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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10
AGAINST OIL TRUST
Cireuit Court Of Appeals Renders
an Important Decision.
BILL. OF EXCEPTIONS DENIED

Effect Of Ruling VIII Be That All Al
legged Unlawful Acts of Standard oil
Company Since 1870 May Be Used
as Evidence.
st. Paul, June Another chapter
IN the great war that the United States
is Waglng with the object of disorgan
ling and destroying the Standard Oil
trust was written in st. Paul when a
decision III favor of the government
was, handed down by four United
States circuit judges in the matter of
the exceptions filed to the original bill
by the Rockefeller octopus. s.
The effect of the ruling will be that
all the alleged unlawful acts Of the
Standard Oil company will be revealed
>in the testimony when the case is
brought to trial.
The Standard lawyers had been
fighting for the elimination of testi,
mony regarding the alleged illegal
acts prior to the passage of the Sher.
man antitrust law in 1899. -
The next step in the titanic legal
battle will be the taking of testimony
relating to the crushing of compete
ton in all parts of the country. The
testimony will cover the acts Of what
is known as the Standard Oil company
of New Jersey, ,all it's subsidiary cor
pOratiOns, the former Standard Oil
trust, which was displaced by the
Standard Oil company after the pas
sage of the Sherman law, and the
early combination of Rockefeller, Rog.
ers, ct al, which dates back as far as
1870.
The courts ruling against the trust
was signed by Judges Sanborn, Van
devanter, Hook and Adams in the cir
cult court Of the United States for the
Eastern division of the Eastern ju.
dicial district of Missouri.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10
SUGGESTED BY FRANCE.
United States Should Be Party to Far
Eastern Treaties.

Paris, June One of the imme-
date results of the Franco-Japanese
entente, which is on the point Of be.
ing signed, has been the tender by
France of her good offices to the Unit.
ed States in case she can be of assist
ance in bringing about a complete un-
Outstanding between the United States
and Japan concerning their interests
in the Far East France believes the
United States should become a party
to the series Of ententes recently ar.
rived at between the powers guaran-
teeing the status of the Far East and
the best methods of avoiding possible
future complications and misunder-
standings and has formally communi-
Gated to the United States govern
ment her readiness now or in the fu-
ture to further negotiations in that
direction.
The Washington government, while
not availing itself of Frances assist
ance, expressed in it's reply it's deep
sensibility and appreciation of the
friendly offer.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10
ALL LOWLANDS INUNDATED

CIoudburst General Over Central and
Eastern Kentucky.
Lexington, KY, June 10-A cloud
burst over Central and Eastern Ken
lucky did great damage by destroying
fences, bridges and other property.
The lowlands along rivers and creeks
are inundated. Waters in mountain
streams are rising rapidly and log
men fear great loss, as they have
made no precautions against flood at
this time Considerable damage was
done in this city, where trolley wires
were struck by lightning and trolley
and interurban car operation was in
terfered with The home of w. II
Galbraith was struck by lightning and
the family stunned.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10
-ase 40 "a. !, ~ ss zee $50 ..stx
OVER A SCORE DEAD
Cloudburst Almost Wiped Out Vii
lage Of Gradyville, Ky.
CREEK BECAME A TORRENT
Immense Volume of Water Rushed
Down Upon the Sleeping Hamlet
and Scarcely House In the Place
Escapea Destruction,

