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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-14

The Thompson committee of the New
York Legislature moved its headquarters
TO Massachusetts last night--from the
Biltmore here TO the Touraine In Bos-
ton. There 1t will continue It's investi-
CATION of New York's Public Service
Commission. with special reference to
an alleged yellow dog fund tucked away
in an PETERBOROUGH third tracking con.
tract.
Senator Thompson and his fellow
tourists departed at 8 o'clock as sched-
uled, although the news OF the Phiilies'
final defeat spelling the prospect OF an
other game In Boston this afternoon
was broken to them much earlier.
The committee went to Boston because
the executors under the will Of Gardiner
NJ. Lane, who was an 1nterborough d.
rector, declined To come to New York
or to send papers belonging To the estate.
About two weeks ago william A. Read.
formerly a director of the Interborough.
testified at one of the committees hear
ings here that he and Mr.. Lane In 1913
visited J. L. Morgan with the nope OF
getting his help in killing John +.
Stevens's contract for third tracking the
elevated lines for cost and Is per cent.
profit. The committee suspects that
there was to be "a secret rebate TO re-
imburse the marlborough for money II
had spent for purposes not disclosed.
A sun reporter who has been trying
to follow the peregrinations OF the
Thompson committee asked Senator
Thompson what he expected to find
In Boston. where Deputy Attorney-Gen-
eral Merton T.. Lewis. the committees
counsel, has been sleuthing for several
days.
Trip u Blind One.
We'll" said the Senator. 81 doniS
know. Dur attention was called to this
matter of Mr.. Read and Mr.. Lane and
We think there may he letters or other
papers left by MIR. Lane hat will en-
tighten us further about the INTERIOR
ough contract. IL liz our duty to go
to Boston and find out. Wen be glad II
we find something m glad II We don't
The Senator agreed that the procedure
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-14
EDISON OFF FOR EXPOSITION.
Regrets He'll Be Unable TO Vote
for Suffrage.

WEST ORANGE. y. j.. oct. 13-Thomas
4. Edison. accompanied by Mrs. Edison
and their sons, Charles and Theodore.
will leave tomorrow night for san Frau
cisco to he present at the celebration OF
Edison Day at the Panama-Pacifc Eek
position. October 81. Mr.. Edison ex-
pressed egret that he will be- unable TO
vote for the suffrage amendment next
Tuesday.
Certainly ! am in favor of giving
m the right to vote" he said.
The inventors enthusiasm ~ believed
to be due in part to the success OF the
West Orange improvement Association
in its effort to beautify the town. 1t
hired the first street. cleaning force In
West Orange and has !naugurated gar
den campaigns. Mrs. Edison Is presi-
dent of the organization.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-14
DEMAND 81, 1000 FROM DOCTOR.
"BIack I~Ianders" Are rded
with Package Of Papers.

Two so-called Black Hand letters came
10 DR.. Jacob Lachow ski Of li5S Wash
ington avenue, The Bronx, one being re-
ce!ved July ~ last and the seemed on
Monday. Both letters said that unless
the doctor placed 81 900 under a certain
rock in Mapes avenue between lS6th and
1Nlst streets his thirteen-year-old daugh-
ter, Mary. would he kidnapped and
killed.
DE- Lachowski turned the second let
ter over to the police. who placed "A pack
age stuffed with Old newspapers under
the rock yesterday, Last night, as De-
t~ectlNes u GilliO and Batto lay in hid
NE, d fpuIteen-year-old boy vent to the
rock and looked under il. lie was ar
rested dnd taken to the Children's So
'"lE, whore he said he was Louis Grod,
h'F OF 2i07 Mapes avenue, Nothing OF
q" nominating nature could he learned
h"'" The no! or his parents,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-14
GETS BLOW INSTEAD OF KISS
Answering Wife's CAN Of Anec-
ton, Ia hit with HRtchet.

