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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
JUDGE HUMPHREYS RULING NOT
SUSTAINED IN THE KANSAS
CITY REBATE CASES.
DEFENDANTS MUST STAND TRIAL
NUMBER OF RAILROAD AND PACK.
iNGHousE OFFICIALS AT.
FEcTED BY DECISION.

Kansas City, April 1S.-1n the re-
bate cases In the United States dis
trict court here the plea of immunity
filed by the railways on the basis of
the decision by Judge Humphrey at
Chicago in the beef trust cases was
denied.
The decision rendered, which was by
Judge Smith Mcpherson of Iowa, sus-
tains the demurrers of the government
to the immunity pleas filed by the Chi
cago and Alton railway, John N.
Faithorn, former vice president, and
F. A. VIM, former assistant traffic
manager, Of that road. The Chicago
and Alton railway and these two Off
Gals, with other railroads, five local
packfnghouses and several officials,
were indicted here last December by
the grand jury charged with giving re-
bates on clearinghouse and other prod
ucts in violation of the Elkins law and
with conspiracy to secure rebates in
violation of that law.
The defendants must now plead to
the indictments within ten days. =.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
PIKE SEASON
OPENS MAY /
Law Relating to Catching
Fish in Minnesota is
Published.

There is considerable inquiry
as to when the season for catch
ing fish with a hook and line
opens. The law in this respect
is as follows:
Any variety of pike, muskal-
longe, croppie, perch, sunfsh,
sturgeon, pickerel, catfish or any
other variety Of fish Except bass)
may be caught with hook and
line from and after. May 1. The
season for catching trout opened
on April Is. Black, grey or
oswego bass may be caught from
and after May 90. No person
shall catch, take or kill more
than Is fish Except sunfsh,
perch, pickerel or bullheads) in
any day; nor in any other manner
than angling for them with a
hook and line held in the hand,
or attached to a rod held in the
hand, nor with more than one
line or with more than one hook
attached thereto; and no person
shall have in his possession any
fish caught, taken or killed in any
waters of this state, except as
named above. Provided that
pickerel, suckers, redhorse, carp
and bullheads may be taken with
a spear without limit at any time
and artificial lights may be used
in so doing. No fish shall be
taken of less lergth than six
inches, except minnows for bait,
rock bass, sunfsh and bullheads.
No wall-eyed pike Of less than
II inches in length or one pound
round or undressed weight, or
any blue pike or sangers of less
than 10 inches in length, shall be
taken. None of the fish, except
those specifically mentioned, can
be speared at any time. and no
net can be used, except from
Nov. 10 to Dec. 10, for the pur.
pose of taking whiteish and
trelipies. ...
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
ST. CROIX co.
SELLS CEDAR
Largest Deal Ever Negotiated
In Northern Minnesota
Closed Today.

The st. Croix Cedar company
today closed a deal with the
Naugle Pole and Tie company of
Chicago for the sale of all it's
cedar along the Minnesota &
International railway north of
Bemidii. The transfer is the
largest in the cedar line ever ne
gotiated in northern Minnesota,
involving 10000 poles and $4,000
posts. The buyers will dispose
of the cedar from the yards
where it is now located.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
cREMATED in PUBLIC SQUARE
Negroes Hanged to Goddess of Liberty
IS, and Torch Applied. -

.
.. ~ and Torch Applied. g..s. -
Springfield. Mo-, April -A.-Three
negroes were hanged and burned here
Saturday night and Sunday morning,
two of them for criminal assault upon
woman and one for murder. ~
A mob of 5000 men Saturday night
took two negroes, Horace Duncan and
Jim Copeland, from the county Jail,
hanged them to the Goddess of Lib
erty In the courthouse square, built a
fire under them and roasted them to
death. ..~-r.s,>.. -. ~
The men were charged with assault
Ing Mabel Edmondson, but protested
they were innocent. sr:-.~..
Instead of attacking the Jail the
mob first stormed the residence of the
sheriff, breaking down the doors,
smashing windows, destroying prac-
.tically all the furniture in the lower
part of the house and rendering the
sheriff,s wife unconscious from fright.
Overcoming the resistance of the
sheriff and posse of deputies the mob
secured the key to the Jail and gained
an entrance. It had no difficulty in
locating the cells of Duncan and Cope
land. .-
The mob took a third negro, Will
Allen, from the Jail early Sunday
morning and consigned him to a SIM
liar fate.
Prosecuting Attorney Patterson and
Sheriff Horner are said to have Sc
cured the names of more than 100 men
who took part in the lynching. The
leaders of the mob were not disguised,
but worked In the full glare of the
electric lights on the square.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
TOOK MONEY
AND WHISKEY
Unknown Thief Enters
Saloon and Sacks Till
While Bartender Sleeps.

