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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-09
BURNING OF SLASHINGS Is
REQUIRED OF LJJMBERMEN
Bill Prepared BY and Introduced at the REQUEST Of STATE
Forestry Board Has Passed House. Important
to North Country.

Stillman H. Bingham, the legis-
lative correspondent for the Duluth
Evening Herald, says of the new
forest fire prevention bill which
passed the house last Friday and
which will likely pass the senate
and become law:
That there is no loss without
some small gain, is made conspic-
uously evident by the fact that the
disastrous Chisholm forest fires of
1908 are directly responsible for the
bill providing stricter regulation of
numbering operations, with a view to
prevention of further forest fires,
which the house passed yesterday
afternoon, and which will undoubt-
edly became law.
The bill was introduced by N. j.
Holmberg Of Renville, at the request
of the forestry board, and while it
contains many matters of import
ance, the point of chief interest is
the requirement that lumbermen
must pile and burn their slashings
within reasonable time. In the
past, there being no regulations of
this sort, lumbermen have left their
slashings to dry out aud become
finder, offering the finest kind of
fuel for the spread of forest fires.
The longer these slashings remained
the drier they became, and the
better fodder for forest fires they
make.
The bill provides that lumber
men must4pile and burn their slash
ings- which is meant the
branches, tops and refuse the burn
ing to be done as soon as practic-
able, at q time when it can be done
without danger, and before the first
of May folio wing It is made the
duty of each fire warden to see that
the provisions of this section are
faithfully complied with. It is also
provided that those who cut trees or
bushes in clearing land for roadbed
or right of way for any railroad or
other road, shall in the same manner
pile and burn the slashings and all
combustible material except fuel and
merchantable timber.
Nobody, having cut trees or
bushes in clearing land, may set fire
to the slashings, brush, roots or
stumps without having carefully
piled the same. Burning cannot be
permitted on dangerous ground when
the woods are dry. Failure to OBJ
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-09
Brinkman Family Theater.

Princess Tarpeia, appearing at the
Brinkman Family Theater this week,
has proved conclusively that she is
all that is claimed for her.
: Last night the Princess Tarpeia"
escaped from several handouts and
also from sixty feet of rope securely
knotted by committee selected by
the audience. The feature of this
remarkable act was the Princess
Tarpeia's escape from an insane
straight jacket, from which no
insane person has ever been able to
escape as yet.
That the Princess is the greatest
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-09
Wetherbee I'm Harness. Again.

Frank w. Wetherbee, one of the
old guard" among the members of
the u G. T., was a visitor in the
city yesterday afternoon and last
might.
Mr.. Wetherbee was for many years
commercial traveller for well-known
wholesale drug house of St. Paul,
making the territory in the Red
River Valley, on both the Dakota
and the Minnesota sides of the Red.
He retired from active service, about
five years ago, and filed on a claim
on Pimush lake, north of Cass Lake,
in Beltrami county. Mr.. Wetherbee
and his good wife have made nice
home, out on the banks of Pimush,
which they regard as the apple of
their eyes, About thirty days ago,
Mr.. Wetherbee accepted a position
as travelling salesman for the Fargo
Drug company, and he is again
making the towns in his old terri
tory, renewing acquaintance and
doing a fine business. Mr.. .Wether-
bee came to town the latter part of
last week and went out to Plmush
to take look at the "farmstead,"
which he found to be in apple.pie"
order. It looks like old times to see
Frank Juggling around grip again.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-09

