Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 9, 1909, Page 2

3 [ THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED NVERY AFTHRNOON, BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By CLYDE J. PRYOR. Watered in the postofice at Bemidjl. Minn., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM AT THE RATE OF TEN PER HOUR Earthquake Shocks Still Oc- curring at Messina. | SEARCHING FOR CHENEYS Party of Men Under Direction of | American Military Attache at Rome Working to Extricate Bodies of United States Consul and Wife. Authorities Will Isolate Messina to Provent Outbreak of Sickness. Messina, Jan. Earthquake shocks kre still continuing here at the rate of about ten per hour. Fire also has again broken out, completing the de- Btruction of the city hall and the rec- ords stored therein. : A party of men under the direction of Major Landis, the American mili- tary attache at Rome, has been work- Ing for four days to extricate the bod- les of A. S. Cheney and his wife from We ruins of the American consulate. @he apartment of the Cheneys has not yot been uncovered and many feet of wreckage still remain to bé removed. Bayard Cutting, Jr., Winthrop Chan- ler and Stuart K. Lupton, American consular representatives, are making gvery effort to tracc Americans sup- posed to have been in the earthquake wone at the time of the disaster, but #o far without success. The authorities have determined to Isolate Messina as the only means of preventing an outbreak of sorious ill- ness, The relief partivs complain that dhe starving refugees refuse the most Emmm food and want only maca- ni. The work of the soldiers in ssina consists principally in gather- Ing up dead bodies and burying them In trenches between layers of quick- lime. The work of relief is now well un- v way in Messina, but the smaller pwns in the interior are being neg- lected. Ships arriving on the scene henceforward will be sent to the coast tpwns and parties will go inland With supplies. GRISCOM GOES TO MESSINA Ambassador Accompanied by a Party of Americans. Rome, Jan. J—A special train left Rere for Civita Vecchia with the Amer- lean relief party, headed by Ambas- sadgr Griscom, on board. They will sail for Messina on board the steamer Bayern, chartered to con- vey the American relief to the south. T'he party includes Willlam Hooper of LLOYD C. GRISCOM. Boston, Nelson Gay of Boston, John Elliott, Wilfred Thompson and a score of other Americans, including doctors and nurses. Mrs. Griscom, Mrs. Gay and Mrs. Elliott accompany the relief workers as far as Civita Vecchia. The ambassador is going only as far a8 the Strait of Messina, where he will start the Bayern on its work of relief. He will meet Admiral Sperry, Wwho is coming from Port Said on board the flagship Connecticut, in the straits, and return with the Connec- tlout to Naples. The American battle- ships following the Connecticut north will be placed at the disposal of the Itallan authorities, KING MANUEL IS WARNED Army Officer Tells of Plot to De- throne Him. Lisbon, Jan. ..—During a banquet glven by the officers of the army in s oity, at which King Manuel was present, a lieutenant publicly warned his majesty that a plot to dethrone him was in course of preparation. The officer declared further that the king was surrounded by spies and traitors. Famous Edifice Declared Unsafe. Toledo, Bpain, Jan. .—A board of prohiteots has pronounced the cathe- dral at Toledo, one of the largest and ost celebrated gothic edifices in Bu- rope, unsafe and liable to collapse. cathedral services are now being @iducted in the Church of Trinity. Chicago Firemen Kept Busy. Chioago, Jan. )—In the past twenty- four hours the fire: department an- swered a total of 114 calls, with little prospect of rest while the present cold WILL DELAY INAUGURATION Legislature Deadlocked on Canvass of State Vote. Springfield, I, Jan. .—The legis- lature is in a deadlock on the can- vass of the vote cast for state offlcers anc¢ there will be no inaugural on Monday next, which is the date when the new state officers would be in- ducted into office under ordinary con- fitions. The senate is in readiness to go ahead wita the inauguration of Governor Deneen and all the other state officers, but it has served notice upon the Shurtleff organization in the house that it will not participato in the {cint session to canvass the vote until it is fully advised as to the plan of procedure relative to the regount which the Democrats demaund on the governorship. In view of the senate's refusal to meet in joint session to canvass the vote the house held up indefinitely the senate joiut rcsolution providing for a committee to make plans for she inaugural next Monday. PERKINS COMMITTEE MAKES ITS REPORT House Advised to Lay Message on the Table. lliinois ‘Washington, Jan, J—The Perkins special committee has