Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 4, 1908, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED NVERY AFTENRNOON, BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By!CLYDE J. PRYOR. Tutered in the postofice at Bemidji. Minn., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM L SHOULD NAKE BLUFF GOOD. Grand Rapids Independent.— This business of the government withholding franchises, concessions, grants, etc., as in the case advocated by the president when he vetoed the Koochiching dam extension of time bill may be all right, all right, but to the causal observer it would seem that if the right to improve and operate such natural resources is to be withheld from private or corporate control, the government should at once proceed to take advantage of the possibilities afforded by such re- sources. The result would be two- fold—such an action would doubt- less be a big money maker for Uncle Samuel and the country around the dam would develop into one of the richest parts of this great state. The policy of the government in retaining for itself such rights as are being striven for in the Koochiching dam matter is very well and good— if it is carried to the proper lengths. But refusing to let private individuals or corporations develop the resour- ces, and the government failing to do anything with it, adopting, it might be stated, a dog-in-the- manger policy, would be most disastrous to the northern part of Minnesota and particularly to the towns and vicin- ity most directly interested. It would mean a retarding of several years in the development of a' large area of the northern part of the state and the ruin of large numbers who have staked their all in homes or bus- iness enterprises which are” directly affected by the action regarding the building or non building of the dam. OBSERVATIONS. "By Doc.”] With baseball in season, who is simple enough to refer to a “vacant” lot? An insane woman has been restored to reason by being told that hell was frozen over. We hope she never will find out that she was deceived. Congressman Leake of New Jer- sey is the latest critic of the Presi- dent. You hardly could expect Mr. Leake to keep his thoughts from oozing out. It is not yanity that prompts a man to roll up his trousers so onlookers get the full effect of a view of his feet. If he were vain he would hide them. Somebody is trying to explain how potato bugs discover where potatoes have been planted. They find it out just as “busted” friends learn that you have a $5 bill in your pocket. How He Did It. “When I was connected with a cer- tain western railway,” says a promi- nent official of an eastern line, “we had in our employ a brakeman who, for special service rendered to the road, was granted a month’s vacation. “He decided to spend his time in a trip over the Rockies. We furnished him with passes. “He went to Denver and there met & number of his friends at work on one of the Colorado roads. They gave him a good time and when he went away made him a present of a mountain goat. “Evidently our brakeman was at a loss to get the animal home with him, a8 the express charges were very heavy at that time. Finally, however, hitting upon a happy expedient, he made out a shipping tag and tied it to the horns of the goat. Then he pre- sented the beast to the office of the stock car line. “Well, that tag created no end of amusement, but it served to accom- plish the end of the brakeman. It was 1nscribed as follows: ‘“ ‘Please pass the butter. Thomas J. Meechin, brakeman, 8. 8. and T. Ry."” =~Harper's Weekly. Coincidence. The strange story told by a default- ing debtor of his being recognized after he had been for six years trylng to live down the past is not so strange a story as one which came within the ken of Professor Jowett, A good man ‘went wrong, was caught and sentenced at Liverpool to imprisonment. After the sinner had served his term Jowett and others helped him, and he obtained a colonial editorship where his past was unknown. He did well; was a new man. One day a tornado swept off the roof of his office. Under the roof was discovered a batch of old English papers which had been placed | there and forgotten after the mall had brought them. He set members of his staff to work to get out of the derelicts anything which might be interesting |- enough to print. The first thing that they found was a full report of the trial and conviction of the man him- self; their editor, at Liverpool all those years before.