Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 9, 1909, Page 2

| THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER A A A A A AN AN PUBLIEHED NVERY AFTNANOON, A A A A A A AN A AN NN BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By CLYDB J..PRYOR. B e Wntered in the postofice at Bemidil. Minn., a8 second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM CRITICISM OF HILL METHODS Commission Bafiled by Ac- counting System. FIGURES ARE CONFUSING Unable to Determine From Great Northern’s Reports Whether Its Earnings Are Excessive—Declares 980,000,000 of Its Stock Has Been Issued Without Payment of Any Monetary Consideration. Chicago, March }—In its decision in tho Spokane rate case the inter- state commerce commission launched a scathing denunciation of the financ- ing and acccounting methods em- ployed by James J. Hill. Im the effort to ascertain the value of the Great Northern road, with a view of deter- mining whether its earnings had been excessive, made so by high freight rates, the commission was completely bafled. The report states: “In the development of its system the Great Northern company has sometimes built railroads, becoming itself the owner of their capital stock; it has sometimes built railroads by advancing the money and afterward capitalizing the interest of its stock- holders in that property. After spend. ing days in examining the annual re- ports to this commission, the annual reports to its stockholders and cur- g J. d. HILL. i rent accounts in financial journals it is still impossible to state with any degree of accuracy what money has gone into the properties of the Great Northern™ system. It would be diffi- Bult to devise a scheme better intend- ‘ed to confuse and to conceal than that employed in the development and op- eration of the Great Northern railway system.” In considering the capitalization of the Great Northern the commission finds that $30,000,000 of the stock has been issued without payment of any monetary consideration to that com- pany, thus making the actual out- standing stock $120,000,000 instead of $150,000,000. As all this has been placed upon the market and sold to innocent investors the harm cannot now be safely undone. In conclusion it is stated that for the last six years the Northern Pacific road has earned from 10 to 15 per cent upon its capitalization of $155,- 000,000, in addition to the payment of its taxes and fixed charges, and that the Great Northern has earned about the same percentage, in addition te accumulating a surplus of about $60, 000,000. This, the commission de clares, s manifestly too much. FACES SERIOUS DANGERS Professor Starr Discusses Roosevelt’s African Trip. Chieago, March }. — “Theodore Roosevelt will never return to the United States alive if he carries out his announced intentions in exploring the dark regions of Africa in quest of big game.” This is the opinion of Professor Froderick Starr of the University of Chicago, whose prophecy I3 based upon his knowledge of the dangers of that country, particularly the insidious, fevers, through his expeditions to the Congo Free State. The ex-president, according to the educator, will invade a section of the country where few white men have dared to venture heratofore on account of the fatal nature of the epidemic of fevers and a disease known as the “sleeping sickness.” Fatal Avalanches in Austria, Vienna, March J)—Telegrams re- elved here from Carinthia, Austria, Teport that a series of devastating avalanches have occurred there and umbers of houses in the different vil- lages of the sectlon have been swept away. It is already known that ten deaths have resulted. Senate Adjourns to March 15, | Washington, March J—The senate has adjourned until the 15th inst. The crodentials of Senator Stephenson of ‘Wisconain failed to arrive in time to »ermfl.hlmmbalwm& o, —————————————————————————————————————— ———————————————————‘T AFTER WEEKS OF EFFORT Tentative Jury in Calhoun Graft Case Complete. San Francisco, March J—With the tentative jury at last completed, after weeks of effort, the trial of Patrick Calhoun, head of the United Rallways company, charged with offering and glving bribes to secure favorable ac- tion in the city council, will proceed. The next step will be to allow each PATRICK CALHOUN. side to exercise its right of peremp tory challenges, unless the prosecution or defense unearth in the meantime evidence disqualifying any of the men now in the box. In the latter case the wearying round of examining veniremen and selecting temporary jurors will be resumed. EARLY BOND ISSUE |5 NOT PROBABLE Treasury Has Good Working Balance at Present, Washington, March ' .