HUNTINGTON. l.. l.. Oct. l3-"Coms
and kiss me good night, dear" said Mrs.
Lawrence Romano, wife OF n business
man of this place, TO her husband after
he had darkened his store on Main street
last night.
Romano approached and was knocked
down with a Ratchet. Deputy Sheriff
A., w, Riggs heard Romano's cries and
ran into the store, lie says when he
turned or the lights he found Mrs. Ro-
nan with a Ratchet in her hand.
Romano said his wife was jealous OF
a salesgirl and a short time ago invaded
the store with a hammer, struck him or
the head and pulled the girls hair.
The Romanos nave been married six
months, She was the widow OF Garrett
Gardiner, Mrs. Romano was arrested.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-14
VILLA TO SEIZE RICH
GUGGENHEIM MINES
Continued from First Page.

dren of Americans returned to this coun-
Try. The Secretary said that the state
had secured a promise from
Carranza that he would do his utmost
to safeguard the lives of Americans.
Accordingly the Phelps Dodge interests
are working their mine and have had no
trouble up TO the present. The Greene
Cananea Copper Company and the Tigre
Company of Kansas City also own mines
In Sonora.
The American Metal Company. 81
Broadway. owns the Penoles mines at
Mapimi. in tie State Of Durango. where
villa Is in control. Officers OF that
company. however. said they had had
no trouble over their mines. though the
plant has been closed for several weeks.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-14
TIGER OUT TO BEAT
NEW CONSTITUTION
To Take Lead i'm Democratic
Move to Prevent Its
Adoption.
BECOMING A PARTY ISSUE

:
A resolution asking all Democrats 10
vo,. opai,s, tho psw State Constitution
.,,n 49, -, ..,..- ....,,n- t.,
WI we p'"'e' "e'''e "'' ~
Tammany Hall tomorrow night IL mas
been prepared by Tammany men and its
MASSAGE Il. pr.d,c,ed The nurpore Of the
m.-s- ,-..--., :, a.. r..
"eo''"e T" 'a''"'"'''" NV 'o
cratic primary results. Candidates from
! all parts of ,ne State have been invited.
| rammarv n.. Tim. for ,aLs, M ON
-.-
clai ac''on resaruihs '"e 'o"s'''"''""
but 1t looks Us II an attempt to defeat 1t
| will be made party policy, lust as the
u.,,,,,., a,.,. .,a ,o,n,y ,-or,mi,,...
"eP''"' " Wv
nave maze the auoptioh oi Tue 'o"s'''"-
ton IA party measure.
Al the Tammany campaign speakers
were instructed last mig. by ...e speak
ers' committee Of the organization. Of
/ which JOIN W. Keller IL chairman. to
inveigh against the Legislative apportion-
| ment article, which IL IL he submitted TO
| the voters separately. This article pro-
| vides that no county shall have more
than one-third Of the Senators and that
no two counties separated only by water
,meaning New YORK and king3) shall
! have more than one-half OF the Senators.
| Ia last nights meeting of the speakers
committee senator Robert +. Wagner
and Assembly man Alfred r.. smith. can
, didate for sheriff. said tina this appor-
| tionment prohibition must be beaten.
The Progressive county committee 10
TO take a stand AS TO the Constitution on
] Friday night. Probably Il will not in
| dorse il. The decision lies between oppo-
| sition and neutrality.
Meanwhile the state Committee for
the Adoption Of the Constitution Is plan
| ming A big campaign In this city, to liz
organized by this committee Joseph
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-14
NOT AFTER MARSHALL'S SCALP.
White House Says Wilson Never
Discussed Vice-Presidency.

WASHINGTON, Oct. l3.-In comment
ting on the gossip in circulation that Will
son Democrats do not want Thomas
Riley Marshall for Vice-President in
1916. and are looking for another can
didate. 1t was seid Mt the White House
to-day that 'the President has never
discussed the Vl~ce-Presidency with any
body"
To this it was added that the relations
between tine President and Mr.. Marshall
are OF the most pleasant and intimate
character"
II has been plain hat President Will
son himself has not been INDUCING in
talk about the Vice-Presddency. but the
fact IS that several influential Demo-
Gratis, especially members of the Senate,
have been suggesting the likelihood of
some other running mate for Wilson in
1916.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-14

Postmaster Morgan announced yester-
day that on and after tomorrow parcel
post packages may be sent to the Argen-
tine Republic, Such parcels must not
weigh more than eleven pounds or meas
ure more than 3 feet 8 inches and must
be paid for at the rate OF II cents for
each pound or fraction OF a pound.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-14
LEPER GIVES HIMSELF UP.
Esca ped Quarantine and
Wandered Over Country.

