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Vt^f-V S*"tf-TSf^gl fc" PUBI.ISHKD HVISHV ATTIIINOON, OFFICIAL PAPER-CITY OF BEMIDJI BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. CI. YOB J. PKVUW bunlncaa Mtmttger A. U. KtlTLBDOB Vntreil In the ioHUtfti't at Htnntdjl Minn &t sti't)ni rlasts manor SUBSCRIPTI0N-S5.00 PER ANNUM 1HE HIIWORISTIN POLITICS. The daily piints inform us th.\t Mark Twain has lost a manner of thirty or forty dollars through failure of a health food company in which he had invested. Mr. Twain is representee as airily waving his hand and refusing to discuss the rumor to any extent, simply saying in an absent minded way that he believes he did drop a few bushels of money in the transaction. Then, lightiug another cigar, he tills up his fountain pen and resumes work on some more humor. That is what we want in the com mercial world. More Maik Twains would help a lot.Let the humorists of this country bring out the fabulous sums they are hoarding and throw them into the breach, if there be one. Some eminent financiers say there is no breach, others assure us there is a hole big enough to drive a cow through. The trouble is that when the ordinary nonhumorous man puts his money in anything and loses it he emits a yelp that can be heard for ten miles on a noisy afternoon. He has receivers appointed, and gets referees and juries and courts and administrators and things and upsets the equilibrium of affairs. A humorist simply smiles that there is plenty' more where that came from and turns out another batch of stuff. Would Tom Lawson have acted as Twain has? Lawson is some times called a humorist at least a jokebut two days after he had s'ung for that much money he would have had 500,000 magazines on the news stands clamoring for the blood of the bee that stung him. Let the humorist of this country dig up. If Secretary Cortelyon could realize that a brigade of hum ox ists in good working order can make an issue of canal bonds look like a petition to send a blind man home to his friends he would give them desks on the sunny side of the treasury building. Says Judge Ives, in his Cass Lake Times: 1908 is a Leap year and it is high time for all eligible girls to screw up their courage and fortifiy themselves for the greatest'event of their lives. It is not generally known but it is a fact nevertheless that girls during leap year have an advantage that the other sex does not possess in other years that if a girl finds a fellow who suits her she makes the courageous pro posal the fellow must submit or be called a poltroon by his pals. So you should be careful in selecting and have some good reasons to believe that the one selected is your affinity. If you find the fellow backward and wary treat him with consideration, but don't let the year of grace run out before you have him securely "cinched." ACCEPT SLIGHT CUTS. Some New York Striking Tenants Ig nore Leaders. New York, Dec. 31.Leaders of the East Side tenants who are agitating for a reduction of rents announced that landlords of two apartment houses have accepted reductions of $1 to $1.50 per month. In one case the rent had been $18 to $23 a month and in the other $16 to $19. The leaders opposed settlement on this basis and urged In sistence on a 20 per cent reduction, hut the tenants ignored them and paid their rent for January, securing also an agreement that rents will not be advanced for six months. Jacob Frank, one of the leaders of the striking tenants, said that an in vestigation shows that 75,000 workers are idle below Fourteenth street. Of this number 40,000 are said to be cloakmakers and the others cap andgovernor shirtmakers, paperhangers, painters, carpenters and bricklayers. COME CREEPING INTO PORT Fleet of Transatlantic Liners Delayed by Storms at Sea. New York, Dec. 31.A fleet of seven transatlantic steamshipsthe Cam pania, Cedric, St. Louis, Pannonia, Pretoria, Caronia and Minneapolis came creeping into port bearing scars of battering seas, which held the lin ers back and delayed them a day in their trip across the Atlantic. On Christmas day the storm was so heavy that only a dozen of the cabin passengers of the St. Louis went to the dining room for dinner. None of the steamers were seriously damaged, though at one time the officers of the Pretoria used oil to calm the turbulent teas.,.__ &&&" ''j&l, ."