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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-08-24
TALK OF THE TOWN
Rsaa vaughan'. az to.aay.

Auction at Hale's pavilion tonight.
Look to Perry's for your infants
dresses.
SOC each, short kimonos at Perry's on
Saturday
All sun shades at half price to close
at Yeale 6 knights.
New sweaters for boys and girls, 25e
and soc at Naughan's.
For your public surrey call the City
hotel livery stable. Phone l34-ll.
we win give 10 per cent. discount
on all picture moulding until Sept TO-
Earl s Shepard & Co,
Rooms suitable for store or Office pur.
poses to rent IN Hale block, Main street.
Inquire Of O. II. Hale.
There viii be special meeting Of the
Clover club with Mrs. Lizzie Robinson
at IL Eastern avenue Tuesday evening
at o'clock.
All members Of the r. O. o. r. Wishing
to 20 to Washington. Thursday, Aug. 26,
are requested to notify the committee
BY Wednesday night 4 team viii leave
Page Brothers stable at 5:i5 sharp. q.
Q. Ayerill. john Howell, Harry CLARK,
committee.
The annual meeting Of the Great
Council, Improved Order Of Fed Men, is
to be held Thursday with Nannalaneet
tribe No. II, Of LYndonyille. There will
be q street parade, after which the Al.
gonqan trie Of st. Johnsbury will ex-
emplify the warriors degree. IN the
evening there viii be 4 banquet and
speeches BY The grand officers and Others.
six members 81 the If0quois tribe If
this city will attend the meeting. They
are W. w. Russell, Alex MeGaskill.
George Cormaek, Alexander Ross. Wal
ter Morgan. and Gordon Smith. They
will leave Wednesday noon.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-08-24
TALK OF THE TOWN
FaII gInghama now u y Perry'..

L. III. Warren of Hardwick is visiting
his daughter, Mrs Byron Num- Of Aller
street, for few days.
Mfr. and Mrs. James Coburn and niece
Gertrude Cone, Of Northiield Falls were
the guests Of Mr. and Mrs. James Cone
over Sunday.
The annual picnic Of the Granite City
Quoting club win be held at Caledonia
park on Saturday, Aug %. All mem
bers wishing To attend will please give
their names To any'of the following com.
mittee, James Anderson, William Nor.
gan, William Craig, James Donald, Alex
Rennie, George sIora, ?. BRINE, secre.
tary.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-08-24
TALK OF THE TOWN
Read vaughanls adv 70 day.

Trunks bags and suit cases, for your
vacation from the Frank AioWhoTter.
Allan Reid and James Csrswell went
to Mortified this morning, where they
viii act as instructors at the freshman
summer school at Norwich university.
The Gage stock company opened a
weeks engagement at the opera house
last night and gave good satisfaction 70
a large audience. The play last night
was THE Belle Of Richmond" and was
presented in excellent shape by the en-
tire company The play this evening
is "His Majesty and the Maid and
the specialties are changed between the
acts.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-08-24
The BARRE DAILY TIMES
TuEsDAY, AUGusT q. i9o9.
Weather Prediction.

Generally fair tonight and Wednes.
days light variable winds.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
BIG fleet IS
HOME AGAIN
Battleships Anchor Today in
Hampton Roads.
WELCOMED BY PRESIDENT

He Reviews Homecoming Vessels on
the MayfIower-crowds on Excur-
sion Boats Greet sperry and His
Men-Much Powder Burned in Sa-
luting-Festivities Planned for Off.
GERS and Bluejackets.
Fort Monroe, Va, Feb. 22.-Our
fleet is home again. Riding safely at
anchor in the waters of Hampton
Roads after welcome such as never
before warmed the hearts of returning
sailormen are the sixteen "bully" ves-
sells that have sailed around the world.
It is impossible to resist the tempta-
tion to say that they look as ''fit for a
fight or frolic" as they did when
they sailed away from here more than
fourteen months ago under the COM
mand of Admiral Evans.
When the Mayflower, bearing Pres
ident Roosevelt and his invited guests,
Admiral Dewey, Secretary Newberry
and others, sailed down the harbor
today the guns of Fort Monroe told
the thousands of visitors to these
shores that the welcome to the fleet
would begin soon. Immediately the
smoke began to rise from the stacks
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
Queer EnaIish Laws.

