Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 7, 1907, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED NVERY AFTNRNOON, OFFICIAL PAPER---CITY OF BEMIDII BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. CLYDE J. PRYOR l A. G. RUTLEDGR Business Manager Managing Editor Tntered in the postofce at Bemidji. Minn., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM FORCED TO SELL OUT Witness Tells of Oil Trust’s War on Its Competitors. METHODS OF THE OCTOPUS Cut Prices In Territory Where Inde- pendents Did Business and the Lat- ter, in Many Cases, Were Compelled to Glve' Up and Sell Out. New York, Oct. \.—W. W. Tarbell, treasurer of the Pure Oil company and the United States Pipe Line com- pany, testified In the government's suit to dissolve the Standard Oil com- pany. Mr. Tarbell said the Standard fought the United States Pipe Line company at every step to prevent it from reaching the seaboard with its plpe line. Mr. Tarbell is a brother of Miss Ida Tarbell, who has written ex- tensively of the affairs of the Standard 01l company. ‘When the pipe line reached Han- cock, Pa, In 1892, Mr. Tarbell said, the Erle rallroad objected to its pass- ing under their right of way and at ‘Wilkesbarre the Pennsylvania and Lackawanna railroads tried to pre- ~ent the pipe line passing under their tracks. Mr. Tarbell said the National Transit and the Tidewater Pipe Line companies had secured the privilege of passing under rallroad tracks. Mr. Tarbell sald that while the independ- ent pipe line was being constructed the Standard cut prices and the inde- pendent refinerles were forced in some instances to sell refined oil un- der the cost of crude oll. When the independent pipe line reached Marcus Hook, Pa., the witness sald, further cuts were made In prices by the Btandard and three independent com- pantes—the International Oil com- pany, Union Refining company and the 8. Y. Ramage company—gave up the fight and sold out. The Stand- ard, he sald, bought the refineries and through the purchase obtained con- trol of 30 per cent of the stock of the United States Pipe line. He said the Standard had no Interest in the Pure Oll company. Cuts Prices on Competitors, Mr. Tarbell said that in 1900 the Pure Oll company purchased nearly all the stock of the Producers’ Ol company, limited; the Producers’ Re- foing Ofl company, limited, and 52 per cent of the stock of the United States Plpe Line company. In the early nineties, Mr. Tarbell testified, a 4rust agreement was entered into by stookholders in the Pure Oil com- pany to prevent interests Inimical to the eompany from obtaining control. Mr. Tarbell said the Standard cut rices in Philadelphla so that the ure Oil company was forced to with- draw from ihat market. The Stand- ard out prices In this city and for three years the Pure Oil company lost money, after which the price rose so that the company now is doing a profitable business. Mr. Tarbell testified that the Pure Ofl company lald out districts in srhich to do business so as to “keep away from certain railroads which Were more to be feared because of their discriminations than the Stand- erd Oil company.” These discrimina- tions were in favor of the Standard Oil company, Mr. Tarbell said. Qeorge Chesebro, accountant for many of the subsidiary pipe line com- panies of the Standard Oil company, followed Mr. Tarbell on the stand and through him Mr. Kellogg placed on record many statements showing earn- ings, costs and charges of various character in transporting oil by pipe line companles. Most of the afternoon session was consumed in getting the statements on record. INJUNCTION IS GRANTED. Reduced Rates WIIl Not Go Into Effect Oct. 15 in South Dakota. Bloux Falls, 8. D., Oct. . «—The re- Quction ordered by the state board of rallroad commissioners in the passen- ger rate on all standard gauge rall- roads in South Dakota from 3 to 2% cents per mile will not go into effect on Oct. 156 as originally contemplated by the board. A number of the leading railroads bave Instituted an action in the Unit- ed States court in Sioux Falls and se- oured an order for the railroad com- missioners to show cause why a per- manent injunction should not be grant. r preventing them from placing the Y-cent rate in effect. The order to show cause is returnable before Judge Carland on Oct. 20, at which time ar- guments will be made for and against the granting of a permanent injunc- Hon, Pending the hearing at that time a temporary restraining order was grant- ed by Judge Carland. This will pre- vent the reduced rate golng Into effect on Oct. 16, as ordered by the board, and also restrains the board from tompleting the publication of notices in three of the dally newspapers of Bouth Dakota that the new rate will go iato effect on Oct. 15, White Girl to Wed Japanese. \ Milwaukee, Oct. )—Kametaro Sa- samoto, proprietor of a Japanese store In Chioago, came here some months ago and opened a Japanese hooth at @0 amusement resort and became ac- quainted with Sadie J. Lynch, em- ployed as a cashier at the same re- sort. The acquaintance ripened into _love and .the announcement is now made that the wedding will oagour Qot, 28, B — ILLINOIS IS FOR BRYAN. Democratic Factions Agree to Bury the Hatchet. Springfield, Ill, Oct. ;.