ST.. Louis, oct. l3-tiealth officers
were surprised and chagrined to-day
when George Cradle. "A leper h es-
capped from quarantine here two years
ago, returned.
Cradle said that he went to Washing
ton and then Ia Pittsburg. whore he vas
placed in quarantine. He escaped. and
after wandering IN many parts of the
country he decided to return to 81, Louis.
He was sent pack TO the quarantine sta
tipn
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-22
By HAL SHERIDAN

That old bewhiskered gent who
back in the stone ages somewhere
announced that every action has its
reaction must have been looking into
the dim and misty future at the 1915
baseball chaos. Certain it is that
the reaction of frenzied finance in
our national pastime is here. Never
was thing more fully demonstrated
than at the recent meeting of Nation
al League magnates here
Thirty-two berths in the National
League occupied last year will be
vacant this season. That means q
saving of from $4,000 to 100000
to the manantes and the blighting OF
80 aspiring youngsters hopes. Fol
the moguls decreed that no club
should carry more than FL men
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-22
Big International Exposition's Amusements
Novel and Wonderful
President Wilson Will Visit PamPcic
Gu candG andPr Be In SanFr

this event. The famous Salt Lake
Mormon choir. the deep toned plaintive
singers of Hawaii and even chorus
of fifty Maorian singers will take part
In the choral events At an expendi-
ture of $1,25O,0OO the Exposition has
constructed great Auditorium in the
civic center of San Francisco. which
will be used by the great conventions
and song festivals. Mr. and Mrs.
Douglas Crane will present their latest
terpsichorean novelty, the Exposition
Tango" Mr.. Harry Lauder will sing
the Exposition ballad
The amusement section of the Ex-
position, the "Zone," corresponding to
the famous midway" at the Worlds
Columbian Exposition at Chicago, will
carry out the purpose of the Exposition
to give every feature high educa-
tional value.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-22
GARBAGE AND REFUSE.

Five Rules For Collection and Disposal
Advocated.
Mrs.. G. H. Wilmerding of Flushing,
N. Y, has given great deal of atten-
ton to the question of garbage dis
posal. In a recent address which she
delivered before the American Civic
association she laid down the following
five rules as necessary for all munich
palities:
"First.-The city must collect the
garbage every day.
"Second.-Garbage, refuse and ash
cans must not be allowed to stand In
the streets and alleys at all.
''Thtrd.--Tin cans, sticks, paper
broken china or any refuse other than
garbage must be kept separate and in
suitable receptacle. -,~:,,
"FOurth.-Ashes must be kept sep
arate.
"Fifth.-Garbage must be sorted and
pressed and not allowed to spoil.
"Failure to observe these rules must
be reported and fines imposed
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-22
RACE POSTPONED
BECAUSE OF RAIN
Continued rom Page II

Nineteen started
Third race-October 6, 1906, same
course. Winner, Wagner, driving
Darracq. Time, hours, so minutes,
10 seconds. Average, 61.43 miles an
hour. Distance 296 miles. Eighteen
istarted.
t. Fourth .race-October "a, 1908,
Long Island Motor Parkway. Winner,
|sGeorge Robertson, driving Locomo-
5bile. Time, A hours, no minutes, As
E1-5 seconds. Average, CABS miles
an hour. Distance 25S.O6 miles.
Fifth race-October i, 1909, Long
Island Motor Parkway. Winner
Harry Grant, driving Alec. Time, 4
hours, rs minutes, AZ seconds. Av-
erage, 62:77 miles an hour. Fifteen
started. Distance 27S.OS miles.
Sixth race-October /, 1910, Long
Island Motor Parkway. Winner
Harry Grant, driving Alec. Time
4:15:5S. Average, 65.1S miles an
hour. Thirty started. Distance, 278
IO8 miles.
!. Seventh race-NOV. 27 1911, al
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-22

tinental railways. The Grand Canyon
concession is built upon 80 prodigious
"A scale that visitors will view the
canvases from standard gauge rail-
way coach running on a standard
gauge track. A huge working model
of the Panama canal Is so extensive
that visitors seated in comfortable the
alter chairs will be carried along the
route of the canal upon movable
platform, and dictaphone at the arm
Of each chair will describe each scene
as it comes into view. A novel amuse-
ment feature will be provided!by work
ing submarine boats of sixty>6ve tons
displacement. which win operate in an
artificial lagoon. The Horoscope. a
huge inverted pendulum. operating like
a giant seesaw, with a, great balancing
weight on the short end and a car for
passengers at the extremity of Its long
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-22

