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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-31
COURTS Il s : MUS
Be Il RES ) I E.CTED !
-
Federal Troops Nay b Sent
Into Klentucky
not REQUESTED ! As YET

Should The Occasion Arise the War
Department Has Ample Authority
for Such Action, I Statute Providing
for just Such an Emergency-Ring-
leaders Of Striking Miners, Fearing
Capture, Seek Refuge in Tennessee.
Washington, Dec. 8 The alarming
conditions which have called out state
troops and United States marshals at
the mining town of Stearns, Whitley
county, KY, is creating some discus
SIGN at the war department over the
probability of condition arising to
call for United States troops to up
hold the power of the United States.
Although conditions In the Kentucky
town are only vaguely understood
here it is assumed that the local au-
thorities will be able to suppress dis
order and that by the liberal use of
United States marshals in conjunction
Will oIdCS IAOOpS LILO OAuSA5S VI LILO
court will be executed. -
Should it be found impossible to do
this, either from the, inability of the
court to secure the services Of enough
marshals or for any other reason so
that the power of the court would be-
come nullifed, theresis ample author
ity for the sending of troops into Ken
lucky. A United States statute pro-
vides that in the case of this kind
where the attitude of the people to.
wards the mandates of the court as
sunes proportions Of rebellion
against federal authority federal
troops may be used to bring about a
condition in which the orders of the
court will be respected. The war de.
partnlent, however. has received no
request for troops for Kentucky and
the general opinion prevails In official
circles that conditions will not be
such as to warrant federal interior
ence. W. r---.~.-~~.--'
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Held important Appointments.

= Rochester, Mimi, Dec. so. A.
Leonard, formerly of Whitewater and
Waukesha; Wis, postmaster here by
appointment of Abraham Lincoln, con-
sui at Leith, Scotland, in 1881 and
consul general at Shanghai, China, in
1889, both by appointment Of Presi-
dent Garfield, is dead here of cancer
aged seventy-eight years.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-31
Ringleaders Now In Tennessee.

Stearns, Ky.yDec. 3o.-Berry 'Simp.
son, Reuben West and George Stan
ley, the three men: who are accused Of
being ringleaders in the trouble be-
tween the striking miners and federal
authorities and who have been en-
camped at Paint Rock, five miles from
Stearns, fearing capture because of
the constant closing in of the guards,
broke camp and fed into Scott coun-
ty. Tenn, H.
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STATE OF OHIO. CITY OF TOLEDO. |

STATE OF 9 nuSAs e1 G96 2T TOLEDO ISIS.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is
senior partner OF the firm of J. F. Cheney &
County and State aforesaid. and that said
firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED
DOLLARS for each and every case of
Halls Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence. this 9th day OF December. A. D.
1856.
i. - A. W. GLEASON,
GSEAD ~. , ----~ NOTARY PUBLIC.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken Internally.
and acts directly on the blood and mucous
free. c ...- - h..
FL. CHENEY & co.. ToIedo,O.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-31
IN PROVINCE OF CALABRlA
Two Towns Report Fifteen Hundred
Killed.

Rome, Dec. 8 Reports have just
been received from two other towns
in Calabria- and Cosenza.
Cassano is said to have suffered 1000
lead, while the wounded number 500.
At Cosenza 500: dead people already
have been taken from the ruins.
Cassano has $500 people, while
Cosenza is the center of commune
with population of 81 900. d. -
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-31
Fortune in an Old Trunk.

Cincinnati, Dec. s'.-When an old
trunk was opened by the coroner in
an attempt to discover the relatives
Of John Ferd Vaux, aged seventy
three years, who dropped dead while
taking bath in the rooming house
on Broadway where he lived, currency
and bonds and bank securities worth
more than $4,000 were discovered.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-31
COUNTY TREASURER ROBBED,
South Dakota OFFICIAL Held Up in His
i Office.

Woonsocket, s. D., Dec. 8 County
Treasurer Michael Meir was held up
In his Office by two masked men and
robbed of $5,078 in cash. The robbers
locked him in vault, but the door
was not securely fastened and he was
able to escape and give an alarm.
The robbers, however, had fed.
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.:-3 ~ For Sale at
B k1e(r's Drug Store
CONSERVATION PREVAILS
chicago's italian Colony Frantic Over
Disaster at Home.

