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

THE BEMIDJ1 DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING GO. C. J. PRYOR. C. E. CARSON. Entored In the Postoffics d)l, Minnesota, as second o SUBSGRIPTION---$5.00 PER YEAR N ADVANCGE WHERE THE KICKER EVENTUALLY GOES. St. Peter sits' by the heavenly gate, his hands onthe string ofa lyre, and he sings a low song as he patiently waits for the souls of those who expire. He hears in the distance the chorus of song, that swells from the foot of the throne and he smiles as the music is wafted along, and warbles a lay of his own: “There is room in this region tor millions of souls who by sorrow and woe are bereft, ’tis for those who have suffered the melody rolls, but the kicker must turn to the left. “There is room here for people who when they were young, per- sisted in sowing wild oats, yet who boomed up their cities with sinew and tongue, but the kickers must go with the ‘goats.’ “There is room for the people who pointed with pride to the beauty and growth of their town, who kept sing- ing its praises aloud till they died, but the kicker will please amble down. “They’d say that the music was all out of tune, and the angelic robes ‘hand-me-downs,” and they’d send for a jeweler off to the moon, to sample the gold of their crowns. “Now, while there is room for millions of souls who by sorrow and woe are bereft, we want no complaint of the music that rolls, so the kicker must turn to the left.” Thus sang a true poet in words that should burn, like a hot iron deep in the soul of the kicker who kicks and kicks, from the equator clear up to the pole. They intrude their foul presence upon every live town, and chill every boom—what a pity! We,ve a live lot of pushers with hardly a clown, and mighty few kickers in this city. CAUSTIC COMMENT. LA. G, Rutledge.] Ireland is almost free of evictions; but it is still the order of the day among the protected steel workers of Pennsylvania. The American heiress who is to marry the pretender to the Portugese throne probobly realizes that most of those titled fellows are pretenders of some sort or other. Although we view with alarm the foot-and-a-half hat of the ladies, we have observed that women’s hats have been higher each year since 1893—at least in price. If you can hit your head with your eyes shut, does it prove that you are "nutty?” That’s what they have been asking Thaw. Little wonder he is “slightly nervous.” Dr. Elliot predicts that the corner stone of the new twentieth-century religion will be service of fellow men. It does look as if we’d all be holding a job working for some other man— or corporation—for a fact. But of course no criminal indict- ments which may be returned against the sugar trust will in any way affect the beneficient high tariff which an amiable senate has bestowed upon that struggling and deserving young industry. STRIKE MAY BE AVERTED Chicago Street Car Lines Willing to Advance Wages. Chicago, Aug. 9.—The impression is strong that peace will be maintained between the street ¢ir companies and their employes. President Mitten of the Chicago City railway intimated that he wds willing to grant the re- quired advance In wages provided the men would sign a three years' con- tract. President Roach of the North and West Side lines stated that he would go as far as Mr. Mitten in this direction. Motormen .and conductors inter- viewed seemed jubilant over prospects of peace. They had voted to “stand by the demands made upon the com- panies,” but, it is said, without any real idea that a strike would become necessary. MANY . VILLAGES IN REVOLT Nineteen Refuse to Pay Taxes to Turkish Government. Constantinople, Aug. 9.—The grand vizier has just received a telegram announcing that nineteen vl‘nges in the vilayets of Scutari and Albania have risen against the authorities and refused to pay taxes. The sublime porte feels great anxlety in regard to the matter. It is believed that this movement has been instigated by a foreign power. THAW CASE IN * COURT'S HANuS Argumentsat Insanity Hear- ing Concluded. JEROME CLOSES-FOR STATE Recites Thaw Family History and De- clares That the Weak Spot Shown by Members Under Strain Was the Mind—Says Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Deliberately and Intentionally Swore Falsely on the Stand. White Plains, N. Y., Aug. 9.—Clos- ing arguments were heard by Su- preme Court Justice Isaac N, Mills in the applicatlon of Harry K. Thaw for release from the Matteawan asylum. Each side was confined to one hour. Mr. Jerome’s turn came first. He began by saying that Justice Mills must be perfectly .famillar with the case. Mr. Jerome said that, there- fore, he would not attempt to go over the evidence in-detall. 