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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
DEcLARED TO Be ILLEGAL.
Michigan Law for the Taxation Of
! Railroads.

: IL hahFoaoS.
Lansing, Mich, Feb. 27.-In an unan-
imous opinion written by Justice Mont
gomery the. state supreme court has
held unconstitutional the <Galbraith
law, which provides for the equaliza.
tion by a state board of assessors of
the assessment of railroad property
and that of other properties in the
state The law was enacted by the
legislature of 1905 and governed the
action of the state board of assessors
in making their first tentative assess
nlent of properties this year, although
they ignored it in their final assess
nlent. The court in it's opinion says
that the language of the constitutional
amendment which provides that the
railroad property of the state shall
pay the same rate as other properties
is too plain to need Interpretation and
means that there can be but one rate
for all classes of property.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
MISSIONARIES ESCAPE BY BOAT
Methodist Board Informed of Rioting
at Nanchang.

at Nanchang.
New York, Feb. 27.-RepOrtS of riot
ing at the American mission. station in
Nanchang and the escape of eight
American missionaries stationed there
were received here during the day by
cable at the Methodist board Of for
eign missions. The Methodist. board
has a mission station at that place.
The kcablegram, which was sent by
Bishop j.. w. Bashford of Shanghai
and made public by DR., H. K. Carroll
of the Methodist board, is as folloWs:
Mission Naaehang : rioted,;s Meth
odist missionaries escaped on boat.'
The names of the Methodist mis-
sionaries at Nanchang are as follows:
Rev. Edward James and wife of Wis
consin; DR.. NJ Charles and wife of
Ohio and four American women; );
Gertrude How, Genevieve Hughes,
Alta Newdy and Kate L. Ogdorn In
addition to these eight missionaries
the Methodist board had one Chinese
woman, Ida Kahn, stationed at Nan
chang.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
TO DEVELOP MORO PROVINCE.
Effort Will Be Made to interest Amer.
ican Capitalists.

e., T..
San Francisco, Feb. 27.-Fred A.
Thompson, treasurer of the province
of Moro, in the island of Mindanao, is
here in the interests of that territory
His mission is to inform capitalists
that the province of Moro has been
granted a land law by the insular gov
ernment under which it is permitted
to sell or lease to any corporation
which applies $500 acres of land for
the cultivation of hemp, rubber, sugar
and the other plants and grain which
may be raised in the island with profit
Thompson leaves in few days for
Kansas City, Chicago, New York and
Washington and hopes to interest
many American capitalists in the re-
sources and opportunities to be found
in his island home.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
CITRUS FRUIT DECISION.
Sapreme Court Holds Alleged Railroad
Pool as Legal. .as

B Washington, Feb. 27-The suits
known as the "citrus fruit" cases. in
which all the railroads of Southern
California are interested, have been
decided unfavorably to the railroads
by the supreme court of the United
States, the opinion being by Justice
Peckham. The cases involved the
right of the railroad companies to des-
ignate the route for fruit shipped East
after leaving their own lines. The de-
cision of the circuit court for the
Southern district of California and
also the order of the commission were
reversed by the decision
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
Pickpockets Secure SO, $50.

Chicago, Feb. 27.-John Bailey, a
farmer living near Fox Lake, Ill.,, was
robbed of SO, $50 by pickpockets. Bailey
had just obtained the money by the
sale of mortgage and was riding on
u street car when his pocket was
picked by one of three men who had
been riding close to him for several
squares. =.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
REDUCES REPRESENTATION.
Bill Affecting Southern Membership in
+ Congress.

Washington, Feb. 27.-Representa-
tive keifer CO.. has introduced bill
to reduce the number of representa-
tives in the house of Southern states
because of the disfranchisement of me-
gro voters. The bill makes the reduc.
ton as follows: Alabama from 9 to
3, Arkansas from Z to 5, Florida from
3 to 2, Georgia from II to 6, Louisiana
from Z to 8, Mississippi from to 8,
North Carolina from 10 to 6, South
Carolina from to 8, Tennessee from
10 to s, Texas from 1e to u, Virginia
from 10 to g.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
HUSBAND AND WIFE DEAD.
jealousy of the Woman Responsible
sas, for Double Crime.

