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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-11-15
SOME RADICAL RESOLUTIONS
so CALLED "socIALIsT" PRoPo.
slTIoNs At FEDERATION
y :. CONVENTION.

Minneapolis, Nov. 15.-Eight dele
gates from the American Society of
Equity have been admitted to the con-
vention of the American Federation
Of Labor and two of them, w. West
Tubbs, the secretary, Peoria, ILL.,, and
o. c. Crowley, Wisconsin state Or
ganlzer, addressed the convention.
The admission of this delegation is
viewed as a step toward alliance be-
tween the American Federation of La
Dor and the Farmers union," as the
American Society of Equity has been
called.
Resolutions denouncing the judicial
system of the United States as 'tyran
ical and antiquated, from the police
court up to the supreme court of the
United States" we're introduced at
the morning session and were refer
red to the committee on resolutions.
These, with other resolutions known
as the socialist resolutions" were
presented by Victor L. Berger of Mil
waukee, delegate for the Wisconsin
State Federation of Labor.
Charging that the judiciary, and es-
pecially the federal judiciary, is re-
cruited from corporation lawyers up
on the recommendation of "pluto-
Gratis" the resolutions call for the
election of all judges, including fed
eral judges, by the people of their
respective districts or states for a
term not longer than four years, with
the privileges of being reelected from
time to time if the people so desire.
On the subject of insurance the reso-
lutions are equally outspoken, de-
nouncing the system in the United
States as notorious method of graft
and exploitation and demanding COM
pulsory life and other insurance by
legislative enactment.
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The Endless Procession.

A myriad of men are born. They la
Dor and sweat and struggle for bread:
they squabble and scold and fight; they
scramble for little mean advantages
over each other; age creeps upon them;
infirmities follow; shames and humilia-
tons bring down their prides and their
vanities; those they love are taken
from them, and the JOY Of life is turn
ed to aching grief. The burden Of pain,
care. misery, grows heavier year by
year; at length ambition is dead, pride
is dead; vanity is dead; longing for re-
lease Is in their place. II comes at
last-the only Imprisoned gift earth
ever had for them-and they vanish
from world where they were Of no
consequence; where they achieved moth
ing; where they were mistake and a
failure and foolishness. There they
have left no sign that they have ex-
isted-a world which will lament them
day and forget them forever Then
another myriad takes their place. and
copies all they did, and goes along the
same proftless road, and vanishes as
they vanished-to make room for an
other, and another, and million other
myriads, to follow the same arid path
through the same desert and accom-
plish what the first myriad and all the
myriads that came after it accomplished
-nothing-From Mark Twain's Auto
biography in North American Review.
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DESPERATE KILLS FOUR.
Two Negroes and Two officers Make
Up List of Victims.

,Asheville, N. c., Nov. 15.-Patrol-
men Charles Blackstock and William
Bailey of this city were shot to death
by negro, who also killed one negro
and fatally wounded another
The murderer gave his name as
viii Harris of Charlotte, N. c., a
desperate for whom large reward
has been standing for some time.
Prior to the death of the two off,
GERS negro restaurant keeper named
Ben Allison was shot and killed by
Harris without provocation. Another
negro named Tom Neil lies mortally
wounded, he, too, being shot before
the officers took a hand In the melee.
Harris started on his tour from a
negro house. He fired into two houses
as he made his way to South Main
street and wounded Allison. Later
the desperate encountered Tom Neil
and fired at him.
Police Captain Page and Officers
Bailey and Blackstock rushed from
police headquarters in pursuit. Cap.
tain Page received bullet in the arm
from the negro's rifle. Page called
upon Blackstock to fire, but before
that officer could do so Blackstock
fell dead with, a bullet in the chest
Bailey fired twice without hitting and
the negro then shot and killed Bailey
afterward escaping.
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SERIOUS CHARGE MADE IN CON.
NEcTioN WITH SAN FRAN
CISCO CALAMITY.
GOVERNMENT INTERESTED IN PROBE
SAID THAT IN THE AGGREGATE
sTEALINGs WILL AMOUNT
TO 100000.

