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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-02-16
boy BLUE At CITY
HALL FRIDAY EVENING
Pupils Of City Schools Will Present
0peretta Under Direction Of Miss
Hanson.

{ The children Of the lower grades
of the city schools will present q
three.act operetta entitled boy
Blue" at the City Opera House Fri.
day evening Of this week under the
direction Of Miss Hanson, who
teaches music in the local schools.
Boy Blue" IS a very pretty and
successful operetta on which Miss
Hanson has been drilling the chill.
dren for several weeks until they are
well able to take off the cast of
characters.
The Bemidji High School Glee
clubs, both the girls and the boys,
will render selections and a double
quartet also promises something rare
in the way Of a musical treat. There
is considerable talent in these clubs
which has been developed by the
efforts Of Miss Hanson. +.
The teachers and pupils of the
local schools are sadly in the need
of another piano, as the one which
is now in the high school room is in
use most of the time and one is
needed for the, rooms on the first
floor of the building. It is with
the intention of supplying this deficit
that Boy Blue will be presented to
the Bemidji public.
Tickets will be on sale at the City
Drug Store beginning Wednesday
afternoon. Adults will be charged
IS cents with an additional charge
of IS cents for reserved seats; chill.
dren, Is cents. Tickets will be re.
served at the above drug store.
There will doubtless be a large audi
ence present Friday evening as Be
midi people are fond Of seeing the
little children in dramatic work.
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Judge C.. w. Stanton, who was
appointed last week by Governor
Johnson to the third judgeship
created recently in the Fifteenth
Judicial district by the state legis-
lature, has returned to his home in
this city and resumed his duties
in the local chambers of the dis.
trict court.
G. w. Stanton has made a good
Judge and performed his duties in
an impartial manner during the
time he was in office from last April
to the beginning of the present
year, and the advocates of justice
and his many friends in this section
of the state will be glad to know
that he is again seated on the bench
of the district court.
The judge announced yesterday
afternoon to representative of the
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Pioneer that he had appointed Lee
LaBaw of Brainerd to act as his
court reporter. Mr.. LaBaw relieved
George Moody of Brainerd, court
reporter to Judge McClenahan, DUR
ing the recent term of district court
for Clearwater county at Bagley; he
is pleasant young man and is
thoroughly capable of filling his
office in satisfactory manner. .-~.--
Judge Stanton will preside at the
term of district court for Beltrami
county which will be opened in this
city on the 23rd of this month.
The term will be an unusually long
one, lasting six weeks or moron
account of the fact that very little
civil work was disposed of at the
September session, which was
adjourned by Judges McClenahan
and Stanton when its was found that
the witnesses and jurors were unable
to cash their warrants to pay expen-
SeS.
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MRS. JOSEPH MCTAGGART
Il. BURIED SATURDAY P. N,
A Large Number Of Friends Paid Low
ing Tribute to Memory Of the
- Deceased.

. +
The last that was mortal of Mrs.
Joseph M cTaggart, who died Thurs.
day afternoon after being i'll with
pneumonia and other complications
for four weeks at her home in this
city, was inferred in Greenwood
Cemetery Saturday afternoon amid
a profusion of flowers rendered by
loving friends in tribute to he1
memory. sss.4s. AS.
The services were held at 2:3o
o'clock at the McTaggart home, SIS
Third street, Reverend H. N. Nc.
Kee of the Baptist church officiating.
The house was crowded with be.
tween fifty and sixty friends and
relatives of the deceased. ..-.' 81
Reverend Mckee spoke lovingly
of the deceased and used as his text
Blessed are the dead which die in
the Lord" which is taken from
Revelations, 14-13. The funeral
procession then moved to Green
wood in charge of r. F. Murphy
where the remains were placed
in a steel vault and buried in
the family lot.
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CityMarrents Payable.


Notice is hereby given that there
is money in the city treasury to pay
all outstanding warrants issued on
the general fund prior to September
l, 1908; on the permanent improve
ment fund prior to November !, 1908
on the poor fund prior to January, 1,
1909. !.
Interest will cease on all Of above
warrants from and after thirty days
after the date of this notice.
Dated at Bemidji, Mimi, February
IS, 1909.
Earl Cell,
City Treasurer.
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1909 Diaries.

