Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 10, 1908, Page 4

AT BRINKMAN FAMILY THEATRE ALL THIS WEEK, Attention, Militia Recruits! A. Otto desires the Pioneer to especially notify all those who intend! joining the new militia company toi hasten and make their applications | as soon as possible. | It is the preseant intention to have the Bemidji company mustered into the service March 14,and in 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 recruits so that Bemidji may not be 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. Warrants Payable. Notice is hereby given that there is money in the city treasury to pay all outstanding warrants issued against the general fund prior to| October 1, 1907, and that interest will cease on same from and after| thirty days from the date of thisf notice. Dated at Bemidji, Minn., this 10th day of March, 1908. Earl Geil, City Treasurer. | Notice. * Owing to the dissolution of the| firm of Hagberg & Knopke, all parties owing accounts at the Bemidji | claim, before the clerk of court this nodders. “It's yours,” he sald. “Ten i dollars. You're the buyer.” “‘Ach, nein,” said the German. “I'm 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. Before the Clerk of Court. Charles Touvenain, of the Town of Cormant, made final proof on his forenoon. Clerk of Court Rhoda has issued two marriage licenses, as follows: | Frank Messerall to Mary Lorent, | of Grant Valley; Clarence Eastman to Myrtle Arnold. It Was His Friend. A little story in German and Eng lish, accompanied by an interpreter, drifted into the Indianapolis News of: fice. Here it is: Two Germans stepped into an auction house where a sale of watches was going on. They oceupied front seats and soon attracted the at tention of the auctioneer. As he dwelt upon the merits of a watch he was of fering for sale to the highest bidae: the auctioneer turned to the Germans from time to time as the price mount ed—§6, §6.50. §7, $7.50. As the auc tioneer nodded at one of the Germans there came an answering nod, which he took to be a bid. “That feller knows me,” said one| German to the other. “Yes, sure,” said the other. The nodding kept on. Finally the auctioneer extended the watch to the the Schwob (Suablan); mein freund| heir ist der Bayer (Bavarian).” Benton and Barton. In the “Thirty Years In the United States Senate,” by Thomas Hart Ben- ton, Missourl’s famous United States senator, there Is scant mention of Ben- ton’s colleague from Missouri, David Barton. The only place in which his name occurs is where Senator Benton gives the roll call of the senate, and | Barton’s name of course is therein contained. Benton undertook to pun- ish Barton by ignoring him and thus relegate the first United States sena- tor from Missouri to oblivion. Barton had brought about Benton’s election to the senate. Barton was first named by the legislature, and there was a long contention as to the second senator- ship. TFinally Barton’s friendship for Benton brought about Benton’s elec- tlon. Later the two quarreled over the appointment of an Indian agent in the far west and drifted further and fur- ther apart. Finally the relations be- tween the two senators became such that they scarcely spoke to ome an- other when they met.—Kansas City Star. The Injured One. A gentleman owning a sugar estate in Demerara went out to visit it for the first time. The day after his arrival he stood watching the punts bringing the cane home. A young negro boy who was driving the mules, wishing to Increase the speed of them, struck one of them with his whip. The mule promptly responded by launching out ‘with his heels and dealt the boy a kick on the head which stretched him on the ground, where he lay rubbing his woolly pate on the spot where the kick had been received. “Is he hurt? Is he hurt?” cried the planter in alarm. A full grown negro, hearing the expressions of concern, sprang forward hastily and, raising the mule’s heels, shouted out: “No, boss! That mule him walk tendah fo’ a day or two, but him ne hurt!”’—Chambers’ Journal. D ————— e —— “Ihe Pionee Biggest Little Daily in the State.” IS THE Says the Walker Pilot: “The Bemidji Pioneer isn’t as big a daily as the Duluth Herald,.but the northern press is throwing it about as many compliments. The Pioneer is biggest little daily in the state.” Says the Grand Rapids Independent: “The way that eracking good little daily, the Bemidji Daily Pioneer, handled the news in the Godetts murder case in Koochiching county was good to see. The Pioneer had them all scooped and did its work in a most thorough manner, which should be appreciated by the gen- eral public and busimess men of Bemidji.” ARE YOU A SUBSCRIBER? ot IF NOT, WHY NOT? the PUBLIC DISAPPOINTED Kaiser’s Letter to British Official Will Remain Secret, DISCUSSED IN PARLIAMENT Chancellor of the Exchequer Asquith and Lord Tweedmouth, Its Recip- ient, Both Declare That the Com- munication Is Private. London, March 10.