Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 1, 1909, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUDLISHED EVERY A¥THHNOON, BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. C. J. PRYOR. @, E. CARSON. Rntared (0 the postoffice at Bemlidjt. Minx., second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM CO-OPERATION IMPOSSIBLE WITH “KNOCK- ERS.” The Bemidji Pioneer and their “worthy contemporary” up the street, the Sentinel, are having a little “set to” over the cost of the county printing, which was awarded to the former paper at 25 cents for the first insertion and I0 cants for each subsequent issue. Come, come, gentlemen, what’s the matter with getting together and receiving full legal rates for the work you do here- after. It doesn’t pay to scrap for the benefit of some one else, even though the some one else is the county or municipality.—Laporte News. The Pioneer desires no “set-to” with its “worthy contemporary” or anyoneelse; but we have found it necessary, for some time past, to correct actual misstatements of facts made in the other paper, published in this city, items published in a purely malicious spirit, and untruth- fully stated. As to “getting together” on a sound business basis, that proposi- tion has been advanced to the various managers and directors, etc., of the Sentinel, but without anything like a rational answer. The policy of our contemporary appears to be, for the most part, to malign the Pioneer and its editor and managers, both on thestreet and in the columns of the paper, and we may be forgiven if we find it incumbent upon us to occasionally take the lessee of the of the paper across our generous knee and inflict a2 sound spanking. The Pioneer is more than willing to go half way, at any time, in putting the printing business of this community on a substantial basis, but we do not care tobe therecipient of insults and untruthful accusations and insinuations from persons who consider their one mission in life to be back-biting and maligning their opponents in business, ' Only a Salute. “One of our carly lawyers had a murder case to defend,” sald a Mon- tana official, “and he had a hard case. When it came time to sum up he asked permission to take a recess for ten minutes, and during that ten minutes he went over to the hotel to get an Inspiration. When he came back he walked out in front of the jury aund sald: ‘As regards to this case, this is the greatest country on which the sun ever shone. We are the greatest peo- ple. We have the greatest destiny. ‘Why, gentlemen, every time one of the ships of our glorlous navy salls into the ports of the world with the stars and stripes flying every ship of that power and every ship of every other power fires a salute from great can- non In her honor, and, gentlemen of the jury, If you listen to what the scoundrelly opposition of this man has to say you are about to incarcerate in prison or hang by the neck my poor, unfortunate client simply because he on one occasion fired one small revolver shot at a man who unfortunately died on that occaslon.”—Saturday Evening Post. The Editor on Carelessness. “Yes,” said the editor as he put his gum brush into the ink bottle and tried to paste on a clipping with his pen, “yes, the great fault of newspaper con- tributors is carelessness. “Indeed,” he contlnued as he drop- ped the copy he had been writing Into the wastebasket and marked “Edito- ral” across the corner of a poem entl- tled “An Ode to Death,” “contributors are terribly careless. “You would be surprised,” said he as he clipped out a column of fashlon notes and labeled them “Farm,” “to see the slipshod writing that comes into the editorial sanctum. “Misspelled, unpunctuated, written on both sides of the sheet, illegible, un grammatleal stuff. Contrlbutors are terribly careless. They are’— Just then the office boy came in with that dictatorial and autocratic manner he has and demanded more copy, and the editor handed him the love letter he had just written to his sweetheart. —London Globe, The Brakeman's Joke. “Ran over a cow this morning up above Coffeyville,” sald the brakeman to a reporter, “How did it happen?” asked the re- porter. “She was drinking out of a creek under a bridge,” shouted the brakeman as he swung on to the last car and went grinning out of town.—Kansas City Times. Brutel Jimson—Where's your wife? Haven't seen her often lately. Weed—Oh, I sent her away on a little vacation. Jimson—80? Where'd she go? Weed— To the Thousand Isles. Jimson—Stay long? Weed—Yes. T told her to take = week to each island.