Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 3, 1907, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED NVERY AFTNRNOON, OFFICIAL PAPER--CITY OF BEMIDJI BEMIDII PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. CLYDH J. OR | A. . RUTLEDGE Basiness r Managing Editor ‘Sntored in the postoffice at Bemidji. Minn., as second clase master. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM 1 OBSERVATIONS. Occassionally you meet a man so unpopular he might as well become dog catcher. Every little while you hear a man telling about “a good cussing” he gave another man. A man has to be pretty sick to admit that a doctor knows more about it than himself. A man who is liberal in his use of perfumery is as shocking to the aver- age man as a woman who smokes. Women gossip about each other’s love affair, but men gossip about each other’s business affairs. What has become of the old-fash- ioned man who insist on kissing all the women who called at his house? Half the people don’t get much done because they are looking around for some one to whom they can tell their troubles. (R TG EXPRESSES HIS DELIGHT. Prince Wilhelm Pleased With Recep- tion In America. New York, Sept. 'l.—Prince Wil- helm of Sweden expressed his delight at his reception in America and his admiration of the American people and their institutions in an interview with the newspapermen in the Hotel Astor. In particular the prince voiced his admiration of American women, who, he sald, were better looking than those of any other country he had ever visited and he declared he had seen very many pretty girls before. The prince was up early to meet the newspaper men. Asked his opin- ion of the country, he replied: *It s very fascinating, very, very fine. Never had I thought that I would find so much life, smartness and go as I have found here.” The Industry of the people, he said, made the greatest impression upon him. “BEverybody s busy. Everybody takes pride in doing his very best and everybody seems bright and happy. I have not been in your shops, but it you call your working people your poor I find them more happy in your country than I have seen them in oth- ers. From the time I set foot on Amer- can soll my kind opinion of the Amer- lcan people has been constantly in- creasing. SEQUEL TO A LYNCHING. Three Alabama Negroes Shot and Killed. Memphis, Tenn., Sept. .l—A speclal to the Commercial-Appeal reports that as a sequel to the lynching of John Gibson near Pickensville, Ala., several days ago, three negroes have been been shot and killed. Numerous threats, 1t is stated, had been In- “dulged fn by relatives and friends of Gibson and the victims were among those who had indulged in such talk. No further trouble 1s looked for. Gibson was charged with having as- sdulted a white woman. He was taken away from officers who were es- corting him to a place of safety and hanged. Coal Washing Plant Burned. Springfield, Iil., Bept. ..—The large coal washing plant of the Superior Coal'company near Gillesple, I, was destroyed by fire Friday. Loss, $100,- 000. FELL ASLEEP IN CHAIR, - Farmer 'Seeks Damages for Loss of His Whiskers. New York, Sept. }.—George Pal- mer, a wealthy farmer of Parksville, N. Y, has brought suit for $2,000 damages In the supreme court against John J. Relsler, proprietor of a bar- ber shop at Thirty-eighth street and Broadway. Palmer’s grievance Is that his beard, of which he was quite proud, was cut oft by one of Relsler’s employes. Palmer fell asleep in the barber’s chair, he says, after having told the man to simply trim his whis- kers, but:the: barber stupidly sheared oft all the whiskers and shaved his face. The application of a wet towel on Palmer’s face awoke him, and when he realized that his beard was gone he sought a lawyer instanter and had sult brought at once. BIG SWINDLE UNEARTHED. La Crosse (Wis.) Police Arrest Man 8ollclting Charity. La Crosse, Wis,, Sept. \—What ap- pears to be a big swindle operated in 8t least three states was unearthed by the police when they arrested George.H. Davies, who, attired In a brilllant unform, was collecting con- siderable sums of money from char- ftably Inclined persons for alleged walfs' homes in Milwaukee, Des Molnes and’ Chlcago. After his ar- Test Davies, who had credentials showing him to be a staff captain, ad- mitted that his scheme was a graft and that he had assoclates, captains and majors, in several other large oities. When any Inquiry was made 7eppeerning. him these confederates ““vouched for him'and received a part ©of his collection. French Customs Frau Parls, Sept. 2—The police have un- earthed a scheme that has been in operation for a long time past to de- fraud the French customs. Several officers and a clerk of a large freight firm doing.business with the United States and England and & clerk of the customs department were taken into custody. The frauds are estimated at $200,000. . Five Terrorists Executed. ‘Warsaw, Russian Poland, Sept. 2.