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BIG ONES TO ESCAPE
NO INDICTMENTS LIKELY TO BE
RETURNED AGAINST ROOKIE
TELLER OR ROGERS.
MINOR OFFICIALS NAY Be RABBED
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE NOT
AFTER MERE CLERKS IN
TRUSTS EMPLOY.

Washington, June 25.-Although the
department of justice has announced
that 1t proposes to begin criminal pro-
ceedings against the officials of the
Standard Oil company the intimation
Is given that it is doubtful If indict-
ments may be found against such men
In the Standard OH company as John
b. Rockefeller, H. H. Rogers and
John D. Archbold.
An official of the department of JUS
tice indicated during the day that,
while the government would press,
the prosecutions vigorously, he did
not have an idea that the high officials
of the Standard Oil company would
be reached in criminal proceedings
any more than the presidents of rail-
roads, personally, are reached through
similar proceedings.
1T may be-" he said. measuring
from the ground with his hand, that
we may get some of the officials half
way up. We are not after mere
clerks, but if responsible officials have
been violating the law we desire to
bring them to book"
Attorney General Moody had a con-
ference with the president during the
day regarding the proposed prosecu-
tions, but declined to indicate when
Or where the proceedings of the gov
ernment against the Standard Oil
company would be instituted.
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STANDARD OIL SUITS.
Government Selects Counsel to Prose-
cute Cases. -

Government Selects Counsel to Prose-
cute Cases. -
Washington, June 25.-Frank B.
Kellogg of st. Paul, who assisted In
the successful prosecution of the pa.
per trust, and Charles B. Morrison,
the United States district attorney at
~;hicago, who prosecuted the beef
trust, have been engaged by the gov
ernment to begin criminal prosecu-
tions of the Standard Oil company
and some of its high officials. Mr..
Morrison will retire from the district
attorneyship in the near future.
The prosecutions will be brought
under the provisions of the interstate
commerce law; under the Sherman
antitrust law for conspiracy in re-
stra1nt of trade; under, the Elkins
law, which forbids the acceptance of
rebates on shipments, and under Sec
tion 5440 of the Revised Statutes pro-
viding punishment of a conspiracy to
commit crime.
Instructions have already been given
to the district attorneys in whose dis.
tricts prosecutions will be started to
begin action against this trust and
from this time on grand juries will
begin indicting the oil trust and it's
ofncials Bills of equity will be pre-
sented to restrain the trust from en-
gaging in conspiracies in restraint Of
trade and indictments of officials of
the trust for conspiracy to commit
crimes are expected to be found.
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spiracy and bribery in connection with
the sale of stamp cancelling machines
to the government for the postal serv-
ice. These we're the only charges
against the dGendant Doremus. Mr.
Green was tired some time ago on
charges of conspiracy in connection
with the sale 4 time recorders to the
postoffice department. and was ac-
quilted. The charges under which
Messrs. Green ind Doremus were tried
and of which they were acquitted
were based on the allegations that
they entered into a conspiracy with
George w. Beavers, former chief of
the division of salaries and allow
ances in the postofce department, by
which they agreed 10 pay him $25 for
each cancelling mahine manufactured
by the Doremus Machine company
and sold to the gyernment for the
postofice department through the pro
curement of Beaves. The jury was
out nnlv short tine
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-06-25
BEMIDJI YOUTH
MEETS SAD END
Clarence BarWise and Young
Companion Upset Boat
Latter Escapes.
BarWiSe Tries to Swim Ashore
and Is Siezed With
Cramps.

A sad case of accidental death
by drowning occurred Saturday
afternoon at Laporte, when
Clarence Barwise, after a strug-
gle of three hours, finally gave
up the fight for life and sank in
the deep waters of Lake Kabe-
kona.
The scene of the accident Is a
deep water lake, two or three
miles from Laporte and at the
place of the drowning the water
is 100 feet deep.
The young man, with a CON-
panion, went out in a boat in the
morning and in a little scuffle
the boat was tipped over and
both boys were thrown into the
water. Clarence started to swim
ashore but after a struggle of
three hours was seized with
cramps. = :..><--
The other young man grappled
the boat and after about two and
a half hours succeeded in saving
himself.
A searching party consisting
of five boats and about twenty
men went at once to the place of
the drowning and after a contin-
uous search the body was
brought to the sur ace late Sun.
day afternoon.
The body will be- brought, to
the city this evening and is in
charge of William Barwise, an
uncle of the dead boy.
Mrs #. J. Lilly, mother of the
young man, is nearly overcome
with grief over the loss of her
son. The funeral services will
be held tomorrow morning at 10
o'clock at the Presbyterian
church.
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RESIDENTS OF RlALYSTOK, RUS
STA, FEAR RENEWAL OF
MASSACRES.
0EE0s Of lAWLESSNESS NUMEROUS
RECORD or ASSASSlNATlONS OF
OFFICIALS SHOWS NO -
. FALLING OFF.

