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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
ASKS FOR A. PRoTECI0RATE
Sultan Of Morocco Makes Request to
French Minister.

Tangier, Morocco, Oct. 16.-Judging
from the latest semi-official declara.
tons here Sultan Abdel Aziz, during
his conference with the French min.
lister, M. Regnault, at Rabat, invited
France to consider the question of
establishing a protectorate over Mo-
rocco, including the immediate occu:
plying of the entire coast. The most
interesting feature Of the general sit,
uation, with the exception of the re-
ported request Of the sultan that the
ports be occupied by French troops,
is the practical certainty that an at.
tempt is now imminent to impose for
e1gn military police upon the various
seaports Of Morocco, which, it is be-
lieved, will meet with the fierce re.
sistance of the natives.
The Franco-Spanish authorities
have announced their intention of be.
ginning the new international police
service early in November and with
the chief of police, Colonel Muller,
formerly an officer in the Swiss army,
they are now organizing the force and
planning it's installation.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
County Must Pay Half.

1t is not generally known that
under the provisions of the new law
governing the building of bridges, it
is expressly provided that where the
township raises one-half of the
money necessary to construct a
bridge, the county must pay the
other half of the cost. For instance,
if the town board of any township
in the county desires to erect a
bridge and one-half of the required
money is raised for this purpose, the
county must put up the other half of
the cost. The county has no escape
under the new law.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
EXCEEDS SPEED LIMIT
Engineer Held Responsible for
English Rail Disaster.
ENTIRE TRAIN IS WRECKED

Sixteen Persons Meet Death in Dis
aster and Many Others Sustain In.
Jury-Darkness and Pouring Rain
Retard the Work of Rescue.
Shrewsbury, Eng Oct. 16.-A train
made up Of passenger coaches bound
from Scotland and the north of Eng
land to Bristol left the rails as it
was entering the station here. Six
teen persons, including ten passen-
gers, were killed and many were in
jured.
The London and Northwestern rail.
road, on which the train was running,
curves sharply as it nears Shrewsbury
and there is standing order that the
engineers must not exceed speed of
ten miles an hour at that point. Dis
regard of the order is believed to have
been the cause Of the accident. The
engine and all cars with the exception
OF the last one left the rails and when
the officials from the railroad station
reached the spot the cars were tan.
gled mass of wreckage, beneath which
were the bodies of the dead and the
injured. Fortunately the wreckage
did not catch fire and the doctors and
salvage crews who soon reached the
scene did not have this added danger
to fight In the darkness and pouring
rain, which, however, retarded the
work Of rescue and several hours
elapsed before the last body was
taken out
The killed include the engineer and
fireman and the guards and postal
clerks who were in the mail car i'm
mediately behind the tender of the
engine.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
Attention, E|ks.

The Pioneer is requested by the
committee of the Elk lodge to re-
mind the members of Bemidji Lodge,
No. 1852, B. P. o. E., that business
of importance will be transacted at
the meeting to be held Thursday
evening, and every member is re-
quested to be present.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
Mlxis,s.I III !!
TOO many MASTERS |
Railroad Presidents Opposed to
State Regulation.
PREFER FEDERAL CONTROL

Heads Of Many Systems Endorse
the Views Expressed by President
Mather of the Rock Island In a
Speech at Chicago.
Chicago, Oct. l THAT railroad ex-
ecutives generally approve Of the plan
for government control and regulation
of transportation lines Of the nation,
as advocated by Robert Mather, pres
ident Of the Rock Island company, in
his speech to the Chicago Association
Of Commerce, was strongly indicated
when various officials went on record
to that effect
mirable in every way and none of the
railroad officials interviewed disagreed
with him as to the desirability of cen
tralized authority in preference to
what they called the varied and incon-
sistent system of laws passed by the
state legislatures.
It was granted, too, that Mr.. Mather
had done we'll to talk openly of rebat-
ing.
After con1plimenting Mr. Mather on
his speech E. P. Ripley, president of
the Santa Fee, said he thought the
principal points urged by the Rock
Island official we'll taken.
Prefer Single Master.
What the railroads are opposed to-"
he said, "is this varied assortment of
rules, regulations and laws under
which at present they must operate.
For instance, the Santa Fe runs
through fourteen states and territories
and what is legal in one state may be
unlawful in another and vice versa.
In other words, we have too many
masters. Wouldn't it be much better
for us if we had a single, central
source of regulation than so many? I
believe that is the position taken by
Mr.. Mather and most railroad officials.
1.-THE cutlery against the railroads
has done them much DAMAGE" con-
tinued Mr.. Ripley. This antagonism
is by no means a thing of the past. as
It exists today, and is deepseated. The
| censure and attacks of the press and
the unjust structures from other
sources have kept it alive. The result
is that the railroads have been nearly
! ruined. They are now worrying along
! as best they can. They cannot do any.
thing but serve the public even if the
| public is attacking Them"
Mr.. Ripley denied that the roads
would back any programme before the
next congress.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
HIT BY STREET CAR,
John Tracy and Wife Killed Just Out
side MINNEAPOLIS.

