Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 13, 1908, Page 2

| J A 1 i | S i i { H i i i 3 THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED NVERY AFTHRNOON, A A A A A A A A A A A A A OFFICIAL PAPER---CITY OF BEMIDJI BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. CLYDE J. PRYOR A. Q. RUTLEDOE Business Manager | Managing Editor Tntered In the postoffice at Bemidjt. Minx., a8 second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---85.00 PER ANNUM OBSERVATIONS. By “Doc™1 Eyes once bright lack luster nows: Wrinkled is the marble brow, What a shame! Greclan nostrils, beitsald, ‘With a fixed and hectic red Are aflame! Cheeks are of a saffron hue, And a most unwholesome blue Tints each lip. Tt 1s plain the fariest belle Never looks so well With the grip. Several presidential candidates “will experience colder weather than this in Chicago next June. Colonel Watterson is thundering away at the New York smart set Why use buckshot on batterflies, colonel? People are bound to find fault, brother. If they cant catch you in any meanness they will say that you act like a hypocrite. The more the public reads about that young man Alfonso of Spain, the more convinced it is that he is too good a man for the job. Some magazine will soon make a stride forward or backward and add to its department of the Bachelor Girls one for the Old Maid Man. There is reported to be a serious falling off in the prices for mules. Probably due to the fact that we are doing our own kicking nowadays. Word comes from Washinzton that the tariff revision will be “delib- erate.” The recent attitude of Con- gress had not caused us to fear any unseemly haste in the matter. Nobody will be surprised to learn that when the American heiress and the duke applied for a marriage license the fee was paid by the financial agent of the young woman’s father. Denver is preparing for the Demo- cratic convention, says a dispatch from that city. Itis always advis- able to lay in a stock of goods a reasonable time in advance, as there is bound to be more or less breakage in transportation. " Bathing a Prince. George IV. while prince and restding in his Brighton palace kept In his bed- room a portrait of Mrs. Gunn, an old bathing woman who used to dip him into the sea when he was the little Prince of Wales. A plcture book much prized by children showed the old lady bathing the little fellow. Beneath the plcture was this stanza: To Brighton came he, Came George the Third's som, ‘To be dipped in the sea By the famed Martha Gunn. A companlon portralt to Martha Qunn’s was that of Thomas Smoaler, who had charge of the horse which drew the bathing machines Into and out of the sea. One day the little roy- al highness, having learned to swim. swam out farther than Thomas judged to be safe. He called to him to come back, but the self willed boy struck out with more vigor. Thomas went after the prince, overtook him, seized him by an ear and drew him to shore. “Do you think,’ he replied to the boy’s angry words, “I'm a-golng to get myself hanged for letting the king's beir drown hisself just to please a youngster like you?’ Too Much For General Butler. After the battle of Chickamauga an enthuslastic Confederate went about the streets of New Orleans accosting every man who wore the blue with, “Didn’t Stonewall Jackson give you blazes at Chickamauga?”’ General But- ler called the exultant Confederate be- fore him and told him he could elther take the oath of allegiance or go to Bhip island for two years. The Con- federate deliberated, but finally agreed to take the oath. When he had sworn to support the constitution, he turned to General Butler and exclaimed, “Now we are both loyal citizens, aln't ‘we, general?” “Well, I trust so,” sald General But- ler. “Then,” sald the jubilant Confeder- ate, “I want to ask you if Stonewall Jackson didn’t give us blazes at Chick amauga?’—Argonaut. Terrapin In London. A smart American, one of the fresh kind, drifted into the Hotel Cecil In London with a party of five and or- dered with pomposity a la dos arrogant Americans, a la Parls: “Say, walter, 1 want six: portions of Maryland terra- pins, an’ I want ’em served with the bones. Do you understand?’ In three or four minutes the walter reported, “Bir, we have the pleasure to serve terrapin with grand sherry, but not with the bones.” “What in the mis- chief did you do with the bones?” “The bones? I will ask- the cook If you wish.”” “Never mind. We will have soras en brochette.”—New York Press. | mourning hatbands in stock? 