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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-02-02
PYROMAN|AC SINGLES
OUT ROBERTSON FAMILY
Husbands Business Place Burns Out
Twice in Succession-Wife Living
Alone, Moves to Chicago, and
Shortly After Her Former Resi-
dence Is Threatened.
fsnecial to THE r1MEs.l

Indiana Harbor, Ind. Feb. 2-The
Harbor volunteer fire department was
called upon yesterday morning to ex-
tinguish a small fire in the house
owned by Mrs. Catherine McGrath near
the lake front. From the reports OBJ
tained. the blaze has all the ear-marks
of incendiarism and the police are
unable to solve the mystery. The
house is a large frame affair and were
it not for the prompt action of the
firemen in answering the call. would
have been a mass of ruin in out few
minutes. The damage will not amount
to more than $500. however, and is COW
cred by insurance held in the Farovid
agency.
The house was formerly occupied by
Mrs. Robert Patterson. but Mrs. Pat
terson is now supposed to be in Chica-
| go. She closed the house on Friday
might, after shipping her furniture to
that city and declared her intention of
leaving Indiana Harbor. The fire was
evidently burning early yesterday
morning as several workingmen declare
that they saw smoke emanating from
the house chimneys as early as Z
o'clock. The alarm was not turned in
till after 10 o'clock It was learned
THAT the FIRE had started underneath a
Fireplace and that the wood had burned
to the stone work and the smoke and
sparks carried up the chimney by the
heavy drafe. AS the curtains of the
house were drawn, passersby could not
see that the rooms were filled with
lsmoke and it was not until smoke be-
gan to belch from the window cracks
that their fears were realized. !.
Fire Bug Is at Work.
Mrs. Patterson is the wife Of William
Patterson, who formerly conducted the
Patterson -Faurier racket store or
Michigan aveune The family has been
separated for several months, however
Mr.. Patterson residing elsewhere in the
city. A strange feature of the Patter-
son household seems to be that of de-
tecting mysterious fires. Patterson
himself. was twice burned out within
a period of six months and no explana-
ton was given for either fire. 1t is
thought by many in the Harbor that
the Pattersons have an unknown
enemy who persists in attempting tc
despoil their property by the use OF
the torch. While there can be no posi-
tive evidence on this point, 1T seems
strange that the Patterson stores ant
} the home of Mrs. Patterson should b.
attacked by fires which vie with eacf
other in their mysterious origin Th'
police are working on the case, how
ever, on the basis that Indiana Har
: Dor has a fire bug" who starts thu
fires through mad desire to see thu
firemen work Especial watch is be
ing placed upon the foreign districts il
which half a dozen of these myster
ious fires have occurred during the pas
a month.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-02-02
The Prophet at Home.

do you mean to say" began the
tourist to the vilIager, that the old
man in front of that house is really
100 years old2"
One hundred and four corrected the
native
NO wonder you're proud of himr'
congratulated the tourist
Il don't know about bein proud O.
him. replied the villager, calmly.
Ears I know. he amt done anything
in this place except grow old. an it's
took him a sight O. time to do that
London News.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-02-02
The GIN on the Motor Car.

Everybody In the entire motoring
scheme to-day, whose presence in it
goes back to more than year ago, is
more sober and less extravagant, and
certainly spends less on his motoring,
mile for mile, than he did before the
keen edge of his enthusiasm was
Enthusiastically Illustrated.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-02-02
Wherein Many opposltions FAN.

An opposition has got to be in earn
est in championing honest govern
ment; 1t has got to look genuine as
well as be it, and it has got to believe
in itself. before it can induce the coun-
try to vote against ministerial candi-
dates who come to them bringing
loaVes, fishes. postofilces and wharves.
Toronto Saturday Night.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-02-02

I'm so glad TO meet you, Mr.. Bruiser.
Do you know, clip the newspaper &C
counts of all your fights
You do? What do you do wit em?'
Paste EN- in my scrap book
Harper's Weekly.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-02-02
.o/ZR.slMBzz AzxzRroM

THE NUMBER OF COPIES OF THE
TIMES SOLD ON THE STREETS OF
HAMMOND ALONE EXCEEDS THE
ENTIRE CIRCULATION OF ANY 9TH
ER PAPER IN THE CITY.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-04-03
Why Stay North and Freeze?

