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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19
CASE IN PREPARATION.
Government to Proceed Against
the Harvester Trust.
MASS OF EVIDENCE SECURED

Department Of Justice and Bureau OF
Corporations BusiIy Engaged for .
Year Past In Investigating Conn.,
plants Of It's Operation.
Washington. Aug. ! Suit is to be
instituted by the government against
the International Harvester company
for alleged violation Of the Sherman
antitrust law. The papers In the pro-
posed action are being drawn at the
department of Justice and the indica-
lions are that the company. will be
hailed into court in the immediate fu-
ture. It Is likely the proceedings will
be begun in Chicago.
A year or more ago complaints Of
the operations Of the International
Harvester company reached the de-
partment Of Justice and agents Of the
department and Of the bureau Of cor
porations have accumulated mass Of
information on the subject. The evil
dence that the company has violated
the antitrust law is asserted to be
conclusive.
The investigation disclosed the fact
that the parent company controls
practically all Of the big reaper and
mower and thresher plants In the
country and that an apportionment Of
the country Is made among the vari-
GUS subsidiary concerns in such. q way
that no one will come into business
conflict with any other. It Is further
alleged. that PRICES of farm machinery
manufactured by the International
Harvester company are fixed by the
concern, and from those prices dealers
are not permitted to vary. In this
way and through its control Of the
many plants the company is able to
dictate the output of such machinery,
the parts; Of the country into. which
it shall 80 and the prices at which, It
shall be sold. These conditions apply,
It Is said, not only, to America, but to
foreign countries as we'll.
The operations of the company, as
viewed by officials of the department
Of justice, are In restraint of trade.
No intimation. Is given, of the date
of. the institution Of the governments
suit, but the delay will be only Incl
dental to the preparation Of the gov
ernnent's case
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19

The roof walls are entirely OF DUCK,
80 that on particularly warm nights
the roof can be drawn up. Both Mr..
and Mrs. FELTON, are firm believers IN
fresh air treatment as a prevention
~ all iilc
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WILL ENTERTAIN ROYALTY
Swedish Prince to Arrive at New York
In a Few DAYS.


New York, Aug. Interpretations
have been completed for the entertain
ment Of Prince Wilhelm Of Sweden.
who will arrive in few days. He is
a grandson of King Oscar Of Sweden
and son of the prince royal who will
succeed to the throne Of Sweden. The
prince Is bachelor of thirty-three
and an officer of the Swedish army.
The royal visitor will first proceed
to Norfolk for two days at the James
town exposition. The prince proceeds
thence to Newport, where, beginning
Aug. %, he will be the center of social
activity. =.
Visits to Boston and New England
towns will follow and Aug. 80 he will
meet the president at Oyster Bay.
The next few days will be spent In
New York and the prince will sail for
Sweden Sept. 3.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19
Fatal Automobile Accident.

s San Francisco, Aug. Six per.
sons were injured, one fatally, in an
automobile accident which occurred
about midnight in Golden Gate park.
The machine was going at a very rap.
i'd rate Of speed and. got beyond the
control of the chauffeur, George Har.
per. and plunged over an embankment
into a lake. Harper's skull was frac-
tured and his body was badly bruised.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19
CAPTIVE. Chief ESCAPES.

Renewal Of War In German Southwest
Africa Threatened.
Cape Town. Aug. i The Germans
are threatened with q revival Of the
instruction In their South African
territory. Jakob Morengo, the chief
who has caused them more trouble
than all the others combined and who
has been in the custody Of the British
since he sought refuge In Cape Col
ony after the last hostilities, has o.
capped, formed junction with another
chief from the German colony. and
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19
GREAT DAMAGE RESULTS.
Very Severe Storm Strikes Milwaukee
and Vicinity.

and Vicinity.
Milwaukee, Aug. 1 One of the
worst storms that ever visited this Sec
ton literally devastated farms in the
Vicinity of Brookfield Junction and
Eagle, Waukesha county, in addition
to causing considerable havoc in Mil
waukee and surrounding country.
Great trees that had withstood the
elements for fifty years and more
were moved down and corn fields
were dattened. Barns were wrecked
and near Brookfield one was turned
completely upside down. Houses were
turned and cattle killed.
Telephone and telegraph wires were
torn down and the supporting poles
were sprawled all over the roads so
as to interfere with the driving Of
vehicles. So far reports indicate no
loss of life.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19
Shoots Wife; Shot by Daughter.

