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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
DISAGREEMENT SEEMS LIKELY.
conferees on Statehood Bill Said to Be
a ~..-. Far Apart. 49,.

Conferees on Statehood Bill Said to Be
- Far Apart. -.
Washington, April 49, Arrange
ments have been made for another
conference on the statehood bill, which
probably will be held on Thursday.
There is less hope of an agreement
now than when the bill was first in
conference. At that time it was
thought that the house conferees might
agree upon a proposition to submit the
jointure proposition of New Mexico
and Arizona to the people of each ter
ritory separately at the time the vote
was taken on the constitution of the
proposed new state. The Foraker:
proposition, which was voted in the
bill before Arizona and New Mexico
were eliminated, provided that there
should be a separate election for de-
Gliding the question of joint statehood.
Inquiry among senators who support
ed the Foraker amendment has deyel-
oped the fact that they are rather
tenacious for the last amendment and
insist upon separate vote The house
conferees seem more disposed to stand
for their original bill than before,
which would mean no agreement.
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INST|GA1ED BY Mr.. WI
FORMER CHINESE MINISTER Ac.
cusED OF INclTlNe ANTI.
AMERICAN BOYCOTT.
SENATE COMMITTEE HEARS EVIDENCE
OPINION GIVEN THAT MOVEMENT
WAS BEGUN TO AID IN Ne
GoTlATING TREATY.

Washington, April 18.-Causes for
the Chinese boycott of American goods
were inquired into during the day by
the senate committee on immigration
in compliance with resolution intro.
duced by Senator Tillman. Charles
DENLY, chief clerk of the state depart
ment, who for twenty years was in
China attached to the American lega-
ton and later holding positions under
the Chinese government following the
Boxer outbreak, was before the COM
mittee. +
Without hesitancy Mr.. DENLY gave
It as his opinion that the boycott was
fnstfgated by the Cnfnese Infiffster IN
this country to give an incentive to
treaty negotiations. He said the move
ment had not been spontaneous, but
that it had been organized and sys-
tematized by intelligent men who knew
conditions here as we'll as in China.
"Do you think that Mr.. WI, the for
mer Chinese minister to the United
States, had anything to do with it,"
asked Senator Lodge.
"Well, think the boycott as an eff
fective implement must have been
thought of by an intelligent Chinese
official who has visited this country !" y
replied Mr.. DENLY. He added that he
had no direct information to show
that Mr.. WI had been instrumental in
starting the boycott or that he had
beeen active in sustaining it.
Mr.. DENLY said the first open mani
festation of the boycott had been in
1904 and he then traced the move
ment to the present day: He said the
boycott now apparently was nearly
dead, but that the spirit was latent
and easily could be stirred into life
and fury -1-.z.-s- .gsr = =
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
THREE KILLED IN 4 RIOT.
SERIOUS TROUBLE THE. OUTCOME
OF MINERS strike At
wlNDBER, PA.

Johnstown, Pa, April 18.-After
weeks of anxiety the situation brought
about by the controversy of the coal
miners with the operators eliminated
during the night in riot at Windber,
near this city, which finally ended in
bloodshed. Three are dead and a mum.
Der are injured and throughout the
night the town was patroHed by armed
guards. The shooting was brought On
by an assault upon the jail made by
striking miners, who attempted to res.
cue comrades who had been placed
under arrest. The riot occurred in the
early hours of the night and continued
for several hours, working the resi-
dents to such pitch that the night
was one of terror.
The dead are principally foreigners
and we're miners who were out on
strike. They are Pietro Martini, An
tonic Mazuca and Paul Zills, who was
the leader of the mob. Curtis Kester,
ten years old, a bystander, was shot
through the bowels. His condition is
serious and he will probably die. When
the deputies fired on the mob they
fled, leaving three Of their number on
the ground dead, and, the strikers re-
fusing to permit the undertakers to
remove the bodies, the latter remained
where they fell until morning. i.
The situation was so serious that
Sheriff Begley was summoned from
Somerset to take charge of affairs and
an appeal was made to Governor Pen
nypacker for troops.
The state constabulary ordered to
Windber by Governor Pennypacker ar
rived about daylight and the town is
now. practically under martial law The
state police and deputies have the sit.
uation' we'll in hand and no further
trouble at this time is expected.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
sRiEF SITS Or MEsss.

