Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 10, 1913, Page 4

T0 BE SUBJECT OF AN INQUIRY To Investigate Appointment Of Penfleld As = Ambassador To Austria REPUBLICANS TO BACK PROBE Will Endeavor To Learn If Position Was Promised In Return For Contribution. Washington, July 10/—A. D. Bala. win, a Cleveland attorney, before the senate lobby committee, testified that in Washington, talking to congressmen about the sugar tariff, he represented Alexander Baldwin of New York and recelved §30 a day. A. S. Smith of Tennllle, Ga., prest- dent of the state branch of the Farm- ers’ union, was questioned about a meeting of a committee of the Nation- al Farmers’ unfon at New Orleans last 8pring at which a scheme to increase the consumption of cotton was to be dlscussed. He testified that his expenses there were paid by R. D. Bowen, president of the Texas branch of the union. President Barrett of the national or- ganization rct present. H. H. & 2y of Prairie Grove, Ark., New Orleans meet: owen. He signed a tele- ansas senators at Bow- :ing for a hearing for cciton iaterests, slow to make accusations,” said Mobley. “But I have come to know that at all our meetings, state and national, we are surrounded by men who want us to do something for their interests.” Willam Whitman of Boston, former president of the National Assoclation of Wool Manufacturers and president of the Arlington mills at Lawrence, Mass., was the next witness, RAIL SITUATION REVIEWED Trainmen Meet Preliminary to Ratifi. cation of Strike Vote. New York, July 10.—Preliminary to a general meeting of the so called committee of 1,000 on Saturday, at which the strike vote recently taken will be ratified, minor committees of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- men and the Order of Railway Con- ductors held a conference in Ntw York to discuss the situation. Negotiations with the roads were practically broken off with the refusal of the managers’ committee to consid- er the men’s demands for a 20 per cent wage increase. President Garretson of the condue. tors said the unions probably will have nothing to announce until Saturday. RAIN OF FIRE IN SPAIN District Outside the Village of Alco. cer Reduced to Ashes. Madrid, July 10.—Dispatches from Valencia report the occurrence of a phenomenon in the form of a rain cf fire that reduced to cinders the dis- trict - outside the village of Alcocer, the inhabitants of which took refuge in a church. Three terrific detonations were heard about the same time and out of a clear sky a violent tempest broke over the villages of Benavites and Cuartil, some miles away, accom- panied by a shower of stones, the largest of which weighed two pounds. DE LA BARRA QUITS CABINET Resigns as Minister of Foreign Af. fairs in Huerta Regime. Mexico City, July 10.—Francisco de la Barra resigned as minister of for- eign affairs. He may go abroad, but it is possible that he may return to Toluca, capital of the state of Mexico, to complete his term as governor, to which office he was elected. early in the year. Emilio Rabasa, recently appointed ambassador to the United States, is prominently mentioned for the foreign office. RATE MANDATE IS DELAYED Supreme Court Will Not lssue Decree Until Next Week. Washington, July 10.—Contrary to expectation the mandate of the su- preme court in the Minnesota rate cases will not be issued this week. It was thought that it might be is- sued- at once. There were so many important decisions handed down at the last session of the court, how- ever, that the mandate in the Min- nesota cases will be delayed until sometime next week. Lynch for Labor Commissioner. Albany, N. Y., July 10.—After hav- ing been: unsuccessful in three at- tempts to have John Mitchell, former president of the United Mine Work- ers of America, made state labor com- missioner, Governor Sulzer sent to the senate for confirmation the appolat- ment of James M. Lynch of Syracuse, president of the International Typo- graphical union, for the position. LOCKS BANKERS IN VAULT Lone Robber Secures $3,800 at Rigby, Idaho. Rigby, Ida, July 10.—Widespread search has been instituted for a rob- ber who entered the State Bank ot Rigby and took away $3,800. The robber. drove the cashier and assistant cashier into a vault, com- pelled them to throw out all the mon- ey in it, and then locked them fin. The cashier’s. five-year-old son ar- rived as the robber departed and gave the alarm, WILLIAM F. M’COMBS. Democratic - Chalirman ~ Un- dergoes Operation in Paris. LADY CAMOYS. American Girl’s come Son. May Be- Member ot Peerage. EARLY RECOVERY EXPECTED Willlam F. McCombs Operated on for Appendicitis. New York, July 10.