Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 6, 1908, Page 4

I]l)IIIBS AMONG BEMIDJI'S COUNTRY NEIGHBORS Live Correspondents of the Pioneer Write the News From Their Localities. Wilton. Mrs. James Watkins is reported as being very sick. Thomas Crowshaw went to Illinois last week on business. Earl McMahan went to Shevlin on business Tuesday last. Guy Adams made a business trip to Cass Lake last Tuesday. Mrs. Hans Bollingrud was shop- ping in Bemidji last Tuesday. Ernest Pelton of St. Cloud spent Wednesday with Frank Patterson. Frank Patterson has been laid up with la grippe for the past two weeks but is now somewhat better. Quiring. John Anderson made a business A trip to Bemidji last week. The light snow fall of last week hustled up logging quite a little. Mrs. T. P. Dooher visited with Mrs.C. J. Carlson last Thursday. Mrs. John Anderson is on the sick list, and it is reported that she is quite low. Gust Branzell of Blackduck is working for Ed. Dietvick. Gust thinks Quiring is all right. Elmer Anderson was a business visitor at Cass Lake and Bemidji last week. He filed ona valuable piece of land, near Quring. Spaulding. February 4- Mrs. O. E. Soland is ill with the grippe. O. Overland transacted business in Bemidji Tuesday. Services were held in the Lutheran church here Sunday. George Forte and A. Djonne were visitors at Wilton Saturday. The Ladies’ Aid met at the home of Mr'..O. E. Soland Monday. A. Rygsven and son, Haakon, were Bemidji visitors Wednesday. Andrew Rygg visited with his sister, Marie, at Bemidji Tuesday. L. O. Myhre left for Thief River Falls Thursday with the intention of buying a team of horses. Fred Skokle came up here” from northern Missouri last Monday with a carload of household goods and some _horses for his brothers, who have bought the old Kirk head- quarters farm. . Paposky. February 3. Miss Ella Walker was a Bemidji visitor Saturday. Mrs. D. Wilcox of Spokane, Wash., is visiting with relatives here. John Blake of Stevens, Minn., is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Wilcox. Miss Ellen Emberland attended the teachers’ examinations at Bemidji last Friday and Saturday. The leap year dance held at the Lyons school house Saturday even- ing was well attended. The girls proved to be royal entertainers. Harry Wilcox came down from his camps near Nebish Saturday to spend Sunday with his parents and bring back supplies for his camp. Mr. and Mrs. Will Austin’s child- ren were very sick last week. Itwas necessary to call Dr. Shannon. However, they are getting better. Mrs. Hmce, preached a very effec- tive sermon in the school house last Sunday afternoon. She is an elo- quent speaker and her sermon was well received. She will be here again Feb. 23rd, and everyone ought to come and hear her. Want Better Ball. Now that the railroads have placed us in close connection with Bemidji and intervening towns, and with the towns of the range coun- try, there is a chance to organize a northern Minnesota baseball league that will enable us to see some fast games. Our fansshould get together and start a movementYto interest the other towns, in order to organize such a league. It would mean good- bye to a team containing*‘has beens.” We would have to have ‘professors to maintain the pace—and we be- lieve that International Falls can arrange it that way.—Internatipnal Falls Echo. It is doubtful if Bemidji would ever enter a league of this nature, as this place will have fast “league” ball, or semi-professional ball of a vastly differant caliber than the ball’ played in the Northern league. If we get “league” ball here, we want at least as good as is put up by the Northern league. Caurt Adjourned. The adjourned term of district court for Beltrami county, which convened on Tuesday, was concluded last evening, when Judge McClena- han declared the term closed. i Yesterday afternoon the attention of the court was ‘occupied with the case of the City of Bemidji vs. H. W. Bailey of this city. The judge took the matter under advisement and the case will be presented by briefs. The matter of the judicial road to be established in the counties of Bel- trami, Hubbard and Clearwater was heard by the judge, in chambes, after which the term was adjourned Judge McClenahan left this morn- ing for his home at Brainerd. Help Wanted. Want tolet the contract or hire teams to haul 20,000 cedar posts