3 Only a Dodge. An Insurance expert was relating In Chicago some odditles of Insurance. “And then.” sald the expert, “there ‘was that case of the general store man In Ohio. This man's store burned down, and, because his stock was so heavy, the company disputed his claim. I remember one item in his stock list— 17,500 mourning hatbands. When 1 came to this item 1 thumped it with my pencil and said to the storekeeper severely: “‘Look here, Why should this Is unreasonable. you have had 17,500 What possibility was there that death would créate in a single small shop like yours a demand for 17,500 wmourning hat- bands? “The storekeeper smiled at me in a condescending way and replied: “‘1 didn't keep those hatbands for men who grieved for the death of rela- tives or friends, but for men who went into mourning for the grease on their hats.’ ”—Boston Globe. Misfires of Young Idea. Alr usually has no weight, but when placed in a barometer it is found to welgh about fifteen pounds a square inch. If a small hole were bored in the top of a barometer tube, the mercury ‘would shoot up in a column thirty feet high. A right angle is 90 degrees F. Hydrogen is colorless, odorless and insolvent. A cuckoo Is a thing that turns from a butterfly into a moth. Horsepower s the distance a horse can carry one pound of water In an hour. The earth revolves on its own axis 805 times In twenty-four hours. This rapid motion through space causes Its sides to perspire, forming dew.—Unl- versity Correspondent. MANY SUSPICIOUS FIRES. Evidence of Enmity Against Mennon- ite Clergy. Lancastér, Pa, March 18.—The bdurning of the barn on the farm of Bishop Abram B. Herr at West Wil- low, through which a loss of $15,000 was entalled, has developed what {s believed to be a conspiracy against the Mennonite clergy and other mem- bers of that faith in Lancaster county. This fire was the ninth of a serles within a short period of time in Pequea and West Lampeter townships and all the structures destroyed were of unusual value for farm properties. In the last eighteen months the barns of five Mennonite ministers, all but one of whom live in the same section, have been burned and this is believed to be ample ground for the suspicion that there is a peculiar enmity exist- ing against the ministers of this faith. The Mennonites of the county are greatly exercised over the numerous fires, many dreading to go to bed for fear that some of their property might be burned. The Mennonites do not seek justice or redress in the courts, their faith being opposed to such proceedings. CHANGE IN PREMIERSHIP. May Follow King Edward’s Return to England. London, March 13.—The health of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the prime minister, has‘caused renewed anxlety. During the past week there has been no improvement whatever in his condition, rather there has been a Wweakening of his vitality, which 18 re- garded as a serious symptom. - The premier sees Herbert H. As- quith, the acting premier, ocoasional- ly, but none other of his colleagues. Iie has practically isolated himself for the past three weeks and has given no attention whatever to political af- fairs. It is expected that the return of the king from the contindnt will be fol- lowed almost immediately by a change in the premiership. AMERICA BEHIND EUROPE. William Allen White Discusses Soclal Conditions. Chicago, March 1!.—“National re- sponsibility is toward the honest, hard working man, who at the end of a long industrious life, through no fault of his own, finds that he has nothing to show for his labor and only charity upon which he may depend for sup- port.” So sald William Allen White at the meeting of the City club. “It is obvious,” he added, “that pub- He or private charities do not satisfy the conscience of the American peo- ple. For more and more the people are beginning to revolt at laws which permit a man to gouge pennies from the millions in order that he may proudly distribute dollars to the few. “And so the poorhouse is all Amer- ican civilization offers, legally, to the men and women who toil through the heat and turmoil of the day and find themselves broken and feeble at sun- set. “Other civilizations do better than ours. European civilizations provide for an old age pension, for cheap state Insurance, for laborers’ savings banks under state ownership and control and for other legal devices so that honest, Industrious men and women may mnot have to beg or go to the poorhouse in their old age.” Fifty Per Cent Idle. New York, March 1,.—The New York and New Jersey Metal Trades’ association held a meeting here at which reports from the members in different towns and cities as to the state of trade were made. After the meeting it was announced that of 12,- 000 men usually employed by mem- bers of the association about 6,000 are idle, most of whom were lald off before the end of last year. American Car in Wyoming. Wolcott, Wyo., March 12.