The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-05-17
PoLITl,.AL CLUB AUTHORIZED

PoLITl:AL CLUB AUTHORIZED.
New Phase In Reform Movement in
Russia.
st. Petersburg May The pioneer
Russian political club has been formed
under the auspices of Baron .Tiesen-
hausen and other prominent Moderate
Liberals and has been authorized by
Interior Minister Bouligan This es-
ample is expected to be followed at
Moscow and elsewhere. The formati
Of authorized clubs for the discussion.
and propagation of political ideas will
mark distinctly new phase in the
reform movement. s
With the passage of the Russian
May day many foreign newspaper cor-
respondents who expected an interior
crisis in the spring are leaving st.
Petersburg convinced that all pros
poets of serious extensive disorders
are over for the present.
Russian Patrol Fires on Mob.
Warsaw, May IA gathering of
Russian and Jewish socialists on Ma
lewki street was dispersed at mid
night by volley from an infantry
patrol The police previously had
fruitlessly tried to disperse the demon
strators and finally summoned mill
tary patrol The latter fred at the
crowd. Wounding a few persons
slightly.
NO FAvoRs SHOWN AMERICANS.
Contracts for Canal Supplies Will Go
to Lowest Bidders.
Washington, May IL President
Roosevelt is determined that in buying
materials for the construction of the
Panama canal the government shall
not be placed at the mercy of the ceun-
try's industrial trusts. The canal COM
mission will buy its materials where it
can get them the cheapest. The de-;
cision was made nominally by the ex-
ecutive committee of the isthmian ca
nal commission, but as it was rendered
after a conference with the president.
the determination is evidently his.
The commission needs two cargo
carrying ships OF about 5000 tons dis
placement. 1t can buy them from
British shipbuilders and have imme-
diate delivery Of them for s750,0G0. It
can get them from American shipbuild-
ers in eighteen months at cost Of
81, 100000. It was put up to Roosevelt
- No
made with foreign shipbuilders for the
two ships as soon as possible.
MANUFACTURERS IN SESSION.
Annual Gathering Holds Opening Meet
ing at Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga, May 17--The tenth an
nual gathering of the National Asso-'
citation of Manufacturers OF the United
States, representing more than three
quarters OF the thirteen billions pf in
vested capital OF this country, pAsenl,.
-bled in the Grand Opera House during
the day. The annual address OF Presi-
dent d. M. Parry of Indianapolis was
first in order.
The report of Treasurer Francis H.
Stillman of New York showed the re-
ceipts since the last annual report to
March 81, 1905, to have been SI56,l3S,
with an unexpended balance at that
time Of $7,s73.
The report of Secretary Marshall
Gushing of New York reviewed at.
length the work Of the association un.
der various descriptive heads. Refer
ence was made to the defeat of tba
legislation in congress, pa. .ieEsa..y Of
the anti-injunction and eight-hour bills.
GATES IN JULY WHEAT DEAL.
Big Broker Operating Bull Movement
on the Quiet.
Chicago, May 17.-John w Gates is
said to be at the head of a big bull
movement in July wheat. Within the
last three or four days, it is reported
by men who were close observers o.
his operations in the celebrated May
DEAL" he has acquired a big tounda-
ton upon which to erect prices.
Gates is said to be moving as quietly
as possible, operating through the
more obscure brokers and giving the
names OF others that are associated
with him in his new endeavor.