Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 3, 1908, Page 4

town . of buying your small lutely defy compet All of our Men’s a New Arrivals New arrivals of goods for our 5¢ and 10¢ counters make them the bargain centers in Get the Habit and you will find that your savings will make it worth while. . A complete line of Table Linens, Dinner Sets, Toilet Sets, Water Sets, Towels, Corset Covers, Laces and Embroideries at prices that abso- at less than cost THE MART THE HOUSE OF BAR GAINS wares at our counters ition. nd Boys’ Clothing FOSSTON VISITORS WERE ROYALLY ENTERTAINED Professor Yeager and His Champion Basketball Players Express Admir- ation of Our Hospitality. One of the very desirable results attained by the visit to this city on Friday and Saturday of the girls’ and boys’ basketball teams of the Fosston high school was the pleasant relations that have been established between the members of the two teams, the students and teachers, which angurs well for con- tinued intercourse between the two places. * Every effort was put forth by Superintendent Ritchie and the members of the teaching corps of the Bemidji schools, the students and members of the basketball teams, to entertain the visitors in a royal manner, and hospitality was dealt out with a lavish hand. Saturday the members of the boys’ high school team took the visiting boys out on the lake for an iceboat ride: and saw to it that the visitors lacked not for every attention. While the game between the two girls’ teams was being played Satur- day evening, it was very noticeable that the two teams put forth every effort to win, yet they were on friendly terms all through the con- test. At the conclusion of the Satur- day game the members of the Be- midji High School Athletic associa- tion gave a reception, party and dance in the Odd Fellows’ hall, in]j honor of the visitors. dancing, vocal and There was instrumental music, until 12 o’clock, when a sup-| per was served, and afterwards there were stories and a general good time, “Jack” Peterson acting as chief parrator of tales. When tte Fosston folks left for their home -on the early morning train, Prof. Yeager, superintendent of the Fosston high school, said: “I have visited many places in northern Minnesota, but I want to emphati- cally state for myself and all who wete here from Fosston, that we were never before used so well. folks have our sincere thanks, and we only hope we can return the many kindnesses shown us, at some future date.” Subscribe for the Pionee:. You | High School “‘Band.” One of the special features of the basketball games last Satirday evening was the music furnished by the high school brass band. The band was simply irresistable, and gave a class of ”harmouy” seldom heard outside the larger cities. The | “band” was composed of the follow- ing: C. Shannon, leader; Ralph Lycan, physical director; J. Mark- ‘ham, coach; Robert Richardson, ifirst tenor; William Shook, e flat clarionet; C. Shannon, first tenor; | Ralph Lycan, harp; Olof Hondrum Gallaway, Ireland, first violin; Hel- mer Kruge, third piccalo; Charles Gould, twenty-third bassoon. According to Coach Markham, the selection which provoked en- thusiastic encores was “Who Moved Father’s Grave to Build the Sewer?” \LIEUTENANT ALBERT HALL MAKES LAST VISIT HERE I Lieutenant Dockery ‘Will Return to His 01d Position as Chief Recruiting i Officer. First Lieutenant Albert S. Hall of Duluth, will leave thisarmy recruit- |ing district and return to St. Paul, and will be succeeded by Lieutenant O. H. Dockery, who has been ab- sent for some time, and in whose ! place Lieutenant Hall has acted as ehief recruiting officer. Lietenant Hall and wife came over from Duluth™ yesterday and i spent the afternoon and part of last night in this city with friends. Lieutenant Hall announced that this' would be his last trip to Be- midli, as he intended to return at once to St. Paul and assume com- mand of the Third Field Battery, at Fort Snelling. He will be succeeded lin the office of chief recruiting officer by Lieutenant Dockery, who was formerly in charge, and who has lof late been at Forth Leavenworth, Kansas, where he was examined for promotion to the office of captain in the regular service. During his trips to Bemidii, Lieu- | tenant Hall has made many friends, and there is general regret that the gentleman will cease his official visits here. While he was here, the lieutenant swore in two recruits, A. Todd and Harry D. Johnson, both of Park Rapids, who ! left this noon for Ft. Snelling, where | they will be placed for service. CARTER Real Estate and @ TAIT Fire Insurance AFEW CHOICE PROPERTIES FOR SALE AT BARGAIN PRICES 607 Irvine Ave. 50 by 140 to 20 ft. alley. Price House and lot; 6 rooms, finely finished; lot $1600, easy terms. 