Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 19, 1909, Page 4

HEAVY FINE © 1S AFFIRMED Texas Court Assessed Oil Company $1,623,900. 'VIOLATED ANTI-TRUSTLAW Case Goes to Supreme Tribunal at Washington, Where Judgment Is Approved and the Concern Barred From Doing Further Business in the Lone Star State—Opinion of the Highest Court Unanimous. ‘Washington, Jan. 19.—The supreme court of the United States affirmed the decree of the state courts ot Texas imposing a fine of §1,623,900 on the Waters-Pierce Oil company of St. Louis and ousting it from the state on the charge of violating the Texas anti: trust laws. The court also sustained the action of the Texas state courts in the appointment of Robert J. Fek- hard as receiver and thus again decid- ed against the company, which sought to have sustained the action of the federal court in appointment of C. B. Dorchester at the instance of the company. The decisions in all the cases were unanimous. The action was begun in the state courts under the state anti-trust law and resulted in a verdict directing the cancellation of the company's permit to do business in the state and fixing a penalty of §1,623,900 for the violation of the laws from the time that the permit was issued on May 81, 1900, till April 24, 1907, when the action was begun. Continued Violation of Law, The bill chargad that the company had violated the state laws every day since it had entered the state through A conspiracy with the Standard Oil company of New Jersey to control the ofl business in Texas, but the company denied the charge and in addition contended ihat even if it had violated the law it was not amenable, because the business transacted was of an interstate character and there- fore subject only to control by the United States authorities. The pen- alty was at the rate of $1,500 per day from May 31, 1900, to April 1, 1903, and at the rate of $50 per day from that time on. The case came to the supreme court on a writ of error from the final decision of the circuit court of appeals for the Third judicial dis- trict of Texas. Justice Day announced the decision of the supreme court, affirming the finding of the Texas court. The case turned upon the point as to whether the proceedings of the state against the company had been In accordance with the constitutional requirement for due process of law and the court held that such was the case. While regarding the fine as very large Justice Day’s opinion held that it was competent to impose it. CONCERNING LIBEL SUITS Senator Rayner Offers Resolution Re- questing Information, Washington, Jan. 19.—A resolution was Introduced by Senator Rayner of Maryland calling on the attorney gen- eral for information concerning the bringing of a suit for libel against certain newspapers. Mr. Rayner asked for immediate consideration, saying the only purpose was to get information whether this suit had been ordered, whether it was brought at the Instance of the president, under what statute, by whom ordered and by what power and authority the courts are being used to forward this suit. Woman Admits Killing Husband, Milwaukee, Jan. 19.—Mrs. Otto Lundstrom, known as Vera Lee, con- fessed to the police that she killed her husband during a quarrel over a drink of whisky. The woman when arrest- ed insisted that her husband commit- ted suicide. Bishop McQuaid Dead. Rochester, N. Y. Jan. 19.—The Right Rev. Bernard J. McQuaid, bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Rochester, is dead, aged eighty- five years. French Births Exceed Deaths. Pals, Jan. 19.—The vital statistics for the first six months of 1908 show a gratifylng decrease in the propor- tion of deaths in France, a condition attributed to the more stringent ap- plication of laws of hygiene. During this period the births exceeded the deaths by 11,000, against an excess of 65,000 deaths for the corresponding period of 1907. Alleged Night Rider on Trial. Union City, Tenn., Jan. 19.—The trial of Ed Marshall, one of the most prominent farmers of Odion county, was called in the circuit court here. Marshall was indicted for the murder of Captain Quentin Ranken and is said to have been one of the night rider leaders. BOIES PENROSE RE-ELECTED He Will Again Represent Pennsyl- vania in the Senate. Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 19.