**& "l&i^'Jii^^ld ELEASED By COURT Fifty Defendants in Alleged Coal Land Frauds in Colorado. KNOCKS OUT WORK OF JURY Same Judge Recently Dismissed In- dictments Charging Timber Frauds. Government Will Take Case to Court of Appeals. Denver, Dec. 31.Judge R. E. Lewis of the fedeial court has quashed all Indictments and sustained all the de murrers in coal land fraud cases there by releasing about fifty prominent de fendants from prosecution.* Among the defendants who escape prosecu tion are S. W. Keltel and. fourteen others of .St. Louis, comprising the Yampa Coal company Charles E. Hurr, Durango, Colo. Robert Forres ter. Salt Lake City Benjamin F. Free man, Durango, and George Coe Frank lin, Durango. Recently Judge Lewis quashed the Indictments for alleged timber frauds and his latest action brings to naught the work of the special rand jury called last May. The government attorneys gave no tice that they will take the cases to the United States court of appeals. LOCATED IN SAN FRANCISCO Eloping Rector and Young Heiress Now Have a Child. San Francisco, Dec. 31.The Call publishes an Interview with Rev. Jere Knode Cooke, formerly pastor of St. George's church at Hempstead, L. I., who, it is alleged, left his wife some eight months ago, eloping with a sev enteen-year-old heiress named Floretta Whaley. The couple have been lo cated, it is said, at a flat at 1199 Green street in this city, while a search has been going on for them all over the country. A child has been born to them during the interval. The rector worked as a painter and decorator and als/) did the hardest kind of manual labor for the support of himself, his companion and the child. He had, it is said, lived quietly in Los Angeles before coming here after he left the East. Inquiry at the flat occupied by Cooke and Miss Whaley revealed the fact that the couple had fled with their child. The couple seem to have been iden tified beyond all question as Rev.ment Cooke and Floretta Whaley, although they were living under the name of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Balcom. RESUMING USUAL TINT. Sunday in New York Not as "Blue" as Recent Ones. New York, Dec. 31.New York's Sundays are beginning to resume their usual tint after three more or less "blue" Sabbaths. Scores of propri etors of moving picture shows, who had gone to the trouble to secure in junctions against the police, conduct ed their places of business much as usual, except for the fact that barkers were removed from the sidewalk. All of the vaudeville theaters were open, although the bills presented had been considerably changed in order to bring them under a somewhat strained in terpretation of the ruling allowing "sacred or educational" entertain ments. There were great crowds at the concerts at the two opera houses and the up town cafes and restaurants were better patronized than on the previous two Sundays. HEAVY QUAKE REGISTERED Weather Bureau Instruments Record Disturbance. Washington, Dec. 31.A very heavy earthquake was recorded on the in struments at the coast and geodetic survey observatory at Cheltenham, Md. It commenced at 32 minutes 30 seconds past midnight and lasted two hours. The weather bureau' issued the following bulletin: "A distant earthquake of consider able intensity was recorded by the seismographs at the weather bureau, commencing at 12:23 a. m. and lasting for over one hour. The first prelim inary tremors continued for four min utes and fifty-five seconds and the strongest motion occurred at 12:45Hogs$4.40@4.60. a. m." WOULD EXCUSE OTHERS. Two Companies of Troops Sufficient for Goldfield. Goldfield, Nev., Dec. 31.Acting on the suggestion of prominent citizens here Captain Cox, who is representing Governor Sparks here, advised the that two full companies of federal troops would be ample for the situation and advised that he excuse the remainder now here from further service in Nevada. Temporary bar racks will be erected for those who remain. Engineer Ground to Pieces. St. Paul, Dec. 31.William Altier, locomotive^ engineer, was instantly killed by being pinned under his en gine following a collision in the yards of the Northern Pacific. His fireman, William Benton, was badly scalded and was removed to Luther hospital. Altier was taking his engine light through the yards when it was struck a glancing blow by another engine. Altier's locomotive was overturned and he was ground to pieces under It. -& y''L.