— Five terrorists were executed in the citadel here during the week. 1907 SEPTEMBER 1907 TO DISCUSS PROPOSED LOAN Extra Session of Dominican Congress Called. ‘Washington, Sept. 3.—According to & cablegram received at the state de- partment from American Minister Me- Creery, at Santo Domingo, President Caceres has Issued a call for an extra- ordinary session of the Dominican con- gress Sept. 10 to deal with the latest proposition for the contract for a $20,000,000 loan from Kuhn, Loeb & Co. of New York. Immediately after the promulgation of the treaty frictlon began to develop. It arose from opposition in Santo Do- mmgo to the terms of the contract by which the firm was to provide $20,- 000,000 with which the Dominican gov- ernment was to immediately pay oft all of her foreign creditors, with ample provision for the amortization of the loan in the course of thirty years, The New York firm submitted a modifi-d proposition, which was taken to Santo Domingo by Senor Velasquez, the minister for the treasury. That was rejected by congress and a counter proposition was made on behalf of the Dominican government. That in turn was rejected by the New York bank- ers and they have now submitted an- other andg, it is belleved, a final propo- sition. This provides, in brief, for the supply of the needed $20,000,000 on condition that the loan is to be taken' at the rate of 96 cents on the dollar and the bonds are {o run for thirty years, with permission for the Domin- lcan government to redeem them at the end of ten years at the rate of $102 for each $100 bond. It is this proposition that the Dominican con- gress is to consider and it is feared at the insular bureau that In view of the stringency in the general money market it will scarcely be possible to secure the funds elsewhere. THOUGHT IT AN IDOL. Chinese Crew Offer Prayers and In- cense to Statue of Liberty. New York, Sept. 3.—When the Brit- Ish steamer Braemar of the Warrack lne, plying between England, China, Japan and the United States, anchored Just below Bedloes island the entire crew of thirty-seven pigtailed China- men scuttled below only to reappear cach one bearing a bunch of burning Joss sticks. As the vessel swung with the ebbing tide and her bow pointed straight to- ward the statue of Liberty the thirty- seven Celestials waved the joss sticks, chanted a prayer and kotowed to the deck. None of them had ever been to New York before and they belfeved the statue a great idol. Killed by a Policeman. Cincinnati, Sept. 3.—Joseph Joachi- mi, who refused to halt when com- manded by Policeman John G. Euth- lein near Spring Grove cemetery, was shot and killed. Because of an earlier attempt to assault a woman in that neighborhood the police had been glven strict orders to watch for sus- piclous persons. Joachimi refused to heed a call from the policeman, who first fired i the alr and then shot the fleeing man. Goes Through Open Switch. Marshalitown, Ia., Sept. 3.—A pas- senger train on the Iowa Central, northbound, ran into an open switch at New Sharon. Willilam Gannon of Marshalltown, fireman, was killed and James Clark of Marshalltown, engi- neer, seriously injured. Several pas- sengers were badly bruised. Mrs. David Kennedy of Marshalltown had several ribs broken and is internally injured. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. Former United States Judge John J. Jackson of West Virginia, aged elghty- three years, dropped dead at Atlantie City, N. J. The Haviland porcelain works at Limoges, France, are partially affect- ed by a strike of 3,000 workmen which threatens to involve 15,000 men. Mrs. Tirzah Hamlin Chapman, a well known singer, is dead in Brook- lyn. Mrs. Chapman was well known in oratorio work both in America and abroad. News of serious unrest in the prov- ince of Corrlentes has reached Buenos Ayres. Armed bands have appeared on the frontler and a revolution is sald to be imminent. Direct mall service from New York to certaln South American points, which was discontinued in April last in favor of shipments by way of Eu- rope, is to be resumed immedlately, Monroe Graham, who was a dis patch bearer and courfer in the Clvil war and who rode with General Sher- 1dan during the famous ride from Win- chester, is dead at Village Green, Pa. E. R. Coffin, vice president of the Blectric Securities corporation of New York and a prominent financler, is dead at Omaha. He became ill a week ago while traveling from San Franclsco to New York. . CONVICT SEEKS DAMAGES Lost His Hand While Working In Re- formatory. New York, Sept. .