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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-24
BIG SHIPMENT OF .
ARGENTINE :|l.|l \ !. MEAT !.
Seventeen l|'l Hundred md ed Tons Con:
signed to United States,

New York, Dec. 23.-What will be
the largest consignment of meat ever
shipped to this country will arrive
here in day or two from the Argen-
tine Republic. KS
This will be the beginning of the
concerted effort that is to be made to
invade the American market with
practically unlimited supplies of
dressed beef, mutton and lamb by the
largest Independent Argentine meat
concern. g.. CD
Every pound of the big incoming
cargo already has been sold to butch
ers in this city, Boston and Philadel.
phia. The shipment was intended as
an experiment. and if it proves salts
factory it is the intention of the Ar
gentine concern to establish a regu-
lar meat shipping service between
American ports and the Argentine,
with at least two or three ships ar
irving here every month. IA
.-~ Twenty consignees will receive the
beef and mutton brought in on this
shipment The cargo amounts to a
little more than 100 tons, or 3,4O0,-
900 pounds of fresh meat. It is con.
signed to wholesale dealers mostly,
although good part of the cargo has
been purchased for retail sale.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-24
American Botonist Killed.

Manila, Dec. 24.-C. B. Robinson, a
botanist in the bureau of science, de-
partment of the interior of the Phil
ippine islands, has been killed by ma
tives of the Amboyna island, Malay
archipelago. He had undertaken an
expedition for the study of the flora
of the island ss,...E T.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-24
TO BE USED AS CANCER CURE
Mesothorium Proposed as Substitute
...s.,s l..r Is for zRadium. g.. ..-- - #

MesothorIum Proposed as Substitute
.s.. s.~ & for ARadum. -.- f 81
Philadelphia, Dec. PA substitute
for radium-mesothori um-which has
the same curative action on cancer,
will be manufactured here during
1914 a5
Like radium, it is the discovery OF
Nine. Curie, but has never been pro-
duced extensively. +4
Such was the substance of a state.
ment by DR.. Harlan S. Miner, analyt-
ical chemist for large manufacture
ing concern. Mesothorium is, so much
quicker and easier to manufacture
that it is estimated that the worlds
supply of the cancer cure will be
doubled within twelve months. a#6
The substance is derived from tho
rum and the company owns large
mines collecting this mineral in North
and South Carolina. The only radium
deposits in the United States are in
Colorado. Ea8
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-24
CASHIER HAS DISAPPEARED
Reported Shortage OF s14,5oo in
Banks Cash Reserve.

Jamestown. N. Y. Dec 24.-Ed-
ward Morgan. cashier of the First Ma
tional bank of this city. has disap-
peared and it is reported there is a
shortage of $4,000 in the cash re.
serve of the bank. The institution
is one Of the strongest in this sec
ton. 80
Morgan left town Friday night when
he discovered that bank examiner
was in the city, He is sixty-three
years old and had been cashier Of
the bank for twenty-eight years
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-24
WhitIock's Father Dead.

Cleveland, Dec. 24.-Rev. Mr.. Elias
D. Whitlock,. seventy years old, of
Toledo, father of Mayor Brand Whit
lock and retired Methodist clergy
man, died at St. Luke's hospital here
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-24
SEALED up IN UTAH MINE
No Word From Bandit Lopez Since
taaz#a. srs sS&5H Dec. ~.

Bingham, Utah., Dec. 24.-If Ralph
Lopez, slayer of six men, is still in
the Utah-Apex mine, where he took
refuge Nov. r. he is securely sealed
up and will be held prisoner there
Until after Christmas.
Not a sound has come from the
mine since Dec. IA, when heavy bulk
heads were erected in the tunnel
mouths to prevent dash for liberty
Although Sheriff Smith, now in sole
charge of the man hunt, remains con-
fident that the desperate is either
dead or alive in the mine, many be-
lieve. he escaped shortly after
smudges were lighted on Dec. 1 for
the purpose of asphyxiating him.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-24

3 These two girls have suffered great.
ly in a financial way as a result of
(top) and Laghet Terrazas, grand
daughters of General Terrazas, would
have inherited his estate had it not
been confiscated by General Villa and
the Constituencies and divided
among the relatives of the soldiers
who fell or who shall in battle The
estate was valued at $7O0,O00,000, and
Terrazas was one of the RICHEST men
in the world 1t is said that he is
now worth about $8,00O,0OO.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1913-12-24

