Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 17, 1909, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERHOON BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. C. J. PRYOR. G. E.CARSON. Entered In the Postoffice at Bemid)i, Minnesota, as second | - class matter. SUBSGRIPTION---$5.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANGE LITTLE RESPECT FOR “LOTTERY LAW.” In the “Vanity Fair” columns of last Saturday evening’s Crookston Times there is a small article in which is printed the names of two young ladies who ‘“won prizes,” in connection with “tag day at the lake.” As the Pioneer understands such reference to “‘prize winners,” the article in question is a direct violation of the anti-lottery law, which excludes publications from the mails which violate the law re- lative thereto. And this was right in the city where Postoffice Inspector Hughes resides; and was published in a paper, the proprietor of which has been warned at least three times, to the writers knowledge, concerning lottery “ads. Inspector Hughes interpreted the provisions of the lottery law for the Pioneer, less than a year ago, and even forbade us running a guess contest, or printing the names of the winners of the contest. . Now, just how strongly is this law to be enforced, and is any partiality to be shown the different publishers in this section? is a question which the Pioneer would like to have definitely decided, and at once. » PRESERVE THE HOME. J. Adam Bede is not always “funny,” as most people think. There is a serious side to his nature, and the following, which is a recent utterance of J. Adam, has much in it that is wholesome and pure: ““There has been so much praise for progressives and so many stripes for standpatters in business and politics of late, thatat last discontent has reached the church, and now many are looking around fora new thrill in religion. “The sweet, old-fashioned home life is being disturbed. Its influence over childhood ' is becoming less. And now the statement is made that in a single year 500 girls from the public schools of Chicago have been taken to maternity hospitals. “It is a fool notion that all change is progress. Let the women folks at least stand pat on the old verities. Don’t tear down the home.” GOVERNOR IS “SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING.” That Seattle speech of Governor Johnson would indicate that he has seriously considered not being a candidate for governor again in Minnesota.—Lake City Republican. It wasat about this season of the year, two years ago, when the, gov- ernor “seriously considered” the gubernatorial candidacy problem and emphatically announced that under no circumstances would he be a candidate for a third term—lut he was, subsequently. Itis possible that “history may repeat itself,” in the case of the governor. —_— FOUR MEN BADLY CRUSHED Two of Them Fatally Hurt in Collapse of Building. Winnipeg, Man.,, Aug. 17.—The handsome reinforced concrete apart- Ront block known as Bredalbane, be- Ing erected on Margrave street at the coet of $250,000, fell in with a crash. Heavy rains had moistened the con- erete so that the steel girders gave way, sending down the welghty floors to the basement. Four men were in- side at the time, inspecting the work and were crushed, two so severely they were taken to the hospital in a dying condition. They are J. Dun- can and Willlam Dodds, expert con- crete mixers. The wreckage is such that it will cost considerable to re- build, as steel and tiles with wooden supports are deposited in the base- ment in an indescribable mass. DEED CAREFULLY PLANNED Chicago Woman Kills Three Children and Herself. Chicago, Aug. 17.—Mrs. Marle Hand- sell, wife of Joseph Handsell, a cab- inet maker, killed her three youngest children, including twins, by asphyxia- tion and then committed suicide. The father and four other children narrowly escaped death and were made {ll by theggas. The bodies were discovered by the husband. Investigation showed that the wo- man had carefully planned the deed, having undressed the’ children and washed them, combed thelr hair, then prepared beds for them. Tears which had dried on the mother's cheeks showed she had wept over them. "Charged With Grand Larceny. New York, ‘Aug. 17—Two indiet- ments for grand larceny were returned by the grand jury against Donald L. Persch, the note broker, who is now under $50,000 bail in the Tombs prison MOVE T0 QUASH INDICTMENTS ! Sensational Allegations by Haskell and Others. INTIMIDATION IS CHARGED Assertion Made That Members of Grand Jury Were Repeatedly Told They Would Probably Be Accused of Perjury If They. Failed to Indict. 