davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-02
Many Delegates Present.

Duluth, April 2.Delegates from
the states of Massachusetts, Illinois.
Michigan and Minnesota, including
several ministers and workers in the
mission fields, are attending the fifth
annual convention of the Finnish Bap-
tist Mission union of America, which
is now In session in this city.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-02
FRENCH STRIKE RENEWED.
Thirty Thousand. Miners in Riotous
Demonstration.

is being renewed throughout the min
ing region. A sanguinary affray has
occurred at Henin-L -Lietard. A striker
was killed, three gendarmes We're
wounded, houses were sacked and
windows were broken.
= Over 10000 strikers are parading.
and have engaged in riotous manifes-
tations A thousand additional troops
have arrived here.
The parliamentary committee dur
ing the day began its Investigation
here into the catastrophe of March 10
and the strikers made demonstrations
before the committees headquarters.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-02
RESULT OF COAL STRIKE.
Republic Steel Conpany's Plant a
East St. Louis Closes. ..s..a

East st. Louis, ILL.,, April 2.-The
Republic Steel company suspended op-
erations during the day, the announce
ment being made that the suspension
is due to the impending coal strike
situation. The plant uses 500 cars OF
anthracite coal a month and employs
1900 men, Having no facilities for
storing. large amount of coal to meet
the strike emergency it was decided
not to attempt to continue operations.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-02
POVERTY CAUSE OF TRAGEDY.
st. Louis Machinist Kills His Wife
and Himself.

ST. Louis, April 2.Martin Giese-
bell, a. machinist, aged sixty years,
shot his wife, aged fifty years, NOR
tally Wounding her, and then killed
himself Neighbors hearing the shots
rushed into the house and found the
woman unconscious and apparently
dying. Giesebell lay near her dead,
still clasping the revolver in his hand.
The cause assigned for the tragedy is
poverty and inability to meet a street
improvement assessment.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-02
WILL MAKE SEPARATE DEALS.

Soft Coal Miners Agree to Treat With
Individual Operators.
Indianapolis, April 2.-The ma
ti0nal convention of United Mine
Workers adopted resolution offered
by President Perry of Illinois permit
ting the miners to sign the 1903 scale
whenever 1t is offered by the oper-
ators.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-02
Two Men crushed to Death.

Reed City, Mich, April Plato
Lacey and G. E. Bollacker, mer-
shant, were crushed to death under the
falling wall Of a burning three-story
brick building here and it is feared
that several other persons may also
have been caught under the walls.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-02
.Twenty-three Persons Injured.

Fort Wayne, Ind, April 2.-As
eastbound Nickel Plate passenger
train No was approaching the town
of South Whitley the smoker. day
coach and five sleepers left the track
and turned over in the ditch, injuring
twenty-three persons, one fatally Only
the baggage car and the rear trucks Of
the dining car remained on the track.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-02

geles, CAL, charging them with false
pretense and with defrauding some
sixty men Of this vicinity out of $780,
900 which they invested in the Joa-
qlina Gold Mining company
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-02
Accused Of Min,no Fraud: !:

Wilkesbarre, Pa, April
rants were issued during the day Tor:
the arrest Of j. D. Shaffer 81 Philadel-
phia and Il II. Mitchell Of Los 1
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-02
NOT CONSIDERED ExPEDlENT

No indictments as Result Of Ohio In.
vestigation.
Cincinnati, April 2--The grand
jury which has been Investigating the
payment of gratuities and interest to
county treasurers by banks in which
public funds *were deposited reported
during the day. No indictments were
returned, the jury stating that the
banks were equally guilty with those
receiving the money, but that as the
money was being recovered by the
proper officials it was not, in the opin-
ion of the grand jury, expedient to
bring any indictments in connection
with the matter.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-02

Governor Pattison Of Ohio continues
to improve, but his doctor will not
say that he will. recover.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-02
Chicago Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, March 81 &C Cattle- Beeves,
.$6.00@6.26; cows and heifers, sL60@s
$40; stockers and feeders, 5000.
.4.75. Hogs Mixed and butchers, s6.255
D6.50; good heavy, $6.4O@6.47lk;
rough heavy, $6.25@6.s5; light, 1925
@6.50; pigs, $5.75@6.3O Sheep, 1925
@6.25; yearlings, $5.75@6.35; lambs.
$5.OO@6.65.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-02
Burglars Secure 5000.

