Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 10, 1908, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED NVERY AFTERNOON, BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By CLYDE J.”PRYOR. ¥ntered in the postoffice at Bemidjl. Minn., a8 second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM CAUSTIC COMMENT. LA. G. Rutledge.] “What is a cannibal, pa?” Asked little Harry Dann, “A cannibal is one m’ boy, Who loves his fellow man.” Some men look upon marriage as a continuous transfer system. Our idea of wealth is feeling financially able to contribute toa campaign fund. Because a man asks you to break bread with him is not a sign that his wife is just learning to bake. The kaiser is thinking of building a boat that can sail faster than any defender of the America cup. We'll soon be holding the watch on the Rhine. Poor William! While his friend Theodore is to be an editor, he, the Emperor of Germany, has been com- pelled to bow the knee to the blue pencil of the chancellor. “Yim” Hill pays $500,000 to pre- vent an adjoining building from shutting the sunlight out of his home. Maybe his industrial prophe- cies will not be so dark hereafter. How Long Do Dreams Last? How long do dreams last? A Ger- man savant is investigating the mat- ter. But there is scarcely a dolt who could not give him points and has not dreamed centuries in seconds. The dream, it may be stated, comes in the few seconds before the awakening and has no relation to time or space. This is clear enough to the man who has ever been placed under an anaes- thetic for a short while and found time and space eliminated. As an experiment this writer was placed under a whiff of chloroform by a doctor. Absolute unconsciousness supervened, then a return of con- sciousness, the questions of the uni- verse, up through layers of conscious- ness, with always the feeling, “Now 1 have solved it,” and the “No” and the “Yes” alternating through centuries of thought, and then the quizzical face of the doctor, remembered after a mil- Horn years. “How long have you been under?” The experimenter struggled up and saw the doctor with his watch in hand. “Ten seconds,” the doctor said, and the dremmer had been out- side time for a time that has no meas- ure—London Chronicle. A Great Artist Enraged. Alma-Tadema has told a story of the fate of two unsuccessful pictures of his student days. One of them was re- turned unsold by the committee of the Brussels exhibition in 1859. The sub- Ject was a house on fire, with people rescuing the victims. The artist’s fel- low students were asked into Alma- Tadema’s studio and were invited to jump through the canvas, the owner of it leading the way by leaping head first through the oily flames. The other unsuccessful effort was a large sized square picture that came back again and again to its creator’s easel until at last it was cut out of its frame and given to an old woman to use as a table cover. ‘The picture was praised by at least one person who appreciated its excel- lence, so Alma-Tadema used to de- clare, for the old woman was wont to remark that it was much better than those common oilcloth things that al- ‘ways let the water through, as the pic- ture of Alma-Tadema’s making was a good thick one, with plenty of paint on it.—Minneapolis Journal. The Supposed Life on Mars. Not only do the observations we have " scanned lead us to the conclusion that Mars at this moment is inhabited, but they land us at the further one that these denizens are of an order whose acquaintance was worth the making. ‘Whether we ever shall come to con- verse with them in any more instant way is a question upon which science at present has no data to decide. More important to us is the ract that they exist, made all the more Interesting by their precedence of us in the path of evolution. Their presence certainly ousts us from any unique or self cen- tered position In the solar system, but 80 with the world did the Copernican system the Ptolemaic, and the world survived this deposing change. So may man. To all who have a cosmo- planetary breadth of view it cannot but be pregnant to contemplate extra mundane life and to realize that we have warrant for believing that such life now inhabits the planet Mars.