The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-07-15
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An agreement to vote on the Cana
dian reciprocity committee on July
% has been reached by the senate. =,
A. B. McLyneux of Cherokee was
elected grand commander of the Iowa
Knights Templar at their annual con-
clave in Spirit Lake, Ia.
The Oklahoma Supreme court
handed down decision recognizing
as legal divorces obtained according
to the old tribal customs of the In
dams.
DR.. Ralph E. Gallinger of Concord,
N. H., son of United States Senator
Jacob H. Gallinger, was killed in an
automobile accident late at Penn
broke, N. H. -
Mary Garden was fined $14O in
Paris yesterday because of an ACCT
dent in which her automobile struck
Robin, the cyclist. Her chauffeur
was assessed $40.
The imperial council of the Mystic
Shriners has adjourned at Rochester,
N. Y, to meet in Los Angeles in 1912.
The parades, drills and spectacular
features of 1911 are over.
The farmers of Illinois have sent
a petition to congress which bears
this slogan: Restrict the exporta-
ton of phosphates and increase the
grain crops billion bushels a year"
A civil war veteran has visited
Greeley, COL, after fffty-one years
absence and found the heart of the
city is on the site of $50 acres
homestead he abandoned to go to
war.
The American state department
has arranged with Mexico for the
payment by that country of all loss
es sustained by United States citi-
zens as result of the recent revo-
luton.
The, cabinet at Ottawa has COM
muted to life Imprisonment the SEN
tence of death passed upon the Italian
woman, Angelina Napolitano, for the
murder of her husband at Sault Ste.
Marie.
Western Kansas received it's first
soaking rain of the season Friday.
Between Alemena and Phillipsburg
the tracks of the Rock Island were
washed away and trains delayed sew
eral hours.
Albert >Batterton, a farmer near
Colfax, ILL.,, discovered that every
one of flock of twenty geese were
blind. They had been out in storm
and it is believed their eyes were
by hail.
Pensacola, Fla, has refused to ap-
propriate money for the mainten-
ance of a Carnegie public library.
The philanthropist had offered $685.
900 if Pensacola would raise one
tenth of that amount.
Calvin N. Kendall, superintendent
of the Indianapolis public schools,
has sent telegram to Gov. Wood
row Wilson Of New Jersey accepting
the appointment of commissioner of
education of that state.
Petition for the recall of Mayor j.
H. Graham and Commissioners R. J..
Campbell and E. M. Leach of Wichi-
ia, Kan, have been placed in circula-
ton there. The petitions charge in
efficiency and neglect of duty.
The Wisconsin senate has con-
Cured in the new assembly bill re-
apportioning the state. The special
apportiOnment committee recon-
mended an entirely new congression-
al apportionment, but it was rejected.
Senator Bailey's free list amend
ment to the Canadian reciprocity bill
was defeated in the senate at Wash
ington by a large majority. So evil
dent was the margin against it that
Senator Bailey did not ask for a roll
call.
Judge Bordwell of the Los Angeles
district court has set the trial of the
Mcnamara brothers, charged with
dynamiting the Times office, fol
Oct. 10. Clarence barrow for the de.
fendents tried to have the case &C
over until December.
More than ten barrels of flies were
gathered by 232 contestants in an
anti-fly crusade at Worcester, Mass
The winner, who gets prize of 800
turned in ninety-five quarts, or q
total of $4,000 flies. He is Ear
G. Bousguet, IL years old.
Charges that the big mail order
houses of Chicago habitually misrep-
resent their goods to farmers and
| other buyers by catalogue were made
by opponents of a parcels post who
appeared before the Lloyd subcom-
mittee of the house in Washington.
Reports from Northern Michigan
indicate that there is now no danger
of serious damage fro mthe forest
fires, which have devastated great
areas of timber land, destroyed vii
lagos and farm property and render
ed homeless hundreds OF. families