—Whether a con- vict can recover damages from a state for injuries suffered while at work in a penal Institution is the question in- volved in an action about to be brought by Joseph Shay, a lawyer here, for James Manning, an ex-pris- oner. Manning will seek $25,000 dam- ages In the court of claims. He was sentenced to Elmira reformatory in 1886 and he alleges that two days after his imprisonment began he was set to work at a circular saw. He was an absolute novice at the work, he further alleges, with the result that within the first five minutes his left hand was cut off. Shay says the issue has never been ruled upon by the courts. Ten Years for Murder. Salisbury, N. C., Sept. 2—Ed Ash- by, twenty-one years old, who killed his brother-in-law, Daniel Overcash, in June, was convicted of murder in the second degree and was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. Judge Justice, in passing sentence on Ash- by, said he had never before listene¢ to so much perjury in any one case. Glass Found Guilty. San Francisco, Sept. 2.—The jury in the case of Louls Glass, vice pres- ident of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph company, returned a verdict of guilty. But one ballot was taken. The convicted official was in- dicted for bribing supervisors in con- nection with franchises. Detective and Soldier Killed. Lodz, Russia, Sept. 2—A terrorist shot and killed a detective and a sol- dier who were riding in a street car. A passing patrol fired on the terrorist, apparently missed him and wounded four pedestrians. Recommends Several Dismissals. Annapolis, Md., Sept. 2.—Superin- tendent Badger has recommended the dismissal of four midshipmen for mis- conduct. No names or anything what- ever will be given out until the papers in the cases are returned from the president. It is understood several were guilty of several breaches of dis- cipline while on the summer cruise Jjust ended. The Story of a Rifle Shot. Perhaps no one knows, or ever will know, how much in the Spanish-Amer- fcan war a single rifle ball accom- plished toward bringing the conflict to an early close. It was a sergeant of the Ninth infantry who fired the shot, at a distance of more than 1,500 yards, that nearly severed the left arm of General Linares from his body and gave the supreme command at Santi- ago to General Toral. Sergeant Mec- Inarney was the most advanced sol- dier of the American forces, and took position in a tree. Beyond, within the breastworks, he mnoticed an officer upon a gray horse, apparently making an Inspection of the entire line. Though the order had gone out that day that no firing should be indulged in, McInarney drew a bead upon the horseman and brought him down, Later it was learned that the ser- geant’s target was General Linares, regarded as the best of Spain’s fight- ers In Cuba. Toral, a commander who was anxious for a speedy termination of hostilities, assumed command, and a few hours later Santiago capitulated to the Americans.—New York Tribune, “All Hands Abandon Ship!” A naval officer thus describes. the realistic “All hands abandon ship” drill: “Two minutes after the word has been passed every ship’s boat has swung from its davits into the water, and a minute later every boat is thor- oughly provisioned and watered. With- in four minutes.and often in much quicker time every man of the ship’s company, from the commanding offfcer down, is occupylng the station in the boat called for by his ship’s number, and then the command ‘Sheer off! is glven. The boats are hauled away a couple of bundred feet from the de- serted vessel, and she rides without a human soul aboard her, often when the drill is gone through In midocean in a sea that the landsman would account terrific. Then the word ‘Board! is passed, and within eight minutes at the most all hands are not only on board again, but every boat has been relashed to the davits, all of the pro- visions, water, instruments