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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-06
MRS. PEARy DOUBTS
DISCOVERY OF POLE
Says Dr.. Cook Must Furnish
Proof Of His Claims.

South Harpswell, Me-, Sept. 20
have been expecting to hear this re-
port ever since DR.. Cook started fol-
the POLE" said Mrs. Robert q. Peary,
wife of the explorer now in the Arctic
territory.
ut has been a standing joke at the
Explorers club and in our set in New
York. But please don't quote me as
being incredulous over the report. 1t
would look too ugly coming at just
this time.
IF DR.. Cook has discovered the pole
he will have to bring back some OF
Mr.. Peary's records to prove he has
been farther north. You know it's
customary for all explorers to leave
records in their own handwriting in
cairns built of stone. The explorers
following must copy that record, place
the copy in the cairn and bring on
the original.
Recalls Mount Mckinley Trip.
COLL uC1p 1SCd11A1l6 IuS Sui VI
Dr. Cooks ascent of Mount McKin
ley, about which he wrote his book,
In that book he says he assembled the
mountain, looked at his anerOid and
then came down again. When" the
scientists wanted to know how high
the mountain was he said he was in
such hurry he couldn't stop to com
pute the altitude.
II heard that when DR.. Cook start
ed for the pole he said he was going
to sneak in on the ground floor. When
he went up there and bought all the
dogs he knew Mr.. Peary would need
later it showed what manner of man
he was. 18Th. 81.
zone reason don't put much faith
In the story of the discovery is that
Dr.. Cook is quoted as writing he was
living on tallow. Now Eskimos DOM
live on tallow amy more than we do
and anybody that knows their habits
and the Arctic regions knows that Is
true. AS for confirmation of any re
ports from Eskimos they couldn't tel
the North pole from barber pole"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-06
SAYS DIRECTORS
were NEGLIGENT
Judgment Rendered Against
Wealthy New Workers..
ECHO OF BANK FAILURE


vesant Fish and Others Held Liable
for Alleged Reckless and Improper
Loans Made by the President Of tho
Trust Company Of the Republic.
Saratoga, N. Y, Sept. Thirteen
former directors of the Trust Com.
pany of the Republic are held respon-
s1ble, In decision made public by
Justice Van Kirk, for losses sustained
by the trust company through loans
made in 1902 by it's president, Daniel
Leroy Dresser, from the company'a
funds on securities of the United
States Shipbuilding company and for
which restitution to the trust com
pany was asked in a suit brought by
Charles H. Kavanaugh, a stakeholder,
against the directors. The action waa
.ried before Justice Van Kirk in this
village during the greater part of June
and July.
Justice Van Kirk holds that the de.
PENDANT directors-Perry Belmont
Charles D. Marvin, James Mcmahon
Thomas Crimmins, Charles W. Wet
more, William D. Baldwin, Ballard
Mccall, Charles F. BROKER, George J,
Gould, Elbrldge 8. Snow, Herbert L.
Satterlee, George @. Boldt and Stuy:
vesant Fish-failed to perform prop.
erly their duties as directors; that
losses sustained by the trust company
were due to negligence and that the
individual directors are liable for the
losses suffered by the company during
their terms of Office after Aug. 49,
1902, when, Justice Van Kirk decides,
had they performed their duties they
would have learned of improper and
reckless loans being made to Lewis
Nixon, president of the United States
shipbuilding company, and others.
Up to this date, he says, nothing had
occurred of sufficient importance to
put the directors on their guard.
In his findings the justice gives no
total Of the losses for which he holds
the directors accountable. The action
was brought to recover about 100000.
The Judgment awarded will, with In
terest, reach about $350,O0O, according
to the attorney for the plaintiffs.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-06
STOCK EXCHANGE FIRM FAILS
Freeman, Rollins & Co. of New York
Suspends.

