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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-23
NUMBER or TOWNS
ARE THREATENED
Disastrous Forest Fires in the
Kootenay Country.

Winnipeg, Aug. pa disastrous
forest fire is sweeping over the coun-
try in the territory tributary to Grand
Forks, in the Kootenay country,
famed by a brisk breeze. The people
OF Grand Forks at once turned out to
tight the flames, but the confagration
Is still spreading rapidly and assum-
ing the proportions of the fire that
wrought such awful havoc to the town
of Fernie about this, time last year.
Reports from Roseberry state forest
tires also are raging in that neighbour
hood. The cOnf1agration licked up
small buildings of that place and the
whole town, with the exception of the
Canadian Pacific roundhouse, has been
wiped out. The steamer SLOGAN went
from Almo to Roseberry to assist in
saving the inhabitants of that place.
The town of Hatton is in serious dan
ger and the women and children of
that place and of Roseberry have been
removed to a district not as yet
threatened by the fire. The fire war
den Of Roseberry with all the men of
that place is fighting the flames and
deeds of heroism are being achieved
amidst clouds of smoke, sparks and
scOrching flames. Thousands of ami
mails are being driven from the woods
by. the great fire and the damage al
ready inflicted is enormous. The fire
warden claims that the outbreak was
started by campers. There seems ev.
cry reason to fear that British Column
bia forests are in the grip of mighty
blaze as they were last year. The fire
is already over a mile wide.
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B. Crawford, Freeport, Ill; r. No.
4; Ed. Shank, Gas City, Ind; Alfred
Faulkner, Moweaqua, ILL.,; r. No. 4;
H. Q. Sunday, Thompsonville, Ill;
A.. w. PATTERSON, Fenton, Iowa;
Robert Green, Hastings, Iowa;
James O'Hara, Belle PLANE, Ia, Box
227; L. D. Hamilton, North Vernon,
Ind; H. l.. Snyder, Charlottesville.
Ind; Fred Marshall, Union, Iowa;
Albert Godfrey, Stromsburg, Neb.,
R. No. S; Arthur Blackburn, Cedar
St., Elmira, N. Y; Chas. E. Gharet,
Nittany, Pa; ]. c.. Courier, Nittany,
Pa.
Paul Roehrig, Topsham, Me-, R.
2, Box IS, wants farm work; Harry
Scheetz, 185 Maple St., Naugatuck,
Conn.,, wants work. ames H.. Evans,
Lucame, N. c., R. No. 4, wants
work."
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HAS HAD A VERY
STORMY CAREER.
"lncubator Baby" Victim Of
Another Kidnapping.
GUARDIAN is FIRED ON

Child Taken From the Home of Her
Mother in Topeka, Kan, by Two
Men and Woman in Sensationa!
Manner-Party Drives Off in a
Buggy and Manages to Get Away.
Topeka, Kan, Aug. 23-Marion
Bleakley, the St. Louis worlds fair
incubator baby, who was the cause of
litigation extending over several years,
was kidnapped in a sensational man
ner from the home Of her mother here
Two men and a>woman we're engaged
In the kidnapping and the child was
secured only after an exchange Of
shots, which, however, went wide Of
their marks. The kidnappers fled in
buggy.
Mrs. Charlotte Bleakley, who was
awarded the child by the federal
courts two years ago. lived with her
mother at 1927 Garfield avenue, which
is a mile and a half from the business
district. She worked down town as
stenographer.
The little girl, who is five years old,
had been carefully guarded in Topeka
and had been constantly attended.
During the morning woman, osten-
slbly selling soap, appeared at the
Bleakley home. She soon left and
half hour later buggy in which were
two men and the same woman ap-
peared in front of the house.
Fires on Child's Guardian.
One of the men alighted and en-
tered the yard where the child was
playing with a young man of the
nelghborhood, in whose charge she
had been left AS the kidnapper ran
toward her the young man attempted
to interfere. The kidnapper shot at
him, but missed. He then knocked
the boy down with his revolver, car
ried the child to the buggy and drove
off.
Marion Rleakley has had a stormy
career. She was born in hospital at
st. Louis and was placed in one of
the incubators shown at the exposi-
ton there. While there she was for
mally adopted by Mrs. James G.. Bar
clay of Moline, III. Mrs. Bleakley
signed a release, but she afterward
sued to recover the child and was
successful in the Illinois courts.
She brought the little girl to Kan
sas and she was kidnapped from the
mother in Montgomery county, but
later was recovered.
The fight for the possession Of the
baby was fought through the state
courts and the supreme court finally
awarded the custody to Mrs. Bleak
ley: Mrs. Barclay then instituted a
suit in the federal court for the pos
session Of the child, but was again
defeated.
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The new PRISON BINDER
is WORKING VERY we'll i.
New Binder Incorporates Many Advan.
tageous Features.-Experts :
f.. - %. X" Machine. w.

