Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 25, 1909, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED NVERY AFTHRNOON, BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By CLYDE J.JPRYOR. Wntered in the postofice at Bemidji, Minn., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM — e WILL NOT ASK CLEMENCY Labor Leaders Sentenced to Jail ls- sue Statement. Washington, Jan. 2;—“We have pot asked and will not ask for clem- ency and we hope our friends will not urge us to pursue such a course. Lov- ing liberty as free men do—as we do ~—it cannot be difficult to appreclate what incarceration in a prison would mean to us. To ask pardon would render useless all the trial and sacri- fice which our men of labor and' our friends in all walks of life have en- dured, that the rights and liberties of our people might be restored. * * ¥ Such a pardon would only leave the whole case in confusion and it would have to be fought over again from the beginning.” This is some of the language used in a remarkable statement signed by Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison in the current number of the American Federationist in formal protest against the action of Justice Vgright in sen- tencing them to imprlsonment for contempt of court in the Bucks’ Stove and Range case Dec 23. That the trio of labor leaders fully understood the responsibility they as- sume in making their statements is shown by thelr declaration that even though they may be held in additional eontempt, “we are willing to accept the consequences. It may be neces- sary to the preservation of the liber- tles of the people that a judge should be disobeyed. Judges sometimes usurp power and become tyrants Disobedietice to a tyrant is obedience to law.” “OUT OF WORKS” MEET Convention of the Unemployed As: sembles In St. Louis. St. Louis, Jan. 2 .—This city was called on today to take notice, offi- cially and otherwise, of a convention of a decidedly unusual nature. Today marks the beginning here of a three days’ convention of the unemployed of the large cities of the country, called together to consider ways and means of bettering their condition, The moving spirit in the convention 1s James Eads How, a native of this city, who is known frequently as “the millionaire hobo” and sometimes as “the king of the hoboes.” Mr. How denies that the present convention is composed of “hoboes.” He asserts that there are in every large city from 35,000 to 100,000 men who are willing to work and who are unable to find employment. “The object of this convention will ba ta andeavar tn anmmee emplogmant for all those desiring work and to at- tempt to get transportation for un- employed men to their jobs, as well as to consider other matters that are very vital to the unemployed,” said Mr. How. HITCH ON PRISON PROBE North Dakota Senate and House Fall to Agree on Resolution. Bismarck, N. D., Jan. 2 .—The sen ate state affairs committee declined to agree to the house amendments of the resolution for an investigation ot the state penitentiary and a commit- tee of conference on the part of the senate, consisting of Senators La Moure, Plerce and Tolcott, was named. The objection to the resolu tion is understood to be the giving ol the house of a majority of the mem: ‘bership. ITALY FACES GRAVE PROBLEM Task of Caring for 200,000 Homeless ©eople. Rome, Jan. 2 .—taly Is confronted with a grave problem, the caring for the 200,000 persons made homeless by the earthquake of last month in Sicily and Calabria. At present, it is estl- mated, it is costing $100,000 a day to meet the simplest necessities of the poor. Furthermore, the bestowal of charity is having an ill effect upon the lower classes and many disorders are reported to result. It is strongly urged here that public works-be speed- ily Inaugurated to offer employment for those who can labor and that the bestowal of charity be restricted to those who are sick or helpless. Leiter Has Appenaicius. Chicago, Jan. 23.—Joseph Leiter, well known in New York and Chi- cago social and business circles and whose attempt to corner the wheat market some years ago caused a sen- sation, was operated on for appen- dicitis. The operation was successful and the recovery of the patient was predicted. College Professor Ends Life. Galesburg, IIl, Jan. 22.