Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 19, 1906, Page 4

i Get Your Office Supplies at the Bemidji Pnoneer Office Blank Books, Ledgers, Journal Typ Legal Blanks, Copy Holders, Calendar Pads, Documenl Files, Note Books, Time Books, Scale Report Books, Trial Balance Bool % , Christmas Stickers, 1907 riter Paper, Scrap Books, L s, Ink Wells, Etc. Rubber Sta Erasers, Kneaded Rubber Most Complete Stock West of Duluth % Diaries ment of 1907 can be had here. WE NOW have in stock a large assort- suitable for business and professional men. Prices compare favorably with eastern houses and the cheap as well as the very best book STATIONERY DEPARTMENT OF Bemidji Pioneer. diaries. The line is Streets Cleared of Snow. The streets of Bemidji will be entirely rid of the banks of snow with which they have been covered on the sides, thanks to the efforts of James R. Miller, street commissioner. Mr. Miller yesterday brought out the street| grader and with four horses attached scraped the snow from the sides of the street into the center of the road, with the re- sult that the snow is being tramped down, and assuring good roads for hauling for some time to come. Additional Locals E. E. Hedeen has disposed of his eighty-acre tract of land in section six to Henry Brakke. Mr. Brakke was formerly a resident of Lake George, Hub- bard county and intends moving his family here at once. Mr, Hedeen and family are moving to Brandor, Minn, where they will make their future home, A number of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Parker sur- prised them Monday evening and took possession of their resi- dence with the intention of hav- ing a good, old-fashioned ‘‘party.”’ There was music, lunch, and a candy-pull, one of the kind of times where everybody ‘gets busy’ and helps to make fun. David Jones, who owns and manages the Merchant hotel at Puaposky, was a visitor in the city yesterday. ‘Dad,”’as Mr. Jones is familiarly called, has a number of friends in Bemidj, having lived here scveral weeks prior to going into business at Puposky. He states that he now bas a team at Puposky with which those who desire 'may travel about the country, which is certainly an improvement over walking through the winding trails thereabouts. iue wuperial vank Ol Germany nas raised its rate of discount from 6 tc 7 per cent. Colonel Andrew Jackson, son of the adopted son of President Andrew Jack son, is dead at Knoxville, Tenn. The Lehigh Valley Railroad com pany has increased the wages of it‘r employes in the transportation depart- ment. The advanee ranges from 10 to 20 per cent and dates from Dec. 1. John T. Walker, a preparer of meat extracts, has been arrested in Newl York city by a secret service agent on the charge of having used counterfeit; United States meat inspection labels on his I'eef avtrant ADMITS DIVISION OF TERRITORY. Witness In Oil Hearing Tells of Meth. ods in Vogue. New York, Dec. 19.—Hearing of tes- ilmony in the proceeding brought by the state of Missouri to oust the Standard Ofl company of Indiana, the Waters-Pierce Oll company and the Republic Oil company from doing busi ness in Missouri which was begun in this city several months ago, was re- sumed during the day before Commis- sioner Robert A. Anthony. Since the hearing here was adjourned testimony has been taken in several cities. Herbert S. Hadley, attorney general »f Missouri, appeared as prosecutor, while Frank M. Hagerman appeared as leading counsel for the Standard 0Oil company. He is assisted by sev- eral associate counsel. J. A. Moffit, president of the Stand- ard Oil company of Indiana, was the first witness called. He was ques- tioned by Mr. Hagerman. Replying to a question as to whether there is an agreement as to restraint of trade be- tween the Waters-Pierce company and the Standard Oil company of Indiana in Missouri the witness replied that there is not, that there exists simply an agreement as between wholesaler and retailer. He said that the two concerns had divided the state be- tween them to a certain extent. GREATER CURSE THAN SLAVERY. Wife of Senator Dubois of Idaho Dis: cusses Mormonism. ‘Washington, Dec. 19.—“Mormonism 1s a greater curse to the country than was slavery,” declared Mrs. Fred T. Dubois, wife of the Idaho senator, in an address at Waugh Methodist Epis- copal church in this city on “The Effect of Mormonism on Education.” She said that should President Roose velt make a trip through Southeastern Idaho he would no longer be willing to declare that there is nothing in the Mormon question. Six United States senators, she said, owe their election to the influence of the Mormon church She criticised Senator Proctor of Ver- mont and Senator Hopkins of Illinois for their attitude in the Smoot case. In closing her address Mrs. Dubois said “Mormon children in Utah and Idaho spit upon the American flag.” Kentuckian Shoots Five Men. Charleston, W. Va., Dec. 19.