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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-02-13
MAKE TARIFF THE ISSUE.
Congressman Richardson Gives Ad-
vice to Democrats.

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vice to Democrats.
Washington, Feb. 13.-The attitude
of the Republican party on the tariff
question and the presidents recent
special message to congress, in which
he called attention to the necessity of
certain legislation, were the themes of
2 lengthy speech in the house of rep
resentatives by Mr.. Richardson of
Alabama. He congratulated the Dem
ocrats of the house and the country
on the joint debate in congress dur
ing the last fortnight and said that
it had in remarkable manner cleared
up the political atmosphere and for
chilly defined the position and views of
both of the great political parties on
vital political and economic questions.
Tariff reform, said Mr.. Richardson,
is the issue that would clarity the
political atmosphere. LET us stand
for free raw MATERIAL" he explained,
"and the victory is ours" He charged
that on that point the Republican
party was weak and stood discredited
with the people by it's broken pledges.
He did not hesitate to say that the
tariff was an issue that appealed to
the people more than the Panama ca
nal, the railroads, the currency, the
freedom of the Philippines or impe-
ria1iSm
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ONCE OPERATED IN AMERICA
Alleged Bigamist and Blackmaler
Convicted in London,

London, Feb. 13.-Carl Ludwig Won
Veltheim, a German born naturalized
American. who posed as a baron and
was known also as Frank Kurtz and
Carl Sneiderich Mauritz, was SEN
fenced at the Old Bailey to twenty
years penal servitude, having been
convicted Of attempting to blackmail
Solly B. JOEL wealthy London and
South African financier and mine
owner, out of $80,00O
Before sentence was passed on Won
Veltheim the police told a remark
able story of his career Of crime and
fraud. According to this recital Won
Veltheim has committed bigamy with
not less than seven women. This
list includes woman he married in
1904 at Yankton, S. D., and young
American woman, whose name is not
mentioned, whom, he met in 1905 On
board a steamer between New York
and Europe He was married to this
woman in Paris by mock priest, who,
it has been learned, was a friend of
Won Veltheim. The prisoner is al
legged to have obtained large sums of
money from most of the women he
deceived. The police allegations
against the man include charges of
theft and blackmail and the assertion
that he is a deserter from the Ger
man nayy
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new YORK TO PARIS RACE
Six Automobiles Start on Iona
and Hazardous Trip.

New York, Feb. 13.-The six auto
mobiles contesting in the New York
to Paris race started from the Times
square cheered by throng of several
thousand people. Accompanied by
more than 200 motors of all des scrip.
lions the racing machines made their
way up Broadway and Riverside drive
to the city limits, where they turned
north on the road to Albany. From
that city the route to San Francisco,
which is the objective point of the
first stage of the trip lies across New
York state to Buffalo, thence through
Cleveland and Toledo to Chicago,
Omaha, Cheyenne, Ogden, Reno, Gold.
field, San Luis Obispo and San Fran
cisco. Mayor Mcclellan was to have
given the word to start, but was de-
layed and Colgate Hoyt of the Auto
mobile club of America took his place.
Three French cars, one German, one
Italian and one American started in
the race. Three men constituted the
crews of the foreign machines, but
there were only two in the American
car. Estimates vary as to the length
OF time the race will require From
six to nine months, 1t is believed, will
be consumed. All the drivers are
confident of reaching their destination
through the frozen fields of Alaska
and Siberia. Steamers will transport
the machines from San Francisco to
Valdez, Alaska, and from Nome to
East Cape, Siberia, across Behring
strait
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Buried Here, Temporarily.

The body of George Nelson, who
died in this city on the 9th inst, was
yesterday temporarily buried n
Greenwood cemetery, in this city.
Nelson, who had been working in
the woods in the country near Black
duck, was taken sick and subse-
quently brought to the hospital in
this city. He grew rapidly worse
until death ensued on Tuesday,
Mrs. Nelson, who resides at Eau
Claire, Wis.,, was notified that her
husband was seriously ill, but did
not arrive here until after the death
of Mr.. Nelson.
The funeral was held yesterday
afternoon in the First Norwegian
Lutheran church in this city, Rev.
Kolste officiating.
The body will lie in the Green
wood cemetery for the present, but
will later be moved to Eau Claire,
Wis.,, for permanent interment.
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ENGINES REvOLUTIONIzE
The LOGGING BUSINESS
Wild Rice Lumber Company Using
Steam Hau|ers In Their Opera
tons Near State Park.

