Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, May 26, 1910, Page 6

| four principal classes of cities—that m]HTHWESTERH AUTu is, those having a population in 1900 " OWNERS' CONVENTION Grand Forks May 31st, June 1st, 2nd and 3rd. On the above dates the automobile owners in this section of country will meet in Grand Forks for the purpose of organizing the North- western Automobile Owners’ Associ- ation. This organization will have for it’s object the discussion of all subjects of interest to the auto- mobile owners, such as better roads, equitable laws affecting automobiles, the care and operation of auto- mobiles, etc. Speakers of note including Gov. John Burke, Minnesota State Roads Commissioner Cooley, who has just returned from an European trip taken for the purpose of observing foreign roads and road making methods, Dr. James E. Boyle, Ph, D. of the University, Hon. Tracy R. Bangs, State’s Attorney, H. E. Pence of the Pence Auto Co., of Minneapolis, probably the best informed automobile. man and one of the largest dealers in the country, will be present. Mr. Pence’s talks on the “Care and Up-keep of Automobiles” and “Dollar Saving Hints to Automobile Drivers” alone will be well worth coming a long distance to hear. A reception committee of the Com- mercial club have been appointed tosee that the visitors have a good time andan arrangements committee, which plans to care for all auto- mobiles free of charge, is also one of the promised features. The annual May music festival will be in session in Grand Forks in the new auditorium, which has a seating capacity of 2,000 during this convention, with Mme. Norell, Prima Donna, Metropolitan Opera Co., New York, and Royal opera of London, and the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra, 55 pieces, un- der the direction of Emil Oberhoffer, and an Oratoria Society Grand Chorus of 175 voices. No one should miss these two early sum. mer events. ‘Take that tour that you have been planning. Go to Grand Forks on May 31st. For full information in- cluding program of Automobile Owners’ Convention and Music festival, address, Secretary, Grand Forks Commercial Club, Grand Forks, N. D. AVERAGE SALARY OF PREAGHERS IS $663 The Census Bureau Shows Ministers of the Gospel Get Little Pay For Their Work, Washington, D. C., May 26, 1910. —Average annual salary of a minis- ter of the gospel is but $663, in all the denominations represented in the compilations on this subject in Part I of a special report on the Census of Religious Bodies for 1906, which 1S now in press preparatory to its submission by United States Census Director Durand to Secretary Nagel of the Department of Commerce and Labor. The report was compiled under the supervision of Mr. William C. Hunt, chief statistician of popu- lation in the Census Bureau, and the statistics were collected partly by special agent. It 15 pointed out in the introduc- tion this is the first time an attempt has been made in a United States census to secure official statistics concerning salaries paid to ministers. It is stated that the results of the census are not entirely satisfactory on account of the failure of some ministers to report their salary and of others to report with sufficient clearness. Of the grand total of 186 denominations in continental United States, the report states that 15 have no regular ministry and 69 either pay no stated salaries or made returns which were not sufficiently complete to warrant tabulation. Of the 201,351 oreganizations composing the 102 remaining de- nominations, there were 164,229, or 81.6 per cent, which made returns to the census inquiry, and the report stated there is reason to believe that these are substantially complete and accurate, and it is thought that they embrace a sufficient number of organizations of the respective de- < nominations to be fairly representa- tive of conditions as the average salaries paid to ministers. The figures in the tables are for conti- nental United States, for each of the of 25,000 to 50,000, of 50,000 to 100,000, of 100,000 to 300,000, and of 300,000 and over, and for the area outside of them. The denomination showing the highest average is the Unitarian, with $1,653, while the denominations next in order are the Protesant Episcopal Church, $1,242; the Universalists, $1,238; the General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the United States of America, $1,223; the Jewish congregations, $1,222; the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, $1,177; the Reformed Church in America, $1,170; the United Presbyterian Church of North America, $1,096; the Congregationalists, $1,042; the Christian Catholic Church in Zion, $1,037; and the Synod of the Re- formed Presbyterian Church of North America, $1,008. HOMER FOLKS. At Head of Association: of Charities and Corrections. St. Louis, May 26.