3 Speaking of the credibility of the witnesses and’ their bearing under cross-examination he said he believed all did their best to tell the truth ex- cept Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. “I do think,” he declared, “that this girl was deliberately and intentionally falsifying. That she told her husband the story of her injury at the hands of Stanford White I have no doubt.” Mr. Jerome then passed directly to the question of Thaw’s sanity. The speaker acknowledged that modern science did not attach extreme impor- tance to the influence of heredity on disease; nevertheless he declared that” this influence must be considered in assessing the descendant’s mental con- dition. He summed up Thaw’s family his- tory with the declaration that when a member “broke he or she broke in their weak spot—the mind. Under strain they developed imbecility or epilepsy.” “Let me point out now that the whole Thaw family manifested what might be called peculiarity. From such a stock the average man of the world would say, without any assist- ance from alienists: ‘Well, you would got a pretty rickety sort of a child out of that family.’” = 8usie Merrill's Story Unrefuted. Busie Merrill's story of receiving large sums of money from Thaw’s at- torneys and his living at her house with varfous women, the district at- torney said, was unrefuted. Here Mr. Jerome laid down his notes and re- cited from memory various wild acts of the prisoner, testified to at the for- mer trials. Thaw’s love of the dra- matic was pointed out by Mr. Jerome as a strong characteristic of his al- leged mania. This desire for the dra- matic received its strongest illustra- tion in the shooting of White, said Jerome. The district attorney declared that he placed little reliance on the testimony ,of ‘Dr. Britton D. Evans, Thaw's chief alienist, and asked the court to disregard it. In concluding his argument Mr. Je- rome said: “The situation is about this: Here is & man whom heredity has proven to be bad; he is a man whose child- hood was that of a highly nervous sort. We find him marrying this girl and there was nothing after the mar- riage to excite his jealousy. We see him pursuing this idea of injury to young American girls.” Referring to Mrs. Thaw’s attack on him in “The Secret Unveiled” Jerome said: “We see in this pamphlet the same color that runs all through the son's behavior. “It seems to me it would not be safe to turn this man loose until there had been ample opportunity to sub- mit him to medical examination from day to day for a long period.” Thaw’s Attorney Speaks. Attorney Morschauser, for Thaw, began by urging the court to consider only the evidence produced in the present proceedings and disregard Thaw's condition prior to, during or just after the homicide. He dwell upon the testimony of his own alien: ists and attacked that of the opposing experts, especially * Dr. Baker’s. If Thaw had a latent trace of insanity, he said, the “horrors” of Matteawan would have made it evident. At ths murder trials the incidents of Thaw’s early life were grossly exaggerated to show insanity, the speaker said. A similar result might be achieved with' the boyhood pranks of any man. Referring to Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Mr. Morschauser said: e “Fven with the life she brought him Mr. Thaw was willing to take her and bring her home, feeling that he might be happy if this man (White) had not destroyed that which is sacred to every girl. Thaw with this before him every day and every night started out to wreak his vengeance on this man and sought to break up that den and destroy forever White's power to wreck and ruin the lives of young girls. -Mr. Thaw appealed to District Attorney Jerome. The district attor- ney admitted the existence of such places and if he had used the energy In rooting them out that he has In hounding this young man this crime would never have been committed.” GIRL'S DREAM PROVES: TRUE Rushes 8creaming Into Mother’s Room and Finds Her Dead. New York, Aug..9.—Waking from a dream so realistic that it brought her screaming and trembling from her bed fourteen-year-old Catherine Ahern of Laurel Hill, L. L, dashed into her mother’s room for comfort only to find the latter with her head battered in by an axe, stretched lifeless on the bed, just as she had been pictured in the dream. Beside the body of Mrs. Mary Ahern was Stretched the form of Her hus- band, who owns a prosperous trucking business and half a dozen houses in the outskirts of Long Island City. He was calmly sleeping. The terrified girl aroused the only other ocoupant of the house, her brother Willlam, twenty-one years old, with her cries. William grappled with his father, while Catherine ran for help, coming back with Policeman Edward Phillips. Ahern was taken to the police sta- tlon, where he was locked up on the charge of murdering his wife. GUBAN TREATY: WILL GAUSE NO-DISPUTES Not .. Considered a Precedent for Future- Negotiations, ‘Washington, Aug. 9.—The reduction glven to Cuba of 20 per cent on the sugar duty will not prove a factor in any negotiations that may result from the application of the maximum and minimum clause of the tariff bill This was stated at the state depart- ment. When the concession was made by treaty with Cuba it was fully understood to be in the nature of a favor to the people of that island be- cause of Cuba’s peculiar relations with the United States. It was made known at the time that such a reduction was not to be regarded as a precedent that could affect the trade relations of this country with any other nation. In adfusting the relations of the Unit- ed States and Germany it 18 expected here that the authorities at Berlin will not raise the question of any diserim- ination in favor of Cuba. Noted Kansan Killed. Leavenworth, Kan, Aug. 9.—J. Miles Moore, one of the. founders of the city of Leavenworth and widely known throughout the Southwest be- cause of his connection with border troubles before and after the Civil war, was struck by.a runaway horse here and instantly killed. He was elghty-five years old. Chineee Reopen Gustom House. Peking, Aug. 9—The Chinese mari- time custom house at Afgun, on the Amur river, has been put into opera- tion. M. Korotovitz, the Russian min- ister to China, has taken the position that the collection of customs there constitutes a violation of the treaties of Algun and St. Petersburg and as a result the question of the navigation of the Amur river is now raised. GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES Minneapolis Wheat. . Minneapolis, Aug. 7.