Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 23, 1909, Page 4

1909 Diaries. The largest and best line of 1909 diaries ever carried in this part of the state can now be seen at the Pioneer office. We have made special efforts ot secure the largest assortment ever shown in the northwest. Those who want special kinds should call early and make their selection. DEFENDANT PLEADS GUILTY Third Graft Case at Pittsburg Ends Abruptly. Pittsburg, Feb. 23.—The third trial growing out of the recent graft ex- posures was abruptly ended in crim- inal court when A. A. Vilsack, former cashier of the German National bank, pleaded no defense to a charge of bribery in connection with the $17,500 sald to have been given by W. W. Ramsey, former president of the bank, and Vilsack to Councilman John F. Klein in payment for an ordinance making the bank a city depository. Ramsey and Klein were convicted last | week on similar charges. This con- cludes the case against Vilsack. Immediately the fourth trial was taken up. The defendants are Coun- cilmen John F. Klein, J. C. Wasson and William Brand and W. W. Ram- sey, the bank president. All are charged with conspiracy. That the graft investigations are only in their infancy is the opinion generally expressed here. Previous to the beginning of court it was reported that the next grand jury will return indictments against eighty-eight mem- i bers of councils. PROPERTY DAMAGE HEAVY Wind Storm Sweeps Over Portion of Kansas. ‘Wichita, Kan., Feb. 23.—The Mis- souri Pacific depot and four buildings at Reece, Kan, a village forty miles east of Wichita, were destroyed by a wind storm. No one was killed and no one seriously injured. The storm was most severe from fifteen to thirty miles northwest of Reece. Four persons were seriously injured there. The property loss in the district north- west of Reece will be heavy. Six Perish in Fire Panic. Tulu, Russia, Feb. 23.—Six persons were crushed to death and thirty were seriously injured here during a fire panic in a moving picture theater. The film of a machine caught fire. Vi itudes of a Picture. The vicissitudes of Leonardo da Vinei’'s plcture, “Last Supper,” re- minds a correspondent of the strange experlences of Holbeln’s “Field of the Cloth of Gold,” which may be seen any day at Hampton Court palace. After the downfall of Charles 1., Crom- well In order to raise funds proposed the sale of certain pictures, this among the number. The bargain was already made, but when the would be pur- chaser came to inspect Holbein’s mas- terpiece he discovered that the head of Henry VIII had been cut from the canvas, He naturally withdrew his offer, and the picture was preserved to the nation. On the restoration a nobleman confessed to having com- mitted the theft for love of art and his country, and he returned the missing head, which now occuples its original position in the canvas. The circle made by the knife is still plainly visi- ble.—London Chronicle. Cold Storage Rats. The attendant came out of the cold storage room with an awed look. “Rats are wonderful,” he sald. “We thought modern plumbing would abol- ish them, but they live in the clean light and dryness of the best modern plumbing more comfortably than they did in the damp and filth and darkness of the past. We thought the modern ship would abolish them, but the Lu- sitanla has as many rats as had the Columbus caravels. And here”— He made an awed gesture. “And here I find rats in our cold storage rooms at temperatures that freeze the breath and cause it to fall in the form of snow. To and fro they prowl. Thelr coats are thick and warm lke fur, and, with frost on their ‘whiskers, they feed heartily on meat and game frozen to rocklike hardness.” —Exchange, "B FINE” CASE ON TRIAL AGAIN Rehearing Begun in Federal Court at Chicago. GREAT ARRAY OF LAWYERS Legal Lights Representing Govern- ment and Defense in Retrial of Suit In Which Judge Landis Imposed Fine of $29,240,000—Scores of Sub- poenas Issued for Witnesses, Among Them Officials of Company. Chicago, Feb. 23.