Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 13, 1910, Page 3

4 LIVES OF MANY ARE IN PERIL Steamer Olympia on Rocks 0if Alaskan Coast. SEVERE STORM RAGING Fifty-two Fassengers and Crew of Fif. ty-four Unable to Leave Vessel Be- cause of the High Seas Prevailing. Steamers and Launches Hurrying to the Assistance of the Stranded Ves. sel and Her Occupants. Seattle, Dec. 13.—News is anxiously awaited concerning the fate of the 106 persons on the steamship Olympia, which went on the rocks at the south- eastern end of Blight island, Prince "William sound, Alaska, during a furi- ‘ous storm. Steamers and launches are ‘aurrying to the aid of the vessel from wSeward, Valdez and Katalla and if the gale permits the passengers should reach Valdez in a few hours, Latest dispatches from Cordova and Valdez say that no word has been re- ceived from the wireless operator on the Olympia that would indicate that any of the rescuing craft had arrived The only means of communication be- tween Seattle and Cordova and Valdez is by military cable, operated by the United States army signal corps. The last word received by the opera- tor at the naval wireless station at Cordova was that the passengers and crew were still aboard the Olympia, which was being pounded and tossed about on the sharp rocks by the heavy seas. On account cf the fury of the storm the passengers will not at- tempt to take to the small boats un- less they see that the steamer can nold together no longer. Cable dispatches from Cordova indi- cate that Wireless Operator Hayes is the hero of the wreck. Operators Keep in Touch. In spite of the fact that the Olym- pia was being tossed violently and the wireless was worked with difficulty Hayes stuck to his post and managed to reach the operator on duty at the naval wireless station at Cordova with his calls for assistance. The oper- ators kept in touch with each other as much as possible, but there were dis- tressingly long intervals when the government's shore station was un- able to detect a vibration from the QOlympia’s wireless. Hayes continued at his post and finally succeeded in getting his instru- ments to work long enough to flash the good news to the shore stdtiom, forty miles away, that all were still on board the Olympia, hopeful that she would hold together until the res- cuers arrived. For seven of the fifty-two passen. zers of the Olympia this is the second shipwreck experienced within ten days. They first sailed from Seattle Dec. 1 on the steamship Northwest- ern. The vessel was but a few hourr out of port when she went on the rocks in IMalse bay, San Juan island. Her passengers were brought back to Seattle and sailed again on the Olym- pla. ALL GUESTS PROBABLY SAFE Brunswick Hotel at Minneapolis De. stroyed by Fire. Minneapclis, Dec. 13.—The loss re- sulting from the fire destroying the Brunswick hotel is placed at $150,000. of which $120,000 is covered by insur- ance. 1t is thought that all the 150 guests escaped, although it will not be known until the hotel register and list of employes have been checked. J. F. Ferguson, J. C. Andrews and E. S. Coffin, lessees of the property, are already making plans for the con- struction of a new building. STOLEN SAFE IS RECOVERED Money Is Missing, but Other Contents Are Intact. Minneapolis, Dec. 13.—James Lar- son, dairyman, Minneapolis, found the safe stolen from the Adams Express eompany’s office last week on Superior boulevard. A number of bank checks and drafts and some furs were in the safe, but all the money was gone. There was over $17,000 stolen by the robbers, who carried the safe from the express office to the Superior boulevard, where it was opened by force. . No clue to the robbers haa been obtained by the police. Vote in Favor of Strike. s Chicago, Dec. 13.—Counting of the strike ballots in the referendum vote of locomotive engineers employed on sixty-one Western railroads has been completed. It was stated unofficially that the result showed 97.52 per cent of those who voted favor a strike un- less the demand for higher wages is granted. Charles J. Bellamy Dead. Springfield, Mass., Dec. 13.—Charles J. Bellamy, owner and editor of the Springfield Daily News, is dead of Brights disease. He was a brother of Edward Bellamy, author of “Looking Backward.” The Chamois Trail. Every day at noon at Grindelwald there is a rush of visitors for the tele- scopes in order to gaze at one of the most interesting natural scenes in the Alps, *‘the chamois trail.”, Regularly at this hour a herd of twenty to thir- ty chamois may be .seen passing in Indian file up the yawning abysses of the precipitous Mettenberg rocks. sep- arating two glaciers, the male animals ieading the way, the king of the herd keeping twenty yards in advance and on the watch. "~ At the bottom: of the Mettenberg, . where the slope is freed from snow, the chamois find a meager subsistence when thelr usual feeding grounds are under deep snow, It is a curious fact that the chamois de- scend to their feeding grounds at dawn, when thete is little likelihood of avalanches, and return to their haunts at an hour when avalanches— for this portion of the mountain has frequent avalanches—have already fall- en and the danger is past.