q $ 81 ~ EsS va = 3 s - : . e @
At some hour after midnight
Monday night the saloon of Julius
Dahl on lower Minnesota avenue
was entered by an unknown man
and robbed of $26.20, the money
being taken f1om the cash re-
gister. The bartender admitted
that he was asleep at the time
and knew nothing Of the affair
until he awoke to find the money
gone. One bottle Of whiskey was
also missing. Having no des-
cription of the thief, the police
have not located him.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
FATALLY SHOOTS WIFE.
Murderous Deed of Well Known st
Paul Restaurant Man.

MufQefouS Deeo OF We'll Known ST.
Paul Restaurant Man.
Minneapolis, April 18.-Harry Spen-
Ger. for years a we'll known restaurant
man Of st. Paul, shot and probably fa-
tally wounded his wife in this city
while she was returning from the
alter with a party of friends. Two of
the bullets struck the woman in the
head and one entered her body. She
fell unconscious and was removed to
st. Barnabas hospital, where it is said
that her recovery is extremely doubt.
full. Spencer has. not been appre,
hended.
The Spencers have not been living
together for some time and have had
frequent domestic troubles. Four
weeks ago Spencer attempted to shoot
his wife on the streets of Chicago and
was arrested and detained by the po-
lice until the. woman could get out of
the city. She came to this city and
has been living with friends and Spen-
GERS presence in town was not known
until the shooting.
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being ignited by sparks that
were blown from the burning
structures, but men with pals
of water were placed at short in,
tervals throughout the yard and
every spark that fell was quickly
extinguished
One sad feature of the fire is the
destruction of the home Of Mrs.
Bergen, who has been forced in
order to support a large family
of children to take in washing.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
PACKERS CHEAT RAILROADS.

Charge Openly Made by Lines Out Of
Chicago.
Chicago, April 1S.-The Tribune
says:
Railroad officials openly charge that
the big packing corporations for years
have been cheating the railroads by
misstating the character of the goods
they were shipping and by shipping
heavier packages than the bills of lad
ing called for. ~
They assert that other big shippers
in the East also are doing things that
have helped to diminish the revenues
which the railroads ought to have re-
ceived.
1t has been estimated by the rail-
roads that the packers alone beat the
Eastern roads out Of $150,000 a year.
What they owe all the railroads out of
Chicago is problematical, but is esti-
mated at 100000.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
Four Residences Destroyed
Late Yesterday Afternoon
Damage Heavy.
FLAMES TANNED INTO ACTIVITY
BY HIGH WIND.
CrOOkstOn Lumber Company s
Yards Threatened But No
Damage Was Done.

The most destructive tire In
the history of Mill Park addition
started about 5 o'clock yesterday
afternoon and before it had been
extinguished- four residences
were destroyed. The losses:
Loss ms.
Alphonse LaCombe,
two residences 81, 800 none
Charles Descham 600 $500
Mrs. A. Bergen. 400 none
The origin of the fire is a
mystery. It started from one
of the residences of Alphonse
I'aCombe, which had been vacated
yesterday morning by a family
named Tardy, which had oc
cupied it for some time past.
Upon the discovery of the blaze
neighbors living near the burning
building and mem bers of the
crew of the Crookston Lumber
company's planning mill rushed
to the scene and succeeded in
removing a stove and a few other
household goods which had been
left IN. the building. The stove
was hot and had evidently had a
fire in: it a short time before and
it is possible that the fire origin
ated from the stovepipe, as it
started in the upper portion of
the building.
The Crookston Lum Der com
pany shut down both it's sawmill
and planning mill as soon as the
fire was discovered and hundreds
of men with pals threw water
upon the burning building but
their efforts seemed to avail but
little and soon this house was in
ruins and another adjoining was
ablaze. The latter building was
nearly destroyed before the ar
RIVAL of the fire department.,
which was delayed through some
misunderstanding as to the IL
cation of the fire. Before the
fire department could secure
water the third and fourth build
ings had been ignited and the
menconcentrated their efforts
on the latter house. 1t was
ablaze both on the interior and
exterior and it was decided to
tear the structure down and
away from another residence
which adjoined it. After hard
struggle the fremen succeeded
in this, the hose was turned on
the burning debris and soon all
danger was past
The immense lumber yard of
of the Crookston Lumber COM
pany was in great danger from
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
why the Jew Excela.

