Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 6, 1908, Page 2

i ! 1 i ! ! | { { ! | J T | | | THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PULLISHED BVERY AFTRRNOON, OFFICIAL PAPER---CITY OF BEMIDJI BEMIDII PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. CLYDE J. PRYOR | A, RuTiEnaE Business Manager Managing Editor Totored in the postofice at Bemidjt. Mina.. a4 secoud class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM SAYS WE'RE PRUSPEROUS. President A. B. Stickney, of the Great Western railway, in an inter- view in New York, strongly em- phasizes the solid and prosperous condition of the Northwest, “There’s plenty of money banks out west,” Mr. Stickney said in an interview. “As a matter of fact that’s where the money is. Conditions in the west are good. in our The farmers have plenty of money. I see no indications of a recession. Our people out there will continue to raise hogs, grain and cattle and will go right on selling * hogs, grain and cattle. If your own power to buy these commodities is lessened there will be other countries that will be anxious to buy them.” OBSERVATIONS. Professor Egbert Gurrem of Pen- sacola, hypnotized a mule last week, and then tickled its heels with a feather. A mixed quartet sang his favorite anthem, “O for the Wings of a Dove,” the following Thurs- day. Hiram Penhecker of East Wind, Ind., after attending a lecture on “The Rights of Man,” went home and announced to his wife that he would no longer wash the dishes and scrub the . floors.. - Mr. Pen- hecker subsequently telephoned to the local drug store fot a bottle of liniment and a dollar’s worth of court plaster. Fourteen young women of Bing- town, Mo., organized a Single Bless- edness Club four years ago. Since then six of them have sued for divorce, one has eloped with a widower with eight children, three of-them have filed papers in breach- of-promise cases and the rest have hopes. REFEREE TO TAKE EVIDENCE Case of Attorney Accused of Ma- ligning Minnesota Court. St. Paul, Jan. ,—The special court appointed by Governor Johnson at the instance of the supreme court of Minnesota to hear the case of Attor- ney F. B. Hart, charged with malign- ing the state supreme court, met at the new state capitol and began their duties. Mr. Hart appeared as his own attorney and filed objections to the sufficiency of the petition charg- ing him with "violating his oath in treating the supreme court with dis- respect. In effect it was a demurrer to the complaint, he holding that his accusers had not sufficlent facts to constitute a cause of action. This the court overruled. » Addressing the court on the objec- tions to the petition as raised by him Captain Hart made an extended argu- ment in which he reneated his charges, declared that he would not retract an Inch and announced that he was ready to defend his rosition as con- sistently became a citizen and an at- torney. At the conclusion of the prelim- inaries the eourt announced the ap- pointment of ex-Governor G. S. Ives as referee to take testimony and the selection of March 10 as the date for the final hearing. Captain Hart was given until Jan. 14 to prepare his testimony. Briefs are to be filed and Captain Hart is given until the last moment to get his before the court. UPHELD IN FEDERAL COURT Constitutionality of - Arkansas Anti- Futures Law. Little Rock, Ark, Jan. .—Judge Trieber, in the federal court, upheld the constitutionality of the anti-fu- tures bill passed by the last legisla- ture at the request of the Farmers’ union. The decision establishes a precedent for the Southern states. A firm of Chicago brokers instituted the test suit, declaring the law to be in violation of interstate commerce. The court declares that the state did not exceed its power in enacting the stat- ute as a police regulation to protect the morals of the public. Many Industries Resuming. Dayton, 0., Jan. .—The Platt iron works, employing hundreds of men; the steel mills of the Barney & Smith Car company, the Brownell boiler shops and a few. other establishments have resumed work after a shutdown due to a’lack of orders. The Davis Sewlng Machine company ‘also in- ctreased its force and will be running fulf’* haud‘ed in a short time; Thrae Children Perllh in :Flames. Collinsville, 1Il, Jan. .