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WAITERS DRUGGED
HOTEL PATRONS
"Mickey Finn" Powders Fed to
Those Who Failed to
I Give Tips. jr'
GET STUFF IN RAID
Chlc*a Officers Unearth Packages ef
Poison at Headquarters of Union
and Place Maker and Dis
penser Under Arrest
Chicago.Four persons were arrest
led and more than 100 wafers were
taken Into custody at the headquarters
of the Chicago Waiters' union, in con
nection with the alleged wholesale
(drugging of patrons of leading hotels,
restaurants and clubs by waiters
whose displeasure the patrons had in
curred by their neglect or refusal to
leave tips on the table after being
served. The raid on the headquarters
of the union was made by detectlTes
from the state attorney's office. Three
persons were held, the others being re
leased after questioning by the state's
attorney.
The men held were W. Stuart Wood,
a waiter, and Blake Powell and John
Mllliam, day and night bartenders at
the waiters' union headquarters. Wood,
it is alleged, manufactured the drug
which was sold over the bar to all
members of the union applying for I
Evidence against the waiters was ob
tained by a detective agency after a
number of guests of one of the city's
leading hotels had become suspiciously
fll.
Powder Known a* "Mickey Finn."
A tasteless and odorless powder,
known as "Mickey Finn," which caused
the victim to become sick at the stom
ach and left him in a nervous and
weakened condition, was the drug
used, the powder being what is known
The Powders Had Been Used Freely
by the Waiters.
to jtlruggists as a tartar emetic com
pound. Analysis made by Chicago
chemists showed that it contained ten
grains of salt of antimony and potas
sium tnrtrnte. According to one phy
sician's report, 6.17 grains have been
known to cause death.
The action of the powder is said to
resemble ptomaine poisoning so close
ly that physicians who attended per-,
sons to whom the powders had been
administered by waiters diagnosed the
victims' illness as such. According to
the evidence the powders had been
used freely by waiters in most of the
clubs nnd in many hotels and restaur
ants nt times.
STEALS WEDDING RING I
FROM SISTER 30 DAYS I
San Francisco.Dan Mattel
was sentenced to 30 days in jail
here for stealing his sister's
wedding ring and pawning it to
buy liquor. Mattel pleaded for
leniency and said he would en
list if allowed to.
"They wouldn't have men of
vour sort in the army," the judge
replied. "Thirty days."
SMOOTH STRANGER GETS $100
Introduces Himself as Salesman and
Works the Company for
Expense Money.
St. Ionia.A well-dressed stranger
walked Into the office of George A.
Holthaus, district manager of the Mil
ler Rubber company, Introducing him
self as a salesman for the company.
After rnattlng a few minutes he said
his expense cheek had failed to arrive
and banded Holthaus a telegram which
read: "Authorize you draw on usabout
$100.", It was signed in the company's
name. Holthaus gave him the money
only to find out later he was not con
nected with the company.
Bear Was Sheep Thief.
Altocna, Pa.The mystery of the
disappearance of sheep from farms-in
Juniata township was explained
when a huge bear was seen feasting
on the carcass of one of them. The
animal was shot It weighed 260
pounds,
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"In The Family"
Br GENEVIEVE ULMAR
(Copyright, UK, Western Newspaper Union.)
"You're a fine fellow, Bassett. Best
of friends, eh?"
Thank you, surely, Pierson."
"Business rivals, but that's the spice
of the game. Now this little Incident
of that piece of property we both claim
to own has come up. Are we Klng to
take off our coats and pound ench oth
er? Not much! Gar side is in pos
sessionyou've got only an old tax
title. Litigation? Don't do itex
pensehard feeling. Honest, Itassett,
I don't care a rap for the old broken
down farmhouse and miserable patch
of land that won't raise anytiling but
thistles. Only it's a sort of old-time
relic and In all honor I want to keep it
in the family."
"And I simply wish to abide by the
business rules my father has inculcat
edto hold on to what seems to be
mine by right."
"Well, let it rest for a bit, and see
what time develops."
To,this Ned Bassett,"bright, system
atic young man of business, did not
reply, for he had made up his mind
to bring the matter to a decisive focus.
