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We mix paints toorder. Jones 0 W. 0. Young of Crookston is in the city. Henry Funkley is down from Blackduck. E. Ferguson has returned from Tenstrike. P. W. Rook of Red Lake Falls is in the city. A. T. Wheelock has returned from Grand Forks. Major Wilson left for Cass Lake this morning. T. E. King and wife of AVadena are visiting in the city. F. G-. Blair of Duluth is regis tered at the Markham. R. H. McCoy arrived from Grand Forks Saturday. A want ad in the Daily Pioneer is a winner. Try one. F. T. Hannafon and wife left for Long Prairie this morning. Why is it that Daily Pioneer want ads bring such good results? Furnished rooms for rent over the Boyer building. Inquire upstairs. 54-tf Edmund Whiting of Port Huron, Mich., is registered at the City hotel. Short mill wood for sale. $'2 per load, delivered. Crookston Lumber Company. 113-tf Mrs. Joseph St. German left yesterday for points in Wiscon ein and Michigan. A new and up-to-date line of Dress Goods arriving daily at the Berman Emporium. 121-tf J. H. French has returned to Blackduck, after stopping in Be midji for several days. Father Fournier of Red Lake county, on his way to Duluth, was in Bemidji today. Miss Alice' Mills, teaching school at Grant Valley, spent Saturday and Sunday in the city. The latest novelties in fall and winter style hats are now on sale by A. Barker, at O'Leary & Bowser. 123-tf It will pay you to examine the elegant line of Furs, sold at most astonishingly low prices.The Berman Emporium. 121-tf The smallest want ad is care fully read each clay by hundreds of people. A few cents' expend iture puts you in close touch with those hundreds. The youngest child of Hugo Hensei east of town died of brain fever and was buried Saturday afternoon by Rev. E. Ulbrecht from Cass Lake. A. Barker, of O'Leary & Bow ser, has just returned from the east with a full line of street and pattern hats. Opening will be announced later. 123-tf Miss Maggie McArthur and Mr. Lours Smith were united in marriage yesterday afternoon at the Brinkman hotel, the Rev. Mrs. Ted Smith officiating. Miss Barker and Miss Baker, of the O'Leary and Bowser store, have returned from the East, where they purchased an exten sive line of fall goods. 123-tf Button's Business Col logo, Crookston, Minn., gives a com plete commercial, shorthand and typewriting course in three months. Situations positively guaranteed to all graduates. Send for new catalogue. 121-24 Returned from the East. Mrs. Bermen has just returned from the east where she pur chased an extensive line of the latest novelties in ladies' wearing apparal, such as the newest in waists of all the nobby materials, suits, skirts and the best selec tion of ladies' furnishing goods ever shown in this city. Our millinery line is more complete than ever. New goods arriving daily. 122-23 DR. FOSTER DENTIST MILES BRICK BLOCK, BEMIDJI, MINN. AtlvYitisemertts inserted under this heading for on cent a word each in sertion, in adance noadvertisem^nt accepted for less than fifteen cents ELP_WA NTE ^FE M.E_ WANTEDA girl for general housework. Mrs. Ed. Kaiser. Call at residence. HELP WANTED-MALE WANTED Messenger boy at Western Union Telegraph of fice. 117-tf FOR SALE-MISCELLANEOUS ANYONE desiring- to buy a rotary sawmill f 20.000 feet capacity write "No. 300,'" care this office. FOR SALEShort mill wood. 2 per load, delivered.Crookston Lumber Company. 11-1-tf FOR SALETwo thousand cords of 16-inch wood. Wes Wright. :54tf FOR SALE1 room house and and two lots cheap if taken within two weeks. Inquire at this office.. 117-122 FOR SALENice buffalo coat. Call at M. G. Slocum's Music store. 105-tf FOR SALETwo houses with 50-foot lots, close to school al so 5-acre lot in city limits and 120 acres near town. Wes Wright. 93-tf LANG A CARTER, exclusive agents for Bailey's addition. FO"RSALE^Alildn_dT^f~vvn( cl J. P, Duncalf, 'phone num ber 91 -tf FOR SALE Cheap, a good seven room house and 51 )-foot lot. In quire of L. H. Bailey. 70-tf FOR RENT-ROOMS_ FOR KENTSuite of nicely fur nished rooms. .Mrs. Hattie Grant. 120-22 Rich and Varied Assortment. All New Styles for the Coming Season, Our display is unequaled in the entire northwest. Now is the time to make your selections. Liberal discount on orders placer now, and we keep goods till needed. Repairing, Remodeling and Dye ing a Specialty. Prices Moderate. References: R. B. Griffith and Sig Wolff, Grand Forks Fontaine & Anglim, Crookston. CHARLES Y0GEL at Sig Wolff's Department Store, Grand Forks, N. D. Laboring Men's Choice to Buy a Home. We htive several 40-acre tracts of good farm land .close to north end of Bemidji lake which we will offer for the next 30 days at 4.50 and S5 per acre terms, 10 per 40 cash down, balance $4 per month, with on or before rivilege in payments. Don't miss this chance. &E.LKCE IJAX I) CO., 