—Willlam F. Mec- combs, chairman of the Democratic national committee, who is regarded as the probable new ambassador to France, was operated upon for appen- dicitis at a private hospital in Paris, according to advices received here. The operation is reported to have been ‘wholly successful and no complications are expected. Mr. McCombs went to Paris lately knowing that he was. suffering from appendicitis, but hopeful that a rest abroad would eliminate the necessity for an operation. Mr. McCombs declined the ambas- sadorship to France when it was first offered to him. Since his refusal Pres- ident Wilson has nominated no one else for the post and it is said the administration hopes to overcome Mr. McCombs’ objection and to prevail on him to accept the appointment. TESTIFIES AGAINST COHALAN John A. Connolly Explains Charges in Trial of Jurist. Albany, N. Y., July 10.—John A. Connolly, former president of the Victor Heating company, continued his testimony concerning the charges brought against Supreme Court Jus- tice Daniel C. Cohalan by the griev- ance committee of the bar assoclation of New York. Connolly has charged the New York jurist with having exacted commissions for procuring contracts for heating work from New York clty departments and promising for a consideration to obtain for him a lucrative political position. SAYS TRUST RUINED HIM Frisco Man Testifies in Suit Against Motion Picture Combine. New York, July 10.—O. J. Chap- man of San Francisco, proprietor of the Theater Film Service company, a witness in the hearings of the gov- ernment dissolution suit against the 8o called motion picture trust, testi- fled that his business was ruined by the Motlon Pictire Patents company, one of the twelve defendants in the case, Witness said he was lnlormed by the company’s attorney that the suit ‘was brought “for the purpose of scar- ing unlicensed theater people.” IMPOSSIBLE TO PLACE LIMIT Imagination Falls When the Future 8ize of Ocean-Going Vessels Is Un- der Consideration, The astonishing prediction of the British shipbuilder who forecasts that in a few years the leviathans of the deep will be half a mile long and will regiater 200,000 tons is not so shat- tering to the imagination in this age of wonders as it might have been in & past era. The breathless story of Bcientific achievement during the last few years is replete with marvels that in an earlier day would have been wilder than the wildest dreams ever conceived. 1t 18 still possible to see treading, as 1t were, the well-defined paths of the Atlantic old vessels of eight thousand tons which In their heydey were the largest afloat; while again on a recent day a titan registering 50,000 tons— the Imperator started on her maiden voyage across the herring pond. It is ever so. The Brobdignagins of today are the Liliputians of tomorrow, and there 18 no logical reason why in a few years’ time this same Imperator, Which now dazzles the senses with its size and magnificence should not be utterly eclipsed by even more gigantic Buccessors. While to the greatest of humanity all achlevement 18 neces- sarily finite, man’s imagination can Denetrate the cloaked dawn and disst- pate the mists that mask the future, and if he has the courage and faith to follow, then all things are possible. The sight of a great vessel crossing the Atlantic with almost as much reg- ularity in time as the stars in their courses cannot but recall to mind the time when imagination and faith guid- ed the hands that charted the unsatled vasts for the puny cavarels of Spain. Stoppers for Family Jars. A bride, upon opening a package re- celved on her wedding day, was sur prised to find a dozen or more corks of varlous sizes fastened by ribbon to a large cork. Attached to this was & card upon which was written: “Some. stoppers for the family jars.” Later the sender was informed that discussion as to thc siz5 of the dork best fitted to the “jar” omused 80" -m-mmmuhh‘- $oon forgottem. when the first disacreement arose the | Lady Camoys, formerly Miss Mil dred Sherman of Rhode Island, has given birth to a son and heir at En- nismore Gardens, London. Miss Mil dred Sherman, daughter of the late ‘W. Watts Sherman of Rhode Island, was married to Ralph Francis Julian Stonor, fiftth Baron Camoys, in No- vember, 1911. Lord Camoys and Miss Sherman first met at the time of the wedding of Lord Decies and Miss Vivien Gould. _————— CURRENCY SESSIONS OPEN Unless Opposed by Four-fifths Confer ences Will Be Public. - Washington, July 10.—Open ses slons of the house banking committee in hearings on the administration cur- rency bill were assured when the com- mittee, 11 to 5, Tesolved to make meet- ings public unless closed by four- fifths of the members. Chairman Glass opposed the resolu tion. The committee declined, how- ever, to allow the Republican mem- bers to take part in the preliminary conslderation of the bill. The Democrats at once began work in secret session and will continue un- til the bill can be presented to a Dem- ocratic caucus. Insect’s Bite Kills Child. Glenwood City, Wis,, July 10.