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TWO AT Continued from First Page company, spent several days looking after business interests in this vicin- ity. Jack Knotter and sister left for their up-river homestead Saturday morning. They are located on the east branch of the Rapid. Miss Knotter is a recent arrival from Duluth. Enjoyable Birthday Party. Wednesday was the sixth anni- versary of the birth of Miss Jean Morrison, and that young miss took advantage of the occasion to enter- tain a number of her young friends. About fifty youngsters were taken to the Brinkman Family Theater, where they were entertained by the regular performance given there, which was greatly enjoyed by all of them. At the conclusion of the performance, two large sleighs were pressed into service and the party were taken for a ride about the city and the suburbs, being left at their homes,after all had thoroughly enjoyed the drive. The crowd of young folks voted their little hostess as being the “best ever. WILL PROBABLY GIVE -JEFFERS COUNTY OFFICE Red Lake County People Kindly Dis- posed Toward the Unfortunate Injured Man. The friends of Frank Jeffers will be pleased to learn that he will more than likely be given a county office by the residents of Red Lake county, where he was always popu- lar. After Mr. Jeffers was so badly injured at Blackduck and it became evident that he would recover, a! number of Mr. Jeffers’ friends “‘got busy” in his behalf, with the result that it is said a general demand will be made for a county office for Jefl~| ers, who possesses peculiar talents in that direction. In this connection, River Falls News says: “It is rumored that Frank Jeffers is to again be a candidate for office in Red Lake county this year. A number of the friends of this gentleman living in various parts of the county have been busy of late making a canvas of the voters to endeavor to learn the sen- timent of the people. Mr. Jeffers was always very popular and no doubt now has the sympathy of - many people who did not support | him in former campaigns. A man who canvassed Thief River Falls states that he found many, who, two years ago were actively against Jeffers say they would not oppose him this year.” the Thief 'BOOSTS THE GOVERNOR AS THE “GOMING MAN” ‘Rev. Dr. Lyman Abboit Compares Minnesota’s Chief Executive and Bryan, ‘‘Peerless Leader. | The Duluth News-Tribune of yes!| |terday contained the following | special telegram from Washington: Washington, March 4.—"If any iman could carry the Democratic| | party to victory in the coming presi- | dential election it would be Governor John A. Johnson of Minnesota, but; | he will not get the nomination this ;year,” said Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott {of New York, who has just returned | from a visit to Minnesota. | | »Iwould rather seeGovernor John- son elected president than any i other Democrat I know, but I am a Republican and I hope to see Mr. | Taft the next occupant of the White : House. Minnesota is the home of | one of the coming men of the coun- | try, if not the coming man, and this man is Governor Johnson. Governor | | Johnson is a much stronger man | than Wiiliam Jennings Bryan. Mr. kBryan is a great scholar, a man of Ewide views and interests and one of the finest orators in the country, but he is not practical and lacks exec- utive ability. Executive ability is Mr. Johnson’s greatest gift. In the east he is looked upon as the man who does things.” Dissolution of Partnership. Notice is hereby given that the co-partnership heretofore existing by and between Arthur Hagberg and Charles Knopke, doing business | under the firm name and style of Hagberg & Knopke, has this day| i been dissolved by mutual consent. Dated at Bemidji, Minnesota, this 3rd day of March 1908. . { Arthur Hagberg Charles Knopke. Hot Campaign at Cass Lake. Cass Lake, March 6.—(Special to Pioneer.)—Cass Lake is in the midst of a red-hot municipal cam- paign and nearly every man, woman aud child is involved in the fray. The village election will be held next Tuesday, and there are two strong tickets in the field, one called the “Citizens,” the other being designated as the “Voters.” The “Voters” ticket is practi- cally an endorsement of the present administration and is headed by J. E. Tapley, president of the conn- cil. The “Citizens” ticket is headed by L. M. Lange for president and is in direct opposition to the “Voters” tickets. A closer applica- Wire Trips Trips via Long Distanc moments by using the hotel bills, car fares or waste of time. ter where—you can make a round trip m a few Nerthwestern Long Distance Lines Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company e Telephone involve no No mat- GREEN VE We have ot hand for Saturday New Tomatoes Celery Parsley Orders should be placed early. FRESH EGGS AND CREAMERY BUTTER ROE & MARKUSEN - PHONE 207 GETABLES Radishes Lettuce Cucumbers INGRAMS Novelty Jugglers and Originators ' BRINKMAN" ; F A M I L Y Mc. and Mys. Geo. Ingram THEATRE | recruits so that Bemidji may not be tion of the lid is said to be one of the main plaaksin the platform of the “Citizens” ticket. The tickets are as follows: “'Citizens” Ticket. 