entire period of the Exposition, which
opens Feb. 20, 1915, series Of. great
events. including sports and athletic
contests Of many kinds conducted upon
a scale of great magnitude.
The Vanderbilt Automobile Cup
Race and the Grand Prix, the two su.
preme events Of the automobile year,
will be held upon four mile course,
embracing circuit of the Exposition
palaces, spectacular background far
excelling IL beauty and grandeur any
which ancient Rome beheld during its
historic chariot races The Wander
bilt Cup Race will take place on Feb.
% and the Grand Prix on Feb. q,
1915 Great motorboats OF the deep
sea cruiser type will race for $4,000
prize from New York through the Pan
anna canal to the Golden Gate. A Sc
ries of international yacht races In
the twenty one meter class will be
held In San Francisco bay President
Woodrow Wilson, Emperor William OF
Germany and King George Of England
have each offered trophies In these
events. Swimming. water polo. fly
casting, canoeing. football. baseball
and long distance foot racing are In
cIuded in series Of more than 200 diff.
ferent kinds of contests President
Wilson himself will attend the Expo
sition, and it Is probable the members
of congress will attend in an especial
Iv chartered steamer
OF International interest will be the
greatest live stock show in the worlds
history. More than 100000 will be
awarded in prizes in continuous live
stock exhibit. Rare and valaab BILE
breeds of all kinds of live stock from
distant countries of the globe will be
shown Specimens Of the famous
Chilnngham wild white cattle will be
exhibited for the first time. With the
exception of two specimens at the Lon.
don zoo, this breed has never been
shown outside OF Chillingham park
England These cattle are pure white
with black noses, black tips to the ears
and black horns. An international
sheep shearing contest will be one of
the unique exhibitions. =-.-& ss.
For the musical events there has
been built by the Exposition the mag.
nificent Festival Palace upon the
grounds. This is equipped with a won
derful pipe organ. upon which Mr.. Ed
win Lemare. world famous organist,
among other celebrities. will give Sc
ries Of recitals The international Els
teddfod, Will at San Francisco COM
pete for $4,000 in cash prizes. More
than 10000 singers will participate N
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-22
Cleveland Centenary.

There is strong sentiment in Cleve-
land, o., in favor of conmemorating
the one hundredth anniversary Of the
establishment Of the city by the dedi-
cation of the new public works, which
are now practically, completed at cost
Of $15,00Q.0O0. Ma yor Baker and Pres
1dent Thwing Of Western Reserve uni
versity ara strongly in favor of the
celebration.
Corsets worn by the women on the
islands of Malaysia are made of tele-
graph wires.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-22

Imagine, for the purposes of illustra7
ton. the interest, action and novelty
OF ten great circuses like Barnum &
Ba1ley's combined into a single "great-
est show on earth" and presented at
ten times the cost of the single pro-
ducton and an idea is gained Of the
originality of this section. A total of
more than eleven millions of dollars,
has been expended in its establishment,
The concessions, as these less serious
features of the Exposition are known,
include a great open air panoramic
reproduction of the Yellowtone MAJ
tlonal park and similar representa-,
ton Of the Grand Canyon of Arizona j
presented by two Of the transcon-
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-22

er arm. will raise is1ghtseers more than
1925 feet above San Francisco bay,
affording.an unsurpassed view Of the
Exposition City and the Golden Gate
Apart from the amusements. conven
tons and congresses he vast pageants,
the superb pavilions sof the nations and
the magnificent statetbuildings, the Ex
position. itself is sight we'll worth
seeing. The giant exhibit palaces, the
loftiest and most imposing exposition
buildings ever constructed. are In their
architecture representative Of the finest
work Of a commission OF famous Amer.
lean architects, who freely co!laborated
fession abroad.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-22
from May 1 to September L. Last
year they were allowed to pay trav-

from May 1 to September L. Last
year they were allowed to pay trav-
cling expenses for IS.
!. Thirty-two jobs have been sudden
ly snatched away from ball players.
Friends of O.. B. lay the blame on the
Feds. Federal adherents, quick to
resent anything of the sort, claim
that it is merely result of hard
times and deny absolutely that the
Feds are responsible for anything
that would take away anything from
the sun-burned athletes. ,....5@ 49,
Be that as it may, the retrench-
ment days are over Ball players a
few months ago held up the Federal
ogre as a means of drawing fat con-
tracts from their o. B. bosses. Now
their bosses tell them them if they
can help themselves by taking the
hurdle, go to it. That is what Pres
ident James Gaffner of the champion
Braves told Leslie Mann at the Ma
tional meeting Mann wanted So
500; Gaffney offered $500 and re-
fused to bulge.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-22
The Earth's Shadow.

