Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 18, 1906, Page 1

VOLUME 4. NUMBER 77 BEMIDJ1, MINNFSOTA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1906. The Bemidji Daily Pioneer MINNESOTA SOCIETY. TEN CENTS PER WEEK After Inventory SALE! all this week JURY IN THE HARGIS.-CALLAHAN MURDER TRIAL OUT ONLY TWENTY-TWO MINUTES. ACCUSED OF KILLING J. B. MARCUM VERDICT ENDS HARDEST FOUGHT BATTLE IN A KENTUCKY COURT FOR YEARS., & Bowser Beattyville, Ky., July 18.—The jury in the Hargis-Callahan trial returned a verdict of not guilty after belng out twenty-two minutes. The case was one of the most desperately fought battles in a Kentucky court for years: The men were charged with the mur- der of J. B. Marcum, The verdict of not guilty in the Mar- cum trial is the culmination of a long and bitter fight in the courts in an attempt to convict James Hargis and Ed Callahan as chief conspirators in one of the darkest crimes in Kentucky history. James B. Marcum was a mountain Republican lawyer of excel- lent standing. He was engaged three years ago as an attorney against Har- gis and Callahan, respectively Demo- cratic county judge and sheriff, to oust them from their offices on an allegation of corrupt election. Much bitterness was aroused and frequent open ruptures occurred. In May, 1903, Marcum was shot to death from be- hind the Jackson courthouse. Curtis Jett and Tom White were convicted aud given life terms for the murder. It was charged that they were the tools of Callahan, Hargis and others. Jett after his conviction confessed that he shot Marcum and that his act was inspired by Callahan and Hargis. On the witness stand, however, he re- pudiated the confession and said he alone was responsible. The acquittal followed largely on this repudiation. 0’Leary FINED $500 AND COSTS. Sentence Fassed on First Bridge Trust Agent. Lima, 0., July 17—It will cost the first of twenty-three bridge trust agents and companies who were prose- cuted here nearly §3,000 for violation of the law against restraint of trade Judge Cunningham overruled the mo tion for a new trial in the case of, Haury Hammond of the Canton Bridc ' a policoman, who tried to send in an company, convicted a week ago, and; alarn from several boxes before the sentenced the prisoner to a fine otf fire gepartment responded. Recause $500 and the cost of prosecution. Thel ot the defective fire alarm system court costs will amount to $2,000, a:| there was much delay and when the the case was bitterly fousht and wit| gepartment arrived the upper floors of messes brought here from distant: the hotel were burning vigorously. points. James Conway, a city employe who THREE MEN CREMATED. lived at the hotel, was burned to death, having been overcome by smoke, and Oil Lamp Upset During Drunken N:{“ Conners, the bartender, was fa- Revels Sats Fire to Building. tally injured in jumping from a second o windcw. John Lawlor, a Pitts- Allentown Pa., July 17.—During policeman, was slightly injured drunken revels among Slavonian ia- v n n in jumping, and seven members of the byrers at Fogelsville at midnight au| gamily of a police sergeant who re- oii lamp was upset tting five to o se sides at the hotel were overcome in boardinghouse. Eight frame thei ariments, but were carried out were dectroyed and George B. by firemen. aged fifty-eight, his son Mickacl vo-| connors died nic, aged twenty-eizht, and Mici the huspital. Tebuth, aged thirty-three, were burned - to death CAUSED BY GAS JEl, Two Persons Perish in Hotel Fire at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, July 18.—In a fire at the Hotel Park one man was burned tc death, another was fatally injured and seven persons were overcome with smoke and were rescued from asphyx- jation. The fire was caused by burning gas jet and was discovered by after his removal to JUDGE CRITICISES ATTORNEYS. BEFORE SEATTLE COUNCILMEN.| r ) Much Talking Out of Court in J. J. Hill Protests Against Route Se. Hartje Case. lected by Harriman. Pittsburg, July 18.—The wide prom- Seattle, Wash., July 18.-James J. | Inence siven the details of the Hartje Hill, president of the Great Northern | 4iveree case was the subject of fur- railway systom, now on this coast on | tHET Temarks by Judge Robert Fraser a tour of inspection, appeared before | When the trial was resumed. “The the corporations committee of the city | Jud8¢ talked to counsel, saving that council and protested against the | B¢ did not wish to apyear as accusing route which had been selected by the | the attorneys of bad faith, but that he Union Pacific railroad for its pro- wished to emphasize his usserupn that posed entrance into this city. He saia | there had been too much talking out that there was trafiic enongh for of conrt, . but that the route selected was objec. | Th¢ remarks of the judge relieved tionable to the interests reprosented | the monolony of the (estimony, which i da Bt T wus entirely by handwriting experts SRR LS and covered ground that had already fazs wodld oo the oy becn traversed. James Duff and James H. Orr, both connccted with menuce to the city, the Great North- i‘;“;:_ zfiifi;ins‘(‘l“‘é ;’;;:tw“:ll"; gzr_‘,g";;i: ern and Notthern Pacific railroads. Wagnert 1otirn, 2 Wil aise 3 Nicely. The latter had a refreshingly new definition for the missive in that he said it “was not full of life,” mean- ing that it was not a free hand. SEVENTY NOLLES ENTERED. Land Fraud Prosecutions in Montana Come to Naught. Helena, Mont., July 18.