—The elght-year-old daughter of Frank Nor- dell, who lives near here, was bitten above the eye by a poisonous insect and dled within two hours. IMMENSE STORES OF COAL 8upplies for the Ships of ANl Coun trles Are to Be Kept Con stantly at Panama. ‘When the Panama canal is opened | two years hence there will be coal on hand for the ships of all the world —=a tremendous supply—which will be added to as fast as it is taken away to the seven seas. There will be two great coal-storage basins—one at Cristobal, for the At lantic entrance, and one at Balboa, for the Pacific. At the former place 290,000 tons will be kept on hand; at the latter 160,000, In each the stor age will be in huge basins of rein- forced concrate;, in which about halt the coal will be stored under water, for use in time of war, and the other half ‘above the sea level, to be taken from and added to continually for the ordinary uses of commercial and governmesit vessels. An im- mense 'plant-of-.cranes, cars, buckets and other mechiniery will be installed to handle the coal as economically as possible. The cranes will unload coal from ships; a conveying system will trans- fer it to bridges spanning the storage basin and dump it at any place de- eired; and a system of buckets oper- ating upon these bridges will make it possible to lift coal from the storage basin, and by means of conveyors raise it to loading machines that will drop it into colliers or lighters. The Cristobal plant wi be capable of un- loading 1,000 tons and loading 2,000 tons of coal each hour, and the Bal- boa plant 500 and 1,000 tons. , Vessels requiring bunker coal wl not go alongside the wharves of the plants, but will be coaled in mid- stream from barges. FIND USE FOR DESERT PLANT Exocelient Quatity of Wax ls Being Produced From the WIiid Can- deillla of Texas. Several factories for making wax out of the wild candelilla plant have recently been established in western Texas. Experiments im making wax from this desert plant were started in Mexico a few years ago. On account of the difficulty of refining the crude product its value was M immediately recognized. The weed is found in many parts of northern Mexico and the first factories were established there. Not long ago 8 process was discevered for refining the crude wax and regular shipments are now being-made to New York and to European countries. The candelilla weed zmn* ‘upon land that was ~formerly considered D0C’ WHITE'S HOO0DOO Whitesox_Southpaw Tells' Story * of Tiger Game. Qives Thriliing Idea of Humlllating Bumping Ha ‘Recelved at Hands of Twin Jinxes, Mossrs. Tyrus Cobb . and Sam Crawford, (By “DOC” WHITE, Southpaw Twirler of White Sox,) Remember, that game of June 18, 1911, at Det:rolt between the White Sox and Tigers? ‘Well, if perchance you can’t place the particular oc- casion, I'll‘ offer some enlighten- ment, for to my way of thinking it was the wildest, most exciting ex- hibition of free and far-away wal- loping I ever wit nessed. And ‘worse, luck, I hap pened to be right thero: when the base hits were thick- est. Just by way of refreshing your memory, I'll state that the score end- ed 16 to 16 in favor of the Tigers. When you also pause to consider that the White Sox went into the last half of the fifth inning with a lop-sided ad- vantage, leading by the score of 13 to 1, you may gain some idea of the bumping I received from my twin jinxes, Messrs. Tyrus Cobb and Sam Crawford, both of them able lefthand- ed bntters. My finish came in the sixth Inning after the Tigers had compiled 8 total of twelve clean drives, includ- Ing three-baggers by the triple-plated twins, the aforementioned Cobb and Crawford. Up to the turning point I entertained some joyous prospects of B0 easy victory, for the White Sox were pounding Mullin -and Covington pretty freely. Then the scenery changed when the Tigers dusted off their heavy artillery and started to charge our lines in the fifth. Mullin, always a dangerous hitter, shot open the inning with a single, but was forced by Drake. I didn’t want to take any chances with Bush, and the wee shortstop walked. With two on and Cobb, who previously had singled, at the plate, I found myself dangerously near the trouble zone. So I proceeded to “work on” the Georgian. As a master workman I surely looked any- thing but the part, for Tyrus fmmedi- ‘ately. combed a triple to the outlying reglons, hammering across a couple of runs; I then tackled my other hoodoo, the slugging Crawford, and Samuel rammed a triple into right fleld at the rate-of a mile a minute, scoring a moment later on the infield out of Del- ehanty. Moriarity obligingly cashed In, grounding to Tannehill, and I went to the bench-te