Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 23, 1908, Page 2

1~ THE BEMIDJI DAILY PiONEER PUBLISHED BVERY AFTERNOON, BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. CLYDE J. PRYOR I A. 0. RUTLEDOB Husiness Manager Managing Editor Wotered in the postoffice at Bemidjl. Mine., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM PERKINS WILL SUCCEED. We note by the Bagley Independ- ent that C. E. Perkins has purchased the remaining interest of the Inde- pendent, and that he is now the sole owner of that excellent paper. We congratulate Mr. Perkins on his ac quisition of the Independent. He will undoubtedly “make good” and continue to give the good people of Bagley even a better paper than they have had heretofore. ~Mr. Perkins is a young man of excellent habits; he has a “good head” for a young man, and i3 not posessed of that undesirable quality known as “big head.” tire control of the paper, and it is certain that he will do_ well. Here’s success, ‘Charlie” OBSERVATIONS. [By “Doc"] The lay of the hen is the most welcome spring poem we know of. New York is tooth show. novelty. bragging of its Just aching for more “Jem” Roche, the Irish fighter, who was knocked out in the first round, was, after all, a ‘“phony” emerald. After reading the St. Patrick’s day orations of the politicians far and near, we marvel that the Blar- ney stone is not worn away en- tirely. It is reported that Congressman Stevens is listening to the humming of the senatorial bee. Mr. Stevens should remember that a lot of men have been stung just that way. Miss Nancy Roe of Pottstown, Pa., recently applied the match to No. 1 furnace of the Warwick Iron and Steel Company which has been idle since November. If this be incendiarism, let us have more of it. The University of Chicago’s girl students think they do not re- ceive enough attention. Cannot they sack a gum store, assail a police station to liberate a female shoplifter or do something like that to arouse popular notice and sympathy? BELIEVES THAW IS SANE. His Attorney Disputes Statement of Alienist. New York, March 23.—In an authori- tative statement Franklin Bartlett, counsel for Harry K. Thaw and his mother, Mrs. Willlam Thaw, emphat- leally denied that there had been any disagreement between the members of the Thaw family. “The stories emanating from Pitts- burg in the past few days to the effact that there has been a disagreement or controversy between the members of Harry K. Thaw’s family over the suit of Evelyn Thaw for the annulment of ber marriage to Harry K. Thaw are absolutely without foundation,” said Mr. Bartlett. “There has been no dis- agreement of any kind in Mr, Thaw’s family.” This statement was made at the re- quest of Mrs. Thaw, who is now in Pittsburg. Speaking of the opinion expressed recently by the alienist, Dr. Allan MoLane Hamilton, that Harry K. Thaw is a hopeless paranoiac Mr. Bartlett said that on two occasions recently he had seen Mr. Thaw in the Matteawan state hospital and had held long conferences with him. On both oceasions, he saild, Harry Thaw seemed to him to be perfectly sane. “Although I am not a physician or an allenist,” sald Colonel Bartlett, “this view is based on experience derived from the examinations of hundreds of~. men in my experience as a lawyer, as & regimental commander and in po- litical life.” TRAIN ROBBERS ESCAPE. 8aw Three Sets of Bars in the Helena (Mont.) Jail. Helena, Mont., March 23.—George Frankhauser and Charles McDonald, charged with having held wup the Great Northern Oriental limited last Beptember and rifling the registered mails of $40,000 being transported to & Spokane bank, broke jail here and are still at liberty. The men sawed thelr cell docrs, the corridor bars and the bars in a win- dow. Immediately upon discovery of their escape several posses were formed and are now in pursuit. Men answering their description were seen in the southern part of the city mak- ing for the mountains. The men made their escape by saw- ing through their cell doors and then by cutting the bars between the cor- ridor and also in a jail window into the yard. They scaled the high wall by means of outbuildings and jumped at least fifteen feet into an alleyway. The supposition is that they were af- forded assistance from a confederate inside the jall. He will now have en-| MNULS CONCESSON Venezuela Supreme Court Decides Against Americans. NO APPEAL FROM VERDICT Concerns Affected Are the Orinoco Company and the Manao Company, Present Owners of the Famous Fitz- gerald Concession. Caracas, Venezuela, March 23.