Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 24, 1909, Page 2

i ! THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. C. J. PRYOR. C. E. CARSON. Enterad In the Postofica st Bomldl, Minnesota, as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YEAR III ADVANGE LYING ABOUT THE DEAD. . The writer has had occasion, during his varid experience as a newspaper mafi. who write many obituaries, card of thanks, etc;, and we have formed an opinion that is pretty well expressed in the follow- ing, taken from the Philadelphia Star: “A lawyer dies. He’s notorious as a sharper and cheat, but an hon- orable bar association will sit for hours listening to laudations of his career and pass resolutions over this crook fit to make his trip across the River Styx a mere pleasure excur- sion toward a heavy reward for * virtue. “The same is true as to ‘our worthy brother’ in most any civic society. He may haye beaten his wife, robbed his neighbor and been altogether as vicious as they make ’em. But, when they come to bury him, he gets a recommendation for angelhood that would probably have made him fighting mad had they tried to put it on him while he was living. ““‘Speak only good of the dead’ is well enough, but it ought to be amended by adding, ‘But rather than lie about the dead, keep your mouth shut.”” CARELESS WITH CREDITS. Brainern Dispatch: The Bemidji Sentinel should edit its “exchange copy” with a little more care. For instance, it says, “A Brainerd saloon keeper has offered the city $5,000 for the exclusive right to sell liquor in that city.” The Sentinel evidently saw the news item in the Dispatch which stated a condition that existed at Wadena, and being in a hurry to appease the call for copy, the application was made to fit Brainerd, regardless of how ridiculous it would sound to the outside world. Brainerd receives a revenue of about $14,000 from saloon licenses and there is no intention of cutting the rate to $5,000 to accommodate any one man. CAUSTIC COMMENT. (A. G. Rutledge.] I’s easy to be a fool, and it’s foolish to be easy. When everybody is satisfied, the reformer usually has the blues. After some men get a start in life, they don’t know when it is best to stop. Milk is said to be “way up.” Well, that is probably the “milky way.” In bebalf of some women, Cupid uses his lassoo more frequently than his bow and arrow. Secretary Nagle is one of those unreasonable persons who believe that a government employe must earn his salary. Illinois’ winter wheat crop brought the farmers of that state $225,500,- 000. A grain of comfort, we should say; we also acknowledge the corn. S ——- ZUSINESS SECTION BURNED Destructive Fire Visits City of Mon- terey, Mex. Mexico City, Aug. 24.—Fire destroy- ed property in the business center of Monterey to the value of about 1, 500,000. The whole business section of the city was threatened, but es- caped destruction largely because there was no wind. The fire started In the establishment owned by the son-in-law of General Trevinom, com mander of the Monterey military zone 2nd the oppenent of General Reyes, and it was first thought that it wa’ the work of political malcontents, but Investigation'shows that it was due to defective wires. The loss falls most ly on the firms of Bremen & Co. and Sanford & Co. and is divided as fol- lows: Bremen & Co., on stock and build- ings, $800,000; J. B. Sanford & Co., $400,000; Puerto de Liverpool, $150,- 000; other concerns in the block about $100,000. The fire was the largest that has ever occurred In Monterey and for a time threatened the destruction of the entire business portion of the city. House Wrecked; Occupants Hurt. Pittsburg, Aug. 23.—A natural gas, meplosion resulting from a disconnect: 2ad rubber hose at the home of Will- fam Cook at Manor, Pa., fatally burned Cook and seriously injured his wife, two children and his mother. The souse was demolished. Actress Sues for Divorce. St. Louis, Aug. 23.—Grace Van Studdiford, comic opera star, has filed suit for divorce from Charles Van Studdiford, a member of an old St. Louis family. Desertion 18 alleged in the petition. TEN MORE ARE: LIKELY T(LI]IE Riot Victims at McKees Rocks Already Number Six. PROPERTY DAMAGE HEAVY Street Cars Are Wrecked, Vehicles Smashed and Doors and Windows of Houses Broken—Trouble Starts When Several State Troopers Are Mistaken for Strikebreakers While on the Way to Picketed Plant. Pittsburg, Aug. 24.