San Francisco, Nov. 15.-The Chron-
icle says:
A new investigation is progressing
In the course of developments in the
local graft scandal. It now appears
that many sums of money, large and
small, that were sent from different
states to San Francisco for the re-
lief of the sufferers from the calamity
never reached the relief committee.
Some of these amounts, which aggre-
gated large sum, were mailed to
the care of Mayor Schmitz. F. J.
Heney, Detective William Burns and
about 100 government agents have
been making investigation.
President Roosevelt is the moving
spirit behind the inquiry and he de-
clares that no man guilty of diverting
the relief funds shall escape justice
The cases come within the jurisdic-
ton of the federal authorities because
Of the interstate character of the
postal service, which, it is alleged,
was criminally tempered with.
A considerable sum of money was
also sent through the express com pa
MES and the Wells-Fargo company is
now investigating the disappearance
OF $1O,5S0 sent in one package from
the citizens of Searchlight, New, which
the relief committee says they never
received and which the company says
was delivered to the representative
OF the committee to whom it was ad-
dressed. The crime of forgery is said
to be included in the offenses of the
raiders of the relief contributions.
1t is said that in the aggregate the
steallngs will amount to a million
dollars
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-11-15
UNIFORM DIVORCE LAWS.
National Congress Approves Three
Articles Submitted.


Philadelphia. Nov. 15.-The national
congress on uniform divorce laws.
which Tuesday began the considera-
tion of bill for adoption by all the
states in the Union, has taken up ar
ticle 4. which names the causes for
divorce from bed and board. The
three articles so far adopted are as
follows:
Article Causes existing at mar
rage for annulment of marriage shall
be incurable physical disability; con-
sangulnity or affinity according to the
table of degrees established by law;
bigamy, fraud, force or coercion; in
sanity of either party; when the wife
Is under sixteen years or the husband
under eighteen at the suit of either
party.
Article 2-Kinds of divorce shall be
divorce from the bonds of matrimony,
or absolute divorce, and divorce from
bed and board, or judicial separation.
Article 3-Causes for divorce from
the bonds Of matrimony shall be adul.
terry, bigamy, conviction and sentence
for at least two years for crime; ex-
IRENE cruelty on the part of either
husband or wife as to endanger the
life or health of the other party and
render cohabitation unsafe; wilful de-
sertion for two years; hsbitual drunk
enness for two years.
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A Quotation.

A correspondent wrote to newspa-
per to ask the author Of this couplet:
How much the fool who has been sent to
Rome
Excels the fool who has been kept at
home!
He had barely written when he an
swered his own query, having found
the source Of the lines and how he had
misquoted them. They are from Cow
per's Progress of Error" and read:
How much Ounce that hath been sent
to roam
Excels Ounce that hath been kept at
homel
We are not sure but that, as is fire.
quently the case with Interpretations,
the popular version Is better than the
poets.-New York Tribune.
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JUROR IN OHIO OIL TRUST CASE
OFFERED $500 TO FORCE A
DISAGREEMENT.
TELLS HIS STORY TO GRAND JURY
DECLARES HE DID NOT KNOW
THE INDIVIDUAL WHO TEN
DERED THE MONEY.

Cleveland, Nov. 15.-A special to the
Cleveland News from Findlay, o.,
says:
According to c. c. Myers, member
of the jury that convicted the Stand
ard Oil company of violating the anti
trust law, a bride of $500 was twice
offered to him during the trial, once
on the street and once in the base
ment of the courthouse, on condition
that he hang the jury and force a dis
agreement.
Myers says he does not know who
the man who rendered him the money
was, though it was the same man in
both instances.
The bride offered in the second in
stance may have been greater than
$500, as the agent did not state the
amount; merely displaying huge roll
of bills.
Prosecutor David and other county
officers will not discuss the charge of
attempted bribery.
Members of the jury on which N.Y.
ers served have been summoned be-
fore the grand jury to give their tes-
timony Rumors of attempts to bride
or otherwise influence jurymen had
been frequent during the trial and
afterward. This gave rise to the in
quiry.
Myers statement was one of the
first taken, having been given the
grand jury late Tuesday. After leav-
ing the juryroom Myers admitted that
he had described attempts to bride
him. He describes the man who Of
fered him the money as of middle
size, we'll dressed, dark in complexion
and wearing a short moustache. He
explains that he said nothing of the
offer because he feared the conse-
quent notoriety.
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BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

One thousand coopers went on strike
at Chicago Thursday asking for an
increase in their pay of 3 cents a
barrel.
Walter Yerkes, a prominent resi-
dent of Fulmer. Pa, stabbed and IA.
tally wounded his wife and then com
mitted suicide by shooting himself in
the head.
Nathan D. Bradley, first mayor of
Bay City, Mich, member of the Forty
third and Forty-fourth congress, a
lumberman with interests in several
sections of the United States, is dead
Lord Curzon, former viceroy Of
India, is mentioned in diplomatic cir
cles at Washington as possible sue
cessor to Sir Henry Mortimer Durand,
the British ambassador to the United
States, who is to give up his post and
retire from the British diplomatic
service next spring.
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LARGE SECTION FLOODED.
Warm Rains Melt Snow on Cascade
Mountains.