—St. James' Gazette. THREATEN TO REVOLT Some Republlcun House Members Talking Insurrection, LEADERS APPEAR ALARMED 8everal Recent Moves Indicate a De- sire to Pacify the Dissatisfied Rep- resentatives and Prevent an Open Outbreak. Washington, May ‘—Representa- tives Townsend of Michigan and Cooper, Nelson and Carey of Wiscon- sin are planning to inaugurate an in- surgent movement against Speaker Cannon and the house leadership. The first test came when Mr. Townsend was successful in winning his - fight over the committee on appropriations in an amendment to provide the inter- state commerce commission with suffi- cient funds to employ accountants. For a long time a revolution has been brewing on the part of many of the Republican members of the house and it now seems impossible to check it before adjournment. The old re- gime is scared and Chairman Payne of the ways and means committee en- deavored to establish peace by offer- ing a resolution providing that his committee should sit during the con- gressional recess for the purpose of taking up the revision of the tariff. The wood pulp and print paper spe- clal committee was another overture which was offered to prevent a large number of Republican members from uniting with the Democratic minority and putting through the Stevens bill to put wood pulp on the free list. IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY Appeal Made to President Roosevelt in the Interests of Cattle. ‘Washington, May .—An appeal has been made to President Roosevelt by the American Humane association in the Interests of the cattle that graze on the Western ranges. In a petition to the chief executive the association endorses the president’s efforts to ob- tain proper federal control of the pub- lic domein; especially the grazing privileges thereon. It is claimed that the government reports show that over 2,500,000 deaths from exposure of sheep and cattle occured during the year ending March 31, 1905. It is held that the wholesale perish- ing of range animals on Western plains is due to starvation and thirst, caused by overcrowding and abuse of the public ranges. To prevent -this the association recommends the pass- age of a fair and equitable lease or grazing law providing that the owners of all stock grazing under lease shall provide stock with proper summer and winter sustenance. “In the name of civilization and hu- manity,” the petition reads, “we ap- peal to you, Mr. President, to find a way, a8 you have been known to do. on previous occasions, to expedite the slow process of public education om this subject and to quicken the -pub- lc conscience.” BANKER ENDS HIS LIFE. President of a New Jersey Concern Commits Sulclde. Manasquan, N. J, May 4.—Morgan Delancey Magee, presidept of - the First National bank of Manasquan, killed himself by firing a bullet into his head while standieg on & dyke in the Manasquan inlet. His body was found lying on the pfley. He évident- 1y planned that it should fal} into-the water and be carried out to sea by the falling tide. When, the death of President Ma- gee became known ‘the bank olosed its doors by order of the gtockholders and directors of the institution pena ing an examination. Magee is sald to have worried over the health of his son and some per- sonal investments. He leaves a Wid- ow and family. STRIKE IS THREATENE&: 8treet Car Cnnductrt and Mot at Pittsburg May Go Out. Pittsburg, May - !.—Pittsburgd is threatened with a strike of condugters and motormen on all of the logal Erac- tion lines as well as upon a nusaber of interurban lines entering' the The men are voting upon & pi tion regarded as the ultimatum df the Philadelphia company, controlling all of the lines, after futile negotiations covering more than two months. ' The company announces in notices posted at all barns that beginning "May 1 it will pay men who have been in its employ two years or less 24 cents an hour, those employed three years, 25 cents, those employed over three years 26 cents. The vote of the men is secret and there is no means of knowing how they are voting, but the watchers at the polling place expressed the belief that sentiment was strongly against acceptance of the company's offer, which would mean a strike. REV. MORGAN DIX DEAD. Noted New York Divine a Viotim of Heart Failure. New York, May ,—Rev. Morgan Dix, rector of Trinity Protestant Hpis- copal parish since 1862, and ome of the city’s most prominent clergymen, died at the Trinity rectory in West Twenty-fifth street. Death was due to heart failure and followed & brief illness, which took a serloul turn three days ago. Dr. Dix was eighty-one years old and was born' in this city. He was ordained a priest by Bishop Alonzo ‘Potter at Philadelphia in 1§52. EXPLANATION DESIRED: Congressman Objects to Mtlon of Am- bagsador to Turkey. iy Washington, May Representa- tive Murdock of Kangas has takemup with the state department The alleged action of Ambassador’ Leishman in en- deavoring to induce Mrs. Bernard ‘Warkentin to sign a paper releasing the Turkish prince who accidentally shot her husband on a railroad train near Damascus from prosecution. The state department will request an ex- planation of the 'ambassador. The matter has not gone so far as filing a formal complaint against Mr. Leish- man and :probably will not, at least until his explanation is received. RAILWAY TO HUDSON BAY Sale of Government Land Will Fur nish Funds. Winnipeg, Man, May 4.