The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-10-09
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The Weather: Local. showers and
cooler Tuesday. =. .e. @sa2- = a.
In winning the James Gordon Ben
nett trophy by travelling 46S miles in
the inter national balloon race which
started from Kansas City Thursday,
Lieutenant Hans Gericke, pilot of the
Berlin II was lost three times.
After complete idleness for nine
weeks and running part time for sew
eral months previous, the Fall River,
Mass, Iron Works Company. the Bor-
den print cloth concern. resumed op-
erations in all of it's seven big mills
today. The plant gives employment
to 5000 operatives.
Every phase of war practice will
be discussed by the military experts
of the regular army and militia who
have assembled at Buffalo from all
over the country for the annual meet
ing of the National Guard Associa-
ton of the United States. The ses-
sions will continue three days. A
delegation will be appointed to urge
upon Congress the passage Of the bill
providing for federal pay for both
officers and enlisted men of the Ma
tional Guard.
Preparations are being made to
dynamite the ruins Of the dam and
power house of the Black River Falls
municipal power plant, in an effort
to clear the channel of masonry and
cement which now throw the force of
the food current against the city.
1t. is believed, if this ruin can be
blown to pieces, the course Of the
feet more, will be DETECTED back into
the old channel, and stop the cutting
away of the huge sand bank on which
the city stands.
The case of Charles w. Morse, the
New York financier, serving a fif-
teen-year sentence in the Federal
penitentiary at Atlanta, came up
circuit court of appeals in Atlanta.
In the present proceeding it is con-
tended that Morse should have been
sentenced on but one count of his
Indictment and that he should have
been sent to a New York Jail in
stead of to the penitentiary, where
hard work is required Federal
Judge Newman ruled adversely ON
this contention some time ago, but
an appeal was taken.
The members of the Senate COM
mittee appointed to inquire into the
election of Senator Lorimer of ILL
nOis are in Chicago preparatory to
resuming their investigation, which
was broken off at the adjournment
of Congress this summer. The COM
mittee expects to get down to work
tomorrow morning. The courtroom
of Judge Grosscup in the Federal
building will be used as the place of
hearing. The number of witnesses
to be heard here is much larger than
during the original sessions in Wash
ington. Investigators have secured
Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan and
have summoned scores of persons who
are supposed to have more or less
personal knowledge of some of the
circumstances attending the election
of the Illinois senator.
Official dispatches received at
Rome Sunday say: early this morn
ing the ships of the first Italian
squadron entered Roadstead at To-
bruk, in Bombay, where they found
no Turkish warships. They sum-
moned the garrison to surrender, but
the Turks replied with a fat refusal
and hoisted the Turkish flag. The
battleship Victoria Emmanuel op-
ened fire. The first shots carried
away the flag and made a large
breach in the fort. Rear Admiral
Aubrey, commander-in- chief of the
fleet, then landed several companies
of marines, who, after short strug,
gle overcame the resistance of the
small Turkish force. The Italians
occupied the fort and hoisted theil
flag. A few Turkish soldiers, who
refused to abandon the fort without
further fighting, were made prison
ers."
The fortieth anniversary of the
great Chicago fire was observed to-
day not only in Chicago and Hi
nois, but in many other states of the
union, where the respective cover
nors set aside the day under the ap
pellation of fire prevention day. tt
be observed in the interest of the in
terstate movement of reducing thu
enormous losses by fire sustained an
nually throughout the country. IL
compliance with the agreement
reached by the governors of various
states at their conference a shor
time ago. Governor Deneen had is
sued a proclama ton setting aside tn,
anniversary day of the great fire a!
Sire prevention day." and had asket
| the citizens to cooperate in the in
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