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1 THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER rPMJBHBP MVaST ITBRNOONi OFFICIAL PAPER-CITY OF BEMIDJI BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. CLYDB J. PRYOR Business Manager A. Q. RUTLBDOB Managing: Editor Entered In the postotBce at Bemldji. Minn., aa second claas matter. SUBSCRIPTI0N-S5.00 PER ANNUM Half the mean things a man says are really meant for himself. We give a man a medal for bravery than poke fun at him for wearing it. As soon as one woman breaks a man's heart another woman comes along with some glue. It is getting so you can't tell whether it is a candidate or an actor that does the heroic things nowa days. A German religious sect is divided against itself on the matter of the male churchmen,** whiskers. This is hair-splitting. The trouble in China seems to be that the dowager empress has awak ened to a realization that her crown is not on straight. An Oyster Bay correspondent says the President is burning the mid night oil on coming addresses. But this is small consolation to the Standard Oil Company. MAY RESUME BUSINESS. Affairs of Watson & Co. Not as Bad as First Supposed. Minneapolis, Sept /.Developments In the case of Watson & Co, the big Minneapolis-New York grain commis sion and Stock Exchange house that was declared In financial difficulties on Thursday, are so increasingly fa vorable as to make it seem almost eertain that there soon will be a re sumption of business No statement of the exact standing of the firm is jet possible, but the Bhowlng of assets of nearly $1,000,000 available in the New York office made the situation better and as conditions are brought out more in detail it ap pears that the firm is much stronger than was supposed when the an nouncement of the receivership was made. The statement that all claims will be paid in full and that no one hav ing money due from the firm will lose a dollar seems warranted. The offices of the firm, though not accepting business, are open and all connections have been maintained and In the event of the perfection of the necessary arrangements, which now seems almost assured, business can be resumed very promptly. H. P. .Watson said: "The reports about the connection of Mr. Hill with our firm are wholly unwarranted. Neither Mr. James J. Hill or Mr. Louis W. Hill ever had any connection whatever with Watson & Co. Neither of them ever did any business with us We never had a transaction for either of them at any time since we have been in business WIRE STRIKE NEAR END. Rumors to That Effect Are Again in Circulation. Chicago, Sept i.Well defined re ports that the settlement of the teleg raphers' strike is near at hand are persistent among the striking oper ators. Word has been received in Chicago from W. W. Beattie, International vice president of the Telegraphers' union in New York, that there Is every rea son to hope for an early ending of the struggle. Rumors of an early settlement are also based on the fact that Labor Commissioner Neill is in New York in conference with President Small of the Commercial Telegraphers' union and President H. B. Perham of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers with a view of bringing about a settlement of troubles between the companies and the key men. During the conference Commissioner Neill and President Small had a long talk over the long distance telephone with President Gompers of the Amer ican Federation of Labor at Washing ton. USED COMPANY'S FUNDS. Missing Head ofChioago Concern Said to Be Short $315,000. Chioago, Sept. ).The appointment of a receiver for the properties of the Beldlng-Hall Manufacturing company followed closely upon the heels of the discovery by the creditors of the con cern that Its missing president, Jesse JBdson Hall, had appropriated to his own uae at least $315,000 of the cor poration's funds. As far as oan be discovered every dollar of this money went into mining Btoek which was backed up with no tangible property, theatrical ventures iwhioh made no money and other se curities which the creditors are will ing to Bell In a lump for something lets than $6,000. Indications are that Hall will not voluntarily return from Canada and that orimlnal prosecution will be In stituted to bring him back to this country by the First National bank, which holds notes of the company ag gregating $100,000. Aged Wisconsin Pioneer Dead. Kenosha, Wis., Sept. i.James C. Dow of Pleasant Prairie, Kenosha county, who came to Wisconsin in 1837 and who for half a century was prominent in political affairs, Is dead, aged ninety-two years. He leaves a Itfg* tUtfttf. L^y*l i 'rfrttMl* DOZEN PERSONS DUD As Many Others Seriously Hurt in Iowa Railroad Disaster. THREE CARS TELESCOPED All Those Killed and Also Those In- jured Were Occupants of Smoker, Which Was Completely Demolished by the Collision. Waterloo, la, Sept. '.Rock Island passenger ttain No. 31, northbound, wa wiocked at Norris Siding, near Cediv Falls The trucks of the tender Jumped the tiack at a curve while the tr^c was going under