—What views the incoming secretary of the treasury may hold as to the necessity for an- other bond issue are mot kmown, but old officials whose judgment is relied on do not regard a bond issue as at all imminent, At this time the treasury has a working balance of $66,000,000 and with customs receipts showing a con- slderable increase over a year ago it is not anticipated that Secretary Mac- Veagh will favor an issue of bonds before midsummer. Under an act passed during the Spanish war the secretary is given authority to issue treasury one-year certificates up to $100,000,000. The department can avail itself of this authority or it may issue Panama canal bonds bearing 2 Dper cent, as against 3 per cent carried by the treasury certificates. The orig- inal act providing for the construction of the canal authorized the issue of $130,000,000 in construction bonds and this authority already has heen availed of to the extent of about #70,- 500,000, which would leave the secre- tary with authority to issue at any time in lLis discretion bonds of this class amounting to $54,500,000, or any part of it. So far as known here Mr. MacVeagh has not expressed himself as to which of these fssues would best serve the public needs. LAW BOOKS FILL HIS CELL Albert T. Patrick at Work on His Brief. Ossining, N. Y. March \)—By di- rection of the court Warden Frost has relieved Albert T. Patrick from rou- tine work as a life prisoner in the stato prison at present. The prisoner is allowed to.obtain books from the law library and his cell looks like a law office. The appellate division in Brooklyn, before which court he made a dramatic argument for his liberty, gave him two weeks in which to flle a brief pending the decision of the court on his motion. PARTY .POLITICS BANISHED Colorado Springs Starts Innovation by Revising Ballots. Colorado Springs, Colo., March }.— Following the policy announced in a previously adopted resolution the charter convention placed the ban on party politics in this city. The elections report provides that “no ballot shall have printed thereon any party or political designation or mark and there shall not be appended to the name of any candidate any such party or political designation or mark or anything indicating his views or opinions.” WiIll Continue Under Taft. ‘Washington, March 3.—The conser- vation commission will continue ite existence under the Taft administra- tlon. This conclusion was reached at 8 conference between President Taft and the members of the joint commit- tee representing the state conserva- tion organizations and the national or- ganizations appointed last December. SOME PRODUCERS FAVOR IT Congress Asked for Reciprocal Coal Trade With Canada. Pittsburg, March ' i—In an attempt to persuade congress to establish re- ciprocal coal trade with the Dominion of Canada practically every coal op- erator in the Western Pennsylvania district has signed his name to a peti- tion addressed to the ways and means committee of the house of representa- tives, Such ‘an agreement, say these men, would mean an immense increase in the output of bituminovs coal, as un- der the existing circumstances the en- tire middle portion of Canada would draw directly from the Western coal fields of this state. The high duty on coal at present makes such trade al ASKS INJUNCTION ~ IN CHURCH CASE Chicago Religious Scandal Gets lutq Courts. L nuSi;Ann SEEKS A WRIT Would Enjoin Methodist Minister and the Trustees and Stewards of the Chiurch Erom Printing and Circulat- ing Among the Members a Con- fession Made by His Wife to the Pastor. Chicago, March }.—A situation which involves the resignation of ‘a pastor from his church, the threat- ened disruption of another church and a “scandal which is without founda- tlon” was presented in a bill for an injunction filed in the superior court bere. The bill was filed by John Lavender and seeks to enjoin Rev. Edward B. Crawford, pastor of the Woodlawn Park Methodist church, and the trustees and stewards of the church from printing and ciroulating among church members a confession made by Mrs. Mary Lavender, wife of the plaintiff, to Dr. Crawford. The bill recites: “During January or February, 1909, as pastor of said church, in conversa- tlon with a certain lady received from said lady, who believed she was con- versing in confidence between pastor and communicant, certain statements regarding her spiritual condition, ex- perience and progress, but which he interpreted to be misconduct between said lady and a certain minister and by threatening to publish said alleged confession caused the resignation of said pastor.” ~ The