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AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
Supreme Court D,sposes Of const

Supreme Court. Disposes Of Consti.
tutionsI Question.
Washington. June By a vote OF
five to four the supreme court yester.
day decided another important ques-
ton involving the application of the
Federal Constitution to our new pos,
sessions. The case gave the oppor-
tunity for the expression of some adj
ditional opinions by members of The
court as to whether the Constitution
followed the flag. 1t involved the le-
gality Of the conviction ofsan alleged
murderer in Hawaii, who had not been
indicted by grand jury, and had been
convicted by a majority instead Of all
the trial jury, after the insular pos
sessions had been annexed to the
United States, but before it was for
mally taken in as a territory. The
Constitution of the United States pro-
vides that there shall be Indictment by
a grand jury and that the trial jury's
verdict shall be unanimous; the Law OF
Hawaii required no grand jury indict-
ment and permitted majority of the
trial jury to convict Congress in 1893
agreed to the annexa tion of the Ha-
waiian island by joint resolution
which provided that laws not contrary
to the Constitution of the United
States were to remain in force until
congress otherwise determined. The
question presented to the supreme
court was whether the alleged MIR
derers conviction by majority Of a
jury while Hawaiian laws still applied
was conuary to the American Consti-
tutional provision that the jurys yer
dict must be unanimous. The court de-
cided that under the circumstances
the conviction by a>Inajority of the
jury was legal. The scase~Mas the
most important decided by the gu
preme court since the decisions in the
Porto Rico and Philippine cases.
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WRIGHT MUST GO BACK.
United States Supreme Court Refuses
Writ Of habeas Corpus.

Washington, June 3. : The United
States supreme court yesterday re-
fused to grant writ Of habeas corpus
in the case of Whitaker Wright who
is in custody in New York awaiting eX-
tradition on charges of fraud made IN
England The opinion affirms the de-
cision of the United, States circuit
court for the Southern district of New
York, which held that the crime al
legged against Wright is an extradlta-
BILE ofTense under the terms OF the
treaty between the United =Sta.es aud
Great Britain.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-06-03
Rivers Are Recedinn,

Des Moines, Iowa, June Both the
Des Moines and the Raccoon rivers
continue to recede rapidly, the stage CT
the Des Moines being below twenty
feef. The East Des Moines business
section flooded Sunday is free from
water and conditions are rapidly be-
coming normal in this lowlying whole
sale and manufacturing district. The
various relief bureaus are caring for
all the sufferers.
Miles Of Territory Submerged.
Keokuk, Iowa, June 3.-The Egyp.
tian levee, five miles below here. is
broken in twenty different places and
water is running through the streets
of Alexandria. Territory ten by twen.
ty miles in Clark county, Mo, bottoms
is submerged. Inhabitants on the
roofs firing guns for help. A govern
ment boat and men have been sent to
the scene from here. No loss of life
has been reported. Corn and other
crops have seen destroyed.
Five Hundred Homeless.
Des Moines, Iowa, June 3.-Advices
from Eddyyille, fifty miles below here
stated that every house in the town
is actually under water and that bust
ness houses are submerged from one
to six feet Five hundred are home
less. Relief is being sent from Oska-
loosa.
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MASKED MEN BLOW UP DAM.
Destroy chen9watana Property Near
Pine CITY


Pine City, Mimi June 8. The
Chengwataaa dam was blown out at
] 80 O'Clock yesterday morning by q
party OF disguised men. who, after
oyerpowering the two watchmen, eN-
ploded five charges of dynamite, de-
stfeNed-two Of the main gates. ggreater
damage being averted by the failure
cf several charges TO explode, The
watchmen We're used rather roughly
after they surrendered. and their lives
were threatened should they reveal
the identity of any Of the dynamiters.
Eeoling against the dam has run high
amongst .armers for months past, and
several antldam meetings have been
held Of late, where the abolition of the
dam had been strenuonsly advocated.
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GOES TO AN ASYLUM.
SteagaId Is Not Permitted to Return
to IJIinniS

Sioux Falls. S u, June 3, Judge
Jones' OF tEc state crcait colussyester-
day declined to Iiberate Henry \.
steagalol. who was on Saturday night
oeqnitted, by a jury Of the murder Of
Frank Bowen at Bcnclare. He was re-
manded to the custody Of the sheriff,
with the recommendation that the
county board Of insanity examine into
his present mental condition The in
sanity board examined him and de,
ciaed that he would be an unsafe per-
son to be at large He VIII, therefore,
be sent to the state hospital for the
insane at Yankton. Relatives In South
ern Illinois had agreed TO care for him
II he was given into taeir custody.
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HEART BLOWN OUT.

