CONFLAGRATION AT HOT SPRINGS| Fire Does Damage Amounting to $12,000,000—Sixty Blocks in Ruins, TWO THOUSAND ARE HOMELESS Courthouse, Jail, City Hall, High School, Moody Hotels and De- pot Destroyed. Hot Springs, Ark, Sept. 8.—Two thousand persons are homeless and sixty blocks which contained many of the principal buildings are in ruins, the result of a fire which, fanned by a forty-mile wind, swept the southwest- ern section of Hct Springs with a loss of $182,000,000. So far as known no lives were lost. Among the buildings destroyed were the courthouse, city jail, city hall, high sohool, Park and Moody hotels, Ozark sanitarium and Iron Mountain depot, while the watcr works, light and gas plants were put out of commission. The burned area parallels the busi- ness district and seven times shift- ing winds threatened to turn the fire in that direction, but free use of dy- namite and opportune shifting of the wind saved it. Few of the fire vic- tims saved any of their household goods and hotel guests abandoned their luggage to save their lives. The fire started on Church street, near the government reservation and the army and navy hospital. The dry shacks and frame buildings burned rapidly and shifting winds swept the flames toward the business and hotel district. It was then that city offi- clals appealed to the Little Rock fire department for aid. Burning west on Mealvern avenue, the fire destroyed a number of wholesale warehouses and the Park hotel. The wind shifted sgaln and the fire swept south, de- stroying the new high school, post- office, Auditorium theater and the Ozark sanitarium, city hall, jail, court- house and other buildings. SEVEN SCORE KILLED IN FLOOD Men, Women and Children Caught in Mountain Torrent. Stmla, India, Sept. 8.—One hundred and fifty native men, women, and chil- dren were drowned while fording the river Beas, in the Hosiarpur district of the Punjab, on their way to attend a falr. They were overtaken in the river, ‘which is very wide at this part, by a. sudden flow of water from the moun- tains. AUTOMOBILE RACER KILLED Young Girl Also Meets Death When Tire Bursts. Jackson, Mich., Sept. 8. —Harry En. dicott of Anderson, Ind., a brother of “Farmer Bill” Endicott, the noted au- tomobile racer, and Mary Sarata of Jackson, a ten-year-old spectator, were killed and three persons injured here when Endicott’s automobile, hurtling around the race track, crashed through a fence after one of the front tires blew up. s ke ol ok o ke ol b ok b ol b o < OREGON GOVERNOR SUES L3 HIMSELF. 3 + = & * Portland, Ore., Sept. 8.— <+ Governor West of Oregon was < sued for $16,000 by his own o + order. < o The state of Oregon is the -+ 4 plaintiff and the secretary of <+ state and state treasurer are + co-defendants. * +* The complaint asks judg- < ment for the recovery of mon- < 4+ ey alleged to have been ille- s * gally expended out of a fund =« <+ at the state penitentiary. * ka A legislative committee in- - 4 vestigated the matter a few <+ #+ months ago and Governor < < West directed the attorney - < general to bring suit against < #+ the three officials named if he + found sufficient warrant for the - < action. o+ L * LR R fo oo o oo ofe ol ol oo oo ofo e op ARREST SURVEYING PARTY Government Engineer and Assistants Charged With Burglary. Steamboat Springs, Colo., Sept. 8.— An entire government surveying party ‘was arrested on the charge of burglary here and, pleading not guilty, was bound over to the next term of crim- inal court. In the party were R. A. Teller, chief engineer; son of Former United States Senator Teller of Denyer, Joseph Ro- per, Washington, D. C., nephew of A. E. Sheridan, one of the burean chiefs of the national agricultural depart- ment; C. Porter, Washington; John Bell, Denver, and Norman Haskenson of this city. It is charged that the men entered a farm house and removed articles of bedding. STEAMER DESTROYED BY FIRE Penn of Ericsson Line Burns at Dela- ware River Wharf, Philadelphia, Sept. 8.