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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-03

Mrs. Thaw Dismisses Attorneys En-.
gagged for Harry's Defense.

Mrs. Thaw Dismisses Attorneys En-.
gagged for Harry's Defense.
New York, Aug. ga letter from
Mrs. William Thaw, mother, of Harry
K. Thaw, has been delivered by spe-
cial messenger to William M. X. o.
colt at his office stating that G. w.
Hartridge would conduct the defense
Of her son.
The same messenger delivered
| copy of the letter to Clifford w. Hart
ridge, Thaws personal attorney, at his
| office just across the street from Judge
Olcott's.
A family council was held at which
Mrs. William Thaw finally decided to
yield to her son and daughter-ih-law's
pleading and allow Mr.. Hartridge to
have entire charge of the defense.
1t can be stated upon the very best
Of authority that Thaw will have mis-
own way and be placed on trial for
the murder Of Stanford White without
resort to civil or criminal commits
lBion to inquire into his SANITY.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-03
DEMANDS 100000 DAMAGES.
American Officials in Porto Rico Sued
by Former Editor.

American Officials in Porto Rico Sued
by Former Editor.
New York, Aug. 3.-Hobart S. Bird,
who once published a newspaper in
San Juan, Porto Rico, has sued eight
of the highest American officials in
the island, including the present gov
ernor and his predecessor, for $780,.
600. damages in the supreme court. in
Brooklyn. Bird charges them with
having wrecked his paper, ruined his
reputation and forced him out of the
island. Bird is now practicing law in
this city.
The defendants named in the COM
plant are William H. Hunt, former
governor, now federal judge in Mon
tana; Willis Sweet, attorney general;
James Harlan, son of Justice Harlan
of the supreme court and former at
torncy general; Regis H. Post of New
York, secretary of the colonial govern
ment; John D. H; Luce of Boston,
head of the Spanish bank of San
Juan; James H. McLeary, associate
Justice of the supreme court of Porto
Rico; Jesus M. Rossy, prosecuting at
torney of the district of San Juan.
and Beekman Winthrop of New York,
the present governor of the island.
Birds complaint sets forth that
"the defendants, together with other
persons, as their agents, servants and
tools, unlawfully, wrongfully and
wickedly confederated and conspired
to deprive and defraud the plaintiff of
his property and to prevent him from
carrying on any other business in the
island of Porto Rico; to drive him
from the said island of Porto Rico and
to compel him to remain without said
island; being actuated by a desire to
prevent an exposure of their own cor
ruption and misconduct and the cor
ruption and misconduct of their asso-
ciateS."
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-03

st. Petersburg, August B.
Advices from Finland state the
revolutionists there have issued
a proclamation addressed to all
the citizens, declaring for a
Finish republic and demanding
that all persons take up arms in
its support. The loyal troops
and the revolutionists are re-
ported fighting at many points
and enormous casualties are
rumOred. .
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-03
FOUR KILLED IN FEUD FIGHT
Kentucky Troops May Be sent t,
Scene Of Battle.


Louisville, Aug. ga dispatch from
Sand Lick says four men were killed
there during the night in a fight be-
tween the Martin and Hall factions.
The Martin faction is said to be led
by W. Yates Martin and his two sons,
Silas and Alexander They are now
entrenched at the home of Martin on
Beaver creek and Sheriff Hayes and
posse are in the neighborhood. Every
effort is being made to get Martin and
his sons to surrender to the authori-
ties, as they will not submit to arrest
by force. Unless the Martins surren-
der within twenty-four hours Governor
Beckham will be asked to send troops
to the scene of the affray
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ment they might justify reprisals and
jeopardize their newly granted liber-
ties.
The latest reports show that all the
rumors to the effect that the Baltic
squadron was in the hands Of the
mutineers were untrue. When the
mutineers, who were led by agitators
from the shore and who believed that
the squadron was coming to their
rescue, found that hope in that direc-
tion was crushed dissensions broke out
among them and they turned their
guns upon each other. Those who
had determined to die rather than
surrender fred into the ranks of their
more fainthearted comrades, who
hoisted the white flag.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-03
ASSERT LAW is INVALID.

