Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 1, 1909, Page 4

ASKS BIG SUM - IN PENALTIES Mississippi Seeks to Oust Oil Trust From State. VIOLATION OF LAW ALLEGED Complaint Cites Methods of the ¢ Standard in Detail. Jackson, Miss, July lL—Application was made in the chancery court of Clay county by District Attorney T. L. Lamb for a perpetual injunction re- straining the Standard Oil company from operating in the state of Missis- sippl. The prosecution seeks to collect $11,000,000 penalties for alleged viola- tion of the anti-trust law of the com- monywealth. The injunction bill recites in detail the history of the Standard Ol com- pany and the methods by which the company Is alleged to have stifled competittion in this state. Under the Misslssippi statute, as amended by the legislature in 1906, the state is entitled to recover a statutory penalty of §5,000 per day for each spe- oific violation of the anti-trust laws and the penalties sought to be recov- ered in this case cover a period of three years. The hearing, It is under- stood, will take place at West Point during the November term of the chancery court. The declaration covers practically the same grounds as set forth in stm- ilar proceedings instituted in other states in recent years. District Attor- ney Lamb files the proceedings in the name of the commonywealth. The case promises to he notable. CRISIS EXPECTED SHORTLY Russian Troops Likely to Oocupy Per- sian Capital. St. Petersburg, July 1.—The occu- pation of Teheran, the capital of Per- sla, by a Russian military expedition I8 regarded in well informed circles as a distinct possibility of the near future. The latest advices received here from Teheran indicate that the British and the Russian consuls sent out to negotiate with the leader of the Bakh- tiari forces, advancing agalnst Te- heran from the south, failed to obtain the desired nromisa that thé march would be stayed and that the Bakh- tiarls, who are acting in completé ac- cord with the Caucasian and Persian revolutionists, are expected shortly to resume the offensive from Kasbin. The Russian foreign office considers that the entrance of the Bakhtiaris into Teheran would not only involve street fighting and plllage on a great scale, but also threaten the lives of the members of the diplomatic corps and the foreign residents of Teheran. The government will, if necessity arises, undertake all measures that may be required for the protection of Russian lives and Interests. The crisis is expected to come to a head within a fortnight. GETS AN INFERNAL MACHINE Minister Receives Contrivance That Fails to Explode. Cincinnati, June 30.—Rev. G. R. Robbins, pastor: of the Lincoln Park Baptist Institutional church, received an infernal machine, accompanied by a note decorated with skull and cross- bones and saying he would suffer if he did not stop his talk agaihst the Black Hand. The machine was in- geniously constructed from a hand- kerchief box containing a quantity of black powder, which was to have been exploded by a match ignited by a string spring. The intention was to blind the preacher. Fortunately the spring did not work when the box was opened. MAKES BUT A SHORT FLIGHT Orville Wright Has Trouble With His Aeroplane. Washington, June 30.—After mak- ing three unsuccessful efforts to get his new aeroplane into the air, Or- ville Wright made a short flight, en- circling the Fort Myer aerodrome. Lack of power, due to a loose spark control, was finally determined upon by the two Wrights as the cause for the refusal of the machine to'fly for more than 100 feet beyond the end of the starting rail. Their persis- tency in trying, time after time, to make the machine behave properly won the approval of the large crowd that had gathered in anticipation of a flight. A Present. “That’s a very fine purse you have, Henry.” “Yes. My wife gave it to me on my birthday.” “Indeed! Anytbing in 1t?” “Yes; the bill for the purse.” i One Exception, The Husband (during the quarrel)— You're always making bargains, Was there ever a tlme when you didn’t? The Wife—Yes, sir; on my wedding day. THINKS INGOME TAX NECESSARY Senator Gummins Points to De- ficit in Receipts. SPEAKS AT GREAT LENGTH Secures Brief Respite After Talk- ing Three Hours. Washington, July 1.