Warm Rains Melt Snow on Cascade
Mountains.
Tacoma, Wash, Nov. 15.-Swamped
by succession of warm rains the
snow on the western slopes of the
Cascade mountains has melted and
flowed into the rivers at the base
thereby resulting in one of the worst
floods in this section for years
Bridges have been washed away, tele.
graph and telephone wires are down,
the train service of the Northern Pa.
ciic is completely deranged and up
to the present time one life has been
lost. The whole country between Au.
burn and the Cascade mountains is
reported to be flooded. The full ex-
tent of the danger and damage is diff
ficult to ascertain, as all wire commu-
nication is interrupted.
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BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

DR.. Robert Craig, prominent in med
zeal circles of Pittsburg, committed
suicide at Atlantic City, N. j., by
shooting himself.
The condition of Governor Harris
of Ohio is exciting alarm among his
friends. It is said that the doctors
are afraid of pneumonia.
The comptroller Of the currency has
issued a call for statement of the
condition of national banks at the
close of business on Monday, Nov. II
Frederick Rutter, a clerk, was sui
located and Andrew Erickson, also a
clerk, was injured, probably fatally
in a fire in three story tenement
house in Brooklyn
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No Excuses Accepted.

French officials are said to be par
ticu!arly strict in their discipline Of
tourists. A lately returned traveller
tells several more or less apocryphal
stories to illustrate the state of affairs.
An American lost his footing, slipped
down an embankment and fell into a
small, shallow pond. AS he scrambled,
dripping, up the embankment to the
footpath he was confronted by an
arm of the law.
"Your name? Your addressY' de-
manded this uncompromising person,
notebook in hand.
But FELL" began the astonisbed
American. 81 only
The man waved his arm. 1T is for
hidden to battle in this lake." he said
firmly; II am not here to listen to
extenuating circumstances
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Brains of Great Men.

Brains of great men vary very much
It Is found that men Of encyclopedia
mind have large and heavy brains
Gladstone had to wear very big hat
with an enormous bed Of gray matter
and numerous convolutions. On the
other hand, men whose genius is con-
centrated upon one line of thought are
of small brain and, consequently have
small heads. Newton, Byron and
Cromwell were in this class. Kansas
City Journal,
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Investigate Treasury Shortage

st. Louis, Nov. 15.-The November
federal grand jury was sworn in and
instructed by Judge Finkelberg in the
United States district court during the
day and presumably the first matter
to be taken up by the body is the in
vestigation into the shortage of $61,-
500 recently discovered in the funds
of the st. Louis United States sub
treasury.
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The Best.

There is legend, says an English
writer, to the effect that after Lord
Stanley came into the house Of peers
a lady somewhat indiscreetly asked
Lord Brougham at dinner party who
was the best speaker in the house Of
lords and that Lord Brougham prompt
" and emphatically answered, Lord
Stanley, madam, is the second best
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ROOSEVELT REACHES COLON
ARRIVES At THE lSTHMUS OF
PANAMA CONSIDERABLY
AHEAD OF TIME.

Colon, Nov. 15.-The United States
battleship Louisiana, with President
Roosevelt on board, arrived here at
1870 p. m, ahead of time, accompanied
by the escorting warships, the Tennes-
see and Washington The three ships
anchored a mile from the docks. A
heavy rain was falling when the pres.
1dent reached this port. President
Amadcr had not reached Colon when
President Roosevelt arrived here.
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FIRE DESTROYS THEIR HOME
Michigan Woman and Three Children
Burned to Death.

