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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-09
MISS BECKER IS
IN FIRST PLACE
Two Contestants inYoting Contest
Make Big Spurts
Today.

Again the leader changes, and
this time it is Miss Kate Becker
who FORCES to the 'front.'. In
third place yesterday, she turn.
ed in $500 votes today, and shot
to the head Of the list with a
total of $500.
Miss Leila Solberg, who is still
in second place, also made a
strenuous squirt today, bringing
in 1850 votes. This almost
brings her up to the top, but not
quite, there being some 395 votes
between
The time is drawing near to
the close Of the contest, there
being little over a week before
the last money can be received,
and the contestants are working
every minute of their spare time,
and have drafted a large list Of
friends to labor in their behalf,
also. The result is constantly
growing surplus which will be
turned in in larger and larger
chunks as the excitement grows.
The vote today stands:
Miss Kate Becker. $500
Miss Leila Solberg s., 1O5
Miss Dora Hazen. ;. a, 100
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-09

New York Points, tickets are on
sale every day up to and includ-
ing Septem Der Both, 1906.
To New England Territory
tickets are on sale August 9Th
and 22nd and September 5th and
10th.
All tickets good for continuous
passage in both directions.
Yours respectfully, A. J. Perrin,
General Agent, Duluth, MINI.
43O Spaulding Hotel Bl ,ck.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-09
DIVERS At WORK ON WRECK
Many Bodies in Interior Of sunken

Many Bodies in Interior Of Sunken
Steamer Sirio.
Cartagena, Spain, Aug. "a diver
assisting in the salvage of the wrecked
Italian steamer Sirio says he saw
seventy bodies in the interior of the
vessel. He made an unsuccessful at.
tempt to enable the salvage corps to
raise the safe of the steamer.
The steamer is wedged between
two rocks and is listed IS degrees to
starboard.
= Subscriptions for the relief Of the
destitute survivors have reached $685.,
600. Theaters everywhere are giving
benefits in behalf of the fund.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-09
For Refusing to Make Coffee.

New York, Aug. 9.-Vincenzo Lupo
shot his wife to death and then at
tempted to commit suicide. In his
ante-mortem statement he said that
he shot his wife because she refused
to make him cup of coffee when
realized what an awful crime had
committed" he said, II shot myself
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-09

Rev. Or. ). Aja!ta!:!ssen Henry, pastor
OF the Princeton Presbyterian church
OF Philadelphia, is dead at Asbury
Park, N. j., where he had been i'll for
about a month. He was seventy-two
years old and was one of the best
known Presbyterian clergymen in this
NOllnfr1r
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-09

Having seen the article in the
Duluth Herald concerning the
ball games played at Hibbing, and
having seen the games, allow me
to state that every man
on the Bemidji team deserves
credit for playing good ball, and
especially Merrill of Staples, who
played first base. His home run
in the first game brought in two
men ahead Of him, and he felded
we'll in both contests.
= A FAN.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-09
RACES PLANNED
FOR SEPTEMBER
Speedy Horses Will Trot on
Bemidji Track This
Fall.

For some time past, local horse
men have been agitating the.
question of holding a series Of
races in Bemldji this fall, and
now J. A. McAvoy, secretary of
the Reltrami County Agricultur-
al ASSOCIATION states that the
matter has taken such form that
it has been decided to hold a race
meet here during the month Of
Septem Der. The exact dates for
the meet have not yet been.
determined, but it will be held
the week following the races at
Park Rapids.
There will be three days Of
racing, and the events will be iii
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-09

The grounds at the new park
are being filled in with dirt and
otherwise improved so that they
will be much faster, when COM
pleted. About seventy-fve loads
of dirt are being placed about the
diamond, the cement lines, which
have caused so much trouble to
the intielders, being entirely
covered over. .:..
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-09
GRAND RAPIDS
COMES SUNDAY
Visitors Beat Fast Akeley Team
Last Sunday ID a Sixteen
Inning Game.

