Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 7, 1907, Page 4

TITINT NO FODTBALL GAME WITH GRAND RAPIDS ELEVEN The “‘Rapids” High School Team Has Disbanded.— Bemidji Team Will Also Disband. There will be no football game between the Grand Rapids high school football team and the Bemidji high school eleven, as had been planned for Saturday, owing to the fact that the Grand Rapids team was disbanded yesterday at the re- quest of Professor E. A. Freeman, superintendent of the Grand Rapids school. The disbandment of the Grand Rapids eleven is a sore disappoint- ment to the members of the Bemidji high school eleven and their friends. Grand Rapids defeated Bemidji a month ago, at a time when the local team had not been fully organized and the membership was weak. The local team has improved 100 per cent since that time, and have won several very creditable victories, notable among which is the defeat of Crookston by a score of 6to 0. It was hoped that the game could be played Saturday as everyone who has seen the local team play of late was confident that they would have won over at the“Rapids.” However, the Bemidji team will be disbanded, as it is impossible to get a game with the East Grand Forks team for the championship of the northwestern part of the state, and thete'are no other high school elevens that are still playing. The Big Falls Robbery. The Big Falls Compass says of the postoffice robbery at Big Falls last Saturday morning: “When Postmaster Swedback went to the posoffice last Saturday morn- ing, he was surprised to see the door leading from the lobby into the office smashed into kindling, and a moment later knew what had = hap- pened. The door of the safe was blown into bits. The thieves had entered the south window of the office by breaking a pane of glass and probably an hour later escaped through the printing office at the rear, taking about.two hundred dollars in stamps and currency. The safe was blown open with nitro- glycerine. A mask was found outside and a few stamps near the depot, and a cold-chisel and two keys were left in the office. The explosion was heard by several persons about half past 2 a. m,, but the hearers thought it was the usual celebration of a village that cannot afford a night watchman. Previously the thieves attempted to break into the meat market, but found Chas. Pierce and a dog in their way. Sheriff Walsh is hot on the trail of several suspicious charac- ters who have been seen in town previous to the robbery.” Hitchcock Returns to Crookston. The many Bemidji friends of Charles A. Hitchcock will be pleased to learn that he has decided to re- turn to Crookston, as the following, taken from the Crookston Journal, will show: “Charles A. Hitchcock will re- turn to the city ina few days and resume his business in this section as an autioneer. He made such a success in that line that he needs no introduction.” Died at Cass Lake. Cass Lake, Nov.7.—(Special to Pioneer.)—Miss Ameline Lemke, aged 50 years, died early yesterday morning, after suffering for nearly a year with a cancer. The remains were taken to Albany, Minn., for interment, ‘‘Plenty Money” Coming. St. Paul, Nov. 7.—E . H. Bailey, president of the First National bank, announced last night that as the result of a conference between repre- sentatives of the Duluth, St. Paul and Minneapolis bankers and J. J. Hill with representatives of New York financial interests, arrange- ments has been made whereby money would be secured for the movement of the northwestern crops. Mr. Bailey refused to give details of the plan which had been decided upon, but declared that sufficient funds had been secured for the movement of the wheat crop and that no fur- ther difficulty would be encountered by the banks in this respect. New York, Nov. 7.—Before leav- ing for Washington last night Secre- tary Cortelyou said: “I am helping out the situation in Duluth, Minneapolis and St. Paul, in connection with the grain crop; also in New Orleans and in other sections.” Housewarming at White Home. An old-fashioned housewarming was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. White last evening, when invited friends to the number of fifty assembled at the residence and passed several hours very pleasantly. The rooms were prettily decorated, and candles stuck in apples added novelty to the scene. Progressive cinch was played, at which game P. J. Russell was the most efficient gentleman player and Mrs. Ike Black was the best player among the ladies. Refreshments were served by the hostess. Special Meeting County Board. A special meeting of the board of county commissioners will be held on Tuesday, December 3, when matters of general business will be considered by the board gnd dis- posed of. There are many matters that negd consideration, and it is expected that the session of the board will last at least two days. RENEWS INTEREST IN CASE Another Mysterious Death in Vrzal Family at Chicago. Chicago, Nov. 6.