—The retrial of the famous Standard Oil “big fine case” began today before Judge Al | bert B. Anderson of Indiana in the | United States circuit court in this city. The present proceedings constitute a rehearing of the:case in which the Standard Oil company of Indiana, a subsidiary company of the Standard 0il company of New Jersey (the par- ent of all the Standard Oil com- panies) was fined $29,240,000 by Judge | JUDGE A. B. ANDERSON. Landis for rebating. The famous fine was imposed Aug. 3, 1907, and on July 22, 1908, the United States cir- cuit court of appeals reversed the de- cision. On motion of the government the supreme court ordered a rehear- ing of the case. Noted Attorneys in Case. A brilliant galaxy of legal luminar- fes represent the two sides in the famous case. The government’s in- terests are in the hands of District Attorney Sims of Chicago, acting as special counsel, assisted by J. H. Wil- kerson. Moritz Rosenthal, the head of the Standard’s legal forces, who is frequently referred to as “the highest priced lawyer in the United States,” and John S. Miller, with numerous assistants, have charge of the oil com- pany’s side of the matter. Scores of subpoenas have been is- sued to witnesses in the case. One subpoena was issued for President Moffatt of the Standard Oil company of Indiana. Other Standard Oil offi- cers who have been served are G. W. Stahl, treasurer; John C. McDonald, auditor, and Edgar Bogardus, traffic manager. Other witnesses who are to appear are George Robert and C. Crossland, expert rate clerks for the interstate commerce commission; Secretary Kil- patrick of the railroad and warehouse commission; F. S. Hollands, rate clerk for the Chicago and Alton railroad, nd J. 8. Howard, formerly auditor of the Chicago and Alton railroad. Bo- gardus, Hollands and Howard were witnesses at the previous trial. DRY FARM CONGRESS OPENS Aims at Making Arid Western Lands More Productive. Cheyenne, Wyo., Feb. 23.—More than a thousand delegates, represent- Ing every state in the West and sev- eral foreign countries, were present at h6 opening today in the Capltol Ave- nue theater of the third annual trans- missouri dry farming congress. Although'the movement to bring to- gether the tillers of the arid lands of the West is only three years old and its formal organization dates from last year's congress it already ranks in importance with the natlonal irrl- gatlon congress and the transmissis- sippl commercial congress. The pur- pose of the congress is the discussion and comparison of methods by which, the arid districts can be placed under tillage and the natural rainfall con- served, closer co-operation between the state and government departments in studying dry farming methods and the employment of statisticians, lec- turers, experimental farmers, etc., whose duty it will be to visit the vari- ous states, meet the farmers person- ally, attend farmers’ institutes and work with the agricultural stations all over the West in disposing of the roblems now before the farmers of dry lands. Dr. Willlam T. Bull Dead. Savannah, Ga., Feb. 23.—Dr. Will- iam Tilllnghast Bull, the speclalist, who came here recently from New York, died at Wymberly, Isle of Hope. He had been failing for a weele. Dr. Bull's body was taken to New York city. TERRIBLE DEED OF WISCONSIN FARMER Murders Four of His Children and Slays Himself, Mondovi, Wis.,, Feb. 23.—Hans B. Hanson, a farmer-living near Strun, murdered his four children, a boy and three girls, whose ages ranged from five to fifteen years. He is supposed to have used a butcher knife, cutting their throats. He followed this awful quadruple crime by stabbing several | horses and cows, fired the barn and i house and then cut his own throat. The bodies of the children were cre- mated, but neighbors succeeded in ex- tricating Hanson’s body before the flames reached it. Hanson used kero- sene to start the fires, which de- stroyed the house and barn. He was a widower with five children. The oldest, a girl of twenty-one, was in the village of Strun at the time of the terrible tragedy and escaped. Han- son was fifty years old. About twelve years ago he was an inmate of an asylum, but later was liberated. Of late years he had not shown any signs of insanity and was considererd harmless. FARMER KILLS NEIGHBORS No Reason Known for Double Tragedy in Texas. Marshall, Tex., Feb. 23.—Jesse Den- son, a well known farmer, shot and killed Mrs. Sam W. Ford and danger- ously wounded her husband. Mr. and Mrs. Ford were driving through Mar- shall in a buggy when they met Den- son, who was driving in the opposite direction. Denson drew a revolver and began firing, killing Mrs. Ford instantly, while her husband was shot through the lung and his recovery is considered doubtful. Denson was placed in jail. The Fords and Densons were neigh- bors and no cause for the trouble is known. Policeman Shoots Murderer. Chicago, Feb. 23.