—Professor John W. Grubb, for over twenty years occupant of the chair of mathematics of Lombard college, committed sui- clde by taking strychnine and cutting an artery in one of his wrists. He ‘was prominent in Universalist circles and highly respected. Despondency due to ill health is regarded as the cause of his act. 8hortage in City Auditor’s Office. Kansas City, Mo, Jan. 22—A shortage of $13,000 in the city audi- tor's office was disclosed following the installation of a new system .of accounting. Vernon H. Green, the au- ditor, says the shortage may be due to clerical errors, but more probably &5 the result of systematic stealing by clerks, Immense New Elevator. Buperior, Wis.,, Jan. 22.—The Great Northern railway has begun ‘the con- struction of a new 2,000,000-hushel Brain elevator to replace the one burned in 1907. The new house will be an adjunct to the 3,000,000-bushel steel shipping house. HUNDREDS ARE REPORTED DEAD Northern Morocco Swept by Terrible Tempest. SOME VILLAGES IN RUINS Overwheimed by Landslides and Many Persons Killed or Injured—Earth- quake Said to Be Responsible for the Disaster, but This Is Not Con- firmed—American Battleships in the Vicinity. ¥ Ceuta, Morocco, Jan. 2}.—A terrible tempest, accompanied by a torrential downpour of rain, raged for five hours over the northernmost section of Morocco. There were no casualtles in Ceuta, but reports brought in by native run- mers from the Rbmara territory, a mountainous district, miles to the south, declare that several small vil- lages have been overwhelmed and many persons killed or injured. Several American colliers and sup- ply ships are anchored in Negro bay, between Ceuta and Tetuan, awaiting the arrival of the American battle- ships. No damage to these vessels has been reported. It is impossible to ascertain whether the landslides to the south are due to an earthquake or to the inundation. The lower portion of the town of Ceuta was inundated. The fires in the electric light plant were extin- guished and the town consequently plunged into darkness. There were several local landslips, but no casual- tles. The foregoing communication cor- rohorates a message received from Tetuan saying a severe earth shock in the region south of Tetuan had wiped out several villages and that hundreds of people were reported killed or in- jured. ALL TRAINS ABANDONED Floods Wash Out Tracks and Bridges in Washington, Portland, Ore., Jan. £3.—As a result of the thaws and the heavy rains which have been general in Washing- ton and Northern Oregon during the past week the Northern Pacific’ is in trouble west of Spokane and trains have been annulled. At Odessa, Wash., the Great Northern has a half mile of track washed out. The North Bank railroad, down the Columbia river, has lost a bridge near the Cascades of the Columbia and is transferring passen- gers over a temporary foot bridge. As it enters Spokane over the North- ern Pacific it is tied up to all intents and purposes The Oregon Rallroad and Naviga- tion company has abandoned its trains on the Washington division. About one hundred passengers are stranded at Pendleton. By reason of all these ‘washouts Spokane is cut off from rail communication with the west and south. North of Seattle, between Bal- lard and Edmonds, the Great North- ern has a washout and has annulled trains. - TWO WEEKS OF STEADY RAIN Stockton, Cal, Inundated and Sacra- mento lsolated. San Francisco, Jan. 23—With a final heavy downpour and cloudbursts the rain and wind storm which has been raging in all sections of Califor- nia for almost two weeks seems to have spent its force. As a result of the final downpour Stockton is inun- dated, Sacramento isolated and praoc- tleally all train service in the north is at a standstill. , The islands at the mouth of the Sacramento river are all flooded and steamboats are busy removing people and stock from the levees, where they have taken refuge from the water. BLAME NEGRO FOR DISASTER Said to Have Entered- Powder Room With Lighted Torch. Chicago, Jan. 2J.—Responsibility for the crib fire horror of Wednesday was. attributed to a negro workman in testimony unofficially adduced by Acting Chief of Police Schuettler. The negro, who is now at a hospital, was sald by five survivors whom Captain Schuettler interviewed to have en- tered the powder room of the crib with a torch just before the explosion, Touch Match to Powder Keg. Johnstown; Pa., Jan, 23.