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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-06
For the Afternoon

have been preceded by luncheon ar the
home OF the young hostess. Very quiet
frocks and hats are the rule in these
,jeune. file assemblages. but the fashion
student will find much that is interesting
in this raimant. designed By master
hands and replete with the simplicity.
grace and elegance or character that an
aristocratic young girls garb should
show.
Younger wonderland that i'm New York
means all women under fifty-will wear
i'm the afternoons at the show tailored
suits Of rough diagonal or homespun.
jauntily fashioned with a short skirt
swinging clear of the ground, and with a
knee-leRgth coat opening low at one side
Of the front and trimmed very simply
with facings of MORE silk or panne vel
vet cuffs and collar and slanting pocket
openings at the hip.
The ultra smart tailored wear is al
ways rather simple in style. and your
exclusive custom tailor regards with dis
favor fancy buttons, elaborate braidings
and the like. such garniture. in his
opinion. being best suited to the woman
past the age when supremely simple
lines do best credit to a pretty figure.
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A New York Social Ira
dition Smart Tailored
CARDS for Afternoons
Russian Type of Frocks
the Ru1e---New Evening
Wraps in Louis Style.

FTER q lengthy
controversy the
powers that be
have finally decid-
ed that there is to
be a 1900 horse
show, and this is
surely a matter
for general con-
graduation, for 1t
would seem a pity
to discontinue on
event as signifi-
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ma itching the suede i'm color These pretty
shoes are trimmed with perforated border
lines and are exceedingly dainty and good
style.
The ordinary oxford with ribbon ties is
not considered correct for wear with
dressy costumes i'm the winter season,
though such shoes are worn all winter
long with tailored suits for the street. 1t
is not at all unusual, even on coolest days,
to see low shoes of dull calf or patent
leather worn with cobweb-thin silk stock
ings. the wearer's throat at the same
time being protected by heay furs. Low
footwear of all sorts is much in vogue
for winter wear, and with the heated
houses and well protected carriages and
motor cars. high footwear is really not
necessary except for rough weather in
the street.
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and furbelows merely as an incident.
That fashion during latter years has
taken a place paramount to sport. as
far as the horse show is concerned, can
not be denied: but the fact remains that
this event exists and is arranged each
season for the glorification of the equine
rather than the feminine, and the horse
and his equipment are not only the
raison d'etre, but also the sina qua non
of the big show at Madison Square Gar
den. and without him the gown show
could not take place.
The horse show has been for many
years the first important gathering of
the clans in Manhattan. Town houses
are opened about this time. and from
their country places in Westminster.
Tuxedo and out on Long Island those of
the smart set return to take up the
round of winter gayeties which will
continue until the beginning of Lent
calls them away to Palm Beach and
tho Carolina Pine woods.
The most important social event be-
fore the horse show is the Halloween
ball at Tuxedo. Here the debutantes are
trotted out for an informal first glimpse
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-06

Box parties Of young girls, well chape-
roned are also a feature of the after
noon sessions and most of these parties
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A 9usSian Frock with
Embroidery in Bold Colors

low opening and a huge collar and border
of skunk fur Ermine Is to be very fash
iOnable this season, but will be used al
most entirely as an evening fur. the UNI
spotted or tailess ermine being the choic-
est sort just now.
The women i'm the boxes remove their
wraps and smart one-piece costumes are
the order OF the afternoon. Dozens or
pretty frocks are being hurried to COM
pletion for the luncheons that are sched-
uled to precede horse show box parties
next week and most OF these frocks are
built along the new Russian linss-that is.
with smocks or tunics over an ankle
length skirt. This year the directors
skirt will not sweep over the dusty boards
of the promenade. for the Paris mandate
is .'short skirts for all afternoon cos
tunes"
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Gorgeous Wraps Of
Brocade in Louis Style

