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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1908-08-14
Butter, esgs and fancy groceries

Kabekona, Or Spur 69, this morning
on business.
Come Saturday and visit Us. Look
for the big red sign At Schneider
Bros clothing store.
a one-pound can Van Camps
best evaporated milk, full pound
can. 1oc At Peterson's.
Z. +. Johnson returned to the
city last evening after short bust
ness visit in Park Rapids.
Us. Mackey Of Ferris went to
Cass Lake this noon after enjoying
! a short pleasure trip to the city.
Misses Elisa and Clara Brondby
came over this morning from
Lavinia for brief visit in the city.
You will miss the greatest oppor-
tunity Of your life if you don't visit
our store Saturday. Schneider Bros.
Misses Mae and. Florence Shook
came in this morning from Northome
and spent the day with friends in
the city.
T. J. Britt, special agent for the
b.
Great Northern railway, arrived in
the city this noon from Crookston
on business. .,s
Sheriff Thomas Bailey returned
this noon from a short visit in
Grand Forks, n. D.. where he went
on official business.
F. E. McGregor came in from
Crookston yesterday noon and went
out to Lake Plantagnet this morn
ing for a short outing.
M. S. Gillett of Deer River came
in yesterday afternoon on lumber
business and returned to the River"
on the midnight train.
Miss Donna Casio of Chicago
arrived in the city last evening. on
M. & I. train and is visiting at the
home of Mrs. J. T. Tuomy.
Ed Tabor, who traveles for the
firm of Melges Bros. of this city,
returned this morning from a few
days business visit in Kelliher.
J. A. Vessel of St. Paul, a men,
Der of the state game and fish COM
mission, went to Grand Rapids, this
noon after a short business visit in
the city.
George Kinney of this city and
his brother, c. NJ, the state che mist
of Iowa, returned this morning from
Blackduck where they went to look
over some land.
Hon. C. w. Stanton of this city,
Judge of the Fifteenth Judicial Dis
trict, went to Duluth this noon to
attend a meeting Of the Minnesota
State Bar association.
Rev. Thomas ]. Gibbons of St.
Paul, a brother of Bemidji's city
attorney, arrived in the city last
| evening and is visiting at the Glib
bons home for a few days.
Be on hand Saturday and attend
the great sale, Big bargains will be
offered on that day. Schneider
Bros.
O. J. LaQua, of the Puposky Mer.
camille company, came in this morn
ing from that place and spent the
day among the local business men,
returning home on the afternoon
train. -.
w. H. Browning one of the many
travelling men who make their head.
quarters in Bemidji, returned to St.
Paul this morning for a fresh supply
of good. before taking the road
again.'
Position wanted: An American
lady, middle aged, would like a
position as housekeeper or to care
for furnished rooms. Widow
Inquire Mrs. Mary Parsons, Lang
don, MINI. Postofice box 18.
]. T. Dolan,z one of the popula,
travelling men who often stop il
Bemidji, returned this noon t.
Duluth where he. f. will recuperate
from the effects of an attack Of
Iptommaine poisoning with which hi
has been suffering for the last few
Idays.
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OUTING FATAL TO SEVEN
Six Women and One Man Drown
When SIoop Ca9sizes.
Only Three of Ten Prominent Sum-
MGR Tourists Rescued in Pen
ooscot Bay Tragedy.

Deer Isle, Me.-SiX women and a
man, all summe resorters here, lost
their lives when a thirty-fve-foot
sloop was thrown on its beam ends
by a sudden squall in Penobscot Bay.
Three mel succeeded in climbing into
the dinghy that was being towed by
the slcop, but they were almost over.
come from exhaustion in battling
against the growing seas when picked
up by a fishing tug.
The disaster was witnessed on the
shore by about 1000 persons from
hotels and cottages. A dozen sloops
put out to the rescue, but the wreck
had floated a quarter mile to leeward
before they reached it. BY that time
the fishing tug had the rescued men
ashore and two bodies had been re-
covered.
The dead are: Mrs. Lucy S. Craw-
ley, wife of Professor Edwin S. CraW.
ley, University of Pennsylvania, Phil
adelphia; Alice and Eleanor Zorro,
sisters, Washington; Evelyn and
Lutte Kellogg, sisters, Baltimore;
Miss Elizabeth G. Evans, of Mount
Holyoke College, Massachusetts, and
Jason C. Hutchings, of Billerica.
Mass, a student in the Bangor Thee
logical Seminary, and who had been
filling a pulpit in Sunset, Deer Isle,
for the summer.
Professor Crawley, Henry B. Evans,
brother of Miss Elizabeth Evans, and
Captain Samuel Haskell, skipper Of
the sloop, were the men to save them
selves by reaching the dinghy. Has
kell had a reputation as n of the
most skillful yachtsmen on Deer Isle.
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One oFfbe
Essentials

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PROUTY FOR GOVERNOR.
Republicans Elect State Ticket in Vcr-
mont by $4,000 Plurality.