Nloao4Vt a.
: Chicago, Dec. 3c.-The earthquake
in Southern Italy has thrown Chi.
cago's Italian colony into state OF
CONSERVATION and despair. The Ital-
ian consulate was overrun with fran.
tic visitors who clamored for direct
news of friends and relatives. Sew
eral italian stores closed their doors,
it being impossible to do business
with their ordinary patrons, who
were thinking of nothing but the fate
of those in the old country. At the
Bella Italia, favorite gathering place
on Desplaines street, crowd of sew.
eral hundred listened while one OF
them translated the English cable.
grams into Italian. His voice was fire.
Quently drowned by: cries and sobs
and the shrieks of hysterical women.
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Roosevelt Expresses Sympathy.

Washington, Dec. 8 President
Roosevelt, through the state depart
ment, sent to King Victor Emmanuel
Of Italy a dispatch expressing his hor-
Eor and that OF the American people
over the disaster which has befallen
Southern italy and Sicily by the earth
Auake visitation and rendering sincere
sympathy.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-31
BattIeship Fleet In Red Sea.

suez, Dec 3O.-The American bat
tleship fleet under Rear Admiral
Sperry has passed Perrin, at the en-
trance to the Red sea. All on board
the fleet are we'll The vessels are
due. here the morning Of Jan. 2.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-31
WINTHROP ACCEPTS PLACE
Assistant Secretary Of State In Taft
,st 49,. Administration.

Washington, Dec. Sj.-Beekmap
Winthrop of Massachusetts,, assistant
secretary of the treasury, was offered
and accepted the Office Of first assist
ant secretary Of state under the in
coming administration, succeeding
Robert Bacon of New York, who In
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WILL HURRY TO THE SCENE

King Victor Emmanuel to Aid In
Work of Rescue.
Naples, Dec. 3 king Victor EN-
manuel will proceed to Calabria and
Sicily and do all in his power to fur
ther the work of rescue. He has or
dered special train to be prepared
and this will take him as near as pos
sible to the scene of the disaster.
From this point his majesty will make
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THOUSAND DEAD AT PALMI

TVWI T1dCtICd1Ty OeStI0yeU ny ITe
Earthquake.
Monteleone, Calabria, Dec. The
town of Palmi has been practically de-
stroyed, as has also Bagnara. The
dead at Palmi number 1000 and it is
impossible to estimate the number Of
the injured. Large numbers were
killed also at Bagnara and the list of
wounded there also will be heavy.
The tidal wave inundated a villa at
San Giovanni $500 feet back from the
shore line.
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President Invites a Number Of In

gineers. -,
Washington, Dec. 80.-The Dresi-
dent has invited the following ensi-
peers to accompany President-Eleot
Taft on his trip to Panama: Arthur
p. Davis, chief engineer 81: tho recla-
nation service, Washington, D. O.;
John r. Freeman, Providence, r. ~
Allen Hazen, New York city; 1sham
Randolph, Chicago; James Dix schuy-
Ter, Los Angeles, Cal, and Frederick
p. Stearns, Boston. Alfred Noble OF
New York city was the first engineer
invited by the president, but he was
unable to leave his present work. It
was on his recommendation that the
engineers just announced were Sc
lected.
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January next IS expected to temporar-
lily succeed Elihu Root upon the lat
ter's retirement. The tender was
made with the consent of President
Elect Taft by Senator Knox whose
selection as secretary Of state was
announced some days ago. .
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MANY TOURISTS LOSE LIVES
Hotel at Messina Completely obliter-
( ated by Earthquake. -

Palermo, Dec. :J.-Refugees from
Messina say that there were 100 for
eigners in the Hotel Trinacria and
that they all lost their lives. The
hotel has been completely obliterated.
1t was one of the best In the city and
patronized almost exclusively ~ by
tourists Il. 10. K
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TO CURE A COLD m ONE DAY.
Take LAXATIVEB ROMO Quinine Tablets.
Druggists refund money IL 1t fails to cure
p. W. GROVES signature IS on each box. Sc
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Prominent Odd Fellow Killed.
Madison, 8. d., Dec. s. Peter Mar.
quardt, past grand master Of South
Dakota Odd Fellows, was instantly
killed here by a switch engine, his
body being badly mangled.
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zFIftv Thousand Dead at Messina.