at Kelliher. One trip a day, good ice roads. Want teams at Bridgie, Minn., to haul poles and cedar, piece work, or by the month. Wanted, choppers at Tenstrike to cut 500 to 1,000 cords of birch for E. G. Quigley. $1 per cord. Also teams to haul the wood. J. J. Opsahl, 1101 Bemidji Ave., ‘Phone 177. Blakeley Logging Successfully. W. T. Blakeley will, this winter, cut about ten million feet of timber, at his logging camps near Farley, and he expects to realize handsomely from his winter’s work. Mr. Blakeley was in the city yes- terday, and to the Pioneer man he stated that of this ten million feet he had already cut and gotten out of the way fully five million feet, and the work of logging the balance of the timber was progressing very satisfactorily. GIGANTIC FRAUDS ALLEGED Statement Regarding Entries in Las Animas Reserve. Leadville, Colo., Feb. 6.—That fully T8 per cent of the homestead entries in the Las Animas forest reserve are fraudulent was the statement made here by Daniel E. Fitton, in charge of that reserve, at a meeting of the for- estars of Colorado and surrounding states. Fitton said that when the for- est service first took charge of the Las Animas reserve fully $5,000 worth of timber was cut every day illegally. This, he sald, had been stopped. @. D. Pollock, assistant forester of the Unitad States, in an address also asserted that millions of acres of land in the forest reserves had been stolen from the government. Pollock said that the statements of Fitton could he made of all the forest reserves in the oountry. Chance to Vote on Prohibition. Charleston, W. Va., Feb. 6.—A joint resolution was passed in the house, at the special meeting of the state legis- lature, providing for a prohibition amendment to the state conmstitution, which, if adopted by the senate, will give the right to voters to decide whether or not liquor or the manufac- ture of Hquor will be prohibited for- ever in the state. Torpedo Fleet in Good Shape. Punta Arenas, Chile, Feb. 6.—The elx American torpedo boat destroyers have arrived at this point to join the battleship fleet. They will coal here and will proceed through the straits Into the Pac’fic with the battleships. The boats are in the best of shape after thelr long trip and all on board are well. ““To Eat Crow.” Although the use of the expression “to eat crow” in a metaphorical sense, meaning to eat one’s words, may well have dated from the time of Noah, when the bird was first looked upon as unclean and not fit to serve as food for man, it seems to have arisen from the old tale of the officer and the pri- vate. A soldier, having shot a tame crow belonging to one of his officers, was discovered by the owner with the bird in his hand. Seizing the private’s gun, the officer commanded him to eat the bird as a punishment. With the fire- arn pointed at his head, the soldier fell to, but no sooner had the officer laid aside the gun than the culprit grasped it and compelled his superior to join in the distasteful banquet. The private was court martialed the next day, and when he was asked by the examiners what had occurred he replied, “Nothing, except that Captain Blank and I dined together.”—Wash- ington Star. The Quest of Truth. It s a good deal easier to poke fun at history than to write.history merit- Ing credence. Mr. Bodley when writ- Ing his “France” experienced the force of this in a curious way. He shut himself up in France for years to get the atmosphere and the knowledge necessary for his work. One of his trials arose over some question of elect- oral jurisprudence. It was not of in- ternational importance, but still inter- esting to students of comparative pro- cedure. Therefore he wrote to a dep- uty who is a parliamentary expert to clear up the obscurity in which the text books involve the point and incor porated his reply in the text of the book. Later, being invited by an ex: perienced mayor to be present at a poll over which he presided, Mr. Bod ley put the question to him and re- celved a quite different reply. Finally the author referred the point to a senator of indisputable authority, whe showed that the deputy and the mayor were both wrong.