—Judge. Too Much For Him. “How true that old saying is aboud a child asking questions that a man cannot answer,” remarked Popleigh, “What's the trouble now?” queried his friend Singleton. “This morning,” replied Popleigh, “my little boy asked me why men were sent to congress, and I couldn't tell him.”—Chicago News. TENNESSEE NOW IS DRY Statewide Prohibition Law Goes Into Effect. Memphis, Tenn., July 1.—As the largest city of Tennessee Memphis is deeply interested in the statewide prohibition law which went into effect throughout the state today. Mayor Malone has -declared his intention of enforcing the prohibition law just as other laws are enforced. The mayor does not anticipate any great difficulty In the enforcement of the law, save possibly in the cases of the social clubs, many of which have been char- tered recently. Chief of Police Davis says the only trouble he looks for is from the small saloonkeepers and close watch will be kept on this variety of lawbreak- ers. The locker system has been resort- ed to by the Tennessee and Chicka- saw clubs, the leading social organiza- tlons of Memphis. Many of the wealthy liquor dealers, especially the wholesalers, made arrangements to leave Memphis on the 30th of June, some going to St. Louis and others to Louisville, Paducah, Cairo and Evans- ville. READY FOR RACE - AT NEW LONDON City Filled With Partisans of Harvard and Yale, New London, Conn., July 1.—With the freshmen and the four-oared races’ out of the way the scene was set to- day for the final and crowning event of the Yale-Harvard regatta, the strug- gle betwecen the varsity eight-oared crews. The minor events have served their purpose—the whetting of the appe- tites of the immense crowds for the big race. Speaking of crowds the CAPTAIN CUTLER. word seems hardly adequate to give an idea of the number of people that fill this city to overflowing and spill over the edges. Even last year's mul- titude, drawn here. partly by the races and partly by the presence of Presi- dent Taft, then the Republican candi- date, is surpassed today. The long afternoon wait for the big race, which is scheduled for 6 p. m., is filled with the scenes and sounds incident to the gathering of a mass of college hu- manity. New London is used to the uproar and the sights, having had the college regatta here since 1878, but even the man who remembers the Harvard victory in that year de- clares that today’s crowd is a record breaker. IMPORTANT NAVAL CHANGE Rear Admiral Potter Becomes Chief of Bureau of Navigation. ‘Washington, July 1.—An important change took place in the navy depart- ment today with the assumption of the office of chief of the bureau of navigation, one of the most respon- sible in the service, by Rear Admiral William P. Potter. He succeeds as bureau chief Rear-Admiral John E. Pillsbury, who was placed on the re- tired list several months ago, but has remained in charge of the bureau. Rear Admiral Potter has had a dis- tinguished career in the navy. He is a native of New York and entered the service in 1865. He was advanced for “eminent and conspicuous conduct in battle during the war with Spain.” At the outset of the recent battleship cruise Admiral Potter commanded the Vermont and on the retirement .of Rear Admiral Emory he succeeded to the command of the Second squadron of the Atlantic fleet. Tunnel to Cost $1,000,000. Portland, Ore, July 1—A con tract has been let by the Harriman intereats in this city for the boring of a tunnel through the peninsula be- tween the Willamette and Columbia rivers at a point just north of here. The tunnel will be 5,425 feet long and will cost about $1,000,000. The work must be completed within a year. One Dead, Another Fatally Hurt. New York, July 1.~Thomas B. McEnree, a policeman, was instantly killed and four other men were in- jured, one fatally, by the overturning of an automobile in which they were riding to Coney Island. ——— o~ e Iron, Steel and Tin Workers Reject Open Shop. LONG FIGHT SEEMS LIKELY Company Involved Controlled by Steel Corporation. Pittsburg, July 1—At midnight over 10,000 skilled workers, members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, who are em- ployed by the American Sheet and Tin Plate company in varlou plants ‘would be obtained from customs rev- Virginia an Indiana, quit work. At that hour the “open shop” order of the company became effctive. Both the company and the union have made preparations to fight. De- feat for the Amalgamated association, it 1s said, virtually means the taking away of its power in the affairs of the United States Steel corporation, of which the American Sheet and Tin Plate company is a subsidlary. That the company is working toward that end is apparent, it is alleged, from or- ders issued calling for the immeaiats resumption of several nonunion plants in this viclnity, which for over a year have been idle. A majority of the company’s plants in the Pittsburg territory are'nonun- fon and the trouble will not be effec- tive here. Wheeling, W. Va., New- castlo, Pa., Sharon, Pa,, and Connells- ville, Pa., Marting Ferry, Bridgeport and Cambridge, O., and Elwood, An- derson, Gas City and Muncle, Ind, are the points involved. BLOODY REVOLT IN' SIBERIA Political Prisoners Mutiny and Kill the Guards. Beattle, Wash.,, June 30.