davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-12

cheap as I have my seasons work
about done. Tom Smart, Bemidji,
MINI. .ss . 1861
FOR SALE Reeves steam engine, 80
: H. p, cross compound; IN very
/. good condition; snap. Address
Crane & Ordway Co., Fargo. N. D.
st1N~rf'-@ F"s'F F7s~+f'' .''"S l0lA
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-12

short talk on bookkeeping and stated
that he! would offer. the same prizes
again this year. The prizes are
awarded for the best work in book
keeping. ..... +" ~ s....J ~
There are 46 students taking the
bookkeeping course at the high
school, the, largest, number ever TAX
Ing that course since it was begun
in the Bem1dji schools.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-12
CLASSIFIED \ ! ! |; D J.

n a-.. WANTED N. @-zIzsE
WANTED-We pay cash for second
hand furniture, stoves, shoes and
clothing. Hannah & Robertson,
2O6 MINI. Ave. Phone 129-W.
ANON
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-12

FOR SALE-House. Ed Achenbach,
Mill No 2. 1917
FOR SALE-Good big work horses
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-12
K. E. TO OBSERVE
COLUMBUS DAY.

In commemoration of the discovery
of America by Christopher Columbus
Oct. II, 1892, Bemidji Knights of Co
lumbus will celebrate the anniYer-
sary this evening by a SMOKER in
the parlors Of St., Philips church. y
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-12
MUCH INTEREST IS SHOWN
IN night SCHOOL WORK

Much interest is being shown in
the opening of the night school in Be-
midi. The night school will be op-
ened at the high school next Monday
evening and any adult desiring school
work may join, there being no
charges. Several employees of the
Crookston Lumber company have sig
nified their intention of joining the
school.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-12

EU6 SaGG.
FOR SALE-Birch, poplar and oak
wood. Want to buy calf. Andrew
Ness, Bemidji. Phone 28-F-11O.
7d1O1S
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-12
URGE
new DIVORCE CODE
(BY United Press

St. Louis, Oct. IA special COM
mittee of the Protestant Episcopal
church, converting here in annual
session, today urged absolute prohi-
bition of marriage of divorced per-
sons without special permission.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-10-12

board, said that evidence of this con-
dition should result in prosecution OF
the health official
DR.. w. P. Greene was assigned to
make the proposed Investigation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12

ment, if he should by any chance be
nominated for the presidency, would
bring this issue squarely before the
country. President Wilson has re-
peatedly declared that in his judgment
woman suffrage is matter that
should be left to the states.
Mr. Wilson is wrong and Mr.. Roose-
welt right. The fundamental condi-
lions of suffrage should be the same
everywhere regardless of state lines.
fit is right that women should vote
and its rightness is beyond question
all women should vote, whether they
live in Colorado or in New York.
Democracy, the foundation principle
of the American nation, and the exclu-
sion of women from the ballot are
mutually destructive conceptions. 1t
should be no prerogative of a state. no
matter how sovereign" to determine
whether democracy within its borders
shall be partial or complete.
The right of citizens of the United
States should not be denied or
abridged by the United States or any
state on account of sex.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12
MORE PORK PROBABLY.

What will probably develop into a
medium for the dispensation of
pork that will make the rivers and
harbors barrel look like the proverbial
thirty cents" is the good roads"
legislation that congress is working
on The senate bill provides for ap-
preparations aggregating no less than
$S5, 100000. This is to go for post
roads and is contingent, it is true, on
an equal expenditure by the several
states, but some way is sure to be de-
vised whereby the bulk OF these fed
erai appropriations will go to COM
monwealths that are favored by the
powers that-be. Such is not the idea
of the measure, of course, but the
picking is too rich for the patriots
of today at Washington and those of
the future to overlook.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12
WHAT'S AN ADEQUATE NAVY?

