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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-07
FAILS TO PROVE CHARGES
Standard Oil Official Had No
knowledge Of Relating.

Chicago, Oct. The federal grand
jury which listened to the testimony
Of James A. Moffett, president of the
Standard Oil company Of Indiana, rel.
alive to charges made by Mr.. Moffett
to the effect that the Standard Oil
company, which was recently convict
ed of receiving rebates on freight
charges, was not the only concern
which had been guilty of this prac-
tice, has made it's report to Judge
Lands Of the United States district
court. The report declares:
From careful and thorough in
vestigation it appeared that while the
statement credited to Mr.. Moffett was
prepared largely by Mr.. Moritz Rosen-
thai, one of the attorneys for the
Standard Oil company in the case of
the United States versus the Stand
ard Oil company, it was given out by
Mr.: Moffett over his name as his own
statement.
1T further appeared that Mr.. Moi
felt had no knowledge whatever of
any facts relating to shipments of
property from Whiting, Ind; Pullman,
Hedgewich and South Chicago, in ILL
nois, over the Chicago and Alton or
any other road by any shipper other
than the Standard Oil company; that
he had not been at any one of those
places during the last six years and
that the statement in question was
based entirely upon the testimony Of
F. S. Hollands, an employee of the Chi
cago and Alton, given at the Standard
Oil trial.
"Mr. Moffett stated that so far as
he knew the only information in the
possession of any one connected with
the Standard Oil company was that
disclosed in the case against the
Standard Oil company and he was
authorized to state that the only in
formation possessed by Mr.. Rosenthal,
who prepared the statement, was con-
tanned in the record Of the case that
was tried here against the Standard
Oil company"
The grand jury, after briefly review
ing the testimony of Hollands. ar.
rived at the conclusion that the state
ments contained in the pamphlet and
sent broadcast over the country by
Mr.. Moffett were entirely without
foundation.
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PRESIDENT At MEMPHIS
Addresses Delegates to Deep
Waterway Convention.

Memphis. Tenn. Oct. president
Roosevelt and party arrived in the
harbor Of Memphis at 1880 p. m. and
Immediately landed amid the screech.
ing Of whistles and the cheers Of
thousands of people on the river front.
The rain of the early morning had
ceased and the parade Immediately
formed. Headed by q squad of police
and three companies of militia the
march to the Auditorium began. Pres
ident Roosevelt, Governor M. R. Pat
terson Of Tennessee and Mayor James
H. Malone Of Memphis occupied seats
in the first carriage. President Roose-
welt received q cordial reception from
all sides. People cheered, waved flags
and greeted the presi1 dent with friend
~ cries and hurrahs.
On arriving at the Auditorium Pres
ident Roosevelt addressed the dele
gates to the deep waterway oonven-
ton, declaring In favor of the govern
ment improving the Mississippi and
its tributaries so that they may be
uSAAACu W IA0AA uIAAOoI pOo0AOAAASJs
Continuing, he said:
Facility Of cheap transportation is
an essential in our modern civilization
and We can not afford any longer to
neglect the great highways which ma
ture has provided for US. These nat
ural highways, the waterways, can
never be monopolized by any corpora
ton. They belong to all the people
and it is in the power Of no one to
take them away. Wherever a nav
igable river runs beside the railroads
the problem Of regulating the rates
on the railroads becomes far easier,
because river regulation Is rate reg
ulation. When the water rate sinks
the land rate can not be kept at an
excessive height. Therefore 1t Is of
national Importance to develop these
streams as highways to the fullest
extent which is genuinely profitable"
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NOTICE OF SEALED BIDS.

Notice Is hereby given hat sealed bids will
be received BY the board OF county commits
sioners OF Beltrami county. Minnesota. up
until 10 o'clock a. m, on Tuesday the 18th day
Of October. A. ID. 1907. for the construction OF
county road beginning at the southeast
corner OF section thirty-six. township I4s.
range "a. and running thence due west on the
town line for distance OF tnrec-quarters OF
mile.
Said road to be constructed and COMPLETED
according to the plans and Specific atoms on
file In the office OF NJ d. StoHer superin-
tendent of highways. at Bemidjf. Minnesota
A certified check In the amount OF ten per
cent of the amount OF the bid must accom-
pany each and every bid as a guarantee OF
good faith Of the bidder. .
Successful bidder will be required to enter
into contract and will be required to fur
nish good and sufficient bond in an amount
double the amount Of the contract price for
the faithful performance OF said contract.
The board OF county commissioners hereby
reserve the right TO reject any or all bids.
By order of the board OF county commits
sioners OF Beltrami county. Minnesota.
Dated at Bemidji. Mimi. this 9th day OF
September. 1907.
IVES WRIGHT.
Chairman Of county be ard.
Attest: JOHN WILMANN.
County Auditor.
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INJUNCTION is GRANTED.
Reduced Rates VIII Not Go Into Effect
Oct. IS in South Dakota,