The largest and best line Of 1909
diaries ever carried in this part of
the state can now be seen at the
Pioneer Office.
We have made special efforts OF
secure the largest assortment ever
shown in the northwest. Those who
want special kinds should call early
and make their selection. ss
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Balance in treasury.....$14,398 SO
The reports Of Mr.. Cell and Mr..
Maloy were referred to the finance
committee-Aldermen Rhea, w. A.
Gould and Smart. -.
The usual number Of bills were
allowed, among which was one from
the fire department for seven fires
between December 18th and Feb
ruary 18th, amounting to S2S3.75.
Otto Dandell's Judgment against
the City Of Bemidji for S107.94 was
allowed with a deduction of w. G.
Schroeder and the city's bill of
S23.31 against MI. Dandell.
p A letter was read from the Nep-
tune Meter company stating that
they had repaired the Markham
water meter and were shipping it
back. -.
The report Of the municipal court
for the week ending Feb. 18th and
showing $29 paid into the city treas.
ury, was accepted and placed on
file.
Clavin & Tanner were granted a
-5s
q liquor license and their. bonds, with
A. Hagberg and Roger Martin as
sureties, approved.
The repairing of the city fire hall
was left until some future time.
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Sentenced Tor Cutting ARRAY.

Sheriff Hugh Mcintosh of Kooch-
iching. county came in yesterday
morning with Martin Corners who
was sentenced to sixty days in the
Beltrami county jail for being in a
Finnish cuttin{ ARRAY. Mr.. Mc1n-
tosh took anq ther prisoner on to
Saltwater to serve on year for being
in the same fkht. al.
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Resolutions.

Resolutions of sympathy and re-
spect adopted by Bemidji Lodge
No 119, Bemidji, Minnesota.
/. Whereas the reaper of death has
entered the home Of sister Wassley
and removed her beloved brother,
Robert ]. erase.
Resolved, That we as Odd Eel
lows, extend our deepest sympathy
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aud adjudged insane, being com.
mitted to the state insane asylum
at Fergus Falls, where he was taken
this afternoon by Deputy Sheriff
Markham. Peterson's particular
form Of insanity seems to be desire
to hang himself.
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Total. Disbursements S43597 SO
s The condition Of each fund on
Jan. 81, 1909, was as follows:
Balance in General fund. IS 1923 %
Balance in Sinking fund. 1875 .26
Balance in Cemtery fund. 395 90
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to the bereaved sister and parents.
Resolved, That copy of the reso.
lutions be sent to the bereayed fam.
lily, to local paper and also be
spread upon the records Of our
lodge: SIS. ~ 4.
81. s.. c. H. Williams,
E. ]. Bourgeois,
G. A. Canterbury.
s Committee.
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Earl Cell,
City Treasurer.
Episcopal Guild.

The Episcopal Guild will meet
with Mrs. A. E. Otto Thursday
afternoon at 2:3O All members are
requested to be present.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-03

pretty girl 1S years old, made des
perate attempt to end her life by drink
ing a quantity of chloroform in her
room at 1900 South Hill street shortly
after 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
In connection with the affair, Fred
I. Dunster, carriage trimmer em-
ployed by the Capito Carriage works,
with whom the girl fled from the east,
was arrested while eating dinner with
his wife at their home at 1893 West
Twentieth street land locked up in the
city Jail, where he will be held pend
ing on investigation of the case.
The girls long trip across the coun-
try, her desertion and her subsequent
attempt at ending her life, is re-en-
actment of the old tragedy. The mat
ter was brought to the attention of Pa
trolman Shreiner of the University sta
ton by a friend who had learned the
girls story. Shreiner began investiga-
tions and after learning all particulars
decided to take the girl to Chief Dish
man and have her tell him her story.
Shreiner called at the home OF the
girl shortly before 1 o'clock yesterday
and asked her to accompany him to the
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Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-03
AUTHORIZES
TARIFF CONTEST
Enactment of AIdrich's Draft Will
Permit Head of Government to
Declare Commercial War
on Any Nation
1Rv Associated Press. !

