Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 30, 1908, Page 2

THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER PUBLISHED NVERY AFTNRNOON, BEMIDJI PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By CLYDE J. PRYOR. Entered in the postoffice at Bemidii. Minn., a8 second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION---$5.00 PER ANNUM _— CONTEST MIGHT CLEANSE POLITICAL METHODS. Several of the newspapers pub- lished in the Fifteenth Judicial dis- trict, in commenting on the possi- bility of Judge Stanton inaugurat- ing a contest, deplore the insinua- tion of there bhaving been some crooked work in casting ballots at the late general election, and all, with one accord, hasten to assert their belief that there was no such work, and that neither Judge Stan- ton or B. F. Wright were cognizant of the shady efforts of some of their friends, if there was anything wrong. The Walker Pilot says of a pros- pective contest: “Should this contest actually mat- erialize, it will in all likelihood be one of the most disagreeable polit- ical actions ever taken in the 15th judicial district. Both gentlemen putup a most strenuous fight for this office, and the battle waged was an honorable one as far as the can- didates themselves were concerned. Mr. Wright, although having passed | through two hard campaigns shows no inclination whatever to have hot ors wrested from him at this late | date. The friends of both gentle- men are determined that justice| shall prevail. If any juggling with| the votes (and the Pilot does not | believe there was) occurred in con- | nection with this fight, the parties, doing the work have reason to fear the contest.” The Pioneer believes that a con- | test would have beneficial efiects;‘ and if it is found that election offic- ials or others who were active in the election violated the election laws of the state, the offending parties should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. It is not many years ago when a gentleman who is now one of the most prominent residents of Walker | boasted that he went to a certain logging camp, in the early fall, and cast the ballots of some 200 lumber- jacks fora proposition that meant | much to the village of Walker— the permanent location of the countv seat at that place. It has been al- leged that there were not five men in the vicinity where the votes were alleged to have been cast; some of| the men were eyen under the sod This instance may be exaggerated, but is an indicaiion of what used to be tbe practice in the early days in some of the northern election pre- cints. . If some of the parties who are! careless in managing elections and | allow all kinds of unlawful voters to cast their ballots could be prose- cuted and convicted, an example would be made that would have a very desired effect in purifying the ballot in northern Minnesota, and more especially the Fifteenth Judi- cal district. The Pioneer does not intend to insinuate crooked methods to either of the candidates for the judiciary; we simply desire to see a stop put to to the illegal practices of some of the zeolous vote-getters of this com- munity. THEY GET ALL THE NEWS. The Bemedji Pioneer seriously doubts if any weekly or small daily in the state has as many subscribers in state’s prison as does that paper. They have six of the short-haired fellows on their books.—Walker Pilot, And the entire six have paid a year in advance for their paper. What is more, the Pioneer probably had a hand in sending at least four of them to their present abode, through printing accurate accounts of the crimes which they committed; and the boys appreciate the accuracy of the Pioneer as a news medium from their former homes. Tulip Soup. “What makes this vegetable soup taste so different?” asked the young husband of the pretty bride. “Qnly .the leeks you sent home,” re- plled the bride. “You remember you #aid you were going to order leeks.” “] didn’t order any leeks,” growled the husband, but he finished his bowl of soup rather than disappoint her. That afternoon he stopped at the grocery store. “How did you come to send leeks up to my house this morning?’ he de- manded. “I didn’t order them.” “Great Scott! " Did you eat them?” exclaimed the grocer. “Bure, we ate them.” “Oh, for land’s sake. They were Mrs. Jackson’s tullp bulbs. She left them on the counter and they got into Stella’s Dignity. “Glenn paid me a dandy compliment last night, mother —one that will please you, too,” said Stella. Harding. “He was talking about the girls in this block and how disgusted the boys ‘were getting with them. He said the trouble with the girls round here was that they had positively no personal dignity, and he never seemed to take into account that I lived in the block myself. But he made up afterward for forgetting. He said not much, he guessed, he didn’t mean me; that I was noted for my dignity with all the fellows, and he’d often heard them speak of it. What do you say to that?” Mrs. Harding was listening with motherly satisfaction. “How did it happen to occur to him that you might be applying it to yourself?” she asked. “I put it to him straight. I just waited until he stopped for breath, and then I said, ‘Well, jiminy, Glenn, is this a slam? " “Stella, what a speech! dignity about that!” “Oh, toot, mamma!” was the laugh- ing response, made without the slight- est ‘intention of disrespect. “That’s Jjust the way we all talk. Things like that don’t count on dignity one way or the other—not in our bunch. It's how you act, don’t you know?’