3 L. M. Lang....... President . E. Tapley W. T, Koneman... Trustee. J. Spillan M. J. Stizer... ...L. D. Latendness J ... Peter Erickson Recorder.J. W. Komstadius -M. Kenyon Read the Notice---First Page. - The Pioneer is informed that some prejudiced people are stating that an effortis being made by this paper to conceal the notice calling for a special election in this school district on the proposition for a new school building, by inserting the notice in an obscure position in the | paper. This statement is absoluely with- out any foundation. The first day that the notice was inserted it was given prominence on the first page of the paper, and since then it has been published on the third (local) page, and in this issue the notice will be found at the top of the cen- ter column on the first page, “next to pure reading matter.” Verily, the narrow-mindedness of some individuals surpasseth all understanding. Attention, Militia Recruits! A. Otto desires the Pioneer to especially notify all those who intend joining the vew militia company to hasten and make their applications as soon as possible. It is the present intention to have the Bemidji company mustered into the service March 14,and ia order to do this it will be necessary to have the the company recruited to as full a number as possible. Those who have already been accepted should make special efforts to secure other backward in having her company mustered in. Applicants desiring to enlist in the company may apply to Dr. Morrison any time during the day and also between the hours of 7 and | 9 in the evening. Attention. Capt. H. B. Abell, District Man- ager for the Penn Mutal, will be at the Hotel Burroughs for a few days to enable the people of Bemidji for the first time to investigate the Ordinary Life, Limited Life, En- dowment and Term policies issued by the Penn Mutal, 2 company of sixty one years record for square dealing, equalled by few and sur- passed by none. About that policy see Capt. Abelle, while here, A postal to him will secure a personal interview. Notice. Owing to the dissolution of the firm of Hagberg & Knopke, all parties owing accounts at the Bemidji Meat Market are requested to callat the market and settle same at once. It is necessary that we secure im- mediate settlement of our out-stand- :ng accounts in order to adjust our own business matters. Arthur Hagberg, Charles Knopke. AMGtuses musvanu of murder. Moosup, Conn., March 6—At the bottom of Moosup river was found the evidence of a murder, the body of a man in a bag with heavy weights. Salvatore Catagello of this place was "arrested on complaint of his wife, who charged non-support. The woman told the selectmen that she believed that her husband had murdered a man known as “Peter,” who came to visit them from Brooklyn, N. Y., and search disclosed the body in the river. Standard Oil Safe Empty. Fargo, N. D., March 6.—The vault in the office of the Standard Oil com- pany’s branch in this city was broken into by unknown thieves. The rob- bers’ efforts, however, were futile, as there was not a cent of money in the vault. The men gained entrance to the building by smashing in the front door. They knocked off the dial of the vault with a crowbar, hammer and jimmy and swung open the door. LIKELY O AEACH Loss of Life by Burning \oi Col- linwood, 0., School, CAUSE OF BLAZE UNKNOWN | One Hundred and Sixty-five Bodies Have Been Recovered, Many of Them So Badly Battered and Burned as to Be Unrecognizable. Cleveland, March 6.—One hundred and sixty-five lives, all but iwo of them children between the ages of six and fifteen years, are known to have been lost in the fire which destroyed the public school in North €ollinwood, ten miles east of this city. Fifteen others still are missing and -their bodies possibly may be in the ruius. It probably will be several days be- fore the exact number of dead is ac- curately determined. Of the 165 bodies recovered 108 have been positively identified and fifty-seven are still unknown. The bodies are so blackened by fire and smoke; so battered and bruised by trampling feet that there is no human chance of their identity being ever discovered from anything which they resembled in their lifetime. It is only by means of small articles of wearing apparel that their names can be as- certained. The cause of the fire which, aided by a frantic panic, a narrow hallway and doors which, it is claimed by many, were made to open toward the inside, still is a mystery. It was at first supposed that it came from an overheated furnace or an exploded boiler in the