Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 4, 1909, Page 2

PPUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H. DENU, C. E. CARSON. A. G. RUTLEDGE, Editor. Entered in the Postoffice at Bemid]l, Minnesota, as secon class mattor, SUBSGRIPTION---$5.00 PER YEAR.IN ADVANCE To make a reputation, take a ton of gall, half a pound of brains, sixteen grains of truth, and fill up with ablibitum lying. To make a friend, take half a pound of sym- pathy, a pound of flattery, two pounds of Beneficial services; mix well and serve hot. To make an enemy, take an ounce of truth, put it on ice for a minute, and let them have it cold. To make love, take a pound of taffy, a hundred weight of sentiment, and 200 pounds of deception, artfully applied. In a measure, the commercial standing of a city is reckoned ac- cording to the number and value of its business enterprises; its moral standing, according to the number and power of its institutions, exert- ing a good influence as opposed to those exerting bad. These things being true, it should be the intent of the ci‘izens of a place to encourage such new enterprises as tend in any way to make the place better; for a city is greatly what 1ts citizens make it, nothing more, and nothing less. Let all Bemidjiland be “‘boost- ers” and encourage every industry that will add to our commercial im- portance. THEY ALL KNOW HOW TO RUN A NEWS- PARER. Anybody can run a newspaper, according to Jamas B. Hunt, a New York newspaper man who has been touring the northwest, and who was a visitor at Duluth recently. “Yes, anybody can run a news- paper,” said Mr. Hunt. “Only men in the business cannot do it success- fully. A lawyer who would lose a suit even 1f the other side was will- ing to give up will tell you how to run a paper. A judge whose deci- sions are reversed by a higher court will complain of slight errors ina new-paper. A physician who always perform ‘successtull’ operations, but whose patients die, knows all about the newspaper business. Anj ‘ham’ actor can tell you how to handle the news of the world. Every society person who never did anything to get a headline except to obtain a divorce or die, can tell you of the stupidity of newspaper men. “You see, everybody has been in the newspaper business. Nearly every man you meet will say ‘Yes, I used to be a newspaper man myself.’ He probably wrote a puff for him- self once in the Podunk Clarion, He becarmg a post-graduate in the art whea he turned out something about ‘a most enjoyable time !was had by all’ He became a star in literature when he sends a communication to the editor written with a pencil on both sides of the paper. *‘Yes, guess about every man you meet once failed in trying to buck up against the newspaper game. Ninety-nine men in a hundred can’t run their own business successfully, but they know all about conducting a newspaper.” BANDIT GANG IS CAUGHT One Member Drowned In Attempting to Escape. Butte, Mont,, Dec. 4—With four men in jail and the knowledge that another lles dead in the Missouri river the suthorities have accounted for the band of robbers who held up the town of Collins last Monday night, robbing a store safe and about thirty persons of more than $1,500. The prisoners are Jack Allen, Frank Collins, George Gardner and George ‘Wilson, and they were caught shortly after they had ridden into Great Falls. Collins, who is only nineteen years f age, admitted the robbery. ‘While they were fording the Missou- rl river one of their number, whose name the bandits refuse to divulge, ‘went under and was lost. All the loot was found on the men. SAME ROPE AS FATHER USED Michigan Man Makes Unsuccessful At tempt to Hang Himself. Charlotte, Mich., Dec. 4.—Using the same rope that his father hanged him- self with a year ago Fred Ashcroft, a Bellevue farmer, made an unsuccess ful attempt to commit suicide. He was prevented from making a second attempt. 4 Despondency, caused by divorce pro- ceedings, is given as the cause. Telegraph Wires Are Down. Fargo, N. D, Dec. 4.