—Boles Penrose will again represent the state of Pennsylvania in the United States senate, according to the votes of the two houses of the state legislature, cast here today. He is a native and @ resident of Philadelphia, a lawyer By profession and has been prominent in the public life of the state since his election to the state legislature in 1884. His coming six years’ term In the United States senate, which will begin March 4, will be his third term. The joint election of Semator Pen- as provided Tor T8 ths United Stated law on the election of senators. MEETS TO BOOM TRADE National Board of Trade in Conven- tion in Washington. ‘Washington, Jan. 19.—The national board of trade, an association of the commercial bodies of the United States, opened its thirty-ninth annual convention today in the New Willard hotel. The national board of trade was or- ganized June 5, 1868, in Philadelphia for the purpose of promoting the effi- ciency and extending the usefulness of the various boards of trade and other chartered bodies organized for general commercial purposes in the United States. It aims to secure unity and harmony of action in com- mercial usages, customs and laws and the advancement of commercial and industrial interests of the country at large. ROOT ELECTED ~TO THE SENATE Chosen to Succeed Platt by New York Legislators. Albany, N. Y., Jan. 19.—As required by the federal law the two houses of the legislature of the state of New York met here today in separate ses- sion to vote for a successor to Thomas C. Platt, United States senator from this state. The votes today were merely con- firmatory of the choice of the cau- cuses of the Republicans of the two houses, Elihu Root, secretary of state. Tomorrow the two houses will meet ELIHU ROOT, in joint session, according to law, and vote together for Mr. Root, who will then be declared senator from New York for the six years' term commencing on March 4 next. New York’s new senator is one of the country’s leading lawyers. He is a native of New York state and is in his sixty-fifth year. Mr. Root was secretary of war in the cabinet of President McKinley and has been sec- retary of state since July 1, 1905. SHOCKS ARE PURELY LOCAL Earth Tremors Continue to Oceur at Messina. Messina, Jan, 19.—Slight earthquake shocks continue to be experienced here at brief intervals. The quakes are not being registered by the obser- vatories in the immediate vicinity, which is evidence that the movement Is local only. General Mazza has given inmstruc- tions that all papers, documents or other property found in the ruins of the American consulate be turned aqver to Stuart K. Lupton, the new consul of the United States. Fight Duel With Knives. Richmond, Ky, Jan. 19.—County Assessor Boyd Wagers was probably fatally and W. D. Oldham seriously wounded in a duel with knives follow- ing a game of cards. Oldham is one of the leading merchants of this city and, according to the story told by the police, his threat to stop payment #f some of his checks issued during the game was the cause of the fight. Oldest Methodist Minister Dead. Lake Charles, La., Jan. 19.—Rev, Asbery Wilkinson, sald to have been perhaps the oldest Methodist minister in the whole country, both in years and in point of service, Is dead here. He was ninety-one years of age and entered the Methodist conference st Indiana in 1840. Useless. There was some speculation as to whether the instrument would benefit the old gentleman or not, One was holding the ear trumpet, while anoth- er was explaining its use and showing old Mr. Borrows how to hold it to his ear. “Say something to him through it, Joe,” sald one to the other. Now, Joe had long waited for an op- portunity to reach Mr. Borrows’ ear. So, speaking very distinctly into the trumpet, he sald: “You've not paid me that sovereign you owe me yet, Mr: Borrows.” But the old gentleman put the in- strument down, with disappointment on his fice, and they could see it was a failure even before he had time to say: “That thing’s not a bit of good to me!” And he sighed, but his sigh was not 80 deep as that which came from Joe. —London Express. Did He? ‘q‘ “You never saw a man who under- stood women.” " “Well, I knew a man once who claimed that he did.” “And did he?” rose by the two houses of the state legislature will take place tomorrow, s it T e “Well, he never married one,’ ton Post. HOUSE STOPS - BITTER SPEECH Mr. Willett of New York At- tacks the President. HIS TALX INTERRUPTED Is Freauently Called to Order, the Chair Finally Declaring His Lan- guage Offensive and Permission to Continue Is Refused—Refers to Roosevelt as a Gargoyle and Pigmy ‘Washington, Jan. 19.