Before a policy can be laid down for
the American navy, we must have one
for the United States, writes Henry
ReuterdahI in the June metropolitan.
Commercially we are growing agrees
sive. hence unpopular. After the world
war we shall be in the fight for the
worlds markets. Our national pol
icy must back up the national bust
ness. What is it to be? And against
whom must the navy defend us?
Vaguely we pirate about the Monroe
doctrine We talk about the open
door in China-now tightly shut, with
the Japs holding the key-and We
jolly we'll know that the British navy,
not ours, has so far maintained the
Monroe doctrine. Germany has never
accepted the Mc nroe doctrine. Every
one knows that the kaiser has tried,
several times, to get foothold in the
West Indies. Every one knows that
Japan has still casus belli against the
United States in. the school question
in California. Let the truth be spok-
en- in the halls of congress. Let all
this be told in detail Out with it,
Let congress he frank and state in
Eblacls~and- white what we believe our
national 1uenaGs5 or our probable ene=
mics may be. With that as our plank,
we lcan build two ocean war fleet
for the deferse of a two ocean coun-
try, the only one in the world. In
the words of Congressman Galloway:
Il do not want my country to be bull
lied, 1 do not want our flag trailed in
the dust, 1 do not want our foreign
policies crossed; / do not want some
body to come over here and mop us
off the earth. But I do want to know
how many submarines, battle cruisers,
dreadnoughts and other ship I have
got to have" Establishing a naval
policy and not the phrase, IAN ade-
quate navy will once and for all set
tie that question. But to this day
there is no national document which
tells the why of our navy. No one
statesman or congress, has yet had
the courage or wisdom to formulate
such a national opinion. Let us be
honest and say that we shall have the
second navy in the world, or the first
if need be. Let US be candid and say
that our purpose is to maintain a navy
stronger than Germany's, now twice
as strong as the American, and larger
than Japan,s. and big enough to de-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12

of girl with a wonderful soul cling
ing to the first great ideal that had
come into her life. It's a case of
a splendid woman soul being wasted.
Eyes, she waits for him there in
the twilight-and it's going to be
long. long watt
THAT, gentlemen, is the story as Up
son told me-" said Changers friend,
and I have always thought of it as a
story of the meanest man and the
meanest act within my knowledge"
A silence fell on the group, each
with picture in his mind OF the girl
waiting IN the dusk of the New Eng
land evening.
Suddenly a tall figure arose. and i'll
a voice that was strained with emo
ton said:
Gentlemen, that was the meanest
act-it is more than that-but 1 tell
you that the chap who die it has suf-
fered for those years. He stands
right here-Im the man. 1 thought
1 had forgotten, but 1 find l can't
forget. Whenever 1 think I have.
something comes up, just as these
words tonight. 1 give you my word
that 1 shall take the next train for
New England and, God giving me the
chance, 1 shall reappear there 1
did not think she could be so faith
full. / did love her. and have always
in my way. L hope I may yet be
worthy of her. I'm sorry"
Without another word, the tall, thin
figure passed from the room
The silence that followed his with
drawal was broken by Granger: you
die a good job in telling that story,
Mason. You gained your end
What dc you mean?" some one
asked
why, the facts are these said
Changers friend: Il recognized him
just before 1 came in. I had sort of
looked him UP. I told Granger to
steer the conversation SO that l could
tell the story. I thought if the man
had any conscience it might be touch
ed. l guess he has
''I should like to be about when he
drives up in the evening and she
well, she'-seid one of the men. and
not one waited for him to finish the
Copyright, 1916. by the
Mcclure Newspaper SyndicateJ.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEMBER:
Associated Press.
Audit Bureau of Circuladons.
American Newspaper. Publishers
Association.

Attorney General Brewster will ap-
proach the proportions of superman
il he can devise a plan that will bring
to an end the litigation that is con-
cerned with the affairs of the Kansas
Natural. Gas company. He contem-
mates a termination of the receiver
ship and a sale of the company to in
terests that will operate it in sueh
way as to provide a larger gas supply.
And more power to his arm. But the
thirty or so lawyers who are doing
their best to pick the company to
Tfieces can probably be depended upon
TO give Mr.. Brewster battle royal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12
Mrs. Ella Jones Says Hus-
bands Language "Awful."
Then He Kicked Her in StOm-
ach, She Says in Petition.
HOLIDAYS WERE ENLIVENED
Divorce Papers Charge Throw
ing of Chairs and Pots.
Family Has Accumulated Prop
erty and-and a Ford!