Results are most always certain
when you use a Pioneer want ad.
One-half cent word. Phone 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21

rolling fog and the speed of the new schooner Susan
When the old lumber wagon ought to be mile off, she
past the ifeboats like creakng old freight
train rusty rails but running like turbine liner
CasCo raped out ORDER and in the bow Surfman
Downey shed his slicker and sprang snatch at her
main chains with his boathook. He missed by six feet,
and the lifeboat just saved herself For second it was
touch and go with the Ships Bottom life saving
caught almost between the veering schooner and the
imminent reef for the Susan down the rocks on
bowline as Casco snarled all his suspicious revived.
"Hes tryin' to wreck her! He amt
don't want to, darn him!"
All hands stared after the walowing ship, regardless
of their peril For second that seemed to Downey
a century she hung the wind Then the shout:
"Hes luffed her! He amt! | told We he meant to
bang her aboard just like the other Here she cones
THE black barrier of the reef lay slantwise of the
schooners path. From the lumber-laid deck came
the shouting of men, and Downey recognized the hoarse
below of Skipper Smith. He saw him. round Shout
dered in his oilskins. working at the Wheel and sud-
denly the Susan swung back from the suddenly
that her deckload began sithering the side And
with all eyes rveted her the schooner HIGH black
swung away the HIGH round stern that overhung
them like the poop of ancient galley and her lumber
laden bow Strengthened for the rocks She unged like
a toy ship suddenly kicked by great wave-where
there wave-and in the same motion crashed
into the broadsde of the ocean hedgerow with the noise
of battleship's gum
AN Gawd forgive him for don' t!s deep voice
chanted wrecked her purpose just like he done the
other Susan!'
1--WE seen him! TIL old mans mad!"
Downey wasn't about that-though it showed
the only way for the old schoonermaster with any
kind of honor; for the Susan lost, rretrievaby
crlrnbng before their eyes.
STILL sick at heart as Downey was he wouldn't be-
leve. The thing @out O natur' Casco cried
as they worked like mad to get the boat through
the back throw of water. To Downey, watching, it
had seemed if had thrown giant grapnel,
hauling in the Susan hand hand and then sitting
the bow for the schooner diving, with her head
grinding the rocks By this time they had fought the
boat close enough to haul out the half drowned hands
of the Susan's in time them from dragging
down in the undertow. The doomed schooner shot
down by the head.
@And old Cappy Smiths went with her! Mebby it's
for the best
The cry cut Downey like knife. Roaring the
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shippers name he erked off his heavy peajacket and
seaboots, balancing himself for dive the boats
bow. Behind him men murmured and of the
schooner cried out:
"Od skipper ducked below seen him. Ducked
from the wheel into the cabin spose he went for his
papers,
If Captain Smith had risked his life for his ships
papers, the hearts blood of a shpmasters trade he
doomed No need to tell Downey that. Only
black round section of the schooners stuck up
the now, with big air bubbles whitening the
water like Like the rounded back of porpoise
the shiny turret of a swamped warship the big black
poopdeck doomed up, wallowing lower, the ship
stuck her in the bottom like thrown pike pole,
the black bladder of a harpoon
"Gawd sake, Boysi' Downey painted, and paused,
holding his breath, like the old drowning beneath
him.
Was he drowning? A stril, faint cry an old mans
terror Shrek came from the sea-washed lump that
used to be the schooners overhang-from inside it,
The sound shut off, the huge rudder tapped
sidewise its trunions and the in the lifeboat
held their breaths
al tell you it's him. Downey cried. "Hes caught
inside the azarette- swept back through the cabin
when she went down.
Like Weshy ketched under capsized
surfboat. There's air in there!" Casco cried and the
crew gave great shout.
"If only her is bottom-f she don't go no
further Casco stopped.
The same thought was in every mans mind They
professional life savers, and they knew all the
accidents of the boy knows his primer. But
there might be air inside that hollow space enough
keep the old skipper alive for awhile but it that
imprisoned air that buoyed the schooner's
above the surface There could not be much in that
narrow room in the stern, where cordage and cabin
supplies usually kept.
Captain Casco voiced the unspoken fear. "If
chop him out if we cut hole in the STERN she'll sink
before get him. Minute the air rushes out"
CHOP your derby hat7 Downey snarled this is
just of those I'm here for, Boys!'
He half stripped He threw his hands his
head and dved deep from the boats bow straight down
along the santing deck Under the lee of the rocks
they had hauled the lfeboat closer.
Half minute went by, when Downey sprang head
and shoulders above the surface grabbing for the boats
gunnel. II thought sou he gasped "The cabin roofs
caved in; but the companonways covered with cordage
blocked. We got to clear way to old Cap, and
there's only way, short of
diver, and we haven't got one. Hus-
tie her back home, will we, Jemo'
He was back in the boat, the
brawny surfmen blinking at him
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keep an eye lifting to wind ard What makes you keep
fussng round my dynamo?~ the operator demanded.
thinking of using it for a boat diving bel''
THAT lust what was thinking of, Downey told HIM.
