Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, September 24, 1907, Page 4

GRANTING STREET RAILWAY ORDINANGE HELPS BEMIDJI Ordinance Awaits Mayor’s Signature and Publication.--Company Expect to Begin Work Soon. It has been just five weeks since the ordinance was introduced in the city council of Bemidji, and when passed contained all the provisions necessary to protect the public and insure speedy completion of the line and no doubt Mayor Pogue will affix his signature to the ordinance. | Bemidji is making many strides in' her wonderful growth, and the con- struction of this railway is probably one of the best steps for Bemidji that was ever taken. The city council at a meeting held last evening by unanimous action passed the ordinance Carl C. Gowran and his associates a street railway franchise. Applica- tion will be made to the village council at Nymore today or tomor- granting to | row for sihi]ar franchise upol{ streets necessary to reach the proposed Hatcher saw mill. Bitten by Rattlesnake. Akeley, Minn., Special, Sept. 24'— Mrs, Joseph Bice of Chamberlain was bitten in the right forearm by a large rattlesnake while picking blue- berries last evening. She was brought here to Dr. Irish two hours later. apparently dead. The arm had turned black and was terribly swollen. She has regained con- sciousness and Dr. Irish says she will recover. Pioneers say that this is the first rattlesnake ever seen in this section, Fire at Cass Lake. Cass Lake, Sept. 24.(Special to Pioneer.)—At 10:30 this morning the fire department were called out to a fire near the section house. The building was occupied by fifteen Italian laborers and their loss is $3,300 of their wages, which they had saved in the past year. The cause of the fire is unknown. The building is a total loss of $1,000, with no insurance. Use Towurist on your trip west this fall. fort—clean—convenient—economical. leather: holstered in Built for com- Up- efficient porter in charge; linen changed daily; equipped with kitchen range. Berth rate only one-half Standard sleeping car rate. Makes a great saving in cost of trip when usedin connec- tion with colonist tickets, The ORIENTAL LIMITED one of the Great Northern Railway’s daily trans continental sleeping cari trains, carries tourist Oriental Limited leaves Grand Forks daily at 8:15 p. m. ‘Westbound Good connections made at Grand Forks by all passen- gers from Bemidji For tares toSeattle, Portland, Tacoma, Vancouver and other points in Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon or British Columbia, address E. E. CHAMBERLAIN, Agent. Great Northern Ry. Ridnev=€Ettes cure Backache The Leader of them Hil. Price 25 @ents Owl Drug Store, Bemidij, Minn. Peouliar Insect at Northome. Northome, Minn., Sept. 23.—The citizens of Bridgie, a small town south of here, as well as the farmers residing in that vicinity, are con- siderably wrought up over the fact that some of the farmers in that neighborhood have discovered worms in eggs laid by their hens. W. U. Attix, a farmer residing near that place, found a live worm in an ege laid by one of his hens a short time ago, but thought nothing of the matter until last week when several of his neighbors complained of similar findings. E. C. Carlton, of Bridgie, secured on of the worms and sent it to the Histological De- partment of the University of Min- nesota for identification. Ina reply to Mr, Carlton’s letter in connection with the ahove Winfield S, Nicker- son, assistant professor of Histology and Embryology at the University, says in part: “It is a worm belonging to the group of Trematodes or flukes—a group somewhat related to the tape worms. The worms live as perasites in the egg ducts (oviducts) of the hen and become enclosed inside the shell as that is being secreted. The exact source of the hens infec- tion—that is, just how the hen gets the worms,has not been determined, but it is in all probability from eat- ing some small animal in which the laryal stage of the worm is contained. {It may very likely be from slugs or some other kind of small mollusks (snails) that the hens become in- fected, though this is only a guess. “The worms are harmless so far as any injury to the egg or to any- one eating the eggs is concerned, although it is