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VOLUME 3. NUMBEE 280. i 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 i i i 4 i 4 4 4 4 i 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 i WAS SUPPLIED O N DEMAN Washington, March 20.Secretary Taft has received two cablegrams from Major General Leonard Wood at Manila relative to the Mount Dajo fight. The first reads as follows: "If more detailed information con cerning the facts connected with the Mount Dajo fight is desired I suggest that Major Hugh L. Scott be called upon. He is thoroughly familiar with the situation, having spent eight months in the attempt to get these people off the mountain without fight- ing." The Major Scott referred to has been on leave of absence in this coun try and has just arrived in Washing ton in answer to the secretary's sum nions. He was referred to in some of the Manila cablegrams as having really caused the present trouble at Mount Dajo by reason of the exercise of too great leniency toward the brigand Moros. The second dispatch from General Wood reads as follows: "Sensational cables sent to the Unit ed States relating to the Mount Dajo fight were made up in Manila. There has been no reference in any cable frpm Mindanao to the killing of wo men and children. On receipt of Colo nel Andrews' condensed report from me in Washington the American news papers cabled for details. The report ers here had no other information than was contained in my report to Colonel Andrews and supplied sensational features." Postoffice Appropriation Bill. Washington, March 20.The house committee on postoffices and postroads has reported the postoffice appropria tion bill to the house. It provides for an expenditure of $191,3.73,848 for the fiscal year 1907, or $913,223 less than the modified estimates of the post office department. This amount ex ceeds the appropriation for 1906 by $10,351,756. 5~ General Wood Says Manila Reporters "Faked" Story of Moro Massacre. HA N O INFORMATION Of SUBJECT Money Well Spent! You can't go wrong your money in !&*, ,3**g,($J OFFICIALS INTERFERE., Russian Elections Not a Free Expres sion of Opinion. St. Petersburg, March 20.As the elections proceed there is more and more evidence of the virtual exclusion from participation of the radical ele ments of the population. The prelim inary stages of the elections will rob the national assembly of much of its national character. Its authority to speak will be absolutely denied by the proletariat organization, which bore the brunt of the fight for liberty. Complaints of interference and duress in the country districts are in creasing. Many flagrant instances are cited of local officials preventing a free expression of the peasants and often practically compelling the selec tion of priests and village elders.' USING REPRESSIVE MEASURES. Russian Government Trying to Stop Strike Agitation. St. Petersburg, March 20.The gov ernment is using the most repressive measures to stop the agitation for a strike of railway men and telegraph ers. A meeting of the former at Rostoff-on-Don was surrounded and invaded during the day by Cossacks, who fired into the assemblage, killing two persons and wounding eight. At Moscow troops are now guarding all the railway stations and several factories, including the Abrikosoff. works, where the workmen are restive. Another Line to Winnipeg. Duluth, March 20.It is understood here that the Great Northern survey ors, who had previously been reported as surveying a line from Hibbing to International Falls, are in reality heading from Dewey Lake to Warroad, on the Canadian Northern. This looks like another line from Duluth to Win nipeg in connection with the Canadian Northern. $ Have You Seen I the NEW YOUMAN HAT? It's $5.00. the sole agents in Bemidji. Monday night the Buckingham factory delivered to us another shipment of Ladies' fine skirts, $5.00 to $10.00 is the price. j, ^A\ O'LEARY & BOWSER 1 investing an Adler Suit or in they are well made and trimmed, and the fabric is the choice of the looms. You would expect to pay your tailor $40.00 for a suit we offer for $20.00 Other saits at $18.00, $15.00, $12.00 and $10.00. r" We are Oil! "HEARINGS RESUMED Officers of Waters-Pierce. Company Ex tr $ pected to Testify. St. Louis, March 20.The postponed hearing of the muster suit instituted by Attorney .General ,E(adiey, against the. .Standard, Republic. and Waters Pierce Oil companies was resumed during ,the' day before Special Com missioner Anthony. Among ,the wit nesses expected to testify are, E. Clay, Pierce, former president of the Wa tetSrPier^s Oil company A. M. Finlay, vice president, and C. M. Adams, sec retary of the same company. William, T. McKee, secretary of the Republic Oil company of Cleveland, O., was the first witness. He brought, with, him books of the company in ac cordance with 'the order of the Mis souri supreme court. He told of hav ing lived in Denver and of his employ ment' under Wade Hampton of 26 Broadway, New York, auditor of the Republic. Oil company. He denied