and Scarcely a House In the Place
Escaped Destruction.
Louisville, June 10: - Twenty-one
people are missing and the little viii
lage of Granville, in the southern
part of the state, is almost totally de-
stroyed as the result Of cloudburst,
which sent a volume Of water down
upon the sleeping hamlet shortly after
the midnight hour. A partial list of
the dead and missing follows: Mr..
and Mrs. Stronghill and family, John
Moore, Mrs. Austin Wilmore, Miss
Wilmore, Dr., L, G. Nell and family.
H. Moss and family of FIVE. Sixteen
bodies have been recovered.
The storm began at 10 p. M and In
creased in intensity until 1890, when
it's height was reached.
The cloudburst turned Big creek
into a torrent which quickly over
flowed it's banks and poured a great
| volume of water down upon Grady
vile.
Nearly every house in the place was
| washed away and those who met
death were drowned or crushed tc
death in their houses as they were
| torn from their foundations. Every
stream in the vicinity is out of its
| banks.
The cloudburst did great damage
aside from the loss of life, all bridges
in this vicinity being washed away
and thousands of acres Of corn ruined
Gradyville has population of about
| $50 and is eighteen miles from rail
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10
APPEAL TO WASHINGTON.
Attorneys for Gil Man Sent to Jail
y for Contempt.

Leavenworth, Kan, June .-Ex-At-
torney General Monet of Ohio and
Albert l.. Wilson of Kansas City, at
torneys for H. H. Tucker, Jr., former
secretary Of the Uncle Sam Oil COM
pany, who was sent to jail here for
thirty days by Circuit Judge Hook for
contempt, stated that they would
leave Immediately for Washington to
institute habeas corpus proceedings in
the United States supreme court to
secure fuckers release. It is said
they may also lay the case before
President Roosevelt.
Mr.. Tucker was sent to Jail for con-
tempt because of an affidavit present
ed in support Of his motion for dis
charge of the Uncle Sam receiver in
which he made allegations of corrup-
ton against Federal Judges J. c.. Pol
Aock of Leavenworth, John F. Phillips
of Kansas City and Smith Mcpherson
Of r al Oak Ia
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10
BAD WEATHER IS BLAMED
Increase in Suicides and Homicides at
Chicago.

Chicago, June 10.-Chicago's suicide
record was broken in May, when fifty
five persons in the city ended their
lives. The coroner's office and Fore
caster Henry J. Cox say the weather
is responsible for the increase.
Since Jan. 1 there have been 1919
cases of self-destructiOn and the ef-
feet Of the weather is to be seen in
the increasing scale. January led with
rs cases, February had 20, March 81,
April 46 and May SIS. Seven cases
were reported in the first seven days
of June
The effect on all sorts of crime also
was manifest. In the first five months
Of the year there were seventy-fve
murders, twenty-five of which were
committed in May.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10
Indicted for Peonage.

Charleston, w. Va, June 10.-The
federal grand jury has brought indict-
ments for peonage against the w. M.
Ritter Lumber company of Maben,
Wyoming county; S. M. Wolfe, super
intendent of the camp at Maben;
Harvey Derne, superintendent of the
manufacturing departments of the
same company; G.. T. Carson, super
intendent of railroad construction at
the camp; Elias Hatfield, William Tol.
liver and Lace Stewart, guards. x
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10
JAPAN WILL REJECT It
Proposal for Mutual Agreement
to Restrict immigration.
CHANGE IN TREATY DESIRED

Mikado's Government Will Make Ev.
cry Effort to Expunge Objectionable
Section in Present Convention When
It Comes Up for Revision.
Toxic, June "A representative Of
the Japanese residents in America ar
rived here recently and called upon
the foreign minister, Viscount Haya-
shi. He has reported that the latter
assured him that the proposal made
by the American government to enter
into mutual agreement for the re-
strlction Of labor immigration would
be rejected by Japan and that every
effort would be made to expunge the
last clause of article 2 of the present
treaty when it comes up for revision
in 1909, but that it was not expected
that America would yield easily on
this point.
A special commissioner probably
will be dispatched to America to in
vestigate the actual conditions pre-
vailing there.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10
Mine CAGE Drons GOO Feet.

Ely, Mimi, June The cage in the
Zenith mine dropped 600 feet here
while twenty-six men were riding in
1t. Only fourteen were SO severely
injured as to require treatment at the
hospital. None of the men was killed
or is eXr Acted 70 die -
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10
Cotton Crop in Bad Shape.