—The American car in the New York to Paris automobile race crossed the Platte river on the ice at Fort Steele an hour after leaving here. Little snow was encountered after passing Fort Steele and the car entered Raw- lins shortly before mnoon, stopping there for dinner. COURT AND COUNSEL CLASH Arguments -in Walsh Case Enlivened by Incident. Chicago, March 13.—Arguments by the defendant’s counsel in the appli- cation for a new trial for John R. Walsh, former president of the Chi- cago National bank and convicted of improper use of the funds of the bank, were concluded before Judge Ander- son in the United States district court. Arguments against the granting of the trial, by the attorneys for the govern- ment, were begun. Throughout. the morning session of court Judge Anderson and Attorney Miller, acting in behalf of Mr. Walsh, engaged in active discussion and sev- eral times the court dismissed points raised by the attorney, declaring that he whs satistied that no ground exist- ed in them for the granting of a new trial. Judge Anderson also criticised ‘William J. Hynes, another cf the de- fendant’s counsel, declaring that he was “impudent” and a source of con- stant annoyance by his interruptions during the trial. “Mr. Hynes,” said Judge Anderson, “was in the habit of arising osten- sibly to address the court, when in fact he got up to address the jury. I stopped that and there were no errors committed by me in so doing on which an argument for a new trial can be based.” - TURNS SON OVER TO THE LAW Father Captures Young Horse Thief 5 Who Evaded Officers. Madison, Wis., March 13.—Declaring that he did not raise any horse thieves Martin Feuling, a farmer liv- ing near Madison, searched the state for his son, Alva Feuling, who was charged with stealing a horse. He found the boy with relatives in Sha- wano county and brought him back to Madison and delivered him into the hands of the sheriff. Young Feuling pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the Green Bay re- formatory for two years. Judge Donavan, who imposed sen- tence, said that on account of the hon- esty of the father of the prisoner he would within a reasonable time make application for pardon. AVOID WINE AND BAD WOMEN Youth on Gallows Gives Warning to Young Men. Pittsburg, March 13.—Morrls B. Holmes, twenty-two years old, was hanged in the Allegheny county jail yard here. The man maintained ex- ceptional nerve until the end. Holmes stabbed Nancy Miller, his sweetheart, to death with a butcher knife March 27, 1907, at West Pittsburg. He had been drinking heavily and said he never remembered having committed the deed. Just before going to the gallows Holmes sald to his former pastor, Rev. Charles Miller of the Homewood Methodist Episcopal church: “Please, for me, sound a warning to all young men to shun, as though hell, bad women and whisky.” Fifty Schools Found Unsafe. Chicago, March 13.—Inspection of the 360 public and 200 private and parochial school buildings in Chicago has been completed by captains of the fire department and inspectors for Acting Building Commissioner Robert Knight. - Out of the whole number about fifty schools were found to be unsafe and instructions were given that changes be made immediately. Alia’s Case Given to the Jury. Denver, March 13.—The case of Guiseppe Alia, who murdered Father Leo FHeinrichs at the altar in St. Elizabeth’s Catholic church, was given to the jury after brief argument and instructions. Should he be found guilty of murder in the first degree the jury will fix the penalty at hang- ing or life imprisonment, as provided in such cases by the state law. Hitchcock Jury Completed. New York, March 13.—The jury which is to try Raymond Hitcheock, the comedian, in the criminal branch of the supreme court, has been com- pleted. Assistant District Attorney Garvan outlined the case of the prose- cution in a brief address to the jury and Mrs. Mary von Hagen, the mother of one of the girl complainants, tes- tified. Get an Increase in Pay. Chicago, March 13.—An increase in the pay of fixture and sash, door and blind workers has been granted by the employers. The fixture workers will get an increase of 1 cent an hour and the sash, door and blind men will receive a raise of 1% cents an hour. More than 3,500 men will be affected. The men are affiliated with the Car- penters’ union. Austin’s Suit Dismissed. ‘Washington, March 13.—The su- preme court of the District of Colum- bia has dismissed the proceedings in- stituted some months ago by George W. Austin of New York to compel Secretary Cortelyou to issue to him $3,000,000 worth of Panama canal bonds, holding the secretary had the right to reject any or all bids. Aus- #in appealed. - Would Cease Hostilities. Casa Blanca, March 13.