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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-17
IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
Commissioner Garfield Favors Arbi
trating Labor Disputes.

Commissioner Garfield Favors Arbi
trating Labor Disputes.
Washington, Jan. Thames r.
Garfield, commissioner of corporations,
appeared before the house committee
On interstate and foreign commerce
in support of the Townsend bill, which
provides for the appointment by the
president Of commissions to arbitrate
controversies concerning wages or
hours of employment which affect the
transportation of mails and interstate
commerce.
When asked to cite recent cases
where such commission would, in
his opinion, have been effective in
settling disputes Mr.. Garfield said he
believed that both the teamsters'
strike and the strike Of packers EN-
ployes in Chicago would have been
settled before assuming such serious
proportions
Mr.. Garfield advocated publicity as
an effective feature & investigations
In clearing up injustices and in,
stanced the Standard Oil investigation
as an example Of it's great value. In.
dependent oil operators, Mr.. Garfield
said, have told him recently that for
the first time in twenty years they
are free from determinations.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-17
Women Who Wear Well.

It is astonishing how great change q
few years Of married life often make in
the appearance and disposition of many
women. The freshness, the charm, the
brilliance vanish like the bloom from q
peach which is rudely handled. The
matron is only dim shadow, faint echo
of the charming maiden. There are two
reasons for this change, ignorance and
neglect. Few young women appreciate
the shock to the system through the
change which comes with marriage and
motherhood. Many neglect to deal with
the unpleasant pelvic drains and weak
nesses which too often come with mar
riage and motherhood, not understanding
that this secret drain is robbing the cheek
of it's freshness and the form of it's
fairness.
AS surely as the general health suffers
when there Is Infringement of the health
OF the delicate woman'x organs, so surely
whee these organs are>esta blished in
heal>b the fece and<ofmat once witness
to the fact in fet9wed come lmssA Nearly
million women have found health and
happiness in the use Of DR.: Pierce's Fa-
yorlte PrescriptiQn,, 1t makes weak wom-
en- strong and sick women we'll. Ingredi-
ents on label-contains no alcohol or
harmful habit forming drugs. Made
wholly OF those native, American, medic
ina! roots most highly recommended by
leading medical authorities of all the sew
eral schools Of practice for the cure of
wqman's peculiar ailments.
For nursing mothers, or for those broken
down in health by too frequent bearing of
children, ALSO for tho e1pectant mothers,
to prepare the system }6f the coming Of
baby and making its. advent easy and
almost painless, there ia 40 medicine quite
so good as rFavorite Prescription It
can do no harm In any condition OF the
system. It is most potent invigorating
tonic and Strengthening nervine nicely
adapted to woman's delicate system by a
physician of large experience in the treat
ment OF woman's peculiar ailments.
Or. Pierce may be consulted by letter
fnvalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute.
Buffalo, N. Y.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-17
GLAD TO RETURN TO MINNESOTA.

The identity of the author of
the subjoined article has been
lost in the various reproductions,
but there is much that is truth
full in it:
occasionally a man gets dis
satisfied with Minnesota. The
milk is too yellow or the honey
too sweet and be doesn't like to
have them flow over his land.
Anyway he parts with his farm,
sells his live stock and other art
icles too numerous to mention
and moves out west. Then he
takes his good Minnesota money
and buys a farm, which is today,
and tomorrow is not, or he tries
Colorado and slouches around in
the mud irrigating a strip so
narrow that a COW couldn't jump
in field because she jumps over
it. Then he hears of Texas and
goes down to hunt the bag of
gold on the rainbow. In the day
time he scratches sand burs out
of his flesh and at night the tar
antulas nibble at his feet and the
centipedes crawl on his face.
When his money is gone he feels
like he did on the first night he
stayed away from home. He
yearns for dear old Minnesota
and the yearn sticks in his
throat and chokes him until tears
come to his eyes. He would give
a months work to see the old
Minnesota farm and hear the
horn blow for SUPPER
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-17
CONFINED TO THE HARBOH
Only Small Portion of Kingston Swep.
by Fire.