—~The Demo- cratic factions in Illinols have buried the hatchet and agreed to give W. J. Bryan the solid Illinols delegation in the next Democratic national conven- tion, Because of the supposed close rela- tions botween Roger Sullivan and cer- taln advocates of the nomination of Governor John A. Johnson of Minne- sota as the Democratic presidential candidate peculiar interest attaches to the surprising developments. Some politiclans incline to the be- lief that “It's all up with Johnson.” Others intimate that “something may be doing soon.” The significant feature of the love feast was the development that Roger Sullivan will not oppose Bryan's nom- ination. Bryan last year demanded Sullivan’s resignation from the nation- al committee, iIntimating that he would not accept Illinois support oth- erwise. Mr. Bryan's antipathy to Sul- livan seems to have faded. PRESIDENT AT MEMPHIS Addresses Delegates to Deep Waterway Convention. Memphis, Tenn., Oct. —President Roosevelt and party arrived in the harbor of Memphis at 12:50 p. m. and immediately landed amid the screech- Ing of whistles and the cheers of thousands of people on the river front. The rain of the early morning had ceased and the parade immediately formed. Headed by a squad of police and three companies of militia the march to the Auditorium began. Pres- ident Roosevelt, Governor M. R. Pat- terson of Tennessee and Mayor James H. Malone of Memphis occupied seats in the first carriage. President Roose- velt recelved a cordial reception from all sides. People cheered, waved flags and greeted the presiient with friend- 1y cries and hurrahs. On arriving at the Auditorlum Pres- ident Roosevelt addressed the dele- gates to the deep waterway conven- tion, declaring in favor of the govern- ment improving the Mississippi and its tributaries so that they may be utilized to their utmost possibility. Continuing, he sald: “Facility of cheap transportation is an essential in our modern ecivilization and we can not afford any longer to neglect the great highways which na- ture has provided for us. These nat- ural highways, the waterways, can never be monopolized by any corpora- tion. They belong to all the people and it is in the power of no one to take them away. Wherever a nav- igable river runs beside the raflroads the problem of regulating the rates on the rallroads becomes far easier, because river regulation is rate reg- ulation. When the water rate sinks the land rate can not be kept at an excessive height. Therefore it is of national importance to develop these streams as highways to the fullest extent which is genuinely profitable.” GREETED BY BARON KUROKI Secretary Taft and Party Arrive at Kyoto, Japan. Kobe, Japan, Oct. .—Secretary Taft, Mrs. Taft and their party ar- rived at Kyoto at 7:30 a. m. With General Edwards, Mr. Carpenter, the secretary of Mr. Taft, and Charlie Taft, they occupied a special car pro- vided by the government. Mr. Taft was fatigued, but in good spirits. The approach of the traln to Kyoto was signalled by salvos of aerial bombs. General Count Kuroki, the famous commander of the Japanese army in Manchuria, met Mr. Taft on his ar- rival at Kyoto and invited the party to an informal luncheon, after which the male travelers visited many points of interest. Mrs. Taft, however, pre- terred to go shopping. READY FOR SERVICE. First Hundred Miles of Milwaukee's Coast Extension. Chlcago, Oct. \.—The first 100' miles of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul’s Pacific coast extension was opened Thursday and regular train service from Mobridge to Lemmon will begin next Sunday. This part of the extension runs through the Stand- ing Rock reservation and twelve towns have been established. Lemmon, the present terminus of the extension, is at the point where the road will cross from South Dakota into North Dakota. The station is on the south side of the tracks and this places it in South Dakota. The town of Hellinger, which ‘will be the end of the next section built, will be opened Oct. 17. Attempted to Stop Runaway. Langdon, N. D., Oct. —Ed Hom- mel, aged twenty-four years, was dragged to his death on the main strest of Langdon in the presence of scores of people. Hommel attempted to stop a runaway team belonging to a farmer. He caught the lines and was dragged about fifty yards when one