—United States Attorney Rasch announced in the federal court that he had been authorized to enter nolles in about seventy cases where persons had been indicted on a charge of subornation of perjury in connection with the alleged Western Montana land frauds, These are for the sale of lands for which the government sued Senator Clark to re- cover, alleging that his agent secured the lands by fraud, but the district, appeals and suprcme courts held him to be an innocent purchaser. Two or three of those indicted were tried, but were acquitted, and counsel for the others, who include reople in every walk of life, asked that the cases be set for trial this term, when the Unit- ed States attorney mada the announce- ment referred to. This will be done soon. corporation privileges which would always be a I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answere 1..-Jean Ingelow. 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 5(¢ and 75¢ garments. Boys’ Clothing. 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 pants at 20 per cent discount. Men’s and Ladies’ Oxfords. : Ladies’ $3.00 and $3-50 patent and tan oxfords will go at $2.25. E. H. WINTER & CO., BEMIDJI, PHONE 30. QERMANY PLANS TO HOLD GREAT. INTERNATIONAL EXPOSI. TION IN\"M!. 2 New York, July 18.—Its correspond- ent at Berlin cables: the Herald as follows: “I am informed on the highest au- thority’ that the govetnment has de- cided to invite variouginations to par- ticipate in a great inférnattonal expo- sition to be held here in 1912. It is proposed that the exhibition shall sur- pass all the world’s fairs, not except- Ing the marvelous expositions for which Parls is famous or the great American fairs. “German promoters 'feel confident that the record of progress in the arts and sclences will enable the exhibition to be truly magnificent and of unprece- dented proportions. Plans for the fair are to be made which will be typical of German thoroughness. The emperor desires it to be truly representative of the modern might and greatness of the German empire. “Berlin expects within the next six years to have attained the proud em- inence of being the ' Continent’s first capital in point of population and com- mercial and political importance and will make most lavish arrangements for entertairing foreigners,” LACK OF JURISDICTION, No Indictments Against Standard Oil at Cleveland. Cleveland, July 18.—The federal grand jury has reported that no indict- ments had been found against. the Standard Oil company and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway in connection with the charge of vio- lating interstate commerce laws. This uction was decided on because of lack of jurisdiction. The case and all the evidence submitted -before the grand jury here will be transferred to Chi- cago, where proceedings will be insti- tuted in the federal court without delay. Cleveland, July 18—The govern- ment sprung a surprise in the grand Jury investigation of the relations of the Lake Shore and Michigan South- ern Railroad company and the Stand- ard Oll company shortly before noon. At that time the session of the jury was adjourned to:3 o'clock and all the witnesses who “were to appear were excused permanently. This .action is taken to mean that’ the investigation is ended and that the grand jury will at once begin the.con- sideration of the testimony submitted. ADVOCATES BURNING CROP. Heroic Means for Ridding Washington of Hessian Fly. ‘Tacoma, Wash., July 18.—The burn- Ing of the entire wheat crop of the state this year as a means of exter- minating the Hessian fly, which has made its appearance, is recommended by Entomologist Melander of the state agricultural college, who says it would be better to lose one crop than to see the insect gain a foothold in the state and destroy a large percentage of all succeeding crop: S8HAW’S OFFER TO BANKS, Will Deposit Part of Purchase Price of Panama Bonds. ‘Washington, July 18.