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The Daily Pioneer
PUBLISHED EVERY-
AFTERNOON.
EDWARD KAISER. Publisher.
Entered In the postofflce at Bemtdjl. Minn.,
as second class matter.
Official County and City Paper.
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS
Copyllfor changes of advertisements in
The Daily Pioneer mit reach this office by
10 o'clock a. m. in order to insure the
appearance in the issue of same day.
CANADIAN MOVEMENT.
The St. Paul Daily News has
the following very good editorial
on the Canadian,.movements
Viewed from an economic
standpoint, the United States
will gain as much as it loses by
this Northern movement. Can
ada affords this country an cutlet
for surplus population. That
means much to a country which
is almost face to face with the
European problem the neces
sity of providing an overflow for
a congested population. With
the disappearance of our free
lands, Canada will provide this
outlet. What we will gain in this
particular we will lose, of course,
as Europe loses, by the emigra
tion of our strongest and fittest.
Politically this movement is
significant. While the commer
cial boomers of Canada point with
pride to the new blood from the
States, the politicians view the
situation with alarm.
The politicians see in the move
ment ultimate annexation. Of
the new settlers in Canada last
year, 35 per cent came from the
United States and only 25 per
cent from the British countries.
This year, it is believed, 70 per
cent will come from the United
Stales. What does this mean?
It means that every settler
from the United States will be a
missionary for annexation. The
American will not be contented
until he sees the Stars and
Stripes floating over his head.
Then, there are the French-Ca
nadians. They have not been in
tensely loyal to Great Britain.
They never will be. They are
increasing more rapidly than the
Canadian-English. The Ameri
can born and French descended
will join hands and give the sep
aratist movement its greatest
impulse.
The logic of events will do the
rest.
There is no reason in the na
ture of things why a line should
be drawn through the North
American continent, putting
asunder what God hath joined.
The divorcement cannot last.
Let our young men go to the
North Land by the thousands.
It will be ours some day. And
the day is not so far distant as
some of us may think it is.
AMERICAN foreign commerce
for the fiscal year amounted to
$2,445,610,417.' This is an in
crease of $100,570 over the year
previous. Imports were $610,-
049,054, an increase of $409,569,-
573. The exports show an in
crease of 188,059,900.
PETITIONS FOR ELECTION.
New Telephone Company Is Tired of
Delay by City Council.
f\'oux City, Iowa. July 17.Weary
of waiting for the city council to act
upon the proposition for a franchise,
which was submitted to the council
some months ago, the Sioux City Tel
ephone company, an independent con
cern made up of local citizens, has
decided to petition the mayor for a
special election for the people to vote
upon the company's proposition. The
outlook is that the Bell company,
which has a monopoly here, will have
opposition inside of a few months. It
is hoped to get the independent com
pany established this year.
Telegraph is Closed.
Colon, July 17. Telegraph com
munication between Buena Ventura
and Inland stations of Colombia will
be closed until further notice. The
discussion of A canal treaty is pro
ceeding in the Colombian congress.
Thirty People Hurt.
Liverpool, Eng., July 17. The
Southport express train, crowded
with passengers, jumped the track at
.Watertoo. Several persons were
killed and from twenty to thirty in
jured.
BATTLE ON ORINOCO RIVEB.
Venezuelan Government Troope and
Rebels Lined Up for a Conflict.
Soledad, Venezuela, July 17.Yes-
terday morning the remainder of the
government war vessel*, with four
small craft In tow, arrived off CluMad
Bolivar. The torpedoes placed by the
revolutionists In the Orinoco river did
not explode when the fleet passed
them. At 3 o'clock yesterday after
noon firing was heard north of Cludad
Bolivar. Shortly before 6 o'clock
Tuesday morning the government
troops, commanded by Gen. Rives, the
first lieutenant of Gen. Gomez, were
under arms about fifteen minutes'
march from Ciudad Bolivar, ready to
begin an attack on the city. A strong
battery of guns had been established
on a hill overlooking Cludad Bolivar,
and was preparing to open fire on that
part of the city, where all the ammuni
tion recently received by Gen. Ro
lando, the revolutionary commander,
is stored. It has. been learned that
many women and children escaped
from Ciudad Bolivar before the ar
rival of the government troops. Among
those were many foreigners.
GREAT BRITAIN EXCITED.
Hears That United States Has Cap
tured Lme of Her Islands.