high speed. The passenger clashed into a freight on the siding, telescoping the mail, baggage and smoking cais. Twelve peisons were killed in the smoker, which was 1 educed to kind ling Many were injuied, all of them being in the smoker None was seri ously injuied in the day coach. The dead are. B. R. CHRISTY, Minneapolis. P. CLOVER, Waterloo, la. WILL GOODMAN, Waterloo, la. JOHN N. WATSON, Waterloo, la. C. L. LANDPHER, Shell Rock, la. W. RALPH JOHNSON, Dicke, la. LEPOVAN TOJO, Hammond, Ind. W. H. MEYERS, baggageman, Bur lington, la. LABORER, name unknown, Ham mond, Ind. THREE UNIDENTIFIED MEN. All of the dead and injured were in the smoking car, which was immedi ately behind the baggage and mail cais. Smoking CarDemolished. The smoking car was completely demolished, there being not one piece of wood left large enough to make a top foi an ordinary kitchen table. The dead and injured were strewn about the wieckage. The northbound express was ten minutes late at Norris Siding, which is a small station three miles north of Cedar Falls, la, and there a south bonnd fi eight train was awaiting the express, which came thundering along at a terrific speed in an effort to make up time. Just as the engine of the express was about to pass the freight engine the trucks of the express jumped the track and the engine crashed with temfic force Into the engine of the freight, wrecking both engines and telescoping the baggage and mail cars and demolishing the smoking car, in which a number of men were riding. it was among the occupants of this car that the only injuries and fatali ties occurred. The passengers of the two day coaches that followed the smoker es caped with only a violent shaking up. Rescuers were immediately at hand to care for the injured and to take the dead from among the wreckage. There was great excitement and the scene was one to make the stoutest hearted man shudder. PREDICTS GREAT FIRE. New York Insurance Man Sees Danger in Skyscrapers. New York, Sept. ).Opposition to the building of skyscrapers was voiced vigorously at a public hearing before the commission on limitation of height and area of buildings. George W. Babb, president of the New Yoik board of fire underwriters, said his board was expecting a fire of unprecedented size at any time in the high buildings He said it was the belief of the fire underwriters that if a fire started on the upper floors of some of the highest buildings it could not be checked, as the water pressure is insufficient, and he feared it would spread to many other high buildings, entailing an enormous loss. His board, he said, advocated limiting buildings entirely for office purposes to 125 feet Calvin Tomkins, president of the Municipal Art society, was also in favor of limitations He said he be lieved the time was coming when sky scrapers will be demolished to make room for buildings built by the block. He said the courts do not take proper cognizance of the easement of light and air. PROGRESS OF THE PLAGUE San Francisco People Believe Dr. Blue Will Quickly Stop It. San Francisco, Sept. )The board of health has recommended to the board of supervisors that the city and county hospital, v/hich has sheltered a number of plague cases, be burned. The city and county hospital is a col lection of frame buildings and it has long been planned to demolish It. The announcement that the marine hospital service is to take charge of the plague situation is regarded here as an assurance that the progress of the disease will be stopped in short order. Dr. Rupert Blue, who has been assigned by Surgeon General Wyman to direct the camapalgn, had charge during the former appearance of the plague and has the confidence of the entire community. MRS. CARTER NOT GUILTY. Jury Acquits Woman Accused of Re ceiving Stolen Money. New York, Sept. .Mrs. Laura M. Carter, who has been on trial for a week on a charge of receiving stolen money, has been acquitted by the jury In the case. She was accused of having received from Chester B. Runyan, the defaulting teller of the Windsor Trust company, $5,000 of the $82,000 he stole from the bank. One of the jurors said that the jury agreed that the tes timony of Runyan, who was the prin cipal witness against Mrs. Carter, be Ignored on the ground that he was a self-confessed thief. Mrs. Carter ad mitted getting $5,000 from Runyan, but said that as soon as she knew It had been stolen she returned it to him and then betrayed him to the po lice. She denied .that she .demanded iiS^jfta ki?i or received an "additional $10,000, "as Runyan testified. CHICAGO TRACTION CASE. Federal Court of Appeals Reverses Former Decision. Chicago, Sept. The United States court of appeals has reversed and remanded the Union Traction case, involving the unification of the street railway companies of the city. This places the propeities again In the hands of the original receivers nd renders of no avail all the work that has been done for several years toward Improving the street car facili ties on the West and North Sides of the city. Cuban Census Begins Sept. 30.' Havana, Sept