In almost every field Of human en-
deavor the Jew excels. There is phil
0sophic reason for this which has no re-
lation to essential superiority. The Jew
Is thorough. He is so as result Of
long necessity. The world has vainly
sought to deprive him Of the means Of
existence. He was quick to understand
that with merely equal merit he could
not hope for an even chance He per-
ceived that his only promise Of survival
under the handicap Of race lay in su-
perior qualifications. He applied him
self. He learned to master difficulties
and surmount obstacles. Discounted
by prejudice, he realized that his work
must carry premium Of value IN or
der to reach parity In the open market
As the problem grew more difficult his
capacities increased propoft onately,
for nature responds unfailingly to ey-s
cry demand Of necessity Walter Hurt
In Culturist
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
Mitigating Circumstance.

4 Scotch baillie recently advanced to
the bench had criminal placed before
him accused Of some very modest vic.
lation Of the law. OF course the baillie
knew the prisoner well. He heard the
charge stated.
John man. Pm sorry to see you
here. Wen just fine you half crown .
The clerk here interviewed.
but the charge Is not yet proved;
we have not heard the evidence"
Then the benignant baillie:
: All, vel. John, my man, as the
charge is not proved well just fine you
IN Observation-Disclosures Telegraph.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
TO GIVE PIPE
ORGAN RECITAL
Miss Smith of Crookston Will
Appear at Presbyterian
Church April rs.

One of the coming events of the
season is a pipe organ recital to
be given at the Pres byterian
church on the evening Of April
Is by Miss Smith of Crookston.
Miss Smith is a graduate of the
Oberlin conservatory of music at
Oberlin, Ohio, and is said to be
one of the most accomplished
musicians in the northwest.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
Goats as GARBAGE Consumers,

Newport, KY, April 18.-Councilman
Senior, in an ordinance introduced in
the council, proposed that the city pur.
chase twenty large and full grown
goats with large stomach capacity and
proved digestive powers to be utilized
as garbage consumers. If the twenty
prove efficient, but not sufficient, he
believed the goat herd could be easily
increased -
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
JUNE 6 is SET
FOR CONVENTION !.
Republican County Central
Committee Picks Day for
Electing Delegates.

t Wednesday,, June 6, is the date
set for the Beltrami county con-
vention for the election of II
delegates to the repu blican state
convention to be held in Duluth
June Is. The basis for the cleo.
ton Of delegates to the county
convention is to be one for every
rs votes cast for the republican
attorney general at the last state
election. The caucus is set for
Saturday, June 2.
This was decided on by the
republican county central com
mittee which met in the council
chamber of the city hall this
afternoon. The dates are the
ones suggested by the state cen
trail committee and we're agreed
upon without much discussion.
The representation will give
the city of Bemidji 20 delegates,
including one at large from each
voting precinct. The First and
Second wards send four men
each, and the Third and Fourth
wards five men each.
Besides voting to give each
precinct one delegate at large
besides it's regular delegates, the
committee agreed to allow each
precinct organized since the last
election two representatives, one
being a delegate at large,
There was only a small attend
ance at the meeting today. Chair
man I. B. Olson of Bemidji
presided, and the other COM
mitteemen present were as fol.
lows: Alfred Olson, Blackjack;
T. G. Townsend. Blackduck;.
Peter Bekke, Roosevelt; @. j..
Tagley, Nymore; w. D. Bright,
Tenstrike; Iver Myhre, Liberty;
John N. GU hrie, Turtle River;
Nils Otterstad. Turtle River.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
PASSENGER Train Wrecked,

Cincinnati, April 49, Passenger
train No. S on the Louisville and Nash
vile railway was wrecked at Verona
Station, KY, twenty-six miles south of
Cincinnati, during the afternoon En-.
gineer John Grady of Louisville was
killed, and Fireman H. F. B. Dunaway
of Covington was seriously injured
None of the passengers was injured.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
Chicago Grain and Provisions.