pastor who resigned was Rev. John D. Leek of the Western Avenue Methodist church. When asked why he resigned he replied: “Because I am a Christian and a man.” The bill for injunction declares that there i3 no exigency which makes it necessary to the ‘welfare of the con- gregation to publicly disseminate any information “in further betrayal of sald confession, but, on the contrary, the less agitation there is the better it will be for the welfare of the church ard of the congregation.” Judge Barnes refused to issue the injunction because he said the other side had mot been notified of the ap- plication. PROMINENT IOWAN IS DEAD J. W. Blythe, Leader of Standpatters, Expires Suddenly. Des Molnes, March . i—A long dis- tance telephome message from Wa- pello states that J. W. Blythe of Bur lington dropped dead while~ stopping at a country place. He was out hunt- ing. Mr. Blythe was one of the most prominent men of the state. He was born in Cranbury, N. J., in 1850 and was a graduate of Princeton univer sity. He was admitted to the bar in 1876, since which time he has been practicing law in Jowa. For the last six or seven years he has been gén eral counsel for the Chicago, Burling- ton and Quincy railroad. He was recognized as state leader of the Iowa “standpatters.” RESULT OF LOWER PRICES Reading Iron Company Announces Re- duction in Wages. Reading, Pa., March }.—F. C. Smink, president of the Reading Iron -com- pany, has issued a statement in which he says that there has been a great decline in the price of the various products manufactured by the com- pany, ~wrought. iron . pipe - having dropped $10 to $11 per ton. Ow- ing to this condition he announced a reduction in wages in the “different departments from 7% to 15 per cent. The puddling basig will be at the rate of $3.75 per ton. The former rate was $4.50 a ton. TO DISCUSS WAGE SCALE Operators and Miners to Hold Gonfer: ence Thursday. Philadelphia, March #.—Confirma- tion was had at the office of President Baer of the Reading railroad of the statement made by President Lewis of the Mine Workers’ union that there will be a conference here Thursday between representatives of the union and the companies owning the mines. This conference, it is expected, will settle the guestion of a wage agree- ment between the anthracite miners and operators for three years from April'l. Matricide Given Life Sentence. Allegan, Mich.,, March #.—Hlton Baldwin, who murdered his mother, Mary Raldwin, on their farm twa miles east of Sagatuck Thursday morning, was sentenced by Judge Padgham in circuit court to life fm- prisonment at Jackson. Hospital Patient Burned. Jowa City, Ia, March }—In a-fire ‘which damaged the university homeo- pathic hospital Mrs. Arthur Meyer, a patient from Keokuk, Ia., was fatally burned. Her yearold baby was slightly burned. The fire originated In Mrs. Meyor’s room. MORE LAND FOR MINNESOTA State Treasurer Has Plan Which May Bring 200,000 Acres. ‘Washington, March 3. —Approxi- Minnegota will pass into the posses- Induced to put into the form of law a plan submitted for the considera~ State Tredsurer Lawrence Dinehart. Mr. Dinehart proposed that the goy: ernment ghall cede to | mately 200,000 acres of public land mJ slon of the state if congress can be' tlon of the Minnesota delegation by |. embraced ~In “Indian Teservations or forestry reserves, Mr. Dinehart ex- plains that the state could use this land to enlarge the university fund, for the schools or for other public purposes. A blll providing for the cesslon ae indicated will he introduced at the regular session of congress, be- gloning in December. Minnesota members’ express the be- Hef' that the bill in question can be passed without dificulty. —_— LIABILITIES VERY HEAVY Christie Grain Company. of Kansas - City, Kan., Falle. Kansas City, Mo, March 3.—The Christie Grain company of Kansad City, Kan,, has failed. Judge Fischer of the Wyandotte county district court “appointed W. M. Whitelaw as receiv: er for the grain firm, The liabilities will reach about $125,000. The Christie company was the heaviest operator in grain, stocks and provisions on the Kansas board of trade. It had 110 correspondents in the principal cities of Iilinols, Towa, Missourt, Kansas, Nebraska and Colo- rado. SHOOTS HIS STEPSISTER lowa Man Then Tries to Kill His Mother-In-Law and Himself. ‘Waterloo, Ia, March 3.—Winston Bucknell at Greene, Ia., fatally shot his stepsister, Frances Miller, aged sixteen years, in a family quarrel, and tried to kill his mother-in-law, Mrs. Frederick Butzlass. Bucknell then at tempted suicide by shooting, but a watch chain deflected the bullet. He ‘was captured by citizens who threat- ened to lynch him. Deputy sheriffs are protecting Bucknell. PASSES SECOND READING Bill to Compel Englishmen to Rise and Retire Earlier. London, March O.