Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, June 10, 1909, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED NVERY AFTERNOON, BEMIDII PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. C. J. PRYOR. @ E. CARSON. A. G. RUTLEDGE, News Editor. Tntered in the postofice at Bemidii. Minn., second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM —_— “REFORM PROMISED FROM WITHIN.” Duluth News-Tribune: The brew- ers in their national meeting last week emphasized the desirability of divorcing the saloons from politics. It is not the custom of political parties or factions in any campaign, municipal, county or state, to directly appeal to' the business in- terests of any other class of traders. Itisafact that in nearlv every campaign, it is the custom. for some party, faction or candidate to seek the solid support of the liquor in- terests and that, too, when no party, other than of the prohibitionists, is threatening any restrictive measures. No other business interest con- siders it an act of hostility that it shall abide by the law. No other combines to punish parties or candi- dates for an effort to enforce the law. No other combines asa unit to help or oppose any party. We believe the national association of brewers has been sincere in its announced purpose to correct many evils in the liquor business most distasteful and most complained of by the people. The results of its policy in this direction have been good in a number of cities; in others no effort seems to be made to carry it out. If the saloon could be divorced from politics and the saloon men vote simply as other business men vote, they would do themselves the largest, possible service. If they would carry out that other announced policy of the national body to put the groggery out of business and add to this, limits in cities which would restrict saloons to business districts and in the country to organ- ized villages, they would stand in much less danger from county option. COMMENDS OUR CONSOLIDATION. Moorhead Citizen: The Bemidji Pioneer, which has been published in that thriving city for many years, has purchased the outfit of the Be- midji News and Record and have consolidated them making one of the best newspaper plants in that section of the state. It is 2 good move for both the papers and Be- midji and we know that the people are assured of a good paper. The policy outlined will be a broad one for the benefit of Bemidji and all concerned, and in an editorial on the subject, the Pioneer says, “Now, let’s all get together; drop your imaginary grievances, and assist the Pioneer and the Bemidji Sentinel in making Bemidji the best little city in FAMOUS EDUCATOR A SUICIDE Body of Charles Ettinger Found In Lake Michigan. Chicago, June 10.—After prophesy- ing his own death and writing a series of melancholy poems Charles Ettin- ger, aged sixty-six, one of the founders of Chlcago university and a famous educator, was found drowned in Lake Michigan. There is no doubt that he committed suicide while mentally irre- sponsible. Ettinger was last seen on May 24. Several days previous he had told a friend that he was going crazy and he begged that he be kept under re- straint for fear ho would do himself harm. His family, however, could not believe that his brilliant mind was clouded and refused his request to put him in a sanitarium. Lttinger was associated with the late William R. Harper, first president of the Chicago university, at Way- land university, which was the nucleus of Chicago. With Harper he planned the great institution that now occu- ples the old world’s fair gateway. In early years he taught for some time In Milwaukee and engaged in busi- ness there. SUIT FORMALLY DISMISSED Reached in $30,000,000 Damage Case. New York, June 10.—The suit of the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining com- pany for $20,000,000 damages from the American Sugar Refining com- pany was formally dismissed by Judge Holt in the United States cir- cuit court when counsel for the plain- tiff informed the court that a settle- ment had been effected. In a state- ment issued by the American Sugar Refining company it was stated that the terms of settlement would not be made public officially until the Penn- sylvania courts had passed upon them. 8ettlement Unlon and Nonunionists Clash. Wellston, O., June 10.