Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 12, 1906, Page 1

¢ -3 ~ The Bemidji VOLUME 4. NUMBER 72 BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 190 Daily Pioneer MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. =0 TEN CENTS PER WEEK DREYFUS GETS VINDICATION AFTER TWELVE YEARS WAIT COURT ANNULS CONDEMNATION Porsecuted French Officer Now Entitled to Restoration to Rank in Army. Arrested in 1894 Accused of Be- traying Secrets to Germany and Iltaly. Paris, July 12.—The supreme court today announced its de- cision annulling the condemna- tion of Captain Dreyfus without a re-trial, The effect of the decision is a complete vindication of Dreyfus eatitling him to restoration to his rank in the army as though he had never been accused. Captain Alfred Dreyfus was arrested in 1894 charged with selling military secrets to Ger- many and [taly. He was con victed and on January 5, 1895, he was publically degraded from his rank in the presence of 5,000 troops. His sentence included life im- prisonment on the Isle du Diable| off the coast of French Guiana, where he was rigidly confined until 1899, when the French sen. ate voted for a revision of the Dreyfus case. He was brought back to France, re-tried by court martial and again convicted, but the French government granted him a pardon almost immediately. The Deauty of the Snowflake, The thin snow now driving from the morth and lodging on my coxt consists of those beautiful star als, thin and partly transparent. They are about one-tenth of an inch in diameter, per- fect little wheels with six spokes, with- out a tire, or, rather, with six perfect little leaflets, fernlike, with a distinet, straight, slender midrib raylng from the center. On each side of each mid- rib there Is a transparent, thin blade ! with a crenate edge. How full of the creative genius Is the air in which these are generated! I should hardly admire more If real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature Is full of genius, full of the divinity, so that not a snowflake escapes Its fashioning hand. Nothing is cheap and coarse, neither dewdrops uor snowflakes.—Henrv D. Thoreau. | SIGN MODUS VIVENDI. Peru and Colombia to Remove Gar risons From Boundary. Suntiago de Chile, July 12.—A tele- gram from Lima announces that a modus vivendi between Peru and Co- lombia has been signed, abrogating the yrotocol of September, 1905, and instituting a new arrangement, pro- viding for the remn of the garri- sons and civil and military authorities of both countries from the Putumayo river. Pending the delivery of the arbitration award by the pope the Peruvians are to be allowed free navi- gation of the river. TO GREET MR. BRYAN. Several Hundred Nebraskans Will Go to New York. Lincoln, Neb., July 12.—Leading Democrats of Nebraska are making arrangements for a special train to go to New York for the reception in hon- or of William J. Bryan. The trip will be arranged so that the Nebraskans may reach New York Aug. 31. The leaders of the movement expect to take about 300 “home folks,” who will greet Mr. Bryan when he steps on the pier. Question For n Question. “John,” said the distinguished law- yer severely, “have you been in swim- ming in spite of my express prohibl- tion?” “Father,” said John earnestly, “isn’t it one of the first principles of law that no witness is bound to izeciminate himself 2"~ Sam<zyille Jour MARKET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, July 11.—Wheat—July, Sept., T8 @T7%e;: Dec., 18%c; May, 82¢. On track—No. 1 hard, 80c¢; No. 1 Northern, 79¢; No. 2 Northern, 1T%e. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, July 11.—Wheat—To arrive —No. 1 Northern, 79¢; No. 2 North- ern, 77c. On track—No. 1 Northern, 79¢; No. 2 Northern, 77c; Juiy, 79¢; Sept., T8%e: Dee., TTY% Flax—To arrive, on track and July, $1.13; July, $1.12; Oct., $1.11. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, July 11.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $4.50@5.50; common to 3.50@4.25; good to choice cows and heifers, $3.00@4.50; veals, $4.00@ 6.00. Hos 5@ Sheep— Werhers, @805 zood to clioice lambs, § good to prime lambs, $6.75@S.40. Chicago Union Stock Yards, July 1 Beeves, 7 savy, §6.40 @6.60; light, $6.50@7.09; pigs, $5.80@ 1 6.50. Sheep, $4.60%6.15; lanibs, $5.75 | @8.40. FINED USUAL AMOUNT SENTENCE PASSED ON CHICAGO AND ALTON ROAD AND FOR. MER OFFICIALS. HAD BEEN CONViCTED OF REBATING COMPANY TAXED $20,000 ON EACH OF TWO COUNTS AND INDI. VIDUALS $5,000, Chicago, July 12.