Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 29, 1909, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON EXCEPT SUNDAY BY THE BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. E. H. DENU, G. E. CARSON. A. €. RUTLEDGE, Editor. Entered In the Postoffice at Bemld)l, class mat SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANGE second The Pioneer acknowledges receipt of “The Echo,” a magazine which has been published and dedicated to the Bemidji public schools. Ralph Lycan is the editor of “The Echo,” and William McDonald is the business manager. The new publication is nicely gotten up, is well edited, andis a credit to the manager and editor, our public schools and the City of Bemidji generally. In yesterday’s Pioneer, we pub- lished, as paid matter, the letter written to Governor Eberhart by railway managers whose roads are entangled in the. switchmen’s strike. The statement was a direct one, and gives the railway companies’ side of the controversy. The switchmen’s side of the battle hag already been presented in the news columns of the Pioneer; and the public wonders when the “fracas” will cease and some of the frieght which is sidetracked at many stations westward from St. Paul into Montana will reach final destina- tion. Looks as if there was a golden opportunity for someone with a “big stick” to get busyon both sides of the controversy and force a settlement of the difficulty. For the first time in the history of Beltrami county, the county auditor’s office hasissued a notice, and had the same published in the official paper, requesting bids to do the official county printing for the year 1910. While it has not been the custom of previous Beltrami county auditors to publish a similar notice, County Auditor Hayner believed that the law would be more fully complied with in requesting the bids; and in the official notice he demands that the publications whose representa- tive submits bids shall be legal publications, complying with every requirement of the law. Mr. Hayner is to be commended for issuing this notice; and he asserts that the board will award the printing in 1910 strictly in accordance with the notice. CAUSTIC COMMENT. LA. G. Rutledge.] It was rather impractical of hard- headed *Jim” Hill to deliver his advice to economize, just before the season of Christmas shopping. Every form of Christmas activity, formality or enterprise suggested, involved a certain amount of coin separation. Glad it’s over—that is, Christmas. The wine crop of France is said to be short. We hope that certain friends we wot of will bear this in mind when -seeing the old year out prior to turting over the ‘‘new leaf.” “Dad” Palmer, the agreeable old gentleman who edits the editorial columus of the Grand Rapids Her- ald-Review while Editor Kiley is out caring tor his iron mine investments and other things, has been literally “tickling our hind foot,” of late, finding fault with the Pioneer, its editor and the other very able liter- ary men who form the staff of the Pioneer. Now, “Dad,” cut it; cut it. In this season of good will, be charitable with the shortcomings. of your neighbors. Anyway, we’ve got a pretty durned good “rag,” haven’t we, “Daddie”? MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD Anniversary of Italy’s Last Destruc tive Earthquake. Rome, Dec. 29.—Tolling bells, me morial services and general display of crepe on public buildings throughout Italy mark the first anniversary of the earthquake which destroyed Messina and wrought such devastation in Sicily and Calabria. The anniversary brought many large gifts for the benefit of thousands o1 the victims who are still suffering from the devastation. The Naval league presented the con suls of the United States, Russia, Eng land, Germany, Spain and France rich ly engraved bronze plates in apprecia tion of the services rendered by those nations at the time of the quake. Jealous Woman Ends Her Life. Pittsburg, Dec. 29.—Because her boy suitor was paying attentions to a little girl with dresses to her shoetops and twenty-five years her junior Lillian A. Ashley, a trained nurse of Cleveland, TAT WORKING ON HIS MESSAGE Document” Will Go to Con- gress on Jan. 5. COVERS TWO SUBJECTS Chlef Executive Will Changes in the Interstate Commerce and Sherman Anti-Trust Laws—Will Also Bring Forward His Ideas as to Issuing Federal Licenses to Corpo- rations. Recommend ‘Washington, Dec. 29.