Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, October 13, 1908, Page 1

THE BEMIDJ1 D VOLUME 6. NUMBER 151. LY PIONEER. BEMIDJI, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1908. y FORTY CENTS PER MONTH RE-ELECTED MEMBERS OF LEGISLATURE ELIGIBLE Supreme Court This Mornin ¢ Sustained Opinion of Attor- ney General as to Legislators Having Voted to In- crease Their Own Salaries. St. Paul, Oct. 13.—(Special to Pioneer.)—Members of the Minne- sota legislature of 1907 who voted to increase the compensation of legis- lators from $500 to $1,000 per term need have no fear of being ousted if elected. The supreme court in per-curiam decision this morning discharged an order to show cause which had been secured by defeated Minneapolis candidates for nominstions who sought to keep the names of renominated members from official ballot. The decision sustained the const: that “any office” means any other offi tive. ruction of Attorney General Young ce than that of senator or representa- The above decision clears the atmosphere as to the eligibility of any 1e-elected representative. The Pioneer is pleased that the question was taken to the supreme court ane definately settled, as there were many attorneys of 1ecognized ability who held that there was a seri ous doubt in the matter. CHICAGO 3, DETROIT 0. Chicago, Oct. 13.—(Spec! ial to Pieneer.)—The fourth game in the series for the baseball championship of the world was played here today Chicago Detroit Batteries: mers and Schmidt. Chicago, Brown and King; Umpires. Connelly and Kling. and resulted as follows: R n E 3 110 040 Detroit, Sum- Yesterday’s Game. Chicago, Oct. 13.—(Speci al to Pioneer.)—Detroit won yesterday’s game by a sensational finish, the Detroit players falling on the ball in the sevent] over the plate. h inning and chasing five runs Cobb started things again in the eighth, with a two-bagger and Detroit got two more runs. Ruelbach was substituted for Phiester in the ninth. Cobb again ran bases like a wild man, but was caught trying to steal home. score: Chicago 3, Detroit 8. Final PAID HIS WAY THROUGH SCHOOL BY PLOWING| Congressman Steenerson Answers in Characteristic Manner Pertinent Question Asked Him. Grand Forks Herald: The fight being put up by Ole Sageng at present state senator from Ottertail county, a populist, and aspiring for a seat in congress by the indepen-| dent democratic air line against Congressman Steenerson, is made along the lines of being an actual farmer, and ‘“‘the man behind the HON. HALVOR STEENERSON, Republican Candidate to Succeed Himseli as Congressman from the Ninth District. plow.” It is expected that by this slogan he will be able to secure the support of the farmers of the dis- trict and through them defeat the present congressman. The senator has been going through certain sections of the district, stating that Steenerson was an attorney and that the state had mostly lawyers on its congressional delegation, while there is not a farmer, consequently he, as a farmer, should secure the vote of the Ninth district. As a matter of fact, Steen- erson has probably had as much ex- and in answer to a question as to his experience, he replied: “No I never did my own plowing, but I have plowed a great deal for other people. When I was a boy of 12 my father went to the war and I had to go barefooted behind a yoke of oxen and do his plowing for him, and after that I hired out to neighbors for ten doilars a month and plowed for them. My next when I was 18, I drove four yoke of oxen drawing a breaking plow and ithus earned the first money with which to attend a graded school in a neighboring village. Yes, I owe the principal part of my school edu- cation to my earnings in doing other peoples plowing and I’'m proud i of it.” GOVERNOR JOHNSON WILL Will Address Meeting to Be Held at | City Hall in Evening, at 8:30. Governor John A. Johnson, demo- cratic candidate for governor, will address the people of Bemidji and | vicinity at the city hall on Thurs- day evening of this week. The governor will speak at Cass Lake Thursday afternoon and will arrive in Bemidji on the 8:20 G. N. train in the evening; and. he will speak in the opera house immediately after arriving here. Local democrats are making pre- parations to give the governor a royal welcome and a number will go to Cass Lake to make the journey from that place to Bemidji with the governor. Music will be furnished by the Bemidji band. The local committee expects a large crowd to hear the governor. Additiona' local matter will be found perience on the farm as the seeator, DEFECTIVE PAGE on fourth page. venture in the plowing line was| SPEAK HERE THURSDAY | to be present. Meeting of Commercial Club This Evening. There will be a meeting of the Bemidji Commercial Club this even- ing, at the council chambers, and every member of the club is urgently requested There are matters of importance to Bemidji and Beltrami county that should be taken up and discussed and action started at once. Turn out to the meeting, and “get busy.” i F.S. LYCAN, President. - C.J. PRYOR, Secretary. e 2 2P VU UV OSSN, | ———————————————————————————————— e MUNIGIPAL GOURT “‘MIX” ON IN DISTRIGT GOURT Contention as to Signing Court Officers’ Warrants Being Heard by Judge Stanton. Mayor J. Pogue of this city ap- peared before Judge Stanton in the district court yesterday morning at 10 o’clock, according to the writ of 1ssued by the judge ordering him to show in the