Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 26, 1909, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER A A A A A A A A A AN PUBLISHED BVERY AFTMRNOON, A A A A A AN AN AN AN BEMID)I PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By CLYDE J. PRYOR. AR AN ¥ntered In the postofice at Bemidjl. Minn., s second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM WILL BE FILED N LEGISLATURE Charges Against Stephenson of Wisconsin. e CANDIDATE FOR SENATOR Bpecific Accusations Made Prior to Time Set for Balloting and Those Behind the Move Claim Considera- tion Must Be Taken—Use of Money During Primary Contest Believed to Be the Specific Charge. Madison, Wis.,, Jan. 26.—“Definite and specific charges will be filed against United States Senator Isaac Stephenson at the next meeting of the state senate.” This was the declaration of Senator J. A. Blaine of Boscobel. “The charges will be made by the Republicans,” he continued. Senator Husting, the Democrat who Introduced the resolution for the in- vestigation, said he had no charges to make. “I am not at liberty to say who will file or give specific facts, but I know they will be filed. This mat- ter is of great importance and with specific charges before the senate a different view is given the subject.” “Just how will those charges be preferred?” was asked the senator. “I presume by the presentation of the document from the floor of the senate,” he answered. The senator also suggested that he belleved the senate could not escape the consid- eration of them. Both houses will ballot separately for United States senator at noon. Isaac Stephenson, Republican, was the nominee of his party at the fall primary., winning over S. A. Cook, Willlam H. Hatton and F. E. McGov- ern. Cook and Hatton spent about 30,000 each and McGovern over $10,- 000. Stephenson has failed so far to file bis expense account. Neal Brown was the Democratic nominece. ANTHRACITE COAL SUPPLY Geologist Says It Will Be Exhausted in Eighty-five Years. Indianapolis, Jan. 26.—According to Professor Willlam Griffiths, mining expert and geologist of Scranton, Pa., who is here attending the miners’ con- vention, the entire supply of anthra- cite coal will be exhausted in eighty- five years. His estimates on the supply are based on 1905 surveys. The produc- tion has been averaging just under 80,000,000 tons a year for several years. In 1907 it was 76,000,000 tons. Already much territory is entirely mined out and the empty caverns are 80 numerous and great now that it is possible for people to walk twenty or thirty or more miles under the sur- face of the earth In mine passage- ways. ARTICLES READ TO0 JURY Proceedings in Canal Libel Probe at Washington. Washington, Jan. 26.—When the federal grand jury, which Is investi- gating the alleged libels of the New York World and the Indianapolis News In connection with the purchase of the Panama canal, adjourned it had been in session for only one hour. Contrary to expectations no witnesses were heard. The session was occu- pled with the reading to the jury of statements which appeared in the New York and Indianapolis papers upon which the alleged libels-are based. The grand jury is not expect- ed to make a return in the cases until early next month. SMELTERS WILL NOT CLOSE Decision of Federal Court in Montana Case. Helena, Mont., Jan. 26.—Judge Hunt of the United States district court banded down a decision in the so called smoke case in which he denied the application of farmers for the closing of the Washoe smelter at Ana- conda. No damages are awarded to the farmers whose property is alleged to have been injured. . The court will make farther investigation as to the alleged dissemination of arsenic and It conditions can be improved this will be ordered done by the companies. THREE KILLED; TEN INJURED Car Dashes Down Incline at Fearful Rapidity. Cumberland, Md., Jan. 26.—Three men were killed and ten others in- Jured, three perhaps fatally, in a coal mine accident at Piedmont, W. Va. Two cars loaded with miners were ascending the plane at the mine of the Pledmont and Georges Creek Coal company at that place. Near the top Lhe cars became uncouplod and dashed dashed with fearful rapidity down the incline and collided with other cars st the bottom. Virginia Lawyer Ends Life. Mount Vernon, Va., Jan. 26.