Chicago, Feb. 27.-William F.; Sears
and his wife were found dead in their
apartments at 4la Jack SOL boulevard
during the day. The gas had been
turned on and all apertures stopped
with rags. From the actions sof Mrs.
Sears during the past few days and
from letters which were found in the
room, the police believe that she
turned on the gas while her husband
was sleeping and then locked the door.
jealousy over the supposed infatua-
ton of her husband for another woman
is the cause ascribed to her act
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
Boycott Agitation subsidinq.

Washington, Feb. 27.-The Chinese
minister has received a cablegram
from the viceroy at Canton saying that
the boycott agitation has subsidized and
that no meetings to agitate a boycott
movement have been held lately He
reports everything quiet
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
ATE coLoRED CANDY.

One Child Dead and Two Others Crit
icaIIy Ill.
New York, Feb. 27.-After eating 2
cents worth of candy, colored red, blue
and green and sold to all the children
of the neighborhood at 10. cents a
pound, the three stepchildren of Harry
Thompson, Of 414 West Fifty-second
street were taken with violent convul-
sions. Vivian, the eldest girl, aged six,
lied in great agony and the lives of
her brother, Ralph, aged four, and her
|three-year-old sister, Viola, are de-
SPARED of.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
Now Goes to the President.

Washington, Feb. 27--The senate
has concurred in the house amend
ment to the Gillespie-Tillman, resolu-t
ton for the investigation of railroads
and their relation to coal and oil pro-
ducing. The resolution now goes to.
the president.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
cAsTRo's NEXT MOVE.
Seeks Damages From France Similar
to Alabama Claims.

to Alabama Claims.
Willemstad, Island of Curacao, Feb.
27-It is learned from Official sources
at Caracas, Venezuela, that President
Castro's next move in the French ques-
tion will be to call upon the United
States TO arpitrate the question of the
amount of damage done by France in
permitting the fitting out of the filibus-
tering steamer Ban Righ at Fort de
France, island of Martinique, to prey
upon Venezuelan commerce and trans
port troops during the Matos revolt.
The United States claim against Great
Britain in the case of the Alabama will
be cited as precedent.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
PREPARING FOR CAMPAIGN.
Meeting of Democratic Congressional
Committee Called.

Washington, Feb. 27.-The Demo.
cratic campaign for the Sixtieth con-
gress is to be started in the near fu-
ture. A call has been issued by Secre-
ztary Edwards of the Democratic con.
gressional organization for meeting
Of the committee to be held on the
evening of March in the minority
Eommittee room of the house of repre-
sentatiyes. 1t is stated that the meet
ing is called for the purpose of organ.
ization, that the details of the cam
paign may receive immediate and sys-
tematic attention
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
Woman Fatally Burned.

Des Moines, 'es,b u One will die
and three Others. are seriously injured
as the result of as'ffre which DESTROYED
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Meck. The fingers of Mrs. F1eck's
right hand we're burned off and she
was badly burned about the body and
taee She will die.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
VANDERBILT RELEASED.
Pays $500 to Injured Boy and Gets His
Freedom

Florence, Italy, Feb. 27.----W. K.aVan-
derbilt, Jr.,. whose automobile ran
down child near Pontedera, was
taken before. the royal praetor cherici,
who, after full investigation showing
the occurrence to have been unavoid-
able, released him on $500 bail Mr.
Vanderbilt presented two local char
table institutions with $40 each and
promised additional gratuities, to-
gether with $500 to the parents of the
injured child.
He then left with Mrs. Vanderbilt,
but had to be- escorted to the outskirts
Of the town by police officials, who
feared anotlier hostile demonstration.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
Compelled 10 Furnish Cars.

Washington, Feb 27-Representa-
tive Hughes CIV. Va) has prepared a
bill he proposes to introduce in the
house which compels railway com
panies to supply cars to shippers upon
request for the transportation of, their
products. A maximum fine OF $1,000
and sixty days imprisonment are pro.
vided for violation of the bill.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
Alexander Will Recover.

:. New York, Feb. 27.--The recovery
Of James w. Alexander, former presi-
dent of the Equitable Life Assurance
society, who recently underwent two
operations, is announced to be prac-
tically certain by his physicians.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
MASKED MEN SECURE $4,000.
MiIIviIIe (N. J.) Baker Forced to Open
His Safe.

