Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 21, 1908, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED NVERY AFTHRNOON, BEMIDII PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By CLYDE J, PRYOR. Wntered in the postoffice at Bemidjl. Minn., a8 second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM OBSERVATIONS. [By "Doc™ THE CAPITAL I. My son, if 1t seems you have excellent chances To bask in the glow of good fortune's rare glances, It you have selected an honored position To serve as the goal of your vaulting ambition. TUnless all your chances you want to see fly, Beware, O beware of the capital 1. The capital I ls an innocent letter, But can be made clank like a gyve or a tetter; It you should be placed at the head of the nation Then people would hearken to your con- versation Or read all your speeches with glances awry, It you should indulge in the capital I. No matter what fashion of good you're supplylng Some people are irked If you're capital- I-ing; Your enemies leap up in joy when they sight it. They chortle in glee If you speak it or write it— ‘Whatever your speech you should earn- estly try To keep far away from the capital I. You should'nt have thoughts and should hide your opinions Unless you ceurt slaps from the ememy's mintons. The first person spoken, A torrent of hootings and howls wiil be- token, For troubles of uttermost potency lie Concealed in the terrible capital I. An eye for an I is the creed that they practice, An ear for a Me or a My, too, the fact Is! 8o whether you speak or set things down on paper Impersonal be as a puff of pale vapor, At any rate, so, be exceedingly shy Of using the terrible capital I. singular, written or INTRODUCED BY NEWLANDS Bill Providing for Commission to Con- serve Natural Resources. ‘Washington, May 2 .—Senator New- lands of Nevada has introduced a bill for the appointment of a national com- mission for the conservation of nat- ural resources and defining its duties. The president is authorized by the bill' to appoint a commission of fifteen members for the investigation of all questions relating to the conservation, use and control of the water resources of the United States fcr navigation, irrigation and municipal supply; power and swamp land reclamation, prevention of flood, prevention of waste in mining, etc. The commission Is to report to congress annually. Oppose Anti-Injunction Law. New York, May 2 .—An appeal to Bpeaker Cannon of the house of rep- resentatives to use his power and in- Buence against any anti-injunction leg- Islation was made by the National As- tsociation of Manufacturers in annual tonvention here. The appeal was made in a telegram which was sent to the speaker at Washington after its tontents had been approved by a vote of the convention. Stock Prices Going Up. New York, May 2 .—Leading rail- road stocks and other shares in the stock market have reached the high- est prices of the year. The advances were made on extremely heavy deal- . Ings and better prices were scored in such securities as Union Pacific, Penn- sylvania, Amalgamated Copper and other leaders. Later a sharp decline .occurred, wiping out all the day's gains. 8outh Dakota Breaks Records. San Francisco, May J.—A wireless message Teceived from the' armored ‘erniser ‘South Dakota, which is return- Ing to this port from her final trial trip, reports that she has broken all records for vessels of her class. Her average speed during her four hours’ trial was 22.36 knots under forced draught and 20.07 knots under nat. ural draught. . BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria 1% again slightly indisposed. 3 Qardinal Logue, primate of all Ire- land, has left Montreal for Quebec. Eegene Francis Marie Henri, ninth Duke of Marcourt, is dead in Paris. He was born in 1864. W. M. Tomkins, aged sixty-three years, the dean of the bar of Northern ‘Wisconsin, is dead at Ashland. Frederick May Holland, author of various reviews, essays and pam- phlets, is dead at Concord, Mass., aged seventy-two years. : Twenty-four battleships will be re- viewed by President Roosevelt in Hampton Roads Feb. 22 next, the date of the return of the Atlantic bat- tleship fleet from its world cruise. Following a quarrel Frederick Bower of Cleveland, aged forty-five, shot and killed his wife and as he ‘was about to be placed under arrest Bower fired a shot into his own head. He will probably die. Professor J. P. Coiner, at one time president of colleges in Salt Lake City and Los Angeles and who had lectured in all parts of the United States against Mormonism,*is dead at Hop- k::ivflle, Ky. He was seventy years old. Right Rev. Willlam M. Fitzpatrick, pastor of St. Gregory’s church at Ash- mont, Mass., who, in spite of his sev- enty-five years, is one of the most athletic of Boston’s clergy, has been challenged by Speaker Cannon of the Rouse of representatives to a one- mile run and has accepted the chal- lenge. ALMOST A CERTAINTY No Currency Legislation Likely at Present Session. CONFEREES CANNOT AGREE House and Senate Committees Hold Several Meetings With the Idea of Reaching Some Common Ground, but Hope Is About Ahandoned. ‘Washington, May 2'.