—As- semblyman P. C. Malns, lawyer, tele- phoned his wife to hurry down to his office and aid him with some legal matters. Then he hung up the re- celver and put a bullet through his head, dying Instantly. His wife faint- ed when she stumbled over his body. The cause of the sulclde {s unknown. ) ISPERSED BY THE POLICE Bocialists Gather at Berlin for Demon- stration, Berlin, Jan, 26—A large crowd of pocialists, including many women, as- sembled in front of the diet building, where an interpellation regarding suf- frage reform was scheduled for hear- ing. Their purpose was to make a demonstration in favor of reform ot the electoral system. The police were on the scene in force, however, and dispersed the crowd. A strong cordon was then established around the building and further gatherings were- prevented. The socialists then pro ceeded to Koeniggnaetz street, with the intention of entering Unter den Linden through the Brandenburg gate, but they found this closed by police- men. There were sporadic gatherings of socialists in other parts of the city during the afternoon. Replying to the interpellation in the diet Minister of the Interior von Moltke said the government declines to discuss the matter, because it was at present engaged in making a thor- ough examination of the question, which was not yet ccmplete. AFTER PROLONGED SIEGE Members of “Lid” Organization Cap- tured by Police. St. Louis, Jan. 26.—Thirteen mem- bers of the Belmont Pleasure club, an alleged “lid” organization, surren- dered after defylng the police for six~ teen hours. Tho officers had goné, to the place to raid it, but found the doors and windows barred and as the men inside had been charged only with misdemeanors the police were not authorized to break down the bar- rlers. There was nothing to prevent them establishing a siege, however, and squads of patrolmen were kept on duty for sixteen hours. In an’ effort to drive the men out the police blew cayenne pepper through the keyholes and stopped up the chimney. The be- sieged sneezed and coughed, .but by pressing their faces close to the win- dows managed to get enough fresh air to ueutralize the police tactics until the club's larder emptied. Desire for breakfast caused them to surrender. ON IMMIGRATION QUESTION Japanese Foreign Minlster to Make Important Speech. Tokio, Jan. 26.—Count Jutaro Ko- mura, minister of foreign affairs, i8 expected to deliver an important speech before the diet a few days hence when, it is understood, he will enunciate the government’s policy on emigration and its determination to avoid creating embarrassment and complications with other countries by not allowing lower class Japanese to emigrate. Claims to Be Son of Peer. Mexico, Mo., Jan. 26.—Asserting that he is the eldest scn of John Campbell Gordon, earl of Aberdeen, a British peer, a prisoner in the Au- drain county jail, who has been under arrest for over a week for an alleged forgery, has made his first statement to the police. When arrested the man gave his name as L. F. Leland and said he lived in Wyoming. He is charged with forging a check for $150 upon a local merchant. In Forty Fathoms of Water. Marthas Vineyard, Mass., Jan. 26.— Captain Sealby and fifty members of the crew of the Republic were trans- ferred to the derelict destroyer Sen- eca off Vineyard sound lightship and an hour later the Seneca started for new York. The captain of the Gresham stated that the Republic sank nine miles south by east of Nantucket lightship in about forty fathoms .of water, GRAIN AND PROVISICN PRICES Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Jan. 25.—Wheat—May, $1.07% @1.07%; July, $1.08. On track —No. 1 hard, $1.10%@1.10%; No. 1 Northern, $1.09%@1.09%; No. 2 Northern, $1.07@1.07%; No, 3 North- ern, $1.041%.@1.06. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Jan. 26.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.08%; No. 1 Northern, $1.07%; No. 2 Northern, $1.06%; May, $1.07%; July, $1.07%. Flax—To arrive, on track, May and July, $1.57; Oct., $1.36%. St. Paul Union Stock Yards, St. Paul, Jan. 25.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.00@6.00; fair tc good, $4.50@56.00; good to choice cows and heifers, $4.00@5.25; veals, $5.55@86.00. Hogs—$5.60@6.25. - Sheep—Wethers, $5.10@5.35; yearlings, $6.00@6.50; lambs, $7.00@7.25. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, May 25—Wheat—May, $1.07; July, 97% @973%c; Sept., 94%c; Dec., 95¢. Corn—Jan,, 58%¢; May, 62 @62%%c;: July, 62%c; Sept., 62%ec. Oats—May, 51% @61%¢c; July, 46%c; Sept., 39%c. Pork—Jan., $17.45; May, $17.12%; July, $17.20. Butter—Cream- eries, 22@28c; dairles, 21%@27c. Eggs—30c. Poultry—Turkeys, 16c; chickens, 12¢; springs, 13%ec. z Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, Jan. 25.