The Wild Rice Lumber company
of Ada, which is logging south of
Bagley, near the Itasca State Park,
is one of the companies that is
revolutionizing logging by modern
methods.
F. L. Hampson of Ada, president
of the. company, states that the Wild
Rice people are getting out one of
the biggest cuts in their history this
this year, and, although the soft
weather had interfered some, it had
not curtailed the work as badly as
has been reported.
Mr.. Hampson states that they are
using steam traction engines now in
getting the logs out of the woods in
place of the four-horse teams used a
few years back. These monster
traction engines are hitched in front
of a string of big sleighs loaded with
logs and they are able to pull as
much as SO four-horse teams would
pull. From $4,000 to $4,000 feet of
logs are snaked out to the load by
these big engines.
Mr.. Hampson believes that this
will be a better year than normal in
the numbering business in this part
of the northwest.
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OHIO IS SOLID FOR TAFT
Secures Entire Delegation to
Republican Convention.

Columbus, O., Feb. 13.-Secreta1 of
War William H. Taft was successful
in the Republican primaries held in
this state. He now is backed by four
delegates at large, twenty-five district
delegates to the national convention
in Chicago and list of delegates to
the state convention, to be held March
3, unanimously in his favor
The following statement was issued
by Arthur I. Vorys, the manager of
the Taft presidential campaign:
"Ohio is for Taft. The result at
the, primaries completes the demon
stration. Every county, except one
with seven delegates, now has select
ed it's delegates to the state conven-
ton. Every county has selected Taft
delegates. The state convention will
be unanimously for Taft, for every
one of the 815 delegates is for and is
instructed for Taft. This unanimity
also demonstrates that every one of
the forty-six delegates to the national
convention will be for Taft"
Actual voting for delegates to the
state convention was carried on in
but thirty-five out of the total of
eighty-fve counties i'm the state, the
Taft delegates in fifty-two counties
having no opposition. Their names
were simply certified as having been
elected. No vote being taken in Har-
din it was the general belief that
votes would be cast in thirty-six coun-
ties, but the failure of the Foraker
men to bring out an opposition ticket
in Cuyahoga county reduced the num-
Der bv one.
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ARRESTED FOR BURGLARY
Wealthy Contractor of Alton, Ill, Ad
n1its His Guilt.

Alton, ILL.,, Feb. 13.-When Jere
mtah Kennedy turned on the light
after catching burglar in his ciga1
store he was shocked by the discov.
cry that his captive was one of his
neighbors, wealthy man with whom
he has been on terms of close friend.
ship for years. Kennedy's store has
been robbed frequently in the last
eighteen months. The thief never
took anything but cigars.
When arraigned in court on the
charge of burglary the prisoner, Hen.
ry Schuelle, a wealthy contractor, con.
fessed that for. years he had been en-.
tering the stores of his neighbors at
night and stealing
II have walked the floor at night
until beads Of pers piration rolled down
my face fighting against the insatiate
desire to steal" declared Schuelle.
'but always lost"
He said that he always gloated over
the stolen goods for day or two and
would then burn or throw them away.
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WIPE OUT AMERICANS
Attempt at Wholesale Murder In
Mexican Mining Town.
BOARDING HOUSE BLOWN UP