WASHINGTON, May 2.-The senate
tariff BILL in the section which deals
with the maximum and minimum prop
osition has, in the Judgment of tarlft
experts, one very important feature.
1t practically vests in the president
the power to declare tariff war
against any nation or to refrain from
any such war.
1t is given to him to decide whether
any nation is discriminating against
the products of the United States in
it's system of duties.
This permits the government,
through the state department and other
agencies provided by law, to make
agreements with other nations as to
trade and tariff concessions which can
be made effective by a proclamation
of the president without the necessity
of anything in the way of legislation or
treaty agreement:
The bill authorizes the president to
employ at his discretion any persons
to procure information ar assist him
in the discharge of these duties, which
would mean that he can appoint COM
missioners representing the United
States to go abroad and make agree
ments with foreign nations.
At the same time, attention is paid
to the wishes of those who are not in
favor of reciprocal agreements of any
kind.
The proposition makes it impossible
to have any rate established lower than
the rate in the tariff law. Any change
in the case of any nation must be a
change in in the way of higher duties.
No amount of bargaining or conces-
sion can secure for any country any
reduction in the tariff law.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-03
LOCAL

Chief of Police Dishman plans to minimize
crime by having incandescent lights placed on
front porches of residences.
Admiral Robley d. Evans declares II America
has ships enough peace will be maintained
even If fight is required.
1t is estimated sales of tags for benefit OF
Associated charities will amount to fully S15,-
900.
Oklahoman, under arrest charged with forg
ing check at Nowata, OKLA, is held pending
arrival of officer.
Elks to dedicate new home at Third and
Olive streets next Thursday night.
Deserted girl tries suicide because man with
whom she eloped not only abandoned her, but
was married and reioined wife.
Communicates of Bethlehem church observe
thirteenth anniversary of pastorate of Rev.
Dana w. Bartlett.
Los Angeles likely to be point for receiving
immigrants after Panama canal is completed,
National Model License league favors taking
saloons out of politics, declares general coun-
sci of new organization.
Boy is drowned in abandoned gravel sink at
San Marlno street and Gramercy place; body
is recovered.
Frank Siefert is the new automobile hero of
the road, having made a record run from Los
Angeles to Santa Barbara.
Says mysterious woman drugged him to Sc
cure from him mortgage she holds on his
ranch
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-03
LONGFELLOW'S STATUE
AT LAST COMPLETED
Magnificent Parian Marble ScuIp-
ture viii Be Dedicated by Or.
HaIe-chIseIing Done
by Couper

WASHINGTON, May "A magnifi-
cent statue to the memory of Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, Americas
foremost poet, will be dedicated with
imposing ceremonies in this city on
May Z.
President Taft, members of the dip
lomatic corps, men distinguished in
letters and virtually all of the living
relatives of the poet will be present.
The statue, which is located at the
of Connecticut avenue and
M street, is one of a heroic size and of
The statue will be presented to the
pure white Parian marble. William
Couper of New York is the sculptor.
city by Brainard II. Warner, treasurer
of the Longfellow National Memorial
association, and will be accepted by
President Taft.
The benediction will be pronounced
by Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale.
The Longfellow National Memorial
association, formed about twelve years
ago for the purpose of erecting statue
of Longfellow, had among its distin-
guished agents at its inception former
Presidents Mckinley, Cleveland and
Benjamin Harrison.
Former President Roosevelt is hon
orary regent, and among the present
regents are Andrew Carnegie, Cardinal
Gibbons, DR.. Charles w. Eliot, Seth
Low, Thomas Nelson Page and Cow
ernor Hoke Smith of Georgia.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-03
ANGFLFNO AND
NOTED SINGER
WE'D SUDDENLY
BRIDEGROOM MAKES RACE
ACROSS CONTINENT
oPERATIc STAGE LOSES STAR OF
MUCH PROMISE
Romance of Couple Which Extends
Over Period of Several Years
Ends in Marriage at
Boston
Especial to The HeraId.l

n OSTON, May 2.-The marriage of
n Miss Pearl Dillon, one of New
England's queens of music and a
former member of the New England
Conservatory of Music, to Mr.. Arthur
A. Wood of Los Angeles brought to a
close a dramatic courtship, eliminating
in a cross-continent race of the suitor
to Boston, where the ceremony was
performed at midnight.
Making close connections, which his
connection in an official capacity with
the Southern Pacific company made
possible, Mr.. Wood hurried from his
western home to meet Miss Dillon, and
hardly had he arrived here before the
couple had plighted their troth in the
presence of large gathering of friends.
Miss Dillon, who leaped into fame
after she sang a duet with Signor Con-
stantine at a recent musicale, is con-
sidered one of the most promising
young singers in New England.
She is completing her fourth year at
the conservatory and had shown
marked musical talent. She also pos
sesses a voice of Unusual range and
rare beauty.
After her performance with the
signor, who was charmed with her
voice, he strongly urged her to sign a
contract with the Boston Opera COM
pany, and by her marriage the operatic
stage loses a star with a glowing
future.
The romance of the newly welded
couple has extended over period of
several years. Just after Miss Dillon
had begun her course in the conserya-
tory she met Mr. Wood in Cleveland,
Ohio, and the infatuation was mutual.
All during her course the far-away
suitor corresponded with his fiancee.
but the arrival of Mr.. Wood and the
sudden ceremony came as a surprise
to numbers of admirers of the talented
young woman. Following the COM
pletion of Mrs. Woods course at the
conservatory the couple will leave for
Los Angeles, where they will reside.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-03
M'LACHLAN ENDORSES
LOCK TYPE OF CANAL
Californian Declares He Is More Cons
WINGED of Necessity for Passage
of His Government Steam-
ship Bill