—8t. James’ Gazette. — Her Mind. Hilton- My wife Is a matter of fact woman. She only speaks her mind, Chilton—So does mine, but she changes Ber mind so often that it keeps her hlklng all the time. —Chlcngo Newa WAR SEEMS Pl]SSIBLE St. l’etersburg Paper Discusses Russo-Turkish Situation. ARMY OFFICERS EXPECT IT Threatening Movements of Turkish Troops Near the Caucasian Frontier 8aid to Be Going Forward Without Interruption. St. Petersburg, Feb. 6.—The possi- bility of hostilities between Russia and Turkey as a result of thé bound- ary dispute between Turkey and Per- sia, a situation that has caused the dispatch of 5,000 Russian troops in the direction of the Turkish frontier, is discussed by the Novoe Vremya, which professes to belteve ghat war might easily come about from the existing international conditions. The paper declares the present mo- ment the most favorable for Turkey, fnasmuch as Russia is involved in in- terior troubles, her army is disorgan- ized and the Turkish border is with- out fortifications. The paper pub- lishes prominently a dispatch from fts Tiflis correspondent saying that Rus- slan army officers in the Caucasus consider war to be probable not later than April. The correspondent adds that the threatening movements of Turkish troops near the frontier con- tinue without interruption and that several large steamers of the Austrian Lloyd have been chartered by Turkey for the transportation of munitions of war to Anatolia. The foreign office repeated its pre- vious assurances that there were no new developments in the situation pointing to the possibility of hostili- ties, but several high military officers, including the chief of the mobilization section of the war office, said in inter- views that although they regarded grave developments as a remote pros- pect they attached a certain amount of weight to the conditions set forth by the Novoe Vremya. Other officers said they thought it wise and neces- sary to take precautions and not to be caught napping. The customary notification is said to have been given to the reservists in the St. Petersburg and other districts to hold themselves in readiness for service at any time, but this step is in no sense unusual. Advices received here from Teheran, Persia, set forth that the Turkoman population of Northern Persia is being used for the formation of a cavalry corps, an arm which is practically lacking in the Persian military. PARLIAMENT TO BE CALLED New Cabinet at Lisbon Will Order Elections. Lisbon, Feb. 6.—There is no truth in the rumors current in Berlin that an attempt had been made upon the life of the minister of war in the first cab- inet announced, Jose Mathias Nunes. The new cabinet, at its initial ses- sion, decided to order elections and to convoke parliament at the earliest possible moment. Franco has offi- ciolly announced his retirement from politics, but his followers will attempt to continue the party he organized. The situation here is quiet and Lis- bon is peaceful. Troops are less con- spicuous on the stroaets of the city and if ‘Saturday, the day of the funerals, passes without incident the present phase of the crisis through which Portugal is passing may be regarded at an end. LIKELY TO BE REDUCED. Secretary of Navy Asks $69,270,000 for Construction Work. ‘Washington, Feb. 6.—Concluding the appearance of navy officials be- fore the house committee on naval af- fairs Secretary Metcalf asked for an appropriation of $69,270,000 for con- struction and conversion of war ves- sels. While no vote has been taken nor has sentiment in the committee orystallized the impression prevails that the secretary's estimate will be reduced materially, possibly to the Hmit of $40,000,000, in accordance with the policy of economy and retrench- ment felt to be necessary in the face of impending deficit and the prospect of reduced revenues throughout the coming fiscal year. Kneels in Prayer; Then Suicides. Birmingham, Ala, Feb. 6.—After reading several chapters in the Bible and kneeling with members of his family in prayer David Potts of East Lake, a suburb, retired to a room and with a shotgun blew the top of his head off. The man was despondent for several days because of hard times. Lid Mayor Elected at Duluth. Duluth, Feb. 6.—Alderman R. D. Haven, Rep., was elected mayor of Duluth over Emil A. Tessmdn, Dem., president of the city council, in the bitterest campaign ever conducted in Duluth. The issue was the lid, of which Haven is the champion. * Ha- ven’s majority is estimated gt 700. Beveridge Addresses Senate. Washington, Feb. 8.