Reduced Rates VIII Not Go Into Effect
Oct. IS in South Dakota.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Oct. THE re-
duction ordered by the state board Of
railroad commissioners in the passen.
ger rate on all standard gauge rail-
roads In South Dakota from to 2h
cents per mile will not go into effect
On Oct. Is as originally contemplated
by the board.
A number Of the leading railroads
have instituted an action in the Unit
ID States court in Sioux Falls and Sc
cured an order for the railroad COM
Inissioners to show cause why a per-
manent injunction should not be grant
I'd preventing them from placing the
Eh-cent rate in effect The order to
show cause Is returnable before Judge
Garland on Oct. 20, at which time ar
guments will be made for and against
the granting of a permanent injunc.
non.
Pending the hearing at that time a
temporary restraining order was grant
ed by Judge Garland. This will pre-
vent the reduced rate going into effect
on Oct. Is, as ordered by the board,
and also restraints the board from
completing the publication of notices
IN three Of the daily newspapers of
South Dakota that the new rate will
20 INTO effect on Oct. IL.
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BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

Rudyard Kipling, accompanied by
Mrs. Kfpling, has arrived at Montreal.
Rev. Theodore Apple, writer of
church literature for the German Re.
formed church, is dead at Lancaster,
Pa.
Clayton F. McMichael of Philadel-
phia, secretary Of the board of trus-
tees of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, is dead. 49,,
Mrs. Carolyn w. Joyce, widow of the
late Bishop Isaac w. Joyce Of the
Methodist Episcopal church, is dead
at Minneapolis.
A collision on the Toledo and Port
Clinton electric road killed Motorman
huffman and injured Conductor Bran
ton and half a dozen others.
Former United States Senator Ed
ward W. Carmack has announced him
self candidate for governor of Ten
nessee against Malcolm R. Patterson.
Rev. Dr.. William p. Bodine, a well
known Episcopal clergyman of Phila.
delphia, is dead at Mount Pocono, Pa,
where he had gone in an effort to
regain his health.
Miss Mary G. Burdette, sixty-six
years old, sister Of Robert j. Burdette
and for many years corresponding sec
rotary of the Baptist Home Missionary
society, is dead at Chicago.
Mrs. E. c. Benedict, wife of the we'll
known banker, is dead at Greenwich,
Conn. The Benedict family for many
years has been on very friendly terms
with former President Grover Cleve-
land. Mrs. Benedict was near rela.
tive of Henry H. Rogers of the Stand.
ard OH company.
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NOTICE OF SEALED BIDS.

Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will
De received by the board OF county COM
missioners. Of Beltrami county, Minnesota.
up until 10 o'clock a. IN. on Tuesday. the 18th
day OF October. A. d. 1907. for the construction
OF county road described as follows: Begin
ming at the northeast corner Of the southeast
quarter or section three, township of Spooner
ana running thence due south two and one
nal1 miles to southeast corner OF section
fifteen, thence running due west to southwest
corner OF said section fifteen.
SAID road is to be constructed and COM
pleted according to the plans and specifica-
lions on file in the Office Of NJ. d. Stoner
superintendent OF highways. at Bemid il
Minnesota, and at the office of the Rainy
River Region, village OF Baudette
certified check in the amount OF ten per
cent Of the amount OF the bid must accom-
pany each and every bid. as guarantee OF
the good faith OF the bidder.
Successful bidder will be required to enter
into a contract and will be required to
furnish a good and sufficient bond in an
amount double the amount of the contract
price for the faithful performance OF SAID
contract.
The board Of county commissioners hereby
reserve the right TO reject any and all bids.
BY order Of the board OF county commits
sloners OF Beltrami county. Minnesota.
Dated at Bemidji. Mimi. this 9th day of
September. 1907
IVES WRIGHT.
Chairman of county board.
Attest: JOHN WILMANN,
@, unity Auditor.
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BRIEF BITS OF news.