of the wheels of the wagon struck him on the temple and he died in sbout five minutes. : BRIEF BITS OF 'NEWS. Mrs. Annle Yeamans, America’s old- est actress, will retire from the stage with the celebration of her seventy- second birthday on Nov. 19 next: Mrs. Yeamans has been before the public sixty-two years. < Willlam H. Bayly, for ten yea chief clerk of the United States pen- slon bureau and a close friend of the late President McKinley, is dead at ‘Washington. His father-in-law, Rev. Dr. Kuhns, was the McKinleys’ pastor at Canton, O. A committee of New Yorkers- has been organized to raise a fund for the benefit of the-family of Willlam Eaton, a clerk in the general postoffice; who although an invalid herofcally saved two-boys from drowning and ‘lost his lite from the exposure. N . NEVER MARRIED HER Senator Platt’s Reply to Mae C. Wood's Action for Divorce. CHARGE OF EXTORTION MADE Declares That the Woman Threatened to Sue Him for Breach of Promise More Than Three Years After Date of Alleged Wedding. New York, Oct. .—United States Senator Platt has made formal denial that he ever married Mae C. Wood, who is suing him for dlvorce, alleging that she was married to the senator Nov. 9, 1901, The senator made this denial in an application in court by his attorneys asking for authority to examine certaln papers in the case. The senator, in his petition, asserted that she had never made a claim to him of such a marriage until Dec. 24, MISS MAE WOOD. 1906, but on the contrary had tried to extort money from him. More than three years after the date on which she asserts she was married to him, the senator averred, she was threat- ening to sue him for breach of prom- ise and retained the law firm ot O'Flaherty & Fulton of Richmond, Va., to act for her. Charges Attempted Extortion, The senator submitted a copy of a letter from that firm written to him in January, 1905, in which they an- nounced that Miss Mae C. Wood had employed them to prosecute her claim for damages for breach of promise and for an alleged conspiracy cul- minating in New York in 1903 by which she asserted she was fraud- ulently compelled by agents of the senator to surrender certain letters written to her by him. Senator Platt said that he ignored this letter, but that his attorney sub- sequently received other letters from O’Flaherty & Fulton threatening to take the case into court unless it was settled. When he declined to enter into negotiations with them the sen- ator said “they discontinued their at- tempts at extortion until just prior to the beginning of this action.” In the fall of 1906, the senator as- serted, Mae C. Wood brought two suits against him in Omaha in which the allegations were absolutely incon- sistent with her present claim of mar- riage. These suits, he said, were brought to gain notoriety and to ex- tort money from him. Both suits were dismissed without prosecution. The senator alluded to publications of what purported to be a marriage certificate, which, he said, had been mutllated by cutting away the part that should have contained the name .of the man who officiated. " On the evening of Dec. 24, 1906, he said, he received a letter from Miss Wood in which she stated that she had received a letter from him ac- knowledging her as his wife. This, he said, was untrue and no such ac- knowledgment had ever been made. It such a communication exists, the senator said, it is a forgery, manufac- tured by the plaintiff to extort money from him. SALT PRICES ADVANCED. Trust Reaches Agreement With Inde- pendent Concerns. New York, Oct. - .—A tacit under- standing has been reached between the International Salt company, known as the salt trust, and certain inde- pendent manufacturers in regard to regulating the future course of the market for evaporated salt, according to statements made from a well in- formed quarter, says the Journal of Commerce. This action was taken, it is said, in consequence of the higher cost of labor and supplies, as well as because of the overproduction of salt. As & result of the understanding prices have recently been advanced 50 cents to $1 per ton from the low fig- ures prevailing a month ago, when sharp price cutting was in progress. Incidentally a policy of retrench- ment has been inaugurated and vari- ous firms have reduced their working forces. Five Believed to Be Nead. Birmingham, Ala.,, Oct. i—An ex- plosion of gas occurred in mjne No, 7 of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Rail- way company at Pratt City and a cayeln of the roof - followed. Four 'miners, including the bank boss, were caught behind the cavein and are be- lieved to be dead. A number of in- jured were taken out and removed to hospitals, EXPELLED FROM GERMANY Three American Mormons Escorted to the Frontier. Dresden, Saxony, Oct. ,—Three