—That there ‘will be no currency legislation at the present session of congress is now be- lieved by many members to be almost a certainty. The conferees on the senate and house bills have held sev- eral sessions in an effort to work out something under the head of the “Al- drich-Vreeland bil” but they are said to have almost abandoned hope. As a result there is a decided sentiment among the conferees and leaders of both ‘branches of congress that the whole subject should go over until next session. In that event the work would be taken up next session by the same conferees, as the bills intro- duced at the present session do not die until the end of the congress. The senate committee on finance has been swamped with protests from bankers and commercial interests against the Vreeland bill. The opposi- tion has been based chiefly upon the charge that it proposes an asset cur- rency through clearing house associa- tions being permitted to issue notes. For the benefit of the conferees the views contained in the letters to the committee have been collected and “dangers” of the house bill pointed out as follows: Bond Value Would Be Impaired. “First—That the market value of government bonds would be impaired by reason of banks selling bonds in re- ducing their circulation with a view to placing themselves in position to have the largest privilege of issuing the proposed notes. “Second—That many banks may be driven out of business. In organizing assoclations for the issue of the pro- posed notes the stronger banks may be unwilling to guarantee the pay- ment of -the notes of the weaker in- stitutions and, consequently, deny ad- mittance to membership. Unfortunate consequences could hardly fail to re- #ult in thus publicly branding a bank. “Third—That a panic would imme- diately be precipitated if at any erit- ical period- the associations should take steps to issue the new notes. Knowledge of such steps could hardly be kept from the public.” Senators Aldrich, Hale and Allison have been studying the Vreeland bill for the past two days and they ars of the opinion that it will be bad legisla- tion to enact it. At the same time they realize that the house is opposed to many of the important provisions of the Aldrich bill and that the prospects of overcoming the opposition in the short time remaining of the present session are not good. BY DRUG CLERK'S MISTAKE Millionaire Venezuelan Poisoned in New York City. New York, May 2 .—Fleeing from stricken Venezuela Eduardo de Eraso, a coffee planter and reputed multi- millionaire, came to his death in a fashionable New York hotel through taking what he believed to be a harm- less medicine. His wife, who also took some of the medicine, is in a seri- ous condition at their apartments in the hotel and the remainder of the party of wealthy refugees is without & directing head. Whether they now will continue their journey to Europe, where they had planned to remain un- til the danger period in Venezuela has passed, is yet to be determined. It is alleged that a drug clerk who pre- pared the medicine for Mr. de Hraso made an error in compounding the drugs. {MAY CORN UP TO 79 CENTS Anxiety of Shorts Causes Sharp Ad- -vance in Price. Chicago, May { )J—May corn sold up 8 cents in the early hours of trading, chiefly because of the active demand by shorts for grain to deliver on their May contracts. The bulk of grain is in the hands of James M. Patten and not much of it was for sale. The closing price of the previous day was 76 cents and in a short time after the opening it had touched 79. This con- stitutes a new high record for the season, but is not the highest ever reached, corn having several times sold at $1 and over on the‘local board of trade. Child Labor Bill Goes Over. Washington, - May 2 .—The house committee on education and labor has agreed to vote on the national child labor bill on Dec. 8 next. ‘Senator Beveridge appeared before 'the com- prittee and made an -argument that the proposed legislation was constitu- tional. Au informal poll of the com- mittee developed that a majority be- lieved otherwise. Will Name Eight New Bishops. - Baltimore, May 2 .—After an earnest and at times spirited discussion last- Ing an hour and a half the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church voted to elect eight bishops at this session against the expressed conclusion of the board of bishops that only 3ix be named. BURROWS THE WRONG' TYPE Roosevelt- and Taft Disappointed by His. Selection, Chicago, May 2!.—The Record-Her- d prints the following from Walter ellman at Washington: Is the Chicago convention to stand squarely and fairly for the Roosevelt Dpolicies or is it to be manipulated into & “‘conservative” attitude in the inter- est of harmony and success at the polls? 