Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 10, 1907, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED NVERY AFTNRNOON, o OFFICIAL PAPER---CITY OF BEMIDJI BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. CLYDE J. PRYOR | . RUTLEDOE" Business Manager Managing Editor ‘Entered in the postoffice at Bemidjl. Minn., a8 second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM Half the mean things a man says are really meant for himself. We give a man a medal for bravery than poke fun at him for wearing it. As soon as one woman breaks a man’s heart another woman comes along with some glue. It is getting so you can’t tell whether it is a candidate or an actor that does the heroic things nowa- days. A German religious sect is divided against itself on the matter of the male churchmen,s whiskers. This is hair-splitting, The trouble in China seems to be that the dowager empress has awak- ened to a realization that her crown is not on straight. An Oyster Bay correspondent says the President is burning the mid- night oil on coming addresses. But this is small consolation to the Standard Oil Company. MAY RESUME BUSINESS. Affairs of Watson & Co. Not as Bad as First Supposed. Minneapolls, Sept. ».—Developments In the case of Watson & Co., the big Minneapolis-New York grain commis- slon and Stock Exchange house that was declared in financial difficulties on Thursday, are so increasingly fa- vorable as to make it seem almost eertain that there soon will be a re- sumption of business. No statement of the exact standing of the firm is yet possible, but the showling of assets of nearly $1,000,000 avallable in the New York office made the situation better and as conditions are brought out more in detail it ap- pears that the firm is much stronger than was supposed when the an- nouncement of the receivership was made, The statement that all claims will be paid in full and that no one hav- ing money due from the firm will lose a dollar seems warranted. The offices of the firm, though not accepting business, are open and all connections have been maintained and in the event of the perfection of the necessary arrangements, which now seems almost assured, business can be resumed very promptly. H. P. Watson said: @ “The reports about the connection of Mr. Hill with our firm are wholly unwarranted. Nelther Mr. James J. Hill or Mr. Louis W. Hill ever had any connection whatever with Watson & Co. Nelther of them ever did any business with us. We never had a transaction for elther of them at any time since we have been in business.” WIRE STRIKE NEAR END. Rumors to That Effect Are Again in Circulation. Chicago, Sept. ..—Well defined re- ports that the settlement of the teleg- raphers’ strike is near at hand are persistent among the striking oper- ators. ‘Word has been received in Ohicago from W. W. Beattle, International vice president of the Telegraphers’ union in New York, that there is every rea- son to hope for an early ending of the struggle. Rumors of an early settlement are also based on the fact that Labor Commissioner Nelll is in New York ia conference with President Small of the Commercial Telegraphers’ union and Presldent H. B. Perham of the Order of Rallroad Telegraphers with a view of bringing about a settlement of troubles between the companies and the key men. During the conference Commissioner Nelll and Presldent Small had a long talk over the long distance telephong with President Gompers of the Amer- ican Federation of Labor at Washing- ton. USED COMPANY’S FUNDS. Missing Head of Chicago Concern Said to Bs Short $315,000. Ohioago, Sept. ).—The appointment of a recelver for the properties of the Belding-Hall Manufacturing company followed closely upon the heels of the discovery by the creditors of the con- cern that its missing president, Jesse Edson Hall, had appropriated to his own use at least $315,000 of the cor- poration’s funds. As far as oan be discovered every dollar of this money went into mining stoek ‘which was backed up with no tangible property, theatrical ventures which made no money and other se- ourlties which the creditors are will- ing to sell in a lump for something less than $6,000. Indioations are that Hall will not voluntarily return from Canada and that oriminal prosecution will be in- stituted to bring him back to this country by the First Natlonal bank, which holds notes of the company.ag- gregating $100,000. Aged Wisconsin Ploneer Dead. Kenosha, Wis,, Sept. —James C. Dow of Pleasant Pralrle, Kenosha county, who came to Wisconsin in 1837 and who for half a century was prominent in political affairs, is dead, aged ninety-two years. He leaves & lage estate. S S DOZEN PERSONS DEAD As Many Others Seriously Hurt in lowa Railroad Disaster. THREE CARS TELESCOPED All Those Killed and Also Those In- Jured Were Occupants of Smoker, V/hich Was Completely Demolished by the Collision. Waterloo, Ia., Sept. .