—Following one of the most fatal and desperate strike riots experienced in the vicinity of Pittsburg in over a score of years a quiet but tense situation prevails at McKees Rocks, the scene of a terroriz- ing conflict between state, county and special police and striking employes of the Pressed Steel Car company. Although twenty-four hours have passed an accurate list of the casual- tles is still unobtainable. Unofiicially, however, six were known to have been shot to death and two others believed to have been killed, but carried away in the confusion; a dozen men, both strikers and police, were in hospitals, perhaps fatally injured, while at least two score men, women and children were suffering from bullet wounds and injuries Inflicted with clubs and stones. The dead are: Harry Bxler, deputy sheriff; George Millhaszer, striker; John L. Willlams, trooper; Anton Gubernet, striker; John C. Smith, trooper; unidentified white man, believed to be striker. Of the probably fatally wounded three are members of the state con- stabulary, the others being strikers or others participating in the riot. Among the several. score injured ten are in a precarious condition and it is stated at the hospitals most of them will suceumb before many hours. Property Loss Also Heavy. Aside from the human sacrifice property damage amounted to thou- sands of dollars. Three street cars were wrecked, many vehicles smashed, the streets littered with window glass, close to 100 doors of houses broken and a half dozen horses shot to death. Every one within the strike district is being stopped by the police and thoroughly searched. The possession of a revolver causes detention in the box car jails, while those carrying large sized penknives-are relieved of them and escorted outside the strike zone. Orders have been issued to the con- stabulary, deputy sheriffs and special police to shcot at the first sign of trouble. The practice of the past sev- eral weeks, of firing into the air, was abolished, the order being “shoot to kill,” An investigation shows the rioting to have been caused by three new members of the state constabulary, who refused to obey the commands of strikers when ordered from a street car. These troopers, on their way from Greensburg, Pa., to the plant, were in citizens’ clothes. All were armed. For weeks the strikers have been holding up street cars and order- ing the occupants of them out. Here- tofore all have obeyed. However, the three troopers and a deputy sheriff, all being armed, refused to be ordered about by the strikers. They resisted and a battle ensued. OFFICIAL STORY OF FIGHT Commander of State Police Tells of the Trouble. Philadelphia, Aug. 24.—Captain John C. Groome, superintendent of the state police, has informed Governor Stuart of the shooting at McKees Rocks. The governor has left the question of addi- tional troops to Captain Groome. Captain Groome declared that he is In frequent communication with Cap- tain Marsh, who is in command of the troopers at McKees Rocks, and that information he has received is of & peaceful nature, there being no ne- cessity, he believes, .for reinforce- ments. Captain Groome'’s version of what occurred is that the state troop- ers who were fired upon before the rioting began were probably mistaken by the strikers for strikebreakers. “Four enlisted men stationed at Mc- Kees Rocks,” said Captaln Groome, “had left owing to the expiration of their term of service and we were sending four others in plain clothes from the Greensburg station to take their places. Two troopers from the barracks, also in plain clothes, had gone to meet them. As they were returning on a trolley car the strikers mistook them for strikebreakers. “The strikers ordered the supposed strikebreakers to leave the car. They resisted and fought while lying low in the car. All of the men were armed. Trooper John C. Smith, I understand though wounded, crawled to the bar- racks and notified the troopers there and the second battle occurred.” Admiral Sperry to Retire. Washington, Aug. 24—Rear Ad- miral Sperry, who took the Atlantic battleship fleet on its cruise around the world, will be placed on the re- tired list on Sept. 3. He then will have reached the age of sixty-two years. The admiral is now on duty at the naval war college at Newport. DESIRE GREATER LATITUDE Postmasters Disouss Civil Service Sys- tem of Appointments. Toledo, O., Aug. 2 .