—The hope that the letter sent last month by Emperor William of Germany to Lord Tweed- mouth, first lord of the admiralty, in Wwhich, it has been charged, his ma- jesty attempted to influence Great Britain's naval legislation, and the British minister’s reply thereto would be made public for the edification of the people was quickly dispelled by Mr. Asquith, chancellor of the ex- chequer, in the house of commons. In a couple of curt sentences Mr. Asquith, who was acting as premier, told A. J. Balfour and his other ques- tioners that he had nothing to add to his statement of Friday and that so far as he knew Lord Tweedmouth had nothing to add to his declaration be- yond the fact that immediately upon the receipt of Emperor William’s let- ter the first lord of the admiralty ghowed it to Sir Edward Grey, the for- elgn secretary, who agreed with the recipient that the letter had no official eharacter and should be treated as a private communication. “It is clearly out of the question,” continued Mr. Asquith, “to lay private and personal correspondence on the table.” A question from Amelius R. H. Lockwood, Conservative, as to whether it was possible for a communication on such an important question to be regarded in any way as private drew a still more curt “yes” from Mr. As- quith and when he was asked to give the house an opportunity to discuss Lord Tweedmouth’s conduct the act- ing head of the government main- tained a chilly silence. Lord Tweedmouth Explains. Later, in the house of lords, Lord Tweedmouth, the first lord of the ad- miralty, was somewhat more com- municative, but he threw no light on the real contents of the correspond- ence. He did, however, describe the letter from Emperor William as quite informal and very friendly. Lord Tweedmouth expressed his surprise at what he called the “extra- ordinary outburst of the press” during the last few days in connection with this matter. Continuing, he vouch- safed the information that he had on several occasions received letters from the German emperor which had come in the ordinary way through the post- oftice. The particular letter now un- der discussion was a private and per- sonal one, Lord Tweedmouth de- clared, very friendly in tone and quite informal. When it reached him he showed it to Sir Edward Grey, who agreed with him that it should be treated as private and not official. Ac- cordingly on Feb. 20 he had replied to the emperor in the same friendly and informal manner. Lord Tweedmouth concluded by as- suring the house of his firm belief that the course adopted was a good one and calculated to do what every- body so earnestly desired, namely, foster a good understanding between the German empire and Great Britain. The feature of the session in the i | house of lords was a speech by Lord Rosebery, who had the Prince of Wales in a seat beside him. The for- er premier made an attack upon the ‘yellow” journalism of England, with special reference to the inferences | drawn by the London Times from the letters. REPUDIATED BY TAFT. Denies Story Credited to His News Bureau. 7 ‘Washington, March 10.—Secretary Taft has repudiated, on behalf of his political manager, Arthur I. Vorys, B | the story appearing in certain papers, credited to the Taft news bureau in Ohio, which seems to be an effort to i |show - that should the secretary be elected president he would be entirely # |independent of the Roosevelt policies i | and i | commenting on the story, said he had j |[had a talk with Mr. Vorys over the influences. The secretary, in telephone and that Vorys had repudi- eted the whole thing and said he knew nothing of its source. || THREE PROBABLY FATALLY 8core of Chicago Firemen While Fighting Blaze. Chicago, March 10.—A score of fire- Injured E | men were injured, three perhaps fa- ji | tally, by a fire which destroyed Apollo hall, a threestory structure. The cause of the fire is unknown. The to- 8 | tal damage is estimated at $85,000. Treaty May Be Defeated. Brussels, March 10.—Minister of Ptute Beerneart, who was at first dis- posed to favor the treaty providing for the annexation of the Congo Inde- pendent State to Belgium, has now de- cided to oppose it because of the clauses granting recognition to pri- vate concessions and providing for a grant of $10,000,000 to King Leopold. The defection of M. Beernaert and his followers will mean the further modi- fication or possibly the defeat of the treaty. TN e Foiled. “Ah!” said Bragley, with a view to making Miss Wise jealous. “I was alone last evening with some one [ ad- mire very much.” “Ah!” echoed the bright girl. “Alone, were you?’—Philadelphia Press. A Losing Scheme. “They tell me that poor Jolly is a victim of his own good fellowship.” “That’s so. He lost his own health in drinking other people’s.”—Baltimore American, i PRISON A HUGE OPIUM DEN Surgeon of Nebraska Reformatory So Reports to Governor. Lincoln, Neb., March 10.