Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 21, 1913, Page 1

-eral Blanco, THE Historlal Soclety “HNEEE K EMIDJ1 JAILY VOLUME 11. NUMBER 73 FEARFUL STORY OF MASSACRES Austrian Consul Confirms Guilt of Bulgarians—Reports Thousands Were Slain COMMIT RAPE AND MURDER Inhabitants of Seres and Surrounding Country Victims Of Ferdinand’s Troop’s Revenge. Athens, July 21. — Authenticated news of massacres, mutilations and a veritable holocaust of rapine and mur- der inflicted upon the inhabitants of Seres.and the surrounding country by the Buigarian troops reached here the form of a long statement from the Austrian consul at Saloniki. The official charges several Bul- -gariat officers with having dishonored -his wife in the presence of scores of #oldiers and hundreds of the inhabi- tants, who were later shot down or bayoneted. The Austrian consul's story of the appalling outrages by Bulgarian sol- diers includes in many instances names of notables burned to death, crucified, hacked to pleces or terribly mutilated snd left dying. A special investigatirg body sent to Seres also has reported. The report confirms thr charges by the Austrian consul. Toward the evening of the last day of murder, according to the report, about eightv women and girls were found hidden in the basement of a warehouse by a company of soldiers, led by a lieutenant. It is declared that after the younger women, some of them girls of tender age, had been dishonored, the soldiers secured sev- eral barrels of petroleum oil from a nearby storage house, poured it over the women, locked all exits and set fire to the place. The bodies of the dead were viewed by the investigating committee. Some of the bodles were headless, some dis- membered. Twenty officials.and weslthy men of Who stabbed- them witl hsyonets aud. then carried them to a trench and covered them partly with earth. Bev- eral were alive when cast into the trench. One man, terribly slashed, lived to tell the committee of what had happened. The committee reports that the number of murdered will never be known, but will reach thousands. Property damaged through fire and looting, the committee believes, will Teach close to $20,000,000. the town, were wmm»‘g-mu:} Servians Accuse Bulgarians. Belgrade, July 21.—Bringing charges against the Bulgarian troops as se- rious as those lodged by the QGreeks, the Servian war office issued a state- ment covering a long list of massa- cres. The war office declared that wounded Servian soldiers had been horribly tortured. As they lay dying Bulgarians assailed them, breaking bones, gouging out their eyes and burning some alive. CHEERS FOR UNITED STATES Demonstration In Front of Consulate at Matamoras, Mex. Matamoras, Mex., July 21.—Vivas for the American people, for the Unit- ed States government and for the ¢ity of Brownsville, just across the Rio Grande, were shouted by 800 con- stitutionalist troops and a large gath- cring of citizens. The demonstration took place in front of the consulate and was part ¢f the anniversary celebration of Benito Juarez, the Mexican patriot. Major Mujica, chief of staff of Gen- rebel commander, ad- -dressing Consul Johnson, deprecated the recent anti-American demonstra- tions in. Mexico City and reaffirmed the friendship of the constitutional- ists for the United States. Consul Johnson replied briefly, saying he would inform his government of these events. WOMEN WILL FORCE ISSUE Wang Municipal Lodging Houses for Females at Chicago. Chicago, July 21.—Municipal lodging houses for women will be an issue in the next city campaign in Chicago, when women march to the polls for the first time. Mrs. L. Bracket Bish- op, suffrage leader and social worker, made the announcement. “Women are in revolt against this samby-pamby way of digging around to get money for the housing of poor ‘women and children,” sald Mrs. Bish- op. “The city council voted appro- priations for lodging houses for men, but refused our request because we Ball"10 votes. Now that we have the ¥otes, we are going to get what we want." ¥on Kiein Jury Falls to Agree. and, Ore., July 21.—After being hours the jury trying E. E ©. Non Klein of Minneapolis for al- leghd “thett of diamonds- from Miss Kthel Newcomb of Sun Franciaco re- ported inability to agree. The court a4t the retrial for Sept. 2. and fixed bail 8t $4,500 cash or $5,500 surety bonds. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, MONDAY. EVENING, JULY 21, 1913. : MAYOR COTTERILL. Seattle Executive Comments on Anti-Red Flag Demonstration. BLAMES SEGRETARY DANIELS Mayor of s:atlle Says Speech of Naval Head Caused Riot. Seattle, Wash,, July 21.