Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 27, 1909, Page 2

THE BENIDJI DAILY PIONEER JEROME APPEARS PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. C. J. PRYOR. G. E. CARSON. Bomld)l, Minnesota, as sacond Entered In the Postofflct class matier. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANGE OTHER “PORK BARREL” BILLS. ‘The Brainerd Dispatch very sensi- bly says: ““The Pioneer Press does not think it would be nice for the validity of the large sum of money appropriated for a new grand stand at the state fair grounds by the last legislature to be questioned just because the ‘pork barrel’ bill has been knocked out. The old saying that if you are going to, give the goose sauce the gander should get his, 1s not consid- ered good logic in thecities. There is no reason why the grand stand, the capitol approach and any other bill making enormous appropriations for the benefit of the cities should not meet the same fate as the road and bridge appropriation bill if they are in the same class.” A HANDSOME COMPLIMENT. The Verndale Sun says of Bemidji’s claim as the leading city of northern Minnesota, as indicated by our postoffice taking unto itself metropolitan “airs:” “The Bemidji postoffice is now open day and night for the receiving and dispatching of mail. Bemidji will now have something to sub- stantiate its claim as the leading city of northern Minnesota as there is no better evidence of the advance- ment of a city than the local post- office. And when this is recognized by Uncle Sam there is certainly some cause for the advancement.” CAUSTIC COMMENT. LA. G. Rutledge.] A PROMISE. [Dedicated to Mrs. Cora Kincannon- Smith, a former resident of Bemidji, who is “astonishing the natives,” out at Spo- kane, as a medium.] I do not know Where I will go When from this world I wander, But this I'll say: That I will stay Where I am put out yonder. This life may be All ecstasy Or one of heavy tedium, But I'll not hear The summons clear Of any psychic medium. It may but seem To be a dream, But anyhow the change’ll Be one that should Do me some good— I’ll try to be an angel. If they say I Must learn to fly, I will if I am able— I should not care To tip a chair Or rap upon a table. When I'm a shade, Don’t be afraid That I’ll engage in haunting; 1 shall not moan Nor grimly groan, Your oozing courage daunting. I’ll not return From. bourne or burn, A tambourine to jangle, To give surprise ‘To thinkers wise And set them in a wrangle. When it is said That I am dead— Take this upon my honor— I’ll do my most To be a ghost And also be a gonner. Sour Milk Cow. The woman was new to the country, and her host took great pains to ex- plain to her whatever she didn’t un- derstand about the farm. He had little regard for the truth, this farmer; he delighted to test her gullibillty to the utmost. » The cows seemed to interest her more than any other domestic animal. One of the cows had lost her tafl somehow, and this fact led the woman to ask why it was. “That’s the sour milk cow,” the farm- er esplained, with a straight face. “We always cut the tail off one cow in the herd so as to get sour milk fresh every day.” The woman looked her doubt. “It's perfectly true,” the farmer in- sisted. ‘‘You see, when the'cow's tail 13 gone the sun shines continually on the cow’s udder, and the constant heat sours the milk.” But the woman still doubted.—New. York Sun. % Diverting Attention, “So you favor the suit of that for- elgner?” “Yes,” answered’ Mr. Cumrox. *“J think I should rather like to have a man in the family whose English mother and the girls can criticise in- stead of mine,”—Washington Star. A Good and Safe Rule. It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an op- portunity of doing a kindness or speak- ing a true word or making a friend.— John Ruskin, IN THAW CASE Assisting State in Hearing ~ at White Plains. COURT GRANTS PERMISSION Counsel for Plaintiff Objected to Pres- ence of New York District Attorney, but Is Overruled—Siayer of Stan- ford White Faces Trying Ordeal When He Takes the Stand in Effort to Prove His Sanity. ‘White Plains, N. Y., July 27.