American Mormons have been ex- pelled from Germany because they persisted, despite final warnings pro- hibiting them from spreading their propaganda, in conducting river bap- tisme and making converts. They Were arrested and summarily taken under. guard to the frontler. The imperfal authorities decided in &E that it -~ was not desirable to al- aotivity in Germany, but owing to the representations of the American em- bassy in'Berlin and of Chief Mission- ary Cannon, whose fleld of activity was Central Europe, with headquar- ters at Berlin, the foreign office al- lowed the Mormons a month in which to settle their affairs and leave the country, There were at that time fifty Mor- mon missionaries in the various Ger- man states and the grounds for their expulsion were teachings contrary to public morality and social order. Editor Guilty of Libeling Jerome. White Plains, N. Y., Oct. ,—Frank E. Xavler, editor of the Yonkers Her- ald, has been found guilty of criminal libel against District Attorney W, T. Jerome. Mr. Xavier was accused of publishing in his paper the allegation that Mr. Jerome had an agreement with insurance interests by which they were to support him for gov- ernor if certain insurance men were not indicted. FAILS TO PROVE CHARGES Standard 0il Official Had No Knowledge of Rebating. Chicago, Oct. .—The federal grand Jury which listened to the testimony of James A. Moffett, president of the Standard Oil company of Indiana, rel- ative to charges made by Mr. Moffett to the effect that the Standard Oil company, which was recently convict- ed of receiving rebates on freight charges, was not the” only concern which had been guilty of this prac- tice, has made its report to Judge Landis of the United States district court. The report declares: “From a careful and thorough in- vestigation it appeared that while the statement credited to Mr. Moffett was prepared largely by Mr. Moritz Rosen- thal, one of the attorneys for the Standard Oil company in the case of the United States versus the Stand- ard Oil company, it was given out by Mr. Moffett over his name as his own statement. “It further appeared that Mr. Mof- fett had no knowledge whatever of any facts relating to shipments of property from Whiting, Ind.; Pullman, Hedgewich and South Chicago, in Illi- nois, over the Chicago and Alton or any other road by any shipper other than the Standard Oil company; that he had not been at any one of those places during the last six years and that the statement In question was based entirely upon the testimony of F. S. Hollands, an employe of the Chi- cago and Alton, given at the Standard Oil trial. “Mr. Moffett stated that so far as he knew the only information in the possession of any one connected with the Standard Oil company was that disclosed in the case against the Standard Oil company and he was authorized to state that the only in- formation possessed by Mr. Rosenthal, who prepared the statement, was con- tained in the record of the case that was tried here against the Standard 0il company.” The grand jury, after briefly review- ing the testimony of Hollands, ar- rived at the conclusion that the state- ments contained in the pamphlet and sent broadcast over the country by Mr. Moftett were entirely without foundation. SAVED BY TROLLEY POLE. Electric Car Narrowly Escapes Hun- dred-Foot Drop. Ashtabula, O., Oct. .—Fifteen pas- sengers, including several women, and a motorman and conductor had a nar- row escape from plunging to their death from the Ashtabula and Penn- sylvania electric railroad viaduct to the Ashtabula river, 100 feet below. The passengers were in a panic and several were injured by flying glass. A trolley pole prevented the car from making the plunge. The body of the coach left the tracks and one end hung suspended over the river. The accldent happened about a mile from the Lake Shore bridge, where the Ash- tabula horror occurred thirty years ago. BURGLARS LOOT CASH BOX Blow Safe of Dickey (N. D.) Bank and Secure $3,900. Fargo, N. D., Oct. ..—The Dickey State bank at Dickey, La Moure coun- ty, was entered by safeblowers, who Becured $3,900. There is no clue. R. H. Owen of the Kerr Land company, Minneapolis, is president, and A. T. Christ cashier. "BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. Rudyard Kipling, accompanied by Mrs. Kipling, has arrived at Montreal, Rev. Theodore Apple, a writer of church literature for the German Re- formed church, is dead at Lancaster, Pa. Clayton F. McMichael of Philadel- phia, secretary of the board of trus- tees of the University of Pennsyl- vania, is dead. Mrs. Carolyn W. Joyce, widow of the late Bishop Isaac W. Joyce of the Methodist Episcopal church, is dead -at Minneapolis. s A collision on the Toledo and Port Clinton electric road killed Motorman Nullman and