Fifteen Men Hurled Through Roof and
Seriously Injured, but No Fatalities
Result - Office of Superintendent
Also Demolished.
Tucson, Ariz., Feb. '13.-An attempt
to kill every American at the Santa
Rosa mine in Sonora, twenty miles
south of Douglas, was made on Satur-
day last, when Mexican employees
placed sticks of dynamite under
boarding house, the company store,
and the foreman's and superintend-
ent's residences. The fuses attached
to the dynamite were timed for the
explosions to follow each other in
quick succession. The hour selected
the American miners were in the
boarding house and the foreman and
the superintendent in their respective
residences.
The first explosion was at the
boarding house. It was demolished.
Fifteen men eating were blown
through the roof, sustaining broken
legs and arms, but there were no fa-
talities. The store was completely de-
molished.
Thomas Agin, the foreman, and his
wife were in their home, but the dyna-
mite failed to ignite. The superin-
tendent's Office was demolished, but
he was out of the building and es-
capped.
Governor Torres has been notified
and rurales under Commander Ko
selerlisky were hurried to the scene
Eighteen MeXicans are under arrest at
the mine.
The attempt to destroy the Ameri
cans is believed to be the work OF
sympathizers with the revolutionists
at present under arrest at Los An
geles, who believe the prisoners are
being prosecuted by Americans. There
had been no trouble at the mine previ-
ously and no other cause is conceivs
able
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GREAT INFLUX OF BUYERS
Indications of Big Spring and Sum-
mer Trade.

New York, Feb. 13.-More than g.
600 buyers and business men from all
over the country are now in New York
with orders for goods of every variety
for the spring and summer trade The
great influx of buyers was expected
by the jobbing houses here and it is
said by merchants to be an evidence
of the return of confidence throughout
the country. The general financial
depression last fall and the conse-
quent small amount of buying at that
time has left merchants throughout
the country short in their stocks and
for that reason the buyers are COM
ing to New York earlier than usual.
Every hotel in New York that ca
tiers to the commercial trade is crowd
ed and New York merchants are in a
Joyous mood at the prospect of an
enormous spring trade.
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Machinery Concern Bankrupt.

Cincinnati, Feb. 13.-Receivers have
been appointed for P. P Mast & Co.,
agricultural implement manufacturers
of Springfield, O., on petition of stock
holders and creditors. The receivers
were directed to continue the bust
ness of the company, but to wind it up
as speedily as possible The assets
are given as approximately s1,o00,OO0
and the Indebtedness of 100000 is
declared to be increasing through in.
ability of the company to meet matur.
ing obligations.
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SENTENCE AFFIRMED.

Captain of i'll Fated General Slocum
Must Serve Ten Years.
New York, Feb. 13.-The conviction
of William M. Van Setback, captain
of the excursion steamer General Slo-
cum, which was burned on June Is,
1904, in East river, with loss of
more than 1000 lives, was affirmed
by the United States circuit court of
appeals. Captain Van Schaick was
convicted Of neglect of his duty as
captain and was given a sentence of
ten years in prison. 1t was this SEN
tence which was affirmed. Captain
Van Schaick is seventy years old. He
has been at liberty on bail and has
been married since the conviction.
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Suffragettes Go to Jail.

London, Feb. 13-Nearly fifty wo.
men suffragettes who made a raid on
the house Of commons were arraigned
in police court and sentenced to pay
fine or one months Imprisonment,
All but two of the women preferred to
80 to Jail rather than pay the fine.
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REPORTS ON RED LAKE
LANDS DRAINAGE SURVEY
Superintendent Meade Says Work Is
Beset With Untold Difficulties
to Surveyors.