—The explo- slon of a lamp n the home of Blmer Duwinski set fire to the house and three children perished in the flames, The mgther, Mrs. Mary Duwinski, was serfously ‘burned in attempting to rescue her children. READY TO BE SIGNED Reciprocity Treaty With France : Finally Completed. NEGOT!ATIONS COVER A YEAR United States Reduces Duty on French Champagnes Twenty Per Cent, While France Remits Maximum Du- tles on Various Articles. ‘Washington, Jan. ,—Thé finishing touches have been added to the draft of an agreement between the United States and France under section:3 of the Dingley act which has been in progress for nearly a.year. M. Jusse- rand, the French ambassador, called at the state department to discuss the details of this arrangement and it s expected that it will be promul- gated from the state department in a day -or two. Pending its signature the details are withheld, but it is known that the concession made by America is the abatement of the ex- isting duties on French champagne by 20 per cent, while France remits max- imum duties on American cottonseed oil, certain classes of machinery and other commodities. DONE WITHOUT REQUEST. France Extends Decree Admitting Porto Rican Coffee. Paris, Jan. .—Negotiations for the conclusion of a definite commercial agreement between France and the United States are now proceeding so satisfactorily that the French govern- ment, without any request on the part of the United States, has extended the life of the decree which permits Porto Rican coffee to enter France on pay- ment of the minimum rate of duty until Feb. 1. The pessimism which prevailed here at the beginning of the negotiations, on account of what was regarded as disproportionate de- mands by the United States, has now been succeeded by a belief that an arrangement satisfactory to both coun- tries will be reached. OLD AGREEMENTS RENEWED Little Danger of Building Trades Strike in New York. New York, Jan. ,.—There is little chance of strikes this year among the building trades unions. The employ- ers have signed agreements with a large number of the men and in cases wheére agreements have not been con- cluded arrangements are under way. The following statement was issued in behalf of the Employers’ association: “Many of the unions are satisfied to renew their agreements at the old wage rates, hoping that later in the year matters may improve in -the building industry. At present the out- look is bad. We may have a poor building season this year. The me- chanics, like the employers, can only hope that the stagnation will not last long. The arbitration agreement hav. ing proved effective in the matter of the prevention of strikes the employ- ers have decided not to reduce wages. The workers as well are desirous of the continuance of the present har- monious conditions in the building in-_ dustry. The arbitration plan has re- duced strikes to a minimum and both sides feel that the arbitration agree- ment should remain permanent.” SIGNED BY 25,000 MEN. Temperance Pledge of Employes of Northwestern Road. Omaha, Jan. —Probably the larg: est temperance movement any one business concern has ever known cul- minated Jan. 1 on the Northwestern railroad when' a temperance pledge signed by 25,000 employes became ef- fective. An effort is being made to have every employe sign. The move- ment originated among the employes themselves. Three months ago, when the North- western began cutting its force to a winter basis, every man discharged was a drinking man, the teetotalers being retained in their positions. It was announced that the road had in- augurated a policy of always retain- ing the non-drinking men. As a re- sult the drinking men who remained with the road have decided to quit and during the last month pledges have been circulated all over the 7,000 miles of the system. The monster pledge will be sent to the president of the road as soon as all the parts are assembled. Aftermath of New Year's. Chicago, Jan. .—Warrants will be sworn out by the Chicago Law and Order league for the arrest of a dozen down - town hotelkeepers, restaurant and saloonkeepers who kept their drinking rooms open New Year's. morning long after 1 o'clock in viola- tion of the city ordinance. The prose- cution in these cases will be pushed in the same manner as in the cases brought by the league for violation of the state law against the Sunday sa- loon. Dies In 8aving Little Boy. Ann Arbor, Mich., Jan. .