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Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-01-17
n. Orchard Examined.

The preliminary examination of Har
~ Orchard, charged with the assassi.
nation of Ex-Governor Steunenberg
December 80, was held Saturday be.
fore Probate Judge Church at Cald.
we'll.
Attorney Miller, for the defense, in
sisted that the rule be enforced pro.
hibiting the public and witnesses from
being present, but finally consented to
newspaper correspondents reporting
the trial.
The state introduced II witnesses
connecting Orchard with the crime. All
the evidence was circumstantial.
Orchard was committed to Jail with.
out bail.
Officers believe that Orchard is not
the name of the defendant.
Governor Gooding arranged with the
Pinkerton detective agency to proceed
with the investigation but not to in
terfere with the work Of the Thiels,
represented by Captain Swain.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-01-17

Boise Capital News. The milkman at
Wallace is now definitely ascertained
to be an entirely different individual
from the Harry Orchard confined in
the jail at Caldwell charged with the
murder Of Ex-Governor Steunenberg.
Moscow lodge No. 249, B. P. o. E.,
dedicated their new temple Friday
with elaborate ceremonies.
Senator Hepburn Of Idaho may de.
eide to exploit his proposition for the
annexation of Santo Domingo.
A laborer named Steinmiller, en-
ployed in digging sewer at Occur
d'Alene, was buried in a cavein re-
Gently and had narrow escape from
death.
The Northern Pacific has lost out in
it's fight to prevent the classification
of timber lands valued at 81, 500, 900 in
Shoshone county, Idaho, as mineral
lands. the railway company being de-
cided against by the United States
land Office at Occur d'Alene. The COM
pany gets but certain nonmineral
lands. The decision is signed by Reg.
lister r. N. Dunn and Receiver G. D.
Warner.
At the present time the United
States geological survey is maintain.
ing IL gauging stations on Idaho
streams. Seven Of these stations are
essential in connection with the rec
lamation projects now under way in
the state.
| A new railroad between Mountain
Home and Bruneau, Idaho, distance
of 20 miles, will probably be construct
ed.
Senator w. B. Hepburn has been
busy at this session of the senate, and
word comes from Washington that he
is likely to succeed in putting his
pure food bill through the senate this
winter. The bill, while generally sup
posed to have much merit, has beer
beaten by one scheme or another ses
sion after session, and if Senator Hey
burn succeeds in making it law II
may rank as a notable victory.
The news that the o. r. 4 N. com
pany has filed articles of incorpora
ton at Olympia, Wash, for route
down the Salmon river was good new!
flor Lewiston and the tributary coun
TRY.
In an accident at the Hecla mint
near Burke, B. B. Alton sustained in
Ijuries, by being crushed between al
ore car and the timbers in the tun
nel from which he died in the hos
pital six hours later.
The Nee Perez Indians will ask con
gress to pass bill to declare then
competent to transact their own pr
vate business without the consent o
the Indian agent and the department
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-01-17

Wrinkles are POLITICALLY termed BY
the Japanese waves of old age"
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-01-17
IDAHO EWs.

That there are two Harry Orchards
can be no longer doubted, says the
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-01-17
college WIDOW"

"COIIEGE WIDOW"
The pretty college Widow" with
her following Of fetching girls and roll
licking students will be seen at the
Spokane theater next Friday and Sat
urday nights under all the favorable
circumstances that made her vogue
so pronounced in New York and Chi
cago. George AIDES clever and orig
inal comedy, accentuated by the pains
taking and liberal producing policy of
Henry w. Savage is declared to be a
most altogether pleasing entertain
ment. Within story, admirable in
combining the elements of simplicity
and sustained interest. Mr.. AIDE in
'"The College Widow" has sketched a
score or more of amusing American
character types, irresistible because of
their fidelity to nature.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-01-17
RECLAMATION IN THE WEST.
Irrigation Canals Are Long Enough &c
Span the Earth.

