Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 30, 1907, Page 2

e " Chicago Record-Herald, * wild-over our new bust of Shakespeare THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED BVERY AFTHRNOON, BFFICIAL PAPER---CITY OF BEMIDII | BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. CLYDE J. PRYOR | ALG, RurLenas Rusiness Manager Managing Bditor “ueered 10 the postoffice at Remidil. Minn., ax secund class matter. $5.00 PER. ANNUM SUBSCRIPTION Representative Steenerson is in- quiring with regard to the possibility of securing the recommendation of | the department of justice for the creation of a new federal judicial | district in northwest Minnesota,with Fergus alls as the court town. His inquires thus far have not resulted i anything promising succ It is understood that the department | of justice head officials do not regard | the creation of a new district as nec Crookston Times. ar ‘The above is simply appropriating “thunder” that rightfully belongs to jemidji. ‘I'here has been consider- able quiet talk, during the past three months, relative to locating a term of the U. S. court in Bemidji, which much the scene of the many deprecations committed on the Indian reservations, the causes being tried at Fergus Falls and else-| Why should the congress-| man favor Fergus Falls more than Bemidji, the central city of northern Minnesota, the proper place for| holding terms of U. S. court? is nearer where. An English Fling. “High buildings, sir?” remarked an American contemptuous! “Why, in England you don't know what helght Is. Last time I was in New York it was a blazing hot day, and I saw a man coming out of a lift wrapped from top to toe in bearskins, and I said to him. *Why are you mufiled up on a broiling day like this? ‘Waal,’ he said, ‘you see, I live at the top of the buildin’, and it's so high that it's cov- ered with snow all the year round! ”— London Mail. The Innocent. Plaisantin offered in payment of a bill a gold piece which had a suspicious ring, “IHere, you've given me one of those fake coins that the counterfeit- ers have just been arrested for mak- Ing,” said the merchant. “Impossible,” answered Dl ntin. “It is dated | 1863. If it were false surely it would have been found out before this.” Not a Plunger. “This schewe of mine,” said the pro- moter, “will make you rich.” . “Maybe."” said the plain, easy going man. “But if T had the money neces- sary to take the chance 1'd feel so rich that there would be no need of geing any further.”--Washington Star. The remedial effects of laughter are really wonderful. Cases have been known where a hearty laugh has ban- Ished disease and preserved life by 8 sudden effort of nature. Where She Got Them. “But,” said the inqulsitive bachelor after the baby had been carefully placed In his arms, “where does she get her blue eyes? Yours are dark, and so ore her papa’s.” “Oh,” the fond young mother ex- plained, “she inherits them from my side of the family. My brother Will's wife has just such eyes exactly.”— Cleveland Leader. Food and Civilization. Few people realize adequately that the stomach Is the greatest civillzing agency upon earth. A well fed man whose meals are suitably served will rise out of barbarism with an irresistl- ble elan.—London World. The Attraction. Mme. Dupont—Have you been to the theater this week? Mme. Durand— Yes. Mme. Dupont—Did you see any- thing good? Mme. Durand—Yes; three perfect loves of new hats.—Rire. A Bargaim Mr. Mason rubbed the edges of the umbrella with discriminating fingers while his wife listened to the saleswo- man’s enumeration of its good polnts. “This Is $10, Isn’t 1t?” he asked. *“Ob, no," replied the saleswoman re- proachfully. “Itis $0.89.” “She seems to regard the 11 cents as nlarly invidious. I wonder why?” ered My. son to his wife. nothing ‘Invidious’ about naturally it touched the glrl not to have you perceive that you were getting a bargain.”