sIoe minneapolis.
Minneapolis, Oct. 1 John Tracy,
farmer living near Medina, and his
wife, while driving, were struck and
killed by a Deephaven car just out OF
Minneapolis. Their adopted daughter,
Matte Tracy, aged seven, was In the
buggy with them, but escaped with
minor injuries.
The buggy was being driven south
and the car was approaching in the
direction Of Hopkins. Motorman Lar
sen sounded the whistle for the cross
ing and upon catching sight of the rig
sounded the danger signal and threw
on the brakes, but Tracy had driven
onto, the tracks, when, for some rea-
son, the horse stood still. The car
struck the rig, hurting the occupants
to the ground.
The passengers on the car agree
with the motorman's version OF the
accident, though William Anderson Of
Hopkins says that Tracy made every
effort to hasten across the tracks, but
could not escape the car, which was
running at high rate of speed.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
Franchises Declared Illegal.

Cleveland, Oct. 16.-Judge Law
renee of the common pleas court has
rendered decision holding illegal all
franchises granted by the council for
so.called Scent fare lines on the East
Side because they were granted after
the date upon which Mayor Johnson
was alleged to have become financially
Interested in the roads.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
New Football Captain.

Frank Getchell, who has acted as
captain of the Bemidji High School
football team since it's organization
this fall. has resigned his position.
William Shocks has been elected
captain to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Getchell.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
Irish PaWnbrOkerS,
Tonight.

The Irish Pawnbrokers" is Muir
ply, Murphy and Murphy's bread
winner again this season. In Great
ing their vehicle for them they COM
missioned Mr.. Edgar Selden, who is
the author of many successful farce
comedies, to fit them with vehicle
in line with their former successes,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
YOUNG WOMAN MURDERED
Minneapolis Man Suspected Of Killing
His Wife.

Minneapolis, Oct 1 The body of
Mrs. George Patous, seventeen years
of age, was found in a room on the
second floor of 1915 Third street north
The young wife was probably stran-
gled to death a week before the body
was found and to make sure of the
crime her murderer had tied a silk
muffler tightly around her throat
The husband, a Polish laborer, has
not been seen since Oct. 6, the day on
which the crime is supposed to have
been committed, and the police are
now searching for him.
The body of the murdered woman
was found by W.. A. Shaughnessy,
who lives on the ground floor of the
house in which the crime was commit
ted and who rented the rooms to the
Patous couple. For a week there had
been no sign of life upstairs and
finally becoming suspicious that all
was not right Shaughnessy entered his
tenants rooms He found the body of
the strangled girl wife lying on a bed.
Her body was lying diagonally across
spots Of blood on the bed. A quilt
had been thrown over the body, leav-
ing only the face exposed. A theory
Of the police is that the spots of blood
may have been caused by the wife
wOunding her assailant in the fight for
1ifo
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16

ing deputies: H. c.. Grove, E.
Holler, E. Egleson and John Hamel.
The term of court will not be a
very extended one and it is more
than likely that many of the cases
that are on the calendar will be
continued to the term of court that
will be held in January.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
Speed of Trains Limited.