That her husband enlivened the
Christmas holidays by throwing a hot
coffee pot at her and by turning the
furniture upside down is the charge
made by Mrs. Ella J. Jones in a di-
vorce petition filed in the district court
today against Charles c. Jones.
Besides all that Mrs. Jones says her
husband kicked her in the stomach
and used language towards her that
made her sick.
The Joneses, according to the petit
ton, were married February IA, 1895,
at Easton, Kan, and have three chill
dren, the oldest of whom is IS years.
Mrs. Jones says her husband possess
ses a violent temper over which he
exerts little control and that during
last Christmas holidays he lost what
little control he had. 1t was, on that
occasion, she says, that he SHE'D the
pot of hot coffee at her, burning her,
and kicked her in the stomach.
She states that he has cursed her
and used language towards her that is
too vile and indecent to place in a
public record. She states that he
rows around home all night and
that on one occasion it was necessary
for her to call the police to protect
herself and the children.
1t is a common practice, she says.
for him to throw the dishes to the
floor and turn the furniture upside
down in the home She declares that
he has threatened to kill her and
asks the court for. a restraining order
that will keep him away from the fam
lily home at 1922 Tyler street
According to the petition the family
has accumulated the property at 1922
Tyler street, the household goods and
Ford car. Mrs Jones declares she
is forced to support herself and family
by taking in boarders and roomers and
asks for the household goods and an
equal division of the remaining prop
erty. In addition to that she asks for
a divorce and reasonable aIimonv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12
ORDINANCE To ORDER
One Will Be Framed to Fit the Loco
Weed Situation.

Temporarily the users and sellers of
loco weed, the new drug that is help
ing fill the bull pen at the police sta
ton, are resting easy. There is no
state law and no city ordinance COW
ering the sale or use of this drug.
But their contentment is due to be
shortliyed. When George p. Hayden
city attorney, learned that the present
ordinances are not broad enough to
cover loco he stated that he would
prepare an amendment at once. The
amendment will read:
Mischief or any other habit form
ing drug or preparation"
Before offering the amendment to
the city commission Mr.. Hayden will
submit the matter to DIR. S. J. Crum-
blne, secretary of the state board of
health. The police have been unable
to cope with the sale and use of loco,
grown in Topeka, because of the limi-
tations to the present laws and ordi-
nanCeS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12
BOY SHOT VILLA
yiIIista Officer Claims to Have
Correct Version.
Lad Beaten to Death for Pro-
tecting His Sister.

Field Headquarters OF the American
Expedition, Near Namiquipa, Mexico,
May A, by Motor Truck to Columbus.
n. M.-Pancho Villa was shot by the
youthful brother of a girl whom he
attempted to assault, according TO the
latest version of the wounding of the
bandit A former Villista officer told
the story here today. asserting the de-
tails came from the girls family and
neighbors.
The boy was beaten to death by
Villas men at the bandit leaders curt
command to kill him."
Villa had long maintained his re-
spect for women. Many stories are
told in Mexico of officers executed by
the bandit because they attacked
young girls. Villa forfeited his last re-
deening virtue while marching to at
tack Columbus, when he kidnapped
the fifteen year old daughter of Juan
Aderipe, foreman of a big ranch at
Bochineva. The girl was carried away
to San Geronimo and kept prisoner
for nearly a week. She was in a seri-
Gus condition when Villa released her
and again moved northward with his
column. Her father, who killed Jose
Gutierrez, has sworn to devote the re-
mainder of his life to hunting down
Villa.
Finds Girl at Guerrero.
Returning from Columbus, Villa and
his band arrived at Guerrero on the
morning of March %, according to the
story told here. When his headquar-
tiers was settled. Villa rode through
the city, appraising the women he saw.
AS he passed the home of the Aderipe
family, he espied Carmita, Is, standing
| in the doorway. Villa slid from his
| horse and grasped the girl around the
waist, smothering her cries with kisses
| The girls brother, youth of IS, rush
| ed at the bandit. Villa released the
| girl, but too late; the boy shot from
| the hip. hitting Villa in the right leg
| just above the ankle and in the right
| thigh. Two more bullets whizzed
| harmlessly past the bandits head.
Then as the girl fled to her mother.
| the youth threw the smoking weapon
| at Villas head and fled.
Villa crun pied, but pulled himself
| together and mounted his horse. The
boy ran into the arms of a Villista
| guard and was promptly brought back
| to the bandit chief.
| xiii him," was Villas command as
| he rode away, confident of the SOL
| dier's ingenuity in devising means of
execution.
| Carmita's brother was stoned until
| he fell
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12
Jdyhawker Jots