t.Governor Magoon has issued a decree that the taking of the Cuban census shall begin Sept. SO and end Nov. 14. This census is a preliminary to the holding of the elec tions. MEANS CONTROL OF TRADE John Barrett Favors Deep Waterway From Lakes to Gulf. Chicago, Sept. 10."The great Mid dle West will control the trade of the entire west coast of South America when the Panama canal is completed, providing Jthe deep waterway from the lakes to the gulf is constructed. Other wise it will be Japan, Germany and England which will exercise commer cial sway over this vast empire to be opened up." This statement was made by John Barrett, director of the International Bureau of American Republics, who has been in Chicago for several days conferring with men interested in the deep waterways proposition. It is his contention that the federal govern ment should lend all the aid neces saiy for the construction of this ship canal to make the great advantages of the Panama canal available to the Mississippi valley. Mr. Barrett said: "It is not excessive to estimate the value of products which these repub lics will then be purchasing from for eign countries at $500,000,000. "The major portion of these supplies will come from America if the great manufacturing centers of the Middle West are provided with water trans portation It requires no stretch of Imagination to conceive boats or barges loaded in Chicago, Joliet or other points in this manufacturing district making the entire trip. Amer ica has been slow to improve its wa terways, much more so than any other of the great powers, and it is time we awoke to the advantages to be ob tained." GERMANY GAINS POINT. Secures Suppression of Articles to Which She Objected. The Hague, Sept. 10.All the art icles concerning the treatment of sub jects of neutral powers in the terri tory of belligerents, to which Germany objected at the plenary conference last Saturday, were suppressed by the committee on land warfare after a long and interesting discussion. The delegate of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, which, according to the treaty of London of 1867, is neutral territory, introduced a motion, which was unanimously adopted, that the powers urge their subjects when they are in the territory of belligerents to respect the laws regarding the ob servance of neutrality. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. The long drouth in Oklahoma and Indian Territory has been broken by a hea\y tain. The rain was general. At Eldorado, Kan., masked men bound and gagged the Missouri Pacific railway agent, robbed the safe of $1,300 and escaped. The Erie Railroad company has re ceived an all steel passenger coach, which is on exhibition at the Jersej City terminal. The car is practically non-wreckable and will not burn. The great council of the United States, Improved Order of Red Men, convened Monday at Norfolk, Va., in sixtieth annual session with upwards of 350 delegates and several thousand visitors. The bishop of Chichester, Right Rev. Ernest Rolland Wilberforce, D. D., is dead at Bembridge, Isle of Wight. He was born in 1840 and was a son of the late Right Rev. Samuel Wilberforce, bishop of Winchester. MARKET QUOTATIONS. St. Paul Union Stock Yards. St, Paul, Sept. 9.CattleGood to choice steers, $5.50@6.25 fair to good, $4.00@5 00 good to choice cows and heifers, $3 50@5.00 veals, $4.00@5.50. Hogs$5.25@6.05. SheepWethers, $5.00@5.25 good to choice lambs, $6.00@6.75. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Sept. 9. Wheat Sept., $1.04 Dec, $1.05% May, $1.-youngest 09%. On trackNo. 1 hard, old, $1.09 new, $1.08 No. 1 Northern, old, $1.08 new, $1.07 No. 2 Northern, old, $1.05 @1.05% new, $1.0401.04% No. 3 Northern, $1.01@1.04 Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Sept. 9.WheatTo arrive and on trackNo. 1 hard, $1.09% No. 1 Northern, $1.08% No. 2 North ern, $1.06% Sept., $1.07% Dec, $1.- 0C% May, $1.11. FlaxTo arrive, on track and Sept., $1.26 Oct., $1.21% Nov., $1.21% Dec, $1.18%. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Sept 9.WheatSept., 95c Dec, 99%c. CornSept., 62%c Dec, 60%@60%c. OatsSept., 53%c Dec, 51%c. PorkOct., $15.65 Jan.,Immediately $15.85. ButterCreameries, 21@27c dairies, 20@25c. Eggs14% 17%c. Poultry Turkeys, 12c chickens, ll%c springs, 13c Chicago Union 8tock Yards. Chicago, Sept. 9.CattleBeeves, $4.00@7.15 cows and heifers, $1.25 5.20 Texans, $3.50@5.00 Westerns, $4.006.00 stockers and feeders, $2.605.00 calves, $5.508.00. Hogs Light, $6.156.52% mixed and butchers, $5.856.50 heavy, $5.50 6.20 rough, $5.505.70 pigs, $5.50 6.40. Sheep, $3.255.75 lambs, $5.00 $7.6$. HEW TRIAL GRATED William F. Bechtel of Minnear olis May Go Free. WITNESSES ARE SCATTERED Verdict Invalidated by the Alleged Misconduct of a Deputy Sheriff In Charge of the Jury at the Time of the Trial. Minneapolis, Sept. 10.William F. Bechtel, former president of the North western National Life Insurance com pany, who was sentenced on June 28 to serve five years in prison at hard labor after he had been convicted of grand larceny from the