—Telegraph messages to Bismarck, 200 miles away, must be sent via the Twin Cities, Salt Lake, Denver and Butte. Telephone service to western points in North Dakota is entirely disrupted. Ice on the wires is very heavy and the lines , &re now going down under the weight. " PRISON DOORS Court of Appeals Denies Mo- tion for Rehearing. DEPRIVED OF HIS LIBERTY Convicted Banker Ordered Committed to the Custody of the United States Marshal and He Will Be Accom- panied by a Deputy Until: Further Action Is.Taken in the Case—Fed- Supreme Court .18 Now His Only Hope. Chicago, Dec. 4—John R. Walsh, the :ed banker, has taken another long step toward the federal prison for misapplying the funds of the Chi- cago National bank. The United States circuit court ef appeals deprived him of his personal liberty and committed him to the cus- tody of the United States marshal, as it had denied the motion of his at- torneys for a rehearing of his appeal from the sentence of District Judge Ande-son. Simultaneously the court announced that Walsh would be held by the mar- shal until such time as his attorneys shall file with the court a motion for a writ of certiorari, specifying Jan. 1 as the last day on which this action eral JOHN R. WALSH. could be taken. Walsh ‘was turned over to Marshal Hoy in the court- room and walked out a crushed and dejected man. The opinion denying a rehearing ‘was delivered by Judge Grosscup and was concurred in by Judges Seaman and Baker. It was oral, merely deny- ing the rehearing motion. The custody specified by the court s “special custody” and means that a deputy marshal will accompany John R. Walsh wherever he goes until further action is taken in the case. Arguments will be made next Tues- day on a motion of Walsh’s counsel to reopen the case and present further reasons why the mandate should be stayed until application can be made to the supreme court of the United States for relief. Walsh was sentenced to. five years’ imprisonment Jan. 12, 1908, by Judge Anderson of the federal district court and appeal proceedings have been pending ever since. CAMPAIGN OPENS PROMPTLY British Members of Parllament. Mak- ing Political Speeches, London, Dec. 4—Freed of legislative duty members of the house of com- mons and many peers have already begun their political campalgns In their constituencies. Comparatively few remained in London for the for- malities connected with the ceremony of proroguing parliament. David Lloyd-George, chancellor of the exchequer, whose budget was the finitial cause of the crisis, was giyen the opportunity of firing the first shot in the struggle. He was a guest at a luncheon of the National Liberal 'club. The function was one of the most elaborate of the kind ever held in this city and, being timed with the pro- roguing of parliament, afforded an occasion of which the chancellor took advantage to deliver a speech which will be the cue of the Radicals throughout the country. LAWYER HELPS POOR WOMAN Corporation Attorney Gives Her Fee State Gave Him. New York, Dec. 4.—Augusta Crisin- ti, who stabbed her husband to the heart with a shoemaker’s awl, was ac- quitted of the charge of murder. Samuel Untermyer, the corporation lawyer, who has been defending the ‘woman on an assignment from the court, made her a present of the $500 fee which the state allows him. The case is said to have cost him $1,000 in preparation, which will come out of his own pocket. ‘ Bryan Opposes Central Bank. | Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 4—W. J. Bryan, in his Commoner, urges Democrats to get together in a campaign against the central bank plan and charges ithat Taft’s approval indicates an un- {derstanding with Wall street. DECREASE IN PRODUCTION: Output of Metals in the Central States in 1908, ; ‘Washington, Dec. 4—The geological survey has just issued a report on the production of silver, copper, lead and zine in the Central states in 1908. The states covered by the report are Arkansas, Illinois, Towa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Oklahoma and Wiscqnsin. The mines in this group of states report a decrease in the pro- duction of these metals from that of 1907 amounting in value to $21.370.754 for the two years being $77,697,457 and $56,326,703 respectively. The most notable decrease was in the ~ production of copper, which showed a loss of $14,079,602, or more than 32 .per cent, the figures for 1907 and 1908. being $43,553,466 and $29,- 473,844, Michigan was the principal copper mining state in this group in 1908, the other states mining chiefly lead and zinc. Most of the silver pro- duced {s derived from ores that carry mainly copper or lead. LOUISE "ARBOGAST IS FREE Indictment Against St. Paul Girl Is Nolled. St: Paul, Dec. 4—A motion to nolle the indictment -against