Bridgeport Conn, April The.
general store; Of G. NJ. Hatch. In which
the postofice Is located, was broken
into and robbed early in the day, the
robbers getting $1,000 In money and
stamps.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-02
KILLS WIFE AND HIMSELF.
Minnesota Man strangles Spouse, Then
Suicides by Shooting.


Suicides by Shooting.
Mankato, Mimi, April Mrs.
Martin Ratus, well known resident
of Nicollet.. county, was strangled to
death by her husband, Martin Ratus,
at their home on the Schumacher
farm near North Mankato. Ratus then
shot and killed himself.
Ratus was bricklayer by trade and
was about forty years of age. His
wife was forty-two years old. A wal
let containing $500 in currency was
found in the inside pocket of Ratus
vest.
Ratus was of quarrelsome DISPOSE
tion and on March he was arrested
In Mankato and was afterwards
turned over to the North Mankato off.
GERS on a charge of assaulting his
wife. The Judge imposed fine and
allowed him TO go home. A note found
in the dead mans pocket read as fol-
lows:
.Whoeyer may read this will know
hat killed myself on account of my
xifesand a man by the namesof Rome
Sheriff Thomas e. Barrett Is dead
at Chicago after a lingering illness
from a cancerous affection of the
throat. Before being elected to the
Office of sheriff in 1904 Mr.. Barrett
was prominent member of the board
OF trade.
Gangrosa, tropical disease more
repulsive than leprosy, has become Sc
prevalent upon the island OF Guam
that Lieutenant McNamee, =. S. N.
. the acting governor of the island, has
recommended the establishment Of 4
hospital for isolation Of the disease.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-04

benefit more-very much nore-than
It VIII lose, through the payment OF
subsidies In reducing the cost of carry
ing our exports.
It is inconceivable that you can be-
lieve that subsidies viii and do reduce
ocean freight rates, when paid to for
eign ships. and not agree that they viii
further reduce ocean freight rates when
paid to American ships
The free materials clause in the
tariff. as to shipbuilding articles, APP
plies only to ships built in this country
for the foreign trade, and a great many
articles are imported into this coun-
try, and re-expcrted, with provision for
a rebate Of the duties paid upon their
importation. So It is no better for the
foreign materials for re-exportation. 1
am able to assure you. also, that there
IS no 'shipbuilding trust in the United
States.
I'VE should be very much pleased to
have you favor US by publishing this
letter in the columns of your esteemed
Journal and making such comments
thereon as seem to you desirable"
Mr.. Goulder fails to answer the chief
point advanced by the state Journal.
European nations have hard work And
ing employment for their millions. To
help out they are fostering their ship
ping by ship subsidies. Simmered
down, European countries are paying
part Of our transportation charges In
return for our allowing our goods to
be carried by European seamen. If
Europe is willing to pay our freight,
what is the sense Of this nation giving
away lot Of money to keep them from
doing it, Is long as we can employ our
capital and labor more prohtably in
other lines of industry? When this ma
ton gets so poor that its masses need
to be helped make a living by the gov
eminent, it will be time to subsidize
shipping and various other industries.
A ship subsidy would simply be a gift
from our government to enable rich
shipowners to do business that they
would otherwise do at a loss. If it
would still further reduce ocean freight
rates." as Mr.. Goulder alleges, our ex-
perience with transportation problems
leads to the belief THAT the trusts would
see to it that they get the benefit of the
reduction and not the small shipper.
Everybody knows hcw that works.
A ship subsidy would not be a
graft" in the sense that 1t would be
Illegal. but it would be a graft just as
the free seed graft is a graft, or more
so. 1t would be graft in the sense
that it would allow private interests to
thrive on the public treasury. We need
to abolish some of our present gratis
instead of establishing new ones at
present.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-04
GLOBE SIGHTS.