recuperate. Our half of the sixth was over in a jiffy. Right off the reel I saw my finish staring me In the face when O’Leary, Stanage and Covington notched singles. Again I encountered trouble with Bush and a wild pitch let in another run. Bush was nailed by our infield, his retire- ment coining ancther tally, and, with the bases choked, I faced my jinx, Cobb, for the fourth time. Again the champion batter delivered a timely swat and the third marker of the in- ning was jotted down. That ended my regime on’'the firing line and Olm- Btead was led to the slab. Eventually the Tigers were permitted to bat against Walsh, and when the smoke had cleared away five more runs clat- tered across in the ninth inning, spell- Ing victory for the Tigers. On several other occasions I have been forced to swallow the lime of defeat simply be- cause these hoodoo sluggers refused to fall for my southpaw delivery. (Copyright, 1813.) DEVELOPED INTO REAL STAR Amos Strunk; Speedy Outfielder With Athletics, Seldom Mentioned for-His Good Work. One player on the Athletics who is seldom méntioned in connection with the team’s Buccess is, nevertheless, one of the strongest factors of that aggregation. . He is Amos Strunk, the £ : STAND OF PLAYER EXPLAINED President Fuvu Tells August H-rmnnn of Reasons for Wanting Change ¢ In Their Contracts. Some of the reasons why baseball players in the big leagues want to change the system under which they are farmed out to minor league clubs at salaries less than those called for in their original contracts: are con- tained in a letter written by David L. Fultz, president of the Baseball Play- ers’ fraternity, to August. Herrmann, chairman of the national commission. The letter is in reply to one written by Mr, Herrmann in answer to the players’ first communication on the subject. “There can be no 1nte|llgent denial,” reads Mr. Fultz’s letter, “of the sound- ness of the principle that so long as the player is held under a signed con- tract he must receive the salary the contract calls for. “The common practice of forcing men to go.to other teams and allow- ing these teams arbitrarily to cut their salaries can have neither legal nor moral justification. “Yail say after the player is trans- ferred it is a question of negotiation between him and his new owner: How can it be a question of negotiation when the player is compelled by your regulations to sign with one particu- lar team or quit his profession? There can be no negotiation when one party is absolutely at the mercy of the oth- er; it then becomes a question of du- ress. “When the situation is reversed and the major league recruit plays far bet. ter ball than he is expected to, he can’t ‘welch’ on his agreement and refuse to play unless he gets more money. Why, then, should the owner have the right to withdraw from his contract when he finds his bargain is not quite 8o good as he expected?” The letter closes with a renewal of the request that the commission com- pel owners to live up to thier con- tracts with players. HOLD RECORD FOR RELEASES Catcher Ainsmith of Washington American League Team, Given 8lip Three Times In Year. Ed Ainsmith, of the Nationals, sets up a claim to the record for being re- leased. Three times in 1909 he drew the slip in the New England league— Ed Ainsmith. once from Lowell and twice from FOR SALE—New 12 oz : Fmd a buyer for the Second-Hand things which you no longer need—Through a “For Sale” Ad. OCASH WITH nan cent per word per issue taken for less than 15 cents. the advertisar is. the address printed in the ad. Regular charge rate one cent per word per ire<rtion. No ad Phone 31 Answer by Correspondence All Blind Ads using a number, box or initial for address. We cannot tell you. Do not ask this office who Don't waste time, but write to A A A A A A A A A A A A A A HELP WANTED. WANTED—Good girl for general housework, Mrs. H. W. Bailey 605 Minnesota avenue. WANTED—Dishwashers at the Mark- ham Hotel immediately. LOCAL FOR RENT—Rooms single or for light housekeeping. Inquire 1205 Dewey avenue. —_———— LOST AND FOUND e L STt FOUND—Key July 5, Owner can have same by proving property and paymg tor ad at Pioneer, WANTED—Competent girl for gen- eral housework. Apply 6509 Bemidji Avenue. ( WANTED—Girl for housework. 