Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 18, 1908, Page 4

Disappointed by No Meeting. A number of persons from:out-of- town were considerably disappointed yesterday because of the fact that no meeting of the board ‘of county commissioners was held, as had been advertised. Rev. Barackman of Blackduck| ‘was one of the number, he having' come “down yesterday morning to bring a matter to the attention of the board. He was compelled to remain in tbe city all day and “loaf.” Another party from Hamre town-| ship arrived in the- city, after an| arduous trip and the expenditure of ‘no little time and money. This gentlman lives fifty miles from Thief River Falls, and it took him one and a half days to reach the latter place from his home, the required trip from Thief River Falls to Bemidji being made by rail in order to get here for the meeting. It is unfortunate that the meeting | was not held yesterday. It greatly inconvenienced several parties, in; addition to the two already men-; tioned. Resolution of Sympathy. Whereas, the Angel of death has entered our midst and taken away Ester Decaire, mother of Neighbor Peter M. Decaire, therefore Be it resolved that the officers and and members of the Modern Samari- tians Council No. 46 of Bemidji, Minnesota, extend their heartfelt sympathy to our Neighbor, Peter M. | Decaire and family. God calls our attention to the shortness of our stay. He would| not have us build our hopes on | length of time, but look with joy for that which changes not. His will is right, we need not be afraid. Be it further Resolved, thata copy of these Resolutions be forwarded to our Neighbor arnd spread on the minutes Genuine Discount of 25 PER CENT! On all Hart Schaffner @ Marx Suits of the order and a copy of these Resolutions be published in the Bemidji Pioneer. + —J. Bisiar, —Isabel Larson, * —Andrew Larson, —Annie E. Clavin, —Bertha~Schmidt. Committee. SUGAR TRUST STATEMENT Denies “Most Indignantly” Charge- of Government. New York, Nov. 18.—The American Sugar Refining company, which is be- | ing sued by the United States govern- ment to recover $3,600,000 in customs duties, issued - a statement denying “most indignantly” the charge in the government’s suit of fraud on the part of the company in the weighing ot sugar importations. The company de- clared that no two persons weighing sugar calling for the payment of $300,- 000,000 in duties could make the weight agrees within a difference so small as the amount claimed by the government. The company offered to pay the full duty required if any omission to do so was proved. INFORMATION NOT SPECIFIC Demurrer of New Haven Road Sus- tained by Court. Boston, Nov. 18.—The demurrer of the New York, New Haven and Hart- | ford railroad to the bill of informa- tion brought by Attorney General Ma- lone of Massachusetts to prevent the New Haven railroad from holding stock of the Boston and Maine rail- road was sustained by Judge Loring in the equity session of the Massachu- setts supreme judicial court for Suf- folk county. The court sustained the contention of the railroad that the bill of information is not sufficiently specific. The attorney general is given two weeks in which to amend the original bill - Hurled Back by Adverse Winds. Los Angeles, Cal, Nov. 18.—The big racing balloon United States, which started from here in an at- tempt to cross the mountains for a long eastern flight, encountered ad- verse winds and after soaring 125 miles over the tops of the snow capped Sierra Madres. was hurled pack to within fifty miles of Los An- geles. and Overcoats. All the old tickets are on the clothing. cent and that’s all there is to it. Sale Commences Fridey Morning Nov. 20, BEMIDJI HIS CONFESSION IS REMARKABLE Prominent Chicagoan Ad- mits Many Forgeries. OVER $700,000 INVOLVED Declares That for Eighteen Years He Has Thrived on the Sale of Bogus Notes and Mortgages and Describes His Unique Forging Scheme—He Pleads Guilty and Is Promptly Sen- tenced, as,Requested. Chicago, Nov. 18.