—The severest ordeal of Harry K. Thaw’s struggle for freedom from the Mat- teawan asylum for the criminal insane was before him when Justice Isaac N. Mills of the supreme court recom- menced the hearing at which Thaw is trying to show himself sane. Charles Morschauser, Thaw’s attorney, reaf firmed an intentlon of putting Thaw on the stand to give personal proof of Thaw's sound mental conditlon. District Attorney Jerome, who last week announced his intention of help- Ing the state and the Westchester county- authorities, was present. ‘When the hearing of the case was resumed Deputy Attorney General Roger Clark, who, on behalf of the state, is opposing Thaw’s application, WILLIAM T. JEROME, called Justice Mills’ attention to Mr. Jerome'’s presence, saying that Mr. Jerome had consented to appear with the state’s attorneys at their request. Thaw’s attorney immedidtely ob- Jected to Jerome's partiolpation' and recalled the New York district attor- ney’s affidavit before Judge Gaynor when an effort was made to hold the present hearing in New York instead of White Plains. The afidavit was to the effect that Mr. Jerome could not act with the authorities of West- chester county. Justice Mills settled the matter hy remarking that Jerome had never said he would not appear at the request of the state and Mr..| Jerome remained. Expert testimony began with the first witness, Dr. Henry Brnst Schmid of White Plains. Dr. Schmid’s conclusions, after numerous examinations of Thaw in White Plains, was that Thaw's condition, both men- tal and physical, was normal, except- ing his heart, which beat a trifle too fast. TO ESCAPE WEAR? GRIND Suicide Club of Disheartened Factory Employes. Cleveland, July 27.—A club com- posed of disheartened factory em- ployes, advocating suicide as the only means -within their reach of attaining the peace of mind they crave and to escape the torments of thelr deily grind, is believed to exist here. This fact was advanced by the parents of Miss Rebecca Bosechek, eighteen years old, who was fourd dead in Gor- don park. After considering all of the known circumstances surrounding her death this is the only theory evolved. Relatives belleve that another girl, a companion of Miss Bosechek, will commit suicide within the next few days. According to those.who know of the habits of Miss Bosechek tha club consisted of six girls, four young men and a man aund his wife. SEVEN ARE KILLED IN WRECK Part of Wapash Train Plunges Into Missourl River. Kansas City, July 27.—Seven per- sons were killed and three perhaps fatally injured t the wreck of Wa- bash passenger train No. 4 when it plunged into the Missouri river thirty miles east of here. Of the elght cars which made up the train five and the engine are in the river, with the water covering all of them except one end of the Des Moines sleeper. A dead-head Pull man, mail, baggage, day coach and sleeper followed the engine into the stream. The chalr car and two Pull- mans alone remained uninjured. Eight mail clerks were saved be- cause the roof of their car was torn off, permitting them to get out on top of the car and swim to the shore. TROUBLE AT MKEES_ ROCKS . Deputies on Guard Fire on Party At- tacking Water Plant. Pittsburg, July 27.—Deputy sherifts on guard along the Ohfo river bank near the Pressed Bteel Car company’s water plant at McKees Rocks fired on an attacking party at night in an- 8wer to stones and other missiles hurled by several men in & rowboat: One man s reported to have been shot, but no trace of him can be found. The object of the attack at the water plant {s unknown. men as employes at the plant caused the strikery toestablish picket lines as early as 4 a. m. and for three hours all street cars were halted while a committee questioned each passenger. The state constabulary was called out, but had little trouble in dispersing tho crowds. There are no additional men at work. BLERIOT HERO OF “HOUR IN ENGLAND French Aviator Center of En- thuslastic Crowds. e London, July 87.—%.ouls Blerfot, the Frenchman who made history by fiy- ing across the English channel from Les Baraques to Dover, a distance of twenty-one miles in the remarkable time of a little less than half an hour, and his famous little monoplane have reached London, tho former to receive the monetary fruits of his achieve- ment in the shape of a check for $6,- 000 and the latter to be placed on ex- hibition to the financial advantage of both a London hospital and the en- terprising proprietor of the" only American department store here. The famous aviator is finding hero wor- ship much more trying to enduro than the strain of navigating the air. Remarkable scenes were witnessed at Dover when M. Bleriot returned there to attend a eivil reception in his honor. The Frenchman was mobbed by the enormous crowds and the po- lice had to come to his protection, so eager were the enthusiasts to greet him at close quarters. A similar ovation awalted the avl- ator at London, his compatriots hav- ing gathered at Victorfa station in huge numbers. With the help of the police he finally succeeded in getting away and reached his hotel, where he was presented with the check at a luncheon party. Kills Wife, Then Ends Life. New Bedford, Mass., July 27.