—The steam- ship Penn of the Ericsson line, which operated between here and Baltimore, was destroyed by fire while tied up at one of the Delaware river wharves. The only persons on the boat at the time were the captain and thirty-one of the crew.” All escaped in safety. The Penn was flooded by city fire en- glnes and fireboats and the blaze was only entinguished when the boat sank at its moorings. The loss 18 estimated at $100,000. HELD FOR CONTEMPT Secretary of F\llal Company Jailed for Refusing tb Produce Company’s Books to Court. ) COMPANY FINED TWO THOUSAND San Francisco, Sept. 8.—Judge Maur- ice T. Dooling in the United States dis- trict court ordered a fine of $2,000 im- posed on the Western Fuel company and directed the imprisonment of Davld C. Norcross, secretary of the company, for contempt, because of the refusal to produce the company’s books before the federal grand jury which 1is investigating alleged cus- toms weighing frauds. Counsel for the Western Fuel com- pany 'and Secretary Norcross asked that execution of the court’s order be deferred until Monday and this was granted by Judge Dooling. The company contended that the books had already been examined by federal officials and that it would have to suspend business while the books were out of its possession. The indictments against the West- ern Fuel company charge that it de- frauded the government out of hun- dreds of thousands of dollars by re- turning false weights on imported coal supplied to American owned steamships, on which a portiop of the duty is remitted. It is alleged that rebates were ob- tained on much more coal than was actually supplied these vessels. oo ol ofe ol ol e ofe oo ofe oo ofe oo ok b e ob % + b + BREWER PAYS $100,000 FOR 3 ALIMONY. * % St. Louis, Sept. 8—A re- < + ceipt was filed in the circuit # court here acknowledging the <« ++ payment by William J. Lemp, 4 a brewer, of $100,000 alimony < # to Mrs. Lillian Handian Lemp. < Mrs. Lemp brought suit for di- < % vorce five years ago and was <+ awarded alimony of $6,000 a < % year. * < k3 LR R R R R R R KK ) ___HARRY ORCHARD. — Idaho Murderer Announces He Will Ask for a Pardon. ORCHARD WILL ASK PARDON Confessed Murderer Publishes the Required Notice. Boise, Ida., Sept. 8—Harry Orch- ard, self-cenfesced assas of former Governor Frank Steunenberg and at one time sentenced to be hanged, has published the required notice in a Caldwell paper that he will apply to the board of pardons at the October meeting for a full and absolute par- don. A church of Waukesha, Wis., is at the head of the movement for par- don. CAMINETTI FOUND GUILTY Convicted on One Count of Violating Mann Act. San Francisco, Sept. 8.—Farley Drew Cawinetti, son of the commis- sloner general of immigration, was found guilty on one count of the in- dictment charging him with violation of the Mann white slave traffic act. The jury was-out three hours and took eight ballots. From the first the vote stood ten to two for conviction and finally the two recalcitrants agreed to compromise by finding a verdict of guilty on one of the four counts charged. Bail in the sum of $10,000 was an: nounced by. Frank Freeman of Wil lows, Cal, and G. Bacigalipi of San Francisco and was ready to be filed with the United States marshal when the verdict was announced. Sentence will be pronounced ‘Wed- nesday, Sept. 10, the day set for sen- tencing Maury I. Diggs, jointly in- dicted with Caminetti and convicted on four counts. AUCTION SALE AFFECTS RICH Hetty Green and Others Lose Prop- erty at Tax Sale. New York, Sept. 8.