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

THE BEMIDUI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING €0. C. J. PRYOR. G. E. CARSON. A. G. RUTLEDGE, Editor. Entersd In the Postoffico at Bemld)l, Minnesota, as second class matter. SUBSGRIPTION---85.00 PER YEARCIN. ADVANGE Verily, the Cass Lake Times patriarch does us great honor in ex- hibiting such corcern as to our editorial page. However, the Pio- neer subscription list is increasing nicely, each week; which is the best indication we know of that we are printing the news and that the paper is filling the bill as a news medium. It is all very well, when you have nothing to do but kill time, to talk about keeping the boys on the farm. but you might as well. spend your time spitting ata crack. Boys will stay on a farm as well as anywhere if they receive decent treatment at home. The boy who is yanked out of bed by the hair, kicked out to milk and cuffed into breakfast, as a preliminery to being cursed at all day while he is at work, is not likely to be consumed by his love for agriculture—nor for his sire. Give the boy a fair show, and he’ll stay with you, at any old job. If you are so mean that he can’t stay at home, don’t you got to your neigh- bor with a hypocritical snuffle and tell about your boy’s ingratitude after you have raised him. THE LATEST “PIPE”. Herewith we give one of the latest ‘‘pipes” sent out by the democratic press bureau in St. Paul with relation to the alleged alliance of some north-country republicans with the prohibitionists. There is about as much truth in the article as there is any of the stuff which has caused republicans of the state to fight among themselves during the past six years and elect a democratic governor. Says the “pipe””: “In respect to the county option movement which the Republican convention will have to reckon with a movement 1son foot which may make it even more formidable than at present it appears to be. ““This movement has its inception in the northern part of the state, and is being engineered by a number of popular and astute politicans. It contemplates an alliance between those who are opposed to a tonnage tax on iron ore and the temperance forces. “Politicians assuming to present Northeastern Minnesota profess a willingness to jomn in the county option movement, and aid in forcing the adoption by the republican con- vention of a county option plank, if in return the temperance forces will agree to make the fight solely on Y the county option issue and pass up any movement looking toa change in the method of levying a tax on iron properties or their product.” GIVE US REAPPORTIONMENT. We are not ordinarily in favor of anything that savors of boycott, but we would like to see senators and representatives from this north coun- try elected pledged to see that the first important measure passed by the next legislature provides for an equitable’ reapportionment. — Park Rapids Clipper. Boycott, or no boycott, the people of this section of the state should insist that legislative candidates next fall have prominent in their platform a plank for a just reappor- tionment which will give an honest representation in the legislature to this rapidly-growing community. The present representation is an out- rage, and the obtaining of legislation beneficial to this section isa difficult matter, TWO ARE DEAD AND ANOTHER IS DYING Robhery Motive for Tragedy n South Dakota, Vermillion, S, D., Nov. 16.—Two are dead and another dying as the result of an awful tragedy at the farmhouse of Albert Nelson, twenty-five miles north of Vermillion. A tramp laborer who was engaged to husk corn for Nelson entered the bedroom of Nelson and wife, slashed Mrs. Nelson with a razor, killing her and wounded the husband in such a manner that he will die. ) Nelson succeeded in killing the tramp, but too late to save his wife. The tramp’s motive was robbery. GROUND UNDER CAR WHEELS Mother and Daughter Meet Death in Runaway Grash. San Francisco, Nov. 16.—Mrs. Mary Callahan and seven-year-old Catherine Brown, her neice, are dead and John Callahan, the dead woman’s husband, is in a hospital with both Jegs broken, as the result of a runaway accident. The three were driving in a light buggy when the horse broke from Cal- lahan’s control, breaking the rig in front of a trolley car that was dash- ing down a steep grade. The womay | and girl were thrown to the pavement, but escaped the wheels of the car. MAY DISCUSS RATE REFORMS Number of Prominent Railroad Men in Washington. Washington, Nov. 17.—The presencef in Washington of James J. Hill and | Lounis W. Hill of St. Paul; John H. Carroll, general counsel of the Burling: | ton, a Hill road, and W. C. Brown of the New York Central, as well as les- ser lights in the railroad world, was| responsible for a report that Presi-| dent Taft had summoned railroad ex-!