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JP 'S.M. BEMIDJI IN HANDS OF THE ELKS TODAY Continued from page 1. are expected this evening. The whole Elk bodv, Bemidji bucks and lawns, and visit rs met at the JVlarkhaui hotul this ufternoon at 1 o'clock and at 2 '('clock the psrhdt th^ city hall was giv-r-n. I was a impres- MVG affair, the mot notable feature b?ingthu dy of twenty tive fawij^, chained toother, and (iressed in outlandish fashion with papier-mache headpiece, representing various kinds (if animals. The initatory work was begun immediately follow ing the parade at the city hall. In another column is given a list of the men who will demit to the Bemidji lodge from oth cities, and also the list of iaibiates. It is expected that the number of demits will bd greatly increased in the near future. Ori&la of the Balloon. The word balloon means "a large ball." To Montgolfler of Annonay, France, the invention of the balloon Is credited. It is said that he was led to tarn his attention to balloon making from the following incident: A French laundress, wishing to dry a petticoat quickly, placed it on a basket work frame over a stove. To prevent the heat from escaping by the opening at the top of the petticoat she drew the belt strings closely together and tied them. Gradually the garment dried and became lighter, and as the stove continued to give out heat and rarefy the air concentrated under the basket work frame the petticoat began to move and finally rose in the air. This eo astonished the laundress that she ran to her neighbors and asked them to come and witness the strange sight. Montgolfler was among those that came in. The petticoat suspended In midair suggested greater things to him, and he returned home with "something to think about." He at once began studying works on differ ent kinds of atmosphere, and the in* ventlon of the balloon was the result His Income. "They say you get 250 marks a month. I can't believe It Tell me how." "I get 110 marks salary: then I don't pay my rent, 40 marks that's ISO marks I owe the milkman 80 marks, that's 180 marks my butcher 40 marks, 220 marks, and every month I raise 30 marks out of my friends, making an Income of 250 marks a month 1"Fllegende Blatter. BIJOU 302 THIRD STREET. Life Like Motion Picture Show. a#5ftatt*5*aaftft: Every Evening 7:30 to 10:30. Saturday Afternoon 2:30 to 3:30 Change of Program Every Other Night. THE FOX HUNT. The Pox. The Hounds. The Great Dog Kennel. The Meet at the Club House. On the Scent. The Query. The Pox Attempts to Throw off the Scent. Doubling in Her Tracks. The Pox Takes to the Water. Illustrated song: "Keep a Little Cozy Corner in Your Heart for Me." sung by PROP. H. L. ALLDIS, assisted by MISS BLANCHE BOYER, pianist. THE REBELLIOUS WALKING STICK. Vengeance of a Lawyer's Clerk. Mother-in-law, domestic com edy. The Burglar Scare. Smallpox Epidemic. This promises to be the best program ever. Admission 5 and 10 cents. *AftftAAftAAAftffcftftftft*ftftftftS J. J. ELLIS & SON, MANAGERS &% te**-:-*}***' && t5 Mi/Mk^ti .rtV THOUSANDS OF CHILD SLAVES. LIFE INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS Northern Capital Blamed for Condi* tions in South. New York, Dec. 4.That there are thousands of child slaves, mostly little girls, working in the textile mills of the South and that Northern capital Is to blame for this condition, was the declaration of Mrs. Frederick Na than of the Consumers' league, who addressed an audience of about 1,500 persons at the first winter session of the "people's -forum" in the New Rochelle theater. "The jfcmJtal of the country is liter ally devouring little children," said JJIrs. Nathan. "When one of the negro agaves of the South died he had to be ceplaced, Mit these child slaves work where the dust chokes them arid gives them tuberculosis and nobody cares, liany of them die, but there are al ways others. "At a time when these little chil dren should be nestling in their beds they are aroused by the shrill sound of the factory whistle and compelled to go to work that lasts, sometimes, far into the night. Others are em ployed all night and when morning comes they may be found lying around the factory on benches because they are too worn out to go home for break- fast." TRIAL PROGRESSES SLOWLY DEFENSE REPEATEDLY OBJECTS TO TESTIMONY IN SHEA CASE AT CHICAGO. Chicago, Dec. 4.Albert Young, the former president of the Teamsters' union and the present head of the United Teamsters of America, was again called to the stand when the trial of Cornelius P. Shea, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, was resumed. The attorneys for the defense en tered vehement protests to nearly every answer given by Young to the questions of Assistant State's Attor ney Miller and the trial progressed slowly. The state at the opening of the session sought to prove in a gen eral way through Young conversations said to have taken place between Shea and pickets placed by the Teamsters' union. The attorneys for the defense insisted that the witness should con fine himself to specific