—Renewed interest | regarding Herman Billik, the Bohe- mian fortune teller and magician who i8 under sentence to be hanged for murdering the family of Martin Vrzal by means of poison, has been aroused by the sudden mysterious death of William Nieman, husband of Emma Vrzal Nieman. the state’s chief witness in the Billik case and charged that Billik poisoned her father and four sisters and caused her mother to commit suicide after he had spent most of the money the mother got in life insurance. Billik | has steadily maintained his innocence and declared that the murders were the work of a person closer than he to the victims. The death of Nieman, apparently without any possibility that Billik, who is in jail, could be respon- sible, has greatly encouraged those who seek to have Billik eventually set free. FEARED HE WOULD GO MAD Letter Written by Actor Hitchcock Before His Disappearance. London, Nov. 6.—Calling the serious charges against him “a humiliating slander” Raymond Hitchcock has written a pathetic letter appealing to a friend in Paris not to do as many of his other acquaintances have done and turn the cold shoulder to him at his time of adversity. “This agony can’t last, you know, for it will either drive me mad or I must end it by a journey somewhere,” is a sentence in the letter which is published here; a most significant sen- tence in view of the disappearance from New York of the comedian, rest- ing under such accusations. Michigan Double Tragedy. . Bancroft, Mich.,, Nov. ..—Arthur Rogers, a wealthy farmer living two miles from here, cut his wife’s throat with a razor and then committed sui- cide with the same weapon. A farm- hand coming to the house for dinner found both of them dead on the kitchen floor with their throats cut. Rogers is supposed to have been de mented. I We Cash Mill Checks e each. .. i Men’s Sheep Lined Ceats. We are closing out 1 lot ofjiMen’s $7 Sheep Lined Corduroy Coats with A splendid assort- ment of $I0 Suits. Just take a look at ourclothing window., You’ll see many $I2 and $15 values, pric- ed at $10.00 Genuine Wamb. eachl‘l.l.r.".a. - am atCollarsar. $4095 Mackinaw Jackets One lot of F to closr:a. ec;c%anchackets, $l'59 e ettt—————————— Men’s Hats Too many Hats on our shelves for this time of year. We have selected 100 Hats from our $1.50 and You can have your choice or, 2.00 grades. 90e¢.. — Men’s Underwear. Men’s Natural Wool Un- derwear, $2 grades, for, a suit $1.50 O’Leary & Bowser| \ BEMIDJI Palmer and Wool- tex Coats, no better coats made. They should bring full price at this' time of the year, but we have about 80 Coats in Ladies’, Child- ren’s one garment of a kind that we are closing out See, them before you buy your winter coat Ladies’ Black Voile Skirts We are over- stocked on Lad- ies’ high grade Voile Skirts. All the $14, $18, $20 and $22 Skirts now go at 25 per cent discount. 60 pieces of Wh Flanne\, per yard.... yard......., and Misses’ Outing Flannel 1000 yards extra wide Light Colored Outings 12 and 156¢c qualities, per We Cash Mill Checks i*e Shaker o¢.’ 10e¢. Muslin Underwea . W' ate offering Large . Assortment Ladies’ Muslin Uuder- wear at Bargain Prices. r a of Nieman's wife was ; y, | and ji | declared i CHOTE IS SETISHED Says Much Was Accemplished at Second Peace Conference, | DELEGATES KETURN HOME | Although the Two Principal Proposi- tlons Failed of Adostion Many Other E Suggestions of I .ortance Were Ap- { proved by tie Convention. New York, Nov. Porter and the American cent peace confe returned home on { Prinz n Cecilic —General Horace 1. Choate, two of adors to the re- 2 at The Hague, e steamer Kron d will go on to Washington in a days to submit a report to the president. Both General Porter and hoate expressed themselves as being entirely satisfied with the results of the second confer- ence. Be se two of the principal propositions before the conference— i { 1 i JOSEPH H. CHOATE. | | obligatc:ry i of armaments—failed to take positive form Choate said the idea pre- vailed me quarters that little he been accomplished. This view, he de- { clared, would be dispelled when the results of the conference were studied their farreaching effect fully than fourteen conventions, dealing h various phases of war, { were adopted and the conference also favor of many more propo- ong them the doctrine of arbitration. One of the ventions—adopted unani- the proposition offered sitions, obligatory | General Porter and designated “the Porter proposition.” This convention bz prohibits