—Characteriz- ing President Roosevelt as a gargoyle and as “this pigmy descendant of Dutch trades people” and charging him with having “established a court in the White House which would have delighted the heart of his admired Alexander Hamilton,” Mr. Willett (Dem., N. Y.), in the house of repre- sentatives, made one of the ‘most bit- ter attacks on the chief executive ever heard in that body. Several times during the course of his remarks Mr. Willett was called to order by Repub- lican members and finally the chair ruled his remarks offensive and he was ordered to take his seat. A motion to permit him to “pro- ceed in order” was defeated by a party vote. Mr. Willett took for his theme “The Passing cf Roose- velt” and in a speech of great length dealt with a number of the president’s acts since he came iuto office and scathingly denounced them. He said the president was “quarreling one day with the practical politicians; then with the part your hair in the middle reformers; then with the so- clalists; then with the great indus- trial corporations; wrestling in agony of spirit with Noah Webster and our glorious English tongue; taking a fall out of nature fakers and exhorting our women to avoid race suicide.” Willett's Biography of Roosevelt. Mr. Willett gave a brief biography of Mr. Roosevelt’s life, beginning with his experience as a cowboy down to the present time, and accused him, in his early manhood, of having had preposterous notions, of having “knifed” Secretary Long, of being “a ‘warrior alone in Cuba,” of having won the governorship of New York by a mere fluke, “when the false halo of San Juan hill was above his head; the beneficiary of assassins and, last Aand crowning piece of luck, the nom- inee for president when all the ag- gressive elements of passion wanted to see their own candidate defeated.” Continuing, Mr. Willett said: “And, Mr. Chairman, should the gentlemen who view this curicus fig- ure with feigned admiration ask me how any son of Adam can be at the same time a hay tedder, a jocularity and a gargoyle T can only answer that this particular hero is an eccentric exception to all rules, a mixed meta- phor vivant, an impossibility, a comet that roves at will regardless of the limitations of order and law that ap- ply to earth and moon, to stars and planets. Analyzes Roosevelt’s Ancestry. “He boasts of Irish blood, but no historic Irishman would have treated an ally as he treated Mr. Farriman. “He exults in a strain of the old Huguenot, but the French gentleman doesn’t fly into a passion and lash the horse of a timid young girl whose only offense is inadvertently passing the royal party in a public highway. Even Louis XIV. was not that sort of a tyrant and Henry IV., Henry of Na varre, the great Huguenot king, wore the white plume of noblesse oblige. “He tells us that Southern aristo crats were among his polyglot ances- tors; but I can inform him that if the wife of a Robert Toombs or of a Jef- ferson Davis had been treated by him as Mrs. Minor Morris was he would have been called out or branded as a coward if he had been a thousand, times a president. “He is proud to insist that the fam- fly whose name he bears comes from Holland, but his ready surrender to the politicians of his own party makes it clear enough that fat burghers, who put up their shutters at the first beat of the war drum, must have been his progenitors. He beats the Dutch, however, as even his severest critics must confess.” Refers to Ananias Club. At this juncture Mr. Willett called the roll of the so called Ananias club and said: “The earth is intoxicated and reels around our jocularity. He alone is the personification of sobriety, tem- perateness of statement, calmness in gpeech and action. The ever moving hay tedder hurrics over the fleld, throwing upward the clover of poli- tics, the timothy of zoology, the blue grass of history and letting each blede fall a little drier than it was before. “Jealousy you can read in the gar- goyle’s distorted features. You look on those twisted lines and it is easy, sh, so easy, to understand the in- solence toward Dewey, the one great figure of the Spanish-American war, the hero who took Manila with the worst ships a rotten bureaucracy could find for him; the persistent defamation of Admiral Schley, who really fought the battle of Santiago bay; the insults heaped on General Miles, whose counsel was ignored in the expensive blunders of the lard campalgn at Santlage.” WOULD QUASH SUBPOENAES Motion of Attorneys for Papers In- volved in Canal Case. New York, Jan. 19.