basement of the school- house. It has been established that there was no explosion and the jan- itor of the school, Fred Herter, three of whose children died within arm’s | length of their father, declares that it could not have come from the fur- nace. The day was comparatively warn, beside the last few days imme- diately preceding it, and Herter de- clares that he maintained the fires at a lower heat than usual throughout the early part of the morning. Fear- ing he had not sufficiently warmed the building he was, according to his story, on his way to open the furnace drafts and increase the heat when he was met by three little. girls running from the basement who told him there was a fire below. These three little girls are now being sought by the police and by the fire commission- ers. It is considered entirely possible by certain members of the Collinwood school board that they may have through carelessness started the blaze that cost the lives of so many children. There were in the building at the time the fire was discovered between 310 and 325 pupils. They were under the control of nine teachers. Two of the latter are among the dead. Younger Children in the Attic. The school was overcrowded and quarters had been provided for the younger children in the attic. Strange as it may seem more of the pupils es- caped from this part of the school- house than from any other. The chil- dren were under good discipline, they had been practiced frequently in the fire drill, their teachers without ex- ception retained their self-possession, showing great courage in the face of imminent death, and yet more than half of these little ones died horribly because of faulty building arrange- ments. The schoolhouse was two stories and a half in height, the walls being of brick and concrete. Inside it was a shell, which burned with almost in- conceivable rapidity. The entire in- terior was a mass of smoking ruins lying in the cellar within thirty min- utes after the alarm of fire was sounded. For supreme horror the scenes that were enacted around the rear door of this ill-fated schoolhouse have had few parallels in this or any other country. Little children were piled upon each other, six and eight deep, while strong men and frantic mothers struggled with desperation to release them, yet failed and were compelled to stand back and see the little ones die before their eyes. One woman found her own daughter in this press and stroked her hair in the effort to keep the flames away. She failed and the child was burned to death while her mother looked on. From the upper floors of the build- ing two stairways offered exit. One of these led to the door in front, the other to the door in the rear. It was in this last place that the lives of the little ones were lost while would-be rescuers stood helpless. The scenes that were enacted in the front hall will never be known, for all of those who were caught in the full fury of the panic were killed. After the flames died away, however, a huge heap of little bodies, burned by the fire and trampled into things of hor- ror, told the tale as well as anybody need to know it. Family Narrowly Escapes Death. St. Paul, March 6.—Mrs. Louis Bur- row and her four children, ranging in age from one to fifteen years, nar- rowly escaped asphyxiation from coal gas. The mother was found in a semi-conscious condition writhing in pain on the floor and the youngest child was unconscious, its body turned blue. A physician was called and worked three hours over the child be- fore it was out of danger. TRY TO UNCOVER PLOT. Chicago Police Continue to Arrest Al- leged Anarchists. 7 Chicago, March 6.—Continuing their efforts to connect the attempted as- sassination of Chief of Police George M. Shippy with an &narchistic plot the police raided a rooming house and seized a trunk full of property belonging to Harry Goldstein, one of the alleged anarchists now under ar- rest. to contaln inore than fifty books writ. ten in Jewish and a heap of Jewish newspapers and other Jewish litera- ture. The police believe that Gold- stein took the trnnk to the rooming house in an effort to prevent its con- tents from getting Into possession of the authorities. Harry Shippy, the chief's son, is re- ported to have passed a good night and is feeling better. The physicians claim he now has a good chance for recovery. Two detectives were de’ailed by Assistant Chief Schuettlor to investi- gate a report which gained circula- tion that Emma Goldman, (he an- archist leader, had arrived in Chicage from St. Louis. The report, however, could not be substantiated. Rosie Stern and Olga Averbuch, sister of the man killed by Chief Shippy, who were arrested in connec- tion with the police investigation of the attempted assassination of the chief, have heen released. TO PROBE LILLEY’S CHARGE House Committee Decides to Report Resolution. ‘Washington, March 6.