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

i i THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER 'PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT ‘SUNDAY BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. C. J. PRYOR. G. E. CARSON. A. G. RUTLEDCE, Editor. Enterad In the Postoffice at Bemidjl, Minnesota, as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YEAR IN-ABVANCE ity e BELTRAMI HAS A BUSINESS COUNTY BOARD. 3 Those who have been present at. the meeting of the county board which was organized on Tuesday by the admission of Merrs. Schroeder, Fellows and Myhre as new members of the board, and the election of Commissioner Peterson as chairman, were impressed with the thoroughly business-like methods which have been pursued by the board in the transaction of the matters brought tefore them. Heretofore, there has always been more or less delay in getting the members of the beard together for consideration of business, and when the members were assembled there was always more or less wrangling and unnecessary delay in consider- ing business. ‘There appears to be a. general understanding among the new mem- bers-that there shall be no delayin the transactions of the board, and the large amount of business which was very -satisfactorily disposed of at the meeting held this week is evidence of the proficiency of the present board. With harmony prevailing arong its members, there is no. denying that Beltrami county now has a board of county commissioners who will guard well the interests of the taxpayers and transact the county’s business with dispatch, and exercise due economy. 2 PATRONIZE THE HOME MERCHANT. Don’t go abroad to buy something when you have a few dollars to spend and then ask your home merchant to sell to you on time when you are broke if you have bills with your merchant who has given you credit] and an extension of time an accepted small paymeants, and take your cash to the city to spend with a stranger who bas no interest in your town, nine times out of ten he will “do” you because he never expects to see you again. save you money with reliable goods, which he guarantees with his reputa- tion.—FEx. * CAUSTIC COMMENT. LA. G. Rutledge.] It will be hard indeed to keep the arctic explorers from the Jecture platform by the suggestion of a frosty reception. The proof that there isno coal trust is found when the’ temporarily financially embarrassed one tries to get a ton of coal on tick. It is disheartening to think how much more favorable view Mr. Fowler would bave - had of Speaker Cannon if no change had been made in the chairmanship of the banking committee. If the astronomers who are scan- ning mars find traces of a disturb- ance “‘up there,” it should be borne in mind that the, football $eason is on, and also that some million of American people are “rooting” at the baseball contest between Pitts- burg and Detroit. RUMOR SAYS CRANE TALKED TOO MUCH Mleged Reason for Return of Chinese. Minister, Washington, Oct. —Charles R. Crane, the newly appointed United States minister to China, who is re- turning from San Francisco, from which place he was recalled when about to take a ship for his post, will be cautioned as to his public utter- ances concerning the vital questions in the Far East and then sent to his station. The speeches the new official has made in the country since recelving his appointment and the interviews he has given out were the cause of the order for his return to Washing- ton for a conference with the secre- tary of state. It is reliably reported that in the opinion of Secretary Knox some of these were so injudicious and un- guarded in their nature that it was deemed inadvisable to allow . Mr. Crane to proceed ‘to his important] post in the Orient without receiving alittle advice delivered personally_as to his future course in voicing the diplomatic ideas of this‘mation con- cerning the locality where he will be The home merchant will | MURPHY DENIES COOK'S STORY Boatswiin of Peary’s Ship Gets Into Print. LOANED COOK HIS: PANTS Describes Explorer’s Return to Etah in Effort to Refute the Latter's Charge of Cruelty—Declares Com- mander Peary Has Charts Made by Brooklyn Man’s Eskimos Showing He Did Not Reach the Pole. New York, Oct. .—John Murphy of Newfoundland was and is the boat- swain of Commander Peary’s ship, the Roosevelt, He is the man who was left at Etah in' charge of the stores. He is the man whom Dr. Cook:has charged with extreme cruelty. He 1§ one of the men who received the sup- plies landed by Captain Joseph E. Bernfer of the Canadian patrol ship Arctic’ and, if half he says is true, there will be a»sudden npheaval in the North pole controversy, He is one of the three white men who' know, \vhfl.t. happened at Etah. br. Cook has already made his state- ment.. Harty Whitney will riot speak. Regarding-the charges of cruelty Mur- rhy says: “I have read in many papers that T. would not take Dr. Cook into the hut at Btah and that I was cruel to him. I will never: believe that Dr. Cook sald these things, because we were always the best of friends and ‘we parted the best of friends. Why, the day he got into Etah I shaved him. Cook Shakes Murphy’s Hand. “He had nothing: but his heavy sealskin pants and they are too heavy to wear in the house because they are &0 hot and uncomfortable. I loaned Dr. Cook my own pants and he wore them in the house the five days he was with me. Do you think if we had been bad friends he would have worn my pants? When it came time for kim to go away he shook hands with me and said, ‘Murphy, as long as I live I will never forget you for your kindness to me’ That's what DF. Cook said to me; his last word,” More important than all, Murphy knows that Cook told