Northwestern National Life Insurance company of Minneapolis, has been granted anew trial by Judge Dickinson. Because it is unlikely that the coun ty attorney's office will be able to ob tain some of the most important wit nesses who figured in the prosecution of the first case it is extremely doubt ful if Mr. Bechtel will ever be placed on trial again. In granting the new trial Judge Dickinson held that the verdict of the first trial was entirely invalidated by the fact that Deputy Sheriff Robert Hillier, who was in charge of the jury, made remarks in the hearing of the jurymen, which he holds to have been prejudicial and calculated to influence the verdict. In the motion for a new trial affi davits by jurors have been introduced showing that the deputy sheriff talked before the jury in a way likely to in fluence the verdict. WOMEN SMUGGLERS CAUGHT Had Jewelry and Lace Concealed on Their Persons. New York, Sept. 10.Customs in spectors made a large seizure upon the arrival of the French line steamer La Gascogne when two young women, whose names appear on the passenger list as Misses Agnes and Catherine Banett of French Lick Springs, Ind., were searched and were each found to be wearing an opera coat of fine Irish point lace, both of which were undeclared. Thirty pieces of jewelry were found concealed around the waist of one of the young women. Both women broke down and sobbed after examination and protested their Innocence. The jewelry and lace were seized by the officials, but the young women were allowed to go. SOLDIERS ARE DISPERSED Plan Attack on Kansas Jail to Re lease Comrade. Junction City, Kan, Sept. 10.A mob of nearly fifty soldiers of the farriers' school at Fort Riley came bore for the purpose of releasing a comrade who was confined in the county jail. Tho sheiiff and city police force were notified of their coming and from positions in windows above the jail opened fire and quickly dispersed the mob as it sought to force an en trance. The authorities at Fort Riley have placed guards at the jail and are aid ing in the effort to find the members of the mob. Two arrests have been made. DISCRIMINATION MUST STOP Nebraska Officials Get After Great Northern Branch. Lincoln, Neb, Sept. 10.The Will mar and Sioux Falls railway, a part of the Great Northern system, has been directed by the railway commis sion to cease discrimination against Omaha in grain shipments. The Omaha Grain Exchange company complained that the railroad refused to furnish cars for shipment to South Omaha or Omaha, holding the cars for shipments to Sioux City and Min neapolis. The commission ordered the railway officials to furnish cars in the order requesed by patrons Irre spective of destination. FATAL T0DIPHTHERIA GERMS New Antitoxin Wipes Out Disease in Three Minutes. Columbus, O., Sept. 10.Announce- ment of the discovery of an antitoxin that will kill diphtheria germs in the living human organism within the short space of three minutes has been tnade at the Ohio state university by Professor Blylie, physiological chem ist, as the result of an exhaustive technical and intricate series of tests. The antitoxin was given tests in hos pitals and private practice before an nouncement of its discovery was made. It is applied by Infusion and can be applied in any quantity to the patient. Many Fires Due to Carelessness. New York, Sept. 10.A yearly chart has just been completed covering 6,- 357 fires in Manhattan and the Bronx and calling attention to some interest ing facts. It is estimated that fires started by carelessly dropped matches and cigarettes cause New York city a loss of about $2,500,000 each year. Bursting Flywheel Causes Panic. Chicago, Sept. 10.Guests of the Lakota hotel were thrown into a panic and fled from the hotel diningroom when a flywheel in the engineroom shot from its position and crashed Into 1,000 pieces, many of which tore through the floor of the diningroom above. Peaches In South Dakota. Sioux Falls, S. D., Sept. 10.D. M. Dickerson, a fruit grower of Union county, has demonstrated that the southern portion of South Dakota Is adapted to peach raising. Mr. Dicker son has an orchard of 250 peach trees and has grown peaches on a moderate scale for about twenty years. Many of his trees are bearing this year and the fruit is fine in size and quality. /lJf Arctic Explorers Safe. London, SeptS.The Evening News announces that a telesrajn bas is pure making ki*ot bpen received in London from Gibben, Alaska, saying that Captain Mikkel sen of the Arctic steamer Duchess of Bedford and his companions are safe, having traversed the ice to a place of safety after the wreck of the ship. In Interest of Fairbanks. Omaha, Sept. 9J P. Goodrich of Indianapolis, Republican national com mitteeman from Indiana, is making a tour of the Western states in the in terest of Fairbanks as a presidential candidate and is holding conferences with prominent Republicans in Iowa and Nebraska Protoplasm. All life on the earth appears only In connection with one substancea wa tery jellyclosely related chemically to egg albumenand this