—The high federal court of Venezuela has handed down a decision, from which there is no appeal, against the Manao | company and the Orinoco company, 'limlted, American concerns, annulling the famous Fitzgerald concession un- der which these companies claimed rights in Venezuela. The claims of these companies constitute one of the matters which are now being dis- cussed diplomatically between Wash- ington and President Castro. Rudolph Dolge, representing the Orinoco com- pany, the present owners of the Fitz- gerald concession, has flled a protest with the American legation here against this decision. The United States cruiser Tacoma has arrived at La Guayra. WOULD BE INCONSISTENT Railroads Will Not Cut Wages While Paying Big Dividends. Chicago, March 23.—So long as many of the big railroad systems of the country continue to pay higher dividends than they earn, while they continue to borrow enormous sums of money, there will not be a general re- duction of wages on Western rail- roads. This decision was reached at a se- cret conference of Western presidents in Chicago. Following the conference certain labor leaders were given to understand that the Western roads did not contemplate an immediate re- {duction, but no reason for the assur- ance was given. It was hoped to keep the reason from the knowledge of the public because of the unfavorable criticism upon existing methods of the railroad financing, according to a prominent railway official. It was the general opinion, according to this offi- clal, that business conditions fully warranted a reduction in wages, but that such action would not be toler- ated so long as the railroads, or many of them, are paying their stockholders large returns and are constantly in the market as large borrowers. It is understood that the president’s letter to the interstate commerce com- mission regarding the wage question is what gave the Western presidents the tip that inconsistency in the mat- ter would not be tolerated by public opinion or by the president, who is in & position to arouse public sentiment. TALKS OF BLOODSHED. Chicago Minister Ready to Take Up Arms for Prohibition. Chicago, March 23.—Bloodshed and riot are urged as proper weapons to fight the saloonkeeper and the rum traftic. Reyv. Clarence E. Cornell, pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene, wants to see the streets of Chicago run with blood in the combat now on between prohibition and its enemies. He told the Cook County Woman’s Christian Temperance union that he’d like to get a gun and do his part in the necessary shooting. “I wish the decent people of Chi- cago would get so disgusted with the insolence and lawlessness of the sa- loonkeeper,” said Mr. Cornell, “that they would be compelled to vomit. I wish the advocates of liquor selling would continue their brazen defiance of state laws until they became odi- ous. I wish the streets of Chicago would run with blood in this struggle. T'd like to go out with a gun myself.” GUILD MAY RECOVER. Physicians Attending Governor of Mas- sachusetts Express Hope. Boston, March 23.—With the state- ment that he believed Governor Cur- tis Guild, Jr., to have lost none of the slight recovery already noticed, al- though his condition could not be'said to have improved, Dr. Frederick B. Winslow predicted ultimate recovery for the governor from the complica- tion of diseases which have threat- ened his life should he maintain the condition of the past two days. A long sleep gave the governor renewed strength and vitality and physicians and family hold strong hopes of re- covery. Immense Dam Carried Away. Niles, Mich. March 23.—The large power dam at Buchanan, erected in the St. Joseph river fourteen years ago at a cost of $250,000, has been carried away. It had been weakened by recent floods. The dam was 500 feet long and only about twenty feet of it remain at each end. It furnished power to Niles and South Bend, Ind., and was owned by Charles A. Chapin of Chicago. Aged Woman Killed by Burglars. Indiana, Pa, March 23.—Mrs. Bar- bara Ortner, an aged woman of White township, near here, is dead from a beating administered by burglars who robbed her house. She was found in an unconscious condition at her home by iriends and died later. BOYCOTT THE REICHSTAG - German Papers Decline to Print a Word of the Debates. Berlin, March 23.