New York, Aug. 1,.-George Was
ser, after an absence from home Of
four years, returned during the day,
shot his wife probably fatally and was
In turn shot and wounded in the head
by his daughter. Wasser upbraided
the former for having had him arrest
ed because he annoyed her and then
began shooting. t-> - i
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19
Pennsylvania Man Chosen.

Kansas City, Aug. 1i-H. A. Crow
Of. Connelsyille, Pa, former captain of
the Tenth Pennsylvania volunteer in
fantry, has been elected commander
in-chief of the Society Of the Army Of
the Philippines. The meeting next
year will be held at Galesburg. Ill.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19
JAPS Plan BIG RAID.
Concerted Attack on American
Seal Rookeries Reported.
CRUISER WILL GO TO SCENE
Guards on Duty Too Weak to Resist
Such an Invasion and Government
Decides to Dispatch the Cruiser
Buffalo to the North Pacific.

Such an Invasion and Government
Decides to Dispatch the Cruiser
Buffalo to the North Pacific.
Seattle, Wash, Aug. A plan to
make an organized raid upon the
Seattle rookeries Of the Pribyloff ISL
ands, to loot not only the rookeries
of. the seal herds of St. Paul and St..
George islands, but also the salt
houses where the Northwestern Trad
Ing and Transportation company, les
sors Of the Pribyloff rookeries, have
a large number of pelts sailed await
Ing shipment, has been discovered,
with the result that the United States
government has decided to dispatch
the cruiser Buffalo to Bevic. The
news was brought here by the sailing
schooner Vera, which has returned
from a hunting cruise in the North
Pacific. She reT o.ted that an arrange
ment had been reached by a number
OF Japanese sealing schOOners, each
Of which carried, besides their usual
armament used in hunting, one or
more machine guns on board, to unite
in making concerted raid on the ISL
ands. The guards are all too weak
to resist such an invasion.
The Vera spoke to the Japanese
sealer Kinsei in Northern waters and
learned from her that she would take
part In the raids. The sealers on board
said that thirty-three schooners were
to come to the Behring sea this win
ter and would make a dash on the
islands, club the seals on the rocker
les and loot the salt houses. A raid
on Copper island was also contem-
n1ato6
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nesen, AnII-MaTFIaae Edici
elsamlst Given Choice Of Wives,

New York, Aug 1I.-Justice War
rem G. Foster Of general sessions has
just disposed Of bigamy case in
highly unusual fashion, suspending
sentence on the bigamist and allow
ing him to choose which wife he
would live with after the prisoner had
promised to support both women.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19
DIsordsrly Month In Russia.

st. Petersburg, Aug. 1v.-1t ia re-
ported that 274 persons throughout
the Russian empire were exiled for
political offenses during July. It is
also stated officially that 81 Russian
officers and 95 priyates were killed
and AZ officers and 81 privates were
wounded while maintaining order dur.
Ing the same month.
nesen. AnII-MaTrIage Edicf.
Appleton, Wis. Aug. Fearing
that men with matrimonial intentions
will no longer seek their company be-
cause Of the wide publicity given the
speech Of s. R. Wagg. who advised
the finishing and cutting girls of his
plant. the Fox River paper mill of
this city, to stay single. the female
employees Of the mills Of the Fox riv-
er valley are leaving their places by
the score and the employers may face
a serious situation If the denuding
OF the mills continue.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19
DEMAND, PROMPT REVISION
Manufacturers Want Non-Partisan
Commission Named.