—Rock Island passenger train No. 31, northbound, vas wrecked at Norris Siding, near Cedar Falls. The trucks of the tender Jumped the track at a curve while the traiy was going under high speed. The passenger crashed into a freight on the siding, telescoping the mail, baggage and smoking cars. Twelve persons were killed in the smoker, which was reduced to kind- ling. Many were injured, all of them being in the smoker. None was seri- ously injured in the day coach. The dead are: B. R. CHRISTY, Minneapolis. P. B. CLOVER, Waterloo, Ia. WILL GOODMAN, Waterloo, Ia. JOHN N. WATSON, Waterloo, Ia. C. L. LANDPHER, Shell Rock, Ia. ‘W. RALPH JOHNSON, Dicke, Ia. LEPOVAN TOJO, Hammond, Ind. W. H. MEYERS, baggageman, Bur- lington, Ia. LABORER, name unknown, Ham- mond, Ind. THREE UNIDENTIFIED MEN. All of the dead and injured were in the smoking car, which was immedl- ately behind the baggage and mail cars, Smoking Car Demolished. The smoking car was completely demolished, there being not one piece of wood left large enough to make a top for an ordinary kitchen table. The dead and injured were strewn about the wreckage. The northbound express was ten minutes late at Norris Siding, which is a small station three miles north of Cedar Falls, Ia., and there a south- bonnd freight train was awaiting the express, which came thundering along at a terrific speed in an effort to make up time, Just as the engine of the express was about to pass the freight engine the trucks of the express jumped the track and the engine crashed with terrific force into the englne of the freight, wrecking both engines and telescoping the baggage and mail cars and demolishing the smoking car, in whick a number of men were riding. It was among the occupants of this car that the omly injuries and fatali- ties occurred. The passengers of the two day coaches that followed the smoker es- caped with only a violent shaking up. Rescuers were immediately at hand to care for the injured and to take the dead from among the wreckage. There was great excltement and the scene was one to make the stoutest hearted man shudder. PREDICTS GREAT FIRE. New York Insurance Man Sees Danger in Skyscrapers. New York, Sept. the building of skyscrapers was voiced vigorously at a public hearing before the commission on limitation of height and area of buildings. George W. Babb, president of the New York board of fire underwriters, sald his board was expecting a fire of unprecedented size at any time in the high buildings. He said it was the belief of the fire underwriters that if a fire started on the upper floors of some of the highest buildings it could not be checked, as the water pressure is ipsufficient, and he feared it would spread to many other high buildings, entailing an enormous loss. His hoard, he said, advocated limiting buildings entirely for office purposes to 125 feet. Calvin Tomkins, president of the Municipal Art society, was also in favor of limitations. He said he be- lleved the time was coming when sky- scrapers will be demolished to make room for buildings built by the block. He said the courts do not take proper cognizance of the easement of light and alr. PROGRESS OF THE PLAGUE 8an Francisco People Believe Dr. Blue Will Quickly Stop It. San Francisco, Sept. .—The board of health has recommended to the board of supervisors that the city and county hospital, which has sheltered a number of plague cases, be burned. The city and county hospital is a col- lection of frame buildings and it has long been planned to demolish it. The announcement that the marine hospital service Is to take charge of the plague situation is regarded here as an assurance that the progress of the disease will be stopped in short order. Dr. Rupert Blue, who has been agsigned by Surgeon General Wyman to direct the camapaign, had charge during the former appearance of the plague and has the confidence of the entire community. MRS. CARTER NOT GUILTY. Jury Acquits Woman Accused of Re- ceiving Stolen Money. New York, Sept. .