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The Washington times., 1905-12-10
DOC MENDENHALL's LITTLE JOKE.

Doc Mendenhar had a load OF sweet
ness to take out 10 Buxton on the
stage last Friday. 10 was two married
couples Walter Hammond and May
Scofield. L. r. Crawford and Amelia
Genzer. The sunlignI dazzled Doc s
sight that day and he IS said to have
struck every stump run on 10 every
sidehill and into every chuckhOle from
here 10 Buxton But he got them there
though he may lose the job of driving
on their next wedding trip.-Forest
Grove (Ore.D Times
The Washington times., 1905-12-10
Charles S. Bundy.

Charles s Bundy is known not only
by his long period Of service as a Justice
of the peace. but as a publie-spirited
The Washington times., 1905-12-10
A NEWS ITEM.

How dye do?' he said to the clerk
in the office of the great metropolitan
daily. I'm Henry Hawbuck, of Sau-
gatCck Corners
YES" said the clerk: well. sir?" :
We'll. m sojournin in the metrop-
oils for the day ay-"-Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
The Washington times., 1905-12-10
Forming New Herds
WOLVES FLOURISH
AT KANSAS CITY'S DOOR

KANSAS CITY. Mo-. Dec 9-Wolves
are so plentiful in the suburbs of the
city that a mass meeting will be held
TO organize a wolf drive
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-24
COMPROMISE SUGGESTED.
President Proposes Russia Repurchase
Island Of Sakhalin.

Island Of Sakhalin.
Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 24.-The
new peace proposition Of President
Roosevelt, in brief, is that Russia re
purchase possession of either all OF
half of the island Of SalShalin, now
in the military occupation of Japan
for sum the amount of which, it
the two countries cannot agree, shall
be decided by some method of arbitra-
tion hereafter to be determined
The purchase money, together with
the sum Japan would obtain from the
cession OF the Chinese Eastern rail-
road and the maintenance of the Rus
sian prisoners in Japan, would, it is
estimated, about equal the amount
claimed by Japan rs her bill for the
cost of the war. Possibly, therefore,
the solution offered by the president
involves recession by Japan upon art
icle (the cession of Sakhalin) and
recession by Russia upon article 8
Indemnify.
1t seems practically certain, though
this cannot be affirmed positively, that
the president was able to give NJ.
Witte substantial assurance that ia
pan would be willing to accept such q
compromise. This is apparently sup
ported by the authoritative Japanese
statement made to the Associated
Press in reply to a question as to
whether Japan had not decided to
make substantial concessions.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-24
BAR ASSOCIATION MEETS.
Prominent Jurists Assemble at Nara.
gansett Pier.

Prominent Jurists Assemble at Nara.
gansett Pier.
Narragansett Pier, r. l., Aug. a.
Prominent jurists from all sections of
the United States gathered here dur
ing the day to attend the opening
sessions of the twentieth annual meet
ing Of the American Bar association.
Included in the number were Justices
White and Brown of the United
States supreme court and many pro-
fessors OF the various law schools con
nected with the great American uni,
versities.
As the first feature OF the days ses.
sion the president, Henry St. George
Tucker, Of Lexington, Va, delivered
his address, paying especial attention
to the most noteworthy changes in
statute law on points of general inter,
est made by congress and in the vari.
GUS state legislatures during the past
year. This address was followed by
the nomination and election Of mem
bers and the presentation of depart.
mental reports
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-24
DISPUTE OVER PROTOCOL.
Peace Conference Awaits Action OF
Secretaries.

Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 24.-The
meeting OF the peace conference dur
ing the morning was in reality not
meeting of the plenipotentiaries at all.
The secretaries of the respective mis-
siOns were still in dispute over the
text OF the protocol and the plenipo-
tentiaries gave up the conference
room to Them to adjust their differ
ences. The plenipotentiaries remained
in their respective private quarters
while the secretaries were trying to
straighIen out their differences. It
WaS claimed that certain corrections
to- which both sides had agreed had
not been placed in the text
At 12:15 this work had not been
completed by the secretaries and il
was decided to take a recess until
z:30. Al that time the plenipoten-
tiaries went into formal session and
took up the protocol in full deciding
any disputed questions as they arose
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-24
CHILD TELLS OF BRUTAL CRIME.
Says Her Mother and sawnniIi Man
Killed Her Father.