by Fire.
London, Jan. 1.-THE destruction
wrought by the earthquake at King
confagration, according to an official
telegram received at the colonial
Office, was by no means so widespread
as indicated in the first reports.
Although the total number Of killed
and wounded has not yet been ascer-
tanned apparently it is not very large
and only a small portion of the city,
including, however, wharves and ware
houses, suffered from the fire that fol-
lowed the earthquake. The greater
number Of casualties seemingly was
in the camp hospital, where thirty
colored soldiers were killed.
The Colonial bank of Kingston was
burned down. The vaults with the
books and cash are safe and the mem.
bers of the staff escaped uninjured.
The telegram, which was sent by
Governor Swettenham, is as follows:
Severe earthquake shock caused
considerable damage to houses at
which continues, though it is confined
to about one-sixteenth part of the
town, containing wharves and ware
houses. The camp hospital was de-
stroyed and thirty men were killed.
There were no officers among them.
Major Headyman was seriously in
jured. The town hospital is crowded
with some 300 injured persons. The
fire is now decreasing. The Myrtle
Bank hotel has been destroyed and
also the cable Office. The conference
delegates and the members of Sir
Alfred Jones' expedition are believed
to be uniniured and are now on board
the Port Kingston in the harbor. Num-
bers were killed or wounded, but the
figures have not yet been ascertained.
Slighter shocks continue"
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The London Express. in an
article giving comparisons of the
wealth of the United States and
other countries, says that the
wealth of Great Britain is in
creasing at the rate of 100000
weekly, while that Of the United
States is growing at the rate of
$1O,O0O,O00 daily. Editorially it
declares that if the British would
cast off the letters of 3 WORKOUT
commercial system they would
prosper like the Americans and
regain their old supremacy.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-17

The Crookston Journal OF
yesterday has an article in it's
state press department which it
enormously credits to the Bel.
trami Co. News. It happens that
the article appeared in the Times
of Jan. 9Th, but that the News
overlooked the little matter OF
saying so. We suggest to the
Journal that it need not 20
through the neighbours yard
when it wishes to borrow our
editorial pabulum.-C~ooksto
Times.
The above spasm Of virtuous
indignation is certainly amusing
In times gone by (pretty recently
too) the news editor of the Times
has taken many articles bodily
from the columns of the Pioneer
and handed it out to Times read
ers as simon pure news matter
originating in tho Times news
service; and, with a reckless
abandon that savors OF the "pir-
ate" there has never been any
credit given to the Pioneer, whose
reportorial hustler "dug up" the
item.
1t often depends whose bunion
is being trod on, as to the extent
of the consequent howl.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-17

your house. Gro ,kston Times.
And next we may expect to
hear that the skin Of the snake
that tempted Mother Eve has
been found at Kelliher. All
things are possible at that hust,
ling place, so long as Mayor
"Bill" Lennon and Peter Larkin
are in business in that "neck O.
the woods" ...
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-17
SWEDISH PARLIAMENT OPENS,
Speech From Throne Foreshadows I'm.
portant Legislation.

. speech from throne FOreShadOWS I'm.
portant Legislation.
Stockholm, Jan. 1.-THE Swedish
parliament was formally opened dur.
ing the day with a speech from the
throne delivered by Crown Prince Gus
tave in his capacity as regent. After
a reference to the gratifying change
for the better in the condition of his
father, King Oscar, and the good reJa-
lions existing between Sweden and
the foreign powers, the crown prince
discussed the domestic affairs of the
kingdom. The principal legislation
foreshadowed in the speech was a
comprehensive electoral reform meas
ure. introducing universal suffrage
and limiting the election of members
of the house to period of six years.
Municipal franchises also will be ex-
tended so as to include wider sections
of the community. Other bills to be
introduced provide for the establish
ment Of a naval station on the island
Of Lindiugo, the establishment of a
free port and warehouses at some
point not yet announced and the utili.
cation of hydraulic power Of the wa
terfalls of Sweden.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-17
TYpHOON IN PHILIPPINES
ONE HUNDRED PERSONS PER.
lsH ON THE ISLAND OF
LEYTE ALONE.


