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WILL DO THE COUNTRY GOOD.
Chicago Opinion of Pumping the
SPECTATORS"

Chicago Opinion of Pumping the
Spectators"
Chicago March misunderstanding
the slump in stocks as a New York
affair" and declaring that the agita-
ton relative to the railroads has had
little to do with the Wall street panic
Chicago bankers assert that they are
not troubled over the outlook and
that the Middle West will be in no.
wise affected.
There is manifest among the bank
ers, with perhaps one or two excep-
lions, no alarm or misgivings. The
consensus of opinion is that the rate
for money in Chicago, 6 per cent, would
not be lifted; that there are millions
in reserve here which can be utilized
and that the country as a whole is
unusually prosperous.
One other idea of special interest
also was expressed, namely, that the
dumping of the spectators" out East
will do the nation as a whole good.
The local men of finance consider the
bottom has about been reached in the
Wall street slump and that stocks, in
stead of being too low at their new
figures, are generally approaching a
fair valuation.
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RIVERS AT PITTsRURG SLOWLY
RECEDING AFTER BREAKING
FORMER RECORDS.
ENORMOUS DAMAGE HAS RESULT TED
TEN SQUARE MILES OF THE BUSI.
NESS SECTION OF THE CITY -
UNDER WATER.

Pittsburg, March 16.-Pittsburgers
are amazed at the immensely Of the
food In the Monongahela, Allegheny
and Ohio rivers, which has submerged
ten square miles in the down town
section OF the city. After reaching
the highest stage ever known, which
was thirty-seven feet at Market
street, the water ia slowly receding.
Enormous damage to industries has
been caused; over 100000 persons
have been temporarily thrown out of
employment; every transportation
company in the city Is crippled; skiffs
are carrying hundreds of people to
their places of business; twenty "a
talities have occurred in Allegheny
county directly due to high water and
the most unique sights ever seen here
are apparent.
-Four massive bridges, the Sixteenth,
Ninth, Seventh and Sixth street struc-
lures, were threatened with destruc-
ton owing to the heavy ice gorges
which came down the Allegheny river.
That the bridges were not swept away
is considered marvellous by river men
and it is said that these structures
will be found to have been greatly
weakened when the water subsidies.
Four theaters, the Gaiety, Alvin,
Belasco and B1jou, are flooded and
will be dark for several days.
Hotel Guests Marooned.
Frightened guests in the Lincoln.
Colonial, Annex and Anderson hotels,
located in the midst of the flood zone,
are marooned and are watching the
high waters from the windows.
Most of the fire engines in the
downtown district are pumping water
from buildings along Fifth avenue.
At the First National bank building,
Fifth avenue and Wood street, the
basement is submerged to a depth of
several feet and strenuous efforts are
being made to protect the dynamos
which generate power to the Western
Union Telegraph company.
The situation outside Of Pittsburg
is serious. Damage running into mil
lions Of dollars has been done; many
towns are entirely cut off from this
City; upwards of thousands of families
have been forced from their homes
and these conditions, it is expected,
will prevail for several days.
At Wheeling, w. Va, great damage
has been done. Train and telegraph
service is out of commission and the
residents are panic stricken. The
crest of the flood has not reached that
point and the food situation still
grows serious.
twenty-five thousand sufferers were
| cared for at McKeesport by the relief
committee, which was organized by
| Mayor Coleman.
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FLOOD BREAKS WATER MAIN
FIRE THREATENS TO DESTROY
AN ENTIRE SECTION OF
PITTSBURG.

Pittsburg, March 16.-In fire that
threatened the entire Mount Wash
ington section of the city known as
the Twenty-seventh ward twenty-five
business structures and dwellings
were destroyed OF damaged, causing a
loss that is estimated at 100000.
Many of the dwellings were tenements
or apartment houses and while there
were no casualties there were many
narrow escapes from injury by falling
timbers and walls.
The structures were mostly of
frame construction and because Of a
break in the water main the only
available fighting material was chem
ical fire extinguishers and bucket
brigade which was formed by the res
idents of this section. Two attempts
were made to stop the flames by dy-
namiting buildings on either side, but
each time the wreckage caught fire.
It finally burned itself out. A lighted
match dropped into rubbish is said
to be the cause.
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Read the Daily Pioneer.

