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Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-13
COUNTY NEEDS
 MORE RAILROADS

future.
 Of recent years the public seems to have come to the conclusion that men with bulging bank accounts are waiting eagerly for an opportunity to put money into railroad securities, though the control of the railroads is taken from them, and though other people who have no interest in them are given authority to fix the rates at which they can do business. The idea is very fallacious. The capital needed for railroad expansion is not going to seek railroad investment, but railroad men must seek capital with diligence. As a field for invest ment the railroad is no longer an at ractive proposition, and this, too. comes at a time when never in our history do we so much need money for railroad expansion. It is quite within bounds to say that during the next five or six years this country ought to spend $1, 1,500, 100000 a year in the enlargement of railroad facili- ties. We ought within the next five or ten years to put one-half as much money into the enlargement of rail road facilities as the total amount now epresented in all the stocks and bonds of the railroads of the country Where is so vast a sum to come from? If it should not come, then business would be halted, railroad ia cilities will grow steadily worse in. stead of better, and the country will suffer as it has suffered for the last few years because the railroads were unequal to the volume of traffic The rr,4 de ffa d0 fr1 and justly so, at the disastrous rail road wrecks, but railroad wrecks hap pen to a considerable extent because the volume of traffic is largely beyond the facilities of the railroads, and partly, too, because men have been taught during the last few years to seek to get as much as possible and give as little of faithful work in re turn as possible. While railroad em. ployees generally are faithful to their trust, some inefficient men, without a sense Of their responsibility, have eag erly grasped at this teaching and feel that the railroads and the world al large owe them a living whether they earn it or not, and the anti-ra ilroad agitation is largely responsii for this. Until these two thinc have been changed the railroads st la, bor under tremendous disadu ages.
 People may theorize as ch as they please; they may say f | rail. roads must be forced to exps l, that they must be capitalized at e. t cost that the promoters and the Inker's proats must be eliminated; Int they will wait until doomsday before they secure railroads on these coalitions
Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-13
SUES FOR MONEY
 LOST BY EhPLOYE
Albuquerque Gamblers and Sa- loon Men Asked To Give
 Up S8000 to Owners.

ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, Feb. H. Three, suits, aggTegating SS,000, were filed in the district court yesterday against three well known Albuquer- que saloon owners by the John Finne- gan Co.,; the actions seeking to re- cover large sums of money alleged to have been lost on the gaming tables operated in the saloons mentioned by David L. Murphy, until recently man. ager here for the Finnigan company. The allegation on which the actions rest is that the owners of the saloons and games in question knew that the money used by Murphy in play was not his own, but the property of the company he represented. The actions are unusual and the first of the kind to be brought in this court. They are of added interest since, owing to the recent death of the tiger, they are the last gambling debt suits likely to be filed.
 Mir. Murphy, who had been manager for the Finnigan company here four years or more, was recently displac- ed, it being announced at the time that his accounts showed a shorage amounting to about $S,000. It
 
 is now alleged that the sum was lost on the gambling tables. The suits are against Frank E. Sturges & Co., for $5000; against Ben Bothe for $2,000, and against George K. Neher for $520. The complaints, which are identical, set forth tha Murphy at various times beween March 1906 and January 1908, lost large sums of money at the gaming tables of the defendants, it being alleged that the defendants re- ceived the money wrongfully from Murphy, knowing at the time that it was tke property of the plaintiff. The complaint further states that proper demands have been made by the plaintiff upon the defendants for the return of the money and that in each case defendants refused to return the same.
 There have been numerous suits to recover money lost on the gaming tables during the long run of gamb- ling in New Mexico, but it is believed that this is the first action of just this character to be brought. E. L. MedleT appears for the plaintiff.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-13
pELIcHTFuL EvENINc-