injured Conductor Bran- ton and half a dozen others. Former United States Senator Ed- ward W. Carmack has announced him- self a candidate for governor of Ten- nessee against Malcolm R. Patterson. Rev. Dr. William P. Bodine, a well known Episcopal clergyman of Phila- delphia, is dead at Mount Pocono, Pa., where he had gone in an effort to regain his health. Miss Mary G. Burdette, sixty-six years old, sister of Robert J. Burdette and for many years corresponding sec- retary of the Baptist Home Missionary soclety, is dead at Chicago. Mrs. E. C. Benedict, wife of the well known banker, is dead at Greenwich, Conn. The Benedict family for many Years has been on very friendly terms with former President Grover Cleve- land. Mrs. Benedict was a near rela- tive of Henry H. Rogers of the Stand- ard Oil company. HOPETOELIMINATE T Straus and Sargent Beclare War on “White Slave” Traffic. PROMOTERS TO BE PUNISHED Investigation Shows That Importation Not Only of Japanese Women but Women From France, Austria, Rus- sla and Italy. ‘Washington, Oct. . — Secretary Straus of the department of com- merce and labor and Frank P. Sar- gent, commissioner general of immi- gration, have determined to eliminate the “white slave” traffic from the United States if possible, On his recent trip through the Northwestern and Pacific Coast states Secretary Straus’ attention was direct. ed to the Increasing fmportation of women for immoral purposes. The Japanese and Korean Exclusion league Informed him that hundreds of Japa- nese women were Being brought to America surreptitiously and set in practical slavery after their arrival here. It was stated the women were sold by their importers precisely as it they were so many bales of goods. Secretary Straus ordered a rigid in- vestlgation and it was discovered that the “white slave” traffic was far more widespread than had been suspected, involving the importation into Amer- ica not only of Japanese women but of women from France, Austria, Russia and Italy, It is proposed to have a careful in- quiry instituted, in all of the large citles particularly, and a roundup of allen immoral women will be made. Those who have not been in the coun- try three years and are found to have been brought here illegally will be arrested and subsequently deported. Before they are returned to their na- tive lands, however, they will be re- quired to furnish evidence against those Who brought them here and prosecutions will be begun against those responsible for the traflic. It is proposed to make examples of such men and women by securing convic- tions, if possible, and sending them to prison. HELD GUILTY OF CONTEMPT Chicago Gambler Refuses to Testify Before Grand Jury. Chicago, Oct. - .—Judge Chetlain has declared Horace Argo, who re- fused to answer questions before the grand jury regarding the existence of gambling in the city, guilty of con- tempt and sentenced him to a fine of $500 and six months in the county jail unless he purges himself of contempt. Argo was summoned before the grand jury to tell what he knew of the asserticns that certain city offi- clals were protecting Fambling resorts for a conslderation. He refused to answer on the ground that his replies might tend to incriminate him. The action taken by Judge Chetlain was the result of his persistent refusal to give information to the grand jury. ANARCHISTS FIGHT POLICE Assistant Chief of Odessa Killed in the Encounter. Odessa, Oct. '.—A strong detach- ment of police, mostly in plain clothes, had a desperate fight with a band of anarchists, resulting in the capture of fifty-three of them. The police, hear- ing that the anarchists were meeting in a certain house, rrepared to' sur- round it and were about to break into the building when the anarchistg dis- covered their presence and fired on them, killing Assistant Chief of Police Delfinsky and wounding several plain clothes men. The police then made a rush for the building and a fierce hand to hand fight followed, during which a woman was killed and two men were mortally wounded and nearly all the anarchists captured. ' WHOLE COUNTY ON STRIKE Agrees to Abstain From Meat for Ten Days. New York, Oct. .—A novel effect of the rise in price-of foodstuffs, partic- ularly meat, is reported from Augusta, Me. Nearly 1,200 of the people of Kennebec county are reported in open revolt against the high prices de- manded for meat and have pledged themselves to abstain from all-meat for ten days: It is hoped by this method to force prices down.: The date on which the strike will bdcome effective has not yet been announced, but the fasting will begin in Augusta, Gardner, Hallowell, Winthrop and sev- eral of the smaller towns of the coun- ty at the same time. 1 Roosevelt’s Name First, ' The Hague, Oct. .