—Cattle—Beeves, $4.10@7.00; Texans, $4.20@4.90; West- ern cattle, $3.85@6.50; stockers and leeders, $3.1585.10; cows and heifers, $1.85@5.35; calves; $5.50@7.25. Hogs —Tight, $5.66@6.356; mixed, $5.85@ 8.65; rough, $5.90@6.10; heavy, $5.90 @6.60; good to choice heavy, $6.10 @6.80; pigs, $4.60@5.65. Sheep, $3.35 @5.75; yearlings, $5.80@7.00; lambs, $6.00@7.75. The Problem Solved. Newed—My wife has a_habit of tak- ing money from my pockets when I'm @sleep. Oldwed—Mine used to do that, w0, but she doesn’t any mome. Newed —How do you prevent 1t? Oldwed—I #pend every cent I have before I ge home.—Chicago News. An Exceptlion, “Ah, kind friend,” said the minister, “It 18 deeds, not words, that connt.” “Oh, I don’t know,” replied the wom- an. “Did you ever send a telegramP’—. Detroit Free Press. one No sense in runni for your cough. Carefully, del herry Pectoral for from one doctor to another) one, then stand by him. No sense in t b tebest medicine, then take it. Stick to it. Ask your di § C tand lung troubles. o ek octor—just one ing this thing, that thing, liberaf select the best cou es. ox Co., ~T7 7 Quarding a Nall. A gentleman in Jerusalem told me that he found a Turkish soldier on guard in some part of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where it was not usual for a sentry to be, and inquired of him why he was there. He pointed to a nail in the wall and replied, “It 1s my duty to watch that nail.” Asked why, he. explained that the Latins or the Greeks—I forget which— had driven the nail with the view of hanging a picture; that a rival sect had furiously objected, saying that it was an interference with their prop- erty and wanted to pull out the nail; that thereupon the Turkish govern- ment had intervened and set him to ‘watch the nail and see that no picture ‘was hung upon it and that it was not pulled out. To allow the plcture to be hung would have been to admit the claims of those who drove in the nail. To al- low it to be pulled out would have been to admit the claims of those who objected to the driving in of the nail. Therefore the nail must be preserved 8nd the picture must not be hung, and to see that this was so an armed sen- try must watch day and night. For aught I know he may be watching still.—Rider Haggard’s “A Winter Pil- grimage.” Traced by a Bluebottle Fly. The great objection to the use of polson for rats is that they retire to their homes and dle there, to become a nuisance and a menace to health. Friends of the writer were compelled to have the floor and wainscoting of their dining room removed for this reason. A wiser man, knowing that a pair of poisoned rats had got under his floor, summoned not a carpenter, but a naturalist, to his aid. They knew that the rats were under the floor, but the difficulty was to fix the spot. There seemed to the owner of the house no alternative to the removal of the whole floor; hence his appeal to the nature detective. The latter would not hear of the floor coming up. He cried out for a bluebottle fly. One was captured unhurt and turned loose in the room. After a little preliminary hawking the bluebottle darted to the floor and remained on one spot, like a pointer which has found game. “Your rats are under there,” said the naturalist. They cut down through that board, and there were the rats.— New York Mail. The First Pantomime. John Rich has the credit of produc- ing the first pantomime ever seen in England. This was performed on Dec. 26, 1717, at the theater in Lin- coln’s Inn Fields. Rich had found him- self unable to compete with'the legiti- mate drama at Drury Lane, so he be- thought himself of the comic masques occasionally performed in London and combined with their scenic and me- chanical effects the maneuvers of the pantomime _ballet. The result was “Harlequin Executed,” which the ad- vertisement of that day described as “a new Italian mimic scene, between a scaramouch, a harlequin, a eountry farmer, his wife and others.” There was all the business with which we were familiar from childhood, huts turned into palaces, shops into gar- dens, houses into trees. Of course the “earnest student of the drama” pro- tested against this innovation, but Harlequin, Columbine & Co. have maintained their hold on public favor until the present year of grace. ~ He Knew Them. This was overheard in the lobby of a big hotel in Cincinnati