knowing Hampton as general auditor -it. the Standard ,company, but said Hampton had offices in the Standard building-in New York. Witness stated that Cleveland was the distributing office of the Republic Oil company and said that the home office of the com pany was at 75 New street, New York. He told of having audited books of the Waters-Pierce company. A stock book of the Republic Oil company was shown McKee, but he denied ever hav ing seen it before. GENERAL THAYER DYING.. Life of Once Prominent Nebraskan Slowly Ebbing Away. Lincoln, Neb., March 20.John M. Thayer, ex-United States senator and ex-governbr of Nebraska,- is barely alive and the attending physicians ex press the belief that he will not live through the day. Throughout the night General Thayer was kept alive by the use of heart stimulants. The serious condition of General Thayer is attributed solely to his extreme old age. London, March 20.The clouds which have been hanging over Alge ciras for the past week have prac tically disappeared and in the opinion of the foreign office the basis of an agreement on the Moroccan question will be reached at the next session of the conference. This agreement will be based on a modification of the Ger man demands with respect to the po lice, while France will concede part of what she has been asking for in re gard to the Moroccan bank system. The details will not be published until the meeting of the delegates, in fact France will not state what she is will ing to concede until Germany has placed her cards on the table. GERMANY'S ATTITUDE FIRM. Insists on International Control of Mo roccan Police. Berlin, March 20.The German atti tude at Algeciras is a passive one. She is ready to consider in a friendly spirit any proposition for the super vision of the Moroccan police embrac ing the international principle, but be yond that Germany will not go. She would prefer to have the conference adjourn without an agreement than Sive up the international idea. MANY FAMILIES HOMELESS. Town of Nbfthwood, Wash., Destroyed by Forest Fires. Lyndon, Wash., March 20.North- wood, four miles north of Lyndon, in Whatcom county, has been destroyed by forest fires. The Northwood lum ber and shingle mill was totally de stroyed and many families are home less. The fire is within a mile of Lyndon Uid grave fears are felt for that town. Hundreds are fighting the fire and the Bellingham department was sent put by special train to aid the threatened city of Lyndon and the surrounding farmers to subdue the conflagration. Louis de Lange, a playwright, whose home was formerly in Philadelphia, committed suicide in New York city by cutting his throafe BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA,'TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1906. CLOUD S HAVE DISAPPEARED ,-^lAri M- ratfe^^ JfcJ.L.,,1.' GERMAN O MODIF ITS DEMAND S TRAFFIC INTERRUPTED.^, 4 Severe Snow Storm Raging in the Mid* I die West. s:r Dayton, O., March 20Snow to the lepth of-eight inches on the level has lallen since midnight and traffic of all fcinds throughout the Miami valley is demoralized. Street car and interur lfcn service is badly crippled and the fcteam railroads are operating under the greatest difficulties ever experi enced in this valley.^, ""V"'-- Chieago, March 20.The heaviest mow storm of the winter is in prog ress htere. In twelve hours four inches Df snow fell and, being driven by a high wind from the northwest, it drifted badly and made operation of Street cars, particularly in the suburbs, I matter of considerable difficulty. a '~^,"-*v* Decatur, 111], March 20.Eighteen Inches of snow fell in the last fifteen hours. This is the heaviest snowfall ever (mown here. All business is sus pended. Street cars and interurban lines are blockaded and there were no passenger trains on some railroads. Philadelphia, March 20.The most severe snow storm of the winter is raging throughout Eastern Pennsyl vania. It is feared that the mines will have to suspend unless the snow ceases. St. Louis, March 20.A heavy snow storm prevails here and has seriously inconvenienced traffic of all kinds. At 9 o'clock the fall of snow measured nine inches and it was then snowing hard. SUCCEEDS BELLAMY. STORER. Charles S. Francis Named as Ambas sador to Austria. Washington, March 20.The name of Charles S. Francis of Troy, N. Y., former American minister to Greece, has been sent to the senate as am bassador to Austria-Hungary to suc ceed Bellamy Storer. Mr. Francis' father was formerly ambassador to Austria few A An Agreement Expected at Next Meeting of the Moroccan Conference At Algerceris. Two Feet of Snow on Range. Holyoke, Colo., March 20.The snowfall so far this month in North eastern Colorado is the heaviest ever known in.March in this part of the state*. The range is covered with two feet of snow and the roads are well nigh impassable. The supply of feed is almost exhausted. Railroad traffic is very irregular and has been totally abandoned during the worst of the storm. t'fi .U L-LIUW F. L.JWBBINS MANY