"No statute law Of England ever can
be obsolete" a legal journal says.
"Once enacted, it continues in binding
force until repealed"
II such be really the case, there
ought to be some lively times ahead
Tor several classes Of the community.
For instance, what will builders have
to say to the act which penalties any
person who erects a house without at
taching to it at least four acres of
land? This was one Of "good Queen
Bess'" laws, and it has most certainly
never been repealed.
BY another unrepealed statute, which
dates back to the first year Of King
James l., it is enacted that not more
than penny may be charged for a
quart of the best old ale nor more than
a halfpenny for like quantity of
small beer. The penalty for each In
fraction Of the act is 20 shillings, so
that If it were rigidly enforced it
would not need, apparently, licensing
bill to ruin the brewers. Then, again,
a Catholic owning horse is still legal
~ obliged to sell it for E5 to anybody
who chooses to offer that sum for it.
London Graphic.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
Cooking With Sunlight.

Sun cooking roasting and boiling by
sunlight instead of coal or gas-has
been going on for 300 years. There
are sun stoves that roast sirloin OF
boil soup to perfection. They are
only used, however, by scientists. A
sun stove consists mainly of a mirror
q spherical mirror on joint. There
is also reflector. The place for pot
or plate Is so situated that the mirrors
rays can be focused on it accurately.
A German, Baron Tchernhausen, was
the first sun cook. He began in 1851
to boil water, and in 1858 he had very
good success at baking eggs. Sir John
Herschel and Button are other fa-
nous names associated with sun cook.
ing. In California various sun cooks
have boiled a gallon of water in TWEEN
ty minutes, roasted meat in two hours
and poached eggs in fifteen minutes
quite as good time as the ordinary fire
makes. An odd thing about meat
roasted by sun rays is that it has an
unpleasant taste. This is avoided by
the insertion of plate of yellow glass
between meat and mirror. In all solar
stoves the sheet Of yellow glass fig
ures.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
RESULT OF CUT IN
PRICE OF PRODUCTS
Securities Of Steel Corporation
Decline in Value.

New York, Feb. 22.-The announce
ment of decision to cut steel prices
by Chairman Gary of the United
States Steel corporations board of
directors was reflected in the stock
market. Offerings of 10000 shares of
United States Steel corporation com
mon stock at from 475s to- 477s, a drop
from 4S%, was the feature of the
opening. United States Steel pre-
ferred declined a full point. The gen
eral market was lower in sympathy,
with here and there few fractional
gains.
During the second hour another
drive was made against United States
Steel common, forcing the price down
to 46A. The stock was heavily dealt
in and much of it was apparently Of
fered at forced sale. United States
Steel preferred and the sinking fund
per cent bonds were also affected,
as was the entire active list.
Assurances that the price Of steel
rails will not be cut as result of
the price cutting in finished steel
products were given by men in high
authority in the steel manufacturing
business. The representative of a
leading steel producer said that there
were only five rail producing mills in
this country and that they are op-
posed to a reduction in the price of
rails.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22

ry's fleet that have made the circuit
Of the world, covering more than 49,
600 miles since they left here in De-
cember, 1907, received the greatest
amount of applause the two battle
ships which joined the fleet on the
Pacific coast and the vessels of NAd-
miral Arnold's conveying squadron re-
ceived their due share of attention,
Probably the greatest amount of ap-
plause greeted the appearance Of the
Connecticut, which was the flagship
of the fleet throughout the cruise, and
the Nebraska, which made its first
appearance on the Atlantic seaboard.
Twenty-Five Warships in Line.
In reviewing the fleet the May
flower occupied almost exactly the
same position she did when the presi-
dent babe godspeed to the sixteen bat
tleships at the beginning of the cruise.
The fleet which saluted him today,
however, presented more imposing
appearance than the outbound arma-
da. Then sixteen warships sailed
south: today twenty-five war vessels,
including twenty battleships, passed
in review before the commander-in-
chief.
When the last ship had passed the
Mayflower the presidential yacht
weighed anchor and turned to take
up her position between the Connec-
ticut and the Louisiana. Hardly had
she cast anchor again when boats
were cleared from the sides of the
vessels of the fleet and Admira
Sperry and the commanders and ex
ecutive officers of the ships were
rowed to the Mayfower to pay thell
respects to the president. After these
official calls were paid and the nava
men had returned to their own YES
sells the president visited in turn the
flagship of each division and met anc
greeted the assembled officers anc
the representative enlisted men sent
to pay the respects of the jackies tc
him. - ~,
Tonight will be memorable in the
history of Fort Monroe, Newport News
and the surrounding towns. The focus
of the receptions to the returning
sailors will be in the Chamberlin no
tel, where the Navy league will give
dinner to Sperry and his command
ing officers. The dinner will be fol
lowed by ball and for several days
there will be a round of gayeties here
Most of them, of course, will be re
served for the Off GERS, but the enlist
ed men have not been forgotten. They
will have ball and reception Of theil
own on Feb. 27 in the sail loft of the
Norfolk nayyyard,
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
PIN CHAMPIONSHIP
MATCH ON TONIGHT
Best Men Of New York and
Cleveland to Roll.

