Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 8, 1909, Page 4

b Calumet Baking Powder The only highel m"p.fwd'fr o at oderate price. DISTRIGT GOURT WILL RECONVENE WEDNESDAY Grand Jury Will Complete Labors, and Criminal Calendar Will Be Taken Up. The regular February term of the district court for Beltrami couniy, which was adjourned ten days ago, will reconvene in this city Wednes- day morning. The petit jurors have been ordered to return at 10 o’clock Wednesday morning and the trial of cases by jury will be taken up at that time. There are several criminal and civil cases to be tried and the session will doubtless be a long one. The grand jury did not complete its work when here before and ad- journed on February 27th to recon- vene at 10 o’clock next Thursday morning. The grand jury has al- ready returned thirteen or fourteen indictments and has more work yet 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, PAULINE SIGHTS. e B Lt B shavian satire and -cheerful comedy has already flashed his fame over _Europe. 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- 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. l'}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. W. L. Brooks Won Tournament. W. L. Brooks of this city won the championship of the Bemidji Billiard Tournament Saturday afternoon by defeating W. J. Markham by a score of 100 to 88 at Gillette’s parlors. The match throughout has been a handicap tournament but Saturday Messrs. Brooks and Markham played even, 100 to 100 points. The tour- nament has been full of interest to B > W. L. BROOKS. the Bemidji cue artists and has been played during four weeks, one game being completed each evening. In winning Saturday’s game, Mr. Brooks raised his average to 857 and lowered Mr. Markham’s to 714. Mr. Barker has two more games to play, one with Mr. Boss and one with Mr. Crothers, and if he (Mr. Barker) secures both contests he will be tied with Mr. Markham for second place. Below is the standing of the differ ent members of the Bemidji Billiard Tournament: Player Played Won Lost Pctg. Brooks .. 0511754857 Markham. ", 2 714 Barker... 3 2 600 Torrance 4 3 571 Wyler. 3 3 500 Boss .. 3 3 500 Smith.... 1 5 166 Crothers 1 5 166 Birch wood, jack pine and tamarac, four foot and sixteen inch. Hayth wood yard, rear of P. O. block. ™| found, FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF BEAUTIFUL BEMIDJI Women's Study Club to Discuss Local Improvements.—May Form a City Organization. SIS The Woman’s Study Club of of Bemidji will observe what is known to club women as “Civic Rally Day” on the afternoon” of March 10th, when they will meet in the home of Mrs. W. H. Vye, 707 Bemidji avenue. Ladies from different parts’of the city have been invited to attend the meeting and several papers will be read and discussed along the line of making our city even more beautiful than it is at present. Steps will also be taken towards organizing a City Improvement Clup which will begin active work in the direction of preserving the city’s natural beauty and removing any disagreeable spots which might be Brinkman Theater Tonight. The features at this popular place of amusement this week is the “Princess Tarpeia,” premier escape artist. The princess escapes from handcufis, straight-jackets, mail bags ropes inumorable, and many other seemingly impossible ties. Princess Targeia invitss the local police force or sheriff to- handcuff her in any way, using their own ‘handcuffs for the purpose. A number of handcuffs are on ex- hibition in the window of the Brink- man Family Theater which have been used by the Princess. _St. Julian is the other feature this week presenting ‘‘head-dancing and unovelty atheletics” and an act which should prove an additional drawing to the splendid bill. The Six Rice Children to be seen at the Brinkman Theater this week will also prove a source of much amusement. The pictures are also an excep- tionally fine. set one of which, en- titled “In Old Arizona,” proved very pleasing to the audience last night. Don’t miss the opportunity of see- ing this exceptional program at the Brinkman Family Theater this week. The admission will be the same as usual, 10 and 20 cents, Married at Butte, Montana. Announcement came to the city yesterday that Miss Clara Shearer aud Mr. Frank Rockwell were mar- ried at Butte, Montana, recently. Miss Shearer is a grand-daughter of A, W. Titus, who recently left here for- the west. Mr. Rockwell formerly lived in Bemidji. He took a course in forestry with -the Uni- versity of Minnesota and is now dn|_ employe of the U. S. Forest Service, near Butte. o C harter of thq City of Bemidii The Bemidji Pioneer Publishing Co. has been trying to secure in advance the sale of enough copies of the city charter to cover the cost of its publication. It has long been the wish of citizens of the city that the Bemidji Pioneer