—A cable dispatch from Nome, Alaska, describes a bloody outbreak of Russian politi- cal prisoners in the Yakutsk district, Siberia, and the flight of the muti- neers across the wilderness toward Bering straits in an effort to reach Alaska, The dispatch says: Advices from Vladimir station of the Northern Siberla company across Bering strait are to the effect that a band of prisoners in the Yakutsk dis- trict revolted, killed the guards and started on a retreat eastward 2,000 miles in an attempt to reach Rast Cape. Captain Kalinnikoff, acting governor of the district, ordered Cossacks to pursue and take the prisomers. The fugitives ambushed and killed four of the Cossacks and woulded twelve others, forcing them to retreat. CANADIAN STRIKE SETTLED 8ix Thousand Miners Vote to Accept Terms of Operators. Winnipeg, July 1.—After a strike lasting three months the coal miners of Southern Alberta and Southeastern British Columbia have voted to accept terms offered by the operators. While | the men did not secure the closed shop clause the district executive has ful co-operation of the operators in making their organization as strong as possible. They also secure a clear- er and better working arrangement. Some 6,000 miners have been on strile, which includes those in all coal mines of Western Canada except the Crows Nest Pass company, con- trolled by the Great Northern rail- way, where a separate agreement sat- isfactory to the men was secured nine weeks ago. KAISER'S POLICY PEAGEFUL Paris, July 1—The Figaro pub- lishes an account of a conversation which took place recently at Kiel be- tween Emperor Willlam and Baron &Estournelles de Constant, president of the French parliamentary arbitra- tion group. In this talk the emperor insisted that his pollcy was one of peace and sald that the battles of the future would be in the economie, in- dustrial and commercial flelds. Great Britain, the emperor said, was now traversing a perlod of acute nervous- ness, but he predicted that this would disappear when the British realized they could regain their lost economic ground, not by a destructive war, but by an increase in productive activity. CALL ON NATIONAL BANKS For Return to the Treasury of Gov- ernment Funds. Washington, June 30.—A call on national depository banks for a re- turn to the treasury of government funds aggregating approximately $25, 000,000, was made by Secretnry of the Treasury MacVeagh. Of this amount §$9,000,000 has been called for July 15 and $16,000,000 for Aug. 16. Kalances in all active depositories are uniformly reduced to the lowest amount which the dally needs of the government will permit. This call will practically wipe out all of the deposits of government fonds in national banks subject to check by the treasury of the United States except about $37,000,000 which s held in actlve account and neces- sary to meet checks of government disbursing officers, and $1,000,000 which will be allowed to remain in $1,000 lots in such of the 1,000 small- er mational banks as desire to retain their designation as national bank depositaries. . MRS. TUCKER IS DIVORCED Daughter of General Logan Secures Legal Separation. - Chicago, July 1.—Mary Elizabeth (Dolly Logan) Tucker has been grant- ed a divorce from Colonel Willlam F. Tucker, U. 8. A, retired, on grounds | -of desertion. i SR e m— The matter of alimony, it was stated, had been settled privately. Colonel Tucker did not contest. Mrs. MRS. MARY LOGAN TUCKER. Tucker was riven the right to resume her maiden name, There were but two witnesses, Mrs. Tucker and her mother, the widow of General John A. Logan. Both testl- fled that the partles to the suit had married in 1877 and that Colonel Tucker had deserted the complainant in 1906. Six Deaths at Baltimore. Baltimore, June 30.—Six deaths di- rectly attributable to the prolonged hot spell occurred here. There also were several prostrations. IT WAS A GENUINE SNAKE Broker's Office in Panlc When Evelyn Thaw's Pet Appears. New York, June 30.