10 room house, finest location on Lake Boulevard. A snap for $2,000, half cash, Two large dwellings on Bemi Business lot, Minnesota Ave. We write fire and plate g'ass insurance dji Ave. $1600 and $1900 Price $475. Money to loan on farm lands =i TEAGHERS’ EXAMINATIONS ~ GONGLUDED ON SATURDAY There Was a Good Attendance, and Much Interest Was Shown in Work. The teachers’ examitations ~for Beltrami county were concluded Saturday, and the teachers who attended during the taking of the studies - departed for their homes Saturday evening and Sunday. The following teachers partici- pated in the examinations: M. F. Gniswold, Nymore; Helen Dunning- ton, Minn€apolis; Nellie M. Covell, Agnes Back, Margaret Slough, Mae I. McGregor, Lillian McGregor, Betsey Frarik, Mildred Wood, Edna M. Carlson, Clara B. Heffron, Mollie | Anderson, Florence H. Noble, Leola Guptill, Ellen E. Halladay, Nellie G. Erickson, Lizzie Murphy, Ellen Em- berland, Florence Grace Barrett, Lela Solberg, Ellen Gleason, H. A. Pierce, Lilly Gustafson, Lucille Clark, G. G. Buhl, Bemidji; Ethel Phare, Bena; Petra J. Paulson, Shevlin; G. M. Bowden, Minneapolis; Maude E. Murray, Kelliher; Linnie Guthrie, Turtle River; Marjorie L. Knox, Nebish; Bess I. Rogers, Nary; Olive Proctor, Portland, N, D.; Grace E. Munroe, Clementson; May Lunney, Cass Lake;Sadye J. Garrard,Jenkins; Celia M. Clark, Nymore; N. Beth Horton, Quiring; George A. Hayes, Solway; Cecila Rygg, Spaulding; Clarance Eastman, Tenstrike; Mar- garet Arnold, Blackduck; Jeanette McDorzell, Lincoln; Agnes Kelley, Shotley; Maggie Grove, Blackduck; Edna M. Jacobson, Verndale; Eva Powers, Solway; Mary Brondby, Turtle River. Much interest was taken in the examinations, and the teachers present expressed much satisfaction at the good work being done for edu- cation by W. B. Stewart, county superintendent of schools. The best of feeling was manifested throughout the gatherings of the teachers, many of whom attended required to do so. . who were not Concert at Methodist Church. The members of the Methodist church are planning a concert to be given at the Methodist churh on Wednesday evening, February 5th. The program will consist of vocal and instrumental music and readings. A cordial invitation is extended to all. FILED AT SALT LAKE Government Suit to Dissolve Al- leged Harriman Merger. MANY DEFENDANTS NAMED Bill in Equity Charges Combination and Conspiracy in Derogation of the Common Rights of All the People of the United States. Salt Lake City, Feb. 3.—TUnited States Attorney Hiram E. Booth, act- ing under the direction of the attorney general, has fled in the circuit court of the United States for the district of Utah, sitting in this city, a petition or bill in equity in which the United States is made complainant and the Union Pacific Railrcad company, the Oregon Short Line Railroad company, the Oregorn Railroad and Navigation company, the San Pedro, T.os Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad company, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail- way company, the Southern Pacific company, the Northern Pacific Rail- way ' company, the Great Northern Railway company, Farmers’ Loan and Trust company, Edward H. Harrimen, Jacob H. Schiff, Otto H. Kahn, James Stillman, Henry H. Rogers, Henry C. Frick and William A. Clark, defend- ants. eral agreements, contracts and opera- tions by which the several defendants, Harriman, Schiff, Kahn, Stillman, Rog- ers, I'rick and Clark, at various times since Jan. 1, 1901, are alleged to have secured for themselves and others the management and control of the vari- ous defendant roads, their branches and steamship lines and to have ever since operated them in restraint of trade and commerce among the states and with foreign nations in violation of the act of congress approved July 2, 1890, entitled “An act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraint and monopolies.” Allegations in the Complaint. The bill alleges combination and { conspiracy among the defendants in «derogation of the common rights of all the people of the United States and asks: s “That the individual defendants named and their associate stockhold- ers and each and every person com- bining or conspiring with them and their trustees, agents and assigns, present or future, be perpetually en- Joined from doing any and every act or thing in furtherance of the com- bination or conspiracy or tending to carry out the conspiracy described in this. bill of complaint or intended or The bill sets out in detail the sev-| - Always the “A 'alume, Baking Powder