of thousands of dollars are represented in
furs at every session of the show. and
While the women in the boxes sit In light
weight gowns with their wraps thrown
over the chair backs. those on the prone
made are laden down with huge NUNS and
stoIes, as though the big garden were not
heated to tropical temperature.
A veritable north pole maid is the 19O0
grid to be- for-sad though the news may
be to the slender pocketboOk-fur gar
ments are bigger than ever and proper
tionately more costly. Huge barrel NUNS
are matched by stOles and shawl collars
which a generation ago would have been
termed peferines and yictorines. and these
pieces fail quite to the waist in the back
and extend to the knees in long tabs
III front
One OF the funniest dress fads that
has ever possessed femininity is the dog
muff. which is absurdly and pitifully like
q pet canine. too sick to LIT his head or
lift his limp legs. The dog mum Is made
Of a long-haired pelt, preferably one OF
the foxes, and legs. brush and head are
attached to the appropriate places. The
arm is slipped through the body OF the
muff or il is carried carelessly over the
arm, the head pointing forward and hind
legs and tail hanging pathetically down
behind.
The pointed foxes with their feathery
sprinkIing of white on a dark pelt, and
the newly favored fisher are the most
fashionable furs: though lynx bids fair to
retain much Of the popularity. and the
pretty gray and blue fox will be worn by
those who appreciate the 0ecomingness
and beauty of this soft fur.
Skunk Is .plebeian pelt which has been
lifted to a high favor this season-pOssibly
because 1t is so like. yet so much cheaper.
than the almost prohibtive sables. An
afternoon carriage coat which will appear
at the horse show is illustrated. This
coat is broadtail model with the new
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The loveiest stockings come for thes
low pumps. shoes and slippers, and WON
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The Russian tunic does not I'm the least
suggest the princess gown of season or
so ago. The new costumes may be-and
usually are-all In one piece; but belt
is one OF the salient features of the
Russian dress, and the knee-length tunic
Is usually belted in at the waist, or near
It in some fashion. These tunics are or
the frock material or OF contrasting
fabric. Chiffon tunics over rough wool
frocks have been introduced by Cheruit.
and bid fair to have tremendous vogue
Dressmakers have been building most or
these afternoon horse show frocks of light
wool and silk mixtures, or of the soft,
crepehke permo stuffs.
Another Russian feature Is embroidery
and these embroideries are different from
any other sort in their bold and daring
designs and colors. The erudest shades
into harmony by the introduction Of
black lines and motifs. gown of blue
satin cloth, typically Russian. is Illus
trated. This gown has q cuirass bodice
this cuirass il half covered by a pima
fore Of the cloth, which extends over
shoulders and bust and slopes downward
below the hips and at the back, where
it is held by a section of the cloth en-
broidered In red, green and darker blue
silks More Of this embroidery appears
on bodice and sleeves, and the yoke and
undersleeves are of dotted net. This
costume has been built for matron who
will chapercn two young daughters at
the horse show, and the skirt Is slightly
longer than the abbreviated models for
more youthful women.
II is at the evening sessions, however,
that one enjoys the full brilliancy and
significance of the show. Then the gar
den, with its ten thousand lights, with
futtering decorations. with jewels agleam
in the boxes and a swaying mass OF
rich fabrics, furs and feathers in the
promenade. is a memorable spectacle.
This season the CLEAN of silks and satins
will be augmented by splendid brocades
and scintiIlating metallic trimmings. Both
the Russian and the Louis modes which
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With this natty tailored suit the most
luxurious furs will be worn. Hundreds
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New evening coats are all on the burn
Gus or kimono lines. In coloring they
contrast with the dress underneath. but
the Innings are the same shade OF the
dress and very often of the same ma
terial.
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.ESSMAK ERS. always willing to
lend a helping hand to their
close allies, the shopkeepers.
have been displaying. along with
the new Louis XIV and XVI
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-29
Frank Stirratt Happily Wed.

