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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-12-24
The Wild Onion.

If grass lands are quite full of the
wild onion the easiest way Of dispos-
ing of them is the cultivation method.
In fields where there are only few
plants the most feasible method is to
dig the plants or clumps with a mat
tock Four thimblefuls of coal tar creo-
sote oil put on plant will kill the un
terminated bulbs. Still. the mattOck
method is best. as one well directed
stroke when the soil is. moist and soft
will take out the entire clump by the
roots. These should be carried of
where they can give no further trouble.
1t is then good plan to fill the hole
with soil and sprinkle little: grass
seed on the surface. Sheep eat the tops
Of the onion, and grazing for a few
years is reported as an efficient remedy
for the pest. Sheep apparently eat the
sonion most during the. winter and early
spring, when there is little other green
fvegetation, or in poor pastures where
there is little to eat but the onion. On
the better pastures it may be neces-
sary to salt the onions occasionally to
give the sheep q taste for them suffi.
Rcient to overcome their natural dislike,
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-12-24
HauIinq Stock Made Easy.

The accompanying illustration shows
hog rack devised by an ingenious
Illinois farmer and in successful use
on his big farm. After several years
experience with it he maintains it is
the best thing Of it's kind he ever saw.
1t simply is a big hog crate built on a
fat rack. The framework is laid out
exactly like a hayrack and the floor
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-12-24
NOTICE. = =.

To parties who are indebted to W.
G.. Schroeder for merchandise, dating
back go days from Nov. and over
are requested to settle as soon as
convenient and before Dec. Is, 1915.
W. G.. SCHROEDER.
ADV. If
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-12-24

The Pioneer Is the place to buy
your rolls of adding machine paper
for Burroughs adding machines. One
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-12-24
ATTEND
Bemidji. Business College
+. Day and Night
GRAND CENTRAL CASH
y MEAT MARKET

s= K.-XQLLER.. Prop. -.
We pay the highest cash price for
beef, pork and mutton, and sell at
the lowest price Of anyone in the
city. Shop at rear of Grand Central
Hotel.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-12-24
Read the want ads.

You can get big, fat pencil tab
let for a nickle at the Pioneer Office,
and an extra big, fat ink paper COM
position book for dime. All the
kids will want one when they see
'em.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-12-24

laid level on top of holsters. The pic
ture shows how the crate or rack was
built on this floor
There are two partitions with hinged
gates. This admits hauling several diff
ferent classes of hogs and also pre-
vents the animals from piling up Oh
each other in transit. difficulty so fire.
quently encountered and sometimes a
source Of loss. You can put on as
many hogs as you can haul. There is
no danger nor particular difficulty. The
ordinary loading chute is used.-Farm
and Home.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
MRS. CARMAN MUST
FACE SECOND TRIAL

Mineola, N. Y, April 3.-Mrs. Flor
ence Conklin Carman, wife of DIR. Ed
win Carman of Freeport, will go on
trial again charged with the murder
of Mrs. Louise Bailey. District Attor-
ney Smith of Nassau county announc-
ed the case will be called May 10. The
appellate division of the supreme
court has assigned Justice Abel t..
Blackmar to preside at the trial.
The district attorney indicated that
he had discovered new evidence of an
important nature. He declined, how
ever, to discuss this new evidence.
and said that he and counsel for Mrs.
Carman had arranged not to discuss
the case in any manner prior to the
trial
The new evidence, it was said in
other quarters, was of almost equal
Importance to that of Celia Coleman
the colored maid in the Carrnan
household.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
CLIMBING ON WATER WAGON
Prominent Britons Follow Lead of
King George.