serve these provisions is a mis-
demeanor, punishable by a fine of
$50 to 81 900 for each offense, or i'm
prisonment for thirty to ninety days
in the county Jail. To assist in
prosecutions, it is provided that
those who complain of violations of
these provisions, except the forestry
commissioner, are to receive half
the fine recovered.
Supervisors and clerks of towns,
| mayors of cities and presidents of
village councils are made fire war
dens for their respective districts,
and are held responsible for their
districts being free from dangerous
forests and prairie fires. The fores-
try commissioner may appoint fire
wardens for unorganized territory,
and additional wardens wherever he
may deem them necessary, and he
may direct wardens to perform
duties outside of their districts. In
case of4absence from their districts
IN dry seasons, they must designate
someone to act in their places, and
must notify the fire wardens of the
adjoining districts.
They must take precautions to
prevent fires, visit all parts of roads,
trails, camps and frequented places,
warn campers and other users of
fire, and put out small or shoulder
ing fires. They must patrol their
districts in dry seasons, Immediately
inform the commissioner when there
is need of patrolling, with the
approval of the commissioner employ
patrols to guard against carelessness
! IN the use of fire. They must
promptly investigate each fire with
in their districts, follow the track of
the fire to the place where it started,
fix the responsibility, and within
three days report the cause, the
property destroyed its value, the
lives lost if any, the means used to
combat the fire, and any additional
facts required by the commissioner.
Each fire warden is empowered
to arrest, without warrant. any
person found sviolating the law.
Wardens must 90 to places of danger
to control or prevent fires, and in
emergencies may employ or compel
assistance.
The forestry commissioner is
empowered to divide into districts
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-09
Sunday School Meeting.

The Beltrami County Sunday
school association will hold its first
annual convention in the First
Presbyterian church of Bemidji,
Thursday, Friday, March 18th and
18th. Each Sunday school in the
county is invited to send one or
more delegates. A. NJ. Locker of
St. Paul and John Orchard of Fargo,
N. Oak, both Sunday school experts,
will be present. No Sunday school
workers in the county can afford to
miss this conve ntion.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-09

the meeting being attended by a
considerable crowd of citizens be-
sides the regular members of the
council.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-03-09
COUNCIL COMMITTEES.

Finance Shannon, Rhea.
Auditing Shannon, Bisiar, Gould.
Water and Llght-Gould, Kline, Johnson.
Streets and Sidewalks-Smart, Johnson,
Bisiar
Sewers-Johnson, Gould, WhittIe.
Building-Rhea, Whinle, Bisiar.
Fire-lohnson, Kline, WkittIe.
Parks-Shannon, Kirk, Johnson.
Prntns-Rhea, Kirk, Shannon.
Salaries-Gould, Bisiar, WhittIe.
HeaIth-Smart, Kline, Gould.
Purchasing. Rhea, Kirk, Kline.
At the meeting of the city coun-
Gil held last evening, President
Kirk announced the standing CON-
mittee of the council as given above,
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
Wednesday, January 10.

Salem, Jan. 13. 3.-Memorials to con-
giess adopted by the legislatures OF
other states caused quite tangle IN
the senate. They dealt with almost
every subject and were finally referred
to a committee.
A resolution providing for commit,
tee to prepare for a celebration of Ore
gon's admission day was passed by the
senate.
Abraham, of Douglas county, object,
ed to the word graft" in senate docu,
ments and it was changed to waste. .
For the first time this session the
senate today opened with prayer.
Senator Abraham introduced a bll
that Will do away with directed YER
diets if it becomes law.
ANY county or city having over TO-
GOO population is to be given power t(
establish free sanitarium for the
treatment of tuberculosis by the pro
visions of senate bill.
Those measures Of the last session
which received the governor Vet(
after the legislature adjourned will be
taken up next Monday by both houses
A house bill provides for the coditi
cation of the laws of Oregon.
Representative Dimick has bll
which makes highway robbery punish
able by life Imprisonment.
A Joint resolution was introduced II
the house this morning protesting
against the removal of tariff of timbe1
supplies. -.
Although the house adjourned unit
2 O'Clock Monday afternoon, the senate
was more saving of time and will NEE
at II o'clock on that day. Presiden
Bowerman will then be ready with hi
committee appointments.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
TRAINS COLLIDE:
EIGHTEEN DEAD
Denver & Rio Grande Scene of Dis
aslrouS Crash.
Thirty Persons Are Injured-Passen-
ger Train Dashes Into Moving
Freight Train - Special Loaded q
With Doctors and Nurses Hurried
to Scene of Accident.