London, July 17.According to the
press association, a curious rumor
was current in the lobby of the house
of commons last night that .some
United States warships had seized, off
the coast of Borneo, about twenty
small islands, which, it is said, belong
to Great Britain, and had planted the
American flag upon them. It is prob
able that a question on the subject
will be asked in the house.
Washington, July 17.No informa
tion that any islands near Borneo have
been seized by a United States battle
ship has come to the state department.
A plausible explanation of the report
ed occurrence, it is said, is that the
commanding officer in the Philippines
sent one or more of his vessels to
hoist American flags over some isl
ands near the coast of Borneo, which
were purchased by the United States
from Spain subsequent to the treaty
of Paris.
SELECT CUP DEFENDER.
Official Trial Races Will Follow An
nual Ciuise of New York Yacht Club.
New York, July 17.Columbia, Con
stitution and Reliance will accompany
the New York Yacht club fleet on the
annual cruise, for which the rendez
vous will take place to-day at Glen
Cove, and the Eastern Yacht club will
also be guests of the Ney York Yacht
club. A special cup has "been offered
by James Gordon Bennett for steam
yachts and races will also be run for
the Astor the Lysistrata and the East
ern Yacht club cups. The official trial
races will follow and the defender of
the America's cup will then be chosen.
THE MARKETS.
Latest and
Quotations From Grain
Live Stock Centers.
St. Paul, July 17. Wheat No. 1
Northern, 87@88c No. 2 Northern, 86
@87c No. 3, 84@86c no grade, 82@
83c. Corn No. 3, 46 l-2c No. 4,
44c no grade, 40@4.c. RytNo. 2,
48@49c. BarleyMalting grades, 45
@50c feed grades, 39@44c.
Minneapolis, July 17. WheatNo.
1 hard, 88 1-4c No. 1 Northern,
87 1-4c No. 2 Northern. 86 l-4c.
Duluth, July 17. Wheat No. 1
hard, 88 1-2c No. 1 Northern, 87c No.
2 Northern, 85 1-2c flax, $1 oats,
36 1-2&37c rye, 50 l-2c barley, 35
51c.
Milwaukee, July 17. Wheat No.
1 Northern, 89 89 l-'c No. 2 North
ern SS88 1-2c. RyeNo. 1, 54 l-2c.
Barley No. 2, 5S@60c. Oats, 40c.
CornSeptember, 50 7-Sc.
Chicago July 17. Wheat No.
2 red, new, 79 l-2@80c No. 3 red, new,
78 l-2c No. 2 hard winter, new, 79c
No. 3 hard winter, new, 77 78c No. 1
Northern spring, 83^ No. 2 Northern
spring. S2c No. 3 spring, 76 78c.
CornNo. 2, 50 1-2 50 3-4c No. 3,
50@501-2c. OatsNo. 2, 37c No. 3,
3235 l-2c.
Sioux City, Iowa, July 17. Cattle
Beeves, $4 4.90 cows, bulls and
mixed, $2.754.40 stockers and feed
ers. $2.75 4 calves and yearlings,
$2.50 3.80. Hogs, $5.25@5.40 bulk,
$5.30.
Chicago, July 17.CattleGood to
prime steers, $4 9 5.40 stockers and
feeders, $2.754.60 cows, $1.50@4
heifers, $2 4.50 Texas-fed steers,
$3.504.40. HogsMixed and butch
ers, $5.705.90 bulk of sales, $2.65
5.85. SheepGood to choice wethers,
$3.75@4.25 fair to choice mixed, $3
3.75 Western sheep, $2.50@4.15 na
tive lambs, $4 6.25.
South St. Paul, July 17.Good to
Good to choice steers, $4.25@5 good
to choice cows and heifers, $3.25@4
good to choice stock steers, $3.25
3.50 good to choice stock cows and
heifers good to choice milch cows,
$35 45. HogsPrice range, $5.40
5.65 bulk, $5.455.50. SheepGood
to choice shorn lambs, $5.75@6.25
good to choice yearling wethers, $4.50
5 heavy, $4.254.60 good to choice
ewes, medium weight, $3.85 4.10
heavy, $3.50@3.85 culls and stock
ewes, $2.503.
Chances for Treaty Improve.
Washington, July 17.Dr. Thomas
Herran, the Colombian charge, yester
day received advices from American
friends in Bogota that the chances for
the ratification of the treaty have im
proved in the last few days.
Cow Costs Thousands.