London, April British loyalty to
their king may lead England to tenn
perance in drink without the passage
of a law or any other drastic action.
Following quickly upon the king
letter to Lloyd-George, in which he
said he would abstain from all liquors
during the war, and the similar an
nouncement from Lord Kitchener
have come other expressions of the
same spirit from the balance of the
cabinet and from Earl Brassey, Bar
ons Cowdray and Sydenham and Sir
Charles Macar
Earl Grey, minister for foreign af-
fairs, has written a letter suggesting
that the government take over all the
licensed houses in specified districts
just as ii has taken over the railways
and certain factories, giving the Ii
cense holders fair compensation and
either closing the places altogether
or running them on reformed princi-
pies.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
PLAN TO PUT GERMAN
PRISONERS ON SHIPS

London, April 3.-"Torpedoing OF
three more British merchant steam
ers with the loss of thirty lives
brought new demands for reprisals
from English shipping firms.
They proposed that German prison
ers of war be placed aboard all Eng
lish vessels traversing the German
war zone" as a safeguard against
the submarine attacks.
A petition to that effect was circu.
lated in shipping circles and had
many signers.
Admiralty officials. however, doubt
ed If the plan would prove feasible.
They declared that in her desperation
Germany would not hesitate to shoot
torpedoes against British merchant
men, even with the knowledge that
German prisoners of war were on
board
Dispatches from Lisbon reported
that the British steamer South Point
reported lost in a storm off Cape
Finisterre, was torpedoed by the Ger
man submarine U-2S while returning
to Philadelphia after taking a -four
cargo to Belgium. The crew was
landed at Lisbon.
The admiralty officially confirmed
the torpedoing of the steamers Seven
Seas and Emma with loss of thirty
lives.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
WILSON DENIES INTERVIEW
French Ambassador Blames "Misun
derstanding" for Publication.

Washington, April 3.-Jules Jusse
rand, the French ambassador, in
formed the White House that there
had been IAN absolute misunder
standing" in connection with the pub
lication by Gabriel Applaud, secre.
tary general of the Paris Temps, of a
quoted interview with President vii
son on European and Mexican affairs
M. Applaud was introduced to Pres
ident Wilson by the French ambassa.
dor and the White House announced
that what had been published was
unauthorized and that the president
had given no interview for publica.
tion
1t was stated that the president
had understood in advance that M. AL.
phaud's visit was to be purely a social
call
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
GIRL, AFIRE, DROPS TO DEATH
Looses Hold on Window Sill When
Relief Is Near.

New York, April 3.-An agonized
crowd saw Agnes Feldman, aged six
teen, drop to death from a burning
building in Newark.
The girl was employed on the fourth
floor. She was blinded by smoke and
could not find the stairway She went
to the window and hung to the sill.
The crowd begged her to hold, as Fire
Chief Paul Moon and Rev. Michael
Corcoran, the chaplain of the fire
men, raced with each other to be the
first in the rescue work
When they had almost reached the
top of the ladder the girl, her clothes
afre and her hands blistered, let go
and fell to the street.
She was dead when the blaze in her
clothing was extinguished.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
Expert Tells of Earnings of
Western Lines.
NO REASON FOR INCREASE
Witness at Chicago Hearing Shows
That Six Principal Carriers Seeking
Higher Rates Are Earning CTS Per
Cent and Are Not Unprosperous.

Chicago, April 3.-Seven per cent is
their investments, and railroads may
earn even more than that without in
dicating they have enforced exces-
sively high freight rates. U. G.. Pow
ell, rate expert of the Nebraska rail
road commission, so testified under
cross-examination at the interstate
commerce commission hearing of the
Western rate case.
Mr.. Powell had been on the stand
two days in opposition to the forty
one Western railroads plea for high.
er freight rates on certain commodi-
ties. He selected six of the Western
roads as typical, saying they are earn
ing on an average 6.75 per cent, and
this shows they are not unprosperous.
The roads are the Santa Fe, the Bur.
lington, the st. Paul, the Northwest
ern, the Rock Island and the Katy.
Taking your own figures of 6.75 per
cent" asked c. c. Wright general so
lOl tnc 1HlCdsO anu 4NUi tH'
western road, acting counsel for all
the roads, do you recall the Mime
sofa rate case in which it was decid-
ed that to hold the railroads to freight
rates that would yield less than 7 per
cent earnings would be confscatory?
No"
"A road might be earning Z per cent
or more and yet it's rates might not
be excessively high," said Mr.. Powell
Mr.. Powell explained that although
the average earnings of the roads he
selected is 6.75 per cent they never
have paid dividends at that rate on
their investment. Neither have al
the roads involved in this case aver
aged dividends equal to that percent
age, he said.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
UNITED STATES CANNOT ACT
Unable to Interfere in Swoboda Case
at Present.

