Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 2, 1910, Page 4

THERE'LL BE SIX MORE . WEEKS OF WINTER COLD Groundhog Would Have Seen His Shadow, Today, Had He Been Out ““Rubbering.” Today Mr. Groundhog held the boards as the weather prognosticator supreme and the weather bureau at Washington, which made such a complete fizzle of its long distance predictions last week, Professors Foster, Hicks and the other weather prophets, as well as the ‘‘oldest inbabitants” were relegated to the rear. Bemidji people are not any more superstitious than the average of mankind, but without any exceptions we were interested in the ground- hog’s opinion of the weather today. The groundhog or woodchuck is endowed with the happy and very convenient faculty of being able to bridge over the cold frozen stages of winter in a prolonged and peaceful slumber known as hibernation. According to tradition, the groundhog (sometimes facetiously called ‘“sausage’”) in coming out February 2 always looks for the sun; and if he can see his shadow, the prognosticator (who is suspected as being also something of a prevari- cator) goes back into his hole, pulls the hole in after him and takes another forty winks, six weeks of winter succeeding his appearance, so ’tis said. If the “hog” appeared today after 9, he would have had no trouble to have seen his shadow; as the weather has been clear, with “Old Sol’s” rays beating down in mid-summer fash- ion. If you believe in the habits of groundhogs, look out for six more weeks of winter. Treasurer Preparing Lists. County Treasurer French is getting out the lists of lands on which the big timber companies who have holdings in Beltrami county will pay taxes, in May of this year, and the job is no small one. Mr. French is performing this work at the present time, so that he will not be so strongly rushed later, on towards May; and the lists show some interesting things. Onoe list which has been com- pleted is that of the Pine Tree Lumber company (a Weyerhaeuser enterprise), containing list on which this company paid taxes for 1908, which shows that the company will be called upon to pay the sum of $20,982.52, and in all probability there will be some more lists that will swell this amount materially. The Crookston Lumber company is the largest holder of asssessable lands in the county. A recent tabu- lation of the lists of lands which that company holds in Beltrami county covered 48 closely-written pages of fovlscap paper. With an average of 40 descriptions on a page, there were estimated to have been about 1900 descriptions in the big list. And when the taxes are paid, County Treasurer French has to issue a receipt for every ten descriptions. Short-Sighted Business Men. The following, taken from ' the Lester Prairie News, might apply to a few near-sighted merchants of almost any community, the fellows who can’t see anything good in their home printer. Bemidji has, we hope, none of this caliber of small-sighted business men. Says the Lester Prairie News: ““A certain merchant who occasion- ally patronizes the News and has always got a square deal found out the past week that it pays to trade at home. He had bought a number of calendars from a Minneapolis whole- sale house, on which hetried to place his card with a rubber stamp. *‘After he had stamped a few he decided that he could not afford to insult his customers by offering them such a cheap affair He called us in and wanted us to help him out of the difficulty by getting him something decent. But the time was too short and we were com- pelled to disappoint him. “Whether he will stick his supply of cheap stuff into the furnace or take the risk of incurring the enmity of his customers by hand- ing them out, we do not know or care, but we do know sooner or later this merchant will learn that it pays to be square—even with the printer.” Jerome's Mistake. One of the early vicissitudes of Je- rome K. Jerome as an actor was to be offered his choice of playing the part of either a soldier or a donkey in a pantomime, a real donkey with four legs. After careful consideration he thought the red coat the more becom- ing disguise and chose the part of the soldier. "Apparently he made a mistake, from the point of view of success, at all events, for a few days afterward the manager came to him and sald: “You made a great mistake, Jerome, in not taking the part of the donkey. It would just suit you, and there’s & shillings a week more in it.” A Coin Trick. Rub.a coln against a smooth, upright surface for u little while, then press it hard and take your hand away from ft. You will be surprised perhaps to see this coln stick to the wood. The rea- son is that in rubbing the coin over the wood and then pressing it hard, you drive out all the air between the two objects, and the pressure of the at- mosphere keeps the coin in its place. Just Suited Her. “Please, ma’am, I baven't a friend or a relative in the world,” said the tramp. “Well, 'm glad there’s no one to worry over you in case you get hurt. Here, Tiger!” said the housekeeper. Getting His Own Back. “The giraffe has a tongue eighteen Inches long,” suid Mrs. Talimore. “And knows how to" hold it, too,” growled Mr. Talkmore, who had had a long curtain lecture the night before.