Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 25, 1906, Page 1

The Bemidji { y VOLUME 4. NUMBER 83 BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1906, OLD METHODS IN USE BUREAUCRATIC IDEAS OF GOV. ERNMENT AGAIN IN FORCE AT ST. PETERSBURG. EVENTS MOVING WITH GREAT RAPIDITY CONSTERNATION CLES OVER MAGNITUDE OF TASK UNDERTAKEN. IN UPPER CIR- St. July 25 —Tt ready certain that some co s apparent in the upper spher the magnitude of the task they have assumed. Events are marching with startling rapidity. laving taken a decislon to sit on the safety valve the government knows of no method ex- cept force and all the old bur C machinery of placed in operation to prevent an ex- plosion. Dowiciliary searches con- tinue in all quarters of the capital, the pris are already filling and the old. blind system of attempting to con- ceal from the people what is 1 Petersburg suppression been ing has been adopted. The cen of the press has been re-established with a vigor unknown since the days | of the late Interior Minister von Plehve, accompanied by the wholesale confiscation of newspapers. No word | of the proceedings of the members of | parliament at Vibors o of the address | | ) i | i adopted has been permitzed to be pub- lished. Telegran the provinces telling of the univ indignation aroused by the dissolution and even those from abroad outlining public npinion in foreign countries have been emasculated or suppiessed. Not a word of the speech of Premier Camp- it bell-Bannerman before the Interpar- liamentary union in London has been allowed to be printed. The editions of the Rech, Strana and the Twen- tieth Century were confiscated as they left the press. Troops Fraternize With Workmen. At two meetings, one near the Narva gate and the other in the Viborgsky district across the Neva, the Cossacks Isent to disperse them openly refused to do so and fraternized with the work- men. This is partially confirmative of the revolutionists’ boast that the troops will not fire again on the peo- ple. The members of the group of toil and their allies, the proletariat or- ganizations of St. Petersburg, have been in active consultation. While they fully endorsed the parliamentary address to the country, as far as it goes, they consider it a half way measure and hold that it should be followed up by an appeal to the army, preparatory to an uprising, which they consider Inevitable in the cities and country. Such an appeal will prob- ably be issued immediately. The peasant and workmen members of parliament expect the revolutionary upheaval to begin in the country first. Revolutionary emissaries are scat- tering among the peasants and expect to induce them to rise almost in a hody. QUEEN WILHELMINA Expectation of Heir to Throne Will Not Be Realized. The Hague, July 25.—Queen Wil helmina was taken ill during the night. A premature delivery followed, causing gloom throughout Holland. It was announced later that the ex- pectation of an heir to the throne at this time will net be realized. ILL. Foreigners Quitting thz Capital, St. Petersburg, July 25.—The exodus of forcizners continues. Mrs. Meyer, wife of the American ambassador, and their children have left the city. “Miss Pos 'm in ex- pressing her nst you.” “Oh, that her manver Was S0 0ol : Bargains in Pants m In order to close out the TR balance of our stock of Men’s pants we will make a great rcduction in' our s e e VT prives Took at our win- i dows and you will be con- ilyg, AN vinced that we mean what we say. Gent's Furnishings ¢ collars. | | ., 5¢ 15 25¢ suspenders, ., 18¢ Men's 50¢ ties Bry Goods Look at our 10¢ Embroid- \8 - T ery counfer. We have some unheard of values. Muslin Underwear Ladies’ Muslin Underwear at cost Ladies’ Collars Some Good Values in Ladies’ Collars at 15¢ and 35¢ 7 New Belté and fiPlvlrses A Shipment of Ladies’ Belts. Look Them Over. Satisfaction Guaranteed 6r Your Money Cheerfully Refunded. | E.H. WINTER & Co. PHONE NO. 30 | BEMIDJI, . MINN. (TS SSPSIRRE B 1$2.90@5.5 LEPER HAS LIVED IN BEMIDJI AND WALKED STRI ,ailv' ‘Pioneer | % F-'IINNE" 0TA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, . TEN CENTS PER WEEK EETS FOR OVER A YEAR Arndt Reton, Former Lumber Piler at Mill, Discovered to Have Advanced Case of Fatal Malady— Has Been Growing for Twelfth-month and More—Case Reported to State Board of Health at St. Paul by City Physician. A case of genuine leprosy: fairly well advanced, has been discovered in this city. Arndt Reton, a Norwegian, 45 years old, is the victim, Reton’s