—The city has begun an auction sale of the prop- erty of New York millionaires, churches, clubs and corporations, up- on which axes are in arrears. Six million dollars jn such liens repre- sents the aggregate. The owners may redeem the property within three years by paying certain penalties. Among the property to be sold is real estate belonging to the Duchess de Talleyrand, formerly Anna Gould. ¥etty Green, Big Tim Sullijvan, How- ard Gould, H. G. Phipps and Victor Herbert. i SR e WILSON FROWNS ~ ON WAR TALK Certain Alleged Remarks Displease President—Sends Caustio Telegrams, MUST REFRAIN FROM DISCUSSION Advises Secretary Garrison and Major General Wood to Return to Washington, ‘Washington, Sept. 8—The president is displeased with the war talk in which the secretary of war and the chief of staff indulged on their trans- continental inspection trip just ended. The ‘remarks attributed to Secre- tary Garrison and Major General Wood are to the effect that special legisla: tion is necessary to improve the mill- tary establishment; that there is need of a reserve force of voluatary army of 500,000 or 600,000 men; that the enlistment period in the army should be reduced from four years to one year; that the army is sadly lacking in a reserve supply of war material; that there is a defective organization which makes it impossible for this country adequately 'to confront an enemy; and there is general inefficie: oy throughout the military establisl ment in the matter of preparedness for war. These allusions to a situation which Representative Hay, chairman of the house military committee, has taken occasion publicly to contradict, led the president to telegraph Secretary Garrison that the remarks attributed to himself and General Wood consti- tuted an embarrassment to the ad- ministration. The advices from the White House went so far as to suggest to the sec- retary -of war and the chief of staff that if they found it impossible to re- frain from war talk, or anything which might be construed as alarming Sentiments, they had better return to ‘Washington. ESCAPED CONVICTS CAUGHT Capital Letter “P” on Their Backs Betrays Them. San Francisco, Sept. 8.—Three mili- tary prisoners from the federal prison on Alcatraz island who leaped over a high embankment which partly sur- rounds the Fort Mason military reser- vation and sought to escape under a fire of shots directed at them by guards were captured after two, Har- ry Hichester asd Earl Wheeler, had been wounded. One of the three dropped when the firing began. The others succeeded in getting out . of range, but were be: trayed into the hands of their:pursu- ers by the capital letter “P” which government prisoners at Alcatraz ‘wear on their backs. They were.trail- ed to a vacant house and captured. Neither of the wounded men is. hurt seriously. N KKK KKK KKK RS * ADDITIONAL LOCALS * IR R R E R RS SRR R RE] Mrs. L. Curo, mother of Mrs. B. 0. Todd, was taken ill at the B. 0. Todd residence today. Medical aid was called and she was resting well this afternoon. A. A. Richardson started this noon on his regular annual trip photo- graphing North Dakota threshing scenes. He went by auto, accompan- ied part way by Mrs. Richardson, who will return by train. George A. Hayes, farmer and ‘school teacher of Wynne, and F. V. Gardner, president of the Pleasant Valley Farmers club, will meet him at Petersburg, North Dakota. After photographing a few weeks in the vicinity of Petersburg, they will work further west until the close of the threshing season in the late fall. “MERRIE MAIDS” GIVE DANCE Harvest “Hop”. Will Be Given Next| Friday Night. Next Friday evening the “Merrie Maids” a club formed by the young ladies of the city will give'a dance in the City hall. The decorations of the hall will be carried out in harvest. col- ors and the event promises-to be one of the most enjoyable social dances of the season. Unique invitations have been issued. The club has appointed the following committees to take charge of the final arrangéments: Music committee, Dora Barrette, Ger- trude Malone and Lucy LaFontisee; refreshment committee, Anna and Mary Jackson; decoration committee, Pauline Markham, Irene Logan and Martha Wittek. NOTICE. 