The local lodge of Rebeccahs enter. tained delightfully."- in odd Fellows hall Monday evening with a party largely attended by members of the two lodges and their friends. Cards was one of the games of the vening and another feature which caused great deal of merriment was the well known game of bean bag. Prizes were offered for both gentlemen and ladies in both games. At cards Mrs. John Brodie won the first ladies' prize and Mrs. Mo Intosh won the ladies' booby prize {; while with the gentlemen John Mo Intosh won the first prize and to J. D. Fuiweiller was awarded the booby. At the game Of bean bag Mrs. Flora Rich ardson won the first ladies' prize and Miss Eatham got the booby.-DougIas Dispatch.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-13
COMES ID END WITH NOISES
 AND GLADNESS
Chinese New Years In Prescott Winds Up In Midst of Fire crackers and Loud Beating of CymbaIS.
Prescott JournaI-M


 With a final fusillade of hundreds of firecrackers and the beating of cymhals, the celebration of the Chi nese New Year, 4605, came to an end last evening in front of the Joss house in the local Chinese quarter. The new year entered Saturday morning, just after midnight, and the eelebra- tion lasted seven days.
 Scores of Chinese gathered in the Joss house, last night, to take part in the final observance of the entrance of the new year. Clad in their rich est oriental garbs, they greeted each other with the words, "Kang Hae Fat Tsi," which, translated, is an equiva lent for the English, Happy New Year" At intervals any evil spirits that might have been lurking aroHnd were frightened by the discharge of hundreds of firecrackers.
 Inside the Joss house the stranger, no mater of what nationality, was welcomed, treated to choice Chinese Gelicacies, and sent on his way with the Kong Hae Fat Tsi greeting. The decorations in the Chinese house | of worship were elaborate. Chinese l lanterns hung everywhere, crimson silk draperies hid the otherwise bleak walls, scrolls of Chinese prophecies and sayings of Confucius were pro fusely scattered about, and myriads of lighted candles and burning punk and incense lent aid to the air of orientalism which pervaded the place. On one side of the big room, at the end of which stood the Chinese altar, d '. .lxs rE,A Chinese musicians were seated, all wearing hats or some other head GOV ering, as did the visitors who entered from time to time, in groups of three and four, to stand chatting awhile. discussing the music which struggled, piecemeal, from the several perform CTS, and then to go on to the ''Nodle Joint" where Chinese refreshments awaited them.
 There was only one untoward incl dent to mar the celebration Of the new year. This was the death of Charles Shut, who was found dead in Miller's Lane, just as the rising sun l greated the first day of the Chinese new year. It is said that Shut, un- able to comply with the Chinese tra- | dition, which provides that all oDnga- | tions must be paid off before the en- 1 trance Of the new year, drank himself to death to avoid the disgrace of be- 1 ing in debt on New Years day. Shuts funeral, it was noticed, was attended | with the usual pomp and ceremony pertaining to the burial of a China man.
 The Chinese New Year is a nov able feast. Celestial time goes fast" for three years, and every fourth year they take in a month to even up. Their method of calculating the ages of themselves and offspring is equally as curious as their computation d time. If child had been born 7n q Chinese quarter Friday night, or New Years Eve, it would have been two years old the next morning, and by the time the first anniversary of its birth rolled around, it would be three years old.
Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-13

Much has been said during the last few years about the reduction ot railroad rates and through public ac- ton and the competition of railroads a great many rates have been re- duced. Latterly there has been very considerable legislation reducing rates. There is, however, another side to the question from the view point of public interest and in it's 1s- sue of Dec. 26 the Manufacturers
 Record sets forth it's views, saying that the country's need of more rall- roads is in nowise changed by the present financial conditions. It goes on to say that even should there be a slight let-up in traffic, this would not change the fact that our transpor- tation facilities are wholly inadequate to the volume of our trade, and that the country is rapidly growing while the railroads are not. The late Sen ator German of Maryland, ten or if teen years ago, very wisely said that the greatest problem before the peo- ole of America is that of distribution" !" Distribution, of course, implies trans portation. Every day since then has emphasized the correctness of Sena- tor Germans judgment. Under such
 conditions the cost of transportation
 Is of far less importance than the question of securing the facilities
 needed We already have by far the cheapest railroad freight rates in the
 world-rates that are the marvel of the people of European countries.
 What we need now is not low rates, freight or passenger, but vast in- crease in facilities for handling busi- ness. Of all the absurd movements
 of the last twelve months in the rail road and political worlds nothing else
 quite equals the effort to force down
 railroad rates. Money for railroad ex- pansion cannot possibly be had under present conditions. The railroad busi- ness must be given an opportunity to make profits large enough to tempt capital from everywhere to seek in vestment in railroad securities. Men
 are not going to put their money into such enterpries subject to the dangers of legislation-and they would be | foolish if they did so-unless the prof 1 it is great enough to justify such risks. To attempt to limit the earnings to per cent, or even 10 per cent, is
 not only absurd, but economically
 false, for any attempt to limit the | earnings of legitimate business under
 akings will inevitably react and
 cost the country far more than the
 difference between fixed income and the profit which otherwise might be
 made Their own preservation would necessarily require of the railroads as favorable rates as could be given
 with safety for themselves and their
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-01
IRISH UNIVERSITY BILL.
Secretary 6irreli Introduces Measure
in Commons.

