Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 28, 1909, Page 2

[, : g THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED BVERY AFTHRNOON, *BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING co. By CLYDE J..PRVOR. Wutered in the postofice at Bemidjl. Minn., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM IN SECURING * NOMINATION Stephenson Accused of Im- proper Use of Money. EXCITING DAY AT NADISON Assembly Turns Down Resolution Calling for Investigation and In Bal- loting for Senator Gives Stephenson a Majority—Senate Decides to Re- consider Vote by Which Resolution Was Previously Killed. Madison, Wis., Jan. 2' .—This was a day of sensations in the Wisconsin legislature—the day fixed by law for separate ballots by the two houses for United States senator. Early in the session or the senate Senator Blaine, a La Follette member, presented sensational charges against United States Senator Isaac Stephen- 8on, accusing him of the improper use of money in the primary—an action that Senator Blaine later character- Ized as bribery in effect were the charges sustained. The assembly refused to reconsider the Hughes resolution for an investi- SENATOR ISAAC STEPHENSON. gation into the expenditures of money In the primary, while on the other hand, by a vote of 22 to 11, the sen- ate voted to reconsider and then ad- journed without having voted for United States senator. Senator Stephenson received 60 votes, a majority, in the ballot of the assembly for re-election. The vote of the assembly for senator was marked by the refusal of fifteen members, fourteen of whom were Republicans, to cast their ballots. Big Campaign Fund Alleged. ‘At the opening of the session of the senate Senator Blaine filed specific charges alleging that Senator Ste- phenson, as a candidate for re-elec- tion, gave to Republican State Chair- man E. A. Edmunds of Appleton a sum of money in excess of $106,000 and approximating $250,000 in relation to the primary election held on Sept.- 1 last and by such acts violated a ‘Wisconsin statute; that the money was given to Edmunds to pay to other electors prior to the primary in sums ranging from $5 per day to $1,000 in bulk as a consideration for some act to be done in relation to the primary by electors for Mr. Stephenson. Other charges allege that money was paid U. C. Keller of Sauk county, Dle Hambright of Racine, Roy Moore of Fond du Lac and divers other per- sons in varlous sums as a considera- tion for acts to be done corruptly and unlawfully. The charges against Stephenson number sixteen in all, the concluding oharge stating that “the primary nom- ination or election was obtained by the use of large sums of money, cor- ruptly and illegally,” and by violation of the statutes relating to illegal vnt- ing, bribery and corruption. Senators Husting and Blaine spoke In fayor of an investigation and Sen- etor Martin opposed it. On a motion to reconsider the vote by which the resolution was killed 22 voted for and 11 against, A motion in the assembly to recall the investigation resolution from com- mittee was lost—30 to 58. The reso- lution was later killed on a vote to reconsider, 7 to 81. FIVE MORE BALLOTS TAKEN filinois Legislature Still ‘Deadlocked on Senatorship;” Springfleld, 11l Jan. il —Balloting for United States senator in joint ses- slon of the legislature was resumed here. ~After five indecisive ballots had been taken, completing the sev- enteenth ballot, the joint session rose, The. changes in the vote noted through the day’s balloting were not regarded .as significant. When the session ended the conferences and the discussion over the mierits of the sev- eral candidates began alfresh, The names of Free P, Morris of Watseka, Robert T. Lincoln of Chicago and Congregsman Charles 8. Wharton of Chicago were .added to the list of those voted for in the joint sessions. PIN KNIGHTS IN MATCH Cleveland Chgmpions Roll Against Chicago’s Best Bowlers. Cleveland, Jan. 28—Four of the ablest knights of the pin and ball in the whole country will get together hero tonight in an attempt to see whether Chicago or Cleveland is pro- ducing the best bowlers. The con- testants are Louis Franz and Charles Gilbert of this city, who are to roll a match against Will Flenner and Gus Steel of Chicago. Seven games will be rolled this afternoon and seven tonight. On Jan. 31 Franz and Gilbert will go to Chi- cago and roll a like number of games there against their opponents of to- day. The contestants have gposted a purse of $500 and, in additioll to that, there will be hundreds of dollars wagered on the side. Franz is at present champion of Cleveland and Gilbert was Cleveland’s best bowler three years ago. MADE PUBLIC BY NEWBERRY Plan for Reorganization of Navy De- partment. Washington, Jan. 28.—Secretary Newberry has made public an elab- orate explanation of his plan for re- organization of the navy department which recently received the unani- mous approval of a conference of men who have been prominent in naval affairs, called together at the direc- tion of the president. The essential features contemplate the abolishment of the bureau system at the navyyards to the end that unnecessary work may be avoided and simpler methods of administration prevail, the enlarge- ment of the general board of the navy and the reorganization of the board on construction so that there may be more complete co-ordination in the work of the navy department and more general representation on these important boards. PART OF BODY PARBOILED Youth Stealing Ride Probably Fatally Injured. St. Paul, Jan. 28.