Utica, N. Y., July 17. Sadie Vale
Concordia, the ccw which holds the
world's record as a milk and butter
producer, was sold at auction yester
day to L. J. Fitzgerald of Cortland for
$2,200.
ORE LAND3 LEA8ED.
Oliver Company Takes Over State
Land in the Hlbbing District.
Duluth, July 17.The steel corpora
tion has acquired the state lease to
the new mine which was shown up on
state land iu the Hlbbing district, de
scribed as the east one-half of the
southeast qparter of 6-57-20. The op
tion for the lease which was held by
D. M. Philbin, assistant general super
intendent o. the Great Northern, has
been assisted to the Oliver Iron Min
ing company. The consideration was
upward of $50,000 and the Great
Northern road will haul the ore.
DOG DISCOVERS SUICIDE.
Son, Attracted by Barking, Finds His
I Father Hanging to a Tree.
Black River Falls, Wis., July 17.
Mr. Harmer, attracted by the barking
I of a dog in the woods near the house,
found the body of his father hanging
In a tree. Pete Harmer was a soldier
I of the Civil war and was seventy-five
years old. Ill health and despondency
was probably the cause of suicide.
DROPPER IS ALL RIGHT.
South Dakota Regents Exonerate Him
From All Blame.
Huron, S. D., July 17. The South
Dakota state board of regents has
passed on the charges preferred
against President Garret Dropper of
the state university at Vermillion, and
has wholly exonerated him from all
accusations made that he drank beer
and smoked cigars.
POSTOFFICE ROBBED.
Safe Blown at Elkton, S. D., and Con
tents Taken.
Elkton, S. D., July 17.The safe in
the postoHice here was blown up with
dynamite and robbed of its contents.
The monetary loss is not known ex
actly, but is said to be about $200 in
cash and stamps. The building was
considerably wrecked by the explo
sion.
Lockjaw Claims Eight.
Cleveland, July 17.Charles Hines,
nine years old, died of tetanus, the re
sult of an injury from a toy pistol.
This makes eight deaths from lockjaw
since July 4.
Parish Improvements.
Winona, Minn., July 17St. Thomas
pro-cathedral parish of this city, at a
mass meeting, decided to improve the
church property by the expenditure of
about $8,do0 this summer. This will
provide a separate steam heating
plant and an addition to the school
building.
Mean to Enforce Saboath Laws.
Sheriff Cummings of Lewiston Me.,
has undertaken a partial enforcement
of the old blue laws Dy compelling the
confectionery shop owners to shut up
on Sunday. These storekeepers are
charging discrimination and now
threaten to serve papers upon -the
sheriff in an action which will force
him to carry his crusade even further
and enforce to the very letter all the
famous old purity statutes. This will
mean, as is their purpose, that busi
ness and labor of all kirds must
cease upon the Sabbath, ana even the
newsboys will be driven from the
streets and the electric cars prevej^
ed from operating.
Rising American Oarsman.
A young man with the poetic name
of Fernand Demoruelle, son of a for
mer police commissioner of New Or
leans, will be the representative of
the Young Men's Gymnastic club of
that city to compete In the trying out
of the American oarsmen on Harlem
river, New York, on the occasion of
the Harlem regatta. If he succeeds
in passing he will be one of the com
petitors for the diamond sculls to be
warded at the Royal Henley regatta
in England. Mr. Demoreulle has made
an enviable reputation at the Cres
cent city as an oarsman.
I Specialists in Demand.
One of America's most successful
oculists, Dr. Critchett, a specialist, re
fused $35,000 to go to India to oper
ate on a powerful native prince, and
Dr. Gelezowski of Paris- got $25,000
for ridding the second son oi' the late
shah of Persia of a troublesome eye.
A certain duchess paid 25,000 to a
London specialist for eliminating a
trouble which seriously threatened
her beauty. Dr. Sheldon of New
York, for curing the daughter of a
Standard oil magnate, received se
curities worth in the open market
$87,000. Who would not like to be a
apeciallst at these figures?
A Chinese Innovation.
Some foreign clothing has been tak
en into the palace at Pekin for the
emperor and empress dowager to try
on, so that they may come to some
decision regarding its introduction in
official circles. Should the emperor
and empress dowager sanction the
wearing of foreign costumes by the
court an unprecedented departure *tll
have been taken. In no way is the
conservatism of the Chinese shown
more strongly than by their adherence
to their national dress, even wheE
living in Western countries.
Women Want Palace Cars.
