Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 28, 1914, Page 4

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iy 4 BOY CONFESSES T0 MANY CRIMES Youth Startles New York Conrt by His Admissions. MURDER NETS ONLY §2 Claims to Have Been In Employ of Black Hand Gang and Received Stipulated Sums for Various Acts. Asserts He Took Part In Sixteen Bomb Outra; New York, Jan. 28.—Alfred Lehman, an undersized youth scarcely out of his ’‘teens, sat in the witness chair and confessed to having taken part In sixteen bomb outrages, revealed knowledge of eighty, cleared up the mystery of two murders and furnish- ed information concerning a number of lesser crimes, including arson and burglary. Lehman was called as a witness in the trlal of Angelo Sylvester, ac- cused of one of the bomb outrages. | Lehman told the court of the burning of two Brooklyn houses for the insur- ance and many other lesser crimes. He sald the bomb outrages usually brought the men doing the work $50. One robbery in whichk a Chinese was murdered, he sald, netted him $2, while the two men with him, who, he sald, killed the Chinese, got the same amount. Lehman said he had personally planted sixteen or eighteen bomb outrages, causing much damage. “The gang I worked for,” he said, “were Black Handers. The boss would write letters to Itallans de- manding money under threats of death. When they did not ‘come across’ I was sent with a bomb. They usually paid up after the explosion of the bomb. If they didn't we went after 'em again.” GOETHALS HEAD " OF CANAL ZONE Builder of Big Ditch First Civic Governor. PRESIDENT ISSUES ORDER Declares Permanent Government Goes Into Effect on April 1, Thus Elimi- nating “the Present Commission. Appointee Not Informed of His Selectlon. Washington, Jan. 28.—President ‘Wilson signed an executive order put- ting into operation on April 1 a per- manent government for the Panama canal zone and naniing Colonel George W. Goethals as the first civic gov- ernor. Secretary Garrison made the an- nouncement as he carried away the executlve orders from the White House. He sald Colonel Goethals had not heen officially informed but that ) he would be as soon as his name was sent to the senate. Mr. Garrison said the cabinet meet- ing was devoted largely to a discus- sion of the Panama canal government. He added that the question of tolls had not been discussed and that the executive order merely made provl- sion for the collection of such tolls as were provided by law. The permanent government of the zone, headed by a civil governor, eliminates the commission which is now in charge. Members if the commission are to be retained, however, until the open- ing of the canal, us a committee in charge of the arrangements for the celebration incident to the opening, though without any administrative functions. K RESIDENTS READY TO FLEE Town of Storrus, Utah, Threatened by Avalanche. Salt Lake, Utah, Jan. 28.—Resi- dents of Storrus, Utah, a mining camp, are preparing to flee, fearing a repetition of the avalanche which claimed three lives. The slide, 300 feet wide, stopped at the edge of Storrus, but threatens to continue on- ward and sweep the camp away should another avalanche come down on it from above. Six persons were caught in the ava- lanche. Three, Mrs. Anna Pakoyich and two unidentified miners, were killed. The others escaped with seri- ous injuries. Consul Awarded Damages. London, Jan. 28.—Charles K. Moser of Virginia, the American consul at Colombo, Ceylon, has been awarded $25,000 damages, according to a Cal- cutta dispatch to the Daily Telegraph, in a suit brought by him against Mrs. Virginia Graham, an American visitor to Ceylon, for defamation of charac- ter. Subseribe For The Pioneer THOUSANDS ON STALLED TRRINS California Floods Disastrous to- Traffic. MONETARY LOSS IMMENSE Conservative Estimates Place Prop- erty Damage at Five Million Dollars, but Heavy Downpour of Rain Fore casts Large Crops. San Francisco, Jan, 28.