Why is it, asks the Leavenworth
Post, that the bright kid the proud
father is always telling you about, al
ways has an off day when you meet
it?
People who buy the leading maya
zines these days, says the Phillips
County Post, have to read an awful lot
of advertising to get their moneys
worth.
Some women are SO fussy, says Mrs
Tom Thompson in the Howard Cour-
ant, that, should they arrive in Sahara
on a 10 o'clock train, they would
dust" the desert before going to bed.
As the Bunker Hill Advertiser put
it: Having entered Mexico for good
and sufficient reasons, multiplied a
thousand fold, we should not hesitate
to get out-when we get good and
ready.
Says the Kearny County Advocate:
Do it yourself and it will be done
When work is pleasure we all
feel rich Opportunity is insist
emily knocking. but you will have to
open the door yourself. Why
load your shoulders down with greater
burdens? A smile weighs less than a
Crouch. If war comes, some
men will fight from choice, a few from
necessity, and the majority will let
the other fellows do their fighting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12
WOMAN SUFFRAGE AND THE
CONSTITUTION

Under the above caption, the indie
pendent presents the following in its
issue of May s:
Mr.. Roosevelt has announced his
endorsement of the movement for an
amendment to the federal constitution
extending the suffrage to women. He
states the grounds for his belief thus:
81 believe the time has come for a
greater and truer nationalism in this
country. 1 believe in the nationalism
of the issues which affect not only
men, but women also. The great
problems of our country are national.
In the matter of the railroads, for ex-
ample, forty-six different sets of laws
for their regulation merely check and
handicap their development and man
agement A universal federal law is
essential for railroads. In the same
way. the question of enfranchisement
of women has become national and
demands federal action
Mr.. Roosevelt's cham pionship of the
cause of federal suffrage amend
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12
EASY ON TRUSTS
Brandeis cleaned Backward"
i'm Prosecution of Violations.
United Cigar Stores Sought His
Aid in Big Merger.

Washington, May 12.-Louis D.
Brandeis was employed by the forces
seeking to merge the United Cigar
Stores company and the Riker-H age-
man drug concerns to say whether the
proposed plan was illegal because he
was known ''to lean backward" in ia
vor of enforcement of antitrust acts.
This was testified today before the
senate judiciary committee by Louis
K Liggett, chief figure in the merger.
and his attorney, r. E. Snow.
I'VE thought if we could get by him
we could get by any one," said Attor-
ney Snow.
The two witnesses had been called
by opposition to Brandeis to show him
out of sympathy with the antitrust
acts; and that he had approved COM
bines which the government believes
illegal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12
WHAT A COME DOWN!
'Great Smith, License Tag Is Found
ON a Ford.

Early this morning a policeman no.
ticed an abandoned jitney on a vacant
lot at about 1405 Byron street. 1t
carried state license tag 1923. That
number was looked up at the police
station and was found to have been
been taken out originally by r. L.
Cofran, former mayor. for Great
Smith car. 1t decorated a Ford this
morning.
Efforts were made to locate the
owner of the jitney and it was traced
through several hands to Howard
Searle of 1877 McVicar, but the police
were unable to locate Mr.. Searle They
want to know what Mr.. Cofran's IL
cense tag, taken out for Great Smith
car. is doing on a Ford car belonging
to another person.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12
She KEPT SET OF BOOKS
Katherine TasseII Has Long List of
Visitors to Her Home.

