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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-05-11

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There are none to lament the
fact that the north country cheese
factory has begun to cheese it.
What's a farm without name
suggest the Rush City Post and
it is good suggestion.
It's said that County Attorney
Rowe Of Crookston hopes to be
hard Rowe for Congressman
Steenerson to hoe this fall.
The Roseau Queen is afloat and
transportation upnorth no longer
waits on Jim Hills procrastinat-
ing steam cars.
BY the time Bemidji's new
hotel completes the round OF the
north country newspapers it will
cost 500, 900.
He lays his stories up to
Aninias but their cleverness
would reveal Doc Rutledge Of the
Cass Lake Voice, the Richards
Record and various twin cities
dajlies even though he neglected
to sign his name
The Akeley Tribune begins to
Judge the quick and the dead
down that way. Volume | Mum
Der / promises justand upright
Tribune.
Plant a tree and make it stick
is a motto that should hang in
every farm home Of the Red
River valley.
Northome, Kelliher and Hovey
have preacher who can walk as
well as falkland thinks nothing OF
an eleven mile stunt to make an
evening service.
There are boys in Brainerd
that needed a spanking. They
got it.
Crookston4 has a charter COM
mission sans politics.
The seventeenth Of May will
have nothing to complain Of
Roseau.
The Gully Sunbeam is under
a cloud and Editor Hunt com
plains that leap year is not what
it has been cracked up to be.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-05-11

BY the time Bemidji's new
hotel completes the round OF the
north country newspapers it will
cost 500, 900.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-05-11

WANTED For U. S. Army able
bodied, unmarried men be-
tween ages Of 81 and 35, citi-
zens of United States, Of a
good character and temperate
habits, who can speak, read
and write English. For in
formation apply to Recruiting
Officer, Miles block, Bemidji,
Mimi.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1904-05-11

He lays his stories up to
Aninias but their cleverness
would reveal Doc Rutledge Of the
Cass Lake Voice, the Richards
Record and various twin cities
dailies even though he neglected
to sign his name.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-31

and he enabled to modify unsuitable terms which
about to be agreed to by the local commander
The cable operators in the Philippines have a much
time of it than many of their brothers III the
service of the land lines At all the cable stations
attachments of troops stationed, and the operators
comparatively safe from attack. On the land
lines of the stations, especially those where
messages are relayed, are most isolated The White
operators have great difficulty in securing proper TODD.
and practically cut off from companionshp Some
OF The stations districts where the natives have
not been subdued entirely. They tell of one operator
whose station attacked. but who stuck To his key
until he had summoned help from two army posts
not far away. As lie sounded the alarm the bullets
wlstling through the matched hut in which the
station was located
The extension of the military cable system to
Alaska authorized by Congress IN March, 1908,
when appropriation of four hundred cIghtY-tNc
thousand dollars made. The one cable ship
under military control the Burnside, undergoing
repairs China at the time. The cable route between
Ska and Seattle unsurveved Neither cable
instruments tackle could be secured in America,
but had to be made to order in Great Britain. The
limited appropriation properly restricted the cable to
domestic manufacture, but owing to its length of
thirteen hundred miles II was larger PROJECT
than yet had been undertaken While made near
New-York, the cable had to he transported some
sixteen thousand miles around Cape Horn These
some of the difficulties which the Department
faced, to say nothing of the necessity of training
selected of the Signal Corps in the complicated
profession of cable telegraphv.
Work in Alaskan always dangerous, the
signal office we'll knew from their first attempt at
cable laying The steamer Onzaba was wrecked
totally in September 1900, while laying short cable
between Nome and St Michael This cable saved
with the greatest difficulty by the Alaska Commercial
Company, and finally opened IN October, only to be
broken by the Polar ice-paCk
In spite of the difficulties there delay. The
Burnside was summoned from China, and brought
along the Of Filipinos, who by this time had
become exper. cable handlers The cable tanks were
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-31
SUNDAY MAGAZINE 70, JULY 81. 1904