st. Petersburg, June 25.-Dispatches
from Bialystok report that the citi-
zens there are panic stricken owing
to uncomfortable rumors that the ex-
cesses will be revived. There Is a gen.
eral display of ikons and crosses be-
fore the houses to protect the inhab-
1tants from attack; patrols are to be
seen everywhere and strict martial
law is enforced. Three men, two of
whom were Christians, were recently
shot for failing to obey orders to halt.
In st. Petersburg a sergeant Of po.
lice was killed during the night in the
turbulent Narva district, which Is the
center of an armed revolutionary or
ganiZatiOn.
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SENATOR FORAKER CALLS At
TENToN TO CONVICTIONS
UNDER ELkINs LAW.
COVERS ALL EVILS If ENFORCED
DECLARES 1T WOULD BE MOST
FORTUNATE If PENDING
RATE BILL FAILED.

Washington, June Is. - Senator
Long has introduced in the senate a
resolution calling upon the attorney
general for a statement Of all suits
brought under the Sherman antitrust
law and the interstate commerce law,
together with the facts as to their
disposition.
When the resolution was presented
Senator Foraker moved to amend by
calling for the extension of the state
ment so as to make it cover suits
brought under the Elkins law. In
support of his amendment Mr.. For.
aker said he was satisfied that the
statement would show that the El-
kins law covers "every evil of which
any human being has made complaint
since this railroad discussion began"
He cited number of decisions under
the law, including that handed down
In the federal court at Kansas City
Friday.
Senator Bailey said that so far as
he had been able, to determine some
of the parties to the combination al
legged had been convicted while others
had not been. He could not under
stand how one party to conspiracy
could be considered guilty and others
not, but said: a,; 49,.
Should imprison Vlolators.
IF the courts will follow this yer.
dict by putting in prison every man
who has violated the law they will
have done much to vindicate the law"
Eyes, indeed" responded Mr. For
aker, "and that is what l have been
contending for the past five or six
MONTHS He declared that if en-
forced the Elkins act would prove a
remedy for all rebates and discrim-
nations. He called attention to the
fact that complaints are to be fled
under. that law and said that the in
terstate commerce commission was
done in taking OFF the lid and closed
with the declaration that the failure
Of the conference on the railroad rate
bill would be the most fortunate
thing that could happen for the coun-
try, because "a more unnecessary or
more mischief making law was never
put on the statute books"
After Senator Bacon had presented
an amendment asking for details as
to the expenditure of $500,000 espe-
cially appropriated for the prosecu.
tion of cases against the laws men
toned the resolution was laid aside
in order to permit the senate to pro-
ceed with other business.
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ACTION AGAINST MERCHANTa.
Grand Jury May Be Asked to Bring
.+-. indictments,

&-- indictments.
Kansas City, June 25.-Proceedings
may be brought against shoe and dry
goods merchants of st. Louis, Omaha
and Kansas City on a charge of ao.
ceptfng rebates from railways secured
for them by George l.. Thomas, the
New York freight broker, who, with
his chief clerk, l.. B. Taggart, were
fined and given penitentlary SEN
tence. These firms, numbering seven,
were mentioned by Judge Smith Nc
Pherson in sentencing Thomas and
Taggart. He declared that the rebate
taker is as guilty as the rebate giver
and added:
II assume that these concerns will
be proceeded against for receiving
these unlawful rebates, which can be
done either by indictment or informa-
tion." "
While not admitting that such ac-
tton would be begun against these
merchants A. S. Van Valkenburgh,
the district attorney who prosecuted
the cases, intimated that the matter
probably would be brought to the at
tention Of the grand jury next fall.
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COURT PASSES
SENTENCE ON s
COnspirac$ Restraint of Trade
Is Crime x'aich They are
GL g.
They Must Pay $5,G !. and
Pound. Rock for One Yeal,
Time.