—The Ne- braska penitentiary is not a reforma- tory, but a huge opium den, accord- ing to Dr. R. E. Giffen, prison sur- geon, in a report to Governor Shel- don. Dr. Giffen, who was formerly connected with Blackwells island prison and Bellvue hospital, New York, reports that of the 412 prisoners con- fined in the institution there are be- tween 100 and 150 addicted to the morphine habit and that morphine is being regularly supplied to the pris- oners by outside persons whose iden- tity is unknown. He favors the estab- lishment of a strict quarantine of the prison as the only method of stamp- ing out the evil, which, he declares, has been in existence for years and has resulted in scores of prisoners acquiring the habit after their incar- ceration. The convicts pay for the opium by money earned working over- time under the piece work system. Joliet Quarry Strike Settled. Joliet, T1L, March 10.—The industrial committee of the Commercial club has settled the quarry strike. Five hundred men will return to work. They are taken back irrespective of union membership, but there is no increase in wages. MINOR POINTS UNSETTLED Japan and China Discussing Seizure of Steamer. Peking, March 10.—The incident of the Tatsu Maru, the Japanese steamer that was held up by the Chinese au- thorities on Feb. 7 off Macao in the belief that the cargo of arms and am- munition on board were intended for Chinese revolutionists, has not yet been fully settled. Baron Hayashi, ‘the Japanese minister to China, had a conference with Yuan Shih Kai, grand councillor of the empire, but they failed to reach an understanding as to the release of the steamer, which is still held by China, and with regard to the indemnity. China has, however, given satisfaction regarding the haul- ing down of the Japanese flag on the Tatsu Maru by Chinese officers and Baron Hayashi assured China that Japan would meet her desires regard- ing supervision of the traffic in arms to Chinese territory. He agreed also to the Chinese proposal for the ulti- mate disposition of the cargo of the Tatsu Maru, after which he again set forth the final demands of his govern- ment. Influence had to be exerted on Yuan Shih Kai to get him to act in the mat- ter. The foreign board reiterates its previous statements that the case can- not be settled without a thorough in- vestigation. 3 The viceroy of Canton is opposing the punishment of the Chinese naval commander who boarded the Tatsu Maru and lowered the Japanese flag. In view of the present status of the negotiations final action by Japan will of necessity have to be deferred for at least Lwo days. MR. WU AT WASHINGTON. New Chinese Minister Calls on Secre- tary Root. ‘Washington, March 10.—Wu Ting Fang, the newly appointed Chinese minister to the United States, made a formal call at the state department and paid his respects both to Secre- tary Root and Assistant Secretary Ba- con. He also took the first steps to- ward his presentation to the presi- dent. Mr. Wu said he had received no news from his government respecting the controversy with Japan over the Beizure of the steamer Tatsu Maru, “I do not think anything serious will come from this affair,” he said. “However, I am not officlally author- ized to say this. It is simply my pri- vate opinion.” BRYAN IS FOR PEACE. Said to Have Called Off Fight on John- son in Minnesota. ‘Washington, March 10.—Peace and probable unity between the Bryan forces and the Johnson following in the Northwest is the talk now in Dem- ocratic circles. The Bryan radicals in Minnesota have been called off in their opposition to Governor Johnson and he is to be conceded the state without any opposition, if the plan set on foot by Willis J. Abbott and other strong Bryan followers is followed out. Bryan, it is said, has sent word that he wants no trouble and will not make any personal fight on any Dem- ocratic candidate for the presidency in his home state. Minority to Report Substitute. ‘Washington, March 10.—The Demo- cratic members of the house commit- tee on banking and currency have agreed to report to the hquse the minority currency bill, introduced by John Sharp Williams, as a substitute for the Fowler bill. Ten Persons Seriously Hurt. Noblesville, Ind, March 10.—Ten passengers were seriously hurt and many others received minor injuries in a collision between a passenger and freight car on the Indiana Union Trac- tion line two miles from here. No one was killed. Interests of All. One thing ought to be aimed at by all men—that the interest of each individ- ually and of all collectively should be the same, for if each should grasp at his Individual interest all human so- clety will be dissolved.—Clicero. All They Deserve. “Some . people claim they don’t get' nuthin’ out o’ life.” “And they are the kind that don’t; put nuthin’ Into it to draw Interest ou."—Louisville Courier-Journal. £ WILL BE h FAILURE John F. Stevens Says Panama Canal Is a Mistake, NO BENEFIT TO OUR TRADE Former Chief Engineer of Isthmian Waterway Declares Big Undertak- ing Will Not Meet Expenses and Be of No Assistance to Shippers. New Haven, Conn., March 10.