*?* /'u- Vki ^t'k^gi?ilfS!^ 6logan to Be Used In a Great Evange listic Campaign. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 31.-"Kansas for Chrlsi" is to be the slogan in a ttate-wlde evangelistic campaign that Is to be pushed simultaneously in every county of the Sunflower state next year. Hundreds of ministers from various denominations together with numerous well known evangelists are to hold revivals. An entire year will be spent in the movement and an effort is to be made to demonstrate to the whole country what may be ac complished in concerted religious work carried forward on strictly busi ness lines. The great revival is to be under the direct leadership of Rev. William Edward Blederwolf, who planned it. The undertaking will be subject to the general supervision of a board of two ministers and two laymen from each denomination. This body, which has already been organized with fif teen denominations represented, has selected Edward E. Taylor of Phila delphia to act as secretary. WORK ON PANAMA CANAL. Some Idea of the Magnitude of the Task to Be Done. Washington, Dec. 31.The engi neers on the Panama canal are deal ing in vast figures these days and the Canal Record just received conveys in a graphic manner an idea of the mag nitude of the work to be done upon the locks of the canal. It is stated, for instance, that the amount of con crete to be used In building these locks would suffice to construct eight room city houses of the generous ilxe of thirty by thirty feet with two stories and basement and with con crete floors and with concrete roofs to the number of 22,842. Allowing each of the houses a 75-foot lot, they wouid make a continuous street from New York to Philadelphia, with enough houses left over to make a row on one side of the street from Philadelphia to Washington. The houses would fur nish suburban homes for 120,000 peo ple or, according to city standards, would house a population equal to that of the city of Minneapolis. LID FOR COLORADO. Gambling Houses in Denver Closed and Prize Fights Will Stop. Denver, Dec. 31.Gambling houses, which have been openly conducted in Denver for several years, were closed on orders from Mayor Speer following the publication of an open letter to all district attorneys calling upon them to enforce the laws and announcing that if they failed In their duty the attorney general would act In their stead. The midnight and Sunday saloon closing laws, it is announced, will also be enforced and prize fighting stopped in Colorado. Application for a Receiver. Trenton, N. J., Dec. 31.An applica tion for a receiver for the Passaic Steel company was made in the Unit ed States circuit court here and argu is being heard to show cause why the receiver should not be ap pointed. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. Dr. William E. Hamilton, aged nine ty-two, ex-mayor of Peoria, 111., is dead. Dr. Hinzpeter, Emperor William's first teacher, is dead at Bielefeld, Prussia. New Orleans experienced the driest Sunday in several years, due to rigid enforcement of the Sunday closing law. Arthur G. Stanwood, assistant treas urer of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad system, Is dead at Boston. The Douglass county (Neb.) district court has upheld the Omaha "blue laws" as being entirely constitutional and In future the Sunday closing law will be enforced strictly. More than 1,000 men were made happy at Pottsville, Pa., when work was resumed at the plant of the East ern Steel company here. The plant will run five days a week. The factories of the F. H. Hoyt company, manufacturers of shoes in East Manchester, N. H., which have been closed down for several weeks, have resumed operations. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Minneapolis Wheat. Minneapolis, Dec. 30.WheatMay, $1.11% July, $l.ll%@l.n%. On trackNo. 1 hard, $1.10%@1.10% No. 1 Northern, $1.08%1.08% No. 2 Northern, $1.06%@1.06% No. 3 North em, $1.08%1.03%. 8t. Paul Union Stock Yards. St. Paul, Dec. 30.CattleGood to choice steers, $5.00@5.75 fair to good, $3.25(^4.75 good to choice cows and heifers, $3.00@3.75 veals, $3.75@5.75. SheepWethers, $4.254.60 good to choice lambs, $6.00 6.35. Duluth Wheat and Flax. Duluth, Dec. 30.WheatTo arrive and on trackNo. 1 hard, $1.09 No. 1 Northern, $1.07% No. 2 North ern, $1.05% Dec., $1.06% May, $1.- 12% July, $1.12%. In storeNo. 