He was joking at the time, dreaming that the
thought held life death; but the nexplicabe feel
ing of some devish and hitherto unknown danger out
there Grdiron Reef haunted him. 1t had got three
ships soueast gale already and the signs and omens
all heralded coming sou easter, bowling out OF Hat
teras ATTITUDES, and getting ready to make kndling
wood of the coast
The thought of it kept Downey awake long after his
watch below. The Susan would have to sail true in
that wind dodge the Gridron Reefs which stretched
in black washed hedgerow straight out from Barne-
gat Inlet into the midnight ocean, barrier that she had
better give wide berth!
Turning in for forty winks Downey took last look
at Capn Davys peaacket with its medal for vaor that
he was rightfu heir to-and his face flushed, as he
thought of his anomalous position in the life crew.
"You can't sometimes always tell he said softly.
"Maybe am fnicky and newfangled; but got a no
ton that Gdiron mysterys going to me the chance
to grow up to fit Granddads coat. He was brave old
chap"
MORNING came with weepy weather bone chill
ing drilling rain and rolling coast fog, in spite of
the stiff gale blowing in off the 1t day to
make men hug the and tell tales of peril and hard
ship rather than hang round sticky
beach, and large, damp motorboat that lay on its
automatic truck-the new sand wagon tor iteboats
had taken the place the DeaCn
Downey's kind of surfman supplanting the old
salts Just the same, Ships Bottom liked to slap the
big powerful fighter on her white nose and pro-
claim with satisfaction, THAT'S We, Us & Coz
At four bells in the afternoon watch most of the Ships
Bottom DULLES marking time with their sea boots
round the big ifeboat. Surfman Downey came plung-
ing down the sand dunes from the wireless with the
latest weather report from Washington, when single
startling cang of the station gong sent him scurryng
in to the station to answer the beach wire.
"She's coming way feel it in my bones!' he
painted, his mind reverting to Captain Smith and the
overdue Susan-except of it that he kept for
the Shippers little daughter in Barnegat all un-
conscious-or SO Downey thought-of her fathers peril
Next second he was clamoring for the of the
schooner that had just passed Egg Harbor Station to
the SOUTH making heavy weather of it she fought her
way to Barnegat and his shout of warning rang with
the blare of trumpet
@She's coming Boys! It's Capn Smiths
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SCllOOIleI, oil IlSlII, oIily sic olu
as the ark-so Egg Harbor says. A
big two-sticker, with stern cabin
way up in the air. They sheared
her bulwarks down to make room
for the deckload. Looks like a
Roman galley; but she's comm a
running she's sure a coming, and
she's close inshore-too close for
comfort He slammed up the tele-
phone trumpet to the boom of
Casco's orders.
"By glory!we'll go out and shove
that schooner off, if she can't get
clear-if we swamp the boat dom
it! Jump her, you bully boys! We've
had enough wreckin' on that Grid
ironl'
The crew were in their places
already, strapped to the thwarts,
while the Captain swarmed over
the side With the steering oar FUSED
in surf work in place of a rudder),
anu llIC iii GC-LOIl lllCDOdI dlNCd
into the surf like a big white and
black Newfoundland, slamming
down her twin screws as she lunged.
"All set!" Casco cried. "Now let
her snore-straight QUIT
Downey knew the hazard the
life Captain had in mind, at the
risk of their lives. If they could
make the schooner, undermined
as she was, like all coastwise craft,
Casco meant to throw three or four
men aboard to help her master
clear the Gridiron- and Dalrymple
Downey meant to be among those
who boarded her. "Then if there's
a wreck" he said, and snapped
his jaws on the rest of the sentence.
PUT neither Downey nor Big Jem
Casco had counted no man
could on the deceptiveness Of the
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ever dive down unarmored and clear that tangle
from the cabin companion, the only way to get
through to the skipper cooped up in the lazarette
But under that hood of sheeted Steel made with
a ring bolt on top and heavy rim round the bottom
where it was ordinarily bolted to the floor, man
could work. if they could lower it with air enough
under it till it rested on the schooner's deck.
Couldn't be more like diving bell if it was built
Continued page is
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tie her back home, will we, Jem?'
He was back in the boat, the
brawny surfmen blinking at him
as if they suddenly saw another
kind of Downey. Il told We he
was Port Captain!' Little Welsh
chuckled, and Big Jem hustled the
boat shoreward without a word.
Shivering in the stern, Downey
whispered to him, the big Captain
nodding.
"Mebby so. 1t might do it. It's
life or death, Lad!'
dts life or death for him every
second!" Downey cried. And think
of that poor girl" He bit off the
words. "D'ye think she'll carry it,
Jem? Once we get it out, we can
lower it from the main shrouds, good
as a derrick.
We'll try it, anyhow-can't
more n sink us, Casco said grimly.
Dynamite | just thought of, but
we'd kill him blowing a hole. Your
ways worth trying, Lad-the dy-
namo cover for a diving bell.'
1t had come to Downey as an in
spiration, thought of that big hood
of the dynamo in the wireless plant.
He had spoken of that very posi-
bility to the operator the night be
fore, using the steel hood for div
ing bell. No mortal man could
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-07
ROBB ATTACKS FIGURES
Saws Johnson's Zeal Against
Arson Led to Errors.