8election of Panel Also Declared to Be lllegal. Muskogee, Okla, Aug. 17.—Attor- neys for Governor Charles N. Haskell and the five other defendants indict- ed in connection with the alleged Mus- kogee town lot frauds filed motions in the federal court here to quash the indictments, setting forth a number of sensational allegations. Aside from charges against five grand jurors and the allegation of im- proper conduct on the part of United States Marshal Grant Vie- tor the allcgations deal largely with the grand jury’s selection, with espe- cial objection to the exclusion of Mus- kogee county, the home of the defend- ants, from the territory fromp which the jury was chosen. 1t is alleged that George W. Strawn, J. H. Dixon, J. C. Burgess, A. G. Du- mas and W. T. Bailey, members of the grand jury which indicted the de- fendants, deliberately sought to go on that jury with a view to returning in- dictments; that Strawn, as foreman, conspired to intimidate the other jur- ors into voting indlctments a¥er they had refused to do so. The motion in- sists that Foreman Strawn repeatedly told - the jurors that they jrobably would be charged with ferjury if they failed to indict and at onme time, when the ballot stood eight to eight, he called for an open vote so he would know who should be prose- cuted. Republicans Given Preference. It is alleged that out of eight tales- men selected seven were partisan Re- publicans and the eighth a bitter per- sonal enemy of Governor Haskell. Governor Haskell is a Democrat. After pointing out numerous tech- nicalities in the manner and time of the grand jury’s selection the motion declares there was no evidence pre- sented to show a conspiracy to de- fraud and that the secretary of the in- terior and all of its departments in the Indian Territory were fully aware of how the lots were scheduled and that no objection was raised. The six defendants were indicted by the federal grand jury at Tulsa, Okla., on May 27, charged with ob- taining titles from the government to town lots in Muskogee by illegal meth- ods. The five co-defendants of Governor Haskell, all wealthy and prominent citizens of Oklahoma, are C. W. Tur- ner, A. Z. Knglish, W. R. Eaton, W. T. Hutchins and E. R. 8. Evers. Gov- ernor Haskell and six other defend- ants had previously been indicted on the same charge, but on April 10 last Federal Judge John A. Marshall of Utah upheld a motion by the defend- ants to quash the indictments. The indictments were quashed on tech- nical grounds. FRATERNAL CONGRESS MEETS Three Hundred Delegates at Boston Convention. Boston, Aug. 17.—More than 300 del- egates, representing fifty-one fraternal societles of the United States, were gathered in this city at the opening sesslon of the twenty-third annual con- vention of the National Fraternal con- gress. Two-thirds of the members were women. The convention will be in session until late in the week. The feature of the session was the report of President Piper, which showed the congress to be in a flour- ishing condition. According to the president’s report the fraternal insur- ance orders, with over $8,000,000,000 insurance in force, have been able to maintain a firm and united stand against the old line companies, whose outstanding insurance was last report- ed as totalling $2,677,246,881. STRANDED AFTER LONG TRIP Cincinnati Y. M. C. A. Youths Came West to Help Harvest. St. Paul, Aug. 17.—Arthur Fries, Benjamin Brandloss and Eric Seaman, three of forty or more young men who came from Cincinnati to North Da- kota, where jobs in the harvest fields ‘were supposed to be waiting for them, were in police court on a charge of vagrancy. They told Judge Finehout that after they had paid $22 each for transportation they had been unable to get work. All had receipts for the money. They were allowed to go. FIVE CHILDREN ARE KILLED Their Wagon Hit by Train While on Way to Church. Kennett, Mo., July 17.