—James Flash, twenty years old, was shot and killed while returning from a dance by Frank Havle, twenty-eight years old. Havle was pursued by Policeman James Stanton and shot down. He will probably die. Havle. declared at the hospital that Flash and some of his companions attempted to crowd him off the sidewalk. Roosevelt's Nephew Killed. Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 23.—Stewart Douglas Robinson, aged nineteen, a nephew of President Roosevelt and a sophomore of Harvard college, fell from a six-story window of Hampden hall, a dormitory on Massachusetts avenue, and was killed. He was a son of Douglas Robinson. The “Eagle Russet” Fountain Pen The Best Dollar Fountain Pen on the Market The Pen is always ready for use and may be carried in any position without danger of leakage Ask for Russet Fountain Pens at The Pioneer Office E R NN T ey GREEKS QuI " SOUTH OMAHA Flee From City Following Race Rioting. —_— MUCH PROPERTY IN RUINS Mob's Damage Estimated at $25,000, Especial Attention Being Given to Places Owned by the Better Class of Greeks—Casuaities Number Five Suffering From Gunshot Wounds and a Score From Other Injuries. Omaha, Feb. 23—As a result of racial rioting in South Omaha most of the 8,000 Greek residents of that place have fled to this city. The riot- ing lasted fully twelve hours and the roll of casualties is five persons suf- fering with gunshot wounds, eleven Greeks so badly beaten that they were taken to hospitals for treatment and about fifteen other persons suffering from assaults or as the result of mis- directed missiles intended for the Greeks, on whom the wrath of the maddened horde wa$ centered. The financial loss résulting from the de- struction of property by the mob is placed at $25,000. Not less than five shops of importance were almost wholly wrecked, while sixteen smaller ones escaped serions damage only be- cause of- their smallness. The work of the mob was better seen after the streets were finally cleared and the damaged places looked over. Especial attention was given to the property of the better class of the Greeks. Abe Cocoris, known as the “king of the Greeks,” who owned two fine bakeries and another smaller shop, had little left to show for his thriving business of heretofore. All three of the buildings he occu- pled were smashed, exterior and in- terior alike, and his stocks of goods despoiled. The confectionery estab- lishment of Demos Bros., the best in the city, was a total wreck. Much Other Property Destroyed. One saloon, found later to be the property of a Roumarian, was demol- ished, while numerous smaller stores, shoe shining parlors and shops re- ceived similar treatment. Three ho- tels, one of which was burned to the ground and all of which had housed many of the Greek workmen, were harshly treated. The homes of not less than a dozen Greeks who have families were visited and in one in- stance the avengers entered and de- stroyed the furniture, threw cooking viands from a heated stove and mal- treated the wife of the house and her small babe. The riots developed the fact that nearly every Greek in the city is armed. In not less than six instances did they show themselves prepared to defend their rights and fired into the crowds indiscriminately. Fortunately none of the shootings resulted seri- ously. It was sufficiently severe, how- ever, to raise the wrath of the mob to an even higher pitch than before and especial vengeance was wrought by the crowd at places where the Greeks showed a display of firearms. An- other noticeable feature was the per- sistence with which many women urged the rioters on. The immediate cause of the trouble was the killing on Friday night of Policeman Edward Lowery by John Masuredes, a Greek, whom the officer had placed under arrest. A mass meeting, called by a petition signed by hundreds of citizens, was held and flery speeches were made suggesting various ways of ridding the city of “undesirable” Greeks. The rioting followed. POLICE HOLD MOB IN CHECK Attempt to Lynch Negroes Failed at Ottumwa, la. Ottumwa, Ia, Feb. 23.