—A bloody fight occurred here between men brought here from Cincinnati and striling employes of the Peck-Will- famson company, manufacturers of heating and ventilating apparatus. BIG BLACK HAND -ROUNDUP [N OHIO Arrests Result of Secret Service Activity. MARION ITALIAN. LEADER Trunk Full of Incriminating Letters Found In Fruit Store Give Names of Members and Numerous Victims. Thousands of Dollars Secured by Extortion and Blackmail Sent to Italy by Men Under Arrest. Marion, O., June 10.—United States Becret Service Agent J. F. Oldfield, who arrested Sam Lima, a Marion fruit merchant, as a leader of an Ital- lan Black Hand society, has gone to Columbus, taking with him a trunk full of incriminating letters found in Lima’s store. Some of the letters, all written in Italian, were decorated with skull and crossbones. Others were prepared with neatly drawn bloeding hearts pierced by daggers. More of the letters contained differing designs of threatening insignia of Black Hand mystery, all intended to terrify prospective victims of a band of extortionists whose censor and commander-in-chief in the state of Ohio, the federal officers assert, is Lima. With Lima there were arrest- ed here seven other Italians. Four were later released, but Samuel Rizzo and Sebastian Batazlio are held by the sheriff. They were associates of Lima and in their trunks the secret service agents found. letters of the same character as the collection taken from the safe in Lima's store. While the authoritles here are await- log the arrival of United States Mar- shal Chandler from Cleveland, who will take Rizzo and Batazlio to To- ledo, secret service operatives are searching for Italians in neighboring eities who are suspected of implica- tion in an extortionist plot that has netted the band thousands of dollars In blood money within the past few months. Lima was first suspected by the au~ thorities after John Amicon, a wealthy Itallan fruit dealer of Columbus, O., recelved a letter demanding $10,000 and threatening his life unless the money was paid. This letter, it was discovered, was sent from Marion through a series of secret Italian agents. Proceeds Sent to Italy. Lima is known to have sent $800 to an agent in Italy within the last three weeks. The money was sent through the Marion postoffice. His business here is a small one and the federal officials declare that its profits would not net in years the amount of money that has passed through Lima’s hands in the past few months. Ten thousand dollars have been sent to Italy from the men now being round- ed up, say the federal officers. All this money, it is declared, was wrung from weelthy men of their own race. Lima’s store, it is asserted, was the headquarters of a group operating in Ohio, with' Cleveland, Columbus, Cin- cinnati and Toledo as the chief sources of manipulation. Lima is ac- cused of managing the blackmailing scheme and censoring all mall. He was forwarded all letters and passed on them. If he chose to send them out he would enclose them in separate envelopes, addressed to agents of the band in different cities. - These agents would forward them to other mem- bers of the band until finally the prospective victim would receive a threatening demand for money. The amounts demanded varied from $200 to $1,000. Through the chain system the origin of the letters was traced with difficulty and Marion was dis- covered as the clearing house after several months’ persistent investiga- tion. The letters confiscated fill two large mail pouches. Some were re- cefved from points as far west as South Dakota. They show, the offi- cers assert, that hundreds of Italian business men have been paying tribute to the Black Hand to secure immunity from death or torture at the hands of members of the society. Books show- ing the receipt of money and the divi- slon among members of the gang also were obtained by the officers. The names of many active members of the Black Hand, together with the names of hundreds of victims, ‘are in possession of the officers. CAUGHT AT BELLEFONTAINE Alleged Go Between for the Ohio Black Hand Gang. Columbus, O., June 10.