—Santa Fe train No. 10, the ‘Chicago mail, is lost somewhere in the flood stricken San Gabriel valley near Santa Bar- bara, according to advices received here by railroad officials. It carried more than 100 passengers. At Ba- kersfield the Kern river is rising. Eight persons are known to have lost their lives. Communication with many sections of the state is still interrupted and details of the damage are not obtain- able. It is believed, however, that the loss to property may mount to the millions. The Shasta limited from Portland is the only train from outside Cali- fornia that has reached San Francis- co in twenty-four hours. Ten west- bound and eight eastbound overland trains are stalled in the Sierras. In- cluded are two crowded excursion trains, one of which is a Mystic Shriners’ special carrying Shriners to the Truckee. The snow in the mountains is rap- idly melting, increasing the flood dam- age and causing landslides that have caved in tunnels and wrecked rail- way tracks. Many railroad bridges have gone out. Dozens of Trains Stalled. A dispatch from San Luis Obispo says the railroad tracks there are crowded with stalled passenger trains and the Southern Pacific railway is considering chartering a small steam- er to remove passengers to safety. The Southern Pacific is trying to resume overland traffic and there is some effort to move north and south traffic, but it will be several days be- fore regular service can be resumed. Thousands of men are repairing the tracks. Although conservative estimates were that the flood has caused $5,- 000,000 damage in California business men weré happy because the rains torecasted heavy crops. The demoralization of railway traf- fic in Southern California as a result of the floods which have raged for two days was shown when advices in- dicated nearly fifty trains are stalled in that part of the state. On them are 4,000 marooned passengers, who are being fed by the railroad com- panies. The situation everywhere is im- proving, but it will be weeks before the damage can be repaired. Marvels of the Grand Canyon. The Grand canyon cannot be describ- ed in measured terms. Every beholder sees it in a different form, just ns the rolling clouds suggest different resem- blances to the eyes of the beholder Begin with the thought of the canyon thirteen miles wide, a mile deep, the Colorado river, 200 feet wide, imprison- ed down in the depths between lofty wulls of weather stained granite and rushing wildly on its way. It is buried so deep that only now and then can you get a glimpse of what looks like a little, dark ribbon of gray. Above the bluck granite walls of the river you see what you can easi- Iy imagine to be row after row of red brick skyscrapers projecting from the sides of the canyon at acute angles and always pinnacled by imposing towers. The beight of those prodigious sky- scrapers and towers cannot be meas- ured by the imagination. They seem to rise a few bundred feet. In reality they tower thousands of feet from the foundation walls.- ‘I'be colors are mar- velous.—Leslie's. QOddities of Human Skin. Human cuticle reacts peculiarly to stimuli The makers of billlurd balls test the smoothness of the finisbed ar- ticle by rubblng it against the cheek Certuin arens of the tongue are very sensitive to different tavors, while about aw inch from the tip Is a littte patch which is the precise spot to dump objectionable medicine, for in that region the sense of taste 18 ab- sent. If one marks on the biceps of the arm a little space and test it with the warmed head of a pin, -some Spots will fee! just pressure, others warmth and pressure. And If one has a little red Ink on the pin he ean mark out just where these “warm spots” are. In fact, the cuticle seems a mosaic of “warm” and “cold” spots. And there is said to be a place above the knee where one can drive a pin without pain. The Talker. “You are wanted at the telephone.” “But I am so hoarse | can't talk.” “You won't need to talk; it's your wife.”—Houston Post. Familiarity. “Does he know her very well?” “He must. | overheard him telling ber that she Is getting fat.”—Detroit Free Press. ADDITIONAL WANTS TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY A A A A A A A A A A A A FOR SALE—The best kind of mill seasoned - Tamarack cord. wood. Fred Bardwell.” Telephone 336-4. Cost Littie---Accomplish Much 4 —Do— B Ploneer Want Ads. One-half cent a - word-cash with® copy Phone 31 SIGNIFICANCE OF ' THE CORN =~ AND ALFALFA EXPOSITI ON_| EST central Minnesota made history at Morris Dec. 10, 11 and 12. The nineteen counties entered upon . 2 new era of effort as a result of the information given and the enthusiasm generated during the three days’ meetings. Through the medium of this exposition every one has become fairly well acquainted with what the west central Minnesota movement for a redirected agriculture and general co-operation has effected. Interest is now centered on what these pioneers in a great movement are going to do next—how they are going to harness up and drive the enthusiasm that they have been so successful in creating. There: are certain things that the officers and directors of the Development Association have pledged themselves to do. They may be summarized as follows: First.