| Read the daily PlOneer.
| A, A. Tone, the Northome at.
torney is in the city today.
Call at the Pioneer when you
are in need of Office supplies.
The Pioneer at all times has in
stock Office supplies of every
description
Professor Turner will render
two selections at the recital to be
given by Mrs. Foster, Thursday,
March 81.
1t flows like fire through your
veins; 1t does the work. If you're
wasting away day by day, take
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea.
IS cents, Tea or Tablets
Barker's drug. store.
John B. Wilm, editor of the
Northome Record, is in the city
today and will make arrange.
ments to move his household
goods to Northome where he and
his family will make their future
home.
There will be spiritulist lect-
ures at the court house, Friday
Saturday and Sunday evenings
| by prominent speakers and test
mediums from the state associa
ton. All friends of liberal
thoughts and seekers after truth
are especially invited. All are
welcome.
Wrinkles are age tellers. Drive
them away by taking HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea. It's bet
ter than cosmetics. 1t does the
business. IS cents, Tea or Tab
let's. Bankers drug store.
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"Orchestra" and "Noise."

In Shakespeare's time no musical
dictionary could have distinguished
between "orchestra" and "band,' for
the simple reason that neither word
was then English in a musical sense.
"Orchestra" did not arrive before the
eighteenth century and even "band"
not until the latter half of the seven
teenth, when Charles II. had "band
Of violins,' in imitation probably of
Louis XIV.'s 'bande" The old Eng
lish word for band Of music was
noise" "See if thou canst find out
Sneak's noise. Mistress Tearsheet
would fain hear some music" says one
drawer to the other at the Boar's Head
tavern. And just so Ben Jonson has
"a noise Of folders and ga noise Of
trumpets." The old word is wanted
for many gathering Of musicians out
side this writer's fat.-London Chron-
icle.
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IN STOCK MARKET
MUCH OF THE HEAVY DECLINES
OF THE PAST TWO DAYS
RECOVERED.

New York, March 16.-The stock
market during the day recovered en-
phatically and with growing convic.
ton as the day progressed from the
violent decentralization of the past two
days. Recovery had proceeded in
London before the opening here to
such an extent as to cause a spas
modic rebound from the start. In the
struggle to control the market during
the first hour there was a setback of
about half of the opening gain. An
other sharp reaction occurred abou4
noon, with the forecast Of a weak
bank statement. The determined sup
port of the market proved effective
however, on all reactions and carried
prices eventually to wide advances
The days recoveries, while substan
tial, by no means restored the full
measure of the previous losses.
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The City

Read the Daily Pioneer.
st. Patrick pins and postal
cards at Peterson's.
Mrs. E. Freeman is IN the city
today from Blackjack.
The M. & I. was thirty-fve
minutes late last evening.
Mrs. Clott of Yola is a guest
of Mr.. and Mrs A. E. Otto.
G.. 2. Murch, of Crookston, is
a business visitor here today.
A. O'Kelliher, of Blackjack,
was a Bemidji visitor yesterday.
Phillip Malley, Of Park Rap
ids, was in the city last even
ing.
Born Friday March Is, to Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Schush, a
daughter.
Mrs. J. J. Doran who has been
sick for some time is a patient at
the hospital.
Hyacinths in bloom. Lake
Park greenhouse. 1912 Doud
Az Phone 1855 3.
Bemidji Elevator Co., jobbers
for Mascot Flour, also Cremo, Bar.
lows Best and Gold Medal.
Rev. F. E. Higgins left this
morning for Bralnerd, where he
will conduct services tomorrow.
R. J. Poupore and W. J. Whit
ing, of Blackjack are looking
after business matters here to.
day.
NJ. L, Griffin, the insurance
man OF Crookston, is looking
after some business in his line
here today.
B. Y. P. U. "Irish Social" in
the Baptist church on Friday
evening, the 22nd. Don't be
afraid Of the Irish.
William Hilligoss, a Great North
ern cruiser is IN the city today
and will leave this evening for
points on the north line.
H. J. Betting, who has log
ging contract with Ross & Ross,
returned to Tenstrike last even.
ing, near which place he is oper.
ating.
Miss Alice Mills, a teacher in
the Walker schools, came up
from Walker last evening and is
spending the day with her
parents here.
William Collins who has been
in the employ of the Crookston
Lumber company at Fowlds has
moved to the city where he will
make his future home.
He had no coat upon his back,
but had one on his tongue, and
Rocky Mountain Tea, it's said,
kept him from being hung. Dad
breath.l Barker's drug store.
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ENTIRE FAMILY DROWNED.
Lose Their Lives in Effort to Escape
From lettering Home.