—Homer Folks of New York was named to succeed Miss Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago, as president of the national confer- ence of charities and corrections by the committee on organization. PIERCE NOT ABLE TO APPEAR Oklahoma Case Against Oil Company Again Continued. Enid, Okla, May 26.—After a two days’ hearing the suit instituted by Attorney General West against the Waters-Pierce Oil company has®again been continued. The hearing will be resumed June 15. During the day’s sessions the attorneys for the oil com- pany were called upon by the court to show cause why H. Clay Pierce, the organizer of the company, had not appeared as a witness. It was shown that Pierce was at the bedside of his son in St. Louis, who is ill with ty- phoid fever, and a continuance was ordered. ASSAIL VALIDITY OF INDICTMENTS Packers Resist Government's At- tack on Beer Trust, Chicago, May 26.—The first skirmish in the government's attack on the so called beef trust began before Judge Landis in the United States district court here when counsel for the Na- tional Packing company and its ten subsidiary concerns assailed the va: lidity of the indictments charging a combination in restraint of trade The defendants were represented by Attorney Ralph Crewes, George T Buckingham and Joseph H Defrees; the government by District Attorney Edwin W. Sims, Special Assistant Dis- trict Attorney James H. Wilkerson, Assistant District Attorney Elwood Godman and Assistant to the Attorney General Oliver E. Pagan. In his ar- gument Mr Buckingham alleged: “First—That the indictment does not go into particulars sufficiently. “Second—That it does not charge a crime, nor cite facts constituting a crime. “Third—That if there was a crime the statute of limitations (three years) had run against it. “Fourth — That the indictment charges no interstate commerce trans- actions. - “Fifth—That no place In which the combination operated, or had exist- ence, is alleged “Sixth—It is a combination which is Illegal, not its acts.” Holland Bankers Buy Land. Renville, Minn., May 26.—O’Connor Bros. of this place, Belfield, N. D., and Sacred Heart, Minn., have just closed a deal with a syndicate of Holland bankers in which the consideration is said to be $1,000,000 in round figures, the Hollanders taking a large amount of farm land, an interest in the town- site of Belficld and an interest in two banks controlled by the O'Connors. Chicago, May 26.—The question of whether a theater has the right to draw the color line and refuse to sell tickets for lower seats to colored per- gons was presented to a jury in Mu- nicipal Judge Walker's court in the sult of George A. Wilson, colored, agalnst a down town theater. The Jury decided in favor of the theater. il e TELLS WHY HE WENT ON STAND Spitzer’s Conscience Forced Him to Confess. NO PROMISE MADE HIM Says Me Was Not Aware That a Par- don Had Been Granted Until a Few Moments Before He Began to Testi- fy in the Sugar Trust Case—Declares He Suffered Great Mental Anguish Because of Misdeeds. New York, May 26.—Oliver Spitzer, the former dock superintendent of the American Sugar Refining company who walked out of the Atlanta peni- tentiary with a pardon from President Taft to testify for the government in the sugar conspiracy cases, was again the chief witness at the trial of Sec- retary Charles R. Heike of the Ameri- can Sugar Refining company and five former subordinates. There was a general rustle of ex- pectancy in the courtroom as Spitzer was called to the stand for cross-ex- || amination. Washington D. Thomas, president of the American Sugar Re- fining company, who is under subpoena to appear for the government, watched the former employe of the corporation closely as Spitzer began his testimony. Spitzer was cross-examined by Former Staté Senator Clarence