—The nature of the proceedings which have been in- stituted against the New York World and the Indianapolis News because of their criticism of the method by which the purchase of the Panama canal was made was not disclosed in the brief hearing in court here. Act- ing under instructions believed to bave been issued by authority of the United - States government Tnited Descendant of Dutch Tradas People. 2 INCOAL REGION? Will Be Decided at Conven- tion Now in Session. Statdd Dlstrlcé “Attoriiey 1amy L Stimeén had #V.bpoenaed Willlam B McLaughlin; ‘sporting editor of the World, and J, Angus Shaw, secretary of the Press Publishing company, to testify before a federal grand jury in an action which was not described in the subpoenaes. ‘It was believed, how- ever, to be the routcome of President Roosevelt’s message to congress in which he ‘protested against the link- ing of the name of Charles P. Taft, brother ‘of the president-elect, and J. Douglass Robinson, the president’s brother-in-law, in criticisms of the canal purchase, The proceedings were halted by an order obtained' by counsel for the ‘World’s editors' calling upon Mr. Stim- son to show cause- why the subpoe- naes should not ‘be quashed. DEMANDS OF THE WORKERS Termg Reached Through Roosevelt Strike Commission No Longer Ap- plicable to Miners’ Conditions, They Declare—Operators Willing to Re- new Present Compact, but Will Op- pose New Agreement Proposed. FAMOUS SOUTHERN COLLEGE DESTROYED - Many Pflcg'ass He"cs 6o Up or not will probably be decided at the convention of the United Mine Work- In Hamesl ers of America which began here this morning. The miners will again put forward the demands that have been rejected by the operators, they will be rejected by the latter and the issue will be joined. The demands of the miners read as follows: First—That an agreement shall be negotiated between the representa- tives of the miners and the operators Mobile, Ala,, Jan, 19.—The famous Spring Hill college, one of the oldest Jesuit colleges in the Southern states and which was well known in the United States and Europe, has been destroyed by fire.. There was no loss of life. - The college, standing on a high plateau about seven miles from the city, could not be reached by the city firemen in time to master the flames. The fire started in the chapel and is thought to have been caused by crossed wires from a moving picture machine. When the fire was discov- ered 325 students were at the morn- Ing service. They filed quietly out of the chapel and then fought the flames under the guidance of the teachers. The following buildings were de- stroyed: College chapel, exhibition hall, music room, college library, col- lege museum, two dormitories, junior study, junior gym and junior library. Among the contents of, the buildings, especially the museum, were many priceless relics and valuable speci mens. FIRE LOSS OF $800,000 Blaze at Boston Destroys Hundreds of Automobiles. Boston, Jan. 19.—A puff of flame shot up from the rear of the most extensive automobile storage and re- pair plant in the city, located near Park square, and half an hour later over 348 automobiles, valued at $750,- 000, were a mass of tangled steel and iron. The fire spread to the old trainshed of the Park square railroad station and destroyed the bicycle track and a large pavilion used for exhibition pur- poses. The damage to the building will bring the total loss to over $300,- 000. RSN There were six garages, including several used chiefly for repairs, in the big storage station. THOMAS L. LEWIS. of the anthracite region and all dis- putes arising under the contract shall be adjusted as provided for in such agreement. Second—We demand the complete recognition of the United Mine Work- ers of America as a party to nego- tlate a wage contract and that the United Mine Workers of America shall be recognized in our right to provide any method we may adopt for the collection of revenues for the organ- {zation. Eight-Hour Day at Same Wages. Third—That we demand an eight- hour day with no reduction of wages. Fourthb—That all coal shall be mined and paid for by the ton of 2,000 pounds. Fiftb—That we demand a definite and more uniform scale of wages and prices for all classes of labor at all collieries in the anthracite region and that all employes paid less than $1.50 per day. shall receive a 10 per cent advance and all employes paid more .