the use of armed force for| { the recovery of contractual debts until | all efforts at arbitration have failed. The importance of the convention was emphasized by the fact that it was signed by every creditor and debtor nation. {TO HEAD OFF STATE SUIT Temporary Restraining Order in Corn Products Case. Chicago, Nov. —Judge Kohlsaat, in the United States circuit court, has issued an injunction restraining George F. Harding of. this city from prosecuting in the state courts the j | suit recently started by Harding ask- ing for the appointment of a receiver for the Corn Products company. It is claimed in the prayer for the A f | injunction against Harding that a sim- { ilar suit was brought some time ago 8 | by a company of which Harding is the head and that the present action con- i | templated by him is merely an at- tempt to harrass the Corn Products company. Final hearing on the appli- cation for the injunction will be had on Nov. 12. Harding claimed in his application for a receiver that the Standard Oil company in conjunction with certain individuals had conspired to wreck the Corn Products company. ABANDONS EUROPEAN TRIP Said Secretary Taft Will Return Di- rect to Pacific Coast. Manila, Nov. \.—~Becretary of War Taft, it is reported, will abandon his European tour and return directly to the Pacific coast. He will leave Ma- nila on Nov. 9 on the American flag- ship Rainbow for Yokohama, where he will take passage by steamer for San Francisco. This report has been verified, though owing to the absence of Mr. Taft, who is out of town visit- | | ing the new waterworkts, he cannot be interviewed upon the political situa- tlon and the conditions prevailing at ‘Vladivostok, which, it is reported, are the cause of his return to America. Austrian Budget for 19087 Vienna, Nov. )—The budget for 1908 has been introduced in the unter- haus by the minister of finance. It showed the estimated expenditure to | be $428,772,000 and the\ revenue at $429,154,000, the estimated surplus be- ing over $200,000 higher than in 1907. Scout Cruisers at Rio Janeiro. Rio Janeiro, Nov, .—The Unfted States armored cruisers Washington and Tennessee, the latter flylng the flag of Rear Admiral Sebree, have ar- rived here from Port of Spain, island of Trinidad, Oct. 24, bound for the Paclfic coast. b Falling Off in Imports. New York, Nov. §.—The tightness of the money market is reflected in the monthly report of Colonel Edward Fowler, appraiser of the port. His figures for the month of October show an approximate decrease of over $3 000,000 in the values of importations |.compared with the same month of last year. Lovers' purses. are tied with cob- webs.—Italian Proverb. i tration and limitation | Trying the Wrong Man. An unusual verdict was rendered by the jury in a ca ried fn a California town a gobd many years ago. The question was as to the ownership of scveral head of cattle which the de- fendant was accused of having stolen from the plaintiff. As the case pro- ceeded and different witnesses gave their evidence, it became apparent to all listeners that the defendant was an Innocent man. When It came time for the jury to retire to consider their verdict, they did so, but returned to the courtroom in a’ few moments. The foreman looked the judge straight in the eye and said with a drawl and twang which betrayed his New Eng- land origin: “Jedge, we find the plaintiff guilty.” “The court is not trying the plain- | tiff, but the defendant,” said his honor ter being explain- s ry’s opinion that the defendant was not guilty. “Howsorever,” added the foreman solemnly, ‘“’pears to me we're con- | sidering the wrong man, your honor!” | Holy Land a World Center. It used to be a fancy that the Holy Land was the center of the world. In a sense not then meant it was indeed central. It oceupied a strategic posi- tlon. Three continents converge here— all the continents known as.the an- clents—Asia, Africa and Europe. Con- tiguous to Palestine on the south lies Egypt and on the north Syria. Or, tak- {ing a_wider view, on one side of it were India, Persia, Assyria and Baby- ’ lonia, while on the other side of it were Egypt, Greece and Rome. A Dbabe among giants the land of Jesus was in- deed little among the geographical tribes; but, like a Dbabe, it was mon- arch of the household of lands. From its central vantage tiny Pales- i tine saw through the march of centu- | rles the procession of these mighty em- pires—Assyrian, Babylonian, Medo- | Persian, Greek and Roman, being it- | self during much of the time a center of influence and determining force that have bhelped form the character and history of the civilized world.