Arrangements have been made
for a game to be played here on
Sunday between the Bemidji and
Grand Rapids teams, and a battle
royal is looked for.
The Grand Rapids team played
two of the best games with Akeley
last Sunday that have ever been
seen in the northwest. The
Rapids players defeated Akeley
in a sixteen-inning game. the
longest contest on record among
semi-professionals in the state
this season. Score 2 to 1. In a
second game the same day,
Grand Rapids lost to Akeley, the
score being 8 to /.
Travelling men who saw the
two games assert that they we're
the fastest that have been played
in these parts this year.
Grand Rapids has as pitchers
Thorson, a south-paw formerly
with the!Duluth Universal, Mil
lers, and their old standby, Jack
Stafford. They are playing great
ball.
The work of the locals at Hib-
bling last Sunday has demon
strated that Bemidji has a team
that is second to none IN the
state, and when the boys line
up against the Rapids Sunday
they will do their best to keep up
the excellent work they did last
week. The memory of the game
with Akeley still rankles in the
breasts of few ''fans,' but it
must be remem bered that the
best ball players on earth occa-
sionally have ''off" days.
The work of Eddie Gilmore at
third base in the Hibbing games
has been given much favorable
comment. The little fellow
covered lots of territory and was
in the game at all times, both
with his bat and in the field.
Gilmore is a favorite wherever
he goes. He is a quiet, gentle
manly player and a credit to any
team.
Hoover claims that Farley Le-
Gore has found a new brand of
chewing gum that makes his
"spit" ball a sure and safe
weapon for opposition batsman.
Those Hibbing fellows have a
l. L.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-08-09