As Pierson, shrewd and enterprising,
had secretly formed the same conclu
sion, it was a question of who got
there first. "There" was Mayville,
near which little hamlet the property
in contest was located. Dyke Pierson
fancied be had stolen a march on Bas
sett when he quietly left the city to
find out what the Mayville lawyers
said about his case. Bassett had ar
rived in Mayville four hours earlier.
As he was turning a tree-shaded cor
ner he drew back quickly. Out.of view
sounded a familiar voice, that of Pier
son, and it spoke questlonlngly:
"What's the trouble, Sonnle?" Bas
sett peered past a tree. Seated on the
edge of the sidewalk was Pierson. An
urchin of six was digging his fingers
in his eyes and weeping copiously.
"I wanted to go to the movies and
Ben Leyner promised to buy my bag
of marbles for a dime, and he ain't
here."
"Let's see your marbles," spoke
Pierson, and the boy poured forth a
full array of "mlbs," glass alleys,
"glassies," bolers and cornelians. Pier
son pawed them over with a grin, pow
erfully reminded of his long past
youthful days.
"I'll buy the outfit," he said. "There's
a, quarter," and the delighted lad
bounded off In high spirits. Then Pier
son chuckled as he jogged his memory
to classify the marbles by names that
came back to him like a whiff of early
boyhood. Suddenly Bassett stepped
Into view.
"Hello!" he hailed. "What are you
doing here at Mayville?"
Pierson looked.up, bored and flush
ing. "Oh, well," he stammered, "1
came down here to play marbles. What
fetched you here?"
"Oh, to watch you play them," re
torted Bassett. "Trying to steal a
march on me, eh?"
"Well, you're here, too, aren't you?
Say, ever play these things?"
"I'll play you a,game of plumplns,"
suggested Bassett"ten marbles In
the ring, with bolurs for shooters, if
I win, that land's mine. If you wid,"'Ads
I'll never trouble you about It again."
"Done!" shouted Pierson, who hadfor
a good ileal of sporting spirit in his
makeupand lost.
A curious crowd had gathered
around to witness the strange sight of
two full-grown men playing marbles
In dead earnest. Winner and loser
hastened to get beyond the gaping vil
lagers.
"Now don't look so grouchy because
luck went against you," spoke Bassett
"Truth is, I don't want the old farm,
and when I come to reckon up just
what taxes we have paid and inter
est amounts to I may turn it back to
you on a new deal."
"Hope you will," replied Pierson,
somewhat mollified. "Well, anyway,
we'll keep It out of the devouring maw
of the luw. I say, are you putting up
at the hotel? Yes? So am I, but I'm
going to run down by auto to see my
folks. Come along with me."
So Bassett went. Strange freak of
fate! Glowing birth of a now ideal
in his Impressionable mind that colored
all his life! It was at the Pierson
home that he met Madge, the sister of
Pierson.
"How such a perfect angel comes
to be the sister of a man of such com
mon clay as you are made of," heFOR
railed at Pierson, "I can't understand."
"Aha! You have got a soul for some
thing besides dollar grubbing, eh?"
Pierson abused him In turn.
Pierson went back to the city next
morning. "See here," observed Bas
sett, "I like this little town. I need a
rest and I'm going to take a week's va
cation."
It was fully two weeks before Bas
sett returned to the city. "Got back,
eh?" hailed Pierson, meeting him on
the street. "By the way, you sort of
hinted at some possible arrangement
that old farm land."
"Why, yes," nodded Bassett "You're
thinking of asking it back, are you?"
"Why, I was, for a facton a fair
money basis."
need," pronounced Bassett
"Eh? What do you mean?"
"Why. you said all you cared about
was keeping it in tie family, didn't
your
"That's right."
**Ifs there, already. Your sister1
"What's Madge got to do with it?"
"Only this: she is going to becona
jay wife" was the buoyant reply.
F0SST0N SOLDIER'S NAME
IN LIST OF THOSE KILLED
Another neighboring town's sol
dier son is reported among the list of
killed in action, Serverin Tangen of
Fosston being Included in General
Pershing's report to the war depart
ment.
