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THE DAILY PIONEER
EDWARD KAISER, Publisher
Enterad in the.ipjstofflee at Rjmidjl. Minn,
as second class matter.
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON.
Official County and City Paper.
A "PENNY WISE AND POUND
FOOLISH" POLIJCV.
Tae way the state throws away
the people's money is a blushing
shame.
In a foolish, futile]afctempb]to
enforceable gums laws the state
yearly throws! away- suffi3ient
money to digjlforty] miles of
ditches for drainage purples.
The northern portion of Minae
sota can-never 03 davelopaJ uitil
extensive drainage canils are
made by the state. This work
will never be done until the peo
ple of the swamp district (within
the state's northernmost tier of
counties) mike an united demind
for justice.
We need ditches rather than
giai3 laws, and they cost less.
T03 state appropriabas]$10,000
per annum to enforce game laws
that for practical beneat are not
worth three cents. T, the usual
appropriation another $15,000
will probably be added this year,
which will come in the form of
license sold to hunters. This
makesatotal of $55,000 to "throw
at the birds" and moose.
This sum is $10,000 more than
has been expended on the total,
drainage work of the statea
workof thegreatestpublic benefit
and necessity.
According to the report of the
state drainage commission to the
legislature there are now thirty
six miles of drainage ilfcjhes
completed in the state, thecostof
which has amounted to only
$44,953.60. The total number of
acres banefited is 83,000, and the
bemfifcs to the redeemed land are
estimated at $3, per acre. The
total benefits to the land amount
to $248,000.
At that rate, the money to be
used by the fish and game com
mission this year would, if used
for ditching purposes.' reclaim
103,750 acres. This would mean
available homes of 160 acres each
for 648 families.
The stateswamp lands of Itasca
and Beltrami counties can be
drained at even less expense and
with greater practical results.
In many parts of this section a
few miles of ditches rightly
placed would drain much larger
areas than has yet been accom
plished in other sections with
four times the labor.
Think it over.
Thousands of acres of rich land
that only needs drainage to make
it of greatest agricultural value.
Hundreds of homeless farmers
looking for cheap land.
The state doling out -a few
dollars to carry on "experi
ments" in ditching the Red River
valleystate too poor to ditch on
a large scale.
The state squandering $52,000
to make] a farce of the useless
game laws.
Think this all over, Itasca vot
ers, while you flounder through
state swamps with a stomach full
of bacon! Then send men to the
legislature to dig ditches and not
to build game parks.Big Fork
Compass.
DISORDER IN A CHURCH.
Thairs Are Thrown and Fists and
Canes Freely Used.
Paris, May 19.The threatened anti
clerical manifestations in the Paris
churches did not take place Sunday.
The only serious trouble occurred in
the afternoon at Belleville. When a
priest entered the pulpit of a church
there a number of free thinkers be
gan shouting: "Enough! Who au
thorized you to speak?" Members of
the Society of Catholic Youths, who
were present in strong force, there
upon attacked the manifestants with
their fists and with canes. The melee
quickly became general, chairs were
thrown and women began shrieking.
The police were called in, separated
the combattants and expelled those
who had started the manifestations.
Five persons were arrested and sev
eral were injured. The arrival of two
funerals helped to restore order.
COMMIT OUTRAGES
KURDS, THE OLD ENEMIES OF
THE ARMENIANS, UP TO
MISCHIEF AGAIN.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN VICTIMS
ARMENIANS COMPLAIN BITTERLY
OF THE OPPRESSION OF
THE TROOPS.
MANY ARE KILLED AND W01NDED
IN ALBANIAN RESISTANCE TO
ADVANCE OF THE IMPERIAL
TROOPS,
Constantinople, May 19.The report
.hat many men on both sides were
killed or wounded during the engage
ments which constituted the Albanian
resistance to the advance of the Im
perial troops on Ipek has been con
firmed. The Albanian chiefs explain
that the encounters were an outcome
of a misunderstanding. In the course
of an audience with the German am
bassador here last Friday, the sultan
said that with the occupation of Ipek
a general pacification would ens.ue. A
number of Albanian chiefs at Ipek,
however, refuse to submit, and their
families are being held as hostages.
A letter received here from Brzer
oum describes several outrages by
Kurds in the Bazi district. For in
stance Kurds invaded a house where
a wedding was being celebrated, ex
tinguished the lights, expelled all the
men and maltreated the women.