Washington, April 3.-The United
States can take no action in the case
of Raymond Swoboda, held in France
on charge of setting fire to the liner
La Touraine until the French au-
thorities place him on trial, it was
stated at the state department.
Even then, 1t was added, diplomatic
negotiations cannot commence until
it Is shown that Swcboda is not re-
cey.ng a far t;isi Justice depart
merit affrts rs inYesti tisat;ng the &C.
crsci mans titsnss..p and the facts
set forth ly a:m in hi; apple alton. Tor
rasspori.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
STILL NEEDED IN CANAL ZONE
Equipment Desired for Building Alas
kan Railroad.

Washington, April 3.-Much of the
construction equipment on the Pan
anna canal which is desired for use in
building the Alaska government rail
way cannot be spared for several
months. A reply to this effect has
been sent by canal officials to the
Alaska railway commission here.
The commission asked for a ladder
dredge with tugs and barges, four 10.
comotives and four locomotive cranes
sixty dump cars, two steamshovels
and two piledrivers. The dredge, 10
comotives, cars, steamshovels and
piledrivers are available, but not the
other equipment
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03

Berlin, April 3.-The war office
made the following announcement:
Between the Meuse and the Mo-
selle heavy artillery fighting has TAX
en- place. Infantry fighting near and
in the forest of La Pretre continued
the whole night. West of the forest
of lie Pretre French infantry attacks
broke down under our fire. In our
center attacks we inflicted a heavy
loss upon the enemy and drove him
back into his old position. The
French are now in possession of only
two blockhouses in the forest near
our most advanced positions.
In the eastern theater of war the
situation is unchanged"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
IN PURSUIT OF ADVENTURE
Chicago Millionaire Plans Trip
Through War Zone.

Chicago, April 3.-John Borden, a
Chicago millionaire sportsman and ad-
venturer, Is en- route to New York to
sail for Europe on trip which he
plans will take him through the en-
tire war zone.
Mr.. Borden says he is going abroad
to see the war. He plans to visit the
battlefronts In motor car recon
structed especially for the trip. The
Chicagoan, in his pursuit of adven-
ture, went whaling In Alaska two
years ago in $4,000 yacht built for
the trip.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
GROWS NEW FORAGE PLANT
South Dakotan Has Cross Between Al
faIfa and Clover.

Pierre, S. d., April "a new for
age plant with great possibilities is
promised to the Northwest by Joseph
Hedrick of Fruitdale, who, after six
years of effort, has succeeded in cross
ing alfalfa and clover, obtaining a
plant which has many of the char
acteristics of both plants.
He has procured about 1000 seeds
and will test out the possibilities OF
the new forage this year.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
GERMAN RAIDER
IS LOADING FOOD
Provisions for Fifteen Days
Aboard Prinz Eitel.
SOME MOVE IS IMMINENT

Vessel Must Make Dash for Liberty
or Be Interned Within the Next
Few Days Battleship Alabama
Standing Guard in Hampton Roads.
Newport News, Va, April 3.-Pro-
visions for a fifteen days voyage are
being put aboard the German auxiliary
cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich under
supervision of the local port authori-
ties.
The loading of the stores, including
several thousand bottles of beer, will
not be finished, however, before Sun
day. Soon thereafter some definite
whether the German raider will dash
to sea through the fan of hostile
cruisers off the Virginia capes or will
be interned for the remainder of the
war.
A report was widely circulated la
marine circles that the EitePs time
does not expire for some days.
Close scrutiny still was being kept
on the German ship by American mill
tary forces and the battleship Ala
bama stood guard in Hampton Roads.
Speculations current here some time
ago that German warships may have
escaped from European waters to
come to the relief of the Eitel were
revived by the report from Madrid
that the Hamburg-American steamer
Macedonia had evaded British cruis-
ers and was making for South Ameri-
can waters with supplies for German
warships.
Allied warships reported off the Vir.
ginia capes were the Suffolk, Berwick,
Caronia and a French. vessel
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
FOOD PARCELS FOR GERMANY
Shipments From Chicago Now Aver
age Twelve Hundred Daily.