—Greater lafl- tude to the pnstmastere In making ge- lections from the eligible lists for clerks and carriers was urged by gev- eral members in debate at the ¢losing sesgion of the convention of the Na- tional Association of First Class Post- masters, This was urged on the score that the present civil service- system is a mechanical device for the valuation of ability, an automatic system of pro- R e L L motion by an elucational test omly and does not allow the postmaster to exercise discretion. Others defended the present system on the ground that it sufficiently answers the purpose un? i8 an effectual protection to the post- masters against politicians seeking the appointment of favorites. BEES MAKE COURT ADJOURN Magistrate Makes His Escape Through a Window. - Columbus, Ga.,, Aug. 2l—Justice Daniel’s court at. Shack, in Chatta- hoochee county, was broken up by a swarm of bees being dislodged from the ceiling. During the argument of an attorney the bees dropped and scattered over the crowd. Almost every person present was stung. The magistrate escaped through a window. Several persons were seri- ously injured by the stinging of the bees. Revival in Coke Business. Pittsburg, Aug. 2.,.—As an evidence of reviving business conditions in the coke region of Western Pennsylvania coke operators have sent broadcast advertisements for 2,000 miners, coke drawers and laborers. -Large posters printed in foreign languages have been circulated. Wright Brothers Bring Suit. Buffale, N. Y., Aug. 2 .—Papers were filed in the United States court here in the action brought by the ‘Wright brothers against Glenn H. Cur- tiss and the Herring-Curtiss company of Hammondsport, manufacturers of aeroplanes, for alleged infringement of patents. WRATH OF GOD WILL DESGEND UPON US Governor Glenn Denounces Sins of the Great Cities. Chautanqua, N. Y., Aug. 24.—Declar- ing he had seen sights in the streets of both New York and Chicago so evil that if he were to deseribe them the men in the audience would pull him from the platform and trample him under their feet Governor R. B. Glenn of North Carolina asserted that the wrath of the Almighty would descend upon the land in some ruinous cilam- ity if the great cities did not mend their ‘ways. “The great citles of the land are snapping their fingers in the face of the Almighty,” he said. “The sins of Chicago are crying aloud unto the heavens. It is a dlsgrace to civiliza- tion. ew York is a blot upon the map of our fair country. The people of the country are pure, God fearing and pious, but in the cities the one evil of Sabbath desecration will prove the ruin of the nation unless 1t 1s checked.” CURTISS MAKES NEW RECORD Covers 8ix and One-fifth Miles In Slightly Over Eight Minutes. Rheims, France, Aug. 24.—Glenn H. Curtiss, the American aviator, made a record here. He covered one lap, a distance of six and one-fifth miles, in 8 minutes 3% seconds. This Is the official timing. PASSING OF NOTED PEOPLE MOSES THATCHER, prominent in business and political life of Utah, is dead at Logan, that state. He was formerly a Mormon apostle and with- drew because of his candidacy for the United States senate in 1898, when he was defeated by Joseph L. Rawlins. CAPTAIN WILLIAM H. CUSHING, stxty-one years old, senior captgln of the revenue cutter service of the Pa- cific coast and active in that service since 1874, is dead at Long Beach, Oal. GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Aug. 23.—Wheat— Sept., 9614 @96%c; Dec., 93%@93%¢c; May, 97%ec. On track—No. 1 hard, $1.11@1.21; No. 1 Northern, old, $1.10 @1.20;, new, $1.04@1.10; No. 2 North- ern, old, $1.05; new, 98c@$1.03; No. 3 Northern, old, $1.05; new, 98c@$1.03. St. Paul Union Steck Yards. St. Paul, Aug. 23.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $6.00@6.75; fair to good, $5.00@5.50; good to cholce cows and heifers, $4.25@5.25; veals, $5.50@86.25. Hogs—$7.50@7.80. Sheep—Wethers, $4.25@4.50; yearlings, $4.75@5.00; lambs, §5.00@6.50; spring lambs, $6.00@7.25. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Aug. 23.—Wheat—On- track —No. 1 hard, $1.03%; No. 1 Northern, $1.02; No. 2 Northern, $1.00.. To ar- rive—No. 1 Northern, 99¢; No. 2 Northern, 97c; Sept., 97¢; Oct., 96c; Dec.,, 94c; May, 98c. Flax—To arrive and on track, $1.45; Sept.,. $1.87%; Oct., $1.34%; Nov, $1.34%; Dec, $1.31. Chicago Grain and Provisions. ‘Chicago, Aug. 23.—Wheat—Sept., 98%ec; Dec, 94%c; May, 98@I8Hc. Corn—#®:pt., 65%¢c; Dec., 55%¢c; May, 57c. Oats—Sept., 36l%c; Dec., 36%c; May, 39%c. Pork—Sept., $22.40; Oct., $20.85; Jan., $17.25. Butter—Cream- eries, 231,@27c; dairies, 21@24%c. Hggs—18@21%ec. Poultry—Turkeys, -16¢; chickens, 14%c; springs, 17c. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago. Aug. 23.—Cattle—Beeves, $4.40@7.60; Pexas steers, $4. 00@56.40; ‘Western steers, $4.40@6,36; stockers and feeders, $3.15@5.25; cows snd heifers, $2. 