—Pefer Van Vlis- sengen, a prominent real estate deal- er, clubman and for years reputed a millionaire, who was arrested, indict- ed and' sentenced to prison on his own confession of having obtained through forged paper more than $700,000, | arose in his cell at the county jail after'a sleepless night. ‘Van Vlissengen’s confession, one of the most remarkable in court annals, preceded by only a few hours his sen- tence by the court toan indeterminate term of from one to fourteen years in the penitentiary at Joliet. Ordered from the .midst of his business to ap- pear at the state’s attorney’s office the real estate dealer made a full con- fession of how, for the last eighteen years or more, he had thrived on the sale of forged trust deeds and motes. He said that more than twenty-five people would suffer loss from his machinations. Telling how alone in his office he manufactured from orig- idal and genuine notes worthless ones which could hardly be detected by experts he described a unique forging scheme. i He had a plate glass desk top, he said, so arranged that by placing an ily trace by a light thrown up through a hole signatures from the originals | upon the worthless paper. His Request Complied With. “Give me my punishment at omce— that’s all T ask,” declared Van Vlis- | Rengen, when arr: d_before Judge None Reserved. | electric light beneath he could read- | Take off 25 per 8 a.. m. GILL BROTHERS| Next Door to First National Bank ~ MINNESOTA § Windes. ‘The -commitment of the prisoner to the penitentiary folloWed in less than four hours after his ar- rest, AS soon as hé arose Van Vlissengen inquired eagerly of the jailer whether he would be taken to Joljet at once. “I want to go immediately—the socner this business is settled the bet- ter,” said ‘the prisoner, who showed visibly the nervous strain he had un- dergone. i Van Vlissengen is said by his friends in recent years to have lived extravagantly. . His offices -at 172 Washington street are said to have cost him in maintenance about $40,000 annually. “He 'Has beén spending money lav- 1shly,” declared George Birkhoff, Jr., consul for The Netherlands. “He won the confidence of the Dutch resi- dents of the ¢ity and T am afraid they will be among the heavy losers. Brew- ers were among his customers and it 1s probable they will be found to pos- -sess much of his paper.” Rudolph Brand, president of the TUnited States Brewing company and director of “the Chicago and Milwau- kee Brewers’ associations, who has about $20,000 worth of the Van Vlis- sengen paper, said: “I do not know how many other brewers are affected, but I presumue my holdings are worthless. He did a large business with brewers.” BECAUSE OF A SHORTAGE Bank at Monticello, Ky., Closes Its Doors. ‘Washington, Nov. 18.—The comp- troller of the currency has been ad- | vised of the closing of the doors of the Citizens’ National bank of Monti- cello, Ky., on account of a shortage of more than $20,000 in the cashier’s de- | partment. The bank had a capital of $50,000 and total resources of about $194,000. National Somerset, Ky., Nov. 18—A sensa- tion was caused here and in Monti- cello by the arrest of Judge Charles McConnaghy, cashier of the, Citizens’ National bahk at Monticello, on the charge of forgery and misappropria- tion of the bank’s funds. McConnaghy gave bail for his appearance at the next term of court! | Tangerous. First Actor—I thought your next tour was to have been through South \Af- | rica. Second Actor—It was, but the | ‘company struck. One of them had read that an ostrich egg often weighs two or three pounds. i |to these KAISER AGREES T0 PROPOSALS Confers With Yon Buelow on (ierman Crisis. LATTER RETAINS POSITION Emperor Expresses Complete Confi- dénce in ‘the Chancellor and Ap proves His Speech in the Reichstag in Which He Declared That the German Ruler Would Refrain From “Interviews” in the Future. Berlin, Noy. 18.—An interview be- tween Chancellor “von Buelow and Emperor William, held at the new palace in Potsdam, resulted in a sat- isfactory understanding. His majesty expressed his complete confidence in the chancellor and the chancellor wil! remain in office. Furthermore, the omperor accepted the proposals made by the prince concerning the future conduct of state affairs. The result is believed to have ameliorated the very serious internal situation which has existed in Germany for the past fort: night. This meeting, which was watched by the entire German people with the most profound interest, is an outcome of the much discussed “interview” with an Englishman published in the London Daily Telegraph on Oct. 28 in which the emaperor was credited with a very frank statement of the world policy of the German empire and also with being a very good friend to Great Britain. The publication was followed by a furious outbreak in Germany against his majesty. He was most se- verely criticised in the German press and in the reichstag for his indiscre- tlon and for unwarranted interference in the state affairs of the nation. Prince von Buelow replied to these criticisms in the reichstag and said that the emperor in the future would refrain from a repetition of his ac- tion. During the meeting the chancellor explained clearly to his majesty the temper of the German people on this matter. Whether or not the chancel- lor