—Mrs. Laura M. Carter, who has been on trial for a week on a charge of recelving stolen money, has been acquitted by the jury In the case. She was accused of having received from Chester B. Runyan, the defaulting teller of the Windsor Trust company, $5,000 of the $82,000 he stole from the bank. One of the jurors said that the jury agreed that the tes- timony of Runyan, who was the prin- clpal witness against Mrs, Carter, be Ignored on the ground that he was a self-confessed thief. Mrs. Carter ad- mitted getting $5,000 from Runyan, but said that as soon as she knew it had been stolen she returned it to ;Allm and then betrayed him to the po- ce. \.—Opposition to | or recelved an a Runyan testified. ks CHICAGO TRACTION CASE. Federal Court of Appeals Reverses Former Decision. Chicago, Sept. ) — The United States court of appeals has reversed and remanded the Union Traction case, Involving the unification of the street railway companies of the city. This places the properties again in the hands of the original recelvers snd renders of no avall all the work that has been done for several years toward improving the street car facili- ties on the West and North Sides of the city. Cuban Census Begins Sept. 30. Havana, Sept. .—Governor Magoon bas issued a decree that the taking of the Cuban census shall begin Sept. 80 and end Nov. 14. This census is & prelimnary to the holding of the elec- tions. MEANS CONTROL OF TRADE John Barrett Favors Deep Waterway From Lakes to Gulf. Chicago, Sept. 10.—“The great Mid- dle West will control the trade of the entire west coast of South America when the Panama canal is completed, providing the deep waterway from the lakes to the gulf is constructed. Other- wise it will be Japan, Germany and England which will exercise commer- cial sway over this vast empire to be opened up.” This statement was made by John Barrett, director of the International Bureau of American Republics, who has been in Chicago for several days conferring with men interested in the deep waterways proposition. It is his contention that the federal govern- ment should lend all the aid neces- sary for the construction of this ship canal to make the great advantages of the Panama canal available to the Mississippi valley. Mr. Barrett said: “It is not excessive to estimate the value of products which these repub- lies will then be purchasing from for- eign countries at $500,000,000. . ““The major portion of these supplies will come from America if the great manufacturing centers of the Middle West are provided with water trans- portation. It requires no stretch of Imagination to conceive boats or barges loaded In Chicago, Joliet or other points in this manufacturing district making the entire trip. Amer- ica has been slow to improve its wa- terways, much more so than any other of the great powers, and it is time we awoke to the advantages to be ob- tained.” GERMANY GAINS POINT. Secures Suppression of Articles to Which She Objected. The Hague, Sept. 10.—All the art- icles concerning the treatment of sub- jects of neutral powers in the terri- tory of belligerents, to which Germany objected at the plenary conference last Saturday, were suppressed by the committee on land warfare after a long and interesting discussion. The delegate of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, which, according to the trealy of London of 1867, is neutral territory, introduced a motion, which was unanimously adopted, that the powers urge their subjects when they are in the territory of belligerents to respect the laws regarding the ob- servance of neutrality. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. The long drouth in Oklahoma and Indian Territory has been broken by 2 heavy rain. The rain was general, At Eldorado, Kan.,, masked men bound and gagged the Missouri Pacific rallway agent, robbed the safe of $1,300 and escaped. The Erie Railroad company has re- celved an all steel passenger coach, which is on exhibition at the Jersey City terminal. The car is practically non-wreckable and will not burn. The great council of the United States, Improved Order of Red Men, convened Monday at Norfolk, Va., in sixtleth annual session with upwards of 350 delegates and several thousand visitors. The bishop of Chichester, Right Rev. Ernest Rolland Wilberforce, D. D, is dead at Bembridge, Isle of Wight, He was bern in 1840 and was a son of the late Right Rev. Samuel Wilberforce, bishop of Winchester. MARKET QUOTATIONS. §t. Paul Union Stock Yards, 8t, Paul, Sept. 9.—Cattle—Good to cholce steers, $5.50@6.25; fair to good, $4.00@5.00; good to cholce cows and heifers, $3.60@5.00; veals, $4.00@5.50. Hogs—$5.25@6.05. Sheep—Wethers, $5.00@5.25; good to choice lambs, $6.00@6.75. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Sept. 9. — Wheat— Sept., $1.04; Dec., $1.05%; May, $1.- 09%. On track—No. 1 hard, old, $1.09; new, $1.08; No. 1 Northern, old, $1.08; new, $1.07; No. 2 Northern, old, $1.05 @1.05%; new, $1.04@1.04%; No. 3 Northern, $1.01@1.04. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Sept. 9.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.09%; No. 1 Northern, $1.08%; No. 2 North- ern, $1.06%; Sept, $1.07%; Dec., $1.- 06%; May, $1.11. Flax—To arrive, on track and Sept., $1.26; Oct., $1.21%; Nov., $1.21%; Dec., $1.18%. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Sept. 9.—Wheat—Sept., 96¢; Dec., 99%ec. Corn—Sept., 62%¢; Dec., 60% @60%c. Oats—Sept., 63%c; Dec., 61%¢c. Pork—Oct., $15.65; Jan., $16.85. . Butter—Creameries, 21@27c; dairies, 20@26c. Fggs—14%@17%c. Poultry — Turkeys, 12¢; chickens, 11%c; springs, 13c. Chicago Union 8tock Yards, Chicago, Sept. 9.—Cattle—Beeves, $4.00@7.15; cows and helfers, $1.25@ 5.20; Texans, $3.60@5.00; Westerns, $4.00@6.00; stockers and feeders, $2.60@5.00; calves, $5.50@8.00. Hogs —Light, $6.15@6.52%; mixed and butchers, $5.85@6.60; heavy, $5.50@ 8.20; rough, $6.60@5.7! 10.“ Sheep, $3.26@6.75; lambs, $5.00 ; pligs; $6.60@ | NEW TRIAL GRANTED William F. Bechtel of Minneap- olis May Go Free. WITNESSES ARE SCATTERED Verdict Invalidated by the Alleged Misconduct of a Deputy Sheriff in .Charge-of the Jury at the Time of the Trial, Minneapolls, Sept. 10.—Willlam F. Bechtel, former president of the North- Western National Life Insurance com- pany, who was sentenced on June 28 to serve five years in prison at hard labor after he had been convicted of grand larceny from the Northwestern National Life Insurance company of Minneapolis, has been granted a new trial by Judge Dickinson. Because it is unlikely that the coun- ty attorney’s office will be able to ob- tain some of the most important wit- nesses who figured in the prosecution of the first case it is extremely doubt- ful if Mr. Bechtel will ever be placed on trial again. n granting the new trial Judge Dickinson held that the verdict of the first trial was entirely invalidated by the fact that Deputy Sheriff Robert Hillier, who was in charge of the jury, made remarks in the hearing of the jurymen, which he holds to have been prejudicial and calculated to influence the verdict. In the motion for a new trial affi- davits by jurors have been introduced showing that the deputy sheriff talked before the jury in a way likely to in- fluence the verdict. WOMEN SMUGGLERS CAUGHT Had Jewelry and Lace Concealed on Their Persons. New York, Sept. 10.—Customs in- spectors made a large seizure upon the arrival of the French line steamer La Gascogne when two young women, whose names appear on the passenger list as Misses Agnes and Catherine Barrett of French Lick Springs, Ind., were searched and were each found to be wearing an opera coat of fine [rish point lace, both of which were undeclared. Thirty pieces of jewelry were found concealed around the waist of one of the young women. Both women broke down and sobbed after examination and protested their Innocence. The jewelry and lace were seized by the officials, but the young ‘women were allowed to go. SOLDIERS ARE DISPERSED Plan Attack on Kansas Jail to Re- lease Comrade. Junction City, Kan, Sept. 10.—A mob of nearly fifty soldiers of the farriers’ school at Fort Riley came here for the purpose of releasing a comrade who was confined in the county jail. The sheriff “and city police force were notified of their coming and from positions in windows above the jail opened fire and quickly dispersed the mob as it sought to force an en- trance. The authorities at Fort Riley have placed guards at the jail and are aid- ing in the effort to find the members of the mob. Two arrests have been made, DISCRIMINATION MUST STOP Nebraska Officials Get After Great Northern Branch. Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 10.—The Will- mar and Sioux Falls railway, a part of the Great Northern system, has been directed by the railway commis- sion to cease discrimination against Omdha in grain shipments. The Omaha Grain Exchange company complained that the railroad refused to furnish cars for shipment to South Omaha or Omaha, holding the cars for shipments to Sioux City and Min- neapolls. The commission ordered the railway officials to furnish cars in the order requesed by patrons irre- spective of destination. FATAL TO DIPHTHERIA GERMS New Antitoxin Wipes Out Disease in Three Minutes. Columbus, 0., Sept. 10.