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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-05
STRIKE My Be lyER1ED
PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF AN.
THRAcITE TROUBLE SAID
TO BE PROBABLE.

Scranton, Pa, May 5.--There is
every prospect that q strike Of anthra-
cite miners may be averted The aft
ernoon session Of the convention last
cd an hour and at Its conclusion it
was announced that the delegates had
voted to refer the question of strike
or the acceptance Of the operators
proposal for continuance under the
present scale back to the scale com
mittee.
Tie committee composed Of the ex-
ecutiye boards OF the three anthracite
districts was instructed to make a
recommendation to the convention at
the next session.
. Immediately after adjournment the
scale committee met to debate the
course ii. will follow With the thirty,
six members OF this committee now
rests the welfare Of the 100000 mine
workers.
! There is reason to believe that a
peaceful settlement-Will be made and
that the men Who have beenzidle since
April will soon be ordered back to
the mines.
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HocA DER kissER.
Friends Of Kansas Governor Explain
incident.

Friends sef Kansas Governor Explain
Incident.
Wichita, Kan, May 5.--If Governor
Hoch did try to take a@kiss-froIn@ fforz:
ner Governor Stanles,s wife IL WIS his
Kiss and hes entitled to 1t.
This Is the story told by the gov
ernor's friends, at any rate, These.
friends say they; have the true account
from both Governor Hoch and former
Governor Stanley and that the way
they heard it i4 theTright@ way, all re-
ports to the contrary notwithstanding
This was the wayit happened
4 A year ago III April Mrs. Stanley
had just finished series Of visits to-
various charitable institutions. At
Emporia She met Governor Hoch's.
daughter. -
Give papa my love and lots of
Kisses" said Miss Hoch as the visitor
was leaving Emporia for the capital.
Mrs. Stanley saw the governor in
due time and told him of her meeting
with his daughter and the latter's mes
sage.
well, aren't you going to deliver
the goOds?" asked Governor Hoch.
What the. governor did then is not
made plain. 1t was not until some
time in the winter; however, that the
story OF the attempted embrace gained
cllrrency =. E .-
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MINERS AGREE TO
GO BACK TO WORK
SLAIN ny HOSTILE zuLus.
British Magistrate Ambushed and "a.
tally Wounded.

British Magistrate Ambushed and "a.
tally Wounded.
Pietermaritzhnrg, Natal, May 5.-An
outrage which may have serious conse-
quences has occurred in Zululand. Mr..
Stainbank, the British magistrate at
Mahlabitini, has been killed by Zulus
while collecting taxes near that place.
Mr.. StainbanlS, his wife, woman
companion and some mounted police
We're caught in an ambush by hostile
Zulus, who fired volley at them. The
magistrate and one of the policemen
were fatally wounded Mr.. Stainbank
and the two ladies managed to reach
Mahlabitini, where the magistrate died
OF his wounds.
Mahlabitini lies to the westward of
the forest where Bambaata, the insalr-
gent chief formerly the regent of, the
Greytown (NataD district, who has
been in arms against the local anthori-
ties for month past, had been hid
ing and it is asserted here that there
seems to be no doubt that the rebel
chief has succeeded in Inducing an
other tribe of Zulus to join in the re.
volt
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-05
Declares That Standard Oil
Is and Has Been
LaWabiding.
President Roosevelt Char.
acteriZed as Untruthful
and Unfair.
Message Arouses Magnates
and They Deny All
Charges.

New York. May 4.-In reply
t. President Roosevelt's message
aid the report of Commissioner
Garfield, H. Fl. Rogers and John
D. Archbold of the Standard Oil
company, said that their exam
ination Of the message and report
had necessarily been a hurried
one, and that they should at a
later date make q full answer to
their shareholders. Now they
made the following statement to
the Associated Press:
when President Roosevelt or
Commissioners Garfield attacks
the Standard Oil company and
uses it's methods. of dong busi-
ness, as an object lesson for the
purpose of promoting his views
we protest.
ut may be frankly stated at
the outset that the Standard Oil
company has acted at all times
within the limits of fairness and
with due regard for the law but
to secure the most advantageous
freight rates and routes possible.
There will be no denial of this
fact on our. part. The question
is whetherswe have at any point
violated the law or properties.
"We say flatly that any asser-
tions that the Standard Oil com
pany-has been or is now know
ingly engaged in practices which
are unlawful is alike untruthful
and unjust"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-05
PROMISES TO Be FULFILLED
NEW RUSSIAN MINISTRY ISSUES
. OFFICIAL STATEMENT TO.
THE WORLD. -