Span the Earth.
In an address on reclamation work
in the west before the National Geo
graphical society recently, G. ]. Blan
chard Of the geological survey declar
I'D that n miles of main canals OF
river size have been built during the
three years in which the United States
reclamation service has been organ.
izen and that irrigation canals long
enough to span the earth twice and
representing an outlay of 100000, 900
had been built during the past quarter
century.
Every year." he said, this area
turns a harvest valued at more than
s150,000,000 and 100000 people dwell
in harmony and content, where only
a short time ago the wilderness reign.
ed.
'The reclamation service has built
"a miles of irrigation canals and 1856
miles of bitches. 1t has construed
and has in operation $50 miles Of tele-
phone, 1876 miles of road in canons,
involving deep cuts; it has excavated
100000 cubic yards Of material and
one half mile of tunnels. Work is now
actually going on in IL different pro-
iects. The reclamation service has
laid 10000 cubic yards of concrete,
$4,000 cubic yards of riprap, 10000
square feet Of paving, 100000 linear
feet of sheet piling and has driven
10000 feet of bearing piles. It has
purchased 100000 pounds of railroad
ron, 100000 pounds of structural Steel
100000 pounds of cast iron, $4,000 bar
rels Of cement and 1.750.000 feet of
lumber. The sawmills operated by
the reclamation service cut 100000
feet of lumber"
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-01-17
WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCH.
ING HOME"

The w. F. Carleton Opera company
will be seen in when Johnny Comes
Marching Home" at the Spokane the
alter, for one night, Sunday January 81.
The story of the play is said to be
intensely dramatic, and is laid in the
year 1865, during the civil war, but
there is not vestige of sectional or
party feelings-the opera is for the
South as much as the North.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-01-17

As illustrating the excellence Of the
paper (which is made from unused lin.
en- scraps) upon which Bank of Eng.
land notes are printed, it is stated that
when one of these notes is twisted in.
to a rope it will sustain weight of
$50 pounds.
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1906-01-17
COMING.

January Attractions At The Spokane
Theater.
January 16-17-"Buster Brown"
January 19-20-"College Widow"
January 21-"When Johnny Comes
Marching Home"
January 23-24-"Bohemians."
January 30-31-"County Chairman. !"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
LITTLE HOPE OF RECOVERY
JOHN A. M,cALL, FORMER PRES
lDENT OF NEW YORK LIFE,
CRITICALLY Ill.

Lakewood, N. j., Feb. 15.-Although
John A. Mccall, former president of
the New York Life Insurance COM
pany is resting comfortably DR..
Charles L. Lindley, his physician, says
he has very little chance of recovery.
The physician says he does not, how
ever, think that Mr.. McCal1s recovery
is impossible and he anticipates no
immediate crisis in the disease. The
nature of Mr.. McCalls complaint is
not stated by DR.. Lindley, but it is said
at the residence to be form of liver
trouble
The last rites of the Catholic church
were administered to Mr.. Mccall Tues
day, when a sinking spell attacked
him. He rallied again, with his
strength returning to a marked de-
gree, and he passed a fairly good night
Later in the day Mr.. Mccall was at
tackled with sinking spell, from which
he rallied, but when his strength re-
turned he showed symptoms which
greatly alarmed the members of his
family. His breathing was very heavy
and at times difficult.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
CAUSE OF RUSSIAN DEFEAT.
Rojestvensky Takes Rap at Ad-
miralty Thieves.

nOJeStVenSky axes rap at AQ-
miralty Thieves.
st. Petersburg, Feb. 15.-"Perhaps
am guilty to some extent for our de-
feat and perhaps my subordinates did
not do all they might have done, but at
all events we who fought the battle
were not thieves" said Admiral Ro-
lestvensky, who addressed the 1mpe-
rial Technical society on the causes
of the defeat of the Russians at the
battle OF the Sea of Japan.
The admiral made no specifications
regarding rascality in the construction
or equipment of the ships, but he com
mented at length on the destructive
effect of the heavy Japanese shells,
which, when they only exploded in the
water near the Russian vessels,
cracked their plates and opened great
leaks, while those which hit the Rus
clan ships were as destructive as
NH es.
A young lieutenant during the dis
cussion attempted to lay the blame on
submarine boats, but the admiral de-
MED that submarine boats or mines
were used during the engagement.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
ONE COACH ALL
THAT WAS SAVED
Passenger Train Was Practically De-
stroyed By Fire Following An
Accident.
THREE PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH

Fort Scott, Kan, Feb. 15.-St. Louis
and San Francisco passenger train No.
118, northbound, was wrecked at Co.
eumbus, Kan, early in the day. Harry
Roundtree of Fort Scott, the express
messenger, one passenger and news
boy were burned to death George
Woods, the engineer, was badly hurt
and w. F. Runyan, the fireman. sus-
tained broken leg.
The passenger train ran into a
string of box cars that had broken
loose from freight train and ran
back down onto the main line. The
entire passenger train, except the
sleeper, was burned.
The train was made up of a COM
binatton baggage-express car, mail
car, one chair car, common coach
and one Pullman sleeper The bag
gage-express car telescoped the mail
car and both soon caught fire. The
remainder of the train left the tracks,
but the rear cars were not badly dam
aged, enabling the passengers to es-
cape. The flames from the forward
cars caught the coach and the chair
car and all four were consumed. The
Pullman was saved.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
MANY AMENDMENTS PENDING.
Senate Committee May Not Vote on
Rate Bill Friday.

Washington, Feb. 15.-At the con-
clusion OF the days session OF the in
terstate commerce committee of the
senate it was admitted that bill reg
ulating railroad rates cannot be re-
ported with anything like unanimous
endorsement This is the form in
which it is announced that compro-'
mise on the question of authorizing
judicial review OF orders by the inter-.
state commerce commission fixing
rates is impossible. Neither is it cer-s
tain that a vote can be had in the
committee on Friday in accordance
with the agreement reached a fort
night ago. 1t is said that nearly 100.
amendments are pending and if there
is disposition on either side to inter
fore with vote on the house bill it,.
self votes may be demanded on each
of the amendments.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
TO HEAD LAWSON COMMITTEE.
stuyvesant Fish Requested to Accept
Position.

New York, Feb. 15.-The Evening
Post says that Thomas W. Lawson has
withdrawn from the life insurance pol
icyholders' committee, for which he
has collected proxies to the number
OF $4,000, and that definite efforts
were made during the day to get Stuy
yesant Fish to head the committee.
This committee contains among it's
members several governors Of states
and other important men of affairs,
especially Western men. Mr.. Fish,
the Evening post says, gave no intima
ton Of his decision in the matter and
while the belief prevailed that he
would not accept some of his friends
declared that he might find it ex-
pedient to. work with such a commit
tee if one should be formed upon
proper lines.
Mr.. Fish has been very active in the
investigation of the affairs of the Mu-
tual Life Insurance company.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
HALE QUESTIONS TAFT.
Be!leves United States Under No obi
cation to FiIipinos.

Washington, Feb. Secretary
Taft was before the senate committee
on the Philippines during the day and
was examined by Senator Hale con
corning the benefactions the Filipinos
have received from congress. The
senator said that great deal had been
brought out concerning the obligations
OF the United States to the Philippine
Islands and it was his desire to bal
ledger to determine which is indebted
to the other He said that it the ac
count is found to be in favor of the
F1llptnos it does not seem worth while
to legislate further to disturb indus
tries in the United States. The ad
m1nlstration of the military and civil
forces OF the United States since Ma
Mia was taken in August, 1898, was
reviewed by the senator's s examination
D1 the secretary. Among the benefits
the 3Filipinos have received were in
Huded the expenditures OF this gov
ernment in maintaining forces to re-
move the Spanish yoke and bring
ernment; education of the people; Or.
ganization of civil forces; aiding the
people by direct appropriation of 3d.
100000; establishing currency sys-
TEN; payment of salaries in connec-
tion with the geodetic coast survey;
purchasing the friar lands to restore
them to the Filipinos on long time
payments and the admission free of
duty OF 81 per cent of their products.
Senator Hale called attention to the
small exports of the United States to
the Philippine islands in comparison
to exports from other countries to the
islands and Secretary Taft admitted
that these indicate that the United.
States portion OF the Filipino trade
'is, has been and will be small. He
explained this by saying that the Fill:
pino people can buy zfoodstuffs from
closer and cheaper market. $ =
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
EXPOSED BY LA TOILETTE.
Alleged Scheme to Get Possession Of
indian Lands.