Attorneys for Toledo lcemen Submit
New Argument.
Toledo, o., Aug 3.-The attorneys
for the Ice trust took new tack in
their arguments before Judge Bah
cock. They exonerated Judge Kin
kade of making promises of leniency
II the icemen pleaded guilty, but con-
tended that the Imprisonment. feature
Of the Valentine antitrust law Is un.
constitutional, as it is impossible to
imprisOn a corporation and will be IL.
legal to imprison an individual for
the misdeeds Of corporation.
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saw, have mutinied. Forces Of
infantry and cossacks have been
dispatched to quell the revolt.

St. Petersburg, August g.
Premier Stolypin has gone to
Peterhof with the intention, it is
believed, of rendering his resig-
nation. This action is the result
of the refusal of the emperor to
approve the premier's plans for
reorganizing the cabinet.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-03
GENERAL STRIKE IN ST. PETERSBURG
LATEST BLOW AT CZAR'S GOVERNMENT
Ready Resign More Soldiers Are al 0


st. Petersburg, August "a
general strike among all the in
dustries in the city has been
formally ordered to begin to-
morrow noon, and as a prelimi-
nary, the men employed in a
dozen esta blishments went out
today at noon.
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3;HsS:11EsT AMONG SAILORS.
Revolutionary Propaganda Blamed TO-
....2" Existinu Conditions.

Revolutionary Propaganda Blamed for
Existing Conditions.
Sebastopol, Aug. 3.-Admiral Skryd-
loft, commander of the Black sea feet,
ascribed the unrest in the fleet not to
the economic demands of the men but
to the revolutionary propaganda and
the attitude of small number of the
officers. He did not fatter himself
with the belief that the task OF re-
storing order would be an easy oae.
ASSASSINATED NEAR WARSAW.
General Markgraffsky Latest Victim
Of Terrorists. ...- .
Warsaw, Aug General Mark
graffsky,- chief of the Warsaw gen
darmerie, was shot and killed near
here during the afternoon.
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st. Petersburg, August g.
Artillerymen in the summer
camp p at Remoertoff, near War
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-03
SOUGHT REFUGE IN TUNNEL,
Colorado Mine Officials Perish Durinu
CIoudburst.

Ouray, Colo, Aug. 81. A. Thomp-
son, general manager, and w. w.
Mather, foreman of the Mickey Breen
mine of the Tempest Apex company,
who disappeared a week ago, were
found dead under mass of debris in
small tunnel half mile from the
Mickey Breen mine. They evidently
sought refuge in the tunnel from a
cloudburst and were overwhelmed by
the rocks and dirt that washed into
the opening from the mountainside.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-03
Not One of Them

Not One Of Them.
Bones-The great men are all dying
off,
Jones-That doesn't make it neces-
sary for you to see doctor.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-03

Chicago, Aug. 3.-Lithographers
went on strike during the day in a
number of Chicago shops on orders
from headquarters of the national un-
ion of their craft in New York. The
first establishment at which the men
struck was that of the Northern Bank
Note company.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-03

Cincinnati, Aug. 3.-On orders from
the national headquarters of the Lith-
ographers' International Protective
and Benefit association in New York
the lithographic pressmen, transferrers
and provers in ten of the fourteen
lithograph plants in Cincinnati and
vicinity went on strike, throwing out
of work directly and indirectly more
than 400 men.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-03
FOR A SHORTER WoRkDAY.

Members Of lithographers' Union Out
on Strike.
New York, Aug. 3-About 500 en-
ployes of the lithographic establish
ments Of this city struck during the
day to enforce a demand for reduc-
tion in their working hours from fifty
three to forty-eight per week.
The strike order affects several
thousand men throughout the country.
s. At the headquarters of the striking
photographers it was announced that
rs per cent of the 500 shops in the
country had acceded to the demands
of the workmen for forty-eight hours
a week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-19
LEASE RETRACTS.
Takes Back All. She Ever Said Against
Rev. Mary Baker Eddy.