—The daylight saving bill passed its second reading in the house of commons by 180 votes to 94. This bill was drafted to promote the earlier use of daylight in certain months yearly by putting forward the clock twenty minutes on four succes- sive Sundays in April and by revers- ing the process on the four Sundays in September. The bill, it has been argued, would be of great benefit to oll classes by giving the people just so much more sunlight in which to have recreation, while the wage earner would retire earlier and thereby save the.expense of light. ACKNOWLEDGED TO Sifuation Between Ausiria-Hun- gary and Servia, Berlin, March J—The situation be: tween Austria-Hungary and. Servia, arising from the efforts of the latter country . to obtain compensation for the annexation by the dual monarchy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is ac knowledged to be disquieting. There is, however, this advantage, the fis- Bues are more clearly defined. It can be said with authority that everything now depends upon the position Russia takes. The situation is as follows: Servia has undoubtedly renounced all her direct demands, both territorial and economical, but at the same time she charged Russia to place these de- mands before an international confer- ence. Austria-Hungary decfined to ac- cept such a conference before the points at issue with Servia were set- tled. Austria-Hungary 1s prepared to grant favorable commercial and. eco: nomical compensations to Servia if Servia congents to negotiate direct; Lul should a conference be called to deal with these’ questions - Austria- Hungary, with the support of Ger- many, would oppose any concessions. Austria-Hungary and Germany con- ‘sider that a conference should be called only-to satisfy agreements al: ready made and they do not recognize the right of the powers in any way to intervene in questions concerning two Independent nations. ‘Vienna, March ‘B.—Count Forgach, the Austro-Hungarian minister at Bel- grade, has been instructed-to inform the Servian government that, owing to the attitude maintained by Servia for the last few months, the govern- ment of the dnal monarchy, to its re- gret, has not been in a position to submit: a renewal of the commercial treaty with Servia, which expires March 81, for parliamentary sanction. HALF SETTLED IN NEW YORK Sixteen Thousand Irish Emigrants Landed in 1908. New York, March )—Figures issued by the Irish Emigrant society show that during “the’year 1908 ‘there land- .ed at the port of New York from Ire. land 16,341 persons. Of that number 6,990 were males and 9,351 females; 1,978 were under fourteen years of age; 14,679 between fourteen and forty-five years old and 684 over forty- ,five years old, Of this total number of arrivals here more than half re mained in the city, while the rest were scattered ~ throughout = the United States, the greatest number going to Tllinols. - New Jersey came mnext and then Pennsylyania. The -immigrants brought’ with them in cash .nearly $500,000. During the year ninety were debarred from landing. Manufacturer Ends His Life. Plqua, ’O‘, March /. —W. H. Wal- burn, aged fifty-two years, a leading manufacturer of St. Parish, near hers, committed suicide by hanging himself in his barn. The body was discovered by Mr. Walburn's son. - STE T CURE A COLDINONE DAY, o s VE'S slgnaturo is o BE DISQUIETING - COUGH REMEDY A MEDICINE OF REAL WORTH It Not Only Oures Colds and Grip, But Prevents Them From Re- sulting in Pneumonia. 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Justice Garretson replied to Assistant District Attorney O’Leary’s application that a date be set on Wednesday next for Captain Hains’ trial by stating that, as there ‘were two men in the Queens county jail who had been awaiting trial there for murder in the first degree for more than a year, he believed their cases should first be disposed of. - He set the date for these trials for March 22 and 23 next and said he would post- pone indefinitely the naming of a date for the Hains trial. How’s This? ‘We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Cata rrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO,, Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Oheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transac- tions, and finarcially able to carry out any oblisations made by his firm. ALDING. KINNAX & MARVIN, ‘Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. 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