Millville, N. j., Feb: 27.-Two
masked men, one white and one ne.
gro, seized Frederick Radel, baker,
while he was in the stable near his
house and after gagging him marched
him into his home at the point of a
pistol The men compelled ,Radel to
open his safe, from which they took
nearly $4,000. The robbers escaped.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
Union Man Charged With Murder:

New York, Feb. 27.-Peter Cooper,
IN ironworker, was held without b8il
In the Lee avenue court, williamsburg,
On charge of homicide He was az
cused of having caused the death of
John Jahrsdorfer, nonunion iron
worker, who died Saturday night in
the Bethany Deanconesses' home Of
injuries inflicted with a slungshot.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
QUITS STATE OF MISSOURI.
Mutual Reserve Life Serves Notice Of
Withdrawal.

Withdrawal.
Jefferson City, Mo-, Feb. 27.-State
Superintendent of Insurance Vandiver
has received a letter from Vice Presi-
dent George D. Eldredge of the Mutual
Reserve Life Insurance company of
New York stating that the company
will not file with the Missouri insur-
ance department statement of it's
business for 1905 and would withdraw
from the state. Superintendent Van
diver said that the reception of this
notification would relieve him from
the issuance Of an order of custer,
which he had in preparation.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
IMPERIAL UKASE ISSUED.

Russian National Assembly Will Meet
on May 10.
st. Petersburg, Feb. 27.-An impe-
fial ukase was issued during the day
announcing that the national assembly
will meet May 10.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27

st. Joseph, Mo-, Feb. pa bad
sleet and snow storm has been raging
here since early morning, greatly i'm
peding railway and street car traffic.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27

me city board of health has found
twenty cases of smallpox in Michigan
City. Ind. Most of the patients are
school children. J 5tts+ :
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
PRESBYTERIAN FEDERATION.
Representatives Of Various Branches
to Meet March II.

= to Meet March IA.
Harrisburg, Pa, Feb. 27-Represen-
tatives of the Presbyterian church.
Presbyterian Church South, United
Presbyterian church. Reformed Church
in the United States, Reformed Church
in America and the Reformed Pres
byterian church will meet at Char
lotte, N. c., on March IA to prepare a
basis for the federation of the denom-
nations. At a meeting held in this
city over year ago a basis for con-
solidation was prepared and arrange
ments were made to present the same
to the legislative bodies of the
churches. The various general assem-
iDlles and general synods received the
report favorably, but in each instance
referred it back to, the joint committee
tor. more detailed plans
POISON IN COMMUNAL WINE. Z
Attempt to Kill the Archbishop of
Venezuela.
[ W1llemstad, Island of Curacao, Feb.
/ to advices received
here from Caracas President Castro is
greatly unnerved as the result of an
unsuccessful attempt by an unknown
person to poison the Most Rev. DR..
Juan Bautista Castro, archbishop Of
Venezuela, by putting nitrate of silver
Fin the communal wine on Sunday,
Feb. 1S, which caused great sensa-
;tion. The archbishop some time ago
issued an encyclical rebuking the Ven.
ezuelan clergy for their immortality.
.The attempt on the archbishop's life
Is generally attributed to a priest.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1906-02-27
SNOW AND sLEET STORM.

Railroad Traffic Interrupted in tbs
Southwest.
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 27-Snow has
fallen in; the last few hours in Eastern
and Northern Nebraska to depth of
almost an inch, with prospects for
its continuance throughout the day.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-05-04
A WOODMEN UNWILLING
Ceremonies to Take Place Sum
day, May 13.

The uuyeiing ceremony at the
grave of the late DR.. E. H. Jack
son has been postponed to Sum
day, May 18th. The local camp
of Woodmen of the World first
fixed the date for May 9Th. but it
has been found that everything
can not be arranged by that date
and the time has been arranged
for week later.
A handsome monument will be
unveiled on May 18th with the
impressive ceremonies character
istic of Woodcraft. 1t is expec-
ted that many visiting Woodmen
will be present besides numerous
friends of the lamented sovereign.
The ceremonies will be conducted
at the grave in the Winfield cem-
etery by Cedar Camp No. 107, as
sisted by state organizer and
other visiting sovereigns.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-05-04
IT WAS A REVELATION.
Work Being Done by Prisoners
is all Right.

