The Pioneer from Bemidji, Minnesota • Page 1

VOLUME 10. NUMBER 193. AUSTRIA FLOATS $25,000,000 LOAN Obtained the Honey Under the Assur- ance There Would be no Fight Between Big Powers. DENIES WARLIKE STAND But Uneasiness Is Generally Felt Ow- ing to Attitude Toward Servia by the Generals. FOBCES ARE BEING MOBILIZED Rumors In London Persist to That Although It Is Denied.

New York, Dec. 11.It was on the assurance that there was no liklihood of a war between the great powers of Europe that New York bankers undertook the flotation of a 000 Austrian loan in this country, as announced last night in Vienna. London, Hec 11.Official quarters in Vienna deny that any warlike significance attaches to the military changes, but these assurances fail to allay the uneasiness aroused by fears that the powerful military party in Servia may force the hands of the government. General Von Hoetzendorff, the new Austrian chief of staff, is credited with being sworn enemy of Servia and a long time possessed of the conviction that nothing but the sword can settle the differences between Austria and Servia. Further proof reached London tonight that Austrian-Hungarian forces are mobilizing.

Many Austrian and Hungarian residents af London have been called to colors. The report says Austria intends to demand the dimhmation of the present strength of the Servian army, demand to which Servia, her present temper, is hardly likely to agree All arrangements for the peace conference have been made. 'The resignation of War Minister Auffenberg and General Scheuma are said to have been prompted by the forebearing and hesitating policy of Count Von Berchtold towards Servia. It is becoming increasingly plain that war between Austria and Russia will be averted, but there appears to be no abatement of the tensions between Austria and Seivia." "In well-informed quarters it would be wrong to interpret the resignation as an indication that warlike counsels are prevailing in the conduct of the Austrian policy. The changes should be regarded rather as measures running parallel to the military precautions which Austria has already taken.

"While General Auffenberg and General Schemua are regarded as fully adequate to fill responsible positions in normal times, the present situation, when war on two fronts is within the realm of possibility, is regarded as justifying the summoning by the Austrian government of the two leading soldiers to the highest military positions. It is not impossible that both officials resigned voluntary in a spirit of high patriotism to make way for better men. General Von Hoetzendorff returns to his old post, which he left after being worsted in a conflict with the late Count Von Aehrenthal wihose peaceful policy Von Hoetzendorff, as champion of a mighty Austria, strenuously combated. Von Hroetzendorff held that Austria could only maintain her position in the Driebund by being a great military power." Fight Spread of Cholera. Trieste, Dec.

11. The AustroHungarian government is taking vigorous steps to prevent the spread of cholera from the Balkan battle ground into this country. Today a mild sort of quarantine began. All passengers arriving via Mediterranean and the Adriatic were held and subjected to the most severe medical inspection. It is hoped that the cold weather will solve the problem by stamping out the isease.

Turkey Names Delegates. Constantinople, Dec. 11.The official announcement was made tonight that Selih Bey, minister of marine, Reichad Pasha, minister of agriculture and Osman Nazimi Pasha, ambassador to Germany, had been appointed plenipotentiaries to the peace conference which will begin at London on December 13. The delegates will start for London tomorrow. Historian Society JOSEPH A.

WALKER Massachusetts Politician. HOTEL, DEPARTMENT STORE AND SHOE COMPANY BURNED OUT IN CINCINNATI FIRE Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 11.Three of the city's leading establishments, the Gibson hotel, the Rendigs-Lothman department store and the Douglas Shoe company, and hundreds of offices were destroyed by fire last night. The offices of the Missouri Pacific railway and ten floors of the Union Trust building were practically gutted. Whether there is any loss of life is uncertain The hotel management says guests did not have time to escape, but the police are of the opinion that few lives were lost.

The fire started in the hotel, the flames spreading rapidly to the adjoining buildings. The total loss is estimated at $690,000. Many firemen were overcome effecting rescues and were taken to a hospital. One report that a number of scrubwomen, working on the fifteenth floor of.the Union lrust building were overcome and died cannot yet be verified. Makes for Smooth Existence.