instances and the state declared that a general ex amination was legal and proper. Judge Ball ruled that the witness must des ignate the time and place of all con versations and if possible make olear the Identity of all persons taking part in the conversations. Young was asked if he had done picket duty himself and replied: "Yes, I did." "Do you remember an occurrence that took place during the strike near the Washington street tunnel?" "I do." "Who was there at the time?" "Jerry McCarthy, business agent of the Truck Drivers' union, and myself." "What happened there?" "I saw a man hit a driver employed by Franklin MacVeagh & Co. and knock him down. When the man got up I hit him myself." The witness declared that the pick ets stationed around the stores where strikes had been declared made fre quent reports to President Shea and that he personally heard many of them. SAID TO BE AGAINST JAPS. Metcalfe Report on San Francisco Incident. San Francisco, Dec. 4.The Call says: School Director D. H. Oliver states that Secretary Metcalf, before his de parture for Washington, told school directors that he believed they were clearly within their rights in estab lishing a separate school for Japanese pupils. This would tend to correct the impression that Secretary Metcalf had decided to favor the Japanese in his report to the president. The sec retary's report, it may be assumed, will conform to his assurances to the school board. Attorneys versed in international law believe that the treaty between Japan and America in no way covers the crisis at issue and the best that the United States can do for the island empire is to institute a test case in the federal courts, which has already been done. That the matter will be taken to the supreme court for final decision is now quite evident and if it is decided there that the Japanese are not Mongolians, a contention raised to divert the enforcement of the law re quiring that race to be taught In sep arate schools, it is now quite certain a new law will be passed by the leg islature next session to keep the Japa nese out of schools in which Caucas ians are taught. Larger Than First Dreadnought. Portsmouth, Eng., Dec. 4.The keel plates of another Dreadnought were laid here by Admiral Sir Archibald Douglas, the commander-in-chief at Portsmouth, during the day. The new battleship will be larger and more powerful than the first Dreadnought and as much of the preliminary work has already been done it Is expected that her construction will progress rapidly. Mayor Schmitz in Court. San Francisco, Dec. 4. Mayor Schmitz and Abraham Ruef appeared In court during the day to answer charges of extortion contained in the indictments recently returned against them. Their arraignment was con tinued until Thursday. J::u. President Determined That Money Shall Be Refunded. Washington, Dec. 4.Before he re tires from office President Roosevelt intends to have refunded to the policy holders of the "big three" insurance companies the money contributed to the Republican national committee, in 1904 by the Equitable Life, the Mutual Life and the New York Life. The ag gregate of the contributions, made out of the "yellow dog" funds of the com panies, was $148,000. The fact that he was elected with the help of money taken illegally from the policyholders of the three com panies has nettled the president sorely for many months. He feels that it has placed a taint upon his administration as well as upon his public career and he means to have the stain wiped out. Chairman Cortelyou and Treasurer Bliss of the committee have been con sulted by the president in regard to the matter, but they absolutely refuse to agree to his proposal to return the money. However, it is known that the president is as determined as ever that the money shall be restored to the three companies. How. he will work out the problem and accomplish his purpose is a matter which, it is understood, has so far resisted his best efforts. WILL FOUND ANOTHER ZION OVER8EER VOLIVA DECIDES TO ABANDON PRESENT CITY TO ITS CREDITORS. Chicago, Dec. 4.The Chronicle ways: Zlon City ia to be abandoned. The "restoration host," which was built up by John Alexander Dowie after years of strenuous effort, will shortly be left to its creditors by Wilbur Glenn Vo liva, who, like a new Moses, will lead his people forth from the discredited gates to found another Zion. Announcement of the approaching hegira was made by Overseer Voliva before an audience of more than 1,000 persons in the Zion church at Six teenth street and Michigan avenue. It was marked by his assumption of "divine authority." At the same time he outlined his plans for a new city, to be conducted along socialistic lines, with himself as supreme spirit ual and temporal head. Coupled with the announcement of his plans were vehement denunciations of unworthy members of the church, whom, he de clared, were responsible for its fall. Autocratic socialism is to be the government of the new community. No more debts, no more house rent, no more holding of land or property by