possible that they may have some harmful effect upon the health of the hen, especially if present in large numbers. There would be no reason to fear any harm even if the worms themselyes were eaten, cooked or uncooked (and alive.)” In conclusion of his letter to Mr. Carlton Professor Nickerson says that the worm differs in two or three respects from the worms described as occurring in the eggsof hens in Europe and in this country, as well as the eggs of a considerable number of other birds and suspects that the worm sent him is a different species that has not been described hereto- fore. He also asked to have other specimens as well as one the hens North Couhtry RAINAGE AND EVELOPMENT MEETING In Conjunction with the “Old Settler's Re- union” of the Beltrami County Fair BEMIDUJI Thursday, Sept. 26 The meeting will be attended by the mem- bers of the state drainage board consisting of Governor S. G. IVERSON, John A. Johnson JULIUS SCHMAHL, State Auditor. GEO. RALPH, Sec. of State. HON. G. G HARTLEY, Drainage Engineer. Also Address by GEO. WELCH, Immigration Commis’r. Commercial bodies of every village and city in the norta halt of the state are requested to send representatives to these meetings, both of which will be held on the same day, Duluth. One meeting will begin at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, as soon as the G. N. train arrives from the east, at the tent on the fair grounds. In theevening a big mass meeting will be held in the court bouse, when everyone is requested to assist in suggestion as to acts that will benefit this north country. The train service to Bemidji is of the best and preprations will be made to care for a large crowd. Everybody Come, and talk Drainage and Development. known to lay eggs containing" the worms sent to him alive for further investigation. Bemidji Team Has Good Record. Walker, Sept, 23.—The baseball season in Walker closed with a game with Park Rapids last week Thurs- day. The team has played eighteen games this season, winning thirteen of the ~contests. Walker lost to Bertha, Bemidji and Park Rapids. Bemidji, however, is the only town it was unable to get a game from in three contests played. Bertha lost to Walker this year, playing four games all told. Other towns which Walker succeeded in defeating, are: Jenkins, Mahnomen, Pine River, Bena. Walker lost but one game during the season out of eleven played on the home grounds. Bemidji, on a count of games won andlost, has an‘enviable record. Will Handle M. & I. Crowds. Bemidji, Sept. 24. Mr. A. G. Rutledge, Sec,y Beltrami County Agr’l. Association, Bemidji, Minn. Dear Sir:—Referring to your letter Sept. 17th relative to extra coaches to handle crowds expected to visit fair to be held here next week, I beg to advise you that our Gen’l Manager has asked for the extra equipment, and we expect to be able to take care of the people in good shape. Trust there will be a large attendance as you expect. Yours truly, B —G. A. Walker, Agent. GIRL HELD IN SLAVERY. Greek Resident of Chicago Placed Un- der Arrest. Chicago, Sept. 2 .—Brought from her home in sunny Greece to labor in slavery in Chicago eleven-year-old Georganto Kostulas, dark haired, dark eved and pretty, was freed by Immi- gSration’ Inspector Alciblades A. Sera- phis. Joanis Kostulas, who is charged with having brought the tiny slave girl to Chicago, was arrested. The accusation against Kostulas is that he brought the girl to America as his own daughter to get her past the immigration officials, but that since that time she has been held in virtual slavery. : Since the girl was brought to Chi- cago she has been compelled to do all the work in the Kostulas home, just as a slave would in darkest Europe or Asia, and it is. charged that she was aven forbidden to play on the streets with the other little girls of the neigh- i borhood. o Kostulas was 'brought before Com- missioner Foote and held to the grand jury under bonds of $2,000. The discovery that genuine slavery existed in Chlcago came as the result of . the crusade against the Greek padrones here. More than a dozen cases in this connection will be ‘pre- sented to the October grand jury by Inspector Seraphis and Assistant Dis. trict Attorney Seward S. Shierer. Chicago Teacher Murdered. Chicago, Sept. 2.