Mrs. Annie Yeamans, Americas old.
est actress, will retire from the stage
with the celebration of her seventy.
second birthday on Nov. 10 next, Mrs.
Yeamans has been before the public
sixty-two years. ~
William H. Bayly, for ten years
chief clerk Of the United States .pen-
sion bureau and close friend of the
late President Mckinley, is dead 1t
Washington. His father-in-law. Rev.
DR.. Kuhns. was the McKinleys' pastor
at Canton, O.. J..
A committee Of New Workers has
been organized to raise a fund for the
benefit of the family Of William Eaton.
a clerk In the general postohlce. who
although an invalid heroically saved
TWO boys from drowning and lost his
life from the exposure.
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low Mormon agents to continue their
activity in Germany, but owing to the
representations of the American EN-.
bassy In Berlin and of Chief Mission
airy Cannon, whose field of activity
was Central Europe, with headquar.
ters at Berlin, the foreign office al
lowed the Mormons a month In which
to settle their affairs and leave the
country .-.
There We're at that time fifty Nor
mon missionaries in the various Ger
man states and the grounds for their
expulsion were teachings contrary to
public morality and social order.
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Order of Hearing on Petition to Change Found.
aries of School District,

Notice is hereby given. that petition.
signed and acknowledged by majority OF
the free holders who are legal voters residing
in each of the school districts hereinafter
specified, has been presented to the Board of
County Commissioners OF Beltrami County.
Minnesota, at a session of said board held on
the 9th day Of September 1907. asking that
the boundaries of the school districts herin-
after specified be changed as follows. to-wit:
). That school district. No. Sc be changed SO
that 1t will include the following described
territory to-wit: Sections nine, ten eleven,
twelve. thirteen and fourteen. town 40. range
80. and now included in school district No 80.
That school district No. 80 be changed so
that it will not include the following des-
cribed territory. to-wit: Sections nine, ten,
eleven twelve. thirteen and fourteen. town
l49. range 80.
Now therefore. it is ordered. and notice is
hereby given that. a hearing OF all parties
Interested in the matter Of said petition will
be granted at a session of said board. COM
mencing on the 18th day OF October. 1907. at
10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day at the
commissioners room, in the court house, in
the City Of Bemidji.
It is further ordered that a COPY OF this
order and notice be posted in one public I'll ace
In e ach Of said districts at least ten (1O) DAYS
before the said day appointed for said hear
ing, according to law. 81 u
Dated this 9th day OF September. 1907.
BY order Of the Board OF County Commits
s'on'i : - : By IVES WRIGHT.
Chairman OF said Board.
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BRIEF BITS or NEWS.

Insanely jealous Of his handsome
young wife John Bohnrueller, a Brook
Ign saloonkeeper, shot her to death
and then killed himself.
Dispatches to Dun's Trade Review
indicate a seasonable movement OF
merchandise, but no indication Of cas-
Ter conditions in the money market.
H. M. Mannheim of Minneapolis. aged
thirty, was found dead in a room at
the Boardman hotel at St. Paul, hav
ing committed suicide by drinking
laudanum and shooting himself
through the right temple.
The census bureau has issued q
complete report showing that the
quantity of cotton ginned from the
growth of 1907 up to Sept. Is was
1.569,977 bales, against 2,057,2S3, bales
last year and 2,955,716 in 1905.
Advices from Rome bring news of
the death there Of Rev. George Board.
man Taylor, for thirty-five years pres.
ldent of the Baptist mission in Italy.
DR.. Taylor was chaplain to General
StoneWall Jackson in the Civil war. =
Abraham Stern, a member of New
York's board of education, who has
just returned from visit abroad,
states that New York must have trade
schools If it is to stand we'll in the
international struggle for world COM
MERGE. $780,
With the record of 1902 funerals
that she has attended Mrs. Rebecca
Vented, an octogenarian Of Potts.
town, Pa, who since she was young
woman has been gratifying a. peculiar
whim to see people buried, must now
forego the "pastime," as she called it.,
because of advanced age and illness.
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ILLINOIS IS FOR BRYAN.
Democratic Factions Agree to Bury
tina hatchot