—In a | Tow near the postofiice of Blue Creek George Goodwin, a Kentuckian, shot five men, one fatally. After a race with the sheriff, who shot at Goodwin six times, he was captured and brought ! to jail here. The row bezan over a ! trivial dispute between two of the men. may ' want with us. 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Chicago, says: Edward H. Harriman has repaid James J. Hill in his own coin by wrest- fng victory from him in the shadow ot defeat through one of the most effec- tive coups ever executed in financial battles. The control of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad, which Morgan and Hill confidently believed to be theirs, is still lodged with the Harriman-Standard Oil interests and will be strengthened. As Hill threw Harriman out of the ownership of the Northern Pacific in the Christmas season of 1901 so Harri- man ousts Hill from an ownership in St. Paul. Mr. Hill executed his flank movement by retiring the preferred stock of Northern Pacific, in which his opponent’s control centered; Mr. Harriman and his friends maintain St. Paul by issuing two-thirds of a $100,000,000 stock increase to the hold- ers of the preferred. While Hill's con- trol of Northern Pacific common was a golden apple his control of St. Paul common is but ashes. For a month there has been a Ti- tanic struggle for the ownership of St. Paul in the open market. Quietly and almost unsuspected the Morgan-Hill people have been buying St. Paul in the hope of getting control and turn- ing the Pacific extension southward into the Harrimaf territory. In the last week this battle for stock has been acute and a disturbing feature to Wall street and the money market. STOCK MARKET WEAK. Decline in St. Paul Followed by Losses in Others. New York, Dec. 19.—The stock mar- ket was exceedingly weak during the first half hour of trading. St. Paul, naturally the center of interest by reason of its new stock issues, opened at 193 to 194 compared with 197 the previous day. By the end of the first half hour the stock sold down to 191. Other losses in prominent issues ranged from ome to three or more Dec. 19.—The Chronicle | points. The market underwent another liquidating movement during the noon hour. Compared with the previous day’s closing prices St. Paul was down 8%, Great Northern preferred 8%, Northern Pacific 8 and Great Northern ore rights 8%4. Union Pacific showed a loss of 2 points and all of the active issues, Baltimcre and Ohio alone ex- cepted, were down from 1 to 2 points The day was given up to heavy liquidation of the stocks of which large new issues have been deter mined upon, especially St. Paul and the Hill stocks. St. Paul got down 11 points for the day, Great Northern preferred 9%, Northern Pacific 8, St Paul preferred 8% and Great Northerr ore certificates 5. LIFE INSURANCE FIGHT. Balloting for Officers of New York and Mutual Life. New York, Dec. 19.—Balloting fot officers of the New York Life Insur- ance company and the Mutual Life Insurance company began promptly during the morning. In the offices ot the New York Life nearly 200,000 bal- lots were turned in before the end of the first hour, Practically all of these votes were cast by proxies. Represen- tatives of the “administration ticket,” made up of present officers of the com pany, turned in 115,000 proxies at one time and a few moments later the anti. administration party handed in ten boxes containing 3,500 proxies each. These proxies have not yet been ac- cepted, however, a question as to their legality arising from the fact that they were handed in by private par- ties. State Superintendent of Insurance Kelsey was present with several of his deputies when the voting began. Buperintendent Kelsey has in his pos. session 190,000 ballots which he will turn in later in the day, These bal- lots were sent to Mr. Kelsey direct by policyholders. At the home offices of the Mutual Life Insurance company the early voting was not so heavy, AN INCREASE OF WAGES. Representative Littauer Confers With the President. ‘Washington, Dec. 19.—Representa- tive Littauer of New York, a member of the committee on appropriations, talked with President Roosevelt dur- ing the day on the question of in- creasing the salaries of government employes. The president Is mot un- derstood to favor a blanket increase of 20 per cent, as has been proposed, al- though he is said to feel that there are many men in the government serv- ice who deserve increases. The presi- dent ‘is obtaining views of congress- men on the subject. Mr. Littauer is opposed to a general increase in government salaries, but he believes there are men in the serv- Ice, particularly those at the heads of bureaus. who deserve more money, SPRECKELS ON THE STAND. Gives S8tartling Testimony 'Against. Abraham Ruef. San Francisco, Dec. 19.