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z DIRT TO FLY IN MONTH’S TIME Sewer Digging Will Begin as Soon as Law Will Allow. Work on the sewer will begin about the first of July, if the present plans of the council carry. Thomas J. McGillivary, the Duluth engineer who has drawn the plans for the ditch, was to have been at the council meeting last might and submitted the change in plans to provide for running the sewer into the river|Li between the lakes, as ordered by the state board, instead of direct- ly into the lake, but was detained in Duluth. He will be present at the meeting next Monday, and the preliminary resolution call- ing for thesize and location of the sewer and the material to be used, will be adopted. City At- torney Russell will prepare it this week. Bids for the job will then be advertised for, and as soon as the contract is awarded work wili begin My Wife's Family. In some respects “My wife's family,” which comes to the opera house June 16, is one of the most original productions ever given on the stage in Be- midji. In the first place, the authors, Stephens and Linton, have taken the mother-in-law theme, which is commonly cupposed to have been worn threadbare, and upon it con- structed a farce comedy abso lutely novel in the variety of its situations and its bright and witty lines. The plot deals with the efforts of a young husband to get rid of a horde of his wife’s relatives and in his frantic effort to accomplish this end he enlists the assistance of a friend, a man about town. Their mistakesand hair-oreadth escapes fill three acts of delightful absurdities and complications, only interrupted now and then by the introduction for the sake of variety of a musi- cal or dance number, to give the audience a rest from laughter. Appleton and Ferry, the two wellknown comedians, play the parts of the young husband and the friend who is trying to help him get rid of his over-friendly relatives, and they work in a lot of incidental comedy dialogue, as well as a deliciously ridiculous automobile and keep things mov- ing every minute, Their sup- port is good throughout and in- cludes Charles Mitchell, William Hearty, James Parks, Arthur B, Nice, Helen McGowan, Ruby Raymond, Edna Ward, Mabel Hawthorne, Lorraine Keene, Marie Del Vecchie, and many others. Mrs. H. Haffener and Emma McKee came down this morning from Puposky to do a little shop- ping, they returned home this evening. BEMIDJI SPECIAL L Sold and guar- anteed by Geo. T. Baker & Co. Located in City Drug Store Mait ). would you hesitate to take it? that [MUSICAL BY THE LADIES GUILD Interesting Program to Be Given Afternoon of Thursday, June 7. The Ladies Guild of St. Bar- tholomew’s mission will give a pianola musical Thursday after- noon, June 7, at the nome of Mrs. W. A. McDonald. They will be assisted by local talent and an excellent program has been prepared, as follow: Philobeona Waltze: elle Larson nd Long.. --...Dannah Mokrejs Solo—The Message of -Gottschalk Miss Mol i Piano Duet—Grand 1 March Op. Engelmann Blanehe Boyer and Maude olson Effects Coroners. Attorney General E. T. Young bas decided that under the new code county coroners, in the per formance of their duty, may not collect more than 10 cents per mile for necessary traveling ex- penses. This opinion has been filed at the request of some of the county auditors in the north- ern counties. It is claimed that in some of the northern counties where a coroner has to visit the scene of the accident, for in- stance where more than one per- son happened to be killed, he would collect mileage for each individual examination. Here- after no matter how many per- sons are killed -in one locality, the coroner cannot collect more for necessary traveling expenses for investigating the death of more than one person at one place than he could for investi- gating the death of one person, Vietim Recovering. Chas, Armstrong, foreman of the Cass Lake saw mill who was brutally assaulted last week by a laboring man named Marlow is on the road to recovery and it is thought that he is out of all dan- ger at the present time. Marlow the man that did tlie dirty work and of whom there was talk of Iynching for some time has been bound over to the grand jury and is in jail at Walker now. The only eye witness has been placed under $300 bail and will be watched rather closely till the time for the trial as at the pres- ent time the feeling against Mar- low is at a very high pitch and he will undoubtedly gat all that is-coming to him when tried. INMAAA VY AAANAAAAAAA) 3 Additional Locals ¢ mehmh’ P. N, Jennings came down this morning from Blackduck. M. Miller is a business visitor in the city today from Blackduck. Albert Paul came down this noon