—Senator Bev- eridge of Indiana addressed the sen- ato in advocacy of his bill to create a permanent ' tariff commission. The senator was accorded a careful hear- ing by both the Republican and Demo- cratic sides of the chamber and also by the crowded galleries. DELEGATION TURNED DQWN Present Congress Will Not Pass Tariff Commission Bill. ‘Washington, Feb. 6—The present congress will not appoint a tariff com- mission. Revision of the tariff will be undertaken next winter in the short term. These announcements in substance were made by Chairman Payne of the house committee on ways and meaus, in the presence and with the tacil ap- proval of Speaker Cannon, the occa- sion being a call upon the leaders by 'representatives: a tanft revision delegation -from va- rlous parts of the country, comprising representatives of many of the big- gost manufacturing and industrial concerns in the United States. The delegation called at the White House and paid their respects to the president,. Later they went %o the Capitol and were received in the ways and wmeans room by Speaker Cannon and Chairman Payne. There they spent more than an hour, presenting their case and listening to replies by the two foremost Republican leaders in the house, which, while cordially couched, were practically a refusal of all the delegation had journeyed to Washington to plead for. THAW'S COUNSEL CONFER Would Secure His Removal From Mat- teawan Asylum. New York, Feb. 6.—An extended conference of counsel for Harry Thaw was held here to discuss what legal means should be taken to secure Thaw’s removal from Matteawan state asylum. The result of the conference was not disclosed, but it was learned on excellent authority that Martiu W. Littleton, who defended Thaw in the last trial, has practically retired from the case. It was known that Mr. Littleton’s eonnection with the case would cease when the jury rendered its verdict, but at the request of his associates he consented to lend them his aid un- t11 he started South on his vaecation, although his personal views on the status of Thaw’s case following the rendition of the verdict differed ma- terially from the views of the other lawyers in the case. It is known that Mr. Littleton believes Thaw should be left in Matteawan, at least for sev- eral months to come. PLATFORMS WILL BE ALIKE Personality of Candidates Issue in the Presidential Campaign. Chicago, Feb. 6.—Thomas Taggart, chairman, and Urey Woodson, secre- tary, of the Democratic national com- mittee, came to Chicago with a new political idea in their heads. In brief it was this: The next presidential campaign will have to be fought out on the personal- ity of the opposing candidates. Out- side of some variance about the tariff there will be no real difference in the platformas of the two parties. In this they took it for granted that William J. Bryan would be nominated by the Democrats and William H. Taft by the Republicans. They felt sure about the Bryan part of it and were willing to bet as to the Taft end. The Republican platform, they thought, would be practically drawn by Pres- ident Roosevelt and represent his ideas. The Democratic one would he inspired by Mr. Bryan and he already has endorsed the entire Roosevelt pro- gramme. WANT LAW MADE EXPLICIT Railrcad Men Before House Commit- tee on Nine-Hour Statute. ‘Washington, Feb. 6.—A number of representatives of the railroad trunk lines of the country appeared hefore the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce and urged a modi- fication of the act of March 4 last af- fecting the hours of service of tele- graph operators, train dispatchers and other employes. The measure is known as the nine-hour law, but the interstate commerce commission con- strues it to apply to operators and other employes only as individuals in- stead of treating them as a class. It was represented that this construction was not the intent of congress and the representations made were with the view to having the statute made more explicit. The law goes into effect March 4 next. FOUR PERISH IN FLAMES. Farmhouse Near Preston, Minn., De- stroyed by Fire. Preston, Minn.,, Feb. 6.—The house of Thomas Yeast, four miles south- west of here, was burned to the ground. Mrs. Yeast, Charles Engle and wife and. baby were burned to death. Mr. Yeast barely escaped in time to save himself. It is said the fire was caused by a defective flue. AFFECTS COMMUNICATION, Serious Sleet Storm Throughout the Middle West. Chicago, Feb. 6.