—Youth’s Com- Panion, _— Wager of Battle:- In 1817 one Richard Thornton, called to the bar.of the king’s bench charged with the murder of Mary Askford, in open eourt' threw down his glove and defied. his. accuser, whereupon there was a pretty to do. Wager of battle, it was supposed, had dled a natural death In the dark ages, but Lord Ellen- borough after much consultation of precedent held that it was still the law of England and ordered .a field to be prepared. Thornton’s accuser thereup- on declining combat, the prisoner was discharged. Next year parliament bassed an act abolishing this privilege of appeal to the strong right arm. ; —— Good Actions. When' ‘we have practiced good ac Hons awhile they become easy. When they are easy we take pleasure In them. When they please us we do them frequently, and then by frequen- €y of act they grow Into a habit.—T] lotson, . et (G Corrected. “Mamma, Mrs. Oldcastle just went when she was here this afternoon.” “Burst, my dear, burst. Mercy sakes, how can you use such slang? And you've been to Europe twice tool’— STOPS TO0 SUDDENLY Engineer’s Effort to Avoid Colli- sion Causes Disaster, THREE DEAD, EIGHTEEN HURT ‘fender of Locomotive Telescopes First Coach of Train and Every Oc- cupant of Car ls Either Killed or More or Less Injured. Camden, N. J.,, Dec. 2 .—Three per- sons were killed and elghteen injured in a collision on ths elevated tracks of the Fennsylvania rallroad just out- side the station here when a Pember- ton accommodation train ran into the rear of an Atlantic City express. A he fog was the principal contribu- tory cause of the accident. The dead are C. P. Sontjen, Stanwick, N. J.; H. J. Glarbini, Mount Holly, N. J, and T. L. Webster, Merchontville, N. J. All those killed or injured were pas- sengers in the first car of the Pember- ton accommodation train. Both trains were due in the Camden station at the same time, the Atlantic City ex- press having precedence. The fog was so thick that the englneers of the two trains were running cautiously and just outside the station the At- lantic City train was signalled to stop. The engineer of the Pemberton train failed to see the Atlantic City train in time to avoid a collision, but he in- stantly jammed his brakes down hard when it loomed up through the fog. The sudden jolt forced the tender of the Pemberton train into the first car, wrecking it badly and either killing or injuring everybody in the coach. The train, however, did not come to a full stop, but slid into the rear of the At- lantic City express, causing the ten- der to still further telescope the first car. The force of the collision was slight and no one was injured on the forward train. Hot coals from the wrecked locomo- tive of the Pemberton train set the wreckage on fire and it was at first feared that many of the injured pas- sengers who were pinioned under the heavy twisted iron and wood would be burned to death, but the prompt ac- tion of the Camden fire department In extinguishing the flames and the effi- clent rescue work of the uninjured passengers saved many lives. Several of ‘the injured may die. BY BREAKING OF THIN ICE Three Skaters Drowned and Six Oth- ers Narrowly Escape. Rutland, Vt, Dec. 2..—Three per- sons were drowned and six barely escaped the same fate because of the breaking of the thin ice on a skating pond at Castleton. Kate, Mary and George Clark, all under ten years of age, were skating on the pomd and ventured onto unsafe ice. The ice broke and they went into the water. Bix young people who were on an- other part of the pond went to their rescue. All six were thrown into the water by the further breaking of the ice. Millhands heard their cries and succeeded in saving 2ll but the three, the Clark children being unconscious when pulled out of the water. Those drowned were Ida Putnam, dged twen- ty; George Hunter, twenty-one, and Ada Franklin, twenty-four. SIX MEN MEET DEATH. Four Drowned and Two Run Down by a Traln. ‘Wheeling, W. Va., Dec. % |.—Six min. ers met death in West Virginia during the past two days. Four of the men were drowned near Sewell, W. Va,, while attempting to cross the river in a small boat, which was caught in the swift current and carried down the river and wrecked. Two miners were killed by a train on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad tracks at Newburg, near Grafton, W. Va., while on their way home from work. SUICIDES IN HIS CELL. . lowa Man Awaiting Transportation to Prison for Life, Des Moines, Dec. 2.