The Armenian inhabitants of the
district of Alashguerd, continues the
letter, bitterly complain of the op
pression of the troops quartered in the
villages along the frontier.
Russia Takes a Hand.
Sofia, Bulgaria, May 19. The at
tempt made by M. Petkoff, leader of
the Stambouloff party, to form a
new*cabinet has failed. The Russian
diplomatic agent here had long audi
ences with Prince Ferdinand Saturday
and Sunday.
Non-Partisan Cabinet.
Vienna, May 19. The changes in
the cabinet at Sofia are regarded here
as indicating a change in the foreign
policy of Bulgaria. Prince Ferdinand
is said to have been displeased with
former Premier Darieff's handling of
Macedonian affairs during his absence,
and to have declined all responsibility
for certain steps taken by M. Daneff,
including some promises made to the
Russian representative at Sofia. It is
understood here that the Bulgarian
cabinet will be non-partisan. In view
of the critical situation in the Balk
ans all parties are likely to support
the policy of Prince Ferdinand in the
hope of ending the present uncertain
.condition of affairs, particularly with
regard to Bulgaria's relations with
Turkey.
FOUND MUTILATED BODY.
Gruesome Discovery of Two Men
While Fishing.
Warsaw. Ind.. MBV 19.While fish
ing tne Tippecanoe river yesterday
Frank Hall and Clyde Hymer found
the mutilated body of a man. The
trunk and legs were in a wooden
box from which part of the cover had
been washed away. The head and
arms, naked, were found in the water
near the box. The box with the body
was found in shallow water near the
shore at a secluded place along the
river north of Warsaw. No one thus
far has been able to identify the body,
which is fairly well preserved. The
police and coroner, who are working
on the case, are inclined to think the
body was shipped to Warsaw from
some city and hastily placed in the
river.
PRINCE TUAN IS IN HIDING.
Fiction That He Is About to March on
Pekin Disposed Of.
London, May 19.The Pekin cor
respondent of the Times says a letter
has been received from Bishop Ber
myn of Mongolia, who has made a
tour of the Ordos country, Kan Su and
Alashan. He visited the homes of
Tung Fuh Slang and Prince Tuan, but
did not ser them He found them to
be living in concealment with a few
adherents and fearful of their own
safety. "This letter is regarded as im
portant," says the correspondent, 'as
it disposes of the fiction that Tung
Fuh Slang and Prince Tuan are pre
pared to advance on PeVin."
REWARD FOR STOLEN PURSE.
Peddler Leaves $40,000 to a Woman
From He Stole a Pocketbook.
Utica, N. Y., May 19. As recom
pense for having stolen her pocket
book in 1888, George Todd, a miserly
traveling peddler, has bequeathed to
Mrs. Peter Jordon of Brockton, Mass.,
$40,000. Todd had always been looked
upon as penuiless, but after his death
a wallet was found in his pocket con
taining a bank book and securities
worth more than $40,000. T"his was
accumulated through niggardly sav
ings, the scantiest of living, suffering
in cold weather for want of proper
clothing, going without food rathor
than buy. Todd had for fifty years
carried a tin box from one end of the
country to the other, always selling
something and invariably begging his
meals and lodgings. For the last ten
or fifteen years he had used a wheel
barrow, and his tall, gaunt figure had
become a familiar object in all pt\rts
of the country.
FAMINE RETURNS.
Cold Spring Prevents Recovery From
the Swedish Calamity.
Lulea, North Sweden, May 19.Gov.
Berg8trom of Norrbotten has forward
ed to the government at Stockholm an
appeal for an immediate appropriation
of $100,000 for the relief of the fam
ine sufferers of the-'Norrland. He
states that the situation has ta)cen an
unexpected turn for the worse. -Owing
to the cold spring- the -lar-mere iave
been unable to find any grazing for
the remnant of their cattle in the
ice-covered meadows. Emigration
from the famine districts is increas
ing.
RUSSIAN PATROL IS AMBU8HED.
Frontier Guard Trapped by Persian
Robbers in Forest,
Berlin, May 19. A telegram re
ceived here from Lenkoran, In the
government of Baku, Russia, says that
a patrol of a Russian frontier guard
has fallen into an ambush set by
Persian robbers in a forest. A Rus
sian captain and two noncommissioned
officers were killed. The same even
ing the robbers plundered the village
of Werawul. During the, month of
April a Russian officer and eight sol
diers were killed by brigands in the
same district.