reported a res- olution to the house advising that body what action to take with regard to the references made by the pres- ident to the secret service and con- gress in his annual message. Mr. Perkins of New York, as chairman of the committee, made a few remarks in presenting the resolution and * general debate followed. In its report the committee recom- mended the adoption of resolutions laying on the table the portion of the annual message of the president re- lating to the secret service and all of the message of last Monday. If the resolutions are adopted the pres- ident’s language in both messages will be declared as not respectful to the house and not responsive to the house’s Inquiry. HOUSE COMMITTEE PROBE Investigating Expenditures of Post- office Department. ‘Washington, Jan. - .—With a view of ascertaining how the $222,000,000 appropriated annually for the ex- penses of the postal service is ex- pended the house committee on post- office expenditures has started its probe, N Chairman Wanger’s committee is engaged in examining conditions in the office of the purchasing agent. It has been ascertained that a large quantity of supplies has been pur- chased by the office, entirely inde- pendent of the annual contracts, de- signed to cover everything that the service needed. These purchases ranged in amount from 25 cents to $2,000 and covered a multitude of art- icles. So far as the committee has gone the acting purchasing agent has been able to give a satisfactory rea- son, it is said, for the purchases. WILL REMAIN SEVERAL DAYS Senator Knox Arrives for Conference With Taft. Augusta, Ga., Jan. .—Senator Phil- ander C. Knox, selected by President- Elect Taft for secretary of state, has arrived here. He said he should re- main probably three or four days, or “as long as the business which brings me here requires my presence,” as the senator put it. Pending a con- ference with Mr, Taft he said he had nothing to say for publication. With Mr. Knox was Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr., of Oregon, who is here to play golf with Mr. Taft. The president-elect had an appoint- ment with Warren S. Stone of Cleve- land, -O., grand chief of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers. THREE PERSONS ARE KILLED Several Others Injured in Apartment House Blaze. Calumet, Mich,, Jan. .—In the de- struction by fire of a small apartment building here Mrs. Douglas Bolton was killed by jumping from a window and two small children of Mrs. Fred Cur- tis were burned to death. Miss Hva Bolton was probably fatally injured and John Bolton, Mrs. Fred Odell and Mrs. Fred Curtis were seriously in- jured. All but Mrs. Odell, who car- ried her baby through the. flames, jumped from third and second story windows to an alley below. Minnesota Bank Gloses. Brainerd, Minn., Jan. .—The Secur- ity State bank of this city closed its doors, its officers requesting the bank examiner to make an investigation. It was opened on Aug. 1, 1907, and had a capital stock of $25,000. Its last statement, dated Nov. 27, showed deposits of $35,850. Its president says every depositor will be paid dollar for dollar. Half a Miilion Fire Loss. Chicago, Jan. ' .—A spectacular fire at the stock yards destroyed a large part of the fertilizing plant of Darling & Co. and, after burning large stores of chemicals, causing explosions and injuring a number of firemen by fall- ing walls, caused a total loss of $500,- 000. 7 Woman Accused of Embezzling. Kansas City, Jan. )—Miss Nellie O'Donnell, aged thirty yéars, a for- mer cashier and bookkeeper for the Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Beef and Provision company, was arrested on a charge of embezzling $4,000 while in the employ of the company. Accord- ing to the police Miss O’Donnell has made a complete confession. The al- leged embezzlement took place fin July, 1908, AGQUITTED OF MURDER GHARGE Mrs. Erb and Sister Freed by Jury at Media, Pa. PATHETIC SCENE IN COURT Defendants Fall Into Each Other's Arms When Verdict ls Announced and Later Thank Each Member of the Jury in Words Broken by Sobs. Eighteen Hours Spent in Reaching an Agreement in the Case. Media, Pa, Jan. J—Mrs. M. Flor- ence Erb, wife of Captain J. Clayton Erb, who was well known in political circles all over Pennsylvania, and her sister, Mrs. Catherine Beisel, who were charged with the sensational murder of Captain Erb on the night of Oct. 6, 1908, walked from the Dela- ‘ware county courthouse free women. After the jury had been out nearly eighteen hours it brought in a verdict of not guilty in the case of each wo- man, both of whom had been charged separately and jointly with shooting the captain. Thus ends a trial that has held the interest of the people of the state for more than a week, dur- ing which time much scandalous evi-. dence was brought out, some of which did not