Wealthy Young Man Turns Burglar
and is Shot Dead at First Attempt.
Wheeling, w. Va, June. 3. = Albert
Hodgkiss, aged tWenty-six member
of prominent family, was shot as ne
entered the home of Charles Klevis,
engineer on Mozart Park incline. Well
dressed, with a pistol and bottle OF
chloroform in his pocket, he was pro-
ceeding quietly to the family,s sleep
ing apartments when ,Klevis fred at
him with both barrels of a shotgun,
blowing out his heart. Hodgkiss mad
just been married. His aged father, in
a hospital for treatment to remove
blindness, is heartbroken and may
die. Hodgkiss had plenty of money,
and his turning burglar cannot be ex-
planned.
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Rov Accidentally Killed.

Appleton Wis, June 3.--A fatal ac-
cident occurred on W Flm Helms
farm, a few miles norti of this city.
Mr. r..z.-ns was engaged il loading
some wood and his little fve-year-old
son was playing around the wagon. He
had about filed the rack when the
team searted forward, and, striking
the little boy, he was thrown down.
The heavy load passed over his body.
He lived nine hours
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Shot His Father.

Bloomington, H., June 3.-The po-
lice have arrested Darwin Seymour a
youth of sixteen, charged with assault
with intent to murder his father, E. l..
Seymour, well known resident Of
this city The elder Seymour was
shot three times The boy declares he
thought his father was a burglar The
police say the shooting was inten-
-tional
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PREMIER is DISMISSED.
Opposition Leader Called Upon to
Eorn a Cabinet.

Victoria. Is. G., Dune 3. Col. Pryor
was dismissed by Lieut.. Gov. Sir
Henry Jolly yesterday and later Rich
ard Mcbride, member for Lela and
leader Of the opposition, Was called
upon to form a ministry. The dis
connection With the contract to supply
the cable for Shimney creek bridge.
which was supplied by his firm The
opposition alleged wrongdoing in tho
manner in which the contract was Sc
cured.
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WAS coLD.BLooDED.

Men, Women and Children Murdered
by the Turkish Troops.
Constaplinople, June 3-In spite of
official statements to the contrary, the
consular reports maintain that there
We're no revolutionists at Smerdcsh,
south of Lake Prcsba, May q, ut the
time the turkish troops attacked hat
place, and assert that 200 of the IA
habitants, men, women and children
were massacred in cold blood by
Bashi Bazouks The porte has ap-
pointed commission Of inquiry to IN
vestigate the consular statements.
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one HUNDRED
ARE KILLED
TERRIFIC TORNADO STRIKES THE
CITY OF GALEsvlLLE,
GEORGIA.
LIVES CRUSHED OUT in A WINK
BIG COTTON MILLS DESTROYED,
BuRYlNG PEOPLE UNDER
THE RUINS.
MANY BUILDINGS BLOWN DoWN
TWO HUNDRED BUILDINGS DE-
MoLIsHED AND MANY 9TH
ERs DAMAGED.

gainesville, Ca, June 3.-Just after
the noon hour yesterday the city OF
Gainesville was struck by terrl1lc
tornado, killing probably one hundred
persons, unroofing the City hotel, 9th
er large buildings and destroying the
Gainesville cotton -.lills. The greatest
loss of life is reported in the destruc,
ton of the cotton mills, where about
eighty persons are reported Killed ana
scores injured. Eighteen persons
were killed in the city between the
center Of town and the railroad sta
ton. where four large stores were
blown down. The storm had driven
many persons into these stores for
refuge. There were
Five Hundred Persons
at work in the cotton mill when the
tornado struck. The mill was three
story building. The first story was
left standing but badly wrecked. The
second and third floors were com
pletely demolished, and the employees
were caught under the wreckage ana
mangled. 1t is estimated that there
are at least seventy-fve bodies 4nder
the wreckage Of the third floor, and IT
is not known how llany persons on
the second floor of the building were
killed The Southern uepol Was blown
down. The Gainesville iron works
we're demolished and several people
Perished in the Wreck.
The Gainesville cotton OIL mills we're
blown down. The Old Piedmont hotel,
now used as a school and apartment
house. was razed and half dozen or
more people were killed in it. The
Richmond hotel was wrecked and sew
eral perished along with it. One hllD'
dred and twenty-five cottages, a
school house and church were blown
away in the negro section ofthe town.
Five brick stores on the main street
were swept away In all 200 buildings
are demolished here.
The tornado went from Gainesville
to New Holland and it is believed
many people We're Killed ther2
Neither the Arlington hotel hor
Brenau college was in the track OF the
tornado, and they are therefore safe
with their occupants.
The property losses, it is estimated,
will reach about s500,oo0.
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Old Settler Dies.