—To carry the gospel of better farming, better business and better 'living to the people on the farms and in the towns of west central Minnesota, uniting all classes of people in an effort for individual and for com- mon good. Second.—To place enough of the best alfalfa seed to plant 20,000 acres in the nineteen counties in the spring: Third.—To secure a county agent for each of the counties affiliated with the organization and to work with the fifteen men now in the field and the new ones to be hired to make their work more effective. Fourth.—To gather together a motion picture brary that will contain picture object lessons of all profitable farm operations and of great public gatherings like the recent corn and alfalfa exposition, together with general amusement features.. This library will be placed at the command of public speakers and educators working in the district and of the county agents, vho will each be equipped with projection motion picture machines, by the means of which they can take entertainment, instruction and educatfon to the people on the land. Fifth.—To see that a woman visitor, tactful and trained to furnish what the farm women need, is engaged in every county of west central Minnesota, Sixth.—To get more owners of farms to live on their land. Seventh.—To eventually get more settlers and smaller farms. To carry out this program the men of the West Central Development Association are at present perfecting the working organization, and they intend to continue to lead the way in the great country life uplift movement that Is sweeping America. DUAL PURPOSE CATTLE FOR THE NORTHWEST 1.—Milking @horthorn and Ayrshire cows, imported by Mr. J. J. © ' 2—The sllking Shorthorn bull, Bra: ed by levingtod{14th, imported by Mr. J. > 3 HERE i§{now in the quarantine at Soutdf{Quebec the largest im- portation | of milking Shorthorns ever brought $@ America. Heretofore only a few Ingf.viduals of this_class have ever croag :d the Atlantic for this country. ) cattle were purchas- ed in Englandi{by Mr. J. J. Hill and to his North Oaks farm Paul. Mr. Hill is a strong bellever in the value of the two purpose cof '—that is, the cow for milk and also f§r beef, usually spoken of now as the dual purpose cow, and of cows of tclass he regards none | | 1 Hill for his North Oaks farm, near St. Paul, Minn. 's Coming 8tar, 107990, champion of England as a two-year-old, import- J. J. Hill from Babraham Hall, Cambridge, England. 3—The milking Shorthorn cow, Eastover Kirk- J. Hill from J. Chivers & Son, near Cambridge, England. By PROFESSOR THOMAS SHAW. as superior to the milking Shorthorns, called in Britain the dalry Shorthorn. He believes that this type of cow is one that Is admirably suited to the needs of the average farmer, and in this he is nnquestionably right, mot- withstanding the teaching of many in our experiment stations to the con- trary. Mr. Hil's Shorthorn importation consists of twenty-eight animals, of which three are males. The females are young cows from two to six years old.. They are all now milking and will calve again in due time. Individ- ually. they rank high, having been chosen with much care. They have milk records running from 6,000 te 10,000 pounds a year. There is certainly large room for this class of cattle in all the north- western states. This does not mean that there is no place for the dairy breeds. There is a wide place also for the dairy breeds, but viewed from the standpoint of the present and pros- pective demand for beef there is a much larger plice for dual cattle. This in future must come from the arable farm, and it must come main- Iy from dual cattle that will be milked. To sell about 18,000 acres of Northern Minnesota - Dairy Farnpl,‘and Company’s - land in Southern Beltrami County. Men who will devote their time to it. Good commission paid. : Land is near market and will stand inspection, 2 Address W, R. Mackenzie Minneapolis, Minn, Carbo We have an assortment of high grade paper tully guaranteed, in all colors 8 1-2 x 11 and 812 x13 At $1 and $1.25 a box (Can you beat it?) Yes, there are 100 sheets in each box. and if the paper does not satisfy you know where you bought it—your money returned if you want it always. - Beware! Special agents call on the trade about the city from time to time' They may offer you enticing looking bargains—but—what if you're not satisfied? It may be a case of throwing it into the waste basket. WeBuy on a Guarantee and Sell "~ the Same Way. 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