HERE Off HONEYMOON.
Captain Kingsl'ey Ervin and bride
are at Birehmont spending their hon
eymoon, having come from Des
Moines, la., where they were married
Saturday. Captain Ervin is in sta
tion at Camp Dodge and at the cere
mony, T. S. Ervin of Bemldjl attended
his brother as groomsman.
ARE YOU IN NEED OF
Tags
Cards ,V
Blanks
Folders
Dodgers
0,Recipts
THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER
What He Wanted. ."'V-
General BIddle said at a London gar
den party:
"The doughboy in France has a lot
of trouble with the French language.
A doughboy sat on a bench in the
Tuilerles gardens one day and thumb
ed a French phrase book discontent*
edly.
"This here hook,' h growled, 'don't
tell you what yqiTwant to say at aH.
It tells you how to say the uncle of
your mother is sixty-five years old, or
the sister of your wife has bought a
cow, or the umbrella of "your neigh
bor is in the attic, but I don't want" to
say nothing of that kind.*
"'What do TOtt/want to say? an
other doughboy asked,
'What I'nK after/ said the first
doughboy, 'is a book that tells you
how to say, "Your face Is familiar
ain't we met before?' or 'Gee, them
eyes!' or 'Little girl, you sure do look
out o' sight in that swimmln' suit'"
Printing
Envelopes
Statements
Bill Heads
Invitations
Packet Heids
Letter Heads
Call at Pioneer Office*
Phones 922 and 923
GOOD WORK IS
OUR SPECIALTY
WANT AD DEFT.
Advertisements in this column
cost half cent a word per issue, when
paid cash in advance. No ad will
be run forijess'than 10c per issue.
chargdpon our books cost one
cent a wordier Issue. No ads run
less-than 25c.
FOB SALE
FOR SALEOne 1916 and one 1917
Ford touring car. Phone 1. 5t914
FOR SALEModern house, 719
Minn, avenue. Inquire at house or
Tel 309 or-555. 6t914
FOR SALE-Two milk cows, four
years old, wiTl sell cheap. A. M.
Sande, at Brose's Tebacco stores
6t914
FOR SALEHand made stake wagon.
Will sell right. Koors Bros.
SlOtf
FOR SALE OR TRADETractor Mo
line Universal 6-12 horsepower
practically new. See Carl Opsata,
Bemidi, Minn. R. No. 2. 12t914
FOR RENT
FOR RENTFive-room house, also
furnished flat for the winter, mod
ern except heat, close in. 31^7
America. Phone 618-W Smith.
6t914
FOR RENTCottages. Thomas Roy
craft, Lavinla, Minn. 823tf
RENT30 acres, Sec. 17, Twp.
Frohn, to seed to rye. Rent for cash
or on shares. Address 307 Seventh
street. Phone 495-J. 6-913
FOR RENTTwo furnished rooms,
1302 Bemidji avenue. Phone
452-W. 826tf
WANTED
BOY WANTEDChance for school
boy to work for board. Phone 847.
2t911
WANTED TO RENTModern fur
nished room, close to business dis
trict, by young married couple, res
idents of Bemidji. Address X. Y. Z.
Pioneer. 99 tt
WANTEDCarpenters, 70c per hour
for first class men. Apply J. Pfef
fer, Webb Location, Hibbing, Minn. 6t914
WANTEDChambermaid and dining
room girls. Birehmont. Phone
15F2 826tf
WANTEDCompetent maid for gen
eral housework. Mrs. E. W. John
son, 121S Lake Boulevard. Phone
11-R. 97tf
^.:u.^ri&
WANTEDGirl for general house
work. Apply at once. Mrs. Au
gust Monson. Phone 587-W. 99tfl
WANTED TO PURCHASEA well
located residence property in Be
midji. Address D44, care Pioneer,
giving street number and lowest
cash price. 10t916
WANTEDCompetent maid for gen
eral housework. Mrs. Kaplan,
Kaplan building. 95tf
WANTED TO BUYSecond hand
Reed baby bugy. Phone 825-J.