Society women in New Orleans have
begun a movement to have the street
railway company put on palace cars
for their convenience and comfort.
They say they can not ride in the
present cars when they are in after
noon or evening dress, as the cars are
dirty and there is no telling who their
eeatmate may be. They do not mind
paying extra fares for the use of ex
clusive cars.
THE ORIGIN OP "FUDGE."
Expression Now Omnon Is Not Easy
to ttiace.
Where did that very common wort
"fudge" come from, and what does it
really mean? The antiquarian of the
Boston Journal sajg first appear
ance of the word fct Mterature is the
description of the cell of Lady Blarney
and Miss Carolina Wllhelmina Amelia
Skeggs on the Vicar of Wakefield's
household: "But previously I should
have mentioned the very impolite be
havior of Mr. Burchell, who, during
this discourse, sat with his face turned
to the fire, and at the conclusion of
every sentence would cry out 'Fudge!'
an expression which displeased us all,
and in some measure damped the ris
ing spirit of the conversation." Does
the word come from the provincial
French "fuche" or the Low German
"futsch"? Or shall we trace it to the
story of 1700 quoted by the elder
D'Israeli: "There was, sir, in our
times, one Captain Fudge, who always
brought'home his owners a good cargo
of lies, so much that now aboard the
ship the sailors, when they bear a
great lie told, cry out, 'You fudge It?'"
QUAY STOPPED THE PANIC.
Brave Act of Pennsylvania Senator
In Civil War.
A great many persons do not know
that Senator Quay won a deserved
reputation for bravery in the civil
war,""said Dr. Edward Bedloe at
the Waldorf-Astoria. "It was in the
charge upon Marye's Heights where
Quay was a volunteer aide de camp.
When an effort was made to rally the
breaking line he noticed a backward
movement among the men.
*"Dn it, boys!' he cried, 'what
are you dodging for? If I can sit on
my horse and the bullets go over my
head, they certainly can't hit you.'
His presence of mind stopped the
panic"New York Times.
A Colorado Goose Story.
The telegraph columns of the Chi*
eago Inter Ocean are responsible for
one of the most interesting stories
that have come out of the West,
John Gridley is a ranchman- at Grid
fey, Col. His principal product is
hogs, but he has several hundred
acres In wheat His wheat has suf
fered greatly from wild geeae, and
neither scarecrow nor shotguns help
ed him out. So he stuck a lot of
stakes in his fields and on each stake
he fastened a fish line and fish hook,
the latter baited with a pancake. The
first morning he had twenty-seven
geese. That afternoon he got four
teen and the next day he got sixty
two. He fed the geese to his hogs,
which seemed to like the unusual
food.New York Commercial Adver
tiser.
Pierpont Morgan's Success.
Pierpont Morgan, who celebrated
his sixty-sixth birthday ifccently,
achjevjd^his greatest business suc
cesses since he reached the three
score mirk. He first became promi
nent in thfj financial world about
twenty .-eaws ago, when he went to
Europe and successfully sold $25,000,-
000 worth of New York Central stock.
Yhis made the old financiers gasp.
By this piece of work Mr. Morgan
won tho "isting friendship of the late
William H. Vanderbilt and incidentally
cleared $1,000,000 for himself..
Missed His Calling.
An Italian has been discovered on
a fruit ranch at Riverside, working
for $1.50 per day, who proves to be
an artist in sculpture of the highest
rank, and he has been set to work
completing the stucco finishing of the
interior of the Carnegie library build
ing. Ii.o name is Luigi Ianni, and
the only words in English he can
use are "You bet." He is now at
work on some Corinthian columns of
original design that are marvels as
works of art.Los Angeles Herald.
International Rifle Shoot.
In the competition under the man*
agement of the English National Rifle
Association for the Palma trophy at
Bisley, each team must have eight
members, who shall use the national
military arm of tl.e country it repre
sents, each member to have fifteen
shots, without artificial rest, at 800,
at 900 and ai 1,000 yards, the bulls-eye
being thirty-six inches across.
Nearly Drowned in Cider.
Leo de Mille, a young farmer of
Geneva, N. Y., was just starting to
empty some cider from one barrel in
to another when the bung flew out,
striking him in the eye and render
ing him unconscious. The contents
of the barrel followed and the young
man was nearly drowned before he
could be rescued.
Veteran Actress in Splendid Health.