—Judge Landis, In the United States distriet court, has sentenced the Chicago and Alton road, which was recently convicted of grant ing illegal rebatcs, to pay a fine of $20,006 on each of two counts, or a total of $40,000. John Faithorn and Fred A. Wann, former officials of the road, who were also convicted, were sentenced to jay a fine of $5,000 each on two coints, or a total ol $10,000 each. The defen€:nts were fined on two counts of an indictment containing ten counts. The specific charge on which they were convieted was that they had given to the Schwarzschild & erger company a tebate of $1 per ear on all shipments from the Kan- sas City plant of the packing com The de pany. ndants claimed that the chy made age i the pa o company, which had j right to levy it hecaase it owned tha track near t ant‘and therefore had harge the railroad for Landis, in hiz ly divecied the jury to bring in a verdiet of guilly and after it had teen rendered the attorneys for the railroad and fer the individaal defendants a; d time to show that the rei public and not a secret aff: Wh couri convened the at- torneys for the railroad said that they had not Lecna sble to bring witnes into court to testify beeaase they feared prosecurion themselves. The conrt in passing sentence said that he could sce no extenaating ecir- cumstances in the granting of the re- bates. After the entering of the sen- tence the defendants gave notice of appeal. STATE WILL PROSECUTE." - | Wisconsin Roads Said to Be Guilty of Rebating. Madison, Wis., July 12.—Following a report by Railroad Commissioner Thomas that the railroads of Wiscon- §in have been guilty of granting re- bates under the guise of commissions Governor Davidson has asked Attor- ney General Sturdevant’s opinion and will start prosecutions against all railroads if the attorney general holds that taxes can be collected on the sums thus omitted from gross earn- ings. The railroads so far examined are the Northwestern, the St. Paul | and the Omaha and all are alleged to be guilty. Summer Goods Sale The balance of our summer goods will go at prices that will surprise you. Ladies’ Underwear. In erder to reduce our stock of Ladies’ Underwear we will put on sale all of our 50c¢ and 75¢ garments. fioys’ 6ldtl;ipg.v‘ We are overstocked in this department and you will derive the benefit by buying them at actual cost. Men’s Pants For the next ten days we will sell Men’s pémts at 20 per cent discount. Men’s and Ladies’ Oxfords. = _»t—_—_-f - Ladies’ $3.00 and $3-50 patent and tan oxfords will go at $2.25. E. H. WINTER & C0., BEMIDJI, PHONE 30. AGAIN AFTER CHOUKNIN TERRORISTS REPEAT ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF RUSSIAN BLACK SEA ADMIRAL. INOUNDED AND TAKEN TO HOSPITAL —_— HAs BEEN BLAME& FOR SEVERE TREATMENT OF MEN UNDER ' HIS COMMAND. Sebastopol, July 12—An attempt was made at 1 p. m. to assassinate Vice Admiral Chouknin, commander of the Black Sea fleet. The admiral was wounded and taken to'a hospital. Vice Admiral Chouknin had been blamed for his severity and it was to his treatment of the crews of the ships under his command that the mutiny on board the battleship Kniaz Potomkine, in June and July last year, was attributed. The/ admiral dis- played considerable . activity in at- tempting to capture the mutineers at that time and in suppressing the sail- ors’ mutiny at Sebastopol in Novem- ber. H An attempt was made on the life of the admiral Feb. 9 last. A woman appeared at his official residence dur- ing the afternoon of that day and sent in her card, saying she was the daugh- ter of a rear admiral at'St. Petersburg who was an old acqaaintance of Chouknin. On entering the admiral's office the woman drew a rapid fire. pistol and fired four shots at him, each bullet reaching the mark. " As she turned to escape the woman was killed by the orderly on duty. at Ad- miral Chouknin’s door. Admiral Chouknin passed & good deal of active service and for a time was believed to be under orders to take to the Far East, during the war with Japan, the second-Pacific squad- ron, relieving Vies Admiral Rojestven- sky. Chouknin was port admiral at Vladivostok from 1896 to 1901. Latcr he was appointed director of the naval college, which post he held until he took command of the Black sea squad- ron. JUSTIFIES DEATH JPENALTY, _ Orthodox Priest .Addresses Russian Upper House. Bt. Petersburg, July 12.