The Iowa Republican state central
committee has issued call for the
Republican state convention to be held
in Des Moines Aug. 1.
Robert j. Wright, a lawyer Of Phila-
delphia, was killed and five other per-
sons were severely injured in an auto
mobile accident near Millville, N. ].
James Grafton. a pioneer settler in
Carver county, Mimi, and for four.
teen years a member OF the Minneap-
Oils police force, shot and killed him
self at Seattle. Wash.
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TWO ~WoRkMEN ) KILLED.
Crushed to Death by Fall Of Earth at
-: ''. Minneapolis. zs

Crushed to Death by Fall Of Earth at
-: II, Minneapolis.
Minneapolis, April 1s. Neis Sander
son and George O'Neil, laborers en-
ployed on the Great Northern Railroad
company's improvements at Clear
water Junction, were killed by cave
in.
A crew of men was working in a
hole beside hill where two steam
shovels were being used to remove
the dirt from the bottom, thus under
mining the hill and letting the earth
fall from the top a couple of tons at
a time.
Suddenly huge portion of the hill
crumbled and tons of earth fell to.
wards the workmen. A cry of warn.
ing sent most of the men in a wild
rush out of the deathtrap, but Sander
son and O'Neil were caught and either
suffocated or crushed to death. ,.ss$
It took their comrades over half an
hour to dig them out.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
GRAIN COMMISSION ENJoINED.
Wisconsin inspectors Must Not Inter-
fere With Certain Elevators.

Superior, Wis, April 18.-United
States, Marshal Lewiston of Madison.
has arrived in Superior and served
copies of the recent Injunction issued
against the Wisconsin grain commits
sion. The injunction prevents the
commission and its agents from inter-
fering with the handling of any grain
at the Itasca and Terminal elevators.
1t practically covers the same scope
as the injunction which was secured
by the Globe Elevator company some
months ago and Is brought at this time
to Illustrate the attempts of the com.
mission to inspect outgoing cargoes of
grain. 1t is expected that the injunc-
ton will remain in force until final
determination of the Globe case is
reached and upon which will ultimate
ly depend the constitutionality Of the
Wisconsin grain law.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
GRAND JURY IS SUMMONED
JUDGE DECLARES MEMBERS OF
~ SPRINGFIELD (Mo) MOB :
GUILTY OF MURDER.
&.

Springfield, Mo-, April 1S.-sup.
pressed excitement pervaded all
classes here on the opening of this, the
fourth day of Springneld's race war.
cused of completely in Saturday nights
lynching had had the effect of clearing
the streets when the members of the
mob who had openly boasted of their
participation in the affair began to
realize that the state and county off,
GERS had really combined in an effort
to prosecute all offenders. Then the
people had again been inf1amed with
the mob spirit when it became gener-
ally known that another negro had
been killed, this time by white boy
in self-defense. This tense feeling was
still apparent when morning came.
Sheriff Horner early sent out dozen
deputies armed with the twenty or so
warrants still unserved, while in the
criminal court the selection of grand
jury called together under instructions
to indict the mob leaders was begun.
Judge A. J. Lincoln of the criminal
court. in charging the grand jury, was
bitter In his statements. After recit-
ing the causes leading up to the call
ing together of the jury he said:
>. This outrage deserves the condem-
nation of all good citizens and the
most rigid investigation at your hands.
All persons, their aiders and abettors,
engaged in that shameful outrage are
guilty, under the law, of murder In the
first degree. The law makes it no less
a crime because 200 men engaged in
the contamination of the crime than if
one, man alone and under cover of
night committed the offense, Crime
never becomes lawful because multi
tudes seek to give it sanction. Mob
violence never has and never can ac-
complish good. Lawlessness places all
things and all men in peril" .
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EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETS.
Existing Conditions in Goal Fields Dis
,-::--ss--- cussed by Miners, Iesders3

Existing Conditions in. Coal Fields Dis
cussedz by Miners, leaders. -
indianapolis, April 1S.-The sinterna.
tionai executive board of the United
Mine Workers of America during the
day began session which, it is ex-
pected, will last several days, during
which some matters bearing an i'm
portant part in the existing contro-
;versy with the coal operators will be
considered and decided upon.
The offer of the operators of the
Kanawha field in West Virginia to pay
an advance of per cent in wages in
stead of the 1903 scale was placed be.
fore the board. -.- i
The protest of the operators of Illi-
nois against, the failure of the union
to keep at the mines what they con-
slider sufficient number of men to
maintain the properties in good condi-
tion will be taken up at once.
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Must Serve His Sentence.