Glenwood Springs, Colo, Jan. 10
In collision between Denver d RIO
Grande passenger train No. 5, west
bound, and eastbound freight No. 666,
at Dotsero last night, Is persons We're
killed and 80 injuled, so far as known.
AS soon as the information reached
here that a wreck had occurred, a
special was made up and all the avail
able doctors and nurses in the city
pressed into service and carried to the
scene of the accident. This train, it
was expected, would bring the injured
back, and possibly the dead, last night,
but it was not expected to reach here
before o'clock.
Meager details of the wreck are to
the effect that the freight train was
attempting to take siding to let the
passenger pass, but had only partly run
off the main line when the passenger
train came tearing along and crashed
into it. The chair car of the passen-
ger was torn in two and one tourist car
telescoped. The passenger train was
we'll filled with passengers, most OF
whom were asleep.
1t is feared that the list of dead will
be greatly augmented when full details
are received.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
TUESDAY,, January II,

Salem, Jan. 12.-Governor Chamber
lain's biennial message to the leglsla-
ture was read in the house chamber at
/ 80 o'clock this afternoon, the senate
and house being in joint session. The
chief points of the document are:
Strict observance of the direct pri-
mary pledge in the election of United
States senator. Uniformity of county
taxation to make the state levy eqult-
able. Use of convicts on roads, earn
ings to 90 to their families support or
to the state. Conveyance OF conVlcts
to the penitentiary by officials of that
institution. More money for State
Fair premiums; more money for I'M
provements on the grounds. Repeal OF
$50, 600 insurance company deposit law
and creation of an insurance depart
ment. Permanent settlement of the
normal school problem. Payment to
Indian war veterans for horses used or
lost in the campaigns. No repeal OF
the railroad commission law. Earnest
consideration of the needs for eXpan-
sion of the states national guard.
Appointment of a commission on the
conservation of state resources, with a
small appropriation for it. Protection
of the fishing industry instead Of pro-
lection of the individuals engaged in 1T.
A complete code of water laws. Re
servation of the Incorporated water
powers for the benefit of the public.
An employers liability act to protect
employees to the fullest. Restriction
of sale of deadly weapons. Suit by the
state to settle the controversy with the
owners of the canal and locks at Will
annette Falls. Creation Of a non-par-
tisan judiciary. Greater protection
for bank depositors; perhaps by the
fOklahoma law. Relief for the SD
preme court. Cooperation with the
reclamation service by establishment
of experiment stations. Ownership Of
the Oregon City canal and locks by the
state, if congress will not purchase
them. Appointment of visitorial
board to guard against scandals in pri-
vate asylums. Cooperation with the
Oregon Historial society to celebrate
Oregon's admission as state. Legis-
lation looking to the control OF tuber-
culoss. Legislation to make the pro-
portional representation measure adopt
ed by the people last June
In the house 80 bills were introduced
today and there were Is in the senate
Among them are:
Providing for form for printing initi-
ative amendments; providing uniform
eight-hour law in factories, etc; regu-
lating speed of automobiles; closed
season for pheasants and grouse be-
tween October |, 1909. and October l.,
1913; appropriating 500, 900 for In
dian war veterans of 1855-56; one
board of regents for all state schools
experiment station in Eastern Oregon
prohibiting sports on Decoration day
appropriating $4,000 for extension of
portage railway; abolishing Ashland
and Monmouth normal schools.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
A WEEK WITH OUR STATE
LAWMAKERS AT SALEM
ton in the house.

ton in the house.
The opening of the session was de-
void of incident, and any bitterness of
defeat was hidden under the sur aca In
desire to invoke harmony. Wi h the
exception of Libby, of Marion, who
refused to go into the house caucus,
and Farrell, of Multnomah, who was
called home by reason of his father
death, all of the Republican house
members participated in the caucus.
Selling, of Multnomah, did not arrive
in time to go into the caucus of the
senate. Kellaher and Abraham signed
the call, while Albee went into the
meeting and cast his vote, but had 1t
understood that he was not to be bound
by the action of the organization un-
! less he SO wished.
Both houses met early and proceeded
to temporary organization. They took
a recess to 2 o'clock, in the meantime
holding two caucuses.
At 2 o'clock the houses reassembled,
the committee on credentials submitted
it's report, the members were sworn IN
and the first business of the session
was transacted with the introduction
of resolutions and the first reading OF
bills.
Resolutions were introduced in botF
houses this afternoon calling for par
ticipation by the members of the legls-
lature in the proper observation of Lin
coins birthday, February II, and the
5Oth anniversary of the adminsssion OF
Oregon to the Union on February 10.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
AFFAIRS SET RIGHT.
Gomez to Be Inaugurated President
of Cuba January %.