—Startling testimony was given by Rudolph Spreckels in the proceedings before Superior Judge Dunne in which Mayor | Eugene E, Schmitz and Abraham Ruef; are seeking to set aside the five indict- ments found against each of them for felony and extortion. Spreckels, who had been called to the witness stand by the defense, tes- tified during his examination that Abraham Ruef had called on him at the time of the big municipal bond issue and asked him to form a syndi- cate to take all the bonds thus author- ized. Spreckels was unable to see what guarantee there was that if a syndicate were formed it could secure the bonds, as under the law they must be put up at public auction and sold to the highest bidder. Ruef informed Spreckels, according to the latter’s testimony on the stand, that this could be easily arranged, for; he would have a general strike de- clared on all the street railroads and tie up the different lines. With San Francisco in this condition relative to its passenger tramsportation he cal- culated, so Spreckels says, that no out- side capital would bid on the city’s bonds and the syndicate would have a clear fleld. Spreckels also testified from the witness chair that Ruef called on him | and made a demand that he be re- tained as the attorney of the San Francisco Gas and Electric company. MURDER IN SECOND DEGREE. VERDICT OF JURY IN THE CASE| OF HENRY SUSSMAN. AT MINNEAPOLIS. Minneapolis, Dec. 19.—The jury in the case of Henry Sussman, on trial for the murder of his wife in the Glen- wood hotel here on Sept. 26, returned a verdict of murder in the second de-| gree. This, under the statute, carries with it a life imprisonment penalty. Sussman, in court prior to the an- nouncement of the verdict, and for some time afterwards, showed that he was under a great nervous strain. He had partially recovered himself when taken out of the courtroom and was heard ‘to remark: “This is a h—— of a Christmas present to give a fellow.” Notwithstanding this expression the opinion is that Sussman was relieved, on hearing the verdiet. The jury at the outset were divided into three sections—one favoring mur-| der in the first degree, another mur-, der in the second degree and a third manslaughter in the first degree. Attorney McGhee, for the defense, may make a motion for a new trial,' but the oplnion is general that finally | no appeal will be taken. CAPTAIN ENDS HIS LIFE. Commander of Steamer Runs Vessel on Rocks. Kingston, Jamaica, Dec. 19.—Cap- tain Bruinswig, in charge of the Ham: burg-American line tourist steamet Prinzessin Victoria Luise, from New York Dec. 12 for this port, which went ashore off Port Royal, committed sui- cide by blowing out his brains. The passengers were landed safely here. Captain Bruinswig, whose home was at Hamburg, had been in the Ham- burg-American line service for about twenty years. He entered as a fourth officer and eight years ago was ad- vanced to a captain. The Victorla Luise is pounding heavily and the seas are breaking over her, but hopes are still enter- tained that she will be saved. She is resting on a rocky ledge. In accounting for the stranding of the steamer it is explained that she was without a pilot and the captain was in charge. He followed a wrong course and piled her upon the rocks just under the lighthouse. Two hours later the captain locked himself in his cabin and blew out his brains. ONE OF ITS BOOKS MISSING. Affairs of Wayneshurg (Pa,) Bank in Bad Shape. Pittsburg, Dec. 19.—National Bank Examiner Cunningham, who is inves- tigating the affairs of the defunct Farmers and Drovers’' National bank of Waynesburg, Pa., has announced that the minute book of the inmstitu- tion was missing; that it was “lost, strayed or stolen.” He added that the further he went into the bank’s affairs the worse he found them. The minute book, it is said, contains the names of fourteen bondsmen, lead- ing citizens of Waynesburg and Greene county, who are responsible to the state for $75,000, the state deposit in the bank at the time it collapsed. But a few of these bondsmen are known. Arrest in Barrel My:tery Case. Hazleton, Pa.,, Dec. 19.—Soberta Anaslack, a Slavonian, living at Jeddo, Pa,, has been arrested in a coal mine at that place on the charge of heing implicated in the Hazleton barrel mys- tery. It is alleged that the woman whose charred remains were found was his wife, who disappeared from home several weeks ago. Delegation Going to Panama. ‘Washington, Dec. 19.