There Is a good deal said about the loss of Individuality, a loss when real which we all deplore, but a man is more likely to keep his individuality, with his life, if he follows In his motor the formulated lines of traffic rather than meet another man in his motor on the wrong side of the road. If both men happened to be in a clvio parade there would be no loss of individuality to the man who kept his place behind instead of driving out from his place in order to get farther ahead of the man behind him, or in order to slip in ahead of the one ahead of him. Keeping in line means a simple thing often, but It is one of the trifles that make for a perfectly smooth existence. There are seeming restrictions in life that hamper, but there are a great many others that forward. It is easy to understand the gains when compliance of a purely mechanical sortbut very necessaryhas been made.

By reasoning from their analogy we may find out to our advantage that there are many others less tangible, a compliance with which would do wonders in making the world go round, anld.in making ourselves the happiest and most successful people. Stolen Turkey. Rev. Algernon S. Crapsey, In an Interview during the Little Falls strike, said of a very religious and very torious child-labor millionaire: "This man reminds me of Uncle Calhoun Clay.

"Uncle Cal was accused of stealing a turkey, and the Sunday after the accusation being communion Sunday, the old fellow was one of the first communicants at the little white church. "His pastor. Rev Washington White, said to him reproachfully, after the service: 'Calhoun Clay. I'm ashamed of you. The idea of your coming to nion after stealing a 'Lands-a-massy, said old Uncle Cal, 'do you think I'd let a skinny old turkey, hardly worth ten cents a pound, stand betwixt me and the Lord's HE BEMIDJI CU SCOOP TH T5-S ARE STILL COUNTING The special board of canvassers appointed to recount the vote in tihe Harris-Moon fight had not finished, at press time today.

They refuse out any information until the count is completed although an unofficial statement was on the streets last night that the count stood even at that time. GIVEN FIVE YEAR SENTENCE ON WHITE SLAVE CHARGE St. Paul, Dec. 11.After twenty hours of dissension, lasting from 3 p. m.

Monday until 11 a. m. Tuesday, a jury in United States distract court returned a verdict of guilty against John McKay, alias Buck McKay, and Mrs. Rose McKay, violators of the white slave traffic The verdict was accompanied wiHt a request to Judge Willard to deal lightly with both prisoners. Judge Willard sentenced McKay to a five-year term in Leavenworth penitentiary, and imposed a fine of 000.

Rose McKay received a sentence of $iree years at Leavenworth and a fine of the same amount. The woman wept quietly while sentence was being pronounced on McKay, but appeared her own sentence with more fortitude. An additional charge was given the jury by Judge Willard at J.0 o'clock in the morning. George R. O'Reilly, acting for the two prisoners, based a motion to arrest judgment on the contents of the additional charge, the intent of congress in passing the wihfite slave act of June, 1910.

Mr. O'Reilly said that this law was intended to protect previously innocent women, but Judge Wdllard disagreed as to the purpose of the statute and denied the motion. The sentence passed on McKay was the maximum under the law. The McKays last December chased transportation for Mabel Grundermann from St. Paul to Kennedy, where she was lodged in a disorderly house.

CANADIAN PACIFIC PLANNING PERFECTION OF LINES WEST By Valtad FTMB. Winnipeg, Man Dec. 11.Accord- ing to its present plans the Canadian Pacific railway will build more than 1,000 miles of new lines in Western Canada in 1913. This includes 250 miles of double tracking between the head of the lakes and the Pacific coast. It is proposed to build between 600 and 700 miles of branch lines and 100 miles of sidings for terminal facilities.

The projected branch lines will open up a vast stretch of new territory. OFFICER'S MISTAKE COSTLY. Los Angeles, Dec. 11.A policeman's mistake cost the life of Elmer Finnegan, a seventenn year old high school student of this city, yesterday. The youth was shot and killed bj Patrolman Hoffman as he was fleem? from a garage where he and another lad had stopped to play a prank on the proprietor.