officers of the Burnside. Every time have tried
To hurry ANYTHING for every day saved have lost
three When it is remembered that cable property
IS supposed to last fifty years and that its life depends
largely its being manufactured transported and
laid in the proper scientific manner, 1T seems poor
economy to endeavor To gam perhaps couple Of
months in the beginning
The Alaskan cable is the first deep-sea cable lie
made of india rubber gutta percha having been used
in the past The makers OF the safety cable as the
one now being laid is known claim less cost and greater
efficiency Gutta-percha costs from two to two and
half dollars pound while the compound Of INDIA
rubber used in this instance costs only fifty cents
pound.
While laying cables in the Philippines, officers Il
the Signal Corps made interesting investigation as To-
the gutta-percha industry and the prospect OF deve
opment Never before has there been such -
submarine cable extension all the world and thc
importance of the product is increasing continually.
While the use of ndia-rubber IS advancing tantlv
gutta-percha still is preferred for longdStance cables
The importance of the product perhaps BE- appre-
ciated bv stating that advance of fifty cents
mound would have increased the original Of mater
als for the transpacifc cable by over million
dollars
The officers found that while gutta-percha Was
plentiful in the southern islands, IT hardly known
as a Philippine export, except by the few foreign
dealers who have guarded their secret we'll Valuable
quantities gathered by the natives. who sell for
fraction of the ruling market price Chimes
chants The CeestialS ship II quietly to Singapore.
where enormous profits are realized. The Singapore
dealers take good that no knowledge OF The real
value of gutta-percha shall reach the natives
The natives in gathering this forest produce
facilitate their work ruthleSsv DESTROY the bv
cutting them. instead of extracting the gum iron
mcisiOns the standing tree, which Is the II ope-
manner. The officers recommend that the Govern
take steps to prevent the telling of trees and TO-
supervising the gathering of the product The English
found this necessary Straits Settlements and Sng-
pore half century ago when hundreds of thousands
of trees. including whole forests destrovci
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-31

filled at Seattle and the Burnside started north The
first work was repairing the cable between Juneau
and Haines Lynn Canal, which had been iaid
hurriedly and by improvised means and was IN bad
condition.
The Burnside not long in meeting its FIRST dis
aster When heavily loaded with cable and a night
run of Juneau it INTO a submerged iceberg
1t injured badly and leaking
"Wi she float ~ the chief cable engineer asked the
navigating officer
She II float right enough" the answer
Then we II Law cable from her INTO Juneau, sad
the signal officer 1t Will tighten the work IN case
have unload the cable tanks.
Accordingly buoy was anchored at sum Dunn
and cable laid from the injured ship INTO Juneau,
distance of forty miles. Through the reSourCe uncSs
of the engineer department the boat finally was repaired
at Sitka
The of winter storms at hand by tins
time and cable operations had TO be suspended after
the cable board the Burnside had been laid and the
end anchored off the Queen Charlotte Islands
The work has been resumed now, and Will be finished
possible; but 1t will not be many weeks
before Stka will he direct communication with
the of the world all American wire The
completio of the cable will reduction IN the
from Sitka and Juneau to Seattle. Over the
Canadian lines. which at present afford the only
of communication ten words cost FIVE dollars
and forty The Government line VIII send
messages for cents a word, with two words the
minimum for a single message.
The cable Will not pay more than half the running
expenses for the first few years unless the expectations
OF the Department exceeded greatly 1t was not
installed a money maker but military necessity
1t is impossible estimate the benefit that 1t will
be in building up commercial intercourse
One thing the officers OF the Signal Corps have
learned from their experiences Alaska and the
Philippines is that cable-layng operations cannot be
hurried Success be obtained only from the
closest and careful work and continuous observa-
ton, from the time the cable IS made in the factory
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-12
TWO RELICS OF ROYALTY
Ex-Queen Li1iuOknlan of nwa
and Her Son, Prince Cupid, at
the Worlds Fair.