W. Lexow. Spitzer said that Theodore A, Have- meyer, brother of the late H. O. Have- meyer, appointed him superintendent of the Williamsburg docks. When he left Atlanta prison Spitzer said he had no hope of a pardon and added: “I left my effects in Atlanta. I came here to unburden myself of the great wrong I had done all these years. I wanted to confess all my sins before this court and tell all I know. Guilty Conscience a Torture. “I wanted to stand among my fellow men once more and tell all 1 should have told before. I wanted to go back to my family. I wanted to be shriven of all that cankered me those sleep- less nights in Atlanta prison, where I suffered so much. I couldn’t stand it any longer. I told Captain Flynn of the secret service in Atlanta that I couldn’t stand the torture, that I must tell the truth, and I would not have been behind those bars if I had taken the advice of my lawyers, Mr. Mackel- ler and Mr. Cochran. They told be to confess, if I had anything td confess, after my conviction last February.” Spitzer’s former counsel, Mackeller and Cochran, who are now defending the ex-government checkers, Halligan and Voelker, two of the six defend- ants, leaned forward in their chairs listening with rapt attention to the testimony of their former client. Spitzer said he had received the par- don in the United States district at- torney’s office just before he took the stand Monday morning. No promise, he said, had been made him by Special Deputy Attorney Gen- eral Stimson or anyone else connect- ed with the government. EXCEEDS FORMER RECORDS Importations of Precious Stones Dur- ing Fiscal Year. New York, May 26.—Diamonds and other precious stones to the value of $40,000,000 have been brought into New York during the last ten months, according to statistics given out by the United States appraiser’s stores. During the present month the im- portation of jewels is expected to be increased by fully $2,000,000 more. In June it is likely that this sum will be duplicated, so that the aggre- gate for the year will be $44,000,000, an amount exceeding the biggest rec- ord heretofore by $3,000,000. UNDER NOVEL REGULATIONS Forty “Model” Saloons Begin Business at Rockford, 111. Rockford, Ill., May 26.—After being “dry” for a year forty “model” sa- loons were licensed to begin business in Rockford. The new ordinance regulating the |} traffic contains several novel features, Including the prohibition of treating. It is also unlawful for a saloonkeep- er to have a chair or a free lunch counter in his place. Speculation Causes Downfall. Canton, O., May 26.—J. Howard Du- vall, twenty-seven years old, was ar- rested here charged with embezzling $5,473 from the Mineral City bank, of which he formerly was cashier. He is alleged to have lost money through unfortunate timber speculations. Will Be Largest Ocean Liner. . Liverpool, May 26.—It is reported that the Cunard Steamship company is contemplating constructing a tre- mendous new steamship of 50,000 gross tonnage, with a speed of twen- ty-two knots an hour. The Mauretania, the big turbine of the same company, has a displacement of 32,500 tons and & speed of twenty-six knots, _ Freight Train Strikes Autp. Portland, Ore., May 26.—Three peo ple were seriously injured, on€ prob- ably fatally, when an electric freight train struck an automobile containing five persons, hurling them in all direc- tions. C. H. Cummings, the chauffeur, and Thomas Case, the manager of a hotel, and his wife were seriously hurt, Mrs. Case perhaps fatally. Assembly Protests Against Fight, Atlantic City, N. J.,, May 26.—The Presbyterian general assembly has made a formal protest against the hold- ing of the Jeffries-Johnson fight for the heavywelght championship of the world. The protest will be sent to Governor Gillette of California, P T. J. CRANE & (0. anhn’s and Children's Ready-to-Wear Girmants Bemidji Minnesota **A true tale speeds best best being plainly told”’ so here follows an unvarnished story of the ‘‘only suit sale” at HALF PRICE. It goes without saying that Crane & Co. Suits have become famous throughout this region for tailored elegance, quality and notable values at every price. So when so to speak we unbar the gateway and offer the public choice of our entire magnificent stock. AND THIS FACT IS MOST IMPORTANT. They are FINE SUITS. Only the