There has been considerable
speculation as to whether the binder
which is being manufactured at the
Minnesota State Prison would make
good" and, much interest is being
taken in the trials of the prison.
made machine.
One was tried near Moorhead last
week, and the Crookston Times says
of the trial.
"A number of persons who are
interested in the work of the new
binder sent out from the state plant
at Saltwater, went out to the Ander-
son farm near Moorhead, yesterday,
and watched the working of the
machine. Among those who were
competent to judge the binder was
declared to- be success. It worked
perfectly, ran with ordinary light
ness, and never missed a bundle.
The knotter or binder used is the
Minneapolis, and the reel is the
Minnie' reel, which, in the matter
of different adjustments, possesses
number of material advantages.
The new binder is built upon the
same general lines as the Massev-
Harris binder, built IN Canada, and
not patented in this country"
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final BREAK UP
OF SWEDISH STRIKE
Street Car Employees Apply for
Old Positions.

Stockholm, Aug. 23-The local
street railroad company has scored a
complete victory over those of it's en-
ployes who joined the strikers the be-
ginning of this month. Now that the
strike is failure the men have ap-
piled for their old positions, but only
few of them have been taken back.
Those who formerly secured the max
imum wage have been re-employed al
the minimum rate and they have been
compelled to sign personal contract
to furnish bonds guaranteeing their
future loyalty to the company. On
the other hand the strikebreakers
have been rewarded with the best pay
ing positions the company has. The
company has instituted suit against
the strikers for damages and breach
of contract. This victory is regarded
as heralding the final break up of the
general strike.
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Bio Gift to University.

Minneapolis, Aug. %. - Thomas
Shevlin, the millionaire lumberman,
has given 100000 to the University of
Minnesota and the board of regents
accepted it with thanks. Of this sum
$4,000 will be used by the board to
enlarge Alice Shevlin hall, gift from
the same source, and the other $4,000
will support five scholarships in the
uniVerSitV
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to the arid lands of the, west or
lands of frost-bitten crops in the
Canadian Northwest.
Mr. Welsh conducts a bureau of
information as to farms that are
available for rental purposes and
also lends hand in securing situa-
tons for farm laborers who are out
of employment.
A letter received from Mr.. Welsh
yesterday tells of some parties
who are DESTROYS of renting farms
and several farm laborers who are
DESTROYS of securing work. Any per-
son who has a farm to rent or who
desires reliable farm help will do
we'll to write to Mr.. Welsh.
The letter is as follows:
[ attach herewith list of names
of men who have written to this Of
flee in the past five days desiring to
rent improved farms in Minnesota.
I would appreciate it if you
would turn these over to men who
have farms to rent, or communicate
with them yourself.
There are also a few names of
parties who have written this office
the past few days for employment on
farms.
Yours truly,
George Welsh,
Commissioner of Immigration.
J. B. Woods, Keokuk, Iowa, R.
No. |; VIM. Sharkey, New Lexington,
Ohio; L. E. Anderson, New Castle,
Ind, % South 9th St., Warren
Marks, Delong, Ill.,; D. W. Wander
vert, Alden, Iowa, r. No. 3; George
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Verdict of Not Guilty,

Washington, Aug. 23-"Not guilty.
Is the verdict of the naval court which
tried Davis Williams, the negro mess
attendant of the battleship Vermont,
who. caused the death of brother
sailor as the result of a boxing bout
and who was tried for manslaughter.
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DEFICIT Of $4,000 FOUND
Banker Convicts Go Over Books Of
Penitentiary.