Burlington, vt. 49, Incomplete re-
turns indicate that the Republicans
have about $4,000 plurality in the
State election.
Returns from fifty-six towns show
an aggregate decrease in the Repub-
lican plurality of 1&71 from that Of
1904, which would indicate a plural
ity for Prouty and Mead of about &C.
900.
In 1904 R%oosevelt's plurality was
.3O,6S2.
The State ticket elected is as fol-
lows: Governor, George H. Prouty,
of Newport; Lieutenant-Governor
John A. Mead, of Rutland; Treasu-
rer, Edward H. Deavitt, of Montpe-
lier; Secretary of State, Guy w. Bal
ley, of Essex; Auditor Of Accounts,
Horace F. Graham, of C%raftsbury;
Attorney General, John G. Sargent,
of Ludlow.
The day brought no great surprise,
except in the number of legislators
elected by the Democrats.
With the election of the State tick
ct the Congressional ticket also went
through, David j. Foster, of BrTling-
ton, being returned for another term
from the First District, and from the
Second District, Frank Plumley, OF
Mortified, for the first time.
Although the Republican majority
in the Legislature will be reduced, a
Republican will be elected to succeed
United States Senator Penfeld Proc
tor, who died recently.
The Prohibition party ran a close
race with the independence League,
while the Socialists were a poor fifth
in the contest.
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REMAINS THE SAME
Well Brewed Postum Always Pal'
atable.

The favour of Postum, when boiled
according to directions, Is always the
same-mild, distinctive, and palata-
BILE. It contains no harmful SUD-
stance like caffeine, the drug IN
coffee, and hence may be used Win
benefit at all times.
believing that coffee was the
sause Of my torpid liver, sick head
ache and misery in many ways
writes an Ind. lady, Il quit ana
bought a package of Postum ABOUT
Q year ago.
MY husband and I have been Sc
we'll pleased that we have continued
to drink Postum eve since. We IKE
the taste Of Postum better tnal
coffee. as 1t has always the same
pleasant favour, while coffee changes
ito taste with about every new COM
bination. or blend. So,
@Since using Postum I have mao
no more attacks Of gall COLO, tne
beaviness has left my chest, and the
old everyday headache II
.h;no ,nLnown." There's a Rea'
son." ,...,,
Name given by Postum Co., Battlf
Creek, Mich. Read The ROAD u
Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter! a nes
me appears from time to m Lie!
are genuine, true. and full Oh naA
A1terest
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PITTSBURG WOMEN YIELD RICH HARVEST IN TAXES.
r-auped by Assessors to Reveal Bonds and Mortgages Long Hidden
Blue Book Used With Success. Maiden Names Brighten Them
Into TeIina About Stock inherited From Parents. O..