Michigan Woman and Three Children
Burned to Death.
Coldwater, Mich, Nov. 15.-Mrs.
Charles Mowry and her three chill
dren, Homer, aged six years, Louise,
aged three years, and a baby of six
months, were burned to death in
their home on farm at Batavia sta
ton, six miles southwest of this city
on the Lake Shore railroad.
Charles Mowry, the husband and
father, rose early and built two fires
in the house. He then went to the
barn to do chores and while there dis
covered that his house was afire. He
rushed back, but the flames had made
such Roadway that he could not en-
ter the house and his calls through
the windows to his family brought no
response. 1t is thought that the moth
er and three children were suffocated
to death while asleep.
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MANY DIPLOMATS PRESENT
CHANCELLOR Won BUELOW DIS.
CUSSES GERMANY'S FOR
EIGN RELATIONS.

Berlin, Nov. 15.-Chancellor Won
Buelow, from the place in the reich
stag where he fell unconscious seven
months ago, spoke for forty-f1ve min
utes on Germany's foreign relations,
the highly Interested audience includ-
ing Baron Won Aehrenthal, the Aus
Hungarian foreign minister, Am
bassador and Mrs. Charlemagne Tow
er, several other ambassadors and
quite fifty members of the diplomatic
corps, who occupied seats in the diplo-
matte, enclosure.
Immediately after Prince Won Bue-
low had entered the house and bowed
his acknowledgements of the applause
the president of the house rang his
bell, calling the reichstag to order.
,Herr Bassermann, National-Liberal,
following up his question asking for
information regarding the country's
foreign relations, said that since
Prince Bismarck left Germany respect
ed and loved by her neighbors, the
country's foreign policy has entered
on period Of journeys, speeches, tel
egrams and courtesies-a period of
not only at home but abroad. One
must acknowledge. he added, that the
position of directing statesman was
more difficult today than formerly, be-
cause of the many uncomfortable in
fluences that disturbed the manage
mont IF tho hl1cinocc -
SpirituaIists at Court.
Herr Bassermann then alluded to
the reports that group of spiritual
lists have influence at court, saying
that from what one read during the
last few days "the suggested spirit
ualistic romances and back-stairs his
tory reminded one of the Byzantine
period, with it's flatterers, or the cabi-
net government of William Ill.,, or the
cabal under Emperor Frederick w."
This statement was greeted with
cries of "quite right from various
parts of the chamber.
Herr Basssermann then described
Germany's position among her neigh
bors as isolated, saying she had no
firm friends, not even Italy or Aus
tria.
Chancellor Won Buelow's reply was
marked by his old-time clearness of
elocution and harmonious succession
of sentences, but there was less vivac-
fty and lightness of style than for
merly After thanking the members
of the house for their expressions Of
sympathy during his illness the chan
cellor went at once into the subject.
Referring first to the relations be-
tween Germany and France the chan
cellor said the emotions of France
were like a thermometer a
pressure of the hand the quicksilver
rose or fell. II may remark here,
he continued, that this vivacity of
French patriotism is very. strong, as is
the ambition of the French people,
and also the traditional brilliant quail
tiles of our neighbors, which require
us to be alert and armed, so that we
may protect the estate we lost on the
Vosges and won back again with
streams of German. blood" #
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Forest Fires in California.

Los Angeles, CAL, Nov. 15.-A big
forest fire is raging in Arroyo Seco.
In the vicinity of Devils Gate, and
much valuable property is endanger-
ed. An appeal for aid in fighting the
flames has been made to the Pasa-
dena board of trade, which has re-
sponded with more than 100 men. For
est rangers are in charge of the fight
against the fire. Another fire is burn
ing near Tropico.
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Crew Swept Into the Sea.

Richibucto, N. B., Nov 9.-The
storm of the last week is still raging
In the Northumberland strait and all
efforts to get to the stranded Nor
wegian bark Adeone have failed.
There is no sign of life aboard and
the entire crew of eleven is believed
to have been swept to death by the
huge breakers and the undertow as
they attempted to leave the vessel.
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PROBING BRIBERY CHARGE.
Nothing Tangible Discovered in Oil
Trust Investigation.

Findlay, O., Nov. 15.-"We haven't
been able to get any thing tangible"
said Prosecutor David, in reference
to the investigation of alleged at
tempts at bribery of jurymen who
heard the case against the Standard
Oil company in the probate court.
1.-THE grand jury is investigating re-
ports of alleged bribery or attempts
at bribery, but so far nothing has
come before that body upon which we
could take action"
When the jurymen were considering
the case one or two of them held out
and refused to report a verdict Of
guilty, as the others desired. The
jury reported once to Judge Banker
that it could not agree, but the Judge
sent the jurymen back, and they
finally found a verdict of guilty.
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FOR CLAIMS IN FULL.
Mrs. Dowie Given Property at White
Lake, Mich.

