Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 4, 1907, Page 2

FRIEND TO FRIEND. The personal recommendations of peo-| ple who have been cured of coughs and olds by Chamberlain's Congh Remedy bave done more than all else to make ita staple article of trade anl commerce over « large part of the civilized world, Barker's Drug Store THE BEMIfiJl DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED KVERY AFTMRNOON, OFFICIAL PAPER---CITY OF BEMIDJI BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO.| CLYDE J. PRYOR I RUTLEDQE Business Manager aging Editor Tntered in the postofice at Remidjl. Minn., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM FTY NEN ENTOMBEL RELIEF CREWS FACE DEATH Disaster Occurs in the Naomi Mine of the United Coal Company Near Monongahela City, Pa., and Was Caused by a Terrific Explosion. Pittsburg, Dec. .—The number of men entombed in the Naomi mine of the United Coal company of this city, located one and a half miles back of Monongahela City, is now said to be fifty. - Hope that the men will be res- cued alive is gradually dwindling away. The large force of rescuers has only succeeded in reaching the nine- teenth 'entry and ‘no sign of the en- tombed men has been found. There are thirty-seven:entries in all and the men were working far back in the mine when the explosion occurred. ‘The work of rescue is progressing slowly and with much difficulty. Ow- fng to the poisonous gas fumes the rescuers are unable to remain in the entries more than fifteen minutes at a time. Several' members of the relief crews are in a precarions condition from in- haling the deadly afterdamp and Su- perintendent James Henderson had to be taken.to his home. The big air fan is still going, but little relief is obtained cwing to the heavy volume of the afterdamp. The fact that the afterdamp prevents res- cue work is taken as an indication that every man in the mine has per- ished. Expert Miners Aiding in Rescue. Under the supervision of Deputy State Mine Inspector Henry Loutitt a score of expert miners of the Pitts- burg Coal company and the Monon- gahela River Consolidated Coal com- pany are making every effort to reach the entombed men. The scenes about the mine are piti- ful. Relatives have been impeding the work of the rescuers and at noon offi- cers arrived to keep them away from the pit mouth. Every. possible precaution is being /taken to keep the big air fan operat- ing so that in case any of the men are still alive they will have fresh air. Mine Inspector Henry Loutitt gave out the following statement: “It is impossible to say just what caused the explosion. The mine was remarkably free from gas, but you can never ‘tell about such a thing. Gas is likely to be found in the most unexpected places. The force of the explosion was terrific and I cannot think that any man in the Naomi mine escaped with his life. “The mine was practically shat- tered and I believe we will eventually find thousands of tons of earth hlock- ing the way to the entombed miners. We have been unable to get into the mine to any great distance, 500 yards being about the limit.” According to the latest statements made there are five Americans and forty-two foreigners in the mine. CALIFORKIA MINE DISASTER No Hope for Safety of Eleven En- tombed Workmen. Drytown, Cal., Dec. .—With smoke still pouring from the shaft of the Fremont mine hope for the eleven miners who were entombed Saturday is virtually abandoned and it is be- lieved all of them have perished be- hind the wall of flame which drove them toward the heart of the subter. ranean furnace when they tried to escape. James Drew, Joseph Manley, Daniel O’Brien and L. E. Wilson are the Americans among the victims, the rest of whom are Italians and ‘Aus. trians, A crowd, among which there were many weeping women, surrounded the mouth of the shaft all day. A num- ber of attempts were made to get into the mine, but all of them had to be abandoned, After the connecting drifts of the Fremont and Cover shafts had been bulkheaded and the collar of the lat- ter had been boarded up to smother the fire Superintendent Goodall start- ed to flood the mine, Later Goodall and a party of mining experts went down the Cover shaft and found their open with dynamite, Goodall and party then went to the Fremont shatt and made an opening by taking oft the bulkhead from the collar, They were about to descend in the skip to the 800-foot level when they were driven back to the surface by the stifliing smoke. Other attempts made to descend met with the same futile results. VERY CLOSE TO 104, Low Price at Which Canal Bonds Can Be Awarded. Washington, Dec. .—Although no official figures are given the opinion at the treasury department seems to be general that the low price for Panama canal bonds will be very close to 104. The announcement in the secretary’s circular of Nov. 18 that successful bidders might be permitted to In- crease the amount of their purchase will necessarily leave the precise low price in more or less doubt until the successful bidders have all been heard from. The fact that as usual where no de- posit is required to accompany the bid there are, it is belleved, quite a large number of bids, some of them for large amounts, from irresponsible persons, who hoped to, if successful, sell their allotments at a profit with- out having to put up any cash on their own account. The department, however, will try to devise some means of eliminating bids of this character before final awards are made. OVERPAID ITS TAXES. Milwaukee Road Claims Wisconsin Owes It $1,469,748.56. Madison, Wis, Dec. .