Havana, Jan. 19.-On January 28 at
noon the Cuban people will come into
their own for the second time at the
hands of the American government.
1t was on May 20, 1902, that the Amer
ican flag, hoisted after the war with
Spain, was hauled down in favor of the
blue-striped, single-starred ensign OF
Cuba.
Then. in September, 1906, a COM
panv of marines landed at the palace
from the United States cruiser Denver,
and halted a victorious revolutionary
army on the outskirts of Havana, and
American irt rvention, which first
came against a foreign power, was
once more reality, this time to set
things right among the Cubans them
selves.
The members of the Cuban congress
| had become Indifferent and for months
prior to the revolution it had been I'M
possible to secure the attendance OF
quorum. This necessitated govern
ment by presidential decree, and 1T was
quickly followed by the cry that Presl-
dent Palma was assuming the role OF
dictator. The American provisional
governor, Charles E. Magoon, has done
all that it was possible for him to dc
to prevent a recurrence of this state OF
affairs by decreeing that congressman
who do not attend the sessions shall
not receive pay. These rules, how
ever, have already been declared dicta-
torial by the congressman, and an at
tempt undoubtedly soon will be made
to repeal or amend them.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
OPIUM CAUSES SUICIDE.
Poppy Drug Responsible for 100000
Gases Yearly.


Gases Yearly.
Cleveland, O., Jan. 19.-"Opium
causes half million suicides year, y
declared Rev. A. S. Gregg, Of the In
ternational Reform bureau today, with
reference to the opium conference call
ed by President Roosevelt, which be-
gins it's session at Shanghai February
|. The statement is based on letters
and reports from DR.. +. w. Thwlng,
special secretary of the reform bureau
who has been sent to Shanghai by the
bureau to attend the opium conference.
DR.. Thwing will ask the conference
to take action that will hasten the de-
struction of the opium traffic through
out the world. DR.. Thwing says he has
obtained statistics from four Chinese
provinces with a population of 580,
600 in which he says the proportion OF
the population using opium is from ~
to so per cent, and the amount of mon
ey spent for the drug is 5000, 600, OOC
year.
President Roosevelt called the OPT
UNI conference at the suggestion OF
Bishop Brent, of Manila, and delegates
have been appointed by China, Japan,
Siam, Persia, Russia, Germany, Grea,
Britain, France, Italy, Holland and the
United States.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
Frick to Sell Fine Home

Pittsburg, Jan. 19.-Real estate
men of Pittsburg have quiet tip that
"Clayton," the Pittsburg palace of II.
C. Frick, on Homewood avenue, is for
sale. The steel king is desirous OF
quitting Pittsburg forever. According
to those closely in society, Mr.. Friok
is bitterly angry at the lack of inter
est shown in the coming-out of his
daughter, Helen, here some time since.
Only about Is young men, scarcely
enough to perform the figures of the
dances, We're in attendance at the big
party at Clayton.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
MondaY, January u.

Salem, Jan. 1.-THE Oregon legis,
lature today went into session for the
twenty-fifth time. Jay Bowerman, OF
Condor, is president of the senate, re-
ceiving the nomination in caucus by
acclamation. C. N. Macarthur, OF
Multnomah county, is speaker of the
house, having been given the nomina-
tion in the caucus by unanimous vote
after the withdrawal of Patton, OF
Marion, Patton himself making the
motion to make the vote unanimous.
w. NJ. Barry, of Multnomah, is chief
clerk of the senate, and w. Fred Ora
ger, of Marion, holds the same posi-
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21

Baker City-It is generally believed
here that the Rainbow mine, owned by
Portland capitalists, and located In
the Mormon Basin, Baker City, Is
about to he sold to the Newhouse min
ing interests, of Salt Lake City. Ac-
cording to the best information obtain
able the Salt Lake people are taking
over the property at $500, 900. Ten
per cent of this amount is to be paid
in at once, and the remainder is to be
paid in installments, according to the
mines production. This is the prop
erty that is said to have produced a
thousand dollars a day during the
greater part of last summer.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
NEW RECORD SET.
Number of Mine Accidents Increased
Curing Past Year.