case has developed to such a point that he has lost two or more of his toes, his whole feet show unmistakable signs of the disease, and several fingers on both hands are beginning to bear testimony to the relentless march of the plague. The case has been reported to the state board of health by City Physician Morrison, and while awaiting instructions from St. Paul, Dr. Morrison has placed the man under a strict guaran- tine. He is a prisoner in his little shack in Mill Park addition, and no one is allowed to get near enough to him to contract the fatal malady. Reton has lived in this country and complained of having a sore foot. The man of medicine ex- amined the member and seem- ingly did not suspect the nature of the affliction, or if he did did not report it, for he merely cut offa toe and turned the man loose. * No one suspected that he was 4 victim of the terrible scourge, unless it were himself. At times he must have had moments of fear, for in the old country with- in the last few years, his father and a brother both had died of the disease. < But whatever his suspicions, he kept his thoughts guardedly to himself, for he knew that once the terrible secret were out he would be cut off from all man. kind. | Finally a few days ago, a | neighbor became suspicious, and | when he communicated his fears 1. That women are less liable to this malady than men; 2. That it is hereditary; 8. That its con- It:,giousness is extremely prob- lematical; 4. That a fish diet is found to render every symptom worse; 5. That poor liying, want of cleanliness, and exposure to the cold and damp, are cen- stant att2ndants on this affliction. Dr. Copland ascribes its origin to the use of semi-putrid meats and fish, and of rancid oils; to iz- sufficient vegetable food, and t) contict of matter discharged from leprous sores. * The disease may continue wi.h- out causing death for mary years. When it is far advanced it is probably incurable, and even lin the early stiges its cure is uncer tain. ! Leprosy is met with most ex. itensively in_the East and West Indies, in China. Japan, Arabia, for seven years and five of these! to the city authorities, an investi- jand other tropical and semitrop- years he has been a resident of Bemidji, employed as a lumber piler in the yards of the Crooks- ton Lumber company. For several years the lepresy has been developing in Reton, although it first became trouble- gation followed. Reton has a wife and children t1in Norway. Nothing cei tiin is known re- garding the causes of the disease, says an encyclopzedia. The in- lical countries. Many cases are 'also found in Iceland, Africa,and in numerous tropical islands. , The disease was a common one ‘among the -ancient Greeks, !Ara.bia.ns and Jews, and also prc- vestigations of Mr. Stewart u&',vailed largely in England and on some to him a year ago. when heiTranquebar, where it is very;phe continent during the middle went t) a Cass Lake physician|prevelant, led him to conclude: ages. Ky., was placed’in the county jail here for safekeeping. Word was received by the local police that a mob was forming at Irvington to lynch Clayter. Volcano Violently Active. Palermo, Siclly, July 25.—The Stromboli volcano, after quieting down, has again become violently active. The ashes reach Sieily, lava is pour- ing out of the crater and the popula- tion of the island of Stromboli is most excited. - MANGLED BY TRAIN. Mother and Two Children Killed Near White, S. D. White, S. D, July 26.—Mrs. Gus Berntz and two daughters—Ida, seven years old, and FElla, nine years old— were killed by a southbound Rock Island train crossing a trestle one mile south of White. The mother, accompanied by the two children, wasg carrying her hus- band's dinner to the field to him. To teach the field it was necessary for them to walk a short distance on the frack. They were crossing a trestle at the end of which was a sharp curve. Around this curve the train came at full speed, striking the three with such force as to kill them instantly, throw- ing two of them into the creek and passing over the other. The bodies were terribly mangled. The husband and father witnessed the tragedy from where he was ai work in a nearby fleld. UTTERLY GROUNDLESS. - Guatemala Denies Reported Killing of Prisoners. Washington, July 25. — Charges made in Salvador that Guatemala could not comply with the terms of the Marblehead pact relating to the exchange of prisoners of war because such prisoners had been killed by the Guatemalan forces are stoutly denied in a dispatch to Mr. Munoz, the Guate- malan minister, from his government. The dispatch states that the reports of the shooting of prisoners of war are utterly groundless and that Guate- mala has already exchanged all pris- oners of war with Salvador and has] shown the Salvadoreans the special courtesy of paying their expenses back to their homes. CONDEMNED BY TERRORISTS ismw T0 CONTRAGTORS !TEN BUGIES ARE RECOVERED . : ] n DEATH SENTENCE PASSED ON. pnNpcpcEMENT OF EIGHT-HOUR | FOUR MORE SUPPOSED To BE IN THE CZAR, GENERAL TRE- POFF AND OTHERS. St. Petersburg, July 25.