—Geneva Cor. Pall Mall Gazette. Pussy and the Burglar A good dog has hitherto been coit= sidered the best protection against buf- glars, but a certain old lady differs from this view. She believes in cats, and, her house being broken into not long ago, she proceeded to put her theory into practice, and with marvel- ously good results. The midright hour bad not long struck when she heard unusual sounds in the hall below. She slipped out of bed, took her faithful feline in her arms and walked quietly on to the landing. She leaned over. The burglar was on the stairs. Sud- denly in an unlucky moment he struck a match upon the staircase. The lady could see the burglar, but the burglar could not see the lady. She held puss up and then dropped ber upon the bur- glar’'s head. The cat uttered an un- earthly screech and then commenced to scratch for all it was worth. ' Puss was certainly the willing worker. The next instant the man was outside in the street.—Manchester Guardian. Whistler’s Friendships. That Whistler, the man of famous enemies, had faithful friends is re- called by Ford Madox Hueffer, writing of the pre-Raphaelites in Harper's Magazine. Madox Brown had a circu- lar printed drawing the attention of all his old patrons to the merits of Whistler's etchings and begging them in the most urgent terms to make pur- chases because Whistler was in in- digent circumstances. The story is that upon one occasion Madox Brown, going to a tea party at the Whistlers' in Chelsea. was met in the hall by Mrs. Whistler, who begged him to go to the poulterer’s and purchase a pound of butter. The bread was cut, but there was nothing to put upon it. There was no money in the house, the poulterer had cut off his credit, and Mrs. Whistler said *she dared not send her husband, for he would certainly punch the tradesman’s head.” Why He Waited. The man who is anxiously watching the steeple jack at work 300 feet from the ground is approached by a pass- ing acquaintance. “Hello, Brown!” says the latter. “‘Are you still here? It’s fully an hour ago that I saw you standing in the very same spot.” “That fellow up there gives me the cold shivers,” says Brown. “He makes me feel weak in the knees.” “Going back to your office?” inquires the friend. “I guess so,” Brown reluctantly re- plies. *“There doesn’t seem to be much use in waiting any longer. *1 don’t be- lieve he is going to fall.” ‘ And he turned away with a lingering glance at the intrepid jack.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Great Age of Halley’s Comet. While Halley's comet has been iden- tified as a member of our system for over 2,000 years, certain characteris- tics of its orbit lead us to believe that it has been with us at least ten or perhaps 100 times as long as that. According to all accounts, it was a magnificent object at the time ot the Norman conquest in 1066. Its head was equal to the full moon in size, and its tail increased to a wonderful length.-\Ceutury. A Queer Hiding Place. During a furious storm in Paris a janitor was struck on the shoulder by a small but heavy tin box which had fallen from an upper story of a house in the Rue de FOuest, The box was found to contain $6.000 in gold and notes. It was claimed at the police station by ap elderly woman. who said that the money constituted ber eutire savings, which she had hidden by ty- ing the box to the @rainpipe outside her window. Another Theory Demolished. “It costs nothing to be polite.” “You're wrong. While | was polite~ ly picking up a glove for a lady yes- terday my new four dollar hat blew off and rolled in front of a passing trolley car.”—Chicago Record-Herald. How He Got Out of It. “My dear. before marriage you told me all your doings.” *“Yes, but now I have come to think such talk savors too much of egotism."” ~—Lippincott’s. Inherited. Knicker—Jones is all the time want- Ing miore money. Bocker—No wonder; | his father was a college president and his mother was a woman.—New York Sun. He only: confers favors generously who appears, when they are once ¢on- ferred. to remember them no more.— Johnson. There Was No Applause, Just before the operation began the operating sufgeon said to the students, “Now, gentlemen no applause, if you please.”” When he was Lomnlesclng the pa- tient declared that that warning re- mained his most viyid impression of the ordeal. i “1 wondered then how any human being could have the heart to applaud sn act that had brought another face to face with death, but later 1 under- stoed. On account “of heart trouble they did not dare administer an anaes- thetie, so I was conscious of every- thing, and in spite of the pain I re- alized that the surgeon was doing a mighty skillful piece of work. No wonder the students wanted to-ap- plaud. They were justified in It. “‘Some years ago they would have clapped the house down after an ex- hibition of that kind. an old hospital attendant told me, ‘but nowadays doc- tors discourage any such demonstra- tion.” "—New York Sun, Forgery In Exéelsis. The most remarkable literary for- gery on record win petpetrated in 1870 on Michael Chasles, a French selen- tist of European reputation. Chasles, who was in his dotage, purchased within a few’ years from one Vrain- Lucas no’ fewer than 27,000 auto- graphs. A. M. Broadley tells the story in his “Chats on Autographs:” *Be- ginning with a supposed correspond- ence between the youthful Newton and Pascal, Vrain-Lucas proceeded to fabricate letters of Rabelais. Montes- quieu and La Bruyere. Before he had finished M. Chasles became the posses- sor of letters in French, and written on paper made in France, of Julius Cae- sar, Cleopaira, Mary Magdalene and even of Lazarus after his resurrec- tion.” Vrain-Lucas was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, and among other forged manuscripts from his pen there were produced in court letters from Alexander the Great, .Herod. Pompey, Judas Iscariot, Sappho, Pon- tius -Pilate and Joan of Arc! The Llama With a Saddle. In his native country the llama is trained as a beast of burden, and in this capacity is very useful for, hard and wiry by nature, he can carry as much as a 160 pounds. As a mount, too, he is quite easy to train. Indeed, both the llama and the oneiko take to the saddle as to the manner born when once they have assured them- selves that their teacher wishes thém well. Their most striking peculiarity as saddle animals, however, is a strong' objection to having their heads in any |. way pulled about by their riders.