Milwaukee, April 1S-Robert L.
Rudolph, former alderman from the
Eleventh ward, must serve one year in
the house Of correction as result of
decision Of the supreme court affirm
ing the judgment Of the jury in Judge:
Tarrant's court and declining to hold
as correct the allegations Of mistrial.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
CITY COUNCIL DEADLoCkED.
Holds Continuous Session in Effort to
Elect Speaker.

Elect Speaker.
Kansas City, April 1S.-The first
session of the lower house of the city
council under the administration OF
Mayor Henry M. Birdsley (Rep), who
was inaugurated Monday, developed a
stubborn deadlock over the election of
a speaker. At 1890 a. m., after 1O4
fruitless ballots had been taken, the
tired councilmen, following a siege. Of
nearly fourteen hours, seemed no
closer to a solution than when the
session opened. At that hour a motion
to adjourn was voted down. : 2e.'s
Coffee and sandwiches were brought
into the chamber at different times for
the councilmen. ,&.E.
The deadlock was broken shortly
before noon when D. R. Spaulding,
Republican, was elected speaker on
the 118th ballot.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
Advises Removal of Sheriff.

Jefferson City, Mo-, April 18.-Attor-
ney General Hadley has telegraphed
Assistant Attorney General Blake at
Springfield advising the removal of the
sheriff on the ground of neglect of
eHcial duty, providing the investiga-
tion warrants such a course.
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ST. Paul, Mimi, April 18 (Bulletin). Lat
est reports from San Francisco add to the tale
OF horror. A portion Of the business district
is in flames and buildings are being dynamited
to check the progress of the fire. Property
loss will be forty millions. All theprominent
newspaper buildings are gone except the
''Chronlcle."
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Chinese Towns open to Trade.

Toxic, April 18.-It was semi-ofti-
cially announced during the day that
Antung and Tatungkau, both near the
mouth of the Yalu river, will be opened
to trade and travel May /. Mukden
will be opened June and other places
soon after that date
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
BANK CLERK ARRESTED.
st. Paul Young Man Accused of En-
hezzling $1,000.

st. Paul, April 18.--Louis Jungbauer,
aged tWenty-four, assistant teller of
the State Savings bank, has been ar
rested charged with embezzling 81 900
from the bank. The complaint was
sworn to by G. G. Lawrence, treasurer
Of the bank.
Jungbauer enjoyed the fullest conf
dence of the bank officials, but Of late
is said to have been living extrav-
agantly The method adopted by jung
bauer in taking the banks funds is
said to have been Justification of de-
rosit books
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
TARTARS RESIST RUSSIANS.
Conflicts Occur in Many Parts of the
Caucasus.

Tiflis, Caucasia, April 1S.-The Tar
tars In many places are resisting the
punitive expeditionary forces, espe-
cially in Elizabethpol province. They
recently caught squadron of dragons
in def3le, routed them and killed two
and mortally wounded four.
At Ahalkalaki number of Cossacks
were killed on train by prisoners
whom they were charged to escort to
Tiflis.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, April 17.-Wheat-T arrive
and on track-No. 1 Northern, 8Okc;
No. 2 Northern, 781zc; May, 8O%c;
July, Sic; Sept, 791ac. Flax-To ar
rive and on track, $1.1Sk; May, $11e;
July. S1.20A: Sept. S119%.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
MINERS SECURE THEIR BEER
Company Modifies Order When Men
Go Out on Strike.