1 Northern, $1.06% No. 2 Northern, $1.- 04%. FlaxTo arrive and on track, $1.14% Dec, $1.14% May, $1.20 July, $1.21%. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, Dec. 30.WheatMay, $1.04% 91.05 July, 97%c. Corn May, 58%@58%c July, 58%c. Oats May, old, 54c May, 52%c July, old. 48c July, 46%c. PorkJan., $12.- 45 May, $13.12%. ButterCreamer ies. 20@29c dairies, 1825c. Eggs 21823c Poultry Turkeys, lie chickens and springs, 9%c. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, Dec. 30.CattleBeeves, $3.50@6.15 cows and heifers, $1, 4.60 Texans, $8.154.00 calves, $5.00 6.75 Western cattle, $4.30@4.60 atockers and feeders, $2.454.25. Hogs Light, $4.254.75 mixed, $4. 4.80 heavy, $4.354.80 rough, $4.35 4.45 pigs, $3.854.55. Sheep, $2.50 4.86 yearlings, $4.T0@.40 lambs, $4.6096.80. **fc Dnice Grave in London Reopened by the Authorities. EXPLODES ROMANTIC STORY Witnesses in Contest for Estate of the Duke of Portland Had Testified That Casket Contained a Two-Hun- dred Pound Roll of Lead. London, Dec. 31.The body of Thomas Charles Druce in Highgate cemetery was exhumed just forty three years to a day after its burial. The coffin was found to contain the remains of a human body, thus ex ploding the romantic tale of Robert C. Caldwell and others, who swore during the recent hearing of the Druce perjury case that it contained a roll of lead.. The official statement given out by representatives of the home office and others, who were officially present 'at the exhumation, not only definitely disposes of the lead myth but seems effectively to prove that the body bur ied in 1864 was actually that of T. C. Dr.uce. The authorized statement fol lows "The coffin was opened and found to contain the body of an agpd, beard ed man the plate on the coffin bore the name 'Thomas Charles Druce.' All the entrances to the cemetery were surrounded by cordons of police. Only those persons who had passes from the home office were admitted to the grounds. George Hollamby Druce, who claims he is the rightful heir*to the Portland dukedom and to its vast estate, tried twice to get into the cemetery, but was met with a stern refusal. The Druce vault has thus given up its secret after ten years of legal pro- ceedingB which have cost, all told, a considerable fortune. A large part of this money was obtained from servant girls and other workers who were in duced to buy shares in a company formed to prosecute the claims of George Hollamby Druce against the estate of the Duke of Portland. The charge of perjury against Her bert Druce is effectively disposed of. ON CHARGE OF PERJURY. Principal Witness in Druce Case Held by New York Officials. New York, Dec. 31.Robert C. Cald well, whose testimony as a witness in the so called Druce case led to the reopening of the grave of T. C. Druce, is now at the home of his daughter at New Brighton, Staten Island. He is under $5,000 bonds to answer to a charge of perjury preferred by the British authorities in connection with the story he told in the London court. Caldwell was arrested when he arrived here from Europe Dec. 21. Caldwell's story of the alleged dual personality o the Duke of Portland was the real sensation of one of the most remarkable legal cases which ever engaged the attention of the British courts. The reopening of the Druce grave was undertaken as a final effort of the government to prove their charge that Caldwell's testimony was "willful and corrupt perjury." In substance Caldwell's, story, upon which the claim of the Druce heirs for the great fortune and the title of the Duke of Portland was based, was to the effect that the Duke of Portland and T. C. Druce, a London storekeeper, were one and the same. He had known the Duke of Portland under both names, he said, and at the re quest of the duke had arranged a pretended death and mock funeral of Druce so that his dual personality could be buried. He swore that a coffin buried in Highgate cemetery and which was supposed to hold the body of T. C. Druce in reality con tained only 200 pounds of lead. It was this coffin which was exhumed. ALL WOMEN TO BE EXCLUDED Ruling by Judge Dowling Concerning Thaw Case. New York, Dec. 31.All women ex cept members of Thaw's family and the women reporters will be excluded from the courtroom during the sec ond trial of Harry K. Thaw under an order issued by Justice Dowling. Thaw's trial will begin next Monday. The