The regular Bemidji team will
play a game with the Second nine
at the ball park this evenin g,
com mencing at Z o'clock.
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island; $I50000,0 Of American cap
ital has been invested in not only the
products of the soil. but IN telegraph
and telephone systems, railroads, elec,
fric roads, hotels, banks, municipal
roads and even army vouchers. whole
towns have been built by us and col,
ouies established where scarcely word
of Spanish Is spoken. FOR instance,
only a few miles from the typlealIy
Spanish town Of Ciego de Aylla, along
the line of Weyler's historic trocha,
where only q few years AGO WAS deNas-
tatiou and famine, there has now
sprung up the neat, clean httle Amer
lean town of Ceballos, named from, It's
owner, wealthy American banker.
Here, only about three years altsr iOs
birth, is the scene, perhaps, or thc
creates activity in the arts OF industry
OF any point in the island.
Here arc n bank, Il hotel, an admins,
tration building. Il town hall, Il general
store. which does u business OF %lVo'OVo
n wear, but more than all here Is Amer
icanism on all sides, even TO architec-
ture There is lIttlo to ee Said ap"us
CebalIos itself, for that IS thing OF
tbc futnre. 1t is embryo now, and its
owners are neither selling lots nor ask
;ny for residents. j. is in tho industry
around Cebalos that is the interesting
thing at the moment ana tna' ms
caused u townsite TO be iald ou1 igr
future development when the surround
inc interests shall demand 1T and make
IL profitable For the moment " is rs
merely the nucleus, and its institutions
exist solely for the accommodation OF
those who are engaged in the contlgu,,
Gus fruit and cane interests us noteI
which. by the way IL as much OF tnc
New York Hotel Plaza as could be
nsported-houses the many Ameri'
can owners who visit their properties
YEARLY and combine business with pleas
urc; its bank and its. store for inc
same purpose; It's electric light and re.
frincraiing plant to make, hfe worth
living while making dollar m IN land In
Weld lO2 cents in money. AS these so
called colonists retain their homes IN
fhe States. it is not surprising, there
fore. that the number Of actual Amer
ican residences in the town is but
twenty-ouc, though the Cuban v1iJage,
which is part of il is n thriving and
considerable community
Surrounding the town of CebaIlos
10000 acres of land have been cleared:
5000 of which are now in process of
cultivation and 1000 OF which are ac-
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been appropriated for the continuance
OF this work, which, however, remains
for the present al standstill,
In this Cuban revolution it is to be
remarked that, despite rumors to the
contrary, American capitalistic inter
ests which amount to some S150,000 900
have carefully abstained from mixing
IN the politics of the island These
latter have followed very rigidly the
policy of our State department in Cuba
and largely refrained from any entangle-
ments, These capitalistic interests have
given support to the government, but
not so aggressiyely as to bring down
upon them the dislike of the insurgent
element, in case it should be success
fuI, and have likewise forebornc to give
aid and encouragement TO the insur-
gents. Their attitude, save that Of a
few individual cases, has been one OF
neutrality in the island.
The reciprocity treaty has been the
commercial salvation of Cuba. IT has
given to her our protected markets
for her chief exports, sugar and to-
bacco, which is 81 per cent of the total
OF the islands, and III return Cuba
spends fully one-half Of her annual
buying power. amounting TO S10o,000,-
900, in the United States. Before the
war about the only large American ia
terests were at the extreme easternly
end of the island, in sugar estates and
mines. Now, after the lapse Of eight
years. we own fully one-third Of the
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munitv are Dr. Samuel H. Sturgeon Of
Akron, Charles M. Grey of Worcestr
and president of the First National
bank there, Daniel l.. Holwick of Can
ton, DR.. II. c. Weakly, an eminent di-
vine of Avondale, Just out of Clncln-
natl, and State Senator George w. Sci
Der. Their combined holdings are 2OOO
acres.
Here also is located the Fiskc Fruit
company of New York, purely a com.
mercial enterprise, originally conceived
by cX-Mayor Josiah Quincy of Boston,
but afterward taken up by New York
capitalists, which, with its 500 acres of
groves containing 10000 trees, is said
to be the largest fruit ranch IN the
world Philadelphia likewise finds its
representative in the community inter
ests represented by j. u. Lime burner,
whose sole duty it is to care for the
1000 acres of sugar cane they are cul-
tivating DR.. i. p Miller of New York
and few intimate friends are cultivat-
ing for their own use 1000 acres of
cane and sixty acres of grove, while
Boston finds its representation in tho
$50 acres of grove of Mr.. Addison NJ,
Thayer of the Boston stock exchange,
and the plantation of Charles II, l.. n.
Bernard, formerly French coach at
Harvard. Three years a"o DR.. II. j.
Rolston of Toronto, Ont, also began
the cultivation OF fruit, and since that
time the Canadian colony has grown
on the principle Of the Akron colony
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and. The significance of what the
opening up of tins rich part of the conn-
try meant to both Cubans and Ameri~
cans cannot be overestimated. Not only
has it afforded rapid and excellent
transportation from one end of the isl
and to the other. but it has also enabled
the industrial growth to expand. Previ-
GUS TO the activity of Sir William Van
Horne in Cuba tho transportation "a
cilities were of the most meager de-
scrlption, and were confined to British,
Cuban and Spanish companies in the
western end of the island. Santiago. in
the cast, was reached by steamer, either
from the United States or other island
points, while the interior WAS in touch
with the ports on the north and south
coasts only by poor wagon roads. 1t is
owing 10 tho Cuban company of which
Sir William is president, and it's organ
ization of the Cuba Railroad company,
that through traffic has been estab-
lished by his connection from Santa
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TO 100 holders Of fruit land, with total
of 100 acres
Not many miles from Ceballos is tho
site of the prospective town OF Silvelra,
which is expected TO grow up about the
establishment of one of the largest
sugar ceutrals in the world, great
mill capable of turning out 250,OO0 bags
Of sugar yearly and costing in itself
81 600, 600, the machinery for which is
now being made and assembled in Scot
land. a great administration building
stretches away an acreage of low roof
and from it comes the combined sound
Of the hammer or the AK, the clapg of
the anvil, the stamping and the neigh
ing of tho horses, or in the distance
can he seen the line Of the jungle, for
all OF the land surrounding the central
station has been cleared OF its under
growth and burned for tilling. A thous-
and acres of cane wave In the breeze
and before this can be printed more
thousands of acres Will have been
planted IN a days ride ON the back
of lively little Cuban single footing
pony that bore me there was on all
sides in the 50,00O-acre tract the sound
he found the Woodsman S camp. each
with the hospitable invitation TO break
fast at noon, for the Cuban laborer
breakfasts at noon and dimes at night.
The full significance of this undertal
ing does not appear until it is under
stood that so far from tho manaua
spirit supposed TO exist here in Cuba,
an army Of 2000 men had. at the time
of my visit, cleared between 1000 and
5000 acres of land in less than one
month and had erected the building
which is soon TO be the brick manu-.
factory. Behind all Of this is .hmcri-
can energy and cnterurise.
The combined efforts of all these vari-
Gus interests arc creating here along
the line OF the trocha IN American
interest, center and sentiment in tho
very heart of Cuba aud an industrial
development that IL stimulating the
surrounding country and by example
teaching the native Cubans. first, TO
work whore the employment is offered,
and then. to those who have the neces.
sarv ambition TO cultivate their own
lands, The number Of American colon.
les which have been established in
Cuba since the war-and | use the word
American in its broader sense includ
/ ing settlers from both the United States
and Canada-aggreEatc 30 twenty nine,
The whole eastern cnd being controlled
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ed for the purpose Of encouraging Brit
ish investment in order to Offset our
commercial influence, on the ground
that in such an event the struggle be,
tween the two for q supremacy would
enable Cuba to sit by and see alien
influences kill each other while the. ma
tives gathered up the spoils of the
fray.
The American influence in Cuba has
been very great just as the Cuban
flag shows the star and stripes, so do
the Cuban constitution and codified
laws show the effect of our proximity
and our molding of the first Patterns
of government. Our immigration laws,
for instance, are embodied almost ex-
actly in the Cuban statutes. for no
apparent reason except that we had a
hand in the framing of those laws, and
in countless ways practice in law and
In commerce all more American than
Spanish. These, however, are superb
cial indications, for, beneath his brown
skin the Cuban is Latin. But,
throughout the island, among the COM
mon people and in the cities, outside
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the politicians, there is one underly-
ing thought, That is, that the Amer
erned it we'll. Along with this and al
lied to it is the thought on the part
Of the business men that without con-
tinued protection from the tariff wall
OF the United States, Cuba can never
industrially stand alone. On the part
of the smaller tradesmen and the peo-
pie is the belief that money will be
more plentiful under American rule,
and these thoughts are sufficient to Off
set all other considerations. What
ever the internal struggles. whatever
the forms of revolution, back of it
is the deep conviction that sooner or
later Cuba must be American terri
tory
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NOTICE.