—After showing a letter declaring himself a wife murderer Robert M. Fuanning of ‘Westport shot and Iilled himself in a police station here. The police later found the horribly mutilated body of his wife where he had directed. Fan- ning’s father is said to be a wealthy manufacturer in Providence, R. 1. PASSING OF NOTED PEOPLE MISS JOSIE POMFRET, one of the claimants to the $17,000,000 Pomfret estate in England, is dead at the coun- ty poor farm at Indepepdence, Mo. Miss Pomfret was a former newspa- per women of Chicago and Cincinnati. REV. WILLIAM R. HUNTINGTON, rector of Grace Episcopal church, New York city, is dead at Nahant, Mass., ofter a lingering illness caused by in- testinal troubles. He was seventy- one years old. GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, July 26.—Wheat—July, $1.213;; Sept, 81.04%@1.05; Dec., $1.03. On track—No. 1 hard, $1.24@ 1.24%; No. 1 Northern, $1.2391.23%: No. 2 Northern, $1.20@1.21; No. 8 Northern, $1.16@1,19%. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, July 26.—Wheat—On track —No. 1 hard, $1.26%; No. 1 Northern, $1.25; No. 2 Northern, $1.23; July $1.24; Sept. $1.05; Dec. $1.03%. Flax—To arrive and on track, $1.62; July, $L51; Sept., $1.39; Oct., $1.35. 8t. Paul Union 8tock Yards. Bt. Paul, July 26.—Cattle—Good to cholce steers, $5.50@6.50; falr to good, $4.50@6.50; good to' choice cows and heifers, §4.25@5.23; veals, $5.75@8.50. Hogs—3$7.50@7.80. Sheep—Wethers, $4.75@5.25; yearlings, $5.25@b.75; lambs, $6.00@7.00; spring lambs, $7.- 00@7.76. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, July 26.—Wheat—July, $L.- 08%; Sept, 31.045@1.04%; Dec., $1.03; May, $1.08%. Corn—July, 70c; Sept., 68%c; Dec., 56%@56c; May, 56l%c. Oats—July, 43%c; Sept., 89% @40c; Dec., 4034c; May, 4214 @42%ec. Pork.—July $20.87%; Sept., $21.07%; Jan., $17.85. Butter—Creameries 2214 26c; dairles, 20@23%c. Hggs—18@ 22c. Poultry—Turkeys, 1405 chickens, 18¢; springs 17Tc. Chicago Union 8tock Yards. Chicago, July 20.—Cattle—Beeves, $4.50@7.60; Texas steers, $4.00@5.70, Western steers, $4.00@5.75; stockers and feeders, $3.00@8.105 cows and heifers, $2.25@6.26; calves, $5.50@ 8.50. Hogs—Light, $7.68@8.20; mixed, $7.50@8.25; heavy, $7.45@8.30; rough, $7.45@17.65; good to cholce heavy, $7.65@8.30; pigs, $7.00@8.00. - 8heep —Native, $3.00@5.85; yearlings, $4.60 @6.10; lambs, $4.76@8.15. He Might Have Married." Fitz-Greene Halleck never married, yet; a8 Mr. Howe reminds us in his American Bookman, he could not have been without attractions, for a certatn superior lady is reported to have de- clared: “If 1 were on my way to church fo be marrled, yes, even if I were wal Ing up the alsle, and Halleck were to offer himself, I'd leave the man I had promised to marry and take him.” To this perhaps should be joined his eplgram, written for a young lady who had asked for his autograph: . There wanted but-this drop to fill The witeless poet's wyflot fams. Hurrah! There ltves a lady still ‘Willing to take hig name. Playing to the Cpok. B Mr. Subberton (yelllng to kitchen)— Sawdust and milkk crust! Adam'and Eve on a raft and wrack 'em! On the cantaloupe! Draw onel Make it three all round. % Mr.: Townley—Great—ee-r, ~how— pardon me, old chap, but what's’it all bout? Mr. Subberton—§k! We’ve got & former restaurant cook—a peach—and we have to order that way to keep her ~++ofi‘the Job!—Puck. The Telephone. Professor Alexander Graham Bell 18 reported to have explained In a lecture bow he came to invent the telephone as follows: “My father invented a symbol by which deaf mutes could converse, and finally I -Invented an apparatus by ‘which the vibrations of speech could be seen, and it turned out to be a tele- phone. It occurred to me to make a machine that would enable one to hear vibrations. I went to an aurist, and he advised me to take the human ear as my model. He supplied me with a dead man’s ear, and with this ear I experi- mented, and upon applying the appara- tus I found that the dead man’s ear ‘wrote down the vibrations. “1 arrived at the concluston that 1f T oould make i{ron vibrate on a dead man® ear I could make an instrument more delicate which would cause those vibrations to be heard. and understood. 