—One of the curious feature of the debate in the upper house of parliament on the bill of the lower' house providing for the abolition of the death penalty was a speech made by Father Butkavich, a priest elected by the orthodox clergy, in which he seriously defended the death penalty on the ground that it was justified both by God and Christ, citing the laws of Moses and Christ’s statement before Pilate as recognition of the right to impose punishment. The Rech declares that the tone of the debate in the upper house leaves little hope that this “assembly of bu- reaucrats, land and commercial mag- nates and representatives of the reac- tionary nobility and clergy, with a small leaven of Liberals,” will ever be able to work in harmony with the progressive ideas represented in par- lament. The Novoe Vremya, on the contrary, defends the conservative spirit of the upper house and appeals to the em- peror not to entrust power to the Con- stitutional Democrats of the lower house, who, the paper insists, are “augmenting the danger of an explo- slon by their cowardly refusal neither to clasp hands with the Right or break with the Left.” IN ADMIRALTY OFFICE. ‘Three Men Rob Russian Paymaster of $12.000. London, July 12.—A dispatch to a news agency from St. Petersburg says that three young men in student uni- forms shot and wounded a paymaster and two watchmen in the office of the paymaster of the admiralty and de- camped in a cab with $12,000. Many Deported to Siberia. St. Petersburg, July 12.—According to a collaborator of the Strana, who has iInvestigated the subject, 37 000 persons have been deported—to Si- beria since Jan. 1. DEED OF INSANE MAN, Kills His’ Wife and Four Children With an Axe. Charleston, 8. C., July 12—A spe- clal to the Evening Post from Walter- ‘boro sfiys that J. W. Irnegan, a well- to-do white farmer of Colleton county, killed his wife and four children, braining them with an axe at their home about twenty miles from Wal- terboro. He then went to a neigh- or's house and told of his deed. elghbors brought him to Walterboro jall. Irmegan says he killed his fam- ily, but does not know why. He is a native of Sweden. Some years ago he tried to cut his throat and is be- Meved to be insane. —_— Crew Picked ‘Up at Sea. Lewes, Del., July 12.—The schooner Judge Penniwell, from New York for Charleston, put in here with four of- ficers and nine sallors, comprising the crew of the hark Margarita, which was ahandcned while on fire on Monday of thiz week. The men were picked up oft Atlantio City by the Judge Penni- well, . e DEEFEACTI\/E DA A= \WILSON 1S SATISFIED EVERY EFFORT BEING MADE TO PUT PACKING PLANTS IN SANITARY CONDITION. NEW LAW GOES INTO-EFFECT AUG. | NO INSPECTION FOR ESTABLISH. " MENTS WHERE CONDITIONS ARE NOT PERFECT. Chicago, July 12.—Secretary of Agri- culture Wilson having finished his work in Chicago stated that he was satisfied that the packers of Chicago are making every effort to put their plants in sanitary shape and that the department will put the revised regu- lations into effect Aug. 1. “I have met the inspectors in charge of federal reconstruction from the dif- ferent cities of the country,” sald the secretary. “They report that condi- tions are improving everywhere. I told them that inspection under the new law will be established imme- diately in those houses where the san- itary conditions which affect the food product justify it. I also told them that no inspection will be given to es- tablishments where the sanitary con- ditions which affect the food products are not perfect. “Practically all of the slaughtering and packing establishments in Chica- 80 are on the way to sanitary condi- tions which will justify inspection un- der the new law. In some cases im- provements of a permanent character will take place, but where want of the projected changes does not involve the healthfulness of the product the new inspection will be inaugurated without waiting for their completion. “I am satisfied that the packers of Chicago are using every effort to put their plants in’ sanitary shape. The department will be prepared with ad- ditional men and revised regulations on Aug. 1. I shall expect