Says Her Mother and sawnniIi Man
Killed Her Father.
Knoxville, Tenn, Aug. 24.-The lit
tie daughter of Mrs. John Lea, lately
widow by the supposed suicide of
her husband, a sawmill man, who re-
sided near Cleveland, Tenn, has
confessed to her grandmother at
Murray. Ga. where she had been sent
on visit, that her mother and James
Hix, also a sawmill man, who boarded
at the home of the Leas, killed her
father. The story is one of the
most revolving in the criminal annals
OF Tennessee. Lea was found hang
ing by rope which was attached to
one OF the beams of the sawnill, his
neck broken. A coroner's jury pro-
nounced him d suicide. Then Hix
and Mrs. Lea disappeared The lit-
tie girl declares Hi1 held her fihther
While her mother broke his neck with
q weapon, Hix telling her where to
strike. They threatened to kill the
child IL She told, according to the lit
tie one. Fix has been arrested at
Spring Place, Ca, and officers are
looking for Mrs. Lea at Sherman
Heights, Tenn where she is visiting.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-24
HUSBAND, WIFE AND FIVE Chill
DREN DROWNED IN RIVER
NEAR MAYsvlLLE, KY.
HOUSEB0AT SUNK IN A COLLISION
BREAKS FROM ITS MooRINGs
CRASHING INTO ToweoAT
IN MiDsTREAM.

Maysyille, KY, Aug. "a. News
reached here during the day of the
drowning of man named Gates and
his wife and five children in the river
between Maysville and Dover.
Gates left here in a shanty boat,
intending going south, and tied up
for the night at point below Ripley,
on the Kentucky side The rising
river caused the boat to break loose
and float to midstream A towboat
coming UP with empties struck the
shanty boat, demolishing it, and the
whole family drowned, being asleep
when the accident occurred.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-24
ueAR TRUST UNDER PROBE.
Investigation Of Standard Oil Nearing
Completion.

Washington, Aug. 24-The sugar
trust" the operations of which have
not been under the Investigators
light since the congressional scandal
several years ago, is undergoing an
other operation under the probe of the
bureau of corporations. The inyesti-
cation of the sugar trust has begun
with the utmost secrecy and it is
stated on good authority that it has
been in progress nearly month
Meantime the investigation OF the
Standard Oil company, which was be-
gun last spring, is rapidly nearing
completion, although it is doubtful
that any public report will be made
by Commissioner Garfield before CON
gress opens.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-24
MAY RAISE THE
"DEADHEADS"
Probable That Government
Will Clear Channel Of
the Mississippi.

The Mississippi river from
Minneapolis to the head IS lined
with sunken logs, known along
the river as "deadheads.' That
these have no small influence on
the capacity of the channel to
carry off the water is generally
conceded and the engineers ap.
pointed to investigate the upper
river troubles will probably
recommend that the government
confiscate these logs and raise
them. They would then probab-
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-24

ly be sold to the highest bidder
and the proceeds applied to the
cost of raising them.
The government snagging
crews haye raised some of the
logs in their work of keeping the
channel open for navigation and
in one place removed 800 logs
in a space not more than as many
feet long.
At one point near Waldeck two
thirds of the channel is said to be
obstructed with ''deadheads. !"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-24

fish commission estimate that
not less than 10000 Minnesota
hunters will take out licenses to
shoot ducks and chickens by
Sept. |, when the season opens.
Applications for licenses are re-
ceived at the capitol at the rate
of several hundred a day.
This is the first season that a
Minnesota hunter has been
obliged to take out a license to
hunt small game in any portion
OF the state, except the counties
in which the hunter resides. The
law was passed at the last ses
sion of the legislature, and under
it the state gets 80 cents of the
81 fee, and the county auditor
issuing the license the remaining.
10 cents
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-24
Desire Immediate Statehood

Muskogee, /. T., Aug. "a. ResoIu-
tions declaring for immediate state
hood for Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory as one state We're adopted Tues
day by the statehood and consfitu-
Iional convention of the Indians OF the
Five Civilized Tribes.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-24
SYNDICATE TO DIG CANAL.
Plan Proposed Would Shorten Duluth.
Chicago Route.