—Collogero ‘Viccarrio of Bellefontaine, an Italian, was arrested at Bellefontaine by Post- office Inspector Hosford and will be taken to Toledo by United States Marshal Chandler of Cleveland. He is charged with being the go between in securing money for the Black Hand gang that has been run down at Ma- rion and Columbus, Letters found in his room at the residence where Sil- vatoria Cira was assassinated a year ago have been sent to Columbus. Cira 18 supposed to -have. been killed by the Black Hand. Postal Inspector Oldfield is positive that Viccarrio was conn’x>sd with the murder of the New Lork detective, Petrosino, in Italy, vome ¥onths ago. TOUCHED TWICE FOR WATER Balloon Indiana Disquallfied In Re- cent Race. Indianapolis, June 10.—Carl G. Fish- er and G. L. Bumbaugh, pilot and aide of the balloon Indiana, acknowledged In a dispatch to the Indlanapolls News that they had -been disqualified in | having touched earth twice before they made their final landing in the Dational distance race of the Aero Club of America. “Our_water was unfit to drink” says the dispatch, “and at Schackie Island, Tenn., we came down for wa- ter. Next morning the water was again tainted and we landed for wa- ter again, regardless of being dis- qualified. We concede without argu- ment time and distance prizes to the other contestants.” ‘With the Indiana out the endurance trophy goes to A. Holland -Forbes, pilot of the New York, who was up 86 hours and 10 minutes. The record is 44 hours HEAT PROSTRATES VETERANS Confederates at Memphis Reunion Suffer Greatly. Memphis, Tenn., June 10.—After one of the hottest nights in years the sun arose ‘on the second day of the Unit- ed Confederate Veterans’ reunion, shining fiercely and beating down mercilessly on the asphalt streets. All night long thousands of people walked the streets or rode on the cars, seek- ing In vain a cooling breeze. Thou- sands more, unable to obtain accom- modations, slept in the parks and weére better off than those who had rooms in high priced hotels. The heat and excitement is hardest on the old soldlers and to look at them, bent and crippled with age, one can readily belleve that this is prob- ably the last big reunion of the Unit- ed Confederate Veterans. There were many prostrations. RELIGIOUS OUTBREAK OCCURS IN SCOTLAND Score of Persons Dangerously and Many Slightly Hurt, Glasgow, June 10.—Trouble that has been brewing for months among the Catholics and Protestants at Lanarkshire is at fever heat as a re- sult of a riotous clash between the two in the town of Motherwell, twelve miles southeast of here. It is not clearly known yet just what started the trouble, but a large open air Protestant meeting was sud- denly converted into an anti-Catholic demonstration. The Catholics barricaded themselves in their homes, but the Protestants, with a big numerical advantage, broke into many of the houses and assault- ed the occupants. A detail of police was called into action and succeeded after an hour's clubbing of the belligerents in restor- ing order for the time. Twenty of the rioters were dangerously and a hundred or more slightly hurt. A renewal of the trouble is immi- nent, not only in Motherwell, but throughout the country, as the ill feeling between the sects is general. POLICE SHOOT AN ATTORNEY Claim They Fired at the Tires of His Automobile. Indianapolis, June 10.—In a motor car chase led by Sam Dowden, a prominent attorney who lives at the University club, pursued by another car containing Chief of Police Metz- ger, Captain of Detectives Asch and Adelbert Wilson, chief of police of Oakland, Cal, Dowden was shot through the knee. Dowden’s car stopped at once and the police car- ried him to a physician. Chief of Police Metzger said that several shots were fired, one by him, at Dowden’s car after the gong on the police car had been rung repeatedly and all the policemen had yelled at Dowden to stop. Dowden, they say, was going thirty-five miles an hour. The shots were fired at the tires of his machine, they say. Heather Wins Motor Race. Hamilton, Bermuda, June 10— Heather, owned by Richmond Lover- Ing, is the winner in the motor boat contest from New York to this port. The race was for the Bermuda chal- lenge cup and a cash prize of $1,000. GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, June 9.—~Wheat—July, $1.30%; Sept, $1.11%@®1.11%. On track—No. 1 hard, $1.35@1.35%; No. 1 Northern, $1.34@1.34%; No. 2 Northern, $1.22@1.32%; No. 8 North- ern, $1.29% @1.81%. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, June 9.