|than $1.50 and less than $2 a day shall recefve a b per cent advance, Sixth—That the system whereby a contract miner has more than one job or employs two or more laborers be abolished. Seventh—That the employers be re- quired to. issue uniform pay state- ments designating the name of the company, the name of: the employe, the colliery where employed, the amount of wages and the class of work performed. Eighth—That the contract shall be made for the period of one year. The officers of the miners’ unions, headed by the president, Thomas L. Lewis, the successor of John Mitchell, are insistent .upon these demands. The leadimg operators have declared thefr firm intention not to grant them, As the working agreement between the unions and the operators expires on March 31 some basis of agreement must be reached at the present con: vention if peace is to be preserved in the anthracite industry. The operators are willing to renew the agreement, which is the one made through the mediation of the Roose- velt strike commission five years ago, but the miners’ leaders declare that changed conditions make a readjust- ment on more liberal terms to the workers necessary. The result of the recent election among the union mine workers will be announced at the convention. President Declines Invitation. ‘Washington, Jan. 19.—President Roosevelt has.declined an invitation to attend the national tariff commis- sion convention to be held at Indian- apolis Feb. 16, stating that he did not desire to interfere in a question which should be aud will be settled by his successor. The president added that he had several times expressed him- self in'favor of a general tariff com- mission. John H. Woodbury Ends Life. New York, Jan. 19.—John H. Wood- bury, the dermatologist, committed suicide in the Sea Cliff inn at Coney Island. The body was found with a bullet wound in the head and another in the abdomen. It is believed that Mr. Woodbury had been much worried by suits brought against him by sev- eral persons who alleged that his treatment had been harmful. Case Decided Against Moyer. ‘Washington, Jan, 19.—The supreme court of the United States decided against former President Moyer of the ‘Western Federation of Miners the damage suit brought by him against | former Governor Peabody of Colorado on account of Moyer’s imprisonment on the governor's orders because of his alleged connection with riots at Telluride, Colo., in 1904. Coal Mines Resume Operations. Pittsburg, Jan. 19.—Due directly to the recent rise in the rivers, which permitted the shipment of 15,000,000 bushels of coal to Southern ports, a large number of river coal mines in this vicinity have resumed operations, affording employment to about 5,000 miners. Last October the mines sus- pended owing to a shortage of ship- ping facilities. Seven Foreigners Perish, Johnstown, Pa., Jan. 19.—Seven for- elgners were burned to death in a fire at Goodtown, near here. GIRL KILLED. AT CROSSING Accident ‘Overtakes Young Woman on ~ Way to Hospital. Austin, Minn,, Jan. 19.—One girl 1s dead and another is padly injufed as a result of a grade crossing accident here. Mamie Kelley, seventeen years old, and Lizzie O’Leary, fourteen years old, were struck by a Chicago Great Western passenger train at Oak street. They were taken to. St. Olaf hospital. Lizzie O’Leary died soon after being taken to the hospital. There is some hope for the Kelley girl. Beth had left their homes to go to the hospital to see Miss Kelley’s father, who is sick there. ELECTION IN CONNECTICUT Brandegee Again Chosen Senator by 8tate’s Two Houses, Hartford, Conn.,, Jan. 19.—By vote #f the two houses of the state legis- lature, cast today, Frank B. Brande- ee will again be the junior semator om the state of Connecticut. He has represented the state in the sen- ate since’ May, 1905, when he was chosen to succeed the late Orville H. Platt. The election of Mr. Brandegee will be completed tomorrow by the vote in joint session of the state senate and house' of representatives. WILL IGNORE TILLMAN CASE Special Senate Committee on the Secret Service. Bank Robbers Secure $3,000. ‘Washington, Jan. 19. — Charges Enid, Okla., Jan. 13.—Burglars en- | against Senator Tillman, which were tered the State: bank at Carrier, |8eént by President Roosevelt to Sen- wrecked the safe and escaped with | ator Hale in response to his request $8,000. Citizens who were awakened | for information concerning the opera- by the explosions rushed to the: bank, | tions of the secret service, will not be but were driven back by the robbers | considered by the special committes at the point of revolvers. Several | Of the senate committee on appropri- shots wers exchanged. The burglars | ations which was ‘appointed to inquire| laughed loudly as they were making | into the subject of the use of the spe- their escape. - ? clal and secret ts of the gov o e 2 —Light, $5.55@6.20; 6.40; heavy, $5.85@6.45; rough, $5.85 RAIL The Largest