—The tickers and telegraph instruments were click- Ing away in Wasserman'’s brokerage office in the Waldorf-Astoria when there was suddenly a blood curdling shout from Colonel Herman Marshall of Tennessee, who had just returned from attending the reunion of Con- federate veterans in Memphis. He had been In a half doze when he bounded from his chair and pointed to the bottom of the wainscoting. *“Do you see it?” he cried to nobody in particular. “Don’t tell you don’t see it.” ,They all saw “it.”” And there was the wildest kind of a scramble in that office. “It” was Kara, the pet snake of Mrs. Evelyn Thaw, placldly gliding along and ever and anon shoot~ ing out its little forked tongue after a fly. Clerks and porters and bell- boys came and everybody took a hand in shooing Kara out. Policoman Conway stunned the ten- foot reptile with a rap on the head, but before he finished the snake Mrs. Thaw’s maid claimed the pet and car~ rled it home, a few doors away. KILLED WITH HIS OWN CLUB Policeman Attacked by Crowd After Arresting Youth. Frederick, Md., July 1.—Police- man William Orrison was killed with his own club. He was on his way to amagistrate’s office with Frank Cahill, fifteen years old, who, it is alleged, had been stealing rides on a merry- go-round. Opposite the Cahill home the policeman was surrounded by a dozen people, including an older sister of the lad. Orrison's club was jerked from his hand and he was dealt a ter- rific blow on the side of his head. He died without regaining consciousness. HARMON IS THEIR CHOICE Democratic Congressmen Polled on Presidential Candidate. Columbus, O., July 1.—Governor Johnson of Minnesota has a rival for the presidential nomination in 1912. Congressman W. A. Ashbrook of the Seventeenth Ohio district has re- turned from Washington, bringing the information that Governor Judson Harmon is the almost unanimous chofce of the Democratic members of congress for the nomination for the presidency in 1912. “Just before leaving Washington," sald Mr. Ashbrook, “I had a confer- ence with A. P. Ross, the editor of the new national party organ of the Dem- ocrats at Washington, and he in- formed me that he had polled 125 of the 161 Democrats in that body on presidential preferences and every man stated that his first choice was Harmon of Ohio.” BOMB IN BASKET OF CHERRIES Tiflis, July 1.—Marie Bakhtadze, who had been prominent as an agent of the political police of Tiflls, was killed here by a bomb that had been sent to her by an unknown person in a basket of cherries. Madame Bakh- tadze was the widow of a man who formerly was prominent among the revolutionists. He turned traitor, how- ever, betrayed many of the revolution- ary leaders, entered the police service and was killed last autumn. Out of revenge his wife became a spy and de- voted herself to hunting down every one responsible for her husband's death. POSTPONED UNTIL JULY 9 London, July 1—The 116 suffra- gettes arrested during a raid on the house of commons in an effort to pre- sent a petition to Premier Asquith ‘were arraigned in the Bow street po- lice court and after lengthy arguments for and agalnst the question of their right to present a petition to the pre- mier, which was raised by Mrs. Pank- hurst, the magistrate adjourned all the cases until July 9 and the women were peleased on their own recognizance. Five Men Badly Scalded. San Francisco, June 30.—Five men of the torpedo boat Hull were badly scalded by the bursting of a boiler tube. It is feared B. F. King, fireman, was fatally injured. The boat was slightly damaged. The others injured J. M. Rober, Francis Crawford, John R. Carter and Newton Carisch. 6RO BISHOPS LOSE DECISION Complaint Against Southern Roads Dismissed. RULING AT WASHINGTON Interstate Commerce Commission Finds That the Allegation of Undue Discrimination or Prejudice Against Colored People Was Not Proven. Pullman Company One of the De- fendants in the Case. ‘Washington, .. ~= -0.—Five bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal church, who complained to the inter- state commerce commission that they were discriminated against by the Southern railways anfil by the Pull- man company in transportation, din- ing car and sleeping car facilities, have been informed by the commis- sion that their complaint was not war- ranted. The bishops were Wesley J. Gaines, H. M. Turner, Evans Tyree, C. S. Smith and B. W. Lampton. Their complaint was directed against the Seaboard Air Line; the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac; the Southern Railway; the Central ot Georgia and the Pullman company. It was alleged that the day coaches furnished for negro passengers in the Boutheastern states were not equal to those provided for white people; that negroes were denled sleeping car ac- commodations @nd that they were re- fused food in the dining cars solely on account of thelr color. At the hearing of the case the com- plaint as to the day coaches was abandoned, in view of the weight of testimony to the contrary, and with respect to the dining car facilities the allegations were modified by conces- slons. Most of the complainants and their witnesses testified that they actually did ride on sleeping cars. It is held by the commission, in its decision, that undue discrimination or projudice was not shown and the com- plaint, therefore, was dismissed. Ravages of Bubonlc Plague. Amoy, China, June 30.