from Solway for a short visit, R. A. Prudden of the town of Funkley is in the city today on a short business trip. F. Johnson is in the city today on business from Baudette. He expects to return tomorrow. Typewriter ribbons of all standard makes, either record, copying or indelible, can be pro cured in the color you wish at the Pioneer office. T00 LATE TO CLASSIFY. WANTED TO RENT—Furnished cottage of three or four rooms, ARE YOU ILL? with Rheumatism, Backache, Kidney Trouble, Catarrh or any other Rlood Trouble? If so, and you could ; FIND IMMEDIATE RELIEF IN Johnson’se am so sure ‘‘6088"’ will cure any of the above named complaints I MAKE AN ABSOLUTE QUARANTEE to refund your money if you are not satisfied with the result after taking half of the first bottle. «Barker's Drug Store Julyl to Sept. 1, E. D. Beeson at Markham Hotel. Of course you wouldn’t, and T Pikes Peak In Summer. The first part of the road to Pike's | peak is through a picturesque ravine with a beautiful mountain torrent roar- ing and leaping through it. This ra- many climbers who shoot their kodaks as the train passes, until one knows exactly how it feels to be a celebrity. As one goes on the climbers become gradually fewer, and after three or four miles they are left behind. Sud- denly a new turn in the road shows that the first foothills have been sur- mounted and that we are climbing the vast bare side of the peak itself. The track stretches toboggan-like far ahead. Great views unfold. One looks down on lonely wooded valleys, where blue lakes glisten, on the tops of the moun- tains and over mountains to the plain that stretches away like the sea. It has grown cold, and patches of snow begin to appear. Bhe date is Aug. 1, but in the snow keaps on the summit we shall goon be snowballing one an- other.—Four Track News. Alabama’s State Flag. Over the ~historic capitol at Mont- gomery waves not the national flag, " | but the Alabama flag, and not one Ala- bamian in a thousand would recognize It if he saw it elsewhere than on the capitol. The flag in question has no history woven into it, for it was not adopted until 1895. It presents a St. Andrew’s cross in crimson on a white field. Such a cross is shaped like a let- ter X, and the books suggest that the apostle Andrew dled on a cross of that design. Few if any other states in- dulge in flags of their own. A flag is the symbol of sovereignty, and state sovereignty s limited by the federal constitution. When we were a part of Georgia we granted to the federal gov- ernment the executive power of pun- ishing treason, and if any one becomes a traitor to the Alabama flag we might have to call in the federal government in order to punish him.—Birminghai Age-Herald. & The Tongues of the Balkans, Too many languages are spoken in the Balkans. A traveler in that region writes of the babel: “Turkish, Bulga- rlan, Serbo-Croatian, Roumanian, Ar- menian, Greek, Albanian, Kulzo-Wal- lachian, Chingeni, the language of the gypsies; Spaniole, the language of the Jews of Spanish or Portuguese descent, and the language spoken by the Ger- man, Austrian, Roumanian and Rus- sian Jews. Add to this Arabic, Per- sfan and Syrian, largely spoken in Con- stantinople; Italian, on the northeast coast of the Adria; Russian, in the northeastern parts of Roumania; vari- ous Austro-Hungarian idioms spoken In Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Caucasion languages of the Circassians and Georglaus.” Not one of these lan- guages is of common use. The Lone Star of Texas. The origin of the Lone Star flag of the republic of Texas is not entirely clear. The claim has been made that it was unfurled in the present territory of Louisiana In 1810, but other search- ers cannot find earlier trace of it than the presentation of such a banner to the company of Captain Andrew Rob- inson in May, 1835. Still another claim is made for a flag unfurled at Velasco Jan. 8, 1826, and sald to have been made by a Miss Troutman of Nashville, Ga. One story has It that the star came from the fact that Governor Smith, for lack of a seal, used a brass button from his coat which bore a five “pointed star.