—The police kept in check the mob besieging the city jall to wreak vengeance on ne- groes arrested under suspicion of hav- ing attacked Mrs. Charles M. John- ston. When it became known the vie- tim was not as seriously injured as at first reported and that she would re- cover the crowds in the streets thinned out. - ‘Another factor in reassuring the crowds that justice would be done was the prompt action of the commercial travelers of the clty in raising a purse of $1,200 as a reward for the appre- hension and conviction of the crim- inal. To this there has been added a subscription of $300 to obtain expert detective aid. A mass meeting has been arranged at which money will be gathered to help in clearing up the mystery surrounding several recent erimes in this city. 8cores Die in Russian Blizzard. Kiev, Buropean Russia, Feb. 23.— Terrible snow storms have prevailed for the last week and more than a hundred lives have been lost in the blizzards in Southwestern Russia during the last three days. Two hun- dred miles of the tracks of the South- western railway are blocked. Traffic has been entirely suspended and freight is accumulating everywhere. = Both Duelists Kiiled. Eldorado, Ark., Feb. 23.—John Oli- ver Franklin, a prominént citizen of this county, and & negro named Ford shot and killed each dther. The men fired simultaneously. BEGIN TO CROWD ON STEAM : Lo Both Houses ef Congréss Will Work Under Pressure This Week. ‘Washington, Feb. 23.—Both houses of congress will begin this week to crowd on steam for the last spurt of the present congress. After the close of business next Saturday there will remain only three days for legislation and it is realized that it will be neces- sary to get practically all of the ap- propriation bills through: both houses before that time, as most of the re- maining’ days will be necessary for the adfiistment of the differences be- tween the two houses. Consequently no attentlon will be paid In either house 'to any other measures when appropriation bills are in shape for consideration. Both houses will probably hold night ses: sions. ¥ The house will begin the week with the discussion of the great sundry civil bill, which not only carries a large appropriation, but covers a mul titude of subjects in which, as usual, there is much new leglslation and it is expected that this bill will consume most of the week: In addition to the appropriation bills the senate will consider and vote on the bill providing for the re-enlist- ment of the negro soldiers who were discharged on account of the Browns: ville riot and Saturday will be given up entirely to eulogles to members of congress who have recently died. MINING ENGINEZRS ~MEE) Will Talk of National Resouraes and Panama Canal at Convention. New Haven, Conn,, Feb. 23.—The American Institite of Mining ;Engi- neers, the society which comprises in its membership most of the minlng and geological experts of the Unite States, will begin its meeting in Shef- field hall this evening. The opening topic of the convention will be “The Conservation of Natural Resources.” A paper on this subject will be read by Dr. James Douglas of New York and Joseph A. Holmes, chief of the technologic branch of the United States geolegic survey, who iz a mem- ber of the national conservation com- mission, will tell of the work of the commission in its relation to mineral resources. Tomorrow the leading topic will be “A Sea Level Canal at Panama” It is expected that the relative merits of the sea level and the lock canal plans will receive full attention. Other top- ies of importance to the nation will be discussed during the convention. PRESBYTERIAN CONVENTION Church Brotherhood Begins Annual Meeting in Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Feb. 23.—The annual convention of the Presbyterian Brotherhood of America began in this city today. It is one of the largest and most important gatherings of the denomination in recent years. More than 3,000 delegates, representing up- ‘ward of 10,000 Presbyterian churches, are present. The theme of the convention is “The Brotherhood and the Church” and many related topics will be dis- cussed during the three days’' ses- sions. The convention will be fol- lowed by a great conference of the Protestant church laity, representing societies of various denominations. FAMOUS -EDUCATORS GATHER IN CHICAGO Heads of Nation's Schools Be- gin Gonvention, Chicago, Feb. 23.