— London Answers. Hionill black it every few days. iron—becomes a part of thie stove. . Jour times as long as any other shine. or your gas range. dealer is authorized to 7¢fund your money. everyone in the place your wonderful polisk. in llwzfali:hz:. L\ LA A= e N ‘That’s What Every One Says Who Tries Black Silk Stove Polish ON'T imagine for a moment that a/ brands of stove polish are the same. Don't get the idea that to keep a nice glossy shine on your stove you must It’s not a question of oft-repeated application. It's a question of the stove polish to use. Black Silk Stove Polish is so much better than other stove polishes that there is absolutely no comparison—it's in a class all 4 1t makes a brilliant glossy shine that don’t 745 or itself. lust off, 1t anneals to the It makes old stoves Jook like new and lasts Get a can and give it a trial. Try it on your parlor stove, your cook stove, 1f you do not find it the est stove polish you ever used, your Black Silk Stove Polish has been made by the same formula and sold under one name for 25 years. Here Is what some of the ladies write us: “I saw your advertisement but was unable to secure the polish here. for a can and found Black Silk Stove Polish so much better (hfin any :re At that I asked my hardware dealer to order a supply. He did so, and is now selling nearly had_ever used had no idea there could be such a difference “Itried the sample box of Black Silk Stove Polish and like it so well that Iwant to black all the other stoves in the house. amoupt by return mal Enclosed find 50 Our hardware mercl cents. Send that ant does not kegp e Poon fOF waa visiting [rierds In Chicago and thoy tacd Biaci Sk RlovaTotish on thelr stoven, s It made thel way alicad ot any pollsh {iavo ev or used. ever yLg5e17ed tho Black Silk Stove Folish and found 1¢all you claim and the best I Ask Your Dealer = for Black Bilkc Stove Polish and refuse a counterfeit ot 10 mora than the ordinary kind, 80 Why B0t sve the o 1n liquid or paste—one quality. BLACE SILK STOVE POLISH WORKS & K. WYNN, Maker, Sterling, Iil, Use Black 8ilk Alr-Drying Iron Ena: o, 5100 pipos, oo Erbronts caatg. Notsfebie T Froducos'a permanct giony. Sael, ou 6 o e—— Costs PIACK SILK | IR col ‘brush for applying. STovE poLISH ine I ever saw, and after blacking the polish did not rub or dust off. It 1 ey ——— BLACK Ity ndors, regin- . Nota(fotted by Heat oF iack surface. Can, With ta. Askyour dealer. LiquiD ONLY ONE MINER ESCAPES DEATH Heavy Loss of Life in Colos rado Disaster. BODIESTORN AND CHARRED More Than Half of the One Hundred and Fifty Men in the Colliery Found Dead at the Foot of the Air Shaft and There Is No Hope That the Oth- ers Entombed Escaped a Like Fate. Primero, Colo., Feb. 2.—Fighting madly to escape through a narrow, partly choked air shaft, trampling over fallen comardes in a struggle for life, more than half of the 149 miners em- ployed in the Primero mine of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, wrecked by an explosion, were over- come by gas and fire. The bodies were found in heaps about the bottom of the air shaft, where the men had fallen in the desperate struggle. One hundred and forty-nine men are known to have been in the mine when the explosion occurred. It is stated that seventy-nine are dead. One has been rescued alive, but dangerously in- jured. The bodies are so torn and charred it has been impossible to iden- tify the dead. Twenty-four bodies, have been brought to the surface and rescue par- ties, equipped with oxygen helmets, are still searching the ruined work- ings. The explosion occurred: at 4:30 p. m. ‘With a roar and a belch of flame the main shaft crumpled in, blocking the entrance to the mine. Both fans with which the property is equipped were shattered and it was not until three hours later that the fans were re- paired and a rescue party, headed by General Superintendent J. F. Thomp- son, was able to descend the air shaft. Bodies Found Near Entrance. The investigators discovered three bodies before being forced to return to the surface. Five men, one of them a hundred yards away, were killed at the entrance of the mine shaft by the concussion. Rescue parties were hurried to Pri- mero from Trinidad, Segundo, Stark- ville, Sopris and Cokeville and worked desperately to open the main shaft. It soon became evident, however, that this entrance had hopelessly caved and another rescue party de- scended the air shaft. Dio Nardino, the ofe man rescued alive, was found beneath a mass of earth and timbers. He declared that he crawled over scores of bodies after the explosion and