—General d’Amade, the commander of the French forces in Morocco, has re- ceived letters from Mulai Hafid, the so-called sultan of the South, and leaders of his army, asking that hos- tilities_be suspended pending arrange- ments for peace. Would Ratify Hague Treaty. ‘Washington, March 1i.—Secretary Root has proposed to the senate com- mittee on foreign relations that- it ratify the pending Hague treaty pro- viding for general arbitration by the addition of a proviso that all issues to be arbitrated must be separately submitted to the senate. Favorable reports were ordered on the treaties respecting rules of war on land and prohibiting projectiles from balloons. HOBSON N THESTAND Merrimac Hero a Witness in Cone gressional Investigation. BOAT COMPANY’S METHODS Declares Representative of Concern Claimed Enough Influence With .. Speaker Cannon to Have Him (Hob- ‘%on) Put on Naval Committee. ‘Washington, March 18.—The hear- ing of witnesses has begun before the special committee of the house ap- pointed to investigate the charges made by Congressman Lilley of Con- necticut that illegal methods were used by the Hlectric Boat company to secure legislation by congress. Rep- resentative Hobson testified that Law- rence Steer of New York, represent- ing the Electric Boat company, had told him that his company had influ- ence with Speaker Cannon to get him appointed on the committee on naval affairs if he stood right on subma- rines. At the opening of the session Mr. Lilley addressed the committee, say- ing that he desired to correct the im- pression that had been created by the report of the committee on rules to the effect that he had charged that members of congress had been bribed. He denied that he had made such charges, but said that up to the pres- ent time his accusations have been solely against the Electric Boat com- pany and its predecessor, the Holland company, and had covered the point that these companies had made an effort to influence legislation by con- gress. Mr. Lilley then read a care- fully prepared statement, réceiving the closest attention from all the members of the committee. ‘When Mr. Lilley had completed his written statement he was questioned by Mr. Olmsted. He gave the names of Franklin H. Taylor and John T. Kellogg of Waterbury, Conn., and a Mr. Ferris of Bridgeport as those of persons who had asked him to vote for an appropriation for submarine boat legislation. He also said that Representative Hobson had been ap- proached by a member of the Electric company with a proposition to get him on the naval affairs committee if he would favor submarine boat leg- islation. He spoke of an amendment to previous legislation offered by Mr. Loudenslager, which, he said, he thought had been prepared by Mr. Kellogg; an attorney for the Electric company. INTRODUCED BY TILLMAN. Resolution of Inquiry Contains Pointed Questions. Washington, March 13.—Senator Tillman has introduced a resolution calling upon the senate committee on finance to conduct an investigation and answer some pointed questions bearing upon financial legislation. The questions on which a report is asked are as follows: _ “Whether the national banks in the city of New York and elsewhere are in the habit, under the guise of com- ‘mercial‘loans, of furnishing permanent capital for speculative or other enter- prises, and, if so, what legislation 1is necessary to prevent a confinuance of such practice. “Whether the treasury department had knowledge of the loans made by the Natiomal Bank of North America of New York city, which are the sub- Ject of a suit by the receiver of said bank against Charles W. Morse, and of other similar transactions in other national banks. “Whether national banks are now engaged by themselves or through other organizations in attempting to control or dictate the legislation of congress upon currency measures. “The committee is further instruct- ed to ascertain what, if any, legisla- tion is necessary to discourage or prevent the habit of persons holding the office of eomptroller of the cur- rency or other treasury officials from making their offices a stepping stone to employment by national banks, “Whether national banks are using trust' company or other financial asso- clations as dummy agencies through which to transact business forbidden by the law governing national banks and what legislation is necessary to prevent such an evasion of the stat- utes.” KILLED BY A TIE VOTE. Committee Votes on Bill Creating Vol- unteer Retired List. ‘Washington, March 13.