Manila, Jan. 1.-THE islands of
Leyte and samar were swept by a
typhoon Jan. 10.
One hundred lives were lost on the
island Of Leyte.
The barracks and officers quarters
on the east coast of Samar were de-
stroyed
No estimate of the damage to prop
erty has yet been made. No damage
to shipping is reported.
The storm is the worst that has
occurred within the last ten years.
Communication with Leyte and Sa-
mar has been cut off for the last six
days.
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BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

Prices of rubber goods have been
advanced per cent by the United
States Rubber company.
The most severe sleet storm IL
twenty years prevailed Wednesday In
Kansas and the northern portion Of
Missouri
About 1000 immigrants who have
been granted free passage are await.
Ing transportation from Malaga, Spain.
to New Orleans.
Chief of Police James Daley Of Red
Wing, Mimi, wounded in an attempt
to arrest an insane man Monday night
Is dead Of his wounds.
In the interstate commerce hearing
at Spokane, WASH, Wednesday thu
railroads defended their policy Of
charging higher freight rates from
Eastern points to Spokane than to the
coast cities.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-17
STOCK LOSS WILL BE HEAVY.
Conditions on Montana Range the
Worst Ever Known.


Worst Ever Known.
Glendive, Mont, Jan. 17.-The range
conditions in this section of Montana
are said to be the worst in the history
of the country. The range is covered
with snow from a depth of ten inches
to three feet. In the Big Dry and
Missouri river country the snow is
fully three feet deep, one foot of which
fell in November.
A rain in early December fell on
this snow, making a crust which holds
up team. Stock in that country that
is not supplied with food and shelter
will be a total loss. Sheepmen will
suffer the heaviest, as horses and cat
tie can be driven out to some extent.
The sheepmen in this immediate
section are all pretty we'll supplied
with food and those who are not are
trailing to the railroad as fast as pos
sible. The temperature is about Sc
degrees below zero.
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ALL THINGS POSSIBLE AT KELLIHER.

Kelliher may be forced to 'get
off the earth," owing to rich
deposits of iron ore recently dis
covered there. The village of
Sparta was shunted to one side
recently for the same reason.
Rather unusual conditions to
have your cellar worth more than
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-17
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, Jan. 16.-Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No. 1 hard, 79c; No
Northern, 7SRc; No. Northern
761ac; May, 7Shc; July, 1910. Flax
TO arrive, on track and in store
$1.19; JAM, $1.1S%; May, $1.22; July,
$1.22A.
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Minneapolis Wheat.

Minneapolis, Jan. 16.-Wheat- May
1910; July, 1870. On track-No.
hard, $3.50; No. 1 Northern, 1850;
No. Northern, 77asc; No. 3 North
ern, 74h@75hc.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-17
Fairbanks Arrest Ordered.

Steubenville, O., Jan. II. Sheriff
Worries has sent telegram to the
sheriff of Clark county, at Springfield,
o., to place Frederick G. Fairbanks,
son of Vice President Fairbanks, un-
der arrest following his indictment
here by the grand jury for perjury in
connection with his procuring a H.
cense to marry Helen Scott, daughter
of the millionaire ironmaster, James
Scott of Pittsburg.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-17
OUTLOOK is SERIOUS.
Flood Conditions Prevail Along the
Ohio River.

Et00A Sou0IIIOuS TTSSdii AlOnS Ino
Ohio River.
Cincinnati, Jan. 17.-Flood condi-
lions are reported at all points be-
tween Point Pleasant and Cincinnati
by the weather bureau. At Point
Pleasant the stage of the river was
five feet above the danger line and in
this city it was 51.7, or nearly two feet
above the danger point. The weather
observer announced that the outlook
was very serious. For distance Of
400 miles the Ohio is reported at flood
stage and still rising.
Local forecast officials predict that
the river will pass fifty-six feet here.
A stage of fifty-six feet will cripple
business seriously in the bottoms. Al
ready one factory-the Globe Soap
company-has been forced to shut
down. Two hundred and fifty employees
are out. Water is in the cellars Of
more than 800 business houses run
ming from the river front to Second
street in the down town section.
Evansville, Ind, Jan. 17-Boats
have been using the new channel cut
, by the high water in the Ohio river.
The stream may permanently change
it's course and if it does Evansville will
be left high and dry. The high water
threatens the waterworks.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-17
FRIEND TO FRIEND

The personal recommendations of PEG
pie who have been cured of coughs and
colds by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
have done more than all else to make it a
staple article of, trade and commerce owe,
g large part of the civilized world.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-17

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablet
u druggists refund money If it fails to cure. =
3W.dROVES signature Is on each box. CSC.
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SAYS HUNDREDS ARE DEAD.
Dispatch From United States Consul
at Kingston.

