Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 16, 1910, Page 3

4 i PO e COWBOYS ARE ~ READY TO FIGHT Start to Meet Invading " Force of Mexicans. BORDER CLASH PROBABLE Governor Campbell of Texas Orders Troops to the Scene to Prevent a | Meeting Between the Mexicans and Ranchmen, but Trouble May Occur Before the State Force Arrives. Rock Springs, Tex., Nov. 16.—Eighty ranchmen and cowboys started from here to head off the force of 300 Mexi- cans who are alleged to be marching from Las Vegas, Mex., to avenge the burning of Antonio Rodriguez. The Texans are mounted, riding rap- idly to intercept the Mexicans. As they advanced towards the Rio Grande the Texans were joined by groups of men eager to engage the invaders from across the border. Rangers are being rushed here to prevent a clash between determined ranchmen and Mexicans. The situa- tion is the most serious of the many conflicts on the border 1n recent years It is feared here that a clash will mean war along the entire Rio Grande. Governor Campbell ordered that troops be rushed here from San An- tonio, but they will be of little aid in stopping the trouble, because a clash between here and Las Vegas means the Mexicans and ranchmen vill meet possibly within fifty miles of the border and beyond the reach of the troops. Austin, Tex., Nov. 16.—Reports re- ceived at the governor’s office from Edwards county confirm rumors that Mexicans, many of them armed, are gathering on the Mexican borders, but 1t is not believed they are marching on Rock Springs, Tex., with the inten- tion of stirring up trouble. The state rangers, however, have Dbeen notified by the executive to stand ready to proceed to Rock Springs to quell any disturbance that may arise over the lynching of Antonio Rodri- guez. MEAT PRICES ARE DROPPING Decline of Several Cents a Pound in Past Week. Chicago, Nov. 16.—The prices of deef and pork are falling. Within the last week the price of beef has been reduced between 4 and 5 cents a pound by the meat packers. The price of pork has declined about 3 cents from the price of 18 and 20 cents a week ago and wholesale meat dealers say that mutton, veal and other products of the packing houses will take a downward turn within the next few days. “Prices of the first grades of beef nave been falling for about a week,” said Frank A. Froehling. “They did not go off all at once, but the pack- ing houses have been coming down about half a cent at a time until now the price for prime beef is between 4 and 5 cents lower than it was last week at this time and that of the vest grades of pork is from 2 to 3 cents lower.” NEGRO SAVED FROM DEATH Officers Outwit Mob Bent on Lynch- ing Prisoner. Asbury Park, N. J,, Nov. 16.—While an armed and determined mob stood in the street a few blocks from the local jail preparing to prevent Thomas Williams, a negro, being taken out of town it was hoodwinked by Coroner Purdy. The mob had threatened to lvnch Williams, who is accused of hav- ing ravished and wmurdered Marie Smith, a nine-year-old girl. While Police Chief Smith was mak- ing a speech to the crowd an auto- mobile swung up behind the jail and Coroner Purdy and several detectives bundled the negro into it. ‘The machine swung down the street and passed the crowd with the negro hidden in the bottom of the car. ON THE VERGE OF UPHEAVAL Present Session of British Parliament May Be Its Last. London, Nov. 16.—Parliament reas- sembled on the verge of an upheaval, which may result in a political revo- lution in England. The business of the day’s sessions was purely routine, owing to the lack of time for Premier Asquith to pre- pare his formal statement to the com- mons and the lords. Two Killed in Rail Wreck. Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 16.—Two per- sons were killed, two engines demol- ished and six freight cars smashed to splinters when a runaway Iron Moun- tain engine crashed head-on into an Illinois Central engine pulling a line of freight cars in the Illinois Central yards here. Fire Raging in Coal Mine. Fargo, N. D., Nov. 16.—Fire has again been reported in the coal mines at Washburn, N. D. Two years ago a fire started in the same mines, but was walled in. Now eaten around the wall and stopped all work in the mines. A new wall will have to be built. Murder Revealed by a Dream. Perhaps the most amazing crime mystery ever solved by a dream was that revealed by a murder trial a couple of generations ago. The dead body of Mr. Norway. an inoffensive Cornish gentleman, had been found by the roadside between Wadebridge and Bodmin, brutally murdered. No trace of the murderer could be found. and the mystery of the crime seemed bBe- yond all solution. when Mr. Norway’s brother, a naval officer, arrived in Eng- land and told the following singular story: On the very night of his brother's murder, when he was on his ship in the West Indies, he saw him in a dream walking along the Bodmin road, when from a dark recess in the hedge two ruffians sprang out, slew and robbed him and then made their way to a house in Wadebridge, which he saw vividly in his dream. To this bouse he conducted the police officers, and there he found the very two men whom in his vision he had seen com- mit the murder. They confessed and suffered the extreme penalty of the law.