Louise Arbo- gast was made before Judge Orr in the district court by R. D. O’Brien, county attorney, and the motion was granted. Louise Arbogast was charged with complicity in the killing of her father, Louis Arbogast, for whose murder Mrs. Mina Arbogast, the girl’s mother, was tried and acquitted a month ago. The county attorney- informed the court that there was no more evi- dence against Louise than was intro- duced at the trial of Mrs. Arbogast, intimating that fnasmuch as the mother was not convicted the same evidence would not prove strong enough to convict the daughter. DEAL MEANSTWO NEW COMPETING- LINES Rock- Island-Frisco Division of Great Importance. New York, Dec. 4—Two great con- tinental railroads are to spring out of the separation of the Rock Island- Frisco system. One is to be controlled by Edwin Hawley and B. F. Yoakum and the other by the Moores and D. G. Reid. This conviction settled upon Wall street following the official announce- ment that W. H. Moore, his son, E. S. Moore, now assistant to the vice presi- dent of the Rock Island, and D. G. Reid are to have places on the Lehigh Valley board of directors. The conviction that stupendous deals are pending in the railroad world was further enhanced by the statement that an announcement would be made in a few days to the effect that the Moores would have representation on the board of the Wabash road. These two events would mean a ma- terial changing of the railway map of the country and the creation of two rival transcontinental systems from the Atlantic seaboard to the gulf. The series of events which has led up to the Lehixh Valley announcement has happened so rapidly as to leave all authoritiea in the railroad and financial worlds agape with amaze- ment and it is now certain that there i 1s to be a struggle for supremacy in a territory west of Chicago covering more than fifteen states. TRAMP 'LOSES WANDERLUST Millionaire Ridder to be Married and Live at Duluth. Duluth, Dec. 4—Dr. Ben Ridder, the millionaire tramp, will end his wander- ings in matrimony. He will deliver his last lecture here Monday, when he will appear on the stage of a local theater. The next day at 4 o’clock he will be married to Miss Ellen Chris tensen of Minneapolis. Following his marriage Dr. Ridder intends to settle down and make Du- luth his home. He says that his wan- derlust has given way to love and he no longer desires to roam, but feels a longing to make a home for himselt and the girl he loves. Big Fight Offer Comes Too Late. Sydney, N. S. W, Dec. 4—Hugh McIntosh has cabled his representa- tive at New York to bld a maximum of $200,000 for the Jeffries-Johnson fight. McIntosh says that he has made a deposit with a New York pa- per. . GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Dec. 3.—Wheat—Dec., $1.05; May, $1.06%; July, $1.06. On track—No. 1 hard, $1.07%; No. 1 Northern, $1.06%@1.06%; No. Northern, $1.04% @1.04%; No. 8 North- ern, $1.031%2@1.04%. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Dec. 3.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.06; No. 1 Northern, $1.06%; No. 2 Northern, $1.03%; Dec., $1.03%; May, $1.05%. Flax—In store, $1.81%; on track, $1.- 78%; Dec., $1.77%; May, $1.79%. St. Paul Live Stock. 8t. Paul, Dec. 3.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $6.75@7.50; fair to good, $6.00@6.75; good to choice cows and heifers, $4.25@5.26; veals, $56.50@7.00. Hogr -$7.85@8.00. $4.60@5.00; yearlings, spring lambs, $6.50@7.25. $5.25@6.00; Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Dec. 3.— Wheat—Dec., $1.061%; May, $1.06; July, 97%ec. Corn —Dec., 58c; may, 61%c; July, 60%ec. Oats—Dec., 40%c; May, 42%@42%c¢; July, 408%@40%c. Pork—Jan., $21.- 8(%; May, $20.62. Butter—Creamer- fes, 26%@32%ec; dairies, 24@28c. Eggs—20% @30%c. Poultry—Turkeys, 14c; chickens and springs, 11%c. Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, Dec. 3.—Cattle—Beeves, $8.85@9.26; Texas steers, $3.70@4.75; Western' steers, $4.00@7.40; stockers and feeders, $3.10@5.15; cows and heifers, $2.10@5.65; calves, $6.25@ 8.50. Hogs—Light, $7.70@8.20; mixed, $7.80@8.35; heavy, $7.90@8.40; rough, $7.90@8.10; good to choice heavy, $8.10@8.40; pigs, $6.65@7 70. Sheep— Native, $2.75@5.10; yearlings, $3.5¢@ . 