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.34%; No. 1 Northern, $1.32%; No. 2 Northern, $1.30%; July, $1.30%; Sept., $1.11%. Flax—To arrive and on track, $1.80%; July, $1.79%; Sept., $1.52; Oct., $1.44, St. Paul Union Stock Yards. 8t. Paul, June 9.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.00@6.50; fair to good, $4.50@5.00; good to cholece cows and heifers, $3.00@4.00; veals, $5.25@86.00. Hogs—$7.15@7.45. Sheep—Wethers, $6.00@6.2 yeerlings, $6.75@7.00; lambs, $7.25@17.75; spring lambs, $7.00 ®8.00. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, June 9.—Cattle—Beeves, $5.25@17.30; Texas steers, $4.60@6.30; Western steers, $4.75@6.40; stockers and feeders, $3.60@5.50; cows and heifers, $2.40@6.25; calves, $6.00@ 8.00. Hogs—Light, $7.00@7.50; mixed, $7.20@17.75; heavy, $7.25@7.85; rough, $7.25@7.45; good to cholce heavy, $7.45@7.85; pigs, $6:10@7.00. Sheep —Native, $4.00@6.30; yearlings, $6.25 @7.15; lambs, $5.50@8.25. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, June 9.—Wheat—July, $1.19%; Sept., $1.10%@1.10%; Dec. $1:08% @1.08%; May, $1.113%. Cor —July, 72% @73¢; Sept., T0% @T0%c; Dec., .59% @59%¢c; May, 60%c. Oats —Jn-ly, 53’,&0 Sept., 44%@44%c; )4514c; May, 47%c. Pork— 3 Sept., $20.20. Butter 23@27c¢; dairies, 20% @ Eggs—19@21%ce. Poultry— chickens, - 13%c; 24%%ec. Turkeys, - 14c; springs, 20@30c. DINGLEY RATE S RESTORED Senate Increases House Fig- ures on Wool ‘Wastes. VOTE STANDS 40 TO 30 ®Progressive” Republicans Generally Line Up With Democrats Against the Advance From 20 to 30 Cents a Pound—Senator Warren Declares Dingley Rate Necessary to Save a Great Industry. Washington, June 10.—By an aye and nay vote of 40 to 30 the senate adopted the finance committee’s amendment restoring the Dingley rate ©f 20 cents a pound on wool top waste and other wastes. The house rate was 20 cents. The “progressive” Re- publicans generally voted with the Democrats against the increase. This vote was the first that has been taken on the woolen schedule and is regarded as a test vote on all amendments to that schedule. On the amendment no Democratic senator voted in the affirmative, while Mr. Crawford and Mr. Gamble, who have geuerally voted with the “progressive” Republicans and Democrats, voted aye. TFoster of Louisiana voted with the Democrats, although generally vot- ing with the majority. Republicans voting no were Beveridge, Bristow, Brown, Burkett, Clapp, Cummins, Dol- lver, La Follette and Nelson. At the opening of the session Sen- ator Warren resumed his speech. Pre- senting a comprehensive review of the wool industry and its relations to the protective tariff he entered upon an appeal to the senate to maintain tho duties recommended by the com- mittee on finance as necessary to the welfare of a great industry. Wool Growers Prosperous. “There has never been a time,” sald Senator Warren, “when wool growers have been prosperous unless the woolen manufacturers were pros- perous. It has been said here with a sneer that the woolen manufacturers and the wool growers had made the same arguments. I ask in all serious- ness ‘whether that is not a proper thing to do or whether they should have each other by the throat.” Interrupting, Senator Dolliver re- ferred to a rag trust in this country, which Mr. Warren said he suspected was largely organized on the plan of Colonel Sellers, as he had heard noth- ing of it until the senator from Iowa had called it to his attention. After considerable debate, which did not bear directly upon the committee amendments raising the house rates on shoddy from 20 to 25 cents a pound and on noils, wool extract, yarn waste, thread waste and all other ‘wastes composed wholly or in part of wool from 18 to 20 cents a pound, they were adopted. The two amend- ments were voted on together, the ayes being 42 and the noes 31. AGREE TO POSTPONE HEARING 8pokane Rate Case Goes Over Until Next Fall. Washington, June 10.—An agree- ment has been reached between the interstate commerce commission and the parties interested in the Spokane rate case, including the shipping in- terests and the railroads, that the phases of the question yet in contro- versy should be postponed until next fall, when the whole matter will be threshed out on its merits. It was agreed that the defendant railroads should file with the com- mission class rates in accordance with the decision of the commission an- nounced a few weeks ago, but that the commodity rates should remain as they are until the entire question could be gone over by the commis- sion. OPPOSES CORPORATION TAX Senate Canvassed on Proposal to In- crease Revenue. ‘Washington, June 10.