—J. C. Cain, convicted murderer of Charles H. Mor- ris, wealthy mine cwner, committed suicide in the county jall here. He smuggled a razor into his cell and cut his throat from ear to ear. Caln was awalting transportation to the state rison at Fort Madison, to which he ad been sentenced to life imprison- ment. Body Remains Unidentified. Newark, N. J, Dec. 2 .—The iden- tity of the young woman whose body was found in a pond in Harrison, a suburb of this city, remains unknown. For nearly twenty-four hours the body has lain in the morgue and the fea- tures have been vlewed by hundreds of persons, but none of them ever saw the woman before. In view of this and further investigations which have been made the police are:inclined to believe that the woman was a visitor to Newark from some nearby city. Despondent Over 11l Health. Toledo, 0., Dec. 2 .—J. Frank Zahm, a prominent broker and tobacco manu- facturer of this city, committed sui- clde in his office by shooting himself with a revolver. It is belleved that melancholy Induced by 1{ll health caused the deed. A short time ago Mr. Zahm's physician Informed him that he would probably not live more than three months. He had been suf- fering from Brights disease. LED BY ENGLISH WOMAN. Aggressive Suffragist Campaign Planned for New York, New York, Dec. 30.—The first at- tempt at an aggressive suffragist cam. paign in New York will be made on next Thursday evening. It is planned to hold at that time an open alr meet- ing in Madison square, at which the principal speaker will be Mrs. Boor man Wells, an English -woman who has been sent to this country by the ‘suffragettes” of England to secure the moral support of American wo- men. Tt is Wer plan to blish & campaign similar to that in England, during the progress of which dozens of women have been arrested and im- prisoned on charges of disturbing the peace, Mrs, Wells will have the Har- lem Equal Rights league behind her at this meeting and it i3 announced that other women will speak, Lead- ing woman suffragists in New York have declined to have anything to do with the aggressive movement, not be: Ing in sympathy with the manner in which English women have attempted to force their claims to the ballot. INDIANS INVADE UTAH. Colorado Utes Raiding Sheep and Cat- tle Ranches. Salt Lake City, Dec. 30.—Colorado Ute Indlans are traveling in bands in Southern Utah, raiding sheep and cat- tle ranches, according to a report re- ceived by Governor John C. Cutter. According to this report a small band of Indians attacked three cowbays near Verdure, San Juan county, and at the point of rifies' compelled them to drive thelr cattle back into the can- yon from which they were trailing on to the winter range, threatening to kill them unless they did so. Governor Cutter will take up the matter with the authorities at Wash- ington, as, according to a ruling of the commissioner of Indian affairs, the Colorado and Southern Utes:are for- bidden to enter Utah. : FAMILY ESCAPES INJURY. Home of Brownsville (Pa.) Italian Wrecked by Explogion. Rrownsville, Pa., Dec.. 30.—The home of R. Frediani, an Italian, was wrecked by an explosion of dynamite. The entire front of the house was blown out, but neither Frediani or members of his family were injured. Recently Frediani received letters from an alleged Black Hand society threatening death if money was not pald the society and the authorities believe the Black Hand is responsible for the outrage. Virginia Rate Cases Appealed. Richmond, Va., Dec. 30.—Decrees were received here by the United States clrcuit court clerk from Judge Pritchard granting an appeal to the United States supreme court in the Virginia passenger rate cases—the cases of the railways against the state corporation commission. By agree- ment the 2-cent rate remains effective until the cases shall have been ad- judicated by the supreme court. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. There was a falling off of 10 per cent in building in Chicago during 1907, Crime in Chicago runs largely to thievery. In 1907 there were 4,114 big and little thieves arrested, 1,001 bur- glars and 531 robbers. Representative Calderhead of Kan- sas, who was taken ill with an attack of grip, which later developed into pneumonia, is reported to be some- what better. Fire routed the guests of the Hotel Walters at Chicago and many made spectacular escapes by leaping from the windows of the second floor to the structure of the South Side elevated road. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Dec. 28.—Wheat—May, $1.14; July, $1.143%. On track—No. 1 hard, $1.18%; No. 1 Northern, $1.11%; No. 2 Northern, $1.08% @1.09%; No. 3 ! Northern, $1.04% @1.06%. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, Dec. 28.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.00@5.75; fair to good, $8.25@4.75; good to choice cows and heifers, $3.00@3.75; veals, $3.75@5.75. Hogs—$4.40@4.50. Sheep—Wethers, $4.10@4.30; good to choice lambs, $5.50@6.25. Duiuth Wheat and Flax, Duluth, Dec. 28.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.11%; No. 1 Northern, $1.10%; No. 2 North- ern, $1.07%; Dec., $1.09%; May, $1.- 14%; July, $1.16%. In store—No. 1 Northern, $1.09%; No. 2 Northern, $1.06%. Flax—To arrive and on track, $1.17Y%; Dec., $1.16%; May, $1.22%; July, $1.24. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Dec. 28.—Wheat—May, $1.07%; July, 99%c. Corn—May, 59%c; July, 58%c. Oats—May, old, b643c; May, 623%c; July, old, 48%c; July, 46%c. Pork—7Tan., $12.50@12.- 621%; May, $12.17% Butter—Cream- eries, 20@29c; dairies, 18@25¢c. Egg —21@23c. Poultry—Turkeys, 8@l1c, chickens and springs, 9%c. chl}:lpo Union Stock Yards. Chicago, Dec. 28.—Cattle—Beeves, $3.46@6.15; cows and heifers, $1.20@ 4.66; Texans, $3.10@38.90; calves, $5.00 @6.75; Western cattle, $3.30@4.75; stockers and feeders, $2.35@4.26. Hogs —Light, $4.25@4.65; mixed and heavy, $4.30@4.75; rough, $4.30@4.40; pigs, $3.80@4.50. Sheep, $2.00@4.76; year- lings, $4.50@6.25; lambs, $4.25@6.66. Picking on Him. A first grade boy brought perfect spelling papers home for several weeks and then suddenly began to miss five and six out of ten. “How's this, son?” asked his father. “Teacher’s fault,” replied the boy. “How {s it the teacher’s fault?" “She moyed the little boy that sat next to me.”—Lippincott’s. Practical, ) Bound practical advice given by a misanthrope: If ever you should be at- tacked by night never shout “Murder!” for no one will bother about you. Yell “Fire!” and everybody will be out of doors in a jiffy. Sneaked. “What slde do you generally take when your wife gets in an argument with somebody else?” “Outside. It's safer.” — Milwaukee Bentinel. There are times when God asks noth- ing of his children except sflence and Patience.—Robinson. /| John sleepily. A tlideous Dr I had a horrible dream a few nights ago. [ dreamed that I was the sub- edltor of a religious weekly, There 18 nothing dreadful in that, of course, The horrible part comes later, My editor, just off.for a holiday—editors generally are, you know-—Iinstructed me to write to several people of eminence and ask them to tell me their favorite prayer. (I record thig little story In all reverence, you understand.) Well, many of the eminent people replied, Including a lady novelist of great fame, The lady wrote: Dear Sir—In reply to your esteemed fa- vor, I have much pleasure in informing you that my favorite prayer ls, “Give us this day our dally bread.” I placed it at the head of the col- umn, put the paper to bed and went there myself, fecling pleased, Next morning when I opened my copy of the religlous weekly I found that three letters had been dropped from the lady novelist’s favorite prayer, which, to my consternation, now read as follows: “Glve us this day our dally ad.”” I woke up sereaming.—XKeble Howard In Bketch. Classcd as an Antique Also. A charming hostess of one of the “big houses,” as they are called by those who are welcomed Into them, has the added beauty of prematurely white hair, says the Washington Star. That which seems to her contempo- raries an added charm may appear to the crudely young a mark of decline, at least so It appears In one Instance of which the hostess herself tells with enjoyment. The lady Is a cqunolsseur of antlques, At one of her teas a debutante rich with the glow of youth, but sadly con- strained with her sense of her own novelty, was handed a cup of tea, The cup was beautifully blue and wonder- fully old. The hostess, desiring to lighten the strain on her youthful guest by a pleasingly diverting re- mark, said, “That little cup is 150 years old.” “Oh,” came the debutante’s high strained tones, “how