—Senator Cum- mins of Towa occupied nearly the en- tire day in discussing the income tax and corporation tax amendments to the tariff bill Declaring that $479,- 000,000 must be raised from customs duties and an inheritance, corporation or income tax to properly meet the expenditures of the government and to keep up the sinking fund Mr. Cum- mins presented a letter from Secre- tary MacVeagh of the treasury de- partment stating that a deficit ap- peared in the sinking fund at the close of the flscal year 1908 of $549,383,647, although up to that period the total debt had been reduced $32,812,000 in ex- cess of the sinking fund requirement. Estimating at $840,000,000 the améunt of money required by the government for the fiscal year 1911 Mr. Cummins declared that not more than $260,000,- 000 would be ralsed from internal rev- enite and not more than $340,000,000 throughout Pennsylvania, Ohto, West enues under the Payne bill, leaving about $240,000,000 to be supplied from some other source. “My conclusion 1s,” he said, “the deficit will be $175,000,000 at the close of 1911.” He declared that no one could inves- tigate .the subject without being con- vinced that there must be large def- icits every year hereafter and he as- serted that every penny which would result from the enactment of his and Mr. ‘Balley’s income tax amendment would be necessary to meot the de- mands of the government. A tax on incomes, he declared, ought to be the first imposed and it should be levied by every state as well as by the natfonal government. Sententious- 1y, he said, “we should lay the tax on fortune rather than on_misfortune.” He said this course would place the burden of government where it would belong and would discard all unprof- itable property. He contended that the accumulations of property do not for sale. attention. No. 18. Blackduck river. miles east of Northome. osition. within easy arket. $10 to $15 per acre. No. 21. Minnesota. and water; daily mail; 800 cords lath bolts and 160 acres in section 8, town- ship 150, range 31 (Town of Langor) on $900 worth of saw timber on place which can be sold aod delivered on the river bank. Buildings which originally cost $1400 and esti- mated valuation at present date $1000; school house on one corner of land; 30 acres under cultivation; best of soil; some and barn on place; soil excellent; part of timber on this quarter section is reserved. It will pay you to iavestigate this prop- No. 20. Five 40-acre tracts bordering on Blackduck lake; mostly hardwood timber; heavy soil; some meadow;? all Prices range from $300 buys the most attract- ive two-acre island ‘in Blackduck lake. This is one of the most beautiful spots for summer resorters known in northern No. 22. An 80-acre well-improved farm five miles northwest of Bemidji; 20 acres m field; good buildings; good well from school house; place is partly fenced; Real Estate For Sale Below we offer a few of the many farms we have f These are desirable for investments and the intending purchasers will do well to give them careful No. 23. meadow. Selling price $2200. No. 19. $1280 buys 160 acres in farm. section 19, township 151, range 27. This land is nicely located on good road five No. 24. Good house easy reach of suit buyer. cultivation; resort. one-half mile 1000 cords of $3200 buys a half section of land in town 150, range 30 (Town of Langor). This place is natural meadow land and will cut upwards of 100 tons of hay; not a foot of waste land; heavy soil equal to any land in the state. timber enough on the place to pay for the land. The land is located one mile from school house; has running water and would make an attractive stock Terms to suit purchaser. $2000 buys a good 160-acre tract in section 22, township 146, range 34, Grant Valley. Good agricultural land bordering on two lakes; 25 acres broken; balance easily cleared. Within No. 25. $2400 will buy 160 acres well-improved hardwood land bordering on Turtle River lake and one mile east of village of Turtle River. 1 mile of attractive lake shore. An especially good bargain for one who desires the land for summer Terms, one-half cash. No. 26. 85 pex acre buys good quar- ter tract of land in section 9 township 150, range 32. timber; some improvements; terms, cash. There is good markets. Terms to 8 acres under Good meadow, valuable cordwood on the place. This attractive offer is the east half of the southwest quarter of section 23-147-34 (Town of Eckles). $1000 will secure this place for you. No. 27. 30 (Town We have many other other lands for sale. Winter Block 160-acre farm on Cormant river in section 17, township 150, range of Hornet); valuable for its timber; 2 1-2 miles from market; easy terms at $10 per acre. ) bargains and if you do not in above list what you want, we have a large list of Remember we buy for cash and sell on time. FARMERS LAND (0. Bemidji, Minnesota Day their share of the taxes and sald there would be no injustice in increas- ing their .proportion of the general burden. After Mr. Cummins had spoken three hours the senate took a recess for half an hour to allow him and other members time for luncheon. BITTER ATTACK ON BUSSE Bocialist Newspaper Makes Charges Against Chicago’s Mayor. Chicago, July 1.