Chicago, April 3.-Shipments to
Germany and Austria of parcel post
packages containing food have in
creased within the last two weeks
from 115 packages daily to 1900, post.
Office officials say.
The packages, which contain all
kinds of food except meat, weigh
nearly the maximum of eleven pounds.
A number of department stores have
made special provision for sending
the parcels in special alright contain
ers.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
DULUTH MAN KILLS HIMSELF
Bank Teller Was Engaged to Wed
Society Girl.

Duluth, April 3.-Charles j. Grogan,
aged twenty-six years, paying teller
of the Northern National bank, shot
himself to death in the washroom un.
der the bank.
His engagement to Miss Muriel
Brown, well known in society circles,
recently was announced Miss Brown
is the daughter of Phillip Gordon
Brown, we'll known Duluth business
man.
]. w. Lyder, cashier of the bank,
who completed checking Grogan's s
books several hours after the tragedy,
announced that they were accurate.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
MUCH OPPOSITION TO WAR
Internal Situation in Austria Said to
Be Grave.

Rome, April 3.-Advices received
here from the Austrian frontier de-
scribe the internal situation in the
dual monarchy as increasingly grave.
Opposition to a continuance of the
war is said to be growing stronger
among the classes which are suffering
most from the scarcity of food.
Violent anti-war demonstrations are
reported to have occurred In several
cities, especially Vienna, where a
crowd attempted to stone the windows
of the war office, but was charged by
the police and troops. Several persons
are said to have been wounded and
many others arrested.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
Cargo of Arms Blows Up.

Paris, April Am Austrian steam
er loaded with arms mad ammunition
on its way from Semlin to Pancsova.
both ports on the Danube, struck a
mine In the river, says a Havas dis
patch from Nish. Servian artillery
Immediately opened fire on the ves-
sci, which exploded with terrific
fcrca
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
Germany to Export Potash.

Berlin, April 3.-Germany has mott
fed Ambassador Gerard that 1t will
permit the expectation of potash to
the United States on returning neu-
trail ships bringing cotton to Germany.
The United States has agreed that the
potash is to be used exclusively for
fortilixsr.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
STORM ROBS LINER OF ITS
PROPELLER.

New York, April 3.-The
steamer Corinthic arrived here
from Hull In ballast after a
; long and stormy passage dur
ing which she lost her propel-
; Ter and drifted helplessly for
four days. The propeller drop
ped off, during heavy weather,
on Feb. 22. The steamer laid
to with a sea anchor out until
Feb. 26, when the British
steamer Arioste sighted her
and took her in tow to Ber-
muda, where she arrived
March 16 and a new propeller
was obtained.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
REPORTS BETTER BUSINESS
Secretary RedfieId Tells Cabinet Con-
ditions Show Improvement.

Washington, April 3.-Business con-
ditions throughout the country show
a steady improvement, according to
reports made by Secretary Redfield at
the cabinet meeting. The secretary
presented extracts from various re-
ports rejecting better conditions In
many lines.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
BRITISH BREWERS PROTEST
IdIeness Argument ls Used Agains.
Threatening Prohibition Wave.

London, April 3.-The allied brew
ers and the National Union of Brew
cry Workers held a meeting and pass
ed resolutions protesting against the
proposal to introduce total prohibit
tion in the country while the war Is
in progress.
The resolutions complain that thou
sands of men and women would be
thrown out of employment.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
HUSBAND HAS CONFESSED
Ottawa (IlD. Man Admits He Burned
Wife and Baby.

Ottawa, ILL.,, April 3.-David Starkey
confessed to Sheriff Davis and State
Attorney Wiley, according to those
officials. that he started the fire which
destroyed his house and burned to
death his wife and baby last Satur.
day.
No motive for the crime has been
given.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03

Washington, April 3.-Ninety-two
vessels, carrying 424,6O6 tons oi
freight, passed through the Panama
canal during February, maintaining
a daily average of more than $4,000
tons. Tolls collected for the month
amounted to $403,219, bringing the
total of canal dues collected up to
$2.865,z5S.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
Deny Russo-Turkish Peace Pact.