—While driv- ing to church at Frisble Station five children of A. H. Hyde, a farmer, wera killed by St. Louis and San Francisco train No. 811, which struck the wagon on a crossing a mile east of the Hyde home. AN INTERNATIONAL GURRENCY 8ecretary MacVeagh Working on GI- gantic Scheme. Dublin, N. H, Aug. 17.—With a gi- gantio scheme for the reformation of the currency, especially the paper currency of the whole. world, Frank- HIn MacVeagh, secretary of the treas- ury, is busy at his beautiful New Eng- land summer home studying the de under charges in connection with the sale of collateral deposits by M. M. Joyce, a broker, for a loan negotiated through the Windsor Trust company. tails of his plan. ‘When he returns to Washington in the fall he intends to make a great effort to have the representative finan- ciers and stwtesmen of the “civilized countries of the globe meet and dis- cuss for the first time a plan for the uniform ‘size, color and denomination of the currency. “A certain color shculd also indi cate the denomination of a note,” said he. “Thus green might always indi- cate to a person unable to read that the note .Js a $1 note; red a $2, blue a $5 and so on, whatever the color might be.” WEARS WHITE DRESS SUIT Frank A. Vanderlip Makes Long Beach Women Jealous. New York, Aug. 17.—There .were many well dressed persons at Long Beach, but the observed of all ob servers was Frank A. Vanderlip, pres ident of the National City bank. All had to sit up and take notice when he strode into the ‘dining room{+ at the hotel garbed in evening clothes of pure white serge. The trousers FRANK A. VANDERLIP. were the regulation dress trousers, the waistcoat the regulation V-shaped evening waistcoat. The front view of the coat was much the same as the regular dress coat, but instead of hav- ing long flowing tails it tugged the waist tightly and came to a point just a few inches below the waist line. The collar and the facing of the lapels were white silk. The effect was carried out by white soft leather shoes and a white silk bow tie. Mr. Vauderlip’s white evening clothes had all eyes and were on all tongues and embittered all feminine hearts. TEN PERSONS HURT; SEVERAL FATALLY 6as Explosion Wrecks Four- Story Bullding, - Cleveland, Aug. 17.—Seven men and three women, two of whom may die, were injured when an explosion of natural gas gutted the four-story building occupied by the Wirick Mov- ing and Storage company. The roof of the building was lifted high in the air and the falling side walls damaged the neighboring houses. Tmmediately following the explosicm seven buildings in the neighborhc were afire and a conflagration threat- ened the district, but quick work on the part of the firemen saved them. Pedestrians upon the street were slightly injured by falling bricks, hurled high in the air. Two or three others were slightly injured by a run- away horse, frightened by the explo- sion. The loss will approximate $100,- 000, PASSING OF NOTED PEOPLE ARTHUR HALE SMITH, third son of Joseph Smith, who founded the Mormon church, is dead at Montrose, Ta., where he was attending the con- vention of Latter Day Saints. He will be buried at his home, Lamoni, Ia. GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Aug. 16.—Wheat— Sept., 9% @99%c; Dec., 95%c; May, $1.00. On track—No. 1 hard, $1.44@ 1.45: No. 1 Northern, $1.43@1.44%; No. 2 Northern, $1.35@1.37; No. 3 Northern, $1.251.30. 8t. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, Aug. 16.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $6.00@6.75; fair to good, $5.00@5.50; good to choice cows and heifers, $4.25@5.25; veals, $5.50@6.25. Hogs—$7.40@17.75. Sheep—Wethers, $4.26@4.50; yearlings, $4.75@5.00; lambs, $5.00@6.50; spring lambs, $6.00@7.50. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Aug. 16.—Wheat—On track —No. 1 hard, $1.37%; No. 1 Northern, $1.80%; No. 2 Northern, $1.28%. To arrive—No. 1 Northern, $1.05%; No. 2 Northern, $1.03%; Sept., $1.003%; Oct., 39%¢; Dec., 96%c; May, $1.00%4. Flax—To arrive and on track, $1.453 Sept., $1.28; Oct., $1.34%; Nov., $1- 843 ; Dec., $1.32. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Aug. 16.