Detroit. Mich, Aug. Nelson
Thomasson, vesselrnan Of Chicago,
is authority for the statement that a
syndicate is to be formed to dig a
canal from All Train On Lake Supe-
rior to Gladstone or Escanaba on
Lake Michigan.
BY using Whitefish river it is de-
clared only sixteen miles OF the total
distance OF forty miles, between Lake
Superior aud Michigan would have to
he dledged.
Such canal would shorten the
route between Duluth and Chicago by
265 miles and would save upwards Of
200 miles on the direct route between
Duluth and Buffalo. Moreover, the
dangerous st. Marys river would be
avoided.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-24
CONFIDENCE RESTORED.
Change Of Sentiment in French Finan.
cial Circles.

cial Circles.
Paris, Aug. 24.-Reports from Ports
mouth, indicating prospects of mutual
conc cessians. restored the feeling of
confidence in official and financial cir
cles. The bourse showed notable inn
pfoyement from the sudden slump of
the previous day Russian securities
were in active demand from the start,
fours showing IN advance of 40 cen
times. The appearance Of the Russian
bank statement also favorably influ-
enced this situation This shows that
the debit balance of the government
TO the bank has been replaced by a
government credit OF s14,520,000 as
the result of the last interior loan
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-24
Five Hundred out of Employment.

shamokin, Pa, Aug 24--The big
breaker of the Greenough Red Ash
Coal company at Marion Heights, near
here. was destroyed during the day.
The breaker was built FIVE years ago
at a cost of $4,000 Five hundred
men and BOYS are thrown out of en-
ployment.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-24
PRESIDENT SENDS AMBASSADOR
MEYER TO RUSSIAN RULER IN
INTEREST OF PEACE.
GOOD RESULTS EXPECTED 70 FOLLOW
AMERICAN EXECUTIVE DOING Eu
ERYTH.NG IN HIS POWER TO
END POSSIBILITIES.

st. Petersburg, Aug. 24.-Mr. Meyer,
the American ambassador, went to
Peterhof during the afternoon, where
he was received in audience by the
emperor. The audience concerns the
possible conclusion Of peace.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-24
THOUSANDS
HUNT CHICKENS
Commission Wages Cam.
paign Against ''Sooners'
Several Convictions.

Officials of the state game and
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-24

James Britt and Battling Nelson
nave signed articles to fight twenty
hVe rounds at San Francisco for a
purse Of $4,000.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-08-24

Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 24.-The
Associated Press cable from ST. Pc
tersburg announcing that Mr.. Meyer,
the American ambassador to Russia,
had had an audience with the en-
peror at Peterhof, is considered here
one of the most hopeful signs which
has thus far developed in connection
with the presidents efforts to bring
the belligerents to a compromise.
That the president should have asked
Mr.. Meyer to make a personal appeal
to the emperor in his name, for it
could be little less than that, shows
how terribly in earnest the, president
is. And by those who understand the
situation at ST. Petersburg the posi-
Bile good results OF sucn a direct ap-
peal are fully appreciated. 1t was at
such a personal audience with Mr..
Meyer that the emperor gave his con
sent to send plenipotentiaries to the
present conference
New-York tribune., 1905-06-04


petrifed when he was summoned to the
courtyard at noon, where he found Lord
Valletort and his son, wrapped in furs,
seated in a sleigh and attended by a
small escort.
He too, without a syllable of eXplana-
ton. was bundled into wraps provided
for him, compelled to enter another
sleigh with Cossacks as a guard, and the
party drove off at a cracking pace.
Ivan Stephanovitch spoke truly when
he said that messenger had gone to
Bannofka with his ultimatum to the
Prince.
This man, eying the unhappy valet
askance, sat beside the driver of the lead
ing sleigh, and took a direct route to
the quarry of the copper mine. He
made no scruple about revealing this
locality. 1t was known to the whole
district having been worked for hundreds
of wears; the secret of the inner ways
was sufficiently guarded, in some re-
spects, to save the rebels from outer at
tacks Not all the troops IN Russia
could take the place. if it was adequately
defended, unless they besleged 1t Tor
years.
There was a long delay at the entrance
TO the mine. and Lord Carlingha1n, Won
dering whether the unhappy valet had
COMPROMISED himself in the effort to
carrv out the suggestion made by u1e,
tried to get into conversation with h11n-
He was civilly prevented by the officer
in command. The charge against tins
man is that he murdered Vera Sassul1tch
in England, excellenCy," said the Cos
sack. HIS highness only recently has
received information to that effect.
There are certain witnesses believed
to be here, and it is advisable to con-
front him with them before other steps
are taken
Lord Carlingham, astonished by the
unlooked-fOr outcome of the valet
presence. though it strengthened his own
vague suspicious, did not tell his tather
what the officer had communicated IN
broken French,
The Earl was excited at the prospect
of seeing Ermyntrude again, for his
daughter never had been SO dear to him
as during these days of perpleXed vigil
and suffering.
The weary waiting in the excavation
was irksone to the last degree The air
was damp and chill. The expected thaw
had set in at midday, and already the
surface of the snow-covered earth was
greasy. If the sky did not clear after
heavy fall of snow, the temperature
would rise still higher, and the eternal
stiffness of Russia would change its aspect
silently from white to brown, Tor the
whole land would be covered with deep
, mud.
At last their Intermediary reaPPeared-
He requested the Englishmen, the Cos
sack officer, and such Others as they
wished to accompany them, to walk into
the mine unarned. There was some de-
, mur about this; but the man was tlr1n,
t and at last the point was conceded the
, officer and two Cossacks who guarded
> the trembling valet being permitted tc
> retain their swords.
+ Within the first great cavern they
! were met by Ivan Stephanovltch and
| number of men, also unarmed; but there
{ was no sign of Ermyntrude or Arm
New-York tribune., 1905-06-04
SUNDAY for JUNE 4, 1905
60 s O y l. S O n T r Z -
7f01Hfag I0
Continued from page Io)