Publishing Co. get out this work. “In order to cover the' cost of publica- tion an advance sale-of at least 100° copies must be' made. wish to insure the publication of this work place your order with us at once. Therefore if you The Beltrami = County Sunday school association will hold its first annual convention in the First Presbyterian church of Bemidji, Thursday, Friday, March 11th and 12th. Each” Sunday school in the _ |county is invited to send one or more delegates. A, M. Locker of St. Paul aud John Orchard of Fargo, N. Dak., both Sunday school experts, will be present. No-Sunday school workers in the countv can afford to miss this conyention, Bijou Is Fine. Do not fail to see the Heavenly Twins at the Bijou tonight in their novelty singing and dancing sketch. You cannot afford to miss this act. Also a complete change of pictures tonight. We show 3,000 feet of pictures three times a' week. Remember we do not change ' our pri.es when we getagood show. Come and :ee. Remember the Bijou. - 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 declaimersand 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. Good Time for K. P.'s. A regular meeting of Bemidji Lodge, K. of P., will be held Tues- day evening, and all members shotld be present. The business session will open promptly at 8 o’clock, at the con- clusion of which there will be cards, dancing and supper. "Members are requested to bring their ladies..» = 2 —D. D. Miller, C. C. Fire Alarm This Morning. The fire department was called this morning to the Parnel residence, next to the Presbyterian church, where a smoking oil stove had caused considerable alarm. The house was full - of smoke from the stove but nothing burned. Moral: Miller Insurance Agency. WHEAT STRIKES THE TOBOGGAN Drop of Over Three Cents in May Option. CAUSE IS NOT APPARENT Rumored That Patten, the Leaéing Long, Had Effected Private Settle: ments With Shorts Denied by the Former—Price -Now Nearly Five Cents Urder the Highest Point of the Season. Chicago, March 6.—A decline of 3% cents in May wheat on the board of trade was based largely on reports that the leading long had effected pri- vate settlements with shorts. This the latter denied, attributing the drop to lack 'of demand for cash wheat at principal - milling centers. Reports that the dominant trader was selling some of his heavy holdings through commission houses other than his own also were denied. “Guess he’s shaking out some ot the ‘trailefs,’ ” was a remark frequent- ly heard on the curb. © May wheat dropped to $1.15 before the market steadied and rallied half a cent. This price was 83 cents un der the previous day’s close and 4% cents under the high price of last ‘Wednesday. ~ July wheat at the bot- tom of the decline sold at $1.03%%, or 814 cents under the best price of ‘Wednesday. = WILL DINE SHERMAN TONIGHT New Vice President to Face Friends at Banquet® Table. . Washington, = March ~6.—Although Vice President Sherman has hardly recovered yet from the excitement of Inauguration day he will ‘be called upon tonight to face a large and en- thusiastic gathering of his friends. The occasion will be the dinner given n by Representative J. mer president of the National League 6f Republican Clubs. - “Amiong the' men invited to meet the new vice president are:the members of the Pennaylvania delegation in | congress, the’ members_of the Grid- | iron club .of Wasblnzton, the ~mem- _befl of | fltb‘ Flvs Oclnck club. “of. Pl\llm Insure with the T. Jii OPPOSED BY ~ THE SENATE Bill for Nomination of United States Senators Killed. SEVEN REPUBLICANS FOR IT But Thirty-seven Others Voted Against the Motion to Reconsider the Vote by Wnich the McColl Bill Was Killed by the Elections Committee. Board of Equalization Favored. St. Paul, March 6.—Only twenty- Blx of the sixty-three state senators want to permit the people to nomi- nate United States senators. This was determined on a full vote of the senate on a motion to reconsider the vote by which Senator McColl’s bill was killed by the elections committee the day previous. The twenty-six in- cluded all the Democrats, the. lone Populist and seven Republicans. The debate preceding the roll call ‘was marked by the most fervid ora- tory of the session, and because of the hurry in the impromptu speaking pos- sibility more than one senator will have to explain his words before his constituents. ‘When Representative Zelch’s bill to establish a grain and flour testing laboratory at the state farm school came up for passage in the house C. K. Melby -of “Minneota offered an amendment striking out the para- graph which authorized the charging of a fee of $5 from all who had grain tested except the state grain.inspec- tien department. Zelch said that if everybody were to be allowed to have grain tested free -the laboratory would be so overbur- dened that it would be of no value, but the house