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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-30
OF JAMAICA WITH.
DRAWS OFFENSIVE LETTER
TO ADMIRAL DAVIS. RS
Il. ~ IS
INCIDENT IS NOW FINALLY CLOSED
APOLOGY FOLLOWS voLlUMiNous
CORRESPONDENCE FROM
COLONIAL oEFtcE.

,
London. Jan. s0-The, Associated
Press learns that, tho international
phase Of, the Kingston incident has
been finally closed by Governor swet-
tenham formally withdrawing his let
ter to Rear Admiral Davis and ex-
pressing his, regret for having writ
ten 1t. IF, -, -
swettenhaam's withdrawal of his let.
ter and his, apology followed volumin.
GUS tslesraphic communications to
him from, the colonial office. The dis.
patch which has now closed the Incl
dent was sent by tho governor to the
colonial Office, whence it reached the
state department 1T Washington
through the foreign office and Charge
d'Adaires Howard in the usual
course. =
Washington, Jan. 3O:-Of1cials at
the state department refuse to discuss
the report that Governor ewettenham
has withdrawn his letter to Admiral
Davis and apologized therefor. It is
pointed out that the president has
taken every means known to him to
make 1t evident that he regards the
Kingston episode as closed incident,
30 the officials decline to comment on
It In any phase at this time.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-30
Four Railroad Employees Killed.

Shelburne Falls, Mass, Jan. 3d..
In a collision between an express
train and an extra freight on the
'Fitchburg division Of the Boston and
Maine railroad at South River four
employees Of the railroad were killed
and several injured. No passenger
was hurt. The rolling stock was bad
ly smashed and the traffic was greatly
"a ola ufd 49,.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-30
sNEEzE CRACKS His RIB.
Wauksgan tIII.) Man Victim Of Pc
oultaP Accident.

Waukesan. ILL.,, Jan. 30.-Philip
strobbe. teamstsr,. sneezed 80 hard
that he cracked a lib and it panied
him SO he called for doctor. He is
not sure that the snee1e cracked the
RIB. but thinks that it must have had
somethtns to do with the injury, as
lfter the sneeEing he felt the pain for
che flrst time and as It kept up doc
tor found what was wrong.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-30
DECLARED SHIP SUBSIDY BILL
CANNOT PASS THE HOUSE
IN PRESENT SHAPE.
SELECTION TO H|LL-HARRIMAn GIFT
Of THOSE SECTIONS GO THROUGH
THEY ARE ALMOST SURE
TO BE REDUCED.

Washington, Jan. 30.-Although the
ship subsidy bill was reported to the
house by series of suspicious steps
it has not had an easy time of it since
then and the prospect now is that if
put through at all it will be only after
a serious amendment. J. J. Hill and
E. H. Hartman are principally re-
sponsible for the repeated black eyes
which have been given to the bill of
late.
Mr.. Watson of Indiana, the Repub.
lican whip of the house, who has I'M
dertaken the work of putting through
the Hill-Harriman-Sprec donation,
made canvass Of the Republican
side only to find that it would be i'm
possible to secure majority for a
hard and fast rule which would pre-
vent all amendments to the committee
bill. 1t has been decided, therefore, to
let the subsidy measure come up on
it's merits and receive such treatment
in the way of amendments as may be
measured out to it.
Unless some further sharp practice
is resorted to, and it is hardly likely
that Speaker Cannon would consent
to such a thing, it is almost certain
that the proposed subsidies to the
Hill and Hartman steamship lines
from Seattle and San Francisco to
Japan will be cut out of the measure.
If the Hill and Hartman para
graphs go through at all the amount
of the subsidy almost certainly will
be reduced. The most probable com
promise is to retain the mail sub.
sides for the lines to South America,
but changing the two lines proposed
to Rio Janeiro and Buenos Ayres, so
that one of them might start from a
Gulf port and the other from New
York or it's vicinity.
The National tribune., 1907-07-04
THE BAILEY FIGHT IN TEXAS.