—John F. Stevens, a vice president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad and a former chief engineer of the Panama canal, has issued a statement regarding the latter enter- prise, in which he prophesies a failure of the undertaking. Mr. Stevens says that the canal will not help the United States in its trade with South Amer- ica, as practically all of the inhab- itants of the Southern continent are on the east side of the Andes. Mr. Stevens also says that our commer- cial relations with the islands of the Pacific and the Far East will be little benefitted. Our coal and wheat cen- ters are inland. Their products have to be started on their way by rail. JOHN F. STEVENS. When once loaded on cars it would not be cheaper to ship to the Atlantic and then ship to the East by the way of the canal than it would be to send directly to the ports on our Pacific coast and then get on board ships. Furthermore, Mr. Stevens believes that our coal supply is fast diminish- ing and that China will be the source of future coal supply. Siberia, he says, will be the wheat country of the future, with India as a close second. Mr. Stevens maintains that the Pan- ama canal will not meet expenses and will cost more than is expected. The date of the finishing of the canal he fixes as January, 1915. The idea of the canal being of great | value'to us in times of warfare since our naval forces can be quickly sent from one coast to the other, he says, is absurd. It would take days for the ships to get around and during that time hostile shells could have done their work. Mr. Stevens believes that it would be a far wiser plan of de- fense to put the money that the canal will cost into a greater navy. 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. WANTEDi A man and wife to work on a small dairy farm as housekeeper. Good wages and steady position for right parties. No objection to a small child. A. P. Reeve, Tenstrike, Minn. WANTED; Laundry and dinning room girl at Palace Hotel. Good wages. Blackduck, Minn. J. C. Thompson. WANTED—Good girl for general housework. Family of two. House Modern. Apply 907 Minnesota Ave. WANTED: Girl for general house- work. Apply to Mrs. Abraham- son, over the Model Bakery, WANTED—Girl for general house- work. Apply to Mis. Abercrom- bie, at the st ore. WANTED: Good girl for general housework. Mrs. Thomas Bailey. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Two pool and one billiard table, -all paraphernalia for running in good condition. Apply at Pioneer office. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. FCR RENT. FOR RENT—My farm near Maltby postoffice. Sixty-fiye acres under cultivation. Good opportunity for the right man. J. J. Jenkinson, Maltby, Minn. MISCELLANEOUS. A A AN e AR 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. ALIA SHOWS NO INTEREST Slayer of Father Heinrichs Placed on Trial at Denver. Deuver, March 10.—Guiseppe Alia, slayer of Father Leo Heinrichs of St. Elizabeth’s church while he was giv- ing the sacrament on Sunday, Feb. 23, ‘was begun here. There was no demonstration when Alia was brought into court, guarded by five deputy sherifis. He was placed in the prisoner’s box, where he sat blinking at the sunlight. He paid no attention to the bustle about him, but occasionally he would turn his eyes in the direction of the spec- tators. He had been shaved and was dressed in plain workingmen'’s clothes. As soon as the case was announced Judge Whitford ordered a call of the jury. The examination of the jurors was begun at once. During the examination Alia, who understands practically no English, sat behind his attorney, at times look- ing at the floor and at others lifting his eyes and blinking in the direction of the twelve men in the jurybox. He seemed to take no interest whatever in the proceedings. ASSISTANT WARDEN SLAIN Convicts Also Wound Head of Mon- tana Penitentiary. Deer Lodge, Mont., March 10.—War- den Frank Conley of the Montana pen- itentiary was dangerously wounded and his first assistant warden, John Robinson, was killed when three life convicts made a dash for liberty. Robinson’s throat was cut from ear to ear and the jugular vein was sev- ered. Conley’s throat was gashed and he was stabbed several times in the shoulder and groin before he was able to draw his revolver and shoot two of the convicts. It is believed that the warden will recover. The two convicts are dangerously wounded. Death Causes Adjournment, ‘Washington, March 10.—Immediate- ly after the house of representatives opened Mr. Ransdell of Louisiana in- formed that body of the death of Adolph Meyer of the First district of Louisiana. He offered resolutions of regret, which were adopted, and as a further mark of respect the house adjourned. _ The Coop. “This flat is a mere coop.” “Yes, John,” said his wife sweetly, “and the cook has just flew it.”—Pitts- burg Post. | Want Ads FOR RENTING A PROPERTY, SELL- ING A BUSINESS - OR OBTAINING HELP ARE BEST. Pioneer I GAR-GOL CURES SORE THROAT Owl Drug Store, Bemidji, Minn.