Alleged Scheme to Get Possession Of
indian Lands.
Washington, Feb. Ex-senator La
Toilette called attention in the senate
to an alleged effort to get possession
of $100,OOU,000 worth of Indian lands,
in which relatives of officials high up
in the interior department are said to
be directly implicated. The lands in
question are located in the Choctaw
and Chickasaw Nations Of the Indian
Territory.
Prominently mentioned in connec.
ton with the deal is the Choctaw,
Oklahoma and Gulf railroad. This
company is said to control a majority
OF the leases covering 107 900 acres of
coal lands in the. gneighborhood Of
South McAlester, I. T. AS operated at
present these lands are netting the
Indians about $l4 an acre per year
and, according to statements made be-
fore the committee, will net at a low
estimate $500 an acre before ex-
hausted.
By the terms of senate amend
ment put into the indian Dill as passed
by the house these lands were to have
been sold to the lessees under an ap-
praisement made by board appoint,
ed by the secretary of the interior and
the lessees, these two to choose a
third. The senate amendment to the
bill provided that in making such val
uation said appraisers shall not con-
slider any increased values of the lands
caused by improvements and develop
ments placed on them by said lessees." :"
If this "joker" had gone through, it
is charged by attorneys for the IN
dians, it would have given the lessees
the right to purchase them for song,
as the appraisement would have been
based on the value of the land twenty
years ago.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
TO THREATEN HAMILTON.
Legislative Agent Must Disgorge or Be
Extradited.

New York, Feb. Is. Thomas P.
Fowler, chairman of the New York
Life Insurance companys house clean
ing committee, will depart for Europe
March l. While Mr.. Fowler's trip is
ostensibly for pleasure it is said that
he will see Andrew Hamilton, who,
by last accounts, was in the Riviera,
and demand of him, on pain of extradi-
tion, an immediate accounting or resti-
tuition of the S1,0O0,O00 detailed in the
Fowler report.
Mr.. Fowler, it is said, has been in
close communication with Attorney
General Meyer and District Attorney
Jerome in the last fewsdays.
NEUTRAL POWER, B lNT7ERYEhEs.
Some Possibility of an Agreement at
Aigeciras. Z Z
Berlin, Feb. 15.The situation at
Algeciras has again changed There
is a possibility OF a. way yet being:
found to bring the German and French
governments into agreement, though
the exact nature of the suggestions.
which have been made by neutral
power, are not made public.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
ACCUSED OF VIOLATION OF LAW.
Charges Made Against Senator'S Ell
kins and German.

kins and German.
Washington, Feb. 15.- Senator Ste
phen B. Elkins of West Virginia, now
the chairman Of the senate committee
on interstate commerce having in
charge the railway rate regulation bill,
and Senator Arthur P. German of
Maryland, the Democratic leader of
the senate, are directly charged with
having caused violations of the inter-
state commerce laws and antitrust
laws in petition sent Representative
Gillespie of Texas by the Bituminous
Coal Trade league of Pennsylvania.
Former Senator Henry G. Davis of
West Virginia, the father-in-law of Sen
ator Elkins and cousin of Senator
German and vice presidential nominee
of the Democratic party in 1904, is ac-
cused of being a party to these viola
tiOns
The petition not only charges the
senator's and Mr.. Davis with having
caused violations of the antitrust
avs, but makes a strong case against
the Pennsylvania railroad
The petitioners say that Senator
German and Senator Elkins, together
with Henry G. Davis, are joint owners
of an enormous acreage of West Vir
ginia soft coal lands and operate all
the mines along the lines of the West
Virginia Central railroad, which they
control. The independent operators
the petition declares, are compelled to
sell their output to one or the other
OF the operating companies owned by
these men and known as the Davis
Coal and Coke company and the Davis
Collieries company, otherwise they
can get no cars or siding connections
with which to get their production to
market.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
cLiNGs TO TIES OF TRESTLE.
Wisconsin Man Saves Four-Year-OId
Son and Ainocelf

Manitowoc, Wis, Feb 15.-George
Schadeburg saved his own life and
that of his four-year-old son by cling.
ing to the ties of a railroad trestle
with one arm while a heavily loaded
train passed. The man was crossing
the Wisconsin Central bridge near the
city with his two children and the
younger boy had trailed in the rear.
Schadeburg heard train approach
ing and ran back to save the boy, but
was unable to clear the bridge. Grasp
ing the lad in one arm the father
swung from the side of the bridge with
the other and held on until the train
had passed. Schadeburg's arm was
severely wrenched and he was COM
pletely exhausted when assistance
reached him.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
STEEL TREsTLE FALLS.
Expensive Work Of Northwestern Road
Collapses.