—Seldom in the history of the United States has there been so distinguished a gathering of educators as the assemblage which gathered here today for the conven- tion of the department of superin- tendence of the National Educational association. Prominent teachers from all parts of the country comprise the membership of the department and the greater part of them are present at the convention. The pedagogues were welcomed to Chicago by President Schneider of the Chicago board of education. The opening session was taken up with the reading of papers on “Elimination of Waste in School Work.” The con- vention will remain in session three days: Among the prominent men and wo- men attending the convention are Stratton D. Brooks, superintendent of schools, Boston; Charles P. Cary, state superintendent of public instrue- tion, Wisconsin; Julia Richman, dis- trict superintendent of public schools, New York city; Kenyon Butterfield, president of Massachusetts Agricul- tural college, Amherst; Elmer Ells- ‘worth: Brown, United States commis- sloner of education, Washington, and Willlam H. Maxwell, superintendent of schools, New York city. OF INTEREST TO MINNESOTA Amendments Offered to Rivers and Harbors Bill. ‘Washington, Feb. 23.—In the senate committee of commerce several amendments affecting Minnesota will Ee made to the rivers and harbors i1l The principal one is for a survey for a canal to connect Lake Superior with the head waters of the Missis- sippl river by way of the St. Croix route. Senator Nelson will agk for a flat appropriation of $150,000 to dredge the inner basin of Duluth harbor. NO LOSS OF LIFE OCCURRED All 'on Board Foundered Steamer Were Saved. London, Feb. 23.—A dispatch re- ceived by Lloyds from Buenos Ayres says it is now reported that the pas- sengers and crew of the Argentine steamer Presidente Roca have been saved. % Four steamships have gone out from Buenos Ayres to the rescue. The Presidente Roca went ashore on the east coast between Puerto de San Antonio and Puerto Madrid, caught fire and the first reports had It the crew and 200 passengers per- ished. - Pioneer of Duluth Dead. Duluth, Feb. 23.—Captain J. J. Hib- bard of Duluth is dead at the age of seventy-eight .years, of Brights dis- ease. The death of Captain Hibbard removes one of the oldest residents of the Head of the Lakes region. He was a ploneer of. ploneers, having been here a half century. . - g & o Archimedes. ‘As a mechanician Archimedes pro- duced the correct theory of the lever and invented no less than forty inter- esting devices, Including the- endless’ screw, the pump, the organ and the “burning glass,” with which latter novel weapon he 1s gaid to' have set fire to the ships of an enemy’s fleet from a considerable distance. The sto- ry is probably fabulous, but none the less interesting, as exhibiting the faith Bf the people In the man and as indi- cating the character of his pursuits. As engineer Archimedes was looked upon as hardly less than a magician. He produced catapults which threw enormous stones and heavy pikes at long range into the ranks of the enemy or into his ships, and great derricks were built by him with which to lift the attacking craft out of water or to upset it, destroying all on board. His proposed use of the lever meant the production of .the inconceivable inven- tions in machinery and engineering construction, and his own estimate of its importance was expressed by the famillar quotation, “Give me whereon to stand and I will 1ift the earth.” Archimedes was the first and perhaps the most inventive and greatest of early engineers. His lever still moves the world, and his spirit is inherited by generations of the men who have made modern clvilization possible—~ Cassler’s Magazine. WATCHES Our stock of Hamilton Watches is large and complete. We also carry a large line of all the cheaper makes of watches. Mail orders receive prompt attention. Prices given on any make or grade of watch upon request. Ask to see the Bemid]i Special, the finest watch made for the money. The Turks and Raki. “Turks often get drunk. They cheat thelr religion, the dogs, to do s0,” said a converted Constantinopolitan. “Mohammed forbade wine to his followers, but.raki is made of mastic gum. It was unknown in Moham- med’s time, or of course he’d have for- bidden it, too, for you can get fright- fully drunk on it. I know; oh, I know! It's a white drink, with a sweetish taste, a good deal like gin. “A Turkish dinner is mostly a vege- tarian affair, if you can call raki a vegetable. It consists of such things as laort, a curdled milk spiced and scented and bakalava cakes cooked in honey, sprayed with rosewater and coated with saffron flavored whipped cream. “With each course you drink raki. If, getting drunk, you get miserable the thing to do is to crush your glass in your hand so as to give yourself two or three cuts. Unhappy Turks, you must know, express their wretch- edness by cutting their hands. Look at these scars.””