Railroad stock which the late
Mr.. -, your father, gave you on
your wedding day; also regarding
the mortgages and bank stocks which
were given you by your husband some
years ago. We wish to have an &C.
counting of taxes, and must ask you
to give this your immediate atten-
ton"
The rich women of Pittsburg never
stopped to ask Questions. They simp-
ly few to the Offices of the assessors
to settle.
They did not know what might hap
pen later If the assessors could get
their maiden names and their family
history so readily, and they decided
to get their long held stock placed
on the books and pay their taxes.
Some of the women almost tainted
when told that their maiden names
came from the blue book. The as
SCISSORS sent out 1000 of these letters
and have been forced to put on ex-
ira clerks to handle the business that
is coming in.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, which
had $4,000 holders Of stock, is a
~favorite for the rich Pittsburg wo-
men. The railroad some time ago re-
fused to permit the city assessors to
copy names from it's books, as did
many banks, and there was no way
to get at the fair holders Of this
property. Mortgages held on prop
critics outside the State of Pennsyl-
vania was also safe from taxation In
Pittsburg as long as the owners could
keep the knowledge Of their owner
ship from the assessors.
According to an er1ploye Of the
city there is great fear on the part
Of persons of great wealth that they
may be arrested for perjury, since
they recently took oath as to all their
taxable possessions and did not in
clude taxable railroad stocks and
bonds worth thousands Of dollars,
but when the blue book was rung in
on them, they uncovered the hidden
! store of bonds.
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Pittsburg, Pa.-Wives Of hun
dreds of Pittsburg rich men, after
several years of alleged holding out"
on the city assessors with their bonds
and mortgages, have at last been
taken into camp through a clever
move on the part Of the assessors,
who are now boasting of it to the
discontinue of the women who wear
blue silk stockings.
q. The assessors claim to have uncov-
cred assessable paper worth more
than $1,000,000, which has lain in
rosewood cases for years under cover,
the owners not caring to pay taxes on
it, and so never made returns of 1t to
the assessors.
The Pittsburg blue book was the
medium through which the assessors
of Pittsburg hung n Of the most
monumental bluffs ever worked OH
on unsuspecting women. The cry
Ing need Of more taxable property
appealed to the assessors, and they
decided to call on the rich women OF
%Pittsburg, who have long been sus-
pected Of having much taxable paper
which has never been turned in.
Thousands of letters were sent out
to Mrs. John Smith, Mrs. William
Jones or Mrs. James Green, asking
them to please make statements to
the assessors regarding stocks, bonds,
mortgages, etc., that they were sup
posed to possess. This brought moth
ing. Mesdames Smith, Jones and
Green ignored the summons as they
had done for years.
Finally the blue book was thought
of. There was some hard detective
work, and within a week other let
tiers were sent out, but this time ad-
dressed to Mrs. Lucille Jamison
Smith, Mrs. Vera Worthington Jones
and Mrs. Margaret Clancy Green,
and the letters read something like
this:
"My Dear Madam-You will please
furnish at once to the Office Of the
City Assessors full particulars re-
garding that block of Pennsylvania
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Webs COWGIRL SWEETHEART

tertiary In Time to Find Her a Widow
fore, preparatory to entering upon
this sort of enterprise.
The romance between Dalton and
Julia Lewis, known as the Cowgirl,
began twenty years ago, when the
latter was a pretty daughter of Texas
Johnson and lived with her parents
near the Kansas line eighteen miles
north Of Bartlesville. She and Dali
ton were about the same age and they
rode races, ~practised shooting with
rifles and rode their ponies to all
of the dances. While Dalton was hid.
den from the officers it is said that
the girl cooked mis- meals and kept
him Informed Of the movements OF
the pursuers.
They will live here, where the
bride has a large amount of prop
erty. The wedding was a very quiet
affair before a justice Of the peace
The bride and bridegroom have re-
fused to accept a lucrative offer to
80 on the stage made by a Chicago
Snowman.
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II SOLENODON.
The Only Specimens in the Country In
New York City.

AoAA SAoS
The strangest American animal,
and also one of the rarest ad least
known of all mammals, Is the solen-
odon, or alniqui. Only two speci-
mems are known-one peculiar to
Cuba. the other to the Island Of Santo
Domingo.
Although the solenodon Is an in
sectivorous animal, yet in many
ways it resembles the rodents as well
as the ant-eaters, and is more like
certain fossil q%uadrupeds than like
any other living creature:
1t is about two feet in length, with
long, coarse hair and a naked, rat
like tail. The forefeet are heavy and
strong, and are provided with stout,
curved claws for digging and tearing
apart rotten logs. The ose fs long
and slender and exceedingly mobile,
and the whole appearance Of the an
tmal is peculiar. s...'
For many years, says the New
New York Sun, the solenodon has
been considered extinct, and practt-
cally nothing was known of it's hab-
it's. Few museums Of the world pos
sessed even fragments of the remark
able animal.
In December, 1906, A. Hyatt YER
rill undertook a trip to Santo Do
mingo in search Of this long lost an
tmal, and succeeded In obtaining
three living specimens, which are now
In the American Museum of Natural
History in New York City, and are
believed to be the only specimens Of
the Santo Domingo solenodon in the
United States, If not in the world.
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PLUNGED 1000 FEET
into MINE, 5 KILLED
Runaway Truck Crashes Into Car
Filled With Men.
SPEED OF FORTY MILES AN HOUR
Miners Killed at the Warrior Shaft.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa, as They Were
Starting For Home-Headman
Arrested.