—According to official reports there have been 177 deaths frcm the bubonic plague in Amoy In the past fortnight. Native reports show Improved health condi- tions in the larger interlor towns, but the populations of some villages hav been decimated during the month, Kaiser Gives Up Yachting Trip. Berlin, June 30.—Emperor Willlam has definitely given up his customary summer yachting trip to the North seq, according to the Tagliche Rund- schau, and will remain in Germany until the present political crisls reaches a settlement. THREE MORE ARE KILLED Only Thirteen Filipino Mutineers Now at Large. Manila, July 1—Word has been received here that three more of the Davao mutineers have been killed in a running fight with troops. Of the company of native constabulary that mutinied at Davao, on the island of Mindanao, several weeks ago, only thirteen are still at large. One com- pany of the Twenty-third infantry and three companies of constabulary are in pursuit, with orders to capture or destroy the entire band. Three Deaths in St. Paul. St. Paul, June 30.—Three deaths from heat occurred here and there were also several prostrations. The dead are: George McCabe, Harriet Banholzer and C. P. Barrett. Half Million Fire Loss. Tonopah, Nev., June 80.—The repair shops and roundhouse of the Tonopah and Goldfield rallroad were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $500.000. GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, June 29.—Wheat— July, $1.27%; Sept, $1.12%; Dec., $1.12%@1.J3. On track—No, 1 hard, $1.30%; No. 1 Northern, $1.29%; No. 2 Northern, $1.27%; No. 3 Northern, $1.25% @1.26%. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, June 29.—Wheat—OwL track —No. 1 hard, $1.80%; No. 1 Northern, $1.2854; No. 2 Northern, $1.26%; July, $1.27%; Sept, $1.13. Flax—To arrive and on track, $1.78; July, $1.77; Sept., $1.49%; Oct., $1.43. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, June 29.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $5.50@6.75; fair to good, $4.50@5.560; good to choice cows and heifers, $4.60@5.50; veals, $5.50@6.85. Hogs—$7.30@7.65. Sheep—Wethers, $5.00@5.25; yearlings, $5.75@6.25; lambs, $7.25@7.76; spring lambs, $7.50@8.25. Chicago Unlon Stock Yards. Chicago, June 29.—Cattle—Beeves, $5.20@17.40; Texas steers, $4.75@6.20; Western steers, $4.75@6.25; stockers and feeders, $3.60@5.50; cows and heifers, $2.50@6.50; calves, $5.00@ 7.00. Hogs—Light, $7.80@7.85; mixed, $7.45@8.05; heavy, $7.55@8.10; rough, $7.56@7.75; good to cholce heavy, $7.75@8.10; pigs, $6.30@7.10. Sheep —Native, $3.25@5.50; yearlings, $6.75 @6.90; lambs, $5.00@8.50. Chicago Grain and Provislons. Chicago, June 29.—Wheat—July, $1.16@1.16%; Sept., $1L.11%@111%; Dec., $1.09%@1.09%; May, $1.19%. Corn—1July, 70%c; Sept., 67%¢c; Deo., 581%c; May, 58%ec. Oats—July, 49%c; Sept., 433 @43%c; Dec., 43% @43%¢; May, 45%c. Pork—July, $20.17%; Sept., $20.40@20.42%; Jan, $18.25. Butter—Creameries, 22@26c; dairies, 20@23%c. Eggs—18@21c. Poultry— Turkeys, 14c; chickens, 18}e; springs, 16@22¢c. o Douglass Lumber Company BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA Furnish you with your Lumber, Lath and Shingles. Have everything in the line of Building Material. Prompt deliveries made to any & part of Bemidji or Nymore. Telephone 371 “ Listen! NEVER. will there be a more favorable op- portunity to invest in city real estate than the present. Why not call on our local agent, H. A. SIMONS, Postoffice Block, and let him show you some real snaps in business and residence lots in the city, or at Oak Beach, on the north shore of Beautiful Lake Bemidji. Write or call on us for detailed information re- garding the city as a business, residence or manu- facturing location. Bemidji Townsite and Im- provement Company. } St. Paul Minnesota Lumber and Building Material We carry in stock at all times a com- plete line of lumber and bwlding material of all descriptions. Call in and look over our special line of fancy glass doors. We have a large and well assorted stock from which you can make your selection. WE SELL 16-INCH SLAB W00D St. Hilaire Retail Lbr. Co. BEMIDJI, MINN. 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