— Youth’s Companion. There’s no Foxes’ Scalps and Salvation. Some years ago at a session of the legislature of Kentucky an effort to repeal the law offering a bounty on foxes’ scalps was made, but was de- feated by the appeal of a member from a mountainous and sparsely set- tled region. “Do the gentlemen want to deprive my constituents and me of the benefits .of hearing the gospel preached?” he demanded, with indig- nation in his tone and overspreading his rugged countenance. “We are all Methodists up my way, and our preachers won't come without we can give ’em chickens, I know. We can’t raise chickens unless the foxes-are killed by somebody, that’s sure, and there ain’t anybody that can afford to spend their time hunting foxes and get nothing to pay for it. So, gentlemen, if you repeal this law you'll be de- priving my constituents of the benefit of hearing the gospel preached; that’s the way it looks to me!” The law was not repealed at that session.—Ar- gonaut. Hairs and Feathers, Hairs are found on almost every- thing that grows, and, if we may so call the fine fibers of asbestus, they even invade the mineral world. From a plece of mineral asbestus quarried from the earth and looking like a stone with a satiny fracture the silken fibers can be rubbed with the finger till the lump is worn away. Secure a feather somewhere—it will be much better than a picture—and you will see that it has a main stem or midrib. Along each side of this ex- tends the thin part known as the vane. Look closely and you will see that this vane is composed of tiny feathers, call- ed beards, fastened together through- out their whole length from where their bases join the midrib to their tips. You can easily separate one of these from the rest, when you will see how like a tiny feather it is, with what seems a fine fuzziness along each edge. —St. Nicholas. Astronomy. If there were any money to be made in astronomy everybody would- be studying it. About all we can see is figures, and these are so big that they stagger the understanding. Every child in the United States knows how to find the north star (Old Polaris) from the pointers of the dipper, but no child can appreciate the statement that this star s distant from the earth 210,000, 000,000,000 miles—two hundred and ten trillions! The Twentieth Century Lim- ited, traveling at one mile a minute, would have to run without stopping for 479,000,000 years in order to trav- erse this distance. If light really travels 187,500 miles a second, a ray from the north star would be thirty. six years in reaching the earth.—New York Press. Would Not Pay Charges. He was an impecunious nobleman with air castles in sunny France. Aft- er much deliberation he sent the fol- lowing note to the pretty heiress: Dear Miss—I love you, but do not know how to express myself. How would you advise? COUNT DE BUST. And the heiress penned the follow- ing: Dear Count—Express yourself any way you wish except C. O. D., as you are not Worth the charges. —Chicago News. More Worry. “It used to be my ambitlon,” said the business man, “to accumulate a for- tune and then retire.? “Well,” answered the friend, “haven’t you realized it?” “No. I've got the money, but I don’t dare retlre. I've got to stay awake night and day to keep somebody from taking it away from me.” A Safety Match. “Papa, what is a safety match?” Mr. Henpecked (looking carefully to see If his wife is within hearing)—A safety match, son, is when a bald- headed man marries an armless wo- man!—Short Storfes. Couldn’t Lose. “Things seem to be coming your way of late.” “Couldn’t be any softer if I was the hero of a poker story.”—Kansas Ofty Journal. Steadiness of national cheracter goes with firmness of foothold on the sofl— David Starr Jordan. Half Million for Sible Society. New York, Nov. *J—Of the estate of $665,000 over half u million dollars was lett to the American Bible society by Bloodgood H. Cutter, the poet, of Little Neck, L. I, who died last Sep- tember. In the report of the transfer tax clerk filed at Mineola the value of the estate was disclosed. Bequestsof HANBERLAIN COUGH (. CoughsColds, CROUP, WhoopingCough ‘This remedy can always be depended upon and is pleasant to take. It contains %o opium or other harmful drug and may be given as confi- dently to a baby as to an adult. Price 25 cents, large size 50 cents, ) For Sale at Barker’s Drug Stere NATIONAL SCANDAL THREATENS FRANGE Case of Madame Steinheil Stirs the Gountry. - Paris, Nov. | .