Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 5, 1909, Page 4

| : I A. D. MOE, 5se Tailor Suits made to order. Cleaning and pressing given special attention. \ New spring sa 320 Beltrami Ave, mples. Bemidji, Minn. DOINGS AMONG BEMIDJI'S | GOUNTRY NEIGHBORS | \ | i ! Live Correspondents of the Pioneer | Write the News from Their Localities. Island Lake. March 4. Norman Williams went to Fowlds E on a business trip. There is to be a dance at Jack Volger’s Saturday night. Everybody is welcome. . Joe Williams went to Bemidji | being subpoenaed as a juror for this | term of court. Joe Helf left for Larimore, N. D., Monday morning where he expects to be gone for a few days. Spooner and Baudette. March 3. The M. W. A. Lodge of Baudette initiated a class of twenty-four at| their meeting on Monday evening. After the ceremonies, lunch was served tothe new neighbors and a social good time had by all. Itis expected that a class of thirty will be initiated into the mysteries of the the order at the next regular meeting. This will make the Baudette lodge one of the largest in the northern part of the state. Mr. and Mrs. James A. Matheiu were hosts at one of the most enjoy- able affairs of the season, last even- ing, when they entertained at a bridge-whist party at their home, in Rainey River. Bridge was played at five tables, the score cards were novel and created great amusement, as each player represented some prominent character of past history | or present day affairs, as, for instance Taft was given one lady who took the part of Teddy’s wife. Dainty refreshments were served to the guests. Those attending were Mr. and Mrs. Gortham, Mrs. Fairbanks, Mrs. Plunkett, Mrs. Eagan, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Ericson, and Misses Plunkett, Inez and Lottie Lynch, Ericson, and Messrs. Malohe, Dodds, Anderson, Diercks, Watters and Carlson, Excellent Artists at Brinkman. The program at the Brinkman Family theater next week will in- clude eight people, the best that ever “made” the northwest. Princes Tapeia, America’s greatest escape artist, will be the leading number. No handcuffs, straigh- jacket or roping can hold her. The city police, sheriff and detectives are invited to try their shackles on PRINCESS TAPEIA. her. This lady of mystery is one of the most marvelous actsof the stage. St. Julian, head dancer and novelty athlete, has never been excelled in the west. The Six Rice Kids will keep you laughing the whole evening. Manager Brinkman has exceeded all former efforts on this program, and you cannot afford to miss this rare treat. Hilliard and Phillips will complete the week’s engagement Sunday night. Don’t forget the matinee Satur- day afternoon. Sunday School Entertainment. The members of the Methodist Episcopal Sunday School will hold a temperance” -rally next Tuesday evening, March Yth, in the church. The little declaimers and singers, especially of the primary depart- ment, are putting forth strenuous efforts to exceleach other and the entertainment will undoubtedly be good. The public is cordially invited to attend this rally. Admission: adults twenty cents; children, ten cents. Theo. Gullickson, the local agent for the Hamm Brewing company, re- turned to the city this morning from a short bnsiness trip to Kelliher where he attended to. some collec- tions for his company. CALUMET Baking Powdet Received Highest Avard Warlds Pare Baud Espostion (] Chicago, 1907, Mrs, Olive Benson Dead. Mrs. Olive Benson, a pioneer resi dent of Bemidji, died at her home in this city at 3 o’clock this morning after an 1llness of more than a year past, with heart trouble, cancer and other complications, against the fatal nature of which she struggled valiantly, only giving up the strug- gle when human nature could stand no more, being unconscious for a day previous to her demise, sinking into a deep sleep that was never dis- turbed and passing away with scarcely a tremor. Deceased was 48 years of}aze. Mrs. Benson lived in Crookston for several years before coming to Bemidji, arriving here in the early days of this village, when the lum- berjack held full sway and the every-day