—In its an. swer to the state’s suit to collect ap- proximately $46,000 back taxes al- leged to be due the Chicago, Milwau- kee and St. Paul Railroad company alleges that thé state owes the rail- road company $1,469,748.56, which, it declares, was overpaid In taxes dur- ing the years in question. The claim is based on the fact that the road paid taxes on intrastate business and also on interstate business, whereas the road claims the license fee law contemplates only that it pay taxes on intrastate business. This means that the case will undoubtedly go to the United States supreme court.- The law to investigate the books of the railroad gompany was passed in 1903 and at the 1905 session of the legis- lature another statute was enacted directing the state to begin action against the road for back taxes due the state on unreported gross earn- ings. NEW CUP FOR YACHT RACES Lipton and Other Foreigners Will Be Invited. New York, Dec. .—Sir Thomas Lip- ton and other famous foreign yachts- men will be invited to come to Amer- ica next year to sall for a cup to be presented by certain members of the Brooklyn Yacht club. The race will be for boats similar to those suggest- ed by Sir Thomas in his challenge for the America’s cup, which challenge was declined by the New York Yacht club. Some time ago the Brooklyn Yacht club appointed a committee to consider the matter of presenting a cup for internatlonal races between “sane and healthy” yachts and at a meeting of the club to be held on Wednesday this committee will recom- mend that the cup be offered. It is understood that a number of prom- inent yacht clubs in Europe will be invited to compete for the new cup. TELLS OF REGIPE FOR ALL CATARRH SUFFERERS CONGRESS [N SESSION Opening More of a Social Than Business Affair, CANNON CHOSEN SPEAKER lllincis Man WIill Again Preside Over Lower Branch and the Rules of the Preceding Body Will Govern the Present One. Washington, Dec. .—The meeting of the Sixtieth congress resembled a soclal function rather than the gather- Ing for the transactlon of important business of the country. So great was the demand for an opportunity to see the natlonal legislature started in its work that the galleries of the house were reserved for the families and friends of members, with very few places left for the general public un- provided with tickets. In the senate the same condition prevailed except that a larger space was kept for those who came without tickets. In each of the houses the session was short and the business done was confined to the adoption of formal resolutions notifying the president that congress had assembled, in the SPEAKER CANNON. swearing in of new senators and rep- resentatives and other perfunctory acts that always accompany the or- ganization of a new congress. Both houses adjourned in respect to mem- bers who dled since the close of the last congress, Senators Morgan and Pettus of Alabama and Representa- tlves Slemp of Virginia and Smith of Niinois having passed away during the recess. Joseph @G. Cannon was re-elected speaker of the house and the rules of the last congress adopted for the use of the present body. ® Bryan a House Visitor. Washington, Dec. .—For over an hour, before the house of representa- tives convened, William J. Bryan was the central figure in the lobby back of the speaker's desk. He was given a cordial greeting and afterward con- ferred with Representatives John Sharp Williams, James of Kentucky, Bartlett of Georgia- and others, al- though he declared that these confer- ences were without significance. Increase in Expenditures. ‘Washington, Dec. —The secretary of the treasury has sent to congress the estimates of appropriations re- quired for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1909. The figures show an in- crease of $77,479,819 over the esti- mates for 1908 and an increase of Authority Here Predicts Much Suffering and Gives Adyice to Relieve. The coming months will be a har- vest for the doctors ‘and patent medicine manufactures unless great care istaken to keep the feet dry, also dress warmly. This advice should be heeded by all who are subject to rheumatism, kidney and bladder troubles and espebially catarrh. While the latter is considered by most sufferers an incurable disease, there are few men or women who will fail to experience great relief from the following simple home prescription, and if taken in time it will prevent an attack of catarrh during the entire season. Here is the prescription which any one can mix: Fluid Extract Dandelion one-half ounce, Com- pound Kargon one ounce, Com- pound Syrup Sarsaparilla three ounces. Shake well in a bottle and use in teaspoonful doses after each meal and again at bedtime. The Compound Kargon in this prescription acts directly upon the eliminative tissues of the kidneys to make them filter and strain from | the blood, the poisons that produce all forms of catarrhal affections. Relief is often felt even after the first few doses and it is seldom that the sufferers ever experience a return attack within the year. This prescription ‘makes a splen- did remedy for all forms of blood disorders and such - symptoms as Jame back, bladder weaknesses and rheumatism pains are " entirely dis- pelled. As this valuable, though simple recipe comes from a thoroughly reliable source, it should be heeded way to the bulkhead. which thev blew by every afflicted reader. For displaying the Stars and Stripes $56,220,646 over the appropriation for 1908. This last item, however, in- cluded deficiencies and permanent an- nual appropriations, Declares for Tariff Revision. ‘Washington, Dec. = .—Representa- tive Richardson of Alabama has in- troduced the following house resolu- tion: “That the committee of ways and means be instructed to so revise the tariff so as to make it a tariff for revenue and not for protecting one class of citizens at the expense of another.” MAJORITY FAVORS BRYAN. Poll of Democratic Senators and Rep- resentatives. New York, Dec. .