Fifty Thousand Dead at Messina.
Rome, Dec. 3!-The minister of
marine has received a wireless dis
patch estimating the. dead at Messina
at $4,000. f.
70 VISIT PANAMA WITH TAFT.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-15
MUNICIPAL COMPETITION.
Causes London Underground Railways
to Lose Money.

London, April 15.-On an applica-
ton made by Speyer Brothers, the
London house of Speyer & Co.. of New
York. on behalf of themselves and
other holders of the secured temporary
loan notes and profit sharing secured
notes of the Underground Electric
Railways company, the court today ap-
pointed Sir George Gibb receiver and
manager of the company. There was
no opposition to the application, which
is necessary for the carrying out OF
the scheme for the readjustment of
the company's finances which has been
decided upon.
The unsa tisfactory condition of the
Underground company's finances is
due largely to the competition of the
motor omnibuses and the municipality
owned electric street railways. The
district railway which the late Charles
scheme to give Londoners a better
transit service, also has been losing
money since electricity was installed
as a motive power and the other tubes
which Mr. Yerkes estimated would be
completed early in 1906, are not yet
in operation. These lines, therefore,
have not provided the revenue expect
ed to meet dividends on the shares.
In 1908, the Underground company
issued 100000 pounds in profit shar-
ing notes, due June 1 next, secured by
a trust deed. Subsequently it issued
100000 pounds in temporary loan
notes due Nav 10.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-15
STOPS BETTING.
Bill Passed Prohibiting Gambling in
District of Columbia.

Washington, April 15-Without dis
cussion, dissent or division the senate
today within "a hours after the wind
ing up of the spring race meeting at
Benning, passed the bill prohibiting
betting in the District of Columbia
The bill was called up by Senator Car
ter of the district committee and after
being read was Immediately put on it's
passage.
The anti-gambling provision is a rider
of bill providing for the widening of
Benning road, the principal thorough
fare leading to the race course, at the
suburb of Benning. The bill origina-
ted in the house and has passed that
body, so that it would not be neces-
sary to send it back there, but for the
fact that the form of the betting sec
ton was changed by the senate. If
the house does not accept the change
it will be necessary to place the bill
in the hands of the conference COM
mittee for the adjustment of differ
ences in phraseology
As it passed the innate the gambling
prohibition reads. ~
TT shall be unlawful for any person
or association of persons to bet, gam
BILE or make books vr pools on the re-
suit of any trotting or running race
of horse or boat race, or race of any
kind, or on any election, or any con-
test of any kind or game of baseball.
Any person or association of persons
violating the provisions of this section
shall be fined not exceeding $500 or be
imprisoned not more than 80 days or
both"
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Stopping Increase i'm Rates on
Butter and Milk.
CONSPIRACY CHARGED
By the Beatrice and Blue VALLEY
Creamery Companies.
An Advance of 100 Per Cent.
Had Been Announced.

Chicago, April ia temporary in
junction restraining the eastern rail-
roads from putting into effect an ad-
vance OF 100 per cent in milk and but
ter freight rates, has been granted by
Judge kohlsaat in the United States
circuit court The bill for a perman.
ent injunction was filed by the Beatrice
creamery company and the Blue Valley
Creamery company, following an an
nouncement by the Michigan Central
Grand Trunk, Pere Marquette roads Of
a 100 per cent advance. In the bill
the roads were accused of conspiracy
to raise the rates in violation of the
Sherman antitrust law
The advance was scheduled to go into
effect today, but the Injunction will
prevent any change of rates until the
hearing of the case for a permanen,
injunction comes up.
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OVER HIS PROTEST.
Delaware Democrats Instruct for
Judge Gray for the Presidency.