—Wheat—Aug., $1.01%: Sept, 99%ec; Dec., 96%c; May, $1.00. Corn—Sept., 66%¢c; Dec., 56%4c; May, 57% @67%c. Oats—Sept., 383%c; Dec., 38%c; May, 403%@40%ec. Pork—Sept., $20.80; Jan., $17.40. But- ter—Creameries, 22%@26c; dalries, 20@23%c. Fggs—18@21%c. Poultry —Turkeys, 15c; * chickens, 14c; springs, 16c. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, Aug. 16.—Cattle—Beeves, $4.40@17.60; Texas steers, $4.40@5.50; Western steers, $4.00@6.25; stocker. and feeders, $3.10@5.15; cows anc heifers, $2.25@6.35; calves, $5.500. 8.25. Hogs—Light, $7.45@8.00; mixed, $7.30@8.05; heavy, $7.05@8.00; rough, $7.06@7.30; good to choice heavy, $7.80@8.00: pigs, 36.80@7.75. Sheep —Native, §210@5.10; yearlings, $4.60 @5.60; lambs, $4.50@8.00. RESENTS ACTION OF THE POWERS Nearly the Entire Cretan Army Joins Mutiny. GREEK FLAGTO COMEDOWN Commander of - the Fort at Canea Agrees to Demand of Countries In- terested and, an Insurgent Movement Results—ialian and French War ships Expected to Reach the Scene "In a Few Days. i Canea, Crete, Aug. 17.—Nearly the entire Cretan army has joined the mutineers on account of the efforts of the commander of the fort to lower the Greek flag in compliance witfr4he demands of the powers. No demonstration of any serious ness has yet occurred in Canea, as the insurgents recognize the futility of fighting here, where t,fi powers wili shortly land a forco suMeient to quell any disturbance. If the insurgent movement gets un der way in the interior as it is how planned by the leaders an extensive campaign by the armies of the pro- tecting powers will be necessary. A number of Moslems have been massacred in the interior. Of the 80.000 Moslems in the island the ma Jority are safe from molestation, it is believed, by reason of their. proven loyalty to Greece and their expressed desire to be annexed to Greece. The last of the armed peasants who invaded the fortress to resist the low- ering of the flag have been expelled. Italian and French warships are ex- pected in the harbor within a few days. Crete now fears that the powers Will reinvest their land with their armies and the status that prevailed from 1898 until a few weeks ago will be re-established. MUCH PRAYER; SMALL WAGES Girls in Big Button Factory Strike and Men May Follow. Muscatine, Ia., Aug. 17.—Alleging that the weighmaster cheated them when weighing up their buttons 145 girls employed in the McBee-Bliven button factory, the biggest in the world, went on strike. The men em- ployed in the plant cheered them ‘when they left their machines. The girls work by the piece and any slight error in weighing the first ounce may mean a big loss to them. McBee and Bliven both are leaders in the Sunday religious campalgn and their factory has a branch Y. M. C. A. They have the reputation of treat. ing their emuloyes with the utmost fairness. “Too much prayer meeting and not enough wages” was the com- plaint of one of the men when the male employes were discussing the calling of a sympathetic strike. IN JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE Fully One Hundred and Fifty Persons Perished. Tokio, Aug. 17.—The death list is steadily being increased as returns from the recent disastrous earthquake come in and it is now believed that fully 150 persons were either killed by falling walls or drowned by the overflowing of the Hida river. Reports are still meager and as much of the affected territory was thickly populated it is not improbable that deaths will reach an appalling figure. The Shiga and Gifu prefectures have suffered the worst. Nagoya, on the island of Honda, and Asaka, in Gifu, have been wrecked. The over- flow of the Hida river destroyed hun- dreds of acres of vegetation. EARLY TRAGEDY REVEALED Fifteen Skeletons Unearthed on Banks of Potomac. ‘Washington, Aug. 17.—Fifteen skel- etons, lying together in such a posi- tion as to indicate hasty burial, and three Einglish copper coins bearing the date 1729 were found with the skele- tons during the excavating for the United States medical school hospital near the banks of the Potomac, bring to light, it is believed, some Indian or piratical tragedy of early American days. . History sheds no light on the case. KILLS WIFE AND HIMSELF Chicagoan Also Wounds Son, Prob- ably Fatally. Chicago, Aug. 17.—Gustave Hering, 8r., a bookkeeper, shot and #astantly killed his wife, probably fatally wounded his son, Gustave Hering, Jr., and then killed himself at their home here. The elder Hering, it is said, had been slightly demented for the last two years. Tipton (Ind.) Bank Reopened. Tipton, Ind., Aug. 17.