—The secre- tary of the treasury authorizes the fol- lowing statement: “A large number of banks have asked to be designated depositories of public money. To these the secretary has made the universal offer to leave with the bank one-third of the pro- ceeds of any Panama bonds it may buy under bid direct from the govern- ment, taking purchased bonds at par as security therefor. These offers have been, in .the main, to small banks. He now makes the offer gen- eral, but limits the amount of such de- posits to any one bank to $5,000,000.” MISTAKE OR A FORGERY. Wisconsin’s Governor Denies Sending Certain Telegram. Madison, Wis., July 18.—Friends of Governor Davidson are indignant over a telegram reported to have heen sent by him to the defeated faction in the North Dakota Republican convention last week in which sympathy was ex- tended to the members of the defeat- ed faction who were told to be of good cheer for they would ultimately pre- vail. The éxecutive office denies that such a telegram was ever sent. :Gov- ernor. Davidson's friends ‘demand an investigation (o determine whether forgery has been committed or a mis- take made by correspondents at the convention. APPEALS TO. SUPR_EME COURT. Chicago Broker Making Desperate Ef- fort to Get Into Prison. ‘Washington, July 18.—Louis A. Gourdain, the Chicago broker under sentence for conducting a lottery and who I8 resisting the efforts of his at- torneys and friends to keep him out of the Joliet penitentiary, has tele- graphed the clerk of the supreme court of the United States asking him to have the best court stenographer in ‘Washington meet him at his hotel here on hig arrival in the city. Upon leaving Chicago Gourdain announced that he intended to apply to the su- pro court to order his Inenromtlnn 3 i penl : THAW'S, COUNSEL SEEKS TO RE-. STRAIN TAKING OF EVIDENCE IN MURDER CASE. PROCEEDING ALLEGED TO BE ILLEGAL —_— PROSECUTION IS USING GRAND JURY SUBPOENAES TO SE- CURE WITNESSES. New York, July 18.—John D. Glea- son, one of Thaw’s counsel, appeared before Justice Blanchard in Part 2 of the supreme court and secured a writ of prohibition restraining the district attorney and the.grand jury from tak- ing any evidence as to the killing of Stanford White. The writ, which is temporary, also restrains the district attorney and the grand jury from fis- suing any subpoenaes in conmnection with the mattér of the killing of White. Justice Blanchard also issued an order directing the district attorney and the grand jury to show cause why they should not be absolutely re- strained from any further proceedings in the matter of the killing of White and against Harry K. Thaw. Allegations on which the restraining writ was issued allege that after Thaw had been indicted by the grand jury it 1s illegal for the district attorney to issue grand jury subpoenaes and to obtain further evidence for the prose- cution through witnesses who appear at the district attorney’s office in an- swer to the subpoenaecs. _Thaw Constantly Watched. It is reported that Thaw has been watched constantly since bis arrest by a trusted prisoner who has been detailed as an extra watchman on the tier where Thaw’s cell is located. One | ! the accounts (£ the late Major George | 1aging of the government spirit shops purpose of the survelllance is sald to be to catch as much as possible of what is said at bis talks with his vis- itors. It is not known who set the watch upon him, as the prison warden refused to discuss the subject. One report concerning the watch set ! James W. Boyd, a clerk in the marine | Novgorod and Vasniky the cashiers of upon Thaw was to the effect that the supposed “trusty” who is said to be ' watching the prisoner is an expert . alienist, who has'been admitted to the prison by direction of District Attor- ney Jerome. This report also de- clares that the purpose of the espion- age is to ascertain whether or not Thaw IS sane. SUIT° TO ANNUL CHARTERS. Circuit Attorney Sanger After St. Louis Ice Companies. St. Louis, July 18.—After an investi- gation of three weeks Circuit Attorney Sanger has filed suits in the circuit court against the Polar Wave Ice and Fuel company and the Merchants’ Ice and Coal company on the allegation that these companies were in an al- leged combination to restrain trade ice. The suit asks that judgment for $71,400 be assessed against each com- pany for fines for the 714 days that the alleged agreenient has been in effect and it further asks that the charters under which they have been doing business be declared null and void. The charges are based on three sec- tlons of the Revised Statutes of the | state of Missourl. The sections upon which the prose- cutions are based provide that any association of individuals or company which shall combine to regulate or fix the price of any article shall be deemed guilty of conspiracy to defraud and may be fined from $5 to $100 for every day the assoclation continues to do so. WILL ENFORCE STATE LAW. Kansas Slaughterhcuses Must Clean Up or Close. Topeka, Kan., July 18.