Chicago, Nov. 15.-Judge Lands, In
the federal court, has directed the en-
try of an order by virtue of which
Mrs. Jane Dowie is granted the Mac
Dhull property at White Lake, Mich.
This property was purchased by John
Alexander Dowie when he was at the
head of the Zion church. In return
Mrs. Dowie relinquished all claim to
property in Zion City and turns over
the stock held by her in the Zion City
lace factories to Overseer Voliva, now
the head of the church of Zion.
Voliva had declared that he would
contest the transfer to Mrs. Dowie of
the property at White Lake, but his
attorneys entered no objection to the
entering of the formal order.
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Three Die in Tenement Fire.

New York, Nov. 15.-Three lives
were lost in New Brunswick, N. j.
as result of fire which destroyed
several tenements occupied by ne
groes. Two children, Frank and Su
san Doran, who had been locked III
their home by their parents, were
burned to death. 1t is believed they
started the fire while playing with
matches.
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Chicago Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, Nov. s. Wheat-Dec.,
725sc; May, 77%c. Corn-Dec., 421sc;
May, 43k@4s%c. Oats Dec, $40
34ssc; May, 1850. Pork-Jan., $14.-
O71a; May, S14.15. Flax-Nothing do
ing. Butter Creameries, l9@25hc;
dairies, 1S1s@23c. Eggs-21@23c.
Poultry Turkeys, 15c;; chickens, &c;
springs, 10c.
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Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, Nov. 8.-Wheat-To arrive
and On track-No. i hard, 77sc: No.
l Northern, TING; No. 2 Northern,
75&c;+ Nov, 761kc; Dec, 741kc; May,
77ssc; July, 7SAc. Flax-To arrive
and on track, s1.17A; Nov, $1.16M;
Dec, $1.14; jan, $1.141a; May, 81
17K.
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Chicago Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, Nov, Seattle -Beeves,
$4.10@7.25; cows and heifers, $1,000
5.15; stockers and feeders, $4,000
4.60; Texans, $3.75@4.30; Westerns.
$3.90@6.1O; calves, $6.OO@7.75. Hogs
Mixed and butchers, $5.95@6.4O;.
rough heavy, $5.S0@6.OO; light, $5.s5
@6.S21s; pigs, $5.55@6.10; good
heavy, s6.20@6.40 Sheep, &s.750
$50; lambs, $4.75@ 7.60.
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ORGANIZED By ROCK ISLAND

Big Express Company Recently lncor.
porated in Maine. u.s.
New York, Nov. 15.-The Tribune
says the North American Express
company, which was incorporated in
Maine with an authorized capital OF
$25, 100000, has been organized by
Rock Island interests, it is now learn
ed, and is designed to operate on the
lines of the Rock Island system as
we'll as to carry on general express
business. The United States Express
company and Wells-Fargo company
handle most of the express business
of the Rock Island and it's controlled
roads.
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Latchkey as a Source Of trouble.

Latchkey AZ Source Of Trouble.
Ever since some mechanically inclin-
ed person, with an almost diabolical In
stinct for making mischief, invented a
form Of spring lock which can be open
ed on the inside by knob and on the
outside only by a key there has been
trouble. The latchkey from the first
has been a domestic storm center. Il
has divided family circles and even
broken up homes. London Telegraph.
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Fire Fighter Seriously Injured.

st. Paul, Nov. 15.-Assistant Fire
Chief Rodecker was very seriously
and perhaps fatally injured while
making a run to a fire on Tenth and
Cedar. streets. His buggy was struck
by hose cart at the corner of Ninth
and Cedar, overturning it and hurting
for the new Y. M. c. A. building at
that corner.
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New England Democrats Confer.

Boston, Nov. ia private confer
ence Of prominent New England Dem
ocrats was opened here during the day
for the purpose, it was understood, roi
discussing the Democratic nomination
for the presidency to be made in 1908
The meetings, it was said, were to for
ward the interests of the Democracy
of New England and not for the spe
cial benefit of any one candidate.