LIVES IMPERILED. Two School Buildings at Haverhill, Mass., Destroyed. ^v Haverhill, Mass., March 20.Fire in the Haverhill manual training school and high school annex imperiled more than 150 boys and girls and although mainly because of the coolness and generalship of the teachers no lives were lost several pupils had their hair burned and one girl injured her leg by jumping from a second story window. Instructor John Bourne, intent upon the escape of the children, after they were all out found his own egress cut off and he was.compelled to leap from a window on the second floor of the training school. He was not injured in jumping, but previously he had been burned about the head and hands. The training school formerly was a factory and it was a three-story frame building whose beams and flooring were ready food for the fire. GRAVE DISORDERS FEARED. Five at Hundred Miners on Strike Lethbridge, Alberta. Great Falls, Mont., March 20.The strike of, the coal miners at Leth bridge, Alberta, Can., has caused so much uneasiness among the citizens that they have called upon the Domin ion government for assistance. The Northwest mounted, police/ have been placed in control of the town and mar tial law practically prevails. This,ac tion appears to have irritated:the.min ersstmlurther-and-the eitizen*-*ear-^^^ grave disorders. More than 500 men, members of the union, are on strike and there are still 100 at work under police protec tion. These are greeted daily by vol leys of snowballs and stones as they go to work. ROOF OF CAR BARNS COLLAPSES. One Man Killed and Several Injured at Indianapolis. Indianapolis, March 20.The roof of the street car barns collapsed dur ing the afternoon under the weight of the heavy snowfall. One man was killed and several were seriously in jured. $*'- Negro Lynched for Killing Cow. Plaquemine, La,, March 20iWill- lam Carr, a negro, was lynched at Bayou Plataquemine for stealing and killing a cow. Constable Walter Mar lonneaux and V. M. Patureau were on their way to the jail at this place with the negro when they were stopped by a crowd of about thirty-five masked men, who overpowered them and took the prisoner and hanged him to a rail road bridge. QuaJity-SaLtisfeiction Clothing House TEN CENTS PER W 4- Will Not Lead the Bituminous Operators In C^fwenc^ "v Workers. i ANTI-PEACE FACTION IN CONTROL rerne Hat Store THE GORDON HATS In every- shape and color of soft and stiff hats because the quality arid design of theHWM r: W Gordon Hats a.re up to Schnei^fHSyi ?r^iH8f**"-' der's demandsr%'**fr- sj -i]a& season's Gordons are sensible, servicable stylish and a/ distinctive value at $3.00 Indianapolis, March 20.Bituminous coal operators to the number of 400 met during the day at the Claypool hotel to endeavor to formulate a unit ed policy for their line of action in the joint conference with the miners. Be fore the meeting began it was ap parent that the operators were widely separated in their views, some favor ing granting the miners an increase in wages, others standing positively against any increase whatever. F. L. Robbins, who has long been the leader of the bituminous operators in their dealings with the United Mine Workers of America, announced that he would not be a candidate for con tinued leadersh^). A revolt aj*iinst him has been planned by operators opposing his moves in'favor cf peace. J. P. Winder, president of the Sun day Creek Coal company in Ohio, the second largest bituminous coal produc ing concern in the country, has been brought out by the anti-Robbins fac tion of bituminous coal operators for the chairmanship and leadership of the Central competitive field operators. Winder Succeeds Robbins. The operators' meeting represented the Central competitive field, consist ing of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and West ern Pennsylvania. Mr. Robbins called the meeting to order and announced that while he had been misunderstood and: misrepresented he still believed it best that-he retire as chairman of the operators and he asked to be re lieved. Oa motion of Frank S. Pea- elected chairman and will be the lead er of the operators in the joint con ference. After the operators adjourned it was stated that a crisis was imminent. It was stated that F. L. Robbins was op posed to the unit rule, which requires that all voting on wage matters shall be recorded as unanimous, and that v, Mr. Robbins threatened to bolt: the.\\ conference and operate his mines- inv In dependently. There was danger that' the operators would not be able to agree sufficiently to warrant a joint conference with the miners. i TROOPS ON THE SCENE. Trouble Feared.in Connection With French Miners' Strike. Liens, Fiance, March '20.Many de tachments of troops, including artil lery and dragoons, have arrived here in order to be ready for any eventuali ties which may arise as a result of the miners' strike. About 46,000 men are now out and are parading the towns, carrying red flags. Several minor col lisions have taken place. :H '0$ ^61^ 25P- ..UIIMMWi