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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-15
Leaders of Rioters Executed,

FL Paso, Tex, April 15.-The Her.
AIDS correspondent at Torreon, Mex,
thirty miles from Velardena, where
the riots resulting from an order pre-
venting religious parade occurred
last Saturday, has returned to Tor.
reon from the scene of the trouble
and reports that one rurale, one wo.
man and three men were killed in the
street fights. Ten of the leaders Of
the rioters were taken prisoners and
executed
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-15
Cash Wheat Sells for $3.50,

st. Louis, April 15.-The highest
price paid for cash wheat in St. Louis
in thirty-one years was recorded when
sales of No. red were made at $1.47
to $1.50. Largely as consequence
of these market Conditions the -four
industry has almost ceased locally,
several mills being shut down, while
others are running on half time.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-15
HOUSES PASSES
The ''vAC'' BILL
Crooks Found Lettering Will Be
Liable to Arrest.
DRUNKARDS ALSO INCLUDED

Families May Be Taken Into Gus.
| tody Under Provisions of the Pro.
posed Acknowledgements Bill Re.
passed by the House and Is Now Up
to the Governor-senate Kills Pc.
terson's Armour Resolution.
St. Paul, April 1.-THE so-called
"vag BILL" which the Minneapolis po-
lice department has been pushing,
passed the house after some severe
amendments proposed by R. J. Wells
had been adopted.
The chief fight was over the Sec
| ton which permits the arrest of any
pickpocket, thief, burglar, "yeggman'
or confidence man for vagrancy if he
is found lettering around depots,
banks, railroad yards, hotels or other
places named. The aim was to give
the police power to arrest or send out
of town known crooks before they
committed any crime. Wells had it
amended so that it stated definitely
that no one should be considered
crook under that section unless he
had been actually convicted of some
crime named in that section and if he
did not get into some lawful occupa-
ton within thirty days. This was to
give released prisoners a chance to
reform and get to work before they
are arrested as vags. Even with this
amendment there were objections to
it, and John Lennon said that it did
not give them a chance to go any
where except to the graveyard or the
sea.
J. F. Selb wanted to strike out the
section making Migrants of habitual
drunkards who refused to support
their families. He said it was al
ready covered by the present laws, but
Wells said that under the present laws
he could not be arrested except when
drunk. ~
Those Liable to Arrest.
The bill now allows the arrest as
Migrants of persons without any WIS.,
ible lawful occupation, habitual drunk
ards guilty of non-support, persons
with infectious diseases contracted in
places of debauchery who require
charitable aid, beggars, street walk
ers," males who assist prostitutes in
getting business or live habitually
with them, and known crooks.
The house repassed the anti-ciga
rette bill with the senate amendments,
which will make the bill effective Aug.
1 if the governor signs it.
The senate killed the resolution by
F. H. Peterson providing for possible
injunction proceedings by the attorney
general against the Arnours.
The resolution instructing the at
torney general to look into the posi-
BILE damage was killed. SO to p It
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-15
Chicago Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, April 14.-Wheat-May,
$1.2S5s; July, $1.17A @1.17%; Sept,
$1.OS5s; Dec, $1.07A. Corn-April,
67%c; May, 6sAc; July, 66%c; Sept,
66kc; Dec, 5sc. Oats-May, $3.50
55c; July, 1850; Sept, 40%c. Pork
May, $1S.221A; July, $1s.17k@1s.2O;
Sept, $1S.171A. Butter-Creameries,
22@2Sc: diaries, 1S@25c. Eggs-191a
@207ac. Poultry - Turkeys, 17c;
chickens and springs, 15c. -.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-15
NO WITNESSES TO TESTIFY
Wisconsin Senatorial Probers Spend
Day in Waiting,


Madison, Wis, April 15.-The mem
bers of the Stephenson Investigating
committee of the senate spent the day
waiting for witnesses, but none ap-
peared. -..-
State Game Warden Stones where
abouts are seemingly unknown, even
to his wife, who has promised to do
her best to find him. There is still a
persistent report that he is in the
northern part Of the state, but if so
he left no word that he is on official
business. -: H.
The so called Bray joint resolution,
providing for another Joint Investigate
ing committee to look into the sena-
tor1al election, was put over for a
week when it came up in the senate
branch of the Wisconsin legislature.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-15
Chicago Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, April -Cattle-Beeves,
$4.S0@110; Texas steers, $460@5.80;
Western steers, $4.4o@5.80;, stockers
and feeders, $3.50@5.6o; COWS and
heifers, $2.0O@5.90; calves, $1,000
7.50. Hogs-Light, $69O@7.35; mixed,
$7.0007.45; heavy, $7.10@7.5O; rough,
$7.10@725; good to choice heavy,
$7.25@750; pigs, $59O@6.7O. Sheep,
$3.65@6.15; yearlings, $6.15@715;
lambs, $5.5O@S2O. "
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-15