—In the final act of the peace conference, it hasgbeen decided, President Roosevelt shall be mentioned first, in the introductibn of the act, as the summoner of the con- ference, the names of Emperor Nich. olas, as its convoker, and Queen: Wil- helmina, as its hostess, following. In addition President Nelidoff, in his speech at the last plenary sitting ot the conference, will refer to President Roosevelt’s efforts in behalf of peace. Milwaukee Coopers Strike.; Milwaukee, Oct. \.—All coopers en- gaged in the manufacture of slack barrels in Milwaukee have goneion a strike. Nearly 500 men are out in the plants of the Milwaukee Barrel \com- pany, Kenneth W. Jacobs, Joseph Fix- ter estate and smaller ones. i FOR PERFECT STEEL hlll. Manufacturers and Rallroad Meh Un. able to Agres. New York; Oct. . .—There i8'sdid to be a hitch in the negotiations now in progress looking to the' manufsoture of a perfect steel rail becouse the steel rail manufacturers assert they c#nn‘ot make the rail demanded by the:com- mittee of the American Railway asso- clation. It is in the chemical |com: Dposition of the steel that the rajlway. men and the steel makers cannot agree. _The railway committee wanta What is it? In point of fact, it is the freedom from poisonous and spurious in- gredients,the excellence in flavor, that gives to ptPRICEs - DELICIOUS Flavoring venna Extracts &= Orange Rose, ete, their wide popularity and increas- ing sale. The retail grocers are learning that quality rather thun price is necessary to rctain the confidence of customers and make a successful business. aTall 16w In piorus and higher in carbon, with a quarter of the molte) mass at the top of the ingot cut off as a “discard.” Further meetings on the subject are to be held, but it is stated that when E. H. Gary calls the general meeting of rallway and steel manufacturers together * there will be two reperts presented instead of a joint report. PUTS BAN ON SONG. “Don’t Captain Cowles Objects to Scorn the Sailor.” Norfolk, Va., Oct. .—Enlisted men of the United States receiving ship Franklin declare Captain W. C. Cowles, brother-inlaw, of President Roosevelt, has refused to permit the band on that ship to continue to play a song entitled “Don’t Scorn the Sail- or” and which is intended to defend the uniform of the bluejacket. They declare that Captain Cowles stated the song is “making a fool of the sail- ors” and if continued to be played Admiral Evans, it is stated, has adopt- ed the song for the use of the bands on the ships comprising his fleet. Hindus Driven Back to Canada. Spokane, Wash,, Oct. .—At Dan- ville, Wash., an angry mob drove a small party of Hindus across the line into Canada, sending a shower of mis- «iles after them. A few shots were discharged at the trespassers, but none was injured, it is believed. The Hindus had found shelter in a cabin at Danville following their escape from Canada. Head of Orderon the Scene. Denver, Oct. 5—H. B. Perham, na- tional president of the Order of Rail- way Telegraphers, has arrived in Den- ver to take personal charge of the grievance of the telegraphers against the Denver and Rio Grande railway. Reinstatement of R. H. Skeggs, dis: charged because of his refusal to test Western tion, bas Leen demanded by the teleg raphers and has been flatly refused by the Denver and Rio Grande offi- cials. To Summon National Convention. Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 5—The an- nouncement was made on the steamer Alton, carrying the governors of vari- ous states on their way to the watev ways convention at Memphis, that President Roosevelt will probahly issue a call soon for a convention tc be held in Washington Jan. 3 next ta advocate the preservation and conser- vation of the natural resources of the country, including coal, oil, water- power, etc. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. Insanely jealous of his handsome young wife John Bohnrueller, a Brook- lyn saloonkeeper, shot her to death and then killed himself. indicate a seasonable movement of merchandise, but no indication of eas- fer conditions in the money market. H. M. Manheim of Minneapolis, aged thirty, was found dead in a room at the Boardman hotel at St. Paul, hav- ing committed suicide by drinking laudanum and shooting himself through the right temple. . The census bureau has issued a complete report showing that the quantity of cotton ginned from the growth of 1907 up to Sept. 25 was 1,669,977 bales, against 2,057,283, bales last year and 2,355,716 in 1905. Advices from Rome bring news of the death there of Rev. George Board- man Taylor, for thirty-five years pres- ident of the Baptist mission in Italy. Dr. Taylor was chaplain tc Géneral Stonewall Jackson in the Clvil war, Abraham Stern, a member of New York’s board of education, who has just returned from a visit abroad, states