when a bus load of traveling salesmen came from the station. Every man of them as’ he signed the register paused to shake hands with the hotel clerk—fatherly old fellow who had been there many years. “Ah,” said one of them to the clerk, “it’s a good thing you're still on deck, Uncle Dave. I don’t think the house could run without you.” “Couldn’t it, though!” said Uncle Dave. “You fellows would come in here, and if there was a strange clerk youw'd say, ‘Where’s Uncle Dave? And the clerk would say: ‘Why, didn't you hear? He died a month ago’ And then you'd say: Well, I'll be darned! That's too bad. Say, when ’l11 din- ner be ready? " D ing the Sponge. ‘When sponges. are -first torn from the sea bed they are of a dark color and living. By tramping and pressing them with the feet a milky substance oozes out, whereupon the sponge dies, They are then immersed in the sea for a space of eight or ten hours. The dark, skinny substance is then remov- ed by scraping, and gradually, through | cleaning, drying and bleaching, they take on the fine yellow color which charucterizes many of them. The Office Boy Instructs. Contributor—I should like to leaye these poems with your editor. What is the usual procedure? I. haven't done any magazine work before. Of- fice Boy—Well, the usual custom is to leave ’em an’ call back in a day or so— an’ git ’em.—Exchange. In the Dark: 5 Uncle Joe—Yes, Teddy, it is quite possible that there are people in the moon. them when there isn’t any moon' Savage. 25 Caller—S8ir, I am collecting for' the poets’ hospital. Will you contribute: anything? Editor—With pleasure. Call tonight with the ambulance, and I will have some poéts ready.—Judge. Itis gmt cleverness to know how to. "conceal our cleverness.—La Rochefou- cauld. z % _ The Observing One.. = - . Patron—How can you tell whether.a couple are married or mot? Hotel Keeper—If he orders two whole por- tions, they .are not; if he orders one . portion for two, they are. . . & Little Teddy—Well, what becomes of His: Wondoerful ‘Method. “You haven't been marrled. very long, have you?’ said a guide at the state capitol to a young man who was signing “Mr. and Mrs.” in the register for visitors at the desk at the en- trance. “How dld you know?” demanded the young man, ““Oh, we get used to such people here and can tell them every time,” was the response. “You haven't written that name with “Mrs.” very long, have you? I belleve I can tell how long you have been ‘married from the signa- ture,” the guide continued, “Well, we haven't been married very long, but I don’t see how you can teil from the signature. How long has it been?” “Well, let me see.” The guide picked up the book and scanned the name closely. 3 “You have been married five days today,” he sald with an air of cer- tainty. “That’s right, it's five days, but I don’t see how you can tell.” The young wife had been sitting on the marble bench during the colloquy, &nd not until the couple went out of the bullding did she tell “hubby” that the guide had accosted her in the same way and that she had told when they had been married.—St. Paul Ploneer Press. Bavarian Distances. In the Bavarian highlands signposts along the roads, instead of stating the number of miles or. kilometers to the various villages, give the amount of time which the average pedestrian will_ supposedly take to traverse the dis- tance. This is merely an official ex- pression of the very general custom of the peasants in the region, who invari- ably tell inquirers on the roads not how far it is to a place, but how long it takes to get there. Not only that, but they make the system still more unsatisfactory to the stranger by a lit- tle additional eccentriclty of their own. For instance, one asks, “How far-is It to Oberammergau?” “A small half hour,” will be the an- swer, or perhaps “A good half hour” or “A big half hour.” ‘Which is puzzling until the stranger learns that a “small half hour” means twenty-five minutes, “a good -half hour” thirty minutes, “a big half hour” thirty-five minutes, “a small three- quarters of an hour” forty minutes, and so on. An Economic Protest. “Did I understand you to ask me if T wanted work?” asked Plodding Pete. “That’s what you understood, if you understood anything,”” answered the woman with a cold, steely eye and a square jaw. R “You've got some, wood that needs chopping, I suppose.” “I have.” “Lady, I'm surprised at you. Don’t you know dat de trees gather moisture gradually an’ by slowly lettin’ it into de ground keep up a steady water sup- ply? Don’t you know dat when you leave de hillsides naked an’ bare de water comes down in a freshet, same as_beer from a barrel wit’ de head stove In? Don’t you know dat future generations is goin’ to miss de um- brageous protection overhead an’ dat our grandchildren is liable to be at de mercy of a parasol trust? An’ you want me to chop wood! Lady, I'm surprised at you!”