Secretary 6irrell Introduces Measure
in Commons.
London, April 1.-Chief Secretary
of Ireland Birrell introduced his Irish
university bill in the house Of com.
mons There was a full attendance
of members and a large number of
visitors crowded the galleries.
The central idea of Mr. Birrell's
project is to found by royal charter
two new universities in Ireland with
headquarters in Dublin and Belfast.
The secretary explained that the Dub
lin university would be composed of
three constituent branches, two of
which, Cork and Galway, exist already
and the third new college to be
founded at Dublin. The existing
Queens college at Belfast is to con.
stitute the proposed new Northern
university, which probably will be
called the University of Belfast. Opin-
ion at present is divided as to whether
to call the Dublin seat of learning st.
Patrick's university or the University
of Ireland. 80
A. J. Balfour warmly approved the
broad lines of Mr. Birrell's scheme
and John Dillon, on behalf of the
Irish party, also expressed approval
and assured the government that it
would have Catholic support in carry
ing the project through.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-01
MADAME ANNA GOULD Ill
Stricken Suddenly While Paying {
Visit to Friends.

New York, April MADAME
Anna Gould, who recently secured a
divorce from the Count de Castellane,
is ill with bronchitis and stomach
trouble in the apartment of her
friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Tyler Morse, in
the Hotel st. Regis. Madame Gould
was said also to be in a very nervous
condition. She went to the ST. Regis
after a conference with her brothers
and sister at the home of Miss Helen
Gould, where Madame Gould had been
staying since her arrival from France
1t Is said that Madame Gould went to
the apartments of Mr. and Mrs Morse
expecting to pay them visit for sew
eral days and that her illness devel-
oped unexpectedly.
Since arriving in New York Madame
Gould has met the Prince de Sagan
several times in company with Mr..
and Mrs. Morse and there has been
much discussion of the possibility of
an announcement that she has be.
come engaged to marry the prince.
Some of the members of the Gould
family are reported to be opposed to
such an engagement.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-01
CONSIDER INCIDENT CLOSED
Germans Say Hill Will Find His Posi-
ton Agreeable.

Germans Say Hill Will Find His Posi-
ton Agreeable.
Berlin, April 1.-The advices re-
celved at the foreign Office from Wash
iptton indicate that in the American
capital, as well as in Berlin, the Hill
episode is regarded as having been
happily adjusted. The best diplomatic
opinion is that If Mr.. Hill chooses to
come to Berlin he will find his posi-
tton not only agreeable but more i'm
portant than would have been the case
II the incident had not happened.
Charlemagne Tower, the retiring
American ambassador, in fulflllment Of
HIS letter to President Roosevelt last
September, in which he said that he
woald ask leave to resign early next
summer, has. now fixed the date at
June and has so informed the presi-
dent. Mr.. Tower gave legal notice
last October to the owner of his resi-
dence here that he would give up his
house on May 1 and it has been adj
vertised for rent. The occupancy of
this building is now under discussion
as suitable for the Japanese embassy
and if it is found to be desirable it
viii be purchased by Japan.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-01
Attend the Meeting.