—Mrs. Lillian ‘White Grant, a kindergarten teacher in the Chicago public schools, was found dead in bed in her home at 5520 Madison avenue and the indications are that she was murdered. The room showed signs of a struggle and around the woman’s throat was a tightly twisted piece of linen with which she had been choked to death. Collision on Wlsconsin Central. Glenwood, Wis,, Sept. £1.—At 2:30 8. m., near Boyceville, a Wisconsin Central regular freight train and an extra freight collided. Engineer Fred Miller was instantly killed and the fireman was injured, but not fatally. The trains collided headon. at. a speed of about twenty-five miles an hour. Both engines and ten freight cars were demolished. . Reform Movement in China, Peking, Sept. 41.—An imperial edict has been issued authorizing Prince Pu Lun, who was Chinese envoy at the St. Louis exposition, and Sun Chi Anai, in cooperation with the grand council, to frame regulations for the establishment of a council of delib- eration to aid the government “so that the foundation may be laid for a par- Hament.” FIVE NEW DESTROYERS. Navy Department Awards Contracts for Their Construction, Washington, Sept. .—Secretary Metcalf has awarded. the contract for the construction of five torpedo boat destroyers, provision for which was made by the last congress and bids for which were opened at the navy department about a month ago. The following were the successful bid- ders: Willlam Cramp & Sons, two ships at $585,000 each; the Bath iron ‘works, two ships at $624,000 each; the New York Shipbuilding company, one ship at $6465,000. The hulls of all these vessels are to be on plans pre- pared by the navy department and the machinery on plans proposed by the bidders. Turbine machines of the Parsons type are to be installed in all the ships. Head of Municipal League. Norfolk, Va, Sept. 2. —Mayor J. Barry Mahool of Baltimore was unani- mously elected president of the League of American Municipalities. Secre- tary MacVickar cast the vote of the convention. Mr. Mahool accepted in a_strong speech. Former President Dunne of Chicago was presented with a bandsome loving cup on behalf of the convention by Councilman Young of Kansas City. FOURTEEN MEN DEAD Three Others Fatally Hurt in Michigan Mine Disaster. CAGE DROPS 700 FEET Accident Is Caused by the Breaking of a Steel Cable Attached to the Lift and Every Occupant Is Killed or Seriously Injured. Marquette, Mich., Sept. 2..—Four- teen men were killed outright and three fatally injured by the falling of a cage in the Rolling Mill mine at Negaunee, Mich. The cage was full of men and every one in it was elther killed or seriously injured. The steel cable broke and the cage dropped 700 feet. The bodies have been taken out and the injured are be- ing cared for. The mine is the prop- erty of the Jones-Laughlin Steel com- pany of Pittsburg. Fourteen men met their doom out- right, all being dashed to their deaths, and three others were so horribly in- jured that they cannot live. tims were being lowered into the workings, wheve they were shortly to begin their day’s toil. The news of the fatality spread quickly throughout the city and a crowd of thousands of people were soon gathered at tho mine. Pitiable scenes were Witnessed as the dead and dying were brought to the sur- face. ‘What caused the cable to suddenly be severed is a mystery. It had been carefully inspected the day before, in accordance with the company’s rules, and had hoisted cars of ore several times the weight of the -seventeen men who were in the cage at the time of the accident. All operations at the mine are sus- pended. NEW YORK IN NO- DANGER General Grant Declares Land Defenses Are Sufficient. New York, Sept. 2.—Even if the navy should be engaged elsewhere New Yorkers need have no fear of their homes in case of an attack by warships of a hostile country, accord- ing to Major General Frederick D. Grant, commanding the department of the East. While General Grant de- clines to make any comparisons be- tween the work of the navy and army guuners in the forts he did say this: “I am convinced that the gunners in the forts in my department can shoot so well that they can put war- ships out of action fully as fast as they can come up against them.” Considerable discussion has been engendered between army and navy men over the quality of marksmanship displayed in each branch of the serv- ice. General Grant said he was glad the navy gunners were such good marksmen, but army marksmanship had always been one of his hobbies. RESIDENTS MUCH ALARMED Succession of Earthquake Shocks at San Francisco. San Francisco, Sept. 2..