Pittsburg, Jan. 19.-The year 1908
was marked by more mine horrors and
by more loss of life underground than
any other year in history. And the
year 1909 apparently is going after
19O8's record. Only last Tuesday 100
lives were lost in an explosion in q
model mine near Bluefeld, W. Va,
and on the Sunday before death exact
ed another heavy toll in the Letter
mines at Zeigler, III.
"Science, said mining engineer
today, "has not yet solved the problem
of preventing the formation Of gas
We recognize three kinds of mine gas
es-the fire damp, after damp and
white damp.
Fire damp is the only one OF the
trio that is explosive. 1t is gas CIV
en- off by coal under the influence OF the
heat of the earth. When Davy invent
ed the miners safety lamp it was
thought that all danger of mine eXpIo-
sions was over. The lamp has the
flame surrounded with metallic screer
which does not permit the passage OF
the flame. But the screens burn ou'
after long usage and the miners gro"
| careless. -
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
WOOL POOL FAILS.
Buyers Offer High Prices and Break
Proposed Combine.

IOpooCp Soi''1'fS'
Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 18.-Chief
Forester Pinchot turned down two invi-
tations to attend the convention of the
National Woolgrowers' association,
which adjourned in this city Saturday.
Mr.. Pinchot's refusas We're based on
what he termed the selfish and narrow
policy of the association toward the
government forestry service.
On a final showdown on the Chicago
wool storage proposition it was found
that the signatures to the Chicago con-
tract We're 1850, 600 pounds short OF
the required 5000, 600 pounds neces-
sary to insure the Chicago market. AT
"a meeting Of those already signed up
it was found to be impossible to secure
pledges of the required amount among
delegates present at the Pocatello con-
vention, and campaign will he lnaug-
urated on the outside.
Wool buyers from Chicago and St.
Louis have been active during the con-
vention in buying the 1909 clip at
from Is to 2l cents. Many WoolgroW-
ers, heretofore considered as staunch
supporters of the Chicago plan, have
contracted their clips to private buy
ers, allured by the remarkable prices.
Ogden was selected as the next place
of meeting.
Fred w. Gooding, of Shoshone,
Idaho, was reelected president
George S. Walker, of Cheyenne, Wyo.,
again was chosen secretary, and Lewis
Penwell, of Helena, Mont, once more
selected as treasurer. A. H. knollln,
of Chicago, succeeded Joseph f. Wing,
of Mechanicsburg, O., as Eastern vice
president, and A. J. Delfelter, of Lara
mie, Wyo., succeeded DR.. J. M. Will
son, of Wyoming, as Western vice
president.
In the resolutions adopted any reduc-
tion in the present tariff on wool and
hides was opposed, and the proposed
establishment of a central wool market
in Chicago approved.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
DsNOuNCE FOREST SERVICE
Woolgrowers Say Pnchors Subordi-
mates Have Too Much Power. "

Woolgrowers Say Pinchots Subordi-
mates Have Too Much Power. "
Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 16.-The sec
ond day S session Of the convention OF
the National Woolgrowers association
in this city was marked by another at
tack on the forest service. S. Gosney,
Of Flagstaff, Arizona, in an address IN
the afternoon, declared that just ce to
the sheepmen of the West demanded a
change in the present methods Of ad-
ministration of the range control.
MIR. Gosney asserted that he could
cite numerouss instances in his own
state where favoritism, prejudice and
graft have figured in the administra-
tion of the national reserves.
After the election of officers and Sc
lection of the place of meeting for
1910, the convention will adjourn.
Salt Lake has withdrawn in favor of
Ogden, which city is now III the lead.
Contending that any change IN the
existing protecting tariff on wool
would work great injury on the sheep
industry in America, G. II. Harding,
of Philadelphia, eX-president of the
National Association of Wool manufac-
turers, addressed the convention. He
compared the recent hearing before
the house committee on tariff revision
to a minstrel show, with some of the
congressman as end men.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-01-21
Rival Boards in Wrangle

Pendleton-Following a turbulent,
double meeting of the Umatilla Water
Users association at Hermiston, the
organization is in danger of being per-
manently disrupted and disbanded by
the government. Two rival boards of
directors are claiming to be on the
legal board and the matter will prob
ablyb &c arried into the courts for final
settlement. The trouble was caused
by the attempt of oae faction trying to
oust the other.