be good ally. well the journey could be
New-York tribune., 1905-06-04

your reward will be IN thousands II you
succeed.
What do they want?"
They think that when once they
meet Lady Ermyntrude again all diff
culties will vanish. His excellency dare
not injure them in any way They are
sure UIiddi viii not marry him, so all
excuse for her detention by the peasants
Will disappear In a word, they want
some one to guide them to the place
where miLadi IS, and it is certain that
many in the palace are well aware OF 1t.
Dumanet was doubtful. He had good
cause for dubiety, had he probed the
situation to its depths. He was IN the
position of a man lost in a mist on
mountain-top and faced by two paths,
one leading to safety, the other to un-
known dangers and perhaps certain death
1T viii be difficult, he muttered-
Even if | hit on the right quarter, how
is it possible for your master and his son
to get away from the palace unob-
served2"
That can be arranged. Give them a
rendezvous, a sleigh and trustworthy
guide They viii be there"
And the figure?'
Two thousand pounds.
Fifty thousand francsl With such
caDital. astute Monsieur Dumanet could
prosecute other schemes he had IN view
and extract a competence from the Mel1n-
knott dynasty.
He set about the affair instantly. But
the mere name of Vladimir Sassulltch had
shaken him badly, and in his eagerness
to accomplish the mission lntrusted to
him by Julie, he did not perceive until
too late that there was a suspicious alac-
ritv on the part OF certain persons to
help him y
The explanation was simple Prince
Boris. after taking thought, saw that 1t
would be an act of wild folly to adopt
anv further underhanded measures to
/ gain his ends. He did not despair, even
vet of winning Ernyntrude. The wisest
/ course open to him was to secure her
release, send her and her TRENDS salely
out of the country, restore order IN the
( Province. crush with iron hand the lac
ton headed by Ivan StephanoV1tch, ana
inst to his prestige and his luck to gam
Frrnvrtrude's hand when Olga Sassu-
Itch was dead, an event which his agents
in Saratoff assured him could not be
deferred long.
He reasoned that Lord Valletort no1
either of his children would harbor teeI-
;ngs of implacable resentment against
him. After all, their experiences had an
element of romance, and his own be-
havior was capable of tolerant criticism
The disturbing factor was the presence
of Frank Armstrong. The sooner Er-
,nvntrude was away from him the better
while as a British officer, he would bt
in a grave predicament when asked t(
account for his cooperation with armed
neasants in revolt against the au
thorities.
In land where subtlety and craft
are more highly esteemed than Prooit!
and straightforward dealing, the ProsPec
Of settling serious dispute caused mel ,5
10 ask how they would benefit Personall.
hv the new conditions Though IN
| Prince consulted none but his mos
trusted officers, the tale grew that al
: anicable agreement was 1mrn1nent' an
-1,+ ba0a77 his belated effort
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21

ana knew that a letter had been writ.
Ten to her husband advising him to
come home.
She insisted that the letter must
not be sent, because Mr.. Fowler could
not come home at such a time. and
the only effect of the letter would be
to make him miserable. She was so
earnest about the matter that the
mother destroyed the letter she had
written and promised not to write an.
other. She told the doctor, however.
OF her experience, and he wrote to
Capt. Fowler himself That letter
was In mail that was captured by
John Morgan, and in due time was re.
captured by the Union cavalry. 1t did
not reach Fowler until six months
after 1t was written, and then his wife
mad entirely recovered from her i'll.
ness and there was no cause for UNI
easiness."
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21
Bravery in Indian Fiohts.