Pittsburg, Aug. 23.-Discovery has
been made, it is alleged; of a deficit
of $4,000 by a board of auditors ap-
pointed to fix the financial status of
the Western Pennsylvania peniten-
tjary. The investigation was started
following recent change of admins
tration and was conducted by a num-
Der of prominent bankers now serving
time in the penitentiary.
The $4,000 is accounted for in the
bookkeeping. Brooms and broom ma
terial to that amount is stored away.
This extraordinary purchase has sub
merged the finances of the big prison.
The hosiery department, it is said,
has been running at a loss of 1900
year, while rugs and carpets have
been sold for less than was paid for
the manufacturing material.
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LISTING men WHO DESIRE
TO RENT FARMS OR WORK
State immigration Bureau Taking
Active Interest in All Matters Per- -
tanning to Farming.

The Minnesota State Board of
immigration, under the very eff
cient direction of Commissioner
George Welsh, is doing much to
promote satisfactory conditions
among the farming interests of the
state, as we'll as inducing immigrants
to locate in the state, in preference
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SOUL MATING ITS OBJECT

New Religious Cult Founded at, San
Francisco.
San Francisco, Aug. 23.-True soul
mating in matrimony is the funda-
mental principle of a new religious
cult in San Francisco. ~ -
1.-THE Astrologers of the United
States of America" is the society's
name. It demands of it's devotees al
legiance to one supreme intelligence
and the acceptance of the doctrine
that free love is Ubiquitous and that
no two persons should marry except.
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Additional Locals

Mrs. c. E, Kreatz and daughter
Lorraine have gone to MINNEAPOLIS
for visit with relatives.
T. B. Holmes came over yesterda,
afternoon from Lakeside and depart
ed this morning for his home a,
Grand Forks, N. D.
Robert Foy, who is now conduct
ing dray line at Kelliher, came
down from Kelliher this morning
and spent today here.
Mrs. FL. Shepherd and two
children returned to their home al
Minneapolis today after having
spent three weeks in this city visiting
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilcox
G. Flora and wife and Miss MARY
Flora of Kansas City came to the
city yesterday evening from Inter.
national Falls and we're guests al
the Hotel Markham last night and
today.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Baptist church will meet at the
church parlor Thursday afternoon
instead of Wednesday. All are
requested to bring scissors and
thimbIe.
Miss Ricard of Little Falls
returned to her home this morning.
after spending several days in the
city, being a guest at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Ebert, who were
formerly residents of Little Falls.
D. w. Carter, who with his son
conducts general store at Redby,
came down this morning from
Redby and was a guest at the
Hotel Remore this noon. Mr..
Carter returned to Redby this after
noon.
Died This Morning The g.
months old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Pickles died in this city this
morning death being caused by the
disease among infants which is
going the rounds" of northwestern
cities.
Carl Mitchell, whom everybody in
Bemidji knows best as Mitch" has
gone to Livingston, Montana, where
he will join "Billy'' Collins and
work with him as brakeman on the
Great Northern railway, running out
of Livingston.
RayF. Murphy returned last night
from Funkley, where he had been to
prepare the body of Mrs. Ford Even
son for burial. Mrs. Evenson died
early Sunday morning, and Mr.. Muir
ply went to Funkley that morning,
for the Bisiar g. Murphy company.
George Webster of Fargo, the pro-
prietor of the booking agency which
supplies all the vaudeville people for
the Brinknan Family Theatre and
other vaudeville houses throughout
the northwest, came to the city this
noon for the purpose Of attending
the formal opening of the new Brink
man which will take place tonight
and tomorrow night.
Mr.. and Mrs. J.. P. Marcum
returned Saturday afternoon to their
home at Crookston, after having
spent a week in this city at the
home of their son, DR.. Marcum, and
visiting with the doctor and his
wife and Walter Marcum, son of Mr..
and Mrs. ]. P. They had a very
pleasant visit and will no doubt
return next season to enjoy another
outing here. .~.-.
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FORCED TO MAKE LANDING
Wellman's Balloon Explodes After
Starting for Pole.