the hatchet.
Springfield. ILL.,, Oct. THE Demo-
cratic factions In Illinois have buried
the Ratchet and agreed to give w. J.
Bryan the solid Illinois delegation In
the next Democratic national conven-
ton.
Because Of the supposed close rela.
tions between Roger Sullivan and Ger.
tain advocates Of the nomination OF
Governor John A. Johnson Of Mime.
sofa as the Democratic presidential
candidate peculiar interest attaches to
the surprising developments.
Some politicians incline to the be-
lief that tits all up with Johnson"
Others intimate that something may
be doing soon."
The significant feature Of the love
feast was the development that Roger
Sullivan will not oppose Bryan's nom-
ination. Bryan last year demanded
Sullivan's resignation from the nation
al committee, intimating that he
would not accept Illinois support 9TH
erwise Mr.. Bryan's antipathy to Sui.
livan seems to have faded.
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SAVED BY TROLLEY POLE.
Electric Car Narrowly Escapes Hun
dred-Foot Drop.

Ashtabula, O., Oct. Fifteen pas
sengers, including several women, and
a motorman and conductor had mar
row escape from plunging to their
death from the Ashtabula and Penn
sylvania electric railroad viaduct to
the Ashtabula river, 100 feet below.
The passengers were in a panic and
several were injured by flying glass.
A trolley pole prevented the car from
making the plunge. The body of the
coach left the tracks and one end
hung suspended over the river. The
accident happened about a mile from
the Lake Shore bridge, where the Ash
tabula horror occurred thirty years
ago.
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ANARCHISTS FIGHT POLICE
Assistant Chief of Odessa Killed in
the Encounter.

Odessa, Oct. "A strong detach-
ment Of police, mostly in plain clothes,
had desperate fight with band of
anarchists, resulting in the capture Of
fifty three of them. The police, hear
ing that the anarchists were meeting
In certain house, prepared to sur
round 1t and were about to break into
the building when the anarchists dis
covered their presence and fired on
them, killing Assistant Chief of Police
Delfinsky and wounding several plain
clothes men. The police then made a
rush for the building and a fierce hand
to hand fight followed, during which a
woman was killed and two men were
mortally wounded and nearly all the
anarchists captured.
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1906, but On the contrary had tried to
extort money from him. More than
three years after the date on which
she asserts she was married to him,
the senator averred, she was threat
ening to sue him for breach of prom
Use and retained the law firm OF
O'Flaherty & Fulton Of Richmond,
Va, to act for her.
Charges Attempted Extortion.
The senator submitted a copy of a
letter from that firm written to him in
January, 1905, In which they an.
nounced that Miss Mae c. Wood had
employed them to prosecute her claim
for damages for breach of promise
and for an alleged conspiracy cul-
minating in New York in 1903 by
which she asserted she was fraud
ulently compelled by agents of the
senator to surrender certain letters
written to her by him.
Senator Platt said that he ignored
this letter, but that his attorney sub
sequently received other letters from
O'Flaherty & Fulton threatening to
take the case into court unless it was
settled. When he declined to enter
into negotiations with them the SEN
ator said they discontinued their at
tempts at extortion until just prior to
the beginning Of this action"
In the fall Of 1905, the senator as
serted, Mae G. Wood brought two
suits against him in Omaha in which
the allegations were absolutely incon-
sistent with her present claim of mar
rage. These suits, he said, were
brought to gain notoriety and to ex-
tort money from him. Both suits
were dismissed without prosecution.
The senator alluded to publications
Of what purported to be a marriage
certificate, which, he said, had been
mutilated by cutting away the part
that should have contained the name
of the man who officiated.
On the evening of Dec. "a, 1905, he
said, he received a letter from Miss
Wood in which she stated that she
had received a letter from him &C.
knowledging her as his wife, This,
he said, was untrue and no such &C.
acknowledgement had ever been made.
II such communication exists, the
senator said, it is forgery, manufac-
tured by the plaintiff to extort money
from him.
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a rail low IN phosphorus and higher
In carbon, with a quarter Of the moltel
mass at the top of the ingot cut off
as "discard."
Further meetings on the subject are
to be held, but it is stated that when
E. H. Gary calls the general meeting
Of railway and steel manufacturers
together there will be two reports
presented instead of a joint report.
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION
for
LIQUOR LICENSE
STATE OF MINNESOTA,