NEW YORK, May 2.-Further in
dorsement of the lock type of canal and
assurances of the stability of the Ca
tun dam were voiced here today by
members Of the congressional party
which returned on the steamer Pan
anna after an unofficial inspection of
the canal zone.
Representative James McLachlan OF
California declared the trip left him
all the more convinced of the neces-
sity for the passage of his bill pro-
viding for a governmental appropria-
tion for the building of ten 5000-ton
steamships to ply between Puget sound
and Panama.
''The ships that now ply between New
York and Colon" said he, 'leave here
with large cargoes for the isthmus and
come back light. With vessels in COM
mission on the Pacific side there would
be handed over large cargoes from the
Pacific coast for delivery to the port
of New York"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-03
Drowned while BOATING

SAN JOSE, May 2.--An inquest was
held at Alviso tonight over the remains
of Fred Berryessa of San Francisco,
who was drowned at Alviso at
o'clock this morning. He was one of
a party of six young people who en-
joyed a night ride on the South bay in
launch. In some manner Berryessa
slipped overheard. The tide was run
ming swiftly and before he could be
reached with a small boat he bade his
companions goodbye and sank. The
body was recovered tonight by a
searching party.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-03
To Take Back erandenburu

SACRAMENTO, May 2.-Norman J..
Fitzsimmons, a detective from New
York, acting for District Attorney
Jerome, arrived in this city tonight
with a requisition on Governor Gillett
from Governor Hughes of New York
for the return of Broughton Branden-
burg to that state for trial on charges
of grand larceny and forgery. Bran
denburg is now under arrest at San
Francisco. He is alleged to have stolen
valuable papers belonging to former
President Grover Cleveland, and also
forging Cleveland's name to an alleged
interview which he sold to the New
York Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-03
EXPLOSION IN NICKEL
SHOW KILLS MANAGER
Widely Known Newspaper Man In-
--ss nales Flames as He Endeavors -
to Control Crowd

PEORIA, ILL.,, May 2.-As the result
of the explosion in the Crescent Nickel
odeon here today, which plunged the
entire front of the theater into flames,
William r. Robinson, city editor of the
Peoria Star, and manager of the play
house, is dead.
Walter Woodrow, the moving picture
machine operator, is severely burned.
Two women tainted following their
successful escape from the building
More thar 300 persons were in the thea
ter but the crowd walked out without
exhibiting any signs of panic.
Robinson died as the result of inhal-
ing flame in his efforts to control the
crowd. He was one of the most widely
known newspaper men in the country.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-03
TRAIL ELEPHANT
IN BALD HILLS
FOLLOW ITS FOOTPRINTS FOR
TWENTY MILES
Prospectors Report That Pachyderm
Was Travelling at High Speed.
Marks Lost at Edge
of Desert