st. Louis, May 10.-Two more were
added to the list of royal p~ersonages
being entertained in st. Louis in con-
nection with the Worlds fair when for
mer Queen Liluokalani of Hawaii, and
her son, former Prince Cupid, now
known as Joseph Kalanianole, arrived,
Monday morning, and took a suite of
eight rooms at the Inside Inn as guests
Of the Worlds fair. In the party are
the wife Prince Cupid and several
friends.
Queen Liliuokalani and Prince Cupid
have been in Washington during the
winter. They will remain in st. Louis
two weeks. and during that time it is
expected that the social activity which
characterized the e%x-queen's visit to
the Chicago exposition will be repeat
ed.
She has been n of the most pic
turesque figures in American life since
she vas deposed as queen of the Ha-
waiians, over whom she ruled as the
successor to her husband King Kala-
kaua, a king of the comic opera type,
by the annexation Of Hawaii to the
United States. She, her son and his
wife have been prominent in Washing
ton society for several seasons, during
which time the eX-queen has not ceased
to press her elm for financial reim-
bursement for the loss of her throne.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-12
MAY BE DECIDED SOON.
St. Louis Doodle Cases to Come Up
Before the Missouri SUI
preme Court.

Jefferson City, Mo-, May 9.-Division
No. 2-the criminal branch of the Mis-
souri, state supreme court-will con-
vene Tuesday morning to pass upon
motions and hand down opinions. 1t
may be that among the opinions rem
dered will be those in the bribery and
Doodle cases of Robert NJ. Snyder, the
Kansas City banker, convicted in st.
Louis and sentenced to serve five
years in the penitentiary, and also the
perjury case of julius Lehman, the st.
Louisan, who is under penitentiary
sentence. The point upon which the
Snyder case hinges is as to whether
or not he was a resident of this state
at the time his alleged offense vas
committed, involving his right to the
benefits of the statute Of limitations.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-12
WORLDS FAIR ITEMS.

Gen. Sam Houston's old law Of
flee at Lebanon, Tenn, will be repro
duced at tho worlds fair.
The native Hydah and Thlinket In
dams are doing the finishing work on
the Alaska building at the worlds fair.
With the water coursing from the
cascades and filling the lagoons, the
main picture" at the worlds fair is
fully complete. After night, when the
half million incandescent lamps are
glowing, the scene is one of bewilder-
ing beauty.
The gladiolus is a feature of the
floral display at the worlds fair. One
exhibitor has planted three acres of
bulbs in the exposition grounds, and
claims that he will show that no flower,
not even the pansy, possesses the
color possibilities of the gladiolus.
Indian boys and girls at Fort Shaw,
Mont, have prepared exhibits which
will be submitted in competition with
the work OF other Indian schools at the
worlds fair. Previous to their exhibit
ton at st. Louis they will be shown
in the principal cities Of Montana.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-12
UHPROfITABl.E BUSINESS
Burglary Insurance Becoming Un.
profitable in Chicago.
In Spite of High Rates the Chicago
Insurance Companies Have Done
Business Mt "a Loss.

Chicago, May S.-The activity CT
burglars has made burglary insurance
in Chicago Improbable 10 the compa-
MES that have been placing it. The
announcement that a new high sched-
ule of rates on burglary il. airance will
go into effect here on June / has
brought to light some startling facts in
connection with this class OF insur-
ance.
Representatives OF prominent insur-
ance companies acknowledge that In
the last ten years the Chicago agencies
handling burglary insurance have sus-
tanned q loss of from 10000 to $4,000,
in spite of the fact that the rates here
are from rs to 40 per cent. higher than
in New York, Philadelphia and other
large cities.
During the last five years the num-
Der of burglaries and thefts in Cnica-
go has increased 10 an alarming eX-
tent, insurance men say. Several COM
panies have either stopped taking risks
or have transferred their business to
some other company.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-12
MISSOURI a NEWS.
Prank of University Students.

Members of the sophomore class Of
the agricultural department Of the
Missouri university broke into the agri-
cultural museum and took out two OF
the finest mounted specimens in the
museum-a white English COW OF rare
breed and a stuffed hog. These stuffed
animals were placed on the portico OF
Academic hall in the places formerly
occupied by the historic bronze lions.
The COW was a very valuable specimen,
and was given to the university sew
eral years ago by Queen Victoria. Off
cials of the agricultural department are
very indignant, and say they will not
only suspend the offenders, but will
prosecute them. This is the first time
in the history of the agricultural de-
partment has engaged in any student
pranks.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-12
A BRILLIANT FUNCTION.
The Dedication of the Chinese Pa
viIion ut the Worlds Fair Was
n Brilliant Function.