—The Do- minion government will shortly sub- mit to parliament a bill providing for the construction of a railroad to Fort Churchill, on Hudson bay, providing a new outlet for the rapidly increasing annual yield of grain. The proposal is to provide the proceeds from the sale of the millions of acres of Do- minion land in even numbered sec- tions in the West hitherto set apart as railway reservation lands. These even numbered sections of railway grant lands in the West, aggregating some 30,000,000 acres, will shortly be released for homesteading. It is esti- mated that the proceeds from 8,000, 000 acres of these lands, reserved by the crown for sale, would in a few years realize $30,000,000, a sum suffi- cient to pay the cost of construction of the railroad to Hudson bay by the government. REVOLUTION IN PERU. Outbreak Occurs in the Vicinity of the Capital. Rio de Janeiro, May 4—News has been received here by telegraph from the west coast of a revolutionary out- break in Peru. The movement is said to have started at the town of Cho- sica, near Lima. The revolutionists, under the command of Augusto Du- ran, cut the wires that carry the cur- rent for the electric lighting of Lima and they also took possession of a railroad train. Government troops were at once sent out against them, but the dispatches do not give the outcome. There was said to be much excitement at Lima. BARONESS KILLS HUSBAND Woman Then Shoots Herself, but Will Survive. Berlin, May 4.—Baroness Udo von Ruexleben shot and killed her hus- band in their chateau at Buddenberg, near Dortmund, just as he was about to retire. She then shot herself, but survives the self-inflicted wound. No explanation has been made of the oc- currence. Baron von Ruexleben, who was of an old Thuringian family, mar- ried Wanda von Strombeck in Berlin last November. - The baron was thirty- five years old and his widow is twenty- six. Plague Situation in Venezuela. ‘Willemstad, Curacao, May -4.—The American gunboat Paducah' came in here from - Puerta Cabello. Her offi- cers declare that Venezuela denies the existence of the plague at Caracas. Trains are running freely between Caracas and:Puerto Cabello and the Paducah was given a clean bill of health. The plague at La Guayra is said to be abating: The American winister, W. W. Russell, is still at Caracas. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. Hdndqu&rters of the Repuklican n tional committee will b8 opened Chicago on Monday, May 11. J. W. Maxwell, aged seventy-three, founder of the town of Maxwell, Ia., fell down stairs at the Kirkwood hotel at Des Moines, breaking his neck. He died within a few minutes. Thirty-four indictments have been returned by the grand jury against well known Cincinnati brokers on charges of participating in the opera- tion of alleged bucketshops. The assault episode of April 6 at the American consulate at Mukden has been closed. The American staff has been exdnerated and three of the Japanese officials have been punished. Henry Beéch Needham of Washing- ton has been appointed by President Roosevelt as a member of the Panama labor commission. Mr. Needham fills the place on the commission which was offered to Lewis N. Hammerling of Wilkesbarre, Pa., who declined the appn!ntment. President ‘Winthrop Ellsworth Stone of Purdue university has confirmed a report that his wife has withdrawn from the world, including her husband and family, to pursue a mystic teach- ing supposed to be imported -from In- dia. He and his two sons are heart- broken and would eagerly welcome her back, but are unable to reach her. L. H. Bickford, associate editor ot the Chicago Inter-Ocemn, is dead fol- lowing an operation for appendieitis. He was born in Menlo, Ia., thirty- seven years ago. Several persons were killed and a number wounded in a political dis- turbance at Fort de France, island of Martinigue. One of those killed was the mayor of Fort de France. In a :glove comtest at Dublin Bill Squires-of