Brandon. Man, giving direct line.
from Brandon to Minneapolis, running
parallel and between the two Hill
lines which now run into Manitoba,
one ending at Brandon and the other
at Portage la Prairie. This is in re-
taliation for Hills announced inten-
ton Of building an air line into Winni-
peg from the boundary and building
extensive terminals here.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-15
Many Guests Narrowly Escape.

Asheville, N c., April 15.-Roused
from their slumbers by an alarm of
fire seventy-fve guests of the fash
ionable Kenilworth Inn, three miles
from this city, barely had time to don
some scanty articles Of clothing and
make their escape from the burning
building. The hotel was completely
destroyed, the total loss being esti:
mated at $250,000.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-15
St. Paul Union Stock Yards,

st. Paul, April 14.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, s5.O0@6.o0; fair to good,
$4.5O@5.00; good to choice COWS and
heifers, $4.o0@5.00; veals, $5.75@eO0.
Hogs-$6.95@7.05. Sheep-Wethers,
$6.50@700; yearlings, $6.50@7OO;
lambs, $7.50@7.85.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-15
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, April 14.-Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No. hard, $1.27%; No.
1 Northern, $1.26%; No. Northern,
$1.24M; May, $1.257a; July, $1.26H;
Sept, $1.10%. Flax-To arrive and
on track, $1.66%; May, $1.65%; July,
$1.e5A; Sept, $1.421a; Oct, $1.3S.
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1~ ,.@U altsr H'.rst Page
.hn Y Els returned to
atnoaA ATE. az aOaeuce of several
-"0nFus
= he Seniors are 2 working hard
~ &A@}r rasaye 30 be given on com
mencement day.
The High School students enjoyed
the great pleasure of having theil
pictures taken Monday.
Professors Biddinger and Thorn
ton like Bemidji so we'll that they
spent their Easter vacation here.
AS there is some good baseball
material among the boys of the
eighth grade there is some talk of
organizing nine.
Baseball practice has started in
earnest and daily candidates are to
be seen on the campus working for
position on the team.
Professor Ritchie made short trip
to Hibbing during the Easter vaca-
ton; and helikes Bemidji better than
ever, as a result of his trip to the
range" town.
Miss Johnson, who has charge of
the eighth grade. has appointed
Olive Miller, Maud McCawley and
Fred Chamberlain to select a class
song and yell.
A large number of the high school
students are very much disappointed
at hearing that Professor Biddinger
will not return to Bemidji next year.
Bid" is popular with the pupils.
The students of the high school
wish to extend their heartfelt SYM
pathy to the Mcdonald family in
their reat loss, caused by the death
of their little 5-year-old son and
brother.
The eighth grade has received the
books for their class play which will
be given in a short time. AS nearly
all the students of the class are to
take part in the play, the pupils are
kept very busy.
Helmer Kruse, who is to take the
examination for admission to the
Annapolis Naval Academy some
time this month, is working hard
and has no fear but what he will
be able to pass the test.
John Mcdonald, an old Bemidji
High School student, came down
Saturday, April the 3rd, from Nor
thome, where he has been working
for the last few months, for the pur-
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-15
Domestic Trouble the Cause,

Kansas City, April 15.Frank- Will
Jams, aged ffty-one years, laborer.
shot and killed his wife Addie, aged
forty-nine years, in their home in
Rosedale, suburb. Williams then
committed suicide. Domestic trouble
caused the tragedy.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-15
GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES
MINNEAPOLIS Wheat,

Minneapolis, April 14.-Wheat-
May, 81, 2s1h: July, s1.26%. On track
No. hard, $1.293s !; No. 1 Northern,
$1.2S%; No. 2 Northern, $1.2ea; No.
Northern, $123sa @1.243a.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-15
CAUSTlC COM MENT.
Ia. G. Rutledge.l