Freeman Rollins & Co. of New York
Suspends.
New York, Sept. THE suspen-
sion of the firm of Freeman, Rollins
& Co., members of the New York
Stock Exchange, is announced. The
firm has branches in Boston and
Providence and was composed of Per-
ley L. Freeman, the stock exchange
member: Joseph e. Freeman and
Charles TT. Rollins. The firm began
business on the New York Stock Ex-
change Jan. IS, this year.
A petition in bankruptcy against
Freeman, Rollins & Co. was filed in
the United States court here by James
A. Anderson and two other creditors,
whose claims aggregate $2,511. The
petition gives the liabilities of the
suspended firm as 100000 and the
assets as 100000. Judge Holt ap-
pointed Robert B. Oliver receiver with
a bond of $4,000.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-06
TRAIN CRUSHES STREET CAR
Two Fatally and Eleven Seriously
/. Hurt at Des Moines. @s

H.. -. I1uFl at LES NHOlnoSs &-
Des Moines, Sept. Two persons
we're fatally hurt and eleven serious.
y injured when a loaded Rock Island
passenger train. carrying state fair
visitors returning from the show
grounds struck a packed Fort Des
Moines street car and crushed it to
kindling wood. 49,:
" The car was carried fifty feet on
the cowcatcher Of the engine and
wrecked against the steel Orders of
the bridge across the Des Moines
river, in momentary danger of falling
into the river, twenty feet below.
The passengers, who were literally
packed into the car, fell out through
the crushed sides, through windows
and doors, bleeding and faint. ~
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-06
Ten Thousand Melons Consumed.

Rocky Ford, Colo, Sept. THE
greatest pile Of watermelon rinds in
the history of the world lay scattered
over the fields of Rocky Ford, the re-
suit of the celebration of "watermelon
day." Ten thousand watermelons
were consumed, in addition to vast
quantities of canteloupe.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-06
Mother WILL SECURE CHILD

habeas Corpus Proceedings Now Pend
ing to Be Dismissed.
Topeka, Kan, Sept. Marian
Bleakley, the incubator baby, will be
turned over to it's mother, Mrs. Char
lotte Bleakley, at Kansas City within
few days, when the attorneys for
Mrs. Stella Barclay of Buffalo, N. Y,
charged with kidnapping the child,
will ask that the habeas corpus pro-
ceedings brought at Kansas City be
dismissed. This announcement was
made by attorneys of both sides. ~
The baby is now in Kansas City in
charge of the clerk of the juvenile
court,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-06
FOUR HUNDRED ON BoARE

Passenger Steamer Run Down In Enc
Iish Harbor.
Portsmouth, Eng, Sept. L-There
was an exciting scene at the mouth oil
Portsmouth harbor when the Isle Of
Wight steamer Duchess of Kent was
run down by government transport
There were 400 passengers on board
the Duchess of Kent and Immediately
after the collision she began to f1ll
rapidly. The captain headed her TO,
the shore and she was promptly
beached. All the passengers go'
ashore safely.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-06
DROPS INTO LAKE ONTARIO
Aeronaut Fails in His First Attemp,
to Cross,

Toronto, Sept. &C. Foster Willard,
In the aeroplane Golden Flyer, made
his first attempt to cross Lake On
tario, but sudden increase of wind
and trouble with the ballast made
the machine dip it's bows at terrifS
pitch and he fell to the water when
about three-quarters of mile from
the shore. He was picked up by tho
launches which had been waiting ia
see the attempt. -z@-.- -
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-06
Two Workmen Crushed to Death.

1lliopolis, ILL.,, Sept. while the
Roman Catholic church here was be-
ing moved some of the under pinning
gave way and fell on workmen in the
basement. Ferris Baldridge and Rob-
ert Johnson were killed and Shelby
Sennett seriously injured.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-06
TRACK LAB0RERS RUN DOWN
Four Are Killed and Many Others Mar
roWIv Escape.

Pittsburg, Sept. .-Plowing into a
gang of track laborers west of the
Radebaugh tunnel, near here, an ex-
ira freight train on the Pennsylvania
railroad killed four of them. A dozen
others narrowly escaped. The noise
of westbound passenger train
drowned the warnings sounded by the
engineer Of the extra freight train.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-06
CONTINUES AT HIS DUTIES

Willis L. Moore Stops Long Enough
to Have Broken Arm Set.
Washington, Sept. I.-While alight-
ing from a car Professor Willis L..
Moore, chief of the weather bureau,
fell and broke his left arm.
He was conveyed to the office of a
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-06
CAUSTiC COMMENT.
la. G.. Rutledge.]