Green Bay, Wis, Feb 15.-The en-
tire pier of the Northwestern rail
roads long steel trestle, in course of
construction across the Fox river,
vanished from sight during the night.
This mishap, which will prove very
costly and serious delay in complet-
Ing the extension, was due to the set
Ting Of the piIing, which overthrew
the stone upper part. The trestle was
three-quarters of mile long and cost
great sum.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
Case Of Disappointed Love.

Washington, Feb. 15.After firing
two shots atgelose range at. Miss
Josephine Kicker, employed in laun-
dry establishment here neither of
which took effect, William Seton,
photographer, hlew out his brains in
front of the building where the young
woman is employed. The case was one
Of disappointed love. Il
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
Woman Suffrage Defeated.

Columbus, O., Feb. 15.-The house
defeated bill to give women the
right to vote at local option elections
by vote Of IS to so. The galleries
were filled with women and when one
of the members had finished a long
speech in opposition to the bill he was
greeted with Kisses.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
Workman Explodes Dynamite.

Chicago, Feb. 15-One man was
killed and seven others injured at the
plant of the Illinois Steel company in
South Chicago when one of a party of
workmen struck with his shovel some
dynamite that had been left lying in
the trench in which the men were dig
ging. The nan who struck the dyna-
mite was instantly killed, his body be-
ing hurled many feet into the air.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
Safebiowers Secure 5000.

Ingram, Wis, Feb. 15.Thomas
Btanton,s saloon was burglarized dur
Ing the night. The safe was broken
open and about 5000 taken. Some
cigars are also missing.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
PROMPTLY KILLS HERSELF.
Telephone Operator Hears Sweetheart
Confess Love for Another.

Galveston, Tex, Feb. 15.-Hearing
her sweetheart telling a young woman
in another town over the telephone of
his love for her Miss Bessie Frazier,
telephone exchange operator at Lam
pasas, shot and killed herself. Miss
Frazier chanced to make connection
on the line her sweetheart used in call
ing up her rival and listened to the
conversation.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
HOUSE ASKS INFORMATION
WANTS TRANSFER OF OLD Gus
ToMHousE AT NEW YORK
EXPLAINED.

Washington, Feb. 15. The house
has adopted a resolution inquiring Of
the secretary of the treasury when the
government executed deed for the
old customhouse property in New York
city to the National City bank, where
the deed is and in whose custody it
has been since its execution and why
it had never been recorded.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
Boom for Fairbanks Started.

Marion, Ind, Feb. 15.-The Lincoln
league of Indiana, in annual conyen--
zion, adopted resolutions advocating
the nomination of Vice President
Charles W. Fairbanks as the Repub-
lican candidate for president in 1905.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
Beacon Tower swept Awav.

Michigan City, Ind, Feb. 15.-One Of
the three beacon towers at the en-
trance to the harbor here was swept
away during severe storm on the
lake. The tower, which was recently
completed, was thirty-eight feet in
diameter at the, base and constructed
OF steel on concrete foundation
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-02-15
coNeER EXPECTS TROUBLE.
Former Minister to China Discusses
Situation.

=
Situation.
Los Angeles, Cal, Feb. 15.-Edward
II. Conger, for many years United
States minister to China, who is stay
quoted in an interview on the present
anti.foreign agitation in China as fol-
lows:
The United States should warn
China against repetition OF the ter
rible riots of few years ago.
"A show of warships should be
made to impress upon the government
Of China that the troubles must not be
repeated and will not be tolerated.
Il am satisfied that serious trouble
will come, but do not expect that it
will be directed especially against the
United States, but will be against the
reigning Manchn dynasty.
"Hhe Manchurians are insignificant
in numbers and if the present uprising
is for the purpose Of establishing
new dynasty and not to oust foreign
ers the most violent disturbances will
be in the Southern provinces and will
endanger all foreign interests.
Americans within the zone Of the
rebellion are liable to be hurt before
they can get out and that is why the
United States should let China know
that it will not tolerate for an instant
anything detrimental to the interest Of
its citizens