Tho it is generally regarded that Sem
ator Joe Bailey. of Texas has lost his
political usefulness, he is making a
vicious. aggressive fight for his political
life. In his speech before the Legisla-
ture he flung down a gantlet to all his
of those who had opposed his reelection
should ever hold office in Texas The
anti-Bailey men have taken up the
gantlet, and are preparing to give the
Senator all the fight that he wants.
This will center on the nomination for
the Office of Attorney-General. Judge
r. V. Davidson. who will probably be
nominated for Acknowledgement, is par
ticularly obnoxious to Bailey because
he is held responsible for having drawn
Bailey's name into the Waters-Pierce
Oil Company case and being the prime
cause for the legislative investigation.
Judge Davidson will be put in nomina-
ton in order to line up the people of
Texas in the struggle and determine
how many friends Bailey yet has. The
Bailey men propose to put up Thomas
3. Love, of Dallas. Speaker Of the last
House of Representatives. Gov. Camp
bell, who is candidate for reelection
and is entitled to that honor by the
practice in the State, Is trying to play
neutral game so as to lose votes from
neither side
The National tribune., 1907-07-04
ROCKEFEILER'S GREED.

The Eastern papers are paying con-
siderable attention to an incident con-
rccted with William Rockefeller's mag
niicent Adirondack Park. Rockefeller
has an estate of $4,000 acres in Frank
lin County, n. Y, around the once thriv-
ing little village of Brandon. This was
quite a timber region at one time, but
the timber has been stript off. leaving
nothing but stumps, rocks and brush
Rockefeller wanted to purchase this
land to make into park and game pre-
serve and he wanted Brandon in order
to round out his domain. From time to
time he bought the little houses of the
village people, tore them down and
burned up the rubbish. He closed the
streets as fast as he got rid of the
houses and posted notices that it was n
private park, in which the public was
warned not to fish, hunt or trespass.
one house and lot was owned and oCcu-
pied by Oliver Lamora, 4 veteran, poor
fearless and independent. who refused
10 sell to Rockefeller. He caught trout
in the st. Regis River, which Rookie
Ieiler Claimed as MS preserve, DuI Lid
mora insisted was part of the waters OF
the State. He has tried every means to
get rid of Lamora. and among these
legal prosecution. He sued LamOra for
catching fish, but the jury found him not
guilty, and this occurred four times in
succession. At the last suit the Judge
ordered the jury to bring in a verdict
against Lamora, which it did, giving
Rockefeller damages of six cents each,
or Is cents in all, Tor the three VIOLA
tions. This threw the cost of the liti-
CATION on the veteran. but friends and
neighbors subscribed money to meet 1t.
His lawyer served without a cent OF
charge. 1t is now claimed that Rocke-
feller used his influence with the Post
master-General to close the post office
at Brandon and make the citizens so to
Bay Point, three miles away. The citi-
zens protested and signed a petition
which was pigeon-holed at Washington.
Rockefeller's last step was to secure an
injunction against Lamora by which he
was restrained from in any manner en-
tering upon Rockefeller's lands.
The National tribune., 1907-07-04
"A TWO-CENT RATE.

The meeting of the Western Railroad
Presidents at Chicago came to the con-
clusion that within so days the two
cent rate will be enforced thruout the
United States on all interstate passen-
ger business. The roads will, as rule,
not interpose at present opposition to
the enforcement of the two-cent rate in
the States where they have been made
obligatory by law, but they hope for
their ultimate defeat when the case is
brought before the Interstate Commerce
Commission and the courts. The points
upon which the managers rely to defeat
the laws are:
1. The new laws are practically legis-
lation in regulation and control of in
tcrstate rates.
2. There is no provision in the laws
for a review of them by the courts.
There are two other points which
have been raised. as follows: First. most
Of the laws practically deprive the rail-
roads of their day in court by reason of
punitive damages; second. the laws are
confiscatory in character.
The National tribune., 1907-07-04
THE TROUBLES IN FRANCE.