st. Louis, May S.-Resplendent in the
brilliantly colored silk and satin robes
which a Chinese prince alone may
wear, Prince Pu Lun, heir apparent to
the throne of China, presided at the
dedication of the Chinese pavilion at
the Worlds fair, Friday afternoon.
Notable among the Chinese who as
sisted Prince Pu Lun were Sir Chen
tung LANG Cheng, Chinese minister at
Washington, and Wong Kai Kah, Chi
nese vice imperial commissioner to the
Worlds fair. Each wore native OIL
cial costume, according to his rank.
The ceremonies attending the dedi-
cation were marked by an interchange
of international compliments and
toasts to the emperor of China aud
President Roosevelt.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-12
Must Serve Term in Jail.

James Henry, 80 years old, was cap
cured lear West Fall, and is now in
Jail at Macon for violation of a ban
ishment order by the circuit court.
Henry was before the court in April,
1903, and pleaded guilty to the charge
of attempting to kill his old mother
with an ak. He had knocked her down,
and was standing over her with the
weapon raised when a neighbor ran to
her rescue and wrenched the az out of
the sons hands. Henry was banished
from the state for a year, but refused
to obey the order of the court and
managed to dodge the officers until he
vas shot during a quarrel with a sa-
loonkeeper. He will be kept in Jail
for the term he vas banished.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-12
BRIG. GEN. S. W. GROESBECK
lie Seryed His Country Faithfully
For Upwards Of Forty Years
in the Army.

st. Louis, May 1O.-Brig.-G Gen.
Stephen W. Groesbeck, United States
army, retired, died at his residence in
this city early Sunday morning. He
had not been in good health since his
service in Cuba under Gen. William R.
Shafter in 1898, when he contracted
malarial fever. About the first of
March he had an attack of la grippe,
which greatly enfeebled his constitu-
ton. Three weeks ago typhoid fever
developed. On Saturday there were
symptoms of pneumonia, and death
soon followed.
Gen. GroesDeck had a record Of more
than forty years of honorable service
in the army.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-12
A REPUBLICAN FIFTY YEARS
Death, at Omaha, Neb., of st. A. ID.
BnlcOmbe, One of the Organizers
of the Republican Party.

Omaha, Neb., May S.-St. A. D. Bal
comb, prominent in state and nation
al politics, for eleven years publisher
of the Omaha Republican and for 50
years identified with the development
of the west, is dead at his home in this
city, aged "A years. He has been, ac-
cording to his own statement, a repub-
lican for so years, having been n Of
the organizers of that party, and hav-
ing cast his first vote for John P. Hale,
the Free Soil' candidate for president,
in 1852. He has held a number of i'm
portant appointive government, state
and city offices.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-12
ALL HOPE is ABANDONED.
Entombed Miners at Sham0kin, Pu..
Undoubtedly Dead as Result of
Fire in the Mine.

Shamokin, Pa, May 9.-Rescuing
parties are still at work in the Locust
Gap colliery, where five men are en-
tombed as a result Of the fire in n
of the Slopes. The miners have been in
the mine since Thursday night, and all
hope. Of finding them alive has been
abandoned. The fire is burning as
fercely as ever, making it impossible
to penetrate the workings, James f.
Roderick, chief of the state bureau IF
mines, was here Sunday comforting
with officials of the Philadelphia e
Reading Coal & Iron Co. He expressed
himself as being satisfied that every
thing possible is beng done to extin-
guish the fire and determine the fate
Of the missing men.
Six thousand persons from the sur
rounding country visited the scene
Sunday.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-12
THE "BRAz|L-PERU
BOUNDARY DISPUTE
Peruvian Legation Makes Counter
statement to Brazil's Claims.
SAYS BRAZIL WAS HOSTILE
Claims Brazilian Troops Attacked
and Massacre a Small Garrison
of Peruvian Troops and OFF,
Gals Denied Responsibility.