st. Petersburg. May 5.-M: schwane.
bach, former minister of agriculture,
controller of the empire in. the new
cabinet, who is Premier Goremykin's
chief lieutenant, sent fOrsS the, Asso-
ciated Press correspondent. during the
day and requested in behalf Of the
new premier that it be announced to
the United States and to the world
generally in the following official note
that the new ministry does not mean
reaction:
His majesty, the emperor, and the
premier, NJ. Goremykin, have the full,
honorable intention of carrying
through the idea of national represen-
tation with all it implies. There is no
intention of dissolving parliament.
Naturally unforeseen circumstances
may arise, as in any government,
which might force such an unhappy
event. But we do not anticipate such
misfortune, as the majority of the
members of parliament are lovers OF
their country and so do not believe
that they are desirous of forcing a
conflict The governments purpose
will be to work with parliament
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FACTIONS IN SENATE. oEr TO.
GETHER ON COURT REVIEW
FEATURE OF MEASURE.
COMPROMISE SATISFACTORY TO ALL.
OBSTACLES TO THE SPEEDY PAS
SAGE OF HOUSE BILL AP-
PARENTLY REMOVED.

Washington, May 5.-What amounts
practically to an agreement on the eX-
listing differences Concerning court
features of the railroad rate bill has
been reached by senate conferences
extending over the last week and Sen.
ntor Allison will offer an amendment
comforting jurisdiction upon the cir
cult courts to hear and determine suits
brought against the interstate COM
merce commission. The amendment
will not suggest to the courts whether
their judicial review shall be confined
to constitutional questions or whether
it shall be an inquiry into the justice
or reasonableness of the rates fixed
by the commission. Senator Long,
who made the principal legal argu.
ment for the house bill, and Senators
Aldrich and Crane, the leaders in the
movement seeking an amendment pro-
viding for broad court review, have
expressed themselves as fayoring the
amendment and both factions are
agreed that the compromise is salts
factory to President Roosevelt. I'm
doubtedy this means that obstacles to
the speedy passage Of the measure
have been removed.
Whether the conservatives or the
radicals have wen victory is a quess
ton that is not disturbing either fac
ton. The agreement in measure is
regarded as political 1t is believed
that now practically the entire Repub-
lican strength of the senate will be
cast for the bill, whereas under the
long continued estrangement it was
conceded that it would require minor
ity endorsement to pass the bill and
the Democratic party would be In posi-
tiOn to take full credit for it.
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HUNDREDS WILL TESTIFY.
Inquiry Into Oil Trusts Relations
With Railroads.

Chicago, May 5.-One of the most
thorough. inquiries into the relation
ship between the railroads and the
Standard Oil company that has ever
been conducted by the government
will begin here May 10 before the in
.terstate commerce. commission.
Special Counsel ]. T. Marcf1and of
the commission arrived in Chicago
during the day to make the prelin-
mary arrangements. Mr.. Marchand
authorized the issuance of four. sub
poenaes for local railroad of1cials for
their attendance before the commits
sion. The names OF the men sum-
moned are kept secret Hundreds Of
subpoenaes have been issued, it is
said, for indapend oil refiners In
Ohio, Kansas and Pennsylvania Rail-
road officials from those states Mil
also be summoned. before the commits,
--s-.e & 49, 7ssS5s
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SAYS DIRECTORS MUST PAY
Court Holds Them Responsible for
Poiicyhoiders' Money.

Albany, N. Y, May 4-The appellate
division OF the Third department
handed down decision during the
day holding that the directors OF the
Equitable Life Assurance society are
liable for the policyholders' money
wasted and wrongfully spent by that
society.
The decision, which was given in
the suit brought by Mary. S. Young of
Saratoga Springs against James Hazen
Hyde and the directors of the society,
atffrms the 1nterlocutory judgment
rendered by the special term
Mrs. Young sued to recover all the
sums due on her policy wasted during
the years prior to 1905, either by
affirmative acts of the directors or by,
reason of their negligence.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-05
Damage at Oakland $4,000, 900.