—John Schmidt of Chicago, aged twenty, is the victim of a peculiar accident that may cost him his life. The boy was on his way to Virginia, this state, to visit his sister. He was stealing a ride and was riding the trucks of a freight car in the Union depot yards. The car had stopped and a switch engine came past. Just as it reached the place where Schmidt was lying it stopped and shot out steam. The scalding vapor enveloped the | man, burning him terribly. -His cries attracted trainmen and he was taken from the trucks and hurried to the city hospital. It was found that the upper part of his body was parboiled. He is in a very serious condition. PROHIBITION FORCES WIN North Dakota Initiative and Referen- dum Bill Killed. Bismarck, N. D., Jan. 28.—The in- itiative and referendum amendment to the constitution which was - fought through the last session of the legis- lature was finally killed by the house 1 of representatives when the bill known as the Ueland bill was indefi- nitely postponed by a decisive major- ity. The action of the house was not unexpected, as the Prohibitionists of the state have opposed the bill be- cause it permitted a referendum on constitutional amendments. This ‘would have enabled the resubmission- ists of the state to bring the prohibi- tion clause of the constitution up for a vote, which is something the pro- hibitionists have been fighting ever since statehood. GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Jan. 27.—Wheat—May, $1.07%5; 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 Northern, $1.04%@ 1.05%. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Jan. 27.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.07%; No. 1 Northern, $1.06%; No. 2 Northern, $1.047%; May, $1.06%; July, $1.07%. Flax—To arrive, on track, May and July, $1.57; Oct., $1.41%4. St. Paul Union Stock Yards, St. Paul, Jan. 27.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $56.50@6.50; fair to good, $5.00@5.60; good to cholce cows and heifers, $4.50@5.50; veals, $5.50@6.50. Hogs—$6.50@6.15. Sheep—Wethers, $5.25@5.50; yearlings, - $6.00@6.85; spring lambs, $7.25@7.50. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Jan. 27.—Wheat—May, $1.07%; July, 973%c; ‘Sept., 94%@ 94%4c; Dec., 95% @953%c. Corn—Jan.,: 69%ec; May, 63c; July, 63c; Sept., 63c” Oats—DMay, 521% @52%c; July, 48%c¢; Sept., 39%@394¢c. Pork—Jan., $16.- 67%; May, $16.97%; July, $17.00. Butter—Creameries, 22@28c; dairies, 21% @25c. Bggs—29c. Poultry—Tur- keys, 16c; chickens, 11340; springs, 18%c. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, Jan. 27.—Cattle—Beeves, $4.20@7.00; Texans, $4.25@5.00; West- ern cattle, $3.90@5.60; * stockers and feeders, $3.20@5.35; cows and helfers, $1.85@56.50; calves, $5.50@8.00. Hogs —Light, $5:65@6.25; mixed, $5.80@ 6.45; heavy, $5.85@6.50; rough, $5.85 @6.05; good to cholce heavy, $6.05 @6.50; pigs, $4.60@5.55. Sheep, $3.50 @5.80; yearlings, $5.90@7.10; lambs, $5.60@7.85. : FUNDS OF A. BOOTH & CO. Immense Sum Used in Destroying Competition. Chicago, Jan. 2'—The first actual accounting of the seyeral. hundred thousand dollars paid by the firm of A. Booth & Co., the fish concern which ‘Wwas recently placed in the hands of & Tecelver, to the law firm of Thornton & Chancellor,. was given before Mas- ment was presented in court by.Jus- tus_Chancellor, a member of 2| ter in Chancery Booth., The state- | ED {s a simple g to 1 at. It might as well be a pebble or a grain of sand for. all there seems to be to it Only a bean, you say, yet there's a great deal more to that bean than you ever dreamed of. Take a bean—just an ordinary white bean out of the pantry—and look at it. The smooth white outer covering Is the seed coat. It is almost water tight and is a protection for the parts that lie withiv. On one side you will notice a very conspicuous spot. This 13 the seed scar and is the place where the little stem that fastened the bean to the pod was attached. Near one end of the seed scar, or hilum, as the botanists call it, iS a small round hole, the micropyle. If you put a bean in water it will soon begin to swell be- cause of the water which it absorbs through the micropyle. Now, take a bean that has been sonked for a few hours. The seed roat will come off easily. The part of the bean that is inside is found to be split In two length- wise. These two halves are called cotyledons, which is only another name for seed leaves. Spread the cotyledons apart carefully. If you look close- ly you can see a little plant tuck- ed snugly away between them. Just to one side of the middle is a small stem, the caulicle. Fasten- ed to it is the plumule, a tiny bunch of leaves so small that you may have difficulty in making them out. Farther on, at the end of the bean, is the stubby root, or radicle. These different parts are found in ev- ery seed, no matter how small. Now that you have seen what is in FIG. I—A LITTLE BEAN PLANT. the bean, examine a pumpkin seed in the same way. It is much the same inside as the bean, only flatter. The hilum is at the pointed end, and the plumule_is so