the Chicago plants to be ready at that time. Those who are ready will get the inspection others cannot expect it.” UPHILL WORK FOR ROOSEVELT. “I“Mr= Bryan Says President Was Not Chosen as a Reformer. New York, July 12—The Times prints the following cable dispatch from' its correspondent at London: “Is it true,” I asked Mr. Bryan, “that President Roosevelt caught you in swimming and stole your clothes? Over in America they say that is what has happened.” “He didn’t get-all my clothes,” Mr. Bryan answered, laughingly, and quickly added: “I doubt whether what he did get fit him very well.” Mr. Bryan went on: “It is hard, uphill work for Mr. Roosevelt to make his administration respond to the country’s evident de- mand for reforms, for the country gave him no mandate. The platform on which he was elected does not de- clare that our laws and our govern- ment should aim at the welfare of the whole people; but if -a Democratic president is chosen in 1908 he will undoubtedly represent a party com- mitted to this reform idea and will be in a different situation. “There is no doubt about the peo- ple’s wish in this respect. Views that were considered revolutionary-a few years ago are now accepted as sane and necessary. A change has come over the country.” LOAN FOR SANTO DOMINGO. Plan to Float $20,000,000 Bond Issue in United States. ‘Washington, July 12—The Domin- fcan delegates or commissioners in New York are understood to be mak- ing fair progress in the negotiations looking to the readjustment of the debt of Santo Domingo. 1t is stated, however, that any arrangement that is likely to be made with the New York bankers will be provisional and conditioned upon the ratification by the senate of the pending Dominican treaty. It is further stated that there is little doubt, as a result of Dr. Hol- lander’s investigations into the merits of the principal large- outstarding claims against Santo Domingo, that a bond issue to the amount of $20,000,- 000 will cover all legitimate claims and it is thought here that such a loan can be readily floated in this country it the senate should act favorably upon the treaty. DROPS FROM SMOKESTACK. Steeplejack of Long Experience FIi- nally Killed. Chicago, July 12.—After twenty years’ expericnce .as a “steeplejack” James H. Glenn finally met his death. The rigging to which he was holding on the top of a smokestack at Thirty- sixth and Butler streets gave way and he fell 165 feet to his death, Glenn, who was forty years old, had suffered more than twenty falls in his career as steeplejack. Found Not Guiity of Murder. Seattle, July 12.—George Mitchell, who shot and killed Franz Edmund Cretfield, leader of the sect known as “Holy Rollers” in this city, alleging that Creflleld had deluded and wronged his two sisters, was found not guilty by a jury. The defense was insanity. - 5 ADVOCATES TRADE S8CHOOLS, College President Criticises Labor Union Methods. New Haven, Conn., July 12.—The American boy’s right to be taught a trade in school instead of under the restrictions of a labor union, the mem- Lers of which are jealous of his ad- vancement, was asserted by President F. S. Luther of Trinity college, Hart- ford, at the convention of the Amer- ican Institute of Instruction. President Luther said in part “Today there are few apprentices and such as may still be found are learning very little. The labor unions restrict the number of apprentices to limits grotesquely below obvious needs. The boys suffer from the jeal- ousy, fll will and incompetence of those who are supposed to teach them for a hoy's wages. “Trade schools, manned by compe- tent instructors whose sole business is to instruct, exacting a standard so high that American workmanship shall again become a matter of na- tional pride; trade schools maintained by public funds and free as other public schools are free—these may solve this great and pressing problem. A bright boy can probably learn more in four years of apprenticeship, simply because those over him are Interested In nothing but his progress.” LOST IN SPECULATION. London Solicitor Robs Clients of Im- mense Sum. nquiries are on foot regarding tae affairs of Charles Cheston, a solicitor who died in May last after having lost. it is” alleged, between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000 of his clients’ money. The latter had sold Ridington Hall, Brandon, Norfolk, for a large sum, a considerable portion of which was held in trust by Cheston. It was at first thought Lord Amherst was prac- tically ruined. He, however, is not the hardest hit. The heaviest loser is sald to be a woman, who is out $500,000. It is alleged that Cheston’s defalca- tions extended over several years and were largely the outcome of specula- tion in the stock exchange, principally i in mining snares. VIGILANTES PATROL TOWN. Residents of St. Louis Suburb Arm in War on Burglars. St. Louis, July 12.