— Professor Lowell in Century. I Broke Up His Speech. ! Judge Norton was solemn, stern and dignified to excess. He was also ego- tistical and sensitive to ridicule. Judge Nelson was a wit and careless of de- corum. He did not like Judge Norton. At a bar supper Judge Norton in an elabarate speech, referring to the early days of Wisconsin, described with trag- ic manner 8 thunderstorm which opce overtook him in riding the circuit. The Bcene was awful, “and,” said the judge, “I expected every moment the light- ning would strike the tree under which T had taken shelter.” “Then,” interrupted Nelson, “why in thunder didn’t you get under another tree?"—Philadelphia Ledger. TAFT CONFERS WITH GANNON Tarifi Revision Subject of Consideration. ALONG REPUBLICAN LINES President-Elect and Speaker Agree That Legislatich Should Be Enacted ds Indicatgd in the Party Platform * Former's Part of the Task Will Ba Confined to Such Suggestions as He May Desire to Make. 1 ‘Washington, Dec. 10.—President: Elect Taft and Speaker Cannon had a conference of an hour and a half at the Boardman residence, where Mr. Taft is staying. At its conclusion each participant announced that an arrangement had been made whereby Mr. Taft was to meet the Republican members of the committet on ways and means, after which a statement will be issued. Until this statement is made Mr. Taft said he and Mr. Cannon had agreed not to discuss what had taken place between them. The apparent satisfaction with which Mr. Taft explained the situa- tion was taken as an evidence that matters were very much to his iiking. It is known, of course, that the sub- Jject under discussion between Messrs. Taft and Cannon was the forthcoming revision of the tariff, regarding which Mr. Taft has declared himself most positively in favor of a thorough re- vision. It is understood that very little was said between the president-elect and the speaker concerning the details of the proposed tariff legislation, but that the conversation dealt entirely with the broad principles involved in that legislation. They proceeded upon the express understanding that they had come together as the repre- sentatives of two co-ordinate branches of the government and whatever of difference in detail the future may develop, if any, the discussion was on the friendliest possible basis. The un. derstanding, so far as there was any, was that the president’s part. in the preparation of a new tariff would be confined to such suggestions as le might desire to make and he was as- sured that while these would be listened to by the house with every possible consideration he was not led to believe that the house would aban- don its prerogative in the preparation of the new law. Nor was there any indication on Mr. Taft’s part that he would expect or desire it to do so. Both agreed that the tariff should be revised and that the revision should be along the lines indicated by the tariff plank of the Republican plat- form. Neither indicated a desire to depart from protective principles in the work to be done. NEW LINE OF TESTIMONY Witness Tells of Economic Develop- ment of Oil Business. New York, Dec. 10.—Branching off into a new line of testimony intended to show the economic development of the business of the Standard Oil com- pany counsel for that corporation put L. T. Drake on the stand in the hear- ing of the government suit for its dis- solution. Mr. Drake said $250,000 had been spent in educating the peo- ple in the advantages of using gaso- line. The work was so successful that in 1905 and 1906 the demand for gasoline equaled the supply, said the witness. Frank B. Kellogg, attorney for the government, brought out admissions from Mr. Drake that the company never had patented a gasoline stove or gasoline engine and that improve- ments in that direction for the use of gasoline had been made by other peo- ple. Mr. Drake denied that the price of gasoline had increased three or four times in thé last few years, but said possibly the price had doubled since 1897. MURDER OR AN ACCIDENT Physicians Testify at Hirschberg In- quest at St. Louis. St. Louis, Dec. 10.