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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-31
BLACK DUO K

Blackjack, January 3o-(special
correspondence of the Pioneer.)
The Lincoln Study club meets
Monday afternoon with Mrs. Vesta
Howard.
Lee French has been confined
to the house with the grippe for
the past week.
MIR. and Mrs. L. G. Townsend
have another little son in their
home, since last Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. P Rice enter
tanned the $500" club at their
home on last Friday evening.
Mrs. Hayes and daughter,
Florence, are down from the
homestead for few days stay.
"Mr. Bob," charming comedy,
will be given by home talent in
the City Hall Monday evening,
Feb. Il. .....~.~.
The Ladies' Aid of the Presby-
terrain church will meet next
Thursday at the home of Mrs.
Will Zimmerman.
Miss Mary Hostetter, principal of
the high school, has been kept from
her school work since last Monday
by an attack of measles. She is
slowly improving.
lay Long, day operator at the
M. & I. station, is enjoying a visit
from his sister, Miss Long, whose
home has been at Brainerd. Miss
Long is musician and if enough
pupils are interested she may
decide to remain here. -.
The Lincoln Study club held
their January social Friday even
ing in the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Dickinson. About thirty
members, their husbands and
sweethearts, were present and. a
most enjoyable evening was spent
in various ways. Refreshments
consisted of coffee, cake and
sherbet, and the club colors of
white and green were beautifully
carried out. The February social
evening will be banquet in COM
memoration of Lincoln's birthday.
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U. o. F. Elected Officers.

The United Order of Foresters
Lodge of Bemidji is taking on new
life, and from now on that society
will probably take its place among
the foremost of the local secret
organizations.
The lodge held a meeting last
evening, at which officers were elect
ed for the ensuing term, as follows:
Past Chief Ranger, EricIves; Chief
Ranger, Lee Hebron; Vice Chief
Ranger, ]. Bisiar: Chaplain, Mrs. C..
Shepherd; Secretary and Recorder,
John Sandin; Treasurer, Mrs. Earl
Cell; Chief Archer, Mrs. A. w.
Danaher; Inner Woodward, w. J.
McCawley; Outer Woodward, Mrs.
Hillgrove; Trustee, Miss Clara
Hebron. :.
During the evening lunch was
served, and there was much DOING
that was for the good of the order.
Mrs. Lucy Purdy of Duluth, a
prominent worker in the United
Order of Foresters, was present at
the NEE ting and delivered a fine
address.
The lodge will hereafter meet at
the Odd Fellows hall, the first and
third Saturdays of each month.
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Stumpinq Competition.

That competition is at least the back.
bone If not the life of trade is Illus
trated by the big city department
stores, especially those located in the
same district, where rivalry runs high
and the efforts to attract trade are
studied with particular care in time Of
depression. That this same incentive
for progress is not given to stores in
the country may be one cause-or is it
effect?-of the degeneration of some Of
our rural districts in the east One of
the heads of prominent New York
concern who spent a vacation in New
England last summer went to the local
general store" to buy few yards Of
a certain cloth. 49,.
1--WE don't keep it." said the store
keeper.
"Why not?" was the reply. "This is
staple. How can you get along with.
out it?"
WAL" was the Indifferent explana.
ton, Eve jest can't keep it. laid in
some a short spell ago, but it was
bought out, and every time I've got
some 1t only gets sold. There's no use
trying to keep it herew-System.
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- y y
bandits on the morning of NoYem.
Der rs.
Andy" writes the Pioneer, from
Clear Lake, Iowa, as follows:
II am now in my native town and
am feeling quite we'll. I have had a
good time, so far. The old town
looks changed, since I left here
twenty years ago, and I see but few
old faces. I will leave for st. Paul
next Sunday. Best'regards to every
body" -,
The popular deputy sheriff
appears to be gaining strength
gradually but steadily and no doubt
it will be but short time before he
will be back in his customary place
in Sheriff Hazen'sS$ office.
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l hereby announce that I
am a Candidate for the office
of Mayor of the City of Be-
midi to be voted on the 18th
day of February, 1910. If
elected to fill the office of
Mayor I pledge myself to the
faithful performance of the
duties of the office, and shall,
at all times, have uppermost
in my mind the advance
ment Of our City and the
welfare of it's citizens.
Yours truly,
J. c.. PARKER.
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PRIEST CAPTURES. INTRUDER
Forced His Way Into Parish House
~, and Demanded $1,000.

Pittsburg, Jan. 81. -Forcing his way
into the parish house of Father John
S. Gerzynski with a letter demanding
$1,000 under penalty of death Anton
Liebig was overpowered by the priest
and locked up until the police arrived
In Liebig's pockets was letter adj
dressed to the priest, saying the bear
er had called for the package of
money, but that he was ignorant of
the contents of the letter. The hand
writing was the same as that of
threatening letters the priest had re-
ceived earlier in the week.
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DUE TO <INCESSANT RAINS

Serious Floods Inundate Large Part
of Costa RIGA. ="
Port Limon, Costa RIGA, Jan. 81
1ncessant and heavy rains are still
falling throughout the republic. The
Northern railway is practically out of
commission. There has been no train
service with the interior since the lat
ter part of December. .: ~
The entire Zent district, as well as
the banana zone of the upper lands
near Reventtazon river, is under wa
ter and the cutting of fruit for ship
ment is difficult. and dangerous. Three
slides are reported from Las Tomas,
rendering the, chances of communica-
ton with the capital more remote.
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Seumas MacManus 10 ri.

Ann Arbor, Mich, Jan. 81 Seumas
~MacManus, the Irish story teller, who
appeared here in lecture to the stu
dents at Michigan university, was I'M
able to finish his address owing to
illness. He was taken to hospital,
where physicians diagnosed his casD
o. incipient pneumonia.
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Two Die Of "spotted Fever"

Harvey, N. D., Jan. 31.-John Han
chett, Jr., the two-year-old son Of At
torney and Mrs. j. o. Hanchett, died
of spinal meningitis after an Illness
Of twenty-four hours. Several cases
of the disease have been reported the.
last few days. This II the second
death In three days.
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safecrackers Secure 5000 Cash.

Minneapolis, Jan. 31.-Safecrackers
visited the American Linen Supply
company's establishment and made
away with 5000 in cash and some val
liable papers. They procured entrance
with a skeleton key and muf1ed the
safe with towels and other. linen, so
that there was no noise. The place is
a favorite with burglars, having been
robbed several times.
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Prisoners Boycott Meat.

Norwich, N. Y, jan 81. The meat
boycott has reached the Chenango
county jail here. Several prisoners
have agreed to send back their plates
after each meal, with the meat UNI
touched, and a petition to strike meat
from the jail bill Of fare viii be pre-.
santad To Shaein Wal.oxth
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FOUND TIED.TO STOVE

Roasted to Death in the Kitchen of
Her Home.
Cincinnati, Jan. 31.---Mrs. Alice Van
Zandt was found roasted to death on
top of a stove in the kitchen of her
home, her hands and feet were bound.
Her husband, Jesse Van Zandt, an ex-
press driver, is being questioned by
the police
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CIVIL WAR In BokHARA

Native Mohammedans and Sun Wor-
shippers Clash.
st. Petersburg, Jan. Reinforce
ments have started to Bokhara, in
Turkestan, to aid the Russian COM
mander there in suppressing the war
fare between the native Mohammed-
ans and the Persian sun worshippers,
known as the shihlas and Sunnites.
Latest advices from the Russian
commander say that already 1900 per-
sons have been killed In the fanatical
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"Little Drummer Boy" Dead.

New York, jan 31-Julius G.. Lang
bein, known to Civil war veterans
throughout the country as the Little
Drummer Boy of New York." is dead
at his home here. Langbein, who was
twelve years old when he enlisted as
a drummer boy in Hawkins Zouaves,
was the youngest volunteer who went
from New York state to the front.
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Secret Societies

The Pioneer will publish in the fol-
lowing manner the notices Of all the
secret organizations in this city. J.
The local secret Organizatio
are extended a cordial invitation to
furnish cuts Of their respective lodge
emblems, with the notice of their
regular meeting nights, ETC., and the
Pioneer will do the rest.
Plates of these notices will cost
about $l.00. IF each of the various
lodges will send a Representative to
this office to choose the proper en-
blem, we will secure same for him
and begin publication as soon as cut
arrives.
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GRAFT INQUIRY EXTENDING
Other Chicago Contractors Drawn Into
Investigation.

Investigation.
Chicago, Jan. 31.-The most serious
phase of the present grand jury inves
tigation of alleged city hall graft will
be witnessed when the inquiry into
the affairs of the T. A. Cummings
Foundry company begins.
Subpoenas are said to have been is.
sued for thirty five witnesses, who will
be asked to tell what they know about
contracts between the Cummings COM.
pany and the city. The financial back:
ing of that company and charges that
certain city hall officials are stockhold-
ers will also be gone into, it is asserted.
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Breaks Pledge; Ends Life.

Des Moines, Jan. 31.-Because he
had broken his promise to his wife not
to get drunk again Bruce Majors of
Perry, a st. Paul road brakeman, took
morphine here at the home ora friend
and died twelve hours later.
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FOR SALE or FOR RENT-Hotel
and bar room, all furnished in first
class condition, including big barn
on lot of 102 feet frontage. Also
good team, 2 cows, rs chickens
acres of land, wagon, sleighs, etc.
:. address Matt Haeffner, Puposky,
MINI.
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FOR SALE-Nine-room house and
two lots located on Bemidji ave
nue. and Eleventh street. Good
substantial house. Part cash and
the balance on. time. Apply Eat
1101 Mississippi. y.
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"Andy' Johnson Visits Old Scenes.

Deputy Sheriff Andrew Johnson
has been making a visit among old
friends in Iowa, while he is taking
his enforced lay.off by reason of be-
ing unable to work because of
wounds inflicted in fight with
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Flowers,

Flowers are the terrestrial stars that
bring down heaven to earth and carry
up our thoughts from earth to heaven,
the poetry Of the Creator written In
beauty and fragrance. =.
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Envious of the Immune,

Little Henry lat the table, to the WIS.,
tori wish l were like you. Visitor
(fattered) - Why, little man? Little
Henry-Because no one boxes your
ears when you eat with your fingers
London Opinion.
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FOR SALE-Good work horses.
Will sell cheap. Inquire at my
barn, rear of Postoffce block. S.
P. Hayth.
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FOR SALE-Cockrills, Rhode Is
land Reds and White Wyandots
eggs for Matching, $1.5O setting.
]. F.. Svenson, Bemidji, MINI.
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war and that the situation is now be-
yond control.
Dispatches disprove the reported
restoration of peace, which was said
to have been brought about by the
emir's dismissal of the prime minister.
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE, Z
~~""~~> -~~~~~">;~>~->-~
FOR SALE-4SO acres choice lands
in township Isl, range 81 In
this tract is offered $50 acres
choice timbered lands that will
cut several millions. interested
please address the C. J. Pryor
Real Estate agency, Bemidii,
MINI.
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HELP WANTED.

WANTED-=Man or woman with ex-
: perience to work in store. At
Peterson's. :
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WANTED-Apprentice girls.
Dressmaking Parlors, Schroeder
block.
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FOR RENT.
LOST and FOUND

LOST-Between Baptist church and
railroad tracks one ladies gold
watch. Finder please return to
Miss Wallin, 103 Irvine avenue
for reward.
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LOST-River mink fur neck piece;
between Nymore and 18th street.
Finder return to Pioneer office;
reward.
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Observation-Disclosures two years

uYASHINGTON.-A two years
W hence If passengers on steamers
entering Manila harbor and passing be-
tween the several small islands that
guard the principal port of the Philip
pines should inquire with Indifferent
Interest as to the name and use of a
small dun-colored rock, hardly discern
tble any distance away and looking
much like an irregular shaped house
boat floating on the ocean, they will be
told that they are looking at Ell Fraile
Island. Perhaps, also, they will be told
that the little island, scarce two hun
dred feet square, is the most diaboi-
cally effective fertilization of its size
In the world.
for eighteen months army engineers
have been directing the work of forti-
tying what is intended as the backbone
or keystone Of the strong defenses in
Manila harbor. They have resorted to
plan suggested by young engineer
officer after their superiors had thrown
up their hands in despair at the pros
poets of attempting to fortify the rock
which showed its head above the water
for so small an area. 1t involves the
leveling of the island almost to the sur
face of the sea and erecting a struc-
ture in the form of a battleship deck
stripped for action. The artificial forti-
flying will be of steel and cement.
The defenses of Manila bay entrance
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Everybody Helps to Make City Clean

sections. Wagons furnished by the
city and by business firms were on
hand to follow the workers and COL
lect the results Of their labor.
Up one side of the street and down
the other they worked, cleaning the
street and parkings of weeds and
papers and piling them for the wagons
to collect and cart away And school
boys who had not been detained at
home to clean yards followed the
shovel and hoe brigade with brooms,
sweeping up the dirt the shovelers
had missed.
And the women were working, too.
While their husbands were cleaning
the streets, they were sweeping the
yards, picking up tin cans and pa
pers and cutting the dead weeds. In
all parts Of the city women could be
seen, raking up leaves and trash and
even repairing fences. The churches
had men working cleaning and re-
pairing the property and the school
janitors were busy In the schoolhouse
yards.
1t Is the intention before long to
have the $4,000 school children of the
city organized into juvenile leagues
for the purpose Of assisting in this
work.
This is only starter" Mr.. Dean
explained. "All of Kansas City, Kan,
will be cleaned the same way"
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Big Job to Fill the Supreme Bench

I'm addition to judicial fitness, poll
tics and geographical qualifications
must be considered. Moreover, the
president Is brought face to face with
a task which will be of tremendous
Importance to the United States for
the next generation. With political
beliefs changing over night and great
er zeal in governmental supervision
being urged by the dominant party,
the court which President Taft must
reconstruct will pass on all the
changes in the organic laws of the
United States which may be made by
congress.
The problem will not be solved
for the public until after congress
meets, as 1t has been definitely an
nounced a. the White House that no
judicial appointments would be sent
to the senate until the Monday fol-
lowing the reconvening of congress-
The president is also head over
heels in the consideration of the ap-
pointment Of five additional judges of
the circuit court, which will constitute
the new court Of commerce. In addi-
ton to these judicial vacancies there
are several district judges to be ap-
pointed. 1t Is no stretch of tho
imagination to believe that the pres
ident will almost reorganize the fed
eral judiciary before he leaves the
presidents office.
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Tragic Fate Long Pursues a Family

the present Cumming generation. was
sailor of Salem, Mass, and went
down with his ship when Miss Cum
ming was young girl. Her father
was blown to death in a boiler ex-
plOsion in Salem. He was merchant
and simply happened along when the
boiler let loose. Only parts of his
body were recovered. One sister was
breaking wood over her knee when
she fractured her kneecap. The leg
her death. Another was killed by
SNOWFALL in which a stone was i'm
bedded and third was caught while
packing a trunk. The lid crushed her
head.
The unhappy fate of the family
seemed to descend to the branches, for
one of Miss Cummings nephews was
lost in the San Francisco earthquake
in one of the collapsed buildings which
took fire. A brother of this lad, En-
sign Matthews, had persisted on the
Maine in Havana harbor. These trag-
edies, so preyed on the mind of the
mother, Miss Cummings sister, that
she became violently insane and is
now in Massachusetts asylum. Now
the last near relative of Miss Cum
ming is in hospital, and it is impossi-
bic to say whether she will escape
the family fate or not
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Forging the Big Panama Canal Gates

my's mines or accidental explosion
might easily destroy them. the gov
eminent has begun to build the gates.
The cost will be $5,500,000.
OF the $4,000 tons of steel required,
the heaviest single pieces will weigh
about eighteen tons. The thousands
of individual pieces, numbered and ft-
ted to 60 together as easily as chill
dren's blocks, will be shipped by
steamer via Baltimore and with them
will go more than four hundred skilled
structural steel builders from Pitts
burg to set them. The advance guard
of experts will leave here in Decem-
Der and the first work probably WILL
begin early in 1911.t
The location of the 46 pairs of gates
will be, 20 at the Gatun dam on the
Pacific side, IL at Pedro Miguel, and
Il at Mirafores, near the Atlantic en-
trance. The gates are designed TO
hold back water 474 feet deep In
channel 10 feet wide, which means
pressure of a million pounds. The
weight of single gate will be about
600 tons, and the dimensions are II
to 81 feet high, 60 to Is feet wide and
7 feet thick.
Each lock will be ample for ship
so per cent larger than any vessel
adoat, and it has been estimated that
as many as a hundred ocean ships
may be handled in a single day.
There are no locks approaching
these in size The famous Suez
canal is a sea level affair and the few
bine their gates to equal the size and
strength of the great doors of Pam
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ALBERT ]. MYER, the American
n army's gentleman soldier, is no
longer wearing the uniform Of an en-
listed man. He has left Fort Myer,
the army reservation named for his
fllustrious grandfather, and has gone
back to Boston.
Not only was the passing OF the
dandy soldier sudden and unexpected,
but the manner of his going sensation
al. Mr.. Myer, who was corporal in
the signal corps, has been in the
guardhouse since August. A recent
verdict of a court-martial which tried
him sentenced Corporal Myer to be
reduced to the ranks, to be confined
at hard labor for three months and
to forfeit $50 of his pay.
The court-martial was little slow
and Myer escaped it's imprisonment
penalty. having been discharged in
the meantime. He was given an hon
orable discharge and the army knows
him no more.
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D1TTsBURG. A.-Mischievous boys
L dreaming Of gates to be carried
away and future Halloween trophies
would not in the widest nightmares
imagine such enormous gates as are
being made in Pittsburg for the Pana-
ma canal.
They will be the largest gates in the
world. Any one Of the 90 Of them
will be about as high as a six-story
building, as wide as many city build
ings are (65 feet), and seven feet
deep or thick.
The structural steel that will go to
make them will weigh $4,000 tons, or
more than eight times as much as
was used to build the Eiffel tower in
Paris.
The mighty portals, designed to ad-
NIT a worlds commerce from one
ocean to another, must withstand a
tide OF criticism as well as tremen-
dous pressure of water and possible
commissions of earth. For years the
controversy over gates or no gates.
locks or sea level, has been the d.
Vldlng issue of the canal problem.
In the face of fear in some quar-
tiers that the foundations on the 18TH
mus are not sure enough for locks,
that earthquakes or water pressure
would dislodge them. and that an enc
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Society Soldier Out at Fort Myer

Myer created the biggest sensation
the army has had for a long time. He
tried to get into West Point, but was
barred by age, and from the naval
academy because of his size. Then
he enlisted in the cavalry, but that
did not suit his liking and he trans
ferred into the signal corps, where
he was promoted to be a corporal.
At Fort Myer the dude soldier was
the envy of his comrades and a par
ticular bore to his officers. After
hard days drill, or the attendance on
some other military duty, Corporal
Myer would go to his bachelor apart
ments, have his valet rub him down
and then don the habiliments of
society man. That night, perhaps, his
commanding officers would find him
in the same ballroom with themselves.
He had the entree into the most ex-
elusive clubs, and it was a source of
much regret to Colonel Haversack
and Major Canteen that Private Myer
took precedence over them when II
came to getting the attention of tho
walters.
The youngster rode and walked with
the fairest Of Washington's bellies. and
had money to burn. He never did
anything to excite the anger Of his
stiperiors except to play the dual role
OF soldier and dandy, too.