—The case of Mad- ame Steinheil, who was arrested in this city Thursday after a day of sen- sational developments in the matter of the murder of her husband and her stepmother, Mme. Japy, in this city last May, has been taken out of the hands of M. Leydett, the examining magistrate who has been in charge up to the present, and turned over to Magistrate Andre. Barring this change of magistrates there have been no new developments. Madame Steinheil is still under arrest on the charge of aiding and abetting in the murder of her husband and stepmother. Expert physicians have declared that Madame Steinheil undoubtedly is suffering from a kind of hysteria pe- culiar to a certain class of neuras- thenics which manifests itself in the fnvention of the wildest accusations. There is in full blast a campaign by the nationalist and anti-Semitic press in an effort to prove that the authori- ties have had an interest in smother- ing the truth concerning these mur- ders. Although hushed up at the time it was common knowledge of those be- hind the scenes that Madame Stein- heil was with M. Faure at the Elysee palace when Faure died. Some of the Parisian papers do not hesitate to print what they term the story of the Haison. According to these stories M. Faure had met Madame Steinheil in the Swiss Alps duriug the maneuvers the year previous to his death and she was greatly enamored of him. Echo of Bank Failure, Chicago, Nov. 28.—William L. Til- den and Chauncey L. Graham, offi- clals of the American Steel Ball com- pany, were sentenced by Judge Chet- lain in the superior court to serve a term of one to twenty years in the penitentiary on charges of conspiracy. The arrest and conviction of Tilden and Graham was a sequel to the fail- ure of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank a few years ago. CONFIDENGE We Back Up Our Statements With Our Personal Reputation and Money. We are so sure that we can cure constipation no matter how chronic it may be, that we offer to furnish the medicine free of all cost if we fail, It is worse than useless to attempt to cure constipation with cathartic drugs. 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They will positivley cure chron or-habitual constipation and tl myriads of associate or depende: chronic ailments, Try Rexgl Orderlies at our risk. Two sizfs, your basket by mistake.”—Detroit-Free Press. DEFF small sums were made to several rel- atives. 2 ’ STIVE PAGE 25¢c and roc. * Barker’s Drug Stoe.. OPPOSITION T0 PRESENT RULES Organized Effort to Change House -Procedure. CONDEMN ONE MAN POWER Congressmen Murdock of Kansas ano Gardiner of Massachusetts Reach Washington and Declare Them. selves in Favor of a Restoration of Initiative and Independence to the Members, ‘Washington, Nov. ‘ }—That thers will be an organized effort to amend the present rules of the house of rep- resentatives is made clearly manifest by the frank statement of several members of congress since their ar- rival in Washington. Whether this fight on the house rules will be car ried to an extent which will extend into an organized opposition to Speaker Cannon’s re-election will not develop for some time. Victor H Murdock, a newspaper man and coi gressman from Wichita, Kan., has ar rived here and has given out a sig- nificant statement. Among other things he said: “fvery man who goes into this con- test against the present manner of prccedure in the . house, which con- centrates all the power to one man, will have a rocky road to travel. Every member who expects to prosper through exercise of ordinary sub- servience and flattery and whose chief idea of service is an important com- wittee assignment will remain awake nights to cast ridicule upon the group of men who really believe that the house of representatives has lost its representative functton and that the most important single public service possible today would be & restoration of initiative and independence to the helpless individual on the floor who does not care to go, hat in hand, to the speaker or one of a few chair- men, before he can discharge with effect his duties to his constituency.” Gardiner Also in the Fight. Representative Gardiner of Massa chusetts was a caller on the president ard as he was departing from the ‘White House gave out the following statement of his stand on the speak- ership situation: “I shall not decide how to vote on the speakership until I know the names of the candidates. “Personally I am more interested in a change in the rules than in a change in the speakership. If we members of the house continue to adopt rules abandoning our power and shifting our responsibilities onto the speaker’s shoulders we must not go back to our constituents and cry baby because he exercises that power, ‘while we cheerfully leave him to bear all the responsibility. “Heretofore the rules have been pre- seribed by the majority in the party caucus; in other words, by the ma- jority of a majority, and the motion power has been supplied by a still smaller sub-division of the house. The time has now come when those of us who are dissatisfied must do one of three things—either carry the party caucus, refuse to caucus on rules or shut up. I believe that our best chance lies in the second line of procedure.” REMARKABLE TRIBUTE PAID Mines Close Down to Enable Workers to Attend Priest's Funsral. Shenandoah, Pa., Nov. ./.