New York, Feb. 22.-The opening
games in the match between the
bowling champions of New York and
Cleveland, O., will be rolled on the
Grand Central alleys in Brooklyn to-
night and the popularity Of the alley
game In New York is showing itself
In the interest taken in the match.
Jimmy Smith, the new York cham
pion, is to meet Louis Franz, the best
bowler of the Ohio city, in home
and home tournament. Thirty games
are to be rolled, the first fifteen in
Brooklyn tonight and the other fifteen
in Cleveland on March 12.
Franz has been champion of Cleve-
land for three years. He is as good
bowler when working in a team as
in singles, as he proved lately when
he and Charley Gilbert won an inter-
city match rolled against Will Flenner
and Gus Steele, two Of Chicago's best
men on the alleys. Cleveland bowlers
are enthusiastic about Franz ability,
declaring that he will prove himself
the best bowler of America. A num-
ber of them have come on here to see
him roll against Smith. The latter is
generally considered the best bowler
of the metropolis. In recent work
out in preparation for tonight's match
he rolled an average for nine games
Of 233, beginning with a 800 score.
It is reported that he has done even
better. The match is for $500 a side,
In addition to a share of the gate re-
ceipts.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
.bLEDSOE Gets
Thirty YEARS
Attempted to Extort $1,000
From Millionaire.
PLEADS GUILTY TO CRIME

Declares He Had No Intention of Ex-
ploding the Bomb With Which He
Threatened His Would Be Victim.
Latter Asserts That After Capture
6!edsoe Bewailed the Fact That 1t
Did Not Go OF.
Kansas City, Feb. 22.-Robert B.
Bledsoe of Dallas, Tex, who on Tues
day last entered the home of Law
renee M. Jones, millionaire mer.
chant of this city, and attempted to
extort $1,000 from him, was sentenced
to thirty years in the penitentiary.
Bledsoe entered a plea of guilty to
the charge Of attempted robbery.
Judge Ralph w. Lathshaw of the Grim.
inal court, before whom he was ar.
raigned, said he regretted that he
could not sentence Bledsoe to long
er term. He said the near crime was
the most diabolical cne he had ever
heard of.
In answer to a question from the
court Bledsoe maintained that he had
no confederates, nor did he have any
intention of exploding the bomb with
which he had threatened Mr.. Jones
and the latter's wife and son, who
came to his assistance. He merely
used 1t, he said, to intimidate the
millionaire ~>,7,
Mr.. Jones, however, told the court
that after he had captured Bledsoe
the man kept crying "Why didn't the
thing go off, .. E.. ~.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
ECHO OF G0EBEL MURDER
Pardon Asked for Former Governor
Taylor and Others.

- Louisville, Feb. 22.-Kentucky's
most vexatious political and penal
problem has emerged again with a
petition presented to Governor Will
son by Caleb Powers for the pardon
ing of former Governor w. s. Taylor,
former Secretary of State Charles
Finley and John L. Powers. The pa
per was signed by $4,000 citizens of
Kentucky regardless of politics and
the governor replied that he would
consider the matter in it's turn.
Powers, who is a former secretary
of state Of Kentucky, who, with Jim
Howard, freed by Governor Wilson's
pardon some months ago. The three
men for whom Powers seeks the par.
dons were charged as accessories to
the murder of Governor Goebel, all
having fled to Indiana, where extradi-
tion has been refused.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22

of the scores of excursion vessels
chartered to bear the thousands of
visitors out to sea to welcome the
fleet. Turning their bows eastward
they steamed slowly after the May
flower and took up their positions as
near the presidential yacht as safety
and the naval regulations would per-
nit.
saIuting the President.
When the Mayfower reached the
position selected for her off Thimble
shoal light her anchor was cast and
the party aboard prepared to await
the coming of Admiral Sperry and his
ships. Word was sent to the admiral
that his commander-in-chief was wait
ing for him and the Connecticut hoist
ed the signal for the fleet to follow
the flagship in. Steaming at a fair
rate the Connecticut moved past the
Mayfower, her guns booming out the
presidential salute. The Mayfower
responded and the great naval review
was on.
From that time until the last of the
twenty-five returning warships had
sailed past the Mayflower and paid
its respects to the president in noise
and smoke there was a continual roar
of artillery that shook the Virginia
hills and made conversation on the
excursion steamers a difficult task
The civilian vessels added to the din
with sirens and whistles, amid which
the cheers of the visiting thousands
anxious to do their share in the noisy
welcome was all but lost. It was a
pandemonium such as was never be-
fore heard in this historic harbor.
While the fourteen vessels. of Sper-
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
The Cheerful Undertaken.