—Lee Fra- ser, a young milk wagon driver, sac. rificed his life in saving the life of a little son of John O’Hara, his em- ployer. The wagon was struck by an Ann Arbor rallroad train at the Pon- tiac street crossing.. Fraser saw the train in:time to throw his child com- panion from the. wagon and when he jumped:himszlt fell under the locomo- tive and was horribly mangled. DR. NICHOLAS SENN DEAD One of Most Widely Known suruum in United States. Chicago, Jan. ;—Dr. Nicholas Senn, one ‘of the most widely known sur- geons in the United Smtes, is dead here. ! Dr. Senn was born ln Switzerland in 1844 and was brought to this coun- try by his parents in 1853. The fam- fly at first resided in Fond du Lac, Wis,, where the young man recelved his early education, graduating from | Chicago Medical college in 1868 and from the Unlverslty Gt Munich ten years later, For a number of years he practiced medicine and surgery in Fond du Lac, Milwaukee and Chlcago and finally made this city his residence in 1891, In 1898 he was appointed chief sur- geon of the Sixth army corps during the Spanish war and was chief of the operating staff of the army in the fleld. Dr. Senn was professor in nu- merous medical colleges and the au- thor of many medical works. He was generally considered.one of the fore- most surgeons of the country. During the last two vears {1l health had prevented much active practice. NATIONAL HEALTH BUREAU Effort to Have Congress Create Fed- eral Department. Chicago, Jan. .—A national bureau of health for the regulation of the people’s physical welfare, planned by the leading specialists of the United States and endorsed by President Roosevelt, may take its place in the federal departments of the govern- ment within the year through the ef- forts of the Americaa Association for the Advancement of Science. The ultimate reduction of the death rate in America by one-half is to be the alm of the new governmental board and it is deemed a promise not impossible of fulfillment. Plans for the bureau were an- nounced at the University of Chicago by Professor Irving Fisher, the Yale university economist and chairman of the committee of 100 distinguished scientists who have had charge of the undertaking. The membership of the committ3e includes leaders in the vari- ous branches of the medical and social sciences from the important universi- tles and other centers of the country. The educators have been assured that the first steps in the organization of the health bureau will be taken at the present session of congress and the president has sent his personal encouragement and endorsement to the committee. According to Profes- sor Fisher it is believed probable that President Roosevelt will send a spe- cial message to congress this month on the subject. DUE TO BETTER CONDITIONS Bank of England Reduces the Dis- count Rate. London, Jan. .—The directors of the Bank of Engiand have lowered the minimum rate of discount to 6 from 7 per cent, which latter rate was established as a result of the Amer- ican financial crisis. Improved finan. clal conditions in America, coupled with a better monetary situation in Germany, assisted the directors in their decision to remove the stringent rate of discount, which had been han- dicapping trade and speculation for the past seven weeks. REGEIVERS ARE APPOINTED Seaboard Air Ling Unable to Meet Fixed Charges. Richmond, Va, Jan. ~. — Judge Pritchard of the United States court has entered a decree naming S. Davies ‘Warfield of Baltimore and R. Lancas- ter Williams of Richmond as receiv- ers to take immediate possession of the property of the Seaboard Air Line railroad. The bond of each was fixed at $50,000. By the decree the receivers are em- powered to borrow money, if needful, to pay such rental as may become due; purchase cars, etc., and pay for labor and supplies, but not for any other purpose without an order of the court having primary jurisdiction. The placing of the Seaboard Air Line system in the hands of receivers follows a statement of the company’s earnings showing $3,132,836 on hand with which to meet fixed charges of $3,175,434, a deficit of $42,598. It has been known for several days that some steps would be necessary to protect the property in view of its inability to meet its fixed charges and the receivership was agreed upon at a conference held in Washington at which there were present representa- tives of both the majority and minor- ity stockholders. EXPERIMENT SUCCESSFUL Organs of One Animal Transferred to Body of Another. New -York, Jan. .