—The coroner’s inquest over the body of Francis D. Hirschberg, the prominent St. Louis citizen who. was killed mysteriously in his home here, was resumed and the physicians who performed the au- topsy on the body gave it as their opinion that Mr. Hirschberg was mur- dered or killed accidentally, the ab- sence of powder marks being taken as sufficient evidence to preclude the theory of suicide. The solution of the mystery will depend largely upon the success of the police in tracing the ownership of the revolver found in the hall of the Hirschberg residence. The weapon was old and pocket worn and several members of the Hirschberg household aver that they had never seen it be fore. A search of pawnshops and other records has been undertaken in an effort to learn the history of the pistol. Wreckage of Missing Steamer. Sault Ste. Marie, Ont,, Dec. 10.—A message received here from Grand Marais says part of the cabin of the missing steamer D. M. Clemson has been found. FEWER SOCIAL MARRIAGES Falling Off in Weddings Among the “Four Hundred.” New. York, Dec. 10.—Marriages among persons in New York who.are socially prominent are on the decline, according to statistics based on names appearing in the social register for 1909, just out. A decrease of 20 ‘per cent over last year’s marriages is shown for New York city, with a gen- eral falling off of approximately 7 per cent throughout the country.. Pitte- Vbiirg was afi éxception, With sxty-nirie “social marriages” this year, as egainst siaty-five last year, and Chi- cago was-stationary, with 135. Com- pilers of the statistics declare that the financial depression was respon- [ sible for the decrease. The figures in New York last year were 763 and for 1908 only 662. Philadelphia’s wed- dings dropped from 242 to 224 and Boston from 167 to 147. St. Louls recorded only ninety-eight for 1908, as against 131 for 19(7, but San Fran- cisco showed an increase from eighty- one to 119. In Baltimore there was a decrease from 116 to ninety-nine, in St. Paul from sixty-seven to fifty-nine and in Minneapolis from twenty-nine to twenty-seven. Insane Man Kills Daughters: ‘Wakefield, Mass., Dec. 10.—Becom- ing violently insane Hiram T.. Badger killed his two daughters, Florence, aged fifteen, and Catherine, aged seven, and then ran amuck through the town shooting at persons he met and firing into windows. Fred Wheel- er was wounded in the leg. Padger EOMB THROWN INTO AIR SHAFT Terrific Explosion in New York Tenmement, . — SCORE OF PEOPLE HURT Plaster, Bricks and Broken Glass Hurled With Frightful Force Into Sleeping Rooms and Some Occu- pants Are Rescued Unconscious From Under Debris—Buildings for Blocks Shaken by Concussion. New. York, Dec. 10.—More than a was pursued by a crowd of townspeo- ple, who finally captured him. BATTLE ON STREETS OF KANSAS CITY Police and Religious Fanatics in Fatal Clash, score of persons were injured, five of them seriously, and a hundred more were thrown into a panic when a bomb was hurled into the air shaft of the tenement house at 330 East Sixty- third street. The house was badly wrecked. The house was occupied exclusively by Italians and it devel- oped that threatening letters had been received by many of them during the past few months. The explosion was terrific. The concussion shook buildings for blocks. The sides of the air shaft, down which the bomb was thrown, are lined with sleeping rooms one one side and bathrooms on the other. Practically all of those injured were asleep in the bedrooms on the south side. The bathrooms were wrecked, the water pipes torn and broken and the whole building on ‘that side was flooded before the water could be cut off in the partially wrecked ecellar. Plaster and bricks, mixed with jagged pleces of glass from the shattered windows, were hurled into the sleep- ing rooms with frightful force and some of those injured were found half buried and unconscious under the de- bris piled upon their beds. The roar of the explosion brought residents out into the street for blocks around and in a few minutes a crowd of hundreds of half clad men and women were gathered in front of the house. It was more than an hour before the excited men and women who thronged the surrounding streets could be quieted and md.uced to re- turn to their homes. Kansas City, Dec. 10.