Commission Named.
- New York, Aug. / The National
Association Of Manufacturers, an Or
ganization Of some 1000 manufacture
ers, publishes in the current, Issue Of
its official organ, American Industries,
tariff "creed" emphasizing the reso-
luton In favor Of immediate tariff re-
vision, unanimously passed at a recent
convention. The association holds that
present tariff schedules are unequal
and demands the immediate, appoint
ment by congress and the executive
Of non-partisan commission COM
posed of men thoroughly competent
to eQualize present schedules.
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Contains a Secret Clause,

Toxic, Aug. 1t is believed here
that the, Russo-Japaneses treaty in
cludes a, clause, which has not been
published, specifically defining the re-
spective spheres of influence Of the
two countries. Under this clause it
Is reported that portion of the Sun
gari river is placed within Japan's
sphere by modifying the exclusive
rights of navigating that stream,
which were conferred on Russia by
the treaty. of Aigun. -. ..
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19
DINEDs At PUBLIC EXPENSE

Investigation.
-
Boston, Aug. IAN investigation
into the accounts of eight members
Of the executive council has been be-
gun by District Attorney Moran. r..
Mr.. Moran stated that his action
was prompted by the belief that the
council had incurred great expenses
In connection with the alleged custom
OF, taking luncheon at hotel after
their regular weekly meetings.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19

A man with curly hair has as
many excuses for keeping his hat off
as bald man has for keeping his
on.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19

1t wouldn't be so bad if people
who say they have nothing to say
would only let it 20 at that.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19

The London Star, anent the Hay
wood verdict, says it is clear that the
United States cannot digest ITSELF"
Well, we digested England twice,
all right.
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ONE THOUSAND b KILLED.
First Reports From Casa Blanca Wore
Greatly Exaggerated.

Fret Reports From Casa Blanca Wore
Greatly Exaggerated.
Casa Blanca, Morocco, Aug. H.
The town Is quiet and business is be-
ilS transacted The number Of per-
sons Killed in and about. CASA Blanca
has been greatly exaggerated. Prob
ably about 1000 men were killed, the
majority being Arabs. The town is
now completely under the control of
the French and Spanish authorities
end NO further trouble inside need be
feared. French troops to the number
az 5000 are camped about mile to
~ easts Of Casa Blanca. Their out
pests are IN touch with the .Moors and
continual .sltirmishing H. taking place.
Five hundred Spanish troops arrived
hare Thursday and more French and
Spanish troops are expected within
fHr days.
The MQors have received large re-
in1oroements and the authorities hear
that they are planning great attack
On Casa blanca.
Paris. Aug. 1.-THE governments
aAvices from Fee indicate that the
measures taken to assure the safety of
TIA. Europeans are ample.
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ITS all right to judge man by the
company he keeps, but it isn't fair
to judge a woman by the company
she is forced to entertain.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19
MAKES WORK EASIER
Bemidji People Are Pleased to Learn
How 1t Is Done

It's pretty hard to attend to duties
With a constantly aching back;
With annoying urinary disorders.
Doan's Kidney Pills make work
easier.
They cure backache.
They cure every kidney ill.
Frank Howes, engineer on the
Milwaukee K. R., 3O11 Cedar Ave-,
Minneapolis, Mimi, says: I used
Doan's Kidney Pills in the fall of
1899 with beneficial results. Like
most railroad men, continual jar and
jolting brought on kidney troubles.
bad pain in my back and loins. /
doctored without success until I pro-
cured Doan's Kidney Pills at drug
store. They soon cured me and
there has been no sign Of return"
For.sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Froster- Milbnrn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name Doan's s
and take no other.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19

A trusted English duke speaks of
his American finance" He un-
doubtedly means fnancier.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19

If you don't believe that men are
just as curious as women, tie up one
Of your fingers and pour liniment
over it.
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OBSERVATIONS.

A woman admires her husband
fom a sense of duty.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-08-19

In his denunciation of the univer.
sity it is highly probable, that Mr..
Darrow had Chancellor Day, of SYRIA
cuse, wildly in mind.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07
WAS 1T NOT MADNESS?

Much has been said about "the
strenuous life" and "the simple life"
Not long ago the newspapers were full
of these two extremes. It remains for
a new author, not necessarily Of eth
er the presidential or theological va
riety, to write a book about "the
crooked life" After that "the straight
life' could be made very effective
subject
The crooked life, as it appears to
the Tribune, is the life that is grow
ing into great prominence these days,
and is ever apt to wind up with jolt
against some very thick, hard wall, af-
ter circulating into an unclean and
confusing cul de sac.
It is hard to conceive of men, and
women too, who so far lose all sense
of those general obligations owed by
everyone to society," as deliberately to
make up their minds to forsake alto
gether the straight path Of rectitude
and honest living laid out by all the wis
dom of the centuries, and determine
to live by their wits in the exercise of
every available illegitimate scheme to
swindle those with whom they come
in contact. They scorn the voice of
conscience, the still, small voice that
calls from the image of God that is
in them, and hearken instead to the
strident cry of that rebellious, self
assertive, diabolica1 spirit that fell
from Heaven to the fires of He'll
Tampa (Fla.) Tribune
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07
Mr.. ROOSEVELT STANDS PAT.