Lincoln, Neb, Oct. 16.-The state
railway commission has issued an or
der limiting the Missouri Pacific pas
senger trains to a speed Of twenty-five
miles an hour, the fast freight trains;
to twenty miles an hour and the heavy
freight trains to fifteen miles an hour
owing to the dangerous condition of
the rOadbed. .at." =. -S's -. ~
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
Causing Trouble for Engineers,

Panama, Oct. / The American en-
gineers are having trouble with the
Cucharacha slide at the south end of
the Culebra cut. This point of land,
always source of trouble to the
French when they tried to dig the
canal, is again in motion and will
prove hindrance all during the wet
season. About 100000 yards Of dirt
is in motion.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, Oct. 15.-Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No. 1 hard, SLIT; No.
Northern, $1.15k; No. 2. Northern,
$113; Dec, $1.12k; May, $1.16%. In
store-No. Northern, $1.135s; No. 2
Northern, $1.10h. Flax-To arrive
and on track, $1.3O; Oct, $1.297s;
Nov, $1.291a; Dec, $1.24ss; May, ST..
293h
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
Court Refuses Hau Appeal.

"a -Leipsic, Germany, Oct 16.-The SUI.
preme court has rejected the appeal
Of counsel for Karl Hau, formerly of
Washington, D. c., for revision of
the sentence condemning him to death
for the murder of his mother-in-law,
Frau Molitor. An appeal for new
trial probably will be made on non.
technical grounds which were not ad.
vanced in the proceedings just ended.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16

and to say that Mr.. Selden has
achieved their purpose is drawing it
mildly. He has undoubtedly given
them the best play, as to comedy
situations, they have ever had; the
piece is intensely funny and has a
fairly good plot, upon which hinges
most O. the comedy situations.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
EspicopaI Services.

Communion services will be held
in the Norwegian Lutheran church
Thursday morning at 9 o'clock.
Rev. E. E. Fulton, of Wadena, will
conduct the service. Services will
also be held in the evening at 8
O'Clock. g..
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
Chicago Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, Oct. 15.- Wheat-Dec,
$1.057s; May, $1.11M@1.11A. Corn
Dec, 637@c; May, 641s@64Ac. Oats
Dec, 556c; May, SIC. Pork-Jan.,
$15.97%. Butter-Creameries, 24@2Sc;
dairies, 22@25c. Eggs-17h@2
Poultry-Turkeys, 1Sc; chickens, 10c;
springs, 1Okc. .s.. ...-.,..s
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
Chicago Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, Oct. observation-disclosures,
$3.9O@7.30; cows, $1.50@5.30; Texans,
$3.75@475; calves, $5.50@8.25; West:
ern cattle, $4.00@6.00; stockers and
feeders, $250@4,75. Hogs-Light,
$6.15@6.75; mixed, $6.1506.80; heavy,
$6.OO@6.75; rough, $6.O0@6.25; pigs,
$5,25@6.35. Sheep, $3.00@5.O0; year.
iings. s5.35@6.00: lambs. 14.7507.86.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
st. Paul Union Stock Yards.

st. Paul, Oct. 15.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, $5.50@6.60; fair to good,
$4.00@5.00; good to choice cows and
heifers, $3.5o@5.O0; veals, $4.00@6.00.
Hogs-$5.70@6.55. sheep-Wethers.
$4.75@5.00; yearlings, $5.50@6.90;
spring lambs, $6.25Q676.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
Price Of OIL Raised.

New York, Oct. The price of re-
fined petroleum for export, which has
been $8.45 q barrel, has been raised 30
cents in New York by the Standard
OIL company,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
Minister on Trial for Adultery.

Lincoln, Neb., Oct. l Rev. Will
bert P. Ferguson, accused of adultery,
appeared for preliminary trial in the
court OF Justice Stevens. Mrs. "A. e.
Cross is the complainant. Rev. Fer
guson was until recently minister Of
the First Methodist church Of Univer.
sity Place. the seat Of Nebraska Meth.
nfiGm
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MARKET QUOTATIONS.
MINNEAPOLIS Wheat,

Minneapolis, Oct. 5.-Wheat-Dec.,
$1.12%; May, $1.15%. On track-No.
1 hard, $1.1S; No. I Northern. SLIT;
No. 2 Northern, $1.16; No. 3 Northern,
$111k@113h.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
TELLS STORY OF WRECK.
Lone Survivor Of Lake Vessel Rscov.