Of and win
write have them furnished and
advertisement in this paper)
70 Florida for a board ing house Write
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
NO NEED OF
TAKING COLD
COLDS CAN BE PREVENTED.
SOME FACTS REGARDING
THE DISEASE.
Cold Water, Intelligently Used.
Proper Diet, Exercise and
Common Sense Are the
Preventives.

Habitual colds are due to an i'll Kept skin
on the outside and dyspeptic mucous men,
brane on the inside, the result of Indigestion,
coupled with carelessness Cold water,
proper food and common sense are the foun-
dations upon which a preventive must rest.
"A cold sponge bath, one to three minutes
long before breakfast, with brisk dry rub,
is excellent usually all that is necessary to
keep the cutaneous circulation alive and the
skin reactive to sudden changes of tempera.
ture.
For those unaccustomed to cold water,
tolerance can be gained in three weeks time
by the use of water at any comfortable tenn
perature, making it one degree colder each
day, until it can be employed without dread
as cold as it will run. Sea salt may be added
to the water for its stimulating effect.
Cold water intelligently used does not
steal vitality, but fosters it. It stimulates
the nerves that control the expansion and
contraction of the blood vessels and regu-
lates the cutaneous circulation.
One should keep moving" when wet or
chilly and not stand on street corner or
elsewhere without taking a deep breath.
The lungs used In this way act as q pump to
drive the blood along. This practice, with
the others named, will reduce to a shadow
the liability of taking cold every little while.
II you should contract cold, get rid of it
as quickly as possible, for every cold weak
ems the lungs, lowers the vitality, and paves
the way for more serious diseases. This il
best accomplished by the use of Chamber
ialn,s Cough Remedy, preparation that
can always be depended upon, and that not
only cures the cold but counteracts any ten.
dency toward pneumonia,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
five OF FAMILY
PERISH IN FLAMES
Mother and -Four Children Die
When Home Burns.

Winnipeg, Man., Jan. IA special
from Kenora, Sask., says: While
Frank Engles, who lives fifteen miles
south Of here, had gone to Milestone
for supplies, fire destroyed his home,
burning his wife and four children to
death. a boy, who went for assist
ance to a neighbor. will probably die
as the result Of being badly frozen.
Mrs. Engles, who slept down stairs.
awoke to find the house in flames
and sent her eldest son, q boy of six.
teen years, to safety.
She attempted to reach her other
four children, who were asleep above,
but she failed and persisted on the
stairs.
The boy who escaped then attempt.
ed to rescue the sleeping ones, but
was badly burned and while running
over to a neighbor, scantily clad, was
SO badly frozen that his life is de-
SPARED Of
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
MUST Be DEALT
WITH SOME time
Senator Flint Discusses Anti:
Japanese Legislation.

Washington, Jan. Ex-senator Flint
Of California, speaking of the pro-
posed anti-Japanese legislation, said:
II don't think there is any danger
of break with Japan at the present
time. Neither do I think that any
hostile legislation will be passed now
by our legislature, but the question Is
one that will have to be dealt with in
the future. There is no doubt that
Japanese are still coming to this coun-
try in large numbers"
Senator Knox, who is to be secre-
tary Of state in Mr.. Taft's cabinet, is
concerning himself with the Japanese
situation with a view to becoming
thoroughly conversant with the sub
ject. He has consulted with Sena-
tors Perkins and Flint and has also
considered the question in confer
ences with members of the committee
on foreign relations. He regards the
question as one that cannot be dis
posed of at this time and one that Is
liable to come to the surface again
and again as Japanese labor comes
into conflict with American labor on
the Pacific coast.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
BELIEVES 100 PERSISTED
Union Leaders Estimate of Dead in
Crib Disaster, s