—That the attack on the headquarters of the In- dustrial Workers of the World was due directly to an address by Secre- tary of the Navy Daniels the night before was the declaration ‘made by Mayor Cotterill and his supporters. They assert that the marines and sailors from the warships at anchor who smashed the furniture of the In- dustrial Workers and attacked Social- ist speakers were inspired by Daniels’ utterance in which he denounced any mayor who would permit the red flag upon his streets. Several hundred bluejackets par- ticipated in the “cleantng up.” Defying the police the mob attack- £d. the I W, W. headengriers,and burned the [ite e_and_other con- tents of the building. From this they went to the Socialist headquarters, demolishing the furniture, smashing the windows and nailing American flags to the walls and across the en- trance. WILL AID WATER CONCERN Financiers To Assist Company In- volved In Recent Pittsburg Crash. WILL BE PLACED ON SOLID BASIS Chicago, July 21.—That Chicago financiers are planning to aid the in- terests involved in the failure July 7 of the Kuhn banks at Pittsburg be- came known following a meeting here of bankers interested in the affairs of the American Water Works and Guarantee company, of which J. S. Kuhn is president. Ralph Van Vechten, vice president of the Continental and Commercial Savings bank, where the conference was held, stated that it “was hoped by those present to work out a plan whereby the company may soon be taken out of the hands of the receiv- ers and placed cn a substantial basis.” While no further statements could be obtained from any who attended the meeting it is reported that Chicaro men will furnish the money necessary to get the American company out of its present difficulty. * The American Water Works and Guarantee company controls water ‘works in more than eighty municipali- ties and is by far the largest of the corporations involved in the Pitts- burg crash. All In One Barrel The Sappho slide, squirrel squirm, the Arisona shake and the kitchen sink are described as being merely variations of the turkey trot. Nowadays an accomplished dancer must be like the bartender who kept his merchandise in one barrel, but never allowed the name of any fancy drink to cause him to miss a sale.— Louisville Courler-Journal. Discriminatory—Are Of Advantages Deprived Concede To The Zenith City Her Right As Head Of Lakes ‘Washington, July 21.—Duluth won a substantial portion of its freight rate fight before the interstate com- merce commission when a reduction of class rates to the city from East- ern points was ordered and the pres- ent rates were held to be discrim- inatory. . Duluth’s contention that rates on lake and rail trafic from the East ought to break at its wharves, how- ever, was not sustalned. In brief, the commission held that the present rail and lake class rates to Duluth from points east of the Indi- ana-llinois state lines were unreason- able, and that the existing scale of through rail and lake class rates tn Duluth was unduly discriminatory as compared with rates to Chicago. It was ordered that the first class rate from the East to Duluth should not exceed 62 cents a 100 pounds, and that the rates from trunk line terri- tory to Duluth, rail and lake, should not exceed those to Chicago. Deprived of Advantages. The commission also held that the present joint through rail and lake Tates from the East to Duluth depriv- ed Duluth of the “advantage of its lo- cation at the Head of the Lakes,” and resulted “in undue discrimination against Duluth, which will be relieved in some measure by the reduction here required.” Finally the commlsslon held “that the contention of Duluth that the class rates ‘on rail and lake traffic to the Northwest ought “to break on its wharves ‘{nstead of ‘at the Twin Citles in_fairnesa. to Duluth.the.sum of the Intermediate rates is the lowest rate adjustment that Minneapolis and St. Paul should have, is not sustained. “Duluth cannot ask for more than a reasonable scale of rates and a rea- sonable relation of rates as between Itsell and the Twin Cities. To have the rate break at a particular point is not an inherent rate right.” CHINESE REVOLT Province of Kwangtung Joins In Rebellion, GROWING Hongkong, July 21.