—Out of seventy- six Democratic “senators and repre- sentatives polled in Washington by the New York World forty-four de- clare unequivocally that the recent statement of Willlam J. Bryan that he 18 acandidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency elim- fnates all other candidates. Practically all of them believe that he should run on a conservative platform, although there is a wide difference in opinion @s to what that platform should be. Of those who do not consider that Bryan is the only man one, Senator Ransdell of Louisiana, is definite in naming a candidate. He comes out flatfooted for Governor Johnson of Minnesota, Karl Hau’s 8entence Commuted. Karlsruhe, Germany, Dec. .—The death sentence passed upon Karl Hau, formerly a professor in George Wash- ington university, Washington, D. C., for the murder Nov. 5, 1906, of his mother-in-law, Frau Molitor, has been commuted to life imprisonment. IMPRISONED IN HUNGARY, Friends of lowa Mar Will Appeal to State Department. Des Moines, Dec. ~.—Friends of Frank Polakovic oz Iowa Falls have organized themselves and will appeal to the state department at Washing, ton for his release from a Hungarian prison, where he was placed last June for a display of American enthusiasm, Polakovic was sent by the United Gymnasium assocfation in June to compete at the tournament at Sokols, b the Amerlcan party was ordered to Uisperse by the gendarmes. All com- plied but Polakovie, who is said to have uttered contempt for the treat- ment aceorded him, For this and his American enthusiasm he was impris. oned and has remained in custody since. CHAIRMAN ISSUES CALL. Populist Convention WIill Meet-in St. L Louls April 2. Joliet, Ill, Dec, ..—Chairman James H. Ferriss of the Populist national committee has issued a call for a Populist national convention to be held in St. Loals April 2, 1908, for the purpose cf nominating candidates for president and vice president of the United States and transacting such other business ‘as may come before the convention, The basis of represeatation will be two delegates for each conzressional district - and four delegates at large for each state and teiritory, besides one d t lerse for each 1,000 votes o jority traction thereof cast for the People's party national ticket at the election of 1904, No Truth in the Reports. Lisbon, Dec. }.—An Associated Press correspondent has investigated the character of the alarmist rumors representing that Portugal was on the eve of civil war and revolution. There never seems to have been the slight- est excuse for fie stories circulated from the frontler that the king was a prisoner in-the castle, that the crown prince had -been banished and that the navy had mutinied. Demand for, Gold Slackening. London, Dec. .—The slackening in the American demand for gold was made evident when the United States took only about one-half of the £600, 000 offered on the open market and this in spite of the fact that the price was 13’ pence lower. The Bank of England took the balance. SERIOUS AUTO ACCIDENT. One Marinette (Wis.) Man Dead and Several Injured. Menominee, Mich., Dec. i.—One of the worst automobile accidents that | ever happened in the state occurred between Gladstone and Escanaba when a car driven by Sumner Pres- cott, vice president and general man- ager of the Prescoit iron works, the largest factory of its kind in the United States, ran off the road while making a curve, turning a somersauilt and pinning the occupants of the car under the heavy machine: Albert Holquist, one of the party, was thrown a distance of fifty feet and lay there for some time uncon- scious. When he recovered he found his companions groaning and calling for help under the machine. Unable to release them he went to a section house a mile away and with the assistance of the railroad men the unfortunate prisoners were re- leased. - & Captain Frank Bent of Marinette, Wis., was remoyed from the debris with his neck broken. His death was instantaneous. Isaac Stephenson, Jr., a relative of United States Senator Stephenson, has an arm broken. Joseph Duzberry’s ‘collarbone and arm were broken. All the members-of the party belong at Marinette. Smugglers Capture War Junks. Victoria, B. C., Dec. ,—Advices from Shanghai tell of a battle between a flotilla of imperial war junks and the salt smuggling fleet at Quinsan, which, after severe fighting involving many lives, resylted in victory for the | smugglers, who captured the entire fleet of nineteen war junks. Many atrocities were ;committed upon the prisoners taken. Three Passengers Killed. Baltimore, Dec. .—In a wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Shenandoah Junction three passengers were killed and a dozen were injured, The dead are W. L. F. Hoffman and his daughter Nellie of Baltimore and an unidentified white man. A WOMAN'S BACK. - The Aches and Pains Will Disappear if the Advice ot This Bemidji Citizen is Followed. A woman’s back has many achas and pains. Most time ’tis the kidnay’s . fault. Backache is really kidney ache; that's why Doan’s Kidney Pills cure it. Many Bemidji women know this. Read what one has to say ebout it. Mrs. J. E. Cahill,hving at. 815 Minnesota Ave., “‘Bemidji, Minn., says: I have never had any seri- ous trouble with my kidneys but a few months ago there were unmis- takeable signs that my kidneys were disordered. There was a pain through the small of my back and other symptoms pointing to kidney disturbance. I had heard so much about Doan’s Kidney Pills that I concluded to give them a trial, and produced a bex -at the Owl Drug Store. 1 took them according to directions, was cured and bave felt perfectly well since. Iam well pleased with the resiilts that followed- the use of Doan’s Kidney Pills in my case and have no hesitancy in recom- mending them to others suffering from kidney complaint. For sale by all dealers. Price 50 centsy Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New Ycrk, sole agents for the. 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