How we enjoy meeting man who
enjoys paying his debts.
A straight man goes lame when
he strays into crooked paths.
Some people can't stand prosperity
because it refuses to stand for them.
Cupid, apparently, doesn't pay
any attention at all to a. flag oil
truce.
When an inspiration strikes a
man it's a sign that he needs the
money.
Although a man may imagine
that he has married an angel, he
should see that she stays near the
ground while testing her wings.
Chicago has voted to increase the
salaries of all teachers in the public
schools. Who knows but that the
day may come when the teachers
status may be raised to the level OF
a union hod carriers.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-15
WILL INVADE UNITED STATES
Canadian Pacific Decides to Enter
.-- HIPS TERRITORY. ~

HiIrs territory.
Winnipeg, Man, April 15.-The Ca
madam Pacific railway has decided to
at once invade North Dakota and go
after the Hill lines with vengeance.
They will extend their branch, which
now ends at Mowbray, in Southern
Manitoba, this spring, across into Da-
kota to connect with the 500 line. The
500 line will also be extended to
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-15

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets.
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E.
W. GROVE S signature is on each box. 25c.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-15

Some people can't stand prosperity
because it refuses to stand for them.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-15

How we enjoy meeting man who
enjoys paying his debts.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-15

A straight man goes lame when
he strays into crooked paths.
Evening star., 1909-09-05

surprising, capturing and binding any of them seeing
the awesome spectacle Of creatures in mans image
mouths gnawing PM wing at 1T their bonds % ike Wild beasts
primitive creatures whose only earthly fixed assets
their bows and iron tipped arrows, their rudely
besides wild honey, the wild game whose own
supreme cunning and stealth they compelled to
surpass to enable them to make kill with their short
range weapons; rowing dwelers in chill high alti-
tudes, where their women and children go cold and
ahunger when they fail to fetch in skins and Il
expressed surprise and qualification that he could
command the services of these matchless trackers.
"Wanderobo!" he replied Command them?
Rather! Why, man. I've lived alone and hunted
Evening star., 1909-09-05

AS soon he learned was keen for elephant. lion,
volunteered his own services and that of his Lumbwa
and Wanderobo subjects in locating them for me.
Nor did he want would he accept any recon-
he would have stripped himself of his one available
asset his pathetcaly small flock of fat tailed sheep
and goats, killing them for table and trading
them to natives for spears, Shields swords and
rhino horn knobkerries curios he knew l sought.
Chided for his prodigality and mprovidence, quick
came the philosophical reply:
We'll, you anything else would not be play
ing my game AS you find me here am living my
life. the life that suits me. Here somewhere in a
Evening star., 1909-09-05

with them for months at time; gone hungry with
them when sudden shifts of the game occurred and
their most dreaded specter, Famine, brooded
every camp; set their broken bones; dressed their
wounds. Come to me? Just watch them-in a runl
Only it may bother me lot to hold them when they
find two strange Mnsnngn with me; for the Wan
derobo are still wild and suspicious buffalo
'Of course. what with the pushing out of white
settlements, shooting safaris, ETC., and consequent
thinning out of the game, their forest life is growing
harder and harder every year, notwithstanding that
in one season only six seven years ago the Wan
derobo of the Upper Maggor traded the ivory of no
less than four hundred elephant in Karungu and in
German territory to Greek traders
Evening star., 1909-09-05


Labusoni's lot, are, SO far as
l know, the only group of
real Wanderobo elephant
hunters still left. Many
have already amalgamated
with the Nasal and are Ev-
ing in munyatas, among
them even a son of La
busoni, the old medicine
chief.
about eight years ago
the most profitable industry
of Mataia, chief of the war
like Lumbwa, was captur-
ing Wanderobo and holding
them for ransom in ivory.
and raiding the southern
Nasal for cattle and women,
until finally he had burned
all the munyatas along and
to the west of the Engabi
and the Nasal were all
speared or scattered.
"Old Koydelot, chief
witch doctor of the Nasal,
was one of the few who es-
caped-to asylum among
the Wanderobo. There his
medicine was soon found
to be SO strong that he was
able to win over a lot of
Wanderobo, whom later he
amalgamated with a few
Nasal fugitives and built
the little group of munyatas
between the Engabai and
the escarpment, their flocks
and herds chiefly the fruit
Evening star., 1909-09-05