—Announce- ment of the discovery of an antitoxin that will kill diphtheria germs in the lving human organism within the short space of three minutes has been made at the Ohio state university by Professor Blylie, physiological chem- Ist, as the result of an exhaustive technical and intricate series of tests. The antitoxin was given tests in hos- pitals and private practice before an- nouncement of its discovery was made. It is applied by infusion and ‘lcan be applied in any quantity to the youngest patient.’ Many Fires Due to Carelessness. - New York, Sept. 10.—A yearly chart has just been completed covering 6, 357 fires in Manhattan and the Bronx and calling attention to some interest- Ing facts. It is estimated that fires started by carelessly dropped matches and cligarettes cause New York city a loss of about $2,500,000 each year. Bursting Flywheel Causes Panlec. Chicago, Sept. 10.—Guests of the Lakota hotel were thrown into a panic and fled from the hotel diningroom when a flywheel in the engineroom shot from its position and crashed into 1,000 pleces, many of which tore through the floor of the diningroom Immediately above. Peaches In South Dakota. Sloux Falls, 8. D, Sept. 10.—D. M. Dickerson, a fruit grower of Union county, has demonstrated that the southern portion of South Dakota is adapted to peach raising. Mr. Dicker- son has an orchard of 250 peach trees and has grown peaches on a moderate scale for about twenty years. Many of his trees are bearing this year and the fruit is fine in size and quality. Arctic Explorers Safe. London, News announces that a telegram has Sept. 9—The Evening | To get pure blood only the purest air should be breathed, the purest water drunk, and purest food eaten. WHEAT FLAKE CELERY is pure and cleanly. It is composed of wheat and celery, and in its making not a human hand touches it.. The whole of the wheat but the p outer husk is retained, so that it contains all the elements necessary to make pure blood. If you wish to keep in a healthy condition eat Dr. Price’s Food with regularity every day. You will never tire of it. There is not another food that can compare with it in palatableness, clean- liness and nourishment. 804 been received in London from Gibben, Alsska, saylng that Captain Mikkel- sen of the Arctic steamer Duchess of Bedford and his companions are safe, having traversed the ice to a place of safety after the wreck of the ship. In Intersst of Fairbanks. Omaha, Sept. 9.—J. P. Goodrich of Indianapolis, Republican national com- mitteeman from Indiana, is making a tour of the Western states in the in- terest of Fairbanks as a presidential candidate and is holding conferences with prominent Republicans in Iowa und Nebraska. —_— i Protopl: All life on the earth appears only In connection with one substance—a wa- tery jelly—closely related chemically to egg albumen—and this substance is known as protoplasm. Every living thing is built of this one substance— Jellyfish, trees, whales, men—every- thing that lives. Biologists have suc- ceeded in doing some wonderful things. Five or six starfish eggs have been fused into one, from which a monster starfish has been produced. Other starfish eggs have been separated into elght pleces, from which elght Adwarf starfish have been brought forth. Crabs can be made to order, with the large claw on either the right or the left side, and flatfish have been pro- duced with the color pattern on the underside.—New York American. Modest Contributors. A man was coming up from Chun- chen province with a sum of money which had been subscribed for the pay- ment of the public debt. He was met by robbers, who took the money and started away. He called after them that the money was a subscription to the fund for the raising of the debt, whereupon they came back and handed 20 years experience as a SPECIALIST DR. REA Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat Diseases of Men; Diseases of Women; Nervous Dis- eases; Chronic Diseases. Coming to Bemidji Thursday, Sept. 12 at Markham Hotel 9 a, m. to 3:30 p. m. One Day Only! Dr. Rea has made more re- markable cures in the Nor- thwestern states than any living man. him the money and begged his pardon | § for their mistake, and they gave him 10 yen extra as a contribution on their own part. He asked their names to publish in the papers, but they sald they did not want to obtain notoriety In that way and declined, but said they were glad to pay something toward helping the country.—Iorean News. 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