Rome, April 3.-Both the Russian
and Turkish ambassadors to Italy. in
terviewed by the Giornale d'Italia,
emphatically asserted that there was
no foundation to the report that Djavid
Pasha, Turkish minister of finance,
who is now in Geneva, has been en-
trusted with the task of negotiating
Q separate Russo-Turkish treaty.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
Many Porto Ricans on Strike.

New York, April 3.--From thirty to
forty thousand native workers in the
sugar fields of Porto Rico are on
strike for an increase in pay from
so cents to 70 cents day, according
to ]. c. Bills, chief of the bureau of
labor of the Porto Rican government,
who arrived here on the steamship
Philadelphia.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
Three Trawlers Sunk.

Newcastle. Eng. April 3.-Three
Tyne trawlers have been sunk by the
German submarine U-10. Several
members of the crews are missing.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-04-03
Russia Is Approached for
Terms of Peace.
GERMANY TELLS OF GAINS
Asserts French Were Driven Back in
Infantry Fighting in the Forest of
La Pretre-Situation Along Eastern
Battlefront Remains Unchanged.

. Petrograd, April 3.-The
: Russky Slovoe prints a note
: intimating that the Russian
. government has been approach
: ed through neutral channels
: with overtures from Austria
for separate peace without
. Germany's knowledge.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-09-02
STATE NURSES FINALLY GET
FAIR PAY AND HOURS

FAIR PAY AND HOURS
Organized labor has just secured
for the employees of Illinois state IN
situations what civil service and poll
ticians promised years ago and never
produced.
Thirty years ago the nurses of state
hospitals and asylums went to
Springfield and told the legislature
that S25 for men and $40 for women
was not enough monthly pay for pro-
ficient attendants who worked at
least IL and sometimes Is hours
day.
To this day they have got nothing
but promises from the politicians
who gather every other year at
Springfield to manufacture material
for political fences.
When civil service became a fact
the slaves of the states payroll
thought they saw the sun of eman-
cipation rising. They we're fooled.
Civil service did not even reduce their
excessively long working hours.
Last winter when the legislature
was again in session the workers
made their best stand. They asked
equal pay for men and women atten-
dants doing the same work, an eight
hour day, an increase in wages and
better working conditions. They got
not thing.
All hope had fed from their breasts
when John Fitzpatrick, president of
the C. F. of L., and Miss Mary Ander-
son, organizer from the Women's
Trade Union league, got busy after
the legislature had adjourned.
They demanded of the state board
of administration that the state nurs-
es be given a hearing. The result was
the granting to the workers of every
thing they had asked except that the
wage increase was not so great as
was requested.
Henceforth the women nurses will
l.,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-09-02

OYSTERS!
BY Jim Nance.
With oysters coming back to town,
That brings a good old story 'roun'
That ! have often heard.
It's not on me, please understand.
The joke is on some other man,
Some say, it is a bird.
A gent went to swell cafe,
And when the waiter passed his way,
He really grew quite rude.
He ordered oysters, pie and ham,
Said, Serve the oysters as | am"
They brought them to him stewed.
?. S.-CHORUS-Raw, Raw, Raw!
IFS funny how often, when a rich
lobster" takes a chorus girl out to
dine, the little. shrimp" orders
oysters. Oh, seafoodI
$780,
THINNER NOW JOLIET WARDEN
Michael thinner, former sheriff of
Cook county has been appointed war
den of Joliet penitentiary.
He stated that he would continue
the honor system" established by
his predecessor, Edmund Allen,
whose wife was recently murdered by
a ''trusty". -
thinner will leave for Joliet short
ly to live there as required by law.
He says his family will not come to
the prison until later.
1890
Disorderly conduct charges against
81 men who witnessed shooting of
Chas. Victor at painters meeting dis
missed
AshIand-TweIfth ST. bank, one of
Lorimer chain, paying 20 cents on
the dollar to depositors. To-
CHICAGO GRAIN. - Grain up.
Provisions down. Sent. wheat close
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-09-02
BY Jim Nance.

P. S.-cHoRUs-Raw, Raw,
It's funny how often, when a
lobster" takes a chorus girl o
dine, the little shrimp" o
oysters. Oh, seafoodI