STATE OF MINNESOTA,
County Of Beltrami }ss
City of Bemidji
b Notice hs is hereby. given: That application
council of said City of Bemidji and fled
in my office. praying for license to sell intox-
lcating liquors for the term commencing on
October 1st. 1907. and terminating on
October LIST. 1908. by. the following person
and at the following place. as stated in
said application, respectively towit
FRED E. BRINkMAN,
At and in that certain three-story brick
building on the first floor and in the front
room thereof. being located on lot ten (lO)
block seventeen Q0 original townsite of
Bemidji. Minnesota,
Said application will be heard and deter
mined BY said city council of the City of Be-
midi at the city clerks Office in the city hail
in said city of .Bemidji. in Beltrami
county. and state of Minnesota. on Monday,
the 7th day OF October. A. D. 1907. at s
O'Clock D. m. Of that day.
Witness my hand and seal of said
1907.
lsEALl THOMAS MALOY.
City Clerk.
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Notice of Hearing on Petition for Formation of
New District

Whereas. A petition has been fled with the
County Board OF the County Of Beltrami,
signed and acknowledged by NJ jority of
the freehOldels who reside in the proposed
new district herein described. and who are
entitled to vote at school meetings in their
respective districts. and duly verified by the
affidavit Of one of the residents of said pro-
posed new district, praying for the OrganiZa-
ton OF new school district out of the
territory herein after described, to-wit: All
Of township, 1872 north of range 50, and the
said Board Of County Commissioners have
appointed time and place for hearing
upon said petition as by law required:
Now therefore,
NOTICE
Is hereby given. that a hearing upon said
petition will be had at meeting OF the said
Board. commencing upon the 18th day of
October. A. ID: 1907, at 10 O'Clock in the fore
noon OF said day. at the Office of the County
Auditor In the city of Bemid j. in said county,
at which time and place the the said County
Board Will hear arguments of all persons
interested, for or against the proposed
organization Of said new school district
Dated at Bemidji. Mimi. this 18th day of
September A. D. 1907
By order Of the County Board Of Beltrami
County. Mimi.
Ry JOHN WILMANN.
County Auditor and Ex-Oficio Clerk Of
Board.
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HELD GUILTY OF CONTEMPT
Chicago Gambler Refuses to Testify
Before Grand Jury.

Chicago, Oct. Judge Chetlain
has declared Horace Argo, who re-
fused to answer questions before the
grand jury regarding the existence of
gambling in the city, guilty of con-
tempt and sentenced him to a fine of
$500 and six months in the county jail
unless he purges himself of contempt.
Argo was summoned before the
grand jury to tell what he knew of
the assertions that certain city Off.
cials were protecting gambling resorts
for a. consideration. He refused to
answer on the ground that his replies
might tend to incriminate him. The
action taken by Judge Chetlain was
the result of his persistent refusal to
give information to the grand jury.
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GREETED BY BARON KUROKI
Secretary Taft and Party Arrive at
kyoto, Japan.

Kobe, Japan, Oct. Secretary
Taft, Mrs. Taft and their party ar
rived at Kyoto at 1880 a. m. With
General Edwards, Mr.. Carpenter, the
secretary of Mr.. Taft, and Charlie
Taft, they occupied a special car pro-
vided by the government. Mr.. Taft
was fatigued, but in good spirits. The
approach of the train to, Kyoto was
signalled by salvos of aerial bombs.
General Count Kuroki, the famous
commander of the Japanese army in
Manchuria, met Mr.. Taft on his ar
rival at Kyoto and, invited the party
to an informal luncheon. after which
the male travellers visited many points
Of interest. Mrs. Taft, however, pre-
ferred to 70 shopping.
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READY FOR SERVICE.
First Hundred Miles Of Milwaukee,
Coast Extension.

First Hundred Miles Of Milwaukee,
Coast Extension.
Chicago, Oct. 1.-THE first 100 miles
Of the Chicago; Milwaukee and St.
Paups Pacific coast extension was
opened Thursday and regular train
service from Mobridge to Lennon
will begin next Sunday. This part of
the extension runs through the Stand
ing Rock reservation and twelve towns
have been established. Lennon, the
present terminus Of the extension, is
at the point where the road will cross
from South Dakota into North Dakota.
The station Is on the south side of
the tracks and this places it in South
Dakota.
The town Of Hellinger, which will
be the end of the next section built,
will be opened Oct. II.