—President Taft has begun the preparation of the first .of his special messages to con- gress. This message will deal with the amendments which he believes are necessary in the interstate commerce and Sherman anti-trust acts. Recent reports to the contrary notwithstand- ing it is known that the president will take up the -anti-trust act and deal with it at great length. He will also bring forward his ideas as to issuing federal licenses to corporations. The proposed license will be a voluntary one, to be taken advantage of by such corporations as desire to place them- selves under federal jurisdiction. It has been currently reported for some time that President Taft might delay his anti-trust recommendations until the supreme court had finally passed upon the recent Standard Oil decision. Those to whom the presi- dent has talked within the last day or two say, however, he has decided to go forward with his legislative pro- gramme regardless of the pending de- cision, and, having determined that many changes are needed in the anti- trust law, he will proceed to recom- mend these changes without regard to the Standard Oil case. Believes His Course Proper. Some of the leaders of the senate and house have argued that pending a decision in the Standard Oil case, the president, in recommending changes, might be put by his political oppo- nents in the light of granting a respite or a favor to the corporations, espe- cially in regard to federal charters or licenses. Mr. Taft is said to feel, nev- ertheless, that his views on the entire subject have been so fully expressed in the past and so generally under- stood that he can go ahead without fear of popular misconstruction, As a matter of fact the president is said to have told his callers that he has never at any time had any inten- tion of altering his legislative pro- gramme as outlined in speeches on his Western trip. The president’s message will be ready for reading in the two houses of congress on Wednesday, Jan. 5, and undoubtedly will be listened to with far greater interest than was the regular message read at the opening of the session. TO PROBE HIS EXPENDITURES House Committee Will Investigate Land Commissioner's Office. ‘Washington, Dec. 29.—The adminis- tration of Fred Dennett of North Da- kota as commissioner of the general land office will be subjected to a close scrutiny by the house committee on expenditures, of which Representative McGuire of Oklahoma is chairman. This investigation, which will be con- ducted independent of that to be made as a result of the controversy between R. A. Ballinger, secretary of the in- terior, and Gifford Pinchot, chief for- ester of the government, will be begun as soon as congress meets after the holidays. The committee on expenditures is one of the organizations of the house that fell into disuse for many years. It has been galvanized into life as a result of the new policy of economy. The charge was made by Representa- tive Hitchcock of Nebraska, during the course of a speech in the house, that the land office was honeycombed with fraud and that in purchases made for that office the authorities were guilty of the most willful extrava- gance. MINISTER LOSES BOTH FEET Plods Twelve Miles Through Snow Storm to Fill Engagement. Chicago, Dec. 29.—Urged on by a high sense of duty Rev. W. E. Bos- tick, a University of Chicago theolog- ical student, when he found the cars were blocked set his face against a driving snow storm and plcdded twelve miles, stumbling througl foot deep snow that covered the roads be tween Aurora and Yorkville. He froze both feet in the desperate attempt to get to his little congrega- tion at Yorkville and amputation of both will be necessary, his physician says. A trail of blood marked the last three miles of the resolute young min- ister’s' path. He had been compelled to take off his shoes and rub his numbed feet and when he sought to replace the covering he found it im- possible his feet had swollen so. Satolli's Condition Unchanged. Rome, Dec. 29.—The condition of Cardinal Francesco Satolli, said to be: dying of uremia, remains unchanged The doctors say he may linger for sev- eral days, but that his' recovery is practically impossible. 2 TONG WAR IN CHINATOWN New York Police Unable to Check Assassinations. New York, Dec. 29.—Scores of de- tectives and uniformed patrolmen ‘were sent into Chinatown to check, if possible, the outbreak of the tong war in' which one Chinaman has’ been killed and another mortally wounded. Police Captain Galvin states that the new assassins, known in the tongs 88 “gun men,” were sent here from committed suicide in this city by shooting. Boston following the recent legal ex- ecution there of five Hip Sing tong members who were convicted of kill- ing several On Leong tong men and that their mission was revenge. Low Jung, the seventy-five-year-old Celestial whose body was riddled with bullets, was the treasurer of the Four Brothers society, a Western tong which has taken a part in the war, making it three sided. Lu Yo Fong, a younger Chinese, who was shot three times, was Low Jung’s assistant and companion. DEMOCRATS FOR ECONOMY They Will Also Oppose Ship Subsidy, Champ Clark Says. ‘Washington, Dec. 23.