—The severance of the province of Kwangtung from the general government at Peking was proclaimed by the governor gemeral of Kwangtung. The capital of the province is Canton. The governor general declares that the provisional council has appointed him governor general and commander- in-chief to lead the southern troops agalust those of Provisional President Yuan Shi Kai. This step has been taken, he says, because of Yuan Shi Kai’s despotism and his policy which is calculated to ruin the republic. The governor general declares he will guarantee the protection of prop- erty in the district under his control. Business between Hongkong and Canton has comie to a standstill. BARRED BY NEWLANDS LAW Assistant Secretary Post Cannot Serve on Mediation Board. ‘Washington, new federal board of mediation met to organize and begin adjustment of the wage dispute between the East- ern railroads and their trainmen it was confronted by the discovery that one of its members, Assistant Secre- tary Post of the department of labor, was legally barred from serving. . The Newlands law, under which the board was created, provides that in addition to the federal commissioner the members shall be officials of the government who have been appointed to their original offices with the con- firmation of the senate. The assistant secretary of labor does not come un- der this classification. DULUTH VICTOR [¢ IN RATE FIGHT|wa s s hn‘Alel'dQ( Tariffs From Eastern Points Are Held COMMISSION QUESTIONS RIGHTS Stating That Present Rates Do Not & ¥ ALL comwo!sm PRESENT Are you satisfled with your tnxm}’l individualy This applies equally to and to towns. £ The county board 'of Cimmissioners Wwent into sesion this morning as the Board of Equallntiqn and during the present week will go over all- the assessments of the county which work will keep them busy-the greater portion of the week. Those who have dny greivances or who are dissatisfled: with their tax assessments will be given an optor< if necessary adjustments made. The board is comprlsed of - the county commissioners and the coun- ments of the various townships equal-: «(Minnespalis-and-St-Paut) rand-that | W | store .peace, ‘but- expheseions_.of. aucl July 21.—When the] izing thé different grticles assessed, In some cases certain things will be raised and in others they will be low- ered, so that all towns will. be...as- sessed on the same hulu. & ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE Intervention Not In.Favor But l‘!‘ni Be Only Hope For Huerta Beme e X B RAIDS CONTINUE: IN COUNTRYY, Mexico City, July 21.—Only-the con- viction that the retirement of Presi- dent Huerta means ithe elevation of another revolutionist and the plung- ing of their country into greater depths of hopelessness prevents thou- sands of representative business men from uniting in a petition to the ex- isting administration to yield. Many of these busiiiess men believe ~foralgn-litervention can re- opinions are not popilar and are made guardedly or with'due ‘reservation, The failure of the government to make any headway in Sonora against the rebels; the daring displayed by bands which captured Zacatecas and Durango, capitals of adjoining states, and ralded with impunity the country and smaller towns; the occupation or blockading of all the border ports of entry and the steady and swift growth of the government throughout the re- public has created even at the nation- al palace a spirit of pessimism easily verceptible. HUMAN CHAIN SAVES YOUTH Rescued From Water at Brink of Niagara Falls. Niagara Falls, N. Y., July 21.—Tru- man Chapman aged twenty-two, Ham- ilton, Ont., was rescued from the brink of the American falls by four men, one of whom took a desperate chauce to reach him. Chapman was sitting. on the iron ralling just above Prospect Point and was seen to topple backwards sud- denly. His body lodged against two projections of rock. John Hughes and Thomas S. Winders, Niagara Falls; “Ikomas D. Thomas, Toronto, and a fourth man leaped over the railing. The unidentified man waded sev- eral feet, hut could not reach Chap- man. Hughes, Winders and Thomas then formed a chain from the iron fence, and, clinging to the unknown man’s hand, enabled him to reach Chapman. GEGRBIA BNK INSOLVENT Institution Closes Dcors Because of Shortage in Its Funds. ‘Washington, July 21.—The First Na- tional bank of Lafayette, Ga., failed on account of a large shortage in its funds. Announcement was made by Thom- as P. Kane, acting comptroller of the currency, who has appointed National Bank Examiner Thomas C. Dunllp temporary receiver. Examiner Dunlap discovered the shortage and closed the bank with the authority and approval of the di- rectors. R K R R R Defective Paae OUNTY BOARD IN SESSION nity to be heard befdre the board and will bed ty auditor. They will compare asses-] ed, “will soon be overtaken with like SCORES WILSON IN TARIFF TALK Senator Cummins Denounces Presi- dential Influence and ' Predicts MAKES STRONG = STATEMENT Says Democrats Are Doomed to Dis- “aster At ‘Next Eleotion—No Hope For Country Washington, July 21.