VENEZUELA DIGS UP.
Pays Germany the Sixth Installment of
$63,000.
Caracas, Venezuela, May 19.The
Venezuelan government Saturday paid
to Germany, through the German'lega
tion here, the sum of $63,000, being the
sixth payment stipulated in the pro
tocol. The seventh payment, due next
month, is already in the governmental
treasury. The reports emanating
from Willemstad, Curacao, that the
Venezuelan rebels have lately been
victorious over the government troops
are declared to be false.
Kelly Is in Canada.
Montreal, May 19.Daniel J. Kelly,
who is wanted as an important wit
ness at St. Louis in the baking powder
scandal, has been a guest at the
chateau de Frontenac for the last few
weeks. He declines to talk.
Bishop Starkey Dead.
East Orange, N. J., May 19.Bishop
Thomas Alfred Starkey of the Episco
pal diocese of Newark, died yesterday
at his home here from old age. He
was eighty-four years oid. Mrs._ Star
key was at his bedside.
BOLOED BY PRISONERS.
Capt. Clough Overton Makes a Fatal
Mistake.
Manila, May 19.Capt. Clough Over
ton of the Fifteenth cavalry and Pri
vate Harry Noyes, who were killed
May 15 -at Sudatlai, Mindanao, met
their death at the hands of insurgent
prisoners whom they were guarding.
Their companion In this duty, Private
Hartlow, was wounded at the same
time. Capt. Overton's troop of the
Fifteenth had been scouting in the
department of Misamis, Mindanao, on
the trail of the insurgent leader,
Flores. The cavalrymen captured
fifty of Flores' followers and confined
them in a house. Capt. Overton and
three men remained to guard the pris
oners while Lieut. Cameron continued
in pursuit of Flores. The prisoners
suddenly broke out of the house where
they were confined, secured their
bolos and rushed the four Americans
on guard. Capt. Overton was slashed
with a bolo and bled to death. After
escaping the insurgents gathered and
renewed the attack on the Americans.
Capt. Overton is criticised for having
kept three men only on guard and for
having neglected to destroy the in
surgents' bolos.
ENGAGE IN FIERCE FIGHT.
Three Men Are Shot and Probably
Will Die.
Muskogee, May 19.Trainmen com
ing in from Westville tell a story of a
fierce fight at that place. Three men
were shot and probably will die. The
men who did the shooting went, into
a railroad yard and forced and engi
neer and brakeman to cut their engine
loose from a local west-bound passen
ger train. They climbed on and start
ed to run the engine out of the town
and into the brakes of the Ozark
mountains along the track twenty
miles from this city. Officers and
citizens intercepted them at a cut on
the Pittsburg & Gulf, however, and
captured them.
B'NAI B'RITH IN SESSION.
Annual Convention of the Jewish Or
der Begins in Omaha.
Omaha, May 19. The annual ses
sion of District No. 6 of the Jewish
order of B'nai B'rith convened at
Temple Israel in this city yesterday.
There are present 100 delegates from
Illinois, Iowa. Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas. The
sessions yesterday were given up to
the trasaction of business and last
night a literary session at which there
were a number of speakers of promi
nence was held.
FOUND IN THE RIVER.
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RAPID AND GOOD FIRING.
American Naval Gunners Prove Them
selves the Best on Earth.
The gun crews on our warships are
doing some extraordinarily accurate
Bhooting of lata On the Illinois, fir
ing at a -stationary target while the
vessel was moving, a score of twelve
hits out of thirteen shots was made
with her thirteen, Inch guns at a dis
tance of five miles. The gunners of
the Iowa, steaming at twelve knots
past a stationary targit, made thirty
hits out of thirty shots with six-pound
er rapid fire guns. This feat was
accomplished by three gun cre^a. each
having ten shots. It beats ali rec
ords. At San Francisco the submarine
torpedo boat Grampus discharged a
torpedo at a range of 350 yards and
struck a stationary target squarely in
the center. Anything like this accur
acy of fire during a naval engagement
when as a rule one shot in twenty
makes a hitwould make the Ameri
can battleships the terror of the seas.
Stimulates Hatching of Fish.