Human nature is very much the
same everywhere, and the troubles in
France have much in them akin to
those in Kansas and the West 10 years
go, owing to the tumble in the price
IF wheat.
In Southern France the principal in
tustry is wine making. The people
there devote themselves to it with sin
sleness of purpose as those out West do
in very bad way now for six years or
more. The crops have been short, and in
spite of this prices for what grapes were
raised has been low. The result has
been that the peasants have generally
had to borrow money, and their little
holdings are incumbered by mortgages.
Instead of attributing their troubles to
the decentralization of silver, as Mr.. Bry-
an did, men of his type in France told
their hearers that they were suffering
principally from a practice known In
| France as 'gallizing." That is, after
the juice has been pressed from the
grapes, the skins and other refuse still
1
and coloring matter. Therefore, solu-
ton of sugar of about the strength of
the original grape juice is mixed with
this must" it is fermented into a wine
and again pressed, thus getting at least
double the quantity of wine from a
given quantity of grapes. This is re-
garded by the great winemakers as en-
IV COLO Gn
Probably. however. they do not contine
their practices to this com paratively in
nocent extension" of the vintage.
The distress of the vine-growers
finally became so acute as to prcciDI-
tate armed outbreaks, accompanied by
a mutiny of one or more regiments of
the army. and open rebellion of most of
the civil officials in the region.
For a day or two ii looked like tho
beginning of one of another of the reyo-
lutions so frequent in French history.
The Republic of France has again
/ demonstrated that it is the strongest
form OF Government by handling this
dangerous outbreak with unexpected
skill, firmness and success. 1t has re-
stored peace and safety of property, en-
forced discipline, asserted she supre-
macy of the law, and will now try to
ameliorate, as far as can be done, the
evils from which the people suffer.
i Among the reforms demanded are
prohibition of the use of sugar in gal
lizing, or heavy tax upon all sugar so
used. This meets with the stern op-
position of the great wine houses of
Bordeaux, and elsewhere, who claim
that it will be ruinous to the business.
There will be much more rigid rules
against adulterations and falsfcations
of wines. SO as to go some distancesto
meet the demands of the people, and
the Government will probably help the
peasants carry their mortgages.
The National tribune., 1907-07-04
FUNSTON AND SAY FRANCISCO.

Gen. Frederick L. Funston refused tt'
urn out his men in the Fourth of July
parade in San Francisco. saying: J
would be ioathe to have the troops pa
-ade if they were to be sneered at and
ieered at by an unwhipped mob Gen.
Funston. who with a small force of men
handled the situation so magnificentiy
at the time of the earthquake, maintain
ed order. and held the tough element
from robbery and other outrages. Is nat
urally much disguised by the reign Of
iawlessness which has been existing in
San Francisco for weeks and which was
1ue to the inexplicable cowardice and
lack of frmness of the city authorities.
His remark has given much offense TO
many of the leaders in the city. but nc
has refused to modify it. and he lately
said over the telephone from Monterey.
where he now is: My letter is written
in plain English. and anyone who un-
9erstands plain English can understand
the letter"
The National tribune., 1907-07-04
SPLIT IN TIE LABOR UNIONS.

There have developed two antago-
nistic forces in the labor unions which
are utterly opposed to one another and
which threaten to disrupt the orSaniza-
tions, not only in this country but in all
the world The Federation of Labor.
which we know and which embraces
most of the labor unions, is as rule
patriotic and devoted as other Ameri-
cans are to the glory and welfare oil
this country. The same is true of the
similar federations in Great Britain.
Germany, France, etc. There has risen,
on the other hand, a purely socialistic
organization, called the Industrial
Workers of the World who scout pa
triotism as degrading superstition, un-
worthy o. enlightened men, and has no
sympathy whatever with National aims
and propositions. Trouble has already
broken out between the two organiZa-
The National tribune., 1907-07-04

tions in Germany. The labor unions
there claim to be as thoroly German as
any other citizens and as resoiute in
maintaining the honor and interests of
Germany. They believe that the army
and navy should be maintained in read
mess for any exigencies and that it is
the duty of every man to fight, if neces-
sary, for his country. The Industrial
Workers. on the other hand, regard all
war as horrible, as something opposed
to the interests of working men, and
military duty should be cvaded or abol-
lished. 1t seems that very bitter feud
has broken out in the West between
the Industrial Workers and the West
ern Federation of Miners. This threat
ems to become as sharply antagOnistic
as the fight between the Federation and
the mine owners. The Western Feder
alton of Miners. or at least q party in
them, accuse Acting President c. L.
Mahoney with having fraudulently used
the funds of the Federation to help the
Industrial Workers. Mr.. Mahoney de-
nies the charges and demands proof
Vincent St John, of Goldsield, Nev of
the Executive Board of the Federation,
says ti;at a minority of the 1. w. W.
Convention supported by the officers,
stole all the offices. refused to make a
| report of the condition of the funds
and employed thugs to slug those who
protested against these proceedings
He, himself. was knocked out by slung
shot in the hands of one of these thugs
Everyone who has studied the pro-
ceedings of the labor unions has seen
that such a condition was inevitable
The Socialists who control the Industrial
Workers have done their best to abol-
ish all patriotic feeling, which, we
think, is impossible among men who
have been born, brought up and edu-
Gated in America. The doctrine has
been actively promulgated by the Ger
man theoretic socialists, many of whom
are Jews and who are incuIcated with
the peculiar Jewish disregard of lines
Of country and feelings of attachment
to any particular lan1 or nationality.
The National tribune., 1907-07-04
JEFF DAVIS AND THE CABIN JOHN
BRIDGE.