Australia knocked out Jem Roche, the former Irish champion, in the fourth round. The purde was $1,375 ‘and there was a side bet of $1,000. Madame Gould and Prince Helie de Sagan have arrived in Reme from Naples. The entire party ‘went to the Grand hotel. From Rome Madame Gould and the prince will go direct to the French Riviera. President Roosevelt, in & formai letter,. has notified Secretary Straus of the department of commerce and labor that he had reappointed him for another term of six years as one of the American members of the per- manent court of arbitration at The Hague, King Gustav of Sweden and a Swed- ish squadron has arrived at Reval, Russia, from Stockholm. -His majesty ‘will attend the marriage at Tsarskoe- Selo next Sunday of Prince Wilhelm of Sweden, his second son, to Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, daughter of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovitch. Trouble Brewing for Streot Car |$57507.40. Company at Cleveland. HIGHER PAY IS DEMANDED Organized Employes Insist That the New Municipal Holding Company Carry Out the Promises Made by chickens, Its Predecessor. Cleveland, May —A general strike of motormen and conductors employed by the Municipal Traction company, the new holding company which took over all of the local street raflway lines under the recent peace agree- ment, appears to be imminent. The Carmen’s union demands that the new company carry out the promises of the old Cleveland Electric Railway company, which promised an increase of 2 cents an hour in the wages of the men in the event the general street railway controversy was settled. Pres- ident du Pont of the holding company has refused to recognize the old agreement. President Behner of the employes’ union said that the men $2.40@6.40; calyes, $4.50@6.95. Hogs —Light, $5.30@5.75; mixed, $5.30@ heavy, $6.30@5.80; rough, $5.30 6.80; pigs, $4.40@5.20. Sheep, $4.70@ | 6.15; yearlings, $6.25@6.80; lambs, Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, May 2.—Wheat—May, $1.- 03%; July, 89%c; Sept., 847%@85¢. Corn—May, 69%c; Sept., 62% @62%c. Oats—May, old, 63%c; May, 63c; July, old, 467 @47c; July, 45%c. Pork—May, $13.10; July, $13.40; Sept., $13.721. Butrer— Creameries, 10@25c; dairies, 18@24c. Eggs—143%c. Poultry—Turkeys, 14c; 11% @12¢c; brollers, per dozen, $3.50@5.50. Always Pure Housewives can better afford to .buy i avonn Yenina Extracts S would striks Sunday morning unless for they are pure and reliable the advance was grzmted HOUSE WILL AGREE. Appropriaticn to T Be Made for Two Battleships. Washingten, May .—The house will agree to the'senate amendment to the naval appropriation bill which adds to that measure an appropriation for the construction cf the two battleships authorized by the bill. Tie house na- val affairs committee, at a meeting preliminary to the housesenate co: ference on the amended bill, discussed the various senate amendments and informally reporied an understanding as to which of {hem ought to be ac- cepted. and which opposed. As the three house conferees are members of the naval commitice the understand- ing reached may be accepled as indi- cating the positicn to be taken by the house members of the conference. The amendment making an’ appropri- ation for tke two battleships was wholly satizfactory to the commitiee. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, May 2.—Wheat—May, $1.07; July, $1.06%: Sept., 995c. On track—No. .1 hard, $1. ]D‘A@l 10% ;5 ‘No. 1 Northern, $1.08% @1. 0834; No. 2 Northiern,” $1.0614@1.06%; No. 3 Northern, 99c@$1.04. 8t. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, May 2—Cat choice steers; $6.00@6.75; fair to good; $5.00@6.75; gcod o choice cows and heifers, $500; veals, $3.75 5. Hogs —$5.35 Sheep—" @5.50; good to choice lambs, $6.25@ 6.50. . Duluth Wheat ad Flax. Duluth, May 2.—Wheat—To arrive .and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.10%; No. 1 Northern, $1.07%; No. 2 Northern, $1.037%; May, $1.04%; July, $1.05%; Sept., 91%c. Flax—To arrive and on track, $1.19%; May, $1.19%; July, $1.21%; Sept., $1.22%; Oct., $1.21%. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, May 2-—Cattle—Beeves, $4.60@7.20; Texans, $4.5)@5.50; West- ern cattle, $4.60@G5.9¢; steckers and feeders, §2.50@5.70; envs_and heifer-, A WOMAN'S BACK. The Aches and Pains Will Disappear if the Advice of This Bemidji Citizen Is Followed. A woman’s back has many aches and pains.-* . Most fault. Backache is really kidney ache; That’s why Doan’s Kidney Pllls cure it. Many . Bemidj this. Read what one has to say about it. Mrs. ]. E. 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