A most amusing thing occurred one
evening upon our arrival at small
town in New Zealand. We found
awaiting us at the station the local
carriage and pair, with the local un-
dertaker as footman. He was garbed
in his usual funereal suit Of black, but
he had substituted white tie In or
der to relieve the situation somewhat,
and, evidently with a desire to dispel
any morbid Impressions he might 9TH
erwise have created, he commenced to
whistle a selection Of the most cheer
full tunes he knew, while he held the
door open for us and helped us into
the carriage.-Clara Butt in Musical
Home Journal
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
EDWARD BRITT AGAIN
He Fights Johnny Summers in Lon
don Ring Tonight.

asS tS'sS SS1iihiy III .Stf~
don Ring Tonight.
London, Feb. 22.-Patriotic Amer
ican sports in London will celebrate
Washington's birthday by going to see
Jimmy Britt, the California light.
weight, fight Johnny Summers, the
Englishman, at the National Sporting
club-that is, if they have the price,
for the National Sporting club is one
of the ancient institutions of the Brit
ish capital and admission within its
doors comes high. 49,
The Yankees here are. sure, of
course, that Britt will make Sum-
mers' seconds throw up the sponge,
but there may be surprise coming to
them. Summers is clever, hardy
little scrapper who has whipped some
good Americans and Britishers and he
may take Britt's measure tonight The
fight is scheduled to go twenty rounds
for a purse of $4,000, in addition to a
side bet of $500.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
INAUGURAL DAY PARADE

More Than Thirty-one Thousand Men
Will Be in Line.
Washington, Feb. 22.-More than
$1,000 men will march in the inaugural
parade March 4, according to official
reports made to the inauguration
committee. There will be approx
mately $4,000 soldiers, sailors and
marines of the regular service, ma
tional guardsmen and Independent
military bodies, including the cadets
from West Point and Annapolis, in
the military division.
Up to date forty-fve organizations,
of which nine are colored men, have
applied for positions in line, as we'll
as one body of Indians. These, with
their musicians, will number about
5000.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
HEAVY RAINS EXPOSE GOLD
Valuable Nuggets Found Lying or
Surface in California.

San Francisco, Feb. PA special
dispatch from Placerville, which is
located in the heart of the district
where gold was first discovered in
this state, conveys the news that the
excessive rainfall this winter has
washed out many pockets and exposed
nuggets running in value as high as
$125.
They have been found in plain sight
on the top of the ground where the
surface dirt has been washed away.
Hangtown creek is again the scene
of active mining, the rushing flood wa
ters having deposited the fine yellow
dust in paying quantities.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
PEACEFUL PlCKETING LEGAL
Court Denies Judgment for Damages
Resulting. =

Oakland, CAL, Feb. PIT is not
illegal for a union labor organization
to picket place Of business that has
been declared unfair" if the picket
ing is done in peaceable manner, ac-
cording to the decision of Judge Ellis.
worth, given here in the case of JOS
eph Davis, local restaurant man,
against the Cooks and Walters alli-
ance. Because the union posted two
piekets in front of his place of busi-
ness the restaurant man declared that
he had suffered loss of $3.50. The
court admitted the loss, but contend
ed inasmuch as the union had not
brought it about by unlawful means
damages could not be imposed.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
ROBIN COOPER ON STAND
Relates Events Leading Up to Shoot
&a1g of Carmack. .~..s

Nashville, Tenn, Feb. 22.-Robin
Cooper, co-defendant with his father,
Colonel Duncan B Cooper, and John
D. Sharpe, charged with the murder
of former Senator Carmack, was the
first witness called for the defense.
Cooper said he was twenty-seven
years of age and related in detail the
early events of the day on which the
shooting occurred. He told of the at
tacks made by Senator Carmack in
his newspaper on Colonel Cooper and
of the anger of the latter caused
thereby. On the day of the shooting
an emissary was sent to Carmack
warning him to desist, but the latter
would promise nothing and was re
ported to be in an ugly mood.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22

enough to understand It why, what's
the use of explaining it all over again?
IT am not an out and out candidate,
but il the people Of this country, If
my own party, should demand that I
make the race again, standing for my
we'll known principles and ideas, why
I do not very we'll see how could re-
fuse.
"Still, four years is a long time and
meanwhile have other important
work to do
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
Court Wipes Out Saloons.

Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 22.-The Ne
braska supreme court has wiped all
saloons out of Hastings, Neb., holding
that Councilman Alexander, who tied
the vote on the issuance Of licenses,
thus allowing the mayor to cast the
deciding "wet" vote, was disqualified
because of having signed a saloon pc
tition and that the anti-saloon ele-
mont had, in effect, majority in the
council.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
JAPAN AT SEATTLE SHOW
Plans Biggest Exhibit Ever Made in
Foreign Country.

Seattle, Wash, Feb. 22.-T. Take
sawa, commissioner for Japan for the
Alaska Y Yukon-Pa exposition, has
arrived here from Toxic. He states
that plans for the biggest exhibit ever
made by Japan abroad will be COM
menced here Immediately. Mr.. Take
sawa declared that reported disfavor
Of the exposition by reason of anti
race feeling on the Pacific will in no
way interfere with the plans already
made. No consideration need be
given sentiment expressed from Ashi-
kaga by the Weaver league. The com.
munity is a small one and had not
been expected to participate with an
exhibit.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
Two BOYS Burned to Death.

Holyoke, Mass, Feb. 22.-Two boys,
aged respectively six and five years,
were burned to death in the home of
their father, Adam Kurtz. Mrs. Kurtz
had left the house on an errand while
her children were at play. When she
returned she found her home in flames
and could not enter. The building
was DESTROYED.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
Legal Fiction.

Says Sir Henry Maine in his can
cient Laws" "A legal fiction is the as
sumption which conceals or affects to
conceal the fact that a rule Of law has
undergone alteration, It's letter remain
ing unchanged while its operation has
been modified. The fact Is that the
law has been changed; the fiction Is
that it remains what It always was"
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
Roosevelt WiIIinu to Serve.

Washington, Feb. %. President
Roosevelt has informed Chairman
West Of the committee on permanent
organization of the recent conference
on the care of dependen children that
he would serve as president of such
organization when perfected.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
CHURCH BOARD UP IN ARMS
Wisconsin Methodist Minister Ref.
creed Basketball Game.

wisconsin Methodist Minister Ref
creed Basketball Game.
Reedsburg, Wis, Feb 22.-Because
Rev. A. E. Friedrich, formerly a resi-
dent of Madison and graduate of the
University of Wisconsin, refereed
basketball contest between the Mad
fson and Reedsburg military COM
panies he may lose his position as
pastor of the Methodist church at
Ironton, Wis. The church board is
up in arms, but Friedrich says he will
referee another game if he gets the
chance. He was formerly member
of the Madison company in the ma
tional guard.
Last summer Friedrich was pitcher
for the Ironton baseball team. He is
the youngest member. in the West
Wisconsin Methodist conference.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
IN CONFERENCE WITH TAFT
Messrs. Dickinson and Naeel May
Join His Cabinet.

Cincinnati, Feb. 22-The presence
here of J. NJ Dickinson, general coun-
sci of the Illinois Central railway sys-
tenn, and an immediate conference
with President-Ele Taft is believed
to indicate that decision is near as
to Mr.. Taft's secretary of war. Mr..
Dickinson has been under considera.
tion for this position for some time.
Mr.. Taft, however, maintains silence
and Mr.. Dickinson will not discuss
the matter.
The presence here also of Charles
Nagel of St. Louis is likewise regard
ed as the opportunity for an offer to
him by Mr.. Taft of the commerce and
labor portfolio.
The treasury department head, &C.
cording to all that can be learned here,
Is perhaps the remaining one place in
the cabinet regarding which no de-
cision has been reached.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1909-02-22
ANTI-TREAT BILL is LAW

South Dakota Legislature Knocks Out
Long Standing Practice.
Pierre, S. D., Feb. 22.-The old fel.
lows who hang around saloons wait.
ing for an invitation will have to wait
IN vain if any attempt is made to en-.
force the provisions of the anti-treat
law, which finally passed both houses
The bill contains provision like that
in the license law voiding the license
of any dealer who Is found guilty oi
allowing treating in his place of bust
ness and the saloonmen are taking
chances if they wish to keep up old
customs in their places.