life of Bemidji was by no means “tame.” Mrs. Benson was always a pleasant woman whose dis- position made her many friends. When she was taken ill, a little over a year ago, she did not take her ail- ment very seriously, but as time went by and she did not improve very materially, and especially dur- the past few months, she became resigned to her condition, although fighting the fatal termination ot the disease. Mrs. Benson is survived by five children, three daughters, Gyda, Bertha and Clara, and two sons, Elmer and Chris, also a grand- daughter; Cora. Funeral services will be held in this city Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock and the body of Mrs. Benson will be taken to Crookston Sunday night for barial in the family lot at that place, where lie the remains of Judge Benson, Mrs. Benson’s hus- band. Southern Banker Here. Mike Gorman, vice president of the Bankers National Bank - of Ardmore, Oklahoma, is a.visitor in the city, having come here from Wadena, being interested in some Wadena county lands which he was looking over. Mr. Gorman says things in -the south are not a§ briskas they for- merly ' were. Business has been rather poor of late. He attributes this to the fact that the legislation enacted in the new state is bad in many features. Populistic = tend- ancies prevail among the law- makers and capital is fighting “shy of Oklahoma for the present, until ing Window; or Suits. Spring Hats, Just take a look at our Cloth- in and ask our salesmen to show you some of our new Spring They are beauties. - E $15.00 to $30.00 Spring Neckwear, 0’Leary & Bowser Bemidji, Minnesota bettervstill, come Spring Shirts 5 the people calm down and get ona reasonable and sane. basis in enacting laws. As one instance of how unjust the Oklahoma laws are he stated that, for example, if a railroad wished to extend a branch only 30 miles, the road would have to form a separ- ate corporation in order to build the branch and would have to take out anew charter to construct the line. The insurance laws are also unjust. He said there were evidences that the bank guarantee law of Oklahoma- was not going to work out right very much longer. Mr. Gorman was raised at Fari- bault, this state, but has been a resi- dedt of Oklahoma for 32 years. T el o The Devil Coming. The theatre patrons of this city will shortly enjoy an excellent treat, one of the most talked of plays throughout the country, * The Devil.” This is the play of the daring Hun* garian writer, Franz Mohar, whose wonderous wit, impish imagination, shavian satire and cheerful comedy has already flashed his fame over Europe. 5 It was the women, perhaps who loudest sing the praises of this witty and wicked devil, but altogether wholesome and humorous devil. The women, better than any oth- ers, understand this handsome temp- ter, who whispers his cunning sug- PAULINE SIGHTS. gestions in the ears of lovers and winds his victims around his crafty fingers. The story'is human to the core and holds an audience breath- less throughout the play. “The Devil” will be played here by Maxim and Sights,Saturday evening, March 13th. - Seats on sale at the City Drug Store. ‘Maxim and Signts’ company-will play a three nights’ ' engagement at the City Opera -House, beginning Thursday evening, March 11th. Captain and Wife Drowned. New York; March 5.—Captain Will- {am - Ferguson - and . his wife were drowned by the sinking of the barge George B. Bates at the Baltimore and Ohio raflroad docks ~between St. George and New Brighton, S. L, dur- Ing the storm. Six other barges an- chored ne’xrby were sunk during the storm. 4 Brakeman Crushed to Death. St. Paul, March 5.—Harry Fitzsim- mons, aged thirty, brekeman on the Milwaukee road, was instantly killed ‘in the ‘yards near Phalen creek. He was caught between two box cars as he was making a coupling and crushed. Fitzsimmons’ home in in La Crosse, Wis. GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES Minneapolis Wheat. " Minteapolis, March 4.