creme of the spring styles of this EXCLUSIVE STORE. Strictly correct styles, not a passe or freak model throughout the entire stock, but suits suitable for touring, street, semi-dress and dress occasions. Suits that will “‘carry you through’’ the ranks of society, the broad walk of Atlantic City or the sunkist beach of Florida, with colors flying even thou LAR PRICE. Garments for “Dress Up” Occasions A most comprehensive and won- derful display of exquisite gowns, designed for dancing, reception, evening and afternoon wear. In these garments the highest style ideas are correctly inter- preted and presented. Wizards of artistic drapings, conjurers of art- ful embellishments have joined hand in hand and produced most remarkable effects—combining the most accepted style ideas of right up to now. Price affixed shows an | unusually low price— $16.50 gh they are selling at HALF THEIR REGU- (STOUT AND SUIIER LINES ALONE RESERVED.) e ——————————————————————————————— . " Linen Dresses at $6 gummer e res For the small sum of 63588 $2.25 you get a pretty wash fabric that saves many a weary stitch. Yo Natural Linen Suits wume“ s in practical models at Summer ss, ss, sio, su“ $13.50, $16.50. ) They show fine touches of tailored exclusiveness on the pretty coats. mem Ramie Coarse Linen Coats with a beginning price of T[]I] $6.00. Long, loose, flow- flflaf s ing ‘styles with trimming touches that enhance their good looks wonderfully. The Saleof White Joins Hands with the Half Price Sale C(')mbina.tions of splendid nainsook, soft and fine, with plain lawn tucks, lace trimmed, reg- ular $1.50 values, at The finest line of combination drawers and cover on the market today. Made of fine nainsook, tailored seams, lace and embroidery trimmed, reg- ular $2 and $2.25, at Combinations £ Cowns Regular $1.25 and $1.50 gowns, made of fine $-| 00 and heavy muslin, the best you ever saw at . Otber_gowns with imitation hand embroidered yokes;, fipe pin tucked‘yokes; others trimmed with dainty lYltt]e lace edgings, high or low neck, all sizes. ou’ve never seen such gowns as these ¢ $1.35 Skirts of good cambric, cut full, flounces of tailored tucks, fidished with 8 inch dust ruffle, just the thing Regular price $1.50, $1 19 We have a large assortment of skirts with 9 and 12 inch flounces of embroidery and insertion us well as Bhis, Sl e 0 0 85 $1.75 Hi for T ing this sale of lace. White Skirts morning toilets. ' Combinations * of splendid nainsook, combining drawers and cover or skirt and cover, tailored garments, the favor- ite with particnlar women, be- decked with good lace. Regular 4 4, i e o $2.15 Princess Slips Slips, full length and width, of fine nainsook trimmed with Ger- man val, regular $2 to $3.00 Princess Slips... ..$2.00 $4.00 Princess Slips...........$3.00 Corset Covers of splendid nainsook and barred muslins, ploin but very good finish, with emb. and lace edge, 50 reg. 65¢ and 75¢, sale price c Corset covers trimmed with val. and imitation cluney, good nainsook and muslins, regular $1 aud 75 $1.25, on sale at............. C Allied white sale garments such as tub dresses, aprons, maids’ dresses and wrappers all have special prices in honor of this Children’s Wash Suits & Rompers Take on special prices in honor of the Sale of White. Suits. 75¢ Wash ers.. 65c Wash 4’90 35¢ Romp- “250 Suits . 550 gf:"Romp- 450 also changeable effects. $1.00 Wash 75¢ Romp- Suits..... 750 $1.25 Wash 95‘: $1.00 Romp- 758 Suits........... erS R $1.50Washs1.‘|5 $1.25 Romp- 95‘: Suits......... $2 Wash €IS...oouuine i - 12 inch Saitercn 81,30 Dem o $1 | for "o T dressing sacques from 2 to 10, White _Event. sale..... Regular $6.and $7 Vaiues Children’s drawers of good muslin with tucked ruffle, regular 25c, Silk Petticoats $4.75 |Gift Things for the 6 Classy Neck- wear, wide se- lections of at- tractive de- : signs in Irish Guaranteed taffeta in black SLok het, e 5 O and all the popular shades; m&‘;e“ ]lar‘?. jabots, stocks % : Very | 12 Tord Bar, full with 12 inch compound | on collars ruffle and underlay dust rufle. | 256 10 $5 = 3 Dainty Chata- $1.50 Gingham Wash Skirts | line Bags, sil- 7 ver, gold and gun metal made up good and full with { Siiver Mesh Bags...... $2.50, $3.50 to $9.00 Kayser Silk Hose, white, bronze, black, gray, $1.80 V_eils.‘Scarfs. and Shoulder Throws from $i to $10 EVERYTHING READY-TO-WEAR