Washington, Jan. 1.-THE following
cablegram was received at the state
department from the United States
consul at Kingston:
Fearful earthquake, followed by
fire. Kingston destroyed. Hundreds
OF lives lost. Food badly wanted"
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BRIEF BITS OF NEWS.

The work Of laying the walls of the
new capitol of Wisconsin was begun
Tuesday. The building is to cost be-
tween $4,00O,000 and s6,O00,OOO.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-01-17

WANTED: For the u. S. Mar
inc Corps, men between the
ages 81 and IS. An oppor
tunity to see the world. For
full information apply in per-
son or by letter to Marine Re-
cruting Office 2G8 third street
Bemidji, MINI.
The Yale expositor., 1907-08-16
Ann Arbor House Robbers.

A series of the boldest burglaries
in the annals of Ann Arbor have led
residents to sleep with one eye open
at night and to chain their bulldogs
in the Railways during the daytime.
Hardly day or night has passed dur
ing the last ten days without en-
frances into one or two houses Of
the city.
One of the men has done his work
by stealth during the day, getting into
the homes by some excuse or other
and walking out shortly afterward
with valuables and cash. At one time
he was seeking a room in the students
quarter, and at another he was tele-
phone repair man. About the same
time came reports from a house near
the city where the occupants had been
chloroformed while the place was
robbed
The most recent depreciation is the
burglarizing of the large residence Of
Mrs. Mary Mcclure on Huron street.
The entire house was ransacked. The
family is away, and how much was
stolen is not known. The police have
no clues.
The Yale expositor., 1907-08-16
THE STATE IN
GENERAL
A NEW PRIMARY ELECTION BILL
TO CORRECT DEFECTS
IN OLD.
UP TO SPECIAL SESSION.
No Political Policy in II, But the Leg
ielature May Fix That Part OF II
Before Passage.
Seems a Good Bill.

Attorney General Bird has prepared
a primary election bill in which he
has endeavored to smooth out the
imperfections in the present law and
to simplify every provision to which
the attention of the department has
been challenged.
Michigan should have good
workable, consistent primary law IL
II is to have direct nominations" said
Deputy Attorney General Chase to-
day, "and in this bill the department
thinks 1t has accomplished the object
sought. Every one will be able to un-
derstand it and work under it with
out the necessity of constantly asking
for instruction.
Those questions of political policy,
such as the nomination of United
States senators and the 40 per cent
clause, have been left for the legisla-
ture to insert If IL desires to do so. We
haven't made any attempt to favor or
oppose any interest or faction, but to
eradicate some OF the incongruous
provisions of the present act, and
make it. more generally effective. II
merely simplifies and makes plain the
present statute.
IF the legislature in special session
desires this bill the department will
furnish it."
The Yale expositor., 1907-08-16
DESTRUCTION
WAS SUDDEN
EXPLOSION WRECKED ESSEX
KILLED TWO, WOUNDED
MANY.
NITRoGLYCERIN DID 1T.
Carload Lets Go SCATTERING Nearly
Every Building in the Town and
Shock 10 Felt for Miles.