—Wheat— May, $1.147%; July, $1.14%. On track —No. 1 hard, $1.16% @1.16%; No. 1 Northern, $1.15% @1.15%; . No. 2 Northern, $1.14% @1.14%; No. 3 Northern, $1.10@1.12. St. Paul Union Etock Yards. St. Paul, March 4—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.00@6.25; fair to good, $4.560@5.00; good to choice cows and heifers, $4.00@5.00; veals, $5.25@6.25. Hogs—$6.00@6.40. - Sheep—Wethers, $5.00@6:50; yearlings, $6.00@6.50; lambs, $7.00@7.50. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, March 4.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.17; No. 1 Northern, $1.16; No. 2 Northern, $114; May, $1.14%: July, $1.15%; Sent., $1.02. Flax--To arrive and on track, $1.67%; May, $1.673%; July, $1.66; Sept.,, $1.43; Oct., $1.38%5. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicage, March 4.—Wheat—May, $1.18% @1.13%;. July, $1.05%; Sept., 98%c; Dec, 99%c. = Corn—March, 65%c; May, 6814c; July, 67% @673%c; Sept., 67%@67c. Oats—May, 56%c; July, 50%¢; Sept., 41%c. Pork—May, $17.30; July, $17.35@17.37%. Butter —-Creanieries, 22@28c; dairies, 20@ 25c. Fggs—I18@2Ic. Poultry—Tur- koys, 17c; chickens, 14%c; springs, 1514c., ‘Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, March 4,—Cattle—Beeve! 24.60@7.25; Texas steers, $4.40@5.50; Western steers, $4.10@5.60; stockers and_feeders,” $3.90@5.50; cows and heifers, $2.00@5.75; calves, $6.00@ 8.76. Hogs—Light, $6:30@6.65, mixed, $6.30@6.70; heavy, $6.40@6.75; rough, 36.40@6 505 good. to cholce heavy, ! ; Dpigs, 35. 35@6.20. - Sheep, $2. 35@5 80 5, “yearlings, - $6.10@7.20; @7.85. ADVISERS OF THE NEW PRESIDENT Sketches of Members of the Tait Cabinet. ARE LEARNED IN THE LAW Most of Them Were Disciples of Blackstone at §ome Time in Their Careers, Although but Few Are En- gaged in That Profession at Present. - Mitchoock the Youngest Member of New Administration. ‘Washington, March 5.—The follow- ing are brief sketches of the members of the cabinet of President Taft, as officially announced: Philander Chase Knox, Mr. Taft’s secretary of state, re-enters the cab- fnet after five years in the United States senate, to which he was ap- pointed in June, 1904, to fill the va- cancy caused by the death of Matthew S. Quay. Like most of his colleagues in the new cabinet Mr. Knox is a law- yer and first came into national prom- inence as attorney general in Mr. Mec- Kinley’s first cabinet, when he suc- cessfully prosecuted the Northern Securities case. Mr. Knox is fifty-six years old, having been born in Brownsville, Pa., May 6, 1853. After graduating from Mount Union college at Alliance, O., he began the study of law in Pittsburg later and three years later was admitted to the bar in that city. During the Homestead riots in 1892 he was counsel for the Carnegie Steel company and directed the legal end of that famous labor disturbance. ‘Wken in 1901 Mr. McKinley appointed him attorney general Mr. Knox’s par- ticipation in ‘the Homestead - affair caused some opposition on the part of labor organizations to his confirma- tion. Franklin MacVeagh. Franklin MacVeagh, merchant, sec- retary of the treasury, was born on a farm near Phoenixville, Chester coun- ty, Pa. He was graduated from Yale as B. A. in 1862 and from Columbia law school, New York, in 1864, and began practice with his brother, Wayne MacVeagh, but, his health fafl- ing, he abandoned law and went West. Shortly after he established in Chi- cago the wholesale grocery house of Franklin MacVeagh & Co., which for FRANKLIN MACVEAGH. many years has been one of the larg- est in the country and from which it is reported he has only recently re- signed. He is also a director of the Commercial National bank and other Chicago corporations. Mr. MacVeagh is distihguished in Chicago not only as a most successful merchant, but especially for his active work in behalf of civic progress and reform. Jacob M. Dickinson. Jacob McGavock Dickinson, the new secretary of war, is the Southern member of President Taft’s cabinet. A Mississippian by birth he is a citi- zen of Tennessee and as a Cleveland Democrat supported Mr. Taft for the presidency. Probably his mest nota- ble public service was as counsel for the United States in the Alaskan boundary case before the arbitration tribunal in London in 1903. He was an assistant attorney general of