The boys entered the garage and demanded that they be permitted to examine an -automobile, saying they were detectives. The garage keeper shouted for the police. As the boys ran, Patrolman Hoffman appeared and opened fire on them. Finnegan was struck in the head and died an hour later. Patrolman Hoffman said he had aimed into the but stumbled as he fired.

Literally "Say, Chimpie, wot a suffragette?" "A suffragette's a woman who wants a chance to knock the stuffing out of the Scotoh. "I ken, Donald, we've had two fine days the month." "Aye, mon, and one ires snappet up by the Sawbath," Hard Job. It Is going to be difficult to women to quit judging other women by the furs they wear. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11. 1912.

WANT I LIBERTY BELL Petitions Ask That It Be Loaned For Panama Exposition and Returned Through Minnesota. TEACHES LESSON OF PATRIOTISM Special to Tbe Moneer. Spokane, Dec. 11Western patriotism frost Chicago to Portland, is.being, aroused in a campaign to have the- Liberty Bfcll snipped back to Philadelphia from San PrabSiseo exposition by the Northern route, route, giving the people of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio an opportunity to act as host to the Revolutionary relic. Secretary Harry C.

Wuerth of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce will start tomorrow the circulation of petitions in the state of Washington, at the same time requesting united action by chambers of commerce and commercial clubs in every town and city of the states just named. Following the example of San Francisco, which is waging a determined fight to bring the Liberty Bell to the Panama-Pacific International exposition in 1915, 225,000 school children of Washington will sign petitions requesting that the bell be returned by the Northern route. In this state the petitions will be signed also by citizens generally, the mark set being 1,000,000 signatures in the state of Washington. If the Liberty Bell is sent west in 1915 it will be just as easy to return it east by the Northern route as by the Southern, stated Secretary Wuerth of the chamber of commerce. "The lesson in patriotism it would teach all along the line would be well worth the effort expended in showing the bell to millions of people in the nonthwest." No Place for It.

"Yes, sir, I'll be sixty years old on the seventeenth day of next month and I can put my palms on the floor without bending my knees." "You don't look as if you could do that. Let's see you try it." "Oh, I donvft want to get down on my stomach here." "THOSE WERE THE HAPPY DAYS" His First Job. 1 FOURTEEN DAYS TO CHRISTMAS Only Two. Weeks Left You Will Be Left If You Don't Shop Right Away DANISH WOMEN WANT TO JOIN THE NATIONAL ARMY By United Frew. Copenhagen, Dec.

11 Danish suffragettes confident that the coming session of parliament will grant them the vote now have on foot a project to compel the government to introduce military service for women, it was learned today. Many of the suffragettes are said to be anxious to join the armies. PAL BROWN FIGHTS AGAIN. Special to Tb Pioneer. Superior, Dec 10.

Pal Brown of Hibbing, and Danny Goodman of Chicago are matched to box ten rounds in an exhibition before the Superior Athletic club December 23. Northwest fans are watching Brown's career with interest and look to see him outgo the veteran Ohicago boy. The Opulent Bard. "I can't understand how that poet's wife is able to dress so well. I thought there was no money in poet- ry." "I guest there isn't but her husband has the job of writing all the advertising rhymes for one of the biggest breakfast food concerns in the country.

Have you seen their new'atiftomobile?" If one gave voice only to one's thought's one wouldn't talk so much. Some of the charity that begins at home isn't worth making a fuss about. Give Scoop A Medal-He's A Hero Bv "HOP WIND ALWAYS BLOWS Canadian Town of Macleod Gets Steady Breezes From the Crow's Nest Pass. PILES UP STRAY TIN CANS By Vnlted Vresa. Calgary, Dec.