—By a tle vote of 9 to 9 a motion was lost in the house committee on military af- fairs to report favorably the Dawes bill creating a roll to be known as the volunteer retired list and placing thereon, with retired pay, the surviv- ing - volunteer officers of the army, navy and marines of the Civil-war. Estimates indicated that the first yéar’s operation of such a law would cost the government $11,000,000. The committee similarly failed to act favorably on the Bradley bill, ‘which, in addition to the provisions of the Dawes bill, proposed the payment of $30 monthly to every surviving en- listed man in lieu of pensions now drawn. The war department estl- mated that the operhtion of such a law would cost $89,000,000 the first year and perhaps $120,000,000 annually thereafter. Oklahoma Declares for Taft, Oklahoma City, Okla, March 13.— Instructing them to “vote for any proposition favorable to the candidacy of William H. Taft for the presidency” the Republican state convention here elected four delegates at large to the Chicago convention. “The resolutions endorse President Roosevelt’s admin- istration, condemn the Democratic state -administration,' recommend re- duction of the representation in' con- gress and the electoral college of || states which distranchise negroes. L BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. Stuyvesant Fish, former president of the Illinois Central railroad, was a guest of the president at lunchéon Thursday. Prince Luitpold, regent of Bavaria, celebrated the eighty-seventh anni- versary of his birth Thursday amid a brilliant gathering of the Bavarian no- bility. Charles Warzell, a Pole, was hanged at Potteville, Pa., for the murder of Mattle Bloinsky, aged sixteen years, BEMIDJI Cash Shoe Store Now Located in the Winter Building on Beltrami Avenwue. & \g 5 E George O. Eldridge, aged fifty-three | years, vice president of the H. H.|R Bldridge Lumber company of Indian- apolis, killed -himself by shooting. | & " Worry over financial affairs is given | ® as the cause. three, inspector of the Peoria internal %‘!éiiié%iééiiéiéééii 3333 Former Governor Herrick addressed recently by W. J. Bryan. of desirable-lots in of Shenandoah, who had refused to marry him. revenue district, died of heart fallure at Moline, 1. He served with dis- 333333333333333332333 3333332 933333333 33333333 333 a joint session of the Ohlo legislature # in answer to a speasch on the financial : Own Your Home. : HENDERSON'S ADDITION Which will be sold on General Willlam Clendin, aged sixty- | \| tinction in the Clvil war. question made before the legislature ‘ A I have for sale a number easy terms. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wh Minneapolis, March 12.—Wheat— May, $1.0414@1.04%; July, $1.08. On track—No. 1 hard, $1.07%; No. 1 Northern, $1.05%; No. 2 Northern, $1.08%; No. 3 Northern, 98c@$1.01. These lots are located midway between the sawmills, close to the shores of beautiful Lake Bemidji. Water easily Duluth Wheat and Flax. %“I‘I’ CEEEEEECEECEFEEECEEEEEECEERERE Ei(-:l-‘«fii(i‘:(fi& Duluth, March 12—Wheat—To ar- obtainable. : rive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1. 07%; No. 1 Northern, $1.055%; May, D R o i o wak Hanks s teanc (R A. E. HENDERSON, and on track, $1. ; May, $1. 24| 8 & 5 E July, $1.17%. 5 Over First National Bank. St Paul Union Stock Yacdy: TeerecercccececerececetecceseserceereerteeeteerEcE St. Paul, March 12.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $4.76@5.50; fair to good, $4.00@4.75; good-to choice cows and heifers, $3.25@4.25; veals, $3.75@ 5.25. Hogs—$4.30@4.50. Sheep—Woeth- ers, $5.75@6.00; good to choice lambs, $6.5016.80. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, March 12.—Cattle—Beeves, $4.25@6.30; cows and heifers, $2.00@ 6.25; Texans, $4.00@6.80; ealves, $6.00 @6.75; Weslern cattle, $4.00@5.00; stockers and feeders, $3.0994.90. Hogs —Light, $4.35@4.65; mixed, $4.40G 4.65; heavy, $4.40@4.70; rough, $4.40 @4.50; pigs, $3.75@4.40. Sheep, $3.75 @6.35; yearlings, $5.50@86.50; lambs, $5.60@7.10. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, March 12.—Wheat—May, 943 @94%c; July, 89c; Sept., 86e. Corn—May, 643 @64%c; July, 61%c; Sept., 60%c. Oats—May, old, 53%@ 53%c; May, 52%c; July, old, 44%c; Sept., 37%c. Pork—May, $11.92%@ 11.95; July, $12.32% @12.35. Butter— Creameries, 22@28¢c; dalries, 20@26c. Eggs—16%c. Poultry—Turkeys, l4c; chickens and springs, 12%ec. IME IS SAVED BY TAKING AN EXPRESS MORE TIME IS SAVED BY TAKING THE LIMITED THE MOST TIME IS SAVED BY USING OUR LONG DISTANCE LINES Save All the Time You an “Use The Northwestern’ NORTHWESTERN TELEPHONE EXCHANGE COMPANY Lake Huron s dotted with over 8,000 islands. This {8 more than any other lake has. Subseribe For The Pioneer. Printing The Pioneer Printery Is Equipped with Modern Machinery, Up-to-date Type Faces, and the Largest Stock of Flat Pa.pers,bRuled Goods and Stationery of All Kirds in] Northern Minnesota. We have the highest-salaried Printers in Beltram1 county, and we are]leaders in Commercial Printing. Try us; we'll Suit you. Pioneer Printery i