encountered no one who was not injured. i The rescuers say that the whole mine is wrecked and it is almost im- possible that any of the entombed min- ers are still alive. The fire which followed the explo- sion was confined to the workings near the main shaft and soon burned itself out. Until the workings can be opened, the cause of the explosion will remain unknown. The officials declare that safety lamps were used in every por- tion of the mine and that every pre- caution was taken to prevent acci- dent. Most of the miners entombed are Slavs, Hungarians and Italians. Only two Americans—William Helm, elec- trician, and David Williams—are among the missing. EXPLORERS ENTER THE SHAFT St. Paul Mine at Cherry, Ill, Is Re- opened. Cherry, Ill, Feb. 2—The St. Paul mine, in which upwards of 250 miners lost their lives in November, has been opened for the first time in two months and within a few hours it is expected that most of the 200 dead bodies which still remain buried in the depths will have been brought to the surface. The experts were unable to scent any gases at thesurface. They made a trial descent on top of the cage, pre- paratory to a working expedition. The oxygen-helmeted explorers de- scended to the second level, 350 feet underground, and returned safely. The temperature proved satisfactory and the whole lid was torn off preparatory to an entry to the levels. THREE PERSONS ARE KILLED Auto Crushed Between Passing Trol- ley Cars at Denver. Denver, Feb. 2.—Caught between passing trolley cars speeding in oppo- site directions an auto was demolished, three persons killed, a fourth serious- ly injured and a fifth, the driver, is delirious as a result_of the accident. The dead are J. August Baker, jewelry salesman, Cincinnati, O.; Miss Virgil Cain, Denver; Mrs. Mary Hamilton Keating, wife of a wealthy real estate operator of Denver. Boy Meets Peculiar Accident. Dubuque, Ia., Feb. 2—While coast- ing down a steep hill Ralph Garth, aged ten years, steered his bobsled into a barbed wire fence, with the re- sult that the boy’s throat was cut from ear to ear by the murderous barbs. Physiclans took ten stitches in the wound, but it is believed that the in- Jury is fatal. NO HARM LIKELY TO RESULT Tail of Halley’s Comet to Envelope the Earth May 19. i New York, Feb. 2.—Camille Flam- marion,- the French astronomer, in a letter publishéd here, says that the vaporous tail of Halley’s comet will envelope. the earth on May 19. “For geveral hours,” he says, “we will be immersed in the gaseous cau- dal ‘appendage, whose chemical con- stitution is still little known. The NI ' comet will pass directly between the and the world at 2 o'clock ox the morning o6 May 1. ' “At that hour the Pacific ocean wil be in full daylight, while in France it will be night. Little danger may be expected, however, for the tail will probably be so rarified as to be inof- fensive.” SHE DEMANDS . VINDICATION Mrs. Hartje to Renew Efforts to Se- cure Separation. i Pittsburg, Feb. 2.—After almost two years of silence, during which time she has been formulating plans for her fight to obtain a divorce from her husband, the millionaire paper manu- facturer, Mrs. Augustus Hartje has broken her silence. It has been frequently rumored of late that Hartje was attempting a set- tlement in order to prevent further sensational disclosures. “Such will not be the case,” said Mrs. Hartje. “I have been villified and demand complete vindication and a legal separation.” She is not seeking an absolute di- vorce. The case comes up March 7. PACKERS SEND Falling Off in Demand Does Not Cheapen Meat. New York, Feb. 2—With the de- mand from consumers fallen off to a greater extent than ever before in the history of trade retail dealers in meats found an advancing scale of prices in wholesale markets cenfronting them. ‘Wholesale rates went up a fractional part of a cent Monday and. the dealers being advised that curtailed. ship: ments were likely to lead to a further advance consumers kept up the cam- paign for abstension from meat-until lower prices were forced. : “Something has got to drop hard pretty soon,” said one prominent mar- ketman. “Supplies are piling up and the cold storage capacity of the city is limited. Already egg men are throwing over their holdings at re- duced rates and butter has come down. Meat will have to follow if the reduced rate of consumption is maintained, no matter if shipments are heavily re- duced.” The 8-cent rate for milk rules now except on the routes of two big com- panies and one of these has announced a reduction effective March 1. GRISCOM BEGOMES‘ LEADER Succeeds Herbert Parsons York County. New York, Feb. 2—Lloyd C. Gris- com, former United States ambassador to Italy; was formally elected presi- dent of'the Republican county com- mittee of New York eounty, succeed- ing Herbert Parsons; resigned. Mr. Griscom is strictly a “silk stock- in New LLOYD GRISCOM. ing” politician. He has never even met Governor Hughes, much less-Tim- othy L. Woodruff, chairman of the Re- publican state committee, or William Barnes, Jr., the Republican “boss” of Albany. His selection was made with a view to placing a high class man in the position. Says He ls-an Embezzler. Chicago, Feb. 2—John C. Cowan, who was arrested in Forest Park, a suburb, on a charge of disorderly con- duct, told the officer at the village jail that he was wanted in New York city for the embezzlement of $149,000 from the Wells-Fargo Express company. He will be held until his story is investi- gated. Refuses to Pardon Embezzier. ‘Washington, Feb. 2.