108-lra Turtle River, Minn. On the Surface very ordinary goods may yeem just as at Tuotive as the better kinds, ft is the mak ers object to have '.hem appear good and herein is shown his skill. tn things are rj t only u-ood on the surface but good dear through. The jiiality of the Jewelry EASwe sell will cause ou to feel pleased ,',ij,arni the prices wil 1 be a strong induee- & ment to come atrain. Tfiese are recog nized by critical people as having very superior qual itv. .KBHRKER 5t3 THIRD STREET Wa nt Gola mn 10 PREVEN A WARjMAN SKIPS LOS POWERS EXERTING PRESSURE AT CONSTANTINOPLE AND SOFIA. SITUATION DAILY INCREASINGLY TERRIBLE TALES OF ATROCITIES IN MAC- EDONIA. ALBANIANS BURN VILLAGES AND MASSACRE THE INHAB- ITANTS. London. Sept. 13.The powers are evidently still exerting yrtdsure b/t at Constantinople and at Sofia to avert a Turko-Bulgarlan war. /ipparer/tly with some temporary juecess/but meantime an increasingly terrible tale of atrocities .committed in Macedonia shows -that the situation iedaily be coming aggravated. The news that a French squadron is going to the Levant is also held to he ominous, and this step by thv. French government will probably be follow eel by similar action on the part of other powers. The Turkish embassy in London in Its denial, issued. da..y of Turkish atrocities, yesterday deel -ed it to be "absolutely false that On^aum troops are burning villages, the tnuh being that it is the Bulgarians, who, at the approach of the troops, use explosives tn Burn the Villages before leaving them, and then accuse the Turkish troops of such abominable' deeds." The same communication maintains that, there were only eight persons killed and fifteen wounded in ihe af fray at Beirut, and that ina..y fugitives to Lebanon are returning to their homes. According to special dispatches from Constantinople the Iviu.ssutinans sacked Christian houses during the disorders at Beirut and startling ru mors of all kinds are current, includ ing a general massacre at Beirut and the imminent dynamiting of public buildings and the poisoning of the water supply at Constantinople. Fearful Atrucities. Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 13.The revo lutionary headquarters here has re ceived from Burgas news of fearful atrocities committed by the Turkish and Albanian soldier's in the vilayet of Adrianople. A squadron of Turk ish cavalry Intercepted and slaugh tered fugitives attempting to cross into Bulgaria. Sixty Bulgarians were killed within throe kilometers of the frontier. The .whole district of l.osen grad is filled with Albanian troops who are burning villages and Massacreing the Inhabitants. They have killed forty pei..ons and have slain fifteen others in the village of Kula, twenty-two old people in the village 1 Evekieer. eighteen families at. Taspeta and twenty families at Asmadgik. Eighty families fleeing from various villages toward the fron tier have been literally cut to pieces by Turkish soldiers during the last few days. Hundreds of old men, women and children of the district of Losen grad have crossed the frontier. A large hotly of infantry and cavalry with three mountain batteries, at tacked an insurgent band in the moun tains above Vasiliko. The insurgents awaited the Lear approach of the troops and then hurled bom lis at them. After two hours' fighting the Turks were forced to retire with trie lo^s of twenty men killed and many wound ed. The losses of the insurgent force was slight. BURGLARS USE CHLOROFORM. Entire Family Made IIIOne Daugh ter in Serious Condition. Wabash.. Ind.. Sept. i i. Burglars chloroformed the entire family of Chris Harnish. farmei living near Dura. They Pansacked the house, se curing considerable money^ahd jew.= elry. As a resuh of the chloroform Miss Lulu Harnish. a daughter, is in a serious condition, and the other mem bers of the family are sufi tint from the effect.- of it. SHOT HIS SI3TER. Young Boy Uses His New Toy Rifle Wt'.h Fatal Effect. Chicago, Sept. 13.Stewart Johnson, aged eight ..'ears, shot and killed Ins: sister Mabel, sixteen y^ars old, at their home last night. Th boy had been given a rifle as a birthday present, and was playing with it when it was dis charge:!, the bullet entering his .sis ter's heai t, British Squadron May Come. London, Sept. l.T Tro- presa asso ciation announces that the British home squadron will be s-'tit to the United States on a courtesy visit in return for the American action in send ing a squadron to Portsmouth. Plans of Kings. Rome. Sept. 13.It is reported here that when the czar comes to visit King Victor Emmanuel Oct. 24 h will find the king ready to agree to the unfon of Servia and Montenegro should Kftig Peter decide to abdiegto. TURKS SrAJGHIER fllOITlVES THE DEVASTATION WAS GENERAL ~*r TERRIBLE HAVOC WROUGHT BY STORM WHICH SWEEPS BRITISH ISLES. GROWS WARM LOSS Of ll fl IS VESY HtAVY LLOYDS REPORT OVER FIFTY SERIOUS CASUALTIES TO SHIPPING. ALL COAST TOWNS SUFFER AND DAMAGE IN HE INTERIOR IS HEAVY. London, Sept. 13, While the de tails of the havoc wrought tr. the storm which raged ove the British i Isles yesterday are mcointiLeUs, the I reports coming in from all parts of the United KiirgdoiTi slraw tint tire devas tatlon was geSieral, and it is feared that the h'.