Washington, D. c., Feb. TO-
From wading waist deep in soft
boys to working across frozen
lakes on snowshoes, running many
miles of spirit levels and determin-
ing various elevations, is the kind
of summer and winter outing enjoyed
by the geological surveyors in con-
nection with drainage survey of the
Red Lake district of Northern
Minnesota. At present the govern
ment party is travelling on snow
shoes and sleeping nights in NOV
able cabin built on a sled and
hauled from place to place each
day by team of stout horses.
A. P. Meade, who has been in
charge of a surveying party during
the past season, has recently come
in from the field and reports a
completed survey of approximately
100000 acres during 1907. This
special survey was ordered by con-
gress with a view to determining
the feasibility of reclamation by
drainage of coded Chippewa lands
in northern Minnesota. Those
lands embrace about 100000
acres, which have been coded by
the Indians to the United States,
to be held in trust and disposed
of for their benefit.
Without improvement of the land
there is little likelihood of the In
dians getting anything out of them,
since they constitute vast swamp,
with only here and there small
patches of arabic land. Then, in
cases where the land is slightly
higher than surrounding boys, it
makes at best mere island farms,
and although fertile, is for months
in the year absolutely cut off from
communication with CIVILIZATION. The
settlers on these isolated tracts are
as completely marooned during long
periods as though locoted upon
islets in the Pacific.
Last year the geological survey
completed the survey of what is
known as the Mud Lake section of
this district, embracing 4O2,5OO
acres and drew drainage plans
therefor, showing an average cost
for complete reclamation of $2.75
per acre.
Mr.. Meade reports the encounter
ing of exceptional difficulties in the
past seasons surveys. Much of the
land is covered with almost i'm
penetrable growths of tamarack and
cedar, and to secure the necessary
levels on so-called floating boys, it
was necessary to improvise extra legs
for the tripods, the carrying of which
instrument alone constituted a good
days work.
The mapping Of last seasons work
is now in progress at Washington,
to determine cost of retaining this
additional area. Some 10000 acres
still remain to be surveyed next
year.
The appropriation for this work
came under the Indian bill, and the
house committee on Indian affairs
recently authorized an additional
$4,000 for completion of the survey
and plans.
It is stated that lands in this Sec
ton of Minnesota, when reclaimed,
will sell readily at $25 and $50 an
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More Pay for Chicago Teachers.

Chicago, Feb. 13.-The Chicago
board Of education has voted unani-
mously to increase the salary of ev-
cry teacher in the Chicago elementary
schools. From $25 to 500 was added
to the annual pay of each teacher, the
new salaries to date back six weeks,
from Jan. 1, 1908. The action of the
board will affect approximately $500
Of the 5000 teachers.
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IStir Up Business.

There are merchants who enter
tain an idea that during the quiet
season of the year it does not pay
to advertise. Advertising is just
what is needed to stir up business
to convert the quite times into busy
ones. Special sales of remnants and
other accumulations properly adver-
tised in dull times will bring aston
ishing results. Try it.-Fertile
Journal.
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DELEGATES Instructed for Taft,

Joplin, Mo-, Feb. 13.-The Repub-
Hcans of the Fifteenth Missouri con-
gressional district, in convention here,
elected delegates to the national con-
vention at Chicago instructed to vote
for Secretary Taft for president. At
torney General Herbert S. Hadley was
endorsed for governor of Missouri.
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British Columbia Timber Deal,

Seattle, Wash, Feb. 13.-More than
100000 acres of virgin timber land is
involved in a deal now approaching
completion in British Columbia be.
tween syndicate Of Eastern capital
lists headed by A. J. Earring, president
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul, and the owners of the property.
The land is situated on the north end
of Vancouver island and on number
Of the Queen Charlotte islands.
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TiIIman Offers Amendment.

Washington, Feb. 13.-An amend.
ment to the Aldrich currency bill was
introduced by Senator Tillman. 1t
provides that the emergency currency
to be issued under the terms of this
measure shall not be withdrawn from
circulation more rapidly than at the
rate of $9,OOO,0O0 a month, which is
in accordance with the present law
The pending bill removes this limita.
ton.
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Educational Test for immigrants.

Vancouver, B. c., Feb. 13.-The
lieutenant general has signed the re-
enacted Natal act, assent to which
was withheld last year. The act will
be put into force Immediately and all
the immigrants in British Columbia
will have to pass an educational test
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ONE OF THE VICTIMS DEAD
Dozen Men Burned in Explosion of
Molten Metal.

Pittsburg, Feb. ia dozen men
were burned in terrific explosion of.
molten metal at the Monongahela
blast furnace of the National Tube
company at McKeesport, near here.
The huge steel plated furnace, 100
feet in height, burst at the taphole
and fifty tons of liquid metal dropped
to the floor, accompanied by explo-
sions as it spread and splashed over
near by. One Of the burned workmen
died later. The detonations broke all
the windows in the plant and for a
radius of two squares, causing intense
excitement in the town.
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Colorado Declares for Taft,

Denver, Feb. 13.-Resolutions en-
dorsing the course of the national ad-
ton of Secretary of War Taft for the
presidency were unanimously adopted
by the Republican state central COM
mittee of Colorado.
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HELP WANTED.