1. BY the needless taxes on the ne
cessaries of living. By the taxes on
lumber and it's products, which act
as premium on the destruction of
the forests he is trying to save. By
the taxes on fuel, which protect the
coal mine owners in the eXtortiOn
which inspires him with the notion
Of government ownership. BY the tax
es on hides and on meats which boil
ster up the beef trust he has so vigor-
ously assailed.
2. By the taxes on the mar rials of
home industry, from the metal for
tools and machinery to the thread Of
the sweat-shop sewing girl BY the
taxes that enable foreign capital to
fatten on the needs of American work
ingmen, while domestic monopolies ex-
act from American industries prices
80 per cent and 40 per cent higher
than they offer to foreigners.
And he stands pat by these curious
ly unreasonable and eXtortionate ex-
actions solely because they are not so
unpopular as the evils-real or imag-
inary-which he prefers to attack.
1t is easier and simpler to assail
swollen fortunes" than to attempt a
practical reform of taxation which
helps, at the expense of the common
people, to produce swollen fortunes.
We are far from accusing Mr.. Roose-
velt of conscious preference for the
ways a demagogue might naturally
choose to follow. His experience, his
somewhat one-sided education, his de-
votion to politics and relative unfa-
miliarity with practical business on the
economic side Of legislation, incline
him to the path he pursues and di-
vert him from one more difficult and
statesmanlike. The real results are
marked waste of energy on his part
and an unwholesome security for or
ganized and unscrupulous monopoly
N. Y. Times.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07

piled was given out yesterday by
railroad man, who sought to mitigate
the offense which all now agree was
committed in the paragraph of the
Baer letter which reads:
I'VE are given to understand that
election promises were made which
have committed the dominant party to
the passage of law limiting passen-
ger rates to 2 cents per mile. l as
sumo that these prediction promises
while we'll enough intended-are
subject to reconsideration by men who
have assumed official responsibility"
Many Baerisms Cut Out.
From the same source, it was learn
ed that. as originally drafted by Mr..
Baer and submitted to his confrers,
Baer and submitted to his confrerees,
more rabid, than the text which was
finally given to the Legislature. 1t was
fairly bristling with Baerisms.
One president cut out a paragraph
here; another toned down a sentence
there; third advised further modifi-
cation or omission, until, at last, they
all said it would do, and the letter
was sent to the printer.
So the earnest request to the mem
bers of the legislature that they per-
jure their souls and trample underfoot
their promises to the people was not
the effusion of one man, for whose
sincere but pronounced bias the public
has always made more or less allow
ance; it was the serious consensus of
opinion of the great railroad leaders
of Pennsylvania, sitting in calm judg-
ment and putting their theories of
vested rights" into the most plausible
and attractive form.-Pennsylvan
North American.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07

days when he paid no taxes, no inter-
est to capitalists, and had neither rail-
roads nor trusts to oppress him. II
Mr.. Wiltshire thinks he could do it, no
doubt there are plenty Of benevolent
plutocrats who would be glad to stake
him to 100 acres of government land.
There is no better test of any mans
personal productive capacity than the
sort of living he is able to dig out
of the soil with his own hands.-N. Y.
World.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07
THE TWo-HoUR DAY.