that New York must have trade schools if it is to stand well in the international struggle for world com- merce. With the record of 38,092 funerals that she has attended Mrs. Rebecca Wentzel, an octogenarian of Potts- town, Pa., who since she was a young ‘woman has been gratifying a- peculiar whim to see people buried, must now forego the “pastime,” as she called it, because of advanced age and illness. Order of Hearing on Petition to Change Found« aries of School District, Notice is hereby given, that a petition, signed and acknowledged by a majority of the free-holders who are legal voters residing in each of the school districts hereinafter specified, has been presented to the Board of County Commissioners of Beltrami County. the 6th day of September 1907, askiug that the boundaries of the school districts herin- after specified be changed as follows, to-wit: That school district, No. 56 be changed so that it will include the followlng describ territory, to-wit: Sections nine, ten. eleven, twelve, thirteen and fourteen, town 149, range 33, and now Included in school district No_ 39, That school district No. 39 be changed so that it will not inclnde the following des- cribed territory, to-wit: Sections nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen and fourteen, town 149, range 83. 3 Now therefore, 1t Is ordered, and notice is hereby given that a hearing of all parties interested in the matter of said petition will Dbe granted at a_session of sald board, com- mencing on the 15th day of October, 1907, at 100'clock in the forenoon of said day at the commissioners’ room, in the court house, in the City of Bemidjl, It is further ordered that a copy. of this order and notice be posted in one public: Dlaco in each of said districts at least ten ' (10) days ‘before the sald day appointed for sald hear-. sloner of Beltrami Couut; By WES WRIGHT, ¥ Chatrman of sald Board, might result in infraction of the rules. | nion wires at Grand Junc | Dispatches to Dun’s Trade Review! Minnesota. at a session of said hoard held on | Infi. according to law. y Dated this 6th day of September, 1007, B; orderof the Board of County Commis- | NOTICE OF SEALED BIDS. Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be recelved by the board of coumty commis- sloners of Beltrami county, Minnesota, up until 10 o’clock a. m., on Tuesday the 15th day of October, A. D. 1907, for the construetion of a county road nning at the southeass corner of section thiry township 149, range 34, and running th due west on the town line for a distance of tnrec-quarters of amile, Said Toad to be constructed and completed according to the plans and Specifications on file in the office of M D. Stoner, superin- tendent of highways, at_Bemidl, Minnesota. ‘A certified check in the smount of ten per cent of the amount of the bid must accom- pany each and every bid, as a guarantee of goud faith of the bidder. S r will be required to enter into a contract and will be required to fur- nish a good and sufficient bond in an amount double the amount of the contract price for the faithful lormance of said contract. The hoard of county commissioners hereby reserve the right to reject any or ail bids, By order of the board of county commis- sloners of Beltrami county, Minnesota. Dated at Bemidji, Minn., this 6th day of September, 1907, Wes WRIGHT, Chairman of county bcard, JonN WILMANN, County Auditor. Attest: NOTICE OF SEALED BIDS. Notice s hereby eiven that sealed bids will be received by the board of county com- missioners, of Beltrami county, Minnesova, up until 10'clock . m.on Tuesday, the 15th day of October, A, . 1907, for the construction of a county road described as follows: Begin- ning at the northeast corner of the southeast auarter of section three, township of Spooner and running thence due south two and one half miles to southeast corner of section fifteen, thence running due west to southwest corner of said section fifteen. Sald road is to be constructed and com- pleted aceording to the plans and specifica- tions_on file in the office of M. D. Stoner, superintendent of highways, at Bemidji, Minnesota. and at the office of the Kainy River Regfon, village of Baudette. A certified check In the amount of ten per cent of the amount of the bid must accom- pany each and every bid. as a guarantee o the good faith of the bidder. Successful bidder will be required to enter into a contract and will be reguired to furnish a good and sufficient bond in an amount double the amount of the contract price for the fafthful performance of said contract. The board of coun!y commissioners hereby reserve the right 10 reject any and all bids, By order of the board of connty commis- sioners of Beltrami county, Minnesota. Dated at Bemidji, Minn., this oth day of September. 