—President Taft has denied the application for pardon made in behalf of Henry G. Goll, for- merly assistant cashier of the First National bank of Milwaukee, sentenced on May b, 1906, to ten years’ imprison- ment for embezzlement of the bank’s funds. BINGER HERMANN ON STAND Denies Conspiracy to Defraud the Government. Portland, Ore., Feb. 2—Fornrer Con- gressman Binger Hermann took the [, stand in his own defense in his trial here on charge of conspiracy to de- fraud the government in public lands. His testimony was a general and spe- cific denial of any conngction what- ever with any conspiracy. Hermann also entered a specific de- nial to the evidence of government witnesses that he had ever suggested to Surveyor General Meldrum that Meldrum purchase some school land within the proposed reserve. Street Car Strike Threatened. New 'York, Feb. 2—Conferences were held in an effort to avert & strike of 5,000 motormen, conductors and guards of the Brecoklyn Rapid Transit . company’s elevated system. Cessation of work is threatened be- cause of the discharge of forty em- ployes recently. The men say that they were discharged because they Joined a union. L e me— e 5y PRICES UPWARD - Mts Housewife: Medium in ‘This is especially true of baking quality, quality is no better, The Cheap and Big Can Kind In this can you get more subatance but not more baking powder. It is great in quantity only~s not in economy— st in satisfaction, Theres a Happy Anything that ‘is overdone or under- done is not good. and it is just as true of baking powd~ you use the cheap and *Big Can Kinds you are getting quantity at tfiqps s :: It cannot be 2s good — or as economical as Calumet—the mead; kind. " If you use the High Price Kind, you are paying tribute to the Trust — the Jeres the Full Valué'n BAKING POWDER Calumet, in the Standard 11b. can, sells at a moderate cost—but is great in 2ll'round satisfaction. You use lessof it—it makesthe baking lighter, - purer — more deli- cious. One baking . will prove its supe- tiority—try it. Ask your grocer and in- sist ‘on lumet. Free—large handsome Tecipe book. Send 4o and slip found in pound can. Baking Powder Con ng Powder Chicago fated Revenge. “Once when I was.a smsll lad on my father’s farm in Ohio.” said a judge, “a peddler got me to help him make some repairs to his wagon. I did so without any thought of pay, but when the vehicle was mended as he drove off he told me the next time he came by our house on his rounds he would bring me a gift in the shape of a copy of ‘Robinson Crusoe, a book I had long coveted. How I waited for him to come again and how my heart fell when he failed to bring me the vol- ume! Again and again he promised, but never made good his word. Years passed, and I grew to manhood, but the memory of that cruel disappoint- ment never vanished from my mind. I was made a school trustee of my district, and one day a man applied for a .position as teacher. In him I recognized the peddler-who had blast- ed my youthful hopes.* There was an- other candidate for the job, and mine 'was the deciding vote. Nothing in life ever gave me more pleasure than in voting against the ex-peddler, who for his deception on a boy lost a good place. It was perhaps carrying the spirit of revenge too far, but there are not many who would have done other- ‘wise.”—Baltimore American. . A Skater’s Daring. Few feats of skating have ever ex- celled the exploit of one of Napoleon’s officers performed shortly after the fight at Jena in 1806. The emperor dis- patched an officer to Marshal Mortier requiring him to seize certain impor- tant towns svithout delay. When the officer arrived at the mouth of the Elbe, where the river is seven and one- half miles wide, he was threatened with serious loss of time. The river was just covered with fce; therefore to row over was out of the question. He could not cross by the nearest bridge without going twenty miles out of his way- on roads heavy with snow, and he grudged the time that would thus be wasted. So he resolved to skate across the thin, freshly formed ice. Had he tried walking hé would have sunk at once, but by skimming along on his skates at the top of his speed he got over the river both dry and un- harmed. By this daring if dangerous deed he saved six hours, did what Na- poleon bade him do and won great credit for his bold and clever exploit. London Bakers In 1310. In 1310 we find the following Bow bakeresses accused of selling halfpen- fiy loaves deficient fn Weight: Sarra Foting, Christina Terrice, Godiyeva Foting, Matilda de Bolingtone, Chris- tina Prichet, Isabella Sperling, Alice Pegges, Johanna de Countebrigge and Isabella Pouveste. One wonders why the husbands were not summoned. In a similar case in 1316, when Agnes Foting’s bread was seized, it was “ad- Judged that her bread should be for- feited and given to the prisoners in Neugate because her husband did not come to avow (own) the bread.” Are we to assume that in the absence of the husbands the bread was merely forfeited without the Infliction of a fine? An indication of the importance of the breadmaking business is also found in an enactment of the reign of Henry III to the effect that “every cart of Bremble (Brombley-by-Bow) or Stevenhethe (Stepney) that comes into the city with bread shall pay each day a halfpenny.”—St. James’ Gazette. A Tardy Act of Justice. Marriages between English actresses and men of a high social position be- gan in the eighteenth century, if no earlier. There was Lavinia Fenton, the Polly Peachum of Gay’s “Beggar’'s Opera,” who became Duchess of Bol- ton; there was Miss Farren, who mar- ried Lord Derby; also Miss Brunton became Lady Craven not long before Lord Thurlow married Miss Bolton, Earliest of the list, though, comes the Earl of Petcrborough, who married Anastasia Robinson, the singer, and kept the marriage secret until a few days before his death in St. James® palace, when he assembled his relatives and friend.s and publicly acknowledged the woman “to whom he owed the best and happiest hours of his life,” a tardy act of justice that caused the lady to swoon away. Influence of Feminine Dress. Few men realize the influence that dress has upon them. Man thinks that he is an unbiased being, open to con- viction, to sound logic, to unanswera- ble argument. Fond delusion! open to nothing except to the elos quence of a few yards of silk and to the persuasion of soft laces.—London Graphic. . Made Quite a Difference. Miss Watson—Did Mr. Sark say to you as I entered the drawing room last night, Clara, “Is that the beautl- ful Miss Watson?” Clara—Yes, dear, with the accent on the “that.”—Ex- v didate for Mayor, I hereby announce myself as 4 can- to be voted on at the election Feb. 15, next. , . If elected I promise to give to the city a clean business. administration “without special privileges. - Respectfully, WM. McCUAIG. He 18 j Every Stationer Should Investigate 1 sable.”” Betall stationers write for Prepald 7ho., money back if wasted, PEERLESS MOISTENER CO. For Sale at The Pioneer Office. New-Cash-Want-Rate ',-Cent-a-Word Where cash accompanies copy we will publish all “Want Ads” for half- cent a word per insertion. Where cash does not accompany copy the regular rate of one ceut a word will be charged. EVERY HOME HAS A WANT AD For Rent--For Sale--Exchange --Help Wanted--Work Wanted ==Etc.--Etc. HELP WANTED. WANTED—Apprentice girls, Dressmaking Parlors, Schroeder block. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Confectionary with building, lot stock, with good established trade and good open- ing for barber shop or jewelery stock, in same building. Price $4200, half cost, balance in 2 years, E.F.Lanzou, Coleraine, Minn. FOR SALE or FOR RENT—Hotel and bar room, all furnished in first- class condition, including big bara on lot of 102 feet frontage. -Also good team, 2 cows, 75 chickens, 4 acres of land, wagon, sleighs, etc. Address Matt Haeffner, Puposky, Minn. FOR SALE—Nine-room house and two lots located on Mississippi ave- nue and Eleventh street. Good substantial house. Part cash and’ the balance on time. Apply at 1101 Mississippi. FOR SALE—Post office cabinet with 80 call boxes and 32 lock boxes. . All in good condition. Address G. W. Frost, Bemidji R.D. 2. K FOR SALE—Cockrills, Rhode Is- land Reds_and White Wyandots eggs for hatching, $1.50 a setting, J. E. Svenson, Bemidji, Minn. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer will procure any kind of a rubber stamp for you an short notice. FOR RENT. FOR RENT —Two front rooms over Brown’s store, 317 Bel- trami. LOST .and FOUND LOST—Between Baptist church and railroad tracks one ladies -gold watch. Finder please return to Miss Wallin, 103 Irvine avenue for reward. LOST—A watch fob with 32.degree Masonic charm. A suitable re- ward will be paid for its return to A. P.-White at Northern National Bank. 2 I MISCELLANEOUS PUBLIC LIBRARY—Open Tues days, Thursdays and Saturdays 2:30to 6 p. m, and Saturda) evening 7:30 to 9 p. m. also Library in basement of Court House. Mrs. Donald, librarian WOOD ! Leave your orders for seasoned Birch, Tam- arack or Jack Pine Wood with S. P. HAYTH Telephone 11 Want Ads FOR RENTING A PROPERTY, SELL- ING A BUSINESS OR CBTAINING HELP ARE BEST. Pioneer