—The senate was canvassed to determine what would be the fate of a proposition to place a tax upon dividends of corpora- tlons as a substitute for an income tax. It developed that there is over- whelming sentiment in opposition to such a plan. Practically all who op- posed the income tax idea are against the corporation tax. The supporters of the income tax refuse absolutely_to Yo afdetracked from the prmciple” for which they are contending. Crop Average Below Last Year. ‘Washington, June 10.—The general average condition of crop growth in the United States on June 1, based on all' the' crops reported to the depart- ment of agriculture, was announced as approximately 4 per cent below the conditions on June 1 of last year, but about 8 per-cent better than two years ago. Old Wage Scale Restored. Baltimore, June 10.—As’a result of the jmprovement in the iron and steel trade the Maryland Steel company has announced that the wage scale, which was cut 10 per cent on April 1, will be restored in all departments of the big plant on July 1. Two thou- gand men will be affected. TROOPS MAY GO TO SCENE Clash Likely to Follow Killing of Ed Callahan. Lexington, Ky., June 10.—Elisha Bmith and Levi Johnson, accused of shooting former Sheriff Ed Callahan, were lodged in jail at Jackson. It is reported that feud factions are arriv- ing in Jackson and troops may be asked to prevent a clash. A special grand jury will Investi- gate the charges against the three prisoners. No more arrests are ex- pected. Hurled Into Burning Bullding. Halifax, N. S. June 10.—Twenty men were hurled into a burning build. ing while fighting a fire in the plant of the Nova Scotia Furnishing com- pany. The roof of one of the build- ings, on which the men were stand- Ing, suddenly collapsed. One man was killed and seven were injured in the accident. New Head of Shriners. Louisville, June 10.—George L. Btreet of Richmond, Va, was ad- vanced from deputy imperial poten- tate to imperial potentate at the husi- ness meeting of the Knights of the Mystic Shrine. He succeeds Edwin I Alderman of Cedar Rapids, Ia. New Orleans was selected as the meeting place for 1910. FOR BETTER CONTROL- OF GOMMON CARRIERS President Taft Will Recommend Changes in Federal Law. ‘Washington, June 10.—President Taft has begun the consideration of the railroad situation of the country with & view of formulating recom- mendations that he will make to con- gress for the amendment of the inter- state commerce act. If his recom- mendations are adopted a substantial advance will be made in the govern- mental supervision of interstate car- riers beyond a point reached by Pres- ident Roosevelt. He will endeavor to obtain: Authority for the interstate com- ‘| merce commission to classify mer- chandise for transportation. Supervision by the interstate com- merce commission over the issues of stocks and bonds by railroad com- panies. Prohibition of the purchase of stock in a competing line by a raflroad. Prohibition against the service of the same men upon the boards of di- rectors of competing lines. An improvement of the machinery now existing for the ascertainment of the physical value of the rallroad property. An extension of the so called “com- modities” clause” so as to forbid rail- roads from having any connection with coal or other producing corpora- tions—in other words to confine car- riers solely to the business of trans- portation. ARE SETTLED OUT OF COURT Cases Against Number of Wyoming Cattlemen, Denver, June 10.—According to a Republican special from Sundance, ‘Wyo., the criminal cases which grew out of the raiding of the sheep camps and burning of the ranch buildings of the Rodney King Sheep company and the Guthrie Sheep company of Moor- croft and Gillette, in Crook ecounty, which borders on Montana and South Dakota, have been settled out of court, the nine defendant cattlemen paying the sheep companies all dam- ages, attorneys’ fees and expenses of prosecutlon and agreeing to not again molest the sheepmen. 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