small that you may not be able to see it at all. In these two seeds there are only two main parts, the seed coat and the little plant. By far the greater part of the room inside the seed coat is taken up by the fleshy seed leaves. Now let us look at a différent kind of a seed. Take a kernel of corn that has been soaked for several hours and cut it in two lengthwise the narrow way. The back of the grain is made up in part of a hard, flinty substance and in part of a white, mealy layer. A large part of the front of the kernel is taken up by the soft, oily germ. Look at the cut sectlon of the germ carefully. The little plant can be made out very plainly. The Ilittle pointed stem which points upward and outward is the cotyledon. There Is only one cotyledon in corn instead of two, as in the other seeds you have examined. If you will take a cotyledon of a corn plant that has been left in a ‘warm place until it has commenced to grow and cut it in two lengthwise you will see that the inside is packed with layers of tiny leaves ready to unfold as soon as their turn comes. This 18 the plumule. The other parts of the little corn plant you will be able to make out with little trouble. You have doubtless been wondering ‘what the rest of the kernel, the part back of the germ, is for. While it s not a part of the. plant itself, it is of very great use to it, as we shall see. The little plant when it begins to grow must have food. At first it has no roots to get this food from the sofl, 8o it must get its nourishment from some other source. This sourcé s the part of the kernel outside of the germ itself, or the endosperm.- In the pump- kin seed and the bean the endosperm and the cotyledons are the same—that 18, the food material is stored in the large, fishy seed leaves. ‘This food material consists largely ot starch and ofl. Neither of these can be used by the developing plant with- out first being changed to a liquid form. This is one of the reasons why sceds will not germinate without wa- ter. The other reason is that the wa- ter 1s needed to soften the seed coat go: the plant can get out. But this starch and ofl will not dissolve In water without first being changed to a solu- ble form. This is accomplished by means of ferments called enzymes. If you will put.a-plece of starch on your tongue for a moment you will find that it will begin to taste sweet. This is because the ferments In the saliva are changing it to sugar. The enzymes in the endosperm work in much the same way, changing the starch and ofl' to sugar - and other soluble substances. These are dissolved by the water and go to feed the growing plant. These enzymes cannot work without alr and warmth. You already that a seed will not germinate in ground, and if you will put some beans in a glass of water and leave - of THornton & Chancellor, and gave the disposition of nearly §600,000 re- ceived by the company from A. Booth & Co. during the last ten years, More | than half that amount, according to the statement, was used in destroying competition and fighting legal battles. During that -time fifty-one fisheries in New England and fifteen in the Mid- dle West and Canada ‘Wwere assim- flated by the Chicago concern and more than a dozen suits against rival eompanies were. instituted by the Booth compeny. —— Home Course Modern Ag I.—How a Seed Starts to Grow By C. V. GREGORY, - Agricultural Division, Iowa State College Copyright, 1808, by American Press Association riculture them for several days you will find that they will not germinate, no mat- ter how warm they are kept, because they cannot get air. The reason is that without both air and warmth the en- zymes cannot prepare the food for the plant, and if it cannot get food of course it cannot grow. . After the plant has started to grow the seed coat 1S no longer of any use to it. ‘In some plants, such as corn, the little plant finds its way out very easily. The little pumpkin plant, with its heavy coaf, has a harder time. In- deed, were it not for a little contriy- ance with which nature has provided it 1t could not get out at all. Thisisa tiny hook on the lower end of the seed. ‘This hook catches on the end of the seed coat and peels it back as neatly as you take off your cost. Watch for this in a germinating pump- kin or squash seed and see if you can- not notice it. In some seeds, like hick- ory nuts, the plant i5 unable to get out until the seed coat is cracked by the frost or in some other way. We have seen that a seed cannot start to grow unless it has molsture, warmth and air. It not only needs these, but it needs them in the proper proportions. In a light, sandy sofl moisture is often lacking, and the seed Is slow in germinating for this reason. In such a soil growth will start more quickly if the soil is pack- ed tightly around the seed. The seed will soak up moisture more rapidly if the particles of ;soil are in close con- tact with it on all sides: Packing down the soil fn the row with the flat side of a hoe or with a board or ‘with the broad, flat planter wheels in the fleld helps the seed to absorb moisture and so hastens germination. In a heavy, sticky clay soil there is usually plenty of molsture, but air is often lacking. "If such a soil is pack- ed down too tightly over the seed the particles are forced so closely together