The controversy between FIRE ComiilIS-
sioner Joseph johnson and William hooo'
manager of the New York Fire Insurance
Exchange. over the commissioners lire
hug" report of a week ago. was renewed
yesterday in another letter to the COM
missioner Mr.. Eobb asserted in ms sec
ond communication that Mr. Johnson
'pretence that the insurance companies
themselves. as distinguished from iire IN
surance per Sc. are responsible for any
great part OF incendiarism is hopelessN
wide of the mark. and no reform which
is built on this assumption can possloI!
accomplish any permanent good.
Mr.. Robb declares the Commissioner ;
estimate of 100000 as the fraud factor
I'm the annual city insurance loss is not
in accord with the available facts anu
that 81. 10000 is conceded generally by eN-
perts to be much nearer. There can o'
no accurate or full figures on the subject
Mr. Robb asserts. because there are many
outside companies doing business IN the
city and the transactions of these are
not recorded The total adjustments o.
the loss committee are useless as odS''
for the Commissioners charges. 1t is
claimed. because this total has no real OF
ascertainable relation TO the total fire loss
or the total insurance loss of the city.
Mr.. Robb says. in closing:
No individual and no body Of men Is
more interested i'm keeping down the hr"
loss than the underwriters, and as a
matter of fact, no body is doing 80 much
to that end. 1t is very much TO ne re-
GREETED that in your natural Zeai l3r lIe
reduction OF the fire loss you have chosen
to attack, instead of cooperate with, the
underwriters. and thus made sure yonr
campaign can accomplish but little real
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-07

and mourners TO the cemetery fror; the
Grand Central Terminal.
Among those who attended the funeral
were Thomas f. Ryan. Henry Clews, PAU
Dana, James b. C'Diamond JIM Brady
II. r. Herbert. Robert }. Collier ii. L.
Hubbard. Colonel William NJ Amory'
Colonel L. B. Wilcox, Archibald Thomp-
son, Jack" Bradford, r. T. Wilson, y. Nj.
Erlocher, Frank Clarke. David GIDEON
Charles r. Kohler. John f. Madden. II. A.
Buck. Philip j. Dwyer, John G. Follans-
bee and William o. Scully. of Washing
ton.
Among the professional turfmen al 'he
service were Jimmy" Rowe. who trained
Mr.. Keene's great colt Sysonby and many
other of the Keene winners; william
Lakeland. trainer of Domino; Joe NOT
ter Jockey, who rode Colin and SysohDS
70 victory on many track; Bill knapp
another of Mr. Keene's jockeys; e. NJ
Sullivan. Matthew G. Dillon and others
one turfman who was present VINO had
followed the fortunes of the Keene horses
for many years, paid the dead horse own
er the best tribute, perhaps from MS
friends on the turf when he said:
lie was a good sport, Jim keene "as'
He was generous when he won ANA
good loser when he lost
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-07
FATHER AND 2 SONS HELD
Elder Admits Guilt, but Pleads
for Bows Release.