The Daughters of the Confederacy,
who are continually seeking for some
thing to prod the North, and irritate
the people who want to forget all about
the horrors of the war; are gleeful over
discovering another goad to stir up sec
tional bitterness.
When, early in the sos. it was found
necessary 20 provide an adequate water
supply for Washington, then Il city of
about 10000 people. the Engineers OF
the Army prepared a plan for taking
the water out of the Potomac at the
Great Falls. some Is miles above the
city, and bringing it down by a con-
duit on the Maryland side. This and
the necessary reservoirs cost about S5,-
100000, but it was a great work and
The National tribune., 1907-07-04
EARLY THIRD TERRIERS.

1t is developed by historical students
that Washington, Jefferson and jack
son were all pressed most vigorously to
accept third term, but refused on ac-
count of their convictions as to the dan
gers of such a precedent. In 1908 the
Maryland Legislature formally asked
Jefferson to accept a third term, but he
replied:
"If some termination to the services
of the Chief Magistrate be not fixed by
The Constitution or supplied by practice
his Office. normally four years, will, in
fact, become for life. and history shows
how easily that degenerates into an in
heiitance.
Il feel it a duty to do no act which
shall essentially impair that principle,
and | should unwillingly be the person
who, drsregarding the sound precedent
set by an illustrious predecessor shouiSi
furnish the first attempt of prolonga-
ton beyond the second term of Office"
The National tribune., 1907-07-04
A JUDGE OF PIE.
~ hy He Abandoned the PopuIixt Candi.
date and Voted for Curtis

Senator Charles Curtis. of Kansas,
.eis a good pie" story about disas-
.rouS campaign in Kansas, in which
ny the way. he managed to keep clear
VI the landslide which wiped out four
of the old delegation and returned four
Popu!ists in their places
Mr.. Curtis was billed to sneak n, a
county rally in Kansas. where there was
l large PopuliSt contingent He did
speak. and among his listeners was the
Chairman of a Populist committee
After the speaking was concluded"
'aid Mr.. Curtis, this gentleman, little
The worse for Prohibition tanglefOot,
2alled on me at the hotel. Now. Char
Icy he began. 1 want to know just
exactly what you think about this money
question
II said to him that had stated my
views as plainly as possible in the
tcntively.
oh. look here. now he said. T
know what speeches mean: they don't
so down with me. / want TO know
what YOU think as a man.
Il explained to him carefully and in
detail exactly how / stood on the money
question, but no sooner did l conclude
my statement than he asked me again
But see here. now. how do you stand
personally on the money question: Five
times he asked the question, and five
times went over the ground again.
Then he went to sleep, and / went into
The dining room to eat some fine mince
pie that the landlady had set out for
me, leaving him in the hotel office. 1t
was nearly midnight, and my train was
about due. Just as I had slowed away
generous slice of the pie my Populist
friend woke up. 1 called to him to
come and join me in eating the National
dish. pie. He said he would eat the pie,
but wanted it served to him in the
| office, and the landlady took it to him.
AS started TO my train. with his mouth
full of pie. he said for the sixth time,
Now. Charley how do You stand on the
money question:
"On the Monday night following this
newspaper friend of mine ran across
my Populist friend. who unbosomed
himself after this fashion: Say. by
darn. 1 like Charley Curtis. I don't
know just exactly how he stands on the
money question; seems Ieery like, but
he's good judge of pie. by darn. and
when a man like him asks me to eat
pie with him. and 1 eat. then that man
ought to have my vote, oughtn't he?
I'm going to resign as Chairman of the
Populist committee -and work for Cur
tbs. When man asks me to eat pie
with him I'm good enough to work for
him.
And he did resign and worked and
voted for me- added Mr.. Curtis. Then,
| reflectively, Il don't know how much
| more pie that incident may cost me-"
The National tribune., 1907-07-04

In the case of Senator McCarrcn tho
Justices of the Second Judicial District
of New York held the common-sense
view that McCarren had been elected b,
his constituents a member of the Demo-
cratic State Committee. and that only
his constituents can turn him out Th"
lawyers for the opposition held that his
membership OF the committee depended
upon the vote of the majority of that
committee, who could drop him for an,
reason they pleased. even because they
did not like the way he dressed or the
size OF his ears or feet. The court re-
instated Jacob A. Ncwstead in the New
York County Republican Committee on
the same ground t:iat they had decided
1n favor Of McCarren.
The National tribune., 1907-07-04