A pleasant event which has &C.
CURED of late, and which it gives
the Pioneer much satisfaction to
chronicle, is the marriage of Frank
Stirrat of this city to Miss Merino
of Hager City, Wis.
The marriage was solemnized at
the home of the brides parents, at
Hager City, on Monday, Sept. 20,
and was attended by a number OF
friends and relatives of the contract.
ing parties. Mr.. and Mrs. Stirratt
arrived in Bemidji last Monday even.
ing and are making their home at
Mr.. Straits house, corner of
Twelfth and Beltrami.
The groom is stenographer for the
Crookston Lumber company and
one of the most popular young men
in Bemidji. The bride is spoken OF
as being one of Hager City's most
prominent young ladies.
The Pioneer joins in exten ding
congratulations to both Mr.. and
Mrs. Stirratt.
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acter of lights it may designate at a
price not to exceed the prices specified in
Section 2, of this franchise. &
"All buildings in said city which are to
be wired and in which electricity is to be
installed, shall be wired in conformity to
the rules of the National Board of Fire
Underwriters.
whenever any building or other struct-
ure is being moved or about to be moved
over or along any street, avenue, alley or
public ground, and the wires of said
Warfield Electric company, its executors,
administrators or assigns obstructs or
interferes with the moving of such build
ing or structure, the said Warield Elec-
trio company, its executors, administrators
and assigns, shall at their own expense,
upon at least ten Q0) hours notice, re-
move such wires and thereafter replace
the same.
Section 5.-All poles are to be peeled
and straight in the construction or extern
sion of any and all lines transmitting
electricity. All electric conductors shall
be placed not less then thirty (3O) feet
above the ground in the business districts
of said city, and not less than twenty-five
(25) feet above the ground in the resi-
dence districts of said city.
Section 6.-The acceptance of this
ordinance shall not In any manner impair
any existing rights to use the streets which
the Warfeld Electric Company now have,
if any, nor be construed in any manner
as waiver thereof.
Section 1.-THE said Warfeld Electric
Company shall file their written acceptance
of this ordinance with the City Clerk with
in five (5) days after the passage thereof.
Section 8.-This ordinance shall be in
force and take effect from the date of it's
publication and acceptance.
First Reading, September 20, 1909"
Second Reading, September 27, 1909.
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sistant Secretary of the Treasury
Hilles. The presentation of the medal
was suggested by President Thomas
H. Herndon of the American Cross of
Honor.
During the American Bar associa.
ton convention at Detroit in 1898 the
delegates were entertained on the
river in steam yachts On the return
to the city the steam yacht Truant
reached her dock at a late hour and
In the darkness Joy fell overheard in
attempting to cross the gangplank
Judge Dickinson jumped in after hin,
and both men came. cut of the Incl
dent unframed.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-29
GORGEOUS SCENE
IN new YORK CITY
Half Hundred Floats Pass on
Crowded Streets.

New York, Sept. 29.-Five miles of
Hudson-F Fulton guests, massed in solid
lines along both sides of Fifth avenue
and Central park as far north as One
Hundred and Tenth street, witnessed
one of the most elaborate events ever
presented in New York. Fifty-four
floats, representing scenes of Amer
lean history, accompanied by 1000
men, women and children gorgeously
costumed, composed the ribbon that
unwound it's brilliant hues from the
upper end of Central park to Wash
ington square. The day, which dawned
with rain, cleared later and the parade
was favored by sunshine. The pageant
began at 1 o'clock and lasted for four
hours.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-29
BLACK DUCK

Blackjack, Sept. 29.-(Special cor
respondence of the Pioneer.)
Master Nal Freeburg was on the
sick list last week.
Miss Selma Whiting spent last
week in Blackjack.
Miller, the little son of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. w. Jewett, was very sick
Saturday night, but is much better
now.
Mrs. E. A. Hastay has been hon.
ored by the young ladies' club, by
being selected the matron of the
club.
The Young Ladies' club gave
their first social of the season in
the city hall On Friday evening.
A large and appreciative crowd
enjoyed the program and partici.
pated in the jolly games which
followed. The program as rem
dered: :
Selection, Garwood's Orchestra;
piano solo, Edith Bordsen; read
ing, Mrs. J. NJ. Freeburg; solo,
J. F. Sullivan; selection, male
quartette; violin solo, Miss Ander
son.
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Douglass Lumber company and T.
W. Bell, and also asking new
trial. in case the motion to set aside
the verdict is denied.
The motion was made by Judge
Spooner, as attorney for the Douglass
Lumber company, and by G. M.
Torrance as counsel for Mr.. Bell,
the motion being opposed by E. E.
Mcdonald, C. w. Scrutchin and J.
L. Brown, on behalf of the plaintiff,
Jacob l.. Brown.
This suit was for personal injuries,
the plaintiff suing for $4,000 dam
ages. At the February term, judy
ment was given Brown in the sum
of $500.
Yesterday afternoon, Judge Stan
ton gave Robert Taylor a jail SEN
tence of thirty days, for contempt of
court.
Some time ago, Taylor's wife, who
had Instituted divorce proceedings,
applied to the court for alimony
during the tendency of the pro.
ceedings, and Taylor was ordered
to pay IS per week, on every Mon
day.
Yesterday, when two payments
due had not been paid. Judge STAN
ton caused the issuance of warrant
for the arrest of Taylor to show
cause why he should not be declared
In contempt of court.
The hearing was held this morn
ing, and the court regarded the
claim of Taylor, that he was unable
to make the payments. as insuffi-
Gent and held Taylor guilty of con-
tempt in disobeying the courts
orders, and he was sentenced to con-
tlnement in the county Jail for
thirty days.
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Secretary Kane Well Known Here.