—A vigilance com- mittee of twenty-five citizens has been organized at Richmond Heights, a suburb, to protect homes against bur- glars and nocturnal marauders. The suburb has no police protection, and burglaries have become very frequent. The members of the committee will be armed with guns and revolvers, a system of patrols will be instituted, now kept secret, and the sheriff of St. Louis county will be requested to lend assistance. WITHOUT COST TO TAXPAYERS. Municipal Street Car Line Built at Monroe, La. Monroe, La., July 12.—In choosing motormen for what is believed to be the first municipally owned and built street raflway in the United States, the street railway of Monroe, Mayor A. A. Forsythe said that the first test for fitness for this position will be total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors. % It is expected the railway will be- gin operating in a short time.. A re- markable feature is the fact that the road’s construction has not directly cost the taxpayers a cent, all ex- penses being defrayed by revenues from the city’s municipal waterworks, electric lighting plant, wharves and other municipally owned public util- ities. and from the greed of employers who | try to get 2 man’s work out of them In two years in a trade school than | The main losses affect five or six, ! including Lord Ambherst of H:wkneyA' MURDER ARREST CONFESSES TO THE CRIME BY SUICIDE MYSTERY SOLVED AT MINNEAPOLIS Conductor Riggs, Arrested for Killing of Miss Millie Ellison, Shoots Sell. !National Hotel Scene of Brutal Crime —Skull Crushed, Clothing Fired. 1 Minneapolis, Minn., July 12.— Nathan M. Riggs, the passen- ger conductor arrested yester- |day at Elroy, Wis., charged with the brutal murder of Miss Millie Ellison, a milliner who had re- cently sold out her business at Ellsworth, Wis,, committed suicide by shooting at Elroy ,early this morning. Minneapolis, Minn., July 11.— i Millie Ellison, a milliner living at ,Ellsworth, Wis,, was found dying ,inaroom at the National hotel late Tuesday safterncon. Her 'skull . was crushed from the ;blows of a hammer, and while London, July 12.—Officlal and other She lay insensible, her clothing had been saturated with wood alcohol and a match applied. When discovered, the girl was badly burned. She never re- : gained consciousness. Robbery is given as the motive Ifar the crime, Miss Ellison had i recently sold out her millinery jbusiness at Ellsworth and was on her way west with $2,700 in money. On information _given by the ymurdered girl’s family, which {tallies closely with facts gathered iiu Minneapolis, the police to- day arrested N. M. Riggs, who {must account for his time and lactions in the period yesterday afterncon within which Millie Ellison received her mortal hurt :at the National hotel. . Riggsisa conductor on the lOmaha road, running between ! Minneapolis and Elroy, Wis. It he is the murderer, he was handed his own description, with instructions to arrest himself, as his train pulled out of the city last evening at 6:30. Such descriptions and orders were given to every conductor leaving the city last night. According to Miss Ellison’s family, who reached Minneapolis today, Riggs was understood by Miss Ellison to be a single man. She had said that he had ex- hibited papers indicating that he had secured a divorce. It was the understanding of her family that she planned to invest her money with Riggs in Washing'on lands, and that the two were to go there to be married. Riggs isa married man and Continucd on page 4 column 5 During July from 7 a. m. to ‘Wednesdays until 10 p. m. BUSINESSHOURS store will be open for business EXCEPT when this store will be open and August this 6p. m. and Saturdays el v O’LEARY & BOWSER, BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA. After inventory, sale all next week.