careful you must be to have kept it so long!” Trades That Kill, One of the most dangerous of trades, according to the Pilgrim, “is the cover- ng of toy animals with skin, chamois leather being used, for instance, for the elephants, calfskin for the horse and goatskin for the camels. This covering must of course fit without a wrinkle to look natural, so the wood- en model is first dipped into glue, then sprinkled with chalk dust; then the skin is put on. The chalk is so fine that it fills the air and is drawn into the throat and lungs. A year of this sort of work often results In death. Another very injurious toy is the rub- ber balloon. The fumes and solvents used In reducing sheet rubber to the necessary thinness while retaining its strength and the dyeing of the bril- liant yellows, greens and purple are most of them poisonous. A Swelled Head. A typical kinglishwoman, when some one spoke the other day of a certain | man having a “swelled head,” looked dazed. “Really! You don’t mean it!” cried the Englishwoman. “I'm very sorry.” A day or so later the English- woman, happening to meet the wife of the man in question, observed that she was so sorry to hear that Mr. Blank was ill. “But he isn’t!” cried the wife. was never better in his life.” “Is that so?” said the Englishwo- man. “Why, what could Mrs. Dash have meant the other day when she sald he was suffering from a swelled head?’ “He His Narrow Escape. A Jolly old steamboat captain with more girth than height was asked if he had ever had any very narrow es- capes, “Yes,” he replied, his eyes twinkling, “once I fell off my boat at the mouth of Bear creek, and, although I'm an expert swimmer, I guess I'd be there now If it hadn't been for my crew. You see, the water was just deep enough so's to be over my head when 1 tried to wade out, and just shallow enough”—he gave his body an ex- planatory pat—“so that whenever I tried to swim out I dragged bottom,” ~Hverybody's. Horrible Example. “My dear,” said Mrs. Strongmind, “I want you to accompany me to the town hall tomorrow evening.” “What for?” querled the meek and lowly other half of the combine, “I am to lecture on the ‘Dark Side of Married Life,” -explalned Mrs. 8., “and I want you to it on the platform and pose as one of the {llustrations.”— Chicago News. A Financial Pessimist. Gaye—Yes, he Is what you might term a financial pessimist, Myers— What's a financial pessimist? Gaye— A man who is afrald to look pleasant for fear his friends will want to bor- row somecthing, Accidental, Alice—How dld you come to meet your second husband, Grace? Grace— It was purely accidental. He ran over my first one with a motor car and afterward attended the funeral. A Crash. “John, what was that awful noise In the bathroom just now?” “Don’t worry, my dear,” replied “It was merely a crash towel falling.”—Milwaukee Sentinel. Opinlion. Opinion Is a light, vain, erude and imperfect thing settled In the lmagina- tion, but never arriving at the under- standing, there to.obtain the tincture of reason.—Ben Jonson. =g A Wasp’s Mistake. It is generally supposed that instinct unerringly teaches birds and insects the best way in which to build their homes or nests and also to provide for their offspring. -The following Inct: dent will show that instinct is not al ‘ways infallible: - ‘A naturalist placed three small emp. ty vials in an open box on a shelf In an upright position in close contact, and they were uncorked. A short time afterward It was a matter of surprise to find that these had been approprl ated by a female mud wasp. She had placed a goodly nuny the center vial, doubtless Intended to serve as food for her future brood, then proceeded to deposit her eggs In those on either side. She next closed tightly the mouths of all the recepta- cles with a bard lime cement. Having finished her work, she then doubtless went on her way, satisfied all had been done for her offspring that a thought ful mother could do. But just think of the sensations of those little wasps when they come Into existence, for, while starving In their sealed cages, they can plainly see through the Im penetrable glass walls the bountiful supply of food which was provided for their use. Forgetful. “I suppose,” sald the beautliful girl, “that you often burn the midnight oll?” “No,” replled the poet. “I hang my hat on the doorknob, so the landlady can’t look through the keyhole and catch me burning the gas.”