—Wheat—Sept., 99%c; Dec,, 983 @98%c. On track— No. 1 hard, $1.29; No. 1 Northern, $1.28; No. 2 Northern, $1.26; No. 3 Northern, $1.2314. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Aug. 7.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.29%; No. 1 Northern, $1.28; No. 2 Northern, $1.26; Sept., $1.00%; Oct., 99%c; Dec., KNOW IT WELL, Familiar Features Well Known to Hundreds of Bemidji Citizens. A familiar burden in every home, The burden of a “‘bad back.” A lame, a weakor an aching back Tells you of kidney ills. Here is Bemidji testimony to prove it: Mrs. J. C. Litres, living at 602 American Ave., Bemidji, Minn.,says: “Iam recommending Doan’s, Xid- ney Pills in the hope that other per- 98c; May, $1.01%. Flax—To arrive |sons suffering from kidney trouble and on track, $1.45; Sept., $1.36; Oct., $1.82%; Nov., $1.32%; Dec., $1.30. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. Bt. Paul, Aug. 7.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $6.00@86.75; fair to good, $5.00@5.50; good to choice cows and heifers, $4.25@5.25; veals, $6.50@6.25. Hogs—$7.50@7.65. $4.50@4.75;. yearlings, = $5.00@6.25; lambs, $5.00@6.50; spring lambs, $6.00@7.35. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Aug. 7.—Wheat—Sept., $1.00; Dec., 97%c; May, $1.01@1.01%. Corn—Sept., 641% @64%c; Dec., 53%c; May, 54%c. Oats—Sept., 36%c; Dec., 87c; May, 3914c. Pork—Sept., $20.- 47%; Jan. $16.471%. Butter—Cream- erles, 22@25c; dalries, 20@23%o. Eggs—18@23c. Poultry—Turkeys, 140; chickens, 14c; springs, 17c. Chicago Union Stock Yarde. Chicago, Aug. 7.—Cattle—Beeves, may derive benefit from the use of this remedy. For some time I was feeling quite miserable, suffering from kidney complaint. I noticed that my kidneys were disordered and at last decided to try Doan’s Sheep—Wethers, | Kidney Pills. I have not used them as regularly as I should, but never- theless have derived a great deal of benefit. I feel much stronger than before taking them, and that tired, languid feeling has become a thing of the past.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s— and take no other. $4.40@17.50; Texas steers, $4.00@5.65; Western steers, $4.00@6.00; stockers and feeders, $3.00@5.15; cows and heifers, $2.30@6.30; calves, $5.50@ 8.00. Hogs—Light, $7.70@8.32%; mixed, $7.55@8:30; heavy, $7.35@8.30; rough, $7.3547.66; good to choice heavy, $7.55@8.30; pigs, 37.10@8.10. Sheep—Native, $3.00@5.15; yearlings, $4.70@5.75: lambs. $4,50@17.70. Every Stationer. Should Investigate ! 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You can PAY more, but you cannot BUY more Royal Typewriter Co. Royal Typewriter.Building 412 Second Avenue South OYAL New York Minneapolis, Minn. for sale. attention. Real Estate 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 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. i Bemidfi Townsite and Im- provement Company. St. Paul Minnesota my stock of My stock is complete and the prospect- ive buyer should call early in order that he may have a full stock from which to make his selection. Going Out of Business - As I am going out of business I offer all Heavy and Light Harness---single and double, fly nets, blankets, and harness hardware at Actual Cost. No.19. $1280 buys 160 acres in section 19, township 151, range 27. This land is nicely located on good road five miles east of Northome. Good house and barn on place; soil excellent; part of timber on this quarter section is reserved. It will pay you to iavestigate this prop- osition. No. 20. Five 40-acre tracts bordering on Blackduck lake; mostly hardwood timber; heavy soil; some meadow; all within easy mwarket. Prices range from 810 to $15 per acre. 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 Minnesota. 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. No. 24. $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 easy reach of good markets. Terms to suit buyer. 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. 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 per acre buys good quar- ter tract of land in section 9 township 150, range 32. Good meadow, valuable timber; some improvements; terms, cash. No. 28. 400 acres in one body. Blackduck river running through the land as well as school house in one cor- ner. Land partly improved; good level coil, tree from stones; not one foot of waste land in the entitze ground. Forty acres in crop and timber enough to pay for land. Timber can be delivered on the bank of the river. No richer land in Minnesota. $12.50 per acre. No. 29. $1,000 buys 160-acre tract east of Littlefork, in township 66, range 23. Saw timber has been sold and par- ties have eight years to remove same. No taxes to pay until timber is removed. This is good land for investment. Three fourths of mineral right go2s with land. Good land and geod prospects for min- eral. Terms: all or part cash. No. 30. Two 160-acre tractsfive miles north of Blackduck on the Cormorant river. House and other improvements on one quarter. Good land; good roads; a snap at $11 per acre, one-half cash. No. 31. 40 acres one mile north of Blackduck. 15 acres nice stand of spruce timber—balance good land. Snap at $500 No. 82, 200. acres at north end of Lake Bemidji. $50 per acre. We have many other bargains and if you do not “see 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. Winter Block Bemidji, Minnesota w