Tho onlyhigh grade Baking Powder sold at & moderate price. g to compie.e control of partial control of said competing lines of rail- way by the Union Pacific Railroad company, the Oregon Short Line Rail- road company, or the Oregon Railroad and Navigation company, or their offi- cers, directors and executive commit- tees, or in the control. legal or prac- tical. of any person or persons, asso- ciation or corporaticn, acting for or in liew of said Union Pacific Railroad company, or the Oregon Short Line railroad, or the Oregon Railroad and Navigation company in carrying out of the unlawful combination or conspir- acy hereinbefore alleged.” IN FOREIGN CONSULATES. Haytian Revolutionists Seek Refuge Under Other Flags. ‘Washington, Feb. 3.—The state de- partment is informed that between forty and fifty refugees, participants in the last attempted revolution in Hayti, have found asylum in the ' Anierican and French consular offices at Gonaives and St. Marc. The Hay- tian government has demanded the surrender of these fugitives, including General Firmin, the leader of the rev- olution, who is now in the French cousulate. By the direction of the state department American Minister Frnrniss has gone from Port au Prince to the north coast of Hayti to inves- tigate the conditions there and to re- port the state of affairs at St. Marc and Gonaives directly to the depart- ment. MAY EXPEL ALL REBELS. Portuguese Cabinet Given Unlimited Power by Ofiicial Decree. Lisbon, Feb. 3.—A decree has been gazetted here giving the cabinet un- limited power to repress revolutionary agitation in Portugal. This decree is framed cn the lines of the bill recent- ly introduced in the Spanish cortes, but it is more sweeping and arbitrary. It empowers the cabinet to expel from the kingdom or-exile to the colonies members of all associations that are deemed inimical to the state or that are conducting a campaign agzainst public security; it suspends parlia- mentary immunity and it compares all persons senienced for political agita- tion to criminals and deprives them of their civil rights, titles, decorations, ete. The decree is retroactive to Jan, 21. Fourteen Years for Arson. New York, Feb. 3.—Mrs. Annie Ack- erly, the first woman ever convicted of arson_in Brooklyn, has been sen- tenced f serve fourteen years in prison. According to the evidence in the case Mrs. Ackerly, in order to col- lect on a $1,000 fire insurance policy, set fire to the contents of her apart- ment in a crowded Brooklyn tenement hcuse, endangering the lives of scores of people living in the same building. CAN 60 TO SOUTH AMERICA Chile and Argentine Will Wel- come Jap imrigrants. Tokio, Feb. 3.—At a sectional meet- ing of representatives Baron Chinda, vice foreign minister, in reply to a question on the foreign emigration policy of the government, pointed out that South America was a favorable ground for Japanese emigrants and a legation would be established in Chile to promote better relations between both couniries on the matter of trade and emigration. The government -had been making careful investigations, which show that Chile and the Argentine Republic are favorable to immigration and #herever. said he, our emigrants are welcomed, the government will not prevent them going there. It is believed it will not be neces- sary to conclude any special treaty for emigration and that existing stipula- tions are sufficient to protect Japa- nese subjects. To another question if it would not be better to send emigrants chiefly to Korea ond Manchuaria Baron Chinda replied that it was not necessary to limit their destination. Wherever an opportnnity offered for the promotion of Japanese interests Japan's energy wonld be directed Lhere. At another sectional meeting M. Oeshi asked Minister of War Terauchi why Japan should maintain a large military force and continue military preparations in the presence of as- sured peace like the present. He also pointed out the fact that the nation was already feeling the burden en. tailed thereby. Minister Terauchi replied that even in European countries, where there was not the slightest probability of ‘war, no nation retrenches in the mat- ter of its national defemnse. The full- est military equipment was the best guarantee of peace. Japan’s arma- ment was not directed against any- body, but the nation-must always be prepared against eventualities. Cashier Accused of Forgery. Boise, Ida., Feb. 3.—Horace E. New, cashier of the Capital State bank, which failed last week, has been ar- rested on the charge of forgery. It is stated that forged notes aggregating at least $50,000 have already been turned in, the first coming from Kan- sas City and Omaha banks. American Fleet at Punta Arenas. Punta Arenas, Feb. 3.