substance Is known as protoplasm. Every living thing Is built of this one substance jellyfish, trees, whales, menevery thing that lives. Biologists have suc ceeded in doing some wonderful things. Five or six starfish eggs have been fused into one, from which a monster starfish has been produced. Other starfish eggs have been separated into eight pieces, from which eight dwarf starfish have been brought forth. Crabs can be made to order, with the large claw on either the right or the left side, and flatfish have been pro duced with the color pattern on the underside.New York American. TO GET PURE BLOOD To get pure blood only the purest air should be breathed, the purest water drunk, and purest food eaten. DR. PRICE'S WHEAT FLAKE CELERY FOOD and cleanly. It is composed of wheat and celeiy, and in its not a human hand touches it The whole of the wheat but the outer husk is retained, so that it contains all the elements necessary to make pure blood. If you wish to keep in a healthy condition eat Dr. Price's Food with regularity every day. You will never tire of it There is not another food that can compare with it in palatableness, clean liness and nourishment 304 Owl Drug Store, Bemidji, Minn i Modest Contributors. A man was coming up from Chun chen province with a sum of money which had been subscribed for the pay ment of the public debt He was met by robbers, who took the money and started away. He called after them that the money was a subscription to the fund for the raising of the debt, whereupon they came back and handed him the money and begged his pardon for their mistake, and they -gave him 10 yen extra as a contribution on their own part. He asked their names to publish in the papers, but they said they did not want to obtain notoriety in that way and declined, but said they were glad to pay something toward helping the country.Korean News. Why Shells Fly Straight. Many people wonder why the cone shaped prolectiles in their flight through the air do not wabble, but drive straight ahead. This Is easily explained. Round the bottom of the shell Is a narrow band of copper which varies in width according to the size of the projectile. Being made of soft metal, this band is cut by the steel rifling of the gun on the shock of ex plosion. This action causes the shell to revolve with lightning rapidity, with the result that it keeps steady during its flight through the air. London Mail. Daily Pioneer For News That the Pioneer Gets and Prints the News Is Appre- ciated Outside of Bemidji. Read what the Akeley Tribune, published at Akeley, (Lays: The Bemidji Daily Pioneer Started the week in a brand new dress of type. The-Pioneer is giving excellent news services. The increased advertising pat ronage and circulation is evi dence that the paper is appre ciated by the public. 40 Cents per Month Pays for the Daily f, *v 20 years experience i*- a a SPECIALIST DR. REA Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat Diseases of Men Diseases of Women: Nervous Dis eases Chronic Diseases. Coming to Bemidji Thursday, Sept. 12 at Markham Hotel 9 a, m. to 3:30 p. m. One Day Only! Dr. Rea has made more re markable cures in the Nor thwestern states than any living man. All curable medical and su pical diseases acute and chronic catarrh, and Special Dis eases of the Eye. Ear, Nose and Throat, Lung Disease, Early Consumption. Bronchitis. Bron chial Catarrh. Constitutional Catarrh. Dys pepsia, Sick Headache, Stomach and Bowel Troubles. Rheumatism. Neuralgia, Sciatica. Brigrht's Disease. Diabetes. Kidney. Liver. Bladder. Prostatic and Female Diseases. Diz ziness. Nervousness. Indigestion. Obesity. In terrupted Nutrition. Slow groth in children, and all wasting disease in adults. Many cases of deafness, ringing in the ears, loss of eyesight, cataract, cross eyes, etc that have been improperly treated or neglected, can be easily restored. Deformities, club feet, cur veratureof the spine, disease of the brain, paralysis, epilepsy, heart disease, dropsy, swelling of the limbs stricture, open sores, pain in the bone, granular enlargements and all long-standing diseases properly treated. Young, middle aged and old. single or mar ried men and all who suffer from lost man hood, nervous debility, spermatorrhoea, sem inal losses, sexual decay, failing memory, weak eyes, stunted development, lack of energy, impoverished blood, pimples, impedi ments to marriage also blood and skin dis ease. Syphilis, eruptions, bair falling, bone pains, swellings, sore throat, ulcers, effects of mercury, kidnej and bladder troubles, weak back, burning urine, passing urine toaoften. jrsnorrhoea, gleet, stricture, receiving treat ment prompt relief for life. Cancers, Tumors, Goiter, Fistula, Piles varicocele and enlarged glands, with the sub cutaneaus injection method, absolutely with out pain and without tho loss of a drop of blood, is one of his own discoveries, and Is the most really scientific and certainly sure cure of the twentieth century. Consultation to those interested, Si 00. DB REA & CO Minneapolis, Minn. Louisville. Ky. s '&i