—Proclama- tions announcing that the death sen- tence has been imposed on the em- peror; General Trepofl; M. Pobiedono- steff. who was procurator general of the holy synod; Genmeral Orloff, the “pacificator” of the Baltic provinces, and others have heen scattered over part of Peterhof. The terrorists are said to have suc- ceeded in nailing copies of the sen- tence on the doors of General Orloff’s and General Trepoff's quarters. NUMBER ALREADY SLAIN. Anti-Jewish Outbreaks Odessa. Odessa, July 25.—Anti-Jewish out- bregks have commenced here. A num- ber of persons have already been killed or wounded. Cossacks and rowdies are plunder- ing the deserted Jewish honses and shops. On Srednaia street three Jews were killed and three were wounded in at- tempting to defend their property, while the police were looking on. Anothier bloody conflict is in prog- ress in Stepovai street. The whole city is in a state of panic. Many of the inhabitants are fleeing. The Black Hundreds are distributing bloodthirsty proclamations in the streets. Commence at Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, July 24.—Wheat—July, TE%@75%c; Sept., 6% @763%c; Dec., T7%c; May, 81% @81%ec. On track— No. 1 hard, 79¢; No. 1 Northern, 78¢; No. 2 Northern, 76%ec; No. 3 North- ern, T4@75¢c. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, July 24.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $4.50@5.50; common to fair, $3.50@4.25; good to choice cows and heifers, $3.00@4.50; veals, $4.00@ 4.25. Hogs—$6.20@6.65. Sheep—Weth- ers, $4.50@5.50; good to chofce lambs, $5.00@6.00. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, July 24.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 Northern, 78%c¢; No. 2 Northern, 76%ec; July, 78%c; Sept. and Dec., 77%c; May, 81%c. Flax—To arrive, on track and July, $1.12%; Sept., $1.12; Oct. and Nov., $1.10%; Dec., $1.09%. Chicago Graln and Provisions. Chicago, July 24—Wheat—July, 57%e; Sept., 76%@77c. Corn—July, 51tc; Sept.,, blc. Oats—July, 34%¢; Sept., 83% @33%ec. Pork—Sept., $17.- 32%. Flax—Nothing doing. Butter— Creameries, 15@19%¢; dairies, 15@ 17'%c. Eggs—12@16c. Poultry—Tur- keys and chickens, 12c; springs, 15c. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, July 24.—Cattle—Beeves, $4.00@6.40; cows and helfers, $2.25@ 5.25; stockers and feeders, $2.50@ 4.25; Texans, $4.26@5.20; calves, $4.76 @6.75. Hogs—Mixed and butchers, $6.45@6.92%; good heavy, $6.60@ 6.00; rough heavy, $6.10@6.45; light, $6.55@6.95; plgs, $6.70@6.76. Sheep, lambs. $4.75@7.70. private work at ten hours per day. = i LAW LIKELY TO PUT THEM H OUT OF BUSINESS. ERNMENT MAY DO ITS OWN WORK 1 lSAID PRESENT SYSTEM CANNOT PREVAIL UNDER RECENT OR- DER OF PRESIDENT. Washington, July 25—The applica- tion of the president's order relative ta the enforcement of the eight-hour law in the case of government con- ltract work has @oven more difficuit in the case of the war department Iowlng to its more complex machinery l'h:m with the navy department. So it ;has been found necessary to prepare separate circulars of instruction to the agents of the department engaged in different lines of work, all differing in some essential. The opinion among the executive officers who have to do with public works is that the rigid application of the president’s eight-hour order will sound the death knell of the whole system of government contract work and that hereafter the government will be obliged to hire its own labor and carry on the public works under its own superintendence and inspec- tors. The contractors are now working in keen competition with the govern- ment in many places and, it is said, are barely holding their own. The application of the ‘eight-hour law, ac- cording to executive officers here, will oblige them to do one of two things— increase the price of their bids for government work to a point beyond the government estimates, in which case the department would do the work itself, or reduce the work of la- borers and mechanics to make their productive capacity correspond dollar for dollar to the employes engaged on TWO PLACED UNDER ARREST. Members of Outlawed Russian Parlia- ment Jailed. Viborg, Finland, July 25.