district court how he had executed the writ for his signature on the City of Be- midji’s warrants for the salaries of judge and of the clerk of the muni- cipal court, which Mr. Pogue had before refused to sign. Mr. Pogue, through his attorney, Graham M. Torrance of this city, filed his answer, asking that he be not considered in contempt of court and that the peremptory writ be changed to an alternative writ, thus allowing him to explain why he had not signed the warrants, on the groands that the plaintiff had with- held certain facts which, if the judge had known them would have caused his honor to grant an alternative writ instead of one of mandamus. mandamus case until 2 o’clock this afternoon for a hearing. This morning Mr. Torrance stated that he would show the judge where the city charter declares that no | warrants shall be issued on a fund in the city treasury unless there is already money enough in that fund to cover the warrants and all out- standing warrants previously issued against that fund. Mr. Torrance said that he would also show that there was no money in the general fund to cover those warrants at the time Mr. Pogue refused to sign them. When interviewed by a reporter this morning, D. H. Fisk, attorney for Judge Bailey and for Clerk Fisk, stated that when a written demand was served on the mayor for his signature, Mr., Pogue had not given the fact that there was no money in the treasury to pay those warrants as a reason for not signing them, but had simply refused on the grounds that he (Mr. Pogue) had been ignored all through the pro- ceedings of establishing the court and that the resolution creating the court had been passed over his veto, after which he had washed his hands of all things connected with the court. Mr. Fisk believed that it could be shown that that section of the charter is unconstitu- tional on the ground that in this case it is interfering with the busi- ness administration of the city. Two New Arrivals. There were two additions to the population of the city to record to- day, they being of a tender age and needing much care. Last night Cashier Long’s good wife presented him with a big, bouncing boy, of standard weight and good lung power. This forenoon there was born to Mr.and Mrs. C. J. Larson another daughter. And “Doc” smiles that generous laugh that is good to look at. Encampment Meeting. All members of Bemidji Encamp- ment No. 24, I. O. O. F,, are requested to attend the meetirg Wednesday night, October 14, at 8 o’clock sharp. Work. —E. H. Cornwall, Scribe. Judge Stanton then continued the; JACOBSON'SSTAND ON._EDUCATION Proof Given of ifa\lsity of Demo- cratic Assertion That He Is Opposed to Schools. HIS POSITION IS MADE CLEAR Believes in Economy, but Not Parsimony —Especially Favors Beter Schools for Farmers’ Children. | The Democratic press, on insti- gation of the Democratic state press bureau, is attempting to make the people believe J. F. Ja- cobson is opposed to educatior. This is what the Democrats are asserting: “When it is recalled that Mr. Jacobson, the Republican candis date for governor of Minnesota, JACOB F. JACOBSON, avza a state with the finest school sys- tem in the world, is opposed to educational ideas it will make him a pretty hard pill for some of the enlightened Republicans & -swal- low.” This statement might as well be nailed now as any time, and the truth be published. Thesc are the exact words of the Re- publican candidate for governor, Mr. Jacobson, in his campaign opening speech at Clarkfield: “That state is best economical- ly, socially, morally and intel- lectually which wisely spends most for the education of its peo- ple. We have a splendid school system, but I feel that some of it can be made more practical than at present. Germany has, since the Franco-Prussian war, taken the lead in industrial education. Her trade schools have been i tered by the government as have the schools of no other govern- ment or state. The results are becoming apparent. The hand work of the German artisan is supplanting that of all other civ= ilized nations. England is hum- bled, France is beaten, and the United States is looking to her | for an example. To do a thing well, will call for a combination of hand and head work and will develop the highest culture meas- ured by a rational standard. “T plead for economy, but not parsimony in all matters of edu- cation. Spending money for a good school, a good book or the acquirement of a good habit, is economy. “Manual training, domestic science, and agriculture furnish the field for our highest efforts and our best thought. “The farmer boys and girls, because. of their scattered settle- ments receive to-day the poorest chance _ f no single calling in the state is of half the importance and if our present school system is found to be inadequate for their spe- cial training, to make them more intelligent, to make them better farmers than they are at present, this one should be speedily and adequately supplied. “Nothiug suggests itself to me |at present to be more practical and feasible than the establish- ‘ment of county agricultural schools. They should be built and maintained, partly by the state and partly by the localities in which they are established. If they should become a gift of the state there would result as un- holy and undignified a scramble for them as the world has ever | seen. “But by making it possible for any county to acquire one of these institutions, they