—A re- markable tribute to a priest was paid at the funeral of Rev. H. F. O'Rellly, rector of the Roman Catholic Church of the Annunciation in this place for forty years. Twenty-five collieries, employing more than 16,000 men and boys in the Shenandoah and Maha- noy valleys, were shut down to en- able the workers to pay their respects to the dead priest, The public schools here, at Mahanoy City and other sur- rounding communities were closed and all business in Shenandoah was suspended. More than two hundred priests attended the fumeral services. During the Molly Maguire crusade and in numerous coal strikes Father O'Rellly wielded a great influence in behalf of peace, law and order. HOME COUNTY SOLID FOR HIM Charles P. Taft 'a Candidate for For aker’s Seat. Columbus, O., Nov. i/,—Chairman Henry Williams of the Republican state committee has returned to Co- lumbus from a conference with Charles P. Taft and Geerge B. Cox of Cincinnati and safd that the Hamilton county Republican delegation to the Ohfo legislature will be solid for Charles P. Taft for United States sen- ator to succeed Senator Foraker. This makes thirteen votes for Taft from his home county. the delegation having fourteen votes, but one of them is a Democrat. Endorse Taft's Tariff Position. Hot Springs, Va., Nov. ” }—Presi- dent-Elect Taft’s announced position in favor of a thorough tariff revision is being approved in a correspond- ence which.is developing to the ex- tent of more than a hundred letters a day. Mr. Taft’s determination in this respect continues and the trend of recently expressed sentiment is most satisfactory to him. LAMPHERE GOES TO PRISON Given Indeterminate Term on Convic- tion for Arson. Laporte, Ind., Nov. ! —Before Ray Lamphere, under sentence from two to twenty-one years, was taken to the state prison in Michigan City to be- gin his term he received a visit from his aged mother. Though not with him during the trial she came here from South Bend in order to say good- bye to him and cheer him up. The meeting of mother and son was a SpeEs e — pathellc onhe, the niother ~bréaking down and crying as she clasped her son in her arms. The prisoner bore up well, though there was a mistiness | about his eyes. . Later in the day Lamphere was taken to prison. In a statement he said that he intended to become an exemplary prisoner so as -to get the benefit of all good time and would be paroled after his first two years. Lamphere, who was charged with the murder of Mrs. Belle Gunness and her three children by setting fire to the Gunness house April 28, was found guilty of arson by the jury after it had been out about twenty- four hours. Attorney Worden of the defense said that a motion for a new trial would be made and, should it be re- fused, an appeal to the Indiana su- preme court would follow. The In- diana supreme court is two years be- hind in its work and so this case could not be reached until after he had served the minimum time of hig sentence. MINISTER COOLIDGE QuITS American Representative gua Resigns, Managua, Nicaragua, Nov. 3.—John Gardner Coolidge, the American min- ister to Nicaragua, bas tendered his resignation. It is reported here that Mr. Coolidge took this step because of disapproval of his government in meddling with the isternal affairs of Nicaragua. Mr. Coolidge is also re- signing from the diplomatic service. The archives of the legation have been placed in charge of John H. Gregory, Jr., the secretary of the lega tlon. in Nicara; Washington, Nov. 28.—That an im- pression should have obtained that the resignation of John Gardner Cco- lidge, the American minister to Nie- aragua, was the result of disapproba: tion by the stale department of his conduct in connection with Nicara- guan matters caused some surprise at the state department. It is declared in the most authoritative way that wothing Mr. Coolidge has done while in that country has met with official disapproval except the tendering of his resignation, which has been ac cepted with regret. BILLEK'S MOTHER IS DEAD Stricken on Receiving Farewell Letter From Condemned Man, Cleveland, Nov. J.—Mrs. Barbara Billek, mother of Herman Billek, who is under sentence of death at Chicago, died at her home here. She had suf- fered from heart trouble and dropsy for several months. On Wednesday last Mrs. Billek received a farewell letter from her son. While reading this she fell into a faint and was only revived after several hours of unconsciousness. Since then her death had been expected at any mo- ment Sevcral months ago Mrs. Billek ar- ranged with an undertaker to bury the bodies of herself and son side by side in a local cemetery. PILES CURED IN6 TO 14 DAYS PAZO OINTMENT is guaranteed to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrud- ng Pilesin 6 to 14 days or money refunded. 50c. Doss not Color ER’S HAIR GOR of all uescriptions. fancy glass doors. Lumber and Building Material We carry in stock at all times a com- plete line of lumber and bwlding material Call in and look over our special line of well assorted stock from which you can make your selection. WE SELL 16-INCH SLAB W00D S . Hilaire Retail Lbr. Co. BEMIDJI, MINN. 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