reason given for this order is that the seating capacity of the court room has been reduced greatly since the first trial and will now accommo date only about 150 spectators. Jus tice Dowling is said also to be deter mined to prevent a recurrence of the annoyance caused at the last trial by women moved by morbid curiosity who made use of every means at their command to secure admission to a courtroom already overcrowded. REGISTERED POUCH STOLEN Impossible to Tell How Much Robbers Secured. Waco, Tex., Dec. 31.Officers have Just disclosed the fact that a bundle of letters, registered packages, etc., were stolen from the mail trucks at Temple, Tex., probably Saturday night, and taken to a thicket near here and opened. About $15,000 worth of checks, money orders and drafts were found in a pile where the letters had been torn open, but all registered packages and money in letters had been taken. It is impossible to tell how much money was secured. The letters were for points all over the United States. GREATEST IN SOME YEARS Transatlantic Passenger Travel Dur- 'New York, Dec. 31.transatlantic passenger travel, east and westbound, has been greater during the year 1907 than in any period for the past four or five years. This travel for the year 1007 reached the enormous total of 2,957,328. The passenger movement for the year was 972,640 greater than for the year 1906 and 1,451,151 greater than for the year 1905. The westbound or travel from Europe "lo the United States reached a total of 1,699,340, which is 200,000 In excess of the com bined east and westbound travel dur ing the year 1905. The eastbound travel for the year 1907 consisted of 1,257,328 persons. Of the combined east and west bound travel for the year 1907, which is within 500,000 of the population of Greater New York, the steamships of the North German Lloyd company carried the enormous total of 338,000 persons in round numbers. This ex ceeds in numbers the population of the states of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota or the District of Columbia and is equal to the com bined population of the states of Ne vada and Wyoming and the territories of Alaska and Arizona. The most sensational passenger movement of the year was in the east bound steerage. This reached the enormous figure of 550,045, or 242,565 greater than 1906. This entire move ment was concentrated during the last two months of the year. TRAIN ROLLS INTO RIVER Number of Persons Killed on South ern Pacific. Sacramento, Cal., Dec. 31.West bound Southern Pacific passenger train No. 30 left the track at Ploriston and rolled into the Truckee river. Sev eral persons were killed, but the num ber is not known. A call was sent to Sacramento for physicians. Michigan Village Destroyed. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Dec. 31.A message from Richards Landing says that that village was destroyed by fire. The loss is stated to be $200,000 There are only three business build ings left. Richards Landing is a town on St. Josephs island, below the Soo. It is the center of a rich agricultural and timber district. The population is nearly 1,000. FRIEND TO FRIEND. The personal recommendations of peo ple who have been cured of cougli9 and xlds by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy save done more than all else to make it a itaple article of trade anl commerce ovei large part of the civilized world. Barker's Drug Store Danger Is near at hand when tha kidney* arc sick. Kldney-Bttes will purify and strengthen the kidneys and restore them to their normal and healthy condition. 25 cent*. Owl Drug Store. Old Coughs Keep In clou touch"with you, fwily doitor. 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For full particulars regarding train service and fare call on E. E. CHAMBERLAIN, Agent Great Northern Railway BUY A GOOD LOT With the growth of Bemidji good lots are becoming scarcer and scarcer. We still have a number of good lots in the residence part of town which will be sold on easy terms. For further particulars write or call Bemidji Townsite and Im provement Company. H. A. SIMONS. Agent. Swedback Block, Bemidji. The Dadly Pioneer 40c per Month The Pioneer Prirtery Is Equipped TelY ine to suc coughs A man e0 rea A/* Trust htm at all times. Cherry Pectoral. ^g^rag*' i_i_e GreatNorthernRailway 1 ATTEND THE $.1 4 & -igtgi J1^' ^3sl :l Hi '"%._ 1 i-f a tep-v