Montgomery, Ala, June 10.-Presi'
dent Seymour of the Alabama division
of the Cotton Growers association has
given out a statement in which he
shows that the condition of cotton at
this time is not much above SO per
cent The stands are poor and badly
in the grass. Only the best Of weather
from now on can assure anything like
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10
Discuss the American Question.

Toxic, June 10.-After conference
with the elder statesmen and cabinet
ministers ViscoUnt Hayashi, the for
eign minister, proceeded Immediately
to the palace. It is believed that dip
lonlatic affairs Of Importance were
discussed during he conference, among
them the American question.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10
SOCIALISTS CREATE SCENE
Greet Emperor of Austria With Cries
for Universal Suffraue

ct 4et E171PeTUT OF HUStT1a WITH -CrTes
for Universal Suffrage.
Budapest, June Emperor Francis
Joseph arrived here during the after
noon for the celebration of the jubilee
of his coronation as king of Hungary
June g.. 1867. The socialists seized
the occasion to make demonstration
in favor Of the, extension of universal
suffrage to Hungary. The great
crowds which assembled in the streets
during his majesty's journey from the
railroad station to the palace greeted
him with shouts of Give us universal
suffrage" The police pushed back
the people with drawn swords. Sew
eral persons were injured.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10
AGAINST BREWING CONCERNS
Judgment Of Custer Granted by Kan
sas Supreme Court.

Topeka, Kan, June 10.-The state
supreme court has granted a judg-
ment of custer against the Anheuser-
Busch Brewing association and held
that the recent appointment of receiv-
ers for the property in this state of
foreign brewing companies was legal
and proper in order to protect, pre-.
serve and render effectual the courts
jurisdiction. A dozen foreign brewing
companies are affected. The opinion
was written by Justice r. A. Burch,
the other judges concurring.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10

struck by a tornado and four or five
people killed and a score or more in
]ured Al. that time the tornado de-
m &c, almost every building in the
village
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10

WANTED:-Two dishwashers. One
for day work and one for night
work. Apply to Armstrong; res
taurant. .
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10
Lonu Strike Is Settled,

Pomeroy, o., June 10.-The miners
strike which prevailed here for six
months was settled at a lengthy con-
ference of state labor officials and
operators. The settlement will imme-
diately return GOO men to work.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10

WANTED-Good lady cook and
a laundry girl. Palace Hotel,
Blackjack.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10
BEAR TIES UP SYSTEM.
Union Pacific Operators Prisoners in
Their BunkhcUse.

Ogden, Utah, June A mother
bear in quest of her young tied UP the
Kemmerer division of the Union Pa
cific railroad system. incidentally she
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10
ONE CENT A WORD.
HELP WANTED.

WANTED-For U. S. army, a ble-
bodied, unmarried men be-
tween ages of 10 and 35, citi,..
zens of United States, of good
CHI ara c-ter and temperate
habits, who can speak, read
and write English. For in
formation apply to Recruiting
Officer, Miles Block, Bemidji
MINI.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10

WANTED-For the U. S. Marine
Corps; men between ages 81
and 80. An opportunity to see
the world. For full informa-
ton apply in person or by
letter to 2O8 Third street,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10

FOR Observation-Disclosures rooms.
Inquire 11O1 Lake Boulevard,
FOR RENT-Furnished room,
SIS Bemidji Ave.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10

FOR SALE Magnificent moose
head, mounted; will be sold
cheap Inquire at this Office.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10
LOST and FOUND
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT-Furnished rooms
by day or week, 3O4 Third
street,o Downs & O'Leary's
store.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10

WANTED: Experienced wait
ress for restaurant dining
room work. Good wages.
Armstrong; Cafe.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-06-10
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE - Rubber stamps.
The Pioneer will procure any
kind of rubber stamp for
you on short notice.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-12