Lose Their Lives in Effort to Escape
From lettering Home.
Parkersburg, w. Va, March &c.
-Four persons were drowned in an ef-
fort to escape from their tottering
home at Riverside to place of safe
ty. William Francis, his wife and
daughter Esther, aged eighteen years,
and son John, aged nine years, are
the victims. .~
The Francis family had remained
in their home until the last minute,
fearing to venture out to RATS that
were being pulled about to save the
flood imperiled citizens Of Riverside,
which is completely inundated. Finally
the father succeeded in getting hold
of rowboat, into which he placed his
wife and children. They had proceed
ed only few yards when the torrent
overturned their craft and all were
drowned.
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RECOGNIZED BY NICARAGUA.

Provisional Government of Honduras
b.. Declared an Ally.
Managua, Nicaragua, March 10
The Nicaraguan government has is
sued decree recognizing the provis-
ional government of Honduras and de-
claring it's members to be allies of
Nicaragua.
The last battle fought between the
Nicaraguans and Hondurans was SO
decisively in favor of the former that
1t Is believed it will result in bringing
the war to an end. General Melecio
Merino and other Honduran officers
were killed.
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FLOOD DAMAGE ENORMOUS.
Ohio River at Cincinnati Continues t

Ohio River at Cincinnati Continues to
Rise. ...... .-..
Cincinnati. March 16.-The Ohio
continues to rise slowly, recording a
stage of 54.5 feet at 10 o'clock in the
morning, or As feet above the danger
line. Cooler, clear weather gave forth
some promise, but the fullness of the
rivers above hold the serious threat
of worse to come. Such reports as
was received early in the day simply
confirmed the previous reports of flood
damage, which is widespread.
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TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY;

Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets
W.GROVE'S signature is on each box. Csc
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RISING Four Inches an Hour.

Portsmouth, O., March 16.-The
Ohio has reached Sd feet and is still
rising four inches per hour. Several
schools have been thrown open as
temporary places of shelter for flood
refugees. The river current is the
fastest ever known and some families
found themselves unexpectedly
hemmed in by water on all sides at
daybreak
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INHABITANTS TAKE TO HILLS
FLOOD SWEEPS AWAY OR DAM.
AGES EVERY BUILDING IN
DERWENTES. O.

Columbus, O., March 16.-A dis
patch from Cambria, in Guernsey
county, reports the practical destruc-
ton of the town of Derwentes, near
there. The flood has damaged or
swept away every building in the
town, which contains 200 people.
The inhabitants have taken to the
hills and are living there as best they
oan with little to shelter them ex-
oept what they could carry in their
hasty flight.
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New Orleans Brokers Suspend,

New Orleans, March 16-The sus-
pension of Witcher, Zemurray & Co.,
we'll known brokerage firm, is an
nounced. Recent deals of clients on
the wrong side of the market and fail
ure of these clients to cover margins
is assigned by President James F.
Witcher as the cause of the suspen-
sion
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State of Ohio, City of Toledo,

State of Ohio, City Of Toledo,
Lucas County, IS.
Frank j. Cheney makes oath
that he is senior partner of the
firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing
business in the city of Toledo,
county and state aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum of
one hundred dollars for each and
every case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by the use of Halls
Catarrh Cure.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and sub
scribed in my presence, this 9Th
day Of Decem Der, A. D. 1886.
| (SEAL) 4. W. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, and acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Send for testi-
monials free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for
] constipation.
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CAUSE PURELY ACCIDENTAL.
Ceiling Of Russian Parliament House
Collapses.