—Three chil- dren between three and four years old were killed, another aged five was severely _burned and two women, mothers of the little ones, were pain- fully injured at Stoughton, Somerset county, when the children touched a match to a keg of powder to see it blaze. All the dead and injured are foreigners. Their home was almost demolished by the explosion. Earthquake Shocks at Cincinnatl. Cincinnati, Jan. 2.—What are be- lieved to have been earthquake shocks were felt in Cincinnat! and the suburbs. There were several violent shocks and it was at first belleved they were caused by dynamite de- tonations. Inquiry, however, developed the fact that there was no blasting being done. REGULATION OF SALOONS Model License League Discusses. the Question. Louisville, Jan. 2)—The first day having been spent in attacks on the prohibition movement and in charges of insincerity against the Ant{-Saloon league the second session of the sec- ond annual convention of the Natiohal Model License league began with ade dresses on' the subject of regulation. Nathan A. Cole, editor of the Peorla (L) _Saturday Review, was the first speaker. “He ‘Was Tollowed by “Mayor D. 8. Rose of Milwaukee on the actual topic of regulation, Dr. J. F. Callen of Pittsburg, Kan.,, took up the line of the argument at the opening of the afternoon session, dealing with “Prohibition versus Tem- perance.” The speeches were followed by gen- eral discussion of local option among the delegates and various views of the proper forms of licenses were of- fered. The attendance for the second day was increased. 1 _— NEVADA BANKER ARRESTED Charged With Alleged Embezzlement of $750,000. . . - Los Angeles, Cal, Jan. 2)—Homer @. Taber, president of the San Diego Bank and Trust company, was arrest ed In San Diego, according to word recelved by the sheriff, and will be taken to Ploche, the seat of Lincoln county, Nev, to answer to nineteen indictments found by the grand jury and said to involve the embezzlément of approximately $750,000. MUST BE DEALT ~ WITH SOME TIME Senator Flint Discusses Antl- Japanese Legislation, ‘Washington, Jan. 2/—Senator Flint of California, speaking of the pro- posed anti-Japanese legislation, sald: “I don’t think there is any danger of a break with Japan at the present time. Neither do I think that any hostile legislation will be passed now by our legislature, but the question is one that will have to be dealt with in the future. There is no doubt that Japanese are still coming to this coun- try in large numbers.” Senator Knox, who 1s to be secre- tary of state in Mr. Taft's cabinet, is concerning himself with the Japanese situation with a view to becoming thoroughly conversant with the sub- Ject. He has consulted with Sena- tors Perkins and Flint and has also considered the question in confer- ences with members of the committee on foreign relations. He regards the question as one that cannot be dis- posed of at this time and one that is Hable to come to the surface again and again as Japanese labor comes into conflict with American labor on the Pacific coast. HADLEY MAKES ARGUMENT Speaks for the State in Missouri Rate Cases. Kansas City, Jan. 2J)—Governor Herbert S. Hadley made the principal argument here for the state in the Missour! rate case and a great array of rallway attorneys and others were on hand to hear him. Judge O. M. Spencer of St. Joseph, Mo., general solicitor of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, made the leading argu- ment of the day for the railroads, Governor Hadley asserted that the proposed freight rates were reason- able and that if the railroads would stop discriminating they ocould easily comply with the 2-cent law. Judge Spencer declared that the laws under consideration on their face refuted the legal presumption in their favor, that they were framed after due considera~ tlon. The laws, he declared, came about as the result of political condi- tions and not from any public demand or public necessity. POWERS UNABLE TO AGREE Naval Conference at London Doomed to Failure. London, Jan. 2/—There is a grow- ing impression here that the powers ‘will not be able to reconcile their dif- ferences and that the International naval conference which opened here last month is doomed to failure. The international naval conference was called by Great Britain to form a code of laws for naval warfare and to establish the international prize court,’ .