Madelia, Mimi, June 8. = August
Bensel. aged seventy. is dead. De-
ceased was one of the early settlers Of
Madelia coming here in 1858. He
carried the mail across the country in
1859 and 1860 A widow and five chill
dren mourn his los.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-06-03
RED RIVER SURVEY.
Nal. Hoxie Is Taking the Levels for
the Government

Fargo, N. d., June 3.Maj. Hoxie of
the government survey is taking the
levels for the survey Of the Red river
valley ordered by the government
some years ago. and for which the tri-
State Drainage association has been
working for some months. Congress
appropriated $4,000 for the purpose
nd the matter seemed to have been
orgotten for some months till recent
citation started the department
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-06-03
PosToFFicE LOOTED.
Night Marshal Knows Nothing Of the

Night Marshal KNOWS Nothing of the
Thieves Operations.
Clear Lake, Wis, June 3.--The post
office at this place was burslarized
Friday The safe was blown open and
looted. probably 5000 in stamps and
coin taken. There is no clue to tho
burglars, who are thought TO be out
side parties. Who have operated along
this line for the past year. The village
has a night marshal, but he seems to
have been undiSturbed.
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from scores of towns in Kansas last
night report the foods abating, though
rain is still falling in some places.
Improvement in Nebraska.
Lincoln, Neb., June 8. - The flood
situation is greatly improved in Lin
coin The water in the western low
lands is between five and six feet be
low the high water point of Saturday,
and some Of the drowned-out residents
have moved back to their homes not
withstanding the intermittent showers
during yesterday. A short distance
outside Of Lincoln conditions are still
pad and railroads are making little Ell
fort to run trains on regular schedules.
Yesterday was the fifteenth day, with
one exception, of rainfall.
Crops Completely Destroyed.
Lincoln Center, Kan, June 3.-The
Saline river is from two to five miles
in width and crops in this valley are
completely destroyed for distance OF
at least hundred miles. In Lincoln
county alone the loss will sum up to
several hundred thousand dollars, an,.
may exceed a million. The western
part of Lincoln Center is submerged
and it was only with the greatest dif-
ficulty that the residents were res.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-06-03
EGAN's BODY FOUND.
Railroad Superintendent Who Was
Lost While Hunting.


Lost While Hunting.
Spokane. Wash, June 3.-A private
dispatch received here yesterday an-
nounces that the body OF Benjamin T.
Egan Of the Great Northern railway,
VAS found yesterday morning. Mr.
l1gan, who was superintendent of tile
Kalispell division, started into The
mountains near Bolton, Mont. for
deer hunt early last November. He
was never seen again Searching
parties spent weeks in looking for
him without result This spring the
:earcb was resumed and the body was
found near Lake Five yesterday morn,
Ing, a short distance from where he
was last seen alive.
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Making Heroic Efforts

TO cnecK the threatened calamity. IN
this work they are we'll aided by the
health boards of the state and county.
An emergency board of health has
been appointed by the mayor to CO.
operate with the city physician in
quelling the disease which will result
from the flood The board organized,
electing DR.. l.. Y. Grubbs president.
Dr. Grubbs says that the sanitary con-
ditione of North Topeka when the
water shall go down will be in such a
condition that the place will not be fit
to be inhabited for some months to
come. He says he thinks the best
plan would be to get tents from the
state and establish a tent city on some
plot OF, high ground
Provisions of all sorts are becoming
scarce in Topeka No freight trains
have entered the city for several days
and large quantity of groceries were
destroyed in North Topeka There
will not be enough for the people to
eat if this situation lasts much longer.
1t is charged that certain of the mer-
chants have
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-06-03
Train Will Live

Stamford. Conn. June 3. = 1t is re-
ported at the isolation camp that Geo.
Francis Train will get well. although
as the disease progresses his eccen-
tricities become more pronounced, and
1t is hard to keep him quiet.
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Identity of Suicide.