A car of nitroglycerin was side
tracked Friday night near the freight
sheds in Essex, Ontario, and was to
have been taken to Amherstburg on a
plug train which was due to leave
Essex at $50 a. m. Saturday. The
train was being made up and the car
containing the nitroglycerin had been
attached to the engine with coal
car behind it, an empty freight car
and one passenger car. The train was
due to leave in Is minutes. Brakeman
Joe McNary discovered that some
glycerin was leaking from the car and
he started to open the car and stop
the leak. Just then the explosion oc-
Cured.
With a terrific noise, and a shock
that was felt as far away as Detroit,
and several miles beyond, houses,
churches, stores and factories reeled
and collapsed. The fine, new stone
depot was blown open and only the
side walls and the rafters are left.
The freight sheds are leveled to the
ground. Green's warehouse fell fiat.
NAogiOA min Ndo COhNClNCu lhlO a
bunch of kindling Laing & Ritchie's
sash and door mill doubled up like a
jackknife and fell on its side.
Freight cars were demolished, the
engine and tender of the train were
converted into scrap iron. The entire
village of Essex of $500 people were
panic-stricken. Their houses were fall
ing about their heads. They knew not
what had happened, but they did
know that their homes and all they
possessed were in ruins.
Men, women and children rushed
into the streets cut by broken glass
and falling timbers, and everywhere
ruin and the shattered remnants of
their town was before them. All the
doctors of the city and the firemen
rushed to the depot and with every
step their progress grew more and
more difficult over the piles OF wreck
age, until at the very center of the
disaster, they had to stop at a great,
clean hole in the ground, so feet
across and 20 feet deep.
That was where the Inflated car
had stood. Nothing Of the car or of
the rails 1t had stood upon were left
Two hundred feet away Burt Essel-
tyn, teamster for Laing & Richie,
staggered up with a crushed face to
find his horse lying dead close by,
with a piece of railroad track shot
through his body. Almost every build
ing in the town is shattered, and with
in a radius of 800 yards from the de-
pot everything is in a state of total
destruction.
The reports on Sunday were that
the seventeen injured people were
resting as comfortably as could be
expected. The town was in the hands
of the police and all drinking places
closed Sunday. The scene of wreck
and ruin cannot be described. The
water works system was destroyed.
The steeples of churches were razed
The municipal building was greatly
damaged. Not a store on Talbot street
the main street-sustained less than
half it's value In damage. Jewelry,
furniture, hardware, baked goods, dry
goods-all were hurled into the streets
and piled on the floors of the stores,
while all around plate glass cracked
to the step and stuck up in menacing
piles In the streets.
The Yale expositor., 1907-08-16
Found His Wife At Last.

After travelling thousands of miles
In pursuit of his wife, and spending
a large part of FIVE years in the search,
Augustus Wilson, a Port Huron de-
tective, has located her in Pontiac,
only to find her the wife of another
man. This morning Charles Phil
brook. aged 40, who says he married
her fifteen months ago at Sandwich,
Ont. was arrested and lodged in jail,
and a warrant will be served on Mrs.
Wilson as soon as she RECEIVERS from
an illness.
Wilson charges that his wife de-
serted him while they were living in
Port Huron. He returned home one
evening TO find she had taken her
posses dons and fed. He followed her
to Pittsburg, and after a desperate
search of the city found where she
had lived. She had gone before he
arrived. He says he then spent three
years travelling about the east and
middle west, hoping to find her and
induce her to return to Port Huron.
Several times he secured traces of
Mrs. Wilson, but she always had left
before he arrived at the house where
she was living.
About two years ago he gave up
what he considered a hopeless search
and returned to Port Huron. Recently,
through friend, he learned that she
was in Pontiac. and hurried there, to
find her living with Philbrook.
Wilson declares that If the Sand
witch marriage is recognized here he
will prosecute his wife on a bigamy
charge.
The Yale expositor., 1907-08-16
FIENDISH.
The Work Of a Murderous Brute In
PetoskeY.


Petoskey.
One woman bound to the railroad
tracks and left there until train
severed her head from the body and
another attacked In her bedroom.
chloroformed and tied TO her bed. is
Sunday nights record in Petoskey.
The city Is deeply stirred by the hor.
rible crimes and police officers and
the sheriff's deputies are bending
every effort to capture the perpetra-
tor.
Early Monday morning the body OF
an unknown colored woman was found
on the Grand Rapids a. Indiana rail-
road tracks near the Petoskey brew
cry. She had evidently been attacked
before, as severe bruises we're found
on her body and her clothes had been
badly torn. The woman. while uncon-
scious, had been bound to the tracks
with her head strapped on the rails.
An early morning train cut on the
head Workmen at the brewery made
the horrible discovery shortly after
ward.
About o'clock a. m. Fred Mitten-
derg, bartender. returned from his
work and found his wife bound on the
loor of their bedroom, tied TO the bed
stead and under the influence of chic
reform She said that she had been
awakened while the chloroform was
being administered. Her assailant
stood over her with a revolver and she
feared to scream. She could give no
description of him. Mrs. Mittenderg is
in a serious condition.
The Yale expositor., 1907-08-16

Secretary Cortelyou has revised the
red tape system of the treasury de-
partment and disbursing officers here
after will nave 10 submit balances TO
auditors. Tney must also discontinue
their present practice Of getting re-
ceipts In advance of payments.