LFrom the Atchison Globe.l
It always makes Us laugh to see a
man drink tea.
If the man who says he is tired is a
preacher, the women believe it.
There never was man so guilty that
he could not make a lot Of ''explana-
tons"
we suppose 81 and $3.50 prices at the
theater may be described as unpopular
prices"
There are two things no one ever
avoided if he laid himself liable: sea-
sickness and stage fright
Some wav a man school teacher al
ways looks as though you could tie an
apron string around his waist and he
would do housework-
A young girl OF sixteen was standing
on the streets today. happy and joyous.
She was telling how she enjoyed
life Il enjoy everything" she said,
except church
When a young woman smokes a. cigar
it Is a sight to make men turn sick
but when a very old woman smokes a
pipe, somehow it looks as if she has
found comfort
When man doesn't kiss his wife
when he comes home, the neighbors
wonder how she can tolerate the brute
and when he does kiss her, they say he
does it to fool her.
The girls wore their sleeves rolled
up to their elbow last summer, but
this summers fashion sheets indicate
that they will be rolled up as high
as the vaccination mark.
The telegraph relates that a man who
always prided himself on being perfect
ly frank, was shot today. We don't
care; it wouldn't hurt our feelings if
some more Of them were shot
Dishonesty always brands a man as
lacking ordinary common sense; dishon-
esty is so sure to be punished. For
every dollar a man steals. he is sure to
be punished a hundred dollars worth.
How the mothers who dress their lit
tie girls in an overturned way would
enjoy having their daughters ten feet
tan. so that they could have much
greater skirt length to trim with tucks
and rufflesi
We have an idea that the first thing
that will happen when some people now
on earth reach heaven, will be accusa-
tions and fault finding from those who
went before because those who stayed
on earth published cards Of thanks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-04

my nnlsh then. Have you read it7.
was Just beginning
at7 walked heavily from the room ana
LOOK ap my new LonEfelloN.
snort OF stature ne was, but stronzfs
built and athletic;
Brown as nut was his face but his rus.
sci beard was already
+ faxed with patches OF snow
,<retty good description of myself,
thought Not exactly perhaps. but thers
were certainly threads Of Rrasv. read -
TIL the speech was finished. the e4otirqissI
words OF Niles standish; then / bowed
my head in shame and anger. l had talk
81 stesaliy or myself ana my work, but
sue Aao 1ed me on She had no right to
call me down 50. Tomorrow I would zy9
peck 70 Lny cabin and forget. but yet <
knew 1 should always remember. Waa
still broodfng when Fftz came back
II don't blame you, old man." he began.
Probably you'll make her happier; but
Lord Look at my money!"
blinked at him as he settled down
Neat way she had OF bringing matters
70 focus. he went on. picking w my
book which lay face downward on the ia
bic. Why. darned If I believe .nufvs
read it air.
I've read enough" said resentfully.
read what she thinks Of me-
One moment that blessed Fitx zaxed at
me; then in words Of one syllable he gave
me tins gist Of that poen-made me to
understand that my Claudia was inner
sonating the Puritan maiden in her inn
mortal speech why don't YOU speak
for yourself. John p
And to think ever had deemed Fgtz-
gerald stupid.
found my blessed girl in the garden,
but she did not hear my approach she
was on tiptoe, trying to reach 3 rose
which swung above her head.
Il have come to speak for myself, C1au-
Ola, 7 said.
The dear hands ceased from their quest
10 hide the bushes of her sweet face. Her
g1rlish form trembled-
You think me b0ld.'' she cried appre-
hensively.
It was such glorious affair to prove to
her just what did think OF her, and is
took a long time. And then she explain
ed to me about affinities.-(Copyrig 1905
by E. G. Parceils.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-04
THAT sHIp sETRsIDv