—During the night the members of the outlawed | Russian parliament received word that two of their number had already been arrested, namely, Father Koy- aroff at Voronezh and a Cossack dep- uty, M. Kharlamoff, at Rostov-on-the- Don. The authorities are also understood to have orders to arrest several Soclal Democrats, especially a priest named Afanasieff. Both Father ' Koyaroff and Khar- lamoft distinguished themselves by preaching revolution from the rostrum of parliament, the latter being espe- clally bitter in his denunciation of the use of his people in massacreing their Russian brethren. “Culture,”” sald a college president. ‘“4s whnt remalns when what you karned In college has been forgotten.” i RUINED BUILDING AT SOUTH l FRAMINGHAM, MASS. i ! South Framingham, Mass., July 25— TUnder the light.of electric lamps the work of exhuming the bodies of the victims of the collapsed Amsden build- iIng went on unceasingly through the | night. At dawn there were ten bodies lnt the morgue, eight of the injured were at the hospital, two others were at their homes, while the list of miss- mg numbered four, making a total of twenty-four, who, so far as could be learned, were about the building when the supports gave way and sent the tons of cement, iron columns and steel beams crashing in a tangled mass into the basement. The cause of the accident has not been definitely learned. The town has no bnilding laws and any proceedings against a contractor or other persons in connection with faulty construction will have to be on another charge and any action will have to be brought by state officials instead of the local au- thorities. TO AVOID TAXATION, Property of Field Estate Sent From Chicago to New York. Chicago, July 25.—Corporation Coun- sel James Hamilton Lewis, in a letter to the board of review, which passes | upon the assessments in this city and county, charges that the managers of the estate of the late Marshall Field removed to New York stocks and . bonds valued at $2,632,000 for the pur- | pose of taking them from the jurisdic- tion of the local taxing body. It is asserted by Mr. Lewis.that the 'Field property has been transferred to New York within the last fifty or sixty days and that it'is taxable in Chicago, as the estate is belng administered | through the local courts. A list of | the property said to have been trans- ferred was given to the board with the letter. TO PUNISH PULAJANES. Force of Regulars Sent to Assist the Constabulary. Manila, July 25.—Governor Ide has requested military aid to punish the Pulajanes in the province of Leyte. A battalion of the Eighth infantry from Iloilo and a battalion of the Fourth infantry from Camp Domus have been sent to the assistance of the constabulary. General Allen ex- pected to conduct a campaign in Cebu, but the Ladrone chief and forty-eight men have surrendered and Governor Osmena reports that there are no more outlaw bands there and that the island is completely pacified. The Ladrone leaders, Montalon, Sa- kay, Villefuerte, Devega, Carreon and Natlvidad, have pleaded guilty to the charges of bandolierism at Cavite. TO PREVENT LYNCHING. Kentucky Negro Who Wanted to. Wed White Girl Placed in Jail. Louisville, July 26.—Henry Clayter, & negro arrested in Chicago where he ‘was about to marry a white girl with ‘whom he had eloped from Irvington, VICTIM OF AUTOMOBILE. Body of Unknown Man Left Lying in the Roadway. Racine, Wis., July 26.—The body of a laberer, name unknown, aged about fifty-five, was found terribly mangled In the center of a highway five miles from here. Appearances indicate death from an automobile, as the re- mafirs had been dragged some sev- enty-five feet. “A receipted bill-in-the dead man’s pocket bore -the name of William Dreyer, St. Charles, 11. That the man was struck by an automobile is evi- dent from the marks in the roadway, which indicate that the machine was stopped and that before proceeding on its way a leak of considerable oil occurred. SIX DIE BY DROWNING. Lakes and Rivers About Chicago Take Heavy Toll of Lives. Chicago, July 25.