passed the amendment anyway. Then- Zelch said that the bill ‘was no good with that amendment on, and moved that the bill be indefinitely postponed. This carried, but later in the day C. M. Bendixen moved a reconsideration and the bill may be passed. For Board of Equalization. Representative Burdette Thayer of Spring Valley and T. J. Meighen of Preston, n member of the late state board of equalization, argued before the house committee on taxes in favor of Thayer’s bill to reinstate the board of equalization. Dual control was one of the advantages of retaining the sys- tem urged by Mr. Thayer. To have a Jdemocratic -body like the old board review the acts of the tax commission would make the people more satisfied, he said, and would be more represen- tative of the people. It would have a wholesome effect on the tax commis- slon to know Its acts wonld-be re- viewed. 4 Mr. Meighen sald that while he had the greatest respect for the ability and integrity of the present tax commis- slon; he believed that there is safety in counsel and in numbers and that { the people of the state want a board large enough so that the majority would not be swayed in such matters by their environment. ‘When the hearing was over the cemmittee was short of a quorum and took no action. 2 z With every member but Senator C. J. Swanson of Fridley signing the re- port, the senate committee on dairy products reported that the tuberculin test for cattle should be supported by the state. The test has been assailed bitterly by Senator Swanson, and even after the test last Saturday at South St. Paul he refuses to be convinced that it 18 a good thing, and although de- feated, 1s not satisfied. Free crushed rock for towns within seventy-five miles of St. Cloud is the prospect if a bill to be introduced by the senate road and bridge commit- tee becomes a law. It is contemplat- ed that a crushing plant will be-in- stalled at St. Cloud to be operated by the inmates of the reformatory. Will Carry Rock Free. Officials’ of the Great Northern, Omaha and Northern Pacific . roads have each offered to carry 100 cars of crushed rock seventy-five miles free for use on country roads leading to centers of trade. This offer was se- eured throngh the activity ‘of Louis ‘W. Hill, president of the Great North- err. and of the state highway commis- sfon. All saloonkeepers throughout the state will have to pay an extra license fee into the state treasury if a bill in- troduced by Representative G. H. Mattson of Roseau should become a law. The bill, besides providing for licenses of brewers, distillers and wholesale dealers in liquor, provides that all retailers in cities of 10,000 or over shall pay in addition to the pres- ent Hoense $200 into the state treasury and all retailers in smaller municipali ties shail pay $100 extra. Suburban electric lines will be com: pelled to put toilet rooms in their cars If the present law is enforced There is a law at present requiring passenger cars of all common carriers to be thus equipped and the recent de- cision that suburban lines are com- mon carriers would compel them tc put in the toilet rooms. Representa- tive Kling introduced 'a bill in the house a few days ago to exempt elec- tric lines from this provision of the code, but the rallroad committee of the house killed the bill. KILLED HiS S AGED MOTHER Mlnhlgan M-n Confesses to Brutll “Murder. Holland, Mich,, March 6.~—Hlton Baldwin has confessed to the outing attorney that he kn.led. his aged _mother, who was four day in her farmhouse Saugatuck. ‘He g0 win appeared ata nelghbors greatly. excited and wanted some one to go back home with him, saying that his| mother was. unconscious. Two nelgh- borg returned to the Baldwin farm with Him and found Mrs, Baldwin dy- ing on the floor, with four wounds on her head. She died before a physician reached, the house. Baldwin raid that his mother was alive when he first arose from bed in the morning, but that he found her dying when he returned from the bara soon afterward. ~Contradictions In " various statements Baldwin has made arcused _suspicion and Prosecutor Hoffman gave him s severe examina- tion, which was followed by the con: fession that he killed his mother. OF INTEREST IN GERMANY American Tariff Revision Arouses Con- siderable Anxiety. Berlin, March §—The German for- elgn office views William H. Taft’s assumption of the duties of president of the United States as likely to lead to -still closer friendly relations be- tween America and Germany and calls attention to the progress made in this direction during the administration of President Roosevelt. The -peaceful tone of President Taft’s inaugural ad- dress has created a most favorable impression in governmental circles and the ministry of the interior is awalting tariff revision with the keen- est interest. There is, however, con- siderable anxlety among German ex- porters over a possible disturbance of commerce under the agreement reached with the North commission. The newspapers allude to the or- derly ascent of Mr. Taft to the consti- tutional rulership of 100,000,000 people and the retirement of Mr. Roosevelt to private life as an impressive polit- ical spectacle. MORE BLOODSHED FEARED West Virginid Posse in Pursit of Ne- gro Murderer. Huntington, W. Va., March 6.