reach the reading public. Almost up to the momsnt when the jury announced that it had agreed the prospects for a unanimous decision of the twelve men was not bright. Dur- ing the morning the jury filed into conrt and asked for further instruc- tions on the question of self-defense and while the spectators were still standing in the courtroom discussing the instructions given the jury word came from the juryroom that the men had agreed. g Judge Johnson took his seat just as the jury was escorted into the room. There was absolute silence. Then the court clerk went through the usual procedure of asking whether the jury had agreed and the foreman an- nounced the verdict of not guilty in each case. There was a second’s pause, a dead silence, then, with a half scream, the sisters fell in each otber’s arms. In an instant the women were surround- ed by friends and their attorneys and overwhelmed with congratulations, The jury was not polled and after Judge Johnson had thanked them Mrs. Erb hurried from her seat to Dickin- son, the foreman, and wrung his hands. Mrs. Beisel did likewise and they went down the line of the twelve men. Tears stood in the eyes of most of them and the thanks of the women ‘were sobbed out in broken syllables. RADICAL RECOMMENDATION Gevernor Sheldon Criminals and Insane. Lincoln, Neb., Jan. .—After calling attention to the increase in insane pa- tients and convicts Governor Sheldon, the retiring governor, in his message to the legislature, asserted that soci- ety was justified in adopting laws for protection. He said: “Society is justified in adopting such policies and in carrying them out against individuals as will in the long run tend to help elevate and perpetu- ate the human race. Careless and ill advised marriages have had a great deal to do in increasing the dependent classes and in producing untold mis- ery. “In order to prevent the confirmed criminal and the incurable insane from producing offspring I suggest that you give careful consideration to the ne- cessity of passing a law providing for the sterilization of that class of peo- ple.” CONCLUDES HIS TESTIMONY Thornton J. Hains Retires From Wit- ness Stand. Flushing, N. Y., Jan. .—After many hours on the witness stand, where his story of the killing of William E. An nis was probed in its most minute de tail, Thornton Jenkins Hains was ex- cused from further examination by counsel for both sides. Hains showed signs of great depression as he took his seat beside counsel on leaving the stand. Medical testimony regarding the sanity of Captain Hains consumed the afternoon session. TOO COLD ON THE OUTSIDE Forty-five Prisoners Escape and All but Three Return. Oklahoma = City, Okla.,, Jan. |— Forty-five prisoners in the city jail tunnelled their way to freedom. Get- ting a breath of the icy air all but three returned. They declared they preferred prison to freedom in zero weathar. WOULD COST $75,000,000 Naval Programme as Outlined by Secretary Newberry. ‘Washington, Jan. 3.—About $75,000, 000 would be required to carry out the programme for increasing the navy as outlined to the house committee on naval affalrs by Secretary Newberry of the navy department. Four battle. ships of 25,000 tons are asked for, in addition to four scout cruisers, four wubmarines, ten destroyers, three col- Yers, one repair ship and one smmuni- tion ship. % Was a Native of Minnesota. ‘Washington, Jan. —Dr. Max West, a special examiner in the bureau of corporations of the department of commerce and labor and a well known economist, died of pneumonia at his home here at the age of thirty-eight years. His principal work with the bureau of corporations has been in connection with the Standard Ofl &a- vestigations. Dr. West was a native af §t. Cloud. Minn. Would Sterilize | ARMY OFFICER .ON TRIAL INGREKSE PAY . Major Fremont Faces Courtmartial in Cuba Today: 5 Havana, Jan, \}—The generpl court- martial ordered by th7 president to assemble at Sagua La Grand)e to try the case of Major Francis P. Fremont of the Fifth infantry convened there today. Major Fremont is charged with hav- Ing made misstatements concerning Major Wallace Q. Clark of his own regiment. It is alleged that he said that Major Clark became intoxicated at Sagua and for that reason had been removed and would never again be glven a separate command in Cuba. He also {s charged with having denied the statement after having made it. Major Fremont is the son of the famous General John C. Fremont, “the Pathfinder.” The present occa- sion is his -third appearance before courtsmartial. He was once convict- ed of the charge of financial irreg- ularities and once convicted of strik- ing an enlisted man and using im- proper language to him. BOUSING RECEPTION FOR “FIGHTING BOB” Navy League to Pay Him Pub- lic Honors Tonight. _— New York, Jan. /—In Carnegie hall tonight the Navy League of