—The pews of Berlin and t);:e provi c‘bvspahp:v: unanimously decided not to print @ word of the reichstag debates until adequate retraction is offered for the idnsulfing expression” of “swine” gg- ressed to the - reporters’ ¢ Thursday by Herr Groeber, les‘:-’?t the Center party, because Jeers had come from this division at a state- ment used by a ‘memper o thd efect that negroes also had immortal souls. The official news agencles are com- pelled, according to their agreements, to take down the declarations of the ministers stenographically, These, however, are merely supplled to the various ministries and officers. The parliamentary reporters of the news- papers abstained altogether from at- tending the reichstag, and as a result no fewer than twelve deputies who had intended to speak on the celonial budget withdrew their names from the president’s list and refused to ad- dress the house at a time when thefr remarks would not be given publica- tion. The resolution adopted by the reporters in which they démand apology and fullest retraction for the Insult offered them will be presented to the leaders of every party in the reichstag in order to bring influence to bear to bring about a settlement of the incident. Young Jap Crazed With Love. New York, Feb. 23.—Crazed with love for a white woman who refysed his attentions Frank Kito, a y’dEng Japanese, shot her five times apd then killed himself with carbolfc aeid, The fact that the woman was mfrlbd made no difterence to the ardent Orf. ental, nor did the presemce of her husband at the time of the tra y deter him Fortunately none of the bullets fired did any serious injury. Lower Rates Than Ever Before. Chicago, March 2.—Travel to and from California and the entire Pacific coast will be cheaper this summer than ever before during an entire season. After a stormy session of the Transcontinental Passenger associa- tion the Harriman lines and the Santa Fe gave independent notice that they would put in summer tourist rates to the Pacific coast, effective between June and October. Disastrous Flood Probable. Gallipolis, 0., March 2 .—The indi- cations here are for a disastrous flood. The Baltimore and Ohio railway offi- clals predict a freshet equal to that in 1884. All trafiic will be tied up. Heavy rains equal to waterspouts have fallen throughout the valley and great damage has already been done. All the side streams are pouying great volumes of water into the Ohio river. Will Operate Every Other Week. Fall River, Mass, March 2.—No- tices were posted at the Fall River iron works and the American Printing company in this city that these plants would be closed all next week and that until four weeks’ curtailment had been completed they would be in op- eration on alternate weeks only. Emma Goldman Collapses. Chicago, March 2 .—Emma Gold- man, anarchist, has suffered a phy- sical and mental collapse and was taken to the home of a physician. Her sudden collapse was attributed to her strenuous efforts during the last few days to secure a hall in which to speak in defiance of the police, SAW MAN HUNG BY WRISTS Ohio Senator Tells of Visit to State Penitentiary. E Columbus, O., March 23.—Senator Lamb of Toledo made the statement that while visiting the Ohio peniten- tiary in company with some Toledo ‘women he saw a prisoner hanging by his wrists. The man’s head was hang- ing down on his shoulders, according to Senator Lamb, and his feet were Just touching the floor. “I was astounded,” continued the senator, “and soon saw that the at- tendants were trying to keep me away from this man. I insisted on seeing him and the man said to me, ‘I have been hanging here since Thursday and they let me down only to eat bread and water.’” “The guard,” said Mr. Lamb, “told the man to shut up, but I got this much out of him anyway.” Benator Lamb admitted that he did not ascertain the identity of the man nor the cause of his punishment, but he will report the case to the peni- tentiary probing committee. Tolstol Suffers a Elllple. St. Petergsburg, March ? A s patch from Yasnaya Polyani s that Count Tolstol, who is il wlqg influ- enza, has suffered a rel gravity of his illness is &‘%‘ lt:rt::l:, but it i3 said that he s lack of strength arising fro; the con- tinued strain of his work. He refusqs as always to follow the advice of his doctors, BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. The senate has pasged a bill {ncr, ing the salaries of men employed in the life saving service. The condition of