Notice Is hereby given by the City Council
OF Salt Lake City OF the intention Of such
Council TO make the following described i'm
proyement. towlt: Constructing a cement
sidewalk six (6) feet wide and four 90 inches
thick on both sides Of Third South street be-
tween Second East and Third East streets
In Sidewalk District No 6, and defray the
ahucters' portion OF the cost and expense
thereof estimated at one thouGand six hun
dred and fifty t$1e5o) dollars, or one and
25-l00 (Sl .25) dollars per front linear foot
there being 1920 feet abuttlng said Improve.
ment, by n local assessment upon the lots
or pieces of ground within the following
described district. being tho district TO ba
affected and benefited by said Improvement
namely: All OF lots 1 and q block 55 and ali
of lots 5. c. and 8, block "a. plat "a"
Salt Lake City Survey.
The total cost of snid improvement Is ex.
tImated at two thousand one hundred twenty
one and 65-i00 (s2121 S5) dollars OF which
sum the city's portion Is four hundred sew
enty-one and 65-1o0 (S4T1 .6o) dollars. leaving
one thousand elk hundred and fifty (s1ss0. 00)
dollars TO be raised by local assessment
All protests and objections TO tho carry
ing out of such intention must be presented
10 writing to the City Recorder on or be-
fore the sth day OF October. 1905. being tho
time set by said Council when Il will henr
and consider such protests and objections as
may be made thereto.
BY order OF the City Council OF Salt Laks
City, Utah.
Dated June 1s, 1905.
j. B. MoREToN. City Recorder.
Sidewalk Extension No. III. c1eTa
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NEWS SECTION