— James Hill was called to the door of his home near Eccles, W. Va., and shot to death by Lon Jones, a negro, with whom he had had trouble earlier in the day.” Jomes fled to the moun- tains, but a posse was organized and is now in hot pursuit. ~Jones is a desperate negro, having killed ‘three men previously. and further bloodshed is feared if he is overtaken. Dies After Calling for Help. Dayton, O,, March 6.—Charles Tice, |. forty-two years of age, who came here recently from Clear Springs, Md., crawled to a telephone and told ths operator he was seriously ill. When, assistance arrived Tice was lying dead beside the instrument. Newspaper Man Excepted. Memphis, Tenn., March 8.—Contend- ing that a newapnper man 18 mot amenable to the law governing’ per- sons plying their‘vocations on Sunday City Judge F. E. Floyd has dismissed three misdemeanor charges against -the press representative of a local’ thoater, arrested with other attaches of the playhouse for violation of the Sunday law when performances were glvén. Other employes of the theater were fined. Cooper: Trial Nearing End. Nashville,. Tenn., March ‘8. —After two days of testimony offered to im- peach the .evidence produced by the defense in_the Cooper-Sharpe trial for | the murder of ex-Senator. E. W. Car- mack the prosecution has rested its case. Loeb and. Winthrop Confirmed. ‘Washington, March 8.—The ngmina- tlons of Wiillam Loeb, Jr., to be col- lector of the. port of New York, and Beekman Winthrop, to be assistant secretary of the navy, were confirmed by the senate in executive session. South Dakota Appointments. ‘Washington, March 8.—The presl- dent has nominated Themas C. Burns to be register of the land office and Oliver C. Kippenbrock to' be receiver of public moneys at Gregory, 8. D. GIIAIIVIAAND PROVISION PRICES Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolls, ‘March 6.—Wheat— May, $1:13; July, $1.13%. OQn track— No. 1. hard, $1.161 @1.15: No. 1 Northern, $1.14%@1.14%; No. 3 "Northern, $1.12% @1.12%; No. 3 Northerv, $1.09@1.11. 8t. Paul Union Stoek Yards. St. Paul, March 6.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.00@6.25; fair to good, $4.50@8.00; good to choice cows and heifers, $4.00@5.00; veals, $5.25@86.25. Hogs—3$6.10@6.35. $5.0005.50; yearlings, $6.0096.50; lambs, $7.00@7.50 Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, March 6.—Wheat—T¢ arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, 11 %3 No. 1 Northern, $1.14%; No. 2 Northern, $1.12%; May, $1.13%; July, $1.13%; “Sept., $1. 00%. Flax—To arrive and on track, $1.59%; May, $1.58; July, $1.59; Sept., $1.39; Oct., $1.88. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Ohloago, March 6—Wheat—May, $L163%6 @1.16%; July, $1.04% @1.04%; Sept,, 98¢; Dec,, 99c. Corn—March, 66%c; May, 6814@08%c; July, 7% @ 373 c; Bept., 67%c; Deg., Gha. "Oats "—May, b6l%c; July, 50%0" Sept., 413%c. Pork—May, $17.70; July, $17. 72%. Butter—Creameri 22@28c; dairles, 20@26c. Eggs—19@20%% Poultry Turkeys, 17¢ kel 18%0; springs, 15¢. = Waltem steeru, $4.10@5.00; stockers and feeders, $3:30@5.5 d ‘heifers, $2.00@5.805, calve 9.00. Hogr—Light, $6.40@6.80, mized, | '“.llfl 60; heavy, $6.25i | .35; g mx% 00d City Drug Store He 1s well armed Sheep—Wethers, | $4.00 Cold Filled, Adjustable, Signet Center, Any Letter Engraved. LATEST FADS in Pins, Cuff Links, Stick Pins, - Hat Ping, Ete. Best Equipped Workshop In Northern Minnesota. We make a Specialty oi Manufacturing and Jobbmg GED. T, BAKER & G0. Near the Lake WANIS - ONE CENT A WORD. . FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Two.lots, new cottage, nice location near B’emxd_u Lake. $650. Half “cash, eisy ferms. H. A Bliler, 1217 Bizby avenue. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. - The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber® stamp for-you .an thort notice. ¢ FOR SALE—Two hundred acre farm land. . Will make very easy term.s Inquire of C. C.:Wood- ward. FOR SALE—My shares of stock in the Record Pub. Co.- Address E. J. Taylor, Blackduck. FOR SALE—One eight foot" and one ten foot show case. Will sell cheap. Inqu at Luken’s. e e e e ———— FOR RENT. FOR ’RENT——Fumished rooms, with or without board. Inquire gzx:Mim;e’so;z avenue.- ok MISCELLANEOGUS. PUBLIC LIBRARY—Open ‘Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays 2:30 to 6 ‘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. 084257 dreens Mo b Solld glass, detacbable spriug, JAMES ADAI Ghe PIONEER Delivered to your gdoor every evening