S'hSh s-S0NSs .SSIIios0 VI 0SaO III
Crib. Disaster. +
Chicago. Jan. Ri, president Joseph
d'Andrea, president of the Sewer and
Tunnel Miners association, expressed
the fear that the death list may reach
one hundred Il am told,' he said,
that there were about LIS men work
ing at the crib when the fire started.
If this proves true the number of
dead will easily reach one hundred.
Many of the men who are missing are
undoubtedly at the bottom Of the
lake and their bodies will probably
never be recovered. Our organization
will make an Investigation"
Coroner Hoffman expressed the
possibility hat the list Of dead may
reach sixty-six. There are forty-seven
bodies at the morgue, which CORE
spends with the number reported
missing by the Jackson company. But
the company's payroll was incomplete
and inquiries have been received for
nineteen men whose names were not
on the payroll, but who were said by
relatives to have been working at the
crib by the day.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
STORM RESULTS IN
IMMENSE DAMAGE
All Rivers Are Rising and Traf.
tic Is Interrupted.

Sacramento, CAL, Jan. 2 1t is
feared that lives have been lost in a
violent storm which ragged in the Sac
ramento and San Joaquin valleys and
which, according to early reports,
caused immense damage,
In Sacramento several buildings
were unroofed, the electric light plant
was put out of commission and street
car traffic almost paralyzed. The
damage throughout the valley cannot
yet be learned, as all wires are down.
Following thirty-two hours of con.
tinuous rain the lower part of Stock
ton is inundated. All the rivers are
rising and the levees, which have
been strained to the breaking point
for a week, will burst, it is feared,
under the heavy wind.
At Angles camp a cloudburst
washed out nine houses, killed one
Chinaman, and left part Of the town
under water.
At Pennington the water Is higher
than before the big flood of two years
On
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
"OUT OF WORKS" MEET
Convention of the Unemployed As.
sembles In St. Louis.

st. Louis, Jan. 2 This city was
called on today to take notice, Off.
cially and otherwise, of a convention
of decidedly unusual nature. Today
marks the beginning here of three
days convention of the unemployed
of the large cities of the country
called together to consider ways and
means of lettering their condition.
The moving spirit in the convention
Is James Eads How, native of this
city, who is known frequently as "the
millionaire hobo" and sometimes as
"the king of the hoboes" Mr.. How
denies that the present convention is
composed of "hoboes." He asserts
that there are in every large city
from $4,000 to 100000 men who are
willing to work and who are unable
to find employment.
''The object of this convention will
he To endeavnr +o eon,,~a A1aley,,,a Ont
for all those desiring work and to at
tempt to get transportation for I'M.
employed men to their jobs, as we'll
as to consider other matters that are
very vital to the unemployed" said
Mr.. How.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
WILL NOT ASK CLEMENCY
Labor Leaders Sentenced to Jail Is
sue Statement.

sue Statement. ....
Washington, Jan. Rive have
not asked and will not ask for Glenn
ency and we hope our friends will not
urge us to pursue such course. Low
ing liberty as free men do-as we do
1T cannot be difficult to appreciate
what incarceration in prison would
mean to us. To ask pardon would
render useless all the trial and sacri-
fee which our men of labor and our
friends in all walks of life have en-
dured, that the rights and liberties of
our people might be restored.
Such a pardon would only leave the
whole case in confusion and it would
have to be fought over again from the
beginning"
This Is some of the language used
In remarkable statement signed by
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison in
the current number of the American
Federationist in formal protest against
the action of Justice Wright in sen.
fencing them to Imprisonment fol
contempt of court in the Bucks Stove
and Range case Dec %. s...
That the trio of labor leaders fully
understood the responsibility they as
sumo in making their statements is
shown by their declaration that even
though they may be held in additional
contempt, I'VE are willing to accept
the consequences. It may be neces
sary to the preservation of the liber
ties Of the people that a Judge should
be disobeyed. Judges sometimes
usurp power and become tyrants
DisobedieAce to a tyrant is obedience
IN 1awD
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
HADLEY MAKES ARGUMENT
Speaks for the State in Missouri Rate
r-. Cases, If.-.s-r