3 This is the question which now con- fronts President Roosevelt and Bec- retary Taft, Tt has been unexpected- ly raised by the selection of:Senator Burrows of Michigan to be the tem- porary presiding officer of the na- tional convention, The selection of Mr. Burrows for this post of homor SENATOR BURROWS. ‘was a surprise and disappointment to both the president and Secretary Taft. It has nothing to do with the nomina- tion of Taft; that is so well assured that nothing can disturb it. The ob- Jjections of the president and the sec- retary to the Michigan senator are not personal; they recognize his abil- ity and fairness. They have no fear of him. They object solely because he is not the right sort of man to sound the keynote. He is of the wrong type. He is not known as a supporter of the Roosevelt policies, but as a rather moderate opponent of them. ‘The president and the secretary think the sounder of the keynote should be & supporter of their policies. WIDESPREAD DISORDER. Lawlessness Continues in Connection With Cleveland Strike. Cleveland, May 2 .—Notwithstand- ing the widespread disorder which prevailed in various parts of the city the Municipal Traction company claimed to have more cars in operation ‘han any ume since the strike began. ‘With the approach of daylight the law- lessness which continued throughout the night had in a large measure ceased and cars were run on all lines without molestation. ‘While a number of persons received injuries as a result of the assaults made upon the cars no one was seri- ously hurt so far as reported. The trucks of a Superior avenue car were wrecked and the car win- dows broken by the explosion of dyna- mite or giant powder placed on the tracks. The car was filled with pas- sengers and a panic ensued, but none was hurt. » The board of arbitration was in con- ference with President du Pont of the traction company. It is understood that the company is willing to arbi- trate all points in controversy provid- ing the strikers return to work and stop the violence. The only condition President du Pont is understood to in- sist upon is that the strikers return to work as “new” men and not insist upon the seniority rule. This is done for the purpose of caring for the men who remained at work when the strike was called, whom the company de- sires to give preference. NIGHT - RIDERS IN PRAYER 8ervice Followed by Destruetion of Big Tobacco Barn. Lacenter, Ky, May ggn—-ln’ae on the ground in the moonlight with their heads bowed, while théir leader, his masked face turned toward heav¥én, offered prayer, a band of night riders destroyed the big tobacco barn of H. G. Maddox, not far from this place. The spectacle was witnessed by Flint Ran-.ll and Miss Maggie Tate, two youug people who were returning from a party and who were captured by the. raiders and forced to acecompany them to the prayer meeting and barn burning. After the torch had been applied and the flames were under good headway the young people were led some distance away, with instruc- tions to go home, and as they left they heard the strains of “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” floating through the alr to the accompaniment of crackling timbers and the roar of the flames. ACTION CAUSES SENSATION Members of Cotton Exchange to Ap- pear Before Grand Jury. New York, May :)—A sensation ‘was caused on the New York Cotton Exchange when it became known that & number of members of the exchange had ‘been subpoenaed to appear be- fore the federal grand jury. No offi- cial statement was made as to the subject' upon which they were to be questioned. Rumor was that the sub- Ject under investigation was the trad- ing of a very large speculator in con- nection with advance information se- cured by this speculator on govern- ment crop estimates. Another report was that the exchange’s methods of arranging the grading of cotton was the subject of inquiry by the grand Jury. SON KILLS AGED FATHER. Latter Was About to Marry a Youn Woman. i} New York, May 21 —Because he was about to be married ' again George Sterry, seventy-two years old, was shot and killed by his son, George Bterry, Jr. The younger man then committed suicide. The father was a pember of the large wholesale drug firm of Weaver & Sterry. He was engaged to be married to a young schoolteacher of Brooklyn and his en- gagement had caused serious family quarrels. 3 - Paresis a Germ Disease. Massillon, O; May 3 .—In the lab- oratory of the Massillon state hospital Dr. Jobn D, O'Brien reiterated a state- tient made by him before the Amer- foan “Medico-Peychological . associa- tion’s. convention at Cincinnati that and that the disease s curable. FALSE TEETH FOUND Further Evidence That Mrs. Gun- ness Perished in Fire. ASHES OF HOUSE SLUICED 8heriff Smutzer of Laporte, Ind,, De- clares That Latest Discovery Proves the Woman's Death Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt. Laports, Ind, May 2 .