Local fremen were shocked yes.
terday when they learned of the
death at Minneapolis of Captain B.
L. Kane, of the Minneapolis fire
department, and who is also secre-
tary af the State Firemen's associa-
ton.
Captain Kane was overcome by
smoke last Saturday night and died
Sunday.
Mr.. Kane visited in Bemidji over
Sunday, last June, while on his way
to attend the state association meet.
ing at Cloquet, and be met a number
of Bemidji people while here. He
was fine fellow, a heroic fireman
and was well liked by all who knew
him. .-... ...-..s.
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ALL The VICTIMS
ARE ST0CKMEN.
Six Persons Killed in Rail-
road Wreck at Chicago.
CABo0SE TORN TO PIECES

Car in Which Unfortunates Are Sleep
ing Crashed Into by Engine of Pas
senger Train and Fire Adds to Hor-
ror, of Situation-AII Of the Dead
Residents of North Dakota and
Montana.
+ Chicago, Sept. 29.-Six men were
killed and dozen seriously injured
by an outbound Panhandle passenger
train crashing into the rear end Of a
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
stock train. The victims were stock
men and members of the stock train
crew. No persons on the passenger
train were injured.
When the accident occurred most of
the victims were sleeping in the
caboose of the stock train. This car
was completely demolished and the
victims badly mutilated.
Many of the injured were extricated
with difficulty from the burning debris
by fremen and others who hurried to
the scene of the wreck The identi-
fed dead are:
II. POTTER, Dion Lake, N. D.
DON SCHLANGER, Fayette, N. D.
w. J. STEVENSON, Livingston,
Mont.
JACOB MOTT, Kuhn, N. D.
FRED KOCH, Dickinson, N. D.
JOHN PosTLE, Winona, N. D.
The passenger train, which was
bound for Cincinnati, was moving rap
idly and had just rounded sharp
curve when the engineer sighted the
stock train only few yards in front.
After applying the emergency brakes
the engineer and fireman of the pas
senger train leaped from the cab, es.
Gaping injury.
No opportunity for escape was
given the sleeping stockmen In the
way car, as the sound CT the warning
whistle was drowned in the crash as
the heavy locomotive plowed through
the caboose and three other cars.
Fire added to the terror of the
wreck and greatly hampered the work
of rescue
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-29
BRAVE GIRLS SAVE VILLAGE
Telephone for Help While Exchange
Is Burninu,

gainesville, O., Sept. 29.-The BRAY
cry of two telephone girls, Hazel
Christian and Alice Warren, sleeping
in the telephone exchange at Perry, a
village near here, saved that town
from total destruction by fire.
Fire broke out in a store beneath
the exchange. The girls were alone,
but stuck to their posts and tele-
phoned the sleeping citizens.
While the girls were calling to the
gainesville and Madison fire depart
ments for help the telephone wires
burned and the operators in their
night clothes stumbled down the
stairs through the smoke to the
street.
Two stores, livery stable and resi-
dence were burned before aid from
other towns arrived.
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DISTRICT MEETING ODD
FELLOWS FRIDAY NIGHT
Grand Officers Will Be Present., and
Many Visiting "Three-Linkers'
Are Expected.