FOR u. S. ARMY: Able
bodied unmarried men, between
ages of 18 and IS; citizens of
United States, of good character
and temperate habits, who can
speak, read, and write English
For information apply to Recruit
ing Officer, Miles Block, Bemidji
MINI.
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would give an administration that
would rank with the best in the his
tory of our executives.
''Mr. Morgan is big man, morally
and mentally. If he was in the White
House he would sink his own inter-
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MORGAN FOR PRESIDENT.
Leslie Nj. Shaw Starts Boom for the
Fjnancer, .~'.

Detroit, Mich, Feb. 13.-The Jour
nal prints an interview with former
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M.
Shaw, in which Mr.. Shaw states that
he would like to see J. Pierpont Nor
gan president Of the United States.
'Of course that remark might be, will
be, might say, misunderstood" con-
tinued Mr.. Shaw. "But will tell you
this: Mr.. Morgan is much misun-
derstood man. # he was president he
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WATERS COMMIT SUICIDE
End Their Lives in New York City by
InhaIing Gas.

New York, Feb. 13.-Peter Toomey
and George Molloy, each thirty years
Of age, who had been employed as
walters, committed suicide in Toomey's
room in West Thirty-eighth street by
inhaling gas. They were found dead
in the room. All openings around the
door and window castings had been
tightly closed and the gas jets turned
wide open. Molloy came to New York
from Des Moines, Ia, few months
ago.
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One Thousand Miners Strike.

Duquoin, ILL.,, Feb. 13.-One thou
sand miners employed by the Crerer
Clinch Coal company of Chicago are
on strike here. The trouble originated
over the price of powder which the
operators have been selling to the
uinera
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acre, which, if realized, will make
the Chippewa Indians among the
wealthiest of redmen in the United
States,
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WANTED-Good girl for general
housework. Inquire Mrs. The
Wonzer, 1907 Beltrami Ave.
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WANTED: Girl to assist in house
work. One whose home is in
the city. Inquire at SOB Beltraml
Ave.
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WANTED: Man and team, $4,000
per month and board. Kaye &
Carter Lumber company Hines,
MINI,
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LOST and FOUND

LOST: Between Armstrong; Cafe
and the postofice, lady's hand bag
containing small amount of
change and two meal tickets on
Armstrong; Cafe. Leave at Pho
neer office.
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WANTED-Good girl for general
housework. Inquire 800 Bemidji
Ave.
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ests entirely and devote himself to the
paramount questions confronting the
country, bringing to bear calm, strong
Judgment that has made him such a
power in the world of finance.
understand, I do not regard him in
the holy light that certain people have
tried to throw around him because of
his course in the recent panic. For
every dollar that was given to the i'm
perilled banks and trust companies
Mr.. Morgan exacted 81 of gilt edged
securities. But I know the man and
I admire him and if he was president
he would fill the place as he has filled
his financial niche-as the biggest
man in the country"
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FOR SALE-One four year old COW,
fresh in May, forty chickens. In
quire of E. M. Britten, Bemidji,
MINI.
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For SAL

FOR SALE-Rubber stamps. The
Pioneer will procure any kind of a
rubber stamp for you an short
notice.
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FOR SALE Six-room house on
Dewey avenue. Inquire at Be-
midi Meat Market.
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LOST-Gold watch pin. Leave at
this office for reward.
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FOR SALE: A six-room house on
Dewey Ave. Inquire at 11O3
Dewey Ave.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY-Open Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays,
2:3O to 6 p. M, and Saturday
evening 7:3O to 9 p. m. also.
Library in basement of Court
House. Mrs. Harriet Campbell,
librarian.
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WANTED-To buy, young horse,
weight 100 or 1900. Apply to
Henry Brake.
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FOR SALE: 16-inch seasoned Jack
pine. Telephone 373.