3 Notice is hereby given that all shooting or trespassing in any way on all property owned or controlled by the undersigned is prohibited and any one .caught on our land. with guns will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. ¢ (Signed) . A. P. RITCHIE, - F. M. PENDERGAST, GEOQ. W. THOMPSON, S. W. SCOTT, PETER LARSON, I. M. FOSTER, C. F. SCHROEDER, C. W. LEVILLE, L. COYLE, W. G. SCHROEDER, JESSE ‘M. PENDERGAST, J. H. FRENCH. : . i HELP WARTED. ‘WANTED-—Woman or girl for-house- Work on‘farm; = Good wages.: : Ad- “drees ¥, G. Ris;- Star 'Route,’ Be- midjt; - FARen s WANTED—Girl for general :house-. rork. ©703' Bemidjl avenue, —_——— WANTED—Competent girl ‘for gen- eral “housework, . Mrs. Wm. Me- Cuaig, 903 Bemidji avenue, Phone 10. i % i) i WANTED—Harness maker. . Good ‘month’s steady work. -Apply John Moberg, 1002/Beltr&ml avenue. e et e ey ik i (6 WANTED—Good seamstresses . call |. at the Berman Emporium.- WANTED—Dishwasher at the Hotel Markham, at once. VVA‘NTED—Gompetent girl for gen- eral housework. 411 Minnesota avenue, FOE SALE 'FARMS FOR SALE. FOR SALE—By owner, 200 acres of land near Turtle River ' Station. Low price and easy terms for quick sale. For description and price, _'write to T. S. Hesslon, 205 N. Adams St., Peoria, Ill. & FOR SALE—80 acres’ Tamarack. “Will sell land or stumpage; about - one mile from side track. Address “1-A" Pioneer, Bemidji, Minn. FOR SALE—160 acre farm clay land heavy clay sub-soil, 46 acres un- - der cultivation, balance small timber, easy to clear. = Price, per acre, $156.00. Seven miles from ra’lroad station. Address, “2-B” Pioneer office, Bemidji, Minn. FOR SALE—160 acre farm; 5 acres under. cultivation. . Heavy clay land, easy to clear, seevn miles from station. Price, $12.00 per acre. Address G. E. Carson, Be- “|- miaji, Minn, - FOR SALE—One six room cottage, partly modern, snap at $2,000. Ad- dress C. W., care Ploneer. FOR SALE—Good school rig for transporting pupils to- and from school. Ten feet long. Will sell for ten dollars. Address Paul Utech, Turtle River, Minn. FOR SALE—Genuine leather gun case, Costs new $6.00. Will sell for $3.00. Apply E. H. Denu, care of Pioneer office. FOR SALE—Span driving mares, 4 and § years old, weight 700 lbs each. Will sell for cash or trade for heavier horse. Also pair epring | colts and one yearling colt. or address C. F. Rogers, Minn, FOR SALE OR TRADE—40 H. P, Four passenger car. - Elegant con- dition, Address B. L. this office. Call on ‘Wilton, 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 raflroad 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, Bemidii, Minn. FOR SALE—No. 21—260 acres. 40 acres under cultivation, 25 acres meadow. 65 acres fenced for pas- ture. 9 room frame house with basement. Large hip roof barn with hay fork. Granary. Store building. $1000 stock of mer- chandise. 1 team of horses, 6 cows. Complete line of farm machinery. Price $8,000.00. Address H. E. Reynolds, Bemidji, Minn. FOR SALE—“A Snap” if taken at once. Unusual large lot with good seven-room house and barn. Fine well and considerable shrubbery on the place. See BISIAR & ENG- LAND, Real Estate and Insurance, 117 Third street. FOR,_SALE—A 16-horse Joy Wilson gasoline engine on trucks that has been run three seasons, threshing by Mr. Carl Vestre, of Guthrie, Minn., the engine being in first class shape and can be seen at my -store in Cass Lake and if taken at once I will sell it at $200.00 cash. H. Mullen, Cass, Lake, Minn. FOR SALE—Residence Lot 10 block 3 second addition to Bemidji Price $1700. aEsy terms. For further in- formation write Bagley Bldg & Loan Assn. Bagley, Minn. FOR SALE—Rubber stamps. The Pioneer win procure any kind of rubber stamp for you on short no- tice. FOR SALE—One two-horse power motor—new—Apply at Ploneer of- fice. “Ploneer Want Ads” They bring buyer and seller together. One-half cent a word. & Phone 3 FOR SALE—150 acres good heavy clay soil on a nice lake with lots of fish in, seven miles from Ten- strike on the M. & I railroad, and four miles from Puposky on the Red Lake railroad. This is