La Crosse, Wis, June 3. = The girl
who mysteriously conmitted suicide
at Madison was found to be Mae De
Grote of Spring Valley, Mimi, for
mer student here.
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Many Moors Were Killed.

Saida, Algeria, June Sit Is official
ly stated that the Moorish tribesmen
had fifty-six killed and twenty wound
ed in their attack on M, Jonnart, gov
ernor general of Algeria, near Figuig,
Saturday
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-06-03
FAMILY SEES FATAL ACT.
Woman Drinks carboIic Acid and
Quickly Passes Away .~--.-s

Quickly Passes Away. - =
Prairie du CHEN, Wis, June Mrs.
George Vogelsange, aged about fifty.
committed suicide by taking carbolic
acid at her home in Bridgeport. Her
husband, two sons and daughter We're
present when the act was committed
She drank the contents OF a two-ouncs
phial before they were aware of what
was happening and died ten minutes
later. No motive is assigned.
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Gasoline Starts a Blaze.

Larrabee, Iowa, June 8. = The e1'
plosion of a gasoline stove set fire to
the home of c. ]. CASTOR, just north Of
town. The building and all 1t con-
tanned were burned No insurance.
The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-06-03
REBELs ARE ACTIVE.
Have Party Of Two Hun
dred French Citizens Surrounded

CnTHeSe rfdVe d y u y wo TfurI-
dred French Citizens Surrounded.
Paris, June 8. dispatch from
Saigone. capital OF h'renchlndo-China
says Gov. Gen. Beau has been de.
tanned in TonQuin by the serious con-
ditions prevailing in the adjoining
Chinese province Of Yun-Nan where
the rebellion is spreading. Two hun
dred French ciJi2gsegs are surrounded
at Yum Nan-fu andsthe Mons-tse rail
road works are interrupted
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Formed a Combination

70, ,uv pur7cs7 On Uon,ru1lrns rne
prices on provisions. A prominent
miller said:
I'VE do not intend, and have not in
tended, to raise the price of -four, no
matter what the grocers are thinking
of doing We do not wish to make
any money out of a calamity"
1t is reported that a local commits.
sion frmebought up all the potatoes in
town last Saturday and advanced the
price so cents a bushel.
1t will be at least a week before
freight trains from the east can enter
Topeka, and perhaps longer. An ef-
fort will be made to secure stock of
provisions from the smaller towns to
the south. sz s
The people of Topeka have responded
Loyalty to the calls for supplies and
shelter for the needy and the home
less. Up to the present time the relief
committee has had no trouble at all to
supply what clothes are necessary and
to feed all the hungry.
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LOSS OF LIFE
EXAGGERATED
NOW THOUGHT THAT NOT MORE
TWENTY-FIVE ARE DEAD
AT TOPEKA.
EXCITEMENT STARTED RuMoRs
MANY WHO WERE SEEN TO FALL
INTO THE WATER LATER
TURN UP ALIVE.
GREATEST DANGER IS SICKNESS
GREATEST DANGER IS SICKNESS
WATER is SLOWLY FALLING AND
THE WORST is THOUGHT
TO BE OVER.

Topeka, Kan, June 3.-Water in the
Kansas river had gone down fourteen
inches at o'clock last night and was
falling at the rate of half an inch an
hour. From Manhattan comes the re-
port that the water there is slowly
falling. At Wamego the same condi-
tions prevail and it is now reasonably
certain that the waters here will
steadily recede. 1t is admitted by the
police that the number .f dead is un-
known. Reports Sunday which placed
the dead at 200, have .sen exagger-
ated. In the excitement all sorts OF
rumors have come in. Men have seen
persons fall into the water and taken
it for granted that those persons we're
drowned Often the persons turn up
alive and tell of rescue. Some OF
these persons are still missing. 1t may
be days before a trustworthy list is
made. 1t is now thought that not more
than twenty or twenty-five are dead
The distress of the sufferers Is al
leviating. Those who are stlll III
North Topeka are receiving food and
they are in no danger unless 1t be
from sickness.
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Danger Of contagion.