Oakland, Cal, May 5.-Estimates of
the damage by the earthquake in this
city foot up to 1900, 900, according to
report submitted to Mayor Mott by
Building Inspector Towle. This in
cludes the injury done to buildings OF
the school department.
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TtEttP NOW COMPLETE.
Excursion Boats at Chicago Affected
by Marine Strike.

EXCURSION soatss at Chfca9o AHeeteQ
by Marine Strike.
Chicago, May 4.-The big excursion
boats that run during the summer
months, being an important factor in
the amusement of Chicago people, may
be tied up indefinitely as result OF
the general strike of marine men,
The strike grew beyond all eXpecta-
tions when it was declared by the un-
ion men that no passenger boats which
employed nOnunion mates could have
union employees. Two excursion boats
will be affected at once by this de-
cfsiOn and more than aSscore later in
the season.
The tieup in the Chicago harbor is
now complete, the decision of the un--
ion regarding passenger boats being
the last link in the chain which will
prevent marine business being trans
acted from the city
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.
Discharged Miners Suspected.

Smithton, Pa, May 5.-The resi-
dence of w. ]. Bichers, superintendent
of the Smithton and Eureka mines Of
the Pittsburg Coal company, was part
ly wrecked during the night by an ex,
plosion of dynamite. Discharged min
Nrs are suspected.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-05
ALL ON BOARD RESCUED.

British Steamer Sunk in Collision
With Iceberg. 0
VI London. May 5.-The< British steam
er. Anglo Peruvian, from Shields April
II for Philadelphia, founderedy recently
in the Atlantic as the result of a col
ision with an iceberg. All the mem
bers Of her crew were picked up by
the British steamer Mohawk, from
New York for Antwerp. which passed
rawiess point during the day and sig.
nailed the news.
Recent arrivals. at British. ports
have reported icebergs, dangerous to
navigation, in the track followed by
the Atlantic liners. -
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-05
Britt and -Mcoovern to Fight.

San Francisco, May 5.-James E.
Britt stated during the day that he had
accepted a match for 10-round con-
test with Terry McGovern at Madison
Square Garden for May 28. Britt will
leave Monday for New York.
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$3,ooo,ooo Loss at Santa Rosa.

Oakland, CAL, May 5.-Governor Par
dee has received a dispatch from San
ia Rosa stating, that the property loss
caused by the recent earthquake will
amount to s3,000.000. It will cost It
least $l50,000 to clear away the wreck
age,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-05
Nonunion Crew Secured.

Superior, Wis. May 5.-The firemen
.aAd5 oilers Of the. Tomlinson steamer
Socopas deserted that vessel in port
here and despite overtures refused to
80 further. They accordingly were
paid OF and a. new crew Of nonunion
Non Haee enraantxsd.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-05
Mint Pays Bank Depositors.

San Francisco, May 5-The2 United
tes= mint, which is now being used
as the general clearing glatse for the
hanks. has paid out between 81 ,000, 900.
and $s50oo,oo0 to depositers since It.
opened Tuesday last. ~ ~. 81. ..---
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-05
puIuth Wheat aldFf.x

Duluth, May 4.--Wheat Ta arrive
and on track-No. Northern. 1874 c;
No. 2 Northern, 77Ac;; May 7s1sc;;
July, 79s4c; Sept, 7Sc. Flax-To ar.
rive, on track and May, $1147s; July.
}l.l6A: Sept, $1.16R; Oct, $115. .
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Chicago Union stock Yards.

Chicago, May 4-Cattle-Beeves
4.0006.1O; cows and heifers. $1.75@
SO: stockers and feeders. S2.750
.5.S5; Texans, $3.90@4.70. Hogs
Mixed and butchers, $6.15@6.50; good
heavy, $6.35Q6.5O; rough heavy. 1910
@6.25; light, $6.l5@6.45; pigs, $3.50
6.1O. Sheep. $4.O0@5.75; lambs. 3475
@7.56.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-05
MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Minneapolis Wheat.

Minneapolis, May -Wheat-May,
76Ac: July, 1875 @7sAc; Sept. 77ssc.
On track-No. / hard, 79kc; No.
Northern, zee: No. Northern, 77hc;
No 3 Northern, 75@76c.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-05
UNABLE TO DISCHARGE cAReoEs
Fifty Ore Vessels Lying at Various
Lower Lake Ports.