—A sleet storm, which turned to rain, seriously affect- ed telegraphic communication between Chieago and many outside cities, espe- clally in the West. St. Louis, Omaha and Kansas City ‘were entirely cut off from the East by a sleet storm which surrounded St. Louis and extended into Iowa. In Chicago the storm affected much of the transportation in the early rush lours. Wlectric railroads were the principal sufferers, the steam lines ex- periencing but slight delay. The ele- vated roads had great difficulty in op- erating their trains owing to ice form- ing on the third rail. S FIRE IN BUSINESS SECTION Causes Heavy Loss to Property at Berlin, N. H. Berlin, N. H., Feb. 6.—Two fires in the business section of this town caused an aggregate loss estimated at approximately $400,000. The Green block, a business and tenement build- Ing, and the Berlin National bank were destroyed by the first fire. While that was still burning another fire started a few blocks away and burned six wooden buildings on Main street. Fearing that the entire business sec- tion would be swept away the fire- men summoned help from Portland and Lewiston, Me. The flames were brought under control after a fight of five hours. Refugees Practically Destitute. Boston, Feb. 6.—Every one of the erew of the burned steamer St. Cuth- bert, who arrived heréon the Cymric, which rescued them, was practically In’ a dostitute condition so far as clothes were concerned, but the Sea- men’s Aid society of Charlestown had the docks with sup- plies of warm clo nlan-% ALICE THAWI]IVUR_[IEI] Sécures Annulment of Marriage to Earl of Yarmouth. PROCEEDINGS VERY BRIEF Rvidence Taken Behind Closed Doors to Show That While the Defendant Was Capable of Doing So the Mar- riage Was Never Consummated. London, Feb. 6.—Sir Birrell Barnes, president of the divorce court, has granted the Countess of Yarmouth, who was Miss Alice Thaw .of Pitts- burg, a4 decree nullifying her marriage to the Earl of Yarmouth, The case was heard in private. At the time of the commencement of the proceudings every one not actually en- gaged on the case was excluded from the courtroom. The case was practi- cally uundefended and the hearing lasted for omly half an hour.” The countess, attired in a fashionable black gown, was present, but the Earl of Yarmouth was not in court. Only four witnesses were examined. They were the Countess of Yarmouth horself, her maid, a doctor appointed by the court and an American lawyer who proved the marriage. The count- ess gave evidence in support of her allegation that the marriage had never been consummated and the maid tes- tified that the earl and the countess had been living as man and wife. Ac- cording to the evidence of the doctor the Earl of Yarmouth was capable of COUNTESS OF YARMOUTH. consummating the marriage, but coun- sel for the plaintiff contended that this did not affect the allegation that the marriage had not been consummated and he pointed out to the judge that it ‘was within the discretion of the court to annul the marriage if it was proved that it had not been consummated. The papers in the case are being kept secret and all information re- garding the nature of the charges has been carefully withheld. The state- ment was made, however, that the character of the medical evidence to be given made a public hearing inad- visable. It has been well known for two years past that the domestic affairs of the Yarmouths were unhappy. The earl’s companions and his manner of Hving, it was said, were such that he could not give his wife the place in society which she had a right to ex- pect. ®he supplied large sums of money to defray her husband’s ex- travagances and her friends say that she has conducted herself with. dig- nity throughout the troubles resulting from this unhappy union and the diffi- culties of her brother, Harry Kendall Thaw. REMARKABLE DOUBLE LIFE Brooklyn Manufacturer a Confessed Pickpocket for Years. New York, Feb. 6.—Louis Wolf, a well to do Brooklyn manufacturer by day and a pickpocket at night, has made a confession to Assistant Dis- triot Attorney Elder and his revela- tions form one of the most astounding documents in the criminal history of Kings county. ‘Wolf declared that he made $7,000 & year picking pockets on the cars during the rush hours of the evening and that whenever he was suspected he was always able to escape arrest by flashing his business card on po- lcemen and his victims. Accused of Wife Murder. Gallipolis, O., Feb. 8.