—A meat slaughtering §ouse near Wallington, inspected by order of the state board of-health, has been found to be in such filthy condition that Dr. J. S. Crum- bine, secretary of thé board, has sent notices to the county commissioners of every county In the state directing them to examine the slaughterhouses in their districts and if not found to be in a sanitary condition to allow five days for cleaning up as permitted by law. If the order is not complied with® in the time speciiicd arrests and prose- cution may follew. “It’s impossible for me to describe the actual conditions as I found them,” sald Dr. Crumbine. “No person who has not seen the place can conceive the filthiness of it. It was so bad that I cannot see how the place can be cleaned in flve days or fifty days. It's my. onlnlon ‘that the burning of the house will be the only means of eradi- cating the disease germs.” The order applies. to some of the big packinghouses at Kansas City, whose plants are located on the Kansas side. NO MOTIVE IS KNOKN. Daughters and Suicides. Salina, Kan,, July 18.—W, A. Martin, a farmer living vear Culver, shot his youngest daughter, Rachel, aged twen- ty-one, in the back and then shot him- self in the head. Ile shot at Mrs. O. Simpson of Minneapolis, Kan., a mar- Hl.hd fln\lsht‘e;, but missed ller. Martin Kansas Farmer Attempts to Kill His ' —— loig this shortage has been> and to fix and maintaln the price of | 2round the world on its voyage to the PROMPTLY ACQUITTED SURPASS ALLWORLD'S FAIRS 'SECURE AN INJUNGTION HOSTILITIES ARE SUSPENDED | REFUSE 10 6O ON DUTY WARRING CENTRAL AMERICAN REPUBLICS AGREE UPON AN ARMISTICE. STRIKE OF POLICEMEN CAUSING CONSIDERABLE ALARM AT 8T. PETERSBURG. San Salvador, July 18.—The bellig- erents have agreed upon an armistice. It is claimed that the Guatemalans during the recent fighting used ex- plosive bullets, notwithstanding the fact that Guatemala signed the Geneva convention, AGRARIAN DISORDERS REASING PEASANTS WANTONLY APPLYING TORCH TO_.CROWN AND PRI AGAINST GUATEMALA. VATE FORESTS. cuzlltlon of Central American Repub- iR lics Reported. New Orleans, July 18.—An alleged ooalition of the Central American re- publics against Guatemala is reported in a special dispatch from Mexico City. The dispatch, which quotes a friend of e General Barillas as authority, says: cemen refused to appear for duty and “Some time last March Salvador, |92¢ 8duad, whose captain was lectur- Honduras and Nicaragua entered into | 1€ them on declining to break up a an offensive and defensive coalition | Meeting, threw down their arms and against Guatemala, agreeing that the | loft the station. moment there was an infringement by | The strike is ostensibly based on Guatemala of territorial rights of | economic reasons, including an ac- elther of the three confederates a dec- | counting of the men’s savings, which, laration of war against Guatemala |t g claimed, are withheld without in- stiould follow. terest. The authorities, however, de- The dispatch also says that John Jenkins of Omaha, Neb., consul gen- :l:‘:i;’::t thie strike was inspired by eral of the United States at San Sal- vador, is on his way at the request of the Salvadorean government to pre- sent to President Roosevelt a copy of a diplomatic circular issued by Sal- vador claiming that the present trou- Town Hall, bles began last March when Dr. For- Bt. Petersburg, July 18.—The daily tin, charge of Salvador at Guatemala | budget of revolutionary outrages and City, found that his mail was being | agrarian disorders is larger than usual. tampered with. In many places the peasants are wan- —— tonly applying the torch to estates be- SHORTAGE OF $32,000 FOUND. |longing to the crown and to private T forests. Accounts of Former Disbursing Officer | At Natshatkino, in Simbirsk prov- Examined. ince, the town hall was set on fire and ‘Washington, July 18.—It was stated | the entire village, consisting of 300 at the treasury department that an houses, was consumed. fnvestigation recently concluded of | Throughout Poland systematic pik- Bt. Petersburg, July 18.—Consider- able alarm has been caused by the in- suguration of a strike of police here. In two districts of the capital the po- ENTIRE VILLAGE BURNED. Russian Revolutionists 8et Fire to A. Bartlett, disbursing officer of the |18 in progress. The central police treasury department, shows a shortage | office at Warsaw was robbed and a approximating $32,000. About $14,000 | Bendarme was killed. of this amount, however, is said to| At Lublin, Russian Poland, revolu- have been innocently paid out on |tlonists executed a workman who was fraudulent vouchers presented by | Buspected of being a spy and at Nizhni hospital service, who in Septemberd the spirit monopoly were robbed and last was arrested and is now in jail | killed. pending his trial for misappropriating | A bauk at Sosnitza was robbed and government funds. at Tiflis an Armenian locomotive engi- Although Bartlett was technically | neer was shot in his cab by an assas- responsible for payments on Boyd's|sin concealed in the neighboring fraudulent vouchers the shortage in | Woods. - his own office will probably not ex- ceed ‘$19,000. The treasury officials have no means of knowing just how IN REPLY TO GOVERNMENT. Lower_House P n} Addrees on Agrarian Fropesale Bt. Petersburg, July 18.