Kansas City, Jan. 2).-Governor
Herbert s. Hadley made the principal
argument here for the state In the
Missouri rate case and a great array
of railway attorneys and others were
on hand to hear him. Judge o. M.
Spencer of st. Joseph, Mo-, general
solicitor of the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy, made the leading argu-
ment of the day for the railroads.
Governor Hadley asserted that the
proposed freight rates were reason
able and that If the railroads would
stop discriminating they could easily
comply with the 2-cent law. Judge
Spencer declared that the laws under
consideration on their face refuted the
legal presumption in their favor, that
they were framed after due considera-
ton. The laws, he declared, came
about as the result of political condi-
lions and not from any public demand
or public necessity.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
DEAD CANNOT
Be IDEN Titled
Victims MS Of Chicago Crib Fire
Unrec ognizable.
SINGLE FUNERAL FOR ALL

Bodies Burned Beyond Human Sem.
blance VIII Be Inferred in Same
Cemetery With Single Tombstone
to Mark the Grave-Remains of
Forty.nine Men Recovered, but
Death List May Be Higher.
Chicago. Jan. 2 "A thick grey mist
hanging over the city lent the last
touch necessary to complete the gloom
of the scene in the vicinity of Muir
phys morgue, where rest the bodies
Of the victims of Wednesdays crib
accident. Inside the undertaking
rooms, like the granary Of some terri
BILE bluebeard, rested forty-seven
sacks, each containing the unrecog-
nizable body-in many cases only the
torso-of those who met death in the
charnel house in the lake. In the
street quiet, grief stricken crowd of
relatives and friends of the unrecog-
nizable dead, stood talking softly in
groups or plodding up and down the
slippery walks, Unless very persist
ent inquirers were not allowed within
the morgue. The bodies have no hui
man semblance, all look alike, and
where possible it was desired to
spare friends and relatives the shock
of gazing on the awful spectacle.
There is no hope of knowing
father, son or BROTHER" said Coroner
Hoffman, as he began the work of Sc
curing q jury to visit the scene of
the holocaust.
In the lake the tug Morford contin-
ued it's search among the Ice foes
for bodies of any who may have been
drowned. <
George W. Jackson, of the construc-
ton company which built the crib,
informed the coroner it would be i'm
possible for several days to give a
complete list of the dead AS it will
be impossible to identify more than a
few of the dead it is probable that a
single funeral will be held for all of
them. The interment will be at the
same cemetery and probably single
tombstone commemorative the trag-
edy will serve for all.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
Letter Has AppendIcl,ls.

Chicago, Jan. 23.-Joseph Letter,
well known in New York and Chi
cago social and business circles and
whose attempt to corner the wheat
market some years ago caused SEN
sation, was operated on for appen-
dicitis. The operation was successful
and the recovery of the patient was
nrpdictad
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
On Newfoundland Fisheries.

Washington, JAM An impor-
tant conference on the Newfoundland
fisheries was held at the state depart
ment. It was participated in by Sec
rotary Root. Ambassador Bryce and
Messrs. Aylesworth and Kent, minis
tiers of justice from Canada and New
toundland, respectively. The United
States government is anxious for All
early agreement so that the treaty
may go to the senate for ratification
at this session.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25

speaker. He was followed by Mayor
d. s. Rose of Milwaukee on the actual
topic of regulation.
Dr.. J. F. Callen Of Pittsburg, Kan,
took up the line Of the argument at
the opening of the afternoon session,
dealing with prohibition versus Tenn
perance."
The speeches were followed by gem
eral discussion of local option among
the delegates and various views of
the proper forms of licenses were Of
fered. The attendance for the second
day was increased.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
Child Burned to Death.

st. Paul, Jan. zl.-The three-year-
old child of Edward A. shafer was
burned to death while alone in the
eouse. The child was left asleep on
a cot for few minutes while Mrs.
Shafer went to the store. When she
returned she found the baby writhing
in agony on the floor with all its
clothing burned off and the flesh on
some parts of his body burned to
crisp. The child died in short time.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
TENNESSEE DRY JULY
Legislature Passes Bill Over Govern
ore Veto.