Boston. Nov. 19.-Mary Elizabeth
Lease. the ex-Kansas political agita-
tor. now a lecturer for the board of ed
ucation of New York city. is out with
signed article in a local publication.
in which she abjectly deplores a speech
Of 'fippant derision" which she owns
to have perpetrated several years ago
on Christian Science before an annual
banquet of the Medico Legal society of
the city Of New York.
II desire publicly to retract.'' says
Mrs. Lease, land publicly express my
profound humility and regret for the
statements. or miscellaneous; for
whereas 1 was then woefully blind, now
I see"
The last time Mrs. Lease is rernem-
bered to have broken prominently into
the public prints was two years ago
upon the occasion of a visit from a gen.
tleman burglar to her fiat in New York
city. The Kansas Amazon held the
burglar by main force until the police
called on the telephone by her niece,
arrived.
Saws Mrs. Lease.
When remember all that this con-
secrated woman has done for me, all
that he1Has suffered and uncOTnplain-
ingly endured that she might bestov
uOpff me upon all the children of men,
overwhelmed with shame that 1
should ever have dared to criticise- this
blameless life. as
For the freedom which is ours she
jeered at by the enemies of truth, mis-
represented on every hand, the mark
Of the worlds hatred and senseless
ridicule she moved out alone, stead
fastly though with bleeding feet
climbing that . upward. lonely road
which only the hmm ortals tread. She
did not offer US the untried, hasty re-
suit of her mental research. but toiled
in the Masters vineyard till the shad-
ows of evening fell, that she might
gratuitously bestow upon the world
the well ripened. well tested fruit OF
the white years of her unblemlshed
life.
"She returned blessing for male
diction, smiles for sarcasm, liberty fo-
slavery. and gave US the positive know"
ledge Of the. ever presence of infinite,
divine love, to drive forever from the
hearts of meu the horrid specters of
fear and superstition-spect which
she has taught US are but the shadows
Of a false sense Of being She has 81
fenced all the doubts and dogmas of
the centuries, driven error into its last
hiding place-the stronghold of ignO-
rance-fiIled the measure of human
life with purer purpose, deeper, sweet
er meaning. and led US into the realiza-
ton that there Is no love but Divine
the consciousness with peace unsur-
passed and joy everlasting.
''She has SO lived, so ordered her
every thought and act that conscious
" or unconsciOusly to human sense.
she is being borne out upon a current
of Divine power that moves always to-
ward the great deeps, where the tides
that set toward the Almighty are full
and strong
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-19
WHITE TO WRITE PLAY.
I1mporia Editor end Author to Pre-.
pare Play for Ezra Kendall.

Ezra Kendall. comedian. is at the
ThrOop hotel today, and he appears in
Swell Elegant Jones' at the New
Grand opera house tonight. Mr.. Ken
dali has been contemplating for year
or SO the prospect of appearing in a
play written by a Kansas man. and he
today informed a reporter for the State
Journal that he felt that his hopes in
this direction were about to be real
lied.
William Allen White. the well
known Emporia editor and writer
Will very likely furnish Mr.. Kendall
with his next vehicle.
A year or so ago when Mr.. Kendall
was in Kansas he had a talk with Mr.
White on the subject. but for some
reason the thing was dropped. but it
now appears that Mr.. White Will pro-
coed with the story for the play. Mr..
Kendall talked with Mr. White over
the long distance telephone from To-
peka today, and he will meet Mr..
White when he plays at Emporia on
the 28th of this month.
The theme of Mr.. Whites play will
evolve about a tramp printer; his eX-
perience- ups and downs; and his
growth into an editorial position in
the community. 1t will furnish an apt
opportunity for a display of Kendall's
style of wit and humor-
The story will be enlivened with
romance or two, together with a. few
characters intended as satire on
politicians and society. and other
homely characters to portray people
and things as they actually exist in real
life.
Il think Mr.. White is one of the best
of the writers of character studies
that we have" said Mr.. Kendall to-
day. land while Mr. White has never
prepared a stage production. fee.
positive that he can and will be az
successful as an author of a play as he
already is acknowledged to be as
writer and author"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-19
DONATES A MILLION.
Carnegie Will Contribute to the Cause
of Universal Peace.

st. Louis. No, Nov. 19.-The Post
Dispatch todays says:
Congressman Richard Bartholdt left
this morning for New York at the in
vitation of Andrew Carnegie who has
promised ITO turn over to him 81 000,-
600 to be used in furthering the pro-
paganda for international peace. The
matter has been under consideration
for some time. Before Mr.. Bartholdt
started for New York he told several
friends of the plan and expressed
hopefulness as to the result of the
work.
One of these friends said that the
money had been definitely promised
and that the present visit of the con-
gresham to the iron master is to ar
range for the transfer of the fund and
for the formation of the peace bureau
which will have charge of the cam
paign.
Only the income of the fund Will be
utilized. This income will amount to
$4,000 or $4,000 a year 1t will be
expended in an effort to direct public
opinion in favor of arbitration as a
means of settling disputes between ma
tons.
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TWO DAYS TO TOWN.
Topeka's Scouts Leave for Texas on
Tour OF Investigation.