Toledo, Ohio, June 25.-In
common pleas court today Judge
Kinkade imposed the maximum
sentence of a $4,000 fine and one
year in the workhouse on five ice
men who were found guilty of
conspiracy in restraint of trade.
The court said the sentence
might be lessened in event the
men made restitution. Hear
ing on motions for arrest of
judgment cannot be heard for
some time and the icemen will
stand committed until the fines
are paid or the sentences are
otherwise disposed of.
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WORKHOUSE AND FINE FOR
CONSPIRING OHIO ICEMEN
DRAMATIC SCENE At INQUEST
Woman AngriIy Resents Insinuations
of Coroner.


New York, June 25.-Dramatic
sGenes attended the days proceedings
Rt the coroner's inquiry into the death
Of Mrs. Alice D. Kinan. who was beat
en- to death at the home OF hel mother
in the Bronx on the night of June g.
Mrs. Stenton, the aged mother OF the
murdered woman, was undergoing ex-
animation by Coroner Mcdonald when
he suddenly asked her:
isn't this the hammer with which
you killed Alice?" at the same time
exhibiting the weapon
"How dare you suggest killed my
daughter?' cried the witness, her eyes
flashing and her body shaking with
anger. 81 know nothing about the
hammer and I don't know how it
came to be hidden in my room. I
never saw it before"
At another point during the exam
ination Mrs. Stenton started to leave
the room, but was persuaded to re-
sumo her seat you've got to tell us
all you know about this case," she
was told by Assistant District Attor-
ney Cardoza.
II don't know anything about it,"
retorted Mrs. Stenton.
did you do it," asked Mr.. Cardoza,
shaking his finger in her face
NO." she shrieked. why don't
you kill me instead of asking me all
these Questions?"
These outbursts on the part Of the
witness came at the end of two hours
of vigorous cross ss-examination. She
had answered every question without
hesitation but threw very little new
light upon the case. O..
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TWO NEW BATTLEsHIPs.
Navy Department Opens Bids for
Warships.

Washington, June 25. William
Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Build
Ing company of Philadelphia was the
lowest bidder for ships of the Mich
lgan and South Carolina type with
the machinery as prescribed by the
navy department. The department
plans for machinery will probably be
accepted by the navy department in
preference to plans of bidders as sub
mitted in other proposals. The bids
for the prescribed machinery were
known as class 1 bids and the Cramps
offered to build ship of this type
for $3,540,000. The New York Ship
building company offered the next bid
In this class, $3,585,OOO. AS one firm
Is allowed to build only one Of the
ships this second bid will doubtless
be accepted in case the department
decided to accept the class plans.
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MONEY Is RECOVERED.

Russian Robbers Kill Messenger and
Secure $125,0oo.
Kiev, Russia, June Messengers
on the Southwestern railroad who
were carrying $125,O0O were attacked
by four robbers, who killed one mes
senger, wounded second, seized the
money and drove away at a gallOp in
a cab. Two of the messengers pur-
sued the robbers and wounded the
robber who was carrying the money
with the result that he fell from the
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FOREIGNERS DRIVEN OUT.

Had Displaced American Laborers in
Lumber Camps.
Clarksburg, w. Va, June 25.-A
conflict has occurred between Amer
ican and foreign laborers in the lum.
ber camps at Tioga, in which one for.
eigner was killed and a number
wounded. The trouble was due to the
displacement of the Americans by the
foreigners. When the news of the
affray became known 100 men armed
with rifles started from Camden to
aid the Americans, but the opponents
of the latter escaped to Redwood,
forty miles away, The Americans de-
clare they will not permit the foreign
ers to return to work and more trou-
bic is expected.
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First Consul General at COMO.

Washington, June 25. ! Clarence
Rice Slocum Of New York, a. son of
the late General Slocum, has been
selected to be the first American Off
cial representative in the Congo coun-
try, having been designated by the
president to fill the newly created
post of consul general at, Bona, Congo
Free State. His credentials will be
directed to King Leopold.
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SOLON TAKES REVENGE.
Ousted Massachusetts Legislator Ac
cuses Colleagues.