—In the center of the wholesale district the police and a band of religious fanatics head- ed by John Sharp, who styles himself “Adam God” and who says he is Jesus Christ reincarnated, engaged in a fierce revolver battle. Over 100 shots were exchanged. As a result two persons are d%ad, three others near death and two more ‘wounded. The dead are Albert O. Dalbow, pa- trolman, and Lola Pratt, aged thir- teen, daughter of Louis Pratt, com- panion of “Adam God.” The fatally injured are John Sharp, known as “Adam God,” a street preacher; Michael Mullane, a patrolman, and Patrick Clark, a police sergeant. A woman and a girl in her teens, members of the fanatic band, partiei- pated in the battle, firing many shots at the police. The woman fled from the scene of the conflict, taking with her the chil- dren, official solicitude for whom had caused the clash, and barricaded them on a houseboat, but sought safety from pursuers by rowing out into the river after a brief, armed defiance of the riot squad. A volley fired from shore fatally wounded the girl. HAS CHANCE OF RECOVERY Guatemalan Special Envoy Injured at Washington. ‘Washington, ' Dec. 10.— Although passing a night of comparative rest at the Emergency hospital the condition of Senor Don Juan Barrios, minister of foreign affairs of Guatemala and minister to the United States on a special mission, is regarded as still critical. The diplomat was injured seriously in an automobile accident, | but the physicians at the hospital say ! that his chances of recovery are fair- i1y good. Violation of Pure Food Law. Chicago, Dec. 10.—District Attorney Edwin W. Sims has filed informations in the federal district court here against five firms, charging them with violations of the pure food law. Mis- branding packages containing food- -stuffs and medicines is the generic| offense alleged against the defead:. ants. e All the other members of the party, who so narrowly escaped death when ‘WOMAN TO BUY NEWSPAPER |2 big 60-horsepower touring car turned —— turtle near the new bridge over the Mrs. Potter Palmer Negotiates for | Potomac, are reported at their resi- Chicago Daily. dences and hotels to have been fin- Chicago, Dec. . — Mrs. Potter |Jured much less seriously than Senor Barrios. The pelice are searching the city in an effort to recover about $3,300 Palmer, society leader, may enter the newspaper field in Chicago. It is re- ported that she has been negotiating for one of the morning newspaper properties. It is said that she Wm furnish funds to back a syndicate and that H. H. Kohlsaat, formerly intercsted in newspaper enterprises here, will be in charge of the publication, which will be Democratic in policy. Mrs. Palmer is said to have deter- mined on the move in order that her two sons, Potter and Honore, may en- ter the business field. Potter Palmer recently married Pauline Kohlsaat, daughter of the former newspaper owner, and it is said through the efforts of Mr. Kohl- saat that the soclety leader has been interested in the proposition. It {s said that $2,000,000 is involved. GRAIN AND PROVISTON PRICES Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Dec. 9.—Wheat—Dec., $1.063; May, $1.09%. On track—No. 1 hard, $1.10%: No. 1 Northern, $1- 09%;; No. 2 Northern, $1.07% @1.07%; No. 3 Northern, $1.03% @1.06%. stolen from Senor Barrios by some one who crowded around the over- turned automobile and its uncon- scious occupants. Senor Barrios had three $1,000 bills .and three $100 bills in a long pocketbook bearing his name. That could not be found after the accident. Government officials in Washington were peculiarly touched by the aceci- dent, owing to the fact that Senor Barrios and his party, consisting of General John Drummond, Senor Don Luis Toledo Herrarte and a chauf- feur, were on their way to Mount Ver- non to place a wreath on the tomb ot ‘Washington at the request of the president of Guatemala. NAMED BY THE PRESIDENT Commission to Mark Whiskies Under Pure Food Law. ‘Washington, Dec. 10.—President Roosevelt has appointed a commission consisting of Secretary Wilson of the department of agriculture, John Ca- pers, commissioner of internal rev- enue, and F. L. Dunlap of the depart- ment of agriculture to take up the question of marking whiskies under the pure food laws and internal rev- enue regulations. This action of the president was taken after he had heard the complaints of a large dele- gation of distillers and rectifiers from lllinois, who told the president that there was great uncertainty and con- fusion in their business by reason of the existing regulations of the inter- nal revenue hureau, which were based upon recent decisions of Attorney General Bonaparte. It was desired that there should be harmony be- tween the producers of whisky and the government. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Dec. 9—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.095; No. 1 Northern, $1.08%; No. 2 Northern, $1.06%; Dec, $1.07%; May, $1.09%; July, $1.09%. Flax—To arrive, on track and Dec., $1.42; May, $1.44. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, Dec. 9.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.50@6.50; fair to good, $4.20@5.25; good to choice cows and heifers, $3.50@4.50; veals, $5.25@6.00. Hogs—$4.95@5.60. Sheep—Wethers, $4.25@4.50; yearlings, $4.50@4.55; spring lambs, $5.25@6.00. House Gets Down to Business. ‘Washington, Dec. 10.—The house began the regular business of the ses- slon by proceeding to the considera- tion of the bill providing for the thir- teenth census. and excluding messen- gers, watchmen, unskilled laborers, etc.,, from the non-competitive exam- ination requirements. The amendment was discussed at length. HALE SUCCEEDS ALLISON Elected Chairman of Republican Sen- atorial Caucus. ‘Washington, Dec. 10.—A largely at- tended caucus of Republican senators unanimously elected Senator Hale of Maine as chairman of the Republican caucus to_succeed the late Senator Al Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Dec. 9.—Wheat—Dec., $1.- 02%; May, $1.07%; July, 99%c; Sept., 96%5c. Corn—Dec., 583%c; May, 62@62%¢c; July, 62@62%c; Sept, 62%c. Oats—Dec., 50%c; May, 53@ 53%c; July, 47%c. Pork—Dec., $14.- 40; Jan., $15.87%; May, $16.156@ 16.17%%. Butter—Creameries, 22@30c; dairies, 21,@26c. Eggs—32c. Poul try—Turkeys, 14c; chickens, 10@11c; springs, 1lc. Chicago Unign Stock Yards, Chicago, Dec. 9.—Cattle—Beeves, $3.40@7.70; Texans, $3.40@4.30; West- ern cattle, $3.30@5.65; stockers and feeders, $2.60@4.80; cows and heifers, $1.50@5.00; calves, §6.00@8.25. Hogs —Light, $4.95@5.65; mixed, $5.20@ 5.85; heavy, $5.30@5.871%; rough, $5.30@5.50; good to choice heavy, $5.50@5.87%; pigs, $3.504.75. Sheep, $2.40@4.75; yearlings, $4.26@5.10; lambs, $4.25@6.75. : . TO CURE A'COLD INONE DAY, TakoLAYATIVE BROMO Quintne Tablots. . 'Gv“ ‘GRo" ] il .u'flgm’a 18 on eneh box. Pe. Hson of Iowa, ~The posiilon cairles with it the chairmanship of the Re- Dublican . steering committee of the senate, which determines all imupor- S8ENATOR EUGENE HALE. tant legislation in the senate and also imposes the duty of selecting mem- bers of the committee on committees, all of them very important duties. Scnator Hale’s nomination was the only one before the caucus and the meeting did not continue for more than half an hour. DISTINGUISHED MEN MAKE ADDRESSES Notables Attend Rivers and Har- bors Congress. ‘Washington, Dec. 10.—One of the most notable gatherings ever assem- bled in the history of this country in the interest of waterway development was called to order when the National Rivers and Harbors Congress met in fifth annual convention. The congress is national in its pur- pose, representing all sections and all Wwaterways, and is endeavoring to im- press. congress with the necessity of a comprehensive policy for improving rivers, canals and harbors of the na- tion. Senators, representatives, diplo- mats, captains of finance, governors of many states and others high in offi- cial life were present when Represen- tative Joseph E. Ransdell of Louis- fana, president of the congress, es- corted to the front of the platform Bishop O’Connell, whose invocation, a prayer of thanksgiving to the giver of all resources, signalized the formal opening of the convention. An address by Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks followed. Am- bassador James Bryce of Great Brit- ain told of the waterways of Great Britain in a notable speech. Others on the programme were Judge George Hillyer of Georgia’s rail- road commission; Samuel Gompers, the labor leader; Governor George E. Chamberlain of Oregon; Seth Low,. former mayor of New York; Governor Sanders of Louisiana; Representative Champ Clark of Missouri and Profes- sor W. D. Lyman, Whitman college, ‘Washington. Coincident was the first annual con- vention of the Women’s National Riv- ers and Harbors Congress, which held its session simultaneously in another hall. SzATE OF Otito, CrrY OF 1OLEDO, | o Lucas County. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senlor partner of the firm of 1. F. Cheney & Co., doing business in_the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of cararrh that cannot be cured by the use of $ah’s Catarrh Chre. 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