60 Out on Strike.
Irwin, Pa, April 1S.-The foreign
miners at Edna No. struck again dur
ing the day, their grievance being a
peculiar one. Recently the company
issued an order cutting off the supply
of beer by refusing to allow agents to
sell or deliver in the town. The arrest
of two agents caused the miners to
hold an indignation meeting and they
decided to strike. -.
The company then agreed to modify
the ruling by allowing beer in limited
quantities to be brought in and the
men returned to work.
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Minneapolis Wheat.

Minneapolis, April 17.-Wheat-
May, 7S@7SHc; July, SOAc; Sept,
1890, On track-No. 1 hard, 8OHc;
No. Northern, S0%c; No. 2 Northern,
1875 @79%c; No. Northern, 77@78c.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
IAVALIDATESM MANY DIVORCES
ALL SORTS or COMPLICATIONS
WILL FOLLOW DECISION OF
SUPREME COURT.

Z
Chicago, April 18.-Itl.is estimated
by Chicago lawyers that the decision
of the supreme court OF the United
States holding illegal all divorces ex-
cept where both parties to the suit re-
sided within the same jurisdiction will
make illegal 500 divorces that have
:been granted in this city alone and
pave the way for all manner of com
splications in the next generation over
inheritance and the rights to property.
Z Several prominent attorneys decided
that the decision simply means chaos
in regard to the title to property, as
in cases where man who was. in the
sight of the decision, illegally di-
vorced, and remarked, his property
must necessarily go to his legal heirs
and cannot be held by any children of
any women he may have married sub
sequent to his divorce.
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ENTIRE BUSINESS DISTRICT OF SAN
FRANCISCO DESTROYED BY EARTHQUAKE
BUILDINGS CRIJMBLE TO THE GROUND
AND HUNDREDS ARE BURIED IN RUINS

Fires Are Raging And People Hurry
From the Down Town DistrictS...Stiff
Breeze is Blowing and Destruction of
the Entire City Is Threatened---Awful
Loss of Life in Hotels and Lodging
HOuses--.Firemen PoWerless. -
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San Francisco, Cal, April l8.-This city
was practically wrecked by an earthquake
that occurred at $40 o'clock this morning
The shock lasted three minutes. Thousands
OF buildings are damaged and destroyed. The
loss Of life is reported to be great. The city
hall, costing 100000, is in ruins. The
modern buildings suffered less th an the brick
and frame. but the business section Of the
city from Market street to Mission street,
and from the bay back is almost completely
wrecked Many buildings along Market and
Mission Streets including the department
stores, collapsed. Hundreds Of people in the
cheap tenement districts are reported killed.
Fires are raging and owing to the scarcity of
water are practically beyond control. Busi-
ness is practically suspended. The residence
portion IS but slightly damaged, although near
ly every house has been more or less injured
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~ '"'oA PPeo "io oi0noA ou supply CUT Ine
enca hote, five story building topped buryng rs
people in the debris lodging house street col
aped and buried eighty people in the FIRES are spread
ing and if wind up, San Francisco will experience the
greatest conagraton of modern times. On lower Market
street, the horoughfare of the city, block after block of
substantial buildings destroyed big fire raging at
Sansome and Pine No reports have come
from outside of San Francisco but the damage about bay
must be second earthquake shock was felt at
8l5 which intensified the panic The was Of short ura
ton and caused no additional damage
New York, April l8-At 2:l5 Eastern time San Fran
cisco again off from communication with the outside
world The last reports from the stricken city indicate that
entire business district both wholesale and retail is key
fall prey the flames which increasing in intensity
being famed by a stiff breeze
New York, April l8A report has reached here to the
effect that earthquake wrecked many buildings and
caused loss Of life in San Francisco this morning The shock
felt at 53 San Francisco time Following wreckng
the buildings many fires broke The Postal telegraph
office wrecked and communication was lost at $780, New
York time At $40 communication restored for brief
PERIOD San Francisco then reported that number of build
had collapsed and that the dead injured were being
taken from the ruins rapidly possible number of
fires were then raging
New York April l8At3 o'clock D. M, Eastern time
hundreds found to be dead and thousands injured The
all full and everything available has been turned
into hospitals.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-19
Mr.. BRYAN TWO YEARS *4ENcE