—The First National bank of this city, which closed its doors July 26 after the dis- appearance of Assistant Cashier Noah Marker, has been reopemed for busi- ness. BRUTAL DEED OF ROBBERS Bind and Gag Occupants, Then Set Fire to House. ‘Wilkesbarre, Pa., Aug. 17.—Four masked men entered the home ol Charles Burlew, a storekeeper at West Pittston, near here, and, going to the room occupied by the merchant and his wife, bound and gagged them and ransacked the room. After securing $360 from under a mattress the men set fire to the house and fled. Burlew managed to work himself loose and, after liberating his wife, carried her and thefr one-year-old ‘baby to the roof to escape the flames. Upon the arrival of the firemen the ladders were run to the roof and Burlew and his wife and child were brought to the ground. 3 TRANSMISSISSIPPI GONGRESS MEETS Ballinger-Pinchot Gontroversy Is Transforred to Denver, Denver, Aug. 17.—With more than 6,000 delegates and visitors present from every ‘state west of the Missls- sippi river and many from Eastern commonwealths the twelfth annual Transmississippi Commerefal congress) opened in the Auditorium. The coungress, which considers and acts upon everything of interest com- mercially, industrially and agricul turally to the great West, will remain in session five or six days and prom- ises to be enlivened by a contest be gun last week at the National Irriga- tion congress at Spokane between Sec- retary Ballinger of the interior depart- ment and- Chief Forester Pinchot. Both men and many of their support- ers at the Irrigation congress aré on the ground. REGISTEIED AT WASHINGTON Earthquake of Moderate Intensity 2,- 500 Miles Distant. ‘Washington, ~Aug. 17.—An earth- quake of moderate intensity was recorded by the seismograph at the weather bureau. Beginning at 2:06 8. m. it continued nearly an hour. It was estimated that the origin of the disturbance was about 2,500 miles dis- tant, either in California or the Pa- cific coast of Mexico or in the vicinity of the Azores. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they caunot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucus lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rambling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deatness is' the result, and unless the inflamation can be taken out and this tube restored to 1ts normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever: nine cases out of ten are caused by Oatarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces, We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrah) that cannot be cured by Hall's' Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars free. F.J. CHENEY & 00., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Lumber 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 BEMIDJI, MINN. The ROYAL Stndd 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. miles east of Northome. osition. within easy market. $10 to $15 per acre. No. 21. Minnesota. No. 23. farm. suit buyer. Winter Block No.19. $1280 buys 160 acres in section 19, township 151, range 27. This land is nicely located on good road five Good house and bari 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 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 $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. 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 No. 25. $2400 will buy 160 acres well-improved hardwood land bordering on Turtle River lake and one mile east of We have many other ‘see in above list what you want, we have a large list of other lands for sale. g Remember we buy for cash and sell on time. FARMERS LAND (0. \ 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 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 toil, iree from stones; not one foot of waste land in the entite 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 goss with land. Good land and geod prospects for min- eral. Terms: a'l or part cash. There is 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. 32, 200 acres at north end of Lake Bemidji. $50 per acre. bargains and if you do not Bemidji, Minnesota St. Hilaire Retail Lbr. Co., |