—Fred Van Meter is in jail charged with having poisoned his wife. Van Meter, it is alleged, put the poison in a coffee pot. Several persons who dined with Mrs. Van Meter were made deathly sick. It is said he afterward destroyed the coifee pot and saucer in which the poison had heen mixed. Friseo Free of Bubonic Plague. San Francisco, Feb. 6.—With the discharge of the last patient under treatment at the isolation hospital San Francisco was officially declared te be free of bubonic plague. BIVES DAMAGING EVIDENCE #rchitect’s Assistant Testifies in Cap itol Graft Case. Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 6.—All doubt a8 to the attitude of Architect Joseph M. Huston toward his co-defendants in the capiiol conspiracy suit on trial in the Dauphin county court was dis pelled by the testimony of his assist. ant, Stanford B. Lewis. Lewis gave damaging evidence against the defend: ants, Contractor J. S. Sanderson, fo; mer ‘Auditor General Snyder, former| High Grade Watches a Specialty. Fine and Complicated Waich Repairing. Geo. T. Baker & Co. Wateh Inspector for M. & I. and B. F, & I. F. Rys. Located in City Drug Store State Treasurer Mathues and formet Building Superintendent Shumaker. ‘While not admitting that there was any conspiracy of which he had knowl- edge Lewis told everything the com: monwealth asked. Huston remained! in the seclusion of his room at thef Senate hotel, where he was accessible only to his confidential friends and lawyers. The architect was indictedt Jointly with those four defendants but secured a separate trial, with the consent of the commonwealth, when the case was called. Lewis gave testimony to show that while the original form of the certifi- cates of Architect Huston were the same as those used by all architects the form of Huston's certificates were so changed by direction of Snyder as to specifically include weights and measurements. The prosecution claimg that the change in form of the certifi- cates was made so that the responsi bility for checking up the furnishings would be shifted to the architect in- stead of being on Snyder and Shu maker, who were by law required to certify to.all furnishings delivered to the capitol. ENACTED BEFORE THE JURY Realistic Representation of the Guerin Murder. Chicago, Feb. 6.—A realistic repre- sentation of the shooting of Webster S. Guerin, according to the theory of the tragedy held by the defense, was enacted in the courtroom in the trial of Mrs. Dora McDonald. The attorneys for the prisoner were endeavoring to prove that during a struggle between Guerin and Mrs. Mec- Dorald she turned the revolver against him and that he pulled the trigger, firing a shot into his own chest. Dr. M. L. Harris, an expert in gunshot wounds, cnacted the part of Guerin and Dr. J. W. Hall, Mrs. McDonald’s physician, filled the role said to have been enacted by his patient. The twa men struggled and posed on the wit- ness sland for the better part of two hours during the direct and cross- examinations. The state claimed that if the revolver had been held at the} angle claimed by the defense the bul- let would have entered the body of Querin in a different direction from that it actually took. A Clever Manager. The Groom (very wealthy)—Why did ONE CENT A WORD. HELP WANTED. WANTED FOR U. S. ARMY: Able- bodied unmarried men, between ages of 18 and 35; citizens of United States, of good character and temperate habits, who can speak, read, and wnte English™ For mformatmn apply to Recruit ing Officer, Miles Block, Bemidji Minn. WANTED—District manager for the Washington Life Insurance company —exclusive territory — great opportunity for a young man —experience not necessary. Write to B. H. Richardson, Manager, 318 Manhattan Bldg., St. Paul, Minn. WANTED—Two girls, at the Brink- man Hotel. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. FOR RENT. FOR RENT: Seven room house, 700 America Ave. Inquire of J P. Omich, 218 Beitrami Ave. FOR RENT: One furnished room, with or without board. 1121, Bemidji avenue. MISCELLANEOUS. A A A A 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. 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