Washington, May 9.-In view of the
statement made by the Brazilian lega-
ton defining Brazil's position in the
boundary dispute with Peru, the Pc
ruvian legation Sunday made a coun-
reinstatement to the following effect:
peru has never admitted in Brazil
any right whatsoever to the territory
actually in dispute.
1.-THE treaty of 1851 contains no rec
ognition in Brazil's rights as alleged by
the Brazilian legation. The treaty is
one of amity and commerce., and made
no reference as to the territory now in
dispute.
"The Peruvian legation does not
know of any instance that can be cited
in which Peru admitted any of Brazil's
pretended rights. On the other hand,
recent statements of Brazils foreign
Office admit that the government at
Lima has asserted its claims and main
tanned it's title over the region in dis
pute.
According to late reports, it would
seem that the government of Brazil, in
stead of framing its policy in accord
ance with the provision of its constl-
tuition, which provides for the settle
ment of International disputes by ar
bitration, has assumed a hostile atti-
tude, and taken steps by 10 means con-
ducive to the pacific solution 1t has
pledged itself to seek.
'The Brazilian legations statement
that Peru took advantage of Brazil's
trouble with Bolivia to send military
forces to headquarters of the Rivers
Yurau and Purus is unwarranted, as
Peruvian population always has eX-
listed there, as we'll as small garrisons
to preserve order. According to press
reports, one of these garrisons not Ions
ago was assaulted by 200 Brazilian
troops, with the result that some OF
the Peruvians were massacred, and
some made prisoners and taken TO
Manaos, where the Brazilian officials
set them free, stating that neither the
central MOI local government were re-
sponsible for such assault. Such would
not have been the attitude of Brazilian
officials towards the Peruvian soldiers,
had they thought for a moment they
had invaded Brazilian territory. Peru
to-day is DESTROYS Of resorting TO ar
bitration, without demanding previous
conditions, unnecessary to governments
really wishing to reach a prompt, just
and pacific settlement of their differ
ences. This she can offer as the best
proof of her good faith and fraternal
sentiments towards her sister repub-
lies"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-12
ILLINOIS DAY AT THE FAIR
List of Special Days to De Observed
at the Illinois Building at II
worlds Fair.

st. Louis, May S.-Charles M. Reeves,
chief of domestic exploitation, has re-
ceived a letter from John j. Brown,
secretary of the Illinois state commits
sion, announcing a list Of special days
to be held at the Illinois building at
the Worlds fair, as follows:
May q, dedication Of Illinois state
building; July y, reception to the gov
ernor by the Second infantry, Illinois
national guard; July 10, reception to
the governor by the First infantry, H.
linois national guard; July 26, recep-
ton to the governor by the Seventh i'll
fantry, Illinois national guard; Sep
TENDER q and %, illinois day.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-05-12

Judge Tuley, of Chicago, on the sth,
issued an injunction restraining the
Woman's Catholic Order of Foresters
from holding the biennial convention
of the order at Minneapolis, May 10.
The date named, it was charged, would
prevent the attendance of many who
wished to attend.
The navy department has refused to
grant a third trial for the cruiser Den
yer, which was delivered to the gov
eminent under the contract, on the
9Th, and the payment to the contrac-
tors will be made on the basis of the
showing of that vessel at her last trial.
Raymond Cooks, a young miner, was
burned to death, and six other persons
had a narrow escape from being Gre
mated in a fire that destroyed the Ho-
tel Turret, a two-story wooden struc-
ture, at Turret, a mining camp II
miles north of Salida, Col.
Samuel Roby, a farmer near Liberty,
Mo-, shot and fatally wounded Mrs.
Thomas Pennington, and then shot and
killed himself on the 9Th. Mrs. Pen
nington and her husband were visiting
Roby's home, and the tragedy, it is
said, was caused by jealousy.
George W. Parker, of San Francisco,
president of the Pacific Coast Gypsum
Co., was run down by an automobile
and probably fatally injured on the
9Th. His shoulder and three ribs were
broken.
The ministers Of the powers, accord
ing to good authority, without excep-
ton are seeking to make the Chinese
government observe strict neutrality.
Joseph Gibbs, a passenger or a Union
Pacific train, was killed, on the 9th.
in attempting to hoard the train. He
was on the way from his California
home to PittSburs..