that very little air can get through, | 4nd hence germination is delayed. In a soil of this kind seeds should never be planted very deeply. . The most important factor of all is warmth. A cold soll may have moisture and air in exactly the right amounts, and still the seed will not start to develop. Even if it does be- gin to grow progress will be slow, and the plant will have a weak, unhealthy look. It is of the utmost importance to wait untll the seed bed is warm before planting the seed. Many seeds which would rot or produce only spindling stalks if planted in a cold soll will grow into strong plants if planting is delayed until the soil has ‘become warm. Any seed will make a stronger, better producing plant if it has a warm seed bed to start from. The rapldity -with which soll will warm up in the spring depends'a great deal upon the nature of the soil itself. A sandy soil warms up quickly be- cause the air can. get down into it easily, thus warming it all the way through at once. Another reason for the higher temperature of sandy soil is its greater dryness. As long as wa- ter is evaporating rapidly the ground will be cold. The process of evapora- tion requires a great deal of heat. ¥1G. IT—HOW A SQUASH PLANT TAKES OFF I7T8 BHED COAT. 2 We can help the soil to becoma warm in the spring, then, by doing all that we can to.check evaporation. Did you ever notice how quickly the sur- face of a wet fleld became dry after it had been harrowed? This is because siirring. and loosening" the soil stops the water m coming up from be- low. The water in the loose upper layer soon evaporates, and after that the ‘heat 1s used In warming the sofl instead of turning the water into va- por. Of course if we are not going to. allow the surplus water to be given of® by evaporation we must: provide tile drains’ and ditches to.carry ft away. ‘We, shall study more about drainage and the movement’ of water through the eofl in’ another arffele. . Revolting Mugdnr" Disclosed, | Sfoux City, Ia., Jan. 2/.—A woman’s ‘mangled ‘body was found in a well HOTEL PESTRbYED BY FIRE One Person Perishes and Several Are : Seriously Injured. Brainerd, Minn., Jdn. 28.—The Audit hotel and saloon at Big Falls has been destroyed by fire, J. J, Curley, a homesteader - of ~ Waukonda, was burned to death, Nels Erickson and an unidentified man escaped from s third story window. Erickson's head was crushed and his jugular vein al most severed on window glass. Paul Lawrence and his wife ran through the flames in their nightclothes. Both ‘were burned, the woman probably fa- tally, The building and its contents are a total loss. 2 Bristaw Elected Senator, Topeka, Kan., Jan. 2(.—The house and senate, in separate sessions, voted for United States senator to succeed Chester L Long for the six- Year term beginning March 4 next. The legislature being overwhelmingly Republican Joseph . L. Bristow, for- merly fourth assistant postmaster general, was given a decisive major- ity over Hugh Farrelly, Democrat. Eight Persons Injured. Pittsburg, Jan. 2,.—Train No. 44, the Pittsburg special from St. Louis on the Panhandle division of -the Pennsylvania rallroad, was wrecked between Conesyille and Trinway, 133 miles west of Pittsburg. Seven pas- sengers and G. B. McKeen, general manager of the Vandalla lines, were injured, none of tham seriously, it is said. % Taken lll, Falls From Scaffold. Minneapolis, Jan. 2. —Frank Seers, aged thirty, a painter, fell from the roof of a house and was fatally in- jured. Seere was working on a sus- pended platform when he was taken suddenly ill and fell to the ground. He was removed to the Asbury hos- pital suffering with a fractured skull and died twelve hours later. Duluth Fireman Kiifed. Duluth, Jan. 2/ —John Kelly, a fire- man connected with headquarters of the fire department, was instantly killed by falling three stories from a burning building. While he was at a third story window of the Exchange hotel a terrific explosion occurred, which hurled the fireman to his death. Lincoln’s ‘Birthday ‘a Holiday. ‘Washington, Jan. ].—Making Feb. 12 a special legal holiday in the Dis- trict of Columbia and the territories .of the United States in commemora- tion of the birth of Abraham Lincoln was the first business brought before the house. The house passed the res- olution unanimously. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh thatContain Mercury. as mercury will snrslg destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole sys- tem when entering it through the mucous surfaces, Such articles should never be used except o prescriptions from reputable phy= sicians. as the damage they do is ten fold to he good you can possibly derive from them. Hall’s Catarrh Oure, manufnctured by F, J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contalns no mer- cury, and is taken internally. acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. Itis taken intern- ally and made in Toledo, O., by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by druggists, Price 75¢ per bottle. ' Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. With the growth of Bemidji good lots are becoming scarcer and scarcer. We still have a number of good - b lots in the residence fpartof : town which will be soldon - ' easy terms. 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