—The fleet of American battleships under Rear Ad- miral Evans has anchored in the har- bor of Punta Arenas. Punta Arenas is a Ohilean convict settlement in the Magellan straits. FNE D I FLANES City Rooming House. GAS EXPLOSION CAUSES FIRE Conflagration Spreads So That All Means of Escape by Or- dinary Exits Were Cut Off Before an Alarm Could Be Given. Kansas City, Feb.. 3—Five persons were burned to death and twelve oth- ers were injured in‘a fire in a three- story rooming house at 1116 Wyan- dotte street near the business- section. The dead are: Mrs. Jennie Bert, aged twenty-nine, Harrisonville, Mo., wait- ress; Mabel Porter, aged eighteen, ‘waitress; Nina Graves, aged eighteen, waitress; Peter Rooney, aged thirty- four, cook; Charles Johnson, aged twenty-eight, cook. The injured received slight burns and cuts and none is believed to be in a dangerous condition. All of the dead except Mrs. Bert lived in Kansas City. The fire started from an explosion of natural gas in the basement. The flames and dense smoke spread quick- Iy throughout the building and before an alarm could be given all means of escape by the ordinary exits had been shut off. The five persons who lost their lives were asleep on the third floor and all save Mrs. Bert were burned to death in their rooms. Evi- dently they had been suffocated and none apparently had even made an attempt to escape. Before the firemen arrived the building was a mass of flames and the rooms on the upper floors could not be entered. Mabel Porter and Nina Graves, two of the dead, occupied a room together. The injured slept on the lower floors and in the basement. Most of these es- caped without aid, fighting their way through the flames and smoke. The firemen were able to rescue others from the burning building. Mrs. Bert lost her life in trying to arouse the inmates. Being awakened by the smoke she tried to arouse the sleeping roomers. -The smoke and ‘flames, Lowever, now crowded her so closely that she was compelled to de- sist and sought escape by the stair- way. At the top of the second floor landing she stumbled and, falling head- long down the stairway, landed in the thickest of the flames. EVIDENCE FOR DEFENSE. Important Witness Testifies in McDon- ald ‘Murder Trial. Chicago, Feb. 3.—Strong testimony for Mrs. Dora McDonald, who is on trial for the murder of Webster S. Guerin, was given by Abraham Welin- ski, a tailor whose office adjoined that in which Guerin was killed. He heard the shots and going in the hall saw Mrs. Dora McDonald break- ing the glass in Guerin’s office with her hands. She had no revolver, he said. Ife went into the room and found Guerin on the floor with a re- volver in his hand. He further de- clared that Mrs. McDonald . stepped back into the room, leaned over Guerin’s body, picked up the revolver and came back to the front of the office. Several times she exclaimed, “He has shot himself.” Meyer Bifron and David Rubenstein, tailors who work in the same room with Wolinski, were the next wit- nesses. Their testimony in the main corroborated that of Wolinski. GUESTS NARROWLY ESCAPE Tourist Hotel at White Springs, Fla, Destroyed by Fire. Jacksonville, Fla., .Feb. 3.—The Hamilton hotel, a tourist resort on the banks of the Suwanee river at White Springs, Fla., was completely destroyed by fire. The house was crowded with winter visitors and many had narrow escapes from death, eight being overcome by smoke and carried from_the burning hotel. - All cottages and” outhouses on the hotel property were also destroyed. The loss is estimated at $100,000. The fire, it is said, was caused by a defec- tive electric light wire. Cold Weather in Europe: Berlin, Feb. 3.—Telegrams received In this city indicate that the cold weather, accompanied by snow and frost, extends all over Europe and even into parts of Northern Africa. Throughout Germany telegraphic and railroad communication has been bad- ly deranged hy the snow and high winds and various minor accidents have lLeen reported. Irish Actor and Singer Dead. Columibus, O., Feb. 3.—Dennis O’Sul- livan, the Irish actor and singer, is dead at Grant hospital after an opera- tion for appendicitis. He was bora in San Francisco in 1866. His greatest was in “Peggy Machree.” No ent has been made for the funeral, but the body will probably be taken to San Francisco. Serious Delay in Traffic. Cleveland, Feb. 3.—Driven by a northwesterly gale, with a velocity of forty to fifty miles an hour, a heavy fall of sleet and snow caused serious interruption to telegraph and tele- phone service and also resulted in de- lay to railway traffic. The trains from the East were especially delayed by the storm. WOULD OUST DUNSMUIR. Liberais and Socialists Attack British Columbia Official. Vancouver, B, C,, Feb. 3.