While DR.. D. B. Williams,
president of the police jury. was
in town Tuesday he expressed q
desire to see the work being done
by the parish prisoners on the
public road leading out to Rb-
chelle. Mr.. A. j. Long kindly
provided a splendid team and
surrey and carried President Will
liams. Mr.. G. p. Long and rep
resentative of The Sentinel to
where the work is being done
under the direction of Commits
sioner j. Nj. Leeper.
The work was a veritable rev.
elation to the entire party. 1t
clearly demonstrates what can be
and what should be done in the
way of road building in this
parish. 1t also shows that Mr..
Leeper is a practical road builder
and does his work in q thoroughly
satisfactory manner.
The heavy rain last Saturday
tested the work which has been
done and it stood the test splen-
didly. II did not wash a particle.
Since the work started there has
been an average of only about
five prisoners in the gang, but q
satisfactory amount of work has
been done BY them. If the
parish had q pair of mules. q
pillow and slip or scraper great
amount of much needed work
could be done by this gang. A
wagon would also be an advan-
tage and with one the prisoners
could be transported to and from
the work and in this way the dis
tance to which the roads could be
worked could be increased from
three 70 six miles out on each
road.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-05-04
NUMBER Al.

woman and was undressed when
shot. The coroner found a small
amount of money where the
woman said it was, but it did not
tally up with the amount she
claimed he had taken from her,
and it was not tied up in the same
kind of d rag as she described.
A brother of the wounded
negro appeared and .'under the
advice of a lawyer slipped him
off to hospital Monday evening.
Coroner Peters and Deputy
Sheriff Cupp secured team and
headed them off at Georgetown
and served warrant on Miller,
bringing him back Tuesday morn
ing He died late Wednesday eve
ming.
Henry Miller is said to have
beena bad negro. 1t is known
here that he was hard to kill.
Last fall another negro attempted
to kill him with abaseball bat, but
he refused to die. even after his
skull was cracked. He got over
it and went to Colfax where he
met with another scrape of the
same kind and was laid up three
weeks with a cracked craiium.
But this time he ''got up against
it,"
The "shootess'' is in jail. where
she will, in all probability, remain
for some time, at least until the
grand jury acts on the case and
she is either acquitted or sent up.
She is, to all appearances, a
tough character and has been
here only short time.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-05-04
$s7,ooo.o0 LAND DEAL
Recorded at the Court House
Monday.

Morris Quinn of Saginaw,
Michigan, has sold his land aud
timber interests i'm this parish to
the Bodcaw Lumber Company.
A deed of conveyance was filed
and recorded at the Clerks Office
Wednesday, the consideration
being placed at $S7,OOO.0O. Mr..
Quinn reserved the oil and min
eral rights on all the land. His
holdings consisted of q half in
terest in and to several thousand
acres of land in the western
portion of this parish.-
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-05-04
Said He was Stealing Her
Money.
He WAS A BAD NEGRO
Aargret Fairchild is Now in
Jail to Await the Action
of the Grand Jury.

Henry Miller, colored. is dead
and Margret Fairchild. of the
same complexion. languishes be-
hind the bars in Sheriff Shaw's
popular resort. Margret sur
prised Henry by sticking a bullet
from a little 22-callber "Sadidy
night Harrison" right between
his eyes. 1t happened at about 3
O'Clock Sunday morning, but the
wounded negro lived until
Wednesday evening.
The shooting took place in
Aaron Browns notorious "board-
ing house" near the Louisiana &
Arkansas depot on the south side
of town and the exact facts con-
nected with the affair are hard to
get at, for no one knows anything
about it except the woman who
did the shooting and, as a matter
of course, she does not remem-
Der all of the facts.
Sheriff Shaw, Deputy Sheriff
j. K. Cupp and Coroner DR.. J. J.
Peters were called at al early
hour Sunday morning. On
reaching the place the woman
was found guarding the door to
the room in which the shooting
had occurred. She was arrested
and relieved of her gun, which she
still held cooked and ready to
shoot. Drs. Peters & Peters at
tended the wounded negro and
endeavored to locate the bullet.
but failed to find it. 1t had gone
through the brain and lodged
somewhere in the back of the
skull.
The woman stated that Miller
was trying to rob her, that he had
secured her wad of money and
during a scuffie he had dropped
it inside his underclothing. He
bad occupied the room with the
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-05-04
and singing the many Confeder-