—Pearson's Weekly. Both Exempt. “Do your daughters help their mother with the bousework?” “We wouldn't think of expecting it. Muriel is temperamental and Zaza is intense.”—Pittsburg Post. Not Acquired. N. Read—How you stutter! Did you ever go to a stammering school? J. 1 d-d-do this n-nat- in this town who have come to feel, in the matter of clothes, that nobody cares for them. men---tall, broad, ample fellows who weigh from 200 up; tall, slender men; short, stout, chunky men; big and little fat men, you know; maybe your one of them. Copyright 191 The House of Well Answered. “Why do you weep over the sorrows of people in whom you have no in terest when you go to the theater? asked the man. “I don't know,” replied the woman “Why do you cheer wildly when 3 man with whom you are not acquaint ed slides to second base?’—Washing: ton Star. Starting a Family Jar. “No man ever obtained anything worth having without working hard for it,” said Mrs. Bickers to her hus- band, who was in a discouraged mood. “Quite true,” replied Mr. Bickers reflectively. *“I remember that I ob- tained you without the slightest diffi- culty.”—Liverpool Mercury. A Philosopher. Little Willie--Say, pa, what is a philosopher? Pa—A philosopher, my son, is a man who can pretend to have a light heart when he has a light pocketbook.—Exchange. The Supply. Knicker—All the fools aren’t dead yet. Bocker—Another trouble is that they aren’t all born yet.—New York Press. Our Friendships. Our friendships burry to short and poor conclusions because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams instead of the tough fiber of i the human heart. The laws of friend- ship are great, austere and eternal—of one web with the laws of morals and of nature.—Goethe. T —— A Chinese Hero. At Loping Hsien is a statune draped in full dress of a mandarin (the pu ting or police master) named Chin. who gave his life for the people. An exile who was in the camp at Jao- chow and who owed the hsien (district magistrate) a grudge, rode a black horse to Loping and, having killed the asien, got back for the Jaochow roll call next morning. As the murderer could not be found orders came from the capital that a large number of the people should be killed. To prevent this slaughter of innocent folk the pu ting, a good old man, said he stabbed the hsien after a few words over the wine cups, and he was consequently beheaded. No resident of the district would deal the fatal blow, but an itin- erant cobbler or bamboo worker did 1t for a reward of 40 taels. Tradition adds that he was struck dead by light- ning after leaving the execution ground ~Chinese Mercury. Permanent, “Mr. Smith,” spoke up the young lawyer, “I come here as a representa- tive of your neighbor, Tom Jones, with the commission to collect a debt due him.” “I congratulate you,” answered Mr. Smith, ‘“‘on obtaining so permanent a i job at such an early stage in your career.”—Success Magazine. All Depends. “I don’t like to listen to hard luck stories. Do you?”’ “That depends on whether they are reminiscences or the preliminaries to 8 touch.”—Washington Herald. The Ancient Use of a Ki A Roman woman in the ancient time ‘was not allowed to drink wine except it were simple raisin wine, and how- ever she might relish strong drinks she could not indulge even by stealth —first, because she was never intrust- ed with the key of the wine cellar and, second. because she was obliged daily to greet with a kiss all her own as well as her husband’'s male repre- sentatives, down even to second cous- ins, and as she knew not when or where she might meet them she was forced to be wary and abstain alto- gether, for had she tasted but a drop the smell would have betrayed her So strict were the old Romans in this respect that a certain Igunatius Mer- curius is said to have slain his wife because he caught her at the wine cask—a punishment which was not deemed e=cessive by Romulus, who ab- solved the husband of the crime of murder. Another Roman lady who un- der the pretense of taking a little winc for her stomach’s sake and frequent infirmities indulged somewhat too free- ly was mulcted to the full amount of her dowry., Her Conclusion, “I've got my opinion of a woman that can't cook,” growled William De Kikkur, glaring at his Dbetter balf “I suppose that if our cook would get married I'd starve to death!” “You needn't worry about that, Wil- Ham,” said Mrs. De K. gently. “Our cook has been married once, and I don’t consider it at all likely that she would care to”"— But her irate spouse had slammed the door behind him.—Cleveland Lead er. GILL BROTHERS There Are a Lot of Men 0 < eimer Chicago This is so much the best store for your boye’ c.othes, and xo'surely the one your seeking, that you realize itat sight of our finest suits and overcoats for boys 3 to 17. $3.50 to $7.50 Well come in and $10 to $30 R. F. MURPHY FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER Office 313 Beltraml Ave. Phone 319-2. William C. 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