The earth has shadow. but few
ever see it except in eclipses OF the
moon. Nevertheless. many Of us have
noticed on fine. cloudless evenings in
summer, shortly before sunset. rosy
or pink arc on the horizon opposite the
sun, with blush gray segment under
it, As the sun sinks the arc rises until
it attains the zenith and even passes
it. This il the shadow of the earth.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-22

FACTS C0NCERING THE
SAN FRANCISCO FAIR

Celebrates the completion
of the Panama Canal.
Gates open at 9 a. M, Sat
day, February 20; close Sat
urday, December 4, 1915.
Forty-three states and
forty-two foreign nations rep
resented officially; other ma
lions by individual exhibit
ors; more than have been
present at any other exposi-
ton in history.
:. Investment repres n ID,
$50,000,000. -.....-S
Concentration of exhibit
palaces a triumph of ground
plotting. Contains the largest
frame building under one roof
in the world--Machinery Hall.
. Transportation facil i t i es
available to handle fifty thou
sand visitors an hour to and
from the exposition gates.
Hotel facilities ample for
any number of visitors. .Reas-
enable rates guaranteed.
( The ONLY world exDOsitiOn
where climatic conditions
make possible mural paintings
on canvas on exterior sur
faces.
Covers an area of two and
one-half miles in length by
one-half a mile in width along
shore of San Francisco bay.
r r. n II n - r. r. r. II II - -
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-22
BY HAMILTON WRIGHT.


" pageants of the oriental
countries, auto and yacht
races and athletic contests will be OBJ
served upon a scale of unexampled
magnitude and grandeur at the Pana-
ma-Pac1fc international Exposition.
The extensive participation Of China,
Japan, Siam and lndo and Cochin Chi
ma, when taken in connection with
the plans already made and with the
interesting oriental population of San
Francisco, assures such spectacles as
have never before been seen in the oc-
cident. Pageants of miles in length
set off by wonderful floats anG>nar-
velous pyrotechnics will wind through
the streets Of San Francisco.
There will be held throughout the
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-22
Our Mineral Wealth.


The United States IL not only the
worlds greatest producer Of mineral
wealth, but 1t possesses by far the
greatest known reserve Of any nation
in most Of the important minerals
This Is one Of the things that has
made IFS great and which is destined
to make us far greater as measured BY
world standards. In some instances.
suci, as coal and oil and phosphate
rock and radium ore. the United States
possesses more than all the other
known deposits Of the world, and the
only essential minerals of the first rank
of which the United States has no
known supply at all commensurate
with its needs are nitrates. potash
salts. tin. nickel and platinum. But as
it stands today no other nation in the
world SO nearly approaches absolute
Independence In respect to mineral re-
sources. Notwithstanding the vast mag
nitude of our home consumption.-Re
view of Reviews.
Tho Professions.
The census has provided us with q
definition Of 1.-The professions" A good
many folk have wondered good many
times what the professional classes
were. The census has decided. They
constitute
Actors.
Architects. designers. craftsmen, etc.
Artists and teachers of art
Clergymen Gncluding religious and
charity workers,.
Dentists.
Journalists.
Lawyers dncluding abstractors, no
taries and justices Of peace).
Literary and scientific persons.
Musicians and teachers of music.
Physicians and surgeons ,inciuding
nonmedical healers|.
SrhooIteachers. professors in col
leges, etc.-New York Press.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-22

Fifty St. Louis women have formed
a league with the object of cleaning
up that city of rats.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-22

VAST TRnUMPHAL ARCH WORLDS GREATEST EXPOSE.
T10N THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION
SAN FRANCISCO, 1915
Arch Of the Setting Sun
group suay THE Nations the In the middle
OF the s
figure OF THE Mother and
Hopes
dian, Mexican.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-02-22

A want ad Will sell 1t for you.
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Seventh race-Nov. 27 1911, al