remained in office depended on how the emperor accepted his state- ments, The Reichsanzeiger, the official ga- zette of the empire, publishes with the sanction of the emperor the fol- lowing statement: Official Account of Meeting. “In the course of the audience granted by the emperor to Chancellor von Buelow the chancellor described to the emperor the mood of the nation and explained his position with refer- ence to the debate in the reichstag of last Tuesday. The emperor listened explanations with great earnestness and expressed his will as follows: “‘Heedless of the obvious incorrect exaggerations his majesty considered his principal aim to be to secure the E | continuance of the imperial policies under the safeguard of constitutional responsibilities; he approved the chancellor’s address in the reichstag and assured the prince of his contin- ued confidence.’” Immediately after his return from Potsdam Chancellor von Buelow saw the members of the Prussian ministry in confidential council and communi- cated to them the details of his audi- ence with' the emperor. The president of the reichstag, Count von Stolberg, had a prolonged conferefice with the chancellor imme- diately after the meeting with the ministry. Details of the Potsdam audience were communicated to the leading members of the federal coun- cil by Minister of the Interior Beth- mann-Hollweg. The chancellor, in the course of his interview with the emperor, asked his majesty for a declaration, together with permission to publish the same, to the effect that in the future the emperor would deal with state affairs only through the existing constitu- tional channels, namely, through the chancellor. His majesty acceded to this request and the declaration asked for appears in the Reichsanzeiger. The emperor’s act, taken together with the circumstances leading there- to, is regarded as a far step in the di- rection of a government responsible to the reichstag. But it is only a step snd should his majesty go beyond the spirit of his assurances there is a like- lihood of the adoption of other meas- ures to compass the desired end. DOZEN CONVICTS PERISH Fire Breaks Out in an Alabama Coal Mine. Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 18.—As the result of a fire that started in mine No. 3 of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company five dead ¢onvicts have been taken out and seven more are known to be in the mine. It is believed that the fire was started by convicts. ‘Would Forfeit Smuggled Goods. Chicago, Nov. 18.—Suit. for for- feiture to the government of property valued at $82,000, said to belong to Mrs. “Jack” Gardner of-Boston and alleged to have been smuggled into this country from England by Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne, was begun in the United States district court by United States District Attorney Sims- HELD FOR IMPORT DUTY Ring Presumably From -Abruzzi to Miss Elkins. Pittsburg, Nov. 18.—What is pre- sumed to.be the engagement ring, with ruby setting, from the Duke of the Abruzzi to Miss Katherine Elkins, daughter of Senator Elkins of West Virginia, lies in the vault of the Pitts- burg postoffice awaiting appraisement to determine the amount of duty that must be paid before its delivery, for the sender neglected to provide for the_settlement' . with 1 = " —in the baking that is where Calumet Baking Powder proves its superiority; its wonderful raising power; its never-failing ability - to produce the most delicious baklng—lld its economy. In the hhng—that is the only way you can.successfully test it and compare it with the < high price kinds. You cannot discredit these’ statements until you have tried CALUMET the only high grads e baking powder selling at a moderate cost. - $1,000.00 is offered to anyone finding the least trace of impurity, in the baking, caused by Calumet. Ask your Grocer—and insist that you get Calumet. Received Highest Award World’s Pare Food Exposition, Chicago, 1907. treasury officials 6f the Quty of 60 per cent ad valorem on precious jewels coming from other lands. The ring was received by registered mail at Elkins, W. Va.,, and from there sent to the postmaster at Pittsburg to be referred to the surveyor of the| port. The first jeweler to whom it was shown thought it worth about $3,000. Another jeweler said because of the rare beauty of the ruby it might be worth $5,000. The ring will be shown other jewelers and if they agree upon a valuation it will be sent to Elkins, there to be held until duty is paid. The ring is a heavy gold band about one-eighth of an inch wide and is set with a pigeon blood ruby, oval shaped and weighing about six or seven karats. i DEATH SENTENCE | - FOR FIFTH TIME| Herman Billek Condemned to Die on Dec. II. Chicago, Nov. 18.