8.80; lambs, $6.25@7.76. Sheep—Wethers, | - 10 E!QSTRIKE Minnesota’s Governor Hopes to Effect Compromise, SOME FREIGHT IS MoVI Strikebreakers Have Been Put to Work at Different Points and Railroad Of- ficials Declare Conditions Soon Will Be Normal—Twin City Commercial Interests Urge Warring Factions to Settle. Dispute. St. Paul, Dec. 4—Governor Eberhart has returned from Chicago and said that he will, if necessary, invite repre- sentatives of' the railroads and the striking switchmen to meet him and Will tender his friendly offices to effect a’compromise. He issued positive or- ders against the importation’of strike police and canceled all engagements out of town, so he may remain here. Everything was quiet at switch- men’s headquarters. President Frank T. Hawley spent the day in Minneapo- lis. At Union station passenger trains were moving with difficulty and freight is being received, but little moved. The importation of men continues and it is estimated that 1,500 have ar- rived in the Twin Cities. Rajlroad officials say they are satisfied that con- ditions will resume their normal as- pect in the next two days. From Chicago and Duluth come re- ports that in those cities the strike is considered virtually at an end, mean- ing that the railroads will succeed in replacing the strikers. Strikers deny that any of their number belonging to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen have returned to work. On the Pacific coast freight is being moved, largely by nonunion switchmen newly em- ployed. The Great Falls (Mont.) chamber of commerce has adopted resolutions de- nouncing strike officialg™for refusing to arbitrate. At Fergus Falls the mayor is swearing in special policemen. A body of 230 strikebreakers march- ing to the Northern Pacific yards in St. Paul were hooted and jeered from | windows by men, women and girls. Minneapolis millers adopted a reso-! lution urging union leaders and rail-| road officials to settle the strike. CABINET DISCUSSES STRIKE President Taft May Be Asked to Intervene. ‘Washington, Dec. 4—The situation presented by the strike of the switch- men on railroads running out of the{ Twin Cities was discussed at the cab- | inet meeting. There is good reason to believe that | President Taft may be induced to in- tervene to the end that a serious dis-| turbance of the country’s business, countrywide in its scope, may be averted. The president, however, will take no action until it is demonstrated that Chairman M. A. Knapp of the in- terstate commerce commission and Labor Commissioner C. P. Neill are| unable to effect peace between the striking switchmen and the railroads. FREIGHT MOVING AT DULUTH Switchmen Members of Trainmen’s Union Return to Work. Duluth, Dec. 4—By the action taken by the Brotherhood of Railway Train- men conditions here are improved and within a day or two all signs of the strike will have been wiped out. Forty-four switchmen who are mem- bers of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen returned to work at the Northern Pacific yards. These, to gether with the men who have been working, will bring the total up close to the normal force of the road. Every railroad in the city is receiv- ing freight for all points. TRAINS MOVING ON COAST Nonunion Switchmen Relieving Con: | gestion in the Yards. Seattle, Wash., Dec. 4—Traffic con- ditions in the Pacific Northwest are beginning to show improvement. The Northern Pacific and the Great Northern roads have begun the move- ment of triins and are beginning to reduce the congestion in the yards. Several switching crews composed of nonunion men have been put to work. MUCH PELLAGRA IN ALABAMA Fifty-five Deaths From Disease Re- ported in Nine Months. Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 4.—There were fifty-five deaths from pellagra in Alabama from January to Oct. 1, 1909, | department, with thirty-eight cases yet . groes. About the same ratio as to race maintains with the cases under treat- ment. & SIDES WITH UNITED STATES et e Mexico May Take a Hand in Nicara. guan Dispute. Mexico City, Dec. 4—That Mexico will side with the United States in her controversy with Nicaragua and that the probable outcome will be friendly interference by both Mexico and the' United States is the statement in offi- cial circles here. The advisability of sending Enrique Creel, formerly ambassador to the United States, to Managua as special representative is being considered by the government officials here. Senor Mariscal, minister of foreign relations, refused to make ‘any de- tailed statement, but confirmed the in- terview given several days ago that (steps will be taken to settle the dis- according to figures of the state health | 3 under observation. Of the dead twen-| f ty-one were whites and thirty-four ne-| § pute amicably and"that Mexico and | the United States would work in har- mony. _Creel, who was recently given thirty days' Teave of ‘absence from the governorship of the state of Chihu- ahua, has been almost constantly since in conference with President Diaz and the other government offi- clals here. GIRLS RIDE ON BUMPERS Runaways Cling Beneath Swift Passen- ger Train. 