2t910
WANTED^School girl to work for
room, and board. Phone 817-J.
2t911
WANTEDAt once some who can
put a a Underwood
typewriter in
good working order. Apply Pio
neer for address. 3t912
WANVEDMan to beat carpets for
house cleaning. Markliam hotel.
2t911
WANTED Chambermaid. Apply
housekeeper Markham hotel.
910tf
OSS
MEAT INJURIOUS
TO THE KIDNEYS
Take a Tablespobnful of Salts
If Back Hurts or Bladder
Bothers
We arev
a nation of meat eaters
and our blood is filled with uric acid,
says a well-known authority, who
warns us to be constantly on guard
against kidney trouble.
The kidneys do their utmost- to
free the Mood of this irritating acid,
but-become weak from the overwork
they get sluggish the eliminative tis
sues clog" and thus the waste is re
tained in the blood to poison the
entire system.
When your kidneys ache and feel
like lumps of lead, and you have
staging pains in the back or the urine
is cloudy, full of sediment, or the
bladder is irritable, obliging you to
seek relief during the night when
you have severe headaches, nervous
and dizzy spells, sleeplessness, acid
stomach or rheumatism in bad weath
er, get from your pharmacist about
four ounces of Jad Salts take -a
tablespoonfgl in a glass of water be
fore breakfSst each morning and in
a few days your kidneys will act fine.
This famous salts is made from the
acid of grapes, and lemon juice, com
bined with lithia, and has been used
for generations to "flush and stimulate
clogged kidneys, to neutralize the
acids in urine so it is no longer a
source of irritation, thus ending urin
ary and bladder disorders.
_Jad Salts is inexpensive and can
not injure makes a delightful effer
vescent lithia-water drink, and no
body can make a mistake by taking
a little occasionally to keep the kid
neys clean and active.
Lively Town.
First Boomer"You fellows have no
gltW about you at all. why don't
you have photographs pf your town
taken, like we did? Are you ashamed
of it?" Rival Boomer"Na*. that
ain't the reason at all. I want you to
understand, young fellah, that our
town don't stand still long enough to
photographed."Terre Haute Ex
press.
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Did You Sec Tha Windo
Multicopy Carbo Paper
Typewriter Ribbons
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H.i3 y&c.(Xfoi$X)X$M(!)<x OCRMAN
i* MR.WILLIAM HOWARD TAYLOR
Calling cards, announcements, wed-
ding invitations, etc., will be printed, en-
graved or embossed right in our own plant.
Bring in your plates if you already have
them and we will fill your orders.
The Bemidji Pioneer Publishing Co.
Telephones 922 and 923 Bemidji, Minn.
of typewriter paper and carbon paper in the Pioneer
Stationery House? The store formerly occupied by the--
ppstoffice.
Small users of typewriter paper can now buy it in
tablet form. Instead of breaking boxes and keeping
loose sheets laying around there is a big saving in waste.
These tablets sell from 45 cents to 75 cents and contain
100 sheets.
The boxes contain 500 sheets and the paper comes
in 8^x11 size and 8^x13 size. The range in price runs
from $1.50 per box \o $3.50.,
did you ever see that advertised? Well, sir, nearly
every magazine you pick up contains Multicopy adver-
tising. When people are particular they always ask,
when given other brands of carbon paper: "Is this just
as good as Multicopy?"? Then, why not have Multi-
Our stock of papers is larger than any in north
central Minnesota. Your selection is made easily and
we know you will be satisfied.
Our line comprises the well known WEBSTER
STAR BRAND RIBBONS. There are none better
made. If there was we would sell them. The price is
$1.00. A coupon book, good for six ribbons, cost $5.00.
Get them fresh as you need them.
PIONEER STATIONERY (HOUSE
Old Postoffice Store Bemidji, Minn.
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livery cold, especially in a young
child, should be considered seriouB.
The possibility and the frequent oc
cjrrrence of complications such as mid
dle ear inflammation, inflammation in
one of the accessory sinuses of the
nose, broncho pneumonia, or lobar
pneumonia must always be a subject
for consideration and prevention if
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