When Antonio Bellerini and his two
sons. Louis and Marine. were arraisned
yesterday I'm the Tombs court on
charge of stealing silks valued at s2,5Oo
the father stoutly defended his sons
saying that although he was thief he
had always hidden that fact from them
Despite his protest Magistrate House
held the prisoners in $4,000 bail each for
further examination tomorrow.
Bellerini was for many years employed
by the American Silk Finishing Com
pany, at No. 1870 Worth street. Mem
bers Of the firm told the police that at
least $4,000 worth Of silks had been
stolen from the factory in recent years
and that many employees had been sus-
pected OF the thefts and discharged
BY process OF elimination detectives
finally traced the thefts TO Bcllerini. Ac-
cording 20 the detectives, the prisoner
admitted his guilt but emphatically de-
MED that his sons were in any way TO
blame for the thefts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-07
WOMAN HID IN ATTIC
Mrs. Leszinsky, Missing Two
DAYS. Fled from Sanatorium.

Summit, y. j., Jan. 6.-While the police
Of Summit and nearby places were
searching for her since Saturday morn
ing, when she disappeared from the Fair
Oaks Sanatorium here, Mrs. Fannie Les
zinsky, wife OF Julius LesZinsky, New
York mining operator, was hiding without
food or water In the attic OF Mrs Cor
delia's Harpers home, No. IS De Forest
avenue.
Mrs Harper. a friend OF Mrs. Leszin-
sky. was asked by the management OF
the sanatorium on Saturday II she had
seen the missing woman. She had not, and
told the inquirers 1t was impossible for
Mrs. Leszinsky to have entered her house.
Mrs Harper discovered to-day, when she
went to the third floor. that Mrs Les
zinsky had managed to slip into the house
unobserved.
When found to-day Mrs. Leszinsky was
weak from lack Of food. She went back
willingly TO tho sanatorium. Mrs. Leszin-
sky suffers from nervous trouble which
is believed TO be durable. Her New York
home is at the Minnewaska apartments,
Central Park West and Ssth street
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-07
MANY MEN MOURN
At KEENE FUNERAL
Friends and Employees of Turf
man Tax Capacity of
Grace Church.
TRIBUTE FROM FOLLOWER
He Was a Good Sport, Jim
Keene Was" Says Admirer
Wife Too III to
Attend.

Men prominent in finance, law and bust
ness mingled with professional turfmen,
trainers, Jockeys and followers OF the
racetrack TO mourn at the bier of James
r. Keene, fnancier and turfman, whose
funeral was held yesterday In Grace
Church, Broadway and 10th street. The
friends and sympathizers OF the deao
ihorseman taxed the capacity OF the DIE
church Perhaps the most remarkable
feature OF the funeral was the open dis
play OF grief on the part OF the trainers
jockeys and even the stable boys VINO
had been closely allied with Mr.. Keene IN
handling his thoroughbreds during the
many campaigns on the turf.
Many of these men sat with their wives
and families in the rear pews. and II was
they who gave way most plainly 10 ther
grief in silent weeping when the comm
was borne down the aisle at the recess
tsional. TO the strains Of Nearer, My
God. 10 Thee" There were many beau-
itiful floral tributes resting In the chancei
tfrom practically all the racing assocla-
tons in this country and from similar or
CARNATIONS in Mexico and Europe
The service was the funeral ritual or
ducted by the Rev. DR.. Charles L. Stat
/ terry. the rector. assisted by the Rev.
LPercy Sticknct Grant, rector or the
lChurch of the Ascension The full vested
tchoir sang the responses, and as the comm
twas carried from the church sang Near
ter. NV God. 10 Thee" and Lead, Kindly
Flight"
| Memberships Funeral March was
played as the members of the family ana
the honorary pallbearers filed into the
church and took seats near the chaNei'
The body lay in state all day Sunday IN
the church The members OF the family
present were Foxhall p. Keene, MI
Keenes son. and his daughter. Mrs. Tai
| bot J. TAYLOR. and her two eldest chill
fdren. James Keene and Talbot J. IaYIoi'
/ jr Mrs Keene was too III TO attend
Foxhall Daingerfield, one of MI keehe
nephews, came for few minutes before
the service started. but was obliged 10
depart early on account Of the death on
Sunday of his father, Major FoXhall
: Daincerfeld. who was for many years
rnanager of the Keene breeding farm at
Castleton, near Lexington. Ky.
The honorary pallbearers were Solomon
Hanford. Philip j. Britt. Andrew Miller
Fl. X Knapp Frank X. Sturgis, McPher-
son Kennedy and DR.. ST. Clair Smith,
who attended Mr.. Keene in his last Ill
ness. j. Pierpont Morgan. who was
named as a pallbearer did not attend
because Of preparations for his departure
Tor the Mediterranean to-day. The mem
bers Of the family and the honorary pail
bearers accompanied the body TO Wood
lawn Cemetery. where it was placed in
vault A special train carried the BODY