Stock of Diamonds and Watches and the Finest Equipped Workshop In Northern Minnesota. We buy direct from the manufacturer and save you the Middle Man’s Profit. Mail orders receive prompt and careful attention. Prices given on any grade or make of watch upon request. Watch Inspectors for M. & I. and B. F. & I. F. Railways GEO. T. BA KER & CO. Located in City Drug Store 116 Third Street Near the Lake fient. —Thls Specfal Committee exam- fhed the data aiready submitted and found that the investigation would have to be of an exhaustive charac- ter. Inasmuch as the resolution pro- viding for the investigation was adopted in advance of the charges made against Senator Tillman in con- nection with Oregon lands the com- mittee was of the opinion that it was not charged with the duty of taking up this case. THIRTY CASES ARE SETTLED Construction Firms Pay for Deaths Caused by Iroquois Theater Fire. Chicago, Jan. 19.—After five years of hotly contested litigation settle- ments have been made in the cases of thirty of the deaths caused by the Iroquois theater fire. It is stated that $750 a case is to be paid by one of the firms responsible for the construc- tion of the theater, the prosecutions against the companies in these cases having been withdrawn from court. In one instance a man who lost his wife and three children in the fire received 3750 for each death. Many other suits against firms and indi- viduals interested in the theater are still pending. The number of unset- tled cases is estimated at over 400. Foraker Denies Published Story. ‘Washington, Jan. 19.—Senator J. B. Foraker, in a signed statement, sets at rest the story which recently has been printed to the effect that after his retirement from the senate March 4 next he would become the counsel for the discharged negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth infantry. The story, he says, is not true and he adds that he could not accept such employment should it be tendered. General Craighill Dead. Baltimore, Jan. 19.—Private ad- vices received here state that Briga- dier General Willlam P. Craighill, United States army (retired), died at his home in Charlestown, W. Va., after an illness of a few days. Mr. Craighill was seventy-five years of age. Noted Southern Attorney Dead. Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 19.—Joshua ‘W. Caldwell, aged fifty-three, one of the leading attorneys of the state of Tennessee, died suddenly at his home here. Mr. Caldwell was one of the most gifted after dinner speakers in the South. GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Jan. 18 —Wheat—May, $1.03; July, $1.08% @1.083. On track —No. 1 hard, $1.10; No. 1 Northern, $1.09; No. 2 Northern, $1.07; No. 3 Northern, $1.03% @1.05%. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Jan. 18.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.09; No. 1 Northern, $1.08; No. 2 Northern, $1.06; May, $1.08; July, $1.08%. Flax —To arrive, on track, May and July, $1.68; Oct., $1.40. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, Jan. 18.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $6.50@6.50; fair to good, $5.00606.50; good to choice cows and heifers, $4.50@5.50; veals, $6.50@86.50. Hogs—$5.60@6.10. Sheep—Wethers, $6.00@65.50; yearlings, $4.50@4.85; spring lambs, $7.00@7.60. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Jan. 18.—Wheat—May, $1.061%; July, 973c; Sept, 94%c; Dec., 94}¢c. Corn—Jan., 57%c; May, 61%c; July, 61%c; Sept., 615%c. Oats —May, b513%c; July, 45%c; Sept., 383c. Pork—Jan., . $17.07%@17.10; May, $17.17%; July, $17.25. Butter— Creameries, 22@30c; dairies, 21@27c. Eggs—303%c. Poultry—Turkeys, 16c; chickens, 12%c; springs, 12¢c. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, Jan. 18—Cattle—Beeves, $4.00@7.25; Texans, $4.15@56.25; West- ern cattle, $4.00@5.60; stockers and feeders, $3.26@5.00; cows and heifers, $1.76@6.50; calves, $7.75@9.75. Hogs mixed, $5.80@ @6.00; good to cholce heavy, $6.00 @6.45; pigs, $4.40@5.35. Sheep, $3.25 @5.60; yearlings, $6.00@7.00; lambs, $5.25@7.9 WANTS ONE CENT A WORD. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—We will dispose of, cheap, all unclaimed clothes left in our store. The Bemidji Tailor- ing. Co. Dickie & Cleve, props. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. FOR SALE—Horses, harness, sleds, at my barn in rear of postoffice block. S. P. Hayth. FOR SALE—Yoke of oxen and har- ness. Inquire John Wallace, 304 3rd St. FOR SALE—Good buffalo fur coat. Inquire at Bemidji Tailoring Co. _— FOR RENT. 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