—Startling charges made against Mayor Busse in the Chi- cago Dally Soctalist led to a demand for indictment on a charge of crim- inal libel against the editors and pub- lishers of that paper. The entire front page of the soclal- ist organ was devoted to a scathing attack on the mayor. It charged him with being at the head of a ring of grafters that controlled gambling in Chicago, collected tribute from the denizens of the levee and afforded protection to the white slave traffic in the city. J. O. Bentall, a director of the Daily Soclalist, made the following state- ment concerning the charges agalnst Mayor Busse: “We knew the charges wera lbel- ous, but we have absolute documen- tary evidence to prove everything that we have sald. We are.prepared to go into court any time we are called.” ENDS LIFE TO AVOID CAPTURE BY POSSE lowan Who Murdered Wife's Parents Kills Himself, Des Moines, July 1—The dead body of Calvin Littlepage, who mur- dered Mr. and Mrs. Flmer Jamieson, parents of his divorced wife, was found by John Ritchie, whose farm is close to the Jamieson home. The corpse was in the middle of the road. Littlepage, despaiving of escape from armed- posses, had blown a hole through his temple. Officers believe he was intent upon reaching his wite, intending to murder her, when, to prevent capture, he shot himself. After killing the Jamiesons Little- page forced his wife, with her infant babe, to enter a buggy which was ‘waiting and flee with him. The mur- derer drove toward Adel in a blinding rain and hail storm, but was soon pursued by a posse from Des Moines. ‘When near Valley Junction, the posse being close behind, Littlepage sought shelter in the home of Arz. Butler. The posse followed and the murderer escaped through a back door, closely pursued. He managed to elude his pursuers for a time, but, being again overtaken, he took his own life. WOMEN CAPTURE SEATTLE Take Possession of City and Exposi- tion In Name of Suffrage. - Seattle, Wash,, July 1.—This city and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposi- tion will be In possession of women folkx for. eight days, beginning today, the occasion of their presence here being the forty-first annual convention of the National American Woman REV. ANNA H, SHAW. Buffrage association. The convention is being held in Plymouth church and the headquarters of the assoclation are at the Hotel Lincoln. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, presi- dent of the International Woman Suf- frage alliance; the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, president of ‘the national asso- ofation, and other distinguished speak- ers are in attendance at the meeting, with the other officers of the national assoclation and many members. ‘Washington is a center of special interest to woman suffragists just at this time because a bill providing for full woman suffrage has just passed both houses of the state legislature and has been signed by the governor. The measure will go to the voters for ratification at the regular election in November, 1910. STORMS IN NORTH DAKOTA Reported That Several Persons Have Been Killed. Bismarck, N. D., June 30.—Accord- ing to reports received from Minne- waukan one woman was killed and a number of people injured in a cyclone that entirely destroyed the little city. It is impossible to get confirmation of the report as all wires in the north- ern part of the state are out of order and communication impossible. An unconfirmed report from Leeds Is that eight were Killed outright in & storm there. Youthful Assurance. “When I was your age,” sald the stern parent, “I was accumulating money of my own.” “Yes,” answered the graceless youth, -“but don’t you think the public was easler then than it is r.w?"—Washing- ton Star. F " A story of Blackle. Professor Blackle of Edinbnrgh, @ martinet in the class room, was one hearlng a class with the individuals iof which he was not acquainted. Pree- ently a student rose to read a pi graph, his book held in his right “Sir,” crled the professor in his aute- cratic way, “hold your book in your left hand!” The student was about to speak, but the professor stopped him with a peremptory eommand: “No words, sir; your left hand,” I say!” s Then the student held up his left erm, which ended at the wrist. “SIr,” said he, “I hae nae left hand.” Before the professor could speak there came a perfect storm of hisses from the class, and when he did speak the hisses drowned what he sald. Then he left his place and went down to the. student whose feelings he had unintentionally hurt, threw his arm around him and drew him close. “My boy,” sald the professor, speak- ing softly, yet belng heard by every one In the room, “you'll forgive me that I was overwrought. I did not know! I did not know!” Then he turned to the students, and, with a look and a tone that came straight from the heart, he sald: “And let me say to all of you that I am glad to be shown that I'am teach- ing a class of gentlemen!” Limitations of Practice. In an Jowa town an action for