and other gear have been removed, and the ship’s company is In a fair way to get to sleep again.” Origin of “Hello, Billl” Why do the Elks yell “Hello, Bill?” It's this way: Back In 1894, when there was a schism in the organization, the two factions met In Atlantic City for a peace parley. At the time Wil- llam G. Myers of this city, Philadel- phia’s only past grand exalted ruler, was the grand esteemed leading knight and one of the most popular men in the order. To get his advice and greet him hundreds of Elks congregated at the Atlantic City station to meet Mr. Myers. All the members were at high tension. When Bill Myers stepped oft the car Delegate Stack of St. Paul, a big six footer, shouted, “Hello, Bill!"” and the crowd took up the salutation with a hearty laugh, and from that day to this “Hello, BIll!” is so universally used among Elks that it has virtually become official. To the good natured feeling which had its outward expres- slon in Stack’s greeting to Bill Myers 18 ascribed the reconcillation.—Philadel- phia Press. The Art of Talking Back. “I hardly know how to answer you,” said she when the widower proposed. “I would not let that worry me,” sald he soothingly. “That is some- thing a woman learns perfectly soon after marrlage.”—Clnclonati Enquirer. The Support. Teacher—Who was It supported the world upon his shoulders? Tommy— Atlas, sir. Teacher—Who supported Atlas? Tommy—The book don’t say, but I ’spect his wite did. That is the best government which desires to make people happy and]| knows how to make them happy.—| Macaulay, A Hideous Dream. I had a horrible dream a few nights ago. I dreamed that I was the sub- editor of a religious weekly. There 18 nothing dreadful in that, of course. The horrible part comes later, My editor, just off for a hollday—editors generally are, you know—instructed me to write to several people of eminence and ask them to tell me their favorite prayer. (I record this little story in all reverence, you understand,) Well, many of the eminent people replied, including a lady novelist of great fame, The lady wrote: Dear Sir—In reply to your esteemed fa- vor, I have much pleasure in informing you that my favorite prayer is, “Give us this day our dally bread.” I placed it at the head of the col- umn, put the paper to bed and went there myself, feeling pleased, Next] morning when I opened my copy of the religious weekly I found that three letters had been dropped from the lady novelist’s favorite prayer, which, to'my consternation, now read as follows: “Glve us this day our dafly ad.” I ‘woke up screaming.—Keble Howard in Sketch, Classcd as an Antique Also. A charming hostess of one of the “blg houses,” as they are called by those who are welcomed Into them, has the added beauty of prematurely white hair, sayg the Washington Star. That which seems to her contempo- rarles an added charm may appear to the crudely young a mark of decline, | prefer the.last cigars and who ask us at least so it appears In one instance of which the hostess herself tells with enjoyment. The lady is a connoisseur of antiques, At one of her teas a debutante rich with the glow of youth, but sadly-con- strained with her sense of her own novelty, was handed a cup of tea. The cup was beautifully blue and wonder- fully old. The hostess, desiring to lighten the strain on her youthful guest by a pleasingly dlverting re- mark, said, “That little cup Is 1560 years old.” “Oh,” came the debutante’s 'high strained tones, “how careful you must be to have kept it so long!” Trades That Kill, One of the most dangerous of trades, according to the Pllgrim, “Is the cover- ing of toy animals with skin, chamols leather being used, for Instance, for the elephants, calfskin for the horse and goatskin for the camels. This covering must of course fit without a wrinkle to look natural, so the wood- en model is first dipped into glue, then sprinkled with chalk dust; then the skin is put on. The chalk Is so fine that it fills the air and is drawn into the throat and lungs. A year of this sort of work often results in death. Another very injurious toy is the rub- ber balloon. The fumes and solvents used in reducing sheet rubber to the necessary thinness while retaining its strength and the dyeing of the bril- Hant yellows, greens and purple are most of them poisonous. A Swelled Head. A typical Englishwoman, when some one spoke the other day of a certain man having a “swelled head,” looked dazed. “Really! You don’t mean