American railroad from Santa Clara to
Havana over its own lines. Of more i'm
portancc than the $lS,000,000 which the
Cuba company has invested Is the iufiu~
ence Of this trunk line railroad in
stimulating industry and commerce
along it. This Cuba company alone
owns about half million acres of land.
The Cuban clings to his idea of in
dependence fevcrishly and illogieally.
He resents any suggestion of limiting
his freedom Of action individually or
politically, but his greed is such that
he gladly seeks any alliance that will
advance his material fortunes. II is
for this reason that the investment of
American capital has been welcomed,
and, when to some minds it has ap-
peared menace. the remedy has been
characteristic. Instead Of limiting or
restricting by law the amount of land
that an American can hold. or the
activity OF an American corporation,
the Anglo-Cuban treaty was neglect
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lndustrially by Americans. A list of
these colonies is interesting and [ have
arranged them according to provinces
in which they are found.
There is today scarcely project in
Cuba, from public works TO private
roads, that has not been financed by
American capital. In the banks alone
III Cuba, controlled by capital from the
States, is invested nearly $5.000,000,
distributed among the Banco Nacional
de Cuba, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank
OF Nova Scotia, G.. Lawton Child &c Co.,
/ Trust Company of Cuba and Zaldo &
Co. Carlos de Zaldo, ex-Minister of
Finance and Justice, is also the presi-
dent of the newly-organ Banco de
In Havana, for which Kuhn, Loeb {; Co.
Of New York and the National City
bank are the sponsors. One-fourth of
IT'S already paid-in capital of $780,
600 is American, the remaining three
fourths being equally Cuban, British
and French, but it is controlled entirely
from New York. Further than that,
American capital controls absolutely
the electric traction of the island, per-
haps one-half of the tobacco output,
about one-.quarter of the sugar industry,
the telephone and telegraph service,
which, however, is under Government
control; practically all of the railroad
systems east of Santa Clara, three-quar-
ters of the cattle industry, something
more than $4,000, 900 in real estate and
unimproved lands, with total holding
of over 100000 acres; practically all
of the mining, and most of the steam
tonnage running to the island. Various
ventures absorb a great deal of the
activity of the island. The Cardenas
City waterworks is owned by an Amer
lean corporation, and in the retail and
wholesale trade of Havana Americans
are very much in evidence.
Sir William Van Horne, originally a
native of Illinois, who was knighted
by Queen Victoria for his splendid
achievement in building the Canadian
Pacific railroad was one Of the first
men TO perceive the possibilities which
would accrue from opening up the in
terror of Cuba by means OF railroad.
Shortly after the close Of the war worl,
was begun on what is now the Cuba
Central railroad, which, running from
Santa Clara to Santiago and then ef-
fecting a combination with tho United
Railroad of Havana, enabled one to
make the triy from Havana to Santiago
in thirteen hours instead of the many
days it had formerly taken by steamer
from the chief northwestern to the
principal southeastern port of the isl
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INFLUENCE IN CUBA

BY ATHERToN BRowNEI,1.

Secretary of Public Works in the
hrst Cabinet. Under him Havana was
beautlhed;. the projected improvements
commenced during the American occu.
patton In public ways wero Continued.
roads were built; sanitation was i'm,
proved, and the public received the
neneht OF every dollar appropriated for
tne purpose, Around this Office stormed
seekers, demanding their share of lts5u what
they considered public loot Since the
resignation of Senor Diaz millions have
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tually yielding their tribute of citrus
fruits and sugar, Here may be found
eeolonists from all parts of the United
states and Canada. Usually n group
takes up tract of land, divides it in
ten,acre holdings, then work it all to-
gether under the direct guidance of
one OF their number. In this way the
so.called Akron colony has been cstab.
llshed, composed Of 200 Ohio people,
chiefly from Akron and urged thereto
by Perry +. Tanner of that city, the
Father of the Colony" In this COM
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Clara to Santiago, and his combination
with the existing roads, that freight
and passengers may now traverse tho
entire line, with spur lines running out
in all directions. One of the latest
important steps commercially, the exc
cution OF which is now checked by tho
revolution, is the continuance of this