—“The pro- gramme of the Democrats in the house at this session is to keep down the amount of the appropriation bills and l to vote against ship subsidy,” said Mi- nority Leader Champ Clark of Mis: souri. “The house leaders are rushing everything to get the appropriation measures through and that subject and the ship subsidy proposition seem to be about the only two things that are to be taken up. We favor a river and harbor bill. I look for adjourn- men of congress in April, certainly by May 1.” SEVEN TOTS DIE IN EXPLOSION Home Wrecked When Keg of Powder Blows Up. CHAMP CLARK. Dubois, Pa, Dec. 29.—Seven chil- dren, ranging in age from two to twelve years, were burned to death here and three other persons were per- haps fatally injured. The fire, fol- lowed by an explosion of powder, de- stroyed the house of Stephen Bronos- ky, a miner, at Sykesville, Pa., near here. All the victims are foreigners. Six of the children were members of the Bronosky family and the seventh belonged to a boarder. Mr. and Mrs. Bronosky and the boarder jumped from an upstairs window and sustained serious injuries. The fire started from an overheated coal stove. The flames spread rapid- ly and communicated with a keg of mine powder. The subsequent explo- slon cut off all chance of saving the children. BUMPER CROPS THE CAUSE Saskatchewan Farmers Buy Automo- biles by the Carload. Detroit, Mich., Dec. 29.—J. J. Coe, a Saskatchewan farmer, dropped into Detroit and by the time he had fin- ished his errand he had purchased thirty automobiles for his farmer friends of the Far Northwest. He is not an agent. He told his neighbors he was going East to buy an automo- bile and they gave him their orders, accompanied by bank drafts. The deals were mostly cash and aggregate nearly $100,000. Coe paid $4,500 for his own machine. The cars were all high grade, several being in the $5,000 class. Bumper wheat crops in the Northwest were the cause of so much vrosperity. GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Dec. 28.—Wheat—Dec., $1.10; May, §1.10%@1.10%; July, $1- 10%@1.10%. On track—No. 1 hard $1.11% @1.12%; No. 1 Northern, $1.- 11% @1.12%; No. 2 Northern, $1.09% @1.10%; No. 3 Northern, $1.07%@1.- 09%. St. Paul Live Stock. St. Paul, Dec. 28.—Cattle—Good to choice steers, $6.75@7.50; fair to good, $5.00@6.75; good to choice cows and heifers, $4.25@5.95; veals, $5.50@7.25. Hogs—$8.10@8.35. Sheep—Wethers, $4.50@5.30; yearlings, $6.25@7.00; spring lambs, $7.50@7.85. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Dec. 28.—Wheat—To arrive and on track—No. 1 hard, $1.123%; No. 1 Northern, $1.11%; No. 2 Northern, $1.09%; Dec., $1.09% @1.09%; May, $1.10% @1.10%. Flax—In store, $2. 003%; to arrive, $1.99%; on track, $1.- 99%; Dec., $2.00%; May, $1.99%. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Dec. 28.—Wheat—Dec., $118; May, $119%; July, $1.01%. Corn—Dec., 6254c; May, 66%c; July, 66% @66%c. Oats—Dec., 44%4c; May, 46%c; July, 43% @43%c. Pork—Jan., $21.60; May, $21.621. Butter—Cream- eries, 27@35¢; dairies, 25@30c. Eggs —2414@35¢c. Poultry—Turkeys, 17¢; chickens, 13%c; springs, 14c. Chicago Live Stock. Chicago, Dec. 28.—Cattle—Beeves, $4.20@8.00; Texas steers, $4.10@4.90; Western steers, $4.10@6.25; stockers and feeders, $3.10@5.30; cows and heifers, $3.10@5.60; calves, $7.00@9.- 25. Hogs—Light, $8.05@8.55; mixed, $8.20@8.70; heavy, $8.35@8.75; rough, $8.35@8.50; good to choice heavy, $8.- 50@8.95; pigs, $7.15@8.16. Sheep— Native, $3.60@5.65; yearlings, $6.50@ 7.40; lambs, $5.75@8.3: o i : BURNING LINER SAFE IN PORT Giant Celtic Afire ‘in Hold -for Five Days. PASSENGERS ARE NOT TOLD Captain and Crew Carefully Guarded News of the Blaze and the Others Aboard the Vessel Enjoyed a Pleas- ant Passage—Efforts Now Being Made at Liverpool to Reach, the Source of the Fire. Liverpool, Dec. 29.—Fire was dis covered in the hold of the White Star liner Celtic, one of the largest passen- ger steamers afloat, last Wednesday, When the vessel was four days out from New York. The liner arrived here safely. The fire was still burn- ing, but its presence was known to none of the 400 passengers. Immediately upon arrival the dis- charging of the cargo was begun in an effort to reach the origin of the Dblaze. The work is still being contin- ued. The fire started amid bales of cotton in hold No. 6. The Celtic sailed from New York for Queenstown and Liverpool on Dec. 18. The voyage was without special incident until the following Wednes- day, when smoke was discovered creeping up among the cotton bales. Captain Hambleton at once ordered the hatches closed and sealed. Efforts to find the fire were then begun, but the matter was carefully guarded from the passengers, whose passage was not made less pleasat by the anxiety of the crew. Above decks there was ne evidence of anything unusual, but fer the next five days the fire was burning steadily below. IN THE INTEREST OF PEACE Nicaraguan Factions to Hold Confer- ence on Saturday. Bluefields, Nicaragua, Dec. 29.