—St. Louis Republic. The Word “Capsize.” Etymologists are driven to pure con- jecture to explain the origin of the word ‘“‘capsize.” One of them suspects that it comes from the Spanish lan- guage, as so many sailors’ words do, and may be connected with “cabe- cear,” to nod the head in sleep or to pitch as a ship, and with “capuzar un baxel,” to sink a ship by the head— ‘““cabeza” meaning head. Another guess —based on the fact that “capslze” Is an English dialect word for moving a hogshead by turning it over alternate- Iy on to its two heads—is that the word is simply “cap,” a head, and “seize.” Kept Up the Wailing. In Abyssinia it was once the habit of complainants to stand before the door of the king’s palace, loudly appealing to his majesty for help. “So accus- tomed is the king,” wrote one traveler, “to these querulous tones of sorrow that when the rains prevent such as are really distressed from repairing to the capital a set of vagrants is pro- vided whose object it is to raise the cry-of artificial sorrow lest he should feel a lonely quletness.” Sacredness of the Mantilla. Many attempts are being made in London and in Paris to adapt the Spanish mantilla to our use. To the Spanish women the mantilla stands for all that is national and characteristie, and so intimate a part of herself is the mantilla deemed that it is even held sacred by law and cannot be seized for lebt.—London Country Gentleman. A Clever Wife. Friend—Didn’t your husband rave when you showed him the dressmak- er’s bill? Wife—Rather. Friend—And how did you quiet him? Wife—I show- ed him the milliner’s account, and then he became simply speechless. Got Acquainted. Jones—I suppose you know more about that horse you got of Deacon Smith last week than when you made the trade? Brown—Yes, and I know a lot more about Deacon Smith now than I did then. Eased His Consclence. “YI have examined our public sub- seription boxes for years,” said an of- ficer of a charitable organization, “and in them I have found many queer things. The very queerest, though, was last year. On openiug a4 box In a New York railway station I found the gold settings of a necklace, a stomacher, a pair of earrings and five rings. They were magnificent settings, worth a deal of money. I could not help won- dering what the stones, which had been roughly torn out of.them; were like. These jewels, of course, had been stolen. The settings were now given to charity by the thief. The stones themselves would be recut and sold. Around this gift was a note, which said: ““‘Sell for the sick. My conscience Zoes as far as this.’” vine is a popular walk, .and one sees | 2 Ont. They were falking about futility and for some reason known only to each ‘ailed to agree. Finally she - 3 “Well, now, suppose you give me an example of what you call futility.” “All right,” said he. “Multiply 3,940 by 721.” & i She took a pencil in her hand, seized a plece of paper and after a few min- utes of dlligent figuring announced the result. “It is 2,845,066, sald she. “Divide that by 2. he continued. It is 1,422,538, she said. “Very well,” said he. “Now add 7 to that and then subtract 1,422,540 and tell me what you get.” “The result is 0,” said she after fur- ther figuring. “Well, that's what I call futility,” sald he, with a laugh. “You've covered a sheet of paper with figures to arrive atnothing.” ‘Whereupon she became 50 -angry with him that she refused to agzue any further on the subject.—London Sphere. The Formation of Coal. Many different theories are held by geologists to account for the formation of beds of coal between strata of rock. The simplest of them is that vast masses of wood, such as grew in the carboniferous age of the earth’s de- velopment, were sunk under the sea. that deposits of silt upon them changed to rock and that by some upheaval of the earth the bottom of the sea was litted above sea level. Such upheaval! occurred in remote geologic a2:s in the Mississipp! valley, all {he central parts of which were undoubtedly at one time covered with water and formed an arm of the sea. The one thing cer- tain about coal is {hat hy one process of nature or anoihoer it his been con- vt trees which grew in the carboniferous age of geology. How many thousands or millions of years that was ncbody knows. All that is known about the duration of different geologic ages of the world is that they were long. Dramatie Detail. 8ir Henry Irving was accustomed to visit at the home of Miss Friswell, au- thor of “In the Sixties and Seventies,” in which volume appears the following anecdote: “My mother often used to point out little details that had been overlooked. I remember one in ‘The Bells, which my mother told Mr. Ir- ving on the first night when he re- turned to our house to supper.. People ‘who have seen the play may remember that the first scene is a small inn and that there is supposed to have been a deep fall of snow. The innkeeper, Mat- thias (Irving), walked in on that first night in ordinary black boots, with no snow upon them. My mother spoke of it, and afterward Matthias wore high black boots and stood on the mat while the snow was brushed off. Remarks were made in the papers as to Mr. Ir- ving’s attention to the minutest detalls, and this was-clted as an instance.” Punishments In Early Days. The following extracts from early records give