—Judge. IT IS SERIOUS, Some Bemidji People Fail to Realize ‘the Seriousness. The constant aching of a bad back, The weariness, the tired feeling, The pains and aches of kidney ills Are serious if neglected. Dangerous urinary trouble fol- low. 2 A Bemidji citizen shows you how to avoid them. Clark Roberts, living at goo American Ave., Bemidji, Minn., says: ‘I suffered severely for two or three years with a pam in the small of my back. The pain would come on very suddenly and last fcr two or three weeks, caus- ing me much misery and discom- fort while it lasted. secretions were dark and unnat- ural in appearance, and there was much soreness across the kidney regions. I went to the Owl Drug Store and produred a box of Doan’s Kidney Pills. After using them a short time I began feeling very much better. I have not suffered from any trouble with my kidneys since. - The kidney secretions have become clear and I have felt much better in every way.” For sale by all dealers, Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the United States, Remember the name—Doan’s— and take no other, The kidney { 8he Thought He Was Dead. Maginnis had been {1l for some time, and, like a great many invalids, be wag somewhat Irritable, and when things failed to meet his approval the next unfortunate who came within range was pretty apt to be reminded of it in a way far more forcible than polite. He lingered in this conditiop for several weeks, dally growing weak- er, but still holding his own sufficient- ly to make things lively and more or less iInteresting for those about him Finally one day when the family doc. tor called he met the long suffering Mrs. Maginnis coming out of the sick room, and, rubbing his hands, he cheer: ily remarked: “Ah, good morning, Mrs. Maginnis! How is our patient today?” “It's dead the poor mon is, O'im afther thinkin’, hivin rist his sowl!” was the resigned reply. “You think he is dead? Don’t you know whether he is or not?” demand: ed the doctor, “Not fer shure,” responded Mrs. Ma- glnnis briskly, “but thin he bethrays ivery symptom of i{t. I wint into his room jist now, an’ he didn’t t'row any thing at me!”"—London Tit-Bits. His Act of Charity. Mrs. Henpeque—So you did an act of charity to commemorate the twen- tieth anniversary of our wedding. Mr, Henpeque—Yes; I refused a raise in ealary to one of my clerks who wanted to get married. 2 One Use For It. ] notice that you writers use a great deal of tobacco. Does it stimu- late your brains?” “T don’t know, but it makes you for- get that you're hungry.¥—Cleveland Leader. The Bachelor’s View. “What Is the most aggravating thing’| In married life?” asked Dorothy. “Sometimes,” sald the bachelor friend, “it's the husband, and some- Hmes it's the wife.” = FRIEND TO FRIEND. The personal recommendations of peo- ple who have been cured of coughs and tolds by Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy have done more than all else to make it staple article of trade an1 commerce ove: « large part of the civilized world. Barker’s Drug Store When Did You Oil Your Watch? When did you oll your watch last? Never? You may remember when you lubricated your sewing machine, type- writer, lawn mower or grindstone— within a year, probably—but your watch you never oiled, that you can remember. Yet in a period of eighteen months the balance wheel turns on its axis 13,996,800,000 times. Expert watchmakers say that a watch should be thoroughly cleaned and oiled every eighteen months. Many persons wear a watch for years, winding it up each night, and never oil it. Watches are instruments of uncertain age; some run indefinitely, keeping accurate time, ‘without need of repairs. As a matter of fact, nothing is so neglected as this small, delicate and useful instrument =North American. BUY A GOOD LOT With the growth of Bemidji good lots scarcer and are becoming scarcer. We still have a number- of good lots in the residence part of town which will be sold on easy terms. For further particulars write or call Bemidji Townsite and Im- provement Company. H. A. SIMONS. 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