—The house committee on rules has decided to re- port favorably the resolution of Rep- resentative Lilley providing for the appointment of a committee of five Y GEORGE L. LILLEY. members of the house to investigate charges of corrupt influence in con- nection with the authorization for submarine torpado boats. The report probably will be made by Representa- tive Dalzell. POOR MAN GETS FORTUNE Declares He Will Give Half of His Million to Charity. Chicago, March 6.—To be suddenly elevated from a position as a $20 a week foreman to be possesscr of a cool million dollars, with a look in at an English lordship’s title slipped in for “good measure,” would prove startling to any man. But it could be no more startling than the announce- ment of A. W. Comfret, who declared that when he received his fortune he would immediately turn one-half of it over to charity. Comfret and his wife have been worrying along for twenty-five years on the small wages he has earned. Now he is foreman for the Hapley Cold Storage company and has been informed that he is one of fourteen heirs to an English estate valued at no less than $17,000,000. DEMONSTRATION FOR BRYAN Large Attendance at Nebraska Demo- cratic State Convention. Omaha, March 6.—When the state Democratic convention for the elec- tion of delegates to the national gath- ering was begun more than 1,500 del- egates were in the hall. Thomas S. Allen, chairman of the state Demo- cratic central committee, called the gathering to order and stated the purposes for which it had been sum- moned. All the plans of the state leaders had been directed toward making the affair a demonstration in support of the candidacy of William J. Bryan for the presidential nomination of the party. The Democrats of Mr. Bryan’s home state as a consequence turned out in unusual numbers and lost no opportunity to make their enthusiasm for his cause known. GOVERNOR URGES ACTION. South Carolina Legislature Asked to Protect State Autonomy. Columbia, S. C., March 6.—That a clash between the state of South Caro- lina and Federal Judge Pritchard is imminent was indicated when Gov- ernor Ansel sent a special message to the general assembly in extra session urging it to enact legislation preserv- ing the state autonomy and protect- ing the dispensary funds from the interference of the federal courts. The message i an outgrowth of Judge Pritchard’s decision to take Jurisdiction of the suits brought by creditors to secure the payment of debts contracted for liquors furnished to the former state dispensary. Preparing for Big Fruit Crop. St. Paul, March 6.—An order for 200 refrigerator cars was placed re- cently by the Northern Pacific as an addition to its equipment in order to be fully prepared to handle the an- nual fruit crop of the Northwest. It is expected that the demands on the road this year will be heavier than ever and for that reason the increase in refrigerator equipment was con- sidered necessary. The Northern Pa- cific is tributary to five or six of the fruit raising districts on the coast and handles a large amount of fruit business. > Refuses to Obey Federal Law. Montgomery, Ala., March 6.—Con- tending that the Southern Railway in Mississippi is a state and not an in- terstate line the management, accord- Ing to a report from Columbus, Miss., has refused to obey the nine-hour law. Orders have been sent out, it is said, to all statlon agents and operators to The u;mk when opened was found ! yroceed as they have been in the past { MISCONDUCTALLEGED Examiners Crificise Officers of De- funct New York Bank, WRONGDOING 1S CONCEALED 8everal Apparent Defalcations, geries and Other Violations of Law by Employes Covered Up for Fear of Exposure of Higher Officials. New York, March 6.—Misconduct of the affairs of the Oriental bank, which is in the hands of receivers, is charged in a report written by exam- iners employed by the receivers. The report says: “The bank has been conducted in a most slipshod, loose, unbusinesslike manner and has been permeated with irregularities, frauds and crime. With- in the last two years the administra. tion of its affairs has been character- ized by several apparent defalcations, forgeries, perjury and other viola- tions of the statutes of this state; and yet the attention of the authori- tles of the city or state has not been called to the violations of the law by the officers or directors or attorneys of the Oriental bank. “Sums ageregating considerable amounts having been charged off to ‘profit and loss’ and the offenders al- lowed to escape the penalty of the law, apparently because they were employes of the bank, whom the offi- cers were afraid to prosecute for fear of exposure of greater or more seri- ous irregularities or violations of law on the part of those higher up in the administration of the bank’s affairs.” The examiners also alleged that large loans were made by the direc- tors of the Oriental bank at the re- quest of some of their number who were also directors of the banks in Brooklyn which have failed and that some of these loans, to the extent of several hundred thousand dollars, were charged off, while other loans against the same men were counted a8 good. Kills Two and Suicides. Muskogee, Okla., March 6.