With faces wreathed in smiles and
grips packed to last ten days, and may
be more Topeka's special committee
consisting of w. S. Bergundthal, for
mer mayor. and F. G. Dreaming, city
attorney. leave this evening over the
Santa Fe for Houston, Galveston. Beau
mont and Corsicana, Texas, to investi-
gate the working of the commission
form Of government at those four mu-
inequalities. The third member of the
committee. z. L. Copeland, treasurer
of the Santa Fe, will leave some time
next week. He is detained in Topeka
by matters connected with the railroad
which he serves.
No particular plans have been form
ulated as to the method which viii be
followed in making the investigation.
OF course all the available data which
can be secured will be brought back
But through the medium Of personally
meeting the various officials and seeing
the working of their departments to-
gether with interviews with prominent
business men the desired information
it is expected can be procured. Two
DAYS will be spent in each town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-19
BEAT LAWRENCE HIS.
Topeka Boys Victorious in Saturdays
Game 10 to 0.

Topeka high school added another
victory to it's credit Saturday by de-
feating the Lawrence high school 10
to 0 on McCook field at Lawrence
In the first half. field goal was
kicked by Willard of the Topeka team
In the second half, a touchdown was
made for Topeka by Captain McFar-
land. and goal was kicked
The Lawrence team was about the
same weight as Topeka, but showed
lack of training. During the course of
the game. Topeka tried for four field
goals in addition to the one which was
kicked. The halves We're 2 5 minutes
in length The officials were Flesh
man. referee and Bush, umpire
On next Saturday the Lawrence
team will play the Topeka high school
in Topeka
The Topeka lineup was as follows;
Center, Brown; left guard. Jolly;
left tackle. cain, left end. Swearingen:
right guard, Kuehne; right tackle,
Holmes: right end. Cowgirl; quarter,
He'll; right half, Willard left half,
Ringenhenger; fullback, Mcfarland
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Man Who Won IS, 900 in Guess
ing Contest After Parole.
State Parole Board Takes Favor
able Action on Application.
VERY UNUSUAL CASE.
Has Served I3 1-2 Years for
Killing a Policeman.
His Sentence COMMITTED to 90
Years by Governor Bailey.

Governor E. w. Hoch has not re-
ceived as yet the recommendations of
the parole board of the Kansas peni-
Tertiary. consisting of the warden and
the three directors, that he extend
executive clemency and grant a parole
to Phil Killion, who is serving a
term in the prison for murder in the
second degree for aiding in the killing
of a police officer in Winfield, Kan. in
1898 Killions parole was recon-
mended by the board last Saturday.
Killion is looked upon as one of the
rather remarkable characters in the
states prison. On two occasions he
has displayed considerable heroism in
fighting fires there and since he has
been in prison he won a $4,000 prize
in one of the Kansas City convention
hall guessing contests, on an invest
ment of $12 which he made in tickets
for the affair. Through the warden OF
the penitentiary he has invested about
half OF this money in real estate and
the rest of it is being held by the war
den in trust for him.
The original sentence imposed on
Killion was for twenty-five years. This
was commuted to twenty years by for
mer Governor Bailey because of Kill
lions commendable behavior on a
couple of occasions. He discovered
fire in the workship one night and by
prompt action he kept the fire from
spreading and saved a large loss to the
state on another occasion during the
administration of Harry s Lands as
warden. Killion helped to put out
fire in the coal mine. He risked his
life by crawling into coal rooms to
extinguish fires and came near suf-
locating in several instances
killiOn has been in the prison since
April 1898, having therefore served
nearly thirteen years and six months Of
solid time During the first years Of
his Incarceration he made considerabl
trouble and he found it hard to get
along with the other prisoners. but in
the last ten years his record has been
such as to win the confidence of the
prison officials. For two years past he
has been utilized as a "trusty' in the
position as Waterman at the pump
house. He remains at the pump house
on the river bank at night and makes
the trip to and from the prison unat-
tended.
IN the event Of the governor grant
ing him a parole Killion plans to pass
his remaining days on a farm. which
he proposes to purchase with the
money that he Won He is now Suner-
ing greatly from rheumatism and of
late has shown that he is badly broken
in both health and spirits
Several applications for a pardon for
Killion have been filed in the executive
ed down BIZ the various governors
They have been opposed strenuously
by the citizens of the community where
the crime KilliOn is expiating was
committed Governor Hoch has re-
ceived many of these protests and he
said today that when the recommended
lions for the parole reached him, he
would give the matter his most careful
consideration before arriving at a de-
cision.
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WILL COME ON TUESDAY
Edward H. Hartman to Visit Topeka
in the Evening.