—Senator Cum- mins, opening the tariff debate for the Progressive - Repiblicans, de- clared that the Republican party lost the confidence of the people and was driven from power largely because It insisted upon the maintenance of fm: port duties, many of which are unnec- essarily and oppressively high. “The Demogratic party,” he assert. disaster because it is about to infiict ipon the country a tarift law, which. with respect to many things, invites the perils of free trade and which, with respect to many others, imposes duties that are danserously and de- structively low, and which, from end to -end, grievously discriminates Bgainst -the West in favor of the East—that is to say, in favor of the manufacturer against the farmer. “The Republican craft went down in the whirlpool of Scylia in 1912 and its Democratic successor is steering [straight. for the rocks of Charybdis, where it will go to pieces in the stress of 1916. “There is a passageway to safety and prosperity. The Progressive Re- ‘publicans charted it in 1909 and they “will chart it again in 1913. Some time the American people will ‘make the trip under these pilots, but dn the meantime must suffer another shipwreck, bearing its hardships, as I hope we will, with patriotism and for- titude.” & Wilison Is Criticised. _Besides pointing out many things that he considered-destructive and en- ly. puwarcanted. in.the hill Sepator.| Cummins ised the president for fs “fnflience exerted upon members” of congress concerning the tariff bill, an influence, he said, “so persistent and determined that it became coer- cive.” “So long as the president is permit- ted to set up a standard of loyalty to the party to which he may belong and condemn every man who does not accept it; and so long as mem- bers of congress vote under the ap- prehension that they may suffer from" the presidential power, so long con- gress will incur and will deserve the contempt of all true lovers of free and representative government.” Senator Cummins declared he be- Heved the bill would be modified it members of congress voted their con- victions, but that it would ot be modified, largely because the presi- dent of the United States, assuming to interpret and apply the economic doctrine of his party, has laid the .eavy hand of his power upon a ranch of the government that ought to be co-ordinate, but which in fact has become subordinate.” ! Oregen Town Swept by Fire, Portland, Ore., July 21.—The busi- ness portion of Sheridue, Ore., about sixty miles outhwest of Portland, was {destroyed by fire. The loss is placed at $300,000. Included in the destroy- ed buildings were two banks, the Sheridan hotel, a restaurant, several general merchandise stores and a number of residences. Mok kbbb kb hddddd WOMEN VIGILANTES WILL BE PROSECUTED. Chicago, July 21.—State’s Attorney Dady of Lake county has announced that he will prosecute the Volo (Il.) wo- men who rode Mrs. John Rich- ardson out of town on a rail and dumped her into a slimy R R R R R E R R i o o pond. After spending the night hid- den in a hotel near Volo Mrs. Richardson came to her sister in Chicago. PAUL S. REINSCH. Selected as American Min- Ister to Chinese Republic. Paul Samuel Reinsch, who occupies the chair of political economy in the Univer- sity of Wisconsin at Madison, has been long known as an authority on colonial government, particularly in the far east. His works on the subject of colonfal ad- ministration and the nineteenth century Intellectual ,development of - the orient have been translated into Japanese and Chinese as well as several continental tongues. Professor Reinsch is forty-four years old and married. LUMBER TEAM HUMBLED Went Down To Defeat Before On- Slaught Of Fosston City Team.— Score 3 to 1 PITCHER’S BATTLE FINISH FIGHT Yesterday afternoon the Fosston City baseall team drove to Bemidji in automobiles: with severalssars of z6oters: and-carried off the Crookstorr{iee Ql.this’city.the Kntelits JF ke - umber - Company. -base--ball - team’s scalp by a score of 3 to. 1. The Bemidji boys were unable to connect with liners of the Fosston twirler, who fanned man after man with out walking a player. His con- trol was perfect and he kept his op- ponents at his mercy throughout the entire nine innigs. Ridell, of Be- midji succeeded in lining out a two bagger in third inning and clev- erly stole third. He came home on a sacrifice hit makng the only score tallied for Bemidji. Smiley, pitched an excellent game making many strikeouts and -allow- ing but a few hits. Cords at ‘short stop did not show his usual