the disturbances. The Greek community is greatly excited and further expulsions are expected. WON BY RANK OUTSIDER. Tokalon at 25 to 1 Captures Brooklyn Handicap. Gravesend, L. I, May 22.—J. W. Ful- ler’s Tokalon, a despised outsider at 26 to 1 in the betting, captured the Brooklyn handicap here from the sec ond choice, Dandelion, with The Picket third. The time, 2:05%, is within one- fifth of a second of the track record. Carload of Horses Burned. Webster, S. D, May 22.—A carload of fine draft horses, owned by Frelicl & Efnor and consigned to Barrett & Zimmerman, St. Paul, was destroyed Dy fire a short time after leaving here. The car was attached to a through freight and was discovered in flames when about five miles east. Eleven horses were burned to death, two so badly burned that they had to be killed and two escaped. S8OCIAL LEADERS INVOLVED., Own Pittsburg Houses Used for Im- moral Purposes. Pittsburg, May 22—The ecity ad- ministration is determined to push to the extreme the work of cleaning up Pittsburg’s moral side. Warrants will be issued against several persons high up in society who own a half dozen houses each in the down town district, all of which are used for immoral pur- poses. 2 Some of these, who are women, have had large incomes from these properties, as they all rented for $125 to $300 a month. The property was left them by fathers and grandfathers | and has helped them maintain social positions for years. They are said to have been fully cognizant of the pur- pose for which the houses were used, but overlooked that in view ‘of the handsome rental they secured. . In addition to these individuals the officials of over a score of real estate concerns are to be arrested. The Presbyterian general assembly, in session at Des Moines, unanimously adopted a resolution calling on the Presbyterian churches of America to raise §300,000 for the relief of tha AFFRAY AT BAUDETTE Jealous Man Attacks Wom- an In Dining Room of Hotel. John London of Duluth, the Man; Mrs. Flett the Victim. As a result of a stabbing affair in Baudette last week Mrs. F. Flett, a Duluth milliner, is lying critically wounded in a Baudette hotel, and John London, a Duluth business man, is lodged in the Beltrami county jail charged with assault in the first degree, He was taken before a Baudette justice of the peace immediately after the affray, but waived ex: amination and was bound over to the grand jary. Sheriff Bailey brought him down Saturday. The story of the tragedy is fall of dramatic interest. There 1s the man’s jealous rage; the terror and flight of the woman; the pur- suit; and finally in the dining room of a public hotel, while the vietim was eating supper and the room was crowded with other guests, the stabbing, The knife entered the back of the woman and only a slight movement on her part as the stroke was descending, saved her from a fatal wound. Of scarcely less interest than the details of the happening is the air of secrecy which has been thrown about the whole affair. Utitil the present-date nota word about the stabbing has appeared in print outside of a short ac- count in the Baudette paper, although it took place a week ago last Saturday. Not a dispatch has gone outof that village over the wire, and the sheriff has dodged reporters and courted the most sphinx-like silence, refus- ing to give out the names of the parties interested. And yet there is nothing to suppress; it is merely that the little village to the north where the tragedy quite accidently took place, does not ‘want the adver- tising. The people were not its people and it feels that it should not be blamed for the affair. London and Mrs. Flett left Duluth several weeks ago and were first heard of in Fort Fran- cis, just across the border from I[nternational Falls. A weelt ago last F'riday an In- ternational Falls policeman was startled by the sight of a woman rushing toward him evidently in the utmost terror. “Tell me a place where 1 can hide,” she pleaded. “There is a man after me and he wants to (Continued on page 4, column 5) RUPTURE 1S AVERTED CZAR'S REFUSAL TO RECEIVE | ITS DELEGATION. 1 NOTHEADS SUCCUMB TO ARGUMENT CONVINCED BY MODERATES THAT FORCED CONFLICT WOULD BE FATAL BLUNDER. St. Petersburg, May 22.—The threat- ened storm over the emperor’s refusal to receive the delegation from the lower house of parliament, appointed to present to him its reply to the speech from the throne, has been averted. The house during the after- noon adopted a resolution to proceed with ‘the regular order of business and the discussion of the agrarian question began. The moderate leaders of the Consti- tutional Democrats, after laboring with the hotheads until the early morning hours, succeeded in convine- ing them that it would be a fatal blun- der to precipitate a conflict upon a false issue and a resolution was pre- pared pointing out that the impor- tance of the address consisted in its contents and not in the form in which 1 it is transmitted to the emperor. Some of the Constitutional Democrats frank- ly expressed the opinion that the house itself committed an error in ap- pointing the deputation when the law specifically provided that communica- itions from the house should go through the president. The emperor’s action in refusing to reeeive the deputation created much popular excitement. The papers voiced the fear that it meant a rupture and crowds collected about the Tauride palace before the opening of the ses- sion of parliament. While his maj- esty’s action is in strict conformity with the correctness and formalism which have: characterized his career nevertheless his failure to seize the occasion to meet the people’s repre- sentatives directly is sure to produce a bad impression in the country, where the burden of the popular. outery has always been directed agafast the bu- remeratic intermeddaries. ~~Tie 1aG” icals in the house wanted to make his refusal a casus belll, but ylelded to the persuasions of the Constitutional Democrats and decided not to present a condemnatory resolution. A pacific issue, therefore, Is assured. ~EVERELY WOUNDED BY BOMB. Russian Officer Prominent in Sup- pressing Disturbances. Kaliszk, Russian Poland, May 22.— Count Keller. a colonel of dragoons, was severely wounded by the explo- sion of a bomb which was thrown at the officer while he was returning from a review, His horse was killed and his orderly was injured. The would-be assassin escaped. Count Keller had been prominent in suppressing disturbances here and in this vieinity., Colouel Keller is a nephew of Lieu- ‘tenant General Count Keller, who was Kkilled July 29, 1904, while repelling a Japanese attack on Yangtse pass. Tunnel Under Military Prison. Baku, Transcaucasia, May 22.—The authorities here discovered that a tun- nel had been dug under the military prison. They also scized a secret printing office for anarchist proclama- tions. The workmen of the electric plaut at Bibieybat have struck and those of the oil factories threaten to follow suit. Pope’s Condition Much Better, Rome, May 22—When Dr. Lapponi visited the pope during the morning he found that the pontiff had passed a good night, that the gouty pain in his knee had almost disappeared and that his general condition had improved. GRAND SUITS ARMY Until Decoration Day we will sell G. A. R. suits made from American Woolen Mills flan- nel, buttons included, a suit $10.00 ‘O’Léaxfy @ Bowser