should Lear thic largest burden them- selves. . “The teachers to supply these new school systems can be train- ed in the state agricultural schools in addition to the work already performed by that great institution.” Does this sound like “opposi= tion to education”? Considers City Bonds Good Investment. W. H. H. Cash, who travels for a Chicago bonding company, spent yesterday in the city and last even- |ing presented a bid for Bemidji’s $50,000 water works bonds. Mr. Cash spent some time looking up conditions of the city and re- ports the city to be in.excellent con- dition, and the bonds in question to be an excelent investment. Mr. Cash left this morning for Aitkin, where he will bid on a bond issue in that county. A. Golz left last evening for a trip up the north line of the M. & I railway in the interest of the Be- midji Bottling Works. an _education, Vet Minnesota Federation of Com lature to Provide Fu St. Paul Pioneer Press: In order i that the people of this as well as other countries may be informed of the true conditions in Minnesota with reference to it’s resources, climate and general desirability as a place of residence the Minnesota Federation of Commercial clubs has inaugurated a campaign for the purpose of securing an appropriation of $100,000 a year from the legis- lature for state advertising purposes. The initial step in the movement was taken at a meeting of the Com- mercial club at Herman in Grant!| county. Red Wing followed with a hearty indorsement of the plan and it will be taken up by the other clubs in the federation in order to secure the co-operation of all in carrying out the plan. The executive committee of the federation has adopted the following resolution on the subject: “Whereas, The State of Minne- sota having failed to place before the people of these United States, and desirable persons in other coun- tries, a comprehensive and com- plete exposition of the opportunities existing within its borders, for the farmer, the stockman, the artisan, the mechanic, the business and pro- fessional man, the manufacturer, the capitalist and above all to the man who desires to establish himself in| independence upon fertile acres where the richness of the soil, the beneficent influences of a magnifi| cent climate, the certaioty of near markets, the accessibility of churches, schools and other desirable factors modern life shall give him not only WANT LEGISLATIVE HELP FOR PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN mercial Ciubs Wants Legis- nds to Advertise the State’s Resources. a profitable return for his labors, but pleasant and agreeable conditions under which to live; thus losing to the state what it so much needs, viz: a greater and much more energetic development of its natural resources and the more thorough utilization of its tremendous agrtcultul opportuni- ties. “Be it resolved, That the Feder- ation of Commercial clubs, com- posed of commercial clubs and simi- lar organizations of Minnesota, urge upon the members of the legis- lative body to the election this fall, and upon tne legislature when assembled in its next regular session, the urgent necessity of providing the state board of immigration with an appropriation sufficient to prop- erly advertise the advantages of the state to the world at large,which appropriation in our judgment should not be less than the sum of $100,000 per annum, and that such an appropriation be granted under proper and intelligent legislation which shall at all times insure its wise, economical and judicious expeunditure to the greatest degree compatible with a maximum of results, and under such super- vision and control as shall best provide for the expenditure of such fonds along the lines indicated by the best and most conservative judgment of expert and recognized advertising authorities.” The Bemidji Commercial club will hold a meeting this evening, and it is more than likely that the local organization will adopt similar resolutions to the above. T Samaritan Meeting Thursday. ! A regular meeting of the Modern Samaritan lodge will be held in the L O. O. F. hall Thursday evening, | October 11. All members are url gently requested to be present ati that time. During the winter months |the lodge will meet on the third! Thursday of each and every month. Additional lecal matter will be found | on last page. ance of repeated tailors. fitting suit conta trimmed with buttons on pleated skirt Ladies’ Brown Su silk lined, full pleated for cular gore skirt with wide Ladies’ Suits, made from fancy blue serge, jacket 34 inches long, 20 00 velvet trimmed, lined with striped- silk, finished with wide self fold. . . See OQur Line of Coats. O’Leary @ Bowser Bemidji, Minn. Tailor Made Suits Ready to wear, without the annoy- You can step into this store and walk out with a perfect ments of the latest style. Ladies’ Serge Suit, jacket 32 inches long, colors brown and London smoke, full $25 00 L] Ladies’ Suits, made from fancy blue suiting, jack- et 27 inches long, gray satin lined, cir- School Tablets. The Pioneer has prepared a special school tablet of the uniform size, 6x9, which we will retail at 5 cents per tablet. This tablet has been prepared especially for the Bemidji public schools, and with cloth back, which makes the tablet very durable. These should be purchased by all try-ons at your ining all the ele- back and sleeve, silk lined, it, jacket 36 inches long, “r ... $30.00 self fold . . . . $22-50