the Unit- ed States will give a public military reception to Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans. The event is in celebration of his recent recovery from illness. All military avd naval men have been ADMIRAL EVANS, asked to appear in uniform and mem- bers of patriotic' soctéties are 1o wear their insignia. Military formality will be observed in the proceedings. The famous guest on this occasion will make his debut as a lecturer. He has been induced by the league to tell publicly for the first time the story of the battleship cruise from Hanipton Roads to San Francisco. MARATHON FOR AMATEURS World’s Champion Among Runners Entered in Race Tonight. New York, Jan. )l—Mat Maloney, the world’s record breaker of the Marathon race, is one of the entries in the American Amateur Marathon which will be run at Madison Square Garden tonight. He says he wants to demonstrate that he can make the same time on an indoor track as he made on the road from Rye on Dec. 26. Fred Lorz, one of the most con- sistent Marathon runners, has also entered. The prizes which are to be given have attracted the attention of run- ners as far west as Chicago. - There are several entries from Boston and all the large Eastern cities will have representatives in the race. ON "'MANUFAQTURE OF GAS e Prasident Sends Brief Message to Congress. Washington, Jan, }.—Prompt logis- Iation to regulate the éoipeniten"of illuminating gas in thsh gl‘i: a4 thy result of recommendatons of Attop ney General Bonaparte that ¢! z wsp x water gas be forbidden of restriois is urged in a briet mas e congress by President Roosévelt. The. message follows i “I transmit herewith for the eop- sjderation of the congiéus a from the attorney general-and addory panying papers and call particular at- tention to the copy of the commuinfes- tion of United States Attorney. Baker under date of Jan. 5. The situation in reference to the eomposition of {1- Iuminating’ gas’ as- furnished in the District g¢ Columbia 18 one that would seem to ®:quire immediate action.” The investigation on which the message is based fellowed several fa- talities in this city caused by ighal- ing carbon-monoxide from gas Water heaters. TILLMAN WAS ~ SHADOWED Seoret Service Mon Watohed South | Carolina Senator. ‘Washington, Jan. 3.—In the papers forwarded by the president to the sen- ate giving the facts regarding the employment of secret service men the name of Senator’ Tillman of ‘South Carolina is mentioned as one whom it had been found advisable to shadow, & yedr ago, after he had made some allegations concerning the land - grant of the Oregon and California Raflroad company. When his “attention was called to the facts Senator Tillman said he hoped it was true that he had been followed and he added that there could be no developments which he would dosire to have witaheld from the public. 8 The detectives were put on his track || . OF PRESIDENT Senate Committee Agrees to $100,000 Annually. AMENDED BILL REPORTED Change Is Referred to Appropriations Committee and, if Approved, Will Be Incorporated In Appropriation Bili Now Under Consideration—Pro- posed Increase Includes $25,000 Al- lowed for Traveling’ Expenses. ‘Washington, Jan. }—By an amend- ment to the legislative, executive and Judicial appropriation bill, which was reported to the senate from the com- mittee on finance, the salary of the president of the United States is in- creased from $50,000 to $100,000, the #icrease to include the $25,000 now ennually appropriated for the presi- dent’s - traveling expenses. Amend- ments also were reported from the finance committee increasing the sal- aries of the vice president and the speaker of the house from $12,000 to $20,000 a year. The amendments were referred by the senate to the commit- tee on appropriations, which, if it ap- proves them, will incorporate them in the appropriation bill which is now under consideration and repart them back to the senate for action. There was a full attendance of:the members of the committee when the proposed increases of salaries were taken up. It was first suggested that the increase of the salary of the pres- ident should be to $75,000 a year, which is the amount he now receives, including the $25,000 paid for travel- ing expenses. Senator Bailoy opposed any in- crease being made, but the amend: ments were acted upon favorably ‘without a roll call. MR. CULBERSON REPLIES Accuses President of “Another Arbi- trary and-Lawless Act.” ‘Washington, Jan. :.