25@6.40; calves, $6.00@ 8.75. Hogs—Light, $7.60@8.10; mixed, $7.40@8.15; heavy, $7.10@8.15; rough, $7.10@7.40: good to choice heavy, $7.40@8. pigs, $6.90@7.90. Sheep —Native, $2.75@4.80; yearlings, $4.40 @5.35; lambs, 54 50@7 .50. MOORISH TRIBES 'HOLD THEIR OWN Spaniards Unable to Gain Control in Morocco. SUFFER HEAVY LOSSES Casualties on the Feld Not Heavy of Late, but Disease and Hardship Are Killing Hundreds of General Ma- rina’s Soldiers—News of the Actual Conditiors @4refully Guarded From the Public. Madrid, Aug. 24.—Spain’s Moroccan campaign is developing a repetition of the country's struggles. of a decade @go in Cuba and the Philippines, just as military experts in Madrid predict- ed a month ago, News of the progress—or nonprog- ress—of events is kept carefully from the public in Spain. Confidential in- formation from government officials, however, leaves no question that the outlook 1is black. The Spaniards are strong enough to hold their own in Melilla and one or two of the other larger towns as long as money is forthcoming and o.ca- sional levies are provided from home. Otherwise they are no nearer control of the country than on the day the trouble broke out. Bo far as the common soldiers are concerned conditions are deplorable. The force penned in Melilla dare not venture outside the walls except in force and, as the country is too bar- ren to support them at any distance from their base, the troops are in- variably compelled to retreat after each advance, leaving all they have gained to be retaken by the natives, Losses In the field have been small of late, for the reason that General Marina has been afraid to venture an important engagement. From disease, heat and hardship, however, scores are dying. General Marina has at his command Darely threefourths of the body placed at his disposal early in August, the rest having been lost in action, succumbed to fever and dysen- tery or being helpless in the hospital. HELD TO BE CONFISCATORY Injunction Against West Virginia Two- Cent Fare Law. Charleston, W. Va., Aug. 24.—Judge Burdette, in the circuit court, issued an_injunction restraining the state and county officials from enforcing the 2-cent law agalnst the Norfolk and Western railroad. The court holds the law s unconstitutional and is con- fiscatory on its face. The railroad company In its petition declared that the test of the law for two yoars proved it confiscatory. The court’s order requires the road to issue coupons with 3-cent fare tick- ets for the excess over 2 cents a mile collected until a test case pending in the state shipment court is decided. FIGHTING FOR “OPEN DOOR” Southern Theater Managers Meet at Atlanta, Ga. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 24—The man- agers of all the first class theaters in the South are in session in Atlanta. The question to be decided {8 whether the theaters of the South are to have the “open door” in attractions -or whethér the so called “syndicate” is to have exclusive booking rights. The Klaw & Erlanger people are sald to have declared that 1 the Shuberts are glven a chance with attractions that the Klaw & Erlanger company will not book in the South. The meeting was stormy, but no decision was reached. ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETED Mammoth Reception on Return of Samuel Gompers. Washington, Aug. 24—A mammoth reception to President Samuel Gom- pers of the American Federation of Labor when he returns to this city in October has been arranged by the Central Labor union. The reception will be held in the largest Auditorium of this city. A torchlight parade will meet the labor leader when he alights at the Union station here to escort him to the Auditorium. It is expect- ed that 25,000 workmen will take part in the parade. e WATCHMEN TlED TO FENCE Burglars Make Desperate Effort to Get Into Safe. " 8t. Paul, Aug. 24—Burglars held up two watchmen at Wildwood, a resort on White Bear lake, gagged and tied them to a fence, blew open two doors leading to the money compartment of the office safe, but failed to break into the money, and left with a small amount of cash and some jewelry be- longing to H. M. Barnet, lessee of the amusement enterprise. Russian Tutor Dismissed. Teheran, Aug. 24.—The Persian gov- ernment has dismissed General Smir- noft, the Russian tutor of Ahmed Mirza, the young Persian shah, and has appointed Hodjaserah, a learned native, to teach the shah political sci- ence. - FIREWORKS DISPLAY FATAL Two Women Lose Their Lives at Bur- & lington, la. Burlington, Ia., Aug. 2 .