—Six lives consti- tuted the total paid in one day by Chicago and vicinity to lakes and riv- ers. Two bgys were drowned 'while swimming. One lost his life in the effort to get a water lily 150 feel from shore. A man fell from a bridge where he was fishing. The fifth died from injuries sustained by striking a timber while diving. The sixth fell into the river while running to catch a ball in a baseball game. ————— BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. George J. Margerum, proprietor of the Hotel Racine at Racine. Wis,, dropped dead as theresult of a stroke of apoplexy. Ferdinand von Saar, the author and member of the upper house of the Austrian reichsrath, committed suicide at Vienna because of il! health. Street railway employes at New ! Bedford, Mass., struck Tuesday for more wages, recognition of the union and a shorter workday. Service was restricted. The Joint meeting ‘of members of the American Institute of Mining 1in gineers and of the British Iron and Steel institute opened at Londaa Tues- day with a large at*endance, CARS FALL INTO LAKE NINE PEOPLE KILLED AND MANY. INJURED ON GREAT NORTH. ERN AT CAMDEN, WASH, i -} AWFUL DISASTER NARROWLY AVERTED COUPLINGS BREAK AND LARGER PART OF TRAIN ESCAPES . TERRIBLE PLUNGE. Spokane, Wash., July 26.—At least nine lives were lost, saven persons wese seriously injured and a scera of others sustained cuts and bruises in a wreck of the fast mail train on the Great Northern a mile and a quarter east of Camden, Wash., when the loco- motive, mail, baggage and smoking cars left the rails when emerging from a tunnel and, plunging over the sev- enty-foot embankment, were sub- merged in the waters of Diamond lake. Spreading rails, probably caused by sun kinks, were given as the cause. The dead are: N. Edward Munson, engineer, Hillyard, Wash.; Frank Ball, fireman, Hillyard; Charles Danner, mail clerk, Spokane; George R. Stick- land, express messenger; Howard Cur- tis, Spokane, lumberman; T. J. Dol- bow, Spokane, and three unidentified men. Immediately after the smoker struck the water there was a blinding flash, which spread over the part of the car not submerged and a fire followed. Fearful Catastrophe Averted. The impact was so terrific that sev- eral cars on the rear of the train were wrenched and twisted and the fact that the couplings did not break on the dining, tourist and sleeping cars was the only thing that averted even gregter loss of life. W. S. Ninneman, a contractor for construction work on the Oregon Rail- {road_and Navigation company, broke | through a window to escape from the “ burning and half submerged smoker. Mr. Ninneman said: “We were coming at a fearful speed | through that tunnel and we passen- gers were all wondering if the engi- neer had lost his senses, driving at i'.hl\tflite of ‘#peed with a sharp curve ahead E ‘we must surely have- been going forty-five miles an*hour.” _ Diamond lake fs small, yet a very deep lake. The engine and care are completely submerged. - The bodies of. | those recovered and the mjured have been aken to Spokane. CAR DROPS TO CANYON. Disaster to Great Northern Train in British Columbia. Nelson, B. C., July 25.—A buffet car on the Great - Northern train from | Spokane to Nelson was derailed on a high trestle at Beaver Creek, near , the boundary, and crashed down the canyon, killing four persons and in- juring seven. The wreck was one of the worst in the history of British Columbia. The dead are: Judge Townsend, Rossland; D. M. McKinnon, , burser of the Great Northern steamer Kaslo; W. J. Smith, saloonkeeper of the Kaslo; unidentified miner from . Spokane. The train, consisting of a bageage { car and smoker and a first class coach i and buffet car, had crossed the bound- ary and arrived at Beaver Creek, a i narrow, difficult canyon. As it was crossing the trestle that bridges the creek the buffet car was derailed and broken from the train and hurled down the steep precipice to a distance of 200 feet below, where it came to a - stop, a tangled mass of rubbish. The Philippine commission has adopted - a resolution favoring the scheme of the Hawaiian Planters’ as- sociation te transport Filipino laborers and their families to Hawail to work in the sugar plantations. At a meeting of the Philadelphia board of health announcement was made that twenty slaughterhouses re- cently condemned as unsanitary had closed permanently. Sixteen other establishments were improved by or- der of the board. Ladies’, o suit, ; Boy’s tranks, . Vacation NeedS —— Outing Suits: 2 Misscs’, a suit $1.50 to Men’s, a suit 60c¢ to Hammocks 50c¢ to $8 each Barefoot Sandals: Ladies’, & pair...............$1.50 Misses’, a pair.............. Children's, apair$1to. ... ... 8125 3275 $2.50 $1.50 .16 $1.35 i