Nashville, Tenn, Jan. 2l.-Tennes-
see has gone dry" After a long de-
bate the senate OVERRIDE the govern
or's veto Of the statewide prohibition
bill by a vote OF 20 to IL, the same
vote by which the original bill had
been passed. The crowd which had
packed the senate galleries during the
debate on the veto then surged over
into the galleries Of the house, where
the result was foregone conclusion.
The veto message was at once read
and the debate on It taken up. The
vote resulted 81 to SO. Z
Under the bill the sale Of liquor Is
prohibited throughout Tennessee after
July /. h
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
OPPOSES PARCELS POST
But Lumbermen's Convention Favor
0nA.Cenf Poefane

But Lumbermen's Convention Favors
One-cent Postage.
Minneapolis, Jan. 2 The lumber
mems convention here went on rec
ord In favor of reduction of first
class postage to / cent per ounce;
also as opposing the passage of the
parcels post law in any shape, as it
would be only the first step towards
the transportation of merchandise by
the government and would be disad-
vantageous to the interests Of retail
merchants. The following officers
We're elected: President, G. A. Fink
bine, Des Moines; vice president, E.
G. Flynn, Minneapolis.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
TWO WEEKS OF STEADY RAIN
Stockton, CAL, Inundated and Sacra-
mento Isolated.

San Francisco, Jan. 23.-With a
final heavy downpour and cloudbursts
the rain and wind storm which has
been raging in all sections of Califor-
MIA for almost two weeks seems to
have spent its force. AS a result of
the final downpour Stockton is mum
dated, Sacramento isolated and prao-
tically all train service in the north
Is at standstill.
The islands at the mouth of the
Sacramento river are all flooded and
steamboats, are busy removing people
and stock from the levees, where they
have taken refuge from the water.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
Touch Match to Powder keq.

Touch Match to Powder keg.
Johnstown, Pa, Jan. 2S.-Three chill
dren between three and four years
old were killed, another aged i've
was severely burned and two women,
mothers of the little ones, were pain
fully injured at Stoughton, Somerset
county, when the children touched
match to a key Of powder to see 1t
blaze. All the dead and injured are
foreigners. Their home was almost
demolished by the explosion,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
Immense New Elevator.

Superior, Wis, Jan. 22.-The Great
Northern railway has begun the con.
struction of new O,OOO-bushel
grain elevator to replace the one
burned In 1907 The new house will
be an adjunct to the 5000, OO0-bushel
steel shipping house.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25

The Oregon Railroad and Naviga-
ton company has abandoned it's trains
on the Washington division. About
one hundred passengers are stranded
at Pendleton. BY reason of all these
washouts Spokane is cut off from rail
communication with the west and
south. North of Seattle, between Bal
lard and Edmonds, the Great North
ern has washout and has annulled
trains 1859
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
Killed by Patent Medicine.

st. Paul, Jan. 2I.-Franklin p. Nor
ris, flfty-lline years old, drank guam
tity IF patent medicine and died In
terrible agony. He had been suffering
fearfully with asthma for some time
and the medicine, it is thought, was
intended as relief for the disease.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
NEVADA BANKER ARRESTED

Charged With Alleged Embezzlement
of $750,000. !.
Los Angeles, Cal, Jan. 2l.-Homel
G. Taber, president of the San Diego
Bank and Trust company, was arrest
ed In San Diego, according to word
received by the sheriff, and will be
taken to Phoebe, the seat of Lincoln
county, New, to. answer to nineteen
indictments found by the grand jury
and said to involve the embezzlement
of approximately $4,000.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
ITALY FACES GRAVE PROBLEM
Task OF Caring for 100000 Homeless
People.

Rome, Jan. 2 Italy is confronted
with grave problem, the caring for
the 100000 persons made homeless by
the earthquake of last month in Sicily
and Calabria. At present, it is esti-
mated, it is costing 100000 a day to
meet the simplest necessities of the
poor. Furthermore, the bestowa1 of
charity Is having an i'll effect upon
the lower classes and many disorders
are reported to result. It is strongly
urged here that public works be speed.
lily inaugurated to offer employment
for those who can labor and that the
bestowal of charity be restricted to
those who are sick or helpless.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-01-25
Shortage in City Auditors Office.

Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. ga
shortage of $4,000 in the city audi
tors office was disclosed following
the installation of new system of
accounting. Vernon H. Green, the au-
ditor, says the shortage may be due
to clerical errors, but more probably
Is the result of systematic stealing by
clerks,