| as recommended by The Hague peace conference. Chlild Burned to Death. St. Paul, Jan. %.—The three-year- old child of Edward A. Shafer was burned to death while alone in the gouse. The child was left asleep on 4 cot for. a few minutes while Mrs. Shafer went to the store. When she | returned she found the baby writhing in agony on the floor with all its clothing burned off and the fiesh on tome parts of bis body burned to a crisp. The child died in a short time; Killed by Patent Medicine. St. Paul, Jan. 2 .—Franklin P. Mor- ris, fifty-nine years old, drank a quan- tity ¢f patent medicine and died in terrible agony. He had been suffering fearfully with asthma for some time. and the medicine, it is thought, was Intended as relief for the disease. BURGLAR BADLY WOUNDED Superior_ (Wis.) State Senator Fires on Intruder. . N2 Superior, ‘Wis,, Jan. 2)\—Senator George B. Hudnall shot and danger. ously wounded a burglar who was trying to get into. the Hudnall. resi- dence: and didn’t heed the senator’s warning shout. He was wounded once In the cheek and once in the hip with buckshot. The man was sent to the hospital and ‘will .probably live. Revenge on Snake by Law. Des Moines, Jan, 2/.—Senator Rob- ert Quigley has introduced a bill plac- ing a bounty of 15 cents on the head of every: rattlesnake killed in Iowa. The bill follows closely upon the seri- ous llness of former Senator Byron Newberry, whose poisoning by the bite of a rattlesnake Iast ‘Summer made it impossilile for him to take an active part in the fall campaign, thus causing his defeat. ey July 1. . DEAD CANNOT +_BE IDENTIFIED Victims of Chicago Crib Fire Unrecognizable. —_— SINGLE FUNERAL FOR ALL Bodies Burned Beyond Human Sem- blance Will Be iInterred in Same Cemetery With a Single Tombstone to ‘Mark the Grave—Remains of Forty-nine 'Men Recovered, but Death List May Be Higher. Chlcngq. Jan, 2).—A thick grey mist hanging over the city lent the last touch necessary to complete the gloom of the scene in the vicinity of Mur-|* Phy’s morgue, where rest the bodies of the. victims of Wednesday’s erib accident. Inside the undertaking rooms, like the granary of some terri: ble bluebeard, rested forty-seven sacks, -each containing the unrecog- nizable body—in many cases only the torso—of those who met death in the charnel house in the lake. In the street a quiet, grief stricken crowd of relatives and friends of the unrecog- nizable dead, stood talking softly in groups or plodding up and down the slippery walks,. Unless very persist- ent inquirers were not allowed within the morgue. The bodies have no hu- man semblance, all look alike, and where : possible it was desired: to spare friends and relatives the shock of gazing on the awful spectacle, “There is no hope of knowing father, son or brother,” said Coroner Hoffman, as:he began the work of se- curing 8 fury to visit the sceme of the holocaust. In the lake the tug Morford contin- ued its search among the ice floes for bod'es of any who may have been drowned. . George W. Jackson, of the construc- tlon company which built the crib, informed the coroner it would be im- possible for several days to give a complete list of the dead. As it will be impossible to identify more than a few of the dead it is probable that a ‘single funeral will be held for all of them. The interment will be at the same cematery and probably a single tombstone commemorating the trag- edy will serve for all. BELIEVES 100 - PERISHED Union Leader’s Estimate of Dead in Crib, Disaster. Chicago, Jan. 2i\—President Joseph d’Andrea, presidént of the Sewer and ‘Tunnel Miners’ assoclation, expressed the fear that the death list may reach one hundred. “I am told,” he said, “that there were about 175_men work- ing at the crib when the fire started. If this proves true the number of dead will easily reach one hundred. Many of the men who are missing are undoubtedly at the bottom of the lake and their bodies will probably never be recovered. Our organization will make an investigation.” Coroner Hoffman expressed the possibility hat the list of dead may reach sixty-six. There are forty-seven bodies at the morgue, which corre- sponds with the number reported missing by- the Jackson company. But the company’s payroll was incomplete and inquiries have been received 'for nineteen men Whose names were not on the payroll, but who were said by relatives to have been working at the crib by the day. TRAINS STALLED BY FLOODS Snowslides 'ncrease Trouble in Mon- tana and Washington. Missoula, Mont., Jan. 2}.