A state case will grow out of the
raid made by the police on the place
conducted by Katherine Tasseli We'd
nesday night. The papers in the case
were prepared by w. E. Atchison,
county attorney. today. Mrs. Tassell
is out on bond.
Mrs. Tassell kept books, according
to officials who took part in the raid.
and they will have no trouble what
ever in producing a long string of
list of names of men and women,
young and old. has been connected up
with the Tassell place on Jackson
street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12
Journal Entries

Being a genius and making a noise
like one are entirely different propo-
SitiOnS.
About the only worker who likes to
have people laugh at his efforts is
the professional humorist.
= = +
A collegian is not necessarily a hard
student just because his muscular de-
velopment is like unto iron.
= = =
If a man isn't interested in baseball
his acquaintance incline to the belief
that there is something radically
wrong with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12

Gentle Spring may not have been
around in Kansas this year in the day
time so that any one could notice her
to any great extent, but she evidently
has been getting in her fine work just
the same, maybe at night. Alfalfa in
many parts of the state is just about
ready for its first cutting. And alfalfa
produces bigger returns to the acre in
Kansas than do many of the gold
fields of Alaska.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12
RAIN IN OTHER STATES
Nebraska and Missouri Received Heavy
Precipitation Last Might

Kansas City. May 12.-Rain fell last
night and today at many points in
Kansas, Nebraska and western Mis-
souri, Reports reaching here told of
a general rainfall over the district, in
many places reaching a maximum OF
more than an inch Junction City.
Salina and Marysville in Kansas re-
ported heavy rains as did Arkansas
City, Winfield, Hanover and Topeka
More than two inches fell at st.
Joseph, Mo, and Chillicothe, Sedalia,
Nevada. Carthage and Joplin reported
a heavy fall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12
GOVERNOR CAPPER ILL
Suffers a Short Time From Attack
of Ptomaine Poisoning.

Governor Capper today suffered
from a slight attack of ptomaine
poisoning. He became suddenly sick
this morning while in his office, in the
Capper building, and for two hours
was unable to leave the building.
This afternoon the governor was
able to go to his office and stated that
he was almost entirely recovered. He
left Topeka at o'clock this afternoon
for Olathe, where he will speak to-
night at a banquet of johnson county
Republicans
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12

Isn't it pretty nearly time for some
one to send out a tracer to ascertain
what, has become of Mr.. -Bryan-Wll-
liam Jennings Bryan who figured so
inextensiveIy in the recent Nebraska
ririnnariese
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12

Safety First pays not only big divi-
dends to the railroad companies, but
also to their patrons. During the fis-
cal year ending June 80, 1915, no less
than 325 of the railway lines in the
country operated for the twelve
months without killing a passenger in
a train accident
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12

Things have come to a pretty pass
in New York City when actors, who
are ION the fritz" are denied their
time honoreds prerosative of hoboing
and panhandling on Broadway. Amt
the authorities Of the little, old burg
got nosheart a tall?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12

In one particular. at least, the Unit
ed states is not dependent to any ap-
precia BILE. extent upon the ingenuity,
ability or efficiency of the peoples of
other nations. over 80 per cent of the
cpttonaspinning machinery installed IN
American cotton mills is of American
,,roducfion. ~ g..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12
CHIEF KILLED

Berlin, May 12-Colonel Pastini,
widely known Italian aeronaut who
was a competitor in the international
balloon race in Paris in 1915, was
killed recently near Gorilla when his
airship was shot down, according to
the Bologna Resto del Carlino. the
Overseas News agency states. Colonel
Pastini was chief of the Italian airship
hroade-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12

Who said that prisoners at the
states penitentiary at Lansing are
treated in a humane manner? Fred
BisseH of recent horrible memory in
Topeka, is denied the privilege of ci-
garet smoking, and he doesn't get the
daily newspapers as regularly as he
desires. Think of it!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-12
GOMPERS CAN'T COME
Topeka Unions Invited Him Here for
Labor Day.

Jake Shepherd of Fort Scott, coun-
sellor for the State Federation of La
Dor, has been invited to address union
men here on Labor Day, when a state
wide celebration will be given by the
local unions. Samuel Gompers, pres
ident of the American Federation of
Labor, had been invited to speak but
word was received this week stating
that Mr.. Gompers would be unable to
visit Topeka on that day.
Frank B. Brown, local organizer for
the A. F. & L. in Topeka, will ask the
Industrial Council tonight to issue an
invitation to Miss Edna Corbet to
speak before the council in a short
time. Miss Corbets address will be in
behalf of movement to organize the
school teachers of Kansas into union.