There is a possibility that there sill
be spread Of contagious diseases.
People of all classes are huddled to-
gether in houses not large enough for
them, and on all sides they are sur
rounded by water. Doctors and medi-
cal relief cannot reach sufferers to any
great extent. Yesterday afternoon a
case of diphtheria was reported from
the woolen mill in North Topeka.
where there are large number Of
children. There is also case or two
Of scarlet fever among the refugees on
the North side. Hundreds of cases OF
measles are prevalent among the chill
dren, who are exposed to cold and
dampness. The possibility Of an cpl
demic is the most serious thing the
city must contend with. The phys
icians Of the city, under the direction
Of the city health board. are
Fergus County argus., 1903-03-18
OWEN MEREDITH.
ADinner Speech of His That Elected
HOwls of Deriston.

Dinner speech of His That Elected
Howis of Derision.
1 once sat at a banquet given In Lon
oon by Wilson Barrett to Lawrence
Barrett, says a writer In an English
magazine. Earl Lytton presided. a
curled, oiled. effeminate, supercilious
Top. he had Roman tragedy to sell to
Wilson Barrett. That was why he
came.
he eulogized Wilson Barrett In a
speech. Il believe" he said, that Mr..
Barrett won some success with piece
called consulting his notes. The Lights
OF London suppose 1t was the work
OF some dramatic hack" George Sims
sat facing him and never said word.
Then his lordship went drawllng on:
Il next find on the list of Mr.. Barretts
successes something called The Silver
King Here again | know nothing OF
the authorship. The names of those
dramatic carpenters do not interest
me-" At which Henry Arthur Jones
glared and flush came into the face Of
poor blind Henry Herman.
FINALLY" said Lord Lytton, "Mr.
Wilson Barrett has placed on his
boards what he humorously calls Ro-
man tragedy. / refer to 'Claudian,' at
tributed to one W. G. Wills, Of whom l
have never heard" This was too much
for the banqueters. All of them were
personally acquainted with Irving's
pet poet. the modest Wills. So they
howled derisively.
And Earl Lytton's tragedy. produced
q month later, was dismal failure.
Fergus County argus., 1903-03-18
SCHOOL LIBRARIES.
Trustees Have the Money to Their
Credit and Should Act.

Lewistown, March Il, 19O3.-The
library fund is created by taking five
per cent of the county and state
school fund, and is 10 be taken from
the school fund now in the county
treasury. It should be invested as
soon as possible. so that the childrer
may have the benefit.
The school directors with the aid.
If they wish II. of school clerk, teach
er or county superintendent must Sc.
lcct the books from a list sent our by
the state superintendent The order,
containing the price and title Of each
book, should be given TO the clefh,
who sends for and receives the aCoks
Book cases must be provided. The
library will be increased each year
and the books must receive the hes. oi
care. Very truly
ADA MEYERSICK.
Fergus County argus., 1903-03-18
Superstition About

In the Monferrato II is h. '"cd TIT
all the cats who wander ,.lagt upoI
the roofs during the month of Febru-
airy are really witches. whom 1t is law
full and even necessary to shoot. A
German superstition has it that II n
black cat sits upon the bed Of a sick
man 1t is a presage of his death. while
II after his decsase 1t is seen upon his
grave 1t is enough to arouse doubts as
to the locality to which his soul has
departed. In Hungary 1t is thought
that cats generally become witches be-
tween the ages Of seven and twelve
years. A French belief concerning the
cat is that II the animal be carried In
a cart and the wind blow from 1t to
the horses they Immediately fall tired.
II any part Of the horseman's clothing
be made Of cats skin. the horse will
feel as though 1t carried a double bur-
den. In other countries, however, su-
perstition is favorable rather than ad-
verse to the cat. A variant of the ia
nous story Of the Kilkenny cats is
found In Piedmont the cats being.
however, replaced by wolves.
Fergus County argus., 1903-03-18

in partnership with his son Charles
purchased the cheese pox factory To-
Gated here and for the past year was
engaged in the manufacture OF cheese
boxes.
Mr.. Shufelt was taken sick in No
yember, and although the best medi-
cal aid was summoned, it seemed that
nothing could be done for him and
death came as a relief to his suffer
ings. He was loved by all who knew
him and even the little children visit,
ed with him during his last illness.
The deceased is survived by a
wife. two children, three brothers and
two sisters; one of his sisters, Mrs.
X. w. Noble, being a resident of Lew
istown.