United States Sep- ator Penrose, who {8 quite ill at his home in Philadelphia, is unchanged. The condition of Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, who for a week has been suffering from a cold, is better. The general store of F. A. Wyatt of Sabin, Minn., was entered by robbers and $118 and a number of checks were taken. g The physicians attending Senator Bryan of Florida report a much im- proved condition. There are now some hopes of his recovery. James B. Hill of Pittsburg, general freight agent of the Pittsburg, Cincin- nati, Chicago and St. Louis railroad, is dead at Blloxi, Miss,, where he went a short time ago on a business errand. Mrs. Catherine Cleveland, ‘ aged sixty-four, wife of Judge C. D. Cleve- land, died suddenly at Oshkosh, Wis., from a nervous trouble and heart fail- ure. Mrs. Cleveland was prominent throughout Wisconsin among wo- men’s clubs, Resolutions endorsing the principles of the Republican party, the adminis- tration of President Roosevelt and presenting the name of Speaker Jos- ph G. Cannon for the nominationt for the presidency were adopted by the Republican convention of the Bight- eenth congressional district of Ili- nois. org GIVEN LARGE POWERS Bill Creating Tariff Commission Introduced by La Follette, CONSISTS OF NINE MEMBERS Measure Provides That This. Body, Acting With the President, May Put on the Free List Any Article Con- trolled by a Combine. ‘Washington, March 2 .—If a bill for the creation of a tariff commission, which was introduced by Senator La Follette, should become a law. it would be competent for the commission and the president, acting together, to sus- pend any tariff schedule and put on the free list any article upon which there was such a combination as Would control production, prices or Wwages either in the United States or In any foreign market. The bill pro- vides for the appointment of a com- mission of nine members, one from each of the judicial circuits of the Union, and no one of which shall be a member. of congress. Not more than five are to be members of any one political party. One is to be skilled in manufacturing, another in agricul- ture, another in imports, another a representative of labor, the next a lawyer skilled in- the tariff laws, the next an expert in tariff and reciproc- ity, one in the knowledge of produc- tion and accounting, another a statis- tetan who has made a study of the forelgn: markets and the last an “em- inent economist.” The members are to receive a salary of $10,000 each and after the first eleven years of the ex- istence of the commission each of the members are to be appointed for ten years. The first appointments are ar- ranged to terminate so that a new member should be appointed every year. In presenting his bill Mr. La Fol- lette said he would soon ask the sen- ate for time to speak on the measure. In respect to the section of the bili authorizing the suspension of dutfes he said he had placed that provision there as giving his own views on the tariff and because he belioved con- gress had a right to legislate along those lines. LOVED ANOTHER WOMAN. Milwaukee Man Kills Wife and At tempts Suicide. Milwaukee, March 2'.—George Wil- loughby, aged fifty, manager of the Jewett & Sherman company coffee and spice mills, shot and killed his wife, Florence Willoughby, at their home on Prospect avenue, Willoughby, then fired two shots into his breast over the heart and is believed to be fatally wounded. After killing his wife and shooting himself Willoughby dragged himself down stairs to the basement, opened the side door so'@s to make it appear that burglars had committed the deed, hid the revolver in the wall of the basement and then telephoned for a dootor. When the police. were noti- fled they were informed that a bur- glar had shot both Mr. and Mrs. Wil- loughby, but when the officers arrived they at once concluded that it was murder and attempted suicide and Iater obtained a long confession from illoughby, in which he admitted committing the deed. He said he had been married to Mrs. Willoughby twenty years ago, but their domestic life had been unhappy. Four years ago he met a woman with whom he fell in love and he has been support- ing her since. He declared he had ecided to end it all months ago and ally carried out his plans. HOPES TO ROUSE CONGRESS President Decides to Send Another Special Message. ‘Washington, March 2 .