Lone Survivor Of Lake Vessel Recov.
ers consciousness.
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, Oct. H.
Recovering consciousness, after hours
OF constant nursing, Second Mate Pitt
Of the steamer Cyprus, which foun-
dered off Deer Park lifesaving sta
ton in Lake Superior, has given a
graphic account of the last moments
OF the crew on board the Ill fated
vessel.
The mate said that the Cyprus was
making fairly good weather in the
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-10-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

PUBLIC LIBRARY-Open Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays,
$50 to E p. m, and Saturday
evening $50 to 9 p. m. also.
Library in basement of Court
House. Mrs. E. R. Ryan, librar-
ian.
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Bank Kobbers Secure $1,000.

Correll, Mimi, Oct. ! |-Burglars
entered the bank here, blew the safe
open and secured about $4,000. The
building was badly shattered. There
is no clue to the robbers
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WANTED: Competent girl for gen.
eral Homework. Good wages.
Inquire 500 Bemidji Ave.
WANTED: Laundry girl, chamber
maid and dining-room girl. Mrs.
Brinkman.
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v A n I :
ONE CENT A WO.R D.
HELP WAkTEu.

WANTED FOR u. S. ARMY: Able
bodied unmarried men, between
ages of FL and IS; citizens of
United States, of good character
and temperate habits, who can
speak, read, and write English.
For information apply to Recruit
ing Officer, Miles Block, Bemidji,
MINI.
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Magnifcent moose
head mounted; will be sold cheap.
Inquire at this office.
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LOST and FOUND

FOUND-Society emblem pin. In
quire at this office.
FOUND: Yale key. Inquire at
Pioneer office.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-05-28
THE NEGRIToS.
Odd Marriage Ceremony OF These
Barbarous Little People.

Odd Marriage Ceremony Of These
Barbarous Little People.
Belonging as they do to the lowest
type of civilization as yet discovered,
the Negritos of Malaysia and their
WAYS are we'll worth studying. Simple,
primitive, barbarous little people, their
customs are those of prehistoric man.
They have no fixed home or settle
ments. but are wanderers over their
mountainous islands, sleeping under
banana leaf. living on herbs and ber-
ries and game.
Their marriage ceremony Is unique
survival of early life. The sutton and
few companions dance about the
shelter Of the desired girl There is
q curious resemblance between the
dances of the prospective bridegroom
and those of many of the game birds
of our woodland. Finally the girl, ac-
companied by her mother, starts to-
ward the dwelling of the young men.
They frequently stop, squatting in the
trail while the ardent sutton and his
companions continue their entreating
and bewitching dances, winding round
and round the girl. Presents are gen.
orally demanded and must be given
before the reluctant bride will pro-
ceed Finally the women arrive neal
steep bamboo platform. A wild
shout pierces the air, and the bride
groom, like a frenzied animal, tears
through the Negritos assembled at the
base of the platform, snatches the
bride in his arms and flies up the in
cline with his mate, where they sit
during the wedding feast.-New York
Herald.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-05-28

Many New York women who patron
lie new dressmaker for the first
time PROFOUND an embarrassing ques-
ton.
Have you diplomat" they ask.
Il didn't know what answer to make
to the first customer that put that
question to me- said one dressmaker.
II certainly did not have a diploma.
| knew how to sew, but l had no GER
tificate to that effect Finally l found
that many women have suffered so
grievously at the hands of incompe-
tents that they were unwilling to trust
their work to a person who could not
show some guarantee of experience
and efficiency, so, although l knew
more about sewing than half the fash
ionable dressmakers in town, / actual
ly worked in one such establishment
for four months so that l could point
to a printed diploma which says, For
merly with Nine. A. of Fifth avenue
1t pays any dressmaker to arm herself
with credentials of that kind. She
ought to have her diploma framed and
hung on the wall like a doctors diplo-
ma, so as to give confidence to doubt
ing customers. New York Sun.
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Misplaced Philanthropy.