^s ni life is much greater i than win- a' first supposed. i Lloyds nli 'atry report over fifty serious easualt es to shipping. All I sorts of N vsels wi'iv caught in the [gale and rhari fojindercd, several with [their crews A largo tuunbw of minor craft is 1" lievetl to be lost, and the bodiee washing ashore continue to swell the lis oi fatalities. The gale sprang up with sudden fury enty-two miles an hour. This continued for several hours All the roast towns suffered and the agricultural regiorfs in the interior report Incalculable Damage owing to the late harvest. The beau tiful hop gardens ol Kent have been ruined and in many [daces t!m valleys of the Thames and the Severn are 'submitted, manv sheep and cattle beiug drov. n. For smne time telegraphic carinnuni "cation was stopped, and the land tines are still interrupted. The telegraph i companies report that the wires audi I-pules are down everywhere Great numbers of Ine trees in the parks of rL6hdon and other cities wen: torn up by the roots or stripped of their branches find the list of minor damage and casualties is amazing In addition to the dea!':.- from drowning, reports from the inland give many fatalities resulting from various causes incident to the storm. Francs Also Suffers. Paris. Se.pl \JL Kepons from Havre. Cherbourg and Dieppe show that the heavy gales along the coast caused widespread damage. Casinos and handled of bath lug houses at Ihe Bummer resorts were swept away. A 'schooner in the harbor of Havre foundered. Telegraphic communication with London and throughout France was in terrupted. SPLINTER IN THE BRAIN. Illinois Banker Killed in a peculiar Manner. Edwarclsville, 111.,-Sept. 13. William Neimeyer of Mount. Olive, banker ano merchant, died at bis home yesterday from injuries received in a peculiar manner. Thursday Mr Neimeyer stopped on trie sidewalk to glance at a newspaper and became so absorbed I thai he did not notice the approach of a runaway team. The wagon they were dragging struck against a telegraph I pole near him with such force? as to drive from it a large splinter, which struck Mr. Neimeyer in the 'y and fpenetrated the brain. ESCAPED FROM QUARANTINE. I i St. Louis Man Employs Special Car to Get Away From Muskegon. St. Lotus. Sept 13 Dreading to have his two young daughters quar antined away from home. a,tid acting before rfhe report that they had scarlet iovcz reached lh" authorities, Louis I' I Aloe 01 this city i lannetd the trip from i-a summer resort near Muskegon, Mich, oi: special schi ilule Tie- Wa- !-.]r '-(j v,'.i h- Id four hours for i hi :i private and fehey arrived 'here on Lheir Kpeeial train at ouon'the following day FRANK JAMES SUES. Says Phjy Adds to the Disgrace of His Nc-.rne. Kansas City, Mo., Sepl 13 Frank .!ar: who. with Coi.a Voi.iiwi.r is tour ing the country with a Wild West show, v" terday brought suit against the OIIIis theatei and the owners of company playing "'I'h'' James Boys I in ilispuri" for ?35J)00. The ejx_ harfdlt -ays tin play adds to the flis grace of his nam* and holds him up to public censure. Burglar Is a Negro. Redfield, S. D.. Sept. 13. It ha.- been ascertained that the party who com mined the robberies at Turtoo a few nights a tro, is a negro who has been making headquarters at Watertown. He has been brought here for trial. Workman Gets Terrible Fall. Superior. Wis., Sept. 13.Jack Matt son, an employe at the shipyards here, fell head first thirty feet off a ladder. was paralyzed by the shock, but is still alive. Chances for his recovery (ire caid to be about even. uj&wjmuaz&z&eysiiSgmmKrrMi I 4 REMOVAL S A Borders to match at the same price per roll INGRAINS PLAIN-AT 8 CENTS PER SlgfjfE ROLL \Ve have the only paper trimmer in the city, and trim our paper free of charge Room Moldings. Plate Kails, Paints. Oils, Varnishes. Kalsominhm, Etr. Phone 20 31 1 Bemidji Avenue W JONES E. L. NAYL 0R Funeral Director and Embalmer FLOWERS. CASKETS, COFFINS, ETC. PERSONALHTTENDHNCE RTFUNERHL Telephone Night Calls, 12-158 TELEPHONE ORDERS DIRECT TO US FIRST CLKSS SAMPLE ROOM CHOICEST BRANDS IHC'S MINT CEO. M'TPtCCHRT, PROP. CHOICE MINES, LIQUORS RND CIGARS BELTRRMI HVE., BEMIDJI. MINN. CHEAP LOTS iwttfi?m!mRy-w,r Anyone desiring a cheapo lot in any part of Bemidji, call on JOHN F. GIBBONS Local Agent for the Bemidji Towns!TA Improvement Company LA 1,000 Rolls of Wall Paper while it lasts at 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 1 8 and 20 cents per double roll XT