—As the re- sult of an extended discussion. of the necessity of again directing the atten- tion of congress to the recommenda- tions of the president looking to legis- lation amendatory to the Sherman anti-trust law and of other topics men- tloned in his previous messages a de- ofsion has been reached to send an- other message to congress within a day or two. Dismisses $30,000,000 Suit. New York, March 2|.—Judge Holt, in the United States circuit court, has dismisged the suit for $80,000,000 dam- ages brought by the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining company against the American Sugar Refining company for alleged violation of the provisions of . erman anti-trust act. Judge olt, however, granted leave te the Pennsylvania company to amend its eomplaint within thirty days. Labor's Protest R in 8enate. ‘Washington, March 2’ .—The Amer: fcan Federation of Labor's statement of grievances was Jald before the sen- ate by Vice President Fairbanks and ‘was read in full, ordered printed as a senate document and on motion of Senator Gallinger 1,000 coples wers authorized. House Turns Down Resolution. ‘Washington, March 2.—By a vote of 148 to 116 the houge tabled a reso- lution calling upon the president to supply the in ation on corpora- tions gathered by the bureau of cer- porationa. i PANIC IN SCHOOL BUILDING Threatening Black Hand Letter Drives Mothers Frantic. Butler, Pa, March ‘2.—A panic among school children and their par- ents resulted at the Institute Hall school building when a report was circulated that President Mechling of || the school board had received & Black Hand demanding $500 or the bulilding would be'blown up with dyna- mite. Many women, frantic with fear, rushed to the school that thelr chilldren He Tnstantly dls: missed. When the teachers persisted in keeping the children in their rooms & number of the women fainted. I a short time the children deserted the building when they learned of the re- port. All efforts to hold them in check were futile. An officigl state- ment has been i{sgued denying. that| | mada, but to d such a demand has be none of the children would re the buil 3 Janitor pa the achqt?l“s'ro\m 8 in order te atis! the suspicious Jn&flu. ASK GOVERNQR- FOR. WORK/- Bulgarians Recontly Brought to Cele- rado Noy Starving. Denver, March 3)—Rinched by hyn- ger and unable to eatn monmey. With, Wwhich to relieve their wants 209 Bul- garlans sent a petition to Governqr Buchtel asking him to use his. influ- ence toward getting them employment or to send them back: to their Huro- pean homes. The men_ were brought here shortly before the recent finan- olal flurry struck the country, and some had been working only a. few days when they were laid off. 1t is believed ‘that some of the men were induced to leave Bulgaria by immigra- tion contractors in violation of. the laws of the United States. The gov- ernor is unable to secure employment for them and the petition will be re- forred to the United States authori- tles for action. MARKET QUOTATIONS, Minneapolis. Wheat. Minneapolis, March 21.—Wheat— May, $1.04%; July, $1.02%. On track —No. 1 hard, $1.07%; No. 1 Northern, $1.05%; No. 2 Northern, $1.08%@ 1.03%; No. 3 Northern, 98c@$1.01. Duluth. Wheat and Flax. Duluth, March 21.—Wheat—To ar- rive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.- 07%; No. 1 Northern, $1.05%; May, $1.08%; July, $1.03%. Flax—To arrive and on track, $1.17; May, $1.16%; July, $1.18%. 8t. Paul Unlon 8tock Yards. St. Paul, March 21.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, 95.25@0.00; fair to 8ood, $4.256@6.00; good to cholce cows and heifers, $3.50@4.76; veals, $3.765@ 5.00. Hogs—$4.65@4.85. Sheep—Waeth- ers, $5.25@6.85; good to choice lambs, $6.60@7.26. Chicago Union Stock- Yards. Chicago, March 21.—Cattle—Beeves, $4.60@6.65; cows and: heifers, $2.10@ 5.40; Texans, $4.25@56.25; oalves, $5.00 @6.50; Western cattle, $4.50@6.40; stockers and feeders, $3.15@8.20. Hogs —Light, $4.70@6.07%; mixed, $4.80@ 5.10; heavy, $4.80@85.10; rough, $4.80@" 4.90; plgs, $3.90@4.55. Sheep, $4.25@ 6.85; -yearlings, $6.00@7.25; lambs, $6.86@7.60. Chicago Qrain and Provisions. CITY SCAVENGER ‘Leave orders at po'ice headquarters, in city hall for garbage and scavenger work, J. F. HENNESSY. > B i Own Your Home. e . HENDERSON'S - ADDITION Whicheav;li'llt:fmi?ld on 328 These lots are located midway between the sawmills, close to the shores of beautiful Lake Bemidji. Water easily 3333333333 BID DD obtainable. i A. E. 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