| perts here to confer with them rela-} tive to proposed changes in the Sher- man anti-trust act and the Hepburn} rate law. GARFIELD SENDS LETTER TO TAFT Former Secretary in Con- servation Conmtroversy. DRAWN OUT BY BALLINGER Communication Follows Latter’s State- ment That “Garfield Would Have Done the Same”—Present Official’s Predecessor Goes Into Details With Reference to the Land Office and Immigration Bureau. ‘Washington, Nov. 17.—It s per- sistently reported here that when Sec- retary Ballinger said in his recent statement, “I did what Mr. Garfield would have done,” he drew fire from his predecessor in office. It is known that former Secretary James R. Garfield has written a long letter to President Taft in which he has carefully explained how he con- ducted the interior department, espe- clally with reference to the land office and the immigration bureau. The writing of this letter at this time will put the president in a more or less awkward position if the claims of the Pinchot partisans prove to be well founded. According to these claims the presi- dent was not given full information by Ballinger, especially with reference JAMES R. GARFIELD. to the Alaska coal frauds and Ballin- ger's connection with the claims as attorney. Upon the Ballinger statement of the facts President Taft wrote his let- ter sustaining Ballinger and giving him a clean bill of official health. It is understood that before this action was taken former Secretary Garfield offered to put the president in posses- sion of his version of the Alaskan ca‘es, if Mr. Taft should desire it. The matter went no further at that time. Now it is known, through White | House gossip, that Garfield, having | waited in vain for a request to send | i in his statement, has sent it in any- how. Thus any further action that the; president may take in the Pinchot- Ballinger case cannot later be ex- plainéd on 2 claim on the part of the friends of the presidcnt that he had not been fully informed as to both sides of the cases. All this goes to show, it is pointed out, that under cover of charges of plots and conspiracies there is being fought out a way down beneath the surface of the somewhat troubled wa- ters of Washington a certain bitter struggle between the pro-Roosevelt- fans and the backers, political and ‘| otherwise, of Ballinger. BEREAVED FATHER A SUICIDE Losing Son in Factory Fire Head of Firm Ends Life. New York, Nov. 17.—Loss of his son and nine employes in the fire which destroyed his comb factory in Brooklyn last week is believed to have been the cause of the suicide of Rob- ert Morrison, head of the firm which conducted the éstablishment. Mr. Morrison’s lifeless body was found in the bathroom of his home, where he had turned on the gas and dled of asphyxiation. CONTROLS WESTERN UNION Bell Company Secures Stock of Tele- graph Concern. Boston, Nov. 17.—The American Telephone and Telegraph company, owner of the Bell systems throughout the United States, has secured a sub- stantial amount of the minority stock of the Western Union Telegraph com- pany and sufficient voting rights of other stock to give the telephone com: pany control of the telegraph corpora tion, according to an announcement made here. PETITION FOR INTERVENTION 8Some Nicaraguans Weary of Constant Warfare. Bluefields, Nicaragua, Nov. 17.—An effort to draw the United States into the revolution in Nicaragua is being made by a number of persons here, who are circulating a petition asking the United States t~ help restore peace. The petition says that for years there have been uprisings and revolu- tions in Nicaragua and that this state of affairs is due to the misrule of President Zelaya, against whom there is at present an uprising. The United States, the petition says, is the only country to which Nic- aragua can look for assistance. ACTRESS ATTACKED BY LION Inflicts Severe Injuries Before Being Driven Into Cage. Springfield, O., Nov. 17.—Just after ending a song and while tripping to the wings in a local theater Miss Ber- tha Allgower, an actress of Columbus, 0., was attacked by a lion, which she[ had been putting through a number of tricks. The animal leaped upon the.actress and bore her down. One of its huge| paws struck her left leg, the claws cutting three decp gashes, about four | inches long and nearly an inch deep. ‘With tail switching the beast, roaring | with rage, stood over the woman’s| helpless form until driven into its| cage. Veteran of Many Wars Dies. Terre Haute, Ind., Nov. 17.