efect- ment was tried “by the court without a jury,” the suit having been brought by a religlous soclety to recover pos- sesslon of a cemetery. The defendant, a physiclan in active practice, had bought the ground for the use of the soclety, but when afterward he sev- ered his connection with the organiza- tlon it was discovered that he had tak- en the title in his own name and evi- dently intended to hold on to it. After duly weighing the evidence the court ordered judgment for the plaintiff, stating briefly the reasons for the de- elsion, whereupon defendant’s coun- sel desired to be more fully enlight- ened In the premises. “Certainly,” said his honor. “In ad- dition to what I have already sald, there are but two other reasons. One is that the church seems to need a cemetery, and the other is that the doctor has failed to show that his prac- tice 1s sufficiently large to necessitate his maintaining his own burying ground.” Art Comes High. “A New York lady,” said a Parisian, “once ventured to remonstrate with Paquin because he had charged her $700 for a ball dress. “‘The material” she sald, ‘could be bought for §100, and surely the work would be well pald with $50 more.’ “‘Madame,’ sald Paquin, with his grandest air, ‘o to your American painter, Bargent, in his little Tite street studlo and say to him: “Here is a yard of canvas, value 50 cents, and here are colors, value $1. Paint me a pleture with these colors on this can- vas, and I will pay you $1.75.” What will the painter say? He will say, “Madame, those are no terms for an artist” I say more. I say, If you think my terms too high, pay me nothng and keep the robe. Art does not descend to the littleness of hag- glng! » The Best Way to Starve. If one feels bound to undertake star- vation for a period, it is best, a trained physleian tells us, to make the process not quite complete by eating a little at the usual intervals of fasting abso- lutely. for a comparatively long time. This makes freak treatment quite harmless. Physfologists find that as the body is starved fat and sugar dis- appear first, and then the minor or- gans are drawn upon to support the brain and heart, continuing until no more material can be spared. Exhaus- tion is then very near. Did as He Was Told. A well known Brooklyn clergyman in a talk to his Sunday school urged the children to speak to him whenever they met. The next day a dirty faced urchin accosted him in the street with, “How do, doe?" The clergyman stopped and cordial- 1y inquired, “And who are you, sir?”’ “I'm one of your little lambs,” re- plied the boy affably. “Fine day!” Ang, tilting his hat to the back of his ‘head, he swaggered off, leaving the worthy divine speechless with amaze- ment. Gazelle Hunting. Gazelles in Nubia are hunted by a powerful breed of hounds in build somewhat heavier than a greyhound. In spite of being far swifter than the hound the gazelle falls a vietim from the nervous habit of constantly stop- ping to look back to see if it is pur- sued. It also expends its strength by taking great bounds in an gimost ver- tical direction, thereby not only losing time, but exhausting itself, so that it 18 overtaken without difficulty. A Game of Chance. “I suppose,” said the stranger with- in the gates, “the 1id is on all games ‘of chance in this town.” “Don’t you belleve it, stranger,” re- Jolned the native. “The marriage M- cense office is still wide open.”—] lehange. Wisdom From a Babe. “What would you do, my boy,” asked a professional voealist proudly, “If you could sing Hke me?” “Have some singing lessons!” replied the lad.—Philadelphia Inquirer. The honor we recelve from those who stand in fear of us is not true honor.—-Montaigne. Nuts as Food. One very great advantage which nuts possess over most foods is their absolute freedom from adulteration. ‘When you buy nuts you always know what you are getting. Of course those bought in the shell are also absolutely clean.—Good Health, Light and Hope. Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, we discern rays of light and hope and gradually come to see in suffering and tempts- tlon proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.