Behind each of the medals won in
campaigns against the Indian stands
story of intrepid bravery. Gen. Fran.
els ID. Baldwin while first lieutenant
OF the Fifth infantry, so runs the Off.
cial record rescued with two com.
panies two white girls by voluntary
attack upon the Indians, whose superb
or numbers and strong position would
have warranted delay for reinforce.
ments, but which delay would have
permitted the Indians to escape and
kill their captives" This occurred at
McClennan's Creek, Texas, in Novem.
Der. 1874. On Oct. l, 1879, Maj. Fran.
els Dodge, then captain of Troop d,
Ninth United States cavalry, was
scouting near Grand River, and there
heard of the defeat two days before
of three troops of cavalry under Maj.
Thornburg. near White River Agency,
Colorado. An overwhelming force Of
hostile Indians was besieging Maj.
Thornburg and threatening the entire
destruction of the command. Capt.
Dodge instantly set forth rode all
night. arrived at the scone of conflict
at daylight, attacked at once, and held
out for three days, when reinforce.
ments arrived and the Indians fed.
Capt. Dodge was at that time highly
commended in orders, but he had to
wait nineteen years for his medal OF
honor.
Less than score of medals were
granted for bravery in the war with
Spain. One of these went to Capt
John w. Heard of the Third cavalry
and another to Lieut.. Ira c. Welborn
of the Ninth infantry. Capt. Heard
was awarded his medal for gallantry
in action at the mouth of the Mani
mani river in Cuba on July 20, 1898
After two men had been shot down by
| Spaniards while transmitting orders
| to the engine room on board the
| steamship Wanderer, the vessel hav
ing become disabled, Capt Heard took
the position held by them and per
| sonally transmitted ORDERS remaining
at his. post until the ship was out OF
| danger. Lieut.. Welborn wears his
medal because during the fighting In
| front of Santiago on July 2, 1898, he
voluntarily left his shelter and rushed
under fire, to the aid of wounded
| private of his company.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21
Central League.

Paskert. right fielder of the Dayton
club. has a record for the season of
SO assists.
Red Lyons, who has been playing
in the outfield for Terre Haute. has
been released
Bob Myers, an old Terre Haute
shortstop, is now on the fire depart
ment in Evansville.
Richardson, who signed with South
Bend a few days ago, will return to
Terre Haute and will conduct a saloon
on East Wabash avenue.
John Camel says that there viii be
no Central League next year because
only three towns in the league can
support a team. He leaves Terre
Haute out of the three.
1t is said that before the drafting
period opens Pitcher Van Anda, Sec
ond Baseman Johnson and Shortstop
Lindsay, of the Canton team, VIII
either be purchased outright or
claimed by the teams of the larger
leagues. Cleveland will probably buy
Van Anda.
Grand Rapids and Wheeling had ar
ranged for post-season series when
Grand Rapids seemed to have the sec
ond place cirched but the present out
look is that Wheeling and Evansville
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1905-09-21
Western LEAGUE.

Sioux City has secured Catcher Ed
die Moves. formerly with st. Joseph.
Bobby Caruthers is the best umpire
in the Western League. according TO
the opinion of fans and players alike.
The St Joseph Club has released
Outfelder w. A. McGilvray because he
kicked at being locked three days
pay for illness.
Newln and Cadwallader of the
Sioux City, seem to have regained
their form of the early games and are
winning with regularity again
Sioux City has farmed out Kostal
and Bills again to an Iowa State
League team. Kostal has gone TO
his home in Canada and refuses to re.
port.
Pitcher War Sanders has left the
Omaha club in consequence OF what
he deems unfair treatment at the
hands of Rourke in refusing him sal
airy while sick
Wee President Myrick of Des
Moines. has wagered IS hat that the
Milwaukee team, managed by the Can,
tillons, VIII win the pennant in the
American association
Denver is working their young
catcher Brown. pretty regularly and
giving Lucia rest Brown is strap
ping big fellow and fairly good hit
rer, but is inexperienced