—The Pacific coast members ‘of congress have' finally decided to have a delegation visit the Panama canal during the" holidays and investigate the demand there for Chinese laborers. | ! when they are offered. ' PRESIDENT INTERESTED ANXIOUS TO FIND LEGISLATIVE REMEDY FOR CAR SHORTAGE IN THE NORTHWEST. CONFERS WITH SENATOR HANSBROUGH LATTER WILL TRY TO PERFECT MEASURE TO PREVENT RE- CURRENCE OF EVIL. ‘Washington, Dec. 19.—That Presi- dent Roosevelt has taken a determined interest with a view to finding legis- lative remedy for the car shortage in the Northwest, which now threatens the people with freezing and starva- tion because the railroads are unable to transport fuel and food to them, was indicated by a conference at the White House during the day. The president sent for Senator Hansbrough and asked him whether the actual danger of suffering is as great as has been reported by press dispatches and telegrams from individuals. The North Dakota senator reported that from dispatches he has received the statement of conditions in his state, Minnesota and South Dakota has not been exaggerated. The president prom- ised to give the question his personal attention with a view to alleviating any immediate suffering and said he desired Senator Hansbrough to devote time and thought to some legislative temedy in order to avoid recurrences of present conditions. Senator Hansbrough’s Remedy. The plan Senator Hansbrough has in mind is the passage of a law which { would compel the railroads to antici- pate extraordinary movements of fuel, grain or other commodities and to pre- pare to take care of such shipments It has been suggested that the interstate com- merce commission could investigate probable excessive offerings for ship- ment of commodities of all kinds and compel the railroads to furnish the transportation. It is beligved by Sen- ator Hansbrough that if a law of this ! character were passed the railroads would be able to contract for the use of equipment from roads in the South or other parts of the country when the demand for rolling stock is not great during the winter or the ecrop moving seasons. The North Dakota senator will endeavor to perfect a measure of some character calculated to reach the evil which annually re- ' sults in immense financial loss to the farmer because of not being able to market his crop and actual suffering in winter by reason of not being able to get fuel. HEARING AT MINNEAPOLIS. North Dakota Towns Wire Reports of Situation. Minneapolis, Dec. 19.—When the in- terstate commerce commission began the duy’s session of its car shortage inquiry Commissioner Lane read a batch of telegrams from North Da | kota points answering an inquiry from the commission as to the coal situa- tion at those towns. These answers came from the following named towns: New Rockford, Maddock, Courtney, Glenburn, West Hope, Sherwood, Dazey, Mohall, Aneta, Knox, Hanna ford, Galesburg, Barlow and Rugby. The repori was substantially the same from all these towns. A short- age of coal, in many instances the supply absolutely exhausted, and suf- fering either imminent or actually upon the people. To these telegrams the commission replied: “The Great Northern and Northern Pacific promise to immediately deliver coal ordered by your people from Du- luth.” DOES AWAY WITH RED TAPE. Hansbrough Offers Amendment to Free Alcohol Bill. ‘Washington, Dec. 19.—Senator Hans- brough has introduced an amendment to the free alcohol law authorizing the commissioner of internal revenue to make special arrangement for the de- naturing of alcohol distilled by per- sons in such small quantities as not to justify the additional expenses of an individual warehouse for each dis- tiller as required by the law. It is the opinion of Senator Hansbrough that if adopted this amendment will admit of the installation by individual or groups of farmers of agricultural and produce etills, now in successful use in Ger- many, and that much of the official red tape, which, he says, is now nec- essary, will be done away with with-- out the danger of imposition or fraud and at the same time give the farm- ers of the country the advantages with respect to the manufacture of alcohol to be denaturized for light, heat and power purposes which it was originally proposed they would have. YARDMEN MAY STRIKE. -Five Great Systems Affected by Their Demands. New York, Dec. 19.—The difference of 1 cent an hour between employes and managers may cause a strike here on five great railroad systems. The men affected are the 3,000 yard con- , ductors, brakemen and other employes at the rallroad terminals and the com- panies are the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, the Central Railroad of New Jersey, Lehigh Valley, Baltimorg ‘and Ohio and the Erie.. b0ty e e s e iR TARIFF WAR UNLIKELY. Germany and United States Will Reach Understanding. Berlin, Dec. 19.