—In the senate Senator Culberson made & brief reply to the message sent to the senate by the president saying that he had di- rected Attorney General Bonaparte not to reply to the senate’s resolution of inquiry concerning the ruerger of the Tennessee Coal and Iron com- pany with the United States Steel corporation. m his statement Mr. Culberson characterized this as “an- other arbitrary and lawless act,® ‘which, he snid, “had bean traced to the chief’ magistrate of the country, Wwho is not only solernly obligated to ohey the law himself. bt tn_saa the: TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY, Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it failsTto'cure. E, W. GROVE'S signature Is on each box.i2c5 ~ Mr. Culberson introduced a resolu- tion fnstructing the committee on Judiclary to report to the-senate at as early a day as practioable whether in the opinion of that committee the bresident was authorized to permit the absorption of the Temnessee Coal and Iron company by the United States Steel corporation and then pro- ceeded with his remarks. Mr. Culberson said the president’s position in denying that congress had authority to direct a head of a de- partment by a resolution of inquiry “I8 characteristic of the distinguished occupant of the White House and it 18 & corollary of the main dogma that he is absolved from any legal re- straint whatever.” FOUR CHILOREN ARE BURNED TO DEATH Five Other Members of Famlly Badly Frozen. Rice Lake, Wis., Jan.\ )—Four beys, whose ages ranged from eight to six- iun years, sons of Christ Lee, near ere, were burned to death in a fire ‘which destroyed the home of Mr. Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Lee, with three other small children, escaped from the burning house in their night clothas. With the thermometer registertng 22 degrees below zero Mr. Lee and tlie members of his family who es- caped from the fire started for the noarest neighbor’s house, a mile dis- tant, clad only In their night clothe and with bare feet. Mrs. Lee an two of the children collapsed when within 4 quarter of a mile the neighbor’s house and the husband was compelled to carry the three. The third child walked and reached the house, but both feet were frozen. Wilson Divorce Case Dismissed. Baltimore, Jan. 8.—The divorce suit brought by Dr. Pierce B. Wilson, Jr., against his wife, naming former Unit- ed States Senator George L. Welling- ton, was dismissed by Judge Gorter in the Baltimore circuit court. Beware of Olntments for Catarrh thatCo ntain Mercury as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole sys- | tem when entering it through the mucous surfaces. 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Farthun, I have levied upon the following eoescx;{bed real property of said defendant. -wit: West half of northeast quarter of section eighteen (18), in_township one hundred forty eight (148) north of range thirty three (33) ‘west of the 5th principal meridian. And that Ishall, on Tuesday, the 16th day of February,” A. D. 1009, at the hour of 10 o'clock a. m. of said day. at the front door of the court _house, city of Bemidji, in said county and state, proceed to sell all the right, title. and interest of the above named N. T. Farthun in and to the above described prop- erty, to satisfy sald judgment and_costs, amounting to seventy-nine and 60-100 dollars, together with all accruiug costs of sale, and interest on the same from the 18th day of De~ cember, 1908, at the rate of 6 per cent per an- num. at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash. . BAILEY, Sheriff Beltrami County, Minn., D. H. FISK, By J. N. BAILEY, Deputy, Plaintiff’s Attorney. Dated Bemidji, Minn,, Dec. 26, 1908 Citation for Hearing on Petition for Probate of Foreign Will, Estate of Edith M. Jones. State of Minnesota, County of Beltrami, In Probate Court, In the Matter of the Estate of Edith M. Jones, Decedent. The State of Minnesota to George Jones, Grace Jones, Edmund Sanderson, Gertrude Sanderson (nee LeRoy), William H. Sander- son and all persons interested in the allow- ance and probate of the will of said decedent: The petition of Willlam H. Sanderson, rep: senting that Edith M. Jones, then a resident of the Countyot Belirami, State of Minne- sota, died on the st day of February, 1908, testate and that her will has been allowed and admitted to probate in the District court inand for the county of Custer, State of Montana, being filed in_this court, together with.authenticated coples of said will and of the probate thereof in th named, and praying that sald will be ad- mitted to Probate in -this State, and that letters testamentary be thereon granted to William H. Sanderson, of Rusk, Wisconson: Now_therefore, you, and each of you, are hereby cited and required to show cause, if any you have, before this court. at the Pro- bate Court Rooms in the Court House, in the City of Bemidji, County of Beltrami, State of Minnesota, on the 20th day of Jan- uary, 1009, at ten o’clock a. m. why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. ‘Witness the Hon. M. A. Clark, Judge of said Court. and the seal of said Court, this 19th day of December, 1308. 55 A. 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