There recently appeared in these
columns a few remarks on the pro-
posed ship subsidy. to boom which the
Merchant Marine league, having its
headquarters at Cleveland, Ohio, is
sending out literature
The State Journals editorial has
called forth q letter from Mr. Harvey
D. Goulder, president Of the league,
in which he denies that the league is
trying to manufacture sentiment in
favor of the subsidy but is simply
placing the real facts about Amer
lean shipping before the people in
such a way that the people Will de-
mand that congress pass the subsidy
bill
If your mind Is sufficiently keen per-
haps you can distinguish between that
and manufacturing sentiment. but
the writer hereof cannot do so.
IN order to be perfectly fair. the
State Journal complies with Mr.
Goulder's request to publish his argu-
ments. He says.
There is no graft IN this measure.
as you seem to think there is Amer
lean labor in our shipyards and on
board our ships demands higher wages
than are paid in foreign shipyards and
on board foreign ships. If American
ship owners. in having ships built and
in operating them under our flag, are
to succeed they are to make a
profit through running their ships
conditions must be equalized, they
must be on plane Of equality, as to
cost of ships and cost Of their opera
ton, in competition with foreign built
foreign-operated ships. The subsidy
provided in the bill IS intended to
make good this diference=to put the
American ship owner on a par with
foreign ship owners, without impairing
the American standard of wages in our
shipyards and on board of our ships.
The amount of the subsidy, as q mat
ter OF fact. finds its way directly into
the pockets of American labor,
through the medium of the ship own
err and the ship builder. If there is
any graft labor gets it-but there is
no graft whatever.
The philosophy in attracting Amer
lean capital into running ships in our
foreign trade lies in these two great
points, the first one being quite sufi-
Client: The chief officers OF the army
and navy have pointed out in reports
that have been sent to congress, the
need of about five times as much
American deep sea shipping as we now
have, for the ordinary needs of our
military and naval forces, should this
country become involved IN war As
Thomas Jefferson said, in 1888, so it is
today AS a branch of industry Cour
shipping is valuable. but as a resource
of defense. essential Note the word
Essential as applied to American
shipping by the most revered Demo-
crat who ever lived. It comedies with
what Adam Smith and John Stuart
Mill, the two greatest writer's on free
trade who ever lived IN England, say
in their standard works on political
economy.
You admit that the subsidies paid
by foreign governments to foreign
ships reduce freight rates on ocean
transportation. The subsidies that our
government VIII pay to American
ships viii still further reduce ocean
freight rates. and the country will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-04
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Bill DooIittle says he is thoroughly
convinced that Justice is blinded, all
right, just as she is represented in the
pictures and statues. The decision in
the beef trust case convinced Bill. =.
Monday was April Fools day also
for the bill collectors. 4 lot of peo-
pie they expected to collect money
from fooled EN-.
Again we hear that festive roar: "S
this State Journal? Wot's the score %
It is announced that the gas com
pany proposes to do d few things to
the ice men. Now what will the ice
men do to the rest of US?
The reports sent in by the farmers
to the state board of agriculture in
dictate that the March SHOWS not only
saved the wheat, but that they we're
also disastrous to that cereal. The
farmers agree about crops almost as
well as they do about politics
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-04
HUMOR or TIE Day


Why does all the world love a ioverf''
= Because, answered Miss Cayenne IT
Ilatters our vanity to observe peoDle who
are IN love and think how much more SEN
ton Star.
;, sJones-There are some queer turns in
Jinks-I know it; I turned up at a girls
mouse tonight. got turned down and turn
ca out and now I'm going home TO turn
on me gas and turn in.-ToWn Topics.
Why so blue. Reggy?'
NY confound ii, I was goose enough
10 ask Miss Dashing to be my wife I
haven't enough at present TO support my
SELF 50 I must set the date as far distant
oh, that's all right, old man. Tell her
you will marry her the day the Panama
canal IS finished Chicago News.
Old Hunks was settling his coal bill IT
know the prices seem high said the
dealer, but we can't regulate them We
nave got to sell at these figures or go out
'rd rather be held up in the ordinary
way, snarled Old Hunks. THE hold-up
Insult me by offering any apology. Chi
cago Tribune.
Weary Wander see they're goin' in
fer free alcohol fer tn arts an sciences.
ldmpy Lucas-That settles it. I'm goin'
to be an artist.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Elsie-M Mother. Mrs Roosevelt is the
FIRST lady in the land" isn't she7
Mother-Yes. dear but for gracious sake
don't let Bridget hear you say it,-Phila-
delphia Press -4s- s XII.
DO you think little learning is a dan
gerous thing21
Possibly. But it isn't half so dangerous
as the same amount of ignorance. De
troit Free Press.
Tess-So he Tilted her Ell? That must
have made her feel cheap.
Jess-Not as cheap as he might wish. She
computes the damage to her heart at S25,-
o0o.-Philadeiphia Press
Little Clarence who is the son of
first time the other day, and remarked
Il don't see how that dog can go round
in q circle very long without having q
rear-end collision. Life.
Are you giving your daughter musi-
''weli, perhaps not that, but I'm paying
for one. Life.
s'DumIey's drumming up trade for a
rope and Irvine house now"
Gee whizzi that accounts for it."
Accounts for what?'
II met him yesterday and he asked me
If I'd have a cigar. He must have given
me one of his samples. philadelphia
Press.
Mrs. E. 2. Munny-ATy poor man, you
must have had many severe trials.
Peripathetic Pete-Yessum. I have. But
ginerally gifts OF light on account O. me
inherent face.-Cieveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-04
.JAYHA WKER JOTS