1 thought 1f I placed a delicate plece of steel over an electric magnet I could t a vibratlon, and thus the telephone completed. “The telephone arose from my at- tempts to teach the deaf to speak. It arose from my knowledge, not of elec- triclty, but as a teacher of the deaf. Had I been an electricfan I would not have attempted 1t.” Cocoanuts Make Good Fuel. “Mine s rather a curlous business,” sald a man who owns a small ware- house and shed down near London’s docks. “I deal In cocoanut shells, and last year I sold more than 50,000 bags full of them as fuel. “I buy thousands of cocoanut shells from stall keepers all over London, from confectloners, from cocoanut oil extractors, from market sweepers and others. T won't tell you the usual price, but sometimes I get them for nothing, for carting them away, in fact. I sell them at fourpence a bag, most of my customers being poor people, who mix them, when broken np, with ‘slack’ coal. But In scores of hotels and large houses a quantlty is bought to be mix- ed with coals as fire lighters, for the” lmmense amount of oil i cocoanut shells makes them take fire at once. Try it and see. “T have rivals In the buslness in oth- er parts of London, and some of the makers of patent fire lighters m}x large quantities of the shells in thelr compo- sttions."”—London News. Rats on Ships. “Are rats destructive? Well,” eald a captaln of a merchantman, “I once knew them to get through £65,000 worth of stuff in five days. “Japan does an immeuse trade with China In cocoons, and the first time I carried such a cargo they were packed In sacks. When we got to Hongkong we found that the rats had discovered that part of a cocoon was good to eat, and the bill for thelr board came to £5,000. The shipowners were sued for that amount; but, the packing belng consldered faulty, the claim was' dis- allowed. It was the first and last co- coon feast the rats had, for ever since Japan has packed cocoons In zine lined cases. ~ “Hvery time a ship gets back to Liy- erpool a rat catcher is set to clearing out the rats, but by the time we have loaded up again the rodents are every bit as numerous. In some ports we use rat guards on the ropes, and the ship Is always fumigated before taking a cargo of fruit or tea. But there is no getting rid of them entirely.*—London Graphie. Prepared For Contingencies. “We have lots of curlous ‘ast re- quests’ from patlents who are about to have operations performed,” sald & uurse In the women's surgical ward of one of the New York hospitals, “but I thought about the last word had been sald on this subject one day last week when one of my patlents before going to the operating room called me to her and asked me to write two postal cards to her husband so that she might slgn them before the operation. One was to read, ‘My dear husband, the operation was at 10 o’clock this morn- ing, and I am gettifig along fine! Th& other one was: ‘My dear husband, the operation was at 10 o'clock this morn- ing, and I am sorry to say I died. From your loving wife."—New York Times. Her Tongue. They were talking of figures of speech. “Have you ever noticed,” sald one, “how fond people are of vegetable met- aphors when they are dealing with a woman? Her cheeks are ‘roses,’ her lips are ‘cherry,’ her hands are always Uy’ hands, her mouth 1s a ‘rosebud,” her complexion ig ‘like a peach, and her’ breath is ‘fragrant as honey- suckle.’ ” “You've forgotten one,” sald the cynic.” “Whats that?” “Her tongue. It is a scarlet runner.” —Hxchange. Conglstent to the Last. “It 1 was to commit suicide at sea,” sald Weary Walker as he shifted the hay band on his left foot, “I'd jump from th' bow of th’ boat.” > "An’ why not from th’ stern?’ que- rled Limpy Lannigan. “If 1 jumped from th' stern,” sald Weary, “I couldn’t avold th’ wash!”— Cleveland Plain’ Dealer. Shameless. _ Persons belonging to the higher walks of 1ife are to be seen promenad- ing In short jackets and chimney pot hats without the slightest symptom of awkwardness or shame.—London Tal- lor and Cautter. Fortune displays our virtues.and our vices as light makes all objects appar- ent.—La Rochefoucauld. Hopeless. Martha, endeavoring to instruct a ‘would be housekeeper In the mysteries of pudding making, was overheard. *Yer jes' takes some bread en"— “But how much bread, Martha?” “Oh, jes' What yer needs, Miss Min, en den yer puts go' milk on 1t"— “And how much milk, Martha?” “Well, yer mus’ use yer jedgment ‘bout dat, Miss Min.” “But I haven't any judgment, Mas tha.” “Well, de Lord he'p yer, Miss Min, ‘cause I can’t.”