II the skirts at the dance
Are fashioned like trousers,
AS mentioned in styles newest notes.
Will petticoats. too.
Be novel and new
VIII they be called neat panticoats?
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-06

Drink and the world drinks with
you; swear off and you swear alone.
In spite of DR.. Elliot's fve-foot
limit to the bookcase, the Congress
sional Record continues to measure
off literature by the furlong.
The wife of a Los Angeles journal
list has "mislaid" a $4,000 pearl
necklace. That's the trouble with
belonging, even by marriage, to so
wealthy a profession-it makes one
so careleas.
J. ]. Hill suggests that prosperity
would be assured past question if
congress would stay adjourned for
three years. That would help some,
doubtless, for in the interval voters
would have chance to elect anoher,
and different sort of congress.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-06
SCORED WORLDWIDE SCOOP

New York Herald Had Only Author.
ICED Story of Dr.. Cooks Trip.
New York, Sept. THE New York
Herald mace the greatest scoop of re-
cent years when it published DR..
Frederick A. Cooks personal narrative
of his journey to the North pole. The
Herald had the only authorized YER
sion of the discovery, which was sent
to it by DR.. Cook himself. The AS.
ISOLATED Press and many other papers
used the story sent exclusively to the
Herald, but full credit is due to the
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-06
MEET AT ROCHESTER NEXT
Letter Carriers Select Meeting Place
for 1911.

st. Paul, Sept. Rochester, N. Y,
was chosen by the Letter Carriers
association for the next biennial con-
vention city. The election Of officers
resulted as follows: President, K. e.
Kelly, Brooklyn, N. y; vice president,
E. ]. Gaynor. Muncie, Ind; secretary,
e. J. Cantwell, Washington, D. G.
George Duffy defeated George Nun.
ger for reelection az treasurer.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-01

which has been asked for by the Ha-
waiian Mahogany Company to cover
about $4,000 acres of land in Puma.
The section of land in question is not
far from the mill of the company at
Pahoa, and in order to fulfil their tie
contract with the Santa Fe railroad the
company believes that it viii have need
of the $4,000 acres.
The forestry questions involved were
submitted to Superintendent Hosmer
of the Department of Agriculture and
Forestry, and it is understood that he
found no reason why the $4,000 acres
of timber should not be cut.
In the opinion of the government of
feials the land viii be available for
agriculture when cleared, and that the
granting of the stumpage license asked
for will eventuate in the production of
a valuable asset.
It was at first feared that the de-
nuding of such large timbered area
would have an effect upon the weather
conditions, and particularly the rain
fall. But Governor Frear does not
share these views, and it is expected
that the auction of the stumpage H.
cense asked for viii be held in the near
future.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-01

my friends what it has done for me-"
Mrs. E. HANSON, 3O4 East Long ST.,
Columbus, Ohio.
Another Woman Helped.
Graniteville, Vt TT was passing
through the Change of Life and suffered
from nervousness and other annoying
symptoms. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound restored myhealthand
strength, and proved worth mountains
OF gold to me. For the sake of other
suffering women I am willing you
should publish my letter" = Mrs.
CHARLES BARCLAY, RED, Granite
vile, Vt.
Women who are passing through this
critical period or who are suffering
from any of those distressing ills pc
culiar to their sex should not lose sight
of the fact that for thirty years Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
which is made from roots and herbs,
has been the standard remedy for
female ills. In almost every commu-
nifty you will find women who have
been restored to health by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-01