—Ex- change. at length induced |} Fine 20-year Gold Filled Case, complete with 17-Jew- eled Elgin Movement. Special price only $13.75 Our workshop is one of the finest equipped in North- ern Minnesota. Care and promptness assercd. Give us a call. GEO. T. BAKER & GO, Located in City Drmg Store WANITS ONE CENT A WORD. A Clash of Prayers. i Maggie, with her fair face and blond hair, and Nina, with dusky skin and kinky wool, had played together at { mud pies and had swung on the same | gate ever.since they could remember, for Nina's mammy was Maggie’s nurse, says the Housekeeper. They were now seven years old. Maggie loved Nina in spite of her color, yet she had a feeling that her friend deserved to be | white, so she added to her prayer each night: “Please, God, make Nina white.” As the weeks went by and Nina re- mained unchanged Maggie felt that her | petition needed re-enforcement, so she confided in Nina, begging her to pray for the greatly desired bleaching. But Nina in surprise looked at Maggie with wide open eyes and exclaimed: 1 “Me? No, sir-ee. Fo’ de Lawd, | Maggie, I doan wanter to be no white i child, an’ I's jes’ prayin’ with all my | might fer you to come black!” The Intelligent Bird. H i Two negroes in Washington were toverheard discussing the intelligence of birds in general. “Birds is shore sensible,” observed | one darky to the other. “Yo’ kin learn | them anything. I uster work for a lady that had one in a clock, an’ when it was time to tell de time it uster come out an’ say cuckoo jest as many times as de time was!” “Yo' doan® say so?” asked the other negro incredulously. - “Shore thing!” responded the first darky. “But de mos’ wonderful part was dat it was only a wooden bird too!”—Harper's Weekly. The Builders. “The Egyptians were the builders,” said a contractor enviously. “No won- der their monuments will endure for- iever. Labor was nothing to them. As you would spend a cent on a newspa- | per so would an Egyptian king put 10,000 men to work upon a temple. Labor, you see, cost nothing. A strik- example of the Egyptian prodigal- ity of labor lies in this fact: No less than 2,000 men were employed for three years in carrying a single stone, ja stone of unexampled size, from Ele- | phantine to Sais.” Unlucky at Bridge. “Do you believe in this thirteen su- | perstition?” asked Tete de Veau. “I do,” replied L'Oignon. “I could never understand why I was so un- lucky at bridge till T discovered that T was always dealt a hand of just thir- teen.”—Exchange. A Little Mixed. A Hindoo barrister thus excused an absent client whom sickness had pre- vented from coming to court: “The man has fallen unwell, your honor, and he has sent a man here to say that he is Iying and cannot come.” A Theory. Tommie—Pa, how do storms git out? Tompkins—Get out? What are you driving at—out of what? Tommie— W’y, the weather bureau, o’ course. I @idn’t know but mebby the man left a frawer open. A Failure. “When she gave you the plece of eake, did you say ‘Thank you? ” “Yes, ma, but it didn’t do no good.” “Didn’t do any good?” “No; she didn’t give me another plece.” Three things too much and three too little are pernicious to man—to speak much and know little, to spend much and haye little, to presume much and e worth little.—Cervantes. Evolution. “Father,” said little Rollo, “what 18 evolution?” “Evolution, my son, is a sort of apology which man has invent- ed for displaying so many of the traits of the lower animals.”—Washington Star. Good Plan. “How can I prevent the flies getting into my sugar basin?” wrote a “Con- stant Reader” to a journal. “Fill the sugar basin with salt,” was the laconic reply.—Pele Mele, HELP WANTED. WANTED FOR U. S. ARMY: Able- bodied unmarried men, between ages of 21 and 35; citizens of United States, of good character and temperate habits, who can speak, read, and write English. For information apply to Recrnit- ing Officer, Miles Block, Bemidji, Minn. | WANTED: Two dining-room girls, wages $20 per month; two cham- bermaids; one dishwasher. Hotel Brinkman. WANTED—Good girl for general housework. Inquire 422 Minne- sota Ave. WANTED —Lady cook. Inquire Hotel Armstrong. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. FOR SALE—Magnificent moose head mounted; will be sold cheap. Inquire at this office. FOR SALE, CHEAP—House and two lots. T. Symington, 609 Second street. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Two rooms, suitable for light housekeeping, or fur- nished. 1024 Beltrami Ave. ’Phone 272-2. FOR RENT: Small cottage. quire of J. J. Cameron. In- MISCELLANEOUS. A~~~ e S PUBLIC LIBRARY—Open Tues- days, Thursdays and Saturdays, 2:30to 6 p. m., and Saturday evening 7:30 to" 9 p. m. also. Library in basement of Court 'House. Mrs. E. R. Ryan, librar- ian. 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