—Travel Magazine. How Marshall Field Made Money. In the early eightles; when the First Natlonal bank of Wallawalla was not 48 big as 1t 18 now, I pretty nearly had my breath taken away tme day g\m Ohicagd, He threw & letter once or twice, made a quick estimate all the loose cash I thought we uld serape up and sald: “Yes. How do you want {t?” He gave s smile, my Chicago friend, taking the deeds avel of $2.65 an acre. He cleared Few Burled Alive. “It might be incidentally mentioned for the relief of anxious souls,” says Dr. Woods Hutchinson {n the Amer- fcan Magazine, “that the risk of any Individual p into a trance and remaining In it long h to be buried altve 15 slight. “There s no authentic instance of this baying ever occurred. I took occasion to investigate this question some years ago and communicated with a pumber of leading undertakers, and they all unanimously denounced t as oue of the myths of the times. One of them, at the time ‘prestdent of the Natlonal Tuneral Directors’ assoctatton, fo- formed me that he had carefully fn- vestigated overy instance of “arial altve’ reported in the newspapers for fifteen years past and found every one of them to be; in his own language, = pure fake’™ Legs and the Alps. In the visitors’ book of one of the Bwiss hotels an observing traveler has tnseribed the following linest %.;me dashing young tourtsts, I #ee, ‘ear trousers which end at the knee. "Twere better by half Just to cover the calf— At least where the calf ought to be. Only those who have seen the scrawny legs, incased in mountain climbing costume, of some of those tourists who “do” the Alps can fully appreciate the humor of the “limerick.™ How’s This? ‘We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Oata rrh Oure. F. J. CHENEY & CO,, Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have knmown F. J. Oheney for the last 15 yéars, and belleve him perfectly honorable 10 ail business transac- tions, and finapclally able to carry out any oblisations made by his firm. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholosale Drugglsts, Toledo. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, Testimonlals sent frce Price 75¢ per bottle. sold by all drugelsts, Take Hall’s Kamlly Pills for constipation, Lum‘ber and Building Material We carry in stock at all times a com- plete line of lumber and building 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. The ROYAL Standard Typewriter THE ACKNOWLEDCED STANDARD OF TODAY Will turn out more neat, perfectly aligned work, with less effort and with less wear on its working parts than any other typewriter made. You can PAY more, but you cannot BUY more Royal Typewriter Co. Royal Typewriter;Building New York 412 Second Avenue South Minneapolis, Minn. for sale. attention. No. 18. ship 150, range 31 (Town Blackduck river. No. 19. $1280 buys miles east of Northome. osition. timber; heavy soil; some within easy market. $10 to $15 per acre. Minnesota. cordwood on the Eckles). for you. Winter Block 160 acres in section 8, town- $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 meadow. Selling price $2200. - and barn on place; soil excellent; part of timber on this quarter section is reserved. It will pay you to investigate this prop- No. 20. Five 40-acre tracts bofdering on Blackduck lake; mostly hardwood Prices range from No. 21. $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 and water; daily mail; ome-half mile from school house; place is partly fenced; 800 cords lath bolts and 1000 cords of place. This attractive offer is the east half of the southwest quarter of section 23-147-34 (Town of $1000 will secure this place We have many other bargains and if you do not in above list what you want, we have a large list of other lands for sale. . ; Remember we buy for cash and sell on time. - FARMERS LAND (0. Real Eistate For Sale Below we offer a few of the many farms we have These are desirable for investments and the intending purchasers will do well to give them careful No. 23. $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. There is 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 farm. Terms to suit purchaser. of Langor) on 160 acres in section 19, township 151, range 27. This land is nicely located on good road five No. 24. $2000 buysa 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 easy reach of good markets. Terms to suit buyer. Good house meadow; all No. 25. 82400 will buy 160 acres well-improved hardwood land bordering on-Turtle River.lake and-one mile east of village of Turtle River. 8 acres under cultivation; 1 ‘mile of attractive lake shore. -An especially good bargain for one who desires the. land “for summer resort. Terms, one-half cash. No. 26." $5 pex acre buys good quar- ter tract of land in section 9 township 150, range 32. Good meadow, valuable timber; some improvements; terms, cash. No. 27. . 160-acre farm on Cormant river in section 17, township 150, range 30 (Town of Hornet); valuable for its timber; 2 1-2 ‘miles from market; easy terms at $10 per acre. -Bemidji, Minnesota $65.00( o - e~