—Sheriff Smutzer and Miner Schultz, who are sluicing the ashes in the debris of the Gunness fire, found the upper and lower plates from Mrs. Gunness’ mouth, both containing the false teeth which Mrs. Gunness had in her mouth. Dr. I P. Norton, who made the lower plate, immediately identified them and also identified the upper plate, fre- quently having seen it, although it was made before he became her den- tist. “This proves beyond the shadow of & doubt,” said Sheriff Smutzer, “that Mrs. Gunness was burned to death in the fire.” £ Prosecuting Attorney R. N. Smith says that Ray Lamphere, now held in Jail here on the charge of murdering Mrs. Gunness and her children, will not be tried before Sept. 1. Prosecutor Smith admitted that in- asmuch as so many people in and about Laporte believe Mrs. Gunness to be still alive he expected to experi- ence much difficulty in proving that she was murdered by Lamphere. BURIED IN POTTER'S FIELD Seven Unidentified Bodies Found on Gunness Farm. Laporte, Ind., May 2 .—The issuing of a death certificate for Jennie Olsen and the turning over of the body by Coroner Mack to the relatives in Chi- cago puts the official stamp of identi- fication upon a body regarding which there has been much controversy. Al- though -identified by the brother and sister many refused to believe that the girl was dead for the reason that inform a number of persons that Jen- nie had gone to Los Angeles to attend school and had arranged little inci- dents that would help to make this point strong with such people as might be a trifle inquisitive on the subject. In the course of the investigations that were carried on with reference to the- reports that the girl had ac- tually been sent away and was not among the dead in the little grave- yard a letter was received saying that a girl answering her description had been seen in a convent near Los An- geles. This story was believed by some, bat the authorities found noth- ing to substaatiate it. The seven unidentified bodies, ex- humed from Mrs. Gunness’ barnyard, were buried in the potter’s field under the direction of Coroner Mack. TO DISCUSS FREIGHT RATES Joint Conference of Commercial In- terests and Railroads. Chicago, May 2 .—A joint confer- ence between the commercial and in- dustrial interests of the country and the, railroads of the East to .consider the whole question of advanced freight rates from all points of view is assured. That this conference prob- ably will lead to.submitting the issue either to President Roosevelt, the in- terstate commerce commission or an impartial board of arbitration for a final decision; also is likely, according to the opinions of railroad men. ‘While it is probable the necessity of the railroads for more revenue, either through advanced freight rates or re- duced employes’ wages, will be con- sidered in a conference with all phases of the problem it is not prob- able that a contingent reduction of wages will be considered if the issue is left far arbitration or a binding de- cision with the interstate commerce commission. The commission has no power to fix or determine any phase of the wage question and therefore can only consider whether an advance in rates is just and reasonable. The threat of reducing wages is regarded by manufgcturers and shippers as a measure more easily threatened than put into effect. Criminal Charges Made. New York, May 2 .—Criminal charges against certain members of the firm of T. A, McIntyre & Co., stock brokers, who recently failed with lia- bilities exceeding $1,000,000, were laid before- District Attorney Jerome by C. C. Burlingham, the receiver of the failad firm. Mr. Jerome at once presented the charges before a grand jury. > Order Two Thousand New Cars. Pittsburg, May 2 ,—Evidence of re- turning prosperity is furnished by the announcement that the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad has ordered the Standard Steel Car'company to begin construction of 2,000 all steel cars for that road. The new cars will be used to handle the tonnage between the coal and coke regions and the lakes. Hawaiians For Bryan. Honolulu, May 2 .—The Democratic territorial convention met here with Benator C..J. McCarthy as chairmau, selected delegates to the national con- vention at Denver and Instructed them for William J. Bryan. WOULD DISSOLVE BREWERIES Indiana Attorney General Files Num- 2 - ber of Suits. . Indianapolis, May Z).—Five sep- srate suits were filed in the Marion he had discovered the germ of parests |- county. superior court by James Bing- ham, ‘attorney general, against the In- dianapolis Brewing = company, the Terre Haute Brewing company, the Capital City Brewing company, the Home:. Brewing company and the' The attorney general asks for a 7 6" “defendant Mrs. Gunness had made it a point to| corporations, torfelting thelr corporate’ rights and ousting them from the, ex- ercise thereof; also for a temporary injunction against each and the ap- pointment of a temporary receiver; later ‘for permanent injunctions and permanent receivers, and, finally, that an accounting of the property of the companies be had and the assets dis- tributed among the creditors. The attorney general charges that the brewing companies are exceeding thelr corporate powers by leasing buildings and theyeby engaging in the real