Missouri has entered the field as d
competitor for Kansas in the gentle art
of claiming. Recently it was put out
by the Missouri State Board of Agricul-
ture that the Missouri hen was the
greatest ever. and laid an average of
one egg a year for each inhabitant of
the United States. This is now followed
up by the claim for the Missouri bee.
which is said to produce $150,000 worth
of honey per year, or more than the
bees in any other State except Texas,
California and New York
The National tribune., 1907-07-04

Intero ST in New York is developing
as to the personality Of the four Dele
gates-at-Large from the State to the
Republican National Convention. Some
how it is generally accepted that neither
of the Senators nor Ex-Gov Odeli will
be among them, and one slate make,
them Gov. Hughes Nicholas MURRAY
Butler. Timothy i. Woodruff and Her
bert Parsons. This represents the new
ascendency in the politics of the State.
If Gov. Hughes does not care to go his
place is to be taken by Seth Low.
Whether Gov. Hughes goes or not de-
pends upon the condition of his boom
If he is being strongly pressed for the
Presidential nomination he will, OF
course. not appear, while if his boom is
only moderate he may want to be there
to direct matters as to who shall be
the nominee. On the other hand David
Bennett Hill has said: "If had gone
to Chicago in 1892 | should have beer
nominated for the Presidency"
The National tribune., 1907-07-04

With his usual skill in getting on the
wrong side w. j. Bryan says that the
Oklahoma Constitution is the best ever
framed. and better than the Constitu-
tion of the United States" He went on
Oklahoma upon having puttied up all
the holes shot into the Constitutions OF
other States by trust and Constitution
lawyers" This is unfortunate, as it will
tend to commit the Democratic Party to
an Endorsement of that 1agitious at
tempt to forever tie up the people OF
the State in the control of little cliuu:-
of corrupt politicians.
The National tribune., 1907-07-04

tucky. where men and women who could
read were nearly as scarce as white
crows, the skin Of a black cat used tn
be thought the surest cure for rheuma-
tism, and consumption could be expelled
from the system by eating the liver of
of the reptile. These ideas still linger
in spite of the electric light of the goth
century. for the papers down there arr.
publishing stories of the cure of asthmD
by wearing muskrat skin on the chest
Most folks, however. would prefer 10
have whole asthmatic hospital around
than one man wearing 4 musllrat skin.
especially on warm evening.
The National tribune., 1907-07-04
"Daybreak at Appomattox."

The song ''DaybreaS at Appomattox. .
words by Thomas Calver. music by Geo.
II. Lillibridge, was the result of meet
ing of officers and enlisted men of both
sides. held in Grand Army Hall. WASH
inston, on invitation by Department
Commander John McElroy. of the De-
partment of the Potomac. Many related
their experience on the field at Appo-
mattox. the men of different sides COM
pairing notes with each other as to the
incidents of that important occasion,
the dramatic intensity of which seemed
to rest upon the hours beginning with
daybreak. and the story is briefly and
dramatically told in this song.
1--WE Have Drank from the Same Can
teen" is song written many years ago
by Chas. G. Halpine, but now first set
to music by Comrade Geo. H. Lilli-
bridge. and it is song that will go
right to every soldiers heart.
See advertisement in another column.
The National tribune., 1907-07-04
AN ABLE PATRIOTIC INSTRUCTOR.

DR.. Oscar d. Robinson, who was Cap
tain of Co. IL. 9th y. H.. and is an edu-
Gator of high reputation. is the Patriotic
Instructor for the Department of New
York. He has been Principal of the
Albany. n. Y. High School for many
years. and 20 years ago began the GUS
tom of the observance of Memorial Day
in the schools and a systematic teaching
of patriotism. He has written much
and well on the subject of patriotic in
struction. and his good influence is felt
thruout the State
The National tribune., 1907-07-04

1t looks as if the efforts of the Kan
sas City merchants to establish steam
boat line with St. Louis are about to
result in something substantial. They
have organized the Kansas City Trans
portation Company and bought two
steamers. the Chester. q steel hull boat.
for 0.00O. and the Tennessee, former
ly in the Tennessee River trade, and n
very light draft boat. for which they
paid $4,000. 1t is expected that these
will make regular trips and develop a
trade that will caE fer more.