/ Chicago, April 7.-Wheat-May
So%c; July, 7eM@7eAc; Sept, 800
1910. Corn-May, 1873 @47c; July
46H @46Ac; Sept, 461hc. Oats-May
31M @3l%c; July, 3O% @30%c; Sept.
:29Ac. Pork-May, 1920; July, SIG.
IS. Flax-Cash, Northwestern, ST..
,15h; Southwestern, $1.O91a; May, ST.
TN. Butter-Creameries, 14@20Ac;
diaries, 14@18c. Eggs-14ac. Poultry
Turkeys, 12Ac; chickens and
springs, 12ihc. .-- -+-. .s..-s .
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King Alfonso on EnoIish Soil.

Cowes, Isle. of Wight, April 49,
King Alfonso of Spain arrived here
during the day. He was met some
miles outside by Princess Ena of Bat
tenburg and her mother, who boarded
che Spanish royal yacht Giralda. The
king and the princess subsequently
landed and drove to Osborne.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
CORRESPONDENCE
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
TURTLE RIVER.

E. H. Pelton was at st. Cloud
last week on business. -~
A. G. johnson transacted bust.
ness at the county seat, Friday
last.
Henry Sartell expects to make
a few days visit with St. Cloud
relatives.
Mont Phelps has returned from
Dakota and will put in a few
weeks seeding. =.-.
Thcs. Warlow has opened up a
tonsorial parlors in the annex to
Larkin & Dale's hotel
AS expected the state land
sale on Monday drew a big
crowd from our villa4 e
Geo. Foote, the heavy weigh,
farmer and logger of Turtle River
township was in town this week
on business. % -...-t. ....-.- :
2. Labonte is considering an
offer to go to st. Cloud to build
boats for Sartell Bros, the big
lum bermen.
Mrs. Mary Gallagher, was a
visitor in Turtle River Tuesday
from her beautiful home on the
south arm Of Off lake.
John Wenholz was over from
Island Lake last Friday, prepara-
tory to leaving next week for his
homestead in Ward county, N. D.
Il The Kelso Eum Der company's
planer is being kept very busy
these days, due to the heavy de-
mand for lumber for the western
trade. u -.... 4 H., :
Frank Latimer, whose home
stead djoins this TOWNSHIP, is
making many improvements on
his land this spring in the way
of clearing and burning dead and
down timber. - n.y. FL
Lewis Weishar is preparing
his patch of ground this week
which he will SOW to onions. He
predicts that he will overstock
the onion market next fall, if
nothing happens.
Sartell & Pelton have quite an
army of men peeling cedar poles
near the depot. The cedar in
dustry this winter and spring
has been somewhat heavy due to
the high prices it is bringing.
Walter Marty, Earl Cheady
and Elmer Knutson have gone to
Ward county, N. D., to cultivate
their lands. The three boys
have filed on claims and expect
to make considerable improve:
ments before returning here this
fall. " :.
Joe Volly is about to make
final proof on his claim and it is
rumored he will soon join the
host of benedicts and settle
down on his well improved farm.
Mr.. Volly is one of our bona fde
settlers and is well thought of by
his neighbors, who will extend to
him their good wishes.
Frank Rohrer had fifty pounds
of d ynamite shipped up from Be.
midi this week to be used in
blowing out stumps from his lot
at the rear Of his house. Frank
has figured every stick of explo:
sive together with cap and fuse
only costs IL cents and conse-
quently this will be the only ex-
pense he is out for each stump.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
To Initiate 80 Members.

Bemidji council No. 46, Modern
Samaritans, will initiate a class
of 30 Thursday evening. The
meeting will be. held at Odd
Fellows hall.
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April rs Date for Concert.

The Bemidji band will give it's
April concert at the City opera
house on the evening Of April rs.
This will be the last of the series
of indoor concerts rendered dur
ing the winter and after May l
the band will give weekly outdoor
concerts on the street corners of
the city. .s-. -. -
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-04-18
BLOW TO OHIO INVESTIGATION
State Senate Without Authority to OR
der Inquiry.