Replying to one of Mr.. Mallock's lee
lures on socialism Gaylord Wiltshire
repeats the stock argument that "un-
der the socialistic method of distribu-
tion about two hours day is all that
would necessarily be required to give
a man a fair living"
The cliff-dweller and the cave man
by compelling the women to do most
of the work managed to gain what
they considered "a fair living by
as little effort as the socialistic millen-
mum will require. The time spent
in the chase by the North American
Indian probably did not average more
than two hours a day, but he was for
tunate in having an Industrious and
well-trained squaw Certain inhabitants
of the banana belt have likewise realiz-
ed the socialistic two-hour day, but
It is gravely to be doubted if Mr..
Wiltshire would be satisfied with their
standard Of living. Many of the gen.
tlemen who have apartments in the
Bowery lodging-houses have already
adjusted their affairs to the socialistic
maximum Of productive effort, but they
represent the only type of white men
that has ever been able to do it.
Like all socialists, Mr.. Wiltshire as
sumes that the great mass Of the peo-
pie have to work eight and ten hours
a day because capitalists seize most
of the products Of labor. But If Mr.
ROckefe11er'S annual income Of $50
100000 were distributed pro rata the
per capita increase in income would
be about cent and a half a week.
IF the combined incomes of Mr. Rookie
feller, Mr.. Carnegie, Mr.. Morgan and
Mr.. Hartman were conflscated and
distributed each inhabitant OF the
country would have about three cents
a week more than he is getting Even
this princely increase would hardly
Justify the head Of the family in work
ing half-time while he devoted the 9TH
er twenty hours to sleep and the i'm
provement of his mind.
IF Mr.. Wiltshire or any other socialist
actually believes that a standard of liv-
ing approaching civilization could
be maintained If nobody worked more
than two hours a day we should like
to see him try it. No farmer was
ever able to do 1t, even In pioneer
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07
REAL ESTATE.

Those desiring to move to South
Georgia, the most prosperous section
Of the state, can secure bargains In
city property, farm lands, saw mill or
turpentine sites, by writing to
C. c. TYLER,
Box 272, MouItrIe, Ga.
Weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-03-07
SENATOR HAlLEY's sELF-coN-
DEMNING DEFENCE,

OSHdCor Joseph w. Bailey, or I0XaS,
has confessed to practically every
charge made against him. His own
statement before the investigating
committee of the Texas legislature
condemns him.
He admits that he borrowed $4,000
of Henry Clay Pierce, then president
OF the Waters-Pierce Oil Company. At
a later date he drew on Pierce for ST.
800. He had to confess these charges.
They had been proved by this news
paper.
Bailey likewise confesses that after
borrowing the $4,000 he returned to
Texas and urged Attorney General
Smith to reinstate the Waters-Pierce
concern in Texas, from which it had
been expelled.
Having convicted himself out of his
own mouth, Mr.. Bailey offered de-
fence so feeble that it will excite de-
rision. 1t was, first, that the president
OF the Waters-Pierce Company had
convinced him that that concern was
not connected with Standard Oil, and,
second, that he had paid back the
money.
In. luch as the state of Texas had
excluded the Waters-Pierce Company
for specific and proved violation of
the law, in which it had shown itself
connected with the Standard, Mr..
Bailey seemed most easily convinced
AS to the claim that he paid back the
money advanced by Pierce, Bailey's
statement is refuted by the fact thai
the amounts are charged off to "profI
and loss" on the books of the com
pany. Such entries are not made on
accounts that have been settled. They
are made only on debts that are hope
lessly bad or for any other reason
are not expected to be paid.
Two of Bailey's associates in this
nefarious deal have already suffered
some punishment for their acts.-
Thomas Smith, the attorney general
who was persuaded by Bailey to move
for the reinstatement of the Waters
Pierce Company, was politically ruin
ed by his connection with the case.
Henry Clay Pierce was recently m
dicted for perjury by the grand jury
at Austin. In 1900, when, by Baileys
help, he deceived the people of Texas,
and was again permitted to do busi-
ness in the state, Pierce swore that
his concern had no connection with
Standard Oil.
1t is for this oath that Pierce was
indicted. 1t is for this also that ex-
tradition papers have been applied for
to the governor of Missouri.
Much as Pierce would like to go to
ST. Louis and testify before the sub
committee in behalf of his friend Bal
ley, he is hardly likely to do so under
the circumstances. The Standard
Oils agility in lodging subpoenas will
naturally be increased in lodging ar
rest.
Smith and Pierce have been con-
demned. Is Bailey, who is more gull
ty than either, in that he betrayed
higher and more sacred trust, to be
permitted to escape?-New York
American.
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PRESIDENTS OF STATE RAILWAYS