A well known philanthropist spoke
with good humored regret at a dinner
in New York of charity that ha6
failed
But 1t failed through its own fault
said he. 1T failed because it was mis-
taken 1t suggests to me an expert
ence Of q friend of mine in Ireland
My friend at about this season last
year was motoring through a remote
region of Ireland, and one day he came
upon poor old woman seated, with
all her humble furniture about her, IL
the middle of the road before her lit
tie cabin. My friend was profoundly
moved. Here before his very eyes an
eviction, real Irish eviction, was TAX
ing place. He got out of his car and
gave the old woman five pound note
"'Tell me- he said, what is the
trouble, my poor friendr
"Bobbing and courtesying her graft
tude, the old woman replied:
"'Shurs, sir, me ould mans white
washin'.' New York Tribune.
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THE BLACK SEA.
Its Waters So Badly Poisoned Tha
Life Is Practically InpossibIe.

Its Waters So Badly Poisoned That
Life Is Practically impossible.
Few persons. probably, other than
those engaged in the pursuit of sci
ence, are aware that the Black sea
presents an interest of its own to the
zoologist and the geologist shared by
no other part of the ocean at the pres
ent day.
Throughout the greater part of the
ocean the bottom Is the dwelling place
of number of creatures whose bust
ness it is to consume the bodies of the
members of the surface fauna which
after death sink to the bottom. In the
Black sea, however, says the Field, ow-
ing to special geological events such
scavengers are totally wanting over
the greater part of the bottom, so that
the carcasses of the creatures which
fall from above are left to decompose.
which they speedily do at the COM
paratively high temperature of the
water.
BY their decomposition two soluble
compounds, carbonate Of ammonia and
sulphureted hydrogen, are developed
in enormous quantities, while no free
lime, except such as is introduced from
the Mediterranean, is left. The vol
ume of sulphureted hydrogen is so
great as to poison the water from
the greatest depth .Q,227 fathoms) to
within about hundred fathoms of the
surface to such degree that life, ex-
cept for a few bacteria, is absolutely
impossible.
The circumstance has double inter-
est-first, that 1t Is absolutely unique
at the present day, and, secondly, that
it seems to offer an almost exact paral-
lei to the state of affairs that existed
at the inconceivably remote epoch
when the oldest known sedimentary
rocks were laid down as mud on the
ancient sea bottom.
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FOUGHT IN A FOG.
A Duel In Which Neither Principal

A Duel In Which Neither Principal
Could See the Other.
The most laughable duel ever fought
Ia France was that which took place
in November, 1873, at Plessis- Piquet
between Messrs. Gambetta and De
Fourtou.
Some heated words had passed be-
tween the two distinguished gentlemen
in the chamber of deputies, for which.
according to their ideas of honor, moth
ing could atone except a duel. The
men met therefore on the field at
tended by their seconds and the sur
geons.
A look over the field was enough to
convince any one present that there
would be no occasion for the doctors
services. A thick November fog hung
over the scene-so thick, indeed, that
one could hardly see his hand before
his face. The arrangements for the
duel required that it should be fought
at thirty-five PAGES.
Nor was the fog the only circum-
stance that tended to place the COM
batants out of sight of each other. On
the way to the field M. de Fourtou Is
reported to have said:
an. Gambetta has but one eye, and
am shortsighted, SO the game Will
be about even"
1t was, of course, rendered still more
even by the fog. Neither man could
see the other, and the sole danger was
to the seconds and the doctors.
Almost miraculously the two bullets
that were exchanged missed the per
sons in attendance. Everybody's hon
or was satisfied and the whole party
went home. Gambetta said that the
affair was as near to being skirmisl
In the dark as anything he ever saw
Philadelphia Ledger.
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WhipsaWed.


Daniel Webster, TaZewell and Gen
eral Jackson's secretary of the navy
were once walking together on the
north bank of the Potomac, and while
Webster fingered a little in the rear
Tazewell offered to bet Branch a $40
hat that he could prove him to be on
the other side of the river Done"
said Branch. WELL" said Tazewell,
pointing to the opposite shore, isn't
that one side of the river?' Eyes"
"Well, isn't this the other side?''
Eyes, 'Then, as you are here, are
you not on the other side?'' "Why, l
declare" said the victim, $50 l am!
But here comes Webster. I'll win back
my bet from him." As Daniel came up
Branch saluted him with, Webster,
I'll bet you $40 hat that l can prove
you are on the other side of the river"
Done" well, isn't this one side?'
yes" well, isn't that the other
side?" Eyes, but l am not on that
side" Branch had to pay for two hats
and learned that 1t is possible to bet
both ways and win upon neither.