Melville E. Engalls, chief of
ficer of the "Big Four Railroad
and conservative Democrat, says
of Mr.. Bryan: "He is bound to
be the next President. Nothing
can beat him. l voted against
him twice, but I am going to vote
for him this time. | am sure that
he will be elected, and that he
will be a conservative and splen-
did Chief Executive of the United
States. He has learned a great
deal of late years."
Others of more or less promi-
nence who voted as Mr.. Engalls
did, have expressed their determi-
nation to vote for Mr.. Bryan two
years from now, provided he is
the candidate. But the change is
In them, not in the Nebraskan.
Those who had assumed that he
had changed his views have been
enlightened by Mr.. Bryan himself
through his recent London inter.
view. He frankly declares that
there has been no change in his
views, no retreat from the posi-
lions he has long maintained. AS
for free silver coinage at the ratio
Of 16 to 1 he says that is not now
an issue.
Mr.. Bryan is ten years older
than he was in 1896; he is better
Tread, better informed, has more
mature Judgment and has been
strengthened by the knowledge
which wide travel and observation
and contact with the most enlight
ened minds of the world give. He
is hardly so radical as he was but
he insists that he has not repud-
lated his views and theories.
He seems more conservative be.
cause there is no longer novelty in
his ideas and because conditions
have influenced public opinion.
He also appears more conservative
by comparison with Roosevelt.
Mr.. Bryan's recent declaration
will strengthen him with many,
but it will also cause active oppo-
sitiOn TO him. Many things can
occur in two years, and it is too
early to predict with confidence
what 1908 will bring forth. The
Democratic drift is unquestionably
toward Bryan, and the chances
now seem to be in favor of his
nomination. He may yet be Pres
ident Of the United States.
He could hardly beat Roosevelt
and he would find a formidable
opponent in Taft, but he could
defeat any other Republican.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-19
LEGISLATION is COSTLY NOW.

The Savannah News notes the
fact that Representative Barksdale
OF Wilkes county called the atten-
ton of the House and the people
to an interesting little matter dur
ing the session of, Monday. 1t
was that the expense of the Legis-
lature to the taxpayers of the
state amount to sos per minute,
which is about 81 every time the
watch ticks. And once in two
years that SOS per minute could
be saved to the taxpayers by the
adoption of biennial sessions, with
out any interest being harmed.
ty-eight dollars per minute is
the toll that the politicians take
out of the people once in two years
in order that they may meet at the
capitol and fix up political states
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-19
CAPTAIN WAS BOUND oVEE.
Salvation Army Officer Was Charged
With Stealing Money! from Man

Salvation Army Officer Was Charges
With Stealing Money from Man.
Atlanta, July 17.-In Justice Lam
drums court Monday Captain John
Christensen, Of the Salvation Army,
was bound over to the superior court
on the charge of larceny from Oliver
Hilton, who accused the officer of
stealing two 10-dollar bills from him.
Saturday night the accuser in the
case went to the Salvation army hotel
and asked for berth for the night.
According to statements made In court
by the witnesses for the defense, Hill
ton was intoxicated, and raised a dis
turbance, fighting the Salvation Army
captain. Hilton claims he was re-
lieved of the bills while scrapping.
The Salvation Army is far from sat
isf1ed with the handling of the Chris
tenson case. In the first place, the
officer who bears a good reputation in
Atlanta, was arrested on the word of
a stranger, taken to the police station
in the patrol wagon, and locked up all
night, as the bail demanded. 500,
could not be secured so late at night.
Members of the Army are of the
opinion that the police department
could have handled the case in some
better way.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-07-19
The Baltimore Sun says "Taft
wishes to break the Solid South !"
Let him put up his money. The
Solid South is backing Bryan.
Republican Platform ADOPTED

Concord, r. H, July IA platform
adopted by the Lincoln Republican
club at a meeting here was accepted
by Winston Churchill, who has been
mentioned as a candidate for COVER
nor of New Hampshire. The plat
form sets forth the desire of the club
for the enactment of laws prohibiting
the giving Of free railroad transporta-
ton, passes, mileage books or other
special contracts to delegates, govern
ment officials or any other persons
not properly entitled thereto, a cor
rupt practice act which shall prohibit
political contributions by corporations,
campaign receipts and distributions
publicity