910 Beltrami avenue. Phone 570. WANTED—Cook at Erickson hotel 310 America avenue. thambermaid wanted at the Brink- man hotel. FOR SALE--160 acres good farm land, clay soil, hardwood timber, Birch, Oak and Maple, 10 acres under cultivation, a fine spring of good pure water on the land, % miles from rallroad station. This land is worth $20 per acre; will sell for $13. Half cash, balance three years at 6 per cent interest. Address Bemidji Pioneer, Bemidji, Minn. *OR SALE—Typewriter ribbons for every make of typewriter on the market at GO cents and 76 cents each. Every ribbon sold for 76 cents guaranteed. Phone orders promptly filled. Mail orders given the same careful attention as when you appear in person. Phone 3:. The Bemidji Pioneer Office Supply Store. H"SCELLANEOUS XDVERTHER.S~ The grent state ot portunities for business to clagsi- fied advertisers. The ‘recognized advertising medium iu the Fargo North Dakota offers unlimited op- Daily and Sunday Courier- News, the only seven-day paper in the state and the paper which carries the largest amount of classified advertisiug. The Courler-News covers North Dakota like a blank- et; reachjng all parts of the state the day of publication; it 1s the paper to use in order to get re- Bults; rates one cent per word first . Imsertion, one-half cent per word succeeding Insertions; fifty cents per line per month. Address the Courler-News, Fargo, N. D. WANTED—Work n nursing or house- cleaning. Hattie Mosley, colored, Call at €12 Fifth street or phone 548. BOUGHT AND SOLD—Second hand furniture. Odd Fellow's building, Across from postoffice, phone 129. WANTED—Three - or four unfur- nished rooms suitable for light house- keeping, Phone 769 or 543. WANTED—Clean cotton rags at the Pioneer office. No buttons. FOR SALE—Small fonts of type, sev- eral different poiuts and in frst class condition. Call or write this office for proofs. Address Bemid)i Ploneer, Bemidji, Minn. FOR SALE—One weaving outfit com- plete, including loom, cutting ta- ble and raveller. First class. trade already established. Inquire 804 America avenue. tent size wall cost $35.00 Ger,. Robinson, 12 x 14-5 foot sell for $20.00. Challenge Hotel. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Ploneer win procure any kind or rubber stamp for you on short no- tice. Lawrence. He learned the game in grammar school, attracted attention from the scouts while he was playing with the FOR SALE—Good horse. For work or single, 1300 pounds. St. Hilaire Retail Lumber Compnny bridge, Mass.,, and when but sixteen years of age crashed into the profes- sional rank. Holy Name soclety team in Cam-|FOR TRADE—Fine 80 acre farm for auto. balla. Inquire of Martin Long- lease from Lawrence in 1910 for $3,800 that club wes out of the running and in seventh place. Still they insisted upon Ainsmith finishing the season, When Scout Kahoe bought his re- [FOR SALE—Three burner oil stove rnearly new 411 Minnesota ave. FOR REN1 ‘worthless. It is harvested by Mexi- can labor at low cost. The method of extracting '.he wax is l!mpl- and cheap. '’ Large tracts of lnm'l owned by the state of “Texas ‘arée euvered with the -candelilla wi and_concerns which are operating ithe different factories are now trying ‘to obtain long leases of these lands, in order to get & large supply of the raw mnterhl for making the wax. The refined ymduct is'used in the manufacture of phonograph: records and for various other purpuses. It is said to be the highest. grade of nm ‘wax kno Amol Strunk. speedy outfielder of the Mackmen. developed remarkably agon, and he is today one luable men Mack has -| 18 still tied up in the game. and it was not until he threatened to jump to an outlawed summer league in Vermont that the Lawrence owners told him to go to Washington. Alnsmith, who 18 now twenty-three years old, played basketball in the off season until last winter, when he went to Texas for his health. The southern climate made such a hit with him and brought about such an improvement in his physical condition, that he will return there next autumn. Roger O’'Connor’s Job. Roger Connor, who a decade ago was regarded as one of the greatest long-distance hitters in the business, Connor is acting as general supervisor of the umpires in the Eastern league for President O’Rourke, he being prac- tically boss of the indicator holders. ————— FOR RENT—Four room house cor- ner of Eleventh and Minnesota. In- quire George Smith, Phone 650. Pioneer Want Ads I-2 Gent a Word Bring Results Ask:the Man Who Has Tried Them FRESH EGGS 117 Minnesota Ave. Roger’s chief duties are to look an umpire over from the stand during the game, then point out to him what mistakes he made after the contest 1s. over. So far the idea has worked like 4 charm and many umpires have de- veloped considerably under Connor’s uivlce and coaching. Another wrecking Gre: ‘We now add another. two- com- _I'bination to the list of. ‘wrecking crews —Magee and Cravath of the Phillies, Thege two men are about as good as the Cnbb-(!rlwfonl, e Lots on easy terms. vestment i in Superior Lots GO TO BATCHELDER’S G00D GROCERIES AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE B BATCHELDER No mterest no taxes. Information--Bradley Bl'ink Co. (Inc.) . 909 Tower Ave., Superfor, Wis, LK. K. ROE' Agent, Bemid]l Mlnn. AND BUTTER Phone 180 SU ER]OR’ LOTS “The New Steel Center” In- will make you money.