* So long as their mouths are left alone they will amble along quite contented- ly at a fair rate of speed, but if they are ridden by some one with a heavy hand they show a tendency to stop at once, whipping round in a manner dis- tinctly disconcerting to those who do not quite realize what is going to hap- pen.—Wide World Magazine. Turn About. In a certain southern city the col- ored servants, as a rule, go to their own homes at night. The cook in the family of a clergyman not only does this, but of late has arrived at the rectory too late to cook breakfast. Hence her mistress lately told her that for each breakfast missed there would be a reduction in her weekly wages. Dinah passively. assented to this, but next day the mistress heard the maid next door say to her: “'Pears to me you get to work mighty late.” “I gets to work when I gets ready.” was the reply. “How does you manage about de brekfus?” “Oh, 1 pays de missus to cook de brekfus.” "—Housekeeper. A Schoolboy’s Story of Jonah. A school board boy, competing for one of the Peek prizes, evolved this confusion of widely different events. He had to write a short biography of Jonah, and he produced the follow- ing: “He was the father of Lot and had two wives, One was called Ish- male and the other Hagher. He kept one at home and turned the other into the dessert, when she became a pillow of salt in the daytime and a pillow »f fire at night.”—From Wheatley’s “Lit- erary Blunders.” . Her Diplomacy. “You could make my future bright- er,” he said, looking at her longingl, . “I could say the same.” she replied. looking down. “How?” he asked eagerly. “Well, an engagement ring with a diamond in it would help some,” she admitted.—Boston Herald. > What She Did Wish., “Well, why don’t you say you wish you were a ‘man?®’ asked ' Mr. Potts during a little discussion he was hav- ing with his spouse about some ‘mat- ters of domestic management, “Because: I don’t wish anything, of the sort,” she retorted; “I oniy wish you were one!” Quick Both Ways: /A Scutch laird once said to: his serv-‘ nnt. John; who had complained of his temper, “I am sure; John, it is nae suner on than it’s off.” “Aye,” said John; nae suner off than it's om" Not at All Necanury. #What was the cause of the qua‘rrell with ‘your husband?’ “I want you to understand. judge, that when we want to fight we don't have to have a cause.”—New York Préess. § A sip is the most that mortals are permitted trom any goblet of rlellght - Alcott. “but, laird, lt‘l The Lesson She Learned. A fair western co-ed and one of the male seniors fell violently in love and neglected their studies shamefully. Both were expelled. - The fair co-ed therupon wrote this interesting reply to the faculty: Gentlemen—You have expelled me for neglecting my studles, yet I have learned at your nstitution ‘mere than you will ever know. I hdve learned the meaning of love. 'What is the use of studying bot- any if 1 am not allowed to gather roses? Why should I devote myself to astron- omy 'if I may not look at the stars? What does it profit me tg spend years on mathematics and negleet my own figure? You -have expelled my fiance alsa. Do you think he is unhappy? We were mar- tied last evening. —Exchange. Sand Swept Asia. In the arid lands of central Asia the alr is reported as often laden with f] “fine detritus, which drifts like snow around conspicuous objects and tends to bury them in a dust drift. Even when there is no apparent wind the air is described as thick with fine dust, and a yellow sediment covers every- thing. In Khotan this dust sometimes 80 obscures the sun that at midday otie cannot see to vead fine print with- otit a lamp. ~ In Half Mourning. “1 don't Understand you. Linda. One day you're bright and jolly and the next depressed and sad.” “Well, 'm in balf mourning; that's why.”—Fliegende Blatter. Lost Both Ways. *Did you get in without your wife hearing you last night?" *“No, and | didn’'t get in without hearing her. either."—Houston Post. A sprained ankle will usually dis- able the injured person for three or four weeks. This is due to the lack of proper treatment.. 'When Cham- berlain’s Liniment is applied a cure may. be effected in three or four days. This liniment is one of the best and most remarkable prepara- tions in use. Sold by Barker«s Drug Store. _ EW PUBLIC LIBRARY Open daily, except Sunday and Mon- day1l1to12a.m.,1to 6 p.m., 7 to 9 p. m. Snuday 8 to 6 p. m. Monday 7to 9 p. m. BEATRICE MILLS, Librarian. T. BEAUDETTE Merchant Tailor Ladies’ and Gents® Suits to Order. Freanch Dry Cleaning, I;reuin( and Repairing a ty. 315 Beltrami Avenue Still Xmas such as, BIG SACRIFICE SALE “shoppers many useful and acceptable articles to select from for Xmas gift giving, - Sealskin Caps Bradley & Phoenix Mufflers Silk Mufflers ; 'Fancy Neckwear in Xmas Boxes Wilson Bros. 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