the United States during Cleveland’s ad- ministration and has been general counsel for the Illinois Central Rail- road company for some years, spend- | ing most of his time in Chicago, where the general offices of that company are located. Mr. Dickinson is fifty- eight ‘years old. He is_president of the American Bar association. George von Lengerke Meyer. George von Lengerke Meyer, who goes from the postmaster general’s office to the navy department, was brought into the cabinet in February, 1906, to succeed Postmaster General Cortelyou. He was at that time am- bassador to St. Petersburg, to which post he had been transferred from Rome, where he had served five years as ambassador. Mr. Meyer i3 a na- tive of Boston, in which city he was born in 1858. After graduating from Harvard he entered the employ of a commission firm and some years later became a member of the firm of Lin- der & Meyer, East India” merchants, which had been established by his father. He is an officer or director in many large manufacturing and finan- cfal concerns and has always been active in politics, having been a mem: ber of the Boston common council, an alderman, a member of the state leg- elature, serving as speaker of the lower house for three consecutive years. Frank H. Hitchcock. Although the youngest member of the new cabinet Frank H. Hitchcock, Mr. Taft’s postmaster general, i8 prob- ebly better known to the general pub- lic than any of his colleagues by rea- gon of the prominencc he obtained as chairman of the Republican nationall :| ington state.- P P e Gommitioo T the Fecent campalzn; Mr. Hitcheock is only forty-two years of in the.employ of the government. He 18 a native of Ohlo, but received his education in Massachusetts, to which state his parents removed while he ‘was_quite young. In Mr, Roosevelt’s first campaign he was assistant sec- retary to the Republican national com- mittee and was later appointed first assistant postmaster general. George W. Wickersham. New York's representative in the mnew cabinet is George W. Wicker- sham, who becomes attorney general. Mr. Wickersham is a member of the law firm in which President Taft's brother, Henry W. Taft, s a partner _GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM. and he is known as an expert in rail- road law. Although a resident of New York city Mr. Wickersham is a native of Penasylvania; having been born in Pittsburg in 1858. He first took civil engineering at Lehigh university, but later entered the law school of the Univergity of Pennsylvania, from which he holds the degree of bachelor of laws. He practice in Philadelphia, but later went to New York and associated him- self with the firm of Chamberlain, Car- ter & Hornblower. A year later he became managing clerk of the firm of Strong & Cadwalader, of which Pres- ident Taft’s brother is a member, and oventually was taken into partnership. Richard A. Ballinger. Four states may claim a proprietary new secretary of the interior. He is 8 native of Iowa, having been born in Boonsboro in 1859; after practicing 7aw in Illinois for a while he removed to Alabama and in 1889 he became a resident of Port Townsend, in Wash- The next year he was appointed United States commissioner at Port Townsend and later was elect ed judge of the superior court of Jef- ferson county. Five years ago Mr. Ballinger was elected mayor of Seat- tle and when his term as mayor ex- pired President Rooscvelt. appointed him commissioner of the general land office. James Wilson. 12 Secretary Wilson continues to hold the agricultural portfolio until next November he will have broken the record for continuous cabinet serv- ice, which is now held by Albert Gal- Iatin, once secretary of the treasury, who served twelve years, eight months and twenty-five days. . Secre- tary Wilson was appointed at the out- set of the McKinley administration. He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1835, and at the age of seventeen was brought to this country by his par- ents. He was-educated in the public schools of Iowa and at Iowa college. He engaged in farming-and, entering state politics, was' a member of the