individuals, but a sublime condition of brotherly love and primitive Chris tianity is to prevail. At the same time Voliva is to be supreme. As to the location of the new Zion Voliva was silent, contenting himself with the declaration that he would have several announcements to make within two weeks. In preparation, however, of the crusade which he pro poses to start in Chicago he stated that to a certain extent headquarters would be located in the "great devil's kingdom," as he termed this city. HEARS REPORTS OF OFFICERS. Citizens' Industrial Association in Ses sion at Chicago. Chicago, Dec. 4.The convention of the Citizens' Industrial association of America opened here during the day and is scheduled to last through two days. Mayor Dunne delivered an address of welcome to the delegates and an address was delivered by William Collison, general secretary of the Na tional Free Labor association of Great Britain. The greater part of the day was consumed in listening to the re ports of officers. President Post, in his report, char acterized the American Federation of Labor as /'the greatest trust in the world." He declared the industrial association was formed to defend communities and citizens from "the destructive acts of both capital and labor." He said: "In the late elec tion, where the labor trust was avow edly arrayed against the common peo ple in an effort to retire congress men who voted contrary to the dic tates of the trust, the discovery was made that the great mass of citizens are not members of the labor trust, or of any other trust." ESTIMATED APPROPRIATIONS. Secretary of the Treasury Sends Fig ures to Congress. Washington, Dec. 4.The secretary of the treasury has transmitted to congress the book of estimates of ap propriations required for government service for the fiscal year ending June 1908, as follows: Legislative establishment, $5,618,- 175 executive establishment, $32,571,- 910 judicial establishment, $980,120 foreign intercourse, $3,254,007 mili tary establishment, $79,950,102 naval establishment, $115,444,950 Indian af fairs, $7,970,168 public works, $95,- 865,540 miscellaneous, $59,244,088 permanent annual appropriation, $149,- 86,320 total, $689,028,453. Consul Miller Denies Report. Washington, Dec. 4.Emphatic de nial has been made by H. D. Miller, American consul general at Yokoha ma, of the reports emanating from San Francisco that he had predicted a war between the United States and 3t pan. TBI HBMldff DAILY PIONEER: WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, WW, -J rs^lfS^ip^ A ^ii-jvifiC^t^f Late News of the World BW,J^9^^^^'i^?^^^^^:y^^^teWirf Domestic-Foreign-Financial -Social-Political and Commercial TUBES BECAME MIXED. Filipino Prisoners Inoculated With Plague Germs. Manila, Dec. 4.An investigation made at Bllibid, where ten prisoners who had been inoculated with cholera serum recently died, has disclosed traces of plague germs in the dead bodies. No formal report on the result of the investigation has been made and the government has reached no decision in the matter. It is asserted that tubes containing plague germs and others filled with cholera serum, which are so much alike that it is al most impossible to distinguish them apart, were mixed in the laboratory by a visitor who examined the plague germs and by mistake placed them in a rack with the serum tubes. This is said to have occurred during the tem porary absence of Dr. R. P. Strong of the bureau of science, who has been conducting- experiments and inocula tion of persons with cholera serum to test its efficacy. The natives generally are in ignor ance of the situation, but the native newspapers are indignant and bitter. It is not believed that criminal charges will be preferred, -but it is possible that Dr. Strong may resign. WILL QUIT AMERICA FOREVER. Harry Thaw to Reside in Paris if Acquitted. New York, Dec. 4.Mrs. Hairy K. Thaw is confident of the acquittal of her husband at his forthcoming trial for the killing of Stanford White. In an interview she said she was already negotiating for the purchase of a home in Paris, where she and her husband will take up their permanent residence if her expectation of his liberation from prison is realized. Mrs. Thaw said: "When Harry leaves the prison we shall take the first ship from New York, leaving America behind forever. I have already made arrangements with a Paris real estate firm for the purchase of a modest house in the Champs Elysees district. You see how certain I am of Harry's acquittal. "I would rather live in Paris than in any other city in Europe. We both feel it would never do for us to remain here after the trial, so I am making all arrangements to locate permanent ly in the French capital." PROBING LAND FRAUDS. Commissioner Clark Begins Hearing at Pueblo, Colo. Pueblo, Colo., Dec. 4.E. E. Clark, Interstate commerce commissioner, assisted by Attorneys Thomas and Marchand, -began an investigation here during the day of "alleged land frauds and the relations between com mon carriers to the production of coal and oil and the transportation