Collapses.
st. Petersburg, March 16.-The cell
OF the hall of the Taurida palace,
where the lower house of parliament
meets, collapsed at a. m. and caused
widespread wreckage.
Though many rumors were circulate
ed to the effect that the fall Of the
ceiling was the result of a plot to in
terfere with the meeting Of parliament
Its purely accidental character was
clearly established. An examination
showed that the nails and other fast
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be some special incentive, and the
head of the Salvation Army has
found it, or thinks he has found it,
in compulsory idleness at home,
and what he calls the "army spirit,
which is the spirit of God, pervad-
ing the colonizers."
Maybe so. Everyone viii hope so.
For London has much to gain and
little to lose by the exodus of
worlzmen she cannot employ, and
South Africa has correspondingly
much and little to gain and lose by
the appearance Of men and women
able and willing to work. But there
are Liberia and the New ZiOni
They, too, had everything in their
favor and nothing opposed. And
they failed-through a cause with
which even the spirit Of General
Booths army can hardly cope. 1t is
the average mans affection for his
home, his love for a country not in
the raw, and mis- yearning for
neighbOrs.
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PIums from the wonderful sugar plum
ApnIes and candles and things:
Daddy brings home IN his pockets for
Ships that can sail on a make-belieye
Little tin soldiers as brave as can be
And I I run run to explore them at night,
for I know
Most wonderful things may be hidden
below.
Sometimes it's chocolate and pepper
Or maybe a dolly that speaks;
But always I find something shiny and
A jack-in-a-box that jumps or. with a
Door
A little tin horn, painted red, white,
Or a BAH that is rubber and squeaks.
So delve in his pockets at night just
to see
What wonderful thing has been put
there for me.
The fairies have many strange places
they say,
To hide things for good little boys:
Where they put all their candies and
sweetmeats away,
Where they hide wondrous things at
the close Of the day,
Where the gingerbread horses and
sugar plums stay,
And also the brightest OF toys
And these wonderful places, so filed
with delight.
Are Just daddy's pockets, search every
night
Detroit Free Press.
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ne to Do Work.

source of the disease now
upon Washington IS the
slo between the Navy Yard and
Anacostia. Congress is believed to
be IN a mood to allow money for
the physical labor of recIaiming the
flats. That work has waiteu hereto
fore on an allowance asked by the
Commissioners for the employment
of special counsel to investigate the
title to the ground which will thus
be raised above the water level
If Congress viii grant that re-
quest, the inquiry can be conducted
at the same time the dredging is in
progress. If Congress viii not
grant it the work need not be de-
layed. No matter who owns the
ground, it is a breeding space for
disease, and the only way to eradi-
cate it is to dredge the channel and
lift the level of the fats at the cost
OF the Government.
This is the Judgment which
guided the Chamber of Commerce
when it considered this subject at
its meeting OF last Tuesday. If the
Chamber is resolute and energetic
it can obtain action along this line
at the forthcoming session OF Con-
gress
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is, What viii Congress do with the
commission idea? Win the Repub-
licans be influenced by the fact that
the idea has the enthusiastic in
dorsement of the National Associa-
fion of Manufacturers and other
national bodies, or win 1t lean to
the conservative position Of the
American Protective Tariff League?
There is a feeling here in Wash
ington that if President Roosevelt
says anything at all about the tariff
in his message to Congress it viii
be along the line of immediate re-
vision after March 4, 1909, with the
report Of a commission as the basis
of action. Five years ago, when,
owing to President McKinley's
power and popularity, the cause OF
tariff revision began to look Promis-
ing, Mr.. Roosevelt said, in a speech
at Logansport, Ind. that the tariff
ought to be treated as a business
proposition, irrespective of the
needs of any political party, and
that his personal preference would
be for action which would be taken
"only after preliminary inquiry by,
and upon the findings Of, a body Of
experts Of such high character and
ability that they could be trusted
to deal with the subject from The
standpoint of our business and in
dustrial needs; but, of course, Con-
gress would have TO determine the
exact methods to be followed"
If the President win now declare
il, favor Of the commission he then
described, it is believed he win re-
ceive the support Of some of the
most influential Republicans in Con-
gresS
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II the man can be forgiven-then
why not the woman" Such is the dar-
ing proposition involved in the radical
psychology OF Channng Pollock's new
play. Tile Secret Orchard" which will
nave its first presentation in Washing
ton at the Beiasco Theater next Mon
day night. The question Is PROFOUND
ed IN the case Of a young girl ignorant
Of the social law who commits but one
error and that out Of pure love. This
play asks another question equally vital
and that is sho> Id not mans digres-
sion from the path OF virtue bear equal
punishment with the wOman's2
The cast selected for THE Secret
Orchard Includes Vincent Serrano,
Adelaide Prince. Walter Hale, Olive
May. Edward r. MaWsOn, Josephine
Victor. Frank c Bangs, Henrietta Va
ders. r Newton LInde, Ida Lewis
Burke Clark and Frank Lamb.
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Lights and No Lights.