11There jpgiMfet always blowing iis i even on the calmest summer days there is generally a slight breeze in that section. The wind is believed to shoot out from the funnel of Crow's Nest Pass which is some fifty miles due west in the Rockies. On most days, to an easterner's mind, this "slight breeze" has the proportions of a gale is, the Southern Alberta town. Tne stones show the metalling of the road while all odds and ends of paper are whirled away until caught by the nearest wire fence or other obstacle. Tin cans are the special delight of these high winds, which send them flying, bumping and rolling over the prairie.

In old ranching days when the then little town was not so particular visitors were regaled with a curious sight. There was a deep coulee or ravine on the edge of the settlement. Here piled in chaotic mass was a deposit of old tin cans swept there by that tireless scaven ger.the wind. A scientific explanation accredits hot southern winds in the Canadian west to Dhe passing of the air over the huge areas of corn fields in such state as Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa and other western states where corn is the staple crop and where the radiation of heat from the ground is intense. Sometimes hours in advance of a ohmook wind in Southern Alberta a low distant roaring ean be heard from the mountains.

The well known Chinook arch over the Rockies always betokens a strong blow from the west. MERCURY DOWN LAST NIGHT The mercury went down to thirteen below last night and hovered around six below for most of the morning. Weather forcasts sent out from the government bueraus say that continued cold may be expected. WILL BUILD ANNEX TO HOTELMARKHAM Lycan and Company Hare Arranged For Three Story Addition to Be Put Up At Once. FLOORS REINFORCED CONCRETE Rooms to be Large and Half Will Have Private or Connecting BathAll Modern, OLD BUILDING WILL BE RAZED Work to be Done In Three Units and Hostelry Will BeFinest North of Twin Cities.

A three story concrete fire proof hotel is the Christmas present which Lycan and company will make to Bemidji. The hotel will not be completed until another and maybe two more visits of Santa Claus but the work will be started at once and (bo first unit is to be ready for use by July 15, 1913. P. S. Lycan recently returned from Minneapolis, where, after severai conferences with one of the leading architects, a plan was worked out whereby the Markham hotel will not only be enlarged by the additionjaf a forty room annex to be built at once but this annex will be one of throe units of the same design and architecture.

The other two will no built as soon as the first is COmpteted. The completed Markham w4U have the shape of a capital S. The throe units will be. the" three arms of the and the south side of the hotel will be built in as the units are being finished. Work is to be started at once on the first unit which will lie on the east side of the building and cover the present alley and vacant lot.

The kitchens and dining room will be moved from their present tocaifon into the first unit. This wilt eontain about forty rooms aU of which will be outside. The second unit will be placed about where the kitchens are now located and will be built as soon as the first is completed. The present kitchens and dining room will be razed and the front of the first and second units connected with the main building of the present hotel to give the south facing. The second unit will also contain about forty rooms.

When it is completed, the third unit or the west side of the new hotel will be built. This will front on Beltrami avenue and contain office, lobby, store rooms, sample rooms, etc. "This building," said Mr. Lycan this morning, ''will be the moot complete hotel building north of Che twin cities. It is being designed by an experienced hotel architect with a view of giving to Bemidji something out of the ordinary in the way of hotel accommodations for a city of this size.

The annex will be built on the east side of the present hotel and the other units built on to the west side of the new part. ''When completed the hotel will have about 120 outside rooms. This does not include quarters for the help. The building will be absolutely fireproof and will have all modern conveniences such as running water, telephone, electric reading lamps, in every room. More than half of the rooms will have private or connecting baths.

The building when completed, will be 125x140, three stories high and of ornamental pressed brick." Mr. Lycan's architect is making a plate of the completed hotel and this will be published in the Pioneer'In the near future. CLAPF COMMITTEE AGAIN POSTPONES INVESTIGATION Vitod Washington, Dec. 11. Another postponement of the Clapp committee investigation was announced Tuesday when Clapp, Pomerne, Paynter and Oliver were to have taken testimony in the alleged activity of the Standard Oil company.

A message from Senator Jones now in the west stating he could not reach here before next Monday decided the committee's action. The man who takes no interest in public schools, good roads, religion, or polities, isn't even a satisfactory basbeen. -a -c- -SJ $jr.