SsdIC 0CIdtO VtkIIOuI HNAltoilSy 10 VT
der Inquiry. -
Cincinnati, April 1S.-The state SEN
ate had no authority to authorize the
investigation of the public Offices of
Cincinnati and Hamilton county, as
carried on by the Drake committee,
according to a decision filed by the
common pleas court in this city.
The case was that of Thomas J.
Davis, cashier of the First National
bank in this city, whose refusal to ap-
pear as witness before the Drake
committee led to his arrest in a sensa-
tional manner followed by the service
Of writ of habeas corpus and the
bringing of the prisoner before the
common pleas court for hearing. HIS
attorneys claimed for him that the
committee had no right to require ties.
timony as to the deposits of the bank,
such information being confidential be.
tween the bank and its customers.
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Reading Company Expects Strike.

Philadelphia, April 18.-Five= hun
dred men were laid off and twelve sea
going tugboats and fifty-nine barges
were taken out of service during the
day by the Philadelphia and Reading
Railway company because of the pos
sibility of strike in the anthracite
rAcion ~ 10,
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Chicago Union Stock Yards

Chicago, April 17-Cattle- Beeves,
$4.00@6.40; cows and heifers, s2.75@
4.25; stockers and feeders, $2.45@
4.25: Texans, $3.90@4.50. Hogs
Mixed and butchers, $6.50@880; good
heavy, $670@6,s2k; rough heavy,
s6.45@G.60; light, $6.50@6.77h; pigs,
$e.1o@e.55. Sheep, s3.75@6S5; lambs,
Sd 5OM675
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St. Paul Union Stock Yards,

st. Paul, April 17.-Cattle-Goodt to
choice steers, $4.25@5.50; common to
fair, $3.50@4.00: good to choice COWS
and heifers, $3.00@4.50; veals, $1,000
Ats. Hogs--s6.45@6.60. Sheep-Year-
ling. wethers, $5.25@6.QO; good to
choice lambs, $6.OO@6.5O.
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His Desire.

Il suppose you expect to move
your auditors by your eloquence"
"That isn't my object" answered
the young orator. II will be thank
full if I can keep them in their
ats."-Washington Star.
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We can get your typewriter
ribbons. Most Of the standard
makes carried in stock at this
office.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-08-01

me and may help inexperienced men.
good way to secure safe, sane
start of stock is to watch neighbOrs
who usually turn off that kind. l
have seen highly bred gifts fed for
market that We're from full blooded
parents, and that a professional breed
er with a reputation would have sold
for $25 or $50 each.
A young man starting in farm life
for himself can hardly appreciate the
advantage that he will secure by
using much care in selection of stock
and then forever watching to sort out
the less satisfactory ones. Some ami
mails feed easy, just as some horses
are always fat and others cannot be
made fat. So some animals or strains
of stock are cheaply and economically
fed, others seem to waste feed Some
people are all their life fighting against
this leak, which nearly destroys their
profit. Others catch on and by a
severe readjustment, get on the road
to profit.
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-08-01
Young Animals More Profitable
Than Older Ones.

1t is well established fact that
young animals are more profitable
than mature ones This fact has been
fully demonstrated many times in
Nashville markets, but recently the
Central Experiment Station at ottawa,
Canada, found by comparing one thou
sand pounds live weight in the case of
calves, yearlings, two and three-year-
Olds, that the profit for each one
thousand pounds was: Calves, $31;
yearlings, $27; twO-year-olds, $19.1O;
three-year-Olds, $3.50.
When all of the cattle of all ages
were purchased at 4 cents a pound and
sold fat at D cents a pound, the profit
on 81 900 invested in feeding cattle
was: Calves, $557.5O; yearlings, $2S4;
two -year-olds, $19S.75; three-year-olds,
$111.5 Exchange
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-08-01
The Country Boy.

We never look at a clear eyed,
healthy boy from the farming dist
riots, but with a feeling almost akin
to envy for his good fortune in being
born and brought up under circum-
stances, which gives him the very
best life that is worth the getting,
and for the absence of which no after
success can fully compensate. Hered
ity counts for much, but environment
is the next best factor In many
instances it is far better than the
former, and there is no environment
equal to that of the farm to develop
the virile, lasting qualities which must
The Florida agriculturist., 1906-08-01

form the foundation for all the true
success in life.
A census was recently taken of the
successful and leading men of New
York, and it disclosed the fact that
everyone who had had a hand in
doing the big things came from the
farm. The only man born in New
York City who has got big is Theo-
dore Roosevelt, and how that hap
pened is a mystery, unless we at
tribute it to the fact that he got out
of the city in time and went to the
country.-Suwanne Democrat