—At Foyil, in the Cherokee Nation, Ellis Beck, a former, shot and killed his wife and his fifteen-year-old stepson and then commitied suicide. The couple had been married but four wonths. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. Edward D. Eaton was installed as Ppresident of Beloit (Wis.) college with appropriate exercises. The Union Bank of Commerce of Rio de Janeiro has closed its doors. It carried a large number of small accounts. The first section of the electric street car service in Shanghal was successfully inaugurated Thursday. The cars are liberally patronized. King Edward has left London for Biarritz for a month’s holiday, atter which he will make a cruise of the Mediterranean in company with Queen Alexandra. The Virginia senate has concurred in the house bill for the execution of all death sentences at the peniten- tiary in Richmond by electricity, thus abolishing hanging in the state. Rev. Dr. Silas C. Swallow of Harrls- burg, Pa, who was the Prohibition candidate for president of the United States in 1904, is seriously ill at his home with typhoid pneumonia. All Chicago milk dealers, including members of the “big six,” whose offi- clals recently were indicted in ccn- nection with a milk trust, have re- duced the price of milk to 7 cents & quart. According to an official note Bm. peror Willlam will meet King Victor Bmmanuel of Italy at Venice during his Mediterranean cruise. Later Em- peror William will visit Emperor Francis Joseph at Vienna. The house committee on arts and expositions has decided to report fa- vorably a bill appropriating $500,000 for the participation of the United States in the international exposition at Tokio, Japan, in 1912. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, March 65.—Wheat— May, $1.0814 @1.08%; July, $1.06%. On track—No. 1 hard, $1.13%; No. 1 Northern, $1.10%; No. 2 Northern, $1.08%; No. 3 Northern, $1.03@1.06. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, March 5—Wheat—To ar- rive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.- 11%; No. 1 Northern, $1.09%; No. 2 Northern, $1.07%; May, $1.07%; July, $1.08. Flax—To arrive and on track, $1.16; May, $1.16%; July, $1.18%. §t. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, March 5.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $4.75@5.50; fair to good, $4.00@4.75; good to choice cows and heifers, $3.26@4.25; veals, $3.76@5.25. Hogs—$4.15@4.36. Sheep—Wethers, $6.00@6.50; good to choice lambs, $6.25@6.60. Chiocago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, March 5—Cattle—Beeves, $4.00@6.10; cows and heifers, $1.90@ 5.00; Texans, $3.75@4.75; calves, $5.25 @7.00; Western cattle, $4.00@5.00; stockers and feeders, $2.80@4.90. Hogs —Light, $4.20@4.45; mixed, $4.26@ 450; heavy, $4.25@4.52%; rough, $4.26@4.30; pigs, $3.60@4.30. Sheep, $3.40@5.80; yearlings, $5.25@6.40; lambs, $5.40@7.00. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, March 5.—Wheat—May, 98% @99c; July, 93%c; Sept, 9lc. Corn—May, 63% @633c; July, 61%@ 6l%c. Oats—May, old, 53%ec; May, 51%ec; July, old, 46%c; July, 43%c; Sept., 37%c. Pork—May, $11.921%; July, $12.30. Butter—Creameries, 20 @28c; dairies, 19@25c. Eggs—18@ 19¢. Poultry—Turkeys, 13c; chickens, 12¢; springs, 12%c. For-| WANTS 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 write English For information apply to Recruit ing Officer, Miles Block, Bemidji Minn. WANTED—Scandinavian girl for general housework. Mrs. Peter Lindeberg, 707 Beltrami Ave. WANTED: Lady cook. Good wages. Inquire at Lakeshore _ Hotel. WANTED: Good girl for general housework. Mrs. Thomas Bailey. WANTED. Chambermaid. In quire at Brinkman hotel. FOR SALE. FOR SALE: 45-horsepower Howell engine and 60-horsepower boiler, also part of sawmill outfit, in good condition. Will sell cheap. Ches- ter Snow. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. LOST and FOUND LOST—A black muff. Maud Hay- den, 606 American Ave. MISCELLANEQUS. 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. Mrs. Harriet Campbell, librarian. DR. SIGLER, SPECIALIST, acute and chronic deseases of women given especial. Call or write for information. All correspondence confidential, Write today. 44 Syndicate block. 521 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis, Mlnn. WANTED: Position as cook in hotel or restaurant. Mrs. E. Arm- strong, Farley, Minn. Want Ads FOR RENTING A PROPERTY, SELL- ING A BUSINESS OR OBTAINING HELP ARE BEST. Pioneer . o | | | -

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