skill and ofter making several errors was or- dered to the field and was replaced by Brandon. Among thé players who figured prominently as stars were Bailey Brothers, Brandon, Riddell and Rice. Malone was unable to play because of a badly smashed finger which he injured in the morning game. Rem Bell umpired a game to the satisfaction of all and no decisions were disputed. Building And Loan Meeting President J. P. Lahr, of the Bel- trami county Building and Loan As- soclation called a meeting of the di- recotrs for a session at 4:30 this af- ternoon. Matters of importance are to come up before this meeting. MAYOR ‘PREVENTS LYNCHING Strikebreaker Spends Night In Office of City Executive. St. Louis, July 21.—Oaly the timely intervention of the mayor and chief of police of Granite City, Ill., near here, prevented the lynching of one of the Bell Telephone company’s men strikebreakers. Fearing violence by the mob the + | crews on four street cars refused, at + | the mayor’s solicitation, to accept the + | strikebreaker as a passenger to St. + | Louis. He was taken for safety to 4 | the mayor’s office in the city hall » | where he spent the night. TEN CENTS PER WEEK OLD DIRECTORS ARE RE-ELECTED School Board Election Results In Rétaining Roe, Jackson And Brown As Members 387 VOTES POLLED SATURDAY Women Take Advantage Of Suffrage Rights And Cast One Hundred Fifty Three Votes At the school board election held in the Central building Saturday eveinng there were three hundred eighty seven votes cast of which more than three nundred were cast for the re-election of the old board members K. K. Roe, M. J. Brown and- Edward Jackson. ] Promptly at seven o’clock the bell on the old school building sounded the opening of the polls and _continu- ally for one hour and thirty minutes a stream of men and women crowded the voting booth, casting their votes for their favorites. There were just one hundred and fifty three women voted, which .is an indication that women will vote if given the advantage. Of the entire list of candidates K. K. Roe received the largest-vote securing three hun- dred and twenty six votes, The following is the standing of the votes cast. K. K. Roe 326, Ed- ward Jackson 302, M. J. Brown, 321, C. M. Booth 91, J. Peterson, Jr. §5; J. P. Omich 56 and G. D. Backus 1. TRUNK PUSHERS - DEFEATED Lose At Hands Of Office Force F\'om Crookston Mill Clashing with the Pencil Pushers of the Crookston Lumber Company of- Grip ‘were humbled by that eam_to the tune of 9 to 8. The Tumber- men showed surprising skill and kept the traveling men guessing through ont jthe entire game. This team declares it self equal to any other second team in this vicinity and are open for sames at any date. During the game yesterday morn- ing Gregg Malone received a badly smashed finger and was unable to play in the afternoon game. E. CHURCH GIVES PICNIC Sunday School Church Membery And Friends Invited On Wednesday The Methodist church will- give a picnic to its Sunday School chil- dren teachers members of the church and friends next Wednesday at the head of the lake. Those attending are requested to bring lunch for their respective parties. All are asked to bring plenty of several eatables ra- ther than variety which will all to- gether be placed on the tables for the picnickers. Request is also made to bring drinking cups and forks. The first boat will leave the city dock ‘Wednesday morning at ten n'clock.l M. JUNIORS DEFEAT NYMORE . Trimmed Neighboring Village By Big Score Comprising a junior team of this city nine young men played the Ny- more base ball team yesterday after- noon and defeated them by a score of nine to three. Tanner caught for the Bemidji boys and showed skill that kept a large number of fans contin- ually boosting for Bemidji. The young men are planning to go to neighbor- ing villages each Sunday and endeav- or to place their nine in good stand- ing on the local base:ball map, COMMISSION MEETS WEDNESDAY To Read New Proposed Charter At Commercial Club Rooms Wednesday evening at about 8:30 at the Cominerical eclub rooms at which’ time the charter will be read- and discussed section by section. Ef- forts will be made to secure the at- tandance of the, enfire commission and. it fs probable that some slight chinges and some new provisions will be added. - 0 ‘ENON NOSKNOSf SXAE The home/6tiDoctor Einer Johnson on Mlnneso!a avenue was purch: by Joseph McFadden of Park Rapids. Mr. McFadden f{s mail clerk on: the Great Northern road: between Bem- idjl and Sauk Center’ and expect ugu_\_th‘a xet- year to make o’clock the charter Commission of the" city of Bemidji will hold a meeting -