Hammerfest, Norway, Aug. o.
Walter Wellman's balloon America
exploded Aug. Is at a point thirty
two miles distant from his balloon
shed on the island of Spitzbergen.
Wellman and his companions conse-
quently were forced to make a land
ing, but none Of the men in the bal
loon was injured.
The departure from the balloon
shed was made successfully and I'M
der favorable auspices and up to the
time of the explosion the balloon ap:
parently was acting we'll.
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Tolstoi's Secretary Exiled.

lula, Russia, Aug. PIN, Guseff,
private secretary to Count Leo Toll
stoi,T has been exiled to the province
of Perm for period of two years. He
was found guilty of circulating Toll
stois pamphlet entitled, "Thou Shalt
Not Murder" which is a plea against
the infection of the death penalty.
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SOCIETY GIRL A HEROINE
Dies in Futile Effort to Save Her Male
Companion,

Wildwood, N. j., Aug: 23-1n a fu-
tile effort to save the life of w.
Brooke Lessig, a we'll known Philadel-
phia lawyer, with whom she was
swimming in the surf at Wildwood
Crest, Miss Virginia Paul, one of the
leaders in the. younger set of Phila-
delphia society, was also drowned in
the swift ocean current
Miss Paul was a stepdaughter of
Clarence Jeffries, a Pennsylvania rail-
road official, and resided at Swarth-
more, Pa. She was about twenty-one
years old.
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Members of Prominent Families.

Pittsburg, Aug. 23--By the capsiz-
Ing of raft on pond at Braves
burg, near here, George Hodwer, six
teen years old, and Joseph Ross,
eight years old, members of prominent
families, We're drowned.
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SPENDS NIGHT IN HAYSTACK
President Hill of the Great Northern
Marooned in Montana,

T"dr OO11CU TIT WUTCdIId,
Great Falls, Mont, Aug. 23.-Presi-
dent Louis w. Hill of the Great North
eln railway was compelled to spend
a night in haystack. He started
from Helena to Great Falls in his
automobile Near Fort Shaw the ma
chine stuck in mudhole. He applied
to settler for bed and supper, but
was told that he could find a bed in a
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LOUIS W. HILL.
nearby haystack and that he could
help himself to refreshment at the
pump.
When he did not appear here on
time a searching party started toward
Helena. They found the automobile
in the mudhole and a short inspection
or the nearby neighborhood revealed
Mr.. Hill and his chauffeur sound
asleep in the haystack.
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BENJAMIN lDE wheeler.
presidents office and official warning
in the form of curt letter has been
sent out forecasting trouble for the
professor or instructor who discloses
anything concerning the workings of
the state institution to reporters.
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" A n I )
NE CENT A ORD,
HELP WANTED,

WANTED-Good girl for general
homework; three in family; no
children. Mrs. A. Hagberg, SIS
Beltrami Ave.
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RIGID CENSORSHIP OF NEWS
Occurrences at University Given Out
by President Alone.

San Francisco, Aug. 23.-Rigid cen
sorship of all news from the Univer-
sity of California has been ordered
by Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president
of that institution. All accounts of
affairs academic must in future be
transmitted to the press through the
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WANTED-Good girl for general
house work. Man and two child
rem: Address Lock Box 421,
Bemidji.
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MlSCELlAN EOuS

PUBLIC LIBRARY-Open Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays
2:3O to 6 p. M, and Saturday
evening 7:30 to 9 p. m. also.
Library in basement of Court
House. Mrs. Donald, librarian
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FOR SALE-Eight room house,
with modem conveniences, and two
lots. Terms one-third cash, bal
ance monthly payments if desired.
Inquire Frank Snow, Cor. 18th.
Street and Beltrami Ave.
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Ing when the horoscopes of the in

IIUIUSCUDtS
dividuals are harmonious.
Articles of incorporation of the soci
ETY. were filed with the county clerk
and a church edifice soon will be
erected.
1t is intended to disseminate the
creed all over the United States from
San Francisco. A college is to be in
stituted to train teachers of astrology.
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FOR SALE-Rubber stamps. The
Pioneer will procure any kind of
rubber stamp for you an short
notice.
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FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Household goods, fur
niture, china closet, leather seat
dining chairs, rocking chairs, 2
dining room tables, touches, 2
retrlgerators, center table, beds,
etc. 6O3-Cor. 9th St. and Bemidj
Ave.
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LOST and FOUND

Watch and chain. Owner
can have same by proving
property. 324 Minnesota avenue.
LOST-Somewhere on Lake Boule-
ward, fllagree brooch. Finder
leave at this office for reward. .
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WANTED-Ofice girl. Inquire of
Doran Bros, 4O2 Minnesota Ave.
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WANTED-Section foreman for Bis
bee and Church's Ferry, North
= Dakota. Anderson & Johnson.
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FOR RENT,

FOR RENT - Nicely furnished
rooms. Inquire 915 Lake Boule-
ward.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. girl. In
quire at Lakeshore hotel.