Dover. Del, April 15.-Despite the
written declaration of Judge George
Gray that he could not under any cir
cumstances consent to have the dele
gates instructed for him, the Delaware
state convention officially placed his
name before the Democracy of the
country for that partys nominee for
Gray's declaration contained in a letter
to Thomas F. Bayard. chairman of
the state committee, which was read
to the convention, came as a surprise
TO the delegates but they did not hesi-
tate an instant to place him in the
field.
The platform adopted declares for
unfaltering devotion to state rights.
criticises the national administration
and declares for a revision of the tariff.
harmony prevailed in all the eau
cuses and in the convention.
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WITH Them so YEARS.
Vice President Parsons of Wells Fargo
Is Dead

Washington. April 15.-Hosmer B.
Parsons. vice president of the Wells
Fargo Express compan~ president of
the Wells Fargo bank, died at his
home in Brooklyn, after an illness
from pneumonia.
He was the son of a clergyman and
when boy went to Kentucky from ST.
Lawrence county, N. Y He entered
the employ of the Wells Fargo COM
pany soon afterwards as a messen
boy and participated in many exciting
incidents in mining camps and while
carrying bullion in stage coaches
through the west. He once operated
a pony express but was promoted
and during his so years service held
many official positions.
Mr.. Parsons is survived by his
widow and one daughter, Mrs. Charles
Adams.
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THREAT MADE GOOD.
Letter Said Mine Would Be Blown Up
and 1t Was.

Durango. Colo. April 15.-Follow-
ing a warning received through an
anonymous letter that unless the
Chalpion coal mine of the Royal Coal
and Coke company was made safe by
repairs, the mine would be blown up,
an explosion occurred in the mine
which completely wrecked the
workings and perhaps fatally injured
three persons. Two Italians. names
unknown, were blown out of the mine
and when picked up were unconscious
from many wounds. 1t is thought
they will die.
c. A. Williams, who was in the
mine when the explosion occurred,
has not been found and is believed to
be dead. The warning letter was re-
ceived last Thursday by Superin-
tendent Geo. G. Logan, who caused an
inspection to be made the following
day. The mine was pronounced to be
entirely safe. There is no clue to the
sender of the letter or to the cause
of the explosion.
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PICKS ITS men.
Canal Commission Does Not Hire
LabOrers Indiscriminately.

Washington, April 15.-In a recent
statement emanating from the chair
man Of the isthiman canal commits
sion, 1t is pointed out that the COM
mission recognizes no obligation to en-
ploy men who drift in and generally it
is declared that they are physically
UNFIT for the work on the isthmus The
committee employs recruiting agents
in the labor centers, who examine and
forward desirable and discourage, those
unfit from independently coming to
the isthmus. The statement contin-
ues:
1T is the policy of the commission
to give preference to the men that
have been recruited by its own agents,
and as conditions are at present, 9TH
ers should be discouraged from taking
such q step"
In February the day labor including
the Panama railroad, that is, ordinary
labor, numbered 1886, about 5000 OF
whom were Europeans, the balance be-
ing from the West Indies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-15
That % Foreign Vessels We're
Required to Move the Fleet.
WE SPEND TOO MUCH
More Than Any Other Nation on
Account of War.
His Speech Is Directed Against
Four Battleships Program.