—Importan! steps will be taken within the next few days in the effort to cause the re- moval from office of Lieutenant’'Gov- ernor Dumsmuir. The Liberals have joined the Socialists in the provincial legislature ‘and will ask the house, now sitting at Victoria, to petition the Dominion government to remove Duns- muir. The Victoria Colonist, the old- Rapldly‘ High Grade Watches a Specialty. Fine ard Complicated Watch Repairing. Geo. T. Baker & Co. Watch Inspector for M. & L. and B. F, & I. F. Rys. Located in City Drag Store est mewspapei Tn Briiich Tolumbia, formerly owned by Dunsmuir, is de- manding that the lieutenant governor step down. In a speech to the.house Represen- tative Hawthornthwaite (Socialist) de- clared that if the legislature of the Dominion government does not ex- clude the Orientals laborers will arm | themselves as the Japanese have done at Vaicofiver and that a' great con- flict may be expected. Hawthornth- waite now has a bill drafted provid- ing that nc mill, mine cr factory in the province shall hire Orienials un- less they can pass an educational test similar to that provided in the Natal act; that in any event admission to | | ! the province would do them no good. | | | COURT DERIES IRJURGTION | Pressmen’s Unien .May Strike | if It So Decides. | Cincinnati, Feb. 3.—Efforts of the United Typothetae of America to force the Tuternational Printing Press- | mens and Assistants’ union of North | America to live up to an alleged agree- | ment whereby the eight-hour workday | wonld not be instituted until after Jan. 1, 1909, met with defeat in United States Judg: Thompson's court when| Judge Thompson handed down a de-| cision in which he says the union committee did not have the power to bind the union by the agreement it entered into with the committee from | the Typothetae. - The Typothetae was granted a temporary injunction some | time ago to prevent the officers of the | Pressmen’s union from calling a! strike. They asked for a permanent injunction, claiming that the officers of the union had signed an agreement | with the Typothetae for a nine-hour | day and that an eight-hour workday would not be instituted until after Jan. 1, 1909. The officers of the union admitted that the agreement had been | signed by some of. them, but that it | was not binding, as the members of the union had not ratified the agree- ment. Judge Thompsor, in his decision, held that the agreement made by the officers of the union providing for a nine-hour day does not bind the rank and file of the union to work nine | hours, but only to work nine hours it they work at all and he denied the petition for 2 permanent injunction. RIDE ON STREET CARS. Muncie (Ind.) Business Men Defy Un- | ion Labor in a Body. . Muncie, Ind., Feb. 3.—Fifty business men of this city, all members of the Muncie Merchants' association, have started out to break the union labor boycott, which, they declare, is ruin- ing business here. The business men got on street cars and rode about the city for several hours, going on all the lines and penetrating into the factory disiricts, where they could be seen by the union employes who have threat- ened their business if they patronized | cars of the Union Traction company. The merchants complain that fear of { union labor has caused their business to suffer and is keeping aw dreds of persons who cannot business district of the ently without using the cars. every one of the m threalened with the he any of his employes cars it was determice: unions in a body and t quences. There was no anywhere on the t but large crowds of in wonder at the tem: ness men in thus d labor. Big Increace in Circulation. Washington, Feb.”3.—The monthly | circulation statement issued by the comptroller of the currency shows that at the clese of business Jan. 31, 1908, the total outstanding circulation of national bank notes was §695,402, 762, an increase for the year of $99,- 205,193 and an increase for the month of $5,271,867. Another Death at Boyertown. Boyertown, Pa, Feb. 3.—Death claimed its 170th vietim of the opeea house fire when Mrs. Eva Toms died of her injuries, She had been badly burned. Mrs. Toms was twenty-two years of age. 2 WANIS ONE CENT A WORD. 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 Recruit. ing Officer, Miles Block, Bemidji Minn. FOR SALE, FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. FCR RENT. | FOR RENT: One furnished room, with or without board. 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