us a glimpse of some of the singular punishments in vogue in old New England: “In 1639 Dorothy Brown, for beating her husband, is ordered to be bound and chained (o a post.” “In 1643 the assistants order three Stoneham men to sit in the stocks on lecture day for traveling on the Sab- bath.” “In 1651 Anna, wife of George Ellls, was sentenced to be publicly whipped for reproaching the magistrates.” “In 1638, for slandering the elders, she had a cleft stick put on her tongue for half an hour.” An 0da Sermen, It seems doubtful if there is anything more crooked than the following title of a pamphlet published in 1703: “The Deformity of Sin Cured; a Sermon Preached at St. Michael’s, Crooked Lane, Before the Prince of Orange, by the Rev. J. Crookshanks.” The pam- phlet was sold by Matthew Denton at the Crooked Billet near Cripple gate. The words of the text are, “Every crooked path shall be made straight,” and the prince; before whom It was read was deformed. Linen Paper. The only real linen paper made In the | United States is that used for govern- ment documents. All the so called lin- en papers are largely made from cot- ton rags with some linen mixed in. The reason for this is that it Is ex- tremely difficult to separate cotton and linen rags. The government gets around this difficulty by using nothing but clippings from collars and shirts. His Lamp. - Teacher (of east side school)—I won- der how many of you remember the pretty story of Aladdin and the won- derful lamp I told you last week. Billy Bleecker, can you tell me why our lit- tle friend Aladdin rubbed his lamp? Billy Bleecker (vaguely)—If he wuzn't gettin’ sleepy he must ’a’ had a cinder in it.—Puck.. Caustie. Scene—Train stopping at small road- slde station. Irritable Old Gentleman —What on earth do they stop at a sta- tlon like thig for? Objectionable Pas- senger (alighting)—To allow me to get out. Irritable Old Gentleman—Ah! T see it has its advantages, then? Up Against It. *Snobson says he’d rather be alone than in unpleasant company.” * “But the worst of his case is, he can’t escape even then!”—Detroit Free Press. Logic In Rags. “T fine you $15 for being a vagrant,” sald the judge. “Have you the money to pay the fine?” “Your honor,” said the man plain- tively, “if T had $15 I ‘wouldn’t be fined as a vagrant.” Kept His Word. “Be mine!” he cried in a volce sur- charged with anguish.. “If you refuse me I shall die!” But the heartless girl refused him. That was sixty years ago. Yesterday he died. - A Pretty Figure. “Is she very. lovely?” “Ah! T can give you no idea how very lovely except that It is between $2,000,000 und $3,000,000.” : BLACKDUCK MAY | GET A SAWMILL| $60 Round trip From Bemidji to Pacific Northwest “See America First” Summer Rates one-third lower than usual.’ Visit the Columbia River Region. See Puget Sound— “‘Mediterranean of America’—and visit Secenic Alaska. Special round trip rates wo Springdale, Liviegston, Butte. Helena. Anaconda, Missoula, Spokane, Iastern Washington, British Columbia and California Points, until Sept. 15, 1906. Ask about them. E. A. Hasty, Lumberman, Is the Man Behind Project, Says Report. Akeley, June 5.—E. A, Hasty, a lumberman who has made Blackduck his headquarters for some time, says he is contem- plating the erection of a sawmill there providing favorable rates can be secured from the railroad ! company. The capacity of the mill will be in the neighborhood of 10,000,000 feet yearly. Mr. Hasty has gone to the twin cities to look - after affairs in connection with the project. His intention is to mill all kinds of hardwood. { An opportunity en route to visit Yellowstone National Park via the Gardiner Gateway She Knew “Hamlet.” ! Every one has a point of view, as al serious minded young Englishwoman i | found out when she propounded to| some working girls a scheme for Bhakespeare readings. “Hamlet” was to be the first topic, and she dealt out to the girls some copies and awaited comments. The first came from a girl belonging to that lmmense army of bookfolders so familiar to all frequent- ers of working girls’ clubs. “Oh, 1! know this well,” she said in a superior tone. “Really?” said the gratified teacher. “Is it your favorite play?’ The girl looked at her pityingly. “Lor’, | I aln’t read 1t1” she chuckled. “Wel stock ’em at our-place. I've ’ad 'un- dreds through my ’ands. ’Amlet? Sick to death of *im!” | Send six cents to A. M. Cleland, Gen. Pass. Agu., St. Paul, Minn., for “WONDERLAND 190¢.% A full line of Shell Lake Rowboats Canoes, Duck ‘Boats, constantly in stock i | | } Upwards from $18. Factory prices We save you the heavy freight charges to Brainerd. Write for catalogue or visit our show rooms. 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