—A Joint conference of the commission representing Madriz and the represen- tatives of Provisional President Hs- trada has been fixed for Saturday. Peace terms are to be discussed. Peace is now only a matter of a few days, it is believed. Hundreds of dead bodies are being burned on the battlefield at Rama. Fear that pestilence would follow un- less some more effectlve methods to prevent it than the slow burial of the dead, which had been going on, were undertaken, the order to burn the bodies was given. Bodies, including a few women and children who died from want in the devastated Rama dis- trict, are being placed in great piles, saturated with oil and lighted. WOMAN BRUTALLY KILLED Slain While on Way to Complain of Prowling Negroes. Denver, Dec. 29.—Discovery in the Platte river of the body of Mrs. Ernest Rupp, aged twenty-eight, mother of six children, revealed what is believed to be a brutal murder. The woman’s outer garments had been torn from her body and it was evident that she had died from a blow ‘which fractured her skull. She dis- appeared while on her way to the po- lice station to report that a number of negroes had been prowling about her house. MINE SHOT FIRERS KILLED Four Men Are Victims of Coal Dust Explosion in lllinois. Centralia, Ill, Dec. 29.—Four men were killed in the No. 6§ mine of the Centralia Coal company, two miles south of here. They were shot firers and had gone into the mine to fire a charge. The other miners had left the mine. An explosion of coal dust followed the shot and the men were instantly killed. One of the men was a brother-in-law of two of the victims of the Cherry mine disaster. PELLAGRA IN MISSISSIPPI Ninety-one Deaths Caused by Disease During Present Year. Jackson, Miss., Dec. 29.—Statistics announced by the state board of health shows that 188 cases of pellagra were under treatment in Mississippi during the year just closing. An ad- ditional twenty-one cases were treated at the state charity hospitals at Vicks- burg. Ninety-one deaths occurred. The heaviest mortality is reported from Lauderdale county, where out of forty-three cases twenty-six deaths oc- curred. Strikebreaker Killed at Staples. Staples, Minn., Dec. 29.—A strike- breaker named Charles Messick, whose home is in Wilmington, Del, lost both his legs while at work in the Staples yards. He died soon after the accident. No ome saw the accident and just how the man met his death ‘will never be known. Carnegie’s Injury Not Serious, New York, Dec. 29.—Andrew Carne- gle slipped on an icy spot while walk- ing around the reservoir in Central park and suffered a painful injury to the left knee. At the Carnegie home it was said his condition was not se- rious. CONVICTIONS ARE QUASHED Two Superfluous Words Held to In validate Indictments. Chicago, Dec. 29.—Because two su- perfluous words were written in an in- dictment charging forgery William D. Tilden and Chauncey L. Graham are free from convictions obtained against them two years ago. The convictions have been quashed by a decision ot the state supreme court that will serve as a precedent in- Illinois. The court finds the indictment value less on account of the words “in sub stance” used In deseribing an alleged| NiVE@MP@ 8 Only One forged note. The tribunal held that the indictment must contain an exact copy and- that the words “in sub stance” cast doubt on the accuracy of the copy. Tilden 'and Graham ‘were convicted in what 'was known as “The Steel Ball cage,” which followed' the 'failure ot the Milwaukee Avenue State bank and the conviction of its president, Paul O. Stensland. It was charged that the Steel Ball company, of which the two men were officers, had obtained money from the ‘bank on worthless notes. OVERWORK'PROBABLE CAUSE Well Known Railroad -Man - Becomes Suddenly' Philadelphia, Dec. 29.—Bernard H Bail, second vice president and gen- eral freight trafic manager of the Philadelphia’ and 'Reading Railway company, became violently insane in his office in the Reading Terminal, the company's big office building. It is believed that overwork was the cause of Mr. Bail's breakdown. Mr. Bail, who was recently appoint ed second vice president, was consid- ered one of the greatest American ex- perts on freight trafic. He has been with the Reading company a long time and rose from the ranks. GIRL THIEF TELLS ~ PATHETIC STORY Robhed Father of Big Sum at Instigation of Relatives, Chicago, Dec. 29.—The recital of the pathetic romance of Angela Schia- vone, a crippled seveuteen-year-old Italian girl, was continued in the crim. inal court when the girl resumed the stand under cross-examination follow- ing her statement of how she stole $97,820 from her father’s bank during a period of two years. Counsel for eight of her relatives, who are accused of having inspired her alleged thefts by promising to get a husband for her when she had stolen enovgh, put the child through a merciless cross-examination and at- tempted to prove her whole story was false. On direct examination the girl tes- tified that her uncle, Francesco Schia- vone, and his wife first suggested her series of thefts. They told her, she sald, that she was crippled and nobody loved her and that the only way she could get a husband was by taking from her father’s bank and buying one. The girl agreed, according to her testimony, and she displayed a little memorandum book, carefully itemized, to show every cent she had taken and the date of each theft. She was em- ployed counting bills in her father’s bank, she said, and every few days she would slip a large bill from a pack- age and conceal it in her stocking. All of these bills, she testified, she gave to her uncle 2nd aunt and wait- ed until they said she had enough for a husband. In all, she said, she gave them $97,820. Many in the courtroom were moved to tears when the child ‘concluded her direct testimony by whispering that, after all, she didn’t get a husband. TRIES TO CREMATE CHILDREN Neighbors Prevent Murderous Deed of Insane Mother. Cincinnati, Dec. 29.—Mrs. Mary Lipp, aged thirty-eight, attempted to cremate four of her eight children. The lives of the tots were saved by neighbors. Mrs. Lipp suddenly be- came crazed, She set fire to an out- house and hurled into the blaze a dog and many chickens. Next she seized two children and attempted to club them into the fire. She felied the first rescuer with a chair, but was over- powered. THROW OUT THE LINE Give Them Help and Many Bemidiji Peo- ple Will Be Happier. “Throw Out the Life Line”"— The kidneys need help. They’re overworked—can’t get the poison filtered out of the blood. They’re getting worse every minute, Will you help them? Doan’s Kidney Pills have brought thousands of kidney sufferers back from the verge of despair. Will cure any form of kidney trouble. g | +8. Collard, 1007 American Street, Bemidji Mign., says: ‘‘For some time I had suffered from pains in the small of my back and a rheu- matic stiffness in my joints. At times I was so lame and my back so sore that I was scarcely able to do my work. A tired, lanquid feel- ing was with me constantly and headaches bothered me a great deal. I tried a great many remedies, but did not receive any relief until Doan’s Kidney Pills were brought to my attention. I procureda box at the Owl' Drug Store and from my experience I can recommend them highly“to other sufterers from kid- ney trouble.” For sale by all dealers.. Price 50 cents. = Foster-Milburn ~Co., Buttalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s— and take no other. ““Bromo Quinine”’ That is Laxative Bromo Qciininc USED THE WORLD OVER TO CURE A COLD IN OFE DAY. Always remember the full name. for this signature on every box. Look 26c. Who Drinks Bemidji’s Pilsener Beer ? The business man who finds it affords relief from the effects of too much mental] strain, The mechanic and the laborer, because it gives them additional physical stamina. The housewife whose duties are arduous and make the use of a light stimulant at times quite a necessity. The convalescent. who needs at this time a food that is strength- ening, and one that is easily digested and assimilated by a weakened system. These and many others use PILSENER style beer because they find it both enjoyable and helpful. Try a case. Bemidji Brewing Co. Phone 235 Bemidji, Minn. Buy Your Lumber Direct 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 i i . l Il ! THE retail merchants telephone serves not only as a salesman, but also as a purchasing agent. ‘When a merchant finds that he is going to run out of a line of goods, he calls up the wholesaler or faciory and not only orders a new stock, but comes to an agreement on the price and the time of delivery. The unexpected needs of his customers can be met with the least possible delay. If the merchant cannot find what he wants in town, the Long Distance Service of the Bell System brings him into immediate communication with other cities and other markets. Northwestern’l‘élephone Exchange Co. Every Bell Telephone is the Center of the System. The Da.ily Pioneer 10c per Week “