Cleveland, May Sit was estimated
in shipping circles that not less than
fifty vessels, with approximately 4O0,-
900 tons Of ore on board, are now ly.
ing at the various lower lake ports
waiting to discharge their cargoes,
which, owing to the strike of the Long
-shoremen's union, cannot be done.
The delay is causing heavy losses to
the vessel owners, but that carrying
rates will be advanced to recompense.
these losses later is generally con
;ceded.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-05
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS:

Dispatches to Dun's Review Indicate
that business has made fairly good
progress despite some new labor trou-
bles on May 1.
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SUICIDES IN CHURCH.
70 Avoid Disfiguration Woman. Takes
Acid Through Straw.

Cincinnati, May 5.-Using a straw
to prevent .disffguring her face Mrs
Emma Reybert, wife of printer, in
the solemn quietude of st. Philomena
church, committed suicide with car
bolic acid. She died a few minutes
after being found. Dependency be.
cause of her health is believed to have
been the cause of the suicide.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-05-05
REBATES? HORRORS
NO! CRIES ROGERS
OF GARFIELD REPORT.
Flagrant Determinations in Favor OF
Standard Oil Company.

Standard Oil Company.
Washington, May 5.--The report of
Commissioner of Corporations Garfield
was sent to congress during the day.
1t is document of considerable length
and covers the subject thoroughly. In
summing up his findings the commits
siOner says: ..'' -.
1.-The general result of the investiga-
tion has been to disclose the existence
of numerous and fagrant discrimina-
tions by the railroads in behalf of the
Standard OH company and it's affili-
ated corporations. With a compara-
lively few exceptions, mainly of other
large concerns in California, the Stand
ard has been the sole beneficiary of
such determinations. In almost every
section of the country that company
has been found to enjoy some unfair
advantages over it's competitors and
some of these determinations affect
enormous areas.
DETERMINATIONS in the transpOrta-
tion of oil embrace variety of forms,
the more important of which may be
classed under the following heads: =
"First-Secret and semi-secret rates.
SecOnd-Discrimin in the
open arrangement of rates.
< ird-Discriminations in classifi-
cation and rules OF shipments.
Fourth DETERMINATIONS in treat
ment Of private tank cars. g.
ADVANTAGES OBTAINED
BY UNFAIR METHODS.
"The Standard claims that the loca-
ton OF it's refnerieS and the use OF
pipe lines are natural advantages to
which it is justly entitled by reason of
the energy and foresight of it's man
ayers. While in measure that is
true it must not be forgotten that
these advantages were in part OBJ
tanned by means Of unfair competitive
methods after years of fierce strife.
The development of the pipe line
system by the Standard Oil company
was the result Of special agreements
with railroad companies. Further
more, these so-called natural advan-
tages have been and are being great:
ly increased by discrimination in
freight rates, both published and
secret, Interstate and state, which give
the Standard monopolistic- control in
the greater portion of the country and
which so limit competition as to prac-:
tically prevent the extension OF the
business Of any independent to a point
which even remotely endangers the
supremacy of the Standard. -
An immediate result of this de-
limitation of the competitive area is
shown by the prices of ordinary oil
throughout the country. After deduct
ing the freight rate the price of such
oil is usually from 2 cents to : cents a
gallon higher in the n-competitive
than in the competitive fields A rea~
sOnable profit upon refined oil is about
one-half cent per gallon. 1t is clear
that eXorbitant profits are obtained in
the nOn-competitive fields. This monop-
Olistic control extends from the we'll
Of the producer to the doorstep OF the
consumer"
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ONE AMENDMENT ADOPTED.
Pipe Lines Declared TO- Be- Common
Carriers ..s.-,s I'D.

T Washington, May 5:-The amend
ment to the rate regulation bill max
ing pipe lines for the transportation of
oil common carriers within the mean
ing Of the interstate commerce act
was adopted unanimously in the SEN
ate. 49,.
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st. Paul, May 4.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, ,$45O@5.5o; common to
fair. $3.50@4.25: good to choice COWS
and heifers, $S.O0@450; .veals, $1.5O@
4.50. ,Hogs-$G.lO@6:25. Sheep-Year-
ling wethers, $525@6.OO; good to
choice lambs, $G.00@6:5O. -.
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ELECTRICIANS ON STRIKE.
Tslephese Emp.eyeseof Thrcez Sfatss
Walk Out.