and singing the many Confeder-
ate songs.
Notable in the parade was that
old and popular veteran, Colonel
w. G. Vincent, who called to-
gether the few members of his
old regiment, the Second Louis
lana Cavalry, and marched with
them on foot the entire length of
the parade. That night the great
event of the reunion was the
grand ball and the march in the
auditorium. The different camps
had been invited to form their
sets at home and have an old time
dance. We copy from the Times
Democrat the following to show
how near our WINFIELD set came
to participating:
''David Pierson Camp No.
1908, Confederate Veterans, of
WINFIELD, La, the last camp or
ganized in the State, formed a
set to dance at the ball last night,
but were not able to get closer
than half block of the audi
torium. The members of the set
were: ID. f. Dunn and Mrs. j.
j. Burk, w. j. Carson and Miss
Nettie Teagle. Joseph Smith and
Mrs. +. L. Shaw, w. A. Stron g |
and Miss Helen Teagle."
OF course there was consider
able disappointment over their
failure to reach the auditorium.
We feel certain that all who at
tended the reunion are glad that
they did so.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-05-04

4. With our unlimited hard
woods. such as all of the oaks,
hickory, beech, maple, and gum
that remains untouched, except
for few slaves and ties, wagon
factories, furniture factories,
handle, hab, felly, and spoke fac
tories will come here when ac-
quainted with the cheap fuel and
raw materials we can offer.
There is no reason why we should
not have population of twenty
five thousand people and these
industries with large pay roll.
We are splendidly situated for
a canning factory which could be
supplied from adjacent farms.
There is no reason why we should
not have a cotton factory. We
are in the heart of the cotton belt,
having chance at the markets of
Shreveport, Monroe, Alexandria,
and Minden for our supplies.
With cheap gas fuel we could
compete with any mill in the
South.
To recapitulate, We have an adj
jacent territory adapted to agri-
culture in all of its forms, besides
lands perfectly adapted to fruit
growing and vineyards and truck
in all its phases. As soon as the
timber is removed from the lands
a good class of thrifty farmers
will find their way here to take
these lands.
The Rock Island railroad al
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The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-05-04
THE TENT MEETING
Is Attracting Crowds to Every
Service.

The services being conducted
by Rev. j. E. Gaar and Mrs.
Mary Perdue at the gospel tent"
on the court house yard are being
attended by larger audiences each
successive service. Many are
manifesting deep interest and it
is thought some lasting good will
result from the meeting. Mrs.
Perdue is fluent talker and she
is doing some heroic preaching at
these services.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-05-04
There is No Excuse for
"COId Feet.
SOME VERY PLAIN FACTS
WINFIELD is Better Situated
and Has Better Advantases
than Many Larger Towns.

Il
There seems to be considerable
concern as to what will become
of Winfield and the present
prosperity when the pine forests
will be no more. To us the prob
lem seems to be one of easy So
luton.
1. We have in the vicinity of
Winfield as fine farming lands
as there are in any hill country in
the south. One of the principal
reasons that they have not been
more largely utilized for agri-
culture before was the great ex-
pense 1t required to remove the
heavy growth of timber to get the
lands in q state for cultivation,
and many foresaw that a time
would come when this timber
would be valuable and, hence,
did not feel justified in max
ing SO great a destruction of
values.
g.. We have here surrounding
Winfield and undertaking it
the finest clay in the world for
making all classes of brick, and
with the present railroad facilities
and those projected there is no
place in the south so well stu
ated for a distributing point for
brick. 1t is true we have a small
plant which is making the finest
class of building brick, but the
clay is adapted to the making of
yitrofied or paving brick, dry
pressed and ornamental brick as
we'll as tile and sewer pipe. With
the gas supply for fuel which we
have already developed and
which can be applied will make
the cost of manufacturing much
cheaper than at any other place
where they use other than gas
fuel.
8. We have near Winfield a
quarry of limestone of unlimited
quantity, which could be devel-
oped and made into lime of a
very superior quality. The small
stone could be burned into lime
and the boulders could be cut
and polished into the finest build
ing stone. The exhibits of this
stone which have been made at
all of the expositions since 1884,
have received fiattering recogni-
ton. Then we have at the
Coochle a quarry of sandstone
that is unequalled as building
stone. All of these have not
been used on account of the lack
of transportation. Now that the
Louisiana & Arkansas passes
within mile of the Marble Quar-
" and the Louisiana Railway &
NayigatlonC Company passes within
4 mile of the Coochie quarry and
the projected Monroe & South
western passing close to both
these quarries. their development
Is feasable possibility.