—The spirit shown y the American tariff commissioners in thelr inquiry into precisely what the German government desires and its reasons therefor has caused the German commissioners to feel confi- dent that an understanding, so far reaching that the idea of a tariff war must be excluded, will be reached. This hopeful view is expressed by the newspapers, which give prominence to reports of the dinner given by the American Association of Trade and Commerce in honor of the American and German commissioners and to the statement of Nahumi Stone, head of the American commission, that it was the American ambassador here, Mo. Tower, who brought about the appoint- ment of the commission and that to him must be ascribed this stroke of statesmanship, CONTINUES TO Bulletin Concerning the Condition of King Oscar. Stockholm, Dec. 19.—King Osecar is 80'much improved in health that his attending physicians announce that hereafter they will issue only one bul- letin daily. The day’s bulletin was as follows: “The king slept seven hours during the night, his temperature is 99.1 and his pulse is-stronger, although still somewhat irregular. There is still a slight discharge of mucous from the trachea.” THAW'S TRIAL NEXT MONTH IMPROVE. ATTORNEYS FOR PROSECUTION AND DEFENSE SELECT JAN. 21 AS THE DATE. New York, Dec. 19.—Harry K. Thaw will be tried on Jan. 21 on a charge of the murder of Stanford White, ac- cording to an order signed by Justice Newburger. The trial will be before Justice Fitz- gerald in the criminal bench of the New York state supreme court. The date was set by Justice Newburger when a motion made by Thaw’s coun- sel for the dismissal of the indictment against him or for the fixing of a date for the trial were to have been argued. Clifford W. Hartridge and John B. Gleason appeared for Thaw. It de- veloped as soon as the motion was reached that Thaw’s counsel, having withdrawn their application for a com- mission to take evidence in the West, the district attorney had no objection to taking up the trial at an early date. Thaw’s counsel and Assistant District Attorney Smith then fixed the date and the order was signed by Justice Newburger. SHUT OUT AMERICAN PRODUCTS. Japan Hopes to Supply Asia’s Wheat and Cotton. San Francisco, Dec. 19.—Dr. E. C. Jones, United States consul at Dalny, who has arrived here on the Nippon Maru, is quoted in an interview pub- lished in the Chronicle as saying that Japan is carrying out a plan which if it succeeds will close Asia as a market for American wheat and cotton. The Japanese, he says, are colonizing Man- churia on an extensive scale with the idea of raising sufficient wheat there to supply the needs of Asia. In Korea they are carrying on elaborate experi- ments in cotton raising. These experi- ments have been in a measure suc- cessful, but it will be some years, Dr. Jones thinks, before either Manchurian ‘wheat or Korean cotton will seriously menace the market for the American products. Under the new tariff, says Mr. Jones, the cost of living in Japan has increased 20 per cent and wages are being advanced accordingly. ENTER FAVORABLE STAGE. Russo-Japanese Negotiations Proceed- ing Satisfactorily. St. Petersburg, Dec. 19.—The Russo- Japanese negotiations, the status of ‘which last week were highly unsatis- factory, have entered upon a favorable stage and a rupture is no longer an- ticipated. It is believed that a satis- factory arrangement, defining the ex- tent to which the Japanese shall enjoy fishing rights on the Siberian coasts and also giving the Japanese the priv- ilege of acquiring stations ashore for drying fish, will be attainable without the suggested appeal to the good offices of other powers. The Russians realize that a failure of the negotia- tions would open the door for Japa- nese fishermen to raid the fishing grounds at will and as the littoral is most sparsely settled and only a few vessels are available for patrolling it this is the strongest argument in favor of Russia granting concessions. More Suffrzgists Go to Jail. London, Dec. 19.—Eleven more fe- male suffragists have elected to spend Christmas in jail rather than pay small fines for creating disturbances within the precincts of the house of commons. The women received their sentences hilariously, apparently proud of joining the so-called' “suf- fragettes” who already are in prison. Loan to Jamestown Exposition. ‘Washington, Dec. 19.—A government loan of $1,000,000 to the Jamestown Exposition company is authorized by & bill which was passed by the senate during the day. first lien on the gross receipts of the exposition, which are to be collected under the direction ol the secretary of the lx-mq o The loan is to be & °