In another column will be found
notice Of mass meeting to be
held in the city hall tomorrow even.
ing for the purpose of discussing the
proposed installing Of a new water
works plant, and the extension of
the waterworks system.
It is urged that every resident of
the city attend this meeting and
that there be free discussion of
the matter, so that the city council
may act intelligently as to the wishes
of the taxpayers of the city in this
matter. Be sure and attend this
meeting.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-01
Here you have draft in payment a:
Der adjustment 1850 QS

Here you have draft in payment as
per adjustment, $2569.O5. e.
We'll, this risk, according to
daily report, had hardly time to
to get cold, had it? Policy dated
March 5th. property burned March
Oath. loss adjusted the 18th. draft
in payment goes forward on the
3Oth.
Our adjuster reports Mr.. Ellis
to be a very honorable, straight
forward gentleman. It is pleasure
to US to pay losses to that kind of
people, if losses we must have. =.
AS he may need some of his
money in purchasing material for
new house, on a cash basis, to
save little something, we are send
ing along the draft.
Send us along some good April
business and we will call it square.
Faithfully yours,
j. L. Whitlock,
....-a. Mgr"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-01
EVERY INCH OF ROOM FILLED
Bryan Addresses $4,000 People in
Kansas City Hall.

Kansas City, April William
Jennings Bryan and Judge Judson
Harmon of Cincinnati were the guests
of honor at a great banquet given in
Convention hall by the Young Mems
Democratic club of Missouri. Mr..
Bryan declared that the banquet was
the largest ever held in this country.
There We're 1000 banquetters seated
on the arena floor. and $4,000 spec
tators occupied the gallery seats.
Every available inch of room was
utilized.
II have been to Kansas City many
times, said Mr.. Bryan. "and carried
away pleasant recollections. I can
carry away this time the recollection
of having addressed the largest ban
quets that has ever assembled in any
cityton American soil"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-01
Bar Banquet This Evening.

At the Markham hotel tonight,
the members of the Beltrami County
Bar association will tender a ban
quet to the retiring judge of the
district court, Hon. Marshall A.
Spooner, who will soon leave for
Portland, Oregon, to engage in the
practice of law.
1t is the intention of those having
the banquet in charge to begin at
8 o'clock, and all invited are re.
quested to be present as near that
hour as possible.
Many of the attorneys from out
side Beltrami county are present to
attend the banquet and attest
their friendship for the retiring
judge.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-01
SIMPLY 0BEYING ORDERS.
Consul Fisher Not Acting on His Own
Initiative,

Initiative.
Washington, April Lit is admit
ted at the state department that the
status of the American coEsul at Har-
bin has been made the subject of rep
reservations to Washington by the
Russian government, but while nego-
tiations are pending, the officials are
10th to discuss it. The important fact
is developed, however, that the Amer
lean consul, Mr.. Fisher. is not actiag
on his own initiative in declining to
seek the permission of Russia to exer-
else his consular functions. On the
contrary, 1t is understood that he is
simply executing carefully censid-
cred plan of the state department to
bring about through proper means a
recognition, not only by Russia but by
other nations interested in Manchuria,
OF the integrity of Chinese posses
s1ons. 1t was long ago perceived that
to admit the right of political control
of either Russia or Japan over the So
called railroad zone in Manchuria,
including as they do the principal
commercial depots and capable as
they are. of indefinite expansion of
boundaries at the whim of leasehold-
ers, would soon completely defeat
John Hays dream of sthe open door,
in Manchuria. Therefore quite def
mite policy has been adopted by the
state department, the very foundation
of which was the application of Amer
lean consuls in that province for Chi
nese exequateurs. This was by no
means pleasing to Japan, but it is be-
lieved America is supported fully
therein by the great commercial ma
lions Of Europe which have large
trade interests in the Orient.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-01
Newspaper Postage Laws.

On and after April the ruling the regarding
with subscribers that
The ruling the that all the
when than three months shall be mailed the
the ruling applies the weekly paper which
The ruling does of the Daily papers
delivered by does effect
mail .
The the
fused send the Daily Weekly who desired either publication
willing it. this liberal practice
subscription list who
within the next few days or their will be discontinued
1t readily be that the $ Daily and
81 Weekly will
We hope that the in
who still write and tell then
We subscriber,
old friends of the We believe practically Of
1t will be the policy Of the Pioneer mail
with
and careful
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-01
Elks Meeting Thursday Night.