The total income during 1908 was
slightly larger than that of 1907 on
account of the sale of the Nuuanu val
ley property which we inherited from
w. Meyer. The membership fees col
lected and outstanding on December 81
1908, amounted to 1885, against 1917 the
year previous. Messrs. J. Nieper, F
W. Bluehdorn, c. Bayer and F. Frenden.
berg have resigned from membership
and Mr.. A. Dreier has been taken from
us by death, while Messrs. II. OGDEN
Lahaina; L. Weinzheimer, Koloa, and
A. Fake, Kalihi, have joined our so.
ciety.
During the past few years the mum.
Der of our members and the dues col
lected have decreased considerably Had
we not had a credit balance of $3.50 on
January |, 1907, and an unexpected in.
come of $3.50 from the sale of our
property, our expenditures would have
exceeded our income by about 1925.
The demands On our society and its
actual disbursements are growing every
year and you are asked to solicit new
members SO that at least part of our
deficiency may be made up during the
present year. All persons of German
blood and language may join our society
for fee of not less than ST month.
Smaller contributions or donations are
thankfully received from every one.
In compliance with the bylaws of the
German Benevolent Society, Germans of
all countries and creeds have received
assistance, among them German-Amer-
leans, German-Austrians and German.
Swiss.
Of the ten single people whom we
supported during the last year six men
and two women lived in Honolulu, one
man on Kauai, and one man on Hawaii.
Three of these men, w. Meyer, Belize
and Wohlers, died during the past year.
Three German families of ten, nine and
four persons, who had no provider ana
had suffered through sickness, were con
tinually supported. Two other families
received temporary assistance. Several
German-Americans and Germans who
could not find employment here were
assisted in getting to San Francisco.
Over twenty were supplied with work
in town or on plantations. Counting
the families and their children and
those supplied with meals and work,
far over 100 persons received aid from
us during the past year.
For medical service we have paid
$57; for funerals, $112. Gus hospital
expenses do not appear in our state
ment, as we have the free use of a
bed in the Queen Hospital, which was
given US several years ago by Mrs. J.
T. Hackfeld. Over ten people have
made use of that bed in about 200 days.
Our house at the Leper Settlement, Mo
lokai, has not been used by Germans
during the past year as far as I know.
| have strictly adhered to the rule
that no money be given except in ex.
traordinary circumstances. Most PEG.
pie were supplied with clothing, board
and lodging. and meals or work if pos
sible. | have often regretted that we
have not had a home at our disposal
for our aged, sick and unemployed. a
home where our widows and orphans
might also find at least a temporary
shelter | ask the members present to
please consider the adyisa bility and pos
sibility of erecting such a home and
of raising the funds necessary for it.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-01

pound q u r l II g
change of life. My
doctor told me it
was good, and since
taking it | feel so
much better that |
can do all my work
again. I t in k
Lydia E. Pinkham's
V e ge ia BILE Com
pound a fine remedy
for all woman's
troubles, and /
- In
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-01
THEY WILL CUT ABOUT
$4,000 ACRES Of OH|A

The forestry experts of the Territor-
lal government and those interested in
the preservation of the timbered area
of the islands have been recently con
sidering the proposed stumpage license
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-01
HER
PHYSICIAN
ADVISED
Taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Columbus, Ohio. ~ have taken
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-01
HOME FOR THE
GERMAN POOR
German Benevolent Society
Aids the Needy of
FatherIand.

The assistance rendered to persons of
German descent by the German Beneyo.
lent Society during the past year was
worthy of the contributions to the so.
ciety's fund of many philanthropic peo.
pie residing both in Honolulu and on
the mainland. The society has conduct.
ed its aid work for many years in a
quiet way, but owing to the financial
assistance rendered by people who con.
tribute every year and with a desire
that the method of distributing the
fund be generally known, the society.
at a recent meeting, requested that the
treasurer S report be published, and it
appears below.
The election of officers at this meet
ing resulted as follows: F. A. Sehaefer.
president; w. F. Pfotenhauer, vice pres.
ident; j. F. Eckhardt, secretary; B. Won
Damn, treasurer; Fl. Hugo, auditor.
These with H. P. F. Schultze and w.
Felmy constitute the board of directors.
Inc treasurer report, presented by
Treasurer B. Won Damn, is as follows.
Income.
Balance from 1907 64s AZ
Outstanding loans collected. -. 1l6 40
Donations and other income. :. 7O5 90
Sale of Nuuanu valley property 1850 90
Membership fees collected dur
ring 1908: Fer 1897. Is 90
For i9oo 713 90
Total Observation-Disclosures. $3507 So
Expenses.
Regular benefciaries .$1192 rs
Assistance to families .. 416 SO
Personal donations .... 154 So
Paid toward passages. ..... 1873 so
advanced on notes. ........ 14S 10
Single meals supplied. ...... SIS rs
care of graves. ........... 80 90
Hackhlre ................ 90
Iaxes and water rates. ....... 25 90
Doctor s bills ............... 81 90
Funerals .............. 112 90
special deposit .............. 1000 90
Cash on hand. ............. 173 81
Total ...............$ 3507 50
The Ordway new era., 1909-05-07
HAT BROKE UP THE CONCERT.
Remarkable Hesdsesr Responsible for
Spelling Performance.