Edward H Hartman, the Wizard
Of Wall Street will be the guest of the
city of Topeka Tuesday evening.
He win leave Kansas City some time
during the afternoon, probably about
o'clock, and will reach Topeka at
about s O'Clock in the evening. He
Will come on a special train 1t has
not been announced whether Mr.. Har-
riman will remain over Wednesday at
Topeka or not.
The plans for his entertainment in
Topeka will have to be changed con-
siderably on account Of the change In
Mr.. Harriman's programme 1t had
been expected that Mr.. Hartman
would reach Topeka in the forenoon,
and it had been planned to drive him
over the city in an automobile. and
at the Commercial club rooms SO that
the business men and others of Topeka
might meet the man who is regarded
as the highest power in railroad mat
ters in the United States.
N. H. LOOMS, attorney for the Union
Pacific in Kansas. is in Kansas City to-
day to meet Mr.. Hartman, who is the
guest of the Kansas City Commercial
club at its twelfth annual banquet. Mr.
after noon today announcing the
changes in the plans for Mr.. Harri-
mans visit to Topeka. Fl. A. Scandrett
accompanied Mr.. LOOMS to Kansas
City.
Travelling with Mr.. Hartman are the
following: S. NJ. FELTON,. president Chi
cago & Alton; J. C. Stubs. traffic
manager of the Hartman lines; Julius
Kruttschnitt, operating head of the
Hartman lines: Stuart r. Knott, presi-
dent Kansas City Southern, and few
others
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-19
THREE INDICTED.
They Are Charged With UnlawfuIIy
Procuring Charters.

Washington, Nov 19.-The grand
jury of the District of Columbia today
returned an Indictment against Abner
B. Clements, former cashier of the
Aetna Banking & Trust company of
Butte Mont; John T. Hoag. assistant
cashier of the same institution in
charge of the Washington branch, and
for conspiracy. A separate indictment
charging false pretenses was returned
against John T. Hoag only.
The Indictment charges conspiracy
by unlawfully procuring in the District
of Column bia charters for corporations
and obtaining charters in the United
States by false pretenses.
The grand jury ignored charges
against r. S. Donaldson and Miss B. E.
T Kretchmann Of this city, who were
arrested. in connection with the same
general charge.
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DIED IN HIS BARN.
+. NJ. Edwards. of valencia. Stricken
With Heart Failure.

F. NJ. Edwards, an old and respected
resident of Shawnee county, was found
dead about o'clock this morning in
his barn where he had gone to attend
to his morning chores He had taken
milk bucket on his arm an hour or so
before and started for the barn and not
returning was found by members of the
family who went in search of him.
He had placed a stool in position and
started to milk when he was stricken
with heart trouble and apparently died
where he fell without struggle. He
was about 10 years of age, and childish.
which led to the appointment of a
guardian about six months ago, though
at the time an attempt was made by
his family to have him declared insane.
He came to Shawnee county about %
years ago and located three miles
southwest of Valencia where he pur-
chased a farm of 30 acres which he
owned at the time of his death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-19
GIVE A" STAG SOCIAL
y. Nj. c. A. Extends Invitation fol
Tuesday Evening Entertainment

ing a stag social for Tuesday even
ing in GemmeH hall especially for the
young men of the city who are not
now members of the association.
Members will also be present to aid in
showing the visitors a good time but
outsiders are expected to make up a
large part Of the attendance. The
evening will be given up to stag
games, bowling and social intercourse.
There will be no attempt at a formal
programme. Some light refreshments
will be served The hours viii be
from to 10 O. clock. All men of the
city may consider themselves invited.