7 Milwaukee, Dec. 4—Two little girls, Agnes Smith and Annie Luedke, both thirteen years old, who escaped from the industrial school on the night of Nov. 29, made a forty-mile trip cling- ing to the rods underneath a passen- ger train and then walked ten miles across the country to evade being cap- tured and brought back. Both are sick from their hazardous escapade and one of the girls, Agnes Smith, is not expected to Uve. They were picked up by the police authori- ties near Johnson's creek, cold and hungry and almost exhausted. HURRIGANE SWEEPS THE BRITISH COAST At Least One Hundred Persons - $aid fo Have Perished. London, Dec. 4—At least 100 per- sons are believed to have been drowned by the hurricane that has swept the coast of Great Britain for several days. The intensity of the storm increased during the night and the wrecks of many vessels now dot the coast. Fourten vessels are now reported lost, including the Congress, which ‘was in collision off Saint Ices head with an unknown vessel. But one of the Congress’ crew escaped. The steamer Thistlemore, with a erew of thirty, has foundered in the channel and all on board are reported to have been drowned. TO ESCAPE THE NEW TAX Lords’ Reason for Rejecting Budget! a Personal One. London, Dec. 4.—Compilations is- sued by the Liberal party show con- clusively that the principal cause be- Buy Your Lumber Direct ER From the Saw Mill We can supply your wants for one house or a dozen. Headquarters for Lath and Shingles of all kinds. Let Us Figure Your Bills Douglass Lumber Gompany, Bemidji (On Lake Irving, Telephone 371) The Coming of the “S00” has DOUBLY assured the future of Bemidji. EVERYBODY now feels that Bemidji is a SURE WINNER We Know It—Consequently, are prepared to offer more liberal terms than ever to purchasers. Hereafter only 25 per cent of the purchase price will be required as first payment on lots sold by us— and the interest charge will be only 8 per cent. We Know our security will be first class and for this reason make the above concession to new buyers of business and residence lots. Call on us for detailed information re- garding the City of Bemidji as a business, residence or manufacturing location—or call up H. A. SIMONS, our local represen‘ative Bemidji Townsite and Im- provement Company. 404 New York Life Building ST. PAUL, MINN, I L TR e | hind the house of lords’ rejection of the budget was the desire to escape the new tax on land proposed in the ‘budget. The 360 peers who either voted against or were paired against the pudget, the compilation shows, owa 10,078,979 acres of land in the United Kingdom, on which an enormous tax would have been required. Raw Eggs Save Woman's Life. La Crosse, Wis., Dec. 4—Taking a tablet of corrosive sublimate by mis- take for her medicine Mrs. William M. Bronson was saved from death only by the prompt administering of large quantities of milk and raw eggs. For several hours the woman was in terrible agony, but physicians an- mnounce she will recover. How’s This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Oatarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F.J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in” all business transac- ‘tions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. WALDING. KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. 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NORTHERN ~ GROGERY COMPANY WHOLESALE- GROGERS Send your Mail Orders to GED. T. BAKER & GO0 Manufacturing Jewelers and Jobbers They are especially prepared to promptly fill all orders in their various lines of merchandise. Largest stock of Diamonds and ‘Watches and the finest equipped work- shop in Northern Minnesota, Special order work given prompt attention. Estimates furnished. Wholesale and Retail Hardware Phone 57 316 Minnesota Ave. ———