—While hun- dreds of merrymakers watched with- out alarm, thinking the occurrence a part of the -pyrotechnic display on the water, five persons jumped from a flaming boat into the Mississippi river and two women were drowned. In connection with a carnival being keld here an elaborate display of fire- works was set off on a barge in the middle of the stream. Many launches and -rowboats gathered around the barge. The store of gunpowder on the barge caught fire prematurely and flames wero hutled in all directions. A launch, containing Marshall Jor- dan and wife, only recently married; Mrs. I. D. Conover and two other men, all of Mount Pleasant, Ia., caught fire and the occupants threw themselves into the river. Before aid could reach them Mrs. Jordan and’ Mrs. Conover had disappeared. The others were taken from the water exhausted. TO MEET IN SAN ANTONIO Transmississippi €Commercial Con. gress Adjourns. Denver, Aug. 28.—Finally approving resolutions which, it is believed, will put an end to the Pinchot controversy concerning the segregation of lands other than strictly forest lands, the Transmississippi Commercial con- gress adjourned to meet again in short session at San Antonio, Tex., in No- vember. Colonel Ike T. Pryor of San An- tonio, Tex., was elected president and Arthur Francig of Cripple Creek, Colo., secretary. MILLION DOLLAR FIRE LOSS Decatur, HI,, Scene of Disastrous Con- flagration. Decatur, Ill, Aug. 24.—Fire start- ing in Moorehouse & Wells’ hardware store caused a loss of $1,000,000. The insurance is supposed to be 80 per cent of that amount. The city’s situation was an ex- tremely hazardous one, as the water supply gave out and people realized that the breaking out of another fire would mean more than the firemen could handle. Springfield sent four engine com- panies in response to a call for help. The local department was crippled by walls falling on several hundred feet of hose. Many Anarchists Arrested. Budapest, Aug. 23.—The police of this city have taken into custody twen- ty-six anarchists who recently arrived here to attend the forthcoming an- archist congress. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they caunot reach the diseased portion of tho ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deatnessis 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, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflamation can be taken out and this tube restored to 1ts normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever: ninc 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 caso of Deafness (caused by catarrah) that gannot bo cured by Mall's’ Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars fre F.J. cuENEY & 00., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggi Take Hall's Flmfly l’fll‘i for constipation. Lumber and Buxldxng Material We carry in stock at all times a com- plete line of lumber and bwilding material of all descriptions. Call in and look over our special line of | fa.ncy glass doors. We have-a large and l well assorted ‘stock from which you can make your selection. WE SELL 16-INCH SLAB WOO0D St. Hilaire Retail Lbr. Co. BEMIDJI, MINN., 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 reql 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. Pa.ul Minnesota Subseribe For The Pioneer. for sale. attention. No. 19. miles east of Northome. osition. timber; heavy soil; some within easy market. 810 to $15 per acre. No. 21. Minnesota. No. 23. - farm. suit buyer. . Winter Block 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 $1280 buys 160 acres in section 19, township 151, range 27. This land is m(,ely located on good road five 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 bordering on Blackduck lake; mostly hardwood 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. There is timber enough on the place to pay for the land. The land is located one mile from school house; has rumning 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 agrxcultura] Jand bordering on two lakes; 2! broken; balance easily cleared. Within easy reach of good markets. Terms to No. 26. $2400 will buy 160 acres well-improved hardwood land bordering on Turtle River lake and one mile east of 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. 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. Good house No. 26. $5 per acre buys good quar- ter tract of land in section 9 township 150, range 32. Good meadow, valuable t1mber~ 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, free from stones; not one foot of waste land in the entire ground. Forty acres in crop and timber enough to pay for Jand. 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 thtlefork in township 66, range 23. Saw timber ha.s 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 good ~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. 81. 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. meadow; all 26 acres Bemidji, Minnesota