slender flock of sheep and goats he had saved from
the German raid of his camp; unarned with
two cartridges and old out 1903 rifle danger
to none but him who fired it; with no wardrobe
but the brown cord shooting coat and frayed khaki
shorts and puttees he stood in with his right leg
from ankle to knee of (then and for
from which he suffered unntermitting tortures with
out murmur (nost luckily 1 had with
oxynol, which soon gave him relief and had him
nearly cured of eczema when parted) ),-neverthe-
less, this richer far in happiness and in per-
feet content with his environment and lo desperate
hard as it might seem to Others than all the princes
the fine fiber of his mentality obviously held not
the most fragile film of greed envy.
Evening star., 1909-09-05

days northwest into the Rongana River country
and II summon my Wanderobo and Lumbwa friends
to mark them down for US. I'll show them to you,
right enough; then it's up to you to get them"
The Wanderobo Elephant Hunters
TRAVELLING for weeks along and through forest
we knew to be haunts of the Wanderobo; al
ways compelled to be watchful for their dangerous
pitfa1 game traps; occasionally stumbling across
their temporary hut villages, the only approach to
town these shifty wandering hunters build, but
never seeing one of them; knowing that travellers
who have needed forest guides and have succeeded
Evening star., 1909-09-05

of raids of German natives Only the old hard
shell ed-in-thewoos like Labusoni have clung to
the old forest life.
"Labusoni7 Eighty now if he is day; but
every sunrise sees him off into the bush with bow and
arrows, like the meanest of his followers keen
for the twitter of honey bird the whir of bee
swarm shrewd old eyes scanning bush and grass for
buck. Twice when nearly starved he has gone with
his family to his son. at Koydeots: but the monotony
of munyata shepherd life too slow for him. and as
he was fattened up bit back into the bush
he trekked.
Labusoni's Elephant Song
MY word! but of Labusoni's old fashioned
~ elephant round-ups was a sight!
"Of nights before such hunts he assembled all his
men about small fire apart from the huts after all
the women and children had gone to sleep.
Then Labusoni began to chant the elephant song.
the Wanderobo song, recounting the gories of
the chase the craft and bravery of the bodest the
big kills they had made, the need of their and
children, the riches in beads and trinkets the ivory
spoils would bring the stout bowstngs their great
back snews would furnish the matchless shields and
enduring sandals their thick hides the capacious
pouches their great badders, the vast stores of fat
with which Wanderobo love to the outer as
well as the inner
ION and on Labusoni would sing, voice rising
shrier and shrler, until his wild henchmen
wrought up to madness of which all eyes at the
time CLEANED savage fury and streamed tears,
limbs trembled like wind shaken reeds, nervous fin
gers snatched swordblades from their sheaths and
the grim shadows broodng about the campfire were
set all brightly aght with the simmer of brandish
ing blades.
Then, dropping his voice to quiet tones, Labusoni
personally addressed each in turn
'Cobo, your father coward! In my
youth he loved dodge beneath the bellies of the
Big Ones and stab them from beneath. If you
afraid, stay in the house with your women
Njunge, your father got none but sons. If you
are turned woman, go stalking little buck!
'Minyatuki, if the thought of the thunder of the
Big Ones rushing when they get your wind makes
you tremble, go follow the honey birds!
'Sibibi if the shrill screams of rage of the
hit weaken your finger tug at the bowstring, stay
feshing and dressing skins with the women!
'Weana the crash of falling forest to the charge
of maddened herd quickens your heartbeat, give
your women and children a real man and go stab
yourself for cur!
Surbube, for you it should be enough to remem-
Continued page I9
Evening star., 1909-09-05
I O

