The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-12-13

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/ The weather: fair Thursday;
! moderate temperature; variable
/ winds s-.-- rig
William Jennings Bryan, now at
Colon, Panama, will leave tomorrow
for the United States by way Of ia
maica. .-.z ~.
Bishop Farthing, head of the Ang-
lican synod of Montreal, quietly ce1e-
brated his fftieth birthday anniver-
sary today.
Theodore Roosevelt refused to talk
politics when seen at Back Bay sta
ton in Boston last night. He de-
clined to look at any of the Washing
ton dispatches concerning the meet
| ing of the national republican COM
mittee.
The St. John, N. B., Globe issued
a special SO page edition today to
mark the completion of the fiftieth
year of the editorship of John Valen-
tine Ellis. Mr.. Ellis is believed to
be the oldest daily newspaper editor
in America in point of continuous
service
At Fargo, N. D., yesterday George
"Rathouse' Miller was found guilty
of accepting the earnings of a pros
titute. The penalty is from one to
five years in state prison. Miller will
receive sentence December Is. He
is - years old and crippled with
RI eumatism.
The man who shot and killed
Sheriff Moody and was himself hunt
ed down and shot to death, is Burt
Hudson and not Charles Moline, the
escaped lunatic. The positive iden-
tity of Hudson was made by O.. C.
Reimenschneider, farmer who lives
near Wahpeton.
Jesse Reimer of 'Des Moines and
Henry Ordemann of Minneapolis, who
are to engage in finish wrestling
bout at Minneapolis tomorrow night
for the championship Of the North
west, have completed their training
and are ready for the timekeeper's
signal to start them on their contest.
Today the various cable companies
put into effect a fifty per cent reduc-
ton on all press messages from the
British Isles to Canada, Australia and
the United States. Ordinary messag-
es in plain language subject to de-
ferment will also be accepted at half
the present rates, beginning the first
of the coming year.
Six riders were victims of one OF
the worst spills that ever occurred in
New York in the six-day bicycle race
at Madison Square Garden. The tires
of Eddie Roots bicycle exploded
and dropped him in front of thirteen
riders. Four piled on top of Root
Menus Bedell, Jumbo Wells, Root,
Cameron, Thomas and Demara were
injured.
The Sherwood service pension bill,
| which would add upward of $4O,-
100000 government annual expen-
ditures by granting increased pen
sions to Civil and Mexican war vet
Grams on the basis of length of SER
/ vice, was passed by the house last
night despite the determined oppo-
sition of many democratic leaders.
! The bill now goes to the senate
where its fate is uncertain
The enormous number of divorces
g: anted in Detroit, Mich, this year,
c,002 up to the end of November,
caused a little investigation, which
| shows that Detroit is outdoing Reno.
Men and women who have heard of
the easy manner in which divorce
cases are put through the Wayne
| Circuit Courts go there because it
| is easy to get work and thus main
tain themselves until they have es-
tablished a residence.
A country wide campaign to urge
upon Congress the creation of bu-
reau of national parks, to have charge
of all national parks and reservations
with view to preserving and adding
to their beauty, is to be launched by
! the American Civic Association at it's
seventh annual convention which be-
gan in - Washington today. The
movement already has received the
| Endorsement of President Taft and
Secretary of the Interior Fisher
A commission of eminent experts
appointed to Investigate the work of
! tho missions in tho Tor Eocf coi1ad