—An earth- quake shock that brought residents of this city into the streets in alarm and caused a general shakeup in the ar- rangements of many households was experienced- here during the evening. The direction of the shock was from southeast to northwest and was pre- ceded by a rumbling noise. There seemed to be a succession of shocks; terminating with a snap that caused fear and trembling among those here who suffered in the San Francisco dis- aster. In the mountains the shock 'was most severe, causing great trees -to sway as if whipped by a mighty tempest. No serious damage was re- ported in the valley. MEXICAN RAIL DISASTER. Forty Persons Killed and Thirty-four Injured. City of Mexico, Sept. 2 .—Disre- gard of train orders is said to have been the cause of a disastrous wreck on the Mexican Central railroad. A freight train and a passenger train came into collision at Encarna- cion, near the city of Aguas Calientes. Authentic reports say that forty per- sons' were killed and thirty-four in- Jured. All the killed and injured except Engineer McFarland of the passenger train are Mexicans. The freight crew, charged with hav- ing disregarded orders,. has disap- peared. Woman Dles of Broken Heart. Rapid City, S. D., Sept. 2 .—Grief over the“~death' of her son Walter broke the heart of Mrs. Lillie E. Fall and two days later, on the eve of the funeral of her son, she passed away. Mrs. Fall was in ordinary health, but seemed unable to survive the shock of her son’s death. With her family she had been a resident of this county seventeen years, fourteen of which she was in office as deputy register of deeds and county superintendent of schools. She was a decidedly popular woman and but forty-five years of age. Closing Arguments Begun. Chicago, Sept. 2 —The closing ar- guments were begun during the day in the trial of Amasa C. Campbell for the murder of Dr. Benjamin F. Harris, It is-believed that the case will go to the jury by night. The state’s attor- ney asked that the prisoner be givem a life sentence. ARGUMENTS COMPLETED. Minnesota Rate Hearing Now Up to the Court. St. Paul, Sept. 2 .—Arguments on the railroad rate injunction suits, Which have occupied the attention of Judge Lochren's court for fourteen days, have come to an end and the ‘cases are now up to the court. The importance of the cases is rec- ognized by everybody who had paid any attention to them. The hearing has been on application by stockhold- ers of the railways for a temporary | With him for two hours. The vic- |- FOR FAIR WEEK Heavy 18 Size Dust Proof, Open Face Case," complete with finely jeweled move- ment, FANCY DIAL- —a good watch for a little money. Guar- anteed. $3.75 Quick Repairing L e e e el GEO. T. BAKER & C0. Located in City Drug Store Injunetion to hold up the 2-¢ent pa®- senger, the merchandise and the com- modity rates established by the state and the issues in the hearing have been raised on demurrer by the state. In the event thar Judge Lochren rules for the railroads the state may appeal to the United States*circuit court of appeals, which sits in Decem- ber, and every point which has been raised before Judge Lochren may be raised in that court. Should Judge Lochren deny the injunction asked by the railroads the roads may appeal to the United States supreme court. WHITECAPS TAKE A HAND Minister Dragged From the Room of His “AfEnity.” Chicago, Sept. 2' —A dispatch to the Record-Herald from Kremmling, Colo., says: Dragged from the room of his “affin- ity,” Miss Ruth Schumacher, by twen- ty enraged men disguised as white- caps Rev. H. Harsha, a retired Meth- odist minister, was horsewhipped un- til he begged for mercy and was then taken to his own ranch a mile away, Where he.was told to remain with his wife and children under pain:of.a worse punishment. Miss Schumacher Is under arrest on a charge of obtain- ing money on false pretenses. PRESENT