an ex- ceptionally good piece of land fairly level and mostly hard land with some low that will make good natural meadow, when cleared. - About 1000 cords nice ‘Birch- tim- ber and about 150 thousand feet of saw log timber. Small clearing on the Lake shore where there has been some buildings which have been removed. Price §$15.00 per acre. One-fourth down and bal- ance time will be given at 6% In- terest made payable in equal an- nual payments. V. W. Owen, Hines, Minn, FOR SALE—75 and 30-100 acres on famous twin lakes, one of the best locations in Minnesota for a.sum- mer home or resort, having lake front anid nice high banks with fine grove of Norway pines near the water. Good level clay land about 100,000 feet of good pine -~ timber and 100,000 feet of hard wood timber on the land. Only six ‘miles from Hines and Tenstrike and on good wagon road. Fine -fishing in these lakes. Price, if taken with the timber - on; $1,- 600.00. $600.00 down and if taken with timber reserved, $1,- 200.00. $400 down and balance on time at 6% interest. Address V. M. Owen, Hines, Minn. BEVENTH MINNESOTA REGIMENTAL MONUMENT, CHICKAMAUGA SRS PARK, CHATTANOOGA, TENN. ) . Office, Home md Factory Phone 31 WANTED. WANTED—G600 track I.ayera and sur- facers wanted by the Minnesota, Dakota and Western Rallway at Littlefork and International Falls. $2.25 per day for track layers and $2.00 per day for surfacing. The International Lumber Company wants piece-makers for cedar, tie and pulpwood, also general woods- men at International Falls, Minne- sota.” % WANTED TO BUY—Good second- hand bicycle for boy of 12 years. Coaster brake preferred. Address P. D. E,, Ploneer. WANTED—Good general girl for boarding house work. Will pay $20.00 per month. Address, Board- ing House, care Pioneer. ‘WANTED—Good place to work for board and go to school. Address, A. K,, care Pioneer. ‘WANTED—To rent at once or by Oct. 1st nice little house or cot- tage, modern or part so preferred. Address Box 446. LOST AND FOUND STRAYED—Bul], color, red, white face, come to my place. The own- er can have same by paying charges. Call at Frank Gagnon’s farm. MISCELLANEOUS BEMIDJT BUSINESS COLLEGE be- gins its fall term October 6th. #OR SALKM—Typewriter ribbons for every make of typewriter on the market at 50 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. FPhone 3. The Bemidji Pioneer Office Supply Store. ADVERTISERS—-The great state of North Dakota offers unlimited op portunities for business to classi- fled advertisers. The recognizeo advertising medium in the Fargc Daily and Sunday Courler-News the only seven-day paper in th¢ state and the paper which carrier the largest amount of classifiec advertising. The Courier-News covers North Dakota like a blank et; reaching all parts of the stat the day of publication; it is th: paper to use in order to get re sults; rates cne cent per word firs insertion, one-half cent per woré succeeding insertions; fifty cent: Der line per month. Address ths Courier-News, Fargo, N. D. BOUGHT AND SOLD—Second hanc forniture. 0dd Fellow’s bullding across from postoffice, phone 129 NEW PUBLIC LIBRARY Open’ dafiy, except Sunday, 1 to 6 p ., T to 9 Sunday, reading rooms $to6 p m only, li?The Markets | Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Sept. 6.—Wheat—On track and to arrive, No. 1 hard, 88¢; No. 1 Northern, 893c; No. 2 Northern, 87% @87%¢c; Sept., 877%c; Dec., 89%c; May, 94%c. Flax—On track and to arrive, $1.48%; Sept, $1.47%; Oct, $1.473%; Dec., $1.45%. South St. Paul Live Stock. South St. Paul, Sept. 6.—Cattle— Steers, $6.50@8.00; cows and heifers, $4.50@7.25; calves, $6.00@10.75; feed- ers, $4.30@7.50. Hogs—$7.00@8.25. Sheep—Shorn lambs, $5.00@7.00; shorn wethers, $4.00@4.78; shorn ewes, $2.50@3.75. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Sept. 6.—Wheat—Sept., 88%c; Dec., 92c; May, 96%c. Corn— Sept., 70%c; Dec, 73c; May, T4%c. ‘| Oats—Sept., 42%

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