SAN BERNARDINO. May "A
party of prospectors composed of Jacob
Todd, Bert Lewis and Hairy Cunning
ham, all we'll known men of this city
and Riverside county. brought to this
city the news of their trailing an ele-
phant for twenty miles through the
Bald Hills to the north of Victorville
The men were returning from a pros
pecting trip through the northern slope
of the San Bernardino range when they
came across the immense footprints of
an elephant The beast had evidently
been roaming about either during or
after a rain storm, as the imprints of
his four feet were deep in the hard
soil. The men tracked the monster for
almost twenty miles with ease, but as
they neared the desert and more sandy
country they finally lost the trail.
The party states that from the dis
tance between the animals footprints
it was evident that the elephant was
travelling at high rate of speed and
crossed over deep ravines and down
cliffs which they did not dare to at
tempt.
On arriving at Victorville the men
learned that some months previous,
while a circus train was stalled, the
animals had been rearranged in their
cars, and one of the elephants escaped
during the night, but although 1t was
the supposition that it had been cap
tured, it was not known positively that
it had been.
While the men admit that it is possi-
BILE that the beast could have returned
toward Victorville and been captured
by the circus men they are of the belief
that the elephant was possibly one of
the least valuable animals and that
the show people, recognizing the almost
impossible feat of capturing runaway
elephant in the mountainous and desert
regions, after short hunt left without
the beast, giving the Impression that it
had been captured.
The prospectors know of no other
way in which to account for the strange
presence of the elephant in those
rap,ions
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-03
ENGINEER KILLED
NEAR ROOSEVELT
IRRIGATING DAM
SWEPT THROUGH TUNNEL
FROM RESERVOIR
COMPANION MAKES HAZARDOUS
TRIP SAFELY
Man in Charge of All Electrical and
Power Construction in Salt River
Valley Reclamation Project
Is Drowned
n HOENIX, Ariz., May about 9
o'clock this morning A. II. DEM
II

n HOENIX, Ariz., May about 9
o'clock this morning A. H. DEM
Il rick, electrical engineer in charge
of all the electrical and power con-
struction in the Salt River valley re-
clamation project, was drowned in a
sluicing tunnel 600 feet long cut through
the heart of a solid mountain at one
end of the Roosevelt storage dam, the
tunnel being the conduit for water
from the storage reservoir above to the
river below the dam. A. L. Harris,
chief assistant to Engineer Smith, in
charge of construction at Roosevelt,
was swept through the tunnel with
him, but emerged from the river with
out serious injury.
The water in the tunnel is controlled
by two sets of gates, three gates in
each set, the sets eleven feet apart. The
sets are about 200 feet from the head of
the tunnel. At the bottom of a shaft
140 feet deep on the side of the noun
tain is the shaft containing the ma
chinery operating the gates. Between
sets the tunnel is divided into three
compartments.
Two upper and one lower gate were
closed, and the central chamber was
full of water. The men entered the
tunnel from below to inspect the gates.
Some one raised the lower central gate
before closing the upper central gate
and the water, under ninety-foot
head in the reservoir, poured through,
dashing the men through 400 feet of
rough, ragged tunnel to the river below
Supervising Engineer L. c. Hill had
gone to Roosevelt to investigate.
Demriclk was about 3S years old. His
former home was Detroit. He had
been with this project about six years
and had built sixty-five miles of cleo
trio transmission line through the
mountains from Roosevelt to Phoenix.
He had done much other important
work on the project.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-03
Jananese Ends Life

SAN FRANCISCO, May 2.-Because
a delusion that he was an officer of the
Japanese training fleet was ended by
the arrival of the ships, G. K. Funa-
hashi, a Japanese, killed himself in bed
last night by firing a bullet through his
brain. His body was found by his room
mate, a fellow countryman, today.
The latter declared that he had not
heard the shot, as Funahashis head
and the pistol were buried beneath the
bedclothing when the shot was fired.
The mans mind had been deranged by
illness.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-03

ing under excitement. Numerous Wit
nesses will testify to his strange conduct
on these occasions. Alienists who have
observed the defendant closely since he
has been in Jail will be placed on the
stand to prove that he has frequently
acted in an irrational manner during
that time. If the jury finds that Hains
was insane at the time of the tragedy
and is now sane he will go Free but if
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-03
Soldier stabs San pisaan

SAN DIEGO, May 2.-James Walters,
soldier at Fort Rosecrans, stabbed
Carl Peterson, aged 25, in the stomach
and back tonight, inflicting wounds
which proved fatal. The affair was
the result of a triangular row in which
third man took part in a lodging
house at Columbia and G streets. Dur
ing the trouble furniture was smashed
and other damage done. After the
stabbing Walters fed and has not been
captured.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-03
EASTERN

j. S. Cabanne 7-year-old stepson of Brough-
ton Bradenburg, author, who is under arrest
at San Francisco, arrives safely at home In
Sc. Louis
Navy department sends two armored cruisers
to Alexandretta, Turkish Asia, to protect
Americans.
New tariff measure in senate VIII vest presi-
dent with power to declare International tariff
war whenever he sees mt.
Monument to Longfelow to be dedicated at
Washington on May T.