—Herman Billek, convicted of the murder of five mem- bers of the Vzral family, was sen- tenced by Judge Barnes to hang on Dec. 11. The fight of Billek and his friends for liberty, which carried the case, before the United States su- preme court, has attracted wide at- tention. Billek, a fortune teller, whose in-! come was derived from the ignorant and superstitious, used arsenic in | causing the death of the Vzrals, all of | whose lives were insured and which | money Billek is said to have planned | to secure. He was first sentenced to | hang on Oct. 8, 1907, and since that time he has been reprieved four times. On the last previous date set for the | hanging Billek's case was taken into | the federal court and his petition to | appeal to the supreme court allowed. The state authorities therefore took no action in carrying out the death sentence. When the supreme court denied jurisdiction the case came back before Judge Barnes for resen- tence. Billek’s counsel set up the ar- gument that inasmuch as the previous death sentence had been allowed to pass Billek was already legally dead | and hence could not be sentenced again. Judge Barnes refused to ac- cept this view of the case and inflict- | ed the death penalty. Billek’s last hope—a slender one in view of the previous attitude of Governor Deneen —is that the death sentence may be commuted to one of life imprisonment. RIGHT TO TITLE UPHELD Native of Virginia Member of British Peerage. London, Nov. 18.—The committee on privileges of the house of lords has declared the right of Albert Kirby Fairfax, who is a native of Virginia and who has been described as the only American bearing an English title, to the rank and title of Lord Fairfax of Cameron in the Scottish peerage. The committee heard evidence on this matter for two hours, J. A. Bar- rett, Lord Fairfax’s attorney, present- ed the Fairfax family Bible and much documentary evidence to prove his cli- ent’s descent. The attorney general, for the government, and the lord ad- vocate of Scotland declared them- selves as satisfied regarding the valid- ity of the claim and Lord Alverstone, lord chief justice, pronounced the de- cision of the committee. This de- cision does not give Lord Fairfax a seat in the house of lords. Only a limited number of Scottish peers, elected by the lords, sit in the house. JURY TRIES “V0O! “V00D00” TEST Suspect Sulcldn on Apparent Pronf' of His Guilt. Little Rock, Ark, Nov. 18—Sam Haywood, a prominent farmer near Monticello, was calléd to his door and assassinated by a man standing at the ‘gate, who emptied a charge of buckshot into his body. Louls' Hursch, who was under suspicion, was taken before a coroner’s jury and denied his guilt. A negro juryman demand- ed the “voodoo” test, calling for Hursch’s gun, "saying if it was dis- charged and Hursch was guilty it would “sweat blood at the muzzle.” The gun was discharged and Hursch, taking the rust on the barrel for blood, plunged a knife into his throat, expiring before the jury with- out uttering a word. Gas Explosion Kills Two. Kansas City, Nov. 18.—Two persons were killed and six others were in- jured as a result of an explosion of gas in the basement of a commisgion house-here. The building, a three- story structur@, was partly wrecked and has bee ered torn down. WANTS ONE CENT A WORD. HELP WANTED. LADY WANTED—To explain “and + demonstrate a well known article in this town; no experience neces- sary; pleasant employment and good salary; apply at once. Bark- er’s Drug Store. Wanted—Girl to learn typesetting. Apply at once to the Pioneer. Splendid opportunity to learn to become a compositor. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. RUMMAGE SALE—In the south room of the Sentinel building. 1,000 articles at your own price. FOR RENT. - FOR RENT—Five-room cottage, located 504 Minnesota avenue. Apply 406 Minnesota avenue. FOR RENT—Nicely-furnished front room for rent. Apply to 921 Minnusota Avenue. FOR RENT—6-room house, 1109 Dewey avenue. Apply Mrs. Edd, 210 Sixth street. FOR RENT—Seven 700 America avenue. J. P. Omich. room house. Inquire of LOST and FOUND LOST—Gray squirrel neck scarf be- tween 508 Beltrtami Ave. and the city hall. Finder please return to 515 America avenue. MISCELLANEOUS. 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 Ilouse. Mrs. Harriet Campbell librarian. WANTED—A horse to carry lunch- es with ata logging camps near Wilton. Inquire at Empire Em- plovment office. WANTED—Good roll top desk. Inquire at Pioneer office. 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