—The flood conditions west of here are growing worse -and all Northern Pacific east- bound through trains are stalled on the Western division. The conditions are very bad around Pasco, Wash. Local trains are moving through ‘Western Montana, but the tracks are in bad shape owing to the rapidly melting snow. Several -snowslides occurred west of St. Regls during the past twenty-four hours. EAIiTH SHOCKS CONTIN@IE People of Phocaea, Asiatic Turkey, Flee to Mountains, S Constantinople, Jan., 21.—An official dispatch reports that more than six hundred houses were destroyed by the earthquake at Phocaea, neat Smyrna. The shocks, continue and the people .are: seeking refuge In the mountains. The minister of the /in: terior has been dispatched to render assistance to the sufferers, TENNESSEE DRY JULY 1 Legislature Passes Bill Over Govern- 3 or's Veto. ‘- Nashville, ‘Ténn., Jan.. 23.—Tennes- see_has gone “dry.”- After a long (de- bate the senate overrode the govern- or’s veto’of the statewide prohibition bill by a vote of 20 to 13, the same vote by which the original bill had been passed. The crowd which had ‘packed the senate galleries during the debate on the veto then surged over |] into the galleries of the house, where the result was a foregone conclusion. . The veto message was at once réad and tho debate on.it taken up. The Vote resulted 61 to 36, < Under the bill the sale of liquor is prohobited throughout Tennessee:after Millionaire Mining Man Dead. ' _-Colorado . Springs,-.Colo,, .Jan. ‘22— Charles L. Tutt, a millionaire mining man and smelter magnate of this city, || 48 dead-in New. York city. Death:was the result of heart trouble, . Mr, Tutt was & heayy owner in the United States Smelting and Refining com- | D - He'was, more recently Inter-| PLOT ON LIFE OF SULTAN —_— Guard About-Palace of Turkey’s Ruler Doubled. Constantinople, Jan. 2). — The guards about the Yildiz Kiosk, the sultan’s palace, ~were . doubled to guard against any attempt on the life of the sultan as a result of the dis- covery of a conspiracy to overthrow the constitution, involving some 30,000 reactionaries ‘throughout the empire, The government is also heavily re- inforcing all garrisons where the con: ¥ H 5 £ ABDUL HAMID. spirators are belleved to be most nu merous, E More than one hundred arrests have been made of alleged conspirators and the Young Turks are trying to extort from them proof of the charge that two Buropean powers had promised to support the reactionaries in case the conspiracy was successful. STORM RESULTS IN IMMENSE DAMAGE All Rivers Are Rising and Traf-| fic Is Interrupted. Sacramento, Cal, Jan. 2!—It fis feared that lives have been lost in a violent storm which raged in the Sac- ramento and San Joaquin valleys and which, according to early reports, caused immense damage. In Sacramento several bulldings ‘were unroofed, the electric light plant Wwas put out of commission and street car traffic almost paralyzed. The damage throughout the valley cannot yet be learned, as all wires are down. Following thirty-two hours of con- tinuous rain the lower part of Stock- ton is inundated. All the rivers are rising and the levees, which have been strained to the breaking point for a week, will burst, it is feared, under the heavy wind. At Angles camp a cloudburst ‘washed out nine houses, killed one Chinaman, and left part of the town under water. At Farmington the water is higher than before the big flood of two years BEO: e magmprrese m ey FIVE OF FAMILY PERISH IN FLAMES Mother and Four Children Dig When Home Burns. ‘Winnipeg, Man., Jan. 3/—A special from Kenora, Sask., says: While Frank Engles, who lives fifteen miles south of here, had gone to Milestone for supplies, fire