Yves Delaje finds that gaseous stim
ulants fertilize as well as solids or
liquids, for starfish eggs hatch when
placed In carbonated waterthat is to
say, a solution of carbonic acid gas.
^eing replaced in sea water the eggs,
on the following day, become convert
ed into larvae which swim very active
ly. From 30 to 40 per cent of eggs
fertilizedor apparently fertilized
in the natural way hatch. With the
carbonic acid method the proportion
is 100 per centthat is, all the eggs
hatch. These carbonic larvae are
plump, strong and lively. Many of
them have lived several weeks. It
remains to be seen whether they will
develop into adult starfish.
^pmewnat Ambiguous Text.
Down east they are telling a good
story on a young foreman of a print
ing establishment. He is an expert
In his chosen^work and a ver" popu
lar young man in the social gather
ings of the small city he calls home.
Recently he has been showering at
tentions upon a minister's daughter.
This devotion is a bit new and the
other morning with a couple of his
friends he sallied forth to hear the
father of his inamorata preach The
text turned out to be: "My daughter
is grievously tormented with a devil,"
and since then life has been made
miserable
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Mur-
Man Who Supposed Himself a
derer Commits Suicide.
Pittsburg, May 19. The body of
John T. Miller of White Ash, Pa., who
last Wednesday at Braddock shot and
seriously wounded Mrs. Minnie Guen
ther, was fished out of the Mononga
hela river. Miller was jealous of Mrs.
Guenther and fired two bullets into
her. Thinking she was dead he went
to the river, walked into the water
and shot himself through t'9 head.
Mrs. Guenther has a fair chance of re
covery.
the young foreman.
A MUCH-MIXED FAMILY.
Relationship That Would Puzzle a
Philadelphia Lawyer.
This is the way a Washington
county man figures out his case: "I jA
married a widow who had a daughter.
My father visited our house frequent
ly, fell in love with and married my
stepdaughter. Thus my father be
came my son-in-law and my step
daughter my mother because she was
my father's wife. My stepdaughter
had a son, and was, of course, my
brother, and at the same time my
grandchild, for he was. the son of my
daughter. My wife was my grand
mother, because she was my mother's
mother. I was my wife's husband's
grandchild at the same time, and as
the husband of a person's grand
mother is his grandfather, I was my
own grandfather."Augusta Journal.
BEASTS BORN IN CAPTIVITY.
Those* That First See the Light in
Bristol, England, Are the Best.
The birth of a litter of lions at
Haslemere Park, a private menagerie
in England, leads one of the English
papers to note a fact that has for long
puzzled biologists, and that is notori
ous among those who Interest them
selves in the study of wild beasts in
captivity, this being that nearly all the
lion, tiger and leopard cubs born in
that country have a cleft palate, which
prevents* them from being properly
suckled, and usually leads to their
premature death. But, beyond this, a
more astonishing fact stilland one
that also greatly puzzles biologistsis
that which determines that of all the
wild animals born in ^England those
born in Bristol are regarded as the
finest and as the most likely to live.
So well known is this to professional
showmen and menagerie keepers that
"Bristol born" Is a recognized brand in
tiie wild animal trade.
AN AUSTRALIAN OLD-TIMER.
Writer Tells of Droughts That Have
Devastated the Country.
Rolf Boldrewood has been writing
on "Draughts in Australia," inspired
thereto by the fearful devastation
wrought in a large section of the
country. He is an authority on the
subject, for it was a long drought in
the 60s that reduced him from af
fluence to penury, changed him from
the wealthy owner of many flocks and
herds Into a stipendiary magistrate
and coroner and led to story-telling as
a supplementary source of income.
His recollections cover seventy years.
He remembers when flour was $500 a
ton in Sydney in the 30s in conse
quence of a drought. The Sydney
boarding schools, at one of which he
was being educated, sent their pupils
home, being no longer able to bear
the cost of feeding them. After a re
view of the droughts of seven decades
he reaches the conclusion that "all
droughts and records of dry years fail
in comparison with this one of 1902."
Pessimism In the Sunny South.
Glory Is but a transient .dream that
gives color to a sleep bespangled with
illusions of greatness a mirage, glit
tering, but unsubstantial, hovering
above the oasis in the desert of life
at whose fountain many a weary trav
eler would quench his burning thirst
that he may press on to grander
heights.Roanoke, Va... Times.
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