Boston, June 25.-ln retaliation for
his expulsion from the Massachusetts
house of representatives former Rep
resentative Frank Gethro of Boston
has made a clean breast to District
Attorney John B. Moran of all he
knows about bribery and attempted
bribery in the house.
AS a result District Attorney Moran
believes he is in possession of abso-
lutte evidence of bribery and he feels
low .-- 49,
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MAY OPEN RESERVATION.
Action Taken for Indian AIIotments
at White Earth.

St. Paul, June 25.-There now ap-
pears to be probability that part Of
the White Earth Indian reservation
may be thrown open for settlement by
the end of the year.
A Washington dispatch says that
President Roosevelt has signed the
bill for allotments of the reservation
lands. If each of the $500 Indians.
entitled to ailotments receives 100
acres it is estimated that there is
about $4,000 acres of land left which
might be thrown open to settlement.
The project is of some interest to
the Great Northern, Northern Pacific
and 500 roads, each of which has
line running close to the reservation.
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CONTESTED ELECTIONS.
House Disposes of Two Cases Re-
ported by Committees.

ported by Committees.
Washington, June 25.-The house
has adopted unanimously the report
of the committee on elections No. 2
that Ernest E. Wood was not elected
to membership in the house of repre-
sentatives in the Fifty-ninth congress
from the Fifteenth congressional dis
trict of Missouri and that Harry M.
Coudrey was elected to said member
ship.
There was applause on the Repub-
lican side when, on request of Mr..
Bartholdt of Missouri, Coudrey placed
himself at the bar of the house to take
the oath. .-
The house also adopted resolution
that A. j. Houston was not elected a
member of the Fifty-ninth congress
from the Second congressional district
of Texas. The sitting member, M. l..
Brooks, therefore retained his seat.
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Peasants Execute Police.

Voronezh, Russia, June 25.-The
peasants of the village of Krutnya.
gorki, enraged at the killing of COW
by two members of the rural police
called commune meeting, formally
condemned the two men to death and
executed the sentence.
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Must Fulfill Civilizations.

Berlin, June 25.-A special dispatch
to the Lokal Anzeiger from Cologne
says the imperial government intends
to exercise influence with the German
fire insurance companies to secure the
legal fulfillment of their obligations
nOliciaS
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HOLD THEIR FIRST LEvEE.
Number of Americans Meet King Haa
kon and Queen Maud.

INuIIlUcF OF AtnSTtCdNS MSSt N1nS T1dd-
kon and Queen Maud.
Trondhjem, Norway, June 25.-King
Haalzon and Queen Maud held their
first levee during the day and the
palace again was the towns center of
interest All the special embassies.
statesmen, officials and other prom
inent persons attended The Amer
ican special ambassador, Charles H.
Graves, with his staff and the ladies
of the American party, were present.
Mr.. Graves presented MI, and Mrs.
William J. Bryan, Mrs. Marshall Field,
Mrs. Eddy, Mrs. Meade and Miss Eddy
of Chicago, Mrs. Slater and Miss
Gwynn of Washington and Mr.. and
Mrs. Never Of New York.
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France Renounces Treaty.

Paris, June 25.-The council of min
listers has decided to renounce the
commercial treaty between France
and Spain owing to the increased du-
ties under the new Spanish tariff. The
maximum French rates will be applied
against Spain from July 1.
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LoNGWoRTHs IN GERMANY.
Several! Hundred Persons Witness
Their Arrival

Severa! Hundred Persons Witness
Their Arrival.
Kiel, Germany, June 25.-Several
hundred people assembled at the rail-
road station here to cheer Congress-
man Longworth and Mrs. Longworth
on their arrival here from London.
Lieutenant Commander William L.
Howard, the American naval attache,
representing the embassy at Berlin,
and Frederick w. Whitridge, who was
the special ambassador of the United
States at the wedding of King Alfonso
and Queen Victoria of Spain,. an old
acquaintance, met them at the station.
The travellers were driven to a small
hotel standing in the Yacht club
grounds and overlooking the bay.
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BROWNS IN LAKE KABEKONA
AFTER 3-HOUR STRUGGLE
TWO SUPPLY BILLS PASSED.