—The lower house of parliament has begun consid- eration of the agrarian committee’s address to the country in answer to the government’s agrarian proposals. Over sixty speakers have asked to be heard. M. Alladin, one of the leaders of the group of toil, oftered a substitute in sharper language in behalf of the group, urging the house not to appeal to the peasants to exercise patience, but to pledge parliament mnever to agree to any agrarian measure not containing a clause providing for the forced expropriation of land. but are inclined to the ophflen flmt comparatively small amounts have peen taken from time to time during a period covering several years, DEWEY AT ANCHOR. Famous Floating Drydock in Reach of All Vessels. ‘Washington, July 18.—The floating drydock Dewey, which went half Philippine islands, is now anchored off Rivera point, Olongapo naval sta- tion. At this place there is sixty-five feet of water, so that all vessels which may be sent into dock can reach it in perfect safety. The Dewey will be anchored with four huge mushroom anchors at each end and as the tide rises only about one foot at Olongapo there is little danger of the huge struc- ture being moved. RUSSIAN CROP REPORTS. Partial or Total Failure in a Number of Provinces, Bt. Petersburg, July 18.—The gov- ernment crop report shows a contin- ued deterforation in the Volga prov- inces and that the partial or total failure of the crops has extended to the Tamboff, Saratoff, Penza and Nizhni Novgorod districts and in some districts of the Don, where the rains 0 2 came too late to save the crops. An posures affecting the Chicago meat| gpypgant yield, however, is assured packing industry. Definite annoufice- | yn the West and Southwestern prov- ment is expected within a few ‘days | yncen, although considerable fsolated that a company backed by Sir Thomas damage has been done by hafl storms. Lipton will establish an immense pack- AT ing plant here in an effort to capture the trade with Great Britain, which the American scandals have killed. Sir Thomas had planned to start a plant in Chicago or some other Amer- ican center on a basis capable of suc- cessfully competing with -Armour, RS SN T e AFTER GREAT BRITAIN'S TRADE. Lipton to Establish Big Packing Plant at Winnipeg, ‘Winnipeg, Man., July 18.—This city is to beneiit materially from the'ex- APPROVED BV THE CZAR. Only Measure led by Both H.nlll of Parliament. St. Petersburg, July 18—The em- peror has approved the bill of the Switt or Cudahy. Now, it is an- nounced here, he has aitered his plans and deccided to locate in Winnipeg, keeping this industry under the Brit- ish flag. lower house of parliament, which.was adopted by the upper house, appro- priating $7,000,000 for famine relief, thus supporting the contention of both houses of parliament against his own Another message intimates that the | ministers. Cudahy Packing company will estab-| This law is the first enactment of lish & bianch at Toronto Junction, just [ the Russian parliament and repre- outside of Toronto. sents the net legal result of a session of over two months, SUES FOR $2,000,000. e DISAFFECTION IN THE ARMY. Mutual Company Begins an Action —_ f Against McCurdy. Many Regiments Affected by Revew New York, July 18.—Richard A. Me- tlonary Propaganda. Curdy, tormer president of the Mutual | St. Petersburg, July 8—The Twen- Life Insurance company, was served | tieth Century claims that the reports through his counsel, Delancey Nicoll, | submitted by the commission of the with papers in a sult which calls upon | general staff on the investigation of bim to account for about $2,000,000 of | the disaffection in the army thus far the policyholders’ money disbursed | ghow that 6 guard regiments, 28 line, through “yellow dog” funds during his | 7 cayalry, 6 artillery and 5 sapper regi- regime. ments are more or less affected by the This is the second suit brought by | revolutionary propaganda. the company individually against its former president. West Virginia Cloudburst. Wheeling, W. Va, July 18—Rain amounting to a cloudburst in intensity swept Ohio and Belnont counties for elght hours, causing damage amount- | the Jamison Coal and ( ing to many thousands of dollars. | near here. The plant was one erwummtwomthm | largeat In the fleld. | were thrown out of Coal 'Mine Plant Destroyed. - Greensburg, Pa., July 18—Fire ot HISTORICAL { ! i