—Experiments have been made at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research which have resulted in the successful trans- ference of vital organs from one liv- ing animal to another. Cats were used in the experiments and Alexis Carrel, the experimenter, announces that he transplanted in mass the kid- neys of one cat to the body of an other. Doctors with whom the experiments were discussed sald it was not a far cry from the time when it may be possible te transplant one of the vital organs from an animal’s body to that of a human. Marched in Scanty Attire. Fort William, Ont., Jan. —Twelve Doukhobor pilgrims started out with- out clothing for one of their strange marches through the streets. They were finally rounded up by the po- lice. Seven men and five women were in the party and they marched a half mile in scanty attire before be- ing stopped. Another Dynamite Outrage. New York, Jan. . .—A dynamite bomb, believed to have been set off by members of the Black Hand so- ciety,” wrecked the entire lower floor of a five-story tenement house on East Eleventh street and caused a panic among the occupants of the building. One, man was injured by the explo- sion. Orphans’ Home Destroyed. Terre Haute, Ind., Jan. !—St. Anne’s orphans’ home, a Roman Cath- olic ‘institution, was totally destroyed by fire. One hundred orphans were in the building at the time the fire start- ed and a panic ensued among them, but all of them escaped without in- Jury. 'l'ha lou is abont 830 000. NINE PEHSUNS HURT Serious Rioting -Ocours on the Streets of Muncie, Ind. CAR MEN ON STRIKE THERE Mob of Two Trousand Surrounds Sta- tion and Shots Are Fired and Stones and Other Misiles Thrown—State Troops Ready for Action. Muncie, Ind, Jan. ,—Rioting was resumed on the streets of Muncie be- tween striking empioyes of the Indi- ana Union Traction company, which owns the street railway and interur- ban 1lines, and the strikebreakers. Shots were fired and stenes and other missiles were thrown. Nine persons have been injured, as follows: Morris Maley, bullet wound in groin; John R. Cline, shot in the leg; William Finan, slight flesh wound caused by bullet; Joseph Walling, hit in chest with stone; Harry T. Auginbaugh, struck on leg with stone; Orville Shepp, in- Jjured with stone; James Rutledge, leg and head cut with stone or brick; Harry Gardner, beaten severely; John Lewellen, struck with brick. ° Cars were started at first without interruption, each protected by from seven to nine strikebreakers. At 10 o’clock a crowd began gathering at the interurban station and in thirty minutes 2,000 persons surrounded the building. Cars were stoned as they started out and at other parts of the city cars were stopped and the strike- breakers were driven off. Two cars collided on account of the inexperi- ence of the motormen and several people had narrow escapes. No one was fatally injured. It is expected the troops now being held in readiness at Indianapolis will be brought here. The street car company later aban- doned efforts to run cars on the city lines. SOCIALIéT_LEADER§ INDICTED Accused of Attempting to Overthrow Russian Government. St. Petersburg, Jan. .—Indictments have been returned in this city against all the members of the executive com- mittee of the Socialist party and their trial before the court of appeals will begin shortly. The accused men be- long to the intellectual section of the Social Revolutionists. They are most- ly veterans of the revolutionary strug- gle who withdrew from the Social Revolutionary party in order to par- ticipate in the elections to the third duma. Among them are M Annensky, who in 1906 was exiled on account of his political activities; Ivan Miakotin, the well' known Russian author, who shared Maxim Gorky’s imprisonment in a fortress in 1905; M. Lutugin, the organizer and first president of the League of Leagues, which co-operated with the labor organizations during the era of strikes which preceded the Issuance of the October manifeste, and Several prominent attorneys. The men are accused of being mem- bers of a secret organization which aimed to overthrow the government. The penalty on this charge may be penal servitude for eight years. QUARREL ON PARIS STREETS Count de Castellane Bitterly De- nounces Prince Sagan. Paris, Jan. .