Fanny Herring, the actress who
charmed the audience of the Old Bow
ery Theater thirty or forty years ago,
celebrated her seventy-first bithday
recently. After nearly fifty years on
the stage she retired to her farm in
Connecticut, where she now lives in
the best of health.
Columbia Is No More.
Crookston, Minn., May 14. The
writ of ouster has been served on the
Columbia county officials, and that or
ganization has ceased to exist. The
papers were served yesterday by Sher
iff Sullivan of Polk county.
His Suicide Succeeds.
Hastings, Minn., May 14.The man
who attempted suicide near Etter a
few days ago died last evening at the
hospital here. He said he was Edward
Coffey and was of Mexican and Ameri
can parentage.
DUTIES OF "MY" DOCTOR.
Phyeiolans of Millionaires Must Ba
Up to Date.
Such a man as Rockefeller or Mor
gan is a life study for a physician,
and the man who can keep in perfect
order a human .machine of vast im
portance in the community is worthy
of Schwabian compensation. The
big insurance companies are willing
to employ a physician at $100,000 a
year to keep either of the gentlemen
mentioned alive ten years longer.
"My" doctor in such a case must
know what medicine to prescribe
whenever Morgan or Rockefeller
sneezes, frowns, swears, limps,
groans, growls, thunders, kicks over
the waste basket, smokes too many
cigars, drinks too much water, eats
too heartily of corned beef and cab
bage, talks too much to his Bible
class, charges too small a commis
sion for promoting a trust or reor
ganizing a railroad, telegraphs sena
tors to bold up anti-trust legislation,
or commit* any other little indiscre
tion that billionaire flesh is heir to.
He must be familiar with the slightr
est symptom and ready with his dose.
New York Press.
FOG AS A BEAUTIFIER.
New York Society Woman Divulges
Mrs. Langtry's Secret."
Mrs. Langtry attended a reception
in New York last week and roused
much envy among fashionables who
were present because of her beautiful
complexion, which is really a marvel.
Subsequently a rather faded beauty
exclaimed: "How on earth does she do
it? Why, she's 50 if she's a minute."
Another grande dame, who spoke as
though she knew, gave this explana
tion: "It's Jersey* her birthplace. You
know Mrs. Langtry spends six or eight
weeks every season op her farm there.
She wears a short skirt and thick
bootssometimes no boots at all
goes about In a sunbonnet and lives
like a farm gfrl. The fog of the island
teas th* -oat"
oAMfc SACrv f-CR HIS OWN
How Wilkinson Was Outwitted by a
Brainy Tramp.
When Wilkinson went to his office
one day last week he felt calm and
contented. He hadn't any need to
worry about his wife's loneliness any
more, for he had bought a capital
watchdog for her.
But, alas! when he arrived home
his wife met him with the deplorable
new3 that the dog had gone.
"Eh!" said Wilkinson, "did he break
the chnin, then?"
"No." she replied "but a great,
ugly-'ioking tramp came here and
acted so impudently that I let the dog
loose. But instead? of tearing the tramp
to p'eces the nasty dog went off with
him."
"Great Scott!" said Wilkinson, "that
must have been the tramp I bought
him from!"
Danger In Big Guns.
Recent accidents disabling some of
our best battleships offer rather start*
ling evidence of the weaknesses that
are Inherent in vessels of this type.
For years inventive genius has been
applied to contriving guns of bigger
size and longer range than those used
before, and each increase has added to
the demands laid upon the strength
of guns and turrets and their mobility
in action. Inevitably the line of safe
ty has been passed And the result is
shown in accidents which have caused
loss c* life, besides exposing the para
doxical delicacy of. massive machin
ery.Philadelphia Nortii .-njoerjean.
The Modern Race After Weallh.
The mania for money-making ha3
developed into downright madness.
And the explanation is easy. People
see that it is fast becoming the chief,
if not the only, standard of respecta
bility. When Talleyrand was asked if
he was not ashamed to sell his influ
ence in making treaties under the
first empire he replied: "My friend,
do you not see that there are but two
things left in Francemoney and the
guillotine?" We are rapidly ap
proaching the period in our own his
tory when there will be but two things
left in Aaiericamoney and contume
ly.Louisville Courier-Journal
Bell Tolled by Electricity.
The 22-ton bell at the Sacre Coeui"
church in Paris is tolled by electrici
ty. A single choir-boy can thus do the
work which formerly took five men.
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Decorating Floor Finishing.
Granite Floor Finish
WALL PAPER and PAINTS
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