An Oska1oosa man. with the aid of a
dog had the first spring vegetables to
appear above ground in that locality
this spring. The pup scratched them
up
The Winfield Courier has a Democrat
ic subscriber that ha stood by that
paper Ior "a years, which the Courier
thinks is a pretty good record, consid-
ering what it sometimes says about
Democrats.
Warning by Tom Thompson in the
Howard Courant: Young men, it would
be a serious joke on you II, when OPP
portunity comes knocking at your door,
YOU should be away somewhere play
ing pitch for the cigars.
The Colby Free Press prints this let
ter to show why some people stop their
paper:
Dear Editor: hereby offer my res
ingnashun as a subscriber to your pa
pier it being a pamphlet of such small
konsquenc as not to benefit my family
by takin' it. What you need in your
shete is branes & some one to russell
up news and rite editorials on live top
les No menshun has bin made in
mated to punch the symbals in our
Band or me butcherins a pollen china
pig weighin' 369 pounds or the gapes
in the chickens out this way. You ig-
nor the fact that I bot a bran new
bobsled and that traded my blind
mule and say nothin' about Hi Sim
l1ins' Jersey calf breaking his two front
legs fallin' in well important chiv-
erees have been utterly ignored by your
shete-a 3 column obitchury notice writ
by me on the death of grandpa Henery
was left out of your shete to say moth
in of the alfabetica1 poem beginning
"A Is for And and also for Ashk," writ
by my darter. This Is the reason your
papier is unpopular here. If you don't
want edyterials from this place and
amt gofn' to put up no news in your
shete we don't want said shete
CYRUS SMATHERS
p S. might think it over if you vii
Mother P. S. shown his Uniform
Mother P. S. And cymbals too
Last P S. If you say SO / will SEN
Bills pietur but you viii hat to draw
the uniform and eynbaIsa on it. C. S.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-04
MARCH.


A half-wild creature cast from winters
lap
A vasrant reveler in Natures courts:
With wlnd-disheveled hair she wildly
With q tw1g and bough unchanged with
rising sap.
In scant and freely flowing raiment drest.
Her slim brown arms upflung to greet
the rain,
She screams her challenge to the silent
plain
And makes of every day a crazy jestt
She PUSHES dercely down the hillside steep
And dashes through forsaken forest
Where last years leaves lie deep in SOM
Der piles.
And gaunt-limbed trees their endless Wig
lis keep.
And 50 for days her reckless reign ex-
tends;
leased and tormented Nature groans
outright;
Until, at last. the nadcap thing takes
flight,
And gentle April comes to make amends
Edwin Carlisle Litsey in Everybody s
Magazine for March.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

LFrom the Chicago News
The firt loves to captivate, but cap
tivates not to love.
It doesn't take criminal lawyers long
to become casehardened.
Too many Of our coming men never
get any farther than the background.
Every man knows some other man
whose funeral he would like to attend
After marriage many a girl discovers
that she trifed with the wrong man.
Some women's idea of economy is to
spend less money for food and more
for clothes
) Certain men make q speciality OF
manufacturing promises on which they
hope to raise money.
Rather than pass through a gate the
average boy will 60 out Of his way to
climb a fence.
It's a waste of time to pray for the
heather If you are not on speaking
terms with your neigh Dor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-04
Persian Dranlatics.

A traveller, speaking of some OF the
oddities Of Persian customs when
viewed with Occidental eyes, said:
Depending as we do upon illusion
and scenic effects in our theaters, the
presentation of a Persian play by ma
tive performers strikes the westerner
as little short of ridiculous, the ex-
treme solemnity of all concerned max
ing the appeal to hilarity all the
stronger In one of their favorite
miracle plays the Prophet is supposed
to ascend to heaven, and this dramatic
incident is accomplished by the very
simple expedient of drawing him up
from the stage and out of sight with a
block and tackle. The tackle Is at
tached to his belt by an attendant in
plain view Of the audience. SO strong
however is the imaginative power in
the Oriental, that many of the onlook
ers viii be observed weeping openly"
=Harper'S Weekly.