destroyed his home, burning his wife and four children to death. ‘A boy, who went for assist- ance to a neighbor, will probably die as the result of being badly frozen. Mrs. Engles, who slept down stairs, awoke to find the house in flamed | and sent her eldest son, a boy of six- teen years, to safety, She ‘attempted to reach her other four children, who were asleep above, but she failed and perished on ‘the stairs, The boy who escaped then attempt ed to rescue the sleeping ones, but was badly burned and while running over to'a neighbor, scantily clad, was 80 badly frozen 'that his life is de- spaired of. OPPOSES _ PARCELS POST But Lumbermen’s Convention Favors One-Cent Postage. Minneapolis, Jan. 2 ,.—The lumber- men’s convention here went on rec- ord in favor of a reduction of first’ class postage to 1 cent per ounce; also as opposing the passage of the | parcels post law 'in any shape, as it would be only the first step towards the transportation of merchandise by the government and would be disad- vantageous to the -interests of retail merchants.” 'The - following: offiéers were -elected: President, C. A. Fink- bine, Des Moines; vice president, E. G: Flynn, Minneapolis. SHERCLIFFE ON THE STAND . Denies Being in Minnupnllg }Nhen ~ Train Robbery Occurred, Minneapolis, Jan. 2 .—Sherman W. NO NEED OF TAKING COLD OOLDS OAN BE PREVENTED. SOME FACTS REGARDING THE DISEASE. Cold Water, Intelligently Used, Proper Diet, Exercise and Common 8ense Are the Preventives. Habitual eolds are due to an ill Lept skin on the outside and dyspeptic mucous mem- brane on the ingide, the result of indigestion, coupled with carelessness. Cold water, sroper food and common sense are the foun- ations upon which a preventive must rest. ‘A cold sponge bath, one to three minutes long before breakfast, with a brisk dry rub, is excellent—usually all that is necessary to keep the cutaneous circulation alive and the skin reactive to sudden changes of tempera- ture. For those unaccustomed to cold water, tolerance can be gained in three weeks’ time by the use of water at any comfortable tem- Sentnre, making it one ‘degree colder each ay, until it can be employed without dread as cold as it will run.” Sea salt maybe added to the water for its stimulating effect. Cold_ water intelligently used does not steal vitality, but fosters it. - It stimulates the nerves that control the expansion and contraction of the blood vessels and regu- lates the cutaneous circulation. One should “ke;s moving” when wet or chilly and not stand on a street corner or elsewhiere without taking a deep breath. The lungs used in this way act as & pump to drive the blood along. -~ This practice, with the others named, will reduce to a shadow the liability of taking cold every little while. If you should contract a cold, get rid of it a8 quickly as ible, for every cold weak- ens the lungs, lowers the vitality, and paves the way for more serious diseases. is is best accomplished by the use of Chamber- lain’s Cough- Remedy, a preparation that can always be depended upon, and that not only cures the cold but counteracts any ten- dency toward pneumonia: 3 For Sale |Barker’s Hl"llrg Stere Morris, -allas. Frank Shercliffe, again-| - took the stand and identified portions of a deposition made by him in a suit brought by Tom Dennison against & newspaper in Omaha, confessing ' his guilt of the Pollack diamond Tobbery and implicating ‘Tom Dennison of Omaha in the crime. Shercliffe testi- fled that he was in Des Moines when the train robbery for which he is be- ing tried occurred in Minneapolis. On Newfoundland Fisheries. ‘Washington, ' Jan. !—An jmpor- tant conference on the Newfoundland fisheries was held at the state depart- ment. It wag participated in by Beo- retary Root, Ambassador Bryce and Messrs. Aylesworth and Kent, minis- ters of justice from Canada and New- foundland, respectively. - The United- States government is anxlous for an early agreement so that the treaty may go to the senate for ratification at this session. Typewriter Ribbons ~ The!Pioneer keeps “all the standard makes of - Typewriter Ribbons, at the uniform price of 75 cents for all ribbons except: the two- and th ee-color ribbons and Ghe PIONEER Delivered o your - door every evening Only 40c¢ per Month on hand i ¥ i