estate business. The companies against which the complaints are directed are those ‘which are now engaged in federal court litigation against the attorney general, STRANGE STATE OF AFFAIRS District Attorney Discu of Pittsburg Bank. Pittsburg, May 2 ,—Robert Lyons, receiver of the Allegheny National | hank, has taken charge of the bank and will make a complete examina- tion of its affairs. Bank Examiner Folds sald he would be relieved of any further connection with the bank and ‘would take up his regular work of ex- amining other banks. “It seems very strange to me that all this looting of the bank could have been carried on as long as it was without some one besides the cashier knowing about it,” said United States Attorney John W. Dunkle when asked if informations against others besides ‘William Montgomery, the former cash- ier, were probable. “That this large sum of money and that these securities which are miss- ing should have been taken by Mont- gomery without any knowledge of any one else is strange, to say the least. There has been mno information brought to me which would result in charges against others, but that mat- ter will be fully investigated and if there is anything to warrant prosecu- tions of others I will cause informa- tion to be made.” MISS WOO0D CROSS-EXAMINED Continues on Stand in Her Suit Against Senator Platt. New York, May 2 '.—Mae C. Wood continued her testimony in her suit for absolute divorce from United States Senator Thomas C. Platt, to whom she alleges she was married in this city in 1901. Mr. Stanchfield, of counsel for Platt, continued his cross-examination of Miss Wood, questioning her about a release which she gave to Abraham H. Hummel, the former lawyer, in 1903, in which she agreed to accept $10,000 in settlement of her claims against Senator Platt, Miss Wood previously had declared that this re- lease was signed under duress, but she sald she accepted some of the money. Although Miss Wood had signed the release and declared in an accompanying - affidavit that she gave the alleged Platt letters to Hummel as her attorney she now denied that she retained Hummel as her counsel .and declared that she could have ob- tained $50,000 for the letters. Miss ‘Wood said that ‘she was paid $7,600 for the letters. She did not know where the money came from, she said. POLITICIAN ENDS HIS LIFE Connection of Name With Graft Scan- dal the Cause. Indianapolis, May 2).—John B, Me- Gaughey, aged fifty-five, former mem- ber of the board of county commis- sioners, shot and killed himself at his home in Irvington because of the con- nection of his name with the scandal that has developed in the office of the commissioners. McGaughey’s term as commissioner expired Jan. 1, 1907. The only in- stance in which his name had been connected with the growing scandal In the commissioners’ office is that of the Atlas engine works deal. In this the Atlas engine works is charged with paying a bribe of $3,800 to the rcommissioners. HEmmet Hugins, for- mer bailiff, in his confession told that he gave Thomas Spafford, commis- sioner, $590 of the $3,800 to be giyen’ by Spafford to McGaughey. McGaughey denied receiving such a sum or knowing anything about it and Spafford denies having received the money to.give McGaughey. Looting Arguments in Tobacco Case. New York, May 2.—After more than four months consumed in the laking of testimony counsel have be- pun their arguments before four judges of the United States circuit court in the government’s suit to cem- pel dissolution of the American To- bacco company. The suit was brought under the Sherman anti-trust law, Jealousy Cause of Murder. Marinette, Wis., May 2\.—Louis Toboltz, a bartender at Amberg, Wis., was shot and killed by Dell Ovorn, & well known saloonkeeper of that town. Jealousy of Ovorn over his wife is sald to have been the cause of the tragedy. Ovorn was arrested. A Forty Horses Cramated, St. Paul, May 2).—Forty horags and practically all the wagomns belonging to the St. Paul Transfer company were burned in a fire which complete- 1y destroyed the company’s barns. The fire started in the rear of the bufld: ing. Its origin is unknown. Effort Wwas made by thé barnmen and fire- men to save thé horses, but they re- fused to leave the building. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. The senate hag passed the Southern Appalachian and White mountain for- est reservation bill. (RS _The bill providing for the continu- ance of the inland waterways pom- mission introduced Thursday by Rep: resentative Burton of Ohio was pméd by the house under suspension of the rule; 5 Under- suspension of the rules and without a roll call the house passed & |~ ‘Ml providing for compensation to -government employes who are {njured :lfll engaged in hazardous ocoups- Sickness of Children A large part of the sickness of children is directly traceable to improper food. Many have their digestit:in crippled for life. Sound digestive organs mean a soun ly and a sound brain, DR. 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