The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-11-24
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Okmulgee, Okla. adopted the COM
mission form of government by a
large majority.
Susie E. Pressler, a pension agent,
was arrested at Toledo, Ohio, for al
legged frauds in connection with the
land drawing in Aberdeen, S. D., in
1910.
Patrick Collins, a convict in the
Eddyville, KY, state prison, with less
than eight months to serve to COM
plete his term, stabbed and killed
James Jones, fellow prisoner.
In asking for an appropriation for
an agricultural department for How
ard University President Thirkield
declared that the Indian is favored
more highly by the United States
than the, negro.
Twenty men are under arrest in
Chicago charged with smuggling
Cinnamon into this country by way
of Canada by the hundreds. The
price received for each Chinaman
smuggled in was $500.
The Rolph administration in San
Francisco which will assume it's dut-
les Jan. 8, will inaugurate a plan of
city government almost Identical
of
ment. City and county affairs will
be in the hands of eighteen commits
sioners.
The case of James Evars, cashier
of the defunct First State Bank of
Philomath, Ore, will be taken up by
the grand jury which met today at
Corvallis, Ore. Evars is charged
with receiving and accepting depo-
sits after he had knowledge that the
! bank was insolvent.
| By vote of los to 7, the conven-
ton of the American Federation of
Labor at Atlanta yesterday, request
ed all salaried officers of the fedora
ton and affiliated unions to give one
weeks pay to the Mcnamara defense
fund. President Gompers estimates
about 100000 thus will be added to
the fund, now reported to be $780,
600.
This was Farm Home Day on
the program of the National Country
, Life Congress in session in Spokane.
Joseph E. Wing of fredericksburg,
O.; Prof. P. G. Holden head of the
agricultural extension department of
Iowa State College; Mrs. Clara H.
Waldo, of Portland, Ore, and Cliff
ford Willis, of Minneapolis, were
speakers.
? The annual cross-country cham
pionship of the Western Intercolle-
giate association will be run at To-
wa City, Iowa, tomorrow as a pre-
liminary to the Northwestern Iowa
| football game. The run this year
| will bring together teams from Pur-
due, Ames, Northwestern and the
universities of Wisconsin. Minneso-
ia, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois and Chi
cago. The last lap will be made on
the Iowa university track with the
finish in front of the grandstand.
| To demonstrate the growth of the
apple industry in the East, an asso-
citation of apple growers of Virginia
and Maryland has completed ar
rangements for show to be held
| in Washington, D. c., next week, first
ever held in the national capital. A
| prize of $50 will be given to the
woman who makes the best apple pie
to be displayed at the exhibition.
This pie the management will pre-
sent to President Taft, who has been
! invited to open the show. DR.. Har-
| vey w. Wiley. the pure food expert,
| and Professor Van Alstyne of New
| York will deliver addresses at the ex-
| hibition.
An adventurous boy of ten years
had a rather exciting experience at
Glen Ridge, N. J. The boy came to
the long abandoned Moffat Rolling
Mills on the outskirts of the town
and climbed up on the old mill wheel
which years ago was used to start
the machinery in the mill and was
turned by water from pond. The
weight of the boy caused the wheel
slowly to turn. In order to save
himself from being thrown down to
the former bed of the pond, the lad
was compelled to keep stepping up
on each blade of the wheel as it
turned, as if he were in a treadmill.
Fortunately his cries attracted the
attention Of man working in the
neighborhood and he succeeded in
stopping the wheel with a few
planks.
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1t is said the nut trees of the