Washington, April 5.-During the
consideration of the naval appropria-
ton bill in the house today Chairman
Tawney of the committee on appropri-
ations, in moving to reduce the num-
Der of battleships from two to one,
again pointed out the danger in
which the treasury is being placed by
the immense increases in appropria-
tions authorized in the several supply
measures. Mr. Tawney's remarks were
made particularly applicable to the de-
mand for four battleships instead of
two. He compared the appropriations
in various countries in preparation for
war and on account of wars, and said
the startling fact was developed that
the United States was spending more
than any other nation in the world.
I'VE are this year. he said, "expend-
ing $84,975.23S more than England;
s136, 1888 more than Germany and
$152, 859, 1856 more than France"
Continuing the comparison, Mr.. Taw-
ney declared further that on account
of preparation for war the United
States with an army of $1,000 men and
navy Of $4,000 men is expending this
year only $66, ,473,701 less than England
with an army of 204, 800 men and a navy
of 129. 900 men. That the United States
is expending for this purpose only $780,
S84, ,869 less than Germany with her
army of 100000 and her navy Of $4,000
men, That the United States is ex-
pending for this purpose in excess Of
the amount expended by France with
her army of $4,000 men and her navy
of 56,2S5 men, $2.6S3, 1892.
Maintaining that navies are built for
national defense, Mr.. Tawney said that
they were not intended and could not
be justified upon the ground that they
are necessary to satisfy an ambition
either individual or national to COM
pete with other nations in time of
peace in size and number of fighting
machines. He argued that in the Unit
ed States the prestige and power of the
nation did not depend upon the size OF
the army and navy. He said that if
there was any reason to apprehend
war with any foreign power within the
next decade, the information upon
which that apprehension was based
had been carefully withheld from the
legislative department of the govern
ment He asserted that the geographic
isolation of the United States was an
asset far more valuable as a means of
defense than "all the navies we could
build if we did not possess this advan-
tage."
Mr.. Tawney charged that the United
States in the past had pursued bung-
ling naval policy and he pointed out
that the Journey of the Atlantic fleet
to the Pacific was made possible only
through the aid of % vessels flying a
foreign flag.
"a more disgusting spectacle was
never witnessed" he said.
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TOO MUCH FOR HIM.
Apoplexy Followed Reading of War
rant for His Arerst.

Philadelphia, April 15.-Confronted
with the accusation of embezzling
more than $4,000 from the Franklin
institute of this city, of which he had
been actuary and treasurer for years,
Herbert E. HeyI was seized with what
is said to have been apoplexy today and
died shortly afterward. Mr.. Heyl was
at breakfast when, glancing through a
morning newspaper, he saw an account
of the alleged embezzlement and issu-
ance of a warrant for his arrest. Heyl
arose and ran into the hallway and
collapsed He did not respond to
treatment and the physician called re-
ported the case to the coroner for a
post mortem examination. Heyl re-
Gently retired from the institute be-
cause of Illness.
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IS GIVEN TWO YEARS.
Milwaukee Man Sentenced for Obtain
ing Money Under False Pretenses.

Milwaukee, April 15-Ira B. Smith,
formerly a member Of a prominent
wholesale grocery firm of Milwaukee,
was today sentenced to two years in
the Milwaukee house of correction by
Judge Ludwig for obtaining money
under false pretenses.
Mr.. Smith entered a plea of nolle
contendre and threw himself on the
mercy of the court. Smiths case had
been pending for nearly a year. He
was indicted on four counts charged
with borrowing $1,000 on each of four
notes on Misrepresentation of security.
He was the president of the defunct
wholesale grocery firm of Smith,
Thorndyke & Brown of this city and
Marinette, Wis. Mr.. Smith was at one
time president of the Milwaukee Mer-
chants and Manufacturers association
as well as head of the National Grocers
association. He was also prominent
club man and well known in business
circles throughout the United States,
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1T WILL BE COOLER.
Mercury Expected to Take a Drop
Tonight.

The temperatures today have been
about normal though somewhat lower
than those of yesterday and the
threatening conditions or the week
mast continue A ten mile an hour
wind has blown from the north early
all day and the forecast indicates cool
er weather tonight and Thursday.
though the drop in the mercury will
not amount to more than a rev de-
grees.
Light showers have fallen over CEN
tral and eastern Kansas during the
past "a hours and over western Mis-
souri, wit hthe conditions favoring a
similar demonstration tonight and to-
morrow in the same localities. The
Following table explains the travels of
the mercury since o'clock this morn
ing when the government thermometer
began to keep track of the tempera-
4..,.os of the daV.
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IS NOT A PARTISAN.
Governor johnson Denies That He Is
Taking Sides in Illinois.

Chicago, April Ex-Governor John A.
Johnson, of Minnesota, arrived today
from Louisville. At noon he was en-
tertained at luncheon by the Chicago
Press club and delivered a short ad-
dress. Later in the afternoon he spoke
to the Chicago Advertisers associa-
ton.
Governor Johnson declared emphati-
cally that he and his friends are TAX
ing no part in the factional fight in
this state between the friends and op-
ponents of Roger c. Sullivan, the ma
tional committeeman. He said that he
was not attempting to influence in any
manner the personnel of the delegation
that will be sent from this state to the
Denver convention.