—Minneapolis Journal. Fine and complicated watch repairing, diamond setting, hand. engraving. Jewelry re- paired and manufactured. Watch Inspectors M. & l.and B. F. & I. F. Rys. GEO. T, BAKER & GO0, Located in City Drug Store. 116 Third St. Near the Lake WANIS ONE CENT A WORD. . : FOR SALE. Women In England. In the seventeenth century, when Englishwomen were still recognized as possessing an economic and political status side by side with Englishmen, there was written an interesting entry in the church warden’s accounts of St, Martin’s-in-the-Fields, proving that one Blizabeth Bartlett was Intrusted with the casting of the second bell and that all the women employed thus were paid at the same rate as’men for the same work. Another instance is to be found in the records of the Fleet pris- on, of which the first female warden, appointed in 1217 on the death of her husband Robert, received the same sal- ary “as the sald Robert had been ac- customed to during his life”” There was no talk then of confining the wo- man’s sphere to work that was pald badly. FOR SALE—Cheap residence prop- erty, at 919 Beltrami Ave. and 510 Beltrami Ave. Wilmot at 321 America Ave. — e Ve FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. MISCELLANEOUS. PUBLIC LIBRARY—Open Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays 2:30t0 6 p. m, and Saturday evening 7:30 to 9 p. m. also. Library in basement of Court House. Mrs. Donald, librarian. PR b e i o b el S WANTED—Balsam lath bolts. Will pay $3.00 per cord for Balsam lath bolts delivered at our mill. Douglass Lumber Co., Bemidji. Quieting Him Down. A farmer sued a cattle dealer for damages in the local county court. “When I bought the bull,” said the complainant, “he told me it was gen- tle and perfectly harmless—a child could play with it, in fact. Half an hour after I got the animal home he disabled a couple of my farm hands and then turned on me.” “Perhaps the animal was excited by his strange surroundings,” suggested his honor. “Is he quiet enough now?" “Well, yes; but you see”— “AlL,” remarked the defendant, “then my description was correct, after all. I gaid if he @id get excited at first he ‘would quiet down.” “Yes,” .responded the plaintiff grim- ly, “but you didn’t tell me I should bave to shoot the beggar to quiet him down. That’s what I had to dol"— London Scraps. Malaprops. The plous old lady who, returning from a visit to the zoo, announced that she “always did enjoy a visit to the theological gardens” and the servant who, describing her master's last fll- ness, explained that the “doctors held a consolation and found that it was something eternal” have found a re- cent equal in the lady who observed that when she was in Italy she “saw 80 many people in the garbage of monks with tonsils on their heads.” Want Ads Veterinaries. Hippocrates, the “father of medl- cine,” wrote a treatise on the veterina- ry art, but its true founder was Vege- tlus, who wrote “De Arte Veterinaria,” 800 A. D. But the first attempt to ele- vate the practice into a sclence was as late as 1761, when France set the ex- ample of establishing the firnt veteri- nary college at Lyons.—Exchange, FOR' RENTING A PROPERTY, SELL- ING A BUSINESS OR CBTAINING HELP ARE BEST. Heavily Laden. “This play in its intensity,” said the go-out-between-the-acts young man, ‘“falrly takes my breath away.” “I only wish it would!” gloomily re- marked the lady in the next seat.— Baltimore American. ° s | Ploneer Bunker—I see by the papers that Ardupp has just-celebrated his golden wedding! Why, he was only married yesterday. Hunks—Yes; but he mar tied an heiress. Be sure that the wisest perzons axe the least severe—Montague. * The Problem Solved. Newed—My wife has a habit of tak- Ing money from my pockets when I'm asleep, Oldwed—Mine used to do that, 0, but she doesn't any mome. Newed ~How do you pre 1t? Olawed—I spend every cent I have before I ge l HAMILTON| Inquire Mrs. _— \