it!” cried the Englishwoman. “I'm very sorry.” A day or so later the English- ‘woman, happening to meet the wife of the man in question, observed that she was so sorry to hear that Mr. Blank was il “But he isn't!” cried the wife. ‘was never better in his life.” “Is that so?’ sald the Englishwo- man. “Why, what could Mrs. ‘Dash have meant the other day when she sald he was suffering from a swelled head?” 3 “He' His Narrow Escape. more girth than height was asked if capes. “Yes,” he replied, his eyes twinkling, “once I fell off my boat at the mouth of Bear creek, and, although I'm an | expert swimmer, I guess I'd be-there now if it hadn't been for my crew. You see, the water was just - deep enough so’s to be over my head when, planatory pat—“so that whenever I tried to swim out I dragged bottom.”. —EBverybody’s. Horrible Example. “My dear,” said Mrs. Strongmingd, “I A Jolly old steamboat captain with || he had ever had any very narrow es- 1 I trled to wade out, and just shallow || enough”—he gave his body an ‘ex--|| want you to accompany me to the town hall tomorrow evening.” . “What for?’ queried the meek and lowly other half of the combine, “I am to lecture on the ‘Dark Side of Married Life’” explained Mrs. 8., “and I want you to sit on the platform Chicago News. A Financlal Pessimist. term a financial pessimist. Myers— What's a financial pessimist? ' Gaye—. row something. 14 Accidental, . Alice—How did you come to meet your second husband, Grace? Grace— i It was purely accidental. He ran over my first one with a motor car and afterward attended the funeral. A Crash. “John, what was that awful nofse In the bathroom just now?” “Don’t worry, my 'dear,” and pose as one of the illustrations.”— Gaye—Yes, he Is what you might !} A man who {s afraid to look pleasant || for fear his friends will want to bor- | replied 1 John sleeplly. “It was merely a crash towel falling.”—Milwaukee Sentinel. Opinlon: Opinion is a light, vain, crude and imperfect thing settled in the imagina- tlon, but. never arriving at the under-| of reason.—Ben Jonson. Getting Square. £ He—T'm going to bring Jolt homo with me to dinner tonight. She—Ob,” mercy, dear, don’t! - It's the cook’s day out, and Ill have to cook-dinner, He— Never mind; I owe Jolt one, anyway! —Yonkers Statesman. | A Stinger. Mrs. Nagger—Perhaps:you recall, it was-on a rallway train that we first met, and— Mr. Nagger—Yes, but it's too late now for me to-sue ‘the com- pany for, damages.—Philadelphia In- juirer. J S iy standing, there to obtain the tincture,|| My Symphony. To live content with small means; to ’ The Last Cigar In the Box. “The last cigar in the box s the hardest to sell,” was the remark of a Front street dealer. “Not because it 1s not as good as any other cigar, but because of the superstition of the average .man ‘agalnst taking the /last seek elegance rather than luxury and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to of anything. 'As a result ‘we often |Stars and birds, babes and sages with Lace Cartalns take-one cigar, or even two’cigars, of | open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do P the last cigars'in a box and put them | all bravely, awalt occasions, hurry nev- or Draperies on top of the cigars in a full or almost | er. In a word, to let the spiritual, un- ‘Made like new by our special pro- full box. On the other hand, I ought to mention that there are men who bidden and unconsclous grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.—William Henry Channing. ‘Why throw away a pretty pe:r.'ol lace curtains or portiers, to save the last cigars in the boxes for them every day, sometimes to the ‘number -of --8ix.-.or -seven-.daily, for which they call every evening. We have thus no troublein disposing of ‘these-last clgars, but the contrast in the conduct of the two styles ‘of cus- tomers is curious.”—Philadelphia Rec- ord. Two More to Feed. “You-are a fraud. You said yester- day that you had seven starving chil- dren, and today you say you have nine, “Both storfes true, sir.” “How.do you make that out?” “Twins born last night."—Exchange. r Lye, NEApoL; /' o MIANEAPG] ) o NN “The beer with a snap to it.” Made to taste good, Tastes as though it was made good. Makes good everywhere. - Made in LaCrosse. ~ Sold Everywhere. G. HEILEMAN BREWING CO. Order from Agency at Crookston ily Pioneer For News " That'the Pioneer Gets and Prints the News Is Appre- ‘reciated ‘Outside of Bemidji. 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