—Channing. £ = e e (LYY 77 + and Semi-Precious Gems you 20 per cent. OUR REPAIR DEPARTMENT Is .famed throughout “this and adjoining states. We have built up a reputation as being experts in the repair of high grade watches, repairing and manufacturing fine jewelry. We carry one of the largest stocks of Precious Diamonds, Rubies, Emeralds, and the cheaper stones direct from the cutters and importers, and save Estimates given on Special Work. Chains, Emblems, Rings, Pins, made to order. GED. T. BAKER co. Manufacturing Jewelers WATCH INSPECTOR M. & I. RY. in the State. We buy Near the Lake His Own People. The negro blood wherever it s, de- clares Ray Stannard Baker in Amerl- can Magazine, supplies au element of light heartedness which will not be Wholly crushed. In illustration he tells this story of a very light mulatto of Tennessee: A number of years ago it came to him suddenly one day that he was white enough to pass anywhere for white, and he acted instantly on the inspiration. He went to Memphis and bought a first class ticket on a Missls- sippi river boat to Clucinnatl. No one suspected that he was colored. He sat at the table with white people and even occupled a stateroom with a white man. At first, he said, he could hardly restraln his exultation, but after a time, although he assoclated with the White men, he began to be lonesome. “It grew colder and colder,” he sald. In the evening he sat on the upper deck, and as he looked over the railing he could see down below the negro passengers and deck hands talking and laughing. After a time when it grew darker they began to sing the Inimita- ble negro songs. ¢ “That finished me,” he said. “I got up and went downstairs and took my place among them. I've been a negro ever since.” The Elder Robert Fulton. N Robert Fulton was born at Little Britain, Lancaster county, Pa., Nov. 14, 1765. His blographers have called him “a self made man” and have made but brief reference to his par- entage. It is noteworthy that his fa- ther, the senior Robert Fulton, in .a failure to leave financial patrimony: to his children has not been accorded the mention of other achievements, not slight In those primitive days. HIs o cestors crossed from Scotland to Ire- land prior to the time of Cromwell. From Kilkenny, Ireland, the Fulton family came to America before the year 1735. The senior Robert Fulton was among the prominent men fi Lancaster, his name having been & record upon all the town organizations which existed at that period. He was a founder of the Presbyterian church, the secretary of the Union Fire com- pany and a charter member of the Jullana library of Lancaster, the third library established in the American colonies.—Century. The Fourmilion, n “In the Sahara,” said an explorer, “there is a little inscct that throws sand, and its volleys slay. They call it the fourmillon. The fourmilion digs itself a funnel shaped hole of the cir- cumference of a silver dollar. It lies hidden and watchful in the bottom of this hole, and when a spider or ant or beetle comes cautiously prospecting down the steep and slippery sides the Inhospitable fourmilion launches upon its guest volley after volley of sand—a hall of stinging sand so abundant, so suffocating, so blinding that the visitor loses his head. TIle rolls unconscious for the nonce to the bottom of the hole, and the fourmilion calmly dis- members him before he has time to come to himsclf again and puts him in the larder for the next meal.” Blooms but to Die. The taliput palm (Corypha umbracu- lifera) of Ceylon, whose leaves are put to such numerous uses by the Cinga- lese, bears fruit but ence during its tife. This elegant tree measures about ten feet round the trunk and attains & helght of about 180 feet. The flowers, the appearance of which presages death to the tree, are inclosed in a tall spathe which bursts with a loud re- port, disclosing a huge plume of beau- tiful blossom. The Inflorescence is sue- ceeded by equally consplcuous bunches of fruit. When tlicse have ripened the tree withers rapidly and In the course of a fortnight may be seen prostrate and decaying on the spot It adorned. A Poor Bath. ; A Frenchman was talking In New Tork about the excellent bathing beaches of America. rope,” said he. “And the sea over there is not so pleasant to bathe in. Frequently, you know, great pipes empty sewage Into it. They who stay late for the buathing in Nice, for in- stance, swim about among lemon peel, orange skins, melon rinds, soaked but still buoyant newspapers—fearful rub- bish. I once hathed in Nice. The Med- Iterranean was warm and pleasant, but it resembled- soup or something worse. [ ‘heard an American after coming out say to the bathing master: “‘Look here, friend, where do stran- gers go for a wash after bathing here? ” “There are no such heaches in Eu- | WANIS ONE CENT A WORD. HELP WANTED. WANTED—Girl for general house- work, at Grand Forks Bay. Apply at Merrifield cottage, Grand Forks Bay. WANTED—Good girl for general housework. Inquire H. W. Bailey, 605 Minnesota avenue. FOR SALE—National Cash Regis- ter and a roll top desk. Inquire at Pioneer office. WANTFD—Woman cook. Inquire at Lake Shore Hotel FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. LOST and FOUND AN AN A AN AN AN NN NN LOST—Gold locket, near central school, contained two photos, a word engraved one side, date on other. Finder please return to 502, Fourth street. MISCELLANEOUS. 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. 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