WANTED-Cook. Inquire at City
Hotel.
WANTED-Coqk for Star Theatre.
The oasis., 1909-10-09
A RIDICULOUS FUSS.

Last month the American maga- zine annOunced d series of articles upon Barbarous Mexico, whereat there arose a storm of protest all along the international border, and among Americans in Mexico. Some of the latter went 90 far as to consider whether they should not intercede with President Taft and the department of state at Wash ington to suppress the anticipated publication, and others talked of invoking the process of injunction in the American courts. And some of the little Sep newspapers along the border in commenting severely upon the proposed publication would not name the magazine which was about to committee an offence so great against a friendly nation that they would not men tion the name of the periodical lest they might advertise it,"
 The article has appeared in the October number of the American magazine, and from a casual peru sal it strikes TIE OASIS that it is very like the rest of the sensational publications of the day-mostly in the captions. Tbis Is the day of fakery in newspapers and maga- zines. The Elan is to thrust for ward conspicuously anything that will catch the eye and sell copies oI the periodical to the passer who sees the same displayed npon a new stand, or sees 1t advertised. He finds afterward that the glaring headline has drawn attention to very ridi- culous commonplace matter of nc consequence whatever. And to a great extent is this true of the much advertised article in the De- tober number of the American magazine. A large part of tht article is devoted to an expose o the cruelties practieed in the hen equen plantations of Yucatan upor the convict and peon labor ther, employed. We'll executed engrav
The oasis., 1909-10-09
Once More Our Enemy.

We hope that the beef farmers Of he country have too much iude. pendence and sense of justice ro lie down like spaniels anu let Dbe packers of hicago, Omaha and Kansas City govern their destiny in all things. The latest thralIlom proposed for them ny the bpef monopoly is the formation of a f" Beet Producers As,ocialiono which was organized at he Chicago Stock Yards. Aug. l7lh. One of the prime objects of the association Is to remove the len cent tax from oleomargaTine. It remains to be seen whether the beef farmers will fall into this silly trip as they did in 1898 to 1902. when the law was enacted. At that time the cattle men tumbled over one another to rake the packers chesruts out of the fire. They were pushed into it hiindly. Hat they had grain of sense they would have seen that it was of the greatest importance 10 them as meat producers not 10 break down the dairy interest and turn the dairymen into the produc. ton of meat. Furthermore it WAS shown to the cattle men at thlt time, that the packers never paid them penny more for their cattle because of what they got out of them in oleomargarine.
 But the cattle men have become so accustomed to letting the meat monopoly think and speak for them, fix their prices in everything they had to sell in the meat indus. Itry, that they did noi dare to ex- ercise any judgment for them selves. Speaking of this bold eff,rt so essentially in the interest of the packers, and no one else, the Wall lace's Farmer says.
 "rhe second purpose, to have the tax on oleomargarine removed, will not commed itself to honest men, whether they grow beef cattle or not. who know the history of the olemdrgarine tax, and 1t will most certainly not be endorsed by the farmers and stockmen of the corn belt"
 ]! The new beef producers assoca' ton appears to he an effort on the part of the packers and commission merchants to secure some support from stockmen for purposes of their own.-Hoard's Dairyman.
The oasis., 1909-10-09

gerations of small grains of truth. is like the scareheads dis6gurIrg the modern daily newspoper- made to sell papers.
The oasis., 1909-10-09
Serial No. Oa5ls.)

DEPARTMENT UF THE INFERIOR. UNITED D states Land Odice, Phoenix, ArI2oqi", Sept D. 10 9. Notice for Publication N99u,O N99ua, Patagonia, Arizona. has ftd in this office ms application to select under the proylsionss sEo "s the Act of Congress approved June l. lo92y yiI SWA of the NWA and the NWA ot the sST.4 of Sec 26. T. 20 s. K. r k. G. X s. K, M loeL,d' Nh. O65ISl. Any and all persons eialmii,,S to object because of the mineral character ol .u9 land, or for any other reason to the ulSPo'r nr of the applicant, should file thelr aiiidav,I"d dsy protests in this office on or before the 5otn GS after the first publication of this u'"''' FRANK H. PARKER. Register. ,,t,o4,on
 First publication Sept. 25i last puollc''''D octt, 30.