1907. WeS WRIGHT. Chairman of county board. JONN WILMAXN, unty Auditor. Attest: Notice of Hearing on Petition for Formation of New District. Whereas, A petition has been filed with the County Bgard of the County of Beltrami, signed and acknowledged by a majority of the freeholders who reside in the proposed new district herein described. and who are entitled to vote at school meetings in their respective districts, and duly verified by the affidavit of one of the residents of said pro- posed new district, praying for the organiza- tion of a new school district out of the territory hereinafter described, to-wit: All of township. 162, north of ranie 33, and the said Board of County Commissioners have {appointed a time and place for a hearing upon said petition as by law required: | Now therefore, i NOTICE { Ishereby given. that a hearing upon said | petition will be had at a meeting of the said Board, commencing upon the 15th day of October. A. D. 1907, at 10 o'clock in the fore- { noon of said day, at the oflice of the County Auditor in the city of Bemidji, insaid county, at which time and place the the said County Board will hear arguments of all persons interested, for or against the proposed organization of said new school district, Dated at Bemidji, Minn., this 15th day of | September, A. D 1907, By order of the County Board of Beltrami | i County, Minn. Ry JOBN WILMANN, County Auditor and Ex-Officio Clerk of | Board. NOTICE OF APPLICATION —for— I LIQUOR LICENSE {STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Beltrami ss __City of Bemidji Notice is hereby given, That application has been made in writing to the clty council of said City of Bemidji and filed iin my office, praying for license to sell intox- icating liquors for the term commencing on Qctober 1st, 1X7, and terminating on October 1st, 1908, by. the following person and at the following place, as stated in said application, respectively towit: FRED E. BRINKMAN At and in that certain three-story brick building on the first floor and in the front room thereof, being locatedon lot ten (10) block seventeen (I7) original townsite of Bemidji, Minnesota, Said application will be heard and deter- mined by said city council of the City of Be- midji at the city clerk’s office in the ¢ity hall [in said city of Bemidji, in Beltrami i county, and state of Minnesota, on Monday, the Tth day of October. A. D. 1907, at 8 o'clock p. m. of that day. Witness my hand and seal of sald city of Bemid this 4th day of October, A. . | 1907, [sEar] THOMAS MALOY, City Clerk. NOTICE OF APPLICATION —for— LIQUOR LICENSE. !{STATE OF MINNESOTA, % ss. { County of Beltrami, City of Bemidji Notice is hereby given, That application has been made in writing to the city council of said city of Bemidji and filed in my office, praying for licensé to sell intoxicating liguors for the term commencing on October 15th, 1907, and terminating on October 15. 1908. { D the following person, and at the followiog place, 4s stated in said application. to- r wil F. 8. GEORGE. In that certain one-story brick building on the first floor and front room thereof being located on lot 19, block I, original townsite of Bemidjl Minnesota, Strect No, 314 Minne- sota avenue. Said application will be heard and deter- mined by said city council of the city of Bemidjl at thecity clerk's office in the city hall, in said city of Bemidji. in Beltrami county. and state of Minnesota, on Monday, the 7th day of October A. D. 1907, at 8 o'clock p. m., of that day. Witness . my hand and seal of city this1st day of October, A.D. 1907. Lsear] OMAS MALOY, £ City Clerk. said NOTICE OF APPLICATION —for— LIQUOR LICENSE. STATE OF MINNESOTA., unty ot Beltrami, — tss. City of Beraidii, ; Notice Is hereby given._That application has been made in writing to the city council of sald city of Bemidji and filed in my office, praying for license to sell intoxicating liquors for the term commencing on O¢e tober 26th., 1907, and terminating on Qct. 26th, 1908, by the following person, and at the following place. as stated insald application, respectively to-wit: FRANK SILVERSACK . At and In that certain two story frame bulld- ing first floor front room therv of being locat- ed | £d.on loc Twenty four (24), block fourteen (14) original townsite ot Bemidjl, Minnesota. Said application will be” heard and de- termined by said city council of the city of Bemidii at the city clerk’s office in the city hall, in said city of Bemldji, ln Beltraml county, and state of Minnesota, on Monday, the 7th day of September. A D.I1%07, at 8§ o'clock p. m. of that day. Witness my hand and seal of sald city, this Ist:day ot October A. 1). 907. [smAT] THOMAS MALOY. Qity Olerk. EERS, WIRSLO LS ~ -SO0THIG STRE mm%fil&:mu Slarrhcea. AMothers for. for over Fifty.Yeurs, allay: