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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
TEST GROSS EARNINGS TAX
important Suit Begun by County Off.
cial at Duluth.

cial at Duluth.
Duluth, Jan. AN action that is
expected to precipitate one of the
greatest test cases ever known to the
courts of Minnesota has been taken
BY County Auditor Odin Halden, who
has placed on the assessment rolls Of
the city of Duluth, as omitted prop.
erty, all property, real and personal,
Of the two telephone companies oper-
ating in Duluth.
Mr.. Halden's action is based on the
fact that the so called wide open tax
amendment to the constitution, adopt
ed in 1906, expressly repeats the pro-
vision of the constitution relating to
the taxing of telephone companies on
their gross earnings.
Section 1 of the wide open tax
amendment provides that the amend
ment adopted in 1896 be repealed.
That amendment gave the state the
right to tax telephone companies on a
gross earnings basis, all of the taxes
going to the state. Under the system
as inaugurated by Mr.. Halden the
taxes will go to the cities, counties
and other municipalities, the same as
other taxes. 1t is expected the action
will be strenuously opposed by both
the state and the telephone com.
panies,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
KEEP THE KID
NEYS WELL
Health is Worth Saving, and Some
Bemidji People Know How to
Save II.

Many Bemidji people take their
lives in their hands by neglecting
the kidneys when they know these
organs need help. Sick kidneys are
responsible for a vast amount of
suffering and ill health, but there is
no need to suffer nor to remain in
danger when all diseases and aches
and pains due to weak kidneys can
be quickly and permanstl cured
by the use of Doan's KidnsRi)ls.
Here is Bemidji citizens recon-
mendation.
Mrs. Ella Barrett, Sixth st. and
America Ave., Bemidji, Mimi, says:
Il used Doan's Kidney Pills and
was we'll pleased with the result. I
I was very nervous and at times
had dull pains in the small of my
back, accompanied by an ache
across my kidneys. These organs
did not act properly and caused me
much discomfort. I decided to try
kidney remedy and procured a box
of Doan's Kidney Pills at the Owl
Drug Store. In a short time after
using them I felt a great deal better
and am now in fairly good health.
I have no hesitation in recommend.
ing Doan's Kidney Pills"
For sale by all dealers. Price
50 cents. Foster Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, New York. sole agents for
the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
FOR AGED PEOPLE
Old Folks Should be Careful in their
Selection Of ReguIative
Medicine.

With advanced age comes inact-
i've bowel movement and sluggish
liver. Nature is unable to perform
her proper functions and requires
assistance. Otherwise, there is con-
slant suffering from constipation and
its attendant evils. Old folks should
never use physic that is harsh and
irritating.
We have safe, dependable and
altogether ideal remedy that is par
ticularly adapted to the require
ments of aged people and persons of
weak constitution who suffer from
constipation or other bowel disorder.
We are so certain that it will CON-
pletely relieve these complaints and
give absolute satisfaction in every
particular that we offer them with
our personal guarantee that they
shall cost the user nothing if they
fail to substantiate our claims. This
remedy is called Rexall Orderlies.
Rexall Orderlies are eaten like
candy. They have a soothing, heal
ing, STRENGTHENING, tonic and regula-
tive action upon the dry mucous
lining and the relaxed muscular
coat of the bowel. They produce a
natural, successive contraction and
relaxation of the muscular fibres of
the bowel walls, generating a wave
like motion which forces their con-
tents onward and outward; thus
Stimulating nature in perfect bowel
movement. They tone up and
strengthen the nerves and muscles
and restore the bowels and associate
organs to more vigorous and healthy
activity. They may be taken at any
time without Inconvenience; do not
cause any gripping, nausea, diarrhoea,
excessive looseness, fatulence or
other disagreeable effect. Try Rex
all Orderlies on our guarantee: So
tablets rs cents, and IL tablets 10
cents. Remember YOU can obtain
Rexall Remedies in Bemidji only at
our store The Rexall Store. Bar
ker's Drug Store.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
ESTRADA OPPOSED TO MADRlZ
Continues Preparations for Attack on
Managua.

Bluefelds, Nicaragua, Jan. Cen
eral Estrada remains firm in his de-
termination not to recognize the presi-
dency of Madriz. He holds that the
election of the latter by congress was
illegal and that the people Of Nicara-
qua have not spoken. He has refused
the offers Of peace through compro-
mise from Managua and is continuing
his preparations for a campaign
against the capital.
General Mena has arrived at Chile,
after capturing number of the gov
eminent soldiers and supply of am
munition. The prisoners with their
supplies were on their way to rein
force General Gonzales when the bat.
tie at Recreo was fought.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
BANK ROBBERS AmBUSHED
One Killed and Another Fatally
Wounded.

wounded.
Oklahoma City, Okla, Jan. One
robber was killed, another fatally
wounded and third escaped when the
Oklahoma City police endeavored to
capture yeggmen who attempted to
rob the State bank at Harrah, small
town twenty miles east of here.
The plan to rob the bank was dis
closed to the police here and detach-
ment of officers was hurried to Har-
rah. They waited concealed near the
bank. After midnight three men ap-
preached the bank building and tried
to force open the door. The officers
sprang from their hiding place and
with revolvers drawn ordered the rob-
bers to surrender. 49,
The men, startled by the sudden ap-
pearance of the officers, ran, and the
police shot Two of them fell, but the
third man was unframed by the show
er of bullets that fell around him and
eScaDed,
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
OFFICERS SEARCHING FOR HIN
chicagoan Threatens to Blow Up Unit.
ed States Senate.

Chicago, Jan. "A letter to a Chi.
cago newspaper from a writer signing
the name &c. Hodges" threatening to
blow up the United States senate with
nitroglyceriD, aroused the federal au-
thorities and caused a hurried search
throughout the city for the author.
&C.. Hodges wrote that physicians
had given him but six months to live
and that at first he had intended tax.
ing morphine to end his existence
quickly. He changed his plans, he
said, when he read an article charg.
ing corruption existed in the senate
and he determined to blow up the
body with nitroglycerin and end him
self at the same time.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
PROMISES TO BE INTERESTING
Coming Investigation Of eallinger-
Pinchot Controversy.

Washington, Jan. The congress
sional investigation into the Ballinger.
Pinchot controversy promises to be
one of the most interesting events of
the present session. Immediately after
the holidays, when congress reassem-
bles, investigation will be ordered and
a joint committee of the senate and
the house of representatives will be
authorized to take testimony and to
report. It is expected that a large
number of witnesses will be called.
The investigation is likely to take sew
eral weeks and a report is not expect
ed before March or April. Secretary
Ballinger apparently welcomes the in.
vestigation.
The investigation is not welcomed
by Republican representatives in con-
gress whose districts are close or
doubtful. They realize that it will
accentuate an issue that has already
threatened the Republican party in
the West and Middle West and is GER
tain to make matters worse, regard
less of how it is finally decided.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03

tanned without taking a ply steal in
ventory at the end Of the calendar
year and the law being explicit both
as to the period and the income, where
such income cannot be ascertained
without physical inventory, this will
have to be taken"
These are the views expressed by
the internal revenue office in response
to inquiries from corporations who are
finding themselves embarrassed In
making returns in cases where theil
fiscal year is not Identical with the
calendar year.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
MAY END ABUSES IN CONGO
King Albert Accepts Resignation OF
Leopod's Staff.

Brussels, Jan. IAN authoritative
but unofficial announcement declares
that King Albert has accepted the
designations of the entire civil and
military STATS of the late ling Leo
pold, including that of Baron Wahis,
governor general of the Belgian Congo.
This action by the new king is &C
cepted as the preliminary step to the
outstanding of the old regime in the
Congo and putting an end to the
Congo abuses that have for so long
shocked the civilized world.
Albert is said to consider that all
of the late kings advisers were impli.
Gated in there abuses.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
Milwaukee Losing Her Prestige.

Milwaukee, Jan. In the last four
months there has been falling off OF
nearly $4,000 barrels in the output OF
Milwaukee beer as shown by the tax
receipt records in the Office of the in
ternal revenue collector. In the fiscal
year ending July 1, 1909, there is
shown decrease of 321,255 barrels OF
beer from the amount sold in the pre-
vious year.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
Permanent RELIEF PLANS
Fifty Thousand Set Aside for Widows
of Cherry (lli.) Victims.

Chicago, Jan. PLANS are being
made by Ernest P. Bicknell, national
director of the Red Cross, to call a
meeting of the foreign consuls in Chi.
cago and the executive committee Of
the United Mine Workers to adopt a
permanent relief plan for pensioning
the widows of the Cherry mine disas.
ter, whose bread winners lost their
lives in the St. Paul mine fire.
The Red Cross society has adopted
a plan whereby the widows will be
given a sum every week until the
question of permanent relief is sane.
toned by the consuls and the United
Mine Workers.
There is a fund of $4,000 set aside
for permanent relief Of the Cherry
families and Bicknell says 1t will be
equally divided, and that none will be
forced to want for anything for several
years to come.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03

Tennessee Law Forced Breweries and
Distilleries Out of Business.

Nashville, Tenn, Jan. .-Distillers
and brewers closed down their plants
at midnight, when the new Tennessee
law forbidding the manufacture Of in
toxicating beverages in this state be-
came effective. Prominent whisky
manufacturers say that the new law
will be tested in the courts. Nash
vile, Knoxville and Chattanooga have
one brewery each and there are two
in Memphis. There are forty-one dis
tilleries in the state, most Of them
small, ramshackle plants with capac-
ity Of one to half dozen barrels
daily.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
Woman Burned to Death.

Battle Creek, Mich, Jan. Mrs.
Charles E. Spencer, wife Of railroad
engineer and mother of four children,
was found burned to death after a
fire had destroyed a shed at the rear
of her home. The police have started
an investigation to determine how the
woman's night clothing caught fire.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03

ney's course in congress.
The supreme court holds, as mat
ter Of law. that the language used by
the paper concerning Tawney was
libelous per sc and that for that rea
son the trial court should have per
mitted the case to go to the jury t.
determine the amount of damages that
may have been suffered.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
Tree Saves Aeronaut's Life.

Mourmelon, France, Jan. While
making an aeroplane flight here M.
Blerone fell to the top of large tree.
The tree probably saved the aviator's
life. He disentangled himself from
his wrecked machine and climbed
down the tree unhurt. His machine
vas damaged.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
LAKE TRAFFIC INCREASES
Statistics Show Great Gains Over
1908 and 1907,

Washington, Jan. The volume
of commerce on the Great Lakes dur.
ing the month of November was near.
ly 100000 tons greater than for the
corresponding month last year and
more than 100000 tons in excess of
that for November, 1907, according to
figures of the department of com.
merce and labor.
The total amount for the season to
the end of November is given as 49,.
O40,407, with 59,333,S23 and S2,365,S4
net tons reported for the correspond
ing periods of 1908 and 1907. The
total for last season shows loss of
nearly 100000 tons from 1907.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
MANY TWIN CITY
Lines INFLICTED
Probe Reveals Vast Extent
OF Pass Frauds.
SCHEME EASILY WORKED

~ "eH desiring 10 40 10 Nearly
Every Locality in the West-Estl.
mated That the Roads involved
Lost Half a Million Annually.
st. Paul, Jan. That nearly ev-
cry railroad running through the
Northwestern states has suffered from
frauds perpetrated by the employment
agents to the same extent as the
Great Northern Is the belief of those
interested in the investigations being
conducted under the personal direc-
don Of President L. w. Hill of the
latter road. Special Agent AL Ray
has discovered that office collision on
the part of a Great Northern employee
made the plots of the labor agents
easy to carry out on that road, but it
Is understood that the other CON-
panies have suffered to a great extent
for lack of investigation.
Estimates of the amount of money
said to have been lost to the North
western railroads through the manip-
ulations Of certain employment agents
IN all parts of the country run as high
as 100000 annually. The past three
or four years have seen much new
railroad construction in the Dakotas,
Montana, Idaho and Washington. In
addition to the new work several mil
lion dollars have been spent by the
companies in improving the track
beds, laying new rails, Strengthening
curves and other similar work. The
demand for laborers has exceeded the
supply at all times and every appli-
cant who appeared at local employ
ment Office was given transportation
to some point in the Northwest.
Wholesale arrests along the line of
the Great Northern as far west as Spo-
kane are expected. False pretenscs
and violations of the federal anti-pass
laws will be the charges laid.
Plan of Employment Agents.
The plan under which the employ
ment agents are said to have worked
was to secure contract with the
railroad companies by which the
agent agrees to furnish so many labor
CTS, usually for track work, which re-
Qulres only common labor. The agent
does not have to make an examina-
ton of the man; anybody will do to
work on railroad grade. That makes
It easy for him to accept any person
who enters the Office
A man who desires to go to Mon
tana for any reason can go to the en-
ployment agent and tell his troubles.
The. nearest railroad work Is selected
and the man is ostensibly hired to
work for the company at that place.
He Is given a pass by the agent,
which takes him to the point desig-
mated. After he arrives there he for
gets to appear at the railroad Office
and goes to the point for which he
started. All he paid for his trip was
the Office fee of the employment
agent, which varied with the appli-
cant.
The roads which are the principal
sufferers in the Northwest are the
Great Northern, Northern Pacific, 500
and the St. Paul. Each of these lines
enters the grain fields of Western
Minnesota and the Dakotas. The farm
laborers annually imported to harvest
the crops are hauled by the railroads
and it Is estimated that less than 10
per cent of the laborers pay even the
reduced rate put into effect by the
transportation companies.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
Ray Lamphere Dies in Prison.

Laporte, Ind, Jan. Ray Lam.
phere, aged thirty-eight years, the con-
victed murderer of Mrs. Belle
Guinness and her children, is dead in
the Michigan City penitentiary, where
he was serving an indeterminate term
for arson. Lamphere on April %, 1908,
set fire to the Guinness home near La
porte and moderated the family.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
MORAN in. Nitrate Trust.

Valparaiso, Jan. An uncon-
firmed rumor says J. P. Morgan, allied
with the Deutsch bank and powerful
British firm, has organized a huge nj
trate trust with capital of $250,0O0.
The trust, it is said, will acquire the
majority of the nitrate fields and manu-.
featuring plants and also control the
worlds consumption.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
HASSAN TASHlM PASTA SLAIN
Governor General Of the Yemen VII.
~ ayets Assassinated.

Governor General Of the Yemen VT:
ayets Assassinated.
Constantinople, Jan. News was
received here of the assassination of
Hassan Tashim Pasha, governor gen.
eral of the Yemen vilayets, while he
was on his way from Sana to the Red
sea.
Hassan recently made charges tina,
the Young Turks leaders were respon.
sible for the granting Of valuable con.
cessions and franchises to foreigners
without stuff cient return to Turkey.
AS a result of this he became in
volved in a serious squabble with the
Young Turks party and his assassina-
ton is directly attributed to this.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
Left Millions 70 Charity.

Chicago, Jan. The will Of
Thomas Murdoch, former president Of
Reid, Murdoch & Co., wholesale gro
GERS, who died here Christmas day,
has been made public and disposes of
an estate estimated at approximately
$4,O0O,OO0, Of which from $2,000,000 to
$2,5O0,OOO is bequeathed to religious,
educational and charitable institu-
tiOna
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
CASE SENT BACK FOR TRIAL
Congressman Tawney Wins Libel Case
on Appeal.

st. Paul. Jan. CONGRESSMAN
James A. Tawney won in the supreme
court in his libel suit against the Al
bert Lea Tribune.
The court reversed the district court
of Freedom county, which dismissed,
on the pleadings; Mr.. Tawney's suit
for $4,000 damages, growing out OF
an editorial in the Albert Lea Tribune.
based on some comment in the Phila
delphia North American on MIR. Taw.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
WAVES INVENTORY PROVlS0
internal Revenue Office Rules on Cor
poration Tax Law.

Washington, Jan. <-"Where cor.
poration through it's books or other.
wise can ascertain it's income SUI
hciently for the officers to make oath
20 the return as true this will be re.
garded as equivalent to an inventory
and physical inventory; need not be
taken.
1t Is realized, however, that In the
eases OF many corporations income fol-
the calendar year cannot be ascer
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-01-03
Dozen PERSONS
PROBABLY DEAD
Serious Wreck on the Rock
Island in Missouri.
SLEEPING CAR CONSUMED

Flames Destroy Crowded Coach and
Many Occupants Are Believed to
Have Perished-Rescuers Enter the
Burning Chair Car and Drag Halt
Stunned and Bleeding Passengers to
Places Of Safety.
Trenton, Mo-, JAM Imprisoned
In tourist sleeping car and burned
to death is believed to be the fate of
perhaps twelve passengers on the
westbound California special on the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific rail-
road, three miles east of Trenton. The
number of victims may be larger, but
the facts will not be known till the
debris of the car has been searched.
The cause of the wreck is not
known. The engine suddenly jumped
the track, and, blowing through the
toadbed, landed upside down.
When the chair car, the tourist and
the first of the Pullman sleepers
reached a point opposite the disabled
engine they left the track and piled
up. The cars at once caught fire
from the engine. The second stand
ard sleeper and the observation car
were practically unchanged.
The first shock of the wreck over,
passengers began clambering through
windows, while farmers living nearby
ran to the scene Men entered the
burning chair car and dragged half
stunned and bleeding passengers to
safety.
Tourist Car in Flames.
Flames prevented the rescuers from
entering the tourist car. From the
windows of this car two or three pas
sengers are known to have made their
escape unaided. The fate of the 9th
ers could only be conjectured.
From beneath the burning wreck
age of the engine other rescuers
dragged the body of Fireman Linin-
ger burned and mangled almost be-
yond recognition.
When the wrecking train arrived
from Trenton the cars on each side of
the three fated cars were drawn out
of the reach of the flames.
The tourist and the first Pullman
were soon reduced to pile of twisted
iron and ashes.
In the belief that the destroyed
tourist car held the bodies of perhaps
dozen or more persons the passen-
gers that lined the tracks stood by in
awed silence. ~
The injured were hurried to Tren-
ton and given first aid at the local
hotel, being transferred later to Kan.
sas City. ~ :s,t,,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-12

New York. February H. 1910
BtEN E>-Receipts. ISL cars 2.7a2
head, including IS cars for slaughter and export
and 54g for market. No steers offered. Bulls
Arm and 1g1oc higher: thin cows fun steady;
medium 70 good bulls sold 81 35qS4 50 per 100
p; common TO choice cows al $. 100 8 10
Dressed beef IN fall demand a. s&qio1.c DeT 7.
cattle and LOCO quarters on he Mime wsska to
Loneon; $50 cattle on the Manhattan. to Liver
POOL 3-Ie9 quarters on the AdFiatiC, 70 South
ampton: % sheep on the crown Of Grenada. 70
Grenada Totals for the week from this port,
i7a cattle - sheep and 4.165 quarters o. beef
per 100 n; I 11s3 10, 81 so. > 1913 70. 81 So /.
$50 70, 81 30; cows, lies 70. IS; !. 11t5 70.
70. So IS: IL. so5 n. S. e5; IL 800 n. So 50: g.
SIS 70 50 -; II. 90 n, 50 30. g. $50 n, 81 So:
1ISa n So 10; 2 $50 n, 81 %: Is. AZ b. So 90
Newton K Co: COWS, 1910 n. 81 -.
CALyEs-Receipts 1S9 including. 102 for
Poor to prime veals sold at 81 500 S11 per 100 n
No barryard or fed calves offered Dressed
g6I t45zc for country crossed and sGlcc FOR
dressed barrysrd and FED calves
sales-.Ss Sanders: 4 vsals. 157 n average. at
SlI per loo %; > rs u. So.
Kerns Commission Company: "a Pennsylvania
vesIs l22 n. $40; $, 102 70, 81 so.
SHEEP AND LAMBs-Feceipts, IS cars. or
for market sheep nominal: lambs steady but
prime or very good stock offered. A few
at IS 40@sS 81. Dressed mutton firm at l01l21ac
per h. dressed lambs easier at 14G1519c, wtth a
few hog dressed selling a. l6c; country dressed
dollhouse lambs slow at S4DSlo
sale-s. Judd q Co: 22a Buffalo lambs. 50 ID
average. IS 80 yer 100 10: 49,, 50 n. s. 40
Kerns Commission Company; 30 Pennsylvania
yearlings. - n IS.
R0Gs-Recetpts, II cars. o. 2,413 head. in
Guiding about Eaif a car for the q7aTKet- 40 no
sales reported up 70 iate hour Eesling d nTTl
try dressed hogs unchanged