—Colonel Charles Smith, eighty-one years old who served in the Mexican war, was a member of the Lepez expedition to Cuba in the fifties and was lieutenant colonel of the Thirty-first Indiana and colonel of the One Hundred and Fiity-| sixth Indiana regiment in the Civil war, is dead at his home here. | had no orders to do so. BLAME GOMPANY FOR DISASTER Miners at Cherry, IiL, Are Yery Indignant, ALL HOPE IS ABANDONED No Expectation That Any of the En- tombed Men Will Be Rescued Alive. All Efforts Now Being Devoted to Fighting the Fire Raging in the Col- liery—Water Being Poured Into Hole in Top of Main Shaft. Cherry, IIl, Nov. 17.—With what lit- tle hope was left of saving the lives of several hundred miners entombed in the burning St. Paul mine blasted by the hermetical sealing of all the shafts the officials in charge at the scene of the disaster devoted all of their energies to fighting the fire that rages under the earth. No effort will be made at present to Denetrate the depths, as mining men declare that no man can go into the subterranean passages now and live. Chief Horan of the Chicago fire de- partment and six expert firemen reached here and assumed charge of the fire fighting. They came on a spe- cial train bearing 50,000 gallons of wa- ter, 5,000 feet of hose, chemicals and many fire extinguishers. A hole was cut in the cover of the main shaft and then a line of hose was dropped down the shaft in the hope of checking the fire in that way. It is also stated that the men in charge will force carbonic acid gas down into the depths of the mine. Ex- perienced miners declare that if this is done it will extinguish the fire, but it will also extinguish with fifteen min- utes the life of every man still living. Expect to Find Bodies in Heaps. It is the opinion of Mining Inspector Taylor that when the mine is pene- trated the bedies will be found heaped up in,the blind ends of the tunnels, where the miners retreated gradually from the approaching flames. The feeling among the survivors and their widows and children has burst forth in a torrent of denuncia- tion of the company. The miners openly blame the com- pany for the disaster, declaring that the direct cause of the fire was the fact that torches were used in the sta- bles when the electric light cable burned out. If the company had re- paired the cable promptly, they assert, the fire would never have started. The miners also gave vent to their indignation against Engineers Rais- beck and Cowley, who were in charge of the cages when the fire started. Cowley admitted to the cordmer that he had rofused to raise the cage bear- ing the twelve rescuers because he Sheriff Skog- land, fearing violence will be offered the two men, has sent Raisbeck out of town and Cowley will probably be l asked to follow at once. Liner Ashore Off Naples. Rome, Nov. 17.—The North Germas Lloyd liner Puetzow, with the Chinese naval commission aboard, is ashore off Naples. distress and tugs have been rushed to her aid. She is flying signals of HASKELL MUST FACE TRIAL Demurrers to Indictments Overruled by Court. Oklahoma City, Okla, Nov. 16.— Judge John A. Marshall overruled de- murrers to the indictments against Governor Haskell and five others for alleged fraud in the Musgokee town lot cases and the cases must go to trial. Governor Haskell and his co- GOVERNOR HASKELL. defendants are given until next Sat- urday in which to enter a plea. The court’s finding comes after a hard fight on the part of Governor | Haslkell to end the government’s at- tempted prosecution of him on the al- leged frauds connected with the dis- posal years ago of town lots in Mus- kogee that wvere at one time Indian lands. P WOOD Leave your orders for seasoned Birch, Tam- arack or Jack Pine Wood with S.P. HAYTH Telephone 11 COAL STOVES We have on sale a num- ber of good second nand coal stoves that will be sold at a bargain. DORAN BROS 402 Minnesota Ave. Manufacturers of GAS, GASOLINE and STEAM ENGINES, PULLEYS, HANGERS, SHAFTING, CLUTCHES and 'ail POWER TRANSMISSION SUPPLIES, direct fo the consumer, LGVM Machine Shop in the West INEAPOLIS MIN STEEL AND MACHINERY CO. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Dr.King's New Life Pills The best in the worid. ? Eastman ans Premo Kod. $1 to $100 EI(oclak Supplles, Developing and Printing SEND US YOUR MAIL ORDERS ' E. A. BARKER, Jeweler ] 217 Third Street T Remember our stock is new and our prices right O’LEARY-BOWSER CO. Look! for our Big Display of Christmas Novelties. Table Linens and Napkins We have a very large line of fine Table Linen, Napkins and other various linens, all new and up-to-date patterns, that will make the Thanksgiving dinner complete, at a very low price. Table Linens ranging from 35c to $2 per yard; Napkins $1 to $5 per dozen. Watch! 'We have the largest line bought (and will be on display in a few days) that ever came to Bemidji Fancy Silks, Hosiery, Waists, Purses, Gloves, Belts, Toilet Articles, Stationery, &c. Wait! Everything that will make a nice gift and something that will be apprecia.ted.