—Washington Star. His Saturday Night. The pretty, broad faced, blue eyed woman was telling how it happened that her husband came home so late of a Saturday night. “When he goes to get shaved for Sunday,” she said, “he waits so long for the line that gets there before him that he goes to sleep in the chair while he 18 being shaved. “Then the barber, who is a friend of his, lets him sleep as long as he likes after he has fin- ished with him.. But I don't see how he can fall asleep with a dangerous razor gcraping all. over his face. I couldn’t. - Could you?” “It isn’t the most plausible excuse I ever hear,” sald one to whom the question was put, “but it ought to pass. on account of its originality.”—New York Press. % Coloring an Abyssinian Bride. ‘Western brides have an easier time than their Abyssinian sisters. ‘On the occasion of her marriage an Abyssin- ian bride has to change her skin. From ebony she has to become the color of cafe au lait. To accomplish this the. expectant bride is shut up in a room for three months. She is covered with| woolen stuff, with the exception of her head. Then they burn certain green and fragrant branches. The fumes which they produce destroy the orig- inal skin, and in ‘its place comes the new skin, soft and clear as a baby’s. The -elders of the family feed the | young woman with nutritive force- meat balls. - ° Precoclous Punctilio. “So you don’t belleve in Santa $laus?’ = % _“I didn’t exactly say that,” answered the little Boston girl. “But I don’t ap- prove of him. 1 understand that he calls after 6 o’clock and doesn’t wear evening clothes.”—Washington Star. ‘ The Best Dollar Fountain Pen on the Market The Pen is always ready for use and may be carried in Y any position without danger of leakage ‘Ask for Russet Fountain Pens at ‘The P_ionge'lf Office Making Practice. “These mere vassals of the town have' the audacity to say my poems make them sick,” said the protid bard. “You don’t object to them, do you, sir?” “No, indeed,” answered the stranger. “And may I ask who you are?” “Why, I am the town physicien.”— Chicago News, Virtue of Hospitality. Hospitality solves and annuls -even the mysterious antagonisms that exist between races. This glorious and beau- tiful and sacred rite makes all men brothers.—Cassell’s Saturday Journal. Poor Eve, Eve (in the garden)—Adam, I've got to have another dress. Adam—Eve, you're the most resolute woman I've ever known. You're always turning over a new leaf.—London Tatler. Beware of Olntments for Catarrh thatContain Mercury. as mercury will surely destroy the sense ot smell and completely derange the whole sys- tem when entering it through the mucous surfaces, Such articles should never be used -except on prescriptions from reputable phy~ siclans, as the damage they do is ten fold to .vhe good you can possibly derive from them. ‘Hall’s Catarrh Oure, manufnctured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.. contains no mer- sure you get the gennine. It 1s taken intern- ly and made in Toledo, O., by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. BSold by druggists, Price 75¢ per bottle. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. BUY A GOOD LOT With the growth of Bemidji - ‘good lots are becoming scarcer and scarcer. We still have a number of good lots in the residence /part of town which will be sold on easy terms. For further particulars write or call ‘Bemidji Townsite ‘and Im- ‘provement Company. H. A. SIMONS, Agent. Swedback Block, Bemidji. Subscribe for the Pioneer. Typewriter Ribbons The}Pioneer keeps on hand all the standard ma;kes_of Type‘v‘vfiter‘ Rib’Bons. at the uniform price of 75’cents for “all ribbons ‘except the two- “and three-color ribbons and special makes. Not 8o Sharp. “That 1s a shatp young man your daughter Is golng with these days.” ! “Not so sharp as he thinks he is. o thinks he is going to stick me for, home and puncture my bank account,i but he isn’t.”—Houston Post. : Figures Don't Lie. % loax—Men live faster than women.; Joax—That's right. 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