Arrested.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-Five men were
killed and many injured at the War
rior Run Colliery of the Lehigh VAL
ley Coal Company, when a runaway
mine car dashed into a car full of
miners who were being pulled up a
2OOO-foot slope.
The dead: James Gallagher, aged
twenty-seven years, a runner, sim
gle; julius Kurtz, aged forty years,
miner, single; Frank Ostrolsk, aged
thirty-seven years, married, survived
by wife and two children; Samuel
Ruscave, aged sixteen years, door
tender; John Forkalshak, aged fifty
one years, married, survived by wife
and three children.
William Naywadey, aged forty
years single, and Ignatz Gowlsky,
aged t~hirty-two years, are fatally in
jured. Twelve others were more or
less injured.
The days work had been finished,
and the heavy wooden car, with four
seats running crosswise, was filled
with men, eager to gain the surface
and hasten home.
The slope is 1000 feet long, run
ming from the surface down to a vein
which is about 900 feet Under ground.
When the car reached the third
switching station IN the. slope the
men heard "a sudden roar, and were
appalled, upon looking up the slope to
see a huge mine car rushing down at
them with terrific speed.
About half of the men were able
to jump from the truck and thus save
their lives, though all were more or
less injured. The runaway, heavily
laden with refuse, a up the rope to
which the truck was fastened and
plunged down among the mine work.
ers. Both cars plunged 1000 feet
down the slope.
Investigation showed that the acct
dent was the fault Of John Stlmcon,
aged twenty-siX years, single, who
was headman at the slope.
Simeon failed to handle the load
ed car properly, and it bacame I'M
manageable. 1t dashed down n
branch track, jumped the switch on
to the main track, and plunged into
the ascending truck while travelling
at a speed of forty miles an hour.
The descending car weighed several
tons and dashed the men in the front
Of the truck to instant death.
Mine Superintendent Boyle arrest
ed Simeon for criminal negligence,
and censured the company for not
having a head block at the end of the
slope so that no car could gain the
main slope, even though it did run
away on the branch.
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Women in the Days News.

Miss Katharine Prescott Wormeley,
noted as the translator Of Balzac,
died at Jackson, N. Fl.
That Mrs. Peter c. Hams, Jr., will
testify as a witness for the State and
not lift a hand to ave her husband
from the electric chair was empha-
sized by her lawyer, Frank G. Wild,
of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Nine. Ida Won Claussen, an Amer
lean, who tried unsuccessfuly to get
herself presented to the Swedish
court in 1907, is reported as about to
wed one of two rival suitors, m a
Russian prince, the other an Italian
prince.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-09-23
The Men Australia Wants.

The type of men we require is the
man who is not afraid of hardships,
who is game to strike out ION his
own" and who can rely on himself
to pull through. Some people have
an idea that an immigrant should
have everything done for him by a
paternal government-his passage
paid and land ready awaiting his ar
rival. 1t would, Of course, be fatal
for the government to spoon-feed i'm
migrants in this Eay.-Britann1a.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-09-23
Smells in Great Cities.

The man with a nos always rec
ognizes the smell of the place, and he
has only to land at Calais to smell
garlic. London's smell-when the
Londoner returns-is just SCOT and
fried fish. Paris always smells Of
chocolate and wood smoke. Florence
is vtolets and sewage. But SO soon
as you get to Russia the smell Is quite
different. Moscow the city of fruit
that comes from the Crimea, has a
special smell of the cranberry (Which
has various names) In late summer.
And you cannot land in st. Petersburg
without noticing - instantly - the
smell of the place.-Chicago Journal.
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Emmett Dalton Pardoned From Pen