—There was a violent quarrel in the Rue de Chaillot between Count Roni de Cast2llane and Prince Helie de Sagan. The count is report- ed to have denounced the prince in unmeasured terms and a duel is be- lieved to be imminent. Count Boni de Castellane was re- cently ‘divorced by his wife, who was e o ), WD RHEMATIG FOLKS! Are Ynu. Sure Your Kidneys Are Well? Many rheumatic attacks are due to uric acid in the blood. But the duty of the kidneys is to remove all uric acid from the blood. Its presence there shows the kidneys are inactive. Don’t dally with “uric acid solvents,” You might go on till doomday with them, but until you cure the kidneys you will never get well. Doan’s Kidney Pills not only remove uric acid, but cure the kidneys andthen all danger from uric acid is- ended, Here is Bemidji testimony™ to prove it. Mrs. Mary A. Cochrane, living at'1014 Mississippi Ave., Bemijdi, Minn , says: “I had been suffer- ing from rheumatifm for over ten year’s and was troubled with com- plaint for so long that I never ex- pected to _get relief. My kidneys were badly disordered for two or three years and dispite the many remedies 1 tried, I did not get any better. . At last Doan’s Kid- ney Pills were brought to my at. tention and procured a box at the Owl Drug Stote.. I have been using them ‘for sometime and there is a great improvement in my condition. Doan’s Kidney Pills helped me more than auy remedy prevmusly tried and I am feeling mth better.” For sale by all dealers, Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo; N. Y., sole agents for the Umtcd States, - Remember the name—Doan s— and take no other, Miss Anna Gould of New 'York. it was reported 1in November that Madame Anna Gould was engaged to be marrled to Prince Helie de Sagan, but this rumor was promptly denied by Madame G ould hemelf CAPTAIN PILLSBURY NAMED Succeeds Admiral Brownson as Head of Navigation Bureau. ‘Washington, Jan, .—After a con- ference with President Roosevelt Sec- retary Metcalf announced that Cap- tain J. E. Pillsbury had been selected as ‘chief of the navigation bureau of the navy department. Captain Pills. bury participated in the conference between the president and the secre- tary just prior to the announcement. The sélection of Captain John Pillsbury to be chief of the bureau of CAPTAIN PILLSBURY. navigation is at best cnly a temporary one, unless the president should de- cide to again have recourse to the ex- pedient of commissioning a retired officer as chief of the bureau. Cap- tain Pillsbury was born in Lowell, Mass., Dec. 15, 1846, and will conse- quently have to retire on account of age Dec. 15 next. Minister’s Death Due to’ Poison. Eureka, Iil,, Jan. ' —Examination of the stomach of Rev. Gilbert Gish, pastor of -the Christian church at Chambersburg, Ill, reveals that his poison. The state’s attorney has be- gun an investigation to determine ‘Whether the minister was murdered. Work for Fifteen Hundred. Ford City, Pa,, Jan. . .—After being shut down for repairs No. 4 works of the Pittsburg Plate Glass company | has resumed operations. It will run | both day and night. The plant em- ploys from 1,200 to 1,500 men and there is general rejoicing here as a result of the resumption. Woman Takes Winter Swim. New York, Jan. .—Clad in a_thin bathing suit Miss Helen Wilcox of Eltingville, Staten Island, took a swim in the ocean near her home. She re- mained in the water five minutes, al- though the temperature registered 2 degrees below freezing. The bath was taken on a wager. CUSTOM LIKELY TO SPREAD Women Allowed to Smoke in Swell New York Restaurant. New York, Jan. .—So successful was ‘the plan of allowing women to smoke in the public dining rooms, introduced at one of the prominent Broadway restaurants for the first time in New York on New Year's eve, that another of the famous Broadway eating places has followed suit. It is expected that several more of them will fall in line immediately, but the big hotels and the Fifth ave- nue restaurants will not, so the man- agers say, follow suit, for the present at least. Kills Wife, Child and Himself. Kingston, N. Y., Jan. .—Irving Ba- ker, his wife and four-year-old son, who lived at Leibhardt, twenty miles south of here, were found dead in bed with their throats cut. From the ap- pearance of the bodies it is believed that Raker killed his wife and child and then committed suicide.- - PURE FOOD LAW FAULTY. South Dakota Supreme Court Favors Patent Medicines. Plerre, 8. 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