of the same." A large number of witnesses will be examined in connection with the coal land holdings of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, the Denver and Rio- Grande, the Colorado and Southern and Santa Fe railroads. Hie Retort. Laird''Veil, Sandy, you are getting rery bent Why don't you stand straight up like me, man? Sandy Eh, mon, do you see that field o' corn over there? LairdI do. Sandy Weal, ye'll notice that the full heids hantf down .and the empty ones stand op^-Glasgow News. Fancy Weave Suits: Which Stands Matchless for Price and Quality. Silk Mixed Effects In Worsteds, Cassimers. Blue and Black Thibets, Serges, Permitting^No Question? ably Fabric. Absolute Pure Wool Suits Covering Every Point That Can Be Effected In Up-to-the-Tick-of-the- Clock-Style at The City at Crreat Brltalau Unless we command the sea we can not keep open the roads by which our people are fed. Britain has in effect ceased to be a country. She is now, considered from the political and mili tary point of view, a city, though a city with very large parks and pleas aunces and kitchen gardens in which to grow her flowers, fruits and vege tables. A city, from the point of view of war, may be described as a place which if besieged long enough taust fall, since supplies once consumed can. not be replenished. Britain answers to this description. The moment the sea roads to her are closed by an enemy she Is, ipso facto, in a state of siege. Face to face with a need so imminent It would be madness for us to give any consideration to what we hope or believe are the intentions of this or that foreign power. All that we can rightly do In considering how to secure our national safety and independence is to count ships and guns and to com-, pute the units of naval efficiency. London Spectator. Happy pay*. However varied the courses of our life, whatsoever the phase of pleasure and ambition through which it has swept along, still, when in memory we would revive the tunes that were comparatively the happiest, these times will be found to have been the calmestBulwer Lytton. Giving and Receiving:. Hall Porter (to person soliciting a fa vor at a ministry)The minister re ceives from 10 o'clock to midday "All right," says the other, "but at what hour does he give?"Parisi Fi garo. MONEY CHEERFULLY REFUNDED Two great quality clothing stores, Bemidji and Baudette $15, $18, $22 and $25.00 Marvelous Boy's Clothes: Sturdy School Suits, Plain or French Back, Norfolk Bloomer Suits Worsteds, Sheviots, Cassimers 1 ex. pr. pants $5,00 Florsheim and Walkover Shoes. Hand lasted styles box calf velour calf oxide kid and patent colt skin nobby wide soles and medium at $3.50, $4.00 & $5 designed for Men and Young Men, Three dimensions.- Its Newness, decidedly evident, confined & i to us at ..........v:.?.. v? I'.V W DISTINCT ADVANTAGES! Peerlessly Unparalleled Compensa- tionsfopTrading Here, All the Energy We Possess Concentrated on Pleasing You. Latest Innovations, Most Substantial Values In Stein-BIoch and B. Kuppenheimer Snits and Overcoats. $15, $18, $ 20, $22, $25, $28& Special High-Grade 0'eoats 1 5 & Black and grey Overcoats: Rich Vicuna Imported Scotch Weave English Over coats, 52 Inches Long. Stetson and Gordon Hats V* Exclusive control of John B. Stetson and Gordon Hats, cleverly^ Headquarters for Lnmbermen's Supplies at Wholesale and at Retail. The Endle Procession. A myriad of men are born. They ta bor and sweat and struggle for bread they squabble and scold and fight they i-jcramble for Jittle mean advantages over each other age creeps upon them 1 Infirmities follow shames and bumilia tions bring down their prides and their vanities those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turn ed to aching grief. The burden of pain, care, misery, grows heavier year by year at length ambition is dead, pride Is dead vanity is dead longing for re lease is in their place. It comes at lastthe only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for themand they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence where they achieved noth ing where they were a mistake and a failure and a foolishness. There they have left no sign that they have ex isteda world which will lament them a day and forget them forever. Then another myriad takes their place, and copies all they did, and goes along the same profitless road, and vanishes as they vanishedto make room for an other, and another, and a million other myriads, to follow the same arid path through the same desert and accom plish what the first myriad and all the myriads that came after it accomplished nothing.From Mark Twain's Auto biography in North American Review. Ensi lull Humor. The English brand of humor Is se date and stately. It is not intended to be laughed at The man who would laugh at Punch would go into hyster ics at a funeral. Punch's notion of hu mor is altogether top sublime for any place outside of an English drawing room. Bobcaygcon Independent, On* tarin ABSOLUTE SATISFAC- TION ASSURED 30 20 Copyright 1906 I The House of Kupp.nh.lmer _- '&*$