EIIllIlSIL Il
Bartlesville, Okla.-Emmett Dali
ton and Mrs. Julia Lewis were mar
ried here a few nights ago.
A few months ago Dalton was par
doned from the Kansas P~enitentiary,
where he was serving a life sentence
for participation in the raid on the
Coffeyville (Kan.) banks sixteen
years ago.
Julia Lewis is the widow of En-
nest Lewis, who died in a bloody fight
with Federal Marshals Keller and
Williams in this city last November
Lewis killed Williams during the
battle, in which more than twenty
shots were fired in a small room.
Lewis served a term in the Colorado
Penitentiary for train robbery and
had worried the authorities of Kan
sas and Oklahoma by conducting a
modern Monte Carlo on a narrow
strip of ground which he declared
was owned by neither State. 1t was
discovered later that he had moved
the State line marker six years be-
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Hnu,s This2

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
e tor any ~ f aseps 81 Cs Iarabra e,, taa' cannot DO
f.. j. CHENEY Il Co., Toledo, D.
We, the undersigned, have known +. J.
Cheney for the last IS years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his firn.
WALDING, k1NNAN a. MARVIN, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo, U.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally act
ing directly upon the blood and mucuoussur-
faces of the system. Testimonials sent free.
Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
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b Noted People.

Senator Scott, of West Virginia,
was bruised in a fist fight at Wheeling
with a local politician whom he had
called a liar.
President Roosevelt congratulated
and slapped on the back individually
sixty-eight members of the Olympic
team who visited him at Oyster Bay,
N. Y.
James E. Hughes, eighty-seven
years old, former member of the Mis-
souri, Legislature, who was 1mprls-
oned during the reconstruction days
in Missouri for preaching, died at
Osborn, Mo.
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ATLANTIC CITY DRY,
LIQUOR LOSS $4,000
Gov. Forts Threat of Troops Ter
rorizes Resort Owners.
BIG CROWD, PERFECT PEACE
Placard in One Place Reads "Rah
For Governor Fort!"-Somer's
Point and Other Nearby Re-
sorts Equally DRY"

sorts Equally DRY"
Atlantic City.-The city was abso-
lutely dry" on Sunday. 1t has not
been so on any Sunday for more than
two years, and the situation pre-
sented is the sensation of the present
season. 1t was the one theme Of the
Boardwalk comment, and many an
old stager found himself unconscious.
ly wandering to a favorite haunt only
to be confronted by an inhospitably
closed door. 1t is estimated that the
saloons lost $4,000 by the strict en-.
forcement of the order to close. Gov.
ernor Forts threat to call the Legis-
lature and ask for power to put troops
here struck terror to all the resort
keepers.
In the full compliance with the
law, all window blinds in cafes and
saloons were up, so any n could
gaze inside. There was not a suspi-
cion anywhere of a side or a back
door open for the hopelessly thirsty,
and high signs" of any secret order
whatever simply did not go. 1t was
a Ease of "all hope for a drink aban-
don We who enter here"
A bulletin posted in Police Head
quarters read, with just the slightest
touch of humor:
Bulletin No. 4, 9 a. m.-Saloons
all closed. No troops in town"
Another bulletin officially signed
by the Chief of Police, was printed on
a card. 1t read:
In 1851 it was hold the fort
To-day it's Fort holds you"
II don't believe any town ever was
or ever will be more completely
closed so far as the enforcement OF
the Sunday selling law is concerned"
said Chief of Police Woodruff.
Closings were as complete on At
as along the Boardwalk. Plain
clothes policemen who tried to buy
half-pint TASKS along Baltic avenue
were told there was nothing doing
Many of the corner saloons on Arctic
e were conspicuously placarded
thus: This place is closed 'Rah for
Governor Fort!"
Some thought the closing up on the
last Sunday in August would Keep
many persons away from the resort,
but they were mistaken. For, If any
thing, the crowd which came 10 the
shore just to spend the day was unu'
ually large, thousands evidently haV.
Ing decided to take a run down to see
how the place would take the closing
proposition. If these expected any
excitement, however, they were dis
appointed, for there was no trouble
On any part of the island. The cafe
and bar proprietors had entered into
an agreement to comply rigidIJ with
the law, and comply they did with
the best of grace, beginning at mid
night precisely. The police used no
persuasive efforts, and all was as
peaceably accomplished as If Sunday
closing were the most usual of mat.
ters at this place.
Hundreds of thirsty tourists, who,
failing to obtain the refreshment they
sought in beach cafes during the
morning, fastened to Somer's Point
by trolley with the assurance that
there would be no difficulty in getting
anything and everything a dry palate
might crave in the bay resort, four.
teen miles from the city. They re-
burned in detection with the tidings
that Somer's Point was also dry"
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