A regular meeting Of Bemidji
Lodge, No. 1852, B. P. O. E., will
be held Thursday night, at 8 p. m.
when business of Importance will be
transacted.
The newly-elected officers Of the
the lodge will be installed, and each
one elected is commanded to be
present, or suffer the penalty of the
court"
There will be some other "doings''
worth while.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-01
Cuban Laborers Mutiny.

Rio de Janeiro, April The 500
Cubans who recently left Santiago on
board the steamer Amanda for Brazil,
where they were to be put at work on
the construction of the new railroad
running between Brazil and Bolivia,
have mutinied at Para. They declare
that they were badly treated on board
the vessel and that for this reason
they will not continue the trip.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-01
Twonty.seven Years for BURGLARY.

Twenty-seven Years for Burglary.
New York, April Judge Will.
lam P. Platt, at White Plains, SEN
fenced James Harlan, one of the bur-
glars who masqueraded as a yachts
man in evening clothes and who COM
mitted thirteen robberies in New
Rochelle, Mount Vernon and Yonkers,
to twenty-seven years in Sing Sing
prison. This is the heaviest sentence
ever imposed on burglar in West
chester county.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-01
! Situation Quiet at TreadwelI.

Washington, April 1.-The I'M
minence Of violence by the striking
miners at the Treadwell (Alaska)
mines seems to have been averted by
the arrival of the troops ordered there
last week. The war department has
received a dispatch from Captain
James Bayliss, commanding Company
F Of the Tenth infantry, reporting his
arrival with his men and adding that
everything was quiet.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-01

children of James Mccarthy, who for
twenty years have been trying to find
him, discovered him on the poorfarm
here. Mccarthy was injured many
years ago and drifted into the poor.
farm, losing trace Of his identity until
recently The children live in Illinois.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-01
Threatened Strike Averted.

Pittsburg, April IA threatened
strike of street car employees has been
ayerted temporarily by an agreement
reached between the men and the
Plttsburg Railways company by which
the present wage scale will be contin-
ment of The dispute.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-04-01
RUSSIA IS DISTURBED
American Consul at Hardin Recog.
nizes Chinese Sovereignty.
COMPLAINS TO WASHINGTON
Cars Government Seeks Explanation
Of Officials Action, but It Is Said
the Latter Is Simply obeyine His
Instructions.


the Latter Is Simply obeyine His
Instructions.
st. Petersburg, April 1.-The Rus.
sian government is disturbed by the
attitude assumed by Fred D. Fisher,
the American consul at Hardin, in
the matter of recognizing the jurisdic.
ton Of Russia in Ma.s.huria. Mr.:
Fisher insists that Chinese sover.
eighty in Manchuria is supreme and
furthermore he has supported the pro.
tests Of China against the establish.
ment by Russia of municipalities in
the railroad zone at Hardin and
Chailar and his. attitude in this Russo.
Chinese difficulty has prompted Rus
STA to seek an explanation of his
course both at the American embassy
here and in Washington.
MIR. Fisher is accredited to China
and since his arrival in Hardin in Jan:
uary, 1907, he has consistently refused
to recognize or admit that he should
have anything to do with the Russian
administration of the territory. He
has been firm in his assumption that
he was accredited solely to China AID
he has declined to act on the sugges
ton conveyed to him by an official OF
the Russian railroad administration
that he should secure the permission
OF General Horvath, the Russian gov
ernor. Of, Hardin, before opening his
consulate pr raising the American flag
over the building. 4
Under the treaty. of 1896 Russia
claims exclusive control over the rail
road zone in Manchuria as well as the
right to, organize Independent self
governing municipalities. The foreign
office here expresses the belief that I'll
would be decidedly to the interest Of
the United States to recognize the
Russian administration of Manchuria
1nasmuch. as foreign residents share in
the privileges Of this admins tration.