Suppose a man has invested a
thousand dollars IN some property
which he thinks worth while. Has
he right to have it protected2
Certainly he has, so long as he does
no injury TO anyone else.
Does it make any difference II
! that property has the form of a
vehicle propelled without the aid of
horses? The question is its own
answer.
Yet the law and the authorities Of
the District have apparently never
given a thought to the fact that
such property is every day exposed
to grave danger without the slight
est precaution to protect it. The
danger lies in the failure to require
that other vehicles than auto1ao-
biles shall carry lights.
Ask any auto driver. He win tell
you how often, how almost invari-
ably If the night is misty, he has
been just able to haul up in time
to save himself from going smash
into a farm or delivery wagon
as empty of lights as Egyp-
tan darkness. Fortunately, the
Government requires the automo-
bilist to carry a light on the tail
end of his car for fear somebody
may not be able to make out his
number when he has run into the
hay wagon or the freight van and
knocked himself unconscious.
Another queer phase Of the law
as it relates 20 automobiles is that
one law is made to apply to all
classes. Everything without a horse
in front switching his tail is an
automobile. Some automobiles go
too fast. Therefore, all Of them
shall be subjected to rigorous regu-
Iations. Everyone but the authori-
ties knows that there are cars oper-
ated by electricity which could not
by any conceivable possibility vio-
late the speed law. But this doesn't
make any difference; they are sub
ject to suspicion just the same, and
so more than one owner in this
town whose runabout couldn't VIC
late the law if it were worth
81, 900, 600 to him has been kaled into
court and fined for exceeding the
| speed limit.
Finally, there is yet another view
Cf our vehicle law which is mighty
interesting to study. Admit that
the automobiles are all dangerous,
are all in the hands of dangerous
men and women, and all need to be
hauled up every week to keep them
in line. Was there none of this ten
years ago, when automobiles were
almost unknown? And what has
been done to put the law at rights
with the careless drivers of horses
/ (who couldn't stop in thirty feet,
much less six, and who are this
year inficting many times over as
much injury and damage as all their
brothers Of the automobiles? Moth
ing. There couldn't be anything
done. The authorities have trouble
enough watching these pesly auto
cars.
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What Would They Do?


Conclusive evidence Is oHered JhaI
certain local agencies stand READY
to adopt any means TO defeat the
fuIhllment OF the LEnIant plan as
developed by the Park commission
To that end these agencies are now
engaged In fomentlng opposition 10
the plan IN Congress The cher
ground OF that opposition Is to be
that the report Of the Park Com
mission was not ordered Dy the
i'"''@"' 49, re contrary IL
distinct oppo-
amber.
OF be true. II
enough that
Ut; that thelr
uIt even II
Iheln inc
strength OF It's ehIlre lhnuehee-
The Times mas ALREADY com
mented upon the strange reasoning
that would reject any plans De
cause It was not satlsheo Win the
circumstance winch made the plans
possible Inc nauon might as wen
object to the constitution OF the
United States because 1t did not
like the call which produced the
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Burton Holmes in Berlin.

Berlin the Imperial" is the topic
chosen by Burton Holmes, the we'll
known lecturer on travel, with which
to inaugurate his series Of five new
lectures, which begin here az the Co
lumbia Theater next Sunday evening at
8.30. and which VIII be repeated on Mon
day afternoon at $3.50. Aside from the
usual interest and educational value, al
ways to be found ia the Travelogues. all
good citizens cannot fail 70 ind an added
value jn Mr. Holmes subjects this year,
as he lays especial stress upon the hv-
ableness and HkaDleness or municipal
government, and its beneficial results.