pacifers of the natives, working usually as individu
ais, all alone, at best in pairs without armed es
corts, with none but native attendants and porterS
their prosperity and indeed their very existence de
pended upon just dealings with all natives with
whom they in contact.
What with diplomacy and sheer bluff, these men
often settled tribal turbulence and succeeded in
making peace between tribes that previously had
never ceased warning and raidng each other. Some
times to be sure, they won peace at cost OF blood;
but peace they always strove for best conducive to
their own success.
Indeed, several of these men often welded more
tual influence and power thousands of natives
than that inspired by all tie authority and armed
force of the established Goverrmcnt-as when John
Boies went among the hostile Kiauyu alone and
famine hundreds of Swais and East Indians
ployed in building the Uganda Railway, followed
this stroke by pacifying and amalgamating thirty
five hostile factions of the Kkuyu, and firmly held
the rein them that five thousand kikuyu warriors
equally ready to make war till their
shantbas at his command, ruled them with such un-
Kkuyu; when John Alfred Jordan went alone
into the Sotk and brought into Kericho chiefs that
had refused to come on Government summons, whom
the Government felt they had no force adequate to
fetch, chiefs who had never before entered British
post or camp.
A High Veldt Rover
A ND it one of these men, no other than John
Alfred Jordan himself, we found at our Engabi
camp when we trekked down there January 81
Above six feet in height, high browed, with keen,
brightly intellectual face lighted by big brown
dreamy eyes that CLINT dangerous lights when lit by
spirit of devilment fury, beardless save for
wisp of dark mustache and two little chin tufts that
served to accentuate set of lean square jaws, with
the long, slender delicate hands of artist beied
by great reach of arm and Fitzsmmons shoulders,
usually slow and indoent of motion, but cat in ac-
tivity and whirlwind in force when Toused-Jor-
dan silent about the campfire, meditative in repose,
bore remarkable resemblance to Robert Louis
Stevenson He was a native Engshman, of expert
in Far West trooper in the Cape
Mounted Police through the Transvaal war.
When met him, Jordan had been ivory hunting
and trading all the way from the Boran and Turkana
country along the southern border Of Abyssina away
south far into German territory,-and never, will
stake my head wrongdoer at anything in
venturing his life long lonely exiles far from all
other white men in territory that the Government
had found it necessary to leave in its state of
black occupation and to declare closed alike to
traders, Travellers and sportsmen, except under spe
cial license like mine), never wrongdoer except
as he may have engaged in bit of ivory poaching
in gathering wild rubber in closed districts, for
which he has fallen under official ban.
The chance meeting fortunate alike to Jordan
and to To US he meant the best expert advice
r,yIho 70 G,,1 ala
Evening star., 1909-09-05

Qu1eC nook OF the African
forest, l shall probably finish.
Money? 1t means
nothing to me. I've made
money, lots of it, in the
past, and had no more good
of it l found real value in
than | get here.
I've been among the
first in a dozen of the great
African mining camps, but
never once pegged a claim.
Why? Not my game. I'm
only a hunter and native
trader. Basi! [Enough!l A
bit short of trade goods
now, as you see,-not a
scrap of Americani or a sin
gle Buda" bead left,
thanks to the Germans,-but
I'll get on, right-oh, no fear!
Towns? More than a
day or two of any of them
is hateful to me. Dodder-
ing herrnit!' l dare say
some fools might call me;
but l love my kind well as
any other, your kind, fel-
lows with the nerve to cut
loose and go it alone down
here, where even the thrift
est official has never yet ven
tured to lead his askaris
after hut tax.
Come along with me and
I'll show you such shooting
as you never dreamed Of
elephant, rhino. lion. buffa-
10. Trek with me four or five
days northwest into the R
Evening star., 1909-09-05

on Wnere TO ma ele-
phant and how best at
tack them; to him we
meant a source of much
needed supplies, for
which he never limited
a want, but which we
soon saw he lacked
and were glad to be
able to make him take.
Himself q tres
passer within the
closed territory l was
then in by courtesy
of Lieutenant Gov
ernor Jackson, we
found Jordan accom-
panied by three war
riors. superb big fell
lows, and a boy, all
Lumbwa; with no
better shelter than a
grass hut of the sort
natives soon throw
together for a nights
camp; with absolute
ly no food supply but
native posho and a
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-09-10
Masquerade Surprise Party

Saturday, September 4th, being the
birthday of Albert H. Hodson,
a number of friends rendered him
a masquerade surprise rarty in the
evening at his cottage, the Breakers,
on oath street. A very enjoyable even
ing was spent in playing games, sing
ing and other amusements and at a
late hour Refreshments were served,
after which the guests returned to
their homes before the midnight hour,
all content with a most pleasant even
ing and wishing Mr.. Hodson many
more happy birthdays. A number of
pretty and useful presents were re-
ceived by the host and also a shower of
handsome post cards.
ONE OF THEM.