=. ST. Paul, May 4.-The electricians
of all telephone. companies7in Mime
sofa. North and South Dakota struck
at noon. About 800 men are out OF
these, between 400 and 500 live in the
Twin Cities, either working there or
running out of the cities.
The point of divergence came on
the question of hours and wages. The
electricians are after an eight-hour
day and an increase in wages which
averages about IS per month. The
average wage of the men is about $40
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-08-29
Would BE objectionable.

Staggering as II is from the furore
over the packing industry. for the cat
tie growing business 10 be further
crippled through a reduction OF the
tariff ON hides would be objectionable
II will AT best be slow to recover
from the publicity that has been given
the one. and congress owes IL all the
counteract announcement f. can
give After all. II r. on the producer
OF live stock that the cost will fail.
Such to-day arc between the upper
and neither gfndstones Of congress
and the Denver Republican.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-08-29
IMPARTIAL TARIFF IMPERATIVE
IL is the Only Kind That the United
States Can Afford to Have.

dispatch from Washington re-
peats the nonsensical statement that
the German tariff situation is ex-
tremely embarrassing to the state de-
partment. because there Is little hone
that congress will legislate so as to
make II possible for Secretary Root
to live up TO inducements held out to
Germany, which resulted in the tenn
porary extension To this country by
Germany OF its minimum tariff rates.
pending a reimbursement OF the Gus
toms regulations. No one with any
knowledge OF the situation would have
written such stun as the above. II IL
inconceivable that Secretary Root.
or any one else connected with the
state department. should have offered
inducements to Germany OF the kind
suggested. for the simple reason that
such action would have been an I'M
warranted interference of an execu-
tive department with the lawmaking
power =
At no time since the threat was nut
forth by German interests OF waging
a tariff war against the United States
has there been any reason to believe
that this country would recede from
Its position OF treating all nations
alike. IL is true that a noisy con-
tngent of American free traders who
believed that the "blufing" tactics or
Germany would prevail persisted in
asserting that we were scared and
would make any concession demand
ed by the Germans, but no one at
tached any Importance to what they
said. Germany certainly did not for
she practically receded from her po-
sition, which she knew might create
a situation which could easily have
been made intolerable for her, and
II Is likely. If we may Judge from
the expressions OF such experts as
In which to fully consider the posi-
bic outcome Of tariff war.
Apart from every other considera-
ton, common honesty demands that
we adhere to our refusal to modify
our tarif regulations in the manner
urged by Germany The manufac-
turers of that country complain that
our inquisitiveness on the score OF
prices is highly offensive TO them, and
they urge that we should accept their
invoices without challenge. But, in
view OF the notorious system Of un-
LIBERALIZATION practiced IL would be
impossible TO comply with such a re-
quest II would be unfair TO do so.
as II would place the honest importer
at the mercy NJ his dishonest rival.
The United states can afford to ad-
minister it's customs laws I'm no other
way than with strict impartiality.-
San Francisco Chronicle
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-08-29
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

When taking a salad to a picnic
supper in the woods, put Il I'm a pail
and push a small bottle filled with
cracked Ice into the center. This
will keep the salad in splendid con.
dition for hours.
To prevent small rugs curling I'D
at the corners, securely fasten tri.
angular bits OF corrugated rubbed un.
der each corner. The sides OF the
rubber should extend eight or nine
inches along the rug. Bore small
holes in the rubber and sew through
holes and fabric.
Beds may be cooled in summer by
putting small pieces OF ice in a
warming pan and running 1t over the
sheets.
The finest polish given the most
costly piano can be entirely ruined
By the direct rays of the sun II Is
well to remember this during the hot
weather.
II small pinch OF salt is added to
every gallon Of water boiled for drink
Ing purposes it will not have that fat
lnsipid taste common to boiled water.
Whom the heat Of the oven is slow
II may be increased by putting hot
stovelids under the pudding or dish
which is baking.
When starching anything with a
fringe, double the article In four parts,
gather fringe tightly in the hand and
hold 1t while you dip middle T., starch.
When dry. shake the fringe well and
comb with a coarse comb.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-08-29

It is needless 70 say that Mr.. Bryan.
In mistakinC stubjornness for con.
sistency IS practically turning tie
presidency over 10 the Republican
party again. giving II walkover in
1903 a. IL had in 1895 1900 and 1904.
His statement has already distinctly
clouded Democratic prospects IN the
congressional campaign next fall and
has helped 10 make possible so large
a Republican majority In the house
that Mr.. Rooseyelt's reelection viii
become a certainty. even against his
own will. New YORK World.