Twelfth, Thirteenth -and - Fourteenth assemblies . of - Towa, being elected speaker of the assembly in his last term. He served three terms in con- gress. Charles Nagel. Charles Nagel of St. Louls, the new secretary of commerce and labor, is better known among lawyers ‘and edu- cators than to the public at large, although he served as a member of the Missouri house of representatives and is a member of the Republican national committee. He s a mative ‘Westerner, having been born in Colo- rado county, Tex., in 1849. In the height of the Civil war the pronounced Union sentiments of Mr. Nagel com- pelled him to remove from Texas to St. Loufs. Mr. Nagel, as the Missouri member of the Republican national committee, served during the recent campaign as a member of the execu- tive committee and was in charge ot ‘the Western_headquarters. Battleships. Ride Out ‘Storm. Nortolk Va.,. March. 5—With the wind ‘blowing nearly forty ‘iles an hour across Hampton Roads the bat- tleships of the Sperry fleet still at anchor there had a very rough time of it. The great machimes of war rodd through the storm in perfect safety, but several of the small boats and launches were sunk or driven ashore. There was no loss of life, however, so far as has_been reported. Steel Sheet Prices Cut. Pittsburg, March B5.—Following a meeting ‘of independent steel sheet manufacturers in this city a reduction in the price of all grades of steel sheets ranging from $2 to $6 a ton, it is said, has been decided upon. The meeting was attended only by sheet manufacturers and a report that steel bar and billet prices had also been cut by the independents is not correct. 8t. Paul Banker Dead. 8t. Paul, March 5.—Joseph Lockey, | Minne: many years' one of the leading bank- ers of St. Paul and until recently president of the American National bank, is dead. Mr. Lockey sustained a stroke of paralysis some days ago and his strength since had been grad- ually declining. 1l Health Cause of Act. New York, March 5—Frank C. Hol- lings, head of the firm of W. C. Hol- linge & Co., 11 Wall street, dealers in _ Investment securities, committed sul- cide at a hotel {n this clty. He had been in {ll health for some time. age and since he left school has been immediately enteréd {- interest in Richard A. Ballinger, the, No. 435. $4.00 Cold Filled, Adjustable, Signet ‘Center, Any Letter Engraved. LATEST FADS in Pins, Cuff Links, Stick Pins, Hat Pins, Ete. Best Equipped Workshop in Northern Minnesota. We make a Specialty of Manufacturing and Jobbing. GED. T, BAKER & CO. City Drug Store Near the Lake WANIS ONE CENT A WORD. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice, FOR SALE—Two hundred acre farm land. Will make very easy term.s Inquire of C. C. Wood- ward. MISCELLANEOUS. A e oo PUBLIC LIBRARY—Open Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays 2:30to6 p. m., and Saturday evening 7:30 to 9 p. m. also. Library in basement of Court House. Mrs. Donald, librarian. WANTED—To rent April 1st, good five-room house, with yard, easy walking distance from P. O. Good tenant. Inquire at Pioneer office. i b A St A e WANTED—Balsam lath bolts. Will pay $3.00 per cord for Balsam lath bolts delivered at our mill. Douglass Lumber Co., Bemidji. 084257 .‘3‘:‘5““.‘.’&‘3“.& Solid glass,~detachable spring. JAMES ADAIR _PITTSBURG, PA: For Sale at The Pioneer Office YOU OWE it to your family; a means of instant, certain and inexpensive communication wita the outside world. Order the Northwestern m; faction or No l’ 7 tention to ¢ tinntoinen W) n as as I do to any of my cit; customera. I have the v&'% best. class of trade among the best dressed men in Mlnnelpn it. l’nn and Duluth, and I never fail to please. Out-of-town men can write me for samples and measure- ment blanks. I can make clothes for men whom I have mever seen just as well as I do for my clty customers who come into the store. lylelse call in my stores 01' write for samples. store, 310 Nlcollet a) Mgnnst g:l;l’zl Store, 406 Robert strest; Duluth 18 E Bnpeflox et T Yours ~truly, HARRY MITOHELY. In writing f ! address letter to H 'ug'fi'fi'&fi: $10 Nicollet Aa apolls. { | = | ‘. b} | 5 —