A story has reached this country Of
hat which spoiled an afternoon per.
formance at a small French play.
house It appears that in the absence
OF an orchestra a lady presided over
the piano. She was neither young,
pretty nor talented. and not wishing
10 pass unnoticed conceived the idea
of wearing hat that would attract
the attention of the audience.
In this she was successful. The hat
looked like a good-sized umbrella GOV.
cred with flowers. ribbons and birda
AS the lady took her seat the surprise
1t caused hushed the audience into
silence; when. however. the pianist
struck the first notes and the flowers.
ribbons and birds began q mad dance.
the storm broke loose and the laughter
at last grew 30 terrific that the curtain
was lowered to give the SPECTATOR an
opportunity Of regaining their compos-
.ure. They never regained II. Tie pa.
Torrance vas spoiled and the suthos
are suing the director fog damAesa-
Aillinsry Trads Review.
The Ordway new era., 1909-05-07
National Live stock Show.

Denver.-The Fifth National Stock
show will DC held Ia Denver duiin the
week Of January sth to 18th, that date
having been decided upon by the ex.
ecutve committee. The annual con.
venlon of the National Live Stock AS
scciation will be held during the same
week The executive committee Of the
show consists OF the following: Presi.
dent E. NJ. Ammons, II. W. Moore, c.
X Boettcher, George w. Ballantine.
John NJ. Kuykendall. C. MacA. Will.
cox, John F. Vallery. A. J. Campion. w.
E. Skinner, W. L. Carlyle and Fred p.
johnson. Col. W. E. Skinner has been
appointed manager OF the show.
The Ordway new era., 1909-05-07

humble servant. The ladies were
mostly old-Lady Arabella was II,
youngest OF them all-but all very
STeai in rank.
had wanted to see London ladies
play-aHd l saw them. Jack. with his
greasy cards. in the forecasile laying
his months wages, was 4 child TO
them. And how they watched one an
other and quarreled and fought,
No one among them played so eager
y as Lady ATa5ella: and very badly
as usual. so that she managed to lose all
her money. She was ever bad player.
with all her passion for play. Her last
guinea went: and then. determined
not to be baked. she rose and said.
laughing:
I have OF q new white satin petit
coat, with lace that cost three guineas
the yard. Il IS very ft for waistcoats.
No gentleman will be so ungallant as
to refuse my petticoat as a stake"
OF course. they all applauded: and
Laty ATabella. retiring behind 4
screen. emerged with her satin petit
coa:-hox it shone and shimneredl-
IL hs- hand And in fve minutes she
lad lost !t to Giles vernon,
There ~as much laughter. but Giles.
sraTely folding It up. laid II aside:
and -heu We departed. In the gray
light Q. dawn. he carried It OF under
his arm
As for ne. had los; all the money
I had WITH ne. and had given ny L o.
Z. for $500.
Mex. day Lady ArabeIIa vas dropped
in Berkele! Square By her grace OF
Auchester. II was in the afternoon,
and I vas sitting II the Chinese room
with Lady HzwEshzw and Daphne
when Lady Arabelia appeared.
Well. Dicky.- she said-a rery Of.
fensiye mode of addressing ue--hos
do you stand your losses at play
And. as / an q sinner. she pumped
out the whole story Of M play 10 Lady
HavkshaE and Daphne. AS an officer
and a gentleman, scorned to retaliate
by telling Of the white satin petticoat
But vengeance was at hand. Just as
she had finished. when Lady Hawk.
shaw was swelling with rage. like a
toad. before opening her main bat.
teries on me. and Daphne's fair eyes
were full o; contempt for me. We heard
a commotion outside. None Of Us could
keep from going to the window. and
the sight we saw threw Lady Arabella
into q perfect tempest Of angry tears,
A fife and drum were advancing ur
the street. playing with great vigor
IL old tune known a. "Pstticoata