RATES TOO LOW Railroads Claim to Be Losing Money in South Dakota. Chicago, Septr 2! —The railroad commission of South Dakota held a conference here with H. R. McCul- lough, vice president in charge of tratfic of the Chicago and Northwest- ern railroad, and J. H. Hiland, vice president in charge of traffic of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, re- garding reductions in freight and pas- senger rates in South Dakota, The commission held a special ses- slon at Sioux Falls earlier in the week to hear the views of the railroads on the question of rate reduction. Minor traffic officials of nearly all the roads in South Dakota attended the session and presented statistics to substan- tiate their claim that the present rates on intrastate traffic are unrea- sonably low, Not satisfied with the representa- tlons of the subordinate officials of the railroads the commissioners de- cided to come to Chicago and confer with the executive officers of the Northwestern and St. Paul railroads, which have a large majority of the railway mileage in South Dakota. Lose Money at Present Rates. Vice President McCullough of the Northwestern and Vice President Hiland both told the commissioners that the present rates in South Da- kota on intrastate traffic, both freight and passenger, do not yield enough revenue to defray the cost of the serv- ice rendered. The service is main- tained by the railroads on the present basis, their executive officers say, in the belief that it will most quickly develop the resources of the state and therefore is to the best interest of the railways. The commissioners said the people of South -Dakota were asking for a maximum passenger rate of 2 cents per mile because many other states now have that rate. The railway offi- clals pointed out the difference" in population per mile of road in South Dakota and the states Where. the rail- roads have voluntarily lowered pas- senger rates and in other states where they have been forced to do so by legislation. In the latter states the railroads propose to contest in the courts the constituticnality of the 2- cent fare laws. Refuses to Discuss Report. Oyster Bay, L. I, Sept. 21.—Whether or not the striking telegraphers have appealed to President Roosevelt to ar- bitrate the questions involved in the strike could not be ascertained at the president’s oftices. Secretary Loeb de- clined to elther affirm or-deny the re- port pnblished that Percy Thomas, deputy vice president of the Commer- cial Telegraphers’ union, and . Daniel L. Russell, former president ‘of the New York ity local union, had visited the president Wednesday and talked WANTS ONE CENT A WORD. HELP WANTED. WANTED—For U. S. army, able bodied, unmarried men between ages of 19 and 35, citizens of the United States, of good characte* and temperate habits, who can speak, read and write English For information apply to Recrait- Officer, Miles Block, Bemidji, Minn. WANTED: Five waiters or wait- resses and kitchen help. This week only. Good wages. Arm- strong’s restaurant. 'WANTED—Good girl for general house work. Good wages. In- quire 605 Minnesota Ave. WANTED — Millinery appren- tices, apply to Mrs. E. J. Jones at O’Leary and Bowsers. WANTED: Laundry girl and din- ing room girl. ' Hotel Brinkman. FOR SALE. FOR SALE: One 25 horse power, compound, traction New Giant Engine, used only two seasons, in fine working order, good as new, at a snap figure. Engine can be seen working. For further inform- ation call at Pioneer office. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. FOR SALE: Fine opening for first class restaurant man. Address Lock Box 658, Bemidji. Mlnn, FOR " SALE—Magnificent moose head mounted; will be sold cheap. Inquire at this office. { FOR SALE—Three-burner gasoline stove for sale cheap. Going away. { 402 Minnesota avenue. FOR SALE— Chairs, bedsteads, mattresses, springs and commodes. b Inquire 404 Minnesota Ave. MISCELLANEOUS. PUBLIC LIBRARY—Open Tues- days, Thursdays and Saturdays, 2:30t0o 6 p. m., and Saturday evening 7:30 to 9 p. m. also. Library in basement of Court House. Mrs. E. R. Ryan, librar- fan. WANTED—To let contract for cutting, hauling and loading 1000 cords of pulp wood, right at rail- road. 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