Whitney and another member of Peary's crew that he had reached the North pole, but he does not. believe that' Cook suc- ceeded. He bases his testimony on the evidence given Peary by the two Bskimos who were with Cook. Mur- phy says that Commander Peary now has in his possession charts of the Northern country on which the two natives traced the route taken by Dr. Cook. Eskimos Mark Cook’s Course. “The commander had these two ‘huskies’ cn board,” Murphy contin- ued, “and cuestioned them about where Cook had been. While they talked they took pencils and showed on the chart just where they had been with Cook. They say that he made & two days' journey toward the north and then camped. At the end of the- tirst day he had encached a heavy gun. At the end of the second. day he ordered one of the huskies to go back and get that gun. Dr. Cook waited two days for the man to come up with the gun and then the three men turned westward and that was a8 far north as they ever got. The commander has those marked chartg now. “I was In Ftah when this man Ber- nier came-in with the ship Arctic with supplies. Harry Whitney was alsc at Etah. Whitney came to me and asked me what to do with the suprlies thal were consigned to him. I said we would take them and see stationed. that the huskies did not get at them. So the supplies were landed and we took care of them and they were there when Dr. Cook got back.” ° OPENS HEARING AT SEATTLE Interstate Commerce Commission Llis- tening to Evidence. Seattle, Wash., Oct. 8.—For the first time on the Pacific coast the full membership of the interstate com- merce commission began hearings in Seattle. The case is known as the Seattle Chamber of ~Commerce Transporta- tion bhurean and the Tacomsa Traffic association against the Northern Pa- cific railroad and' others. Thé com- plainants ask for a reduction in the eastbound rates to equalize the rates glven Fastern- jobbers and" manufac turers on goods sent westward. .The contention of the coast ship: pers is that they should have freight rates as low to points in Montana, Idaho and Oregon on casthound ship- ments as those given to shippers at St. Paul, Chicago, Omaha .and Kansas City on westbound shipments. Suits have been filed by Portland and San Francisco shippers involving the same principle. TAKES LIFE SENTENGE T0 SAVE HIS MOTHER Boy. Pleads Guilty to Murder- ing-His Father. Sydney, Neb., Oct. 8.—Pleading guilty to murdering his father Andrew Krupnicke, aged fourteen years, takes a ‘life sentence in the penitentiary and thus perhaps saves from the- gal- lows his mother, first' charged with the commisstowOP e cHime: - Anton Krupnicke. was a wealthy farmer living a few miles from Syd: ney. - The night of June 29, this-vear; [ the struggle for home rule. he was shot and killed and Mrs. Krup- nicke was arrested and charged with the murder. { At the mother’s trlal Andrew, the son, who had been held as'a witness, Created a sensation by golng upon the witness stand and testifying that it was he and not his' mother who shot his father, The proof against ‘the woman was conclusive and if the case had gone to the jury would have resulted in a verdict'of murder in the first. degree. - After-the confession and sentence of the boy to imprisonment for life the case against the mother iwas-dismissed. Then the boy told the sheriff that his mother was the gullty| party and tbat he confessed in order to save her from hanging. = IRISH PARTY WILL ASSIST Effort to Deprwe House of Lords of Veto Power. London,.Oct. 8—T. P. 0'Connor, M, P, will sail shortly for the United States at the request of John E. Red- mond; the Trish leader, to explain the political situation here to the .sup- porters of the Irish cause in America and to appeal for funds to carry on The Na- tionalists regard the approaching gen- eral plection as one of the most crit- jeal perlods ip their history. The full power of the Natlopalist organi- gation will be utilized in helping the Liverals depriye the house of lords of the power of yeto, which, the Nation- plists declare,. is the gole obstacle to home rule, * MRS, COREY HAS AMBITIONS Aspires to Revive Bocial Glory of the French Emplre, New York, Oct. 8—Mrs. William B. Corey admitted before leaving with her husband: for their shooting lodge in Wisconsin that she aspired to re- vive the social glory of the French empire and become the most famous entertainer since the - days of the grand monarch and La Pompadour. She rendily discussed her plans and said she was well pleased with her summer at the beautiful Chateau de Villigenis near Paris, where she held three upique and claborate entertain- ments that surpagsed anything given by a chatelaine of grande dame of France for many years. PRESIDENT LIVING THE SIMPLE LIFE Enjnylng Bnet Resplte In the Sierra Mountains, El Portal, Cal, Oct. 8—In the wil- derness of the western slope of the Sierras, away from the crowds and ithe necessity of speechmaking, Presi- dent Taft traveled by stage coach to- ward -the wonderful Mariposa grove of hig trees. It is an eight-hour ride to Wawona, where the party will spend the night at a lonely tavern on the outskirts of the Yosemite valley before starting to penetrate the Mari- posa-group. The president and his party left this little terwminal station of the Yo- semite Valley railroad ‘at 7 a. m. Luncheon was had at the little settle- ment of Chinquapim and the party a1 rived at Wawona at 5 p. m. Respite from the great crowds, the bracing mountain air, breathed amid & scenic environment declared one of the most beautiful in the world, and a simple diet of mountain trout, chicken and hacon and eggs is expect- ed to render the president fit for the remainder of his trip. He has three days of sight ‘seéing and restful travel before him in and around the Yosemite and there is not a speech of any sort in .sight until Fresno, Cal, is reached several days hence. ‘While in Yosemite park the presi- dent will not, be entirely cut off from communication with the outside world. A telephone wire, equipped with telegraphic instruments, is in easy reach. IN THE PANAMA LIBEL CASE Prominent’ Men Expected to Testify at Indianapolis. Indianapolis, Oct. 8.