Conference Reports on the Measures
Adopted.
washington, June 25.-The sundry
civil bill was sent to conference in
the house, the conferees being Tawney
(Minn.), Smith (Ia.) and Taylor (Ala).
The house adopted the conference
report on the District of Columbia ap-
preparation bill, which passes the
measure.
The conference report on the post
Office appropriation bill was adopted,
which passes the bill.
The conference report on the bill
for the division of the lands and funds
of the Usage Indians in Oklahoma was
adopted, also the conference report on
the bill authorizing the sale of lum-
ber on certain lands reserved for the
use of the Menominee Indians in Wis.
cOnSin
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BAILEY SEES FATAL DEFECT
SAYS MEAT INSPECTION BILL IS.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL UN.
LESS AMENDED.

washington, June 25-That there Is
Z fatal defect in the meat inspection
provision OF the agricultural appro-
priation bill as it came from the house
of representatives is the opinion of
Senator Bailey, as expressed in the
senate when consideration of Senator
Proctor's motion to send the bill to
conference was resumed.
He based his criticism on the clause
relating to the inspection of stock
entering the packinghouses, saying
that it gives police supervision that
the federal government cannot exer-
else. He suggested that the provision
should be made to read so as to make
1t unlawful to transport from one
state to another beef or beef products
that have not been inspected as pro-
vided for by law.
Mr.. Bailey contended that the pro-
vision as it stands is not 80 worded
as to make it conform to the constitu-
t1Onal provision concerning interstate
commerce. The inspectors could never
determine which of the cattle, sheep
or swine are to go into interstate COM
merce and he predicted there would
be another explosion and another agi-
tation when the matter is taken into
the courts as he had no doubt it would
be If there was no amendment. He
expressed himself as anxious to Sc
cure the most drastic inspection, be-
cause, he said, he was satisfied that
nothing less would restore confidence
and save the beef business from al
most utter annihilation.
After further debate on the bill it
was sent to conference.
nrrEALo rUh HARVEST HANDS.
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Russian Prince Slain.

Ufa, Russia, June 25.-Prince Man
ueloff, an extensive landed proprietor
and former officer Of the guards,
was killed on the streets here. The
crime, it is supposed. was committed
for political reasons.
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TILLMAN REFUSES TO SIGN.
Conference Report on Rate Bill Not
-. Satisfactory to Him.

Satisfactory TO HIM.
Washington, June Ex-senator Cul-
1om has signed the conference report
on the railroad rate bill, adding his
name to that of Senator Elkins and
Representatives Hepburn, Sherman
and Richardson. Senator Tillman did
not sign tho report and it was turned
over to Representative Hepburn to
present to the house. It is expected
that the refusal of Senator Tillman to
subscribe to the agreement in regard
to the McLAurin commodity amend
ment, which would permit pipe lines
to. carry commodities they produce,
will result in debate in the senate
when the report is presented there for
adoption.
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DUKE OF ALMODOVAR DEAD.

Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs
Passes Away.
Madrid, June 25.-The Duke Of AL
modovar, minister of foreign affairs,
who acted as president of the confer
ence on Moroccan reforms held at
Algeciras early in the present year,
died at 2:50 p. m. He was born in
1QSi
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TRIAL ENDS IN ACQU|TTAL
DEFENDANTS IN POSTAL FRAUD
CASE AT WASHINGTON Sc
CURE FREEDOM,

Washington, June 25.-State Sen
ator George B. Green of New York
and Willard 8. Doremus of this city
have been acquitted, after a trial last
ing four weeks of the charge Of con-
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Wit In the WOrkbaaket.
"What's the old lady doing now?"
asked the stocking.
"Getting needle and WOOL" replied
the thimble
"Well, I'll be darned!' calculated the
stocking f1ercely.
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Governor Hoct Sends Urgent Message
to Railroads.

Topeka, Kan, June 25-Governor
Hoch has sent the following dispatch
to w. J. Black, traffic manager of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-
road company at Chicago, and to E.
S. McCloud. chairman of the Western
Passenger association at Chicago.
Must have 5000 harvest hands
within week or much grain will be
lost. Help McCloud to get cheap
rates appeal for helD.'
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WIND STORM IN OKLAHOMA
Fifty Houses Destroyed but No FATAL.
ties Reported.

Lawton, Okla, June 25.-Fifty
houses were wrecked between Law
ton and Quanah by wind storm. A
passenger train near Lawton was
nearly blown from the track. The
storm covered large area in the
Southwest. No one was killed as far
q known
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The wasp has one strong point, bu.
1t is not in his favor.