The members of the Bemidii
lodge of Odd Fellows are making
extensive preparations to care for
the "three-l1nkers" who will gather
here on Friday evening of this week,
when a district meeting of the Odd
Fellows will be held, at which most
important business will be transacted.
1t is expected that Grand Master
Barber of Brainerd and Grand
Secretary Bolton of Minneapolis, as
we'll as several other grand officers,
will be present and participate in
this district meeting.
Several candidates will be initiated
at the meeting and it is the
intention to make the meeting one
of the very best occasions of the
kind ever held in the district.
The lodges at Tenstrike, Black
duck and Bagley have already sent
word that delegations of Odd Fellows
will be present from those towns and
it is expected that delegations will
be present from several other lodges
in north-central Minnesota.
The local Odd Fellows will give
supper and a program during the
meeting; and they extend a general
invitation to all Odd Fellows in
northern Minnesota to come to Be-
midi and participate in the meeting.
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Referring to proposal by the com!
pany that hereafter new men will be
required to agree not to join union
State Labor Commissioner Maupin is
quoted as saying that such a require
ment would be violation Of the Erd-
man act, as the company is an inter-
state concern, operating in Nebraska
and Iowa.
Acting under the state referendum
law the strikers began circulating a.
petition to submit to the voters at
the November election an ordinance
providing for Scent street car fares.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-29
TROOPS DlSARM PEASANTS

Situation Still Serious In Spanish,
Province of Catalonia.
Cerbere, France, Sept. 29.-Strict
censorship over news dispatches con-
unuss to be enforced throughout the
Spanish province of Catalonia. Ac.
oo1dtng to news that reached here
military searching parties are scour-
Ing Catalonia, disarming the peasants.
It is understood that the authorities,
In order to allow the popular i'll feel
ing to cool, have decided to postpone
further trials by courtmartial until
the end of November. They will not,
however, make any concessions in the
matter of reopening the lay schools
In which anarchistic doctrines are
taught.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-29
TRIAL OF SHINN CASE
WAS COMMENCED TODAY.
Attorney General Simpson Trying the
Case for the State. J. Brown
Defends.

The case of the State VS.. O. ].
Shinn was taken up in district court
this morning and the work of secur-
ing a jury was commenced.
/. o. J. Shinn, who was formerly
treasurer of Beltrami county; is
charged in the indictment with the
crime of grand larceny in the Sec
ond degree.
1t is alleged in the indictment
that Shinn unlawfully appropriated
$3.50, the same being a sum of
money claimed to have been paid
by the J. Niels Lumber company to
Shinn, county treasurer, as interest
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-29
Hundreds Pursue Murderers,

Lexington, KY, Sept. ga report
from Buchanan county, w. Va, just
across the Kentucky state line, says
that more than 800 men are engaged
with bloodhounds in a chase over the
mountains after the men who MUIR
dered George Meadows, his wife,
three children and his mother-in-law
and then burned the family's home at
Hurley, Va. -.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-29
Notice to Contractors.

Sealed bids will be received al
the office OF the undersigned up to
8 o'clock p. m. September 80, for
the construction of the super
structure of the Episcopal church
at Bemidji, any or all bids subject
TO rejection.
Plans and specifications may be
seen at my office, 315 Minnesota
avenue.
w. A. Mcdonald,
Secretary and treasurer.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-29
ILL AND WITHOUT A HOME

Soldier Who Marched to Relief Of
Custer Dying.
New York, Sept. 29.-Daniel Cliff
ford, one of the persevering and much
suffering soldiers who marched to the
relief of General Custer and who was
within forty miles of the Little Bis
Horn when Custer and his men were
massacred by the Indians, is dying in
hospital here from starvation. Since
Friday the veteran, who is now sixty
eight years old, had had nothing to
eat and he. dropped from exhaustion
on street crowded with Hudson-Ful-
ton celebrators. He had been i'll and
without home for several weeks.
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Before Jndee Stanton.

In chambers today, Judge Stanton
listened to arguments for judgment
for the defendants, nothwithstand-
ing the verdict of the jury, in the
case of Jacob L. Brown VS.. the
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-29
ALONG RUSSIAN FRONTIER

Persian Bandits Committing Numer-
Gus Depredations.
Tifis, Sept. 29.-Loca1 authorities
have sent an urgent request to st.
Petersburg for aid in suppressing the
numerous bands of Persian bandits
that are preying along the Russian
border. The depredations Of these
bands have increased until life and
property in isolated spots are no long
er safe.
Several small Russian outposts have
had encounters with the Persians and
been WOrsted.