—The prelim- inary hearing of Delavan Smith and Charles R. Williams, proprietors of the News, charged with having com- mitted criminal libel in articles inti- mating that there was corruption in the purchase by 'the United States of the Panama -canal zome, i§ set for next Monday in the United States court ol this district. Frank H. Hitchcock, postmaster general and former chairman of the Repuhlican national, committee; Nor- man E. Mack of Buffala, chairman of the “ Democratic national committee, and representatives of the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co. are ex- pected to testify. CITY . OFFICIALS ARRESTED Accused of Imprisoning Government Indian Agents. Marshalltown, Ia, Oct. 8—Mayor 0. 1. Ingledue, Deputy Chief of Police Michael Clark, two other police offi- cers and a deputy sheriff were arrest- ed here by federal cofficers on an in- dictment returned in the federal court at Davenport., The accused are charged with imprisoning three .gov- ernment Indian agents, who were at Marshalltown obtaining evidence against saloon men for selling liquor to Indians. Japanese Schooner Confiscated. Valdez, Alaska, Oct. 8.—United Stetes Judge Overfield has:signed a decree forfeiting the Japanese scaling schooner Kinzai Maru, which. was seized by the United States revenue | ciitter Bear in-July, 1508, for violation of the sealinig’ laws. This" decision’ also affects the forfeiture of the echooner ° Sakiki -Maru, similarly selzed and accused. T T e ramea PRESENT CRISIS ~ ALARMS FINNS Relations Wiih Russ_ii Se- verely Strgined. SENATORS REFUSE OFFICE Subjects of Finland Dectine Reap- pointment Under Present Conditions and the Governor General Proposes to Fill Vacancies by Naming Fin:, nish Officers Now In the Russian Military Service. 8St. Petersburg, Oct. *.—It is report- ed here from Helsingfors that the governor general ‘of Finland contem- plates - forming a. senate from . the Finns now in the Russian military service to replace the senators who last’ month refused to accept: reap- pointment to office. The refusal was. because the Rus- stan cabinet insisted tkat the Finnish senate assign $4,000,000 as Finland’s contribution for the defense of the empire, The Finns were willing to contrihufe only $2,000,000 annually. This step by the governor general 1s proposed as the only way out of the present situation, unless some compromise between the Finnish leaders and the Russfan cabinet can be arranged. The constitution re- quires that the Finnish senate be com- posed of Finnish subjects, but Finns of all parties flatly refuse to accept office under the present conditions. Finnish public opinion is highly alarmed at the possibilities of the present crisis, which is an outcome of a series of measures adopted during the past two yvears with the: view' of bringing Finland into closer relations with the empire. ~Premier Stolypin has been aided in the struggle by the general revival throvghout Russia’ of the spirit of nationalism. This af- fects also the majority in the duma, which finds Lhot the old system of personal union with Finland through the emperor is not consonant with the idea of Russian natlonullsm. ASSOCIATION BADLY DIVIDED Grain Dealers Unable to Agree on Uniform Grading of Wheat, Indianapolis, Oct. \,—Uniform grad- ing‘of wheat was the principal: sub- Ject of discussion among the delegates to the convention of the. National Grain Dealers’ association. Because the inherent quality of ‘wheat, varying with soil and climatic conditions in different sections of the country, has supplied a great obstacle to uniform grading the assoclation is split info’factions. It is hoped to for- mulate ‘a grading plan on which the Chicago board of trade and all the other wheat interests will be able to agree and thus ward off general gov- ernment inspection, to which the ma- jority of the members of the assocla- tion are opposed. REFUSES TO BE INTERVIEWED Miss Katherine Elkins Returns From European Trip. New York, Oct. 8—Miss Kathering Elkins arrived here on the White Star liner Adrlatic after a/stay of several |- ‘weeks in Burope, during which it hae |- been asserted aiid denied that she hac MISS KATHERINE éLKIN&. met the Duke of the Abruzi, to whom At one. time she was reported to be engaged, ‘With Miss Elkins were her mother, Mrs, Stephen B, Elkins, and her two brothers, Stephen and Davis. The lat- ter was asked: “Is your sister engaged to be mapr- ~ried to the duke?” “So far as I know she is not,” he replied. : Mr. Elkins added that if his sister and Abruzzi had met he did not know of it. Mr. Elkins added that he did not belleve they had. Senator Flkins was on the pier to meet his family. Miss Elkins denied herself to all interviewers, Ends Life Under Train. Goshen, Ind., Oct. 8 —James Devor, once a lieutenant in the United States army and afterward widely known as an inventor and architect of.freak houses, committed suicide near his home south of Elkhart by stepping i front of an interurban car. Devyoy had bsen acting strangely for mors than a year, M No matter from what source they came, if you have a skirt, jacket, a dainty waist, piece of lace, em- broidery or linen, or some other article of value, we can clean it for you, removing' the spot or stain entirely. 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