To say that it is much better that
there should be drunkards than that per-
sonal liberty should be infringed" is just
as correct, and just as much in accord
with common sense, as to say that it
were much better that there should be
murderers than that men should be de-
prived of the liberty to kill when they
feel like it.
If genuine character" cannot be
formed in state of society where men
are forbidden by law to sell alcoholic
poisons, and where, therefore, the fool
ish and weak and inexperienced are not
given an opportunity to form the habit
of using such poisons, then genuine
character" cannot be formed in state
of society where the law has made it un-
necessary to fight highway robbers and
dodge holdup men.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-12

number of gallons of beer or wine
than whisky in year, it may seem to
some as though there must be an in
crease in the amount of alcoholic con-
sumption, but moments reflection
shows that such cannot be the case,
for the amount of alcohol in beer and
most wines is, when compared with
the amount of alcohol in whiskey or
rum or any other spirit, almost infin-
itesimal. Again, there has been large
emigration to our shores of laborers
from the south of Europe, to whom
wine is almost as much an article of
food as bread One living in an Amer
lean city to which Italians throng,
finds that these people consume vast
amount of wine, but, for the most
part, no harm is done, as the Italian is
usually temperate in his drinking.
1t is always best to let well enough
alone. And there is nothing in the
drinking habits of the American peo-
pie to cause alarm. The number of
drunkards among us is, comparatively
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-12

proposition that at least merits the en-
tering of caveat as to any mans right
to injure himself, even when the injury
stops with him, which is right" So
ciety does not concede man in other
things-it is to be observed that the man
who drinks in very many cases does
injure others, and runs the risk of in
juring others in every case.
There is a possibility of serious injury
to aCholly innocent third parties in every
glass of liquor sold or drunk, and in
very many cases the injury is not only
possible, but certain.
There is no such thing in civilized So
ciety as personal liberty to perform
an act that probably, or even possibly,
may result in private or public injury
to others.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-12
BAD ENOUGH TO
CHANGE

The Kansas City Post seems to be at
flicted with the disease of knowing
things that are not So" In lengthy and
labored editorial which it devotes to the
Prohibition movement it makes the fol-
lowing statement:
We are often informed, however, by
excitab1e Prohibitionists, that there is
more alcoholic consumption in the
country now than ever before, and that
this alcoholic consumption increases
faster in proportion than the growth
of population. This statement is ap-
parently true, but the facts reveal moth
ing materially inimical to the cause
of temperance. In the first place,
Americans are rapidly abandoning the
use of spirits for beer and light wines,
and as man can drink vastly larger
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-12
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The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-12
THE RECONNAISSANCE


w
speaking, not large Temperance is
the rule and not the exception. And
if a majority of the people are not
total abstainers, perhaps it is not de-
signed that they should be.
The "excitable Prohibitionists" have
the advantage of the Post in the fact
that their excitement has not led them
to overlook the facts in the case
The statement of the Post has no
foundation in reality In spite of all
that has been accomplished in the tenn
perance reform, alcoholic consumption
is greater than ever before, and there
are no such mitigating features as the
Post would lead us to believe. Within
the past ten years the consumption of
spirits has increased more than fifty per
cent, indicating that, though the con
sumption of beer has grown enormously
there has been no abandonment of the
stronger drinks When the percentage
of alcohol contained in the various
liquors which we now consume is taken
into consideration, it is found that we
actually consume more alcohol per cap
tia than we did back in the clark ages
of 1S4O In the matter of wine-drinking
among Italians, it needs to be noted that
the average Italian, while he continues
to drink wine soon learns in America
to drink beer, also, as heavily as Ger
man and whisky as generously as all
Irishman. And the results of drink
whether wine, beer or whisky, are the
same with the Italian as with other peo-
pie. The Italian drunk, with braSyl aHd
fight and murder, is a regular fes0s1e
of life in every large American city
The Post would do we'll to study
some facts before it retails many the
cries. There is no well enough" to be
let alone in the drink situation in
America. The condition presents bad
enough that needs prompt remedy.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-12
THE LIQUOR ADVERTISERS
THREAT

The question has arisen in the minds
of great many people who have
watched the course of some of our lead
ing daily papers during the past few
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-12
A STONE AGE
ARGUMENT

that city, seems to have been forced to
import an editorial writer from some
period we'll back toward the
Stone Age. Such is the conclusion pro-
duced by reading its recent editorial,
The Advance of Prohibition" The
editorial is perhaps best represented by
its two concluding paragraphs, which, in
a certain sense, may be said to sum up
its argument" Says the ENQUIRER:
Prohibition has been demonstrated
to be impracticable, and those who ad-
vocate it would advance the ends they
are seeking much more rapidly if they
would devote their energies to incul-
eating individual temperance, and
meanwhile, until that can be made
universal, to the establishment and
maintenance of practical methods of
control.
There is another fundamental OBJ
Iection to Prohibition. 1t violates the
right of personal liberty. Every man,
~ AOhe oo Az llO OllG ClSG, Ids
perfect right to drink as much and
as often as he pleases, and an emf
nent British writer has we'll said that
1T is much better that there should
be drunkards than that personal lib
erty should be infringed The men
who can drink if they choose and
grow up and remain temperate are far
stronger and better citizens than those
who have total abstinence forced on
them. Genuine character is not formed
that way.
This sounds very like the stuff that
used to be ground out" in editorial Of
ices in the 7O's and SOS of the century
Just past, but has seldom seen the light
in anything but liquor papers in recent
years. 1t may be readily confessed that
Prohibition has, in a certain sense,
proved "impracticable," that is to say,
'f has been imbracticable to get Pro-
sibition laaV enforced by anti-Prohibi-
fionists TT office. That is the only i'm
in the matter. There was
aothing impracticable about Prohibition
in Portland with SAMUEL PEARSON in
the sheriff's office, or with NEAL Dow
in the mayors chair There is nothing
very impracticable about Prohibition in
Kansas City, Kansas, just at the present
with c. w. TRcKErT in posi-
ton to bring the law to bear. It is,
however, highly "impracticable" to sat-
Isfactorily conduct saloon in state
where there is prohibitory law, with
honest officials in power. That is the
lmpracticability that has worried the
liquor dealers
AS regards the personal liberty argu-
nent which energies in the columns of
he Enquirer, from its long time innocu-
,us desuetude-it is, perhaps, getting al
most time to re-argue it for the benefit
If generation that has grown up since
he question was thrashed out. Let this
l. u Il
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-10-16
EAST PROVIDENCE

News items and advertisements for The
News Democrat may be left at Alexander
Munros dry goods store, 2 Taunton
avenue.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-10-16

father at 62s Plalnfield street last even
ing. After the ceremony a wedding din
ner was served after which Mr.. and Mrs.
Salisbury left for their wedding tour and
upon their return will reside at 49S Plain
field street.
LEFT THE CLOTHES POLE
Among the callers at the Chaffee street
police station yesterday was George
Schultz. OF 26 Hilarity street. who re-
ported the fact that some one had en-
tered the yard OF his home and departed
with 81 worth OF his baby's